An hybrid app based on frameworks like PhoneGap, Sencha or Appcelerator.
Developers at Microsoft have revived the dream through Project Austin, a Windows 8 app based around the visual concept of a notebook.
For example, fashion brand Burberry made news this past fall when it opted for HTML5 to launch a mobile app based on its new watch.
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The KICKR Power Trainer is the world's first iPhone powered bike trainer, allowing cyclist and triathletes to set resistance, accurately measure power and complete App based workouts, all from their iPhone.
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The HTML5 Gmail app is based on the Gmail HTML5 tablet app.
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Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, a 290-person note-taking app company based in Redwood City, Calif.
The fight over employee benefits when it comes to app-based on-demand services continues.
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Take that out of the equation and app-based publishing, like print publishing, is a cost-heavy, money-losing proposition.
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The app is based on analysis of Queen Elizabeth's published speeches since coming to the throne in 1952.
It does not mean that app-based gaming is crowding out other gaming, however.
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For Bipper, an app developer based in Bergen, Norway, a safety tool for women evolved from an existing design for kids.
Unlike much of the iPhone photography market, app-based intervalometers lack a certain kitsch that plagues the likes of Instagram or iPhone lenses.
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These print subscribers also prefer their app-based news to be more like a traditional reading experience rather than to have high-tech features.
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But my youth coaching self is all tingly over a iPhone app developed based on an idea from a coach in Austin, Texas.
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Instead, here we have a smart, modular, near-universal app-based intervalometer.
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Being ahead of the curve on new developments to retail such as mobile payments and app-based loyalty schemes also may allow Starbucks to adapt to quickly shifting consumer habits.
The other is an app-based cloud transaction approach.
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In the not-too-distant future, the choice between multi- and single-purpose devices may be less stark than it has been, as some single-use devices have been adopting the technical features and approaches of the app-based devices in order to stay relevant.
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Craig Mod, a print and digital publisher who has written extensively about the challenges and opportunities of app-based models for writers and editors, sees 29th Street as part of phenomenon that will dramatically decrease the costs associated with the medium.
Back then the company was known as iSwifter, offering a flash-based iOS app focused predominately on cloud-based delivery of casual and social games.
The company is starting with PC-based app store but will eventually seek to launch the service on other platforms such as Mac since it is HTML5 based it is all cross-platform.
Last week, a social messaging app called Kik announced that an a HTML5-based web app platform it had created on top of its texting service could now send push notifications.
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"The entire App Gear range is based on toys that have got this kind of app angle to them, " explains Mr Baulch.
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Here Facebook is expected to also reveal an improved version of its iPhone app, Mashable reports, as well as an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace.
He now runs a company that provides real-time consumer survey data via a smartphone-based app.
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Kinvey is probably the most technical of the various cloud based app development platforms I looked at.
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Facebook has acquired mobile location-based app Gowalla, the companies confirmed Monday.
Highlight, a location-based app that provides information about people nearby, was one of the hyped new apps at South By Southwest this year.
As a result, the company has just launched Switchboard, a cloud based app that combines all your internet connections but appears as only one IP address.
The creative team swelled to the size of a small film crew, including several actors, two photographers, a videographer, an illustrator and a handful of programmers at a U.K.-based app development company.
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