Of course there are tradeoffs when you leverage different platforms, and cloud computing is no different.
To top that off, several major TV manufacturers produce separate models that run completely different platforms.
With some customizing, Quantums tape drives can work with a number of different platforms.
Different time frames around the show, different platforms and they likely filter comments differently too.
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The researchers also note that there are big differences in the levels of piracy for different platforms.
Currently, application developers must spend much time and effort porting and testing their applications on different platforms.
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To be able to add 20% to sales at a relatively low cost--without different platforms--is good business.
Since smartphones use a variety of different platforms, someone writing malicious software needs to pick and choose.
In an effort to drive innovation, the factories were often developing new products or processes on different platforms.
They also have video chat to other Fring users and across different platforms.
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One of the biggest problems with smart TVs in the last few years has been the sheer number of different platforms.
If anything, the number of platforms is continuing to expand, as automakers continue to create different platforms for different models.
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One of the ways that TeraGrid is different from private-sector grids, says Catlett, is that it can run so many different platforms.
Over time even desktop environments should be transitioned to multiple different platforms.
Acer has developed five different platforms, bundled with applications as users require, from which a variety of Internet access devices can be spun off.
HTML5 apps are cheaper and easier to create, and can work across different platforms like Firefox OS, though they fall down on offering high-spec features.
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You still need to purchase the game for those different platforms.
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This difference is caused by using different platforms, and it should be thought of as a zone of support or resistance more than an exact level.
Now, you need to maneuver all three pieces at once on three different platforms desktop, tablet and smartphones, each with different CPMs, clickthroughs and consumer behavior.
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The goal was to provide thousands of New Orleans visitors with direct customer service by tracking relevant social media conversations on several different platforms within a 10 mile radius.
When it comes to making the most out of social media and marketing, companies should know how to listen to their consumers and find ways to engage them in different platforms.
Yet Google is a champion of open data, making it trivially easy for any Google user to export their e-mail, bookmarks and other data for use in competing applications on different platforms.
Compared with an HTML5 mobile app, which can be developed once and run on many different platforms, a native app approach can be significantly more expensive, since these apps must be developed platform-by-platform.
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With the 2013 season looming just around the corner, it's only natural for Major League Baseball to make sure its various applications on different platforms are all ready to go come this weekend.
Time Warner Cable has expanded its TWC TV IP streaming of broadcast television to several different platforms since its launch two years ago, but so far it's been limited to use inside subscriber's homes.
Another difference is that unlike the DVD version of the Creative Suite, a Creative Cloud subscription allows you to install your software on two different platforms, so if you run both the Windows and OS X versions simultaneously.
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"Before today, the Smart TV industry was a very difficult market for both TV manufacturers and application developers as TV's from different brands used different platforms and technologies, " said Bong-seok Kwon of LG Electronics, President of Smart TV Alliance.
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It remains to be seen how useful this will be -- at the time of our hands-on we weren't able to establish, for example, whether the new music player allows you to add tunes from different platforms to the same playlist.
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"Customers whose companies have branch offices in Bangladesh, and run all different platforms and all different OSs, those customers will look to IBM, HP, and Compaq to provide comprehensive services, " said Paul McNamara, general manager of the business enterprise unit at Red Hat.
Vimeo says that creators are set to keep 90 percent of the earnings "after transaction costs, " which, naturally, includes content sold throughout its many applications on different platforms -- including, but not limited to, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Xbox Live and Apple TV.
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