Casio has redesigned the ClassPad series' software keyboard to make this new model easier to use, organizing functions to correspond to three levels of learning difficulty, beginning with basic functions used by everyone like fractions, square roots, and trigonometric functions, then advanced functions like differential calculus, complex compound numbers, and sigma calculations, and finally even more advanced calculations including piecewise and user-defined formulas.

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OPTiM's Optimal Biz for Mobile platform enables companies to manage large numbers of employee smartphones and tablets, delivering functions like remote lock to prevent information leakage from lost or stolen devices.

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The once vaunted IRS computer system has trouble accomplishing what would seem to be the most basic of functions: reconciling Social Security numbers, W-2 forms and even the number of children in a household.

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It will also have to be dragged kicking and screaming to any trims of the overhead functions that Gates and Mullen say should be cut, since it turns out most of those functions involve large numbers of people (voters) bolstering local economies.

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