But the market expansion of renewable technologies has made possible cost reductions in some sectors, such as wind and solar photovoltaics (PV), and such trends are set to continue.
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Meanwhile, a host of new regulatory initiatives and fanciful (perhaps farcical) beliefs about the market readiness of clean-energy technologies redirected capital away from where it would most productively be used to compliance and rent-seeking.
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Through innovation, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships, ECOtality accelerates the market applicability of advanced electric technologies to replace carbon-based fuels.
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The DisplaySearch Touch Panel Market Analysis report is a comprehensive analysis of the touch panel technologies and their market forecasts through 2017.
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Instead of using market maps based on technologies, we are looking at use cases.
Second, the President should lead the charge for reorganizing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and reforming the National Labs system to spur clean energy innovation and enhance implementation of technologies from research to market.
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In 2003, IBM co-founded the US-based GridWise Alliance that advocates for grid modernization, and in 2007, IBM formed the Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC), a coalition of players in the energy and utilities market, which is helping accelerate the adoption and use of smart grid technologies and bringing digital intelligence to current systems.
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GuardianEdge products offer a breadth of encryption, port, device and file type control technologies while establishing a market-leading position in solving the operational issues of deployment, management, scalability, reporting, auditing and user productivity at the lowest possible total cost.
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Initial product developments will commence concurrently on gaming and home theater headphones, as well as, communication and hearing health devices where the combination of proprietary technologies is anticipated to create a new standard of performance in this growing market.
However, netbooks and tablets will continue to rule the PC market with newer technologies and rapid innovation in terms of product design and features.
China's 1.3 billion people and unmatched economies of scale can bring new technologies to market fast -- in "China time" -- at a speed that is virtually impossible anywhere else in the world.
The company maintains high standards of customer service, is proactive in bringing HD channels and the latest DVR technologies to the market, focuses on subscriber credit quality and offers the NFL Sunday Ticket all of which support its outlook.
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The promise of the huge Chinese market sparked huge gains for Superconductor Technologies on Monday.
Huawei, which makes telecoms gear, is a master of recombining existing technologies and bringing them to market at lightning speed.
But the alternative technologies hope to grab some of that market share.
The new Kindle Fire HD is the first tablet to market with all three of these latest generation Wi-Fi technologies-dual-band support, dual antennas, and MIMO.
Some of these technologies are already appearing on the market.
While even imagining such a traumatic dystopean future is more painful than anyone should bear, the likelihood of such a dreary future is increasing due to the unfortunate combination of market forces, decision making, and assisted reproductive technologies.
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But rather than wasting more words debating the definition of clean energy, it would behoove all of us to instead consider the massive market need that these technologies are poised to provide at lower cost and higher efficiencies.
Marketers were skilled at using the new emerging media (the mass-market newspapers that had been enabled by the development of cheap printing technologies in the 1890s) to sell, but not particularly interested in the full-spectrum risk-taking required of true entrepreneurs.
The TV ad market is "reaching the top of the curve, " and digital technologies will accelerate the coming decline, says Peter Sealey, a former Coke marketing chief who now teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.
"Microsoft needs to get something into the market quickly, " says Roger Kay, president of technology research firm Endpoint Technologies Associate.
Silicon Graphics ( SGIC - news - people ) in 1992 after nearly running out of money, then spun back out to the public market as MIPS Technologies in 1998.
He said up to 5.5m homes and businesses in the UK were at risk of flooding but with the right amount of investment, the country could become a "market leader" in technologies to combat flooding and its effects.
Thus, Canon's core engine technologies still hold nearly 60% of the laser-printer market, including machines sold through an alliance with Hewlett-Packard.
If the GSA were to unleash the full potential of federal procurement across its portfolio, it would expand the market for sustainable technologies.
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The new agreement must also provide clear and predictable market signals that will encourage the generation and deployment of new cost-effective energy technologies.
Shares of United Technologies edged up 0.1% in pre-market trading.
We need to have the conversation about what we want and why, and whether and how these technologies are worth supporting in the initial stages of development and market growth.
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This coincides with ARM CEO Warren East speaking on the importance of mobile technologies and the UK's role in developing this market at the British Government's Business Olympics event in London from 26th July to 3rd August.
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