There had been thousands of handheld apps for Palm and Windows Mobile platforms before, but it took Apple and its structured iOS platform to turn mobile app developer into a calling that one could not only be proud of but get rich from.
I've written in the past about my concern that the Android platform is fragmenting much like desktop Linux has over the years, and the potential for the platform to turn into a patchwork of devices and vendor specific modifications that bear little relationship with each other.
Cubby is the first service built on LogMeIn's very own cloud data sync and storage platform letting people turn any number of PC or Mac folders into 'cubbies' that can be accessed from other devices, stored in the cloud, and shared with colleagues and friends.
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Breaking the silos and creating the cross-platform teams which in turn create campaigns directed squarely at a given segment(s) or demographic(s) is paramount for ultimate success in the digital world.
This in turn drives even more Facebook integrated mobile development, and in turn more mobile content to the Facebook platform to be monetized in their current media model.
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The job gave Lopez a platform to promote her music and turn her image around.
Google struck the first blow in Oct. 2009 with the release of free, turn-by-turn navigation software for phones that use its mobile platform, Android.
Forbes.com, with 18 million monthly users, offers our staffers and contributors a powerful digital platform for extensive online reporting that, in turn, spawns a different kind of story-telling for our nearly one million magazine subscribers.
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And it tried to turn Symbian, its own operating system for smartphones, into a platform in the mould of the iPhone and Android.
In a world where digital learning becomes the platform for our education system, however, this whole notion should turn around.
How much of this strategy actually materializes -- and how effective it is at changing the direction of the platform at large -- remains to be seen, but it sounds like a promising turn of events.
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Those deep water rigs use an enormous amount of diesel fuel to turn the drill bit, and also resist the force that is turning the drill bit and would otherwise force the platform to start turning in the opposite direction.
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