He does a good job talking about smart sales people who focus on giving prospects an experience rather than a transaction.
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One glitch: the first generation smart glasses have fixed focus, low resolution cameras, which require agents to hold up papers at a very specific distance to be correctly scanned.
Shoppers can use an iPhone Amazon price check app to read product reviews of products they focus their smart phones on in stores, but also to see if the same item can be purchased through Amazon for less money, a ploy the online retailer is using hoping to activate the economy-driven value nerve currently vibrating through much of the marketplace.
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The smart players will re-focus on software, even as new industry players rise up to challenge the familiar incumbents.
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If you work at a smart company, then the focus should be on the quality of your final product, and leaving the process to the individual.
It requires constant adjustments, a willingness to take smart risks, and a relentless focus on the details of implementation.
But the focus is now on smart cards, which would ration subsidised petrol to a few litres a week, with excess consumption being paid for at the cost of imports.
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.
Investors would shy away from "green" solution to instead focus on so-called "smart" products and technologies, such as digital assistants - ranging from portable screens to vehicles or robots - that help individuals in their everyday lives.
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Amazon is violating the classic Harvard Business Review rule that smart companies are supposed to have a single-minded focus on a narrow marketplace.
The focus of last year's event was smart TV interfaces, but attention has swung back to the screens themselves this year with Sony and others declaring 4k's time has come.
Some smart developer will invent a way to zoom in and auto focus on certain details in a scene.
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Focus group research presented in the report, The Smart Way to Display, shows a consumer preference for simplicity in visual displays of energy use.
Well some people do, the smart ones, but overall I think we are conditioned to focus on getting the best deal when we are buyers.
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As the popularity of interactive features move to smart phones, companies like Motorola and Atmel, which builds touch screen technology for smart phones, tablets and even television screens, move into focus for investors.
In the meantime, rapid advancements such as smart phones, blogs, and social networking sites have shifted the focus away from technology and toward information.
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But Ray Gogel, president and chief operating officer of the CURRENT Group, who previously ran smart grid projects for Xcel, worries there's too much focus on the "edge" of the grid, where consumers connect.
Intel Chief Paul Otellini stuck to his assertion that Intel can generate double-digit sales growth, even as consumers in mature markets such as the United States focus on alternatives to the traditional PC, such as smart phones and tablet computers.
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Smart investors would be wise taking a page from these business owners and focus on cash flow.
The new operating system follows a smart move in January to ditch the older, problematic Wintel legacy and focus on new versions of Windows for the System on a Chip (SoC) architecture, many times more suitable for tablet devices, according to Sandeep Aggarwal at Caris.
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Over the past several years, Nvidia has broadened its focus from graphics processors (GPUs) for personal computers to processors for smart phones, tablets, and supercomputers.
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Over the past several years, Nvidia has broadened its focus from graphics processors (GPUs) for personal computers to chips for smart phones, tablets, and supercomputers.
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We've been generally unimpressed with the latest round of basic point-and-shoots, including those from Samsung's mid-range Smart series, but we do tend to take heed whenever a manufacturer opts to focus on optics rather than bumping up the megapixel count to boost sticker appeal.
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When I asked him how serious billion dollar companies can still portray a serious image, all the while having an online presence, he told me that smart companies know how to do both, and should invest in hiring people internally who focus on it.
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At both events, the focus was on the progress we can and do make when elected officials work together to find smart, common-sense solutions to the challenges that face us as a nation, from recovering from national disasters like Hurricane Sandy to continuing to rebuild our economy after the 2008 crash.
Effective from April 1st, LBG will be headed by Senior Vice President (Mobile Internet Digital Home) Liu Jun to focus on mainstream consumer and business desktops, laptops, and tablets, as well as smartphones and smart TVs.
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