Microsoft Silverlight: Flash Killer or Wannabe?
When Microsoft rolled out its Silverlight application platform this week, it threw down the proverbial gauntlet, so to speak, at longtime rival Adobe, whose Flash product has thus far been the dominant interactive content creation tool on the market. The availability of Silverlight may be particularly compelling to some if the rumors about plans to make some components available as open source are true.
Planetwide Media and Lulu.com Announce Direct Digital Publishing Solution for Comic Book Creator Sof
Dynamic Publishing Technology Duo Empowers Consumers to Create and Publish Personalized Comic Books with Interactive Entertainment Software. (PRWeb May 8, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/Q3Jhcy1Qcm9mLVNpbmctRW1wdC1UaGlyLVplcm8=
Obelisk International Reveals Their New Website Offering Exciting New Investor Tools
Obelisk International is proud to announce the official release of their new website www.obeliskinternational.com providing investors with a new tool, the Investment Profit Calculator. (PRWeb Jun 19, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/TWFnbi1Ib3JyLVBpZ2ctQ291cC1UaGlyLVplcm8=
The Emergence of Next-Gen Networks, Part 1
Enterprise IT departments are straining despite huge increases in network capacity in the past decade. There are growing concerns over bandwidth availability, interoperability and security, as online video, VoIP, social networking and on-demand application services proliferate.
Fans Help Filmmakers Win YouTube Deal
Tech-savvy DIY filmmakers help finance and distribute their films using the web -- and make money showing it for free.
Candlelight Call to Action
Speaker Pelosi and 57 House Democrats joined Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Democrats, and Iraq war veterans at a ?Candlelight Call to Action? tonight to honor our troops and call on Senate Republicans to stop blocking votes to responsibly end the war in Iraq. Speaker Pelosi’s remarks: Thank you very much Leader Reid. [...] (Read on Source)
Earth-Shattering Study: Men Like Good-Looking Women
Yeah, buddy, you've got a chance: Victoria's Secret models Selita Ebanks, Karolina Kurkova, Adriana Lima, Gisele Bundchen, Izabel Goulart and Alessandra Ambrosio. (Read on Source)
An Overview of Windows Sound and Music "Glitching" Issues
Windows is a rich and complex OS designed for multi-tasking users whose tasks must share access to scarce system hardware and resources. Unfortunately, despite multiple decades of incredible advances in PC and CPU architectures, there are non-trivial, complex interactions between applications, processes, and devices in even the most advanced personal computers that make a supposedly "easy" task -- like playing back music without occasional glitches -- much more difficult than it may seem at first glance.
10+ ways to get more out of Windows XP
You can get a lot more mileage out of Windows XP if you perform a few tweaks and tap into some timesaving tricks. This collection of XP power tips from our Microsoft Windows blog covers things like using XP’s built-in image resizing tool, creating a quick temporary drive map, and using Clip.exe to copy output [...]
Hands on: Facebook's iPhone app
Facebook's iPhone application launched today. Read on to check out the hands on review.
Daisuke Naito looks on as Tomonubu Shimizu is counted out in the 10th round of their WBC flyweigh...
Daisuke Naito looks on as Tomonubu Shimizu is counted out in the 10th round of their WBC flyweight title bout in Tokyo. Naito (33-2-3, 21 KO) retained the title, and was down on all three official scorecards at the time of the KO (84-87, 85-86, 85-87). (REUTERS/Michael Caronna) (Read on Source)
P.E.I. gets youth-addiction aid
P.E.I. will hire two new youth-addiction services staff with $300,000 announced by the federal government on Tuesday. (Read on Source)
At Democratic convention, bloggers got some respect
The new media players who came to the Democratic convention were not there just to annotate mainstream coverage: they're in the hunt themselves.
Who Needs a TV? Web Video Viewing Doubles (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Online TV viewership has doubled since 2006, according to a Thursday study from market research firms the Conference Board and TNS.
A Virtuous Cycle: Safety In Numbers For Bicycle Riders
It seems paradoxical but the more people ride bicycles on our city streets, the less likely they are to be injured in traffic accidents. International research reveals that as cycling participation increases, a cyclist is far less likely to collide with a motor vehicle or suffer injury and death - and what's true for cyclists is true for ... (Read on Source)
Case Dismissed For Lack Of Substitute Plaintiff
NEW YORK - The ephedra multidistrict litigation judge on Oct. 17 granted an unopposed motion by Metabolife to dismiss a case because 90 days have passed since a suggestion of death was filed and no plaintiff has been substituted (In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 04 M.D. 1598 [JSR]; Robert Hutchinson v. Metabolife International, Inc., et al., No. 1:06-cv-04478-JSR, S.D. N.Y.). Full story on lexis.com
Weekly Top 10: new iPods, LaserVue Pricing, iPhone 2.1
The fall gadget line-up is crystallizing and in a couple weeks we will know all new products that will be available in time for the Holidays. Apple for instance unveiled new iPod nano and new iPod touch portab...
Europe plans asteroid sample grab
British and German engineers are working on a potential new European mission to bring back material from an asteroid.
TeleNav mobile workforce software reaches out
Mobile navigation and software vendor TeleNav took a page from Research In Motion's book with a server that can mediate between TeleNav's software and existing enterprise applications.
The company's TeleNav Track platform includes tools for managing employees who work out of the office as well as for sending information from the field. It's based on TeleNav's navigation software for mobile phones, which can keep supervisors apprised of workers' locations via GPS as well as provide maps and turn-by-turn directions. TeleNav is available for a variety of Windows Mobile, Palm, and BlackBerry devices as well as on other types of phones through Brew and J2ME (Java 2, Micro Edition).
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Easy-to-use forms for cell phone screens are a key attribute of TeleNav Track. They can be adapted to particular types of reports required for individual enterprises, said Keith Halasy, TeleNav's senior marketing manager for business-to-business products. Data from TeleNav can be adapted to go into existing data-entry and database systems, including the homegrown applications commonly used in small businesses, he said. But so far, that has required ad-hoc development for each enterprise system, and it's been hard to handle more than one, according to Halasy.
The TeleNav Enterprise Server (TES), available starting Tuesday with the newly introduced TeleNav Track 4.1, is designed to consolidate all types of data conversions in one platform and make it easier to write software for each of those processes. With relative ease, enterprises can set up conversions to multiple formats, Halasy said. TeleNav can also do this work as an added service.
New York's Street Conditions Observation Unit (SCOUT) program uses TeleNav Track for reporting potholes, sinkholes and other conditions to various city agencies for repair. About 15 employees ride scooters around the city, covering roughly every street within a month, and send in a report via a BlackBerry handset for each problem they find. The program was launched last year on short notice, and the city scrambled to put together software that could adapt TeleNav Track data to each agency's preferred format, said Girish Chhugani, executive director of citywide technology initiatives.
Setting up the system for entering street-condition reports was relatively easy and only took about two months, Chhugani said.
"We didn't even really have to develop anything. All we had to do was create forms," Chhugani said. "If we sat down and did all that ... it would have been another ten months."
However, there was some back-end work required to send the data from those forms into all the systems that needed it, including a Siebel system for the city's 311 information service and a mainframe at the Department of Transportation, he said. The city used Visual Basic and .Net to create applications for those needs.
With the TES, Chhugani hopes to further automate that process, allowing the back-end databases to be automatically populated. Like RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the TES sits behind an enterprise firewall and acts as a broker between the mobile infrastructure and enterprise back-end systems. A single server, rather than an array of different scripts, will be easier to maintain in the long run, Chhugani said.
In addition to field reporting, TeleNav allows the SCOUT program to track employees to see whether they are covering their territories and lets employees clock in and out from the field. The city is working with TeleNav to give them GPS-controlled automated directions around their routes. The biggest problem the city has encountered has been the sometimes poor GPS coverage in areas with many tall buildings, Chhugani said.
Other new features in TeleNav Track 4.1 include Team Timecard, which lets supervisors clock entire crews in and out from a mobile device; controls to prevent users from clocking excessive overtime; and a Hot Key Alert, which lets a worker send an alert message to a supervisor quickly and discreetly with just a few keystrokes.
The TES is priced starting at $3,000 for between 25 and 50 users, with a $500 annual maintenance fee. It is also available as a managed server. TeleNav Track 4.1 starts at $12.95 per user per month and is sold through mobile operators.
Oracle dangles $13.6 million bonus over Ellison
Shareholders approve a potential $13.6 million bonus for CEO Larry Ellison. Question is, can that figure really motivate a billionaire who has topped the Forbes list of best-paid tech CEOs?
Windows 7 DWM cuts memory consumption by 50%
Long Zheng: If you didn?t think the performance benefits of using Aero Glass could get any better, then see this. At PDC 2008, Anantha Kancherla presented a session on ?Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware? where he presented a mindblowing fact about the Windows 7 Desktop Window Manager.
Because Windows 7 can take better advantage of the GPU and uses the Direct3D 10.1 API, it is able to reduce reduce memory consumption (in the graphics system) by 50% per each window rendered. On top of that, this is also what enables the much richer animation and styling of the interface like the ?color hot-track? feature. Pretty cool huh.
SEMNE Event: Inside the Black Box of Search
Posted by Nick Gerner
"I'm not an SEO. I've never worked at Google or Yahoo! I worked at Microsoft, but not on search." This is how I began my talk at the SEOmoz Expert Training Seminar last August. Now I have been invited to speak at an SEMNE event on November 18 in Providence, RI. And I'm asking you to attend. It's a poor sales pitch, but stick with me.Last August I tried to turn the tables around and give the audience some insight into the thinking that goes into building search technology. And I plan to do exactly the same thing at the SEMNE event. Because we hadn't launched Linkscape at the time, I couldn't dive into the specific motivations for the things we have done, and continue to work on. Of course, now I can be a bit more candid about work that's made it into product form and work that hasn't.
Later this month, rather than doing a Linkscape demo or sales-pitch, I'll try to walk through some of the motivations for a product like Linkscape. I'll point out ways that our work generalizes beyond our own index. I'll dig into some kinds of analyses that might be interesting to both internet marketers and search engineers alike. And I'll try and connect those things that back to users.
I'm looking forward to heading back to the North East where I grew up and talking about some interesting technology around which we've built an exciting industry. And I'm looking forward to meeting you!
Promotional Coupons Sent Via Mobile Phones to Exceed 200m Users by 2013 Finds Juniper Research
Coupons delivered and redeemed via mobile phones are forecast to be used by some 200 million mobile subscribers globally by 2013, according to a new study by Juniper Research. (PRWeb Nov 12, 2008)
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Compulsory Education
Women professors in the physical sciences: a few. Women professors in the physical sciences at research universities: even fewer. Women full professors in physical sciences at research universities, especially mine: infinitesimal. But we exist.. (Read on Source)
Economic Advisers To Be Announced Monday
President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce his economic team on Monday, but those aren't the only positions Americans are eager to see filled. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports many are speculating that Hillary Clinton will be Obama's top diplomat. (Read on Source)
Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel
jammag writes "Ever since the GNewSense team pointed out that the Linux kernel contains proprietary firmware blobs, the question of whether a given distro is truly free software has gotten messier, notes Linux pundit Bruce Byfield. The FSF changed the definition of a free distribution, and a search for how to respond to this new definition is now well underway. Who wins and what solutions are implemented could have a major effect on the future of free and open source software. Debian has its own solution (by allowing users to choose their download), as do Ubuntu and Fedora (they include the offending firmware by default but make it possible to remove it). Meanwhile, the debate over firmware rages on. What resolves this issue?"
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