Integrating collaboration software into the existing technology behind your enterprise can be a costly project.
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This will create a unique opportunity for suppliers of alternative solutions to replace the existing technology base and drive change into the market.
Rather than focus on earth-shaking change, with the technological and market-adoption challenges it represents, they opted instead to tweak the existing technology and focus on efficiencies.
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Ed Murphy of the American Petroleum Institute said he doubts whether the existing technology can even remove sulfur from diesel to the extent that the EPA wants.
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The OutRide, when paired with the free OUTRIDE app, leverages the existing technology of the iPhone and gives users the ability to record, edit and immediately share their point-of-view, no matter how extreme the conditions.
The same existing technology is being used by some airports to track bags, instead of the often-unreliable barcode labels.
The existing set of technology companies have taken us part of the way there, but bridging that gap will require energy tech companies that take these exciting new technologies from the lab to the living room.
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The other water issue associated with fracking is the potential of the technology to contaminate existing drinking supplies.
The temptation for them is to port existing technology into the cloud.
Even producing from Angola's deep-water blocks stretches the limits of existing technology.
The focus of the plan is on upgrading the existing CDMA network while providing technology flexibility for the Sprint 4G platform.
In such cases, stringent regulation might hinder the adoption of technology by existing firms, or restrict the entry of new high-tech firms.
While both the threats and technologies associated with cyberspace are dynamic, the existing balance in network technology favors malicious actors, and is likely to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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The expectation the S4 will feature eye-tracking capability has been heightened by existing technology in the Galaxy S3 - the phone's Smart Stay function stops the screen from dimming when somebody is looking at it.
Commitment to the company's existing technology, product line, distribution system or customer base becomes a sacred cow.
The standard worry among Western firms is that this strategy will cannibalise the existing market for expensive technology.
Furthermore, we believe that certain risks such as the potential competition from existing internet and technology giants are not being priced in by the market.
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These training sessions and other publicity programs have engendered sufficient interest among faculty and students on the use of grid computing technology, however, the low bandwidth challenges being experienced by the University as well as non linkage to existing grids has limited the use of the technology by faculty and students.
Connecting together the company's existing capacitive touch technology with motion sensors and eye movement cameras, the system centers on the multimodal commander -- that mysterious-looking orb located below the gear stick.
Bowie peered into the future and quite astutely observed that the rise of technology would challenge and upset the existing status quo.
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But a number of systems have been fielded that test the "liveness" of the fingerprint before accepting it, Wayman said, and the technology could be incorporated into existing systems.
Most of the world's oil analysts, he believes, are far too optimistic about how long existing fields will last, the prospects for new discoveries, technology's ability to unlock new sources and to extend the life of existing ones, and so on.
The "advanced active safety research vehicle" prototype uses ITS and existing Toyota technology to monitor whether the driver is awake, to keep the car on the road, and to stop at traffic signals.
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And when combined with the already-existing complexity of technology and business, disasters can occur.
They had not just rested on their laurels, trying to make the most out of an existing technology.
Others at the edge of the Web aim to improve the existing system by using caching technology from Akamai and others.
Even with existing technology, the amount of information that a supply chain can provide changes the way in which companies deal with both shipments and inventory.
Standardized by the Advanced Television Systems Committee and formally adopted as the ATSC Mobile DTV Standard, the new technology allows broadcasters to use a portion of the existing 19.4 Megabit-per-second DTV channel capacity to transmit data with extremely robust characteristics suitable for mobile, pedestrian and handheld applications.
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Under former Chief Executive Bruce Albertson , the company tried a new tack by using its existing technology in devices that don't necessarily have anything to do with the PC.
The most basic service takes advantage of Nest's existing technology, which features an Auto-Away process that learns the users' schedules and adjusts temperatures when no one is home.
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