Sentences with phrase «users of their phones by»

A California court must soon decide whether smartphone makers like Apple have a duty to protect the public and users of their phones by preventing the use of certain phone applications while driving.

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Instead of yelling at the guy who cut you off or getting stuck in a blocked - in parking spot, General Motors China says it has a solution: It's called DiDi Plate, and it lets Android users text any car owner by scanning their license plate with their phone's camera and sending it to a cloud ID service.

Instead of entering a passcode — something that Apple says half of users don't even bother to implement — Touch ID lets users unlock their phone simply by touching it.

Launched by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the new video application for your mobile phone is positioned to rival six - second video app Vine and Instagram's new video capacity, which allows users to record up to 15 seconds of video at a time.

For example, Bump, one of the most popular apps of the moment, allows users to share contact info, pictures and other files by literally bumping their iPhones or Android phones together.

A 2016 survey by Deloitte showed that almost one third of all UK smartphone users never actually use their «phone» to make calls.

Tweetie - in addition to the Twitter functionality you'd expect, Tweetie can also do a restoration of your user interface if you're interrupted by a phone call and your offline Twitter actions can also be synced up when you come back online.

Since the percentage of phone numbers that connect to mobile phone — wielding young people and elderly landline users is about equal, it's actually the youthful folks who may dominate a sample created by random digit dialing, says Marc - David Seidel, an associate professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.

The company claims its Face ID feature is so secure that there's a one in a million chance that someone could spoof you — not only does it require a measure of the user's attention to unlock the phone, but Apple also says it trained the feature on realistic - looking 3 - D masks so it would not be tricked by them.

It describes sophisticated tools for targeting the devices of individual users, in contrast to the revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's of mass data collection on millions of web and phone users worldwide.

While it's hard to quantify the dollar amount transacted with mobile wallets, Parks Associates estimates that proximity payment transactions — which require users to tap their phone at a point - of - sale terminal — generated more than $ 30 billion in the U.S. in 2016, a figure that's expected to top $ 300 billion by 2022.

These apps pledge to help users regain control of their smartphone usage by monitoring their phone and app activity and notifying them of overuse.

International customers and users of disposable or prepaid phones are the people most affected by the software.

A legend has emerged from a jumble of facts: Someone using the name Satoshi Nakamoto released the software for Bitcoin in early 2009 and communicated with the nascent currency's users via email — but never by phone or in person.

According to Statistics, there are more than 4.7 billion smartphone users in the world while a survey conducted by Pew Research Center revealed that the United States has one of the highest concentrations of smartphone users in the world with around 72 % of mobile phone users in the country being smartphone users.

The second largest country by population, mobile phone users, smartphone users, and internet users, India is once again at the center of attraction for the management of the world's most influential online platform.

Founded in 2014, the platform has always been backed by a system of Bitcoin smart contracts that peg the value of the bitcoin on a user's phone to another currency; however, last month, Abra announced that these smart contracts are now also sometimes powered by Litecoin.

As users discover that their phone calls and SMS messages may have been collected by Facebook for many years, or that their own data could have been accessed by Facebook via one of their friends on the social media platform, there is a growing sense of shock.

According to Boston Consulting Group, by 2018, the number of Internet users in India will rise to 580 million and the best part to note here is that 70 - 80 % of the Internet users will be accessing web on their mobile phones.

Matthew Warner's «Flocknote» project enables parishes to contact people from one source, sending the same material to a person's email inbox, Facebook or Twitter account, or to their mobile phone by text message; the important thing is that it is the end user that chooses which of these means is the one by which they prefer to receive information.

Building on his administration's valuable 311 program, he promised to make government more accessible by translating city websites into six languages, distributing more information via Twitter (follow @ 311nyc) and social networking sites, enabling users to fine - tune their usage of NYC.gov around their personal information needs, and creating a free iPhone application allowing people to submit quality - of - life complaints to 311 directly from their phone.

After sending the image to a preassigned HP number (via SMS, the standard data transmission protocol for cell phones), it will be processed by computers employing algorithms capable of identifying both the user's face and the sheet of color swatches.

At the present time, some 10 percent of the electricity in Germany is consumed by information and communication technologies, such as computers and smart phones of users, but also by the servers in large computer centers.

By 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme (the U.N.'s environmental arm) projects that the number of cell phone users around the world will climb to two billion.

The conclusions, obtained by tracking thousands of mobile phone users, could help researchers devise more accurate models of disease outbreaks.

Here we explore the limits of predictability in human dynamics by studying the mobility patterns of anonymized mobile phone users.

By following the paths of individual cell phone users (inset), scientists have found that humans may obey well - defined rules of motion.

The researchers examined the movements of over 2 million anonymous mobile phone users by collaborating with Digicel, the largest mobile phone operator in Haiti.

The global proliferation of smart phones, individually associated with a unique identifier (IP address), and thus geographical region, in conjunction with social media information on the hearts and minds of users, data mined and sold to corporations with nefarious intentions has hijacked the zeitgeist of individuals, thus regions and voting blocks and countries and entire societies by aggregating the sum - total of information.

Know that you can do a simple search of your potential date's email address, phone number, or even user name by going to Spokeo.com.

When you open it on your phone, you're greeted by a collection of other users with whom you've physically crossed paths with throughout your day.

As time goes by and we obtain more potential users outside of smart phones then SMS will become more attractive for us.

mopay allows users to input either a landline or cell phone number, confirm the number by SMS, and then charge the payment to either of their phone bills to make payments fast and easy, thereby converting visitors to customers at a faster rate.

The system works by routing a temporary number to users existing mobile phone, which they do by sending «SAFE» to 80876 at a charge of just # 1.50.

In closing, we want to emphasize that one of the first goals during mobile dating app promotion is to actually get inside as many users» phones as possible, closely followed by the goal number two, which is to remind your customers to use the app often.

By going to PlayerBlock.com, users can search the database based on Name, Phone Number (including mobile) and now even with photographs through the use of its Facial Recognition Technology Software.

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Online dating, long dominated by big outfits like Match.com and eHarmony, has in the last two years been transformed by the rise of Tinder, the mobile phone app that lets its users scan photos and short profiles of potential dates.

And it's evolving: Sean Rad, founder of Tinder, said in February that augmented reality could mean a future where app users could get information on a person's dating profile by pointing a phone at them, Pokemon Go - style.

Our own best advice is to download some of the coolest applications (check the ratings they have been given by other mobile phone users) and test them out to let us know which dating apps are the best.

The character is portrayed confidently by Joseph Gordon - Levitt, no spoiler alert there, but the movie that surrounds him feels more like a college lecture on national security rather than a dramatization that could have shown us specifically what made the ideologue's pursuit of government secrets — namely, the NSA's tracking and collecting of mass amounts of user data by tapping into cell phones — so disturbing.

Online training and eLearning would require a traditional registration process, followed by a user log in page, but now, since browsers are available on phones, tablets, and laptops, online courses are not only restricted to desktops; courses are configured to all types of devices.

The Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app is made possible by the phone's various sensors, and can display real - time images of the surroundings area complete with user - generated points of interest and other interactive features.

In addition, users of the free image - recognition app Blippar are able to view this video by simply pointing their phone at print and poster advertisements of the car, instantly bringing 2D photographs to life.

Used by many of the country's top public, K - 12 school and academic libraries, Axis 360 offers a fully accessible platform for library users to find, check out and read digital titles on their phones, tablets and ereader devices.

Signs of an obvious BlackBerry troll: 1) Picture of a 10 + year old BlackBerry rather than any of this year's 2) Complete misunderstanding of «routed through Blackberries own internet servers» vs compression (which is done on your BES, including BES10 / 12 if you are a business user like you claim to be) 3) Continuing into «now all information is delivered by the phone company».

The screen, while still a 4.65» display, is wider and has a contrast ratio of 100,000:1, the highest available, but Samsung stands by their point that the phone won't actually feel any bigger in the user's hand.

In fact, with the Haptic tablet, Axon Logic has set its eyes on the Apple's iPad and is enticing users by saying «touch a full blown OS instead of an OS meant for a phone,» in what is a direct reference to the iOS which is essentially the iPhone software that also finds application in the iPad albeit after necessary modifications.

One of China's oldest publishing houses, Zhonghua Book Co, entered the world of multimedia publishing by instigating a poetry contest that targeted mobile phone users.

Built using powerful hardware (a dual - core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of storage, dual - band, and dual - antenna Wi - Fi with MIMO), the Fire TV Stick boasts Amazon's award - winning user interface accessible by the included remote control (or «you can use your phone as a remote with the free mobile app that includes voice search»).