Today you can use a mobile payment app on your phone for certain services.
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Or an associate on the stock floor will use a mobile device to ring up a sale.
Roughly half of Americans who use a mobile phone are using a smartphone, according to mobile-phone industry estimates.
Local authorities in Dagestan say Mr. Tsarnaev, perhaps knowing he would be monitored, didn't use a mobile phone there.
Mobile payments use a mobile device and various payment tools including bank instruments such as checking and prepaid accounts.
Not because attackers launch it from their cell phones (although they can) but because they use a mobile code.
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It is illegal to use a mobile phone held in the hand while driving or while stopped with the engine on.
"He said, 'I would never use a mobile wallet, '" Mr. Llamas said.
The annual IBM Cyber Monday benchmark survey of 500 retailers revealed that the number of people who use a mobile device to visit a retail Web site jumped 11 percent between 2010 and 2011.
Sports-TV networks are jumping in, too: Viewers watching NFL Network's coverage of the National Football League draft last month could use a mobile app to see a range of content during the telecast, including video interviews with players selected in the first round and analysis from experts.
According to a study last year commissioned by Expedia and conducted by comScore, around 48% of users use a tablet or smartphone to plan their trips while 44% use a mobile device to search for their next trip, 44% out of which prefer using an application to do the same.
The next-gen version of the original iRig touts higher quality sound (as the moniker suggests) and now connects via 30-pin or Lightning port for use with a mobile device or via USB for laptops and such.
People who use only desktop have a 40% chance of using Facebook, while those who use mobile have a 70% chance of using Facebook every day.
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Responsive design implicitly suggests that mobile is a subset of the traditional Web, but it is clear that people use mobile for a very different end.
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For example, a consumer could use their mobile phone to order a product by snapping a digital barcode and have the item shipped to their house, Mr. McLaughlin said.
Through loose coupling, Ion gives the Infor family of products increased agility that matches use cases for a mobile, social, and analytical world.
"Our customers are music lovers who tell us they use a variety of mobile apps to solve their listening needs and discover new music, " said Paul Springer, senior vice president, worldwide product and design, Rhapsody.
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Google figured out a better way to find information, and place ads, just about killing newspapers (and magazines.) Apple found a better way to use mobile minutes, taking a big bite out of cell phone manufacturers.
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Charities often use message texts as a way to raise money by allowing consumers to use their mobile device to text a donation for storm relief, vaccinating children or other causes.
It is far ahead of America in wireless technology, with a much higher use of mobile phones, thanks to its adoption of a single standard for them.
The only access to a phone would have been from the weighing room security officer, who can authorise the use of a Jockey Club mobile for outgoing calls.
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Consumers want to use their mobile like a Universal remote, an all-purpose device that makes life easier.
Seventy percent of couples who both own a mobile use it every day to chat or say hello.
Another potentially serious flaw is that participants asked in 2001-02 about their mobile use a decade earlier will have been using analogue, not digital, handsets.
T-Mobile's 3G data network will use a technology called UMTS, or Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.
French operator SFR claims laptops equipped with a dongle use 450 times more bandwidth than a classic mobile phone.
As a teenager, he would use a pram loaded with paints and brushes as a mobile art studio on the city streets.
But who will actually use such a large slab of mobile computing?
Customers register online or in person and can then use the DriveNow website or a mobile app to locate and reserve an available vehicle.
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"As people continue to use mobile phones as a payment option, this problem is likely to grow, " says Malini Mithal, an assistant director in the financial practices division at the Federal Trade Commission.
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