"I think it's going to make it tougher for smart development to happen because the people who are impacted by the development won't accept a community benefits agreement in the bargaining process, " said Mr. Morgan.
Google's Android Honeycomb platform, for example, which was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, will contribute competition to future smart phone development.
"We're very excited to be working with Verizon to bring even more compelling offerings to LG Smart TV, " said Sam Chang, general manager of LG's Smart TV Innovation Development Group.
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From smarter power distribution, to more efficient cities, to digital battlefields, to self-optimizing supply chains, to hyper-targeted products, it all seems possible and the world seems poised to make deep inroads into smart and sustainable development.
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To enable this kind of development process, Smart TV Alliance will make the first version of its software development kit (SDK) available on its website which developers can download at no cost and use to develop their applications.
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With its new generation of Atom chips, Intel is hoping to spark a boom in the development of smart, pocket-friendly devices.
Kahn was surprised to learn that all 14 food companies had paid for the development of Smart Choices, but said he sees no conflict of interest.
He says Microsoft currently has the application servers and the clients, such as Pocket PC and the Stinger smart phones currently under development, but lacks the glue to tie the two together.
That said, the company is being smart and releasing a software development kit to encourage outsiders to hack away at new, creative uses for different smells.
"Kellogg joined many others in the industry in investing in the development of the Smart Choices program to help consumers make informed food choices, " said spokeswoman Kris Charles.
It began as a conversation between Mitchell and architect Frank Gehry who acted as guest critic to the car's development by the Smart Cities research group at MIT.
Samsung collaborates with companies like i-Free, a Russian mobile tech company on the development of 3-D viewing apps for smart TVs and also has a nascent retail strategy under development in Russia.
At the Georgia Institute of Technology, US, this has led to the development of a smart T-shirt that contains a web of wiring that is capable of monitoring a number of vital signs at once.
Marseille, tourist epicenter during next year and the second most populated city in France, it's the ideal place to continue the growth trajectory of development of WiFi smart cities in France and in the World of GOWEX.
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Since the massive blackout that wracked the east coast of the United States and large parts of Canada back in 2003, there has been a tremendous amount of conversation about the development of a "smart grid" that will provide a safe, reliable, efficient and resilient energy infrastructure.
In the development of the new generation smart benefited from extensive experience and customer feedback gathered worldwide over the past years.
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Tesla is also in production of battery packs for the Daimler Smart EV's and in battery development programs with other vehicle and stationary customers.
Executives were indeed confident that this Smart Fortwo has made strides in the development of a vehicle that has been notoriously painful in the face of a pothole.
Proposals to fit childlocks onto firearms or to fund the development of so-called smart guns that can only be fired by their owners also got stuck in congressional argument.
"It's very smart marketing, " says Michael Markowitz, an advertising development consultant in Santa Fe, N.
Google has been smart to work on these issues simultaneously with the technology development, rather than waiting until the technology was done.
And we will continue to weigh in and encourage Iraqi leaders to make smart decisions as they continue to move forward with the development of their democracy.
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.
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the development of an innovative low-power technology for embedded SRAM for application in smart phones and other mobile products.
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LG, Philips and Sharp invite other Smart TV makers and application developers participate in the initiative and provide ideas for simplifying the development process while improving the user experience.
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The development of the car faced many delays and subsequent woeful changes as control over Smart switched hands from Volkswagen to Daimler AG, and a host of manufacturing partners that joined forces with Daimler .
"LG is very impressed by the capabilities of NVIDIA's GRID Platform to deliver high-quality game streams directly to LG Smart TVs without a game console, " said Bae-Geun Kang, vice president, head of Software Development Group, TV Research Lab, LG.
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So, good list, Forbes, but you left out the most important tools of all, the cognitive artifacts that have truly made us smart: writing and notational systems, objects of travel and information technology, which really picked up somewhere around the development of the telegraph, but could be argued to have developed earlier with the wide variety of signaling systems.
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