You can even add a link or widget to your website so there are no excuses for people who are unsure of what to buy you.
Consumers then view these company scores while they shop, by scanning product barcodes with their mobile phone camera or using a widget to view scores while browsing online.
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The widget content refreshes as the size changes according to the widget size and could display larger, richer graphics or additional functionality or options.
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Facebook chat is another primary element of the Status, where a full-screen widget allows you to quickly communicate with other online acquaintances.
We pay for volume and, as in any industry, people who are paid by the widget will seek to produce more widgets at ever increasing prices.
However, as India and China continue to emerge, the abundance of engineering talent will mean that great companies will be defined not by their ability to develop a faster widget, but by their ability to innovate.
Today, Telenav also launched the Scout Drive Button, a widget for anyone to add onto their website to provide visitors the ability to instantly launch voice-guided, turn by turn, GPS navigation to their store, restaurant, salon, dentist office, etc.
While S Memo remains largely similar to the previous version on Gingerbread, Samsung introduced a clever new widget that allows users to quickly jot or type notes, as well as take voice dictations.
"The concept is a good one, but it's important not to measure every widget, because the numbers aren't going to tell you the whole story, " said Cliff Rossi, a former Citigroup risk officer who is now a Tyser Teaching Fellow at the Robert H.
Facebook, however, moved to embrace the widget developers in May, when it announced it will give access to some of its systems to outside developers looking to set up shop.
Up top, meanwhile, you'll notice a music widget which directs you to your stash of audio files.
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Once you've started playing your music of choice, you can navigate away and return to your widget channel if you like.
The Sonos Controller for Android features a new widget that allows you to control Sonos directly from your Android home screen.
And in the spirit of Web 2.0, you can even create a widget of your collection to embed in blogs or social networking site.
The idea that states can build biotech parks to make up for job losses in widget factories might reduce unemployment, but is likely to lead to income inequality over the long term.
You do get ICS mainstays like that infamous Google search widget along with the ability to create folders.
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If there is room, but your app icons are merely in the way, the widget will automatically push them to the side.
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Why, when so many widget-makers have gone to the wall or been bought up by foreigners, is GKN alive and kicking and British-owned after 253 years?
In other words, branded content is not the place to go on and on about how great your brand is and how great your new widget is or anything even remotely tied to sales.
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Simply click here, grab the code to get the Giving Widget and embed it on your site.
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While non-profits may strive toward revitalizing the economy, entrepreneurs may have the passion to build a better widget.
Publishers pays a monthly fee to use the Flockler widget, starting at 99 euros a month for small players, and 2, 000 euros for larger ones.
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The idea behind it is pretty simple: Allow artists to deliver content straight to fans through a widget that bloggers can embed onto their respective sites.
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You can also do something similar in the music app: the press of a button will float a "now playing" widget (which can be switched to playlist view as well) above your other programs.
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And companies will also be able to distribute the Group Buy widget through their own publisher network.
However the nano could support not only a widget architecture for iPhones, but revitalize widget development for Dashboard, which seems to have languished since its debut in Tiger and has been somewhat sidelined as a Space in Lion.
Presumably, to obtain the design for a widget will be as easy as downloading a song (both legally or illegally) because the design is all software, a small file that a CAD program would handle, for example.
Cypriot labour costs rose 40% between 1995 and 2008, making it a relatively more expensive place to go on holiday or locate a widget factory, and the main reason why Cyprus has been collectively spending more than it earns.
While some services could no doubt be compelling on the TV, the lack of proper platforms, standards and user experiences make them awkward to implement, and the current TV widget platforms are simply too limited make much headway in capturing the consumer.
If widget-based ads are your thing, you might want to hold off until the big manufacturer roll-out next year, or you could always consider that Google option.
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