Hosting the yacht race in San Francisco would require crumbling piers to be upgraded and built-up.
Digital cameras tend to be upgraded every few months, often with only subtle changes.
The present weather radar system needs to be upgraded to cover all important catchments of Pakistan.
Structures need to be reinforced, engines need to replaced, electronic equipment needs to be upgraded.
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It says most health facilities are unable to provide adequate care and need to be upgraded.
In a stock market update, Superglass said a second line was scheduled to be upgraded in the spring.
The software, however, was a disappointing bundle of half-baked features that will need to be upgraded if they are to succeed.
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Residents in several areas of South Gloucestershire who have fought for faster broadband are to be upgraded, the BBC has learned.
Confirmation that rail services in Warwickshire are to be upgraded have been described as "very good news" by a commuter group.
Construction companies are also expected to cash in with at least three more stadiums to be built and five others to be upgraded.
Instead, many components of the network linking the drones to their operators in the U.S., Afghanistan or Pakistan have to be upgraded to handle the changes.
Mike Benson of Royal Bank's credit-card division is worried that card holders and retailers may resist installing new software that would then have to be upgraded.
Ms. Nuland said that the Ankara post has been steadily upgraded over the past decade, but that it is a 1950s building due to be upgraded.
The Galaxy Nexus by Samsung is the first smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network to be upgraded to the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system (OS).
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That raises the question of whether a technology that outlived even its inventor's expectations will ever be supplanted, or whether it will continue to be upgraded indefinitely.
Before he boarded the US Airways flight, Jernnard had a disagreement with airline personnel who could not accommodate his request to be upgraded to business class, police said.
In addition. there may need to be additional bandwidth investments, as well as hardware investments so infrastructure components may need to be upgraded to integrate with cloud services.
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The pent up demand coupled with the number of contracts ready to be upgraded and the approaching holiday season suggest that this product announcement will be a real winner.
The existing traditional network will also need to be upgraded to accommodate electricity from new power stations, including nuclear, the report by the Electricity Networks Strategy Group for the government said.
In brief, the box is going to be upgraded to provide access to content stored on a USB-attached drive, as well as content from other sources like, perhaps, Netflix or Hulu.
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On top of all this, Mr Pitt attracted ridicule when it emerged that he had lobbied this summer for a pay rise and for the chairmanship of the SEC to be upgraded to a Cabinet position.
The AeroMobile system, which has been available on Emirates flights since 2008, allows for six calls to be made by passengers at any one time (soon to be upgraded to eight), and unlimited texts and data usage.
London would need a new stadium and Olympic village, to be sited in the east of the city, and transport links would also have to be upgraded by 2012, which is also the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year.
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Eager to remake a second rate legacy carrier that was always in bankruptcy, they ripped out first class seats from many planes, and then in the ones where they maintained first class, it was no longer an option for their best customers to be upgraded.
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When one considers the 12 to 24 months cycle of mobile phone releases and updates (12 months for a new phone to be upgraded, 24 months for the user base to fully move to the more recent models), the Samsung Galaxy S4 will be competing with its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S3, and with the iPhone 5 and its modest update, slated for the fall.
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This issue is getting critical as vendors have jumped all over preliminary specs in order to grab sales by touting "802.11n compliancy, " but a mishmash of implementations that don't always play nice together, as well as the questionable ability of Draft 1.0 products to be upgraded to Draft 2.0 (not to mention the final 802.11n draft) with a simple firmware update, is paving a trail of incompatibility and confusion.
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The system is based on Android technology, which allows it to be regularly upgraded.
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