The first is WebGL, which provides a way for web developers to access the low-level graphic capabilities of the computer or device that the browser is running on.

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The following graphic illustrates how mobile cloud services are evolving by level of the cloud stack.

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Unfortunately, that's about all we know on an official level: Microsoft even used a placeholder graphic rather than show Samsung's real-world design.

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