Almost all online retailers have become smart and store your credit card numbers separate from the rest of your information.
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Customer product research on mobile phones is up 54 percent since 2009 while some 52 percent of customers use smart phones in store to check prices at other venues.
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Renewable resources to batteries and smart grid systems to store that -- and transmit that energy, to technologies like advanced lighting that help conserve energy.
The first step to keep sodium under control is to make smart choices at the grocery store.
The news app will initially be available free of charge on Samsung Smart TVs through their apps store and later it will be accessible on a variety of connected devices and displays, including an international version.
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They can email the list to the store and fix an appointment with a store associate using their smart phone.
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The phenomenon is driven by a host of factors, not the least of which is the proliferation of of tablets and smart phones dependent on the cloud to store data.
The ability to go back and forth between that information and the actual machine would be useful and might give shoppers less excuse to check out models on their smart phones or iPads while in the store (in the process perhaps spotting a lower price and leaving to buy online).
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When shopping in-store, consumers can use their smart phone to scan an aisle.
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The update to Google's search application for the iPhone, which Apple will release through its App Store software distribution service for the smart phone, will allow users to ask a question and get an answer from the Mountain View, Calif.
But then most smart people will just go to the Reebok retail store to buy it, so these shoes are eventually sold for cheap at the roadside shops.
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This holiday season, a lot of predictable trends are unfolding: Online retail is growing faster than brick-and-mortar shopping, consumers are increasingly doing in-store, product price comparisons from their smart phones, etc, etc.
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It was one of the early iPhone applications that redefined the smart phone as more than just a geeky way to store contacts: it can also gross out your friends.
The "smart card, " packing an electronic chip, can store everything found in a wallet or purse, a hospital record, a family tree, a university transcript - indeed, much of the detail that points to who a person is.
Neat stacks of medical text books, a sharply-designed carrier bag from a clothes store, an English novel and pairs of smart shoes in the draughty bedroom of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim, tell the story of a woman determined to make the leap to a middle class lifestyle for her and her family.
Google has copied and replicated Apple core offerings with its G-neric Droid smart-phone, Android tablets, Chromebook, and Google Music Store.
Same-store sales should benefit from continued menu upgrades, driven by its Smart Eating initiative.
Fans can access ConnecTV's new features free on smart phones, tablets and computers by downloading the ConnecTV app in the iTunes Store or at ConnecTV.com.
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The headphones (Logitech UE 4000, 6000, 9000 and 900) will be available exclusively at Apple Store locations, whilst the Logitech UE Mobile Boombox, Boombox and Smart Radio will also be available in Apple, Currys, PC World, John Lewis and Amazon from mid-September onwards.
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Unlike AirPlay, DIAL lets you launch apps, even web apps, on the TV -- if it's a Smart TV, you'll even be redirected to download an appropriate app from its app store.
An unmatched value for consumers heading into the holiday season, the E-Series 60" and 70" Razor LED Smart TVs and M-Series 55" and 2D and 3D 65" units will be available in-store and online.
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