The NFC Forum Certification Program gives device manufacturers a means of establishing their products' compliance with the NFC Forum's technical specifications.
For example, you could program the device to keep you aware of pending danger in your area, while staying on top of potential emergencies where your family and friends live.
The other benefit of using the microchip is that it can be equipped with biosensors, which means that a doctor can monitor how effectively the drug is treating the disease, and remotely program the device according to adjust to changing circumstances.
For this particular Personal Massager, the selling point is its interface with the Handspring Visor, a competitor to Palm's own PDA. The Visor's familiar interface in theory gives the device more flexibility than what the company refers to as more "conventional" devices, allowing the user to program the device more easily than would otherwise be possible.
"IPhone and Android have been very well received, " said Ed Mazzanti, the Army director who has shepherded the mobile-device program.
It's newly-unveiled Custom Branded Device Program is being introduced just as prepaid carriers are beginning to see something of a resurgence.
The next step for SAP is a Bring Your Own Device program.
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"Smartphones and tablets are growing at a pace that PCs can't realistically keep up with because of device prices and to some extent disposability, " explained Ryan Reith, program manager, Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers at IDC.
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When a technology prodigy invents a new digital device or program that can enhance or save lives, he or she will have created something for all of us.
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As part of its mobile device Recycle program, which allows users to trade in old handsets for cash, British telco O2 has commissioned local designer Sean Miles to give discarded featurephones a new lease on life.
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The company has operated a device trade-in program since 2009 but the buy-back program differs because it carries assurance that Best Buy will buy this particular device back, said Dunn.
Today, it's announced it's working with popular music-mixing software Virtual DJ to provide tighter integration between the device and the program.
The program is focused on medical device and cleantech startups that can actually benefit from sharing production and prototyping equipment.
The students, who were selected to be a 2012 Lemelson-MIT program InvenTeam, built the device with the goal of reducing the number of drowning deaths due to rip currents in the Great Lakes.
He uses a program on a Nintendo DSi handheld device to slow down the phrases, to unpack and understand them.
The express mail program that is supplied with the device is minimal and provides a limited usable screen size for reading mail in landscape mode.
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Two years before its 2003 launch (as the iTunes Music Store), Apple introduced the iTunes client as a desktop music management program and implemented it as the device manager for the first iPod later in 2001.
But this doesn't mean you can actually edit your file -- text docs port over to other apps as PDFs, which means they're still stuck in view-only mode for every program we currently have on our device.
Springboard is currently recruiting for its Life Science accelerator program for high-growth biotech, device and health IT companies led by women.
The 510(k) program has helped support a robust medical device industry in the U.S. and has helped bring lower-risk devices to market for the patients who need them.
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The intent being, the logo assures consumers that if they purchased a digital movie from an authorized () online retailer, it would play on any device that also supported the program.
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Someone watching a cable series at a friend's house can finish the program at home or on their mobile device, schedule their DVR to record an episode, even record the full season, just by sampling the screen for a second or two.
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In his model, a program called a management agent is installed in each device.
The FDA will also require sites that implant the device to undergo training with an approved program.
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If it feels like something is weird about the device, it could be some malicious program running in the background.
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Opera has not developed a separate app for the iPad but says the iPhone program will also work on Apple's new device.
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Thinking that somehow an errant file managed to make its way into the Maxx and corrupted the camera app, we performed a factory reset on the device, only to find that the program still wouldn't budge.
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WebCam 2000: Serve up live images to the Web from any video-capture device connected to your computer with this free program.
From the cloud you would be able to watch your movies anywhere and on any device, providing, the device is compliant with the technical standards of the program.
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Since Drive is essentially a one-upped version of Docs, it shouldn't surprise you that the Drive app isn't even a separate program -- if you've been using Docs on your Android device already, a simple update is all you need in order to start using the new service.
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