In addition, consumers can automatically sync their AppZone apps with Android-based devices via BlueStacks Cloud Connect, a cloud-based service that enables a Windows-based PC to become an extension of an Android mobile device and vice versa1.
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Other products being put out to pasture include the company's Building Maker, Cloud Connect, Apps Script's GUI builder and five UiApp widgets, Search API for shopping and the CalDAV API (for developers who aren't whitelisted, that is).
But the actual hosting of the application, the actual requirements for that application to exist in a cloud environment, to connect to the virtualized resources and whatever administration tools the cloud providers may give you to configure and maintain the application, will be, for the most part, controlled by the cloud provider.
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For example, the Ford Focus Electric can wirelessly connect to cloud-based applications that allow owners to control settings while away from their cars.
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The application, called Genesys Connect for Service Cloud, will integrate with the Salesforce.com platform to allow for voice and multi-social network customer service capabilities.
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Salesforce will eventually figure out how to connect the Marketing Cloud to the Sales Cloud core, which will finally allow marketers to quantify the impact of social marketing on pipeline and revenue.
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InfoChimps is creating a big data cloud that is optimized to connect to corporate data centers to allow companies to plug in directly to huge quantities of data without having to move it.
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With Genesys Connect for Service Cloud, we are taking these insights and combining them with Salesforce and a cloud delivery model to create a solution that is profoundly powerful, yet easy to deploy and simple to use.
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' As well as sharing to social networks and cloud services, users can also connect to a range of GALAXY devices including the GALAXY SIII and GALAXY Note II for effortless and automatic sharing of pictures across the GALAXY family.
It's designed by former Nokia engineers who claim they've used their mobile skills to make the Leikr catch a quicker GPS signal, connect directly to a cloud-based, Endomondo-integrated exercise portal using WiFi and Linux-based software, and at the same time stick to a smartphone-like 10mm thickness.
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First, they connect to the ever growing cloud for business users and make their lives easier.
The combination of mobility and cloud computing as fundamentally disruptive technologies can connect anyone, can combine data from anywhere, and can process and answer questions on seven billion in seconds.
Furthermore, we have expanded and enhanced the VIERA connect internet functionality by employing cloud technology, enabling users to access an infinite number of apps, " said Henry Hauser, Vice President, Panasonic Marketing, the Merchandising Group "Panasonic is continually striving to surpass the previous year's commercial and critical success, as well as listening to what consumers are saying.
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These issues, plus the fact that mobile devices are sometimes not able to connect and access content in the cloud, is feeding the already fast growing external storage device market.
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Also new for 2012 is a cloud-based architecture to increase the VIERA Connect IPTV platform to an unlimited number of apps, thereby cementing its reputation for creating innovative and cutting edge products and focusing on providing the consumer with the ultimate in home entertainment.
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And your extended enterprise will connect via mobile and social applications and use cloud services.
In this cloud based world, we should all have a few ways to connect just in case.
By moving to a cloud model, companies benefit from using a common set of standards to connect different collaboration tools and applications from different vendors.
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Your iPhone is only smart and fast enough to connect in real time to the Mother Ship of Smarts in the Cloud.
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