As with Bitcoin, the user would only have to trust the currency system itself.
To get a copy of a movie off Gnutella, for example, a user need only double-click and wait for the download, while videotapes require setting up multiple VCRs.
In its current form, the PaveGen paving slab contains a low-energy LED which lights up, expressing the energy transfer idea to the user but only consuming around 5% of the energy from each footstep.
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Facebook users can ask for restaurants their friends visited recently and see reviews, but considering the fact that each user has only a limited number of friends, this query is likely to generate very few answers.
Researchers will be able to see where and when check-ins were made, but the only user data attached will be a gender.
Apple will face competition from Google, Microsoft and Facebook as it attempts to generate more revenues from its existing user base not only in music but in other services as well.
The user base can only grow so much more when you factor in the confines of the global population, and recent moneymaking schemes, like sponsored stories, have tempered profitability with popular concerns over privacy.
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When a user clicks through a Williams-Sonoma ad to browse, that user is not only prompted to download the app but also to register as a customer so they can pick up shopping where they left off.
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Sharing infrastructure with the user base who want only Internet access spreads the capital cost and the economics obviously improve.
All of these systems, whether trunked or conventional, are push-to-talk, meaning that only one user can speak or listen at one time.
Remember, though: these come with only one user license, and you don't get any complimentary cloud storage or upgrades to future versions.
This change of revenue stream works only if user numbers increase.
Greater portability, better mobile connectivity and expanded cloud storage are helping define the post-PC dominated world, and we are starting to see actual computing itself shift to the Cloud and only the user interface is needed to operate.
Nina combines Nuance speech recognition, Text-to-Speech (TTS), voice biometrics, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology hosted in the cloud to deliver an interactive user experience that not only understands what is said, but also can identify who is saying it.
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This includes 87 percent of the handheld's owners in Japan and 83 percent in the US. While these numbers are impressive, the system's internet use statistics start to dwindle in Europe, where its user connectivity rate is only 57 percent.
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In an API business model, user privacy is protected because their data is only available to those permitted to access it by the user.
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The White House is asking for boosts not only in FDA user fees, but in greater funding overall.
Not only do these user-friendly, highly mobile devices cost less than a PC, they are also extremely powerful.
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Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer powered currency consisting of anonymous, heavily-encrypted codes which only a specific user can unlock.
The group's inventions include a simple flower that emerges from its flowerpot only when a user's long-distance partner comes online.
But Instapaper only allows a user to save links to read later.
Deep content immersion - controls appear only when the user wants them.
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Schellhase goes on to explain that this only happens with user consent.
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They took the form of small curved blades, held in the hand, and only allowed the user to harvest small patches of land each day.
In addition, Canada called for Facebook to develop technology that would give developers access only to the user information required for an app to work properly.
He establishes a connection to his account using a user ID and password known only to him, and the connection is secured using standard encryption technology.
One fundamental flaw, he said, is the relative anonymity provided by the Internet's system of IP addresses, which only identify a user's general location, not a specific computer.
Indeed, user data is not exploited only to target advertising.
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The company has not only a large user base but highly targeted demographic information about its users including age, gender and zip code that is sought after by campaigns.
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Google Music users learned of a frightful new policy this morning that dictates a user may de-authorize only four devices in a year, out of ten total activations.
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