Sentences with phrase «of user computer»

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Electronic mail uses computer - based storage and a common set of network communication protocols to forward electronic messages from one user to another.

Dropcam enables consumers to access live or stored video of their home or business from any computer, tablet or smartphone; moving forward, Nest Labs products will also tout video capabilities that allow users to more closely monitor their property.

Laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and Blackberries (wireless cell phone and PDA units) use wireless data transfer technologies to provide users with almost instant access to information stored on a company's computer networks and servers from just about anywhere within reach of a cell phone tower or wireless Internet transmitter.

The advent of the personal computer revolutionized office automation, and today, popular operating systems and user interfaces dominate office computer systems.

It is useful to help set up paragraphs, headers, and default fonts so that a user can always read the text regardless of whether or not they have the font installed on their own personal computer.

To create digital photography for the iPhone, Jobs drew on existing categories, namely «his experience with consumer electronic domains, his experience with mobile wireless, and his experience with building really great user interfaces for computer devices» to produce what, when all the parts were combined, added up to be a device that was so much larger than the sum of its parts, Sculley says.

For $ 20 a month, Sling TV delivers a variety of news, sports, children's and other channels — plus viral Internet videos — to users» TVs, computers, tablets and smartphones.

He thrilled only to the concept of how a dramatically better computer could unlock even more potential for its user.

A computer program called Anti-Social disables user - specified social sites for a chosen period of time.

But Brin's timing is not propitious, coming as many developers and early Glass users are losing interest in the much - hyped, $ 1,500 test version of the product: a camera, processor and stamp - sized computer screen mounted to the edge of eyeglass frames.

Whether deployed by users at their place of business or on their home computers, IM is generally unprotected and unmonitored, leaving it vulnerable to attacks.

Or they suffer from tendonitis in their shoulders, elbows or wrists due to repetition of movements that cause strain, such as the 50,000 to 200,000 key strokes the average computer user executes each day.

All the data is then held in an interlinked network of computers, owned and run by none other than the users themselves.

Major U.S. computer company Dell Inc said on Monday a security hole exists in some of its recently shipped laptops that could make it easy for hackers to access users» private data.

For example, Waze may record the frequency and scope of your use of the Services, the duration of your sessions, the web pages that you visit, information that you read, content that you use or create, advertisements that you view or click on, your communications with other users and third parties, the Internet protocol (IP) address and the name of the domain that serve you to access the Services, and the geographic location of the computer system that you are using to log - in.

ModPOS includes modules for «scraping» payment - card numbers from the memory of point - of - sale systems, logging keystrokes of computer users and transmitting stolen data, according to iSight.

The creator of a smart armband that lets users control their computer or phone through gestures, Thalmic Labs is one of the darlings of the Waterloo tech corridor.

The view of the computer industry is that the responsibility for this attack rests with the stupid user who clicked on the link.

Spam While it's hard to pin down the one person who decided that junk mail should be called spam, internet entrepreneur and author Brad Templeton says that the famous Monty Python viking spam sketch, which made the lunch meat synonymous with unrelenting repetition, was adopted by the users of very early chat rooms in the late 1980s to describe the process of overwhelming a computer with data to crash it.

According to the complaint, PC Rental Agent had been used to repeatedly «reveal private, confidential, and personal details» of computer users, all without their knowledge.

A 2016 study published in Computers in Human Behavior found that 17 percent of smartphone users «phub» four times a day.

Other companies with world - class R&D groups built radical innovations only to see their company fumble the future and others reap the rewards (think of Xerox and the personal computer, Fairchild and integrated circuits, Kodak and digital photography, etc.) Common themes in these failures were, 1) without a direct connection to the customer advanced R&D groups built products without understanding user needs, and 2) the core of the company was so focused on execution of current products that it couldn't see that the future didn't look like the past.

«One of the things that we thought through planning this is that the percentage of mobile users would be definitely higher than it typically would be because a lot of people have the game on and would just bring [websites] up on their phone rather than jump onto a computer and look,» McElrath says.

As a result, even if an organization has made an effort to improve a system's security, a user doing work on a personal computer has the ability to disable and circumvent protections and has the privileges to allow for the installation of malware.

In addition, it's the only form of money users can theoretically «mine» themselves, if they (and their computers) have the ability.

The software maker urged the more than 1 billion users of Flash on Windows, Mac, Chrome and Linux computers to update the product as quickly as possible after security researchers said the bug was being exploited in «drive - by» attacks that infect computers with ransomware when tainted websites are visited.

Together, they are at the frontier of player - computer interchange — a fanciful, lavish, highly graphic, user - involving, no - alien - zapping edge promises to carve ever larger slices from the multibillion - dollar home computer and arcade markets.

Few computer users wanted to start all over with a new, relatively complex piece of software.

Some justices worried during arguments in April that a ruling for the broadcasters could also harm the burgeoning world of cloud computing, which gives users access to a vast online computer network that stores and processes information.

Instead of the political bias of editors, users would see what supposedly objective computer algorithms determined they wanted to see based on their likes and interests.

The mobile - friendly redesign of News Feed underscores the company's intensifying focus on smartphones and tablet computers as more of its users rely on those devices to interact on the social network.

Most other Internet - sharing software programs, known as proxy servers, require users to reconfigure many of their computers» applications so that the machines can run off the proxy rather than the original hard drive.

Users visiting the websites of the New York Times, Newsweek, BBC and AOL, among others, may have installed malware on their computers if they clicked on the malicious ads.

According to Matthew Green, a cryptologist and assistant professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University in the United States who examined the app's code after being contacted by Reuters, the ByLock network generates a private security key for each device, intended to keep users anonymous.

He founded SoftKey Software Products in 1983 shortly after meeting a member of a computer users group that designed a graphics program.

And AOL is the third - largest desktop video company in the U.S. by users, accounting for about 35.4 of total unique viewers of online video via desktop computer in February 2015, according to IBIS World.

To protect against those attacks, Mac users running OS X El Capitan should look for version 10.11.6 in the updates section of the App Store app on their computers.

Michael Dell, chief executive officer of his self - named computer company, knows on whose side he stands amid the great encryption debate — the question of whether tech companies should supply certain governments with access to their users» encrypted communications.

Many a desktop computer has been purchased specifically to take advantage of these programs, which allow even an unsophisticated computer user to change a few critical assumptions and, in the blink of an eye, recalculate an entire financial model (see «How VisiCalc Works,» INC., November 1981, page 104).

«A number of things get registered in the background that the average user doesn't look at,» Bailey notes, «and they are telltale signs there's a potential issue coming up with the computer.

The first part of the law targeting programs that can send electronic messages from a user's computer will allow the CRTC to go after malware or spyware makers that use infected computers to surreptitiously distribute spam.

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a platform where companies can hire users to perform «Human Intelligence Tasks» — intuitive operations like labeling images, or weeding out duplicate data, that, so far, we are still better at than computers — for fractions of a penny apiece.

The largest numbers of professional and technical jobs (not fastest growing) are expected to be in software development and applications, computer systems analysis and user support.

Imagine a network of computers linked together throughout the globe: these computers verify each other's work, anyone can run programs on them, and users can pay for only what they wish to use.

Users and organizations are generally not aware they have been infected until they can no longer access their data or until they begin to see computer messages advising them of the attack and demands for a ransom payment in exchange for a decryption key.

YouTube user William Rimmer uploaded a video of her mother testing out the feature of the electric car, perfectly capturing how people would likely respond to handing over the driving duties to a computer on a two - lane highway.

Biddle assessed, «The tracking may also have involved gathering intimate details of these users» computers.

Internet software or transmission problems may produce inaccurate or incomplete copies of information and materials that may be downloaded and displayed on a users» computer.

The company began selling advertising in earnest only in 2010, devising a means for ads to appear in the message streams of users that has proven effective for both desktop computers and mobile devices.

Tan also noted that approximately two - thirds of users access Etherscan using a desktop computer, while approximately 30 percent utilize a mobile device (the remaining three percent is comprised of tablet users).