Ultimately, the real danger is whether Google becomes described as either a utility or a (near) monopoly.
PowerBox Concept hybrid, for example, shown at the L.A. show, looks a lot like a standard sports utility vehicle (SUV) but combines a supercharged V-6 engine that runs on compressed natural gas and an electric motor that provides added power for acceleration and passing.
Could we not pay our senior professors an enormous amount, to increase a person's lifetime utility package (to coin a phrase) enough to draw in far-sighted youngsters?
This goes one step further, when consumers are on mobile devices, such as a smartphone, where using Facebook is more like a utility (think e-mail or BBM), than a media platform to interact with brands.
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With the drapes pulled tight, they spent the next six hours hashing out design features for a slew of new Fords that could be sold globally, including the next-generation Focus and a midsize car, and a small crossover utility vehicle (a combination of a car and truck).
Just this week the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) passed a resolution endorsing the continuing modernization of the electric system with smart grid technologies.
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The two lapses, though unconnected and different in nature, have raised the question of whether customers can really trust the basic idea behind the cloud that you can buy computing services from the internet, just like gas or water from a utility (see article).
The company hoped that 911 Turbo sales would help it hold its ground before the Cayenne, a sports utility vehicle (SUV), hits the market in July.
Most of the names are the same as last week, with Brazilian utility Cemig (CIG) no longer a buy and Indian bank ICICI (IBN) on the list for the first time in more than a quarter.
In 2003, IBM co-founded the US-based GridWise Alliance that advocates for grid modernization, and in 2007, IBM formed the Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC), a coalition of players in the energy and utilities market, which is helping accelerate the adoption and use of smart grid technologies and bringing digital intelligence to current systems.
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The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) project is a joint venture by utility company Vattenfall, engineering firm Technip and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (Areg).
The Cayenne is a good example of success in over-engineering: it offers both the (somewhat) added storage utility of a mid-sized SUV, with the pleasant, roomy interior and higher driving position, combined with an astonishing sports-car like driving dynamic (especially in the S, Turbo, and Turbo S models), and, with proper options, phenomenal off-road capability (just watch the publicity video of a Cayenne Turbo S tearing up the sand dunes outside Dubai).
These are things like your property insurance, mortgage, utility bills (even the water bill) and a home alarm system.
When the banking system behaves the way it is supposed to as Pandit says Citi is now behaving it is akin to a power utility, distributing money (power) to where it is needed and keeping an account of how it is used.
North of Houston, TX, the utility is a power transmitter (as opposed to a generator) to the cities of Livingston, Liberty and Jasper.
More recently he said he would back a shotgun merger between the French firms Suez (nyse: SZE - news - people ) and the state-controlled Gaz de France (other-otc: GZFCF - news - people ) in order to ward off a bid for Suez by the Italian utility Enel (nyse: EN - news - people ).
Indonesia, in turn, will be building Toyota vehicles, too--70, 000 sport utility vehicles a year (some with diesel engines made in Thailand).
The Buick Rendezvous, the new "crossover" (a vehicle that combines the smooth ride of a sedan with some of the ruggedness of a sports utility vehicle), sold 6, 491 in October and looks like a moneymaker.
GridPoint makes its money by selling its smart grid network to utility companies (manufacturing of the devices is handled by a third party).
Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out the latest research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows SUVs (sport utility vehicles) over 4, 500 pounds have a one-third lower death rate than cars below 2, 500 pounds.
Crouch -- which raised similar, serious concerns about the dubious efficacy, verifiability, enforceability, equitableness and utility of the CWC.(1) It also arrives at a moment when this convention's proponents are redoubling their efforts to secure Senate advice and consent.
The company is hoping to enliven its tired portfolio of vehicles with the launch of a range of light trucks and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) later this year.
The problem is that in a market yielding 2% and with the financial services industry and most investors defining long term as next week, those securities having high yields (above say 4% for anything other than a utility) are seen as having big problems.
Cerberus got a company dependent on a narrow range of sales (trucks and sport utility vehicles), behind on key technologies, burdened by high U.S. labor costs (though the new labor contract with the UAW includes some savings) and having little presence outside of North America.
Mr. ROBERT MCCULLOGH (Utility Analyst): It's very difficult to pick up a rock around Enron and not find a creepy crawly underneath it.
Think of the utility of a subway token in preference to cash, or (as in Monopoly), how much easier it is to move a game piece around a board than your physical self.
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"What (the 'Lonelygirl15' team) have done is unlocked a utility of connecting with people, " says Shields.
Gather any originals or copies of valuable documents, which might include credit card numbers, Social Security cards, birth certificates, passports, bank account information, discs of photos for insurance purposes, and a utility bill to provide proof of where your home is (or was) located.
What Apple (and again Microsoft) does have is a number of design and utility patents.
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Tata Steel has reined back some activities (it no longer makes ice or shoes) and created a separate utility company.
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