While Google's highest profile deals--its acquisitions of YouTube and dMarc--were related to advertising and online content, Schmidt continues to steadily suck up companies related to two lesser-known obsessions: Microsoft and mobile communications.
While Google's highest profile deals--its acquisitions of YouTube and dMarc--were related to advertising and online content, Schmidt continues to steadily suck up companies related to two lesser-known obsessions: Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and mobile communications.
When spring limbers up and the first wildflowers start to bloom, bees get ready to suck up nectar and transform it into honey.
As a result, gas station pit stops combine to suck up 4% of the average Wyoming resident's annual gross income, compared to less than 2% for a typical New Yorker.
Others have said that I need to suck it up and that high stress is part of what it means to be an entrepreneur.
Both need lots of oxygen, but only one tends to suck up all the air in the room.
By using Indian mustard plants to suck up the lead, the costs, researchers say, could be 10 times less.
USAir and the like are hardly going to suck up the additional costs.
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With the HondaVac, Honda has managed to suck up (sorry) much of the attention from other carmakers at the show.
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Do two companies really deserve to suck up nearly one-quarter of the entire tech coverage pumped out by the media?
Yet if Consol can crack the sequestration nut, the whole energy industry might benefit from using old coal mines to suck up their dirty emissions.
Dr Keith's version of the technology, which he hopes to commercialise through a company called Carbon Engineering, based in Calgary, uses a liquid to suck up the CO2.
His whole body seemed to suck it up, bag after bag, and then his fever broke, and the spots on his skin began to fade like ordinary bruises, and the pain in his bones went away.
By contrast the Sonos ZonePlayer S5, introduced earlier this month, is built to suck up music from an iTunes collection, Internet radio stations such as Last.fm and Pandora, or subscription music services such as Napster and Rhapsody.
While Hadoop provides a repository for all of this data, it is also vital to have a nervous system that can reach out, often through APIs, to suck up data from anywhere, clean it up if need be, and deliver it into Hadoop or some other repository.
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Although the bill was imperfect and wildly unpopular, I believed that those of us in Congress needed to suck it up, vote for it and let the chips fall where they may.
It is time for men to suck it up and realize that the only time they should not marry a professional woman is when they are sexist, jealous and too lazy to be 50% of the relationship, which includes the job at home.
Many business owners who have been and will continue to be California residents will choose to simply suck it up.
You apparently want it badly enough to launch a lawsuit that casts skeptical national attention on your professionalism and the content of your personal character, but not enough to simply suck it up and do the class over again.
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Who better to unclog sewers or suck up nuclear waste than these remarkable machines?
Students will be forced to study harder in secondary school and suck everything out of that free public opportunity, instead of waking up to the importance of education at age 20.
Obama and McCain will suck up the Independent voters that Bloomberg had hoped to fetch.
Many local councils used to fear that regional government was a big threat to them as it would suck up a lot of their power.
Even that number is in doubt after factoring in the propensity of fund managers to close up shop when their returns suck: the authors estimate the real average extra returns might be 1.5% a year.
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That can be a nice way to show appreciation without looking like a suck-up.
They then entice players to spend small sums to better participate in elaborate virtual worlds that suck up a few moments, and a few pennies, from users at a time.
Like power plants, data centers, with their acres of servers, suck up millions of gallons of water a year for cooling (as an alternative to using electricity-hogging mechanical chillers).
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We always figured that LCDs and plasmas used less power than CRTs, but apparently digital HDTVs actually suck up more power than analog TVs (see the chart below), and to make matters worse, we're buying bigger and bigger television sets than we used to.
In addition to being able to hook up directly to your camera via USB, you can also hook in any supported media reader and suck down photos from card-based media.
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