On the plus side, that new touchscreen is delightfully responsive to both swipes and taps.
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Mr Obama's swipes at the company have lent him an unfamiliar air of forcefulness.
Up, down, right and left swipes all do different things, but they're fairly easy to remember.
Mr Cameron has tried to change voters' attitudes by taking swipes at carefully chosen targets.
The driver then rolls down the window and picks up a ticket or swipes a credit card.
Peerzada swipes at them all - between digs at what he sees as Pakistan's main enemy: venal politicians.
He also took the opportunity to take swipes at Sony's recent difficulties in launching the PlayStation 3 worldwide.
It also reflects the trend of new mobile payment options available through a few swipes of a smartphone.
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The command pad appears when a user just swipes upward on the screen with the S Pen button pressed.
Whatever the case, Brin's swipes answer questions about how the interface is navigated.
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You might even catch your mom dropping references to it as she pokes and swipes the screen of her iPad.
In recent months, Keller has become a more colorful figure, taking public swipes at Arianna Huffington and Twitter.
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Beyond those typical gestures, Synaptics has also configured the pad to support three- and four-finger swipes, much like the Apple pads.
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There were a few more swipes at bankers and society's inequalities but it didn't sound as if his heart was in it.
With only a few swipes, users can refine and name their groups.
One of those related to the screen bouncing back when a finger swipes beyond the edge of a page isn't in the current version of Android.
While holding the Smart Scan button on the left side of the mouse, the user simply swipes the mouse over the material to be scanned.
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The reason: Each time that a customer swipes his Visa or MasterCard, that transaction costs the merchant between 1 and 3% of the purchase price.
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It's fast too -- not only did the UI fail to stutter at our hasty swipes and screen jumps, but halted games resumed almost instantaneously.
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His century on Sunday was full of his usual swagger - the switch-hits, the ferocious swipes - his confidence seemingly undented by the recent turmoil.
Publicly she seems to elicit the most dismissive First Ministerial swipes.
Keating sent a letter to remind Durbin of the concerns the banking industry has over a regulation that would limit fees charged on debit card swipes.
In four swipes, I dove back in time to read about my mother's father's mother's mother, Florence Antonia Ford, and her family in the 1910 Census record.
You can reply, retweet, or view whole conversations from buttons that appear as you hover, rather than using the myriad taps and swipes of the iOS apps.
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They say the rule, which places a cap on the amount that banks can charge retailers each time a customer swipes their debit card, hurts customers and banks.
The next hurdle and the big opportunity for touch interfaces is moving to more abstract gestures: two- and three-finger swipes, a full-hand pinch, and so on.
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Surveys suggest Democrats hold the advantage on the dominant issue this year, so Republicans looked to redirect the anger with base-pleasing swipes at the media and liberal elites.
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The touchscreen itself supports both taps and swipes as well as up to 50 customizable channel icons, and the box lists both online setup and on-remote customization as features.
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We, or rather the electronic devices we employ, are data pack rats, accumulating e-mails, Web pages, credit card swipes, phone messages, stock trades, memos, address books and radiology scans.
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