July 10th, 2010 by sayuri
Family members and businessmen shouldn’t be worried that they can’t reach their loved ones and associates in the Middle East and India. It’s not because of some political censorship or terrorist activity, but rather the reason is they’re no longer connected to the internet. They’re having a small problem: they have been disconnected because of two damaged undersea cables in the Mediterranean.
There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption.
UK firms such as British Airways have told the BBC that call centres have been affected by the outage.
Industry experts said it could take up to one week to repair the damaged cables and resume full service.
International telephone calls, which have also been affected, are being rerouted to work around the problem.
Repairs are on going as you read this. Hopefully full or partial services will be up within the week.
Source
June 10th, 2010 by Grace
A Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document defines services as collections of network endpoints, or ports. In WSDL, its abstract endpoints and messages is separated from its concrete network deployment and data format bindings. Their concrete protocol and data format specification for a particular port type constitutes a reusable binding.
May 10th, 2010 by sayuri
If you thought that reading off RSS 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 old hardware and likewise integrated web browser. With the introduction 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.
April 10th, 2010 by Grace
Ooh� and who said the internet isn�t exciting? RBN (Russian Business Network), a notorious Russian online gang which has recently closed their St. Petersburg IP address (but has apparently established themselves elsewhere in cyberspace, yet continuously moving to avoid detection), is said to be linked to a November iFrame injection attack of Monster.com an online employment service company. The attack, caused by a NeoSplit or a malware tool, inserted code into pages that then caused systems to download a virus. Monster.com has reported that they�ve already cleaned all the affected Web pages and is now working with law enforcement on the matter.
Source: eweek.com
March 10th, 2010 by Grace
The information search engine, Ask.com has released AskEraser, a new tool that can be considered as the first step (of many) in handing over the rightful control of privacy to its users. According to EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg, this cool tool prevents from storing any search data. It can completely delete search queries and any other associated information from the site�s servers. This includes complete texts of queries, IP addresses, user ID�s, and session ID�s. Users can find the link for the AskEraser tool on the upper right corner of the search engine’s homepage and search results pages and can be turned off anytime. AskEraser is available now in the U.S. and in the UK — and will be deployed globally in 2008.
Source: Newsfactor
February 10th, 2010 by Grace
I remember how excited and at awe I was when I first had internet connection installed to my PC. Of course, it was still dial-up and was prone to a lot of disconnection (not to mention long downloading time). That was only years ago but major IT development later, many people, companies, and institutions now have broadband connection. It has almost become indispensable. Here enters the importance of interoperability so web applications are developed so that different platforms can interact and work together. By using web services to applications, its function can then be published to practically anywhere in the world.
January 10th, 2010 by Grace
What do web services actually do? One is for reusable application components. I�m sure that all of us, in one way or another, have used an application more than once. For example, since I transact business abroad, I often use currency converters to know how much money I need to deal with. My friend who�s learning Chinese turns to online translators when she needs a little help. Web services can offer application components that can be used over and over again. Web services also connect existing software by giving different applications a way to connect to their data despite using different applications and platforms.
December 29th, 2009 by Grace
DHTML eliminates the boring elements of static pages without compromising performance and interactivity. It uses the user’s computer to calculate and make effective the changes so that the site does not have to make use of a distant server to load or even reload a document so that text and data do not have to go on a circuitous route that can consume time before it can carry-out the changes. DHTML are also self-contained so no additional support from applications or controls are needed.
November 20th, 2009 by Grace
What you see above is an example of animated text.
It is one of the effects that can be achieved by using DHTML scripts on a script. There are also other effects that DHTML can achieve. One is enabling online forms on websites that can instantly respond to data input by user and then process immediately afterwards. Another is it can hide content for a given time. This is used in forum posts and blogs. It can also embed a ticker so that it can automatically refresh contents and other data.
October 20th, 2009 by Grace
The Web Services platform represents the evolution of past distributed component technologies like remote procedure calls (RPC), ORPC (DCOM, Corba, Java RMI), messaging (MSMQ, MQSeries), and even modern Web applications (like Google.com). Because RPC was so difficult, developers layered object facades over the RPC mechanism to hide complexity.
This led to the many flavors of object-oriented remote procedure calls (ORPC). Of course, not all application communication can be modeled with RPC, so other messaging paradigms (like those provided by MSMQ) were necessary. Then, over the years, as developers struggled with interoperability between the various ORPC and messaging systems, they turned to the evolving Web as a potential solution for these challenges.
