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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

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Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. Print + eBook. Get the eBook.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

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Print + eBook. Print + eBook. $. Get Print + eBook. Get the eBook. Get the eBook. Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle).

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What is IT operations analytics? Extract more data insights from more sources

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When an application runs on a single large computing element, a single operating system can monitor every aspect of the system. Modern operating systems provide capabilities to observe and report various metrics about the applications running. Read eBook now! Dynamic applications with ephemeral services.

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Protecting critical infrastructure and services: Ensure efficient, accurate information delivery this election year

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