Word: apps
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Several generations ago, even the telephone seemed baffling. In its early days, quick adapters thought they had found the killer app: they used it to call their friends to find out whether their postcards had arrived. ("It has? Great. Bye.") In the first part of the 20th century, the Paris utility pioneered a phone-in opera service. Marcel Proust loved it. He'd dial up from home and someone would hold up a phone next to the stage and, voila, Wagner interactif...
Raburn calls the Eclipse "a disruptive technology" in an industry dominated by a few big firms. The killer app of the Eclipse is its tiny engine. Williams, who designed engines for cruise missiles, has been working on reducing engine size for decades. The Eclipse engine, the EJ22, is tiny in airplane terms--85 lbs. (the CJ1 weighs 450 lbs.) and about 14 in. in diameter. But it produces a powerful 770 lbs. of thrust (CJ1: 1,900 lbs.). That's a higher thrust-to-weight ratio than any commercial turbofan engine, and it is the smallest, quietest and lightest...
...killer app" of the PS2 should have been the ability to play DVDs. The cheapskate in me held off on getting a DVD player for months, waiting to for a two-for-one deal with the PS2. Now that I have a PS2, I am considering getting a DVD player anyway. For one thing, accessing the DVD functions requires the use of an onscreen menu rather than a handily labeled remote control. (Some functions are keyed to certain buttons on the game controller, but you will have to memorize which button does what...
...WIRELESS HANDHELD E-mail is still the Internet's killer app, and the RIM 957 is the wireless gadget of choice for on-the-go e-mail addicts. A large, readable screen has been grafted onto a teensy keyboard, giving PDA features to the seriously info obsessed...
PayPal and Billpoint are a great way to make payments to individuals and small businesses. But the "killer app" right now seems to be auctions. PayPal is used in an estimated one-fourth of all eBay auctions. And Billpoint, which is partly owned by eBay and seamlessly integrated into its payment system, is used for many more. PayPal's website includes a handy list of ways you might want to use the service, from sending money to kids away at college to "collecting payments from co-workers for office pools." (Wait, aren't there laws about that?) But the truth...