The founders' longer term goals consist of providing a JavaScript-based development framework for building desktop-like applications for the web.
BlackBerry is also experimenting with one-to-many broadcasting via BBM Channels, and the WSJ says it's looking into building desktop apps as well.
At the recent Future of Web Apps conference in Miami, Y-Combinator-backed 280 North announced Atlas, a drag-and-drop visual editor for building desktop web applications with Cappuccino, 280 North's Javascript-based framework.
HP made an attempt at building gaming desktops a couple years ago, but didn't seem to put too much time or effort into that market segment and shortly dropped the venture altogether.
"In the first case, developers who build for iOS now are much more comfortable building for desktop too — there was a gap from say 99-2009 where most developers were not building client apps at all".
Unfortunately, building a desktop accelerator as powerful as SLAC is not just a matter of making a block of sapphire with a metre-and-a-half long hole through it (which is actually easier than it sounds).
Right now, these networks have primarily been laid between major cities, but Mumford says the companies will move that out to office buildings, neighborhoods, desktops and, eventually, wireless.
Fountain recommends systematic testing of federal security systems, both through ethical hacking from the outside and through social engineering to test the physical security of government buildings and desktops.
Ng says Sweetlabs isn't worried about Instagram building a desktop app, citing the "Twitter ecosystem" of popular, third-party apps like Tweetdeck and Tweetie.
As we are either building a Desktop System, or a Demonstration System (as is the case with me) we certainly don't need the server kernel.
