On top of that in-house development, the service ties in IBM's acquisition of Web presentation company WebDialog in August 2007.
But overall, many say there aren't much data about whether prizes are more effective in promoting innovation than other types of funding, such as in-house development.
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The company has an 8-person in-house development team tasked with coming up with new ideas, and also looks to curate concepts it finds from others outside that group.
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More broadly, if manufacturers are struggling to keep their handset launch schedules in sync with Google's in-house development, it's no wonder that Android skins seem so unsympathetic to the green robot's natural complexion.
We think it is the best way to ship software to highly technical firms today and it is the only way you can get the level of transparency you get from in-house development with an outside system.
Mr Jarvis said it proved "yet again the strength of the in-house format development team within BBC Entertainment".
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Simply put, we highly recommend exploring all existing mobile applications prior to seriously considering any in-house app development.
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For example, Ford has cut costs by bringing in-house the development and manufacture of many aspects of vehicles such as C-MAX Energi.
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In 2002 the Institute of Medicine (which is not part of the NIH, but is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences) called for the creation of a National Vaccine Authority that would have sweeping responsibilities, including market research, the establishment of priorities, control of intellectual-property rights, the conduct of in-house research and development and the financing of clinical trials of candidate vaccines.
It is also getting harder for independent developers to secure publishing deals, particularly as the big publishers take more development in-house.
But Nokia stuck with Symbian OS, adding in new elements such as touch screen operation and (slightly) improved media handling, rather than make a switch to one of their in-house alternatives that were under development.
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Each of these routes needs to be assessed for cost, speed, business benefit and practicality, including whether development is best in-house or through business partnerships.
They have built up the idea of an app-economy as one of the key driving forces, but these apps are coming from a very small pool of major development houses and in-house clients for social networks.
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While Apple has aggressively sought out and incorporated in its products technology from other firms or sources, Japanese companies have traditionally looked in-house for new technology and jealously guarded such development.
Samsung's own in-house designed LTE modem chipset, Kalmia, enabled the development of a small form factor netbook with LTE capability.
Plan A, to develop a product in-house, played to Guidant's innovative research and development strengths--the company has previously introduced six stents that soared to market-leading positions.
After all, Guidant was the only competitor with a two-pronged strategy: a stent developed in-house and another stent that would be sold via a development agreement with privately held Cook Cardiology .
As the scope of Ford's hybrid program expanded, however, Ford found new efficiencies by bringing research, development and production of electrified vehicles in-house, said Anand Sankaran, Ford executive technical leader, Energy Storage and HV Systems.
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Soon Mr Reiner held a little gathering in his living room, featuring White House staffers, child-development experts, the mayor of Los Angeles and (just to demonstrate that this campaign would go places) Steven Spielberg.
However, Douglas Wylie, Business Development Manager for Networks and Security at Rockwell Automation said in-house research found the vulnerability to be more pervasive within the Rockwell family of software.
The Passive House Terrace by HLM Architects is in the running for best small-scale housing development.
Following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm last year, it shut down the LucasArts game development division, indicating its preference to license console games rather than develop them in-house.
Consideration is being given to freeing up more development land in the south of the island and tightening up on means-testing for council house tenants.
The court heard Mr Pickles decided in July to revoke the regional strategies, which include house-building targets, introduced under the 2009 Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act.
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