Lord Harris, who died in 1984, could hardly have imagined how the now-ubiquitous electronic quartz watch would make time-keeping cheap, dependable and above all effortless.
We haven't yet heard of any problems with the RFID tags increasingly being used to monitor inmates in prisons, but it looks like the electronic tags used to keep watch on early release offenders are decidedly less reliable, at least according to a recent investigation into the matter in Scotland.
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Each electronic trader should install a computerized system to watch its outgoing order flow to ensure that it is consistent with its business model.
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Not just a regular handset, but one that could fold out into an electronic map or fit around the wrist like a watch, losing none of its functionality along the way.
Other people close to Apple, however, say the device will be more like an iPod Touch with a bigger screen that will make it easier to watch movies, play videogames, read electronic books and surf the Internet.
Pac-12 Now also features an electronic programming guide and gives fans the ability to share what they watch with their social networks.
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It has expanded into different types of displays, including screen displays for a Motorola phone, an electronic display for a usb device made by Lexar and, finally, watch displays.
Jennifer Lynch, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group based in San Francisco that keeps a watch on how digital technology encroaches on civil freedoms, also questions the quality of the data.
In South Korea, about six million mobile phone users--more than 12% of the country's population--subscribe to services that allow them to watch television over their phones, says Steve Hoffenberg, director of electronic media research for Lyra Research.
To make it easier, don't put a television in your child's bedroom, don't watch television while you're eating dinner, and restrict computers and other electronic gadgets to a family area.
The group gathered to watch Steve Cook drive his Chevrolet Astro van up to a judging platform with colored lights and electronic reader boards.
And those who watch the matches on television (whence arrives much of Wimbledon's income) share at an electronic arm's length the added drama of the best game in the world being played at the best place in the world to play it.
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