This is because it is easier to catch up than to be an economic leader.
Apple may not have ceded ground to the competition, and the iPhone 5 will almost certainly sell extremely well, but the fact is this time around Apple is playing catch-up to firms like Nokia and Samsung.
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What this means is rather than trying to catch every cheater you randomly sample for cheating and if you find incontrovertible proof then you impose a punishment so viciously harsh that fear of it deters all possible cheaters.
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There is a catch to this six-figure sales incentive, however.
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And this is the problem: The smarter the sociopath, the harder it is to catch him or her.
Having customers promote brands while buying them is a win-win situation and could potentially lead to incredible results, that is, if Amex and Twitter can get this new purchasing behavior to catch on with consumers.
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It's easy to dismiss such an upgrade as playing catch up (and, make no mistake about it, this is Apple playing catch up), but the company was able to add a true 4G radio without sacrificing battery life.
There is a pretty important catch to this options strategy, in that it has limited reward and unlimited risk.
The launch of the iPad will speed up this experimentation, but it is not the only device to catch publishers' attention.
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There are homes in this country where the only way to cook chicken is to catch the live fowl running in the garden, kill it, and prepare it for cooking.
This is what worries the people who are trying to deter and catch the Anonymous hackers, like Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdy - head of the Metropolitan Police's beefed up e-Crime unit, who has over 100 staff under her command.
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Energy is a key component in this onslaught of growth and desire to play catch up.
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The catch is that you have to pay me to play this game.
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It seems like everybody is beginning to catch on more and more to the idea that this could be good for business, but nobody wants to be the first out of the gate to take that risk.
This year's quota: 14, 030 tons, of which Australia is allowed to catch 5, 265.
China is likely to begin issuing licenses to service providers for 4G mobile technology this year, playing catch up with other countries.
This is a good catch over the problem that iOS 6.1 had with people being able to unlock a phone in an unauthorised manner.
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However, the Senegal site is lacking in this species, so chimps may have needed to adopt a new hunting strategy to catch a different prey - bushbaby.
At 84 inches, this thing is a beast, with at least a dozen or so folks standing comfortably around it to catch a glimpse of the display.
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Part of the reason we think this is because over the years we've been watching Microsoft develop products that have taken years to catch on and gain dominance.
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But here's the only catch -- and this is where you come in, because you're going to have to pressure Congress: The pool of folks who can refinance right now, when their homes are underwater, is still too small.
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In addition catch-up content is available from a smaller number of channels, although this is limited to PCs at this point.
Villa's 10 away wins in the Premier League is the best record so far this season and has owed plenty to their ability to soak up pressure and catch teams out with their pace in attack.
Frankly, Asia is way ahead of us on this one, and Western developers and publishers like Fake Games need to play serious catch up if they want to remain relevant.
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"If my daughter is sick or I have to pay school fees and this animal comes to our beach, then I have to catch it and kill it because people like the meat, " argues Ashietey, who says he has done precisely that on two occasions.
While this sort of short-term protectionism is always politically popular, the reality is that domestic fisheries continue to shrink due to catch limitations.
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