Daimler's own product portfolio already embraces the small and quirky Smart car, but there's also the executive icon the Mercedes Benz, the sporty, powerful derivative AMG and the rather pointless Maybach.
Joachim Schmidt, global head of sales and marketing for Mercedes, says until batteries get cheaper and lighter, Mercedes will respond to demand for exhaust-free cars (and California clean-car mandates) with small vehicles such as the tiny electric Smart and the compact B-Class, and offer plug-in hybrid versions of its larger models, including the S-class sedan.
To remain competitive in the global economy, incentive programs and policies must be designed to support the small businesses and start-ups that are driving smart innovation in our country.
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But small business owners are smart, and soon they become aware of the profit in daily deals, from the first sale and over time.
Introducing several desktops geared specifically to small and medium-size businesses is also smart, Baker says.
Reading Small Giants helped me frame what sustainable and smart growth looks like.
Now, with the use of so-called smart meters, small business and even some residences can communicate with providers and buy power more like big customers can.
Efforts focus on accelerating adoption of smart devices, empowering small and medium-sized businesses, and raising skills development to ignite African innovation for the continent and for the world.
Esa believes double layer drives could be as small and economical as the one on board Smart 1, but much more powerful, which would enable craft to accelerate and decelerate faster.
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Portland is an interesting town, small, but incredibly dense with smart people and creative talent.
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Algonquin is a small company that likes to discover and develop a few smart books.
Controlled via a tablet computer, the small autonomous aircraft will photograph poachers and track animals via smart radio tags.
"It's a smart business model, starting off small and allowing us to grow, " says Paul Gautier, head of international marketing for Puma, a league-wide sponsor.
The modern small business owner is smart, tech-savvy and agile, but in spite of their business prowess, they or their IT department may very likely neglect a key aspect of their growth plan: beefing up their cybersecurity.
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While much of the current buzz in tech is focused on small high definition displays found in tablets, smartphones and smart watches, one analyst believes there is untapped demand for the tech giant's vision - not least because of all the data generated by the other gadgets.
The alliance's manifesto calls for measures to reduce demand on the main electricity transmission grid, including smart meters, encouragement for community and small-scale local energy generation, and further research on methods of storage of electricity.
Among the new gizmos and gadgets showcased by GE were a slew of energy-efficient smart appliances, the GE Energy Smart LED, an advanced small wind turbine, and an Yves Behar-designed home electric vehicle charging dock called the GE WattStation.
Wind River (nasdaq: WIND - news - people ) specializes in so-called device software, the fast, small operating systems and middleware that go into all sorts of noncomputer smart devices, from digital video recorders to industrial robots and the Mars Rover.
Different industries are already converging on this market: mobile-phone makers are launching small laptops, known as netbooks, and computer-makers are moving into smart-phones.
An optional Skype Communication camera (TY-CC20W) allows the consumer to communicate with friends and family via a large TV, rather than on a small computer or smart phone screen.
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The lessons learned from this journey will undoubtedly be of great value to other nations that are just now taking baby steps, and who are smart enough to pay attention to the accomplishments of this small island on the North Sea.
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By 2016, the 4Afrika Initiative plans to help place tens of millions of smart devices in the hands of African youth, bring 1 million African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) online, upskill 100, 000 members of Africa's existing workforce, and help an additional 100, 000 recent graduates develop employability skills, 75 percent of whom Microsoft will help place in jobs.
We have agreed to address a set of next-generation trade issues, including removing frictions in the global supply chains, helping small and medium-size enterprises grow and better plug into the global trading system, and adopting smart, market-oriented innovation policies.
The company will open more small Best Buy Mobile stores, where it uses a device-savvy sales force to sell smart phones and other mobile devices.
Mitsubishi, which has more experience than DaimlerChrysler with small cars, should be better at holding down costs, and the alliance should also help to bring the Smart to Asia, a market that may suit it well.
Hailing it as as the future of the (small) monitor whereas Tablet PCs were the future of the notebook, Microsoft introduced Smart Display in 2002 and killed it less than a year after the first models shipped.
Here is a suggestion for a smart minimum wage law (perhaps proposed in return for relaxing federal healthcare taxes and mandates for small business?): A minimum wage rise that is triggered by stipulated economic conditions, much like the Fed says it will let interest rates seek market levels only when unemployment drops to 6.5%.
And getting that balance right has less to do with big government or small government than it has to do with smart government.
That way, they can also suck-in all those small investors who think converting the remains of their IRA into a Roth IRA and paying taxes to do so is a smart move.
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