Of course, online shopping just scratches the surface of mobile commerce.
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While the polymer's most obvious use would be for mobile devices whose entire surface areas can survive the keys in our pockets, Stanford also imagines wires that fix themselves and prosthetic limbs whose skin detects when it's bent out of shape.
No. 4 carrier T-Mobile was originally slated to carry Surface computers in its stores--around 1, 200 by fall 2007, according to Microsoft.
If the Microsoft community, and their clients, embraces this new device as their primary business mobile tool it could place the Surface as a strong player in the tablet industry.
In fact, using Office as a cash-cow while they play out a uniform interface, apps and content strategy across entertainment (as the gateway to the TV), mobile through Nokia, the tablet through Surface, and the dying PC through its traditional channels, looks like a strong play.
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Moreover, we know that Earth, once a fiery ball, has cooled and gained life upon its surface with static, non-thinking plants and mobile, thinking animals.
Sure, it put out the occasional Zune, but most of the tech running Redmond's desktop and mobile operating systems traditionally comes from its partners -- the Surface being the exception, of course.
The Liberate also has the ability to act as a DLNA server, which on the surface seems like an unnecessary inclusion for a simply mobile hotspot -- and with the exception of a very small number of users, you'd be correct.
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In the future, Surface could become a conduit for downloading all kinds of mobile content.
Microsoft unveiled Surface in June, a pair of tablets built around mobile processors supplied by Intel and Nvidia.
That would leave a small, mobile craft that could maneuver on thrusters alone, hover near the surface, and lower the rover down.
Wednesday's team announcement did lay to rest a few worries which had come to the surface when Jeremy Guscott was spotted in the Brewery bar with a mobile phone glued to his ear - although there was some scepticism, the possibility that Guscott was being called up to replace BOD couldn't entirely be discounted given Sir Clive's somewhat erratic selection policy.
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On April 17, it will introduce Microsoft's futuristic computer Surface at some of its stores to help consumers pick out the right mobile phone and accompanying applications.
The manufacturing company primarily makes mobile handsets, and separate reports have indicated Microsoft also wants the company to make its rumoured Surface smartphone, to also launch next year.
Whether controlling content on any screen like Clik or just controlling the temperature like Nest, we have only scratched the surface on how homes, offices and networks of physical locations can communicate with each other via mobile devices.
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