Sentences with phrase «on portable devices as»

Its security will also be improved and we could see better battery life on portable devices as well.

Their efforts make it possible for library patrons all over the country to enjoy ebooks on portable devices as part of their membership in their local libraries.

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The ban also means that, for the foreseeable future, travelers booked on more than 125 affected flights a day to the U.S. and U.K. will have to put devices such as tablets, e-readers, cameras, laptops, portable DVD players, and video games in checked baggage.

Delta Air Lines as of Nov. 1 allows «portable electronic devices below 10,000 feet on mainline U.S. domestic flights,» according to its website.

Ian Ainsworth, a senior vice-president and portfolio manager with Mackenzie Investments, is particularly bullish on Flash technology, a kind of memory chip that stores information in portable devices such as phones, tablets and USB drives.

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

Considered as «the most advanced hardware portfolio on the market today,» the Ledger Blue brings a significant difference with the thumbdrive style of Ledger's previous products, it is a portable touch screen device that can run a number of different applications.

Once you switch this mode on, the phone shows up as a Portable Device in Windows Explorer and you can easily drag and drop songs to the phone.

This information can also be sent to portable wireless devices virtually anywhere and viewed on a computer or a mobile device, such as a phone or PDA»

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, toAs I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, toas it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

The research team expects this fuel cell may be suitable for portable electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, and drones that require high power - density and quick on / off.

It involves processing swabs immediately on a portable device combined with a rapid molecular test and, as samples do not need to be sent to the laboratory, results can be delivered within an hour as opposed to a number of days.

The online map had an immediate impact on rescue efforts, as teams accessed the information via portable navigation devices, as Berners - Lee pointed out about four minutes into the presentation below from a 2010 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Dec 7 — Grouper Networks will let users share their homemade videos over the Internet and play them on portable devices such as the iPod.

A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone / tablet or watch.

You and a few buddies strap on your Positron Accellerator and attached Ion Rifle (otherwise known as a PROTON PACK), grab a few Portable Ectoplasmic Containment devices (read «Traps»), hop in your refurbished 1967 Medical Examiner's wagon, cruise on over to the place, kick in the goddamn front door, and start unleashing some major fucking DEVASTATION on the poor undead bastards inside.

I love the concept: put 40 games on one device that you can either play as a portable mini-arcade, or on your TV with a couple of NeoGeo controllers included.

As has become somewhat customary, the second disc here is simply a digital copy of the feature, included for use on portable devices.

For instance (and at the time of writing this article and to the best of my knowledge), on mobile devices / tablets: Gesture support is very limited and as Office Mix doesn't currently appear to be device aware, only non-interactive videos are available on mobile devices, on surface tablets however, which are basically small portable computers and not tablets, Office Mix HTML5 output files are viewable.

As mobile devices become a common instrument for almost everything we do these days, it makes sense to capitalize on this portable and up to date source of information by using it for the workplace as welAs mobile devices become a common instrument for almost everything we do these days, it makes sense to capitalize on this portable and up to date source of information by using it for the workplace as welas well.

This can be done on a tablet with word - processing software or with AT devices specific to this task, such as the Forte portable word processor.

Reading them all would require perseverance to say the least, but most of the benefits highlighted across many sites focus on key terms such as «flexibility» of the device and learning, «cheaper», «portable», «collaborative», «21st century skills», «engaged learners», «challenge based learning», «1 ‑ to - 1» — the list goes on and on.

In recent years, schools have been quick to cotton on to the learning potential of portable electronic devices, such as tablets.

The Go Plus further includes a Gracenote database that allows for the precise selection by voice of the various audio files stored on the portable device, as well as a convenient «Play More Like This» music function.

An auxiliary outlet is a standard feature on the center console for easy connection of such portable devices as digital audio and media players and video camera.

You can find plenty of audio devices that support AirPlay (such as portable speakers), but video devices are thin on the ground at present.

The format, which allows readers to not only read on PCs and Macs as well as portable devices through Zinio dedicated apps but also supports multiple - user... [Read more...]

It is possible to see the foundations of the modern eBook from such activity, as the necessity for reflowable text when reading on a Portable Digital Assistant (PDA) led to the formation of the Open eBook Publication Structure (a precursor to the EPUB format) in 1999, and several portable devices such as the Game Boy Advance, PalmPilot and SoftBook had facilities for modems, allowing readers to receive books without using a computer, often seen as one of the core selling points of the originalPortable Digital Assistant (PDA) led to the formation of the Open eBook Publication Structure (a precursor to the EPUB format) in 1999, and several portable devices such as the Game Boy Advance, PalmPilot and SoftBook had facilities for modems, allowing readers to receive books without using a computer, often seen as one of the core selling points of the originalportable devices such as the Game Boy Advance, PalmPilot and SoftBook had facilities for modems, allowing readers to receive books without using a computer, often seen as one of the core selling points of the original Kindle.

This right includes, without limitation, the right to: (a) reproduce, index and store Digital Books on one or more computer facilities, and reformat, convert and encode Digital Books; (b) display, market, transmit, distribute, sell and otherwise digitally make available all or any portion of Printed Books & Digital Books through A&A Properties, for customers and prospective customers to download, access, copy and paste, print, annotate and / or view online and offline, including on portable devices; (c) permit customers to «store» Digital Books that they have purchased from us on servers («Virtual Storage») and to access and re-download such Digital Books from Virtual Storage from time to time both during and after the term of this Agreement; (d) display and distribute (i) your trademarks and logos in the form you provide them to us or within Printed Books & Digital Books (with such modifications as are necessary to optimize their viewing), and (ii) portions of Printed Books & Digital Books, in each case solely for the purposes of marketing, soliciting and selling Printed Books & Digital Books and related A&A Printing offerings; (e) use, reproduce, adapt, modify, and distribute, as we determine appropriate, in our sole discretion, any metadata that you provide in connection with Digital Books; and (f) transmit, reproduce and otherwise use (or cause the reformatting, transmission, reproduction, and / or other use of) Digital Books as mere technological incidents to and for the limited purpose of technically enabling the foregoing (e.g., caching to enable display).

As a full Android device, SHIELD portable gives gamers access to the hundreds of thousands of popular apps, games, music, movies, and books on Google Play.

Among the questions voiced by video game executives: How can Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft keep consumers hooked on game - only consoles, like the Wii or even the PlayStation Portable, when Apple offers games on popular, everyday devices that double as cellphones and music players?

But supporters of online news sites saw the quick growth of HuffPo as the next step in news, as more and more readers were getting their content online and on portable devices.

The format, which allows readers to not only read on PCs and Macs as well as portable devices through Zinio dedicated apps but also supports multiple - user simultaneous checkouts, lets lending libraries select a portfolio of titles as well as a subscription based on different services offered.

Etisalat chief executive Dumindra Ratnayaka revealed they are already in discussion with the education ministry to have more of educational text on the book store, which in turn can be accessed via portable reading devices such as an e-reader or tablet PC.

As DRM - free books, consumers can read the titles on any portable device that supports digital reading by paying through a variety of platforms, including PayPal, Google, and Amazon.

As she explained in a Commerce Committee meeting on aviation safety, these rules seem almost arbitrary in light of the fact that they are not in place for the numerous people who travel on Air Force One, all presumably with portable devices.

As there are so many platforms and different steps involved in submitting content for each, paidContent reports that Kindle availability is actually not a high priority for publishers, many of whom opt to make their papers available on the iPad instead in order to reach the highest possible readership with the least amount of their workforce dedicated to formatting the material for portable devices.

The Intel Z760 series of processors are the first chips to have been developed on the company's Oak Trail platform and will be noted for their extremely low power requirements, making them just right for mobile and portable devices such as tablet PCs.

Liquavista works on producing screens that can handle «all lighting conditions» for mobile devices such as e-readers, smartphones, GPS devices, portable media players and cameras.

While digital reading has become such a common part of the American landscape that consumers are now reading on a wide variety of portable devices, there are still portions of the reading world where digital publishing is not as accessible as the consumers hope.

«When we looked at creating a real killer product for consumers, a very portable, very entertainment - focused device, we thought that Android was the better choice,» said Alberto Torres, who signed on as head of HP's mobile devices division five months ago.

Sony is facing increasing competition in the handheld gaming space from the likes of Apple, which offers an excellent portable games experience on its iPhone and iPod touch devices, as well as a host of downloadable applications for those gadgets, such as ebook readers.

PDF is a file format you may already be familiar with; it's not specific to e-books, but was designed by Adobe as a «Portable Document Format» that retains formatting and can be read on many different kinds of computers or other devices.

Possibly more disappointing for some is the lack of a SIM - card slot (in the UK at least), meaning that the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is confined to Wi - Fi only web access, ruling out data on the go and reducing the appeal of the tablet as a all - round portable device.

As the perfect combination e-reader, media player and portable computing device, HTC EVO View 4G offers a premium entertainment experience with HD - quality video and a rich Web - browsing experience with the ability to browse the Web on Flash - enabled sites.

He talked a little abut that, but yea; also potentially a big deal in the developing world (as these things get cheaper)-- highly portable computing devices that don't require that iTunes be installed on an additional computer running a non-free operating system.

Based on the latest Intel Ivy Bridge platform as the heart of the device with the latest Microsoft Windows 8 as the operating system and portable and slim design like other tablet on the market, Asus Transformer Book delivers more than enough power and performance to handle smooth multitasking and entertainment experience -LSB-...]

You're not really building anything, as it uses a PC tablet, a device that never really caught on as a PC, but as a portable web and e-book reader?

This might be because, as previously noted, owners of e-reading devices are less likely than all e-book readers to read their e-books on a desktop or laptop computer — and those who primarily read their e-books on a computer may not consider this arrangement to be as convenient for pre-bedtime reading as those who rely on their (more portable) dedicated e-reading devices.

A welcome addition to the market with reasonable specs, something I would always consider, as a purchase of a tablet for me would very much be as a secondary device with only occasional use and therefore I am unable to justify the expenditure equal to that of a laptop on a portable device I would not be using as often as my laptop or phone.