PhaseCue II - The new systems use ZVOX's proprietary PhaseCue II virtual surround processing to provide rich three-dimensional sound with movies or music -- without external speakers and speaker wires.

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If they were then connected with a Nexus switch, the online banking application in New York could pull computing power from virtual servers in Boston during the day and the bill processing application could tap into virtual servers in New York at night.

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So Google decided to build a browser from scratch, explicitly for those fledgling services, from word processing to snazzy virtual worlds.

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Its Japanese-language counterpart, which currently accepts orders but not online payments, will be relaunched next month as a full-service e-commerce center complete with virtual shopping trolleys and real-time credit-card processing.

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Virtualization allows each of those machines to host "virtual" servers that are capable of both online banking and bill processing.

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The virtual reconstruction of Implenia's data center pulled information about the layout of servers and storage, the devices' temperatures, power consumption and data processing over the Internet to IBM's servers, where they were built into a 3-D virtual world model.

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