In any case, the device appeared between 1662 and 1666, and took the form of a small glass hemisphere filled almost completely with liquid.
This wording is pretty open, however, and it may simply be Verizon's way of covering themselves in case such a device comes out in the future.
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In the case of our device, the plastic emerged with a green color, slowly turning black as it slid out like hot, plastic soft serve ice cream.
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This is especially the case when the gains of one player come at the loss of another player, as is the case in medical device and retail sales industries.
So even in the case that the device itself has no unlock passcode and no corresponding security policies, the secure container of business apps on the phone cannot be accessed unless the appropriate passcode is entered.
Shell has also been asked to build a containment device in case it is needed.
Cringe if you like, but it's hard to argue with the business case for such a device.
We expect smartphones to continue to carry a shorter life cycle than PCs for the years to come based on price, use case, and overall device size.
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While it isn't built into the hardware, it doesn't seem to add much to the weight or the thickness of the case and thus the device itself.
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With the voice call capability, the GALAXY Tab 2 (7.0) can be used just as easily as a phone, affording users the handy convenience of a second device in case they misplace their primary phone.
So forgive me if I'm being small-minded, but Bruce Tognazzini's speculative manifesto about an Apple iWatch fails to make a convincing futurist case for the imagined device -- despite whipping up a whirlwind of attention.
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After sliding your iPhone or Android device into this case, your phone becomes a video game controller.
This device makes the case for a brand-new way of doing things.
Today's iPhone 5 doubles the processor performance again, stretches the astonishing Retina display to provide even more pixels, and shaves nearly another 20% off the case thickness to create a device that's unlike any other, yet builds seamlessly on previous generations.
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Several stores in Shanghai and Beijing agreed to stop selling the device until the court case was settled.
The case even extends to whether the device and its on-screen icons are allowed to have rounded corners.
Obviously, though, relying on software would limit the case to working with a single device (and let's be realistic, it won't be your beloved Nexus 4).
If that's the case, you can just rinse the device under a tap of water.
For the last two years I have been using my iPad as an extended light PC device via the ZAGG keyboard case and the Logitech Ultra Keyboard.
One such project is called NewsFlash, and uses high-frequency red and green light to transmit data to the built-in camera on a receiving device -- in this case Samsung's Epic 4G.
While the FDA regularly sends out warning letters to medical device and drug companies over design flaws or diverted and contaminated drugs, the SynchroMed case stands out because Medtronic is a known innovator in the medical device space, so it is surprising it would not act sooner to resolve the issue.
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You can also shake the device to clean the text in case it ends up getting "dirty, " or misaligned.
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He notes that in one case Cognizant built an app for a medical device company that allows doctors to monitor cardiac patients on mobile devices.
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The way the case peels off to reveal the core of the device is also distinctly pleasurable.
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Leckar responded that those are questions for another day, but this case was about the illegal attachment of a monitoring device to a car.
In a new case involving an abusive spouse who used a tracking device to stalk and threaten his wife, a Minnesota judge made a similar decision, but the emphasis was on the fact that he had partial ownership of the car.
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Well now Green is back to silence the critics who questioned the utility of his first project with the MacMini Portable MkII, which makes numerous improvements upon its predecessor such as mounting the thumb board flush with the case, significantly reducing the overall size of the device, and generally making it look more like something you'd want to take out in public.
Last year saw the case of "the rock" - allegedly a device planted by MI6 to receive coded data from agents.
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