The red light on my desktop phone is blazing, telling me I have voicemail waiting.
Another unnecessary cost: employees who call a company-paid 800 number to retrieve voice mail from their desktop phone instead of using free long distance on a cell phone.
The base is connected to the phone through a headset connector and, given its apparent size, seems more appropriate for use with a desktop cordless phone than with a mobile phone.
More importantly for Canonical, their partners, and end-users, this establishes the Ubuntu operating system on four screens: Tablet, desktop, phone, and TV.
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Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 together mark a rare confluence for Microsoft: they represent the first instance of the company's desktop and phone platforms sharing the same browser base, and that has wide-reaching implications for what developers can do.
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In Safari, there's now a full-screen mode and you'll be able to share tabs from your desktop with your phone (dubbed iCloud Tabs).
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The way we engage with our news and entertainment changed from print to the web, from the desktop to the phone, from browser to Kindle and Nook.
Facebook has over a billion users on the desktop, but its phone ecosystem won't pop up over night.
Security is handled through the phone or desktop app enabling you to share keys with your family as administrative users, normal users, one-off entry or even scheduled access.
One package could consist of a desktop, tablet and phone.
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Lopez said many companies are still trying to shrink the desktop to fit on a phone.
Capability to read, listen and watch content not just on the Nextbook but on any device including a desktop, laptop or mobile phone with Google Play's cloud feature.
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Now it takes just a few seconds, delivering the necessary information to a corporate desktop or salesman's mobile phone.
Account and security settings also make it easy for you to control digital pan, tilt and zoom of cameras, set up motion zones for individual cameras, and create and manage e-mail and mobile-phone motion alerts or desktop notifications of important events.
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And, indeed, in that same six months, these developers created more than 100 apps for the platform, including mobile clients for iOS, Android and even Windows Phone and Symbian, desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux and browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
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Start-up Bluestacks has produced a software wrapper that lets the phone apps run on a desktop Apple machine.
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Now it takes just a few seconds, delivering the necessary information to a corporate desktop or a salesman's mobile phone.
Will the changes in use habits from the desktop and laptop, to the mobile phone, mean that they use search in a fundamentally different way?
It is designed, at least in part, to be the bridge between the desktop, the tablet and the mobile phone, says Fernando Alvarez, Mobile Solutions Practice Leader for Capgemini.
But if there's a downside to the notion of an Android phone that runs full-blown desktop Ubuntu when docked to a big screen and keyboard, it's the need for patience.
There are concerns over whether Facebook can make money from people using the site on mobile devices, as users move from the computer desktop version to accessing the site via mobile phone.
The UI merges some Kindle- and Windows 8-esque features with things that are totally original -- like responsive design which allows the exact same OS and apps to run on a phone, tablet, TV or desktop.
For this to happen, my phone must be as powerful as a laptop or desktop, capable of running business applications securely with immediate web access.
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At 56, Metcalfe looked fine and fit, pulsating through the phone wires at 384 kilobits per second on an Avistar desktop videoconferencing system.
In 1999, a customer got his G4 Tower desktop repaired after an e-mail to Jobs resulted in a phone call from the mysterious Executive Relations team.
The new phone, coupled with strong sales of Apple's desktop computers and music players, have caused the company's share price to more than double over the past year.
MessageVine develops own-brand instant messaging services for mobile phone operators that enable them to build a community of desktop and mobile messaging users, according to the company's Vice President of International Operations, Amit Rahav.
At OpenTable he found that most desktop reservations are made well in advance, but those booked through a phone are almost always spontaneous and short-term.
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Put a Cius into its dock with a landline handset connected to a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and it could load your virtual Mac or Windows desktop and act just like a traditional PC as well as a desk phone.
There was a brief moment a few years back, right after everyone had finished arguing about which was the best desktop computer, but before everyone had yet begun arguing about which was the best mobile phone, when the raging controversy involved the best email.
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