Archive for March, 2008
Google Web Apps - Without the Web
- Posted by Avatar on March 29th, 2008 filed in Information, Innovations, News
The pioneering work Google Inc. has managed to do has resulted in something that all web users have been dreaming of for a long-long time, web applications that work even when it is not connected to the web. The company has released the source code of Google Gears which they have released to allow users [...]
Read More..>>The GUI Advantage
- Posted by Avatar on March 25th, 2008 filed in Information
Most web applications can be grouped into the bland/boring or the nice ones due to utter lack of intense graphics which are signature of some of the best sites on the internet. Netflix is hailed to have one of the most user friendly and entertaining web applications ever that shows the true direction which web [...]
Read More..>>Multimedia TV?
- Posted by Avatar on March 21st, 2008 filed in Information, Innovations, News
The introduction of Internet TV which is able to connect directly to your HD TV is set to be the next big thing to come in the world of the lowly television since the advent of flat screens. The ability for digital television to be connected via the internet to the various media sources makes [...]
Read More..>>Google - For five year olds?
- Posted by Avatar on March 17th, 2008 filed in Industry Leaders, Information, News
Google is getting criticism for their release of their many publications such as the terms of use and privacy using multimedia publishing. From videos of explanations and other moronic ads that show up as watch video windows that keep pooping up everywhere on the screen like a bug to honey. Their move is defended by [...]
Read More..>>Goggle Goes Off-Line
- Posted by Avatar on March 13th, 2008 filed in Information, News
For an hour that is and only in their US site, which is their way of supporting Earth Hour where everybody was encouraged to turn out the lights for a complete hour on the 29th of March 2008. The move was seen by many as a truly earth-friendly act for it did save on some [...]
Read More..>>Presentation and Service Oriented Web Applications (Part 2)
- Posted by Avatar on March 9th, 2008 filed in Information, Innovations
The endpoint or terminal by which the program is accessed has certain required components downloaded and installed onto them upon configuration to allow the node to communicate with the host or server. A request by a user to use the system is sent to the server, it checks for validity then allows access to the [...]
Read More..>>Presentation and Service Oriented Web Applications (Part 1)
- Posted by Avatar on March 5th, 2008 filed in Information, Innovations
These are the two general forms web applications take and the first one is a simple web page that allows total interactivity. This may be used for say a voting system that automatically tallies votes, collating them from all the locations allowing real-time monitoring of the results. Service oriented Applications are at the endpoint of [...]
Read More..>>Challenges for distributed Applications (Part 2)
- Posted by Avatar on March 1st, 2008 filed in Information
The reliability of the internet is also a challenge for systems that span the world for any slowdown in the series of links can mean huge performance issues for these types of applications. The explosion of wireless networks have complicated both problems a thousand fold for proper security measures have to be put in place [...]
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