As the deficit balloons, if outside investors start to feel concern about the sustainability of U.S. debt, that factor could drive interest rates higher on Treasuries which would be an extremely scary scenario.
My co-researchers and I in our IBM Institute for Business Value study, Collective Intelligence: Capitalizing on the Crowd, we have pointed to intrinsic motivation as well as a strong factor to drive not just individual work but collective crowdsourcing.
There's an additional factor that could drive up crude prices even further: dwindling reserves.
Another factor which will drive mobile ad revenues is the increase in mobile ad spending expected in the Japanese market.
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The 'Net is such a leveling factor, it will drive the world to a smaller number of languages, perhaps five to ten languages.
Cloud storage services with two-factor include Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft's Sky Drive.
With its slim form factor, the "A-Drive" could fit into tablet devices, greatly expanding its storage space while extending battery life by up to 30%.
"Today, our year-long vision of creating a 5mm thin hybrid hard drive in 2.5'' form factor with increased storage capacity and reduced power consumption at a lower cost for manufacturers has become a reality, " said Dr. Pantelis Alexopoulos, Executive Director of DSI.
Other industry studies have broadly agreed with the thesis that new products do more to drive sales and gain incremental share than any other factor, by far.
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The drive registered 135, 000 voters and was considered a major factor in the upset victory of Democrat Carol Moseley Braun over incumbent Democratic Senator Alan Dixon in the 1992 Democratic Senate primary.
Factor in the Google Now integration and 100GB of free Google Drive storage for two years and this latest Chromebook is a winner.
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"The single biggest factor is ticket revenue, and a new venue is going to drive high-end ticket sales, " says Bernie Mullin, who runs the Atlanta-based Aspire Group, an industry consultant.
Just in time for the holidays, and making a perfect external storage companion to the Apple(R) Macbook(R), MacBook(TM) Pro or Macbook Air(TM), the new G-DRIVE slim external hard drive gives users 320GB of storage and ubiquitous USB 2.0 connectivity in an amazingly slim form factor.
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Actual storage capacity for a given form factor could depend upon other factors such as the number of disks and heads used in the drive.
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