Verizon reported earnings that disappointed analysts because of the high uptake by customers of smart phones and particularly iPhones in the quarter.
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He noted that the federal approval, which will likely spur uptake by state and local governments as well, is an important step in taking on established competitors.
"We know in this marketplace with previous launches that there can be a rapid uptake followed by a steep decline, " Ian Read, Pfizer's head of worldwide marketing, told analysts.
New laws have allowed supermarkets to turn themselves into banks, though uptake was slowed by an outbreak of credit-card defaults in 2009.
In some districts, such as Wokingham, the uptake has risen by 60%.
But Uptake, backed by Shasta Ventures and Trinity Ventures, has a database of 1.8 million travel destinations, hotels, and attractions that it has been building for the past three years.
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That sprawling dominion can seem threatened by slow Windows 8 uptake, in the context of an accelerating post-PC world.
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They raised concerns about a lack of promotion of science and technology subjects at school, leading to a low uptake of computer science and technology courses by university students.
Jass Sarai, U.K. technology leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, both look good by expressing caution over the uptake of the next generation of mobile technology in Europe this year.
Scotland has the highest uptake of 94.3%, followed by Northern Ireland at 93.3% and then Wales at 92.7%.
Uptake in secondary schools in the Borders has fallen by 20% since new healthy menus were introduced.
The State of Broadband 2012: Achieving Digital Inclusion for All report evaluates the roll-out of broadband around the world and tracks progress towards achieving the four targets set by the Commission in 2011 for boosting broadband affordability and uptake.
They had all the items already on the website, but by presenting it on this app they really saw a huge uptake of sales.
Hollywood studios are slow on the uptake with such services, which may lead to their inevitable ultimate failure by making movie piracy even more of a habit than it is already.
It was hurt both by general worries over whether academic laboratories will tighten their belts and questions over how quick the uptake of its new DNA sequencer is.
Over-the-air firmware updates (FOTA) are all well and good, but manufacturers and carriers have been a little slow on the uptake, and even plain ol' PC-delivered upgrades are oddly difficult for the average user to come by.
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