"Africa has the most advanced cell-phone-based payment systems using simple text, " Mr. Palella says.
Each storybook covered the same plot - three children and what happened when their cat got stuck in a tree - using colour illustrations and a simple text narrative.
In fact, we've found it hampers our workflow when attempting to compose an email or a simple text in Google Voice -- something the keyboard's Swype-like input mode handles with ease.
When the target audience members fired up their Palm devices, they were greeted with a simple text-and-graphics message, which described Intraware's online software sales and services and asked them to submit their e-mail address for more information.
But simple text-based games are catching on.
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The majority of the sample was able to perform as high as level four (out of five) of the literacy test, meaning they were able to read, comprehend and answer questions about a simple text, and level three in numeracy, i.e. they were able to perform basic arithmetic operations.
Sometimes a solid color background with simple white text can make for a stronger design than a slide full of images and text.
Depending on your math and service plan, the price of sending a simple SMS text message can range from a minor nuisance, to high-tech highway robbery.
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"Fifty-fifty is acceptable for simple services like text messaging or callbacks, " he says.
Most of the action takes place in the upper-right hand corner of your field of vision with simple, translucent text and pictures.
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Much of mobile data spending is still on simple features like text messaging, but carriers are banking on a host of data services for future growth.
One source has told me that data devices that display video(think streaming a tv show or a basketball game) use 10 times the amount of bandwidth of audio devices or ones that just deliver simple emails or text messages.
Starting at version 2.0, Epiphany Eyewear will contain displays that are able to show text and simple images.
The second generation had black-and-white text, simple graphics and Web connectivity.
All a company has to do is make simple changes to the text used in its consumer contracts to shield itself from a class action lawsuit.
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On the other, an Epson printer made a simple white cover with black text and a red border.
Redmond has also added audio waveforms and an extra narration track, simple audio cleanup tools and text effects to the video editor.
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By making it as simple as just sending a text message to start a conversation, these tools help to accelerate the on-boarding and adoption process, making online collaboration visible, engaging, and participatory.
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One example is Kenya, where technologically simple e-payment platforms based on text messaging are thriving.
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On today's Internet, traffic flows in millions of small streams, consisting mostly of simple communications like e-mail, text-based Web pages and instant messages.
The tools for creating these multimedia posts are simple: seven buttons that let you add text, photos, hyperlinks, video, music, dialogues or quotes with a click.
Linktone's premise is simple enough: Users send the company a text message, ordering anything from the song "Tong Hua" ("Fairy Tale") to the daily installment of a romance novel.
Over the past two years FORBES has built a set of tools that makes it incredibly simple for our editors and writers to publish text, photos, video and more.
The startup's servers provide simple access to web services like Twitter and even text messaging (via Twillo) -- letting developers focus on core appliance functionality rather than the intricacies of HTTP requests, WiFi APIs and network sockets.
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Once loaded with text, both the SoftBook and the Rocket EBook act as single-screen tablets that let you use simple buttons and a stylus to select titles, "turn" pages, search and highlight text, and make notes.
Pinterest is all about visual year-round with the simple layout of images and using just a bit of text.
As a result, the phones now put less of a load on the network for such simple tasks as finding the closest tower or checking for available text messages.
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Keeping with his spontaneous style, the first pope from Latin America broke away several times from the text of his prepared homily to encourage the faithful to lead simple lives.
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