Those devices and e-book libraries aren’t gathering dust, either, according to a recent survey from Marketing and Research Resources, Inc. that was sponsored by Sony, an e-reader competitor.

电子阅读器方面的竞争对手之一SONY最近赞助了市场研究资源公司的一项调查，得出的结论是：这些阅读器设备和电子书们在出售后也并未被束之高阁徒蒙尘土。

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Internet Explorer was already pre-installed on almost every PC, and the Redmond company had ten times the resources to spend on development and research than their open-source competitor.

几乎所有的个人电脑都已经预装了IE，微软有超过他的开源竞争对手十倍的资源来开发和研究浏览器。

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Diigo has a long way to go in terms or aesthetics, more continuity and if we must "coolness", but as a research and productivity community - it has no competitor.

Diigo在美学、连贯和“酷”(如果我们必须要的话)方面还任重道远。但是作为一个研究性生产社区，她无可匹敌。

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While many analysts were hoping for a newly redesigned iPhone 5, the huge demand shows that the 4S clearly has enough exciting features to have customers still lining up in record numbers for latest offering, while once chief competitor Research in Motion flounders coming up with hot new products.

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Another much-maligned competitor, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, has actually seen its short interest decline of late, off month-ago highs.

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But while the UK is debating by how much it will cut research funding, our competitor nations like the US and Germany are increasing their investment.

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