Not exact matches
The FTC, which works with the Justice Department to enforce antitrust law,
said that Qualcomm
used its dominance in supplying baseband processors
used in
smartphones and tablets to extract elevated royalties for patents in what the complaint dubbed a «no license - no chips» policy.
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.»
It's designed,
says Soenksen, for a caretaker «who could be 85 years old and has never
used a
smartphone.»
Heins
said RIM plans to
use its existing BlackBerry 7 line to upgrade feature phone users to their first
smartphones in overseas markets where the brand is still wildly popular.
We got the OnePlus 3 a few days early so we've had a chance to check it out and
use it, and we can safely
say it's set up to be a great Android
smartphone.
«Sure, people can walk into a risky situation, but that implies that pedestrians are often at fault,»
said Jonathan Matus, chief executive officer of Zendrive, a company that
uses smartphone sensors to track driving behavior.
«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.
They're also big users of mobile devices, with some 53 percent of buyers
using a combination of desktops,
smartphones, and tablets to make purchases, Jenkinson
says.
To get hacked, people would have to be
using their
smartphones or personal computers on the same Wi - Fi network to which their Smart TVs are connected, and then visit a malicious website or download an app that contains software code that would let hackers take over, the report
said.
A new report
says fewer people are expected to be
using the
smartphone for business over the next year.
Industry experts
say it stands a chance of becoming the first widely
used payments feature on
smartphones.
Wray and his intelligence counterparts
said they would advise against
using Huawei
smartphones.
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.
Turkle
said the interviews she's conducted make her think that parents are recognizing these deleterious effects and starting to set boundaries for their kids»
smartphone use.
«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.
ChildNet, which focuses on child welfare, will
use tablets and
smartphones to upload and access case files remotely, which could ultimately help cut printing costs,
said Emilio Benitez, president and CEO of ChildNet.
Verizon also
said it was overhauling its
smartphone app that customers can
use to monitor their usage, add or change plan features, and pay their bill.
While
smartphone owners only
use a handful of apps, messaging apps are the platform of choice for consumers with more 1.6 billion global users this year,» Smullen
said.
China's Xiaomi Technology Co Ltd, the world's third - largest
smartphone maker, which also
uses the Singles» Day festival to boost turnover,
said on its official Weibo account its sales had so far surpassed 1.2 billion yuan, selling more than 853,000 phones.
About half
said they would
use at - table electronic payment options and a restaurant's
smartphone app to view menus and make reservations.
Companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog) are
using AI to improve their digital assistants, those voice operated helpers on
smartphones and home automation hubs,
said Accenture chief technology officer Paul Daugherty during a Wednesday media event.
According to Daniel Debow, Senior Vice-President of Emerging Technologies, wearables are the next wave of the mobile revolution but the market is still in its early stages, «This is as much a platform for business applications, for new
uses, for productivity as the
smartphone was,» he
said.
In a world increasingly dominated by streaming media on mobile devices, new DirecTV subscribers will be offered «immediate access to programming... at the point of sale,» AT&T
said, adding that the deal will «offer customers the freedom to watch hit TV shows anytime virtually anywhere,
using a TV, computer, tablet or
smartphone.»
«People are already
using Square on their
smartphones and tablets to sell things offline,»
says Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Square and Twitter.
Ninety percent of those
smartphone owners
say they
use the device to check email and surf the web.
About 72 per cent of moms aged 25 to 54; 77 per cent of male consumers aged 25 to 54; and 79 per cent of young consumers aged 18 to 29
said they already
use a
smartphone or tablet as a shopping tool in stores.
Some wanted to
use it to speed up
smartphone connections, while others
said it was better suited to improve home and business Internet connections or to collect data from smart devices in the «Internet of Things.»
In fact, 62 percent of consumers report
using their
smartphones more than previous years to research holiday shopping, and 60 percent of consumers
say that they plan to buy more often from
smartphones or tablets.
Kim Mun - gu, a manager at a South Korean mobile phone company,
said the Arirang
smartphone appears to be
using the Android operating system.
Thorin Klosowski
says that you don't need to give up your
smartphone; you just need to change how you
use it.
CMIT's clients, most of which have between five and 99 employees, have recently been requesting support for cloud computing and bring - your - own - device policies, in which employees
use their personal
smartphones or tablets for work - related communication, Burtzlaff
said.
After a global breakthrough of its
smartphone game in which players
use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal the birds» eggs, Rovio
said a few years ago that it could go public by 2013, either in Hong Kong or New York.
Using a phone to,
say, browse the web requires that digital data shuttles to and fro across these telecoms» mobile networks, which is why if you want to
use a
smartphone you need a «data plan».
Nokia chief Stephen Elop
says mobile phone company will
use Windows Mobile 7 as its primary
smartphone platform
According to Ipsos, only 34 % of Americans
say they are «interested» in
using a
smartphone or tablet to pay for a financial transaction, with security being the biggest impediment to acceptance.
«Some of our best stories happen in places or in moments that you're simply not going to
use your
smartphone,»
said Nick Woodman, GoPro Founder and CEO.
Baidu also
said it had recently bought a $ 10 million minority stake in IndoorAtlas, a company that offers a special technology that allows
smartphone users» positions to be tracked inside buildings, which is often difficult due to the metal
used in structures.
More than four out of five people
say they have Internet access, while a striking 89 percent of 18 - to - 24 year olds
say they
use smartphones to go online.
In a study of retailers in the United States, Britain and other European countries, Professor Adrian Beck and Matt Hopkins of the University of Leicester in England
said the
use of self - service lanes and
smartphone apps to make purchases generated a loss rate of nearly 4 percent, more than double the average.
More than half of travelers
said they had
used a mobile site to book their business trip in the last 30 days, and 31 % of travelers had booked a leisure trip on their
smartphone.
About 32 percent of consumers
say they would
use a
smartphone app to pay their check instead of
using cash or a credit card if it were offered, the NRA reports.
You can
use your ticket confirmation that was sent to ur email or via ur
smartphone or
say your name at the door with proper id
You can
use your
smartphone to talk to them and either
say «I'm coming» or «no thank you.»
Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill
says state residents with valid driver's licenses can now register to vote
using an app on their
smartphones and tablets.
Long Island Rail Road customers will be able to
use their
smartphones to buy a ticket to and from anywhere in the system by the end of next month — four months earlier than originally planned, officials
said.
«That means that by 2018, you'll be able to
use your
smartphone, your bank card or other media across our entire network,»
said Prendergast.
But other scientists have developed matchbox - sized
smartphone attachments that detect fluorescence, which people could
use to check packaged food at home before opening it, Filipe
says.
Kushlev
said that recent polls have shown that as many as 95 percent of
smartphone users have
used their phones during social gatherings; that seven in 10 people
used their phones while working; and one in 10 admitted to checking their phones during sex.
«We look at our
smartphone daily and in doing so we feel intuitively how to
use it,»
says Bernhard Hommel from the University of Leiden.
Matternet co-founder Andreas Raptopoulos
says the ultimate vision for his company is to build a delivery system that
uses a network of drones (see «The drone is flying it to you now «-RRB-, with package delivery reaching the same level of abstraction as the delivery of email on
smartphones.