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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Sports' renowned investigative reporting will be featured on NBC TV, giving fans multiple-platform delivery.
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According to fresh rumors from Apple blog AppleInsider, the computer maker will soon pledge support for Intel's upcoming new mobile chip platform, code named "Menlow, " and is planning multiple products using the platform for 2008.
One of the primary objectives of this consortium is to help define technical specifications which will enable application developers to create their applications once and run them on multiple TVs regardless of the platform.
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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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When you solve multiple custom problems with the same platform, the lock-in is stronger still.
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The platform allows brands to follow multiple streams of conversation in real-time about their products and subjects that interest their community.
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Worklight offers multiple components that are integrated as a platform and IBM WebSphere is one of the key supporting environments that runs underneath it.
We see thousands of creators and publishers of all sizes using our platform to distribute their stories across multiple marketplaces, such as iBooks, Amazon, Facebook, and others and see how real connections are made between those creators and their fans.
Red Hat hopes its support of multiple open source applications running on Linux will make the platform more attractive to corporate network managers looking for cheaper alternatives to commercial server operating systems.
Tablets are taking off faster than any new technology since email, said TL Neff executive vice president at Verivo, which has developed a platform that allows users to deliver applications across multiple mobile platforms including iPad, Android and BlackBerry.
The platform is designed to be an extensible fit across multiple systems and lines of business at a financial institution.
Customers using interchange stations with multiple gates need to follow the clearly marked directions to each platform to ensure they are charged for their correct journey.
The third-generation platform architecture consists of a multi-core SSD controller integrated with multiple high-speed serial on-chip buses and embedded processors, achieving high-speed data transfer between host and storage device.
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Now we can interact with customers across multiple channels and devices simultaneously, so we can be much smarter with multi-platform marketing.
And customers, overwhelmed by the need to manage multiple solutions from multiple vendors, gravitate towards established vendors that can provide comprehensive protection in a managed platform.
The underlying promise is to provide companies a rich set of offer content, a marketing engine capable of reaching customers over multiple channels including email, SMS, social media and ads, an integrated transactional platform, and a rich data and analytics engine to optimize targeted delivery of offer content all within company branding.
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He writes that the update reflects the fact that the multiple compression story has played out, the company has changed its approach to pricing its platform and today is the last major lock-up expiration.
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Operating systems designed to run on hardware from multiple manufacturers and Java virtual machines promising portability across hardware and operating systems were part of the swing toward platform independence.
"This new platform satisfies two requests that many of our customers have made: viewing of HDTV content on multiple household computers and inconspicuous placement of the device itself, " said Adam Steinberg, Elgato's VP of Marketing.
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Last month, Forbes interviewed Gareth Davis, a game platform manager for Facebook, who talked about the idea of connected social games that ran on multiple devices, but in different ways where the gameplay was tailored to each.
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For advertisers, the technology takes a lot of the legwork out of buying ad space, particularly across screens owned by multiple firms, said Mike Finnegan, director of product development at Xaxis, an online media-buying platform owned by WPP PLC.
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