Beyond its musical application, the machine represents tantalizing possibilities for research into disorders that affect speech.

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ITW's Parker says that the next application, finely threaded machine screws, could be the biggest of all.

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At the time Re-think Wireless thought a machine-to-machine infrastructure would be the most likely application area.

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SanDisk announced that it is offering VMware server cache that can accelerate application 3-5 times and increase the number of supported virtual machine by 2-4 times.

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In other words, while you can install an app like Photoshop on a full Windows 8 machine, you can't do it here, nor any other Windows application written since the dawn of the OS. Additionally, we have our doubts about whether anyone going forward will bother to write desktop apps versus those more optimized for running in the de facto Live Tile interface.

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