There's little room to customize Windows Phone 8 other than bundling some applications and settings.
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For instance, the screen now senses fingers hovering just above the screen, and some applications react.
Some applications were sold off when they no longer fit into Lucas' vision of a digital studio.
Consumer Reports noted that, in some applications designed for previous models (notably magazines), its high-definition screen magnifies imperfections.
This sort of rewrite is easy with some applications and hard with others.
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In some applications a lower level of security is tolerable, says Mr Thieme.
Google has previously shown some applications of Google Glass with companies such as Path, Evernote and the New York Times.
This may possibly work with some applications, at the cost of losing any possible vendor support for the targeted application.
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This is the most common design, but we still test some applications that encrypt the card number on the mobile device.
Some applications let users get personal information about other members without their consent, while other applications spread like spam on the site.
Facebook also appeared to have shut down some applications the Journal found to be transmitting user IDs, including several created by LOLapps Media Inc.
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"The dream would be to just lay something out at a very high level and have the system say, Here are some applications, " says Kephart.
ClearType works on the concept of delivering less color to gain resolution, and this philosophy conflicts with the way some applications now work, Brass said.
One challenge with using the cloud is that Internet latency can impact on the usability of some applications, others such as e-mail seem to be unaffected.
The bottom line is that graphene is too good to be ignored and - in some applications - may yet prove to be too good to be true.
And for some applications, the VDI approach makes good sense.
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Caching and buffering using solid state drives (SSDs) are becoming wide-spread in many enterprise applications with some primary storage systems using only solid state storage vying for some applications.
Commercial satellite Internet has been available for a number of years, but it is slow, capacity limited, and the trip to and from space adds a noticeable delay that can disrupt some applications.
Additionally, some applications are only available over Wi-Fi.
This can create challenges for some applications.
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If businesses fail to prepare for IPv6, it is hard to predict the full impact, but we do know that some applications will be hurt, resulting in performance and appearance issues for consumers trying to access those sites.
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There are several different kinds of technology, ranging from wired technologies that use standard Ethernet cable, power lines and home phone lines, as well as wireless technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, that might be appropriate for some applications, but not all.
"It understood from the advice that the advertisers' tests showed the Power Mac G5 was faster than the other two processors on some applications under certain conditions, but not that it was the fastest processor in all circumstances for all applications, " said the ruling.
Developers can also break apart some applications, like Gmail, to easily change look and layout on different tablets (think of it as a marriage of programming in modules and graphic templates.) There is a good 3-D capability, so scrolling YouTube galleries, looking at album art or turning the pages of ebooks looks good.
In more realistic applications, it means that some traditional applications could be migrated to run on Hadoop, as new data sources are integrated with traditional structured databases.
Users can control some other applications by making gestures in the air above the phone.
In parallel, they also deployed some mobile applications for their patients, connecting them with social networks and innovating on new patient care practices.
Solar, wind, biofuels, and other renewable technologies continue to improve and in some specific applications and geographies have become cost competitive with fossil fuels even without subsidies.
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