Accelerating upgrades in national defense over the past three years is another reason for the rapid increase in comprehensive national strength.
But indications that the new, larger iPhones were accelerating upgrades, creating a temporary bump in demand, seem to be borne out by Android's return to market leadership.
OK, but there's nothing sustainable about accelerating the upgrade cycle for cellphones.
Cable companies began or accelerated system upgrades from one-way, interference-prone analog coaxial cable to two-way digital hybrid fiber optic cabling -- that is, fiber optic strands running from the cable company head end to a node in each neighborhood, where the signal switches to the old-fashioned thick, round coaxial cable for the run into the home.
Much of it is a reaffirmation of longstanding policy, and while it proposes accelerating security upgrades at nuclear facilities, it does not mandate completing the work before both men's terms expire in 2008, as American officials had hoped.
Some $65 million will go to accelerate a big upgrade of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and $69 million will pay for a super-high-speed data network that will link the nation's research centers.
The sources said the EU would also accelerate work to upgrade cross-border energy networks to reduce individual member states' vulnerability to supply cuts, and speed up building new liquefied natural gas import terminals to diversify suppliers.
J-PARC is a Japanese proton synchrotron accelerator facility, and is under consideration of an upgrade for accelerating heavy ions.
Most states are running budget surpluses and making education a top priority -- trends that should accelerate the drive to upgrade school textbooks, he added.
The main goals were to upgrade its accelerating energy from 2.5 to 8 GeV and to increase the positron intensity by about 20 times.
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