Besides clogging inboxes, spam hurts everything from a company's bottom line to technological advancement and adoption.

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Whether the implementation and use of this virtual reality will line up nicely with the technological potential remains to be seen.

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Now this close-knit community is tackling its biggest project of all: reinventing a small-scale assembly line as a modern-day technological hub.

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The line displays an intuitive understanding of how social-technological systems work.

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Bottom line is: there is considerable diversity in the technological capabilities and systems used by healthcare delivery organizations, and what they need from a technology perspective today is likely not what they will need tomorrow.

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In addition to its technological prowess, Motorola PHOTON Q is the seventh device in the Sprint line-up to receive ULE Platinum Certification, the highest level of environmental performance recognized by sustainable requirements established by UL Environment and Sprint.

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However, unexpectedly and unfortunately, as professors Mary Benner from the University of Minnesota and Mike Tushman from Harvard Business School discovered, the firms that adopted ISO9000 several years down the line saw a decrease in their innovativeness, in terms of new technological inventions.

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The bottom line is clear: The privacy battalions oppose not just particular technologies, but technological innovation itself.

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Further, real technological progress has been made on natural-gas-powered heavy vehicles, such as line-haul tractors, garbage trucks and buses.

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