Alfresco was about to launch new tablet-oriented features for their flagship content-management product and were in the process of conducting a survey on tablet use among their customers.

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The project intends to use a proprietary process employing an in-duct scrubber to reclaim the alkaline clay produced as the primary by-product of the aluminum manufacturing process.

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In the process, though, it fractures the product life-cycle for systems built by those private companies, raises overhead costs on remaining work, and in general make the companies less competitive.

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In addition to managing our spending in line with the current environment, we are also in the process of reassessing the strategy within each of our PC-related product categories to deliver improved performance.

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This breakthrough resulted in a color inkjet all-in-one product line that virtually eliminates the feature trade offs customers faced in their selection process.

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With its Achilles heel now diagnosed, Jawbone took crucial steps to reinvent Up: the creation of a proprietary standard for testing (which involved a device known as the "Big Shower 2000"), an investment in over 100-plus new patents, a product trial spanning 46 weeks and a revised assembly process.

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In the development process, he insisted that his team develop ten pixel-perfect prototypes for every feature of a new product, and then used a tough set of criteria to winnow down to three, then to one.

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Looking into the second quarter, Samsung expects to improve profitability in the chip business with a recovery in PC DRAM price and by expanding its new product category with mobile application processors based on 32 nanometer-class process technology.

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