If these companies are right, it is only a matter of time before the car could directly compete with the phone and the tablet to be the biggest smart industry.
As the smart phone industry matures, wireless companies are making lower-priced smart phones that are designed to be more accessible than their high-end counterparts.
Compatible with smart card industry standards, the microSD can be issued and personalized like traditional smart cards or in the future through a secure download of the account information via a mobile network.
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Further delay puts Nokia even further behind in the land grab for prominence in the rapidly expanding high-end smart phone industry.
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The initiative aims to simplify the way applications are developed and offered, increasing productivity of the application ecosystem for the Smart TV industry.
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Itron (ITRI) has the leading market share in the global smart metering industry, and Echelon (ELON) provides network solutions and interfaces for street lighting, residential appliances and facility monitoring.
"Before today, the Smart TV industry was a very difficult market for both TV manufacturers and application developers as TV's from different brands used different platforms and technologies, " said Bong-seok Kwon of LG Electronics, President of Smart TV Alliance.
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The CEO and director of research for Zpryme, a market intelligence and analysis firm for the utility and smart grid industry, said someone appears to have made a mistake in their estimate of how much energy the building's electrical infrastructure could handle.
What is even more worrying is the impact this can have on the global smart-phone industry.
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About 60% of TV viewing now involves simultaneous use of a PC, tablet or smart phone according to industry research.
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The belief that smart MBAs, with industry knowledge, will perform better.
The move will bring the x86 processor architecture that dominates the PC and server business into direct competition with the ARM-based designs that now dominate the smart phone and tablet industry.
Leeds is impressed by Quora, but sees a lot of questions there go unanswered, which is likely a function of Quora being a narrow community so far: a group of smart, tech-industry types hovering around Silicon Valley topics like the startup racket and programming.
His conclusion: in an industry full of smart people, brains and skill play little part in relative performance.
In fact, you could argue that General Magic did invent the modern smart phone and dominates the industry from beyond the grave.
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It was asleep as the smart phone revolution overtook the industry and is now suffering the consequences of not responding fast enough with enough horsepower.
Just as Warby Parker stylishly disrupted the sunglass industry with its smart-priced, high-quality eyewear, new grooming line Harry's is poised to upend the business of razors and blades.
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The award-winning Smart TV platform offers the industry's easiest out-of-box experience, designed to allow users of all experience levels to quickly breeze through set-up and start watching TV or browse their favorite apps.
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To ensure consumers continue to enjoy the best experience from their Samsung TVs, Samsung's Smart Evolution Kit, an industry first, offers a cost-effective way for consumers to update their TVs with the latest technologies and features.
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The content industry will likely be smart enough to try to accomplish the same ends through other legal avenues.
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Industry specific applications such as smart services for connected cars.
Touting itself as the industry's "first smart mobile provider, " Zact takes an entirely different tact to cell phone service, offering the consumer total control over voice, text and data plans, even across multiple devices.
It's no coincidence that Cooper sees smart antennas as the savior of the wireless industry: He serves as chairman of ArrayComm, a company that develops software for using antenna arrays to calculate the origin of cell signals.
Competitive industry dynamics continuing to negatively affect the Smart Devices and Mobile Phones business units.
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While both Apple and Microsoft started with the affluent, Google will be trying to crack the smart-phone market from the bottom up, industry sources say (Google declined to comment for this story).
The industry implication is: smartphones are really Smart Devices, especially for younger consumers.
Their failure or success building a smart pipe will dictate the economic potential of the entire industry.
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Apple sells just 9% of the cellphones out there (smart or otherwise) but accounts for 73% of industry profits.
We recommend that energy suppliers use their early smart grid pilot experience to guide regulators as they update industry rules and investment incentives.
The blackout triggered calls by industry leaders for the building of a nationwide smart power grid, which could reroute electricity seamlessly in such cases.
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