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The Radio Frequency |
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In the last few years, the electromagnetic spectrum has quietly become a critical part of contemporary life. It enables you to communicate with mobile phones, use remote controls, tune in TV stations, pop corn in the microwave, open your car door without a key, listen to radio stations, and surf the Internet when you’re sipping coffee at Starbucks. |
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The Rise of Crowdsou |
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Companies that want to outsource work to low-paid, highly productive workers often don’t need to look overseas to
India and China. |
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The Biogenerics Mark |
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Everyone is familiar with generic drugs that were once proprietary. As soon as the patent runs out, companies rush in with their version of a popular drug. |
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Here Come the Singul |
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A central theme underlying all of the analysis we do here at Trends is the realization that the rate of change is constantly increasing ?and it뭩 been doing so in a measurable way for at least the past 500 years. |
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Location-Based Techn |
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When General Motors introduced OnStar in some of its Cadillac models in 1996, it was pioneering an industry known as location-based services ?or LBS. Because of the existence of global positioning satellites that can triangulate the position of a GPS transmitter anywhere in the world, GM had the idea that roadside assistance and other services could be delivered to drivers in their cars on a subscription basis. |
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