There have also been technical changes: GSM, the text-friendly wireless technology used in Europe, has become far more widespread in America as operators have switched customers to it from older technologies, notes John Tysoe of The Mobile World, a consultancy.
"The policy is heavily weighted toward the incumbent technologies," notes Holdsworth.
The test cost $700 per sample, but that price should come down with newer sequencing technologies, notes Quake, who hopes to see the approach commercialized.
In typically glib and dry-witted form throughout the wide-ranging 55-minute conversation, the bespectacled Reed bemoaned the current state of audio and other digital technologies, noting that "it's like the technology is taking us backwards.
James D. Marston, the Texas head of the Environmental Defense Fund, which received a written commitment from Tenaska to using carbon-capture technologies, noted that the state's planned plants would help show that the technology works.. Whether Texas' plants actually get built remains to be seen.
But it's not hard to think that it's the companies with the best hardware design skills, allied to the best access to new technologies (note how Samsung has a curved screen on its Gear Fit, because it makes the screens), and the best software that will succeed in the wearable era.
However, a blog post from Josh Walden, Intel's SVP for new technologies, noted that Intel will continue to support existing customers.
Over the past three years, Thales says it has ramped up its focus on digital technologies — noting it has invested more than €1BN in connectivity, cybersecurity, data analytics and artificial intelligence (including acquiring Sysgo, Vormetric and Guavus).
Imagination Technologies noted that its revised offer for MIPS was made in response to CEVA's offer, and added that all other material T&Cs of the acquisition remain the same as its earlier, November 6 offer.
"For us, it's not about developing content, it's about developing stories and developing artists that work in between filmmaking and new media technologies" noted Satter.
"Cost is always a factor when building houses that are taking advantage of the newest technology", notes Alslund-Lanthén.
