Enter Spark, a seven-inch slate that comes running the Plasma Active UX, an open-source OS based on Linux kernel, KDE's multi-platform Plasma environment and a dash of Qt for good measure.
ENGADGET: Meet Spark, the 200 euro slate packing Linux-based Plasma Active UX
Confused by Nokia's dual-platform, Maemo 5 and S60 5th Edition smartphone choices?
ENGADGET: Nokia abandoning S60 for Maemo on future N-Series devices?
In addition, ChatON, Samsung's cross-platform communication service, connects all phone users of any platform into a single community.
The Hub, Hasbro's multi-platform joint venture with Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) launched on October 10, 2010.
Sun, of course, is touting Java's cross-platform nature in the active appliance arena.
Opera's cross-platform web-browser technology is renowned for its performance, standards compliance and small size, while giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience.
ENGADGET: Opera 11.10 launched with company's 'most expensive ad ever'
Two of eight diving events remain, with the women's 10-meter platform final on Thursday and the men's on Saturday.
Analysts said MySpace's ad-matching platform is an industry first, but it's too early to say how successful it will be.
The density of helium is one-seventh that of air, delivering significant advantages to HGST's sealed-drive platform.
ENGADGET: HGST develops helium-filled, high-capacity hard drives: no, they won't float away
If that's not enough syrupy corporate synergy for you, Microsoft's X-Box platform is featuring another new track by the band, "Sheckler's Revenge, " on the just-released Rock Band 2 game.
Moto never had a lot of stake in the Symbian game to begin with, and what little it did have was in the UIQ camp -- the camp being killed off in Symbian's transition to an open platform -- and what's more, the company has made no secret of its ambitions to become an Android powerhouse.
ENGADGET: Motorola abandoning Symbian, taking a breather to ramp up Android?
In the last 18 months more than 50, 000 apps have been built using Mippin's app-creation platform.
ENGADGET: BlackBerry App Generator makes app building a breeze for smartphones and PlayBook tablets
It features ChatON, Samsung's unique cross-platform communication service that connects all mobile users into a single community.
ENGADGET: Samsung launches two dual-sim Galaxy Y phones for carrier cheaters
Earlier in the funding chain, US-based Kickstarter, the world's largest crowd-funding platform for creative projects, has just launched in London.
As a result, Microsoft's online-advertisement platform has not succeeded either.
Nintendo's 64-bit platform is praised for its technical superiority.
It's a cross-platform game featuring the former most controversial figure in golf, and though the game is very early (only allowing hitting drives at this point) changes in aligning the face of the club were reflected accurately and instantly, meaning fades and draws were executed just as you'd like.
ENGADGET: Sony PlayStation Move hands on at E3: these lollypops don't lie
Permitted by Musharraf to return to Pakistan last year, Sharif is now banking the PML-N's fortunes on a platform of renewing the country's top judiciary -- removed by Musharraf during a state of emergency.
"The wide-spread adoption of DCDC's platform is a game-changer, " said Dan Fellman, President, Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros.
ENGADGET: Movie studios sign on for satellite-based digital delivery to theaters
The 55ZL2's glasses-free 3D application is powered by Toshiba's high-performance multi-processor platform CEVO-ENGINE which also allows for many more innovative applications including PERSONAL-TV, enabling the consumer to personalise TV settings, and SMART-TV applications such as USB recording and access to Toshiba Places.
ENGADGET: Toshiba's glasses-free 3D 4K2K TV launches in Europe as the ZL2 this December
On a related note, if you weren't yet sold on Google TV, a breath of fresh AIR might help -- Adobe told us it's presently pondering the correct time to add the cross-platform runtimes on Google's video streaming boxes as well.
ENGADGET: Adobe AIR 2.5 coming to Android in Q4 2010, but only to capable phones
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.
ENGADGET: Kindle is the biggest selling item on Amazon, bests sliced bread
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.
ENGADGET: Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video)
And with Songkick and last.fm - two firms to have emerged from London's startup scene - contributing apps to the new platform, yesterday's event was heartening evidence that European firms can work together to make a big noise in the global music industry.
The company's best truck platform--the skeleton upon which the truck is built-is the T800.
Here is what I mean: The company's best truck platform--the skeleton upon which the truck is built--is the T800.
At least not anymore, thanks to Intel's Thin Mini-ITX platform, which it debuted roughly a year ago at Computex.
ENGADGET: Intel's Thin Mini-ITX platform gets stuffed inside a monitor
For much of last year gamemakers' growth stalled as they waited for this winter's platform changes--particularly Sony's new PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii game consoles.
To help shore up its image, Toyota contacted Digg Feb. 1 to ask about setting up Dialogg interview, which would run on Digg's nascent question-asking platform.
We encountered a couple FlipShare crashes on both our 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo iMac or our bruiser HP Elitebook, which makes us a little wary about long-term performance -- it's is very clearly built as a cross-platform app, and we've had painful experiences with those in the past.
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