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

Q. What do you think the "killer" application is going to be?

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

Email is often called the killer application of the Internet.

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

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

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

The market share of Quicken varied from 65% to 98%, making it a killer application, which drove many computer sales.

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

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