Consumers are using consumer applications and consumer devices and demanding that same elegant experience from their Ent Apps.
Trustwave security experts test many mobile applications every year, usually fitting into one of two categories: free merchant or service-provider applications targeting consumer users (mobile banking applications, grocery store applications, etc.) and applications used by brick-and- mortar merchants for roving sales clerks.
"Using a hybrid design will allow new applications for consumer devices that previously were unavailable, because it would have required a much higher-performance RISC processor, " Pelavin said.
Softkinetic is also developing its technology for wider usage than just videogames, and has partnered with various companies to develop applications in consumer electronics, health care and video-conferencing.
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Among the corporate sponsors of telematics research and development are Samsung, LG Electronics, Hyundai and General Motors, who all have speech-interfaced applications targeting consumer products launching in early 2008.
There is a pent-up demand for tablet devices that will support various business applications as well as the many consumer applications they were designed for, and as book, magazine, and newspaper readers.
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The high-performance NAND memory is expected to be of immediate benefit to a host of NAND-based mobile and consumer electronics applications, especially where there is consumer demand for an extra stretch in performance.
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The integration of personal mobile devices, consumer applications and social networks into the workplace is now permanent.
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Scientists continue to make major advances in 3D-printing technology for the medical community and for wider consumer applications.
Moreover, eye control with real 3D experience will add another level of entertainment to consumer applications such as video games.
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But it's also likely that government contracts and emerging consumer applications will allow them to start making money back quickly.
Skyfire has honed its technology through a variety of top-selling consumer applications, which have more than 20 million worldwide downloads to date.
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Their primary business unit is microprocessors within cars, but their products also have a wide range of industrial, networking and consumer applications.
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The problem with consumer applications like this is people cheat, Bosworth says.
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There are already several consumer applications of bioluminescence: one US firm has made use of it to manufacture luminous drinks for sale in nightclubs.
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But from a product standpoint, the fastest growth will be seen in conventional device categories like accelerometers and radio frequency MEMS that target consumer applications.
There will be an app store, offering enterprise and consumer applications.
While Intel Capital invests across the technology spectrum, it is adept at investing in the technology that is behind the flashy consumer applications, Sodhani said in an interview.
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It means that a whole world of new consumer applications and services is being enabled by the easier-than-ever ability to aggregate, standardize and present data from disparate sources.
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Specialty metals include metals like rare earth elements, which are being used more often in applications such as consumer electronics, solar panels and magnets used to power hybrid vehicles.
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Earlier this month, RIM said it was preparing to launch an applications store and consumer Internet services in China as part of its push into the world's top mobile market.
Whether it is faster direct attached storage products, personal or home cloud storage devices or improved enterprise and archive storage consumer applications storage capacity, architectures and transport speeds will continue to grow and develop.
Targeting consumer applications, and extra skinny tablets and laptops in particular, this cabled variety of PCI Express will start off based on the 3.0 spec in 2013, but will then move on from there to PCI Express 4.0 and, potentially, optical data conveyance.
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The technology magazine Red Herring sponsors a workshop on attracting investment, there are keynote speeches from senior management figures at Intel, Digital, Citicorp and Cisco Systems and Intel unveils "e-business solutions and consumer applications" on its stand, its first-ever appearance in the five-year history of the show.
Add to this that the BlackBerry developer community has been writing applications for serious business users for a very long time while both the Apple and Android developer communities, by and large, are completely focused on consumer applications such as games, access to social networking sites, and video and audio downloading and playback.
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There is no shortage of issues swirling around the food industry, and one of the most debated topics involves the compound bisphenol A. Known by its acronym BPA, it has been used for many decades in a wide array of industrial and consumer applications, ranging from hardened plastics to the epoxy safety lining of many food and beverage cans.
The real challenge here is that consumer-centric applications will always fight for a tightly squeezed share of disposable consumer income.
They also unveiled SkypeKit, to open up the platform to more consumer electronics applications.
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