Ajax, mash-ups, location-aware software and sensor mesh networking are among the key emerging technologies that are set to have a significant impact on businesses over the next 10 years, according to Gartner.
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diams; Mash-ups This week's US midterm elections have seen mash-ups of demographic and political data with Google Earth, enabling voters to see the bigger picture - potentially combating apathy and encouraging voters...
The Ordnance Survey, which derives much of its revenue from selling mapping data to commercial partners, said there is room for both models in the market and is also trialling a scheme to open up some its secret code to allow software developers...
The company expects these third-party 'mash-ups', hybrid software that combines content from more than one source, will bring in more customers. Yahoo! is set to release software that will allow third-party developers to write applications using...
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♦ Mash-ups However like-for-like sales, which are calculated purely on the same high street stores operating 12 months ago, were down 3.5 per cent, indicating poor high-street sales dragged down overall performance.
IBM has released a new version of its Lotus Expeditor software, which is targeted at mobile application developers building both business and consumer web 2.0 mash-ups. The company says it is designed for building mobile mash-ups such as services...