The IP-switching function is meant to create more stability on the Web by allowing an overloaded Web site to switch servers without a hiccup.

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In fact, argues Nicholas Carr, the former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of the new book The Big Switch, those Web applications are signs of a fundamental change, a shift from the desktop to the Web that could redefine computing--and Google's business model.

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It sparked a user-backlash and apology from Apple's boss who suggested customers switch to Google's web app.

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This allows the smartphone to effortlessly switch between applications and enables a rich web browsing experience with true multitasking.

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Fast flux takes advantage of an option built into the Web's architecture, which allows site owners to switch the Internet Protocol address of a site without changing its domain name.

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Indeed, and I do see a lot of savings and efficiency benefits in consolidating services on the Cisco comm servers allowing better subhost store-and-forward switch logic leveraging business process management minimizing installations and connections to myriads of web services and redundancies which often cause inconsistencies and even data integrity issues.

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Technological changes such as the rise of collaboration tools make it easier to multi-task: you can have a chat window, a word-processing document, a Web browser, and other applications all open at the same time on your computer, and switch easily between them.

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