It's been out in Japan for a couple of years, and has been marketed for such mundane tasks as reading time cards for beleaguered salarymen and storing healthcare records in hospitals.

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The hope is that by performing the same emotion-reading trick that marketers use, the type of tasks and the characters that appear in them can be made more engaging.

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After reading a recent article on how law firms are using software to perform tasks formerly assigned to young lawyers, I began wondering if an actual human being had read my post.

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Holding on to a slightly slower iPhone might not be much of an issue if you primarily use it for common tasks -- calls and texts, e-mailing, Twitter and Facebook, reading, even watching movies.

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What I mostly use tablets for is reading Kindle books, watching Netflix movies and checking email and there are excellent Android apps for those particular tasks.

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