Their new format uses vectors to render footage with colored contours that demand fewer resources than a dot-by-dot approach.
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The Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based company, co-founded by Smith in 1998, was a dot-com bubble darling.
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The big economic and emotional crashes I predicted would arise from the punctured boom just haven't appeared VCs are sitting on the biggest funds they've ever had--and for every dot-com they let die by withholding money, two new firms get investments.
The company stumbled badly in his absence, hit by the dot-com crash and weighed down by debts from acquisitions.
The result was a scramble for talent approaching the infamous bicycle messenger shortage once created by Dot-Bombs UrbanFetch and Kozmo.
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He eventually fell to an excellent catch on the long-on boundary by Stuart Broad, having scored 25 from 35 balls - he blocked 16 dot balls.
Pejman Nozad got his start as an investor during the dot-com era by exchanging commercial real estate for stakes in startups, notably PayPal.
New York venture capital firm Flatiron Partners rocketed to fame during the dot-com delirium by investing in a slew of Silicon Alley startups, including TheStreet.com and now-defunct Kozmo.com.
Now, to be fair, it was put together by a group with dot-org in its name, and it did a pretty impressive job of getting high-profile press for an arcane piece of oil-industry infrastructure.
Unlike other venture firms that suffered from the market collapse, NEA managed to avoid huge losses in its public portfolio companies by staying clear of dot-com retailers and focusing on communications services and optical components.
He launched online trading two decades later, took his firm public in 1997 and built a national name during the dot-com boom by offering cut rates, bare-bones service and Stuart, a ponytailed spokesman who taught his boss how cool it was to trade online.
The mailman delivers to a post-office box about 10 miles away at the only restaurant-bar in Pioneertown, a tiny dot created by Hollywood in the 1940s as a backdrop for filming westerns.
By that time, the dot-coms had gone bust, and no one even wanted to think about going public.
He worked as a real-estate agent in San Francisco for eight years, but in 2001, inspired by the success of the dot-com millionaires to whom he'd been selling houses, he decided to get into the Internet business.
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Incumbents now breathing easy over the collapsed threat of dot-coms may get blindsided by the next wave.
"We saw a lot of waterfront property being bought and smaller homes being torn down and replaced by million dollar mansions during the dot-com boom, " explains Sara Young , economic development manager at the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce.
Those features are joined by a 3-inch 461k-dot LCD and GPS, both of which shipped on the SX260.
But they are not being killed by the Internet, as the most avid dot-com fans were predicting a few years ago.
Yet by the early 2000s, many of these dot-com darlings had merged, been acquired or simply gone out of business.
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Each is signified by an icon and a light-up dot, although you'll need to recall which dot is which in low-light settings, as the icons themselves remain unlit.
That could put them at risk of obsolescence, similar to the way dot-com era Internet Malls were quickly leapfrogged by eBay and Amazon.com.
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Winn, whose penchant for self-promotion is detailed in another book, Dot Bomb, by company p.r. head J.
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Most crops in the region are sown and harvested by hand, including the small plots that dot the gravity-challenging mountain sides, and farm machinery is a rare sight, with villagers using donkeys, oxen and bulls to plough the crops.
Green Dot, the provider of prepaid debit cards sold by Wal-Mart Stores, pharmacies and other retailers, is aiming to take on big banks with a new checking account that consumers can open and manage through a smartphone application.
For example, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), which manages the dot-ca domain, should pass one million domain name registrations by early 2008, yet implementation of French language characters is only likely to take place in the next few years.
Silicon Valley continues to lay off workers by the small city's worth, while up in San Francisco the dot-coms have evaporated.
After the insanity of the dot-com and housing busts left mom-and-pop traders bewildered by lurching markets, many sensibly packed up and left equities for the safety of their mattresses.
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Growing up in Cupertino, California, which is best known as the home of Apple, I was surrounded by an aura of optimism that comes from the infinite possibilities technology and the dot-com era brought.
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Clarke was shockingly booed by his home supporters when playing out dot balls, but with the required run-rate approaching eight an over, Watson smashed Yardy for consecutive leg-side sixes en route to his highest ODI score to relieve the pressure.
And in yet another case, our action (DOT's modernized hours-of-service rule for truckers) was overturned by a federal court but then reinstated by Congressional action.
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