Indeed, by doing so, they can both speed adoption and increase revenues.
Microsoft rose 9/16, to 66 7/8, after it said it would spend $2 billion to speed adoption of its new Internet-based software.
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has proposed a series of deadlines, beginning in September, for cable television companies, broadcasters and television makers to speed adoption of digital TV.
On January 29th Gary Herbert, the governor, pledged to speed adoption of cleaner petrol and to clamp down on wood-burning stoves.
And in a move likely to speed adoption of the technology, the agency endorsed a patented approach for delivering such services developed by iBiquity Digital, a privately held company whose investors include the nation's 15 largest radio broadcasting companies.
He said he would create what he called Manufacturing Business Investment Corporations, modeled on the Small Business Investment Companies, to provide venture capital, and add $200 million in government money to the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and to the Advanced Technology Program, which help speed adoption of new technologies.
They are also hopeful that two plastic devices being tested in clinical trials, which allow simpler and faster circumcisions without doctors, will speed adoption on a continent where health workers are scarce.
Many Democrats in Congress said they doubted that it was feasible to pass a major health care bill with a parliamentary tool called reconciliation, which is used to speed adoption of budget and tax legislation.
And though the prospect of charging at home in 30 minutes may do wonders to speed adoption of E.V.'s, few homeowners have the level of electrical service necessary to support a fast charger.
As a vote to speed adoption of the deal looms on Tuesday, Obama almost seems to be channeling rightwing anti-union firebrands such as Republican governor Scott Walker as he attacks critics of the Trans-Pacific trade pact that he so badly wants.
