And mobile is following suit, while also transforming the way people shop.
Other offline retailers are following suit, implementing mobile point of sale devices to improve customer service.
The DOJ has also pointed out in its suit the degree to which T Mobile has been an aggressive price competitor and also prone to push new technology to its customers.
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Once Transmeta started pushing the idea, both Intel and rival Advaned Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) followed suit with their own ideas for mobile chips that consume power more carefully than before.
Odds are if Apple does introduce an iPhone model that includes fingerprint recognition technology either as a general security function, for mobile payment safety or both, others will follow suit.
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She wants to see public Wi-Fi networks redesigned and upgraded to better suit the more fluid way people use these mobile devices.
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This suit should serve as a reminder to all marketers that mobile is a highly personal channel and marketers interested in leveraging mobile for marketing must now, more than ever, take a relationship-first approach.
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Handling such chores has been a strong suit for Research in Motion's BlackBerry and rivals selling devices based on Windows Mobile.
It's not unusual for mobile-device makers, most notably Amazon with its Kindle Fire tablets, to tweak the system to suit their own needs.
With Ohio and Indiana zeroing out their estate taxes and others likely to follow suit, the remaining high-rate states will have an increasingly hard time holding onto their mobile high-income citizens as they get older.
In fact, the Japanese should have a head start: DoCoMo is scheduled to launch 3G mobile services in Tokyo next May, while carriers in Europe and Asia aren't expected to follow suit until the summer of 2002.
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