Today we can buy, scan, search and achieve amazing technological tasks with just our smart phones.

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The Smart Actions app helps automate everyday tasks and optimizes battery efficiency by letting customers create rules, such as automatically setting the phone to vibrate during work hours or dimming the display at a specific battery level.

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Accenture's researchers are also dreaming up ways for the elderly to share digital scrapbooks online with their grandchildren, and smart systems that talk you through simple home-improvement tasks, such as installing a new light fixture.

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The devil is in the details, which is why smart silicon is required to address this challenge, performing tasks like packet inspection, or looking into those packets as they move throughout the network and making decisions about what to do with them and which ones to prioritize.

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