For the Grove app, Phunware tasked a program manager and a core team to focus on its design, meeting with Caruso twice a week to stay on point.

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Autodesk was attracted to the playground project because of its proximity to the firm's downtown offices, its focus on children and its ecologically sustainable design, which is a core element of Autodesk's business, says Greg Eden, a spokesman for the company.

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To enable these innovative designs, Intel announced last September that it added a new line of processors to its forthcoming 4th generation Intel Core processor family targeted at about 10 watt design power, while still delivering the excellent performance people want and need.

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That core principle was actually baked into the Internet's design by its founders.

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The company also plans to make the core language of its operating system available this summer to developers who can then use it to design new applications, much in the same way that companies like Apple have cultivated a community of app developers around their gadgets.

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