Bankard president Chua sees his company's smart product as helping low-income consumers buy on installment.
Mr. Heppelmann then went on to further describe the third industrial revolution with the rise of the smart product.
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Smart companies test product information by finding out how customers perceive it and how much of it the customers actually comprehend.
Hardis aims to improve growth and profit margins by embedding more smart electronics in the product line.
The Food Standards Agency said "very low levels" had been detected in the Asda Smart Price Corned Beef product.
The division's first product, Smart Steps, will provide retailers and other bodies with location "heat maps" of mobile phone users' movements throughout the day.
In addition to mentorship, athenahealth is providing data to help Smart Scheduling build its product, before it can show it to its network of providers.
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According to Korea Times, citing a source familiar with the matter, LG is building both a smart watch and a product similar to Google Glass.
On 10 April, Asda announced it was recalling all corned beef from its budget range after traces of bute were discovered in its Smart Price Corned Beef product.
Frankly, if you were a smart engineer or a product guy, why would you go work for a company, which is going to be owned by buyout guys who essentially nickel-and-dime your creativity to death?
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First, smart marketers must legitimize the product category in a shopper's mind before their pitch even begins.
Investment analysts are already penciling in a new tablet computer into the computer and smart phone designer's product lineup.
Microsoft is perennially late on new product intros whether smart phones or tablets.
All in all, Microsoft has made a smart strategic move advertising its newest product.
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There will, most probably, be a colourful successor: an Iacocca figure, full of smart soundbites and passion for the product.
Of particular note, is Lenovo's continued strength in China's emerging cities, and the Company continues to build its reputation with other product offerings such as smart phones, tablets and smart TVs, as it leads China's customers into the PC Plus era.
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Identified by the quantitative model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor, this small-cap company has adopted the latter strategy, but it has also supplemented this with smart acquisitions designed to enhance its product offerings and accelerate the pace of margin expansion through cost-saving synergies.
That looks smart, as demand for the keeper product lines is high and prices are rising.
The Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat converts an energy-saving product into a design tool.
This holiday season, a lot of predictable trends are unfolding: Online retail is growing faster than brick-and-mortar shopping, consumers are increasingly doing in-store, product price comparisons from their smart phones, etc, etc.
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To address these needs, this product includes a fingerprint reader and smart card reader for effective two-factor authentication.
One of these breakthroughs is smart products where more and more of the product is software rather than hardware.
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"Nokia continues to lead the field in NFC with this latest implementation on the Windows Phone platform, in which we have the full support of Orange, " said Ilari Nurmi, head of product marketing for Nokia's Smart Devices business unit.
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Before its worldwide launch in November 2006, lots of smart people thought the Wii would be a niche product, appealing primarily to young children.
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 truth is that BlackBerry does not have a category-changing product on its hands -- classy, smart and effective though the device is.
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Daimler's own product portfolio already embraces the small and quirky Smart car, but there's also the executive icon the Mercedes Benz, the sporty, powerful derivative AMG and the rather pointless Maybach.
The experience has highlighted one of the core underpinnings of our brand: With a great product, the right strategy, and a smart way to connect with our target customers, Turn was confident at our moment of decision.
Intel wants to promote this trend, and has had a hard time keeping the attention of other NAND flash makers who sell 95% or more of their product into consumer electronics products like cameras, smart phones, and GPS receivers.
Mueller said an FBI profile of the suspected anthrax mailer -- a lone person living within the United States with experience working in labs and smart enough to "produce a highly refined and deadly product" -- had not changed.
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