The State Department did not single out al Qaeda as the lone potential user of such agents.
To be really successful you need to go a level or two deeper than most do in thinking about the potential user, and really understand human psychology.
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Only 29% of kids have phones capable of running those programs right now, according to the Yankee Group, but 11% of teens use them--nearly 40% of the potential user base.
Marks imagines the potential for user-generated content when users can use the controllers to take a standard 3-D object like a sword, and grab, stretch and deform it on-screen to create new custom objects with new properties.
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However, Valley entrepreneurs often look past this opportunity since the potential revenue per user is lower, even though the high unit volumes compensate, or it's hard to know the context and needs of large, remote populations.
For starters, there are privacy concerns surrounding the fact that this kind of split architecture has the potential to capture private user data.
Such networks provide the best utility to the user and the best potential value for the organizer.
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Facebook recognized that Instagram had built a superior mobile experience for photos and made the calculated decision to acquire them, which to date, seems to be playing out exactly as they wanted: exploding user growth and a potential to reach 100 million mobile users by the end of the year.
Branded social games have the potential to generate higher average revenue per user than non-branded games, saysRavi Mehta, vice president of product at Viximo, a virtual goods company.
The Georgian government has confirmed it's investigating potential links between the attacks and the user in Tbilisi, Georgia, according to Shota Utiashvili, head of the Department of Information and Analysis at the Ministry of the Interior.
Google, the popular search engine and a heavy user of Linux, is one potential target.
With more than 500 million registered users, we think Sina can leverage its user base to tap this market potential.
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Obviously, how this will impact Facebook depends on the user experience, and the one potential pothole in the plan could be privacy.
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The ground-breaking partnership brings the future of computer interaction-Leap Motion's incredibly fast and accurate natural user interface-to millions of potential consumers around the world.
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"We believe that haptics has the potential to fundamentally change and enhance the mobile user experience, " explains Rob Lacroix, VP of Engineering at Immersion.
Google Glass is proving a controversial technology because of its potential to gather images, video and other data about almost anything a user sees.
The depth of original content combined with comprehensive curation has the potential to create must-visit brands for consumers and deliver socially engaging user experiences that reach audiences through multiple distribution channels.
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Mr Huang boasted that "latency was so short it was as if you are connected to the PC" - playing down potential concerns that this kind of set-up might involve a delay between a user pressing a button on the console and the connected PC registering the command.
The form of leadership that holds most potential is a twist on the pattern described by Eric Von Hippel in his research on User-driven Innovation.
The result is a truly Connected Life - a simple, user-friendly experience that allows consumers to effectively manage and utilize the full potential of their devices and services.
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"Online video is a key strategic vertical for Baidu as user numbers and time-spend continue to increase exponentially, underscoring the tremendous potential in the sector, " said Robin Li, chairman and CEO of Baidu.
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But there is a huge potential benefit for developers, too: if Facebook can make Credits take off, so that the average user has some lying around in his account at any given time, then Facebook gamers will be a click away from paying up from the time they start playing.
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With the massive user base they have and the big data they are able to collect, there is indeed a huge potential for breakthroughs.
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