Broadband access is fast becoming a vital component of economic progress across the world, and is especially crucial in developing countries.

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The second critical component is a fast and easy off-site backup solution.

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The component costs for the average BlackBerry may not drop as fast as pricing as RIM tries to offer more powerful and feature-rich smartphones than its competitors.

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Fast Data can leverage Big Data sources, but it also adds a real-time component of being able to take action on events and information before they even enter a Big Data system.

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In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.

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