There are hundreds of highly specialized software-as-a-service offerings to optimize every granular activity in marketing, creating the need for constant adjustments so they align with campaigns and evolve with competitive threats like price wars.
In this case, relevant diagnostic data are transmitted remotely to a special laboratory for analysis using highly specialized equipment and software.
They are part of a new wave of highly specialized technology — both software and hardware — built by and for Web titans like Facebook, Yahoo and Google to help them break data into bite-size chunks, and present their Web pages as quickly and cheaply as possible, even while grappling with increasing volumes of data.
Terragraph combines Facebook's knowledge of software-defined networks (which essentially moves many of the networking techniques that previously required highly specialized hardware into off-the-shelf software tools) and the WiGig standard, which can handle transmission rates of up to 7 Gbits.
In DIA, we fragment several peptides at once, thereby increasing the capacity, enabling us to comprehensively measure the resulting fragments at high time resolution; the penalty is highly complex and convoluted data that requires specialized software to analyze.
Traditionally, networking was the domain of highly specialized hardware, but increasingly, it's commodity hardware and software performing these functions (often for a fraction of the cost).
Ontology development (40%), however, remains a highly manual task requiring domain (anatomical) expertise and use of specialized software.
When participants in the experimental condition approached the mirror, instead of seeing their present selves, they saw a highly realistic version of their future self, that was created using specialized software.
In short, the BlackBerry is a highly specialized tool for a highly specialized task -- at a highly specialized price.
