Tablets started off as rugged devices for heavy-duty industrial and field-service usage.
Sooner or later, he says, operators will have to introduce more stringent usage caps, demand a premium for better service or charge by usage.
All apps require compatible wireless service connection and usage rates apply.
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Google is to shut down its Reader service in July, as usage has declined.
Figures from the BBC showed usage of the service has grown some 42% in the 12 months to January 2013.
The DriveNow premium car sharing programme is a modern mobility concept that combines top-quality vehicles and service with simple, flexible usage.
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Growth in monthly unique log-ins is slightly outpacing the growth in user base and suggests growing usage of the service by users.
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These services are billed based on their usage, however, the usage measurement varies from service to service.
In addition, the company recently revised its service offerings such that consumers on usage-based pricing plans may tether, using any application, without paying an additional fee.
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This will be the tip of the iceberg as more evolved models such as that of Strategic Blue, which allows for trading of future cloud usage across multiple Cloud Service Providers, emerge and create a worldwide market able to factor into the price of cloud highly advanced calculations such as anticipated cloud datacenter build outs and varying demand for cloud.
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Founded in 2009, the service aggregates anonymized data, such as mobile phone usage and other data.
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Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.
Sometimes described as a 2.5G technology because it acts as a bridge between mobile telephony and the full-fledged mobile Internet, the service has spawned a whole new style of phone usage, particularly among Japan's youth (see accompanying story).
Customers that have deployed Chatter within our sales and service clouds also have shown higher log in rates and higher usage rates as their employee spend more time and do more work within our applications.
The Simultaneous Media Usage report by bigresearch.com showed that 69% of users communicate with a service, product or brand after searching for it.
ViaSat's Exede Internet is a leader in satellite internet service, utilizing breakthrough technology on the highest-capacity satellite in the world to provide speeds up to 12 Mbps, and is the only Internet service in the United States that includes a Late Night Free Zone, giving customers 100% unmetered usage from 12 midnight - 5 am, each night.
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And, data usage is highly skewed: a small group of very intensive data users tie up the network and degrade service for moderate users, who paid the same price.
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