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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: What Might Smartphones Do in 2016? |Digital.gov",
    "description": "Trends on Tuesday: What Might Smartphones Do in 2016?",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: What Might Smartphones Do in 2016?","summary" : "A recent article in Mobile Marketing Watch suggested location-based sensor fusion would be featured on a billion mobile devices in 2016. Last year Mary Meeker said in 2013 that mobile would be wearable, sharable, drivable and flyable. We’ve gathered some other projections for the future functionality of mobile devices; • Indoor","date" : "2014-01-07T13:42:23-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
        
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