Perhaps, you'll use one to get e-mail notification, then go to another device to read your e-mail.
Lacking any display (or any way of connecting one), the unit has you use the sluggish remote to prompt the device to read back which songs are available.
While Forrester says that slightly more than half of iPad owners say they use the device to read books, many do so on third-party iPad apps like the Kindle app.
The ability of a device to read both gestures and speech seemed like something out of science fiction, and the possibilities one could imagine with such a device were limitless.
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Rather than write a number of separate articles, I plan to periodically release an updated e-book that you can download to your tablet or other device and read at your leisure.
The device continues to read out words and sentences, adding in the ability to trace letters and write them out on its special paper.
Earlier this year, the US bookseller launched the Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight, an upgraded device which features LED lights enabling the device to be read in the dark.
The lawsuit does not seek damages but just wants to make it so that any kind of ebook can be read on any Amazon device and app and any Kindle ebook can be read on other devices and apps.
He likened the radio technology to responsive web design, a technique which enables web pages to automatically change shape and configuration depending on what type of device they are being read on, such as a smartphone or tablet.
The authors link to the original source files, which can usually be read on any device.
Read on one device, bookmark on your page is pushed to other devices.
For the foreseeable future any website will be impossible to read on a wireless device without prior adaptation.
Instead of purchasing e-books through a single online store to read only on compatible software (i.e. books bought from the Kindle Store can only be read on Kindle apps), Google lets consumers buy books either from its store or any other online vendor that sells books in EPUB and PDF formats, and read them on any device with a web browser.
If you can view it, open it, or read it on your iOS device, you can print it with the xPrintServer.
While many adults may read manuals for a new device, younger generations just open the box and start navigating and adding apps.
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Ask Jeff Quon, the California SWAT officer whose steamy sext messages sent from his work device got him fired after they were read by his employer.
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More recently, Amazon told me I downloaded a book too many times and therefore couldn't read it on a new device, even though it was no longer on the old ones.
In 2003 Dr. Suellen Miller, a reproductive health expert at the University of California, San Francisco, read an article about the device, which by that point was being used for PPH in additional to trauma.
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And now, thanks to instant-reading technology, you don't even need to wait 15 seconds to start up the device: "I press, I read, it's instant... it's a book!"
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We think once Gmail supports forwarding, you'll be able to read your Gmail on just about any device.
The device never made it to store shelves, but Read said similar gadgets may come to market in the future.
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The consumer places his or her mobile device under the imager, the 2D barcode is read, and the POS treats the tender like a gift card, following the usual payment verification procedure.
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Sony has also said it will adopt the open EPub format in a move that allows consumers to purchase or download books from the Sony store and read them on any EPub-compatible device.
According to a report from Korea's Money Today, the idea is to create a device for older customers that's easier to read with bigger icons and letters on its large 5-inch low res screen (as opposed to the 5-inch 1080p pixel density monsters we're now accustomed to), with a quad-core CPU pushing Android 4.1 and its Smart Stay features plus a 2, 100mAh battery.
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We check the news, find out the score of the baseball game and read restaurant reviews all by swiping the ubiquitous device in our pockets.
With this increasingly popular protocol, supported mobile apps -- regardless of their platform -- are able to read from and write to our little WiFi device.
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On the one hand, he noted that Microsoft has a long history of providing cross-platform applications. (You can run Office on the Mac, for instance.) And he also noted that you can run the limited function Web-based version of Office in a browser on basically any device at all, including iPads and iPhones, to read documents and do some light editing.
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