That means that new technology investments need to be easy to procure, easy to implement, easy to use, and easy to change.
One of the problems is competency is predictable and easy to measure, and corporations like predictable and easy.
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Chromebooks are attractive to schools because they are cost-effective, easy to manage and easy to use.
It's easy to maneuver and easy to dock, and it turns on a dime.
Glass--despite being cheap, easy to produce and easy to recycle--is very heavy and racks up the carbon-emission counts during transportation.
Companies in the west have realized for the past three decades that product is easy to copy and easy to reproduce.
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First, we sought to release government data in open formats that are easy to understand and easy for innovators to use.
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The upcoming MMO Guild Wars 2 made a very good impression with me when I played it in its beta form back in May: it was both easy to play and easy to become engaged.
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That today's mergers seem strongly correlated with the resilience of the stockmarket is itself a bad sign: when takeovers using highly rated paper are easy and cheap, the strategic thinking behind them tends to be easy and cheap too.
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Solar thermal heat is low tech, easy to manufacture and install, low maintainance, the fuel is free, and the energy is easy and low cost to store until it is needed.
It is all about easy discovery of content and easy sharing of content.
Housing policies, interest rate policies and easy credit made the American Dream almost too easy to achieve and drove us inexorably toward the 2007 financial crisis.
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Fits Right In: With its easy-to-read display and easy-to-stack design, the control console will look good in your home-entertainment setup.
It cruises at 180 nautical miles per hour (207 mph) but is also easy to fly, and especially easy to land.
One reason for this taxonomic inflation is that the idea of a species becoming extinct is easy to grasp, and thus easy to make laws about.
"Karaoke" for Xbox 360 is easy to launch and makes it easy to sing.
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But testing is the easy answer, and politicians are going to gravitate toward the easy answer first and toward the many other better and more nuanced methods of measuring teacher performance later if at all.
It means preparing and giving speeches not based on what is easy or convenient for us as presenters but instead what is easy and convenient for audience members to understand and remember.
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And with each cycle of growth, and each cycle of financial constraints, we endemically and serially exhaust easy and cheap mines, and then under-invest in finding and opening new ones.
Not only does it deliver incredible speed and accuracy through advanced photographic features, but it is truly built around the user, with upgraded SMART Camera functions making shooting and sharing both easy and seamless.
QNAP's new TS-x12 models are easy to attach to existing networks and provides easy file sharing within the network, centralized backup of all networked computers, website hosting, printer sharing, even recording of surveillance video from IP cameras.
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Two USB 3.0 ports (side) and four USB 2.0 ports (rear) allow quick and easy connection to peripherals and digital devices.
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The best training program for biking, running or swimming will always be a mix of hard intensity and long easy recovery and base-building rides.
As the Michael Jordan of the private sector, Apple has weathered economic downturns because its consumer base is so fiercely loyal and defies easy demographic and psychographic categorization.
On the plus side, the black-and-white liquid crystal display is crisp and easy to read, and the software so intuitive that reading the manual is more luxury than necessity.
Samsung Easy Migration allows users to seamlessly transfer existing files by connecting their old PC to the Series 7 Slate, launching and starting Easy Migration and letting the PC do the rest.
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Microsoft is trying to make up with the lack of apps with their integration to Xbox, which gives you access to games and can link between your gaming device for teens and many 20 somethings this is huge as they already have xbox live accounts and the integration is easy and very cool.
Vendors need to make PCs easy to get out of the box, they must provide easy and clear setup instructions (with matching pictures), they should color-code cables, and they must eliminate the need to reboot during the initial setup because it scares new users, he says.
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