Through a smart bit of asset flipping, it was the only bank that profited from the ill-fated takeover of ABN Amro, a Dutch bank, in 2007.
They also, in a smart bit of PR, launched a browser plug-in for Twitter users who wanted to strip out any mention of SXSW from their social media stream during March this year.
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In a smart bit of timing, Twitter on Monday released its first Twitter Transparency Report, detailing requests from governments around the world to get user information or suppress tweets during the first half of 2012.
She's phenomenal, she's smart, she knows a little bit about everything.
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Sure enough, Samsung was showing off a snazzy one tonight that turns your bright and beautiful ATIV Smart PC (which is a bit chunkier than its brother) into a notebook.
Through smart strategic moves--and a bit of luck--Johnson Controls is in a sweet spot these days.
Work less hard, work more smart: hang around for a little bit longer.
The hardware we got to see was a crude prototype built for demo purposes only, but the software platform shows promise and Epson's got a version two Moverio headset in the works -- so perhaps you can see a bit of the future of smart glasses in the video after the break.
The last intriguing bit is that the app dishes out smart, contextually aware advice.
"If you're not used to exercising or you've had a back problem in the past, the smart way of approaching this is to do a little bit at a time, " says Dr. Khabie.
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While any announcement of a new game console is rightly going to be greeting with a hefty amount of skepticism, it looks like this new Evo "Smart Console" from upstart Envizions Computer Entertainment could be a bit of a unique case and, as Pandora has shown, sometimes these things do actually pan out.
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His tendency "to sometimes oversell a bit through passion" enabled Mr. Bull to obtain assistance from one manager about smart ways to sell ideas within a Korean business, he adds.
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"The smart way for the retailer to do it is to ... raise prices a little bit here, a little bit there over time so that the consumer doesn't have one big sticker shock, " says Wharton marketing professor Stephen Hoch.
Since Indian ATMs don't require the double identification of RFID smart card and magnetic strip, just the strip, they were able to manage quite a bit of cash before a vigilant security guard spotted them making withdrawls from multiple cards in succession.
The most powerful 32-bit microcontrollers can also run several programs at once and network effectively with other microcontrollers, making smart homes a possibility.
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