In addition to concern about cyberthreats that could be carried out by hackers using a competitor's access to its network, Verizon is worried that saboteurs masquerading as technicians from a competing company could gain access to and damage a large central office.
It's a low-risk venture for both Bochco and MetaCafe: The former gets to play around with a new format without committing too many resources, while the latter gets the chance to distinguish itself from competitors by using a TV star's halo.
It's hard to offer fast, cheap and accurate translations, but Translate CEO Anthos Chrysanthou told me he believes his product is able to best its competitors by using a hybrid approach that uses AI and professional translators in combination with an editor.
He told me at the time that because the system works by creating "hundreds of thousands" of variations for each ad (rather than personalizing it by using a Flash overlay like some competitors), Eyeview could bring its ads to other devices like connected TVs.
To achieve this second element of specificity, we selected for aptamers with slow dissociation rates (t1/2 >30 min) that allow selective disruption of non-specific (or non-cognate) binding interactions by using a large excess of a polyanionic competitor.
This can be achieved either by a single standard set by a dominant firm (which tends to generate resistance from customers and competitors), or by using a mixture of different technologies, with the patent system providing legal protection for inventions.The more the merrierAs the system of intellectual property evolves, the ethos seems to be that if a little is good, then more is better.
WHEN a software company is working on a new program, it tries to throw competitors off the scent by using a code name, like Whistler (which became Windows XP) or Cheetah (the original Mac OS X).
For years Vita-Mix kept competitors at bay by using an army of lawyers to enforce its patents.
Moreover, we demonstrated the effect of the competitor on the LOD, and the results reveal that the sensitivity could be enhanced by using the rational competitor.
We examined the specificity of the assay by using double-stranded competitor DNA.
