While the Internet Messenger Watch is probably on the cutting edge for digital watch technology, more sophisticated consumers accustomed to more advanced messaging will find it lacking when they get a message and want to talk back.
In the near future we could have technology to not only watch out for asteroid threats, but to deflect these planet killers and harvest their vast resources.
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Bank of America is clearly not in the mood to just stand by and watch as technology firms like Google, Square, PayPal and LevelUp eat into the market share of banks and credit card companies in the payments market with mobile payment offerings.
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While many of the U.S. bank stocks derive much of their revenue domestically, there are U.S. technology companies that see most of their revenue flow from outside of the U.S. For that reason, Smith says investors should watch what technology companies say for clues on the global economy.
Coming into 2012 the big IPO watch in the technology industry was all about Facebook.
Earlier this year, the company, through its Abacus brand, revisited the technology in its Abacus Smart Watch 2006.
Driven by M3D technology, the Phosphor Reveal watch utilizes miniature-sized rotors adorned with Swarovski crystals that revolve to reveal numerical or chronological information.
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The PRADA phone by LG 1.0 was the world's first touchscreen mobile phone, and the 2.0 provided an innovative mobile experience through its unique watch with Link technology, which allowed for easy access to caller ID, SMS text messages, call history, call block and two-way alarm notification.
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Jennifer Lynch, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group based in San Francisco that keeps a watch on how digital technology encroaches on civil freedoms, also questions the quality of the data.
"Technology is one sector you have to watch very carefully, " Mr. Villere said.
Some have suggested that the solution lies in technology - telecare with devices "keeping watch" for the unforeseen crisis or fall.
Does that make them a watch-maker or a technology company, or both?
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Essentially this means that the SEC will mainly focus on its Enforcement division, where it will continue to monitor tips, complaints, and referrals, along with market watch activities and monitoring market technology operations.
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One of the key areas to watch is that thriving sliver of technology known as mobile.
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The Phosphor Reveal watch line skillfully blends design and technology to craft the ultimate fashion timepiece.
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Schoolchildren were herded into auditoriums to watch this miracle of science, technology, faith and luck.
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"The rapid advancement of mobile TV technology is giving consumers unparalleled flexibility in how they watch TV and our integration with DST offers yet another way to view TV while they're on-the-go, " said Salil Dalvi and Erik Moreno, co-general managers of Mobile Content Venture (MCV).
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"You can't watch this without being amazed by ingenuity, technology, the perseverance and nonstop hope and determination, " he said.
If the watch really is the future of the "wearable technology" buzz-industry, the question remains about when exactly it will reach mainstream popularity.
The firm maintains that it had been pitching its patented noise cancellation to Apple in periodic meetings between 2007 and 2010, only to watch as 1 Infinite Loop used Audience's technology for the iPhone 4 instead -- and supposedly handed some of Noise Free's work to a competitor.
There are already competitors but none have made a watch that the public adopts as a new piece of mainstream technology.
And it's frustrating to watch because it could be easily solved with the new science and technology that we have accessible around the world.
Twenty years from today, we could live in an age defined by ever-more-violent storms and watch as other nations stake out a crucial advantage in clean energy technology.
The Network AQUOS will make use of PLC technology, and features a built-in web browser, allowing users to watch a video feed and browse the internet at the same time.
If a particular technology, or even vendor, attempts to encompass more than one of these categories watch for trouble in their go-to-market and sales strategies.
"What happens to AOL after the spinoff will be one of the most interesting things to watch next year, I imagine, " said MG Siegler, a technology and new-media writer for the online TechCrunch network.
Existing viewing features of the DISH Anywhere mobile app include the ability to watch live TV channels in a user's programming package via Sling technology, access their personal DVR and view up to eight days of network programming via PrimeTime Anytime.
E-mails leaked in 2010 described how a group of technology and security firms cooked up a plan to spy on and feed disinformation to Chamber Watch and discussed it with the Chamber's law firm.
Today, the TV you watch and interact with is a sophisticated ecosystem made up of a melange of technology including middleware, meta data, content discovery and content rights management technology that converges in your set top box, which in itself is a smarter piece of hardware than your TV.
We had heard this rumor on the internets a little while ago, and now it looks like Swatch is really going to come out with a SPOT watch (SPOT, of course, being Microsoft's Smart Personal Object Technology that uses FM radio signals to send data to watches, like news, stocks, instant messages, etc.).
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