They allow users to follow brands, and automatically push the most popular tips to the top.

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Can automatically push events to anyone with whom you are sharing a calendar.

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Unless the retirement age rises in lockstep with life expectancy, ageing will automatically push up pension costs, further straining public finances.

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If there is room, but your app icons are merely in the way, the widget will automatically push them to the side.

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Eager to rein in such anxieties, LinkedIn has begun testing a new feature that would automatically push job postings out of the main discussion boards and into a separate jobs category.

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Though it can be used as a phone, the BlackBerry's power lies in its ability to push e-mail automatically from the company server to the end user.

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Push the backlit engine-start button and the dashboard air vents automatically rotate open while the rotary shift knob rises up from the center console.

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Ableton will have automatically loaded a pitched instrument in the software, and making this the center of Push's attention is just a button click (or two) away.

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