If people fill the bucket with pebbles and sand (i.e. the small things), it is impossible to get the rocks in (i.e. the big things).
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Serialisation is making a comeback: a firm called DailyLit divides e-books into small chunks for drip-feeding by e-mail.
And Hitt says the tremendous boom in farmers markets in the past decade has helped his e and other small farms.
Today at CTIA in Las Vagas, Yota devices, the company behind the innovative handset, introduced Ruby, a sleek LTE hotspot with a small e-ink screen.
Not surprisingly given Microsoft's big cloud push, the emphasis with the upgrade is on improving how well the software scales for internet hosting -- the company wants one common backbone that can handle as little as a small e-mail server to large-scale Azure deployments and virtualization.
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Frozen meat shipped in boxed cuts often has small amounts of E. coli on the surface, according Jacque Knight of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
If Mr Blair wants new female faces in his cabinet, an obvious choice is Patricia Hewitt , the energetic 52-year-old minister responsible for small business and e-commerce at the Department of Trade and Industry.
His main characters include G, the strength of gravity, h, Planck's constant, which governs the quantum nature of reality at small scales, e, the charge of the electron, and c, the speed of light itself.
Travelzoo Inc. is a travel deals publisher that provides virtual platforms including Travelzoo websites as well as publications like newsletters and e-mail alerts to small businesses, travel and entertainment companies to help them advertise their offers.
Jean Pascal Zanders, a chemical weapons expert and a senior research fellow for the European Union Institute for Security Studies, cast doubt on the use of chlorine, saying in an e-mail that one small rocket couldn't deliver the quantity needed to kill 25 people.
One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.
Lowe adds that e-scheduling makes it easier for small businesses to conduct high-end loyalty-marketing campaigns, for example, by sending out e-mails (perhaps with discount offers) to customers who haven't made an appointment in six months.
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The e-mails are just a small part of the material unearthed during the four-year discovery process.
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But consumers' insatiable appetite for Apple devices aside, e-reading may be too small a market for more new entrants.
Apple's e-book market share is small and immaterial to its business, analysts say.
Mr Gates suggested that new techniques to identify senders, or the imposition of a small fee to send e-mails, might solve the problem.
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To prove it worked, he started with a strain of the E. coli bacterium that produced small quantities of lycopene, the pigment that makes tomatoes red.
For the second reminder e-mail, add a small sweetener, a special offer that still allows for a profitable transaction, again with the link to their open cart.
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The screen is on show at the the FPD International Green Device 2010 trade-show in China, and is displayed naked alongside versions in a prototype "e-reader" and a small notebook.
Just as Ford and General Motors can push their suppliers into doing business with them through online exchanges, so can governments, thus galvanising thousands of small firms into becoming e-businesses.
The future of e-commerce looks promising for small businesses.
Alibaba says the small to mid-sized e-tailers they interviewed are looking on the bright side.
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Will Stewart herself be on hand to dish out advice to the fledgling entrepreneurs and small businesses at the Queens E-Space?
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As someone who now has a speciality in e-discovery, I see a small trend where the courts are reaching for mechanisms to impose undue costs of discovery on the litigant responsible for them.
Daimler cannot sell more big-margin vehicles such as the E-class, AMG E or the S-Class and SUV's in Europe unless it sells more small models that will allow the company to fall in line with E.
Politically, the tax provisions allow lawmakers to say that they're helping out the middle class and small businesses--i.e.
Any money coming from the video would hav e gone to his label with only a small amount trickling down to the pop star.
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Sure, we all heard about how "small and light" this newfangled E-400 was supposed to be, but seeing it in its (relatively speaking) wee-sized glory sure put things in perspective.
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