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 Monday, October 28, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 8:12 PM   0 comments   

MACROMEDIA FLASH COMMUNICATION SERVER MX BRINGS INTEGRATED, ON-DEMAND STREAMING VIDEO TO SBC YAHOO DSL SUBSCRIBERS!

"By integrating Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX into SBC Yahoo! DSL, members can have instant access to streaming content with very little buffering and without having to open a separate media player," said Jim Brock, senior vice president of major initiatives, Yahoo! Inc. "This illustrates how Yahoo!'s independent position in content and content delivery platforms allows us to focus entirely on delivering the best experience for our users. Yahoo! and SBC expect to continue innovating and adding new features to SBC Yahoo! DSL, thus offering users an ever-expanding, engaging and useful broadband experience."

Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX combines powerful communication capabilities including streaming media, rich media messaging, and real-time collaboration. Streaming media features let developers integrate streaming video and audio with motion graphics in a customizable player environment for a new level of multimedia presentation on the Internet. With rich media messaging features such as multi-way, multi-user video and audio chats, developers can add engaging live, human interactions and instant messaging to their websites. The real-time collaboration features, including the powerful Shared Object technology, enable multiple users to share live white boards and other real-time data in the context of an application. For more information, go to www.macromedia.com/go/flashcom/.

Press release

 

 Saturday, October 26, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 5:17 PM   0 comments   

WINDOWS POWERED SMARTPHONE: THE ORANGE SPV

October 22nd 2002. London. Microsoft corp. and Orange SA today announced the launch of the world’s first Windows® Powered Smartphone – the Orange SPV – heralding the start of a new mobile revolution:

Have fun and keep updated
- listen to music and watch video clips with Windows Media Player
- play games by yourself or with your friends on the move

Keep in touch
- share the moment. You can take, send and store photos
- chat live with instant messenger
- check your emails on the move
- view attachments

Manage your time
- with Microsoft Pocket Outlook you can organise your day and synchronize with your PC at home
- you can back up your phone, so your contacts and diary dates are always safe

Orange SPV website

 

 Friday, October 25, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 9:40 AM   0 comments   

MSN VERSION 8

KEY FEATURES:
:: Parental Controls
:: Tools for filtering out junk e-mail
:: Messaging
:: Easy to customize

MSN vs. AOL:
.: MSN has 9 million members
.: America Online 26.7 million U.S. subscribers and 35 million worldwide.

MSN + DIS = INTERNET SERVICE FOR KIDS
MSN joined forces with Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS), another rival of America Online's parent, AOL Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:AOL) for offering a new Internet service, co-branded by the two companies and aimed at families with children. The co-branded service will be built around MSN version 8, which allows parents to control what their children can see online, an area traditionally dominated by America Online.

 

 Tuesday, October 22, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 3:30 PM   0 comments   

SHARP UNVEILS COMPUTER-ON-GLASS DISPLAY

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), unveiled a screen Tuesday with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. Sharp is betting heavily on CGS technology (CGS = continuous grain silicon), which permits on-screen circuitry that can save space, cut production costs and produce ultra-fine resolutions for showing maps or photos.

Shumpei Yamazaki, president of unlisted Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Ltd, Sharp's partner in the project, compared the challenge of putting processor circuitry on glass to "building a skyscraper on rubber."

Full article

Note: a rival technology, low-temperature polysilicon, is used in LCDs by Japanese peers such as Toshiba Corp and Sanyo Electric Co

 

 Friday, October 18, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 9:28 PM   0 comments   

SMS POWERED INTERNET/TV SHOW

An interesting concept: Double Life
Interactive avatar-animation series and multi-user virtual world.

 


 Posted by Roberto
 9:26 PM   0 comments   

UNIVERSAL MULTIMEDIA PLATFORM

Tao's intent Universal Multimedia Platform

17 Sep 2002
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) today announced the intent® Universal Multimedia Platform from Tao Group as a nominee for the 2002 BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards. More...

.: tao-group


 

 Wednesday, October 16, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 6:29 PM   0 comments   

VIRTANGO ON CNN

CNN has offered a live broadcast from New York city of the incredible "Human Joystick Technology"!

If you have no idea of what that technology is about... feel free to visit Virtango's website.

Nice shirt Bill! :)

 

 Monday, October 14, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 2:37 PM   0 comments   

MOBILE GAMES

Mobile games, are forecasted to increase in demand from 42.9M users in 2002 to 848M in 2006.

 

 Saturday, October 12, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 12:38 PM   0 comments   

IT SPENDING IN USA

Lehman Brothers analyst Dan Niles, said that stability in information-technology spending in the United States should offset weakness in Europe, and that IT spending should perk up slightly in 2003. "While the high-end large dollar projects and products have been weak ... when IT spending returns in 2003, the demand for business process and productivity enhancing (systems) should return and this is what IBM is best positioned to deliver".



 

 Friday, October 11, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 10:33 AM   0 comments   

802.11x COMMENTS

Distance is the primary problem with wireless. The farther away you are, the poorer the signal. Although 802.11a wireless access points are four times as fast as 802.11b hubs, they can send signals only about half the distance.

The Wired Equivalent Privacy algorithm (WEP), the 128-bit security protocol for 802.11b, offers minimal security for an office network because any user with an 802.11b connection can achieve certain levels of network connectivity despite WEP. The WEP algorithm is used to protect wireless communication from eavesdropping. A secondary function of WEP is to prevent unauthorized access to a wireless network; this function is not an explicit goal in the 802.11 standard, but it is frequently considered to be a feature of WEP.

Flaws in the WEP algorithm

 

 Wednesday, October 09, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 8:20 AM   0 comments   

3G :: DEFINITION OF MOBILE BROADBAND

The International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency charged with developing and managing worldwide industry standards, defines levels of performance for 3G networks. According to the ITU, in a high-speed train, a 3G connection should support data rates between 144 and 384 kilobits per second, three to ten times faster than a typical dial-up connection. At 60 mph in a car, a user should receive data at 384 to 512 kilobits per second, as fast as DSL or cable. A pedestrian should have 2 megabits per second!

 

 Tuesday, October 08, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 8:07 AM   0 comments   

FUJITSU'S LATEST ROBOT: MARON-1

A new robot designed to be remotely controlled by mobile phone to operate electronic appliances and monitor home security. The robot, dubbed MARON-1, can take pictures and relay them to the owner's cell phone screen and be used as a voice-activated telephone. It also can operate appliances such as televisions and air conditioners through infrared remote controls, according to Fujitsu Laboratories, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Fujitsu Ltd. The robot travels on wheels and has a rotating arm, two cameras, a touchpad, an LCD monitor and runs on Microsoft Corp.'s WinCE 3.0 operating system.

"It is expected that robots will increasingly be used in personal applications and in the future will come to help out around the house as a part of people's everyday lives," Fujitsu said in a statement.

 


 Posted by Roberto
 1:20 AM   0 comments   

GARTNER DATA ON TECH SPENDING

Technology revenue:
.: 2001 $2.23 trillion
.: 2002 $2.30 trillion
.: 2003 $2.46 trillion

Hardware revenue:
.: 2002 $323.3 billion
.: 2003 $338.8 billion

Services revenue:
.: 2001 $542.3 billion
.: 2002 $557.5 billion
.: 2003 $597.1 billion, up 7.1 percent.

Telecommunications and networking revenue:
.: 2002 $1.34 trillion
.: 2003 $1.45 trillion

Software revenues:
.: 2002 $77 billion
.: 2003 $82 billion

Source: Reuters

 

 Monday, October 07, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 10:20 AM   0 comments   

THE EVOLUTION OF INSTANT MESSAGING

Instant messaging has established its role in businesses, with nearly 65 million workers already using consumer instant messaging products, and that number is expected to grow to 255 million by 2005 (IDC, August 2002). Yahoo! Messenger is an industry leader with nearly 13 billion messages sent in July 2002(1), the highest average minutes spent(2), and the fastest growing number of unique users in the past six months(3). Yahoo! Messenger Enterprise Edition leverages the proven functionality and familiarity of Yahoo!'s consumer offering while providing the additional features that business customers need to standardize on a corporate IM product: Security, Control, Interoperability, and Integration.

"By facilitating daily communication and increasing worker productivity, instant messaging has the opportunity to impact businesses more profoundly than any application since the introduction of e-mail," said Jim Fanella, senior vice president, Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions. "Yahoo! Messenger Enterprise Edition represents a milestone in the evolution of instant messaging as a must-have tool for businesses and reinforces our commitment to deliver Internet-based communications services that meet the unique demands of business customers."

Yahoo! Announces Yahoo! Messenger Enterprise Edition

 

 Friday, October 04, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 9:47 PM   0 comments   

USA :: DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDERS

According to research by industry tracker Screen Digest, there are just over 2.3 million digital video recorders on the market, from TiVo and competitors. TiVo has about 500,000 subscribers to its service, who pay either a monthly fee or a flat lifetime subscription, which gives them comprehensive program guide for a period of up to two weeks.

Overall, Tivo said 80 percent of prime-time programming is recorded and watched later.
Among popular shows, TiVo said 86.1 percent of people who record NBC's "Friends" watch it later.

 


 Posted by Roberto
 11:03 AM   0 comments   

BIOMETRIC MOUSE

Original Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/offthewire/3001_1102002_3.asp

The Fujitsu-Siemens device captures an image of the user's veins, which is as individual as a fingerprint but harder to fake. The network of blood vessels is unchanging and is not affected by dirt or skin damage, as is the case with fingerprints

An infrared light source illuminates the network of blood vessels in the palm as black lines, and a digital camera records the image through an aperture in the top of the mouse. The device will be available to corporates next year, and in tests correctly identified 700 users from their handprint. For the mass market Fujitsu-Siemens is predicting an error rate of less than 0.5 per cent.

 

 Thursday, October 03, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 9:32 AM   0 comments   

BROADBAND KILLLERP APP: CONVENIENCE

Bryan Bennett, a senior product manager at Covad Communications Group Inc. said:
"We're beginning to see that some customers are just tired of dialing up".
"They are tired of the busy signals and the lost connections. It could turn out that the killer app for broadband is just convenience."

Jupiter analyst Joe Laszlo calculates that about 21 percent of all U.S. households with Internet access have a broadband connection today.

 

 Wednesday, October 02, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 3:21 PM   0 comments   

GLOBAL FORECASTING
Cyber banking :: Human Cloning :: Cyber Reality :: and more...

GLOBALCHANGE.COM
http://www.globalchange.com/main.htm

FUTUREWISE: THE FUTURE OF RESEARCH
http://www.globalchange.com/ppt/eirma/index.htm

 
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