The major themes of its new line of phones are an emphasis on social networking and media-sharing among a younger target audience, an easy-to-use multi-touch interface and cloud-based infrastructure that the Kin phones automatically uploads and syncs content to, for access on the wider Web and beyond.
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Hero includes the new HTC Sense widget-based interface that puts at-a-glance info right up front on the home screen where it belongs.
Which is a shame, because a finger-based interface is obviously well-suited to games involving pointing at things, and projects like the iPhone version of the classic Broken Sword have shown the possibilities of selling this type of game on mobile formats.
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One such device, coined Droplet, essentially redirects light from one source to another, while also serving as a physical interface for tablet-based tasks.
People who have used it love the gesture-based interface and the ability to "snooze" messages this latter feature prompts a pop-up message to remind you to reply at some point in the future, like later in the day, later that night, or over the weekend.
To connect an iPad to the service, an Akamai rep simply signed into the web-based interface on both the TV and the tablet (though the service is generally compatible with any web-connected device).
In the past we've seen a tongue-based computer interface or two, the BrainPort sight-via-papillae solution, and this week, at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced a sensor about the size of a business card that detects and identifies fourteen common sweeteners -- including Splenda, Sugar in the Raw, and Sweet'n'Low.
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The problem with Windows 8 is that Microsoft decided to shove a highly inefficient touch-based user interface onto millions of PC users using non-touch desktops and notebooks.
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It was a great, swipe-based interface that never found an audience and was ultimately put to rest.
Sqwid makes it possible for business managers to monitor Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp in an easy-to-use web-based interface.
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With Anybots' web-based interface, collaboration can happen at light speed without the cost and wasted time of business travel.
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Ideas are communicated and shared with teams and clients using a touch-based interface.
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By using a device connected to the contraption's own WiFi network, thirsty folks will be able to select drinks from a web-based interface.
Using a tablet-based interface, a therapist can activate or remove the sounds of gunshots or the sight of smoke, depending on a patient's reaction.
So this was the magic formula: The aesthetic of a magazine and the freshness of data of the web in a nice touch-based interface.
The Nexus Q is begging for some sort of web-based interface.
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That's not to say the Focus isn't a sweet device, though: The vivid Super AMOLED display makes Windows Phone 7's colorful tile-based interface a visual treat.
In 2010, Hypershop introduced a battery powered HyperDrive external HDD product offering up to 750 GB of external storage through the proprietary USB-based interface on the iPad.
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So if HTML5 is more suitable for light interface enhancements, this leaves rooms for Flash to do what it does best: heavy interface enhancements, vector-based animations, advanced video and audio features, and immersive environments.
Their solution, called Parakeet, is a touch-screen-based interface for phones and other mobile devices, which not only displays the words, phrases or sentences that scored highest in the program's statistical model, but also any close contenders.
With simple installation and an intuitive web-based interface, the DockStar network adapter will change the way people control the access and sharing of their content by creating their own personal storage 'clouds' while keeping the security and privacy of the drives' content because it is located within their home.
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Since the introduction of version 2.0, the OS is designed to run both native and HTML5 apps, or apps which mix the two layers -- such as the Vimeo app you'll see in the video, which has a web-based interface but accesses the hardware for the purpose of video acceleration.
Users are provided with hosting for their site and a Web-based interface where they can enter their posts. (Disclosure: Forbes.com uses the TypePad service to power its blogs, including one by the author of this story.) Six Apart also operates LiveJournal, a popular free blogging service, and sells Movable Type, blogging software which companies and individuals can install on their own Web servers.
But this digital Battle of Verdun is not the only challenge for Google as Mozilla is also launching its mobile operating system: FirefoxOS. To make a long story short, FirefoxOS is the equivalent of ChromeOS for smartphones: a light-weight mobile operating system where the user interface and all applications are web-based.
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The HD HERO2 features a totally new, straightforward language-based user interface that eliminates the need for instructions.
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Session E1, right after the PCIe-based storage interface session will look at the changes expected in software using storage devices with these interfaces.
The video shows RIOT using a browser-based search interface to track the Raytheon employee across Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla (which was acquired by Facebook last year).
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Facebook Home, an Android-based smartphone interface, reached about 500, 000 downloads in just five days, but reviews have been mixed, according to UBS, suggesting Facebook has ample room for improvement.
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The Pro Version allows advanced 3D designers and professionals to quickly build or modify 3DVR applications by modifying key functions of Vimensio (object handling, interaction, and moving) via a Python-based script interface.
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Another entrant, Jolla, says its 'Sailfish' platform is a second-generation operating system like BlackBerry's BB10 and is easy to use because it has a gesture-based user interface and is designed to avoid patent litigation.
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