So, is it better to stand out from the crowd or go with similar branding so that it leads to a universal standard?
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Carriers are working toward a more universal standard for cell phones.
With a little more encouragement, what once was an eccentric way to roof your home could soon become the universal standard, turning our cities into lush, green metropolises.
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Some users aren't waiting for the experts to come up with a universal standard but are trying to solve the problem, language by language and machine by machine.
At a bare minimum, though, if all teams, coaches, and players were held to a universal standard of ethics and transparency scandals like this would be much less likely to occur in the future, and scandals that did occur would be much less likely to go unreported for so long.
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On one level we can see why MIT wanted to team up with Quanta on this, as there's a good chance that the laptop you own was built by them, but is working with an ODM really the best way to get something like this going if your goal is some sort of universal standard for seamless device interaction?
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But a universal 3G standard will allow the Europeans to tackle the Japanese on their own turf.
The Senate bill apparently stripped out the provision for a universal fiduciary standard, but there is still a chance that it will get reinstated in the House-Senate conference.
To further support universal standards, BrightScope and The Spaulding Group have founded the Committee for a Universal Advisor Performance Standard.
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This ensures that the new kilogram will be a truly universal and immutable standard, set in something much firmer than stone, or even platinum: the fundamental laws of nature.
Via the integrated on-board charging componentry and the standard Porsche Universal Charger (AC), the battery can reach full charge within approximately two and a half hours when connected to a 240V power source.
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Whereas most would think that universal guarantees to a minimum standard of living reduce incentives to work and innovate, Obama believes they give the down-and-out the incentive to build business and employ people.
Although lower taxes make the U.S. salary look like a better deal compared to the Nordic salaries, the higher taxes in these countries are channeled into providing a high standard of free education and universal healthcare so there is a public service benefit.
FireWire transfers data at roughly 30 times Universal Serial Bus (USB), the current standard for interdevice connections for PCs and older Macs.
Universal offers a hybrid of the clunky industry-standard teaching pendant and a simple teaching-style point and click programming environment which enables it to be quickly trained.
Through its standard-setting action, UNESCO works towards universal agreements on the ethical, normative and intellectual issues of our time.
The Microsoft-promoted Universal Plug and Play is supported, but not industry-standard protocols like Bluetooth and USB 2.0.
Unlike most electric vehicles sold in the US, the Model S lacks the standard J1772 power connector and uses Tesla's Universal Mobile Connector instead to enable faster charging (up to 62 miles of range per hour of charge).
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But the agreement of an open standard in 2008 by the Wireless Power Consortium (which has over 100 members, including Nokia, Samsung, Sony, HTC, Huawei, Motorola Mobility, and Belkin) offered the possibility of universal charging plates that could be used by any handset which followed the Qi standard.
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Universal Powerline Association and the HomeGrid Forum have just announced an agreement to support the G.hn wireline networking standard.
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Light-based communication seems to wind throughout the MIT Media Lab -- it is a universal language, after all, since many devices output light, be it with a dedicated LED or a standard LCD, and have the capacity to view and interpret it.
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