In fact, Chinese companies like Changhong Electric are fast becoming leaders in the Smart TV field, recently announcing a partnership with San Francisco startup Flingo (a developer of Social TV apps) to better enable second screen engagement for Asian consumers.

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Applied to the same organization or field, smart grants can leverage investments many times over, as long as they do not carry pointless restrictions, and are part of a larger plan creating other unrestricted, long term sources of income.

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Branding initiatives using social media are no different and the smart people working in the field know this.

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Engineers working in the field of pervasive computing are aiming to create smart fabrics, embedded with computer chips and sensors that will enhance and possibly even save our lives.

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The new browser has plenty of these soon-to-be-ubiquitous features, such as the ability to bookmark a page with a single click and the "Smart Location Bar" that uses the browser's URL field to help users rifle through their bookmarks and browsing history.

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By adding Obvius to its list of offerings, Leviton is staking out its position as single-source provider of measurement and verification solutions in the field of lighting and energy management solutions, which include smart metering, energy data information, load management and LEED rating achievement.

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