Salesforce.com has Force.com, a development platform that sits on top of its industrial-strength software-as-a-service infrastructure.
Iridium offers an open development platform for custom location-based solutions providing real time tracking.
It also launched the Sybase Unwired platform, a mobile app development platform targeted at enterprises.
The availability of the SDK completes the recent launch of Immersion's MOTIV Haptic Development Platform.
OpenFeint is a social games development platform like an Xbox Live for the iPhone and Android phones.
While SUP 2.0 is not the first development platform to embrace the Web, it is the first enterprise-focused one.
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"This is the first new drug-development platform in the post-genomic era, " beams Lanphier.
It's likely that today, Amazon Web Services may be powering your favorite app, its development platform and its host.
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But it could get there as an "open services development platform, " which Stahlman believes is the future of enterprise computing.
Salesforce.com offers Force.com, which is the development platform and infrastructure for corporate IT departments and independent developers to build business applications.
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Quirky, a crowd-sourced social product development platform, announced with some fanfare a program to give inventors access to its huge patent portfolio.
Green u-City will also provide an open-source development platform for local developers to create further apps, either for city managers or for citizens.
Unreal Engine is a world-class game development platform that's powered classic franchises including Gears of War, BioShock, Mass Effect, Borderlands, and Infinity Blade.
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As mentioned earlier, we've just gotten our hands on Qualcomm's latest development platform to see how its first quad core chipset fares.
The more ambitious, and potentially vaporware bit, is Envizions' hopes for the system as a game development platform and a cloud computing device of sorts.
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The tool operates as a cooperative development platform, which enables the team to have shared access in real time to objects, models, environments in course of development.
You could argue that SUP already had access to a large pool of developers via its support of the popular Eclipse development platform, which supports Java and other languages.
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Epson's 3D display glasses, the Moverio BT-100 have been floating around as a development platform for a couple years, and APX Labs is the latest to hack the headset.
Farming for geeks is about to get easier, thanks to a new software development platform pioneered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and coming soon to a corn-field near you.
Along with a new Sphero Augmented Reality SDK available today on Github, Orbotix has created a new Sphero Augmented Reality plug-in for Unity, a flexible development platform used to make intelligent, interactive 3D and 2D content.
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"Verizon Wireless has a demonstrated commitment to innovation, and we're excited to combine our open product development platform with the nation's best wireless broadband network, " said Peter Semmelhack, founder and chief executive officer of Bug Labs.
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Having launched a development platform for real-time analytics applications and a fully integrated ultrasonic signal conditioner for automotive parking distance applications, TI added to its existing industrial portfolio new product development in the LED division last month.
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Otherwise developers would have to buy all these handsets to test their applications--a problem that Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) hopes to stamp out with its "Open Handset Alliance" and development platform.
But with many laboratory tasks being automated, there should also be scope to begin new activities, and the partners believe one key role for the ISS going forward will be as a development platform for deep space exploration.
He then used the Unity graphics rendering engine - commonly used by independent video games developers - and Vuforia - an AR app development platform made by the chip maker Qualcomm - to allow a smartphone to interact with his creation.
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Besides Sybase and our mobile device management and app development platform, there are plenty of competing firms (though our position is that most of those are less integrated solutions that will, for large or growing firms, create more cost in the long run).
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It could be a single device with various multimedia goodies: digital camera, video recorder, gaming device, wireless device, and cell phone although knowing Apple's penchant for maintaining simple interfaces, it's also likely we could see a whole lineup of multimedia devices catering to specific niches, complete with a common development platform for the fleet of Alphamosaic-based iPods.
This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool.
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Allan Leinwand, CTO of platform development at ServiceNow and a Zynga alum, generally agreed.
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