Eventually, we will make our web browser a launch pad for our personalized recommendation engine and cloud-based services.
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"If I'm just in the browser I need you to launch the browser, but if I'm an app, we can grab your attention, " he said.
Once it has won access to the iPhone, Skyfire plans to launch a browser for BlackBerry devices.
Under Oauth, a user must leave a native application, launch a browser, go to Twitter, and enter his or her credentials there.
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Marc was there at the start and helped launch a browser that was an important product but it never made money and was later ignominiously sold to AOL (AOL) and was last seen a decade ago.
The Wii U social network, Miiverse, is also getting a big enhancement, allowing for the creation of more granular groups on there, while also allowing far broader access thanks to a browser interface that will launch this year.
And because the shopping experience is integrated into the app, there's no need to launch an external browser or visit a Web page to download or complete a purchase.
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All three of those Chinese Internet titans are expanding internationally: Just this week, Baidu teamed up with France Telecom to launch a mobile browser service in Africa and the Middle East.
The most recent move is the launch of a new browser-based video chat service called AV.
For people who also need Streetview, Google is expected to launch it in the browser app in the next 2-3 weeks.
Mozilla has released its Firefox 4 Beta 9 web browser a month ahead of the planned launch of its full version in February.
Finally, since no-permissions apps can launch the phone's Web browser, that provides a potential route to transmit some data from the phone.
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Players can log on to www.majorleaguegaming.com with their MLGid, and launch Offensive Combat right in their web browser.
In other words, they can launch the attack directly from their web browser, simply by clicking on a link.
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Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple - Opera today joined the ranks of those web giants as the company unveiled the most expensive ad ever created by the company to promote the launch of the Opera 11.10 browser.
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Since its 2008 launch, Skyfire has promoted itself as the only mobile browser that supports Flash, enabling video playback on phones.
The company is working with the not-for-profit organisation to launch a new operating system based on the Firefox internet browser that Mozilla owns.
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Within its first six weeks, ChefVille has become a mainstay for 45 million monthly players and FarmVille 2 introduced stunning 3-D farming for the first time in a web browser becoming the most popular social game within three days of network launch.
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Valve also uses the beta to launch what it calls the first ever "first person web browser, " which substitutes an analog-controlled mouse with an omni-directional crosshair.
Microsoft, which took the lead in the Web browser market in the late 1990s, crushing would-be rival Netscape, is due to launch Internet Explorer version 7 (IE7) in the next year, and it promises a much-improved product.
However, some of the shine of the launch was removed by reports that a security firm had already found a flaw in the browser.
What I find most interesting about the launch is the decision to go with the iPad as the next step after the desk bound web browser window.
Meanwhile Mozilla is about to see the launch of the first Firefox OS phones, and together with Samsung have announced work on a new browser engine, Servo, to take advantage of multi-core processors and next generation mobile technology.
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