The other worry of pessimists is that alternatives to oil simply cannot be brought online fast enough to compensate for oil's imminent decline.
"Intel has had to come to terms with the reality that the RDRAM technology has not come online fast enough, " says Kevin Krewell, an analyst at MicroDesign Resources, a chip industry research firm in Sebastopol, Calif.
And not just from our chairs, typing online comments as fast as we can.
The amount of content available online is growing fast, and devices for accessing the Net are getting better and cheaper quickly.
My blog post came about after reading an article in the online edition of Fast Company in which the energy efficiency of LEED certified buildings was being questioned.
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Stamp duty would stop lightning-fast, online media and bring that ancient tradition back.
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Google says that gigabit Internet offers more than just fast browsing online, but make the web a more useful and compelling communication tool.
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The company is likely to strengthen its own online platform to compete, but may face headwinds from existing (and fast-growing) online retailers in China.
Wang says the online video market is growing fast and believes there will be multiple winners.
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As that business expanded, he took on other products, including the fast-growing online iCloud service.
It recently bought a stake in Yihaodian, a fast-growing online retailer of groceries, consumer electronics and apparels.
The market for online education has grown as fast and gotten as crowded as anything on the Internet.
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Founded in 2004, InsiderPages.com was a fast-growing online directory with a twist.
Fast-growing online dating firm Cupid has issued a statement in response to a sharp drop in its share price.
"The problem is that today's online services turn friendship into fast food -- wrapping everyone in 'friend' paper, " Google executive Vic Gundotra writes in a blog post.
Sahil Lavingia was a freshman at the University of Southern California in 2010 when he got an email from Ben Silbermann, chief executive and co-founder of the fast-growing online scrapbook Pinterest.
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YouTube's shift into premium paid-for channels raises the stakes in the fast-evolving online video sector, which is beginning to resemble the early days of cable television before it grew into a multibillion-dollar business.
Yet, in spite of this, and though the company's traditional business is combined with a fast-growing online money transfer business, the complexity does not lie with the sheer mass of data per se, he insists.
Apart from being able to display more of a webpage onscreen, the P835 boasts features that greatly enrich users' online experience, including blazing fast HSUPA 7.2Mbps download speeds, a responsive trackball that makes scrolling effortless and Opera Mobile, a user-friendly and full-featured Web browser.
Mobile and online applications for improving health are fast, simple and accessible anytime and anywhere.
Braintree provides online and mobile payment technology to fast-growing consumer-facing services like OpenTable, Fab.com, Airbnb, Uber, Angry Birds, and Living Social.
This kind of deep data approch is really a new frontier for the online world, as seen with fast-growing companies like Pandora (NYSE:P) and LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD).
They can also easily connect via WiFi and Chrome's fast start up gets students online instantly.
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Online applications have increased the demand for fast storage.
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Island is a key factor in the success of fast-growing Internet brokerage Datek Online.
The top ten players already control 90% of the online action, and midsize firms are disappearing fast.
The deal would be a major validation for social media marketing, a still nascent but fast-growing segment of the online advertising market.
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But China's own websites are fast enough that TV shows streamed online by video sites, like those run by Youku Tudou Inc.
The new systems include an online booking system, e-prescriptions and fast computer network links between NHS organisations as well as the electronic records system.
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HelloGiggles is one of the best examples of how the online landscape for women is changing due to fast and effectively strong word of mouth.
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