This was a concession the governor quickly made once Smith & Wesson made its commitment to market smart guns nationally on the same three-year timetable he sought in the state.
Teret said that it might make sense to try to market smart guns to more tech-savvy consumers, the kind of people who want the latest iPad, as well as trying to make inroads into law enforcement market.
In addition to process design and optimization which are the major concerns of commodity production, the specialty and formulated product industries face also new technical as well as marketing challenges (time to market, smart product design, choice or adaptation of generic, not dedicated plants etc).
That's savvy marketing, smart politics and utter bunk.
In the U.S. stock market, hedge funds' willingness to sell stocks short also makes the market smarter and more efficient.
Mr. Levine said he thought the competition would thin out over time because the competitors lack marketing smarts.
There is no single path to success with selling and marketing smart, connected devices.
Does using a black market smart card really constitute "device modification?" Lawyers live for this sort of semantic hair-splitting.
With an increasing number of firms looking to enter the wearable technology market, smart glasses were in abundance at this year's Ceatec electronics show in Japan.
The government has invested $114 million into the center's co-funded projects to solve and market smart solutions for interesting problems the city faces, Ang said.
That may be, but Kimberly Allen, who tracks the display market for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based iSuppli/Stanford Resources, doesn't expect to see mass-market smart displays until around 2006, after color screens are introduced.
