Worker advocacy groups are urging Western companies to join a plan — embraced so far by just PVH, the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, and Tchibo, a German retailer — for independent inspections and for the Western companies to underwrite any needed building or fire safety improvements.
Among the futuristic features that Sony Ericsson has embraced so far is "shake control," which enables a phone to sense motion, and is used to let consumers engage in interactive games.
They've still got to build their production/retail hardware, continue to build out their SDK, evangelize the heck out of all of it to get enough developers onboard to make the product worthwhile, and then figure out how to sell it beyond the notable but still relatively small geek crowd that has embraced it so far.
About 650 companies have embraced the status so far, including Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company, and Etsy, the e-commerce site for craft entrepreneurs.
Although computer-aided design and manufacture techniques have shown some promising applications in the fabrication of crowns, inlays, and maxillofacial and oral surgery, the field of removable prosthodontics has not embraced these technologies so far.
Going to college and getting out in the work world further raised her political consciousness, and she embraced feminism, going so far as to sue the labor union she worked for.
US online shoe retailer Zappos is reportedly the largest company to fully embrace the model so far – it has more than 1,400 members of staff, 280,000 orders a week and annual sales of more than $1bn£0.7bnbn) – after CEO Tony Hsieh read Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux.
As with any mobile OS, much of WP7's success will lie in whether or not developers embrace it — but so far, so good.
That is why, although candidates for the nomination still shower praise on Mr Ryan for his courage, none has so far embraced the plan as his own.
He has hinted recently that he would offer bigger cuts to entitlements than Democrats in Congress have so far embraced, in hopes of reviving a "grand bargain" with moderate Republicans open to somewhat higher taxes.
The 13-year-old Cunningham has so far embraced a transgender identity, however.
