Over the next decade, Jobs wowed launch-event audiences, and consumers, with one game-changing hit after another: iTunes (2003).
The spacecraft weighed some 13 tonnes at launch - double the mass of Nasa's recently re-entered UARS satellite.
This argument also underlies the 1992 standstill agreement between the Americans and the Europeans setting limits on launch-aid subsidies.
As an entrepreneur in the tech industry, I have experienced the launch-date letdown both firsthand and through partners and clients.
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On that occasion, the champagne had not broken the first time at the launch - a sign of bad luck.
The acceleration of the launch-to-profit schedule isn't absolute, but it is dominant.
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It has also served as a launch-pad for other hits on the network, including The Big Bang Theory and newcomer Mike and Molly.
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Thus, boost-phase interception requires very prompt detection of a missile launch -- which adverse cloud and weather conditions can make difficult or impossible.
It may seem an unlikely place for a technological revolution, but Somerset is to be the launch-pad for a new generation of green cars.
The personal-loans market may also provide a launch-pad for other retail-finance businesses that are underdeveloped in Japan, such as credit cards and home-equity loans.
In September 1997 they launch- ed At Home Shop (www.athomeshop.com).
But this will require more than just the development of technologies to display the Internet on mobile devices, some of which are already on the launch-pad.
With the new-for-2014 launch-control system, the Vanquish is probably capable of hitting 60 miles per hour in about four seconds, as compared with the Ferrari's three flat.
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Nor has it changed an already announced delay in Crestor's launch--the drug is still expected to go on the market in the fourth quarter, and not before.
Elisa Carrio, an ex-member of Mr de la Rua's Radical party, had hoped to use the election as a launch-pad for a populist bid for the presidency.
With the way Apple's setting up for preorders and launch-day delivery, it seems like a lot of this chaos and bedlam is going to be avoided -- but hey, it's Apple.
Amid the standoff, Japan is testing its own missile-launch-monitoring aircraft.
Hammering away at the keys is understandably a more weightier and satisfying experience, however, and ROCCAT plans to reveal more closer to launch -- including when that will be.
According to Allen and his partners, this air-launch-to-orbit system is far less expensive and far more flexible than traditional ground launches, which are still used by some private companies for satellite launches.
The flight, perhaps climbing to around 5, 000 miles above the earth, is intended to test the capsule's emergency launch-abort system, as well other systems, and Orion's protection against damage from micro-meteorites.
The EnergyBuddy -- first unveiled as a prototype at CES but just now inching toward a full launch -- is a complete home energy-tracking system brought to you by Cali-based startup FutureDash.
It turns out that Motorola didn't want to wait until the Google deal closed -- or, for that matter, an American launch -- to undertake a significant revamp of its phone line.
Meet these guys and their cloud-sent adversary on video after the break, and check out the read link for their ongoing liveblog of the launch -- naturally courtesy of some iPhone 3.0 tethering.
Ireland relies, as a launch-pad for multinationals, on its place in the EU. It survives on liquidity from the European Central Bank, and in any case cannot afford to cut itself off from Europe.
Because ... no matter how many 10-point plans we propose, or how many government programs we launch -- none of it will make any difference if we don't seize more responsibility in our own lives.
Packing a 5.0-liter aluminum alloy V8 engine that generates a blazing 510 horsepower and 461 pound-feet of launch-happy torque, it runs with other hopped-up premium SUVs like the BMW X5 M and the Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG.
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If you were planning on buying the Playstation 3 for gaming or as a "cheap" Blu-ray player you may want to get in line now for the November 17th launch --- not so fast Europe.
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Recently, some observers have questioned the show's relevance at a time when tech giants such as Google and Apple -- witness Tuesday's Nexus One launch -- can get massive media coverage for product announcements whenever they want.
With Samsung looking launch-weary one month into Q2 (at least 8 new products in smartphones and tablets in three months), the time could be right for Apple to extend its low-cost experiment with the iPad, into phones.
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