But smaller, less prominent schools often lack the capital to upgrade their facilities or to market themselves and are being squeezed out.

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Compared with the US's current version of GPS, Galileo promises more accurate and more precise fixes, although the Americans themselves are planning to upgrade their infrastructure in the coming decade.

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Indeed, the prospect of Core i3 owners chaining themselves to HDD cages in defense of their upgrade rights may yet come to pass, and no one would want to be on the wrong side of that.

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They all get extras for themselves, friends and family, like a frequent flyer upgrade to first class.

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With Apple announcing its iPhone 5 Wednesday, wireless carriers in the U.S. are preparing themselves for what could be one of the biggest device upgrade cycles in the history of electronics.

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Despite that fact that it took years to convince theater owners to move to the digital projectors needed for 3-D, Katzenberg believes they will be quicker to upgrade because the new projectors are more efficient and will eventually pay for themselves in energy savings.

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