killer application

Email is often called the killer application of the Internet.

"The next big killer application for the Internet is going to be education.

The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures.

"The industry is desperately searching for a killer application."

People talk about the killer application for the data superhighway being interactive television or entertainment.

In information systems these days, there is no one big killer application, like spreadsheets or desktop publishing.

Many industry executives say it will take at least several years of trial and error before the first new "killer applications" emerge.

One has just created the ultimate killer application.

That led to the framework for the 787 - getting the development risk off the books of Boeing and coming up with a killer application."

But forecasting the arrival of killer applications is tough.

People have been talking about the need for a 'killer application' and this is it.'

For one thing, the proverbial "killer application" of wireless appears not to be E-mail.

"Supercomputers found their killer application in auto crash simulation," he recalls.

Nor is the demand limited to esoteric multimedia 'killer applications'.

Or the next great killer application.

Ultimately, web browsers such as Mosaic became the killer applications of the 1990s.

Examples of a video game killer applications are:

"In the home," she said, "we're going to have a much more diverse computing environment, not just one or two killer applications as in business.

Does this mean the killer ape from "2001" has traded in his bone for a killer application?

This is called a killer application.

The killer application was the world-beating opportunity.

To provide a killer application for this, the Australian Federal government sold subscription television licences.

Version 1.0 was released in September 1993, and was dubbed the killer application of the Internet.

"We believe the link between Rhapsody and the home stereo system will be the 'killer application' for subscription music," he wrote.

The real killer application is to use the network to improve our collective I.Q.