Open Interface still has more to do before we actually see an iPod with Bluetooth.
Shippers enter their product and destination data on the Open Harbor interface, which then cross-references the information against an 8-million-line Oracle database, updated daily, of export rules, documents and taxes for 64 countries.
Trencheny could add Instagram photos to this app, since like Twitter, Instagram offers an open application programming interface.
The UrtheCast web platform will combine a consumer centric website, mobile application for smart phones, and an open Application Program Interface (API).
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Enter Georgie, an Android app that offers up a blind-friendly interface to open up the likes of maps, Twitter and email.
Sugar Labs will work closely with developers from the open source community to develop the user interface for other computers and operating systems.
The browser's user interface is based on the open-source Chromium code.
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"Android is open and can be used by licensees and the user interface can be modified, but these modifications are not supported by Google's release, " said Jolla Chairman Antti Saarnio.
At my firm, we prefer to open the door for our startup clients, then step back to let them directly interface with the journalist.
Projects like Arbreole, intelligent lights that react to your movements powered by an Android phone, OpenVibe, a brain to computer interface allowing you to control a video game, Evolving Cities, an open digital platform designed to help create resilient neighborhoods, and SAMI, an innovative multi-function, mobile semi-humanoid robot created by the CRIIF, all received funding from Cap Digital but were also chosen for their potential to be commercialized.
In addition, because the middleware has been built to open standards, it means that anyone can use the underlying code to build their own user interface for a device to control networked appliances.
Not surprisingly, elements that demand a truly big screen or a windowed interface won't fly -- there's nowhere to drag-and-drop from or open a new window to.
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