It is a labor of love for programmers, who have built applications off Google and posted them, like trophies, on the Web.
The company has two advanced applications (one for enterprise security and one for PCI compliance), several other purpose built applications for tasks such as running Microsoft Exchange, Cisco Iron Port, F5, and other products, and dozens of apps on Splunkbase that come from both Splunk and from its growing community of developers.
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Every one of the built in applications acted the same way, with similar hotkeys, menu structures, modes of operation, fonts, and layout.
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Anyone using the handset for anything more than the built in applications, some light web browsing, and a few pictures while out and about is going to realise the HTC 8S falls far short of the standard of the HTC 8X and many other Windows Phone 8 devices.
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Unlike its research-intensive predecessors, the Univac also was built with business applications in mind.
In fact, the company has also built several cool applications on top of the cloud platform.
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Developers from AOL, Salesforce.com, Sega and Epocrates also showed off applications built with Apple's tools.
Adobe knows of 300 applications built using its new AIR technology, and most are startups.
Additional wellness applications built into the MyFit include a water intake manager and smoking cessation utility.
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The real challenge for the project, however, will be in the applications built around the unique identities.
The open API will allow developers to create a wide range of applications built around location data.
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When was the last time you changed passwords on applications built on FIX?
It is likely that cloud based custom applications built of the abundance of componentry that is now available will be key.
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Other big applications built on Firefox's underlying code include Songbird, an open-source version of Apple's iTunes, and Joost, a high-quality Web video channel.
Doctor Claudio Palma uses medical applications built for the iPhone, such as Epocrates and OsiriX, in his day-to-day practice as a pain management specialist.
Giving me a device with all of my favorite Microsoft applications built in, supported and ready to use makes it easy for me to do business.
"I don't like plastic kits, because they look like toys, and most of the applications built by plastic kits are just for fun, without practical use, " he says.
But developers believe Apple wants to monetize applications built with the SDK by pricing them at a few dollars, distributing them through iTunes and asking for a cut of revenue.
Throughout the built- in applications you can have menu buttons appear at the bottom of the screen, be pulled down from the top, slide in from one side, have the hub alert slide in from the other side, or have the hub alerts replaced by yet another menu.
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Modern businesses are built around very sophisticated applications that can do amazing things.
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It's also because Apple's phones--and iPads, too--are built to run certain applications, not whatever malicious apps hackers throw at them.
In many organizations, this is how applications get built and woes betide you if you try to avoid writing the spec.
And with the S4, Samsung has introduced a host of built-in software applications (and enabled a great many more from third-party developers) that American consumers may or may not turn out to value.
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Before launching MessageMe earlier this month, his co-founding team had collectively built more than two dozen applications for Facebook.
This new type of application must be built on top of existing applications.
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The Hadoop community realizes this and is actively pursuing many projects that add needed functionality to allow applications to be built.
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Google ( GOOG - news - people ), which has built a suite of wireless applications, will be rewarded by increased broadband use, too, according to Arbogast.
While Apple under Steve Jobs focused on its Macintosh closed system of hardware, software, and applications, Microsoft built an open market system on Windows: any hardware, any application, many ways to make money.
Software makers get all wrapped up in sexy new features and functions and hundreds of ways of doing the exact same thing that they seem to forget the most fundamental use of their products: most business software applications are systems built around databases.
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