Networking
Friday, August 8th, 2008 |
Orkut is not a very popular Social network in USA but it is a big thing in India and Brazil particularly. Orkut is the single biggest cause of decreasing productivity of employees in offices in these countries (citation needed). These social networks are rather creating a huge market for Firewalls because most schools use them so that students use internet and not misuse.
I will talk about social networks some other day, the news for today is that Orkut users in Brazil and India (two of Orkut biggest markets) can now post scraps from their mobile phones. They don’t even have to have an internet enabled mobile phone to do this because it is a SMS service.
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Friday, July 25th, 2008 |
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Friday, July 25th, 2008 |
Meebo has become synonymous with web multi-protocol IM and most people have started to prefer it over specialized IM protocol or the applications. The freedom meebo provides to its users is sheer and thus rightfully holds the top place in the market of web based IM. As it always happens that when something becomes successful on web many imitators mushroom up from nowhere to bite the market share. Let’s take a look at some.
1. E buddy was the first web based IM (but it used to support MSN alone) and is perhaps the only serious competitor of meebo which in my opinion gives better interface than meebo. Ebuddy supports gtalk, yahoo IM, MSN, AIM and has also started to support myspace recently. Meebo doesn’t provide support on myspace and thus ebuddy clearly trumps meebo here. It pops up in separate window when you sign in any of the supported IM accountS. You can not log in invisible mode in those accounts which do not have this feature as of yet in their own IM applications (gtalk and AIM). (more…)
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Monday, March 19th, 2007 |
Microsoft is planning to pay approx $800 million to buy TellMe Networks, a company that specializes in voice recognition technology in web-based applications.
Cisco has also acquired WebEx for $3.2 billion, a service company that provides web-based business collaboration services.
If you want to explore the web-based business collaboration services market, known by some as Web 2.0, attend the Web 2.0 Expo from April 15-17 in San Francsico.
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Friday, February 16th, 2007 |
Reuters have today reported that New York inhabitants who carelessly cross the street listening to an iPod or talking on a cell phone could soon face a $100 fine.New York State Sen. Carl Kruger says three pedestrians in his Brooklyn district have been killed since September upon stepping into traffic while distracted by an electronic device. In one case bystanders screamed “watch out” to no avail.
Kruger says he will introduce legislation on Wednesday to ban the use of gadgets such as Blackberry devices and video games while crossing the street. (more…)
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Friday, December 15th, 2006 |
TVknob.com is another youtube.com like website which is now concentrating on taking web broadcasting to the next level. They have plans to start TV broadcast service with interactive web portal communities and original programming.
TVKnob’s Video and Audio Player is developed by Doug Watkins, these players will allow users to access music and videos by independent broadcasters, and choose from an cluster of online television and radio stations with multiple channels. (more…)
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 |
Microsoft acquired DesktopStandard, it is a New England-based firm that develops enterprise network management software.
The company’s software is designed to help network administrators manage access privileges and file sharing between groups of computers. DesktopStandard’s products work with Microsoft Group Policy, a component of Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003, that allows administrators to control multiple systems with one set of parameters. (more…)
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 |
For years, server administrators have been using virtualization software to rapidly test new deployment environments, and to consolidate server hardware by putting several server operating systems on a single physical machine.
However, the latter option has not yet entered the mainstream. Intel is hoping to change all that with an announcement today that it is providing VMware certification for many of its motherboard and server products.
Intel announced the formation of the Intel Enabled Server Acceleration Alliance (ESAA), a new program that allows hardware and solution vendors to certify their servers with various software applications, including VMware. According to Kirk Skaugena, Intel’s vice president in charge of the Server Platforms group, the program offers a “big revenue opportunity for the channel and a way to expand the benefits of VMware products to more and more companies around the world.”
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006 |
Linux XP Desktop is the most popular Linux Distro in Russia and is now offering Linux XP 2006 Service Release 2 to the international market. Linux XP Desktop 2006 is a user friendly Operating System based on an updated release of Fedora Core 3. The desktop environment is based on GNOME which is fine tuned to mimic Windows XP’s look and functionality. Linux XP Desktop is binary compatible with Fedora Core RPM-repositories supported by a large Fedora community.
Linux XP is also integrated with Microsoft Technologies including Microsoft VPN, Active Directory, Remote Windows server login, read/write FAT16/32 and read NTFS file-systems. The operating system is also compatible with Windows applications and allows you to install & use Windows applications easily.
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 |
Yahoo Inc. is offering free group conference calling services from Vapps Inc. to the roughly 80 million users of Yahoo’s instant-message and Web telephone-calling service, the companies said Monday.
The service, called ConFreeCall, will be available for download through’s Yahoo Messenger with Voice service, allowing friends or families to hold free conference calls to complement Yahoo’s existing text, voice and photo-sharing services. (more…)
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