Matrix is certainly not the first company to try to establish a new portable write-once format.

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Sun Microsystems' write-once-run-anywhere programming language is expected to grow from an installed base of 3.8 million digital cable boxes in 1998 to 12 million boxes by year 2001, according to International Data Corp. (IDC), a Framingham, Mass.

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The BDXL specification, which is targeted primarily at commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging enterprises with significant archiving needs, will provide customers with write-once options on 100GB and 128GB capacity discs and rewritable capability on 100GB discs.

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As it does, China will once again re-write the rules for competing in the global economy.

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Java is a widely-used programming language designed to let developers write programs once that can then be run, with minimal changes, on any computer.

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Worldwide, people speak differently than they write, and texting -- quick, casual and only intended to be read once -- is actually a way of talking with your fingers.

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The risk is this: millions of home-owners who are already financially stretched will be pushed to breaking point once their mortgage resets, triggering another spiral of defaults, repossessions, write-downs, implosions and lay-offs.

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Once the survey is completed in the Fall of 2012 we will write a follow-up blog on updated survey results.

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OpenSocial's greatest strength could be its greatest weakness: Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) hopes applications developers will work with OpenSocial technology because they need only write an app once for it to run on many popular sites, including Orkut, MySpace, Friendster and Bebo.

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