Perhaps for the first time, browsing the web on a phone was, well, like browsing the web.
But a person familiar with the matter said the patents relate to fundamental Internet technologies, including email, instant messaging, Web browsing, Web search, online advertising, mobile technology and e-commerce.
The result is a faster web browsing experience, and it's available exclusively on Kindle Fire, Amazon's new Kindle for movies, music, books, magazines, apps, games, and web browsing.
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In a Citronelle High School history class recently, five juniors were huddled around laptops and browsing the Web.
All you have to do is complete the following steps and you'll be browsing the web in no time.
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The two most frequent users for the Fire were e-book reading, at 71%, and browsing the Web, at 39%.
Mobile analytics firm Flurry recently reported that people now spend more time using mobile apps than browsing the Web.
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With a 1080p resolution, the UX51Vz's 15.6-inch IPS display provides a great canvas for watching movies and browsing the web.
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This means that the phone will know when you're reading an ebook or browsing the web and keep the backlight on.
For example, a user could be browsing the web for information while watching an HD video on the TV all at the same time.
Intermark WebSnake: Formerly called Anawave WebSnake, this utility supports offline browsing, Web-site mirroring (including directory structures), e-mail address retrieval, site maps, and advanced file searches.
But people were starting to upgrade in large numbers to low-end smartphones, such as Nokia's Asha handsets, and were keen to start browsing the web using the devices.
The 4.7-inch True HD display will make the Spectrum 2 by LG stand out by enhancing the viewing experience when streaming movies, playing games and browsing the Web.
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"What we are excited about is that the world may shift to a place where everybody has a 3G connected device for browsing the Web, " he said at the time.
The Wi-Fi will come in handy for things like checking e-mail and browsing the Web when you're near a hotspot or perhaps within range of your own wireless network at home.
Data Sense doesn't stop there, as it has a suite of features like Wi-Fi mapping to find hotspots and compressing images and HTML while browsing the Web to help reduce data usage.
His model predicted that a large number of passengers crowded together, all blathering, sending text messages, or browsing the web on their phones, could produce levels of electromagnetic radiation that exceed international safety standards.
Let's say, for example, that a customer's connection is fine for browsing the web, but it doesn't pass muster for streaming content -- a service dedicated to video delivery could be added to close the gap.
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For example, he says, an advertiser for yoga vacations can display ads when the customer is searching for yoga vacations, reading an article about yoga vacations, browsing a Web site on holistic health or watching an online video on stress reduction.
The 7.9-inch Multi-Touch display delivers the same iPad experience users have come to expect, in a design that has 35 percent more screen real estate than 7-inch tablets and up to an astonishing 67 percent more usable viewing area when browsing the web.
Through the updated Open Graph (the API tool other websites and application developers use to talk to Facebook), Facebook is now collecting a magnitude more information on people using the service, potentially when they are browsing the web outside of Facebook, but with sites that themselves talk to Facebook.
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Lucid2 by LG features a compact, stylish design that makes it easy to grip and is equipped with a big, bright 4.3-inch qHD Advanced High Performance (AH) In-Plane-Switching (IPS) display that enhances the viewing experience for watching videos, reading eBooks and browsing the web in stunning clarity and natural color.
Proof of that lies deeper in the numbers: 80 percent of G1 customers are browsing the web on a daily basis from the comfort of their device -- a testament to the goodness of WebKit, we reckon -- over half are using Facebook and YouTube at least once a week, and half are hooking up to WiFi on a daily basis.
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Between its newish Facebook Exchange that allows marketers to target people based on Web browsing habits and new ad formats that look like other ads on the Web, Facebook is clearly aiming to provide marketers with a broad platform on which to reach prospective customers.
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Exploit Prevention analyzes the Web browsing of about 50, 000 users of its software, probing links on Web pages to find viruses or malware.
That matters because even if downloads are fast, latency will translate into sluggish web browsing.
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Do your web browsing through a restricted user account and not an administrator account.
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Browsing hundreds of web pages from a mobile screen is not practicable or desirable.
What I want is a web browsing device that rocks me like a hurricane.
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