So web properties leap to the forefront of modern UI design, making for amazingly productive, fast and fluid applications on the desktop.
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So Web pages and videos can be viewed, or applications launched using one half of the screen, at the same time as the other half is used for writing or sketching ideas with the S Pen.
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So the Web is to be much faster and to the point, and quick little clips, so video clips on the Web should be maybe half-minute segments and no more, not a long segment like you can do for broadcast television.
The basic technology underneath Skype is available to anyone putting in a minimal amount of engineering effort, and so the Web is now seeing second- and third-generation video conferencing products, like the Facetime built into the new Apple iPhone.
Earlier this year, Google, which develops the Chrome browser, released software that allows developers to add voice-recognition to their Web pages, so users can browse the Web by speaking.
In 1995 no one at Yahoo knew who this "Salma Hayek" woman was, though swarms of men were searching for her on the Web, so they set up an area that linked Web information about the actress.
More recently, (that is to say, in the past 12 years or so), the web has gotten pushy -- delightfully so, I hasten to add.
So far 27 Web sites have joined the drop-down column, including Facebook and Digg.
So keeping the web free and freely available is almost a human right.
It's a safe way to access the Web so a child can independently play and learn online.
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Even so, the Web demo doesn't come close to the seamless finger browsing possible on the real iPhone.
So for a Web publisher, at the same time as you're covering that story, you're garnering that sort of information.
Both companies see it as a potential centerpiece in their own efforts to sell so-called Web services, a rapidly advancing trend in the tech landscape.
And these devices serve a good purpose: easy and quick access to the web so that you can check emails, read and watch movies.
Or connect the thermostat to the Web so that it can be controlled from an office PC, allowing home temperature to be set before you get home?
Even though Eventbrite gives you the code so that your web developer can embed the registration form on your site, there's still Eventbrite branding on the form.
Like so many other web giants, Facebook just wants to be seen as a technology platform enabling its users to do all sorts of cool stuff without any interference.
The SkyDrive app for iOS is slightly different than other SkyDrive apps in that people interested in buying additional storage will do so via the web versus in the app.
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"We don't like it when our brand shows up next to something random, which has been our experience on the Web so far, " says mtv's digital media head, Nicholas Rockwell.
The site now hosts real-time webcasts of live auctions once a week or so, with web bidders represented in the real-world auction room by a Dove employee with a paddle.
And now, according to an article that appeared in the Washington Post today, the system has become a web so unwieldy it's hard to see if it is actually making us safer.
The attorneys have paid to be listed, so while the Web site helps you narrow your search, you won't receive a comprehensive listing of all lawyers in your area and their specialties.
"Oriental Motor makes this information available to distributors via the Web so they all can access the same information, " says Peter Mooney, product manager for ThomasNet, a Manhattan-based shop that sells e-commerce technology to industrial companies.
Samsung's free DDNS service also ensures that dynamic IP addresses assigned by the user's ISP are recorded and updated accordingly so that the web portal can make the connection for those who wish to access the DVR from a location outside their network.
Total Immersion specialises in so-called web mashups, where an online user sees a video reflection of themselves coupled with a 3D object that they can control, such as camera that responds accurately to button presses, or a pair of glasses that lets the user switch the frame or colour scheme.
Web pages are so ugly because, having abandoned centuries of experience in graphic design, web designers have decided that what matters is to cram as much info as possible into the first page.
CloudFlare also offers caching, a service that stores static elements on a Web site as close to the customers that are requesting that site as possible, so when someone requests a Web page, it loads faster.
So far, iPhone Web apps have been offered for free and downloaded over the Internet.
So the majority of Web users -- 60 percent -- still aren't on the site.
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