Very soon, on Android (and not iOS), users will be able to search across their devices as well as have Google Now push information to them — it remains to be seen if Apple can or will want to move in this direction at an OS-level, or leave everything federated to the app layer.
[Page C5.] Former Federated Chief Is Indicted James M. Zimmerman, left, the retired chairman and chief executive of Federated Department Stores, was indicted for perjury over statements he made last year to investigators from the New York State attorney general's office.
In time, these implementations may well be federated to allow searching across different data sets.
It will allow users to "federate" identities between corporate boundaries.
"It left all the people who we had orders with, like Federated and May, high and dry and very angry," said the former employee, referring to the two big department store companies.
What stayed "federated" was the cricket.
This is also another lost customer for Federated Media Publishing, which sells advertising for Ars Technica (Digg left Federated Media last year to accept a very lucrative Microsoft deal that will pay out over $100 million over three years).
TechCrunch actually has a bit of history of isocket — when we (I say we, but that was years before I joined) left Federated Media's network back in 2009, TechCrunch turned to isocket as a self-serve platform for selling ads.
They're calling it the worlds first federated microblog search.
These are what some people call "federated systems".
