But successive studies have shown that the commercialisation of childhood - not to mention the ever-present fear of pester power - are serious concerns for parents.
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In the never-ending quest for more speed and power in computers, ever-increasing numbers of individual transistors must be crammed onto silicon chips.
Intel is pushing its mobile processor line, dubbed Atom, as a way to cram the ability to run a bite-sized, power-sipping version of the chips that power desktop computers into ever smaller devices.
Making ever more complex and power-hungry processors to obey Moore's Law just limits how many chips you can fit in a given space, he said.
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In the era of reality TV, social media fluency and the ever-growing list of figure heads, celebrities have more power than ever before to mobilize and engage large masses of people.
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Until now the government's plan to match power supplies with ever-growing demand has been based on liberalisation.
Supermarket giant Tesco has recently been given a green light to build Britain's first ever straw-powered Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant to meet the electricity and heating needs of one of its distribution centres.
While the ever improving processing power and always-on broadband connectivity of the smartphone are the core assets, it has been interesting to see such widespread capabilities as the camera, GPS, and even audio jack used as hooks for new FinTech solutions.
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That simple yet revolutionary idea -- there at our founding and in our hearts ever since -- that we have it in our power to make the world anew, to make the future what we will.
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But those who want to forge ahead with their dream of "ever-closer union" in Europe should be warned that the further you shift power and decision-making away from nation states, the more dislocated and uninvolved citizens will feel.
Yet no matter where I look, the forces of regulation and resistance posit a strong government power to cabin in an ever-growing list of market imperfections.
In the long run, it may do the coal industry no good either: gas-fired power stations are becoming ever smaller, so more customers in future will generate their own power.
The future is not in burning more ever-harder to harvest fossil fuels as our primary power source.
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In Jordan, the government has proposed one reform after another -- without ever curbing the monarchy's true power.
It mostly consumes ever-expandable resources, such as ideas, computer power and effort.
Despite assertions by progressives who complain about stagnant wages, inequality and the (always) disappearing middle class, middle-class Americans have more buying power than ever before.
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The Spanish government announced Spain's biggest ever share offer when it said Endesa , a power-generation group, would be fully privatised in one final stage in May or June.
Her Oxygen Media is a U.S. multimedia company, aimed primarily at women, that pursues the ever-elusive goal of convergence -- combining the entertainment power of television with the interactivity and specificity of the Internet.
If you've ever longed for a computer that kicked legacy technologies and power-hungry components to the curb, the Intel NUC will come as an incredibly refreshing piece of hardware.
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In December, we finalized the first-ever national standards to limit mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants, helping safeguard the health of millions.
The Imp uses WiFi and a cloud service to make it easier than ever before for vendors to internet-enable their products, bringing the power of the internet to places and devices it could never reach before.
"No nuclear power plant has ever considered the inability to get on long-term core cooling for more than a week, much less three weeks, " Friedlander said.
Unless companies, governments and individuals do something, the internet we know is likely to become ever more restricted - taking choice and control away from users and putting more power in the hands of those who would limit access to information.
Thai voters seem eager to give democracy another go -- even if some pols are as likely as ever to buy their way into power.
Because anyone looking to defend their purchasing power long-term cannot ignore the way emerging Asia is storing an ever bigger chunk of its fast-growing savings.
But then few have such concentrated suppliers as platinum, palladium and nickel - and Opec has been aware of its special power to influence the markets ever since 1973, when producers quadrupled world oil prices almost overnight.
China has a huge thirst for energy that it will slake from as many wells as it can, with planned big increases in wind power and in gas as well as the nuclear build-out and ever more coal-fired plants.
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