Sentences with phrase «use of smartphones in»

Cruze's all - new Chevrolet MyLink infotainment system is said to provide simple and intuitive use of smartphones in the vehicle.

Through smartphone integration, Cruze's all - new Chevrolet MyLink infotainment system provides simple and intuitive use of smartphones in the vehicle.

Respondents show less support for the use of smartphones in classrooms, however, with just 26 percent of the public supporting students using their own smartphones in the classroom for educational purposes.

Respondents show less support for the use of smartphones in classrooms.

While it may sound more like a means of informal learning, video - based learning may soon become the most sought after phenomenon across the corporate and academic learning ambiance, specifically after the advent and rise in the use of smartphones in the education domain.

In a recent article in The New York Times, Jen A. Miller lamented the use of smartphones in races, noting that the devices have become «social media spouts for runners to take selfies, FaceTime a family member on a crowded course, or chat on the phone in the middle of a race, oblivious to the people behind and around them.»

According to co-author and co-director of the digital psychiatry program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a clinical fellow in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Dr John Torous, the research is a timely and promising step forward in the use of smartphones in mental health.

Yet Twitter acknowledged in IPO filings that low use of smartphones in emerging markets such as India could hamper the ability of advertisers to deliver compelling advertisements and hurt its earnings potential.

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Here is Gates's summary of this entertaining book: «The brain behind XKCD explains various subjects — from how smartphones work to what the U.S. Constitution says — using only the 1,000 most common words in the English language and blueprint - style diagrams.»

This is done through the use of 360 - degree video and / or virtual re-enactments of a scene broadcast onto a headset like the Oculus Rift (which is owned by Facebook (FB)-RRB-, or even using low - tech means like the Google (GOOG) Cardboard viewer, which essentially just holds a smartphone in front of the watcher's eyes.

Two - thirds of nurses and about 80 per cent of doctors use personal smartphones in the course of their work.

IKEA and Converse, respectively, already allow users to envision pieces of furniture in their homes or shoes on their feet in real time using smartphone apps.

According to Verizon's paper Bring Your Own Device: The Facts and the Future published earlier this year, over 60 % of workers report using a personal device at least once a day in their work, with 44 % using a personal smartphone in their job.

Its a great article on optimization of mobiles as almost every person in the world uses the smartphones.

That means people around the world are using the Foursquare app on their smartphones to check in to places like restaurants, pubs, gyms, hotels, campuses, stadiums, retail stores, and just about any other type of physical and even nonphysical locations.

These are not all of the uses for tablets and smartphones in a business, but may trigger a few ideas you can use.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, for instance, Palantir engineers developed a plug - in that let volunteers collect requests for assistance in real time using their smartphoneIn the wake of Hurricane Sandy, for instance, Palantir engineers developed a plug - in that let volunteers collect requests for assistance in real time using their smartphonein that let volunteers collect requests for assistance in real time using their smartphonein real time using their smartphones.

This is a problem in both the United States and Canada, where about 40 % of smartphone owners use iPhones.

This past year, 51 percent of purchases took place online, more than 90 percent of consumers used smartphones while shopping in - store and 78 percent of global shoppers were influenced in some way by social media.

In some ways, the rise of ubiquitous smartphone video and eyewitness journalism has made the world seem like a much more chaotic and dangerous place than it used to be.

And smartphones are now like all - in - one production studios, empowering us to make world - class content using a range of fun and often simple - to - use apps.

Uses for consumers go much further, like Ikea's smartphone app that lets people get a virtual preview of how furniture or appliances might look in their homes.

They argued that as consumers use their PCs less in lieu of more capable smartphones, the number of security threats to mobile devices would also grow.

Furthermore, the companies will need to play an active role in boosting smartphone use in the region, which ranges from a low of 32 percent in the Philippines to a high of 72 percent in Singapore.

In my time here, I've still felt right at home by outsourcing a lot of what I do to others by using my smartphone.

«Ubiquity is very attractive, especially in markets like Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where a lot of folks are using feature phones and not smartphones,» he says.

Oct 24 - Facebook Inc's shares headed towards their biggest one - day jump on Wednesday after the company reported a surprising rise in mobile advertising, easing concerns it was having trouble capitalizing on soaring use of smartphones and tablets.

An average 0.7 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers used the Pixel in the three month period ending in August, according to data from measurement company comScore.

BlackBerry's agreement to use Qualcomm's technology in its smartphones involved a bulk prepayment of royalty fees based on the expected sales volume of the devices, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.

Public transport users will be able to use their smartphones or tablets to track the exact location of Transperth buses in real time by 2016.

Smartphones are used namely as a research tool to help in purchasing things later online or when they actually go to the store, and tablets are sort of in that middle ground, because they provide the mobile experience but on a larger screen, which is appealing to many consumers.»

In February, Consumer Reports urged Tesla to change a feature within Autopilot known as Summon, which lets owners start cars and move them out of a garage or parking spot automatically using a key fob or a smartphone.

Call it a movement of sorts, but employees are increasingly ditching their company issued computers and smartphones in favor of using their own devices to get work done.

High purity alumina or «HPA» is used to manufacture synthetic sapphire wafers used in the manufacture of substrates for LED lights, semiconductors used in the electronics industry and scratch - resistant sapphire glass used for wristwatch faces, optical lenses and next generation smartphones.

If so, it may be that on holiday you use your smartphone less and sleep in room devoid of stress.

The buyout of NXP will help Qualcomm, which provides chips to Android smartphone makers and Apple, to expand in the fast - growing market for chips used in automobiles and reduce its dependence on a cooling smartphone market.

You can use it to find a missing sock in your house, but you can also use it to locate the wallet you left on a streetcar — with the help of every other smartphone that has the Tile app installed.

The Detroit Institute of Arts is also experimenting with augmented reality technology and is partnering with Google for an Ancient Egypt exhibit in which visitors can use the museum's smartphones to see special digital graphics and information overlaid on certain objects, like a mummy's sarcophagus.

The company has a smartphone app and API that can be used by consumers and local, state, and federal law enforcement and first responder units that makes it unnecessary to have to actually call 911 in the event of an emergency.

And that's where the next clever step comes in - to scan the retina without the use of a huge machine, the app uses a simple 3D - printed lens that concentrates light from the smartphone camera flash on the back of the eye.

Uber admitted, however, that it is considering increased monitoring of driver behavior and is using a pilot program in its Houston operations to check on drivers using GPS data and the accelerometer in drivers» smartphones.

Through the acquisition of BoxTone, based in Columbia, Md., Good gains access to some Blackberry customers who use BoxTone software to manage their BlackBerry smartphone applications.

Though Shyy declined to explain in detail the particular methods San Francisco police use for fear of compromising the department's investigations, he did say that the prevalence of smartphones today has made forensics increasingly critical.

On Sunday, in a room filled with technology journalists in Barcelona, Samsung used the 2015 installment of Mobile World Congress to announce the latest models of its Galaxy line of smartphones: the S6 and S6 Edge.

Augmented reality is a type of technology best exemplified by the hit summer mobile game Pokémon Go, in which players could use their smartphones to hunt digital creatures that are overlaid onto the real world with the help of their phones» sensors and cameras.

A lot of people use the sensors in their smartphones to track their physical activity.

«To break new ground in today's hyper - competitive smartphone and tablet industries, we must take innovation risks — it's the only way to truly change the way people use mobile technology,» Chen Xudong, senior vice president and president of Lenovo's mobile business group, said in a statement.

It can be a confusing platform to use, tweets are often dashed off from smartphones, hashtags can be hijacked and humor doesn't always translate in 140 characters or less — all of which can lead to fiascos like these.

According to Digital Trends, this is just the first in a series of LG commercials that will essentially be recreations of popular YouTube videos, filmed using the new smartphone.

A tap of a finger could soon suffice to identify credit card shoppers and rail commuters, offering areas of new business for specialist companies which have benefited from the use of such technology in smartphones.