But it also turns them into powerful tools for businesses that want to catch people's attention.
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The problem is this: the world is analog, but our most powerful tools are not.
For the diseases it does track it is one of the more powerful tools out there.
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More powerful tools mean larger numbers of ever-more-sophisticated games are on the way, Kurzweil promised.
Third, the U.S. settlement demonstrates that bribery prosecutions may themselves be powerful tools for behavioral change.
Social media went from an interesting idea to one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox.
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Once a candidate is hired, a number of powerful tools facilitate the onboarding process, including BambooHR.
Like all powerful tools, storytelling carries the risk of harming an inexperienced user, rather than achieving its intended goal.
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Metaphors are powerful tools to help the uninitiated understand the complex, but they can quickly get in the way.
When done with the good of the public in mind, public relations strategies can be powerful tools for change.
Over the past decade, mobile ecosystems and social media have proven to be powerful tools to help publishers grow audiences.
Building on a decade-long census of marine life, these powerful tools provide quantitative baselines of biodiversity at the regional and global level.
Last week, I wrote about ten different and powerful SEO tools at Small Business Trends: Optimizing Your Website: Ten Powerful SEO Tools.
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With its sleek 8.5 x 11 inch form factor, crisp large touchscreen display, intuitive user interface and powerful tools, QUE stands out in the crowd.
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The enhanced Quattro Pro 9 spreadsheet offers greater file size, easier manipulation of data, and more powerful tools to "turn numbers into knowledge, " Tomey said.
One of the most powerful tools we have to keep the American people safe is not providing al Qaeda and jihadists recruiting tools for fledgling terrorists.
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Along with powerful tools for collaboration, security and delivering performance in cloud-based software services will continue to separate the leaders in SaaS from the rest of the pack.
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Initially, says George Roberts, the head of Oracle's North American sales division, sales reps were horrified to have pricing, one of their most powerful tools, wrenched from their grasp.
Brian Forst, a professor of justice, law and society at American University, said many of the provisions in the package would, indeed, give the government more powerful tools to fight terrorism.
The U.S. Cyber Command also has more powerful tools to fight and defend against cyber attacks than does the DHS, a potential problem when time is of the essence during an attack.
The GIIRS Analytics platform gives investors powerful tools to analyze aggregated, verified and comparable data on the social and environmental impact of companies and funds across geography, sector, organizational maturity, and size.
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"New digital design tech, 3D printing, robotics and the emerging field of 3D scanning, plus exponential leaps in manufacturing -- together, they are putting really powerful tools into the hands of individuals, " he says.
Those are really powerful tools, and we're taking them and expanding beyond the merchants we have talked to on the phone, and making them available to a million merchants that have already signed up.
But inside the organization, social technologies are powerful tools that you can use to engage your employees for real-time feedback, enabling them to collaborate on tasks and connect to the resources they need for success.
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DreamWorks, Paramount and Universal are betting that HD DVD's powerful tools for interactivity will let them make a tonne of money out of selling all manner of online services to customers who buy their discs.
However, the same power given to people seeking to connect the governing to the governed also gives the world's criminals and terrorists powerful tools to build sophisticated networks through which to perpetuate fraud, graft, and violence.
Getting such powerful genetic analysis in over 200, 000 genetic variants in 200, 000 people is tricky but necessary and this is now starting to yield powerful tools to personalise treatment and aid prevention of coronary artery disease.
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But examples can be powerful tools.
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One of the most potentially powerful tools President Obama could use is the "netroots, " which some think he can use to build pressure in the states where 19 Republican Senate seats will be in play in the 2010 midterm elections.
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