Once downloaded, the application links to users' Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) ID.

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Ford also used the keynote to announce My Ford Mobile, a smartphone application that links up with the computer in Focus Electric, providing a information like how far the car will drive on its current charge, individual driving trends, and the location of nearby charging stations.

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This disruptive approach results in a directory meta-application, which links (like a browser calling up a Web page) to every individual application, cloud service, or Web site employees need.

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Also, this week Google announced Google Desktop, a free downloadable application that combines desktop search with a sidebar that links to Web searches and personal files.

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Among the reasons for refusing the application, assembly government officials said Tesco had failed to "demonstrate safe and appropriate links for pedestrians and cyclists between the store and the town's central core at Heol Maengwyn".

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To keep the momentum going, the Energy Department is announcing the release of 20 new datasets, three new application programing interfaces to make data easily accessible by software developers, and hundreds of qualified data links in the Energy.

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The best practical application I could think of was demoing a website or avoiding the need to send a bunch of links.

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