The emergence of these new post PC apps will change who our IT vendors are.
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In May, Microsoft released Kineck for Windows 1.5 with an SDK (Software Developers Kit) to facilitate the creation of PC-centric apps for the motion sensor.
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It's a lot to pay for a PC without native apps, although those who want only the unfettered web might have something close to their dream desktop.
The fact that Kindle apps for PC, tablet, and smartphone followed was no surprise.
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Kindle Textbooks are "Rent Once, Read Everywhere" as they can be read across the most popular devices with free Kindle Reading Apps for PC, Mac, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Android-based devices.
WE7.com on PC and Mac and via apps on iPhone, iPad and Android smart phones and tablets.
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Pokki, from startup SweetLabs, recently launched to offer consumers mobile-style apps on the PC desktop through a small bar on the bottom of the PC screen (See stories here and here).
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Replacing a PC completely with a tablet involves abandoning the Windows ecosystem entirely, and jumping through hoops to find equivalent apps and devices to mirror the PC experience.
The player also lets users synchronise their apps across both a PC and an Android phone or tablet.
Surface has the same built-in new-style apps as every Windows 8 PC, and the same app store.
There are phone-based apps that can handle this, as well as PC-based ones.
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It was born in a different era, when free mobile apps proliferate through word of mouth, not crapware PC installations by computer makers and ads for shrink-wrapped software.
The release follows an earlier software tool that helped Android apps make the jump from a phone to a Windows PC.
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Customers can control the volume or mute with a regular TV remote or with one of the free Sonos Controller apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac or PC.
Digital reading is increasingly shifting from PC-based browsers to mobile devices, including tablets, and to apps designed specifically for those devices.
For over two years, Amazon has been building and introducing a wide selection of free "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" Kindle apps for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry and Android-based devices that let customers read and sync their reading library, bookmarks, notes, and highlights with the device or platform of their choice.
Communication has moved from the telephone landline to the mobile phone to Internet telephony with Skype to now apps like GroupMe with mobile communications services which do not rely on a PC or telephone number.
You can even read both books (thanks to free apps from Amazon) on your iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac or PC.
With many users starting to use computer monitors to play console games, if the Xbox can run Explorer, Office, Skype and most if not all the other 3rd party apps, then a lot of people might just buy an Xbox instead of a PC as their primary computer at home.
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Kindle books are "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" with free Kindle reading apps available for the most popular devices, including iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac and Android-based devices.
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While embedded technologies and new apps could be the future, today, the company's core business--sales of PC cards--is also getting stronger.
It is the first developer platform to support apps that bring the connected TV experience to all "four screens" (smartphone, tablet, PC and SmartTV).
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