We tend to look
at these devices from an e-reading prospective, because we know you inevitably read the news or read a comic digitally.
Today, we have got yet another look
at the device from a couple of angles.
Not exact matches
Company - issued smartphones are less prone to hacking or other cyber attacks because they are used only for work and
at work; employees won't be transferring files
from personal
devices that may not be secure.
A recent study
from Stanford shows that wearable
devices are pretty terrible
at tracking calories.
Technology research firm Gartner predicts that by 2022, a typical family home will contain
at least 500 smart
devices, with overall adoption increasing 30-fold
from 2009 to 2020.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it will invest up to $ 140 million in Intarcia, in the hopes that its
device can deliver prophylactic medicine — and help shield patients
at high risk of infection
from HIV.
His company is working on a
device that collects blood samples
from people
at home who attach the collection vessel to their skin with an adhesive so it can draw a clean sample.
A Pew survey released last week found that 85 % of U.S. adults now get their news on a mobile
device at least some of the time, up
from 72 % last year and 54 % in 2013.
Meridian had to issue a recall of the EpiPen and EpiPen Jr. auto - injectors
at the end of March as some of the
devices, which are used for treating allergic reactions, had a defective part that potentially stopped them
from working — an event that could be life - threatening.
«But as tastes and demands have changed towards multi-purpose
devices — like smartwatches
from Apple, Fossil, and Samsung — vendors find themselves
at a crossroads to adjust accordingly to capture growth opportunity and mindshare.»
Nest said
at the press conference that 9,000 companies are currently working on Works With Nest
devices,
from washing machines to lights bulbs.
The beleaguered blood technology company told officials
at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that it tossed all test results
from its Edison
devices from 2014 and 2015, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources.
They created a
device called the 640Drive, which enables farmers to record all of their activities in the field,
from what they plant to where they plant it, timing and then performance
at the end of the season.
At about the same time, two other step - in systems,
Device and T - Bone, appeared, and there's more and bigger competition on the way, including systems
from snowboard titans Ride, Burton, and Airwalk and
from ski - binding overlord Salomon.
Settings vary for different cloud services, but most of them delete information
from the cloud when you delete something
from your phone or computer,
at least once the
device has had a chance to sync with the online service.
Aircraft engines have gone
from an unreliable Achilles heel on planes in the 1950s to
devices that can operate for millions of hours without so much as a hiccup, said Steven Wallace, the former head of accident investigation
at the Federal Aviation Administration.
A separate study
from JAMA Internal Medicine found that one of the most influential tools
at drug and
device makers» disposal is simply treating a doctor to a cheap meal in order to promote a product.
In January 2013, LanguageLine began client testing LanguageUc, a web - based video interpretation service that clients can access
from nearly any
device at the press of a button.
Unlike cash, however, it can be used online, and to transfer value
from person to person via mobile
devices, or to pay
at stores with bricks and mortar locations.
To eliminate fighting over who next gets to use the tablet, my wife and I purchased the cheapest headphones we could find
at Walmart — they were somewhere in the $ 10 range — and a Belkin headphone splitter, which allows multiple headphones to share the audio
from a single
device.
That case involved data
at rest — logs stored on a
device — rather than data in transit, meaning messages sent
from one
device to another.
This nifty
device from Trakdot ($ 80) uses cellular technology to let you know its location
at all times.
Shanel Lindsay, the founder of Boston - based startup named Ardent, which makes a decarboxylator, a
device that lightly cooks cannabis flowers to be used in edibles, says she has been bounced
from PayPal, Square, Stripe, and
at least four other payment processors.
Another social fantasy game, with a narrative involving giants and time travel, Glitch raised $ 17 million
from Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, but the timing was again bad: They were building a desktop game
at a time when users were migrating over to mobile
devices.
It seems like good Android phones are now the rule rather than the exception, with underwhelming
devices —
at least
from the marquee players — getting harder to find.
«In the appliance market, the number of connected
devices is still very small and we're still several years away
from greater adoption,» John Taylor, vice president for public affairs
at tech company LG.
From Disneyland to the Kentucky Derby, more and more venues are requiring that guests leave their selfie - taking
devices at home.
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
devices — like, say, a water shut - off valve that cuts supply when a leak is detected —
from a single app on your smartphone or computer.
March 9 - 10 is the National Day of Unplugging, a 24 - hour respite
from technology aimed
at getting us to disconnect
from our
devices so we can connect with ourselves, our loved ones and our communities.
At first blush there seem to be plenty of audiophiles out there willing to trade up
from an iPod to the US$ 399, Toblerone - shaped
device when it becomes available in October, not to mention fork out upwards of US$ 15 for digital album downloads
from Ponomusic.com for the superior audio experience it offers.
Apple told Business Insider
at the time: «The diagnostic data we've received
from upgraders shows that for this small percentage of users experiencing the issue, we're seeing a more than 80 % reduction in iPhone 6s and over 70 % reduction on iPhone 6 of
devices unexpectedly shutting down.»
«Cabela's initiated the process of discontinuing the sale of these
devices at all retail locations and online,» read a statement
from the company which noted that it began the process on Oct. 3.
Representatives
from Google, its sister company
at the time under their Alphabet parent company, told Nest that they had heard
from Amazon that the ecommerce giant had decided not to sell newer Nest
devices.
From faster - running computers, to
devices that unlock
at the touch of a thumb, this year's technological changes are guaranteed to have an impact.
Profits
from mobile
devices jumped to 3.3 trillion won compared with just 100 billion won
at the same time last year, when the company booked the costs of the withdrawal of its fire - prone Note 7 gadget.
A person familiar with Nest's thinking said the company decided to remove its current set of older products
from Amazon because it wanted to be able to offer its full portfolio of
devices, or nothing
at all.
Apple has been amassing mega-momentum in all of those categories, despite selling
devices at a relative premium to similar offerings
from HP.
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.»
Apple has excelled
at giving people what DuBravac calls the «360 solution,» or
devices designed
from the ground up to work exceptionally well with the content also sold by the company.
The bad news is that,
at this stage in our long transition
from PSTN to IP calling, there isn't just one way for VoIP
devices to talk to each other.
«We're seeing the astounding effects of the continued shift to online holiday shopping — especially
from mobile
devices — to the small business community,» said Kristy Campbell, director of marketing
at Manta, in the statement.
On Monday, nearly 6 % of all U.S. - based Android owners were playing Pokémon Go, exceeding usage for some of the world's most popular services, including Netflix (NFLX), which was running on 3.6 % of Android
devices, and Pandora (P), which topped out
at 5.7 % of Android products, according to new data
from digital - tracking company Similarweb.
Data preservation is the process of collecting and preserving digital evidence
from media such as hard drives and mobile
devices, and «the most robust way to preserve evidence is to create a forensic image,» says James Aquilina, executive managing director and head of the digital forensics practice
at Stroz Friedberg.
He cites the example of Lumed, a Mexican - Canadian startup working on ways for doctors
at different sites to share images and diagnostic information
from previously unconnected medical
devices already in service.
Perhaps the most interesting of these
devices,
at least
from the perspective of mobile enthusiasts, is not a smartphone
at all, but a modern version of a classic workhorse of a feature phone, the Nokia 3310.
An even pricier Plus International plan starting
at $ 95 per month has those three extras, throws in unlimited calling
from the United States to phones in dozens of other countries, which makes sense given the plan's name, and also adds unlimited high - speed tethering to other
devices.
Fraudsters are using
devices called «shimmers» in card slots
at ATMs to snag your card data
from the chip.
But it should be paying a brand - name product rate of
at least 23.1 percent, as well as an extra rebate because it has hiked the price of the
device faster than the rate of inflation, according to the letter
from acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Andy Slavitt to the Senate Finance Committee ranking member Wyden.
Consumer adoption of
devices such as smart watches, eyeglasses, or fitness monitors is far
from mainstream,
at least
from a global view.
Park: In the last decade, we've seen a dramatic shift
from working
at your desktop to working on a mobile
device.