A live demo of mobile WiMAX was successfully presented by Motorola at a sold out trade show in Singapore this week, not long after it announced completion of a successful trial of the technology in Thailand.
Show-goers taking a bus tour at the WiMAX Forum Congress Asia reportedly experienced Web browsing, video conferencing, and other wireless applications while moving past Motorola 400 access points (APs) along the route, with mobile hand-off between the APs. Motorola provided backhaul to its facility in Singapore over its wireless IP equipment.
Meanwhile, at the end of March, Motorola announced completion of a mobile WiMAX trial, conducted in Thailand with partner UIH under government permission, to help assess WiMAX as a way of boosting Internet penetration rate that currently stands at only 15% in Thailand.
April 05 2008 | Information | No Comments »
Pray over Internet Protocol (PoIP) is a corporation based on Israel that runs an online prayer site and forum for Christians and Jews all over the world. This allows them not only to send their prayers to the Holy Land but also to visit various holy places virtually. PoIP clients record their own prayers using special phone cards and these recordings are transmitted over Internet Telephone to selected locations. PoIP has equipment at several holy sites in Israel including the Sea of Galilee, Basilica of the Annunciation, the Western Wall. Among others. They could also watch live video streams of the Holy Land through web cams.
April 03 2008 | Application | No Comments »
A bulletin board system (BBS) is an internet application that allows sharing and exchange of files and messages on a network. This is similar to the bulletin boards found on offices and homes. Before the World Wide Web arrived, the BBS was the primary kind of online community. It could be accessible from a dial-up modem, Telnet and the Internet. It is text-based but recent versions have a graphical and interactive user interface. Most BBSes talk about a particular topic and some discuss general topics. Despite the advances in internet technology, the BBS is still used in some parts of the world up to this day.
March 22 2008 | Information | No Comments »
The Internet. Now that you are used to it, a group of researchers would like to take it away from you. For good.
According to the (admittedly) small group — the Internet we use today is obsolete and needs a new face to give it new life before it dies and takes all of us with it.
Time magazine reports Dipankar Raychaudhuri, a Rutgers University professor, who is currently overseeing three different projects aimed at killing the Internet as we know it now, as saying the time is ripe for a new and better version.
The Internet works well in many situations but was designed for completely different assumptions. It’s sort of a miracle that it continues to work well today.
March 20 2008 | Information | No Comments »
At Microsoft’s Mix08 conference for web designers and developers earlier in March, the firm showed off its developments and coming attractions, including a new focus on standards in Internet Explorer and an update to its Silverlight platform for browser-based applications.
“The internet is reshaping and transforming Microsoft’s existing products and services,” said Microsoft’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, speaking at the conference. However, this is nothing new; Microsoft founder Bill Gates expressed similar sentiments in 1995, in a now-famous memo titled The Internet Tidal Wave.
More than a decade later, making sense of the web remains Microsoft’s biggest challenge. Ozzie’s keynote was too vague to be truly compelling, but Mix08 was nevertheless the launch platform for some significant new elements in Microsoft’s internet efforts.
March 15 2008 | Information | No Comments »
6) Easy interaction
Make it easy for users to interact. Example of this is rating files by clicking on a star or buying things by clicking links.
7) Design your interaction
Create a story between your interface elements. Make them dynamic and interesting.
Announce transitions
Inform the user during lightweight operations that don’t leave the page with progress indicators that keep the user engaged.
9) Objects
Think in terms of Rich Internet Objects. Once created it can be searched and shared.
This list is not complete. You could search for more over the internet and make a few of your tips to share.
March 15 2008 | Application | No Comments »
1) Direct interaction
Where there is output, allow input to come int. Use drag and drop only where it is needed. Put tools as close to objects being edited.
2) Inviting pages
Use hover to invite users to interact further.
3) Instead of page transitions, use pop-ups
Make these light and in-context so these will not bother the users. These will serve as annexed areas for your page.
4) Use slide-outs
Slide outs are very useful in desktop tools. Make use of them creatively.
5) The page switch
This is a context boundary that the user may choose to cross or not. This is a place that many of your users will lose interest and no longer follow you, so use with caution.
March 13 2008 | Application | No Comments »
The name of the game is Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and imaging solutions leader Adobe has just created an Open Source framework to help create such Web content — Flex — as well as a vehicle to run them — AIR.
At a technology summit on Thursday, to point at such RIA possibilities, Adobe showcased a number of compelling applications where both tools have already been deployed by corporates ranging from e-Bay to the New York Times to breathe new life into their Internet portals. RIA constituted a “massive unstoppable movement”, of which they should be a part, delegates were told.
Data will flow to users who will get to decide at what point they want to quit the ‘Cloud’ and revert to the offline mode of their desktops.
March 10 2008 | Information | No Comments »
IBM announced today said that it had created code to secure mashups for businesses. Analysts say the technology will help companies merge data from websites or corporate systems to create rich Internet applications (RIAs) without the risk of exposing proprietary information.
“We’ve been working for quite a few years around Web 2.0 and mashups,” Rod Smith, a vice president with IBM, told CIO. “This technology will allow people to create a mashup without worrying that it will go phishing for personal data or financial information.”
March 05 2008 | Information | No Comments »
As of March, the iPhone and iPod Touch account for 0.23 percent of U.S. Web traffic, while the business-friendly Symbian-based Nokia devices come in second place, though StatCounter did not provide their traffic percentage. Globally, Nokia comes in tops at 0.25 percent and the iPhone and iPod Touch second at 0.08 percent.
It’s been on the market for just six months, and already the iPhone (plus its Wi-Fi-only variant, the iPod Touch) is the most used mobile browser for Internet access in the U.S. At No. 2 is the Symbian OS used in Nokia’s devices. Globally, the two positions are reversed. In either case, Windows Mobile — in all its versions — is just a blip.
March 01 2008 | Information | No Comments »
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