Because Google lets device makers customize Android to suit their needs, Samsung and others have been adding their own distinguishing features.
This classification should be straightforward, said Professor Allinson, because criminals favour shoes that have many distinct features on their soles.
Soon after the PlayBook hits the shelves, Apple may well be ready to announce a new set of iPads that will have even more impressive features than their predecessors and almost certainly will be cheaper too.
For decades businesses have updated their computer networks by bolting fancy features like interactive Web sites onto old, brittle networks cluttered with arcane code.
The latter lost all their social features (including their friend lists) and were told they have to connect their accounts to Facebook if they want them back.
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Google started this binge on maps and "mash-ups"--loading simple maps with extra information--last June, and Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN have recently helped fuel it with features of their own.
Sony ( SNE - news - people ) have started to integrate social and entertainment features into their consoles.
What hit me more than the software features though, which have been criticized for their complexity, are two things.
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That includes Kinect control, with next generation hardware that can recognize when viewers have turned their heads away and pause video automatically, with additional features rolling out after launch.
With these features, customers will have an editing studio in their hands to crop, rotate and add effects to photos and other multimedia documents that they can then share with friends over 4G LTE.
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Our users will have the same HD viewing capabilities that they have while sitting at their desktop, and still retain some of the features which make desktop viewing so great, like chat and other social features.
North Yorkshire Police have released a video appeal to coincide with the anniversary which features on their website and on YouTube.
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In this one region, some 2, 000 caverns have been found and scientists regard them as potentially precious features because of their iron content, unusual biology and archaeological remains.
The downloadable client helps bridge the interoperability gap and address the fundamental challenge of mass adoption by enabling carriers that have yet to deploy RCS to offer joyn's enriched features to their subscribers.
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In an attempt to draw bookings from third-party distributors, U.S. airlines have been revamping their websites with more user-friendly interfaces and adding additional features like luggage pick-up, specialty snacks (at a price) and choices beyond the traditional seating options.
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Scientists who study phobias and dislikes have come up with several features of spiders that may be more relevant than their bites, including their unpredictable, darting movements.
People have to sign up to connect their Gmail to Google search in order to use the new features.
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Leveraging their existing platform that includes IPS and stateful firewall protections, they have added enhanced DoS defense features.
It also features top-rated learning apps that children will have fun with as they learn their numbers, letters and much more.
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The investments we have made to deliver these new features puts our customers in command of the content that meets their uniquely personal interests.
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The companies I know who have migrated to Netsuite are doing so not just because Netsuite offers better or more features than their competition but because they believe in the cloud as the best way to deliver information to their employees, customers and suppliers.
They have a huge customer base already, particularly in the real estate market and their product has many differentiating features.
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The networks, led by Fox, NBC and CBS, claim that such features will ruin the system that finances their shows, while Dish argued that people have been skipping ads, in one way or another, since the invention of TV.
When a customer borrows a Kindle library book, they'll have all of the unique features they love about Kindle books, including Whispersync, which automatically synchronizes their margin notes, highlights and bookmarks, real page numbers, Facebook and Twitter integration, and more.
She and her billionaire spouse, media executive Barry Diller, have made significant financial contributions to the park, and one of the most popular High Line features bears their name.
Once consumers have connected their Samsung Smart TVs to other devices in the same wireless network using built-in wireless connectivity features, they can easily send and receive images and audio between devices.
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The transition to digital image processing and storage has brought mighty companies such as Kodak to their knees and spawned a great many consumer electronic companies that have created image capture and display devices with features and capabilities that would never have been possible with analog technology.
These print subscribers also prefer their app-based news to be more like a traditional reading experience rather than to have high-tech features.
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SunBriteTV have updated their range of weather resistant LCDs with a top end 46-inch model that brings the nature resistant features of it smaller siblings to a much larger screen area.
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Understanding consumers' desire for products that reduce their household energy costs, both of LG's 3D LED HDTVs have a variety of energy-saving features, such as Intelligent Sensor to automatically calibrate and optimize brightness, contrast, white balance and color, based on the ambient light in the room, thereby saving on energy output under most circumstances.
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