Now consider that iPhone 4, the last major product update, was released more than two years ago.
Executives suggested the next significant product update won't come until the fall.
So when software breaks it can cost businesses millions of dollars due to news-making catastrophes, regulatory investigations or even a major product update or recall.
The newly released Adobe Muse, for graphic designers who want to create websites without writing code, has received a new product update that further expands on its unique capabilities for planning, designing and publishing original HTML pages.
He cut his estimates in the June quarter on a belief customers will wait to refresh their phones ahead of the pending iPhone 5S, and Apple will also bring down channel inventory to reflect the upcoming product update.
Meanwhile, though, the issue may be decided by the FDA. The agency recently disclosed plans to revise its regulations so that generic drugmakers can update product labeling and warn patients about risks associated with their drugs.
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Understandably, it would be difficult to create a new category each year yet Apple did update all product lines in 2012.
Google Voice has not yet provided a standard solution to the extension problem, but there are enough inquiries in product forums that an update seems imminent.
Retailers who want their Web sites to show up in Froogle searches have to update their product pages with hidden labels on things like price, name and manufacturer.
Thankfully, our site was launched on the platform Shopify which allows me to easily update new product to the site and use basic HTML to edit the page aesthetically.
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But by putting together an ambitious product for the crowd funding site and timing that to coincide with an update of your more stable product, you get the best of both worlds as a creator.
Existing owners will be able to download the update on the product's download page on www.corsair.com.
Also looming on the horizon is an update to the core Zip product line.
Brand-name drugmakers, though, can update warnings and precautions on product labeling before obtaining FDA approval.
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" Perhaps I get the update at the right "Product Family Site.
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Really, the T2 is just a minor update to a first generation product, most of its changes revolving around making the admittedly slightly uncomfortable wearable a bit easier on your head.
Picture a world where they could identify every mention or link on a particular actor, product, etc. and in an instant, update or add a link that will send people to their Facebook page, or Twitter.
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There is a slide show in the story, and you may learn the most about the product by skipping ahead from the two product shots to the third slide, a marketing update (note to whoever sent this: Probably not a good idea to send images that indicates where you sat during the meeting.) Nothing about the advantages of Palm.
As our product evolves, one of the things we do is update our policies to match it.
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Older Ford vehicles that have Sync will soon be able to make the update as well, says supervisor of Sync product development Mark Porter.
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So, if you have an idea for the product team, you can type a couple sentences on the status update to get some feedback.
Less than a year later, RIM is back with an update it has dubbed Storm2, the company's biggest product release of the year.
That last piece is a bit of a bummer, for sure, but for what it's worth Microsoft has said a new Mac product is in the works, and that subscribers will get it as part of a future software update.
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