In addition to letting users dedicate different tasks to different screens, Mr Martynov suggested users might want to display important information such as an airline boarding pass or a map on the e-ink screen to take advantage of the fact that the technology only uses power to refresh - and not maintain - its image.
We'd been hearing some pretty crazy things about the rumored Droid X2 for Verizon, only to have those expectations reigned in to a light refresh -- and in light of the Droid Bionic's upcoming launch, a deeply overhauled Droid X launching in roughly the same time frame never made a ton of sense in the first place.
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Opting for new direction centered around the Refresh Project--a digital platform for action to reward those with big ideas for improving communities across the areas of arts and culture, charity, health, neighborhood and education--Pepsi had many innovative ways the Refresh Project would be featured in the digital space.
Likely catalysts such as a possible late-March iPad refresh with a lower price point on the iPad 2, a mid-year iPhone refresh, and the launch of the iOS-based television launch in late 2012 or early 2013 back up the positive rating for the company.
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In 2008, Mr. Brichter built Tweetie to have a better way to use Twitter and eventually included the "pull-to-refresh" feature.
This question helped drive the brand refresh that Fisher-Price launched this year.
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The biggest addition is pull-to-refresh, which the iPhone client has had for a while, as an option bar that's revealed by swiping on a tweet.
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Hence the articles that get split into multiple pages, image slideshows with one photograph and two ads per slide, and pages that auto-refresh faster than you can read them.
The "pull-to-refresh" feature, which Mr. Brichter built in 2009, is woven in software such as an app made by content-sharing site Pinterest Inc. and the mail app from Apple Inc.
"It's hard to understate the impact his ideas have had on the space, " says Phill Ryu, a developer who helped design the Clear task-management app, which uses variations on "pull-to-refresh" and has been downloaded more than 800, 000 times.
The software started life on Symbian and Series 40 devices before falling out of favor with Nokia, but this WP8 refresh enables cross-platform chatter between those older phones, the newer Lumia range and, as Yahoo Messenger contacts are supported, anything running that IM client, too.
This year is not expected to be different, with most speculation centering on the unveiling of several Intel-based laptops or desktops, a refresh on the iPod Shuffle--the company's entry-level music player that could possibly be upgraded to include a screen--and possibly a reconfigured Mac Mini to include a DR.
Bernd Kosch, green IT advisor, Fujitsu Technology Solutions: Among the various green benefits of the cloud computing paradigm, there is one which is exceptionally striking: cloud computing enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of very large scale data centre technology, including the latest, most energy-efficient hardware provided in the shortest refresh cycles and leading facility-related infrastructure with advanced power utilisation effectiveness.
Hitachi's UltraVision UltraThin LED TVs include the W806 Smart 3D TV series in 48- and 55-inch screen sizes, offering 120Hz refresh rates for 3D content, built-in WiFi and IPTV connectivity.
Thus, Nintendo has upset the conventional console hardware upgrade cycle (a refresh of every 4-5 years).
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So Chrysler locked in a more thorough upgrade of Ram for this fall than the less-extensive mid-cycle refresh it had been planning.
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What would more likely happen is that devices would be replaced on a typical three-year refresh cycle with those that feature low power consumption.
Mr. Brichter filed to patent the "pull-to refresh" feature before joining Twitter, and the patent, expected to be issued soon, is now owned by Twitter.
Nintendo, meanwhile, is preparing to launch a significant refresh to its line-up, the 3DS, a handheld that can display games in 3-D without the need to wear special glasses.
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While a major refresh of its heavy-duty pickup models is still in the cards for this year, Ram is seeing a two-year delay in plans for a new small commercial van based on a Fiat model.
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And -- surprise, surprise -- this refresh adds a USB 3.0 port and Intel Sandy Bridge processor, which the company says should bump the rated battery life to a max of 11 hours, up from eight.
And speak they did--with LarryPageLarry Page of Google showing off a new video-download licensing system, BillGatesBill Gates of Microsoft touting his company's upcoming operating-system refresh, and Howard Stringer of Sony laying out his vision of the future for home entertainment.
His company, on a three-year refresh cycle, runs the PCs on Windows 7 and doesn't have plans to migrate to Windows 8 until either the performance of Windows 7 deteriorates, or if a licensing deal with Microsoft were to make cost a nonissue.
Just like Windows XP, Lindows initially sets the screen to a flickery, eye-busting 60Hz refresh rate.
The update itself looks to be fairly large, improving some of the major issues we've had with the e-reader -- like page refresh rate and a lot of other little performance issues.
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The M-E model (which appears to be a refresh of sorts on the M9) comes paired with a slightly less-potent 18-megapixel full-frame CCD sensor.
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The back-to-back roundhouse punches were jaw-dropping, the kind of blue-moon-eclipse results you refresh your cellphone to confirm.
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New gTLDs are a unique opportunity to refresh Internet naming for all end-users.
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Confirmed to ship sometime this holiday season, this variant of Samsung's phablet refresh sports a 5.5-inch 1, 280 x 720 HD Super AMOLED display, 1.6GHz quad-core Exynos processor, 8-megapixel rear camera capable of 1080p video capture, beefy 3, 100mAh battery and, of course, a refined S-Pen.
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