Facebook released a mobile thing today.
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This whole mobile OS thing is likely to shake out much like Windows vs. the world (Unix, DOS, OSX, Linux, etc.) With one dominating and the others relegated to a small number of die hard fans.
For one thing, mobile games are typically designed for small screens.
Often this sort of thing in a mobile game means that a vast swath of the game is pretty much inaccessible unless you pay up.
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Should Otellini appear on stage with Jobs, however, it can mean only one thing: More mobile Apple products lifted directly from enthusiast wish lists are on their way.
The Triggertrap mobile dongle in one such thing.
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Mobile phones did only one thing: make phone calls.
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There is one thing though about the mobile homes in Hope that everyone agrees on, they're going to be here for some years to come.
That's not enough to win customers over, of course, so there's always the "one more thing" that Just Mobile tries to throw into all of its products.
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"The one thing the television brings that mobile devices don't is the emotional connectivity that you can have with a game, " she says.
At this point, only one thing is certain: Mobile is heating up the competition, as some online retailers are aggressively promoting mobile-only discounts designed to lure customers away from Back Friday bargains at their favorite brick-and-mortar stores.
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So for example, with the Next Big Thing campaign (Samsung Mobile TV commercial), the one with the folks standing in line in front of a nondescript store and a Galaxy S II owner coming by, those conversations were happening online.
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Alternately, you can do the same thing via a Bluetooth-ready mobile phone.
Qualcomm, Intel and most of the companies involved in mobile computing and wireless all agree on one thing: Embedded wide-area broadband is the way to go for notebooks, UMDs and consumer appliances.
Mass broadcasting may yet come, though, from the thing that killed Iridium: the ordinary mobile phone.
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And now the same thing could be about to happen to mobile-phone text messages, following the launch this week of Hotxt, a British start-up.
The only thing we worry about 100% is mobile.
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They may not be offering the Lobster 700, but Virgin Mobile's US outpost can lay claim to one thing: they've bested all of their peers in J.
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The big thing we have to tackle is tracking usage on mobile to other devices.
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One thing that could enable is faster and more secure mobile devices, the kind of low-power gizmos for which the Atom processor was designed.
Apple's claiming a 7x improvement in graphics, and given that this thing is claiming such a huge swath of the mobile gaming market, it's pretty much a necessity.
For example, when I attend conferences or talk to people about improving health care in the developing world perhaps the first thing that is mentioned is introducing more and more mobile and internet technology.
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Thus, lacking any ability to conduct a mobile or flexible defence, a controlled retreat, they risk the whole thing smashing open.
For those seeking a world of mobile devices not limited by technological gaps, tablets may truly become a thing of the past.
If the only thing keeping you from making a switch to low-cost mobile provider Ting is the pain of early termination fees, we've got a bit of good news: come February 1st, you can tell your current carrier to get lost.
Good thing, because 50 percent of the Google Maps usage comes from mobile devices, obviously.
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"On his mobile phone, " he replied, as if this was the most normal thing in the world.
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