Google hopes--though it will take a year or more to find out--that the economics of a cheaper, easily re-engineered handset will create a phone-development environment far different from today's proprietary closed models--in which a small number of service providers dictate to relatively few manufacturers what they want on their custom-designed models--and closer to the "fast and cheap" Internet design model.
In eCommerce, there are the costs of Internet, website design and hosting, and freight.
Anonymity was built into the Internet's design from the days of its progenitor (Arpanet) in the 1960s.
That core principle was actually baked into the Internet's design by its founders.
The Internet is poky by design--and there are hard chairs in the computer room to discourage work.
Cerf, after all, helped to design the Internet to be robust above all else, finding its way around physical and digital hurdles to reliably deliver data.
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"It's terrifying, when you think about scaling and reliability, " says Vinton Cerf, who was on the Internet's original design team and now is a WorldCom senior vice president.
Design for Internet companies is often thought of as just a top layer of pretty paint, but Facebook and other start-ups are integrating design as an integral part of their overall strategy.
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Its family-friendly design has no Internet capabilities and does not play Nintendo GameCube games.
But in the 21st century, internet standards have successfully separated design and content.
By design, the Internet's power stems from its simple rules and communal nature.
The concept was to leverage the Internet to allow users to design their own products, such as mugs and t-shirts.
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Software now covers a maze of different industries, including applications software, operating systems, databases, the Internet, computer-aided design and networking.
Tibbets wanted to unlock the creativity that was inherent in the design of the Internet, and particularly in the proliferation of interfaces known as APIs.
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In a three-story building of concrete and smoked green glass opposite Cisco Systems' San Jose, California headquarters, the grand design of the Internet is in its final tests.
Web design is heavily metrics-based these days and many Internet designers now are judged based on how their design influences web traffic.
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There has been no shortage of Internet chatter over a potential watch design f rom Apple dubbed the iWatch.
Rather than a direct attempt by Facebook to monetize user data, this is, essentially, a design flaw on the Internet.
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Fans cooed over the sleek design and a flashy Internet access.
Jamie Hyneman, co-host of the Discover Channel's Mythbusters, tried to build a design touted on the Internet as being able to crank out free energy on his show.
Corporate travelers are more difficult for the Internet travel industry, and sites must design their offerings to cater to this group.
These included the lack of disabled parking at bank branches, difficulties using ATMs that differed in design, and challenges using internet banking.
Braziel had the good fortune to design the system around the Internet Protocol, so it was easy to shift from a proprietary network to the much less expensive Internet.
In addition, the company promises improved video capabilities, and improved features in its Dreamweaver Web design product for the forthcoming HTML5 Internet standard.
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"I really feel that the next paradigm for product design will be changed by the Internet and the new range of materials we now have, " he said.
Internet job postings used to be about cheap logo design, or Web page construction.
Its astounding success in Internet search is universally regarded as a consequence of better design, superior code, better products and plain old hard work.
Having a designer or someone with some knowledge of design is a key part of a founding Internet start-up, said Garry Tan, designer-in-residence at Y Combinator and co-founder of blogging company Posterous.
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"We didn't design this with Google in mind, " insists Internet Explorer head Dean Hachamovitch.
Apple has so far proved that it is possible to earn high margins with brilliant design and by offering consumers ways to access the internet effortlessly wherever they go.
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