Are there analogous historical examples of the low versus high technology adoption in the world?
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As technology adoption accelerates, it will enable of local market implementation from regional hubs.
Sociologists have described a technology adoption life cycle, which represents the way an invention spreads throughout a community.
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Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research, a research and advisory firm focusing on consumer technology adoption.
This theme of simultaneous new technology adoption is also clear in digital broadcasting.
However, it seems these new entrants are increasingly finding themselves in a position to rewrite infrastructure markets and technology adoption.
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It is interesting to see that 86 percent of respondents see themselves as either mainstream or aggressive in technology adoption.
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For Latino populations, that means finding ways to relate your brand and your messaging to Hispanic culture, lifestyle, language preferences, media use, technology adoption, etc.
As the use of mobile continues to drive technology adoption, multi-channel retailers expect even more opportunities to connect with consumers for pre-shopping, in-store and online purchasing activities.
From performing comprehensive risk assessments to demonstrating compliance with constantly evolving legislative mandates and regulatory requirements, the path to technology adoption is much more rigorous and complex for government.
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"This suggests that cities with high technology adoption rates (as most geotagged tweets come from devices like smartphones) are in fact less happy than their less technological counterparts, " says the study.
Farmigo is making the CSA (community supported agriculture) model more sustainable and scaleable, which is no easy feat considering the challenges- high subscription turnover and lower rates of new technology adoption on the farm.
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While many organizations look at BYOD as a possible way to reduce costs, the real value of a well-designed BYOD program is increasing employee satisfaction and speeding up the rate of technology adoption in the enterprise.
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Ain points to the innovations they bring to bear in migrating their services to mobile platforms so that client companies can manage their workforce in the moment as an example of how Kronos innovates through fast technology adoption.
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Despite big strides forward in technology, adoption and the ethnography of social technology, the gap between vision and reality is big.
The biggest challenge with any new technology is adoption by the consumer.
Is there a universal trend of technology creation and adoption for the rich and poor?
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Despite the promise of wearable computing, attendees also acknowledged that there was a very large gulf between the current technology and mass adoption.
That is partly due to there being few phones equipped with the necessary technology, slow adoption by merchants and the fact that swiping a physical card is easy, analysts say.
Dutta said the region benefited from its early adoption of technology, strong educational system and stable macroeconomic environment.
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Colegrove alluded to the Gartner Hype Cycle, which explains the various phases that a technology goes through during adoption.
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He provides advisory and consulting services to buyers and vendors, including Newvem, to optimize the adoption of technology for competitive advantage.
"These professors connect us with future developments of SEC policies and work to push emerging technology solutions for industry adoption, " said Taylor.
In such cases, stringent regulation might hinder the adoption of technology by existing firms, or restrict the entry of new high-tech firms.
"A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward high definition, which has kept the technology from reaching mass adoption and becoming the important revenue stream that it can be for the industry, " said Tsujihara.
Visa is paving the way to increase the security of mobile payments by quickening the migration to EMV contact and contactless chip technology in the US. The EMV technology will speed up adoption of mobile payments.
According to Morgan Stanley, the mobile Internet has the fastest adoption curve in technology history.
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And that may solve another problem facing mobile payments: merchant adoption of new technology.
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