Email will look like another siloed application, less useful than products that sit on the network platform.
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The proposition, that before you launch a new social network platform, find out what your real social network is doing, makes a lot of sense.
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In 2010, Sony launched a network platform called "Qriocity" which connects many of Sony's network-enabled devices, and has been expanding its services into global markets.
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Blue Pillar has deployed its network platform on 50 sites encompassing over 1, 050 endpoints, representing over 150 megawatts of capacity in major demand response markets.
Facebook are looking for a winner here, because the continued success of Facebook as a platform needs a new champion to keep their marketing story fresh to retain developers on the social network based platform.
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They can partner with software platform providers and network management providers to bring together three, critical M2M elements: the platform, network management and network provision.
Neil Smith, General Manager, Media Services, AOL, told me the ISP has leveraged the Network Magic platform to help reduce AOL's enormous call volume.
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In addition to individual membership, the Bitcoin Foundation provides a way for corporate enterprises from all industries to participate in the expansion of the bitcoin network and platform.
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Dowling said Pure Networks is sharing its APIs with partners like AOL and D-Link so they can write both agents and applications that leverage the Network Magic platform to the enhance the value of their hardware and software offerings.
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Its own PlayStation Network online game platform was until recently an entirely free service.
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Earth Unplugged is BBC Worldwide's first original-content channel for YouTube and forms part of the company's plans to build a true consumer facing multi-channel network on the platform.
MocoSpace focuses on the mobile Web, instead of mobile apps, reasoning that because the mobile Web works across all smartphones and some feature phones, this will allow it to attract more users to its network regardless of platform.
Some of NBC's own employees signed petitions petition at the network's Burbank, California, studios protesting NBC's decision to give Simpson a platform on network television when he didn't take the stand to tell his story in a court of law.
These actions support our strategy to transition from being a first-party web game developer to a multi-platform game network.
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He has tripled the size of the network's digital platform with a mature Internet business that has strong cash flow.
"From what I gather Wellington will be sufficient in terms of length of platform - Network Rail may have a different view, " he said.
The immense popularity of watching video on-the-go means the question of platform versus network will likely be a flashpoint for the wireless industry in coming months.
Its platform is network independent, and while a service provider such as Cingular might use it to make content available to its customers, it is Motricity that is managing the content, not Cingular.
The UNEVOC Network serves as a platform for information sharing and bringing TVET stakeholders and specialists together in meetings and workshops as a means to improve TVET in different regions of the world.
The types of start-ups they seek are: next generation e-commerce, marketplaces, systems that leverage social data, and influencer networks (the idea that individuals make up the power of a network moreso than the platform itself).
That means someone installing the smart wiring in the walls of buildings, the network firm providing the platform connecting the smart devices, the gadget-makers that provide an Apple-like user experience for every fixture, and the next-generation utility offering new forms or methods of energy delivery.
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OpenFeint is the largest cross platform social gaming network with over 68 million players in 4, 800 games.
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The system provides a platform for continuous network improvement through the application of new and enhanced software development.
The annual college basketball tournament offers the Tiffany network a three-week platform to reach the otherwise hard to pin down young male viewer, who is prized by advertisers.
McNamara feels the network will serve as a platform for the exchange of open-source components, a way to "process" those raw materials into something that is useful and available to the entire community.
It's partly to take advantage of the network's massive Summer Olympics promotional platform (as well as Sunday Night Football, which is a key player in the network's performance), and partly to avoid the competition.
Partners that have signed on for the launch includes blogs on the WordPress platform, The Awl Network, Forbes and Thought Catalog.
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Tumblr, which is part blogging platform, part social network now gets 15 billion page views each month, according to Quantcast figures.
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Agawi's revolutionary CloudPlayTM gaming platform enables OEMs, network operators, game publishers and retailers to deliver their own cloud gaming services to their customers.
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Pure Networks' CEO Tim Dowling, a 14-year Intel veteran, said Network Magic is architected as a platform much like a corporate IT product.
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