Between Alexa's built-in functionality and Skills API, you can now use the platform to do almost anything.
In addition GenomeD3Plot has built in functionality to export any resulting genome visualization in PNG or SVG format for easy inclusion in manuscripts or presentations.
With the smartphone being such a personal device, I'd also urge brands to experiment with rich media and build in functionality, such as the touch screen, to their mobile creative.
And Facebook has aggressively evolved to build in functionality that takes advantage of that, including communication without avatars, easy registration on other apps, playing games with friends, and Like buttons across the web.
The speech recognition functionality was built in-house – much of the team's background is in audio technology – although it was realised with the latest 10.1 update to Adobe's Flash plug-in, which enables developers to access audio data captured from the user on the client-side instead of streaming to a back-end server for analysis.
By working with mash ups, business users can incrementally build in the functionality and information they need.
At my app development agency, we've worked with an increasing number of clients who have wanted to incorporate messaging features into their projects, and have created chat functionalities for apps we built in-house.
It's easy to forget your devices have this functionality built in, and it's worth exploring how reliable or useful it can be for you.
It too will have NFC capabilities built in and will bring the Wallet functionality to the much larger Verizon customer base.
Additionally, unlike with many VOIP services you can actually reach 911, and there is even built in answering machine functionality with Ooma.
