He asked whether Sherlock was "built in" to the operating system - an understandable line of questioning in view of Microsoft's "integration" of Internet Explorer into Windows - but it misfired badly.
Given the widespread association in the UK between the metric system and the European Union, it's tempting to view the battle simply as an expression of hostility towards political integration.
Metropolis, in my view, is the next generation of firm-wide data and knowledge integration.
The majority of maps features that matter are all here: traffic, turn-by-turn navigation, transit directions, walking directions, satellite view, street view, indoor photos, Zagat restaurant reviews, and a bit of integration with your Google profile.
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Considering all the recent hullabaloo surrounding Google TV, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the Mountain View-based search titan has dreams of growing beyond its current de facto exclusive integration deal with Dish Network.
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Still, we view the deal as an overall negative, given its size and the potential risks of integration.
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Point of View (POV): Unlike Oracle and SAP who have spent billions addressing the integration problem through a comprehensive and heavy middleware strategy, ION take a more pragmatic approach.
Elaborate, based on the results of UNESCO policy advice to member states and dialogue with external donors and national stakeholders, science and technology policy documents and policy briefs with a view to facilitating the sharing of experiences, expertise and best practices on strategic programmes for the integration of scientific, engineering and technological activities in the national public investment programme.
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The McKinsey Quarterly study examines this integration in terms of how employees and other users do their work, but not the technology infrastructure view.
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New features demoed for the first time today include a configurable home screen launcher, accelerometer integration in Google Maps' Street View, Pacman (which we can only assume will become the Solitaire of Android), and a new unlock UI for touchscreen-based devices.
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