According to Accenture, a consultancy, there are about 90 smart-grid projects around the world today.
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This Smart Wi-Fi tool that will be made available for new Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers.
No other company comes close to its market breadth in powering smart-phones, tablets and infrastructure.
Last month, Hongkong Bank started a pilot smart-card program at two Hong Kong malls.
For all its success in mobile phones, Samsung is an also-ran in the global smart-phone market.
Take one look at the smart-phone market, and it's easy to see a murderer's row.
This logic would likely apply to many if not most of the smart-grid landscape.
At the smallest end, there is already a buzz developing around smart-watches and watch-phones.
What is even more worrying is the impact this can have on the global smart-phone industry.
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That would be a new front in Apple's war to seize control of the smart-phone market.
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Third-party developers have created many apps that access the data for smart-phone users.
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Creating passwords costs virtually nothing and smart-card readers for use at home are much cheaper too.
The Scotland-wide concessionary travel scheme for bus journeys already uses 7, 000 smart-enabled ticket machines.
And it is not even a third of the global market for smart-phones in 2009.
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In this past quarter, for example, Japanese industrial giant Mitsui invested in smart-grid company Viridity Energy.
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Y. outfit that licenses "smart-window" technology--where you can electronically dim a window, eliminating the need for shutters.
And those who have deployed it--if they're smart--generally do so only after adding extra layers of security.
The smart money in the smart-grid space is swimming upstream and doing so as speedily as possible.
They intend to offer affordable smart-phones to the masses, not just to the top of the market.
And, if application-rich smart-phones become the standard, where does this leave RIMM other than in catch-up mode?
As a result, Samsung hopes to sell more smart-phones in America than any other firm this year.
They are unlikely to edge out established devices such as televisions, personal computers, games consoles and smart-phones.
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Customers run their credit card or customer card through the a smart-card holder installed at the pump.
From augmented reality to constant texting to ubiquitous computing and smart-devices we live in a culture already re-made.
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It also makes camera parts for Kodak, copyright protection devices for major U.S. makers and microchips for smart-cards.
And chips designed by ARM, a British firm, dominate the market for application processors, which run software on smart-phones.
Linksys' latest additions to its Smart Wi-Fi Router portfolio include the Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Router AC1200, AC1600 and AC1750.
PC, funds or travel tickets can be downloaded to the chip without the need for a special smart-card reader.
From where, you may wonder, did this smart-sock jolt in the zeitgeist come?
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