With the acquisition of DimDim, the company will likely add web-conferencing capabilities to the Chatter application.
Web sites will add interactive links between fans and the channels.
And a growing number of people worldwide own smartphones, which add Web surfing, apps, games and GPS-mapping to the list of diversions available to phone users in the driver's seat.
The concept, called the "Internet of Things, " has been kicking around for many years, but a recent boom in low-cost sensors and popular gadgets like the Nest smart thermostat have led to more gadgets that successfully add Web connectivity.
Online storage and sharing site, Dropbox, could add a web page sharing function as well.
Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) could easily add a Web-log tool to its .
He argues the time spent retrying addresses and waiting for Web pages may already add up to the equivalent of a gigalapse.
They wanted to improve their 311 system and add a web application that would allow citizens to report and track resolution of their calls.
Then it will be up to Twitter to choose: is it a web site that can add new features to its service as it pleases?
Later this year NCS will add a Web module to allow parents free access to their child's homework assignments for the week ahead, as well as updates on skipped classes, tardies and whether Johnny got into a fistfight in the parking lot.
Writing an exploit program that can break those virtual boundaries isn't easy, says SANS Web security researcher Johannes Ullrich, and sandboxing would add a significant layer to the Web's armor.
No airline prints calorie counts for customers or posts them on their Web sites, though some add up the calories on snack boxes so flight attendants can tell inquiring customers.
Publishers can drag and drop to add in XML feeds, videos and other third-party web applications (such as weather and movie listings) and add them into mobile ads.
Other changes include improvements to the web feed, search engine and add-ons manager.
While the announcement sounds the start of competition in this market, it raises a serious question for users: If ISPs offer domain name registration as an add-on to Web services, then who owns the domain?
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Businesses need to add IPv6 support to their web services as soon as possible to stay efficiently connected to their customers, users and partners.
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As we discover more and more ways to filter out advertisements from DVRing around commercials to employing ad blocking add-ons in our Web browsers, companies are trying to find new ways to break through.
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This prompted Dr Soghoian to develop two add-ons for the Firefox web browser that demonstrated simple ways to turn off tracking automatically.
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As broadband networks have proliferated, and companies have learned how to compress video and send it across the Web, video calling has become an easy add-on.
Earlier this year, Google, which develops the Chrome browser, released software that allows developers to add voice-recognition to their Web pages, so users can browse the Web by speaking.
Those pennies add up when there are billions of Web pages with ads: The daily financial transactions at Yahoo!
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Another change was a spell checker that keeps an eye on every bit of text typed in almost any Firefox browser box be it in a web-based e-mail program or an add-on that lets people post blog updates directly.
You can now also connect them to your smartphone via Bluetooth so the Garmin Connect Mobile app can add some additional features, including live web tracking if you know anyone that wants to watch you two-wheeling around a 2D map.
It can also provide likely e-mail address, phone numbers and personal Web sites--and then use this information to add a new layers to the investigation.
Mosaic also offers users the ability to add news feeds and premium publication subscriptions from across the Web.
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