Anything that drives higher usage is good for them.

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This blog will also discuss English usage, with good examples singled out and offenders against clarity and decency called out.

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The good news is mobile and tablet usage are expected to continue skyrocketing.

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So you'll get a good 90 seconds' worth of usage.

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Dual drive configurations with SSDs and HDDs or hybrid HDDs could offer users a good compromise with performance and power usage approaching that of SSDs and capacity costs approaching that of HDDs.

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Vleugel gives a good example of mass-market usage.

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Good thing, because 50 percent of the Google Maps usage comes from mobile devices, obviously.

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Nokia, with an eye to emerging markets where electricity is scarce and there's high Internet usage by young people, claims the battery is good for 17 hours of talk time.

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"It was the first phone with a really good mobile Web browser, and we saw five times the average usage of things like Google Maps and YouTube" compared with online habits, says Vic Gundotra, Google's head of mobile developer relations.

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But the industry has also done a good job improving gift card value for customers - from offering mutliple store usage to the ability to store them on a phone.

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While MyDitto incorporates a number of good ideas, though, its advantages help only in a limited number of NAS usage scenarios.

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