Posts tagged with "internet"
Wednesday, 2. September 2009, 07:55:57
analysis, tools, web, internet
Computers may be good at crunching numbers, but can they crunch feelings?
The rise of blogs and social networks has fueled a bull market in personal opinion: reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression. For computer scientists, this fast-growing mountain of data is opening a tantalizing window onto the collective consciousness of Internet users.
An emerging field known as sentiment analysis is taking shape around one of the computer world’s unexplored frontiers: translating the vagaries of human emotion into hard data.
This is more than just an interesting programming exercise. For many businesses, online opinion has turned into a kind of virtual currency that can make or break a product in the marketplace.
Yet many companies struggle to make sense of the caterwaul of complaints and compliments that now swirl around their products online.
As sentiment analysis tools begin to take shape, they could not only help businesses improve their bottom lines, but also eventually transform the experience of searching for information online.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emotion.html?_r=1
Tuesday, 23. June 2009, 07:46:02
internet, web, capacity, traffic
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Cisco announced the results of the Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast and Methodology, 2008-2013 that confirms consumer broadband usage and global IP network traffic continues to climb at an overwhelming pace due to new forms and expanded usage of interactive media, and the explosion of video content across multiple devices. The study projects that global IP traffic will increase fivefold by 2013. There are key consumer and service provider implications to the forecast that compares regions around the globe including North America, Western Europe, AsiaPac, Middle East and more.
Global IP traffic is expected to increase fivefold from 2008 to 2013, approaching 56 exabytes per month in 2013, up from approximately 9 exabytes per month in 2008.
By 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte (or 667 exabytes). (A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes.)
Source:
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/prod_060909.html
Monday, 8. June 2009, 08:36:18
communication, collaboration, internet
Google is looking to change the way we use the Internet to communicate with a new service that it calls Google Wave. Wave was previewed Thursday during the Google I/O conference as a way to combine e-mail, chat, photos, feeds from around the Web, and more in a collaborative environment. The project is not only cool-sounding, it's also quite ambitious, and Google hopes it will eventually replace some of our uses for e-mail.
In a post to the Official Google Blog, Google Software Engineering Manager Lars Rasmussen discussed the evolution of Wave after he and his brother Jens joined Google. According to Rasmussen, too much of our Internet communication was created out of imitation of a real-life form (e-mail, live chat, document sharing), and as a result, it had become too segmented when it didn't have to be. "What if we tried designing a communications system that took advantage of computers' current abilities, rather than imitating non-electronic forms?"
Source:
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/05/google-wave-mashes-communication-collaboration-together.ars
Tuesday, 12. May 2009, 07:27:26
cyberspace, capacity, web, internet
Internet users face regular “brownouts” that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year.
Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC’s iPlayer.
It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for several minutes at a time. From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable toy”.
Source:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece
Monday, 27. April 2009, 08:40:41
satellite, bandwidth, telecommunications, internet
A team of researchers funded by the European Union has developed methods for optimizing satellite bandwidth, potentially dropping the combined cost of satellite phone, television, and internet services to as little as 50 Euros a month.
The Integrated Multi-layer Optimization in broadband DVB-S.2 Satellite Networks (IMOSAN) project focuses on getting the most out of existing resources and creating a wireless interface to the satellite network in order to distribute the satellite bandwidth to the largest number of consumers possible.
Key elements of the new system include a Satellite Resource Management System (SRMS), a Bandwidth Manager and Multiplexer (BWMM), and hardware and software encoders for various audio and video formats (including SD MPEG-4/AVC / H.264 analog and HDTV video).
Source:
http://thefutureofthings.com/news/6855/inexpensive-satellite-bandwidth-under-development.html
Friday, 17. April 2009, 08:22:49
3D, graphics, web, internet
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The 3D web moved closer to reality as Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, joined forces with graphics consortium Khronos. Khronos has set up a working group to create a standard for what it calls accelerated 3D graphics on the web.
It could lead to widespread browser-based gaming as well as creating 3D environments in social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
The aim is to produce a first public version within a year.
"For a number of reasons, I think now is the time to .. figure out what an initial take of 3D on the web should look like," said Mozilla's infrastructure engineer Vladimir Vukicevic in his blog.
"People are doing more and more on the web… adding 3D to this mix ensures that current web applications can experiment with new user experiences, while also enabling new classes of web applications," he said.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7963302.stm
Wednesday, 25. March 2009, 08:25:47
analytic queries, analysis, search, web
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In the span of just a couple of years, Hadoop, a free software program named after a toy elephant, has taken over some of the world’s biggest Web sites. It controls the top search engines and determines the ads displayed next to the results. It decides what people see on Yahoo’s homepage and finds long-lost friends on Facebook.
It has achieved this by making it easier and cheaper than ever to analyze and access the unprecedented volumes of data churned out by the Internet. By mapping information spread across thousands of cheap computers and by creating an easier means for writing analytical queries, engineers no longer have to solve a grand computer science challenge every time they want to dig into data. Instead, they simply ask a question.
“It’s a breakthrough,” said Mark Seager, head of advanced computing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “I think this type of technology will solve a whole new class of problems and open new services.”
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/technology/business-computing/17cloud.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Tuesday, 6. January 2009, 10:00:14
security, Computer, web, internet
Independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands have found a weakness in the Internet digital certificate infrastructure that allows attackers to forge certificates that are fully trusted by all commonly used web browsers.
As a result of this weakness it is possible to impersonate secure websites and email servers and to perform virtually undetectable phishing attacks, implying that visiting secure websites is not as safe as it should be and is believed to be. By presenting their results at the 25C3 security congress in Berlin on the 30th of December, the experts hope to increase the adoption of more secure cryptographic standards on the Internet and therewith increase the safety of the internet,
Source:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/epfd-euw123008.php
Monday, 22. December 2008, 12:42:33
internet, mobile communications, DRM
The mobile phone will become the primary means of Internet access across the globe, and DRM will be well on its way out the door by 2020, according to a survey of Internet leaders, activists, and analysts. Those are just two of the trends predicted by a panel of experts surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in order to get a feeling for where key influencers feel technology is going over the next decade or so. In addition to DRM and mobile phones, these experts also believe that we will be more hyperconnected than ever and that people will become more transparent, but that social tolerance will likely get worse.
Pew asked 578 Internet "activists, builders, and commentators" their opinions on social, political, and economic life in the year 2020, in addition to 618 stakeholders, for a total of 1,196 participants.
Source:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081215-the-internet-of-2020-more-cellphones-intolerance-less-drm.html
Wednesday, 3. December 2008, 10:15:42
voice control, User Interface, mobile communications, cell phone
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ON A cold winter's day in December 2006, Guruduth Banavar's team gathered up some workers at a bustling marketplace in New Delhi, India, and cajoled them, each in turn, into a car.
The team was from the IBM India Research Laboratory (IRL) in New Dehli. They had come to the market to test an alternative to the internet for India's rural population. The system is based on the cellphone, though, and so the din of hawkers selling vegetables, and shoppers looking for everything from jewellery to electronics, made conversation impossible.
Once inside the car, however, 10 of the 12 volunteers - who had never before interacted with a speaking computer - were able to create their own voice-based website, or VoiceSite, in just under 4 minutes apiece. The first trial of the "spoken web" was a success.
Source:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026796.500-spoken-internet-to-link-up-poor-rural-communities.html
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