It requires strategic thinking, prioritization, and resources from the very top of the firm to ensure smart plans are developed that can be excellently executed.
Smart TV Alliance plans to build on this first version and announce specifications of SDK 2.0 followed by the actual SDK 2.0 software release at the end of this year.
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Medical savings plans are smart, unless the patient has a chronic medical problem already.
Smart State, capable of making plans and initiating positive change.
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Exelon ( EXC - news - people ), plans to put 8, 000 customers on real-time pricing among the 131, 000 homes it plans to equip with smart meters by next year.
As part of its smart-grid activities, aimed at achieving a low-carbon society through efficient energy use, TMC is conducting trials in Japan of its Toyota Smart Center pilot program, which plans to link people, automobiles and homes for integrated control of energy consumption.
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The pictures also cover Sony's plans to add a lightweight keyboard to its next tablet, similar to Microsoft's Surface plans, but with some Smart Cover-esque kickstand skills thrown in for good measure.
It is not clear what impact the acquisition will have on Samsung's plans to offer gaming via its smart TVs through Gaikai.
In a few years, residents in the farthest reaches of Indonesia may be paying with smart cards if major local banks implement their plans.
DaimlerChrysler's Smart factory in France comes closest to what Chrysler plans in Toledo.
The 401(k) administrators need to offer inexpensive ETFs inside their plans, and savers need to get smart about using them correctly to build appropriate portfolios.
With the smart policing effort, said Petisco, the county plans to build a model and then offer to share it with other law enforcement agencies.
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It's also smart to comparison shop, he says, for insurance plans and for brokers and agents.
Under the plans, each home would get a new smart gas meter and a new electricity meter.
Unlimited data plans made sense at the beginning of the smart phone era.
By 2016, the 4Afrika Initiative plans to help place tens of millions of smart devices in the hands of African youth, bring 1 million African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) online, upskill 100, 000 members of Africa's existing workforce, and help an additional 100, 000 recent graduates develop employability skills, 75 percent of whom Microsoft will help place in jobs.
He said making smart decisions would be at the core of his stimulus package plans.
In July, Denmark announced plans to deploy the world's most extensive smart-grid infrastructure, which could make distributed energy the country's primary source of electricity before long.
Plans have been revealed for a Scotland-wide travel smart card which can be used across public transport networks.
Smart Technologies cofounder Jeffrey DeCoux, then only 23, had vague plans for an Internet software firm when he met Heller at a conference on startup financing in early 1995.
Linksys plans to begin rolling out its new 802.11ac powered Smart Wi-Fi Routers, software features and Smart Wi-Fi mobile apps in spring 2013.
First, we must include data center expansion in power management and growth plans (this is in addition to other demands for a smart power grid to support activities such as charging a possible expansion of the number of electric vehicles).
In the fourth quarter, the company plans to increase sales of LCD TVs by expanding marketing of CINEMA 3D Smart TVs and enhancing its premium brand positioning with the new Ultra HD TV.
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Toshiba said it plans to build the business as a stand-alone platform providing utilities pursuing the smart grid opportunity.
By communicating with a smart meter, Nucleus will let people program appliances to take advantage of off-peak pricing plans offered by utilities that have time-of-use electricity plans.
Ube also plans to publish an open API so that developers can create their own SW apps to control the Ube smart dimmers.
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Ford plans to launch 15 new vehicles in China by 2015, focusing on fuel-efficiency, safety and smart technology to help drive its sales and increase market share in the international markets.
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