In one, a teen purchases a new pair of jeans through her laptop in order to pre-empt receiving a hand-me-down pair from her mother, while, in another, an employee quickly orders a tablet computer via his smart phone so he can fit in with his co-workers, all of whom have tablets.
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The move comes as Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS) bids to take advantage of a drive to fit every UK home with a smart meter by 2020.
Designed primarily for city and suburban use, the new car will be smaller than a Smart car (three of them can fit into a single parking space), light (around 500 kilos), twice as efficient as an average car and will have the lowest emissions of any car in the same class.
New hires are vetted extensively to ensure that they are not only smart enough, but that they'd fit in with Google's culture.
And, for now, Intel Atom processors suck too much power to fit inside a wee music player or a smart phone anyhow.
Unlike consumer grade smart phones that yield low performance and high failure rates when force-fit into line of business applications, the CS40 is built on Windows Embedded Handheld technologies including the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform and is designed for mobile professionals who need versatile and reliable access and acquisition of information in real-time, at the point of work.
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"We want to work with Congress to fashion juvenile justice legislation that is smart and wise, that is tough in the sense that the punishment will fit the crime, but also provides for dedicated prevention monies that can make a difference, " Reno said.
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.
One big reason it ranks so high, says Claffey, is a company policy focused on hiring smart people out of college, regardless of their major, who the company thinks would be a cultural fit.
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