The last was especially suspicious: Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) had its own portal--MSN--to support and was keen to prove its "Net-worthiness" to skeptics.
To reiterate, most Valve games are first-person perspective games, from Half-Life to Portal, which made us wonder why none of those games are getting the port treatment.
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It will expand from simplistic provider-centric patient portal to full-blown Patient Relationship Management as one of the leading thinkers in healthIT, Shahid Shaw, stated in a recent articlein a HIMSS publication.
Despite this, Lycos is usually under-rated by competitors and relegated to second-tier portal status by the press.
The internet nation fled the seamy districts of legacy search sites and flocked like portal sheep to the stark non-portal.
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In December, aiming to lure more consumers to its MSN Mobile service--a portal that connects cellphone users to MSN Search, news, Hotmail and instant messaging--Microsoft struck partnerships with MovieTickets.com and Thumbplay The deals enabled MSN Mobile users to access movie listings and reviews, and purchase movie tickets, ringtones and games straight from their cellphones.
The firm recently launched an initiative called Project 60, a 60-day-long blitzkrieg to bring free E-mail, search, forums and other basic portal functions to its Netcenter site.
He shows us just how far the contemporary usage of irony diverges from an older, far more appealing meaning, according to which irony is a portal to self-knowledge.
In April BlueTie signed a deal with Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp (nasdaq: IACI - news - people ) to host 2 million e-mail accounts for its Excite portal and other brands.
It's designed by former Nokia engineers who claim they've used their mobile skills to make the Leikr catch a quicker GPS signal, connect directly to a cloud-based, Endomondo-integrated exercise portal using WiFi and Linux-based software, and at the same time stick to a smartphone-like 10mm thickness.
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However, the al-Misri al-Yawm news portal reported that the judge asked him to remove this and other tweets written during the questioning.
The phrase might conjure up a vision of a glossy company-sanctioned portal for downloading updates to Fruit Ninja and your other time-wasting games.
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But once a user customizes IE, it's difficult to return it to a portal-less state.
There will be a secure web-portal to allow access to shared information in real time, like a "secure Facebook".
Oracle has a similar piece of middleware called Portal-to-Go that is XML-based and transforms data into various formats for mobile devices.
GM's weakness in the Old Economy--jack of all models, master of few--could turn out to be an ace in the New Economy car-portal wars, which will calculate value on ears-per-hour, not J.
It transpires that Bridges' Flynn hasn't been doing much for 20 years but sitting around -- the portal that would allow him to leave has been sealed off -- and his fascist nemesis, returning from the first film, is once again Clu, now played by a digitized version of the young Bridges.
The settlement is the latest development in the roller coaster saga over Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s attempts to take control of the Web portal and comes only days after Yahoo!
On May 1, someone posted the code, which allows software developers to copy content from high-definition discs, to the social news portal Digg.com.
In addition, the Blink Network will prove access to a web-portal containing a wealth of information about consumer's electric vehicles, and charging habits.
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The workforce should be able to update address, phone number, and other personal information through an easy-to-use Web portal without needing HR staff to intervene.
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Then a doorman opened a portal to the still-unfinished lobby.
The new free online portal will offer up-to-the-minute TfL service information including TfL's journey planner and entertainment and news content useful for a commute to work or trip into town.
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And Agency.com is working with London-based Carphone Warehouse, the largest European wholesaler of mobile phones, to create a customizable wireless portal that delivers weather forecasts, local news and e-commerce services to wireless subscribers.
Last month the government announced an initiative to share information on cyber-threats between businesses and governments, including a secure web portal to allow information to be shared in real time.
Jacobs thinks most companies will use PORTAL as a stepping-stone to the public markets, not a substitute for them.
His first customer was Sina.com--the popular portal site was struggling to handle the stream of visitors crashing its servers during the Sydney Summer Olympic Games.
Old school, small-scale aviation is the portal experience to the wild.
One was former foreign minister Kakizawa Koji, who once organized a charter flight from Haneda to Hawaii to promote re-internationalization of the portal.
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