Film studios are starting to target mobile applications that use copyrighted images and film clips without permission.
But from a product standpoint, the fastest growth will be seen in conventional device categories like accelerometers and radio frequency MEMS that target consumer applications.
Mr Blair's target on asylum applications is rather more precise benchmark against which to judge success or failure.
The process takes the students through each step: selecting their target schools, filling out applications, writing essays, obtaining letters of recommendation, targeting scholarships and financial aid, reporting test scores and completing entrance exams.
The practical part of the exercise involves proposing how Intel can target future products for these applications, which, upon conception, live only in the realm of science fiction, but which can be brought about in real life by focus and effort over, say, a decade.
To gain further footholds, Google could target narrow, high-profile applications to gain experience and build support.
Next, it is setting up a new Asylum Services Directorate, with the target of making initial decisions on asylum applications in an average of two months.
Target market: huge datacenters used for cloud applications.
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The GPS system was originally developed by the US military to target missiles and guide troop movements but now has dozens of commercial applications from helping motorists find their way about to ships' navigation, search and rescue and road pricing.
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Credits can be purchased via credit card, Paypal, mobile phone or through the gift cards currently being sold in Target retail stores around the U.S. Over 200 games and applications on Facebook currently use Facebook Credits system, according to Liu, spanning over 75 developers.
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The fact that there's little control over the applications users can install on a mobile device makes them an easy target to exploit, and the constant movement between home and work networks creates unwanted access possibilities.
Facing a storm of criticism from both Republicans and Democrats, Mr. Miller said in his op-ed that the IRS wasn't trying to target any particular group but instead was trying to deal with an influx of applications and a challenging law that limits or even bans political activity by some tax-exempt organizations, but is riddled with complexity.
Analytics and marketing applications-oriented software companies are today providing new solutions that enable marketers to target communications based on behavioral patterns revealed in data from social networks, customer loyalty programs, call centers or transaction histories.
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These next-generation products, which target ultra high-performance systems for military, wireline communications, cloud networking, and compute and storage applications, will enable breakthrough levels of performance and power efficiencies not otherwise possible.
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