This enabled Troy to track the performance of the trainees before putting them behind a keyboard for "live" data input, she said.

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The Microsoft Surface is a tablet with a keyboard touch cover meant to live somewhere between a laptop and a tablet.

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Along with vocalists Josie James, John Pagano and Donna Taylor, Bacharach sat down at the keyboard to perform some of his greatest hits, live at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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Now, we can live with a browser or Google Maps with no pinch-to-zoom, but not having a hardware keyboard hamstrings this device in other ways.

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