As per a study last year commissioned by Expedia and conducted by comScore, around 48% of the users use a tablet or smartphone to fully plan their trips while 44% used a mobile device to search for information regarding a future trip.
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The portal will allow users to access to the same information via any desktop or mobile device.
Epocrates which provides clinical information to doctors on a mobile device at the point of care, has one of the most formidable networks of doctors.
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If someone communicates protected health information electronically through a phone or other mobile device, Ms. Thorpe said, "it needs to be in a secure system, " such as one that encrypts messages or through a secure portal.
Then when the search engine finds a matching result, it sends the information to the user on a computer or mobile device.
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All boarding information is automatically stored on the traveler's mobile device and transmitted through a chip.
This is because mobile devices are an end-of-the-line information device, a consumer of processed information.
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Once the device is registered on the Trakdot website and placed inside a checked bag, it will deliver location information directly to the user's mobile phone or SMS device via text or email.
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By contrast, the new approach is instantaneous and practically free in terms of infrastructure - because the information the system uses comes from mobile phone and sat-nav device users directly.
Users are willing to sacrifice traditional Web functionality and software customization in exchange for a mobile device's ease of use, barebones presentation of relevant information and speed.
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Replacing a plastic device with a mobile device capable of receiving as well as sending a variety of information in a visual manner fundamentally changes the purchasing experience, and for the better.
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Connected via Bluetooth, the motorcycle pushes live, or archived, information from the motorcycle to the app on the rider's mobile device.
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Enable the American people and an increasingly mobile workforce to access high-quality digital government information and services anywhere, anytime, on any device.
It might turn out that most enterprise users are just information consumers, and prefer iOS or Android to an enterprise-hardened Windows 8 mobile device.
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KDDI, a mobile and fixed line communications company in Japan, has developed extensive information about its customers through the data it collects including URLs visited, type of mobile device, purchase history and buying habits, gender and age group.
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To John Markus Lervik, a mobile phone is the Web's best surfboard, a device that can get you just the information you want, precisely when you want it.
"We've designed the Toshiba SBX4250 Sound Bar to provide incredible audio performance, while maintaining ease of use even when wirelessly streaming audio from a mobile device, " said Scott Ramirez, vice president of product marketing and development, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.
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It satisfies the need of outdoor enthusiasts, adventure seekers, and military operators to have a rugged and mobile device to take the place of several other instruments they might need to carry to obtain the same information.
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"The mobile device is becoming much more than email and calendar, " said Joe Beery, Life Technologies' chief information officer.
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