The plan, announced at the Intel Developer Forum here, pairs the Web portal's widget service with fresh processors that the PC chip giant has crafted especially for televisions.

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With the new service, a publisher can embed a widget that shows who you know that works at a particular company, who was recently hired, or who was recently promoted.

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Part of the plan to create this better product experience involves opening up SAP to lighter-weight protocols that are more forgiving of distributed applications, including REST and OData, giving customers the freedom to quickly decide an application would be better run as a service, in the cloud, or exposed through a Facebook widget.

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