"With AcerCloud, Acer now supports free file sharing between all of the key mobile devices, adding tremendous value to Acer customers, " said Acer President, Jim Wong.
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Back in the '90s, two companies from the opposite ends of the consumer electronics world -- giant Sony with its eMarker and startup Xenote with its iTag -- tried launching key fob devices that would identify songs on the radio, but neither got off the ground.
While extending its location services to other platforms offers an opportunity to improve the service, it also threatens to undermine one of the key advantages Nokia devices have in their favour.
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Creating high-performance viewing and discovery apps that work reliably across all devices is key.
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Smaller features mean both lower cost and lower power consumption, key for future mobile devices.
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That can lead to shortages for key types of medical devices.
Delivering a simple and pleasurable method for accessing proprietary TV content on mobile (and not-so-mobile) devices is key to consumers continuing to value (and pay for) such proprietary content.
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The service typically uses electronic devices and key cards to make it possible for renters to unlock cars, which ideally should be within walking distance (actual car keys should already be inside the vehicles).
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Access to information on the cloud is a key to many consumer devices and the usefulness of services and storage through remote data centers is a major enabler of tablet computers and smart phones.
People who want to dock their phones and play music out of external speakers or charge their phones while playing music will likely find it more convenient to gesture to their phones than sit right by the devices and key in commands, said Goren.
Savvy mobile users will not be satisfied with slow performance or short battery life, and innovations such as hardware-accelerated multimedia engines, more efficient power management techniques and multi-core architectures will all be key to ensuring that devices are able to fully take advantage of the newly broadened data pipe.
Easy access to downloadable upgrades, both software and firmware to existing devices will be key to early success.
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The key to reigning in rogue devices (and costs) is not to say yes to BlackBerry and no to iPhone.
On the pro side, OLPC has big-ticket partners, including Google, key Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices, Linux distributor Red Hat, and RupertMurdochRupert Murdoch's News Corp.
And a site like Thingiverse serves as a key ingredient for getting the devices out of the hacker community and into the mainstream, says Deloitte analyst Duncan Stewart.
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And with an influx of new 3D phones entering the market this year, coupled with the Nintendo 3DS, Jim Cameron recently told me that he sees these glasses free devices as being key for the adoption of 3D TVs in the homes.
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It includes some very large, complex distributed systems owned by a range of companies ( Microsoft, Google, CloudFlare, Facebook etc.) but within those companies there is a natural tendency to standardise on a single vendor and small range of devices to perform key functions like edge routing.
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In addition, DDR4 has been designed in such a way that stacked memory devices may prove to be a key factor during the lifetime of the technology, with stacks of up to 8 memory devices presenting only a single signal load.
These enterprise storage solutions support the growth of cloud storage and remote applications that are an important key to success of smart mobile devices.
Thus encrypted drive key management can be offered as an on-line service, eliminated the cost and complexity of implementing key management for laptops and other storage devices.
This lets you impose the highest levels of corporate security and provides a fast-track route to restore any faulty devices and minimize downtime for key people, by completely wiping a lost or stolen device and rebuilding the replacement.
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This Nokia-made phone, which goes on sale Sunday, will be a key test of consumer demand for Windows Phone devices.
Still, there's one key advantage that the iPod retains over competing devices, including those made by SanDisk: Only they can play iTunes downloads.
The mobility era is a key contributor, given that we use mobile devices to generate data everywhere we go, every minute of the day.
According to ABI Research (Dec. 20, 2010) mobile 3D devices will be driven by three key applications: creation of user-generated 3D content by integrated video and still cameras, playback of 3Dcontent and 3D gaming.
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According to Bob Bauer, group vice president of Emerson Electric and head of its Liebert business, which makes cooling devices for data centers, the key to efficiency is focusing on the whole system rather than a single component.
Pharmaceuticals and medical devices drive its growth--and key franchises in both of those areas may be weaker than many previously thought.
When first announced Silverlight was portrayed as a rival to Flash and key to getting Microsoft software running on many different devices.
And touchscreen devices in particular such as tablets are key, he says.
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Experts suggest the rise of GPS-enabled devices means the efforts could hold the key to future profits if the firms add location-triggered adverts or use the data to promote situation-specific services.
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