But his 14.7% holding in the Queensland outfit, even if it provides a ready platform for his views on design and marketing as a nonexecutive director, has yet to give him a financial bounce.
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Currently, there is no vendor capable of delivering a full platform, nor are any companies ready to deploy such a platform across the enterprise.
Once you are confident in the message of your pitch, and have gone through your project checklist, you are ready to choose a platform.
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Now the home security and automation platform is finally ready for prime time.
It will take about three months for Nasa engineers to test the platform and get it ready for use at its operational altitude of 705km.
The PopBox platform will be 3D-ready beginning at launch.
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The Zii EGG is a developer platform, after all, but Creative says the platform is "market-ready" for picking up by OEMs for production -- hopefully they aren't far removed from shoehorning a 3G chipset in there somewhere as well.
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The firm was quietly developing their platform and a year ago was ready with it.
Finally, choosing a platform which has pre-implemented business ready applications that match your industry operations is very essential.
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This extensible business platform (iTunes) also came with a ready-made business ecosystem of creative partners and music marketing companies.
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It seemed almost too good to be true -- AMD looked ready to stick to its timing and deliver the first Fusion Brazos platform by early 2011.
Gaining an extra 270 days to trade on a non-registered foreign bank platform can help many retail forex traders who are not otherwise ready to begin trading under the new CFTC rules, which include 50:1 margin on majors, 20:1 margin on minors, the hedging rule and no FDIC, SPIC or segregation protection.
The BUG platform is a collection of discrete hardware modules, Verizon Wireless network-ready 3G modems, and associated software that can be easily combined and re-combined to create new, custom wireless devices.
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Sadly, there's no indication these X10s will have anything other than the dusty Android 1.6-based platform they've been running everywhere since their global launch, so get ready to travel back in time if you end up cross-shopping this with the Captivate.
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