Microsoft has a long history of delivering platforms and services to the automotive market, including in-car infotainment systems built on the Windows Embedded Automotive platform, in-car mapping services with Bing and the Microsoft Tellme voice application, and many other consumer solutions.
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To extract Malampaya's gas, Shell will put down nine undersea wells - five in 2002 and four in 2009 - plus a production platform being built in Singapore and Subic.
To keep things in perspective, startups are easier now than they have ever been: Servers on demand (EC2, Heroku, Linode) and rapid development technologies (Rails, Django) make it possible to develop a custom-built online platform in a relatively short time.
Sony's PlayStation 3, which has a built-in Blu-ray player, also recently got Facebook on its platform.
Supermodels-turned-super-personalities Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum both built their fame and fortunes in the modeling world, before becoming multi-platform brands.
The centrepiece is a teocalli, a massive votive sculpture in the shape of a temple platform, built in 1507 to mark the end of a 52-year cycle in the Mexica calendar.
It has a naturally built-in marketing idea along with a solid social media platform.
Providing users with the ability to specify alternatives to the default built-in apps would go a considerable way towards making iOS a more open platform.
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Of course, this is the last thing that Apple wants to do, because once users begin to question the primacy of the built-in apps, the spell is broken on the invincibility of the iOS platform.
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What is not included on any platform (Android, iPhone or Windows) is a built-in QR code scanner.
Apple would probably argue that one of the things that makes its mobile platform superior to Android is the uniformity and consistency of its built-in apps.
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As for new offerings from Porsche, something based-on-but-smaller-than the Boxster (built on a VW platform, possibly with an inline-four engine), will come in the next year or two.
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We encountered a couple FlipShare crashes on both our 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo iMac or our bruiser HP Elitebook, which makes us a little wary about long-term performance -- it's is very clearly built as a cross-platform app, and we've had painful experiences with those in the past.
In the last 18 months more than 50, 000 apps have been built using Mippin's app-creation platform.
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