In the recent times, Google has been facing competitions with Facebook and Twitter. That has forced them to come up with Google Buzz, which is incorporated into the gmail account. Since gmail is being used by millions of people all around the world, Google is hoping that its customers will spend more time with their site. The integration of Buzz along with the gmail has another advantage. People need not add people from the scratch. All the friends in the gmail account will automatically receive all the buzz messages. Google was also able to introduce Buzz into mobile phones. It seems to me that Facebook treats this competition as a healthy one.
Google’s New Buzz to Compete with Twitter
March 8th, 2010Tech Jargons
March 2nd, 2010Will tech jargon confuse you often? Well you are not the only person who is confused. A recent survey shows that many tech jargons discombobulate users leaving them to scratch their heads. Here in this post I would like to point out some tech jargons.
WAP – It stands for Wireless Application Protocol. This allows people to access information via wireless devices like mobile phones, pagers and smart phones. Mainly it is used to access internet from mobile phones.
Navi Key – This is actually a concept that reduces the number of keys on phone’s keypad. Nokia was the first to release this.
PC Suite – Most people says this without knowing the actual meaning of this. It is a software package which is used to which serves as an interface between Nokia mobiles and Windows Operating System. Basic use of PC suite is to transfer the music, photos and application.
Audiocast – It is a name given to digital audio content. Mainly it is distributed through internet. Those audio contents can either be downloaded or users can listen to it online.
RSS – It stands for Really Simple Syndication. This is mainly used to deliver updated web content to your inbox.
Geotagging – This happens when a photo is tagged to a location. You might have seen this in orkut. We can also tag our house or any location in wikimap. This is known as Geotagging.
Cockoo Egg – It is typically an Mp3 file which contains 40 to 45 seconds of the original song, then followed by some white noise or some voice message like “You are fooled”.
Google Apple War
March 2nd, 2010It all started when Google CEO, Eric Schmidt departed from the Apple’s board of directors. Till that time Apple and Google were best buddies. They were both working in different spheres of technology. But now the Apple’s rejection of Google Voice Apps for i-phones shows the flairs of spark between the Giants. But with Google’s influence in the Obama government, Google was successful to release the Google Voice Apps. It was Apple’s dream to fight with the most powerful company in US. Frankly speaking Apple is very small in this competitive world. Google can enter the phone market anytime and compete with Apple.
Both the companies work in the web, but both have different strategy for getting customers and earning profit. Apple focuses on using web to generate high-margin revenues. On the other hand Google wants more and more people to spend time in the web. They advertise and get profit. Google believes in Open source and that will sustain Google as the leader for another decade. But on the other hand, Apple is going to have a tough time because of this war.
Let us see what is going to happen with these two Giants.
Windows Azure – The Cloud based OS
March 2nd, 2010This is the era of cloud computing which made Microsoft to change their gears to this direction. They have been working on this for quite a while and are getting positive results after their release of Windows Azure. Windows Azure is a cloud based Operating System which lets the programmers to write their programs and make it run on windows servers in Microsoft’s data centers. Since it is based on cloud, the programs will run very faster and that is going to make a significant difference in the speed. This is made available in 21 countries. There has been great feedback from the people who have been using the service offered my Windows Azure. Major competitors for this service are Amazon webservice, Engine Yard, Google App Engine and Heroku.
Mircosoft’s YET to be released IE9
March 2nd, 2010Soon after the release of Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System, the president of Microsoft, Steven Sinofsky has announced that their researchers are working on the latest version of Internet Explorer. Although IE8 was a failure, they have identified its drawbacks and are introducing new features to improve the performance of the latest version. Some of the features that Microsoft will be concentrating on will be in HTML5, fast javascript rendering engine, CSS and hardware acceleration. These features will significantly improve the performance and speed of the browser. Sinofsky has acknowledged that IE8 was having a poor performance with its competitors in acid3 test and mentioned that IE9 will overcome this problem.
Microsoft, in its latest browser product, is planning to use DirectX-based hardware accelerated graphics and text in its IE9. This will significantly increase the number of frames downloaded per second. In the pre-release speech by Sinofsky, he has mentioned that IE9 got 60 frames per second as compared to 14 frames per second download in IE8.
However Sinofsky has not yet mentioned the release date of IE9.