Sprint relies on widely available technology for its system, while Nextel uses proprietary technology from Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ).
For such a widely deployed technology, this is amazingly bad.
GreatPoint relied on widely available technology wherever possible, including the fluidized-bed reactor, common in power plants across the country, in which pulverized coal is combined with oxygen so it burns more efficiently.
The change comes in the wake of a vicious public relations battle between Apple and Adobe, creator of a widely used technology called Flash that manages video and animations on many websites.
The bug revolves around the way that IE manages a computer's memory when processing Cascading Style Sheets - a widely used technology that defines the look and feel of pages on a website.
The general principles should not change simply because there is new, or widely misunderstood, technology.
Something else has happened with each new widely successful communications technology, however, with very broad and serious consequences.
Check Point created the first firewall using "stateful inspection" -- the second-generation of firewall technology widely used today.
The spread of the Internet makes such resources widely available and technology enables interactivity and new modes of learning.
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Sensors, a widely used automatic technology, made sure everyone paid and maintained order.
The lead sponsors of SOPA are widely discredited on technology issues.
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Demonstrating security vulnerabilities in widely-used technology is often a dangerous game.
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At some point this migration will accelerate as this technology is widely embraced and this could occur in the near future.
Human reproductive technology, widely conceived, is advancing rapidly.
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Intel, with whom Apple already has a deal in place for its MacBook chips and whose manufacturing technology is widely considered as the best in the world, will be a strategic fit considering that they do not compete in the same space currently.
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One key law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), is 25 years-old and increasingly ineffective when it comes to protecting our core values that are enshrined in our foundation laws, like the 4th Amendment, from the onslaught of temptations flowing from technology now widely available.
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Apple, meanwhile, is widely expected to integrate NFC technology into the next version of its iPhone.
As the technology becomes more widely available it will filter down to High Street shops, she adds.
It has been popular outside the U.S., where Google first introduced it, especially in countries where online mapping technology was not widely available.
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If widely adopted, the Controller technology would reduce the spinning reserve capacity needed significantly and allow the grid to operate at a higher capacity.
Fraunhofer's Full-HD Voice technology is already widely used to provide CD-like audio quality for professional video conferencing systems, as well as consumer video telephony applications, such as apple FaceTime.
Working together with 3M and utilizing their outstanding design and supply chain capabilities will allow our QDEF technology to be widely deployed across all product segments and will ensure availability to all customers.
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Over the next decade or so, the information-technology revolution is widely seen as being the main driver of growth, and since the rich economies, notably America, have a vast lead in the development and use of computers, telecoms and the Internet, some people worry that this will inevitably cause the gap between the developed and the developing worlds to widen further.
This process is an inherent part of the development of all new science and technology, and it tends to swing more widely and frequently in the early stages of all science and technology until the data settle mostly around one conclusion or the other.
The AMOLED technology has already proved widely successful in cell phones and similar devices in the consumer segment.
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The technology is proven and widely available in engine sizes to power everything from passenger cars to mine-haul trucks.
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In addition, with technology and engineering skills widely needed but not interchangeable, companies are struggling to find the right person with the right skills.
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If it ever made sense to try to level the playing field by forcing companies to withhold information until regulators could bless it, it no longer does now that technology makes information so widely available.
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Desalination technology has historically been more widely embraced by countries with scarce water resources, such as the Middle East.
Some of its communications technology is proprietary, so widely used encryption systems aren't readily compatible, said people familiar with the matter.
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