This pilot uses Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) which is part of the Android API to link the Google App Engine server and Android client.
We began by looking for the unintended consequences of a successful mobile app, expecting to find some best practices in experience design, middleware APIs, server deployments, app development, and organizational alignment.
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The SMILE Plug leverages an open platform based on Arch Linux for ARM, the Plugmin administration app and the Stanford SMILE Server.
Apple agrees, and it turns out that they were responsible for the removal of the Hottest Girls app after all, contrary to a statement by its developer that the app had tapped out his server which supposedly forced him to ask Apple to pull it while he ramped up capacity.
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Additionally, the SMILE Plug Computer features an open platform based on Arch Linux for ARM, the Plugmin administration app and the Stanford SMILE Junction Server.
Like push notifications, but sends a notification straight from the app without needing a push notification server, perfect for an alarm, for instance.
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Indeed, most of the data displayed by 1.0 version of the EMR app is streamed directly from the server, with only small amounts encrypted and cached on the iPad itself, according to Berndt.
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After you select the correct item from the possible entrees the server will return, the app compiles a meal diary of sorts, tagging each item based on the time it was uploaded.
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Once done, the reseller or the customer must run the .app, which will communicate via the iphone wifi to our server.
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Your app may partially sit on a mobile device or even a traditional server somewhere.
There are so many things that can slow web apps down, and even if you cache and optimize your data feeds, move the heavy lifting from the server to the client and all of the other things that smart app developers have been doing, you still will bump into the limitations of the browser.
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Users of the Plex media server and its suite of client apps can expect an all-new app for Android soon, rebuilt two years after its debut for a vastly improved UI and feature set.
The company points to a recent Dev Center document emphasizing Windows 8's optional app receipt system, which can require any transaction be validated on the developer's server.
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With applications freed from legacy server environments, cloud-based collaboration platforms can more easily roll out mobile app versions of enterprise apps, while also adding in hooks for various types of social networking.
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In a patent app made public this month, RIM's lab geeks describe setting up a proxy server right on the phone that would intercept the browser's web requests and bundle, compress, and send them to a gateway on the other end (BIS, we presume) that would know how to deal with the packet.
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At this station, reps used an Android app paired with a smartphone camera to photograph plastic food samples, then upload them to a server for analysis.
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The app creates a QR code representing the intended transfer of that file and temporarily sends the file to Xsync's server.
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