The tests have found that premiums are the most important factor in consumers' choices, he said, with more than half typically opting for a narrow-network product if it cost them at least 10% less than an equivalent with broader choice.
Certainly not for the product as it exists now, a social network and a bunch of photo filters.
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In addition to mentorship, athenahealth is providing data to help Smart Scheduling build its product, before it can show it to its network of providers.
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By the time the revenue impact is apparent, it is too late to compete with a consumer product with traction and network effects.
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Pure Networks' CEO Tim Dowling, a 14-year Intel veteran, said Network Magic is architected as a platform much like a corporate IT product.
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It lived from 2004-2008 as a product with its MSN Direct data network lasting until 2012.
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With a simpler product line, Compaq's wider distribution network could give it a marketing advantage over Dell.
Microsoft officials say it will leverage its existing developer network, plus the mashup newbies, with its forthcoming Windows Live product.
While he estimates it will be five years until such a product is on the market, Patwari says a network of wireless transceivers around a bed can measure breathing rates and alert someone if breathing stops without any tubes or wires connected to the patient.
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Maybe it will be the inability to get product to market because it's so hard for North America to enhance its intake and distribution network.
The U.S. government today announced that it would permit Network Associates Inc. a license allowing it to ship its 128-bit PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) product to a large number of countries, excluding countries such as Iraq and Cuba.
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