Simply put, there was no web-video technology that could support anythin g like a video network.
In 1995 a venture-capitalist friend had just invested in a new web-search technology and needed someone to turn it into a business.
Opera's cross-platform web-browser technology is renowned for its performance, standards compliance and small size, while giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience.
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By the time he was 14, he had co-written the specification for RSS -- originally Rich Site Summary, now Really Simple Syndication -- a Web-publishing technology for delivering syndicated content from frequently updated sites, such as blogs or news websites.
Or consider how Honest Tea, the organic tea company that is an independently run wholly owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola, combined web video technology and a thought-provoking purchase experiment to cut through the clutter in the over-crowded beverage market.
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What would the ideal web technology start-up team be composed of?
Economou started H5's predecessor in 1999, intending to build the next great Web-search tool based on technology developed by the father of a Wharton classmate.
These include a Web-hosting, information-technology, videography and software company.
There's a reason, of course -- the current e-ink technology is simply not built for web browsing -- the page refreshes a lot during scrolling, images don't look great and in the case of the Kobo, there's no pinch-to-zoom, so you've got to rely on an ever-present slider on the bottom to make things larger.
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The Act demands that organisations it dubs Communication Service Providers (CSP) - broadly anyone that helps people keep in touch via the web, fax machine or phone - install technology that can automatically monitor what many of their customers are doing.
The deal underpins the importance that slow-growing technology giants place on faster-growing, web-based software makers, whose products are less vulnerable to the economic downturn as there are no upfront costs for program licenses, dedicated hardware or installation.
Participation is simple and requires only that an individual register any credit or debit card to the Cloud Currencies web-based Open Loop Loyalty Rewards Technology Platform.
As one of the world's most reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient web infrastructures, AWS has changed the way businesses think about technology infrastructure--there are no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, capital expense is turned into variable operating expense, resources can be added or shed as quickly as needed, and engineering resources are freed up from the undifferentiated heavy lifting of running onsite infrastructure - all without sacrificing operational performance, reliability, or security.
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While completing my undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, I put my web design and development skills to work for the university, becoming a part-time instructional technology consultant and managing the online web presence of countless courses.
Unlike a typical shopping comparison site--which gets its content from merchants-- FatLens has another approach: it uses technology to crawl and spider the Web to index e-tailers.
Why does France, the land of Pascal and Descartes, home to top nuclear physicists and aviation engineers--the birthplace of the World Wide Web's precursor, Minitel--lag little Israel in technology entrepreneurship?
Web to market a technology that provides high-speed multimedia and Internet access through electricity lines.
Google Ventures gives money to companies that it can assist with internal technology resources, particularly around Web-based businesses.
That technology gives them user and Web-page data to sell in the auction.
He focuses on a wide range of industry sectors including, software, web-based companies, life sciences, information technology, and government contractors.
"With today's economy taking a turn for the worse, it's especially important for Web technology to help consumers solve real-world problems, " says Bessemer's David Cowan.
In the future, we'll all be able to surf and shop on the Web via television-but where will the interactive technology reside: in the set-top box or in the TV set itself?
Even Google, the Web's self-proclaimed "Do no evil" company, is experimenting with a technology called AutoLink that inserts button-shape links on other people's Web sites that lead back to Google or to Google partners like Amazon.com.
Even assuming a start-up can develop a technology innovative enough to make a difference, the cost of indexing the Web--which now includes billions of pages--is far higher than it was a decade ago.
Infocious was a Web technology company that had developed a natural-language-augmented Web search engine.
Bloxx developed technology which allows web pages or e-mails to be accurately classified and filtered in real-time.
The satellite Internet service brings together the highest capacity satellite in the world, next-generation ground equipment, and breakthrough web acceleration technology.
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Google also developed a new operating system called Chrome OS that is derived from its browser technology and designed to run only Web-based software.
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The Chrome laptops are designed primarily to run Web-based applications, including those that use programming technology called HTML5, rather than applications stored on the device.
Sonic owns the Roxio Now online video service, the underlying technology used in a variety of Web-based rental services, including offerings from Blockbuster and Best Buy, among others.
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