Many adults expect students to be little more than desk-bound data sponges focused on passing college entrance exams.
As the middle class swells, more Indians are leading desk-bound sedentary lives in cities, where pavements are scarce and there is no culture of walking.
The smartphone and tablet have created an expectation for a touch experience that will revolutionize the enterprise and its desk-bound business processes and their users.
The shift from paper eliminated the need for two dozen transcribers and filing staff at police headquarters, and freed desk-bound officers to return to the streets.
The next best thing to being there for Emily Springfield, desk-bound in Michigan but with her grandparents in Florida, are sites like the National Hurricane Center.
If Facebook is going to be a truly mobile company, the mobile revenue percentage needs to start climbing and start subsidising the desk-bound browsers, not the other way around.
Now, pay is supposed to be linked to output, though becoming more productive is not easy for desk-bound civil servants or workers in factories that have no power, raw materials or markets.
The world is slowly moving away from the desk-bound browser and interacting on their handheld devices, where screen estate is a premium and users are far less forgiving of banners, obtrusive text, and data-rich media adverts.
It had a revenue stream outside of adverting (with pro membership available for a small annual fee), it had clients on every mobile and desk-bound operating system out there, it was hosting pictures for countless blogs.
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But with reading e-mail on our smartphone or tablet becoming the New Normal , not the exception, Roth suggests what you actually need is an e-mail signature for the increasingly-special cases when you are actually desk-bound, reading Microsoft Outlook.
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During their earnings call, the social network reported 618 million daily users accessing Facebook on their mobile phone, out of a total 1.1 billion daily users (I suspect some nice rounding errors there), but how people use Facebook on their mobiles is different to the desk-bound usage, and reduces their value to advertisers.
The technological shift from desk-bound personal computers to wireless devices is driving the FTC's push for major revisions to the law, known as COPPA. It was written before an era of cellphones and tablets loaded with apps that can be designed to siphon up a person's precise location and other personal data highly valued by advertisers and data brokers.
His desk is laden with the thick, string-bound paper dossiers beloved of Indian civil servants and cordially loathed by everyone else.
Because the flight was early (see, US Airways you are getting credit for that after all), I was able to get to the customer service desk sooner than normal and beat out the other stranded New Orleans-bound passengers for that afternoon flight.
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