• The Xperia S proved that Sony could build a good phone, the Xperia T showed an iterative approach and a new found confidence in styling and advertising, and the Xperia Z is a handset that delivers everything you expect, has the style, and gives you the confidence it will not be out of date in six months time.

    FORBES: A Mature Android Smartphone - The Sony Xperia Z Review

  • Service technicians are often stuck with documentation that is months, if not years, out of date.

    ENGADGET: iFixit intros Dozuki, promises 'service manuals that don't suck'

  • This optional monthly payment program, called Fidelity Smart Payment Program, uses quantitative analysis to determine a schedule of annual target payment rates, with a goal of not running out of money before the target date is achieved.

    FORBES: Nest Egg Tapping

  • When we waste billions of dollars, in part because our technology is out of date, that's billions of dollars we're not investing in better schools for our children, in tax relief for our small businesses, in creating jobs and funding research to spur the scientific breakthroughs and economic growth of this new century.

    WHITEHOUSE: Forum on Modernizing Government: Opening Session

  • Tanzania is not alone in limping along with out-of-date and unsuitable laws.

    ECONOMIST: African energy

  • Bloc politics at the UN are now at least a decade out of date, and have not permitted the creative emergence of hybrid coalitions from North and South.

    BBC: Copenhagen - the Munich of our times?

  • The banks say the advantage to them of such a deadline lies not in the prospect of locking out any potential claimants, but in bringing forward the date when they will be absolutely certain of how much they will have to pay out.

    BBC: Banks call for PPI time limits

  • In two appearances at the Open Championship to date, Wood has not finished out of the top five.

    BBC: Bristol golfer Chris Wood happy to take biking break

  • The president is not expected to give a target date for pulling out of Afghanistan, but Mr Gibbs said Mr Obama would make it clear that America's commitment was "not open-ended".

    BBC: Barack Obama briefs Karzai on new US strategy

  • The government does not dispute the urgency but says the attacks are already out of date, that change is on its way.

    BBC: France economy: Francois Hollande does business

  • But there had been no true words for the act then: rape was what occurred when some maniac jumped on you out of a bush, not when your formal-dance date drove you to a side road in the mangy twice-cut forest surrounding a tin-pot mining town and told you to drink up like a good girl and then took you apart, layer by torn layer.

    NEWYORKER: Stone Mattress

  • Mr Dizaei said it contained spelling mistakes, out of date information, a Metropolitan Police logo that had not been authorised for use and a wedding picture which he had asked to be removed.

    BBC: Met commander Ali Dizaei 'threatened' by web designer

  • Although figures are scarce and out of date, the growth in the availability of services has not been matched by an increase in the proportion of workers employed overnight.

    ECONOMIST: No more nine-to-five

  • In October, the National Audit Office told campaigners it had decided against a full review of the deal but had not ruled out examining the deal at a later date.

    BBC: Bombardier report: Credit rating 'settled rail deal'

  • "We understand how frustrating and disappointing this news will be for those customers looking forward to flying on the 787 Dreamliner, we are equally as disappointed that Boeing was not able to confirm a delivery date for us but unfortunately these circumstances are out of our control, " said Thomson in a statement.

    BBC: A Boeing 787 at Farnborough air show

  • The truth is, our educational system is badly broken, and not just because the systems, structures, and philosophies that guide it are woefully out of date.

    FORBES: Time For An Education System Makeover

  • "This case highlights the importance of not only having accurate and up-to-date asbestos surveys carried out, but also ensuring that this information is given to anyone who carries out work on premises which are known to contain asbestos, " HSENI investigating inspector Hugh Moss said.

    BBC: Belfast Health Trust fined over City hospital asbestos

  • He said the bill is a "timely" response to "mounting concern" that existing defamation laws are "out-of-date, costly and over-complicated", and do not take into account the "explosion" of the internet age.

    BBC: Defamation Bill

  • If some (certainly not all, hopefully not most) on the far right think tolerance is theirs to magnanimously dispense, they are seriously out of date.

    FORBES: More Diversity, Less Regulation: What American Businesses Can Teach Our Politicians

  • Whether she intended to or not, Miss Cashin seemed to mirror the disposable nature of fashion: that a product is almost out of date the moment it goes on sale.

    ECONOMIST: Bonnie Cashin

  • Thirdly, they complain that the beneficiaries of the scheme are to be picked by reference to official poverty data, out-of-date and unreliable (the 150 districts, for example, are not necessarily the poorest).

    ECONOMIST: A job promise that may be both costly and hollow

  • White House officials said the president was informed about the abuses by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sometime after U.S. Central Command put out an advisory on January 16, but they do not have an exact date, or details of exactly what Bush was told.

    CNN: Kerry takes aim at Bush over prisoner abuse scandal

  • Patents are often not released to the public until years after the original application, by which point the technologies described are often out of date.

    FORBES: Software Is Just Math. Really.

  • He printed them out, not paying much attention to the card balances they listed because he knew those could be a couple of months out of date.

    NPR: Weak Housing Market May Not Be Signal to Buy

  • But one wonders if he is a bit out of date, is relying on a narrow circle of his old contacts whose own views may not reflect the reality of the country, and may be too anxious to laud what is admirable or positive in Japan by contrasting a putative reality in China.

    FORBES: Guy Sorman on Japan. Yes and Non.

  • You want a guarantee of safety - not something along the lines of "if we peak at date X and reduce emissions at rate Y that gives you Z% chance of not being flooded out of existence".

    BBC: Durban: Climate summit looks back and forward

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