The Administration has made matters worse by encouraging the use of foreign launch services.
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Episodes like that one explain why the traditional providers of launch services and spacecraft are really, really big.
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However, SpaceX is a space transport company and will always consider providing a full spectrum of launch services to interested customers.
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With a new small vehicle called Vega also set to debut early next year, Arianespace will soon offer the full portfolio of launch services from CSG.
Wooing VentureStar has a special urgency for Florida, which has seen money for Cape Canaveral dry up as companies have begun to buy launch services from sites outside the country.
First of all, the administration had conveniently assumed that the dot.com boom would spawn massive demand for commercial launch services, and that the Pentagon could piggyback on that demand to meet its own needs at much-reduced costs.
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Ahead of the meeting O2 said that it was hopeful that it could launch 4G services in summer 2013.
Also, businesses will have less room for error as they launch new services and products, respond to changes in demand and expand their markets.
Matthew Howett, an analyst at market research firm Ovum, said Ofcom's consultation was welcome, but he questioned whether it would help operators launch 4G services quicker.
To capture this growing opportunity, operators need to become service and content enablers and intelligently control their networks to create, personalize and launch new services faster.
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"The launch of services from Rochdale will benefit residents and businesses in the area, as well as making our borough more accessible to visitors, investors and developers, " he said.
In the future, Facebook should launch new services like Graph Search on mobile first and desktop second, says Ty Amell, CEO of StackMob, a cloud-based mobile platform for developers.
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By choosing the right technology, we have seen customers reduce the time it takes to react to competitive offers and launch new services from many months to a couple of weeks!
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Tencent's blend of services and the success of its online gaming has given it breathing room during times of sluggish advertising demand, and made it freer to take risks and launch new services.
If picked up as a standard, it would let you automatically launch these streaming services on a mobile device, and make them start playing on compatible TVs without having to launch the app on the TV first.
Indeed, in the launch of connected services that transform business models, the underlying technology platform is more than ever a competitive weapon.
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Music publishers are building a song rights database which will make it easier to launch online music services - and fight piracy.
Savkar says he also plans to launch some premium services next year, where students pay for additional offerings like online tutoring and career placement.
This is mostly about enabling new product experiences for its own Apple branded products and for developers to launch more convenient services on iOS devices.
The availability of a new compression format to reduce bandwidth, particularly in mobile networks where spectrum is expensive, paves the way for service providers to launch more video services with the currently available spectrum.
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This status offers them the potential to become the mainstream distribution networks of the future, opening up considerable possibilities to conceive, design and launch innovative convergent services across devices to provide a new compelling consumer experience.
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In fact, the Japanese should have a head start: DoCoMo is scheduled to launch 3G mobile services in Tokyo next May, while carriers in Europe and Asia aren't expected to follow suit until the summer of 2002.
But that time looks to be when they have the new OS, Tizen, nailed down, when they step aside from the specifications arms race and try to surpass Apple as an experience, in global and local partnerships that allow them to launch significant new services.
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Tesco plans to launch additional digital music services from the WE7 platform in the coming months.
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It has made savvy investments in mobile content with the launch of its online services home, Ovi.
ARINC, a technology firm, says it plans to launch in-air services with Qantas and a second, unnamed Asian airline.
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Additional information on pricing and countries where the services will launch will be made available in the coming months.
Maddock Douglas has become an internationally recognized innovation agency that helps leading corporations invent and launch new products, services and business models.
Eager to innovate, it began to study companies like Dell, IBM, Cisco, and Best Buy, that had used social media to launch new products and services.
It's the first carrier anywhere to launch the Rich Communication Services standard on LTE, which provides a perpetually synced contact list that serves as the launching pad for everything else.
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