On the other hand, less demand for dedicated devices had helped Amazon, which already established a strong brand presence with Kindle as part of a much larger personal-cloud ecosystem.
It also lacks its own cloud-based ecosystem for storing and sharing files, like Apple's iCloud or Google Drive.
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Users can search for a location or interesting places to go, save the location in Magellan's Smart Ecosystem cloud, and through Magellan's SmartGPS App, send the location to their SmartGPS automatically via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth for in-vehicle navigation.
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Cloud will evolve from a one-to-one relationship between end-user and cloud provider to a one-to-many, flourishing ecosystem comprised of cloud insurers, such as CloudInsure, broker services, and other intermediaries enabling organizations to enjoy the financial and operational benefits of federated cloud formations.
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Unlike the competition, BBRY, in our opinion, lacks a compelling multi-screen device strategy as well as a content ecosystem and cloud strategy.
As a vehicle progresses on its route, the SmartGPS accesses the cloud-based Smart Ecosystem to deliver a rich variety of location-relevant information "squares" that are displayed on the SmartGPS screen and graphically flip between service establishments in the vicinity.
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The Magellan SmartGPS communicates with Magellan's custom-built Smart Ecosystem, a cloud platform for an extensive database of constantly-updating, location-relevant social media and navigation content that is automatically pushed to the SmartGPS display to create a uniquely-rich driving experience.
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So Apple has lots of time to keep building momentum for its ecosystem of devices and cloud services.
Resulting in an emerging ecosystem of Insurers, brokers, and cloud marketplaces to provide that actionable data, and operating on the principle that cloud is a commodity .
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This is the cloud-computing dream, the Microsoft headache that could challenge the ecosystem from Dell to Firefox.
The business ecosystem Watson epitomizes ranges from the chip and server makers, to Cloud data center builders and operators.
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It greets you by name, it leads on content, you can buy content once and enjoy on a big ecosystem, and it keeps all of your content on the Amazon cloud, backed up for free.
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"Sony needs to show its next system is ready for the future, and this includes some crossover play with smartphones, digital distribution, cloud storage to help minimize the need for physical media and a free-to-play ecosystem that can bring in new gamers, " he said.
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