People happily exchanged their privacy for tools such as social networking applications for keeping in touch with friends.
Consider, for example, an American startup-up company that has developed sophisticated new data-mining technologies for social networking applications.
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Google's newly launched Android cell phone platform has similar potential and social networking applications are already being developed for it.
The vast majority of those millions of passwords became public after the breach of RockYou.com, a social networking applications site penetrated by cybercriminals using an SQL-injection.
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With this kind of interest in social networking applications, he thinks he has the next big thing and he wouldn't mind hooking up with the likes of a Facebook or Twitter.
Investors on Wednesday also reacted to news that Google is setting up a distribution network for social networking applications, adding a new twist in the Internet search leader's brewing rivalry with rapidly maturing startup Facebook.
Additionally, VUDU offers access to popular Internet based content, from video, music and photos from popular sites such as YouTube, Flikr, and to games and social networking applications, directly on the TV, all easily accessible using the VUDU remote control with no need for a PC.
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Brian Murray, the chief executive of HarperCollins, said in December that e-books enhanced with video, author interviews and social-networking applications could command higher retail prices for publishers than current e-books.
In China, social games are the most used applications on social networking sites such as Qzone, Pengyou, and RenRen.com.
Ceop said the pair pretended to be someone the children already knew on social networking and instant messaging applications.
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They started with Web commerce, then moved into mobile applications and social networking.
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About six years ago, Fusion-io realized that the traditional disk-based storage approach would not work for the next generation applications, like social networking and the cloud.
Techlightenment Chief Executive Gi Fernando, whose company specializes in developing online applications for social-networking sites, told Forbes.com that Facebook still showed "quite good" metrics in other departments.
While other OTT applications such as social networking have been built and delivered completely outside the mobile service provider domain, it is not possible to replicate this model with video because it is too bandwidth intensive.
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The papers also say Facebook is aware of the patents as it has cited them in its own applications to patent some social networking technologies.
But there are also free ways to get ringtones, like the ringtone creator application on Facebook -- one of several ringtone applications on the social-networking Web site -- that make setting ringtones all the more appealing.
Many of the winning applications had some kind of social networking feature, including Life360, a location-based system that, among other things, allows users to form social networks with others in their neighborhood.
According to research by Strategy Analytics, a market research company, over 90 percent of feature phone owners in the US and UK are interested in downloading and installing applications such as SNS (Social Networking Service), IM (Instant Messenger), VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and navigation and mapping.
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This social networking capability extends existing supplier management solutions with many applications critical to supplier management success, including supplier risk, compliance and performance management.
Featuring a wealth of games, navigation, social networking, e-book, health and lifestyle applications, Samsung Apps gives users instant access to a huge choice of mobile experiences.
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Add to this that the BlackBerry developer community has been writing applications for serious business users for a very long time while both the Apple and Android developer communities, by and large, are completely focused on consumer applications such as games, access to social networking sites, and video and audio downloading and playback.
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Storage in the cloud is a great thing and is a key element enabling many applications including on-line backup and collaborative work as well as social networking.
Driving the data deluge are technologies and applications that permeate our daily lives: mobile sensors, smart phones and social networking.
Those applications now include online payment, video, mapping, e-mail, social networking, search and soon, DoubleClick's behavior-tracking advertising data.
Focus areas listed in the jobs descriptions cover nearly every aspect of mobile development, including data synchronization, social networking, cloud services, search and maps, mobile commerce and improvements to the Windows Phone 7 applications platform.
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The ultimate goal for IBM is not only to show that this suite of applications can be more valuable through integration of news feeds created from activity streams, but to also to act as a conduit so that the rest of the applications and sources of information used in a business can have their value amplified by social networking mechanisms.
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The company provides a secure gateway for web sites and applications and controls over the content posted to o blogs, wikis, webmail, and social networking sites.
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