Consignments of mobile PCs (read: not tablets) grew by 4 percent, while desktops floundered, dropping 12.8 percent.
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And while the app revolution started with the easy stuff like games, social interaction, Instagram-like photo services, making newspapers easier to read mobile, or restaurants easier to schedule, apps now migrate to seeing, controlling and scheduling everything in the interstices of our economy, including things like automotive and aircraft maintenance.
Launched in November, the Summly app summarizes news stories down to a few hundreds words so they can be easily displayed and read on mobile devices.
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"When they write those novels, they share their secret, personal problems, and when they read by mobile phones, they can hide what they are reading, " explained Toshie Takahashi, an associate professor of media studies at Rikkyo University in Tokyo.
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Do you read Engadget and Engadget Mobile like, a hundred times a day?
However, when it comes to mobile devices across all networks (read: not just using cellular data), the gap between iOS and Android devices is far wider.
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Perhaps the best perk of using Google Voice is its voicemail message transcription service, which allows you to read messages from your mobile phone in text form.
ReadWrite, by Simon Botes (South Africa), a mobile application that teaches users how to read and write in any language.
Interestingly, RockMelt has also added Instapaper support, which enables people to read articles later on their mobile devices or PCs by clicking a button.
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The "EPUB export feature" makes it easier for people to read free encyclopedia articles on their mobile phones, e-readers or tablets when they don't have a connection, Wikipedia said in a blog post on Monday.
They can also be reformatted to fit your mobile's screen so they're easier to read without pinching-to-zoom.
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And by automating the process of summarizing long articles, the number of people who read those summaries will expose content to more mobile readers.
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The consumer places his or her mobile device under the imager, the 2D barcode is read, and the POS treats the tender like a gift card, following the usual payment verification procedure.
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On average, one in three respondents used their media tablets to read a book, compared with 13 percent for mobile PCs, and 7 percent for mobile phones.
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With this increasingly popular protocol, supported mobile apps -- regardless of their platform -- are able to read from and write to our little WiFi device.
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It also bought London startup Summly, which makes a mobile application created by a teenage entrepreneur who sought an easier way to read news stories and other content on the smaller screens of smartphones.
And Americans are doing more than just clicking headlines on their mobile devices: 73% of adults who consume news on their tablet read in-depth articles at least sometimes, including 19% who do so daily.
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Both Read and Intel are targeting the data centers supporting social media, mobile devices, and web-based applications.
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Kazim felt he could improve on it by packaging newspaper articles in an easy-to-read, advertising-free environment, accessible by Web browser or mobile app.
Canonical hopes that future devices (read: arriving sometime in 2014) will not only run the new mobile OS, but will also boot the desktop variant of Ubuntu when docked to a keyboard, mouse and monitor.
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As you may have heard, I recently joined Kraft Foods as Vice President of Global Digital and Consumer Engagement, and one of the first projects I am leading is the Kraft Foods Nokia Mobile Innovation Lab, which we just announced this week (you may have also read some of the other exciting news from Nokia).
If one takes the ideas that heterogeneous computing is primarily about efficiency (read: low power usage), and that ARM, with its legacy in mobile phones, is known for low power usage, then a future that includes AMD parts with actual ARM processor cores running them suddenly seems likely.
To figure out how to conceive mobile apps or websites the participants have to rely on education from outside experts or whatever they can read about technology.
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In an industry-first, all models offer a mobile user guide that can be accessed by directly inputting the URL or by using a smartphone to read the QR code displayed in Everio's LCD screen.
More than one in three adults cannot read in sub-Saharan Africa, yet almost every home there has access to at least one mobile phone, according to USAID.
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