With respect to freemium, fancy can mean more features, more usage, more seats, more time, or no advertisements.
"Speed entices more usage, " Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said at an investor conference last week, according to a transcript.
Microsoft says their tests showed Data Sense allowed users to get an average of 45 percent more usage from the phone, compared to if the feature was disabled.
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Now he pays 12% for 14 times more usage.
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Improvement in energy efficiency will also drive more usage.
With the advent of high definition videos and games, not to mention apps, maps, social media updates, emails music, video calls and much, much more usage will continue to grow and with it the need for a plan that provides reassurance.
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And while it has gone universal, there is an even more juvenile usage that has not.
Others will regard is as a sensible enough consolidation making more efficient usage of the various fleets possible.
Facebook is continuing to see more mobile usage of the social network.
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Sooner or later, he says, operators will have to introduce more stringent usage caps, demand a premium for better service or charge by usage.
Disproving previous assumptions that older audiences would continue to utilize traditional services, U.S. online growth in 2009 for most categories was driven by older audiences, resulting in a more even usage distribution across age groups, particularly for services like social networking and online news.
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This could result in bicycles that are more comfortable, encouraging increased usage, and more accessible, allowing a wider variety of individuals (including those with certain physical disabilities) the ability to utilize this healthier form of transportation.
In France, Internet usage more than doubled, going from 1.3 million in 1997 to 2.9 million last year, a growth rate of 127%.
It also means more efficient power usage and significantly less weight in future Haswell-equipped notebooks, and the ability to play modern games and drive a 4K display with upcoming ultrabooks.
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Tablet visitors tend to be during the evening and purchase higher ticket items, while smartphone use more mirrors desktop usage patterns with higher volumes but lower average order sizes, Mack says.
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It is going after more than just usage.
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Google might also need to do some heavy customization to its existing format of Google Docs to make it more inclined towards corporate usage, considering that presently such software has been used on more informal levels.
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This could be attributable to more efficient space-usage or better negotiating skills when signing a lease.
Silver is trading more on its industrial usage qualities and less on its safe-haven allure.
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The spread of mobile devices and Internet usage means more users for games every day.
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He also suggested taking out a 30-day rolling contract which is easier to tweak as usage becomes more habitual.
Greater Wi-Fi availability naturally leads to more Wi-Fi usage, which prompts an increased demand for faster mobile data connections, he added.
But during his years as governor of Massachusetts, Romney led a campaign to charge consumers more for their power usage during peak periods.
The Google Dashboard is being touted as a way for users to, at a glance, see information about their Web usage, email usage and more when they are logged into Google services such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Calendar.
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It allows users to customize the mice with the ability for unlimited profiles, program buttons, set the polling rate, create macros, customize CPI settings, optimize your layout by recording movements and viewing a heat map of button usage and more.
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We might have detected a hint of lagginess as compared to our Roku HD-XR here and there, but we were jumping out of channels and video pretty fast while we were testing -- when we slowed down to a more real-world usage pattern, things were quite responsive.
Growth in every category: employees, lines in the code base, customer usage statistics and more.
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At the time, Verizon pledged to provide consumers with more information about their data usage.
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So in contrast to a more differentiated notion of device usage, Apple is aiming for a unified one.
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Now with Android releasing its own app for movie rentals, this could alter usage and spur more data consumption.
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