Both companies, however, are talking up technologies that will tap into graphics processors to speed up not just whizzy graphics but a bigger slice of everyday computing chores.
Sirius called on Garmin and a company called Heads Up Technologies, which in turn brought control giant Honeywell and avionics specialist Rockwell Collins on board to make the hardware for the cockpits.
Through our for-profit work with the education sector, HP has real-world expertise in how to set up technologies for maximum impact, how to integrate new technologies successfully, how to tailor technology to specific needs and how to help educators throughout the process.
Work is under way to come up with technologies to screen air freight.
Unlike other investors, they can size up new technologies and applicants, and then nurture them through the difficult early years as small businesses.
Further, physicians tend to like gadgets and tools and have taken up mobile technologies, in particular the iPhone, iPad and iPad mini at unprecedented speed for devices in the medical field.
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But the newest change is expected to go much further, coming as a result of Google's acquisition in 2010 start-up Metaweb Technologies, which had an index of 12 million entities, such as movies, books, companies and celebrities.
"We want to tear up our own technologies, " says Carl Russo, head of Cisco's optics push.
And all these companies start coming up with new technologies that make your cars more fuel-efficient.
What was needed to follow up the new technologies was killer apps for each to show their potential.
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The subsequent decades had such great growth because we were catching up with those technologies from the 1930s.
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Generations growing up with these technologies have come to learn to frequently multitask.
The firms may end up licensing these technologies to manufacturers worldwide, with the labor-intensive work occurring in countries such as China.
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When they get fed up with work technologies, employees often become digital rogues, finding sneaky ways to use better tools that aren't sanctioned by the IT department.
Then, by 2025, the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard rises to 54.5 mpg, a level of fuel efficiency that has virtually ever carmaker stretching to come up with new technologies.
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Competitive European economies need young people to join their workforce with skills that are adaptable to the workplace, experience in doing a job and an ability to keep up with changing technologies.
Specialized research institutions in a handful of developed countries have come up with unique technologies and techniques based in part on post-war efforts from the 1950s onwards to find peaceful applications for military-based technology.
Patents were established to give inventors an incentive to take the risk of coming up with new technologies in exchange for protection against others who would steal the idea before the inventors could commercialize it.
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David Hitz, cofounder and head of engineering at NetApp, agrees that low-end storage technologies will move up the performance ladder, just as PC technologies did.
One big reason the price keeps going up is that Russian holding firm Digital Sky Technologies is hungrily scarfing up as much Facebook stock as it can from early investors and employees.
Entrepreneurs have come up with solutions and technologies to extend these capabilities to the Global 2000.
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New technologies pushed up demand for the brainy and well-educated, boosting the incomes of elite workers.
Sadoway points out that the lithium-ion battery is far more prone to burning up than these other technologies.
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Social factors play a crucial role in determining which technologies end up being adopted, and how they are used.
The creation of new markets is often dependent on component technologies opening up opportunities, rather than the development of entire supply chains of products.
That's something Raymond Tsao found himself wondering after hiring a friend from business school at the University of Pennsylvania to join his start-up software firm Covendis Technologies.
Shares of United Technologies edged up 0.1% in pre-market trading.
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