ZDNet has released a list of 10 most influential biztech leaders of 2008 who made the biggest contributions for the year.
According to ZDNet “Technology continues to be a powerful force for transforming business, when used wisely and correctly. Here is a list of the top 10 visionaries and executives who made the biggest contributions for the year.”
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Microsoft released first iPhone App SeaDragon Mobile. This iPhone App lets you “View thousands of images over the air, quickly view massive gigapixel images, explore Photosynth collections in 2D, including your own, add your own PhotoZoom / Deep Zoom Composer content [and] subscribe to Deep Zoom RSS feeds.”
There is no need to be surprised by this news. Microsoft had shown some affinity for Apple in past also.There is Microsoft Office for Mac and there are some news doing the round that a web based version of MS Office will work in Safari and on the iPhone.
Seadragon Mobile is available from the App Store for free.
The Google Online Marketing Challenge is a great hands-on exercise for undergraduate or graduate students in classes such as advertising, ecommerce, integrated marketing communication, management information systems, marketing and new media technologies.
The goal for students is effective online marketing via sound marketing analysis to optimize, manage and update a Google AdWords campaign.
The Challenge works like this:
- Students divide into groups of 3-6, and then receive free online advertising vouchers for Google AdWords worth US$200.
- The groups recruit a small-to-medium business, under 100 employees, who has a website but doesn’t currently use AdWords.
- Each group works with the business to set up an AdWords account and structure an effective online marketing campaign.
- During a 3-week competition window, the groups optimize and refine their campaigns. They must submit two competition reports – one before they begin and one after the campaign ends.
- Google and a panel of independent academics from all over the world select the winning teams based on the success of their campaign and the quality of their competition reports.
Registration has begun for the 2009 Google Online Marketing Challenge .
The Challenge is open to any higher education institution from anywhere in the world. Registrations for 2009 are now open. You can register now.
Google released a 60-page Browser Security Handbook to the general public.
According to Google “This 60-page document provides a comprehensive comparison of a broad set of security features and characteristics in commonly used browsers, along with (hopefully) useful commentary and implementation tips for application developers who need to rely on these mechanisms, as well as engineering teams working on future browser-side security enhancements.”
McAfee VirusScan Plus is a popular anti-virus software that also provides firewall and anti-spyware capabilities. (more…)
This is the list of top 20 web events which were talk of the town for whole year. The list was prepared by Mashable.com.
Barack Obama’s transition team website Change.gov has chosen Creative Commons license. There are many type of licenses provided by Creative Commons. Change.gov has adopted Commons copyright licenses – CC BY.
“Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Content includes all materials posted by the Obama-Biden Transition project. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to Change.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.”
It means that now visitors are allowed to reuse any of the content from the site as long as they give attribution back to the original source.
It is a healthy sign which indicates that Barack Obama has a intention to connect to people in every way. This is also good for democracy.
Mozilla is going to release Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 in the first week of December. This version will be add-on compatibility frozen. It means that this new version will not break add-on so its safe to update your add-ons right now. Beta 3 is also in pipeline . So user have plenty of time to update their add-on between the release of Beta 2 and Beta3.
In a ironic incident Terror ads were spotted on IBN Live website next to Mumbai related stories. You can see this in these pics.
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According to IBM these five innovations are going to change our lives in next five years-
- Energy saving solar technology will be built into asphalt, paint and windows
- You will have a crystal ball for your health
- You will talk to the Web . . . and the Web will talk back
- You will have your own digital shopping assistants
- Forgetting will become a distant memory
Every year IBM releases a “Next Five in Five” list, and this is the third such list .
This list mentions a “Talking Web” among the 5 items. You will talk to the Web and the Web will talk back, according to IBM. In the future “you will be able to surf the Internet, hands-free, by using your voice – therefore eliminating the need for visuals or keypads.”
