From 2006 to 2012, social media enjoyed the fastest rate of adoption in the history of technology.
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And so some supporters are saying this will help us get to a faster rate of adoption of broadband technology.
Pinterest recently registered 8X growth in Latin America, not surprising given the huge rate of adoption of social media tools among Latinos.
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Ghai was a bit more optimistic on Europe, as the rate of adoption is only around 30%-40% (compared to 50% in the U.S.).
And while the raw number of homes adopting some type of security has increased, the rate of adoption has slowed, explains Parks Associates chief executive Tricia Parks .
As we approach price parity with traditional lighting, any remaining barriers for commercial and consumer adoption should continue to diminish, and we believe the rate of adoption will accelerate.
They wanted to find a country with a relatively low rate of adoption, so that ruled out Guatemala, which managed to place almost 4, 100 children with American families last year.
Look at the rate of adoption of HTTPS websites.
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Then the rate of adoption hit the skids, slowing to 12.4% growth last year as a result of strong price pressure from Bluetooth devices and an overall slowdown of new phone production.
With LG supposedly both looking to replace its existing NetCast smart TV platform and unhappy with Google TV based on its rate of adoption and Google's terms, engineers have been working to port the software to its dual-core L9 chipset.
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This is not just about the general rate of consumer adoption of mobile devices speeding up but, more importantly, about the fact that these devices are coupled to an entire ecosystem of services.
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The measure of the utility of any product is in the rate of market adoption.
While many organizations look at BYOD as a possible way to reduce costs, the real value of a well-designed BYOD program is increasing employee satisfaction and speeding up the rate of technology adoption in the enterprise.
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Chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, David Simmonds, said figures show councils had twice the rate of success of independent adoption agencies and removing them from the process should only be considered as a very last resort.
To best take advantage of the remarkable adoption rate of smartphones and tablets and the tremendous increase in mobile network traffic, the company brought on Gary Morton as SVP of Engineering to lead development of its new mobile platforms.
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The company said in its IPO prospectus that the rate of smart-grid adoption has slowed due to the "timing and tax treatment" of U.S. government stimulus funding.
Chatter was implemented 4 months ago and had an adoption rate of 50% almost immediately.
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And the adoption rate of some of the clean energy technologies is going exponential.
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Now, with an even faster adoption rate of smartphones, there is a need for a renewed focus on voice control for the unique capabilities of these devices, especially for the use of apps.
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The three key elements of this policy remained the adoption of a floating exchange rate system, the anchoring of monetary policy to the inflation target and the acceleration of banking sector reforms, he said.
But his government's handling of this month's devaluation of the peso, and its adoption of a dual exchange rate (temporarily, it says), have added new snags.
If you want more Apple support in your office, head to the Apple-in-the-Workplace Barometer and take a short survey to see how your company's adoption rate compares with that of others, and you can get info that will help you figure out how to make Mac adoption a reality.
Not all the questions range across the prior years but following items of interest do have several years of data: Adoption rate, Future investment, Who the users are, tools that Employee use, and Technologies that business use.
When they used the social graph of their customers, the adoption rate increased 4.8X to 1.35%.
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The Adoption rate looks at three scenarios of Internal, Customer and Partner uses.
Tax compliance increased and the inflation-adjusted revenues from the personal income tax rose more than 20 percent annually during the three years following the adoption of the flat-rate tax.
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The revolt then went worldwide, with, among other notable destinations, adoption of a 13% rate flat tax by Russia (and ensuing excellent growth) and macroeconomic policy in China leading to three consecutive decades of double digit economic growth.
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For those yet to adopt a flat tax rate, the incentives for adoption (from the perspective of attracting investors) are weakening as the flat-tax club increases in size.
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He notes that WeChat is surpassing QQ, its wildly popular instant messaging service in China, in its adoption rate internationally partly because the name of the service was changed from Weixin or micro message to the easily pronounceable WeChat.
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