Sentences with phrase «at devices like»

Prices for Ultrabooks have come down recently and a when I look at devices like the Dell XPS 13 (2015 version with Broadwell) I see more battery life, a bigger screen, a better keyboard and more processing power for the same money and just 10 % more weight.
Typically, you can buy something using your credit card online, at a store or at a device like a gas pump or vending machine without entering a PIN, though you may be asked for other information like your ZIP code, credit card expiration date or security code to verify your identity.

Not exact matches

But Karl Martin, co-founder of Bionym, the company that makes the Nymi, has his sights on a bigger goal: «persistent identity» — the idea that the Nymi, or something like it, could make the wearer instantly recognizable to wireless devices everywhere, whether at home or at a coffee shop in London.
Hybrid devices like Surface Pro and iPad Pro, on the other hand, still need to iron out a number of things before becoming both great laptops and great tablets at the same time — and, also, potentially much more.
Apple doesn't explain how it has made its devices to be that (and for all a consumer like myself knows, maybe they aren't the best products at all), but I feel like they are.
In the guidance we put out in our dot - com disclosures — it's not the endorsement guides, it's a business guide we updated in 2013 to talk specifically about making disclosures in short format, mobile devices in particular, in things like Twitter... there, the examples we gave of effective disclosures were at the beginning of a blog or a tweet.
But startup opportunities may be limited, at least on the hardware side, with companies like Samsung and HTC grabbing most of the market for devices.
The Grillbot, which is priced at $ 120, is a Roomba - like device that scrapes your grill clean, saving you the work.
«But as tastes and demands have changed towards multi-purpose deviceslike smartwatches from Apple, Fossil, and Samsung — vendors find themselves at a crossroads to adjust accordingly to capture growth opportunity and mindshare.»
But if at first glance these uninspiring devices seem like a sign of a stagnating industry, it's actually quite the contrary.
«In order for technology like Autopilot to be safe, all cars must be outfitted with a simple communication device — perhaps a combination of a camera or GPS at the front of the vehicle — even if they're not self - driving,» said Oren Abadi, CEO of Abadi Motors, a luxury car retailer in New Jersey.
While neither brand has made a huge dent in wearable sales — at least compared with devices like the Apple Watch and Fitbit's various products — this news could hint at certain trends among makers of smartwatches and fitness bands.
At the time, there was no such thing as a simple iMovie - like interface for regular consumers to edit 3 - D video (primarily because shooting in 3 - D was prohibitively expensive until GoPro's device hit the market).
But the Pi, much like open - source software or the launch of Amazon Web Services, changed the economics of building software companies, has kicked off a movement of building new devices at a lower cost.
It seems like good Android phones are now the rule rather than the exception, with underwhelming devicesat least from the marquee players — getting harder to find.
Intuitive's devices are now used at all of the top - ranked U.S. hospitals for cancer, urology, gynecology, or gastroenterology — including venerable institutions like New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and the Cleveland Clinic.
But Lindsay and other entrepreneurs like Mark Falcone, who co-found tCheck, a company that makes a spectrometer device to test the potency of edibles, says they were kicked off all the processors at once - which is highly unusual based on the previous «Whack - a-Mole» cancelation patterns these processors had practiced in the past.
Yesterday at the International CES, for example, home improvement giant Lowe's announced a new wave of products and services associated with Iris, the company's tool that allows you to customize and monitor your internet - connected home deviceslike, say, a water shut - off valve that cuts supply when a leak is detected — from a single app on your smartphone or computer.
The name served as a shorthand to describe the device, which at the time had a long wire that made it look like a rodent with a tail.
The team at Kairos Watches has developed something called the T - band, a device that replaces the band of a mechanical watch, adding smart features like notifications and activity tracking.
Accenture's survey doesn't hint at any big increase in sales of wearable devices, an emerging category that includes devices like Internet connected fitness gadgets and smartwatches, The survey said that only 14 % of polled respondents said they would buy a wearable device in 2017, which was «virtually unchanged from last year.»
The Echo is better at comprehending your requests than those other assistants, though, and it can connect with various other smart devices in your home, like a Sonos speaker or Philips Hue light.
«Businesses and enterprises are letting employees use the latest smartphones and access things like corporate emails and suddenly the mobile device is as convenient as on working on a larger device,» Vinod Banerjee, partner and data protection specialist at law firm Taylor Wessing, told CNBC by phone.
Newer, more expensive models like the Logitech Home Control look better and integrate with more smart devices, but for half the price, the Harmony 650 gives you a more comfortable design, the ability to control up to eight devices at once, and very few worries about your gadgets being incompatible.
Light - based or photonic computers have the potential to run at least 20 times faster than your laptop, not to mention the fact that they won't produce heat or suck up energy like existing devices.
Over pizza at New York's Eataly, Coneybeer discussed what's exciting him now in the tech sector and why some technology trends, like wearable smart devices, seem like they're getting more attention than they merit.
The Mountain View, Calif., company has pioneered the use of bar - coded vouchers, which any desktop imaging device can produce and which can be used to pay for anything from goods at 7 - Eleven stores to rental cars from firms like Avis.
Such devices, like the $ 199 Aplio / Phone (from Aplio, in San Mateo, Calif.), eliminate the need for a computer altogether for folks who might balk at talking to their beige desktops all day.
If you don't want to watch the shows on your laptop or tablet, you'll need a device that helps get Web TV to your flatscreen, like a Kindle Fire TV or a Roku box; you'll also be able to use a handful of Smart TVs that will support the service at launch.
California - based Roku is indeed taking steps toward that wireless — or at least less - wired — destiny with its announcement Tuesday of a new stick - like streaming device that plugs directly into TVs.
As David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab in the U.K., said, any device that was connected to the internet could be compromised by sites like the Russian one.
The growing popularity of cheaper iPhone - like devices running Google's Android OS quickly ate into Apple's market share, which once stood at nearly 30 per cent.
Moreover, rivals like Samsung were increasingly the ones driving innovation, offering devices with bigger, brighter screens and software that can sense when users are looking at it.
Like it or not, most people have some kind of device within arm's reach almost every waking second, giving them the ability to flit between apps or social networks at the tap of a finger.
Through local connectivity such as Wi - Fi, Bluetooth, or ZigBee (or even IoT connectivity through the cloud) your Siri - like device (Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Google Assistant, Amazon's Alexa, and now Facebook's Jarvis) can communicate with other devices at your home and control them.
Weight is inevitably a major issue, both when travelling and when hauling a device around all day at a trade show like MWC, which is where hybrid devices such as the Note Pro get interesting.
«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.
It's pure speculation at this point, but Apple could place the home button on the back of the next iPhone, like we've seen on several recent Android devices, or simply embed it (or hide it) in the display.
I love the new kinetic battery guys (like MyPowr.me), but do we really need to be carrying yet another device with us just to have enough juice to make it home at night?)
Pleased But Not Satisfied and an article on Sir Alex Ferguson «I like to have at least one key book and one print article to read for takeoffs and landings, when you [are asked] to shut down your electrical devices.
Millennials also engage with brands more deeply through social networks: 52 percent said that, at least occasionally, they use their mobile devices on social media to note that they «like» a brand, compared with 33 percent of boomers.
And handset manufacturers like Huawei and Xiaomi have their own app stores which not only bring in revenue but enable them to control how their devices look and feel, at least in China.
Pricing wristwatch - like devices under $ 200 will be one of the keys for developers, said Laurence Balter, chief investment strategist at Oracle Investment Research in Fox Island, Washington.
Based on the data, it looks like TrendForce says Amazon shipped about 17.3 million Echo devices while Strategy Analytics puts the figure at about 18.3 million.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen announced at MWC they will be releasing the BlackBerry Q20 «Classic» device, the BlackBerry Q20 will feature the traditional trackpad and core buttons as shown in the image above, legacy device like.
The first is a device of modern retellings, found in stories like Twilight, where the vampires are vegetarians and the werewolves can transform at will.
The model is the following: think of the neutrons, after the scattering event, as traveling in opposite directions (away from each other) down a hollow axle or pipe at the ends of which spin - measuring devices are attached like thin wheels.
Plus, if you make these in small cups like I did they are a perfectly acceptable dessert portion (which I can not say when I am left to my own devices at a do it yourself fro yo joint).
Yankees in «Cue Land are like unaccompanied minors at the movie theater — leave us to our own devices and we'll sure as hell get in trouble.
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