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Submission + - Google develops Master API - Web Intents (chromium.org)

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GeneralSecretary

on Thursday August 04, 2011 @03:43PM

GeneralSecretary writes: "Google is developing an API to allow Web Apps to easily share information with other Web Apps with a unified API. For example there would be a default aPI for sharing things which would work with services like Google+, Twitter, and Facebook using a single predefined API. This is like OLE for the Web."

Submission + - Invent the medical tricorder win $10,000,000 (marketwire.com)

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GeneralSecretary

on Friday May 13, 2011 @05:25PM

GeneralSecretary writes: "Ever watch Star Trek and say "Hey, I could build that", well now's your chance. Qualcomm and the X PRIZE Foundation have teamed together to offer ten million US dollars to whomever can invent "a mobile solution that can diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians", the Tricorder X Prize. Hopefully the Tricorder will join the cell phone, MRI, and tablet computer in the list of Star Trek devices that are now part of our lives."

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