For the spy with a yen to be green, the house has low utility bills courtesy of a passive solar design, low-E windows and solar-generated water heater.
Standard green features in each home include LED lighting, recycled glass countertops, a high-efficiency water heater, water-conserving fixtures including dual-flush toilets, FSC-certified bamboo flooring, EnergyStar appliances, zero-VOC paints, finishes, and adhesives, a whole-house ventilation system, low-E windows, high levels of insulation, a fully recyclable, heat-deflecting cool roof, exterior wood siding and decking made from FSC-certified cedar, and much more.
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They're publishing low-cost e-books that are hitting all the bestseller lists.
It is no longer clear how the current investments in the very low-margin e-tailing business or the current strategy in the very competitive tablet business will result in better margins going forward.
Not long ago, publishers decried low e-book prices as a scourge on their industry that cannibalized print sales and drove down the value of their products.
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Manufacturers say they are looking forward to greater oversight to make it more difficult for anyone to start importing and distributing low quality e-cigarettes to the US, but they are fearful of more states planning to tax their products.
More than 20 million flexible plastic displays are on the market today, according to Sriram Peruvemba, vice-president of marketing for E Ink, the company that developed the low-power display technology for the Amazon Kindle and many other e-book readers.
Unfortunately, the menu of technologies that meet all three of those criteria clean (e.g. zero or very low-carbon), cheap (e.g. relatively affordable compared to conventional fossil fuels), and massively scalable is still quite limited.
This is mainly due to the high levels of risk and uncertainty that come with new tech: private firms would generally rather seek out low-risk, low-cost alternatives (i.e. more efficient internal processes or capital goods) than to invest time and effort into developing high-risk, initially-high cost alternatives (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells).
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Here's a disturbing thought: At most companies, low-level tech staff can spy on e-mails sent by everyone from their cubicle neighbors to the CEO.
Seniors' low adoption rates for e-readers and tablets also curtail their access to news, books and services.
But the main characteristic that limits each of those devices' ability to innovate is their reliance on Taiwan-based Prime View International, whose "E Ink" provides the low-power, easy-on-the-eyes reading experience.
Although fast-growing, the regional e-commerce market is hampered by low credit-card use and poor postal services.
Bankers Life and Casualty Co. has been selling these low-cost, low-benefit dollar policies for a decade, but Brian E.
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Most importantly though, one should find pragmatic solutions to solve the recurrent norms dispute the EU and the US have frequently had (i.e. on low-key issues such as beef hormones).
Such transfers will soon be achievable in hours, if not minutes, with very low transaction charges, thanks to e-cash and the like.
Though I generally hold electronic holiday messages in low regard, I do love Some E-Cards.
The tone of the Goldman e-mails suggests even low-level bankers recognized a possible conflict in Goldman's role as adviser and investor in Archipelago and adviser and alumni association for NYSE's management.
The use of low-cost, small-scale technologies in developing countries was promoted in the 1960s by Dr E.
Most enhanced e-books sell in the low thousands, according to publishers.
Thus Amazon was losing money on the Kindle likely with the idea that this low price would help encourage people to buy its e-reader yielding higher market share for a platform on which Amazon might be able to deliver content and commerce to consumers.
"Any firm that wants to expand at low cost will have to experiment with some form of e-commerce, " says Liu Yuhong, vice director for the computer center in Beijing's Xidan department store.
The low-tech system is suddenly set to star in the next act for e-commerce, where wireless meets the Internet.
In the 1950s, Ford worked on what it called internally the "E Car" E for experimental to be priced between its low-cost Ford and more upscale Mercury badges.
This may mean that you use low-cost Web-based services to provide order taking, accounting, e-mail services, database management, or a hundred other functions that are central to the operation of your business.
This control that consumers have over prices has led some analysts to predict that e-commerce can at best only ever be a low-margin business, and at worst a no-margin business.
Swamp: low-lying areas that are frequently flooded and support vegetation adapted to saturated soils e.g. mangrove swamps.
This preference for out-of-the-money puts versus in-the-money calls points toward bearish sentiment (i.e. low expectations) from the options crowd.
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