Net versions of its word-processing and spreadsheet applications to run on the Web as services that people buy through subscriptions.
The two 50-minute online test sessions assessed "the old spreadsheet, word-processing and presentation applications which I was teaching 15 years ago, plus a bit of e-mail".
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Now, the company is hiring different types of recruiters who specialize in headhunting, including finding candidates to poach from competitors, rather than those who are good at processing and filtering applications.
For cloud computing to truly take hold on mobile devices, two things need to align: stronger, faster mobile data connections delivering data to mobile devices and mobile technology capable of efficiently and effectively processing data, applications and services.
Establishing common procedures for processing applications and appeals is likely to take much longer.
But many financial-aid administrators also say private lenders do a better job than the government at processing loan applications and handling collections.
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While Google can launch online spreadsheet and word processing applications, Microsoft can't respond without damaging its powerful Office software business.
Google has rolled out word processing, calendar and spreadsheet applications that aren't installed in PCs but are accessed through the Internet.
When it comes to moving productivity suites to the cloud, which include word processing, spreadsheet and calendar applications, adoption is slow among SMBs.
Tea-party groups have complained often to lawmakers about IRS scrutiny and delays in processing their applications for 501(c)(4) status.
He also said Hinduja's lack of accreditation was because the government's accreditation team is short-staffed and focused on processing applications from public hospitals first.
Amazon's Web Services, which pipe applications, processing and storage over the Internet, may eventually let companies escape the confines of their data centers and pay for cheap, scalable processing and storage as easily as they pay for water or electricity.
MySQL's lighter-weight database system may also fit into Sun's ambitions of becoming a major player in "utility computing, " a model of information technology infrastructure that pipes in software applications, processing and storage over the Internet rather than from a company's own data centers.
Amazon's (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) Web Services, which pipe applications, processing and storage over the Internet, may eventually let companies escape the confines of their data centers and pay for cheap, scalable processing and storage as easily as they pay for water or electricity.
"Applications that require more processing power and the full capabilities of a phone - games for example - lend themselves more to native applications, " said Mr Dillon.
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It found IRS managers had allowed "inappropriate criteria" to be developed and stay in place for more than 18 months, resulting in "substantial delays" in processing applications for tax-exempt status, and requests for "unnecessary information", such as lists of donors.
While the Cloud based applications are already available for storage and media applications, other functions that require heavier processing (for example gaming) have not made the jump yet.
And the reality is, there is more batch processing and post-process reporting in Big Data applications (vs. real-time capabilities) than insiders want to admit.
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"We expect to have finished processing all applications by the end of May and complete all payments by August, " explains the governor of Diyarbakir, Efkan Ala.
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Technological changes such as the rise of collaboration tools make it easier to multi-task: you can have a chat window, a word-processing document, a Web browser, and other applications all open at the same time on your computer, and switch easily between them.
Today the increased processing power of mobile devices as well as more ubiquitous network connectivity and the ability of data centers to provide (almost) always available storage capacity and applications, are causing a return to thin client computers accessing larger shared processing and storage resources.
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It is certainly powerful enough to run office suite applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, e-mail, instant messaging, Internet access for surfing and blogging, playing a few tunes and watching a DVD in flight (the battery will get you across America, if not an ocean).
Other shortcomings of HTML5 in comparison to native applications include the fact that it presently lacks the DRM (Digital Rights Management) needed for many multimedia services, does not support background processing, and is missing secure storage and notifications outside of applications.
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The most ideal applications for a notebook computer are light word processing and communications.
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That includes everything from processing checks and opening new accounts to mitigating fraud and evaluating loan applications.
Broadcom's 28 nanometer (nm) ARM-based BCM7445 UltraHD video decoder solution, serving as the primary gateway to the home, delivers more transcoding, CPU processing performance and home networking throughput to support a greater range of applications such as video-on-demand (VoD), gaming, social media and web store applications.
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Applications of image processing include such popular consumer features as light balancing and face recognition, now standard on most digital cameras, which can also be associated with voice recognition.
Back in the day we were asking our PCs to do the heavy lifting of running those resource intensive client-server applications that required lots of memory, local hard drive space and processing power.
Applications digitized existing real-world processes, such as word-processing, payroll and inventory.
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