The ITU's roundtable discussing the controversy over standard-essential patents has wrapped up its first day, and surprise -- there wasn't immediate harmony.
Most investors expect the U.S. to adopt IFRS eventually and believe the transition will depend on a clear framework for auditors, a satisfactory level of U.S. influence over standard-setting, and investor education and communications.
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Certain companies kept to their view that bans over standard-essential patents hurt innovation, while others were adamant that bans were harmless and potentially necessary -- you can probably guess who's on each side.
To most Iranians, President Ahmadinejad's revelations and over-the-top religious imagery are standard faire.
It offers 56 megabits per second over a 30-mile radius. (The current standard is 11 megabits per second over a half-mile.) Wi-Max antennas on roofs and water towers will spring up like crazy and may begin to threaten the cable and local telephone empires.
Intel says that the product offers a 30X endurance improvement over its standard MLC-based flash products and is available in a 400 and 800 GB capacity.
Main.net's gear already serves 10, 000 European homes at speeds of 500 kilobits a second, roughly equal to average cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) speeds, but a tenfold increase over standard dial-up modems.
This device will include a standard over-the-air DTV tuner, along with a mobile TV tuner that is compatible with Dyle(TM)mobile TV, a service that enables consumers to watch live, local TV while they are on the go.
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Not to be left out from the CES announcements, the DV8000 also has some new tricks: the Windows Media Center Edition operating system is an available option, as is HP's Ultra BrightView display technology, which adds a second lamp over the standard 17-inch BrightView LCD.
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The brand sponsored Wi-Fi access program delivers an average mobile engagement rate of over 40 percent, a 60-fold lift in performance over standard mobile banners.
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His take-over of the Evening Standard s expected to take place in February following consultation with employees.
Meanwhile, Liverpool's compatriots Arsenal made no mistake in their quest to secure qualification, cruising to a 2-0 home win over Standard Liege to finish top of Group H.
It was almost a year ago to the day that the European Commission began investigating Motorola over reported abuse of its standard-essential patents (SEPs), and now the regulators have a little more to say on the matter.
The new extenders support more video formats--like DivX--and use the faster and sturdier Wireless N standard for streaming high-definition video over the air.
Meanwhile the accelerator and clutch are improvements over standard pedals too, offering high-precision, contact-free potentiometers and by default offering very low resistance but good feel.
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Foundation hospitals will be crawled over by even more central regulators than oversee bog-standard hospitals.
In recent years, the most blatant political intervention in the standard-setting process has been over the stock options that many companies grant to their employees.
Over the past seven years the price for the standard five-germ inoculation (including diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough) has dropped 40%.
He notes that sales of industry standard servers were up 35% year-over-year in the quarter, while storage products were up 20%.
Once that currency is the euro, money managers in these countries can invest all over the single-currency region and so will need a euro standard.
The standard vaccine regimen has been five shots over a 28-day period, but recent research has shown that the vaccine works in just four (or even three) shots.
We felt a few bumps and jolts over pockmarked pavement, due largely we suspect to the standard run-flat tires (which by nature are stiffer than conventional rubber), but by the same token the ride is never floaty or bouncy, which will certainly spare rear-seat riders from ever feeling seasick in this land yacht.
Over the past 70-plus years since Social Security was enacted, our standard of living has dramatically increased and medical science substantially lengthened the median life expectancy.
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But the debate over whether the government should put in place a so-called renewable portfolio standard is likely to be a significant flash point in the discussions.
This decision, however, was a result of both budgetary constraints as well as the desire to share the risk in a harsh competitive environment - an environment that only rewards compounds that demonstrate real value over standard therapies.
Earlier this year, Citigroup bought a controlling stake in KorAm Bank, which increased its private-banking network there from a dozen branches to over 200, while Standard Chartered last month opened its first branch in Seoul dedicated to private banking.
Once one of the largest U.S. newspaper publishers, with 27 dailies, Harte-Hanks sold off every last one of them without hesitation over the past ten years -- even Harte's beloved San Angelo Standard-Times -- to invest in the faster-growing business of direct marketing.
This includes the resurgence of U.S. liquid production in recent years (5.5 million barrels of oil per day and trending upward), as well as conventional gas production's six-fold increase over the last two decades (to approximately 32 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day in 2010, nearly equaling U.S. liquid production).
The two sides co-operated effectively over the biggest upheaval in cargo transport, the introduction of standard containers in the 1960s and 1970s.
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It has ridden the DVD boom ever since its sound patents were mandated into the DVD standard in the mid-1990s, but that boom is over.
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