Archive for July, 2008
Microsoft using Beijing Olympics to boost Silverlight takeup
Webcasting of the Bejing 2008 Olympic Games by NBC and MSN could be the Trojan Horse that gets Microsoft’s Silverlight 2 onto a large number of PCs in America.
Silverlight is Microsoft’s software for delivering rich Internet applications. It competes with Flash, which Adobe claims is installed on 99 percent of Internet-enabled PCs worldwide.
Perhaps the [...]
Internet, a ‘blessing’ for long distant lovers!
With communication getting easier day-by-day, the Internet is turning out to be a blessing for people involved in long distance relationships, shows a new survey.
According to the study, social networking websites have led to a boom in long-distance relationships.
Some 14 per cent of people quizzed said they were dating a partner who lives more than [...]
Top 20 IT cos in India witness sharp drop
After three years of strong growth, top 20 IT companies in India, a majority of them engaged in IT services exports, recorded a revenue growth of 24 per cent in 2007-08, recording a sharp drop from 41 per cent in the previous financial year, according to a survey.
The top 20 IT services exporters recorded a [...]
Voice-enabled sites ‘offer benefits beyond accessibility’
Websites that offer content delivered via an audio channel could reap benefits beyond those associated with increased accessibility for the visually impaired, it has been claimed.
Writing for IT-Director.com on the recent launch of a text-to-speech solution by Textic, Peter Abrahams of Bloor Research said that while voice-enabled sites can do much to ensure compliance with [...]
Move Networks Powers Surging ABC.com and is Now Supporting Live Programming
It’s not Adobe’s Flash, Apple’s QuickTime or Microsoft’s Silverlight. It’s a technology called adaptive streaming, developed by a small Utah start-up called Move Networks, and it’s revolutionizing the way that online video is being delivered and watched by millions. ABC Television implemented the technology as its primary video distribution platform. Last month ABC [...]
Olympics ‘to bring online challenges’
The forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing will provide a “fascinating” insight into the challenges and achievements of the online medium today, according to one BBC columnist.
Bill Thompson, a contributor to the BBC’s Digital Planet programme, said that the event will highlight some of the most pressing issues faced by the internet at present.
He noted that [...]
Social Media Networks : Who Let The Dogs Out who who?
A lot is being spoken and written about how brand presence on Social Media do not really help businesses. There have been many nay – sayers who have signed off on its pitfalls .
Hence, just to stand out from the crowd, this article refutes this supposition. There are ways and means of generating leads thru [...]
Twitter effect of the earthquake in California (LA)
Was just browsing through twitts late night, when i realised that there was a earthquake in LA 20 minutes back, its amazing to see how there were around 150 tweets in just 17 minutes of the earthquake
check the twitter effect (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=earthquake+AND+twitter)
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