The power and utility companies like to have control over the power supply and control over the transmission lines.

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And, it should go without saying, that it took a whole lot to get these gaming machines to share a single power supply, video cable and control pad.

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While it's being tested and implemented over the next year as part of this program, Vigilance can be fitted to any vehicle that can accommodate the two control consoles and supply the necessary power.

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Incorrectly-soldered transistors on control boards could heat up and the power supply fuse could blow, shutting down the hybrid system causing the vehicle to coast to a stop, Toyota says.

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Autonomous control over supply, via aggregation in unions, became their only source of power.

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Analysts saw the talks as part of a consolidation trend, as HP, IBM and Cisco Systems jostle for control of corporate data centers and compete to supply the high-end computers that power complex corporate transactions and networks.

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