All that has leaked out so far is that it is based on the Chrome web browser and the Linux kernel, and designed mainly for lightweight laptops known as netbooks.
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But the revised policy still won't allow iPhone and iPad users to access Flash-based content on the Web.
Spark's special was based only on the Web's history, which has made the Net more accessible to the general public.
The platform is based on the HTML5 web programming language which Mr Sullivan says gave it an advantage over Apple and Android.
It is based on the open web, which means interacting with many of its HTML5-based apps will be like visiting websites through a browser, opening temporarily as apps, and closing.
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Google is also in a unique position to know what information people are most interested in seeing and when they want it based on the giant volume of Web searches processed by the search engine daily.
Any device, any platform, any bandwidth, absolutely anywhere in the world - Opera Software was founded in 1994, based on the idea that access to the Web should be a universal right.
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Opera Software was founded in 1994, based on the idea that access to the web should be a universal right. 300 million people (and counting) use the Opera web browsers for computers, mobile phones, TVs and other connected devices.
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Since Google ranks results based on the number of Web pages that link to them, cyber-criminals added thousands of links to their pages on forums and blog comment sections around the Web, pushing their pages to the top of the search engine's results.
To connect an iPad to the service, an Akamai rep simply signed into the web-based interface on both the TV and the tablet (though the service is generally compatible with any web-connected device).
It has a thousand engineers overhauling routers to better discriminate between "good" behavior and "bad" behavior based on constantly changing reputation rankings of computers on the Web, though others say making this work will be all but impossible.
Then in 1989 the World Wide Web was created, based on the "hypertext markup language" invented by physicist Tim J.
In real-time bidding, as soon as a user visits a Web page, the visit is auctioned to the highest bidder, based on attributes such as the type of page visited or previous Web browsing by the user.
Economou started H5's predecessor in 1999, intending to build the next great Web-search tool based on technology developed by the father of a Wharton classmate.
The first is 'Web apps' based on HTML5 that operate within the LINE app and the second is 'Native apps' that are available at the app markets for iOS and Android devices and can be linked to the LINE service.
Labour MP John Mann, who sits on the Treasury Committee, criticised the willingness of web based companies to avoid paying UK tax.
Sandberg attended, but she thought the title was embarrassing, and refused to list it on the Web-based calendar that she shared with her colleagues.
Nevertheless, there are corporate guidelines for what kinds of information can be published on the Web, based on an information classification scheme Du Pont devised in 1928.
Blinkx released a tool Wednesday that lets online publishers place targeted text ads in any video embedded on a Web site based on the actual content of the video.
The SDK is based on open web technologies such as HTML5 and allows for developed web applications to run on Smart TV's from participating members regardless of the underlying platform.
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The two decided to take a shot at designing a custom web application for farmers based on some of the feedback that they received from the community.
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In 2007 the Estonian defenders realized that many of their websites were based on Content Management Systems that built every web page on the fly from a database.
The predictions, it says, are based on a wide swath of data AOL collects, from the Web searches people make on its site to the sites visited by subscribers to its Internet services.
As the head of Google's antiwebspam team, he's rewriting the complex set of rules for ranking Web pages based on their relevance to a given query, which is the company's DNA, its single most important product and a trade secret more closely guarded than the recipe for Coke.
The New York-based outfit enables businesses to buy and sell from each other on the Web.
The report card is based on government statistics, press reports, airline Web site data, reports on the group's hotline, and eyewitness accounts from January to December of 2008.
For instance, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America helped CI and other partners to launch the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) for Business, a web-based platform that provides information on the highest priority sites globally for conservation.
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Last month on the CrunchBase blog, SiSense revealed CrunchAnalytics, its Web-based, free analytical platform built on top of the CrunchBase database.
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For end-users, navigating web-based applications on the BlackBerry browser was cumbersome at best.
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Its Web browser is based on the Webkit engine, which also powers Safari and Google Chrome, i.e. iOS and Android.
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