But even if the devices speak to each other and the wired or wireless connections also start to shake hands, some content has been protected specifically so that it cannot be shared.

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Etch A Sketch, with its familiar red-frame, grey screen and two white dials, allows children to draw something and shake it away to start again.

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He has shrugged off the loss of Britain's top credit rating, but the questions about what, if anything, he can do to kick-start growth are going to be harder to shake.

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It is up to Apple to shake the forests so we can start finding spaces amongst the trees to grow our saplings.

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He said a shake-up of management structures will start to be put in place by Easter, once agreed by councillors.

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Luis Suarez refuses to shake the hand of Patrice Evra and sets of a furor at the start of the Premier League match between Manchester United and Liverpool.

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To avoid taking credit for a trend he didn't start, or tying himself too closely to a fad, he has done only one formal interview about the Harlem Shake phenomenon (and he won't be doing any more, a representative says).

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Claims that the latter refused to shake hands with Owens were also unfounded -- the German leader had been told at the start of the Games that he should either shake every athlete's hand or none, and had chosen the latter option.

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