Later this year the company plans to open itself to third-party mobile web developers, to host web apps on its platform.

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But the punishing pace of web-based development has also given birth to a host of more flexible methodologies that deal with the real-world challenge of getting a bunch of wayward nerds to collaborate on getting a product out of the door.

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Last year during the telecast, tweeters took to the Web to discuss Oscar co-host James Franco's dazed and uncommanding comportment.

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In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker would have to host a website that contains a specially crafted web page that is used to exploit this vulnerability.

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He says he has asked a Houston-based company why it continues to host the first Web site mentioned above, adding that he's gotten no answer.

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Samsung plans to host the as-yet-unnamed service on Amazon Web Services.

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For a fee, Cape.com will help you set up secure commerce software, host your web site, or even run a high-speed connection to your school or law firm.

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The biggest fear in the cable and satellite TV industry is that the growing availability of video programming over the Web through Netflix (NFLX), Hulu and a host other services will lead to rampant cord-cutting that could create the kind of steady erosion in customers that the wireline phone companies have been seeing for many months now.

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