It will be interesting to see if other location based apps add similar features.
Despite his success with Web-based apps, Zweig plans to release SDK versions of Jirbo's games.
There are 6, 000 location-based apps for the Apple iPhone alone, allowing users to share photos, videos and reviews.
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Telluri expects to see gesture-based apps and games to enter the market in the later part of the year.
This is why is a bunch of JavaScript that promises speedy 3D gesture-based apps is such a big deal.
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There are phone-based apps that can handle this, as well as PC-based ones.
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Will we be smacked around by a litany of location-based apps, all of which can happily be opted-out of?
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Cloud based apps have been helping them manage their lives for years.
It could crearte a synergy to build various extensions into both services that could be sold on Google Apps Marketplace and as Android-based apps.
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Currently, there are more than 400, 000 and 230, 000 apps available on the iOS and Android platforms, respectively, compared to less than 10, 000 WebOS based apps.
The result will be that not far out in the future, for all practical purposes, standards based apps may match the performance of native apps.
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They leverage cloud-based apps like Salesforce.com to manage their customer relationships.
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Other popular cloud-based apps enable a range of productivity enhancements.
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This is the insight that allowed Steven Newcomb (founder and CEO) and Mark Lu (co-founder and head of engineering) of Famo.us to crack the performance puzzle of web-based apps.
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It is based on the open web, which means interacting with many of its HTML5-based apps will be like visiting websites through a browser, opening temporarily as apps, and closing.
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Philo is a startup that, along with competitors like Miso and GetGlue, has taken the concept of "checking in"--popularized in recent months by location-based apps like Foursquare--and applied it to television shows.
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The product addresses a variety of uses being fueled by the growing need to access cloud-based apps and resources at any time, or whenever a larger screen high definition digital display provides a superb user experience.
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Companies like Nike and Puma are also following this trend, tapping collaborations with everything from location-based apps to messaging services in attempts to lead the way into what will undoubtedly become a crowded marketplace for consumer engagement.
The Orange-Baidu browser will provide a more affordable and richer browsing experience for customers across AMEA due to its enhanced data compression capabilities (up to 90% of compression), and one-click access to web-based apps and internet services.
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The new Orange and Baidu browser offers a highly customisable but simple interface for customers in AMEA, enabling them to access web-based apps and internet services unique to Baidu and Orange, as well as services like Wikipedia, Facebook or Twitter, amongst others.
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Cloud-based social apps enable multiple users to collaborate on documents in real time.
Outfit7, the maker of character-based mobile apps, recently passed 100 million downloads in just 10 months on the Apple App Store.
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But there is a major problem with this approach: browser-based mobile apps are more convenient for developers than they are for users.
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