The iPhone has a larger screen than BlackBerry, a better (virtual) keyboard, a GPS map, and a unique configuration of Internet, phone, iPod, and calendar tools.
Although the older adults were no more likely to be struck by a (virtual) car, the findings nevertheless suggest that cell phones and other distractions pose a potential safety risk to older people, Neider says.
Stephanie embraced the concept of a virtual (online) law practice long before it went mainstream.
In the Blackadder film, for instance, Rowan Atkinson holds up a Tesco Clubcard. (Dome sponsor: Tesco.) Children can have their photo taken with a virtual ET. (Dome sponsor: BT) The hero in the show goes by the name of Skyboy. (Dome sponsor: Sky TV).
The idea of forming a super MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) was floated for the first time a week ago.
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Last year, we implemented a virtual desktop (VDI) environment, which allowed select employees to work from their homes, if they had power.
Key hurdles must be cleared before cybermall becomes a (virtual) reality.
And traffic between geographically separated company networks can be routed through a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel instead of being exposed to the open Internet.
With the rapid rise of the consumerized endpoint, many enterprise customers are looking at Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) as a security solution that can deal with an unmanaged, heterogeneous set of endpoint devices.
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And wander it will, especially when playing the closest thing to a must-have Wii U launch title, NintendoLand, a theme park game inhabited by Miis (Nintendo's virtual caricatures of players) with a dozen mini-games that riff on Nintendo themes and characters.
The source can be from emails, email attachments, bots, Trojans, and other sources that can be introduced via any computer file type from any device type including all forms of mobile devices, the cloud, the web and even via a virtual private network (VPN).
In June, the Hartford Group released a white paper identifying eight ways small business owners can reduce the likelihood of a data breach, including secure remote access through the deployment of a virtual private network (VPN) and regular review of data security practices.
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While virtual reality has tried (and till now failed) to entice us into a virtual world, augmented reality overlays digital, virtual information onto the real world with the help of a simple camera, screen and software in between.
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It means e-mailing photographs and mailing swatches of outfits to match the hats, hours of chatting on the phone and even using software to "try on" a hat (a feature Siverson's website offers) or a virtual "sitting room" with everything from a "millinery mugshot" to photos of the hat in progress on Conti's site.
If and when a specific event occurs (e.g. 50 individuals cross a virtual line), owners can be alerted via SMS -- and, of course, they can then view only the footage pertaining to said event with merely a click.
It would be a slight improvement to add a curtain over the virtual porthole (rather than a switch to shut it on and off), so that guests can leave the video running and wake up with the sense that the sun is "virtually" peeking though their curtains.
Even a rudimentary VPN (Virtual Private Network) that religiously deleted IP log files and accepted anonymous payments would have been sufficient.
Minecraft supports a multiplayer mode allowing players to set up and manage a server that can host dozens or even hundreds of simultaneous players in a single, persistent virtual world (for an example of a popular Minecraft server, see Meepcraft).
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For most Stackato customers, this means their own private cloud, whether on-premise or a hosted virtual private cloud (or even a combination of both as a hybrid cloud setup).
It is possible malicious hackers can intercept this data unless you set up a security such as a remote access virtual private network (VPN).
For example, the recently opened Tokyo Cyber Clinic is developing, with help from Waseda University, a virtual Tokyo subway (overcrowded for realism) to treat people who panic when surrounded or touched by others.
The company is also (without DFKI) developing a virtual reality environment that uses a pair of active-shutter glasses and a head-tracking camera to let you wander around cave-like structures from the comfort of the lab.
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The telecommuting boom has been driven in part by the rapid penetration of broadband in the home, easier and cheaper forms of IP telephony, more robust VPN (virtual private network) software, plus a new generation of powerful laptops that are true desktop replacements.
The difference between this rumored deal with Sprint and that of a normal MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) would be the possible integration of cellphones with VOIP service, something that the traditional phone companies are scared to death of, but integrates perfectly with the current VOIP ambitions of the cable companies.
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The dominant tobacco companies, especially Philip Morris (now Altria) got a virtual cartel that allowed them to immediately raise cigarette prices without facing competition from smaller companies, since the AGs wrote into the pact clauses that required new companies to pay into the settlement even though they had nothing to do with the alleged behavior behind the lawsuits.
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On its differentiation strategy, Rakuten positioned itself as a virtual shopping mall, based on a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) model.
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Mr Parra was among those responsible for a controversial new hydrocarbons law, seen by private-sector sources (and Mr Lameda) as a virtual death-blow to prospects for foreign investment in the industry.
To process the MRI data, a computer overlaid on Pickens' brain a virtual three-dimensional grid of 50, 000 cubes called voxels (a word hinting at volume and pixels).
Later, when the Tamagotchi (or any other species of virtual pet) makes a demand, the nanny goes through the routine it has learned.
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