But for the average user, IM is a much more secure and trustworthy communications environment than email.
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For the average user, the path of least resistance is to let the company who sells you music and movies also store, sync and stream that same content.
Will Graph search (the name is terrible for the average user) be another flop, or it will it really change how we search for relevant things in the future.
Over-the-air firmware updates (FOTA) are all well and good, but manufacturers and carriers have been a little slow on the uptake, and even plain ol' PC-delivered upgrades are oddly difficult for the average user to come by.
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If you thought the size of the original Note was polarizing enough for the average smartphone user, the Note II will reinforce that idea.
But the software needed to create one is still far too complicated for the average computer user.
An interactive toilet can be a lot for the average bathroom user to master in one sitting, no pun intended.
This may not be too terribly useful for the average home user, but for the tablet PC market doing all the buying right now (healthcare, manufacturing, and retail, of course) it drives down cost, ups reliability and security, and actually makes the generally ho-hum specs of the machine something a little more of a powerhouse on its new platform.
While it would be nice to see a better diagramming input solution for the average business graphics user, add-on graphics tablets, such as those from Wacom, make the most sense for professionals.
For the wireless carriers, average revenue per user has been falling in recent years despite increased smartphone adoption as the companies added more connections for lower-revenue devices like e-readers and tablet computers.
The firm lost a small amount of money on the average Groupon user, but more than made up for it from the increased rate of purchase, the study found, which was more than three times higher, by full price-paying customers from the increased exposure.
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The average revenue per user for a smartphone user is far higher than a featured phone one, and this allows carriers to recover money over the course of the contract period.
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The network is hardly known for being up front with its privacy changes, however, and the average user may not grasp the extent of how he or she is being tracked.
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"There are plenty of apps that help the average user create professional looking photos but nothing has done that for video, " said Oren Boiman, CEO of Magisto.
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But there is a huge potential benefit for developers, too: if Facebook can make Credits take off, so that the average user has some lying around in his account at any given time, then Facebook gamers will be a click away from paying up from the time they start playing.
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The average user in the survey reported using their phone eight times a day for tasks requiring connectivity.
Capitalizing on an idea that seems obvious in hindsight, Facebook set the user-engagement bar high for competing social utilities: its users currently spend an average of 6 to 7 hours on the site each month.
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Chicago-based startup revolutionizes the way people go out at night by automatically tracking and revealing the number of people in a bar, the male-to-female ratio, and the average age of each customer, in real-time, with no need for user participation.
Already mobile devices account for more than a quarter (27 percent) of media time around the world, and the average mobile Web user consumes 7.2 hours of media daily.
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