The original dim monochrome screen has given way to a much clearer backlit color display.
As for acquisitions, the old stamp collecting, one-of-everything mentality has given way to a less-is-more approach.
"The Arab Spring has given way to a nasty bitter EU winter", she said.
But now, speculation has given way to a bidding war between Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications .
The hope of forging a common European identity has given way to greater national assertiveness, even chauvinism.
It is usually seen as a healthy sign that the previous excess optimism has given way to gloom.
By the time the generational circle closes, emotion has given way to exhaustion.
With Silicon Valley in despair, the go-it-alone libertarian air of the last decade has given way to cries for help from Washington.
In Mr Federman's view, the quest for truth has given way to the quest for making sense of the world as experienced.
AFI, a past history of mutual mistrust between Mexican and American law-enforcement officials has given way to closer co-operation under Mr Fox.
While U.S. stocks gained ground, the grind higher in prices that dominated trading through late April has given way to more back-and-forth swings.
Initial southern hostility to the idea has given way to a more receptive attitude to the league's argument that it would foster accountability.
That optimism has given way to a sadder, meaner goal of preventing the middle classes from monopolising the good schools that already exist.
The original approach has given way to assessment of whether a group of companies can effectively control a market and thereby harm consumers.
There has always been a degree of politicking at state fairs, but carousing with drunken farmers has given way to a more urban form of democracy.
The whole notion of "places" online has given way to streams and flows of information that follow us (sometimes even through GPS) wherever we happen to be.
For many designers and similar creatives the client pitch has given way to a kind of mini-crowdsourcing controlled by the client who sees openness as a new mechanism for cost reduction.
"This means traditional packaging for batteries has given way to a much more flexible approach that allows all kinds of new design and integration possibilities for storage devices, " said Prof Ajayan.
In fact, the three-legged stool that for decades Americans were told would prop them up financially in retirement--Social Security, company pension and savings--has given way to a shakier two-legged version, sans the company pension.
It is a sad indictment of Republican short-sightedness that all discussion of creating the flatter, simpler tax system that the party is supposed to favour has given way to squabbling over a grab-bag of politically-appealing goodies.
But since 1995, that simple anatomy has given way to several separate backbones -- thousands of miles of extremely-high-bandwidth fiber-optic cable owned by the likes of Sprint, GTE, IBM, and MCI WorldCom, connecting major metropolitan areas all over the country.
The Eureka moment has given way to a more gradual evolution of ideas as global teams of both scientists and engineers replace the often isolated and lucky inventions of the likes of Thomas Newcomen, James Joule and Michael Faraday, he states.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his fellow members of the Federal Open Market Committee indicated that a pause in the economic recovery has given way to moderate economic growth once again, and offered no signal that its current monetary policy is at risk of drastic alterations.
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The coalition agreement says the government "understands the urgency" of reform, but it's almost a year since the Dilnot Commission sent ministers its recommendations on how to provide an affordable and sustainable system, and it is hard not to conclude that promised urgency has given way to indecision.
The U.S. partnering strategy of "Shohna ba Shohna" (Shoulder to Shoulder) has abruptly given way to "After You, " as Afghan security forces take the lead -- sometimes reluctantly.
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Mr Ford told the programme it had been a "difficult time for me and my family given the way the controversy has raged and given to some extent the way it's been handled in the media".
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