And even that killer app didn't make the really big bucks for its owners.
Which is why FourSquare is not my killer app, but it does get an honourable mention.
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The whole idea behind the Constellation is simple: personal service is the ultimate killer app.
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Today, the killer app is the Internet, and it doesn't require the fastest, biggest PCs.
His killer app in Celera's assembly of the human genome was a technique called shotgun sequencing.
Perhaps the "killer app" for improving learning may turn out to be the lowly database.
E-mail proved to be the killer app, the use of network computing that everyone had to have.
Finding your phone in another room -- that's a killer app that doesn't even think unkind thoughts.
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" "We believe this is the killer app that's going to get you deeply involved with a brand.
No Next Big Thing--the fabled "killer app" that drives every boom--has yet emerged to offset it this customer ennui.
Both Mr. Miles and Mr. Peterson were keen to shy away from suggesting mobile wallets were the "killer app".
By letting customers transact with one another, Ebay made auctions a killer app.
Apple may introduce the next big killer app iWallet along with iPhone 5.
Mosaic, the first browser, was the killer app for the World Wide Web.
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The dramatically compressed radio turned out to be the killer app for Sony.
Twenty years after the telephone was introduced in 1877, I wonder how many businesses had adopted that proto killer app?
Amid this customer ennui, no Next Big Thing--the fabled "killer app" that drives every boom--has yet emerged to offset it.
It represented the first step in the death march for the Big Three: voice was no longer the killer app.
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As Forbes wrote in March, Merck has a killer app when it comes to making copycat proteins (see "Needle Work").
Alliant already had Web efforts for customer service and orders--faster, better, cheaper--but now comes a try at a killer app: Thesauce.com.
National has screened comedy acts like Dave Attell, Louie Anderson and Craig Shoemaker, but the killer app for alternative content is opera.
Merck has a killer app when it comes to making copycat proteins.
Perhaps the killer app would actually be an app , or a community, or other service benefit that made its device truly different.
That sort of group play over mobile phones is what's likely to be a killer app for teens in the mobile gaming space.
"If there's a killer app for online brokers, it's their ability to aggregate financial data in one place, " says Gregory Smith, an analyst at J.
Another issue, she says, is that the industry has not been able to demonstrate a killer app to the consumers for the 4G LTE networks.
For starters, I hope Microsoft develops the next smartphone killer app.
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This is a killer app, because it doesn't require expensive infrastructure.
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