All companies can use real-time continuous data to monitor shelf-life, cash flow, debtors outstanding.

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Repositioning the legacy 3GS at the entry level buys Apple time, but it is a dated product with limited shelf-life.

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What finally relegated your correspondent's Leica to the top shelf wasn't having to carry a separate light-meter all the time, but a pair of scissors as well.

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Shopperception uses PrimeSense technology to provide brick-and-mortar retailers with an amazingly advanced system for understanding precisely and in real-time just what shoppers do in front of a retail shelf.

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At the same time I enjoy taking note of brand-name readability, shelf positioning, the attention-drawing power of competing package designs.

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The offering, which will be underwritten by Citigroup, is expected to occur on March 19, according to a press release issued by E-Trade, and had been in the works for quite some time: a shelf registration to the offering had been filed with the SEC last May.

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Time will be required to develop and prove technologies that eventually will become off-the-shelf solutions.

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