About 25 years ago, the Internet was an merely network of large computers used only by a small community of researchers. At the time, the majority of computers were found in corporate information technology (IT) departments, R&D labs, and hardly anyone imagined that the Internet would play such an important role in our daily life as it does today. Today, the Internet is the center of attention for businesses, governments and individuals around the world. Internet is a powerful technology.
In the period ahead, the Internet will have an even more effect on the way we work, live & learn.
Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin…) – you know the way the 21st century communicates today.
The Internet brings people closer together. Before the Internet, it was not possible to keep in touch with relatives and friends across globe, so easily, economically, speedly. Internet makes no difference whether you are in India or UK. The Internet makes the world simpler. The Internet has really revolutionized the way we live and work.
- Manoj Jain
In an astounding revelation, leading US computer maker Dell has announced that it has raked in around $6.5 million through sales of PCs, software applications, and related accessories using the microblogging website Twitter as its advertising platform.
The company has done extremely well in terms of exploiting the promotional power of the microblogging website, as back in the month of June, Dell rang up a total of $3 million from its advertising activities on the website. Incidentally, the company somehow managed to double this figure in only six months.
Manish Mehta, vice-president of Dell, has told Bloomberg that in the past three months alone, the number of followers of the Dell’s Twitter account, known as DellOutlet, has been increased by a notable 23 percent. Dell’s main twitter account has only 1700 uers whilst its Dell Outlet has nearly 1.5 million followers.
Unlike other firms, Dell has made this smart move of making Twitter an integral component of its promotional drive, and as a result, it has been making millions in revenues.
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In fall 1969, computers sending data between two California universities set the stage for the Internet, which became a household word in the 1990s.
By the late 1960s computers were being used by NASA and other government agencies.
Then on September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable.
In the 70s, the silicone chip became the basis of a new generation of computerized devices .
Following the silicone chip, came games and e-mail, creating a social and industrial revolution.
The Internet didn’t become a household word until the 90s, though, when Lee, a British physicist invented the Web and service providers like America Online connected millions of people for the first time.
With the great evolvement of the World Wide Web and computers, everyone is waiting to see what the next generation of communication and gaming devices will look like.
Twitter and Facebook don’t really enable you to do anything you couldn’t have done before with old protocols and services such as IRC, but they focus on you – the person – and they make it easier than ever to share and to connect with other people.
Internet experts think Web 3.0 is going to be like having a personal assistant who knows practically everything about you and can access all the information on the Internet to answer any question. Many compare Web 3.0 to a giant database. While Web 2.0 uses the Internet to make connections between people, Web 3.0 will use the Internet to make connections with information. Some experts see Web 3.0 replacing the current Web while others believe it will exist as a separate network.
According to some Internet experts, with Web 3.0 you’ll be able to sit back and let the Internet do all the work for you. You could use a search service and narrow the parameters of your search. The browser program then gathers, analyzes and presents the data to you in a way that makes comparison a snap. It can do this because Web 3.0 will be able to understand information on the Web.
Law enforcement officers around the world can be happy today. A computer scientist and PhD candidate from the Umeå University in Sweden has developed algorithms that give a computer the possibility of recognizing a face, even if only one picture exists in the database used to identify criminals or suspects. The software can synthesize other images of a single face using various angles, light conditions or facial expressions. This means that at a security control, a police officer should be able to compare an image taken by a surveillance camera with all the variants of the images contained in their databases. This is at the same time brilliant and frightening. But read more…
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Three German artists have reprogrammed an industrial robot to copy the complete Bible as translated by Martin Luther. The robotic scribe has worked day and night during 7 months in a Karlsruhe museum to write the 66 volumes and the 3.5 million letters of the full German version of the Bible. The robot, named ‘bios [Bible]’ has used a 900-meter-long roll of paper and a calligraphic style picked from a 15th century German font called ‘Schwabacher.’ The end result will be cut into pages displayed inside the museum. But read more…
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When you take a picture, you know that the person or the landscape in front of you has three dimensions. But when you watch the result, it’s definitively a flat picture. Extracting 3-D information from photos is still in its infancy. Now, Stanford University computer scientists have developed the Make3d algorithm which can take any 2-D image as input and create a 3-D ‘fly around’ model of its content, giving viewers access to the scene’s depth and a range of points of view. You can test this software for free by uploading your photos to the website the researchers have built. But read more…
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It’s Saturday and you might plan to go play bowling this evening. But do you know that the design of bowling balls influences scores? This is why the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) has started a two-year study of bowling ball motion. USBC engineers have used a seven-foot tall robotic ball thrower nicknamed ‘Harry’ to test about 60 particle and reactive resin bowling balls in more than 150 tests. They’ve also used the ‘Super C.A.T.S.’ (Computer Aided Tracking System) to record the velocity of the bowling balls as they were rolled down the lane. The Super C.A.T.S. system is made up of 23 small electronic sensors installed on the lanes. USBC engineers will give their conclusions about the balls next month. But read more…
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Diatoms are unicellular algae and one of the most common types of phytoplankton. One of their main characteristics is they encase themselves in shells made of silica. According to a team of U.S. researchers who successfully decoded the genome of a particular diatom named Thalassiosira pseudonana, these very small algae could become the next big breakthrough in computer chips. They also could be used to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reduce the effects of the global climate change occurring right now. Pretty amazing, but read more…
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In recent years, we’ve started to use our cellphones not only for placing calls or exchanging messages. Now, we take pictures, read our e-mails, listen to music or watch TV. But, according to New Scientist, UK researchers are going further with a prototype software that turns your cellphone into a 3-D mouse. The phone is connected to your computer via Bluetooth. And you control the image on the screen by rotating or moving your phone. As says one of the researchers, “it feels like a much more natural way to interact and exchange data.” The technology might first be used in shopping malls to buy movie tickets or to interact with advertising displays. But read more…
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It is obvious that knowing the location and availability of resources such as hospitals, transportation equipment and water during an emergency situation can save lives. Researchers at Georgia Tech started in 2000 to develop a collaborative mapping tool named GTVC (short for Geographic Tool for Visualization and Collaboration). Even if it was intended to support military applications at the beginning, the mapping tool can now be used by the emergency management community. It has already been deployed in Florida which plans to use it in all its counties and in Dakota County, Minnesota. According to Georgia Tech researchers, it could soon be used by more than 100 other cities, counties and local agencies. But read more…
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