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.
This browser-based service will automatically append the all important hashtag to each tweet so that the conversation is filtered (and searchable) by each hashtag conversation.
The most recent move is the launch of a new browser-based video chat service called AV.
Founded in 2005, Meebo started out as a browser-based instant messaging service and expanded into a social toolbar product for publishers.
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The programs, an addition to the company's "Lotus" group of applications, also represent one of IBM's most ambitious forays yet into enterprise software-as-a-service, the browser-based model of applications pioneered by companies like Salesforce.com.
Users (mostly salespeople) access the service through a web browser wherever they are.
While M-Go is not planning to offer an Apple-specific app, Batter says Apple device users will be able to use the service via a Web browser.
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Those same small businesses also need software to keep track of sales leads, which they increasingly choose to buy from firms such as Salesforce.com that deliver it as a service through the web browser, just as Google delivers search results.
Several tech sites, including Cnet and The Next Web, have reported that the search firm might next bring the Google Now service to its Chrome browser and possibly its search webpage based on analysis of changes to the firm's code.
In its statement of objections, the Commission takes the preliminary view that Microsoft has failed to roll out the browser choice screen with its Windows 7 Service Pack 1, which was released in February 2011.
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On Tuesday, Facebook was the latest to unveil its solution: a video chat service that operates within the web browser, powered by Skype.
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This read-it-later service has become a replacement of the traditional browser bookmark for the short-attention-span, digital generation.
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The subscription service is built around the MSN 8 net browser.
Take the case of one Granick client who used nothing more than a standard Web browser to discover the master password file of one Internet service provider that was not locked away as well as it should have been.
The service also works exactly the same in a mobile browser.
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Announced over the weekend, encrypted chat service Cryptocat will soon be accessible only by downloading a local browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
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This disruptive approach results in a directory meta-application, which links (like a browser calling up a Web page) to every individual application, cloud service, or Web site employees need.
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Launched first on iPhone in March, Scout for Apps is the first HTML5, browser-based, voice-guided, turn by turn, GPS navigation service for mobile phones.
FM, Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel hope their service will be able to suggest sites that you will like through a browser plug-in that captures the sites and pages you visit, and then uses this with anonymized data from other others to power the suggestions.
On Thursday, the company announced that it had acquired FolderShare, which operates an online service allowing customers to share and synchronize files to different computers, using any Web browser.
Your browser leaves a trail of data behind it, revealing where you have been, which Internet service provider you use -- in some cases even your name and e-mail address.
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