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Pentagon Bans Google Teams from Bases
Written by admin on March 07, 2008 under Google, News | 2 comments
WASHINGTON – Due to security problems, the Pentagon banned Google teams from making clear and comprehensive street-level video maps of U.S. military bases after the images of a Texas base was put on the Google Maps website.
Google said taking such kind of images is against its policy and this incident was a mistake.
A message which was sent to the officials of all Defense Department bases and installations around the country ordered not to allow the Google teams to take street-level images inside the facilities.
“We have got information that Google Maps was collecting 360 degree street-level images, including detailed imagery, of the military base in Texas,” said Gary Ross, the spokesman for the US Northern Command, in a press meet.
Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, chief of the U.S. Northern Command, said he was concerned that allowing the 360-degree, street-level view could provide clear and comprehensive images and thus potential anti social elements may get sensitive information and it may endanger the base personnel.
EU Hits Microsoft with Record 899 Million Euro Antitrust Fine
Written by admin on February 28, 2008 under Internet, Microsoft, News | 2 comments
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The European Union fined the software giant Microsoft Corp. a record $1.3 billion Wednesday for charging unreasonable amount for providing software information to its competitors.
Regulators of EU said that the company imposed “unfair prices” till last October to software developers, who wanted to develop products, which is well matched with the Windows operating system. This is the largest fine ever charged for an individual company.
Microsoft immediately responded to this issue by saying that the problem has been solved and the company was making its products more open to all.
The fine was imposed with in a week after Microsoft had announced that it is ready to share more information about its technology and products with a view to make it work better with competitor’s software and to meet the demands of European antitrust regulators.
Mozilla Seeks Partnerships in China
Written by admin on February 25, 2008 under Internet, News, Technology | 1 comment
Shanghai – Mozilla, the well known developer of the open source Web browser Firefox, which is the second most widely used web browser only after Microsoft Corporation’s Internet Explorer, has set its target to increase its market share in China by at least twofold this year. China is all set to become the largest Web market in the world.
Gong Li, chief executive of Mozilla Online, said that the California based company is expecting the venture to be hard in a nation where customers largely lack awareness of open source and businesses usually establish their services only on Explorer.
Mozilla Online which is known as “seek wisdom” or “mou zhi,” in Chinese at present has about 4.5 million regular users in China. “There are around 4.5 regular users in china,” said Gong Li, who formerly worked at Microsoft’s MSN unit and at Sun Microsystems Inc.
Google Launched “AdSense for Video” Program, Intends to Tap Video Ad Markets
Written by admin on February 22, 2008 under Google, Technology | 6 comments
Google is now set to hit the video advertising markets with its latest launch of “Video Advertising Program” on Thursday. The company is visualizing for a great time ahead with its arms,”You Tube”, and the existing “Ad-Network”. It hopes to materialize huge capital from the exponentially growing video advertising and online video.
Long awaited “AdSense for Video”, this new initiative from Google, came after the start of ‘testing text links’ with the video advertisements side by side of the search results. It is in beta stage right now and advertisers have been offered an option for “placing their text-ads overlaid at the bottom of a video viewer”, according to Google. This will facilitate a viewer to click on the overlay in order to see the video advertisement.
Google’s idea of showing video ads is quite different from the regular television ads which show up before the start of a program. Google’s ads will not be obstructive in that manner. Google in fact has taken a different approach and this will not prompt viewers to put the ads off, says the company.
Yahoo buys Internet video company
Written by admin on February 19, 2008 under News, Yahoo | 5 comments
Boston: Yahoo has purchased Maven Networks, an Internet video toolmaker, for $160 million.
Press Release: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080212/20080212005624.html
Maven, located in Massachusetts, sells video-publishing systems and tool sets that allow companies play, distribute and syndicate broadband video. The acquisition will be an upcoming age for the advertising sector, which will be generating more than $4 billion in annually within the next three years.
Hilmi Ozguc, the chief executive of Maven said “Internet video, which was initiated by a group of start-ups, is now on the edge of becoming a big business.” This business raised about $30 million in venture capital since 2002. “Billions of dollars in advertising are at stake.” Read the rest of this entry
Yahoo Launched “OneConnect”, New Mobile Platform
Written by admin on February 13, 2008 under News, Yahoo | 0 comments
Yahoo launched its new mobile platform service,”OneConnect” on Tuesday. This new mobile platform service will integrate multiple functions at one place including email, text messaging, instant messaging, and social networking.
“One Connect” is included in the Yahoo’s roll out plans as a part of “Yahoo Go 3.0” and new “Yahoo Home Page”. “Yahoo Go 3.0” is a unique offer from this company having an ‘all-in-one’ application facility. Yahoo is planning to make this unique facility available to its users and mobile phone users sometime during the second quarter of this year.”One Connect” was on display at the ‘Mobile World Congress’ in Barcelona this week.
An immensely useful feature of “One Connect” is its ‘socially connected address book’. This facilitates the users to transmit, transfer, and share various activities through the social networks, professional networks, and other community networks with the help of their own address books. This facility will keep them on top in case any person who is in their address book makes any change in their profiles or updates the status.
Getting Reliable Information Online – How to find and use Authoritative Sites
Written by admin on January 08, 2008 under Internet | 1 comment
The internet is scattered with unreliable, biased information that is tilted in the favor of the writer who wants you to believe what he thinks is right. The problem becomes imminent especially in cases where the writer is actually selling you something – in which case, the opinion will be heavily tainted with his intentions to make you believe what the writer wants you to think is right.
So, how do you get good and reliable information if that’s the case?
This is where authority sites come into the picture. You want information that is genuine and shows you all facets of data that you need to make a rational decision and get the right information to solve your problem.
Authority sites are basically sites that you can trust, that have the authority to boast about having reliable information. They come in a whole range of appearances; and some do look admittedly uglier than their un-trustable counterparts. There are however, a few major ones that have almost all the information that you would need on any subject at all. I will speak about one of these first – and it is probably the only one you will ever need.
Major Authority Site – Wikipedia
URL: Wikipedia
Wikipedia is certainly one of the sites that have left a huge impact on the internet and it has grown to become one of the largest resources on the internet about anything and everything. Essentially, it is an encyclopedia, similar to that of the famous Britannica.
Articles from reliable sources such as news.com have touted the quality of articles there to be as accurate as Britannica, so it is most definitely one of the authoritative sources you can turn to when you are in need of any information.
The secrets of online document retrieval – information revolution and its complexities
Written by admin on January 04, 2008 under Internet | 2 comments
The secrets of online document retrieval – information revolution and its complexities
Men have been through ages, encountering difficulty in storing accessible information in one form or the other. Enormous amount of information on everything is available around us but access to the information requires replication of efforts in various forms like journals, books, encyclopedias and now, recently computers. Libraries have been the places to amass information, from time immemorial but gaining access of the information is arduous, since it includes locating the right information from the right book. This process is inclusive of cataloging and efficient administration that is laborious, on the part of the authorities.
Computers – key to storing data.
The arrival of the magic machine, computer has helped men immensely in storing information and data on any given subject. After the inception of computers in every field, document retrieval systems have become the primary focus. Information storage and retrieval systems were revolutionized with the invention of computers.
Documents are retrieved entirely by employing the use of titles or keywords, through document retrieval systems. Any word frequently used in the document can aid the search and retrieval of documents. Everyone associated with computers are striving to find an effective mode of information retrieval from various databases.
Search Engine Optimization – The Whole Catch
Written by admin on December 03, 2007 under SEO | 0 comments
Key Points:
- Sell more and earn more money.
- Get visitors that have genuine interest in your content.
- Build trust in your visitors even before they visit your website.
Sounds like the things you want? Search engine traffic does just that. When you get listed in the results for a search term on Google, these things happen:
1- The visitor would have the impression that you’re an authority.
This is automatically built up by the fact that search engines function on good content in the top results. Google became the leading search engine because they could provide very relevant content in their search results; closest to what the searcher expected. As the many searches come up with results that the user wants, the user begins to trust that the search engine will give them good, reliable information in the results – meaning that if your site appears there, you are most likely to be trusted. Visitors who trust you will buy your products and subscribe to your feeds and come back for more information.
