Netscape is enhancing its browser to serve as a platform to run applications.

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From that perspective, it helps to think of Chrome (the browser) as the platform and the OS as a way of delivering the purest expression of what that platform can do.

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Andreessen said Glass would become a platform like the web browser and could become as ubiquitous as the mobile phone.

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New to select VIERA TVs is the inclusion of a browser, further enhancing the internet platform, as well as the addition of "3D Real Sound" with 8-Train Speakers to further enhance sound quality.

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