Lira also believes what we saw this week might be the early signs of a Republican Party beginning to close the digital gap.
They stuck a digital camera in the gap and shot pictures that showed a well-preserved 15th century Italian fresco.
The industry end of the partnership is working through PowerUp, a coalition of businesses and nonprofit groups formed last year to close the "digital divide, " the gap between those who have access to technology and those less fortunate who do not.
Many of the questions I received after my talk were focused on the income gap and access to digital technologies.
The explosion of data in the digital universe is creating a skill gap and is opening up many new career opportunities in management.
Designed to eliminate data bottlenecks that slow the creative production process for digital artists, the Fusion ioFX enables creative professionals to meet deadlines while exploring more artistic possibilities by bridging the performance gap between workstations and today's powerful digital content creation applications.
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Consumers are ready for a new age of smart products to close this gap between the physical and digital worlds.
One is that the relationships people are forming online can be real and powerful, and their desire to bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds becomes stronger as more of these online relationships proliferate.
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Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling bridges the gap between paper sketching and digital drawing by giving users at the front end of the creative process a way to rough-out ideas with real ink on paper and capture their concepts digitally so that they can be later refined on their computer.
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The wave of Vine adverts from everyone from General Electric to Gap will mostly have been produced by digital marketing type agencies rather than in house, MacMillan says.
But the quality gap will shrink, along with the cost gap, as cheap, film-quality digital schemes such as Foveon's work their way into future camcorders.
Representatives of African countries, ASEAN, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organization of American States pleaded for debt relief and efforts to narrow the "digital divide" -- the fast-growing gap between nations with access to information technology and those starved of IT.
And with a yawning gap between those people who use laptops and those who use handheld digital devices (the former tend to be older, the latter skew younger) Google is definitively poised for the future.
It would be interesting to see the gap not only in revenue but in profit when comparing the sales of physical versus digital.
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Another example of the closing gap between the worlds of gaming and grown-up simulation is the decision in May by Digital Sandbox, a supplier of simulation software to America's defence department, to set up a consumer division to make computer games.
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