The consumer services feature slow data rates and a daily use cap.
Google also has a chance to feature maps and location services on other apps, valuable because Google earns ad dollars from the businesses its maps feature, such as whenever a user taps on a featured phone number.
Apps like Waze might feature decent GPS navigation services on your smartphone, but carmakers want to integrate their own software services to get an edge on competitors.
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Through this strategic partnership, Juniper Networks is entering into an agreement with OnLive to jointly collaborate on creating additional value-added services and feature-rich applications using Junos Pulse.
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Consumers throughout the world depend on the RCA brand to provide products and services that feature the latest technology and design, are easy to use, and deliver the highest value and longevity.
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Microsoft is making mashups a key feature of its Windows Live services.
The Eurosport Player app will feature alongside other recent fantastic sports services on the LG Smart TV platform such as a complimentary two month free Livesport TV trial and the recent arrival of the much anticipated BBC Sport App.
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One caveat: The refund feature is applicable mostly to smaller rental services.
The routers will also feature the company's mydlink Cloud Services functionality, which lets users keep tabs on their networks via an app for Android and iOS. D-Link also introduced the new ShareCenter 2-bay Cloud NAS, which supports up to 3TB hard drives and handles RAID 1, RAID 0, Standard and JBOD configurations.
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But the act of shopping, by which I mean individuals making price-feature-value tradeoffs for the products and services they are considering purchasing, is absolutely fundamental to a healthy economy.
While unfortunately named, the chat heads feature represents an elegant way of integrating disparate communications services including SMS, messaging and email so that the focus is on the person not the communications channel.
And (speaking of real estate) which sort of ad is more likely to sell a house nowadays: the newspaper's truncated description with a single, low-resolution thumbnail, or a virtual tour with live mapping services and geographical and geopolitical information with feature comparisons to other properties available?
Tea ceremonies, tea appreciation and tasting services led by skilful tea masters, may feature any of the above.
It needs to focus on services and in that respect the new health monitoring feature could be a way to capture long term customer loyalty.
It will feature integrated cross-asset trading, analytics and voice broker assistance services.
Most news services repeated the IDC-selected headline about smartphone volume overtaking feature phone volumes in 2013.
The new Disney ships feature almost Michelin-level fine dining, elegant on-board spa services, and adult-only tours, says Brown.
But Barclays' Kvaal contends that RIM's push technology will continue to be a "major differentiator" for BlackBerry devices and services, particularly since RIM allows outside developers to use the feature in their applications.
The set-up is user friendly with an initial personalization feature via the Automatica website where the user can choose the podcasts and cloud services they want to associate to the device.
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"Satisfaction remains relatively unchanged among traditional mobile phone customers, likely as a result of heightened awareness of advanced services available on smartphones and the lack on new device offerings with upgraded feature sets, " said Parsons.
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Sure, some services can cache data locally for offline use, but that's a feature of HTML5 that has yet to be widely embraced by devs.
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It also updated its App Engine hosting service with PHP runtime, calling it "the most requested feature, " and launched Google Cloud Datastore to go up against AWS' cloud storage services.
That includes support for photos from Facebook, Picasa or Flickr (more services are also promised), a built-in Twitter client, a video inbox feature to receive videos shot with cellphones (or any other internet-connected device, for that matter), and even its own Gmail address to let anyone easily send photos straight to the frame.
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Customers benefit from a new, feature rich user interface that provides one-click access to all of their preferred local and global services but also benefit from a browser that is much faster and more data efficient compared to other browsers, reducing the amount of data consumed by 30-90% depending on the types of services and files accessed.
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The HTC One is designed to be a more social media friendly device and includes a feature called Blinkfeed that lets people view content from their accounts on Facebook, Twitter Inc. and other services directly on the device's home screen, without having to open the apps separately.
Mobile wireless telecommunications services play a critical role in the way Americans live and work, with more than 300 million feature phones, smart phones, data cards, tablets and other mobile wireless devices in service today.
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