"If someone came up with a 64-bit desktop application, then AMD would have an advantage, " Brookwood said.
Today, Office is the only full-featured traditional desktop application that Microsoft is keeping around for Windows RT.
The new iWork desktop application now includes a spreadsheet program, dubbed Numbers, offering an Apple alternative to Microsoft's Excel.
Now the company is launching a bunch of new features, including a desktop application that basically creates folders on your PC the way Dropbox does.
DoIT anticipates that all email and desktop application users will migrate to the cloud by the end of 2013 and will provide guidance and training to City employees throughout this process to ensure smooth implementation.
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The new Kobo Wireless eReader allows consumers to browse more than 1.5 million books in the Borders eBook store and update their digital library wirelessly, directly from the eReader device, a smartphone or the Borders Desktop Application.
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We got to briefly chat with Transporter's makers, and they told us that while the Transporter hardware is ready to roll and its web portal is solid, the desktop application still has some kinks to be worked out.
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Approaches that rely on operations performed by the user have a fatal flaw beyond the need to recognize what actions are required: they depend on computer input devices controlled by software which can be exploited in the same way that a remote desktop application does.
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Your mobile application will not be able to do all the things that a desktop based application can do.
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Desktop PC application platform Pokki announced that it is launching social games from Google Ventures-backed Kabam on its platform.
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The MSN toolbar also comes with a desktop search application which indexes the contents of your local computer so you can find files and messages quickly.
VMware focuses on the virtualization they know from their data center background with a vision to bring cloud, virtual desktop and application delivery together under one product.
Also, this week Google announced Google Desktop, a free downloadable application that combines desktop search with a sidebar that links to Web searches and personal files.
The MOG desktop interface and mobile application are incredibly intuitive and without distracting features.
"Skype evolved on the desktop as a large application that maintains a connection with all of your peers, " he told the BBC.
Native Instruments set the high watermark for DJ software with its desktop-based Traktor application, and now it's available in compact iOS form.
The company will now offer discounts ranging from 10% to 30%, at more than 2, 000 hotels in the U.S., Canada and Europe, off hotel desktop rates on its mobile application.
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The demands for a mobile e-mail application are less complicated than a desktop client.
But you can also click on a traditional Windows application and it will open it in the desktop view.
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It's a compelling proposition: all the power and application compatibility of a laptop running a proper desktop operating system, all the portability and convenience of a tablet, all mixed together in one package.
While the mobile application asks for the same information as the desktop one both versions take 30 to 35 minutes to complete more than 30 fields were altered to provide dropdown menus rather than free-text boxes, and calendars were added that automatically populate queries in the correct format.
The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD is ideal for consumers who want to boost their notebook or desktop computer's boot, shutdown, data-transfer and application launch times.
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The average user on Facebook spends about six hours every month on Facebook's desktop site, while mobile users spend nearly 12 hours on the application, according to recent data from researcher comScore Inc.
The effect, which was purely cosmetic, allowed the desktop, icons and windows that were hidden beneath other windows to show through the surround of the application.
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That gives both Microsoft and Apple plenty of time to figure out the details of making Entourage compatible with other Apple applications, iCal--a personal calendar program, its Address Book application and even iSync, which is designed to let the Mac synchronize information between the desktop and several types of mobile devices.
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