One is technological: Nokia has split its bet on smartphones between two operating systems, Symbian and MeeGo, and has not come up with a hit for either of them.
Of course, it may be necessary that owing to technological developments, a splitting of branches or terms will become necessary, as it happened, for instance, in the medical field, where the term non-A non-B hepatitis became obsolete and must be replaced by the hepatitis forms caused by the C, D and E viruses.
Galapagos, with its split levels and abundant technological resources, is especially amenable to this kind of artistic cross-pollination.
Other technological changes will allow Doordarshan to split screens so that more than one person can be shown on air, something private news channels have long been able to do.
The 1998 government stressed the importance of reducing detrimental effects of transportation not only by technological improvements but also by shifting the modal split towards more environmental friendly modes of transport as well as by reducing (motorized) traffic.
He pulled up our order on his phone, selected all the items — he insisted that we not split this time, and I lacked the technological means to do the ritual insisting — and paid the bill.
We're at a technological inflection point, a major branch of computing is splitting off and everyone from the sysadmin to the CEO is wondering what it will mean.
Starting from a simulation of the economic behaviour of consumers and producers within a microeconomic optimisation framework and the resulting calculation of the modal split, the allocation of the vehicle stock into vintages and technological groups is modelled.
Less than a century after we first split the atom, we're now coming to appreciate the vast technological, engineering, financial and political resources nuclear technology demands.
On the base of past experimental results, the use of dissipative Double Split Tee (DST) connections can be considered a promising solution from the technological standpoint, because they can be easily replaced after the occurrence of a seismic event.
