Founded in 2007 by Cathy Bennett, How Fast Time Flies lets people print individual 12 by 12 inch pages using its proprietary digi-scrapbook application.
But the shoes were created by a Quebec City company, Foam Creations, using its proprietary plastic foam that does not absorb water or foot odor.
For example, Audible.com (www.audible.com), a well-known audio book download site, protects its digital audio books by using its own proprietary format, although the books can still be played on a wide variety of devices, including iPods, MP3 players and some telephones.
Instead Sony has hurt itself by insisting on using its own proprietary standards, no matter what the market demands.
"As to reading the material in its entirety this is actually made more difficult by using a proprietary file format with scanned images which makes the job of reading text harder than it should be".
And what if, instead of just the ball, we determined other products you might want by using a proprietary algorithm?
Mr. Leuthold and Mr. Engel allocate the fund's assets by using a proprietary computer model that is run weekly and has more than 170 variables.
■ The technology start-up Honor, having raised $62 million in venture capital, intends to retain home care workers as employees, not as independent contractors, and pay them more by using a proprietary "care management platform" to reduce inefficiencies.
From this, the company determines device capabilities and more by using both proprietary and open source methods.
