Sentences with phrase «about digital devices»

The buzz (and hype) is about digital devices.

By gathering more data about the digital devices students» families owned, the educators involved discovered these tools were less available to be used in school than they'd thought — and took steps to fix the problem.

Wi - Fi Direct should be incorporated into just about every digital device, from phones, to televisions, to digital cameras.

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The digital identity record includes a device's model number, information about its manufacturer, and more.

«In general, businesses need to be thinking about digital strategies beyond content, and what platform or device will help create that experience for their customers,» says Charlie Miller, associate partner of New York - based design and development agency Control Group, which was tapped to execute the iPad project.

Smart devices and the IoT make digital workspaces possible by enabling businesses to collect an abundance of data about the workplace.

About Akamai As the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, Akamai makes it easier for its customers to provide the best and most secure digital experiences on any device, anytime, anywhere.

Nokia kick - started its digital health business about a year and a half ago with the $ 170 million ($ 200 million in today's currency) purchase of French smart health gadget maker Withings, which had made a name for itself in activity trackers, smart scales, blood pressure monitors and other health and fitness devices.

Recent Digital Citizens initiatives include working with state attorneys general to educate citizens about the proper disposal of opioids and other dangerous drugs, a look into how new pirate devices and apps enable hackers to infect consumers» computers, and an investigation into how millions of college emails and passwords are for sale on the Dark Web.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

«If you think about a brand that has spent millions... on digital marketing — banner adverts, apps and things like that — suddenly they are having to wrestle with a device that has no screen,» SharpEnd founder Cameron Worth told Marketing Week last fall.

But given the complexity of the business processes involved, and corporate concerns about cybercrime and risk, the digital transformation of corporate treasury and cash management has not moved at the same pace as in the consumer banking space, where the advent of peer - to - peer lending and instant payments via mobile and other «smart» devices is rapidly transforming how consumers interact with financial services.

Users of the voice - activated digital assistant have been expressing their confusion and dismay after discovering the device had been programmed to answer questions about Mohammad and Budda but not about Jesus.

Similarly, Burger King's been great about challenging digital conventions — recently they activated everybody's Google Home devices by directly addressing them from a brief ad and asking the computer to read the Whopper Wikipedia entry.

Co-founder, Jordan Monroe, told Quartz digital magazine that the device «is all about making parents feel like they might kind - of - sort - of know what they're doing.

Rather than merely offering a digital solution for tracking your kids poop schedule or feeding times, wearable health monitoring and tracking devices provide specific real - time data about your child and (generally) deliver it right to your smartphone.

I remember reading an article about backyard digital astrophotography in a science magazine 20 - plus years ago; now I have a device in my pocket that can pull it off, albeit only with the most brilliant objects in the sky.

Today's digital divide is more about the devices New Yorkers use to access the Internet than it is about access to broadband at home.

Their team of young assistants then festoons the property with infrared cameras and digital voice recorders, and for the rest of the night the team shuffles about in groups of two using handheld devices to measure unexplained changes in temperature and fluctuations of electromagnetic fields (knowingly shortened to «EMF»).

CUP photographs an object with a specialty camera lens, which takes the photons from the object on a journey through a tube - like structure to a marvelous tiny apparatus called a digital micromirror device (DMD), smaller than a dime though hosting about 1 million micromirrors, each one just seven by seven microns squared.

London About Blog Time To Log Off digital detox retreats and workshops offer a chance to disconnect from your digital devices and reconnect with the world offline, leaving you relaxed and energised to return to your daily life.

IHS is also optimistic about the PS4's overall profitability saying that «lower research and development costs for PlayStation 4 hardware, additional revenue streams from online service subscriptions and a more aggressive transition to higher margin digital content sales are combining to strengthen Sony's games business outlook even in the face of increased competition from cheap Android consoles and alternative devices eating into consumers» gaming time, including smartphones and tablets.»

If you're worried about students slacking off on digital devices, it's worth checking out the #pencilchat discussion.

Although digital tools have changed the way we think about creating in the classroom, collaboration means more than accessing the same document from different devices.

«You know your child is ready for a device when you've talked about responsible use and modeled the behavior on your own device,» says Kerry Gallagher, a digital learning specialist at St. John's Prep in Danvers, Massachusetts, and director of K - 12 education at ConnectSafely.org.

Gallagher recommends that today's digital parents communicate often with teachers about how the school uses devices, how much exposure children have, how they are learning to use technology, and how devices should be used at home for school.

For example, we encourage parents to talk about a central charging area, a digital curfew, account information and setup, and avoiding digital devices in the bedroom for our middle - schoolers.

How about a digital leader board which pupils can access from a PC or mobile device to check their class position for excellent behaviour in assembly, or completing a reading task?

Despite the tendency for digital devices to be seen as ever - changing personal fashion accoutrements, there are some important principles at work here about appropriate care of equipment and extending life beyond simply the next iteration of the specification.

The term Virtual Reality means recreating an experience through the use of software and specialized devices, whereas Augmented Reality is about combining digital information with our own environment.

Cybergossiping occurs when two or more people make evaluative comments on a digital device about a third person...

There's also information about student discipline, attendance library books, digital device - to - student ratios, and classroom wireless internet availability.

The Newark public schools distributed about 12,500 digital devices last school year — 25 times the number of computers previously available for classroom use.

At Jackson Avenue, which houses the third and fourth grades, all 417 children, including those in special education, have their own tablets, and they spend about 75 percent of their instructional day on the devices, more than many other schools that have embraced digital learning.

The online survey takes about 20 minutes to complete and can be accessed on a variety of digital devices, including smart phones, Wilka said.

Taking Your 1:1 Initiative to the Next Level: Four Pillars to Successfully Implement Digital Teaching and Learning District Wide 1:1 initiatives are not just about devices.

In September - October 2015, the following publications featured the book in articles about the effects of digital technology on society: — Sherry Turkle's op - ed in the New York Times about the psychological results of omnipresent digital devices cites -LSB-...]

I like the quote from Kyle Ross, Scottsdale Unified School District's director of instructional technology about cheating with digital devices.

These educators were given training for the devices, blogged about their experiences, and recorded video tutorials that their peers would later rely on during their own digital education journeys.

She started talking to her about colors, having her repeat back, getting her to gradually articulate things, and being able to use the recording device on the computer with the digital inking, show the progression and this interaction between these two kids.

Virtually every car and SUV introduced or refreshed recognized the importance of personal digital devices (phones, tablets) and is adding a second pair for back - seat passengers, about five years after buyers started clamoring for more USB connections.

While talks about cutting - edge smartphones dominated last year's Digital Book Conference — the International Digital Publishing Forum's annual e-publishing conference in New York — the focus of the morning session this year was market feedback on the progress of devices like the Sony Reader and the introduction of new ones, such as Telecom Italia's pocket - sized Librofonio, which is expect -LSB-...]

In the days of digital technology, e-books, tablet reading devices and Kindle Direct Publishing (to name one distribution platform), paperback for indie authors was the one «as yet unconquered» land for self - published authors everywhere until about four years ago, when Amazon - owned print - on - demand company CreateSpace built traction and changed the playing field for indies everywhere.

«It is about a device that can do many things as you bring your digital content with you.»

This post was talking about how normally the 2 weeks after christmas are the boom period for digital retailers, as everyone is rushing out to buy new devices.

The light - weight devices, portability of e-books, and the vastness of the library available are what I like about digital reading.

Bezos spoke to NEWSWEEK»S Daniel Lyons about the device, how the Apple tablet might affect it, and the next phase of digital distribution.

I hope they don't switch over to a completely digital format because there's just something so cold and impersonal about reading a book on a hand held device or online.

There's something about reading on a digital device that makes long books feel like they drag out — it's just a different user experience.

Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos is counting on revenue from digital music, books and movies to make up for selling the product at a loss — estimated by IHS Inc. to be about $ 10 per device.