reland-based telecommunications provider Eircom (eircom.net) announced on Thursday that it has launched a Web Innovation Fund (eircom.net/innovation) to promote, mentor and sponsor innovative Web applications in the Irish Internet industry. The company says this demonstrates its strong commitment to foster entrepreneurship in the online sector.
The move to promote cloud computing has many people worried about the possible implications of computer and programs that run systems out of anybody’s control (at least that’s what they are saying the system would take shape in). But the truth of the fact is that somebody has to own, run and manage the systems on which the cloud would take shape in. Cloud computing is a more distributed form of client-server based applications with people paying the people who own the data centers on which your data and programs resides in a fee for the amount of computing stuff you do. (more…)
Coming to the many countries of the EU, is a release version of Windows 7, set for release this coming holiday season without a bundled version of the much embattled IE8. Why, considering the staunch stand the EU has taken on their bullish stance against competitors, they might be getting a taste of their own medicine. The browser is available for download from the Support site, free of charge for licensed Windows owners and can be installed after installation of the new OS. Even people on XP and Vista can get hold of a copy of the popular browser with a quick check of your system if it meets minimum system requirements that is. (more…)
The world connected by the internet may never be truly free of malware or malicious programs that probes for unprotected computers and programs, ready to exploit any weaknesses found. These programs are designed ever so cleverly as to escape detection, with most doing their wrongdoing without even raising an eyebrow as to what has happened. Governments around the world and the many security companies have been battling them aggressively in efforts to tame them but the major enemy is the opacity of the internet. (more…)
An Image Transition Manager is a javascript library that supports several image changes like fading, growing, shrinking and much, much more.
The programmer who submitted this article to me told me that while he was working on a project for one of his clients, he needed to make a slideshow effect for displaying a few photos of their products.
When he was making this ‘effect’, he accidentally found out that he can utilize this project and apply it to his other projects.
This idea resulted in a service/business venture for my friend and readily implemented it into his other ongoing projects. After showing his first prototype to me, i was convinced that indeed he was into something. I even helped him out and did some tweaks to add more image changes and tasks.
Now, more and more clients got interested in it and we got extra profit out of it.
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Citing statistics of mobile Web adoption rates, Vlad Sejnoha, chief scientist at Nuance Communications, presented a case, or challenge, for the rapid, cutting-edge development of speech-enabled applications for mobile services.
Focusing specifically on local search and Web applications, Sejnoha laid out a roadmap of what needs to happen for Nuance’s mobile vision to be achieved. And though he spoke under the theme, “Speech is the Catalyst,” his presentation also equally weighted the ever-changing needs of end-users. “As we plan the next generation, we are increasingly aware that we are catering to users whose expectations are changing, “he said.