Provide Amazon with additional controls over its technical architecture, offering a stable and secure foundation for online communication and interaction.
Products now include set-top boxes, home networking, mobile TV and a huge portfolio of technical patents -- the company controls licensing of the MP3 codec, for instance.
And Karen I think can share with you a whole host of technical assistance programs that the SBA has tried to set up -- on inventory controls and marketing and a whole host of other issues.
Designing internal controls and accounting strategies, approving journal entries, and giving final signoff on technical accounting treatments is a clear breach of independence for an external auditor.
For its part, Honeywell has been approved to provide the Soviet ministry the technical data supporting its TDC 3000 system, a microprocessor-based digital electronic system for industrial process controls.