Sentences with phrase «few digital devices»

Even if you have just a few digital devices in your school, there is so much you can do to take your formative assessment practice to the next level.

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In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

It has been spending heavily to ramp up the digital side of its business so customers can move money in seconds with just a few clicks on their mobile devices.

Buying AOL and Yahoo (yhoo) will add digital advertising revenue while a few smaller deals will help Verizon sell more smart, connected devices, such as car trackers.

When it comes to taking digital pictures, much of the recent focus has been on smartphones — how they now take better pictures than many point - and - shoots did just a few years ago (and why it's now vital to be able to Instagram a shot of your dinner and make a phone call with the same device).

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.

Smartphones and portable devices will be the most important hardware, which will surprise few (although there will be a role for things like targeted digital outdoor advertising).

Chang: For those who just can not turn off digital devices, here are a few suggestions: You can dim the brightness of your devices or you can make use of programs that filter out short - wavelength light in the evening.

Initially, the social studies teacher at High Tech started the project with $ 70 worth of materials from Staples and Radio Shack — a few microphones and a digital recording device was all it took to create a podcast.

Despite 1:1 tablet rollouts, bring - your - own - device (BYOD) programs, and maker space initiatives we've all seen in the last few years, the nation's school systems still vary widely when it comes to which digital tools students have at hand, how often they have access to them, and for what purpose.

«State of the art» electronics were employed for digital engine management, computer controlled ZF 5 - speed automatic gearbox and adaptive ride control as well as the brakes» anti-locking device to name but a vital few.

This development has only added a few more creases on the foreheads of digital publishers, since instead of releasing content for just one tablet, the iPad running iOS, the publishers will now have to replicate their efforts on a plethora of tablet devices running Android.

Sony has been continuing to dabble with E Ink digital devices for the last few years, long after many rivals have fled the market.

The device will also get ePub digital rights management (DRM) support over the next few months and is set to be launched in the middle of this year.

For size, when reading on a small digital device, the number of characters visible at one clip is abridged, from around 200 (on a mini-tablet or large smartphone) to, at best, a few dozen on a smartwatch.

A few years ago, The Guardian did a study where they gave half the participants a short story on a piece of paper and half the participants the same story on a digital device.

As publishers such as John Wiley & Sons have seen with the recent second quarter sales numbers that reflect a drop in ebook sales of cookbooks, fewer readers may be taking their pricey digital devices to the messy kitchen countertop.

They read fewer paperbacks and more digital books versus last year and are especially likely to use a hand - held device such as a Kindle.

E-books to date have mostly been approached as digital versions of print books to be read on a variety of digital devices, with a few bells and whistles — like video.

A few of you may even struggle to navigate the online world and use a computer or other digital device.

I've added a few support pages to help those of you who would like to read my story reprints on your digital devices.

It could also be argued that digital publishing would have achieved meaningful traction long ago there had been fewer offerings and greater focus in the marketplace — many publishers complain that the space is already too crowded with a confusing array of formats, devices and platforms.

eBooks can also be provided in several digital formats for most popular devices to facilitate reader's accessibility — MOBI, EPUB, PDF to name a few.

Other Sensors: The BlackBerry Bold 9900 includes a few other sensorts that add to the capabilities of the device, including an accelerometer for device orientation, a magnetometer that acts as a digital compass, and a proximity sensor that turns off the touchscreen display when you're on the phone.

Even though it might be easy to discount some authors in the digital reading universe when compared with powerful publishers and device makers, a few are powerful.

Overall, most librarians from our online panel thought that the evolution of e-book reading devices and digital content has been a good thing for libraries, and all but a few thought that the evolution of e-book reading devices and digital content has been a good thing for reading in general.

A few enhanced eBooks and a couple months worth of a native digital magazine and before you know it a reader's device has been maxed out.

The amber tint, which took a few days to get used to, is designed to increase contrast and filter out the harsher spectrum — high - energy visible blue light — of digital devices.

The company estimates that digital payments in the country will hit $ 500 billion by 2020; India is a massive market with hundreds of millions of people set to adopt mobile devices and this new wave of digital services over the next few years, so it's no surprise that Google wants in on the ground floor.

But the smartphone itself remains the primary digital device for many, and plenty of companies have debuted offerings in the past few months that vied to become holiday purchases — or at least a last - minute buy before the calendar flips over.

BlueBorne, a form of attack that exploited critical Bluetooth vulnerabilities impacting many mobile devices over the last few months, had also affected a huge number of voice - activated digital assistants such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, according to findings from IoT (Internet of Things) security platform, Armis.

7 out of 10 Australian consumers who own digital voice assistants said they use their smartphones for fewer applications in the home since acquiring the devices.

It's possible that Microsoft isn't shrinking its subscription plans only because of a few digital hoarders — with OneDrive being baked into Windows 10 and more devices upgrading to the new OS every day, it's likely that the service's existing plans cost the company more than it bargained for initially.