In short, the market has concluded that RIM has lost its mojo, both in sales and in the bigger picture, product development.
Furthermore, the emphasis on a standardized PC running Steam Big Picture could breathe new life into PC development.
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As a city, Buenos Aires gives us an unusually clear picture of the two core aspects of global city development.
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The Economic Outlook from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, released Wednesday, paints a picture of pain for some economies as major nations struggle to emerge from recession and unemployment in Europe soars to record levels.
From the perspective of Cambodia's political development, then, the election presents a mixed picture.
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This focus is good from a development standpoint, but takes his mind off the big picture for a while.
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Recent estimates from financial consulting firms paint a stark picture of "offshoring, " which allows companies to get software development and other services at one-third to one-sixth the cost.
Talking with Asus executives about their new baby, the picture emerges of a project where unusual resources were dedicated to rapid development and engineering, and unusually narrow margins and tolerances are built into the final product, in order to meet the requirements for size, weight and battery life.
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Plus, being immersed in that environment, you get to observe the politics of game development and publishing going on around you, and get a clearer picture of how the industry operates from the inside.
Throw in a rushed development process that recycled areas to the point of nausea and you get the picture.
An interesting development in this respect is that the latest antennas are capable of displaying a picture as sharp as, and sometimes better, than cable or satellite.
It's just a picture of a tartan ribbon and may seem unremarkable, yet it marks a crucial moment in the development of colour photography and forms the basis of the photographs we take today.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, which has forecast a much higher reduction in public sector jobs, said the picture painted by the OBR differed from reports it had received from "managers on the ground".
Aggregated and integrated data generated by those tools will create a complete and continuously updated picture of every patient, influencing everything from the treatment of disease, to the prolonging of health, to the development of new treatments, Topol argues.
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