It builds on previous commitments under the Green Button Initiative to help consumers download their own energy data to their desktops.

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Accordingly, they hit the sell button much faster than in previous decades.

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Unlike previous Notes, the hardware keys (power button and volume rocker), IR blaster and S Pen all line the Note 8.0's right side, with a covered microSD port occupying the opposite edge all by its lonesome.

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One difference from the previous generation DS is the addition here of an analog button.

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Situated beneath that display is a tiny home button, a first on the nano. (Previous iPods had click-wheels or no such buttons at all.) That makes one of five buttons here -- yes, five.

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Facebook Chat, the "like" button and even an early version of Timeline were devised during previous hackathons.

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Pressure has been building for Windows 8 PCs to launch the familiar desktop view when turned on -- and to bring back the "start" button featured in the lower left corner of the screen in previous releases.

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The panic button was pressed by an influential European committee that has compared the current situation of mobiles and WiFi to previous experiences of tobacco and asbestos.

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