The Internet has continued to free app-makers from dependency on Windows or any other desktop platform (and, thus, from dependency on Microsoft).
"The Pentium 4 processor will be the fastest desktop platform in the world, " Yu promised an audience of software and hardware developers assembled here.
The new release supports the Steam Play licensing system, meaning a customer can purchase it for one desktop platform and play it on another at no extra cost.
Reuters Insider, a new video platform designed exclusively for financial professionals, and Thomson Reuters Eikon, a financial desktop platform that takes its cues from the intuitive search, engaging interfaces and seamless mobile interchange for professionals.
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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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I've written in the past about my concern that the Android platform is fragmenting much like desktop Linux has over the years, and the potential for the platform to turn into a patchwork of devices and vendor specific modifications that bear little relationship with each other.
That can make a desktop PC monitor an easy platform for keeping up with the cable TV news channels all day--or the baseball game you're missing because you're rushing to make a deadline.
Other new features include a new internet speed diagnostics page, the full release of the new BBC iPlayer Desktop, and a cross-platform manager that will allow Windows, Mac, and Linux users to download BBC programmes, including those in HD.
In order to spur the development of innovation and entrepreneurship in desktop fabrication and 3D printing, the Kauffman Foundation, Maker Education Initiative and Inventables launched the Desktop Fabrication Competition on the iStart platform last summer.
Back when Microsoft released Windows Vista, the dominant platform for Windows was the desktop PC.
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The platform, which over a desktop computer is essentially a free and unlimited iTunes account, plays for about eight hours a day over my computer speakers.
On the competitive environment, and transition to mobile from desktop: Ko says everyone is handling the platform shift a little bit differently.
Where Bert Danner falters in his analysis is in assuming that the mobile platform battle will play out like desktop computing, where network effects yielded near monopoly-level dominance to Microsoft.
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Recently it added a new product, Pokki, which is a platform for mobile-style apps on desktop PCs.
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WordPress, it seems, is following this development from a desktop-centric world to a mobile and multiple platform world, and taking its millions of users with it.
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And while MakerBot still seems a ways away from the final product, the company used SXSW as a platform to unveil a prototype of its MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner.
We will continue to develop a broad range of services that complement our core search platform, including maps and personal services on the desktop and on mobile platforms, emphasizing collaboration with our strategic partners.
But Firefox OS isn't the last stop for the payment platform, as it'll be headed to the desktop browser and Firefox for Android soon.
Spotify's Follow features will roll out as part of a desktop app update in the coming weeks, with a full cross-platform upgrade arriving next year.
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Firefox OS is currently in version 0.7 and has just released a desktop simulator that developers can use to preview apps written for the new platform due to be released some time in 2013.
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The format of ads on Twitter's mobile and desktop sites are the same, and advertisers pay the same rate no matter the platform.
In fact, a recent Nielsen report found that over 150 million users access Facebook from a mobile platform about as many as those who do so from a desktop browser.
The LIFEBOOK E752 desktop replacement notebook, designed for business professionals and office workers, offers a highly flexible platform that can be configured to meet diverse business needs.
In the future, Facebook should launch new services like Graph Search on mobile first and desktop second, says Ty Amell, CEO of StackMob, a cloud-based mobile platform for developers.
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If the closest real-world counterpart for the PC was the desktop, the closest real-world counterpart for the slate may be the clipboard, a platform that aggregates and recalls important resources on the go but isn't something most people need access to all the time.
And, indeed, in that same six months, these developers created more than 100 apps for the platform, including mobile clients for iOS, Android and even Windows Phone and Symbian, desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux and browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
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By aiming to have one platform run across multiple device footprints, they can leverage the support and tools from the desktop version of Ubuntu and put them into a mobile device running the same code, but with a mobile UI layer on the top.
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