"This significant step in Gogo's technology roadmap allows us to better address the demand for in-air connectivity services, " said Michael Small, Gogo's president and chief executive officer.

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In the House, Giffords is probably best known for crafting one of the most successful and most bipartisan pieces of legislation advancing a new energy economy: The Solar Technology Roadmap Act of 2009 ( you can read the bill and background info, here).

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We are market leaders with exceptional technology and customer roadmap alignment.

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As more fully described in its separate announcement today, Qualcomm intends to integrate carrier aggregation technology into its chipset roadmap, to enable supplemental downlink to address increased consumer demand for rich mobile media content.

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The LTO tape consortium (led by HP, IBM and Quantum) has a public tape product roadmap that will take magnetic tape technology out to about 13 TB of native (uncompressed) storage capacity.

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"This is an exciting technology, and has been an important highlight of our certification roadmap for some time, so we are delighted to take this step, " said Wi-Fi Alliance president and CEO Edgar Figueroa.

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That roadmap was prioritized for business needs (backlog grooming) and checked for technology feasibility to hit the release window (sprint planning and commit).

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Organizations need to set specific goals and build a solid roadmap, outlining goals like lowering IT costs or allocating a percentage of your IT budget to go towards technology growth initiatives over the next year versus maintenance costs.

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