Start-ups like Fab and ILikeWhatYourWearing.com have asked them and, by revolutionizing the status quo online retail experience, they have an easier time positioning themselves as a next gen brand against the status quo.
"Microsoft and the hardware vendors seem to have had a hard time positioning these kinds of devices and articulating their value, " says Michael McGuire, principal analyst for mobile computing at Dataquest, a San Jose market research firm.
The GD300 uses a quadra-helix antenna for real-time global positioning that defies interference even when the user is positioned in mountainous regions or urban environments.
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Ineffective opportunity management eventually leads to loss of money, time, and positioning with customers who are (or should be) core customers.
For example, researchers in Arizona are using real-time kinematic global positioning systems, an ultra-precise version of GPS that can measure positions with sub-inch accuracy levels, to control weeds in cotton fields with steel cultivators.
The most active options on TJX Companies suggest at least one strategist is positioning for fresh all-time highs in the price of the underlying in the near term, while other traders may not be assuming as optimistic a stance on the name.
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The most recent report covers positioning through March 5, a time when all of the metals tumbled.
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Both companies and consumers have been positioning for slower growth for some time.
One scheme called Londonet, devised by Alistair Jeffs and his team, suggests using smart cards, global positioning satellites, wireless communications and real-time personal information devices to revolutionise how Londoners go about their lives.
With time on their hands, many German firms are positioning themselves to endure or even profit from disruption.
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This is why most improvements in bizjets during the last 40 years have come from outside the industry--electronic engine controls, global-positioning satellites, moving-map displays, downloadable real-time weather, etc.
The sizable options play on ABV, which is majority-owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, suggests the strategist is positioning for shares in the name to hit new all-time highs by May expiration.
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It is unclear how far Mrs Palin's ambitions stretch, but she is positioning herself as a coupon-clipping hockey mom at a time when Americans are glum and Republican fortunes are rising.
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The fact is the marketplace is littered with dozens of novelty watches, all of which tell time well, and which do such things as receive Global Positioning Systems signals, change the channel on TV sets, take pictures and store contact lists like a personal digital assistant.
At the same time I enjoy taking note of brand-name readability, shelf positioning, the attention-drawing power of competing package designs.
Broadcom and Qualcomm are improving the indoor positioning capabilities of their chips and improving accuracy and availability of the technology at the same time.
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By making it possible to track customers in the physical world as easily as we do on the Web, indoor positioning is poised to bring the power of web analytics into the physical world, giving us real-time insights into human behavior and habits on a massive scale.
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Although it was presented in the typical corporate fashion suggesting that Schmidt had been thinking about this for a long time, the simple truth was that Page was anxious about the state of Google and its competitive positioning in the next 5 years.
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