And the digitisation of billions of human records and ubiquitous web access has made researching family trees a lot easier and more accessible.
She has the engineering chops, as well as the insights that helped develop some of the most ubiquitous web destinations, from Google search and images to Gmail.
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It's hard to watch those ubiquitous YouTube Web clips: They arrive as streaming video directly from the Web and aren't downloadable.
Facebook, Twitter, 4G, iPhones, iPads, ubiquitous wireless and Web-enabled cellphones, the cloud, Big Data, cellphone apps and Skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago.
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Microsoft crushed upstart browser company Netscape in the late 1990s by building a free Web browser into its ubiquitous operating system.
The syndication model of RSS extended as a metaphor through the Web and lives in the ubiquitous orange square (a graphical approach originally deployed in the Firefox browser) familiar to bloggers and podcasters everywhere.
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Beyond a little geeky nostalgia, the project hopes to safeguard the web's earliest days, before it became the ubiquitous phenomenon it is now, so that future generations can enjoy (and scoff) at the web's origins.
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Andreessen said Glass would become a platform like the web browser and could become as ubiquitous as the mobile phone.
WebRTC, which is just around the corner, will make web video very easy to implement and hence, quickly ubiquitous.
"It's part of our research into a total ubiquitous technology society, and activity recognition is an important part of that, " said Hiroyuki Yokoyama, head of web data research at KKDI's research labs in Tokyo.
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