Sure, there's Dish Anywhere, for realtime streaming of live TV and DVR content, but Hopper with Sling owners will soon be able to take their content offline, for viewing on trains, planes and anywhere else where you don't have a connection (or don't want to burst your monthly bandwidth cap with hours of video).
We tested out a few different settings and in our experience, the connection isn't always immediate.
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The corporate connection isn't a reflection on the candidates themselves (at least not yet).
The lack of a reliable connection isn't just important to small business and domestic users - some larger companies are located in rural areas.
But the connection isn't made just yet: This deal still faces major obstacles that could easily cause it to disconnect, including U.S. regulators and competing bids.
The phone defaults to Wi-Fi but will place the call over Sprint if it decides the Wi-Fi connection isn't good enough, or if you manually choose cellular.
He would communicate with me only by e-mail, and he denied any connection with the T. bataar bones, though he said that he had done other work with Prokopi.
In short, that USB connection isn't just a spec or a talking point: it means you can use this Windows tablet like a PC, whenever it's convenient for you.
We were a bit disappointed that the connection didn't come at the hands of a 30-pin jack or Lightning port, but overall the unit worked quite nicely in our limited time with it.
One consumer group says there should be another priority - making sure the millions who cannot get any kind of decent connection aren't left out as the rest of the country gets ever faster mobile networks.
At the same time, the connection couldn't be so strong that the keyboard would be difficult to remove. (Hence the Moleskine comparison: the designers wanted a book-like cover that users could easily peel away.) Presented that way, it sounds like a compromise, but Microsoft seems pleased with the results.
All would have a wireless network connection and would presumably be connected to a PC, though the type of connection used wasn't revealed.
Behavioral economics has one more lesson for gift givers: If your goal is to maximize a social connection, don't give a perishable gift like flowers or chocolates.
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Unless you update manually, the phone will check all by itself every 7 days, and if it finds something, it'll grab it within 2 days during periods when you're not using your data connection (wouldn't want it ruining the user experience, after all).
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"There isn't any connection between connecting with an average voter and being an average voter, " said Julian Zelizer, a CNN contributor and history and public affairs professor at Princeton University who has written books on former Presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.
Kit sold through Federer and Woods are not subsidiaries of Nike, but you can't miss the connection.
They may have an idea or a desire, but they don't have a connection to someone who can help them realize it.
Still, it wasn't that same connection I had felt 12 years earlier.
Sprint has no plans to limit its customers' connection, and doesn't currently have the technical ability to do so, according to a spokeswoman.
Fifty-one percent of debate watchers said Obama's connection to Ayers didn't matter at all to them, with 23 percent saying it mattered a great deal.
But the appeal of Twitter is the implied personal connection--isn't it?
And we don't make the connection that gasoline, once burned, turns into its chemical sibling, carbon dioxide, whose effects on our environment will globally dwarf the catastrophe happening in the Gulf.
"I certainly believe these poisons make people sick, but I can't make that connection, " says David Straus, a researcher at Texas Tech University's medical school whose testimony has helped plaintiffs win three mold lawsuits.
The "EPUB export feature" makes it easier for people to read free encyclopedia articles on their mobile phones, e-readers or tablets when they don't have a connection, Wikipedia said in a blog post on Monday.
Compared to the fourth quarter of 2010, Service and Sales revenues decreased by 3.6% as fewer branded contract gross additions were partially offset by handset sales in connection with the introduction of T-Mobile USA's new unlimited Value plans.
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That means they can't easily use all the existing phone extensions in their home, can't make calls if their electricity or Internet connection goes down, and in many cases, don't have access to emergency 911 services.
As Smart Knob doesn't need an internet connection, it could be useful even out in the woods.
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