Techniques such as extracting operating parameters, comparing application profiles across VMs (to look for signs that one has been successfully attacked), and analyzing application behavior in memory (as opposed to just code stored on disk) are far easier in a virtual environment and provide a huge advantage for stopping the most sophisticated threats.

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By October 2011, it has morphed into a full-fledged web application with user profiles and social networking features.

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As of late January 2008, more than half a million Facebook users play Scrabulous daily, with four times that number having added the application to their Facebook profiles.

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Once candidates register on the site, they can apply for open positions, stay up-to-date on the progress of their application through their online profiles, or call Give A Grad A Go to chat about roles the site might have for them.

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Chatter is a cloud-based social collaboration application through which enterprise users can create profiles with professional information like personal contact data, area of expertise, and work history.

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An interview of Craig Palli from Fiksu provided some fascinating figures about how the value of iPad, iPhone and Android smartphone application users is changing as the device owner profiles shift and usage patterns evolve.

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The application costs nothing and works with around 30 games thus far (pre-loaded in the beta as "profiles") -- NVIDIA sees the software not as a tool for direct monetization, but as a means to grow the accessibility of PC gaming.

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