"People are starting to pay more attention to what they are spending their money on, and this is a really easy way to set up all of your accounts so you can really see where all of your money is going, " D'Arcy said.
But these newer cloud-aimed Sonos systems have always had a fatal flaw: There was no easy way to hook them up to home theaters.
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Samsung is also giving consumers an easy way to keep their TV up-to-date on technology improvements with Smart Evolution.
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When the going gets tough, the easy way out is to come up with justifiable reasons to move ahead without them.
The router is becoming the hub of the smart home allowing parents to control their kids' screen time, ensuring streaming media devices get the bandwidth they need for top video quality, giving consumers an easy way to store and serve up music and video and much more.
It's unsurprising that a lot of effort went into this, as it was an easy, if not optimistic, way for making up for the actual machine's lack of graphical prowess.
Texting to a group of friends set up on my smartphone was an easy way to keep in touch with the team I work with on my SXSW blog.
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"This is a wake up call to the region that there is no easy way out, " said Rob Masonis, Northwest director for American Rivers.
"The way Chelsea have been talking is that it'll be easy up there - but we know that's not the case, " he said.
In any case, it was just as easy to enjoy it as a grown-up, in the same way that when you now look at Looney Tunes starring a knowing Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, you realize that their creators wrote them as much for their own amusement, chock full of double entendres, as for children's.
Many parents who previously rushed to pick up children due to social responsibility and peer pressure chose the easy financial way out, to pay the small penalty.
Blizzard has stepped up efforts to offer easy digital downloads, and Mists will likely sell way more copies of Cataclysm online, numbers we do not have yet.
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"We're thrilled to expand our relationship with Zynga and provide an easy way for players to earn Zynga virtual game cash by learning about Serve and signing up to receive the many benefits of our digital wallet, " said Dan Schulman, President of Enterprise Growth, American Express.
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If the Fed truly wants to tighten, there's an easy, time-tested way to do it: sell bonds from its portfolio to mop up the excess money it's mistakenly spilled onto the financial markets for the past 18 months.
Adelman and her partners are putting the finishing touches on their new venture--Size Me Up--which offers an online application designed to give shoppers a quick and easy way to translate their size from one label to another.
"The company, which was hip-deep in sorting out A380 development, simply hadn't foreseen the huge pent-up demand for a more efficient 250-seat airliner, and tried to take the easy way out by offering a re-engined version of its A330, " aviation journalist David Kaminski-Morrow, air transport editor of Flightglobal.com, told CNN in an earlier report.
Songs can be played on easy, medium, hard, or expert, with some of the moves mastered in previous modes making their way up the dance chain.
The new Acer C7 Chromebook is the ideal additional laptop for families, students and business people that need a fast, easy and secure way to get online to do their computing in the cloud, such as using Gmail, keeping up on social networks, shopping, and paying bills.
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One stealth way is to offer a recipe that is both intriguing and easy to pull off, since many home chefs size up recipes by length and number of ingredients alone.
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