Light, fast, and shiny, many Web apps have the futuristic feel of a bullet train. They also have numerous advantages over desktop apps: There’s nothing to install, they don’t take up any hard drive ...

The line between Web apps and desktop applications grows ever blurrier. Chrome OS, for example, puts the browser front and center and makes it the core of an entire operating system. Also, in recent ...

Windows: We've discussed some great ways to bring the Start Menu back in Windows 8, but Pokki doesn't just offer a good-looking, feature-packed start menu replacement, it also offers its own app store ...

That headline isn’t exactly right, in that it’s not completely correct. Pokki is a platform that I’ve spent a good part of today trying to decipher, and haven’t fully unlocked; there is something to ...

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is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Pokki has long partnered with app developers to create web-based applets ...

Windows 8 sales may not be what many manufacturers were hoping for, but Lenovo's agreement to ship the Pokki suite on all PCs means it's not letting go of the OS without a fight. Senior writer Seth ...

SweetLabs, the startup behind Pokki, an app platform for Windows, has landed two big-name deals to get pre-installed on Acer computers with Zynga games. The first with Acer means that Pokki will come ...

Social games got their very name from the social networks that they appear on, so why take them out of the equation? If you ask Sweetlabs co-founder and CMO Chester Ng, it's about way more than just ...

This morning Pokki, a product of Sweet Labs, announced that it will expand its application recommendation engine to Android devices, and enhance its app store for what the company calls “multi mode” ...

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