So while competitors can nip away at the edges, ie lower priced product or raised keyboards, at the end of the day, Apple is setting the standards in the categories it chooses to compete.
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With an emphasis on gifted ball-playing technicians such as Xabi Alonso, Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta and David Silva, even seasoned football-watchers were left open-jawed by the fluidity and smooth control of Spain's unique short-passing style of play, setting the standards that many are now attempting to imitate.
Its findings will be published next March and it will lead to a new chapter being added to the National Service Framework (NSF) on coronary heart disease, setting out the standards and models of care for such conditions.
The bulk of the work will center on setting the various standards, contends Scardamalia.
Indeed, the influence of Vodafone AirTouch may be enough to resolve a rumbling trade dispute between America and Europe over setting the technical standards for third-generation mobile.
However, for those experts who are playing a role in the setting of health standards involving guidelines for the use of medicines, more needs to be done.
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But back when Netscape was the only Internet browser, Economides said, it basically controlled the process for setting technical standards for communication on the Internet because it could roll them out into the market if anyone disagreed.
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"What has to be faced is that to some extent fair play, in the form of setting appropriate standards for incentives, is the enemy of transparency, " he says.
One of the biggest changes is the creation of a national body, Children's Hearings Scotland, with a national convener who will have responsibility for setting and monitoring the standards for recruiting, supporting and training the 2, 500 plus children's panel members across the country.
WiMax never really stood a chance because LTE had the same standards setting machinery which set up the previous Generations, and mobile operators just needed to upgrade rather than replace their networks.
It is responsible for coordinating the tsunami warning system, for facilitating international marine scientific cooperation, setting agreed standards among the international marine science community and providing access to international marine science data.
As in the case for all gold standards, setting the gold conversion price at the correct level would be crucial.
For example, the FDIC has the authority to wind down unstable financial firms, banking regulators have a tighter grip on setting capital standards, the Securities and Exchange Commission will have greater oversight over hedge funds and private equity firms, and the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission will coordinate regulation of derivatives.
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Last year the nonprofit standards-setting group, overseen by the American College of Surgeons, began requiring cancer programs to offer rehabilitation services to be eligible for accreditation.
The locus of most standards-setting initiatives has been the individual states, which have borrowed widely from each other, rather than the federal government.
They include setting standards for the exchange of patient medical information.
The man himself was a jet-setting playboy who rarely met the David Ogilvy standards of a great leader.
The process of setting standards and WTO policy is more tortoise than hare, according to Lamy.
Mr Major thinks he forestalled criticism by setting up the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life in October 1994.
The Concept Release on Requiring the Engagement Partner to Sign the Audit Report is still on the PCAOB standards setting docket.
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One such, Raymond Seitz, performed so well in that role in the mid-1980s that he came back to London as ambassador in the 1990s, setting high standards in both jobs.
Kelley said TruePosition failed to present facts suggesting the competitors agreed in advance to shut it out of the standards-setting process, instead of merely doing so for their own independent reasons.
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The standards-setting and best practices bodies will be continuing to develop and modify their work to keep pace with current threats, and U.S. companies will be continually chafing under out-dated or ineffective regulations, compulsory standards, and mandatory cybersecurity practices.
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Also adding to the anxiety: a Supreme Court decision in April setting higher standards for obtaining a patent and new rules from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month that, among other things, limit the number of continuing patent applications that can be filed.
While the study suggests that confidence in the standards will improve with familiarity, as investors and analysts educate themselves the debate will move to the standard-setting process as well as the governance of the International Accounting Standards Board.
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The momentum they are gaining and the way they are applying their advantages are transforming global markets, propelling Chinese telecom and technology ventures toward the leading edge of technology development, manufacturing, and standards setting, according to a report from the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, published in January 2011.
The CIA, in setting standards for its own employees, appeared to draw its own lines.
Standards legitimize the setting of explicit objectives toward which students, teachers, and whole schools can strive.
Survey of methods for setting minimum instream flows standards in the Caribbean Basin.
The bill, from Representative Fred Upton (R-MI) targets the EPA, and most of the coverage has focused on its attempt to stop the agency from setting greenhouse gas standards.
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