Small wonder that the company is also rumoured to have developed a web device as proof of its concept.
Ultimately they could be your gaming console, TV and web device.
What I want is a web browsing device that rocks me like a hurricane.
The worldwide World Wide Web - any device, any platform, any bandwidth, absolutely anywhere in the world.
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Will mass adoption of a web-based device like Glass help erode their power?
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Increasingly firms are making it easier for users to move their data around the web and from device to device.
There, Microsoft have invested in developing white space spectrum to bring an African audience into the Web and into device ownership.
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Spark allows you to control your lights from an Apple iPhone, Android phone, or any web-enabled device, so you can control your lights remotely, from your bed or anywhere in the world.
To connect an iPad to the service, an Akamai rep simply signed into the web-based interface on both the TV and the tablet (though the service is generally compatible with any web-connected device).
And with Google Play, movies, books, apps, and games are all accessible from the Web or an Android device no cables, downloading, or syncing required.
On Wednesday, Cook also announced an updated version of Apple TV, the company's Web-TV integration device that competes with products like Google TV, Roku and Boxee.
With its curved slider and gesture-controlled touch interface, Palm Pre fuses exquisite design with the revolutionary webOS software for fast access to content on the device or web.
In a u-turn from a previously stated policy, he said developers would be able to build web applications for the device that "extend the capabilities of iPhone... but keep the iPhone secure".
Nina can also interact across devices and applications, so that customers can choose to connect by voice, mobile device or web page or any combination and still retain the context of the interaction.
According to a new collection of statistics by the web site Pingdom, as of January 2012, of the 2.1 billion active Internet users worldwide, 1.2 billion people access the web via a mobile device.
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With multiple antennae and dual band WiFi, the cable gateway increases the coverage area for HD streaming in the home while enabling consumers to download web content from any device in the home significantly faster than it would take on a similar 802.11n device.
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Tiny upstart Sling Media is now a veteran in this category, with a nearly two-year-old device that tosses video over the Web from a TV screen to a computer or portable device.
Currently, Vindigo users download information from the company's Web site while their handheld device is attached to a PC.
With easy apps for photographers, videographers and social networking sites, you can appreciate how the device could transform Web video connectivity.
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Universal search capability now supports voice-activated search, allowing customers to simply say what they want to find on their device or the Web.
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When a person has viewed a Web page for a particular device several times, for example, Tapad considers that a sign of purchasing intent.
Consumers can securely access and share all of their content (files, photos, and video) from any web browser or enabled mobile device with no additional monthly fees.
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Corporate app store Web-pages need to work in cross-platform browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Safari to allow actions to be carried out with the existing Web interface on a mobile device.
McNamee thinks Google should be most worried about how, as the world moves increasingly to getting their web content from a mobile device, they are doing index search far less than they used to.
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Media which lives on a computer can be moved to a variety of mobile devices by dragging and dropping the files to a desktop folder which then drops copies on the external device over the web.
Instead of purchasing e-books through a single online store to read only on compatible software (i.e. books bought from the Kindle Store can only be read on Kindle apps), Google lets consumers buy books either from its store or any other online vendor that sells books in EPUB and PDF formats, and read them on any device with a web browser.
By simply visiting the Parents Portal on MEEPTablet.com from any device with a web browser (computer, smart phone, tablet), parents can not only hand-pick ("whitelist") which websites or keywords their kids have or don't have access to, but they can add words to the tablet's built-in "bad word" list so their child will not be able to search for those words or use them in the chat feature.
The Galaxy S4 is certainly a more convenient web browsing and video-watching device than the iPhone 5.
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You need to make the system work on the device and with a Web platform you can do that.
Like the early days of web applications, a thin (HTML-5 mobile web) versus thick (native device apps) argument has ensued.
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