When you hit the print button you convert from digital to physical.
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Some erroneously assume that digital disruption only applies to cases where digital products replace physical ones.
Apple has already done all that it can to move consumers from physical media to digital (downloadable) software.
Nowadays, it is very important to coordinate digital and physical marketing and advertising.
Cerf, after all, helped to design the Internet to be robust above all else, finding its way around physical and digital hurdles to reliably deliver data.
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As the digital and physical world continue to meld, we are going to need an aggressive system of testing and updating these systems.
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Coupling more accurate local data with user context and other sources of information will enable developers to create new algorithms to bridge the digital and physical worlds.
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It was obviously no small challenge to migrate from being a pure digital creation company to one that also delivers a physical product.
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Could Amazon be capitulating to retailers demands for parity, at the very least making digital content available to secure shelf space in the physical world?
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Weight Watchers prides itself on being able to integrate physical and digital experiences into a coherent platform.
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Two bitcoin digital attributes that make it superior to physical gold are its ability to create backups and its difficulty of confiscation.
The convergence of mobile internet, smartphones, the digital and physical world is likely to generate hundreds of times more data in the coming years, which presents tremendous challenges as well as unprecedented opportunities for development of the ICT industry.
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UltraViolet is a common file format and digital rights authentication system designed to allow a digital copy of a film or television show bought from any vendor physical or electronic to be played on any one of 12 devices owned by up to six members of a household, either via download or streaming from the cloud.
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First, publishers make more money on hardcover sales than e-book sales, thanks to the inconvenient and widely unknown fact that digital books don't cost much less to produce than physical ones.
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The company seems to be proving that consumers like streaming video, and that it simply is a lot less expensive to ship consumers digital bits rather than physical atoms.
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Amazon noted it has long had a public policy called "Buy Once, Enjoy Everywhere, " that aims to make buying its digital content and physical goods easy on all hardware, not just its own Kindle devices.
"The Autodesk family of 123D products breaks down barriers between the physical and digital, empowering users to customize the world around them, " said Samir Hanna, vice president, Consumer Products, Autodesk.
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The launch of NOOK Video makes it the first digital retailer of UltraViolet titles in the UK, making it easier than ever for UK customers to integrate compatible physical DVD and Blu-ray Disc purchases and digital video collections across their devices.
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The video game industry has been observing a shift from physical CDs to online downloads of digital games.
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The British Library estimates that it costs half as much to store a digital document as it does a physical one.
It launched Tuesday in Apple's App Store and is from MyPublisher, the first company to create affordable custom physical books from digital images, back in 1994.
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But to make it up to you guys, we've brought in a special guest -- Jason Unger from CE Pro -- to lend his expertise to the conversation, especially regarding digital downloads versus physical media.
This enables manufacturers and retailers to trigger a new digital world of personalized content, services, and apps, to let you interact with your physical product and get more out of using it.
It is precisely because maps are where the physical best intersects the digital that Apple had to offer maps.
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Consumers are ready for a new age of smart products to close this gap between the physical and digital worlds.
Already, 3D printing has been refined to the point where digital models can be duplicated into physical prototypes or production parts that closely resemble mass-produced products in looks and function.
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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"Sony needs to show its next system is ready for the future, and this includes some crossover play with smartphones, digital distribution, cloud storage to help minimize the need for physical media and a free-to-play ecosystem that can bring in new gamers, " he said.
In order to access this rich stream of transaction and usage data and remain competitive, all product companies will have to think about technologies that bridge the offline and online worlds to provide a suite of compelling digital services around the physical things they make.
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