Much of the growth can be credited to Nextel's push-to-talk service, the walkie-talkie-like function that allows users to page and call friends instantly with a single button.
But the deeper question is how much does the abuse of the Like function undermine their value, and by extension the value of the search results based on them?
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From how the Like function is being used on the Facebook platform it is clear that it is out of sync with users intuitive expectation of how the function works.
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CDM's imaging system, it passes first through conventional optical elements, and then through a lens moulded into a shape of a cubic-like function (ie, with a surface which, instead of being spherical, is relatively flat in the centre but has scalloped edges).
The trial project is essentially a five-story brick edifice specially constructed to function like a honeycomb.
All five digits on the bionic hand function like a real human hand, says the company.
"These organizations, these cartels, they function like a Fortune 500 company, " Webb County, Texas, prosecutor Uriel Druker said.
By putting the swaps on an exchange, speculators could participate, allowing it to function like a futures market and mitigating the risk.
Its receivers look and function like an Apple TV device, except they can handle streaming video as well as stored entertainment on demand.
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Another response: Finance companies are offering, or will soon offer, plans in New York that function like leases but transfer titles to car buyers.
By putting the swaps on an exchange, it would be easier for speculators to participate, allowing it to function like a futures market and mitigating risk.
So the social aspect of Insight Timer might very well function like stickk.com, adding social stakes in order to help us maintain our commitments to personal transformation.
After that, you either have to empty the camera into a computer -- awkward on holiday -- or buy memory cards that function like extra rolls of film.
Bartel and his colleague, MIT professor Phillip Sharp , have started a privately held company, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals , which makes drugs that function like these new silencing genes.
But the Merc couldn't function like the typical public company.
Will the people who enroll in it or in private plans that function like Medicaid get more care, or better care, than they would have gotten without health reform?
If they made Humanity function like Meta eyes in Demon Souls where you have half the HP when in hollowed form, I think that would make humanity mean more.
The FreedomPop iPod touch 4G Sleeve snaps onto any fourth generation iPod touch, enabling a seamless connection to FreedomPop's free high-speed 4G network and allowing the iPod to function like an iPhone.
We debate leadership as if it is a function like conducting or driving when in fact it is a dispersed cerebral act that needs to find adherents, co-advocates, friends around the web.
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Some experts estimate that there are four billion devices connected to the internet but, according to researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine, a typical healthy human brain contains about 200 billion nerve cells, or neurons, linked to one another via hundreds of trillions of tiny contacts called synapses, that function like microprocessors.
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The idea is to make metal bats function more like the wooden variety.
Organizations might aim to function just like father and sons on the sofa.
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In other words, these other institutions could function much like retail banks.
Yet there was nominal interest in single-function gadgets like e-books (growth to 9% from 8%) and GPS devices (from 9% to 11%).
Since they look and function more like a traditional phone service, line-powered voice-access systems may be more palatable to consumers than other VoIP products.
Meanwhile, pleas to address questions like how Congress could function if many of its members were killed or incapacitated have largely fallen on deaf ears.
The most amazing thing about the new station is that it's built on stilts that function more like legs that can elevate the station above snow and ice.
Cell phones function much like debit cards in that they use a data chip (in this case, a SIM card) to store balances and enable withdrawals.
In addition, there is only limited standardization in what these menus and buttons look like and how they function, contributing to confusion and frustration on the part of end-users.
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