After struggling to recruit Android developers, location-based social network start-up Gowalla Inc. hired Pivotal Labs to build its Android client.

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And IBM, to take one example, has seen 40% year-to-year growth in sales of its thin client, called the Network Station.

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Akamai even turned the trick into a profitable business by building a network of servers situated within the networks of other companies into a sort of meta-network, which it uses to speed the delivery of its client's content.

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The new model was peer-to-peer, where every user on the network acts as both a client and a server, sharing files and telling other users where else they can go to get them.

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