The two companies have also made significant advances in the cordless telephone, pioneering circuit technology that has reduced the static and background noise that discouraged users of early models.

However, most help files refer to styles as an 'advanced feature' of the word processor, which often discourages users from using styles regularly.

Application developers do this to discourage users from tampering with or corrupting the data files or importing the data into a competitor's application.

Lamebook also discourages users from trying to contact people seen in posts.

In a report to be released this week about short messaging in the United States, the Yankee Group, a telecommunications consulting company in Boston, concluded that the complications would discourage users.

In some cases, this was deliberately done to discourage users from using equipment from other manufacturers.

They added bright outdoor lights in an alley to discourage drug dealers and users.

The point I was trying to make is that the iPad discourages users from tinkering with it.

Unfortunately, the instructions and tutorials, which tend to be repetitive and didactic, cannot be bypassed and are likely to discourage older users.

In the past, this discouraged mobile users from using the phones or giving out the number.