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Skyfire: Bringing Better Mobile Internet


If you think that viewing the internet through your mobile phone was text-heavy, very little images, slow, and cumbersome, you’re not alone. This was more likely due to both your smartphone’s ageing hardware and likewise integrated web browser. With the creation of better and more technologically capable smartphones, you may be expecting some improvements with the browser as well. Well, here comes Skyfire to make your mobile web viewing so much better.

The new mobile browser brings the true internet (like you’d experience from your desktop or laptop computer) to Windows Mobile smartphones. Flash-advertisements, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook – any and all web-pages load in speedy fashion thanks to Skyfire’s behind-the-scenes server-magic. With integrated Flash support, animated/interactive advertisements come to life, embedded videos play in the browser, and Flash-based web-pages are finally viewable.

Available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It can be integrated whether your smartphone is touch or non-touchscreen. It is currently still under beta testing.
More info on this site.

Apple TV Connectivity

Although the Apple TV is projected as a wireless device and that it can function with the built-in airport antennae, it can also have connectivity with the Ethernet cable. So this is a good news for people without wireless routers or wifi routers at home.

What’s lacking in the Apple TV or what’s left undeveloped is that if you have your own videos stored in your PC or Mac, and retrieve it using your IEEE 802.11n Apple TV, it really takes time to get it, as opposed to using the Ethernet cable where it is just a flash when it comes to retrieving DVD-rips and such.

Social Net Aggregators

The social internet has so changed the world but the one down side of all the wonderful sites, as always, information overload. This phenomenon has one person having to deal with several sources of information that causes confusion or even resulting in mixed up facts due to the inability to deal with these details individually. The many social sites such as FaceBook, Twitter and many more presents us with information that is quite overwhelming, not to say that they can present conflicting information that will add to the confusion. Read more »

Bing….Bing… Bing

The newest addition to the many search engines that ply the internet, Bing is a product of the software giant Microsoft who has failed to acquire the search giant Yahoo even after repetitive attempts. Designed to replace their Live Search Facility, they hope it will take enough of the search market from their prospect Yahoo and even the many other search engines that have been nagging at them for sometime. Microsoft also announced that it will soon be releasing a replacement anti-virus to replace their previously offered Bit Defender that was offered for download from their website as part of their drive to secure their Windows Operating System platform. Read more »

When Corporate Blogs go Bad

The many companies who have jumped onto the blogging bandwagon there are the good the bad and the ugly, making news at the top of their agenda but sometimes, over-eagerness takes hold and everything gets all…. messy! Like the previous events that placed Symantec in the hot seat when their people released a test file that was supposed to test the anti-virus software their clients paid for. It turned out into a marketing manager for the guy who released the update forgot to attach a valid security certificate and was deemed as malware sending their paniked customers to flood their support lines and site. Read more »

Gmail’s WebClips

webclipsThe introduction of Gmail Webclips has done it again, thrusting Google into the realm of better open-sourced programs and it did so with style. Google’s addition of webclips allows users to create email with embedded pictures rather than sending them along with the rest of the message as attachments. Read more »

Meebo: a great IM


Instant Messaging clients are one of the more important innovations so far regarding communications via the internet. However, the problem was that not every IM client can talk with the other. It started to change a few years ago when eventually, they opened up to some but still not all. Third party Ims then began creating software that allow you to chat with someone else from another IM client without logging out. One of the exemplary ones was meebo.

Meebo is an instant messaging software that runs inside a Web browser, as AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the software necessary to implement them.

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Google’s My Maps

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Google My Maps is another innovative service by Google for its loyal users. In just a jiffy, you are capable of adding maps to your own website. It will highlight your specified areas which locates your company’s or business’ locations and venues. Or you can simply mark your favorite restaurant or “chilling” place and shoe it to the entire world. Google Maps API enables any user to link text or an image to any map location without writing a code or even if you’re clueless about the whole interface. So try it out yourself now. You just log on, visit the Google Maps, click on My Maps tab and then select Create new map. Go to the area that you want to mark, you can zoom in and then click the “PlaceMark” button. And voila. Share them to everybody that you know.

Cut Expenses with Technology

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The world is going green. And the latest technologies are providing alternative solutions and approaches to survive and thrive in the coming lean times. Everybody’s goal must be to manage efficiently the information and data to further the business’ growth. One way to control the information explosion is to base on procedure for information lifecycle, capacity, data, security and rights management by virtualization, next generation back up and recovery and Fibre Channel over Ethernet or FCoE. It encourages to use shared storage to optimize the data center, thus increasing the performance at the same time cut costs for consumers. It starts with a simple implementation. Since the beginning of this procedure, Choice Point has decreased usage of around 500 rack units of servers. It has consolidated 23 SAN islands to one core-edge SAN and it efficiently cut costs at 40% less. Software licenses can generate big savings.

Tumblr: A Fast Blog

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Tumblr is one blogging service that offers a fast way to post. Created with tumblelogging in mind. It is a subset of blogging that uses quick, simple mixed media posts. The company hopes that the service hopes will live up to the tumblelog, the same as services like LiveJournal and Blogger did for the blog. The only thing different is that, its simplicity will make luring users a far easier job than acquiring users for the same old weblogging. They can click “Share on Tumblr” bookmark so that it tumbles the snippet directly. It takes very little time and effort to maintain. Features are intuitive and quick to learn and establish. You can begin posting in a minute. As simple as that.