With an elegant, user-friendly interface, unparalleled speed and performance and a broad content line-up, the DivX TV platform is easy to implement and can be supported on virtually any kind of Internet-connected consumer electronics device, including digital televisions, blu-ray players, gaming consoles, pay-tv operators set-top devices, multimedia storage devices, and even mobile phones.

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The 29-year-old mayor described his village as close-knit and friendly, "the kind of place where you'd say, 'oh, it would never happen here'".

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But it is derivative, incremental, profit margin-forced, consumer-friendly technology not the kind that pushes the whole world forward economically.

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"Sean is not the stereotypical cop who is kind of intimidating, but rather a friendly and down-to-earth kind of guy that you would want to be friends with, " David Hou, an MIT sophomore, told CNN.

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It's time we viewed family-friendly policies as not just niceties for women but as necessities for every single working American -- men and women -- because more and more men are shouldering that same kind of burden.

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Eric Park, of Ziba, a design consultancy, reckons companies must also think about drug delivery systems and patient-friendly packaging, which could create a new kind of branded intellectual property that might be more defensible than drug patents.

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One big debate among the Japanese companies is what kind of eco-friendly technology to use.

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