Which is what I hope the Staples App Center will turn out to be.
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Facebook also recently launched its own App Center to help people find mobile apps that integrate with Facebook.
Last week Staples launched their App Center for cloud based business applications.
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The game is playable as a Facebook App and included in the Action games section of the site's App Center.
Google introduced an app center on its Chrome browser during the quarter to try out incorporating apps into the platform.
The App Center is targeted at companies like mine: small businesses looking for better software to run their business, particularly in the cloud.
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As I played various games, a narrator's voice prompted me to exchange badges I had earned in games for rewards in the LeapFrog Connect App Center.
Staples says that small businesses who subscribe to products through their App Center will enjoy many benefits like low monthly fees, a one-stop place for billing and access via a dashboard and first level support from Staples.
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GameTanium users can access an in-app Help Center with Frequently Asked Questions and live GameTanium Customer Support which provides phone, SMS chat and email support Monday through Friday, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
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Search engines and App Stores are taking the center stage for discovery and distribution of business software.
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Given that another football season is upon us and that the powerful pink app is once more front and center (field), I thought the story would be worth an instant replay.
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Rather, Facebook users who own an Android phone (initially a handful of HTC and Samsung phones in the US, expanding to other devices running at minimum 3.x versions of Android) will be able to download the new Facebook Home app and put Facebook at the center of their mobile experience.
Microsoft has shelved its old App Hub in favor of the heavily reworked Windows Phone Dev Center: along with being simpler and more reliable, it now lets app designers offer their apps in four times as many countries (three times as many for paid apps), gives them better tracking tools and lets them at last get payment from Microsoft through PayPal.
The counterbalance in this story is confirmation in the Dev Center that any in-app commerce will be limited to Windows Phone 8 -- even devices running Windows Phone 7.8 will have to turn to all-or-nothing transactions to directly generate cash.
The campaign also features an online planning center with The Dreamcatcher, a social app that lets people share their dreams with their friends, family and advisors.
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The company points to a recent Dev Center document emphasizing Windows 8's optional app receipt system, which can require any transaction be validated on the developer's server.
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The feature hadn't been flipped on yet when we checked out the app, but eventually it will hook into Facebook or the Game Center and allow you to challenge friends to a little remote one-on-one action.
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The Home software also can display SMS communications and Facebook messages as "chat heads" that hover over a user's screen regardless of what app is being used, another feature that places Facebook at the center of consumers' online interactions, no matter the medium.
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The company has been around since 2006, but this is the first season event producer IMG has underwritten a specialized Fashion GPS app available to all Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week designers showing at Lincoln Center.
RareWire teaches a free app-programming class at Kauffman and will offer classes at the planned tech center.
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But again, unless you are selling apps through an app store, being a software company now may also means being a data center provider.
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When you add to this mix the explosion of mobile devices and app stores with a new generation of empowered applications, the locked down data center becomes a much smaller part of what IT has to manage.
The app includes a co-op mode, where friends can build Shatisms together online using Apple Game Center.
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But last year the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) quietly released Chemical Cuisine, an app for Android and iPhones exclusively dedicated to explaining the additives in our food, based on the impressive data collected by CSPI on more than 120 food additives.
While the mobile app is straightforward anywhere-anytime access to financial planning and the updated money center pages have been redesigned to meet customer demand (new goal-setting tools and recommendations based on your spending and budget), the most interesting new feature is the fact that CFPs will have direct access to your financial information through the LearnVest portal.
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The four-pronged announcement includes a mobile app, a revamped money-planner platform that allows a CFP to co-view your money-center (think Google Docs for your bank account) and the news that the company has registered as an investment adviser with the SEC (RIA).
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Certainly Microsoft App-V, VMware ThinApp and Citrix XenApp app streaming cannot do this (XenApp Remote Desktop Services can do this but this requires Windows in the Data Center and so in that respect is no different to VDI).
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