Archive for the 'Information' Category
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.
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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.
June 16th, 2009 by Grace
One of the founders of Yahoo and Flicker was apparently pissed enough at the two internet giants, Microsoft for messing with them and Google for not taking them in, that they have come up with their own crowd-sourcing program called “HUNCH”. Coined as a rival to Yahoo’s Answers and Google’s other sites, it’s aim is to get search results for what is popularly accepted by more people as the right answer to a specific question. More closer to the social internet compared to the search engines from the two other search giants, it takes information fro the many social networking web sites, indexes them and presents them not only to relevance but also according to popularity according to the millions of other users who may have searched for the same information. Continue reading ‘Yahoo Pissed at Google and Microsoft, Just a “Hunch”!’
May 16th, 2009 by Grace
So they say, the software developers has in fact filed charges against specific people for what it says is a violation of the company’s rights to revenue that should have been generated by pay-per-click ads that has websites generating revenue from each and every click. The specified accused are being accused of imitating ads by the company and re-directing clicking customers to be to other sites that are far from their legitimate destinations, the Microsoft products page amongst others. Click-jacking may be the term for this, has hackers using legitimate advertising banners, substituting them with their own or with that of a preferred customer, thus robbing the legitimate advertiser of supposed revenues. Continue reading ‘Microsoft – Victim of Click Fraud !???!’
April 16th, 2009 by Grace
The many security breaches at the popular micro-blogging site has again been seen as one of the worst performing, internet-based companies the world over in terms of security with thousands of people affected by many security holes and breaches in the past few months. This type of negative publicity is considered by the micro-blogging site as publicity and even with wide gaping holes in their API, they continue to grow by leaps and bounds each and every day as if people aren’t listening. One new problem they are facing is the set coming of the Twitpocalypse or the meeting of a pre-set condition tbat would bring an unimaginable death to the whole system, crashing or totally ceasing to function. This current problem is apparently due to a pre-set binary number that goes back to the days when the base-system of the social networking site was under development. Continue reading ‘Twitter – In the Headlines for the Wrong Reasons’
February 19th, 2009 by rain09angel
Pictures speak a thousand words, they say. Especially in this age where more and more people are taking pictures and sharing them online, it’s only normal that people will want to spice their pictures up.
Of course, some will prefer using professional editing tool, not everyone like to use such complicated software. The good news is that there is an online solution that lets you add basic effects and designs to your photos – Picnik.
Picnik is completely free, and does not require you to download any software for you to to be able to use it. Simply upload your pictures, and apply the corresponding effects or designs you want. What’s more, with Picnik’s integration into sites like Facebook, MySpace and Flickr, its easier to share your edited pictures with everyone.
January 12th, 2009 by Grace
The introduction of apple of the MobileMe Platform allowed subscribers to send their mobile data that is uploaded into the Apple servers where they are synced at their desktop when they return home. People on the go have the ability to upload all contents of their iPhone which is then sent to their desktop effectively having an online back-up that is in the clouds. The data center stores all of your contacts, photos, videos and other information (contacts) which the subscriber can then send into their Macs as they get home.
Continue reading ‘MobileMe Apple’s Sync Heaven’
December 28th, 2008 by sayuri
Been looking for an Instant Messenger (IM) client that allows you to chat with almost anyone? Don’t want to download a software client because it’s a pain for your Hard Disk Drive? Then it’s time for you to try out meebo.
Meebo is an instant messaging software that runs inside a Web browser, as AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the software necessary to implement them.
It also allows you to change wallpapers and create your own private rooms. Unfortunately, it can’t do features of Yahoo and others for obvious reasons. But still, if you like plain old chatting without of the other frills then meebo is the right one for you.
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September 28th, 2008 by Grace
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A social bookmarking system has many advantages over traditional resource location. All classifications of the resources is done by actual persons or people. They understand the content of the resource, unlike the programmed softwares, which uses algorithm to determine the meaning of a particular resource. People tend to find and bookmark web pages that may not have been indexed by web spiders. In addition to that, social bookmarking system ranks a resource, based on the number of times it has been bookmarked by users rather than rank it according to number of external links. From the search data perspective, there is no standard set of keywords, no standard for the structure of tags, mistagging, unclear tags. Social bookmarking is also not immune to corruption. Due to its popularity, some users have started considering it as a tool to use for SEO or search engine optimization to make their website rank higher. Spammers use them also to tag the page multiple times.
August 22nd, 2008 by Grace
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Many people are wondering what is Social Bookmarking all about and how did it became such a popular trend with the Internet users nowadays? Through filing a site in your bookmark list, anyone searching for that identical type of information can do a search at the bookmark site and find the sites that you have bookmarked. It is like a search engine without all the junk.
One of the cool features about these bookmarking sites is that your social bookmarks are with you anywhere you go and not just on your own computer. With Social Bookmarking, there are many diverse types of online communities that you can link and most will help you get an assured amount of traffic on your site. Social bookmarking is a way of presenting what interests you share with the rest of Internet world.
Through organizing your bookmarks online; you can aid yourself in getting organized or getting your contents exposed so that it will also help others at the same time to find a great content. All social bookmarking sites have a list or cloud of the tags created by users – and each user has an individual page with their own tags. A social bookmarking site also assists you to meet those other people who are interested in the same topics you are and who may also have the extended knowledge of web resources that you don’t know about.