From ordering a new passport to standing in line at the DMV, the process is a hassle.

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By 2014, Intel expects to align the schedules its Atom-based SoCs and its flagship Core processor line, which, in the past, has reached new process nodes more quickly.

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This newfangled approach to insulation, dubbed airgaps, creates vacuums that enable the substantial boost in speed, and the self assembling process is reportedly "already integrated" into IBM's manufacturing line in New York.

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An innovation can be as simple as your bookkeeper reducing a bill paying process by 3 steps and thus saving 5 minutes per bill, to an entirely new product line, to an improvement to a current product, to a new high margin service, to a new cultural ritual to improve employee engagement.

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