Still, he reasons, it's more efficient to dedicate time to one application than 15 separate applications.

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Researchers at Toshiba receive a one-time payment when an application is made for a patent.

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Very nice support for "virtual desktops previews" to help handle a large number of open application windows at one time.

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For the first time, users can view all computers, tablets, phones and other connected devices on the home's network-as well as the applications they are using, and the real-time bandwidth usage of each application and device-on one easy-to-use StreamBoost interface.

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For one thing, Abaxis has to request a CLIA waiver on licensing each time it develops a new application.

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Fourteen years later, and after investing hundreds of millions of dollars and enduring years of criticism from skeptics in the industry, Netsuite now finds itself as one of the handful of business application providers who are offering a full suite of mature and time-tested, cloud-based applications to the SMB market.

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An example of an application that does not work well in a simple cloud environment is a shared database, such as the typical Oracle database application, where the information is one big block of data that needs to be manipulated all the time by many computing processes and where access to the shared data needs to be synchronized and managed.

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