Amazon debuted a program that seemed both inevitable and unthinkable earlier this year, depending on your perspective, when it teamed with UC Davis for a unique school-specific storefront that provided a cut of sales to the school (2 percent to be exact).
In addition to the new devices and the new reading applications, Kobo is kicking off its new strategy to present storefronts for specific reading categories.
eBay recently debuted an expansion of its connected glass initiative in San Francisco that allows users to shop touch screens on digital storefronts in a local mall for specific retailers.
Amazon did not provide a specific update on the number of apps in the storefront but noted that Appstore now has "tens of thousands" of apps.
BEACON Windows on Main Street "Windows on Main Street 2010," site-specific installations by more than 20 local artists in storefront windows on Main Street.
For Manhattan alone, DizzyCity has created 2,500 interactive panoramas with more than 20,000 close-up pictures of specific points of interest, like restaurants, museums, art galleries and storefronts.
It would be better to lay the problem of reductionism at the doors of specific forms of reduction (many of those doors little more than temporary storefronts), rather than at the very large door of "post-Galilean science".
The Steam storefront validates the user's region; the purchase of titles may be restricted to specific regions because of release dates, game classification, or agreements with publishers.
Not everyone gets a visit from Apple's CEO and the man in charge of its digital media storefronts, after all, a pair that you can be sure does very little without specific intent.
Businesses also have the option to customize their storefront with logos, various color schemes, and icons to make the app store experience as company-specific as possible.
Storefronts display site-specific works, though in some cases the objects in the windows don't read as art.
