Wi-Fi is much more than just Web surfing from a park bench or coffee shop.
Last night was, at that, an easy use case: Light Web surfing, some typing, no ebooks.
Most would probably describe it as useless web surfing and brain numbing tv watching.
The test included email, web surfing, and video streaming, proving the power of the integrated network.
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And, moreover, how easy it was to gather intel on them through Web surfing.
According to Artem Dinaburg, security researcher for Raytheon, purely natural events like heat can change your Web surfing experience.
Plus, faster Web surfing is expected to prompt consumers to use more mobile data, giving carriers' revenue a boost.
"For people looking to just send email and do some Web surfing, we sell them the iPhone, " Mr. Taylor said.
Dedicated devices are simpler and you'll be able to afford many of them for e-mail, Web surfing and so on.
Like the C64x Ultimate and VIC-Slim, the C64x Extreme is also fantastic for web surfing, social media and office automation.
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During basic testing of real-world use (web surfing, multimedia playback, word processing, etc.), it was as zippy as we could hope.
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Web surfing increases your risk of having malware installed on your computer.
How can businesses use a product meant for private, personal Web surfing?
The nettops feature an Intel Atom processor, making them ideal for performing basic functions like web surfing, downloading content and producing Internet-based documents.
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When you think about Web surfing, you probably don't worry about what's happening on the surface of the sun 92 million miles away.
Subjects told researchers how often they used computers and whether they used PCs for email, Web surfing, word processing, games or other activities.
For younger kids, an easier way to keep Web surfing safe may be an emerging group of social networking sites aimed at preteens.
Web surfing on an EV-DO connection may not quite rival a home broadband experience, but it's often more than adequate for most Web tasks.
Just a very affordable service for calling, texting and Web surfing.
Think of it: behind every iPhone is a user tapping into the 3G network for Web surfing and, increasingly, high-bandwidth applications such as HD video streaming.
In addition to a better web surfing experience, HughesNet Gen4 delivers the performance required to support high-bandwidth applications, including social media and video and music streaming.
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What's more, some of the pursuits of these venture philanthropists seem more like self-serving science projects: Never mind feeding the poor, let's wire up schools for Web surfing.
That poor Third World farmer out in the boonies gets more value from a weekly text telling him local sorghum prices than we do from gigabytes of web surfing.
And a growing number of people worldwide own smartphones, which add Web surfing, apps, games and GPS-mapping to the list of diversions available to phone users in the driver's seat.
Pinched wallets are putting the so-called feature phone--which includes a camera, Bluetooth, text messaging and Web surfing capabilities--at risk, says Avi Greengart, research director of mobile devices at Current Analysis.
Smart phones will have color screens that, when held close to the eye, create the illusion of an 18- to 24-inch computer screen suitable for Web surfing and viewing high-resolution pictures.
It's been about three months since we began confronting the electronic elephant in our living room: the huge amount of time our girls spend online, captivated by games, shows and web surfing.
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If Son is to leave a legacy, it might be this: A way of managing via influence rather than control that is as logically connected as hyperlinks and as serendipitous as Web surfing.
Dr. Hazlett points out that the ultimate sharing forum, the mobile Web (which enabled Web surfing from cellphones), had its first big success in Japan, on a private platform owned by NTT DoCoMo.
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