We hope they aren't making too many grand plans to bring Microsoft's newly added in-app purchasing support to every title, however.

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And he is likely to say that the government could do more through its own procurement and purchasing to support innovation - which is likely to strike a chord with many of the businesses to whom I talk.

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The Pew poll indicates that eight in 10 favor laws to prevent mentally ill people from purchasing guns, again with bipartisan support.

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Earlier, a trader said, gold and other commodities found minute support from the HSBC preliminary Purchasing Managers Index for October.

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While it might not be an issue in the US where the three main carriers have some form of LTE support, this will limit purchasing options in other countries.

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The Executive Order commits Federal agencies to lead by example toward a clean energy economy, and sets targets to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, increase energy efficiency, reduce fleet petroleum consumption, conserve water, reduce waste, support sustainable communities, and leverage Federal purchasing power to promote environmentally-responsible products and technologies.

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And customer surveys consistently show service and support is more important than the product in purchasing decisions.

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Increasingly, corporate purchasing decisions are influenced by nontechnological attributes such as service and support or leasing programs, he said.

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Instead, Target has a central system where all data is analyzed and pushed back out to support day-to-day operations, mining purchasing data, tying it to specific individuals and using algorithms to predict future outcomes.

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And tonight, I ask the Congress to support an innovative proposal to provide food assistance by purchasing crops directly from farmers in the developing world, so we can build up local agriculture and help break the cycle of famine.

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The pace at which consumers are purchasing and using tablets and smartphones is expected to outpace the capacity of wireless networks to support them unless more spectrum is made available to U.S. wireless carriers in the near future.

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