Particularly versus the latter, Microsoft knew it would be engaged in a war for the living room and the future of digital entertainment distribution including, but beyond, games.
Meanwhile continued privacy concerns dog Apple (and numerous other tech companies) and the persistence of the patent wars leaves lots of room for doubt about the future of Apple and its competitors.
Cardinal Bergoglio, however, wanted to talk about the elephant in the room: the long-term future of the church and its recent history of failure.
That is a major reason Sprint left most in the room baffled about the viability of its own future plans.
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In short this is the intellectual engine room of the OLED displays that Samsung currently favors and relies on going into the future.
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There he had little to add, not yet, though there were few in the room who hadn't spotted the glint in his eye when the future of Police and Crime Commissioners were mentioned.
But there is no room for complacency about the future of a partnership that was created half a century ago, in a different world.
If governments add to their debt burdens today, while the baby boomers are still working, they will have less room to borrow in the future to smooth out the cost of the baby boomers' retirement.
Potter played down the notion of competition between Psion and Palm, saying the opportunities presented by the addition of data services to future voice devices will create an enormous marketplace with room enough for both players.
The Syrians have long used the camps as a sort of strategic waiting-room for groups that might come in handy as future allies or fall-guys.
What the Germans are being told is that the future of the EU is on the line - and that might give Chancellor Merkel some room for manoeuvre.
The future of cinema hums softly in a dark projection room in Hollywood's modernized old Cinerama Dome.
Google Maps headquarters is located in the idyllic-sounding Mountain View, California, but when I visited to discuss the future of mapping I was ushered into a windowless conference room named after a famous explorer.
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Even so, only about half of Brazil's 100 million pets have access to pre-packaged foods and pet stores, according PET South America, leaving plenty of room for future growth, which they predict will be in the double digits.
While presently only 0.03 TW of energy was extracted from wind in 2008, and there is room for a considerable expansion of this technology with relatively insignificant effects on the climate, any future expansion on a global scale must take account that the potential for extraction of wind energy is finite according to the nature of the Earth system.
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To make room for a future middle class, policymakers need to abandon the idea that the fortunes of the economy turn on rising home prices rather than the reverse.
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Bruce Roch, chief executive of Storage Post, disagrees and says the company still has ample room to raise rents in the future.
While the Chancellor was delivering his budget yesterday, I was in a room near Cambridge full of young people who may be part of the answer to Britain's economic future.
It can mean that of course, but: a bullish investor who can make a case for a positive future catalyst could also take the contrarian angle and recognize that there is lots of room for upside since the stock is presently so out of favor.
All discussion of the future is couched in terms of options and tactics, as if delivered from a situation room in the Pentagon.
Committees have been described as the "engine room" of Assembly scrutiny and for weeks now, the cross-party Business Committee has been locked in discussions about their future structure.
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