Entries By Tag: Future

E-learning: a rival for traditional learning - or a powerful ally?

If for some people the first word from the title may seem new, for the most of you I'm positive that it's almost familiar. Thanks to the technological advancements and to our need to shrink distances, we've developed a form of learning which is capable of offering all the information we need in the comfort of our own house. ... read more

Can IE9 regain the lost market share?

With the release of the newest versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari forcing the boundaries of the web, Internet Explorer has lost plenty of market share. ... read more

Microsoft's internal war: Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista

When two important products of the same brand enter in competition with one another, the outcome, no matter the result, for sure will be satisfactory for the "mother company". ... read more

Apple vs. Microsoft... or is it vs. Google?

By now you've probably heard that Apple is the newest company to challenge the so called title "World's Biggest Tech Company", in the detriment of Microsoft. ... read more

HTML 5 - The Evolving Web

The World Wide Web is an environment which will never cease to evolve and to create newer and newer possibilities and solutions for every imaginable need. Such an example is HTML5: the next generation of HyperText Markup Language. ... read more

Firefox for Android Pre-Alpha: bravery or nonsense?

On Wednesday, April 28, Mozilla has officially released the Firefox mobile browser, codenamed Fennec, for Android smartphones. If you wonder why anyone would want to release a pre-alpha version on the market, well the answer is simple: for free testing and lots and lots of feedback. This is also the case of Firefox, according to some developers who clearly affirmed that the purpose of this “pre-alpha” version is to be tested and receive feedback from users. ... read more

A look at Enterprise 2.0 through Social CRM

Current national or multinational corporations use a a wide-spread organization model, involving several layers of employees. Generally, this extension is governed by the top-to-bottom rule, which works by disseminating information on a need-to-know basis from higher levels of management to lower ones. In this way, normal average workers function according to a set of basic information, without ever grasping where the overall company is headed, or even why. Consequently, people in higher positions of management spend their time planning and processing info, mostly oblivious to trends and actual customer preferences, that could have been easily understood by engaging workers and customers into actual conversations ... read more

Cloud computing: To each his own part of the cloud

Cloud computing has been with us for a while now, but it started just recently to draw attention to it, particularly because of the large scale Internet applications that client-oriented companies have built as services. Or what we now call SaaS, or software as a service. [...]

From social networks to virtual servers for data storage, anything goes in the cloud. Unfortunately, it still goes in the cloud literally for government policies regarding this matter, in about every industrialized country there is ... read more

The new Browser War: Google goes Machiavelli on Microsoft

It's been a busy season for the major players on the web browser market, with Mozilla Corp. launching Firefox 3.5 on 30 June, and Microsoft releasing its 8th edition of IE in March. While the former included native integration of audio and video, more privacy features and an overall performance improvement, the latter added accelerators, improved privacy protection, and a compatibility mode for pages designed for earlier version of IE. Along came Google ... read more

Crossing blades in cross-browser compatibility issues

It's been only a couple of weeks since Google's last attempt at publicly admonishing (let's not use the harsher word "humiliate") Microsoft's baby, Internet Explorer. Well, as they say, all is fair in love and web. :) Since there is no "mommy" to go to when peers start hitting each other, the problem is left in the hands of players. And Microsoft is certainly an old player at this game. ... read more

World Blogging Forum 2009

Between November 9 and 12, 2009, Bucharest will host one of the most relevant events in the international online community, by bringing together famous bloggers from around the world ... read more

Surf's up with Google Wave

When something web-related hits a fair amount of success, we can be sure that, sooner or later, it will be acquired by the larger players in the game. And now, the game quite literally belongs to Google Inc., Mountain View, CA. ... read more

Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google. What's in it for each?

Previous days have found the web filled with rumors, either reliable or not so truthful, about Microsoft finally having closed a partnership deal with Yahoo. Although everything has been confirmed by officials from both parties, the mystery still remains as everybody is now wondering ... read more

Google Chromes its way to the WWW

Following the release of the Chrome browser in 2008, Google will launch a brand new open source operating system, called Chrome OS, by the second half of the year 2010. This OS will mainly address notebooks, being a lightweight version of a custom desktop operating system ... read more

.NET Framework 4 Beta 1 released

Following the announcement of the first Beta version for the Microsoft development platform and tools, the new enhanced .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 is available for download from MSDN.

One of the exciting new features, though not sure to remain in the final release, is ... read more

Google's friend or foe? Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine developed by the British physicist Stephen Wolfram, which might be available for the public at large for free anytime soon, as the announcement on the official website states.

Tiresome the technology's denomination might be, the simple fact about it is this: Wolfram Alpha, a more complex search engine, can be Google's first major alternative ... read more

Web 3.0 – Beyond the boundaries

It is believed that once Web 3.0 is enacted, you will be able to find what you are looking for, using a search engine, just by typing relatively general questions like: "I want to see a thriller movie tonight". At present, search engines like Google can offer query results only by looking up keywords. [...] With Web 3.0, your browsing history and habits can be used by a personal assistant to provide you with the most relevant results ... read more

Windows 7 - a step towards "life without walls"

After Microsoft's presentation in 2008, the world was once again divided between apple lovers (not the fruit lovers) and windows lovers. Such an outcome was triggered by the unveiling of the new operating system - Windows 7, which has the ambition to be an upgraded version of Vista with a new, user-friendly approach.

Office Web Applications and Azure - Microsoft's new bet

Microsoft has demonstrated in more than one occasion that they can take a raw idea and bring it to its maximum market potential. They did come up with quite a few great ideas themselves - but arguably the most impressive feature that Microsoft has illustrated over the years is the capacity to re-pack an already proven concept into a better shape, that ultimately wins the market. This happened with DOS, Office, Windows, Internet Explorer, XBOX - and might also happen with the new services that MS has recently launched: Office Web Applications and Azure. ... read more

Where is cloud computing headed?

Earlier this month, at the International CES, AMD and OTOY CEOs revealed their plans of unveiling by the end of this year a massively parallel supercomputer that would combine cutting edge hardware provided by AMD, and server side rendering technology. This would deliver next-generation games and other HD content to internet connected devices, be they handheld or desktop. In other words, massive data accessible on-the-spot, no matter where you connect from. Which means that even heavy RPG games could be played on web-enabled phones, and paused/restarted at any point in time, without draining the energy, memory usage, or hardware capacity of the device.

Too good to be true? Well, maybe. "Cloud-computing" (a buzz-word that caught momentum in the Web 2.0 era) is actually a metaphor depicting the Internet-centered development and use of computer technology. ... read more

IT goes green

There are many statistics backing the assumption that IT is a big energy consumer (and therefore, indirectly, a green-house gas generator). Overall, computing and telecom currently produce 2% of the global emissions, which is comparable to the volume generated by aviation. But isn't this just one side of the story?

Yes, it's just one side, and arguably the most irrelevant one. IT might actually be the only industry for which the amount of emissions is far smaller than its positive ecological impact. Take video-conferences for example, they help to hugely reduce the carbon emissions corresponding to business traveling and commuting. ... read more

Microsoft: Antivirus or not?

For the past few years, Microsoft has been subject to some pretty harsh comments and disputes over its embedded (or not) antivirus solution for Windows OS users. With several attempts throughout the years, consisting of the MSAV from the MS-DOS 6 (1993) until the forms of Windows Live OneCare, the Microsoft mogul didn't really enjoyed much appreciation from the public, as regards to antivirus facilities.

In 2003, after Microsoft acquired the intellectual property rights over the RAV Antivirus from the Romanian company GeCad, things started to spur once again. ... read more