But, the photographic industry and trade was being traumatized by changing technology and utility.
Utility applications for BPL--the smartening up of a dumb power infrastructure--may be the thing that justifies the technology for utility companies.
Technology and electric utility businesses dominated the list in 2010, when it had 25 of them.
Among those utilities in the Southeast that school their workers at the Utility Technology Association: Georgia Power, Alabama Power and Mississippi Power, which are part of Southern Co. as well as Cobb EMC and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
But technological adoption is as much about the desire for technology as much as its utility.
Proponents simply have asserted that policy should be based on LCA, apparently assuming that its utility as a technology assessment tool implies its value as a regulatory tool.
Our report for the World Economic Forum suggests that utility companies should complement technology rollouts with more effective education campaigns.
Vattenfall, a Swedish nuclear utility, is investing in technology to remove carbon from its newish coal plants in eastern Germany and Poland.
Members of the Pecan Street consortia include the University of Texas, utility Austin Energy, Austin Technology Incubator, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Environmental Defense Fund.
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The latest urgent call: Buy the information technology stocks and bail out of the stodgy utility sector.
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When the same question was asked last November, members favored energy and technology stocks, followed by health care and utility stocks.
Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.
But she points out that on Honda's more recently revamped CR-V compact utility vehicle, Bluetooth hands-free technology is available on the midprice LX model.
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The markets were chosen for several reasons including current hybrid purchasing trends, the acceptance of electric vehicle technology by local governments and the potential to collaborate with utility companies.
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MySQL's lighter-weight database system may also fit into Sun's ambitions of becoming a major player in "utility computing, " a model of information technology infrastructure that pipes in software applications, processing and storage over the Internet rather than from a company's own data centers.
He observed that higher levels of ROE work as a screening criterion for technology and consumer discretionary stocks, but not well for financial and utility stocks.
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It would probably take far less money to create from the same technology a service called "Easycram.com"--a utility that would make it easier and cheaper for students to cram more effectively for their exams.
While many clean technology leaders come from the male-dominated oil and gas and utility industries, research suggests that women are more likely to be drawn to cleantech because it serves a higher purpose of creating a sustainable environment for this generation and beyond.
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Utility companies "are going to be the third provider of this technology except in very rural areas, " says Bruce Leichtman.
Its technology is being used by more than two dozen software companies in educational, financial and utility software.
"This is just one of the major benefits our community will enjoy as a result of our advanced metering technology, " said John Roukema, director of Silicon Valley Power, the community's utility provider.
Stefanie Lang of Bernstein says this will force carmakers to work together on developing new technology: Toyota, for example, has agreed to work with Ford on hybrid sport-utility vehicles and with BMW on both electric batteries and diesel engines.
Power companies and networking startups have spent years touting a technology called broadband-over-power lines, or BPL. In those systems, the utility sends a data signal across existing wires at a much higher frequency than electricity, so the two signals don't interfere.
Until now the only collaboration between VW and Porsche has been the Porsche Cayenne, which is a luxury version of the Touareg, a sport-utility vehicle made by VW. As the two companies get closer, Porsche's technology could boost the appeal of VW's more expensive models.
My hope is that data scientists, with the help of the technology now available to them, will make subjective lists a thing of the past and give us real information utility.
African banks are using mobile technology far more than is common in the U.S. In Kenya, bank customers can pay their utility bills, and even bread and milk delivery through their mobile phones.
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But PacBio still represents an interesting approach that will have immediate utility for some things, like sequencing germs and crops and new types of organisms, and its technology has the potential to get much, much faster.
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