Hundreds of people arrested in Xinjiang for spreading rumours through texts February 27, 2010
Beijing, Feb. 26 (ANI): Chinese authorities have punished hundreds of people in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for spreading rumours and separatist content through text messages during the Spring Festival holiday.Two persons were detained on Feb 20, while the rest received administrative punishments for sending illegal text messages, according to a statement released by the regional police.More than half of those punished are students and self-employed people. A number of people who sent the messages meant them as jokes, China Daily reports.Text messaging services were suspended in the provincial capital of Urumqi last year because it was said to be …
Email This PostIn mobile phone journalism, Africa is ahead of the west December 19, 2009
In areas where net-connected computers are not common, the mobile phone is becoming a vital tool for news
In Africa, mobile phone penetration is higher than electricity penetration. Graphic by Jon Gosier of Appfrica Labs
Thanks to the iPhone and other smart phones, in the western world mobile phones are getting increasingly important for journalism. But in Africa, the phone has been used as a broadcast device for quite a while.In fact, the use of mobiles in Africa is in many ways ahead of the west.No need for an app, though, as bandwidth is still …
Air Writing: Next Big Thing in Cell Phones? June 16, 2009
Forget fumbling with tiny cell phone keys. A prototype of a new application allows cell phone users to write short notes in the air and send them automatically to an e-mail address.
This represents just one possible step toward allowing people to naturally merge the real world with the information power of the Internet. Travelers and other mobile users could air-write notes to themselves rather than have to text on the run.
“By holding the phone like a pen, you can write short messages or draw simple diagrams in the air,” said Sandip Agrawal, an electrical and computer engineering student …
Peer-to-Peer Internet Television: Cybersky-TV May 17, 2006
The medium that in itself has probably had the major impact on cultural life in the past 50 years, television, is about to be deeply transformed.From a medium that has been driven from its inception by mass production and distribution economics, we are witnessing a transformation into something altogether different from what we have been trained to expect.
Not only television as we know it is being decoupled from time and time-based schedules and programming.
It is also being turned upside down and inside out by opening itself to the contribution and influence of programming being produced outside of traditional large production …
Email This PostGet ready for corporate P2P apps May 4, 2006
Most corporate networkers believe P2P, with its ability to “hog” bandwidth and its myriad security issues, is a consumer phenomenon. This is a misconception that in the future may be the undoing of the corporate network. P2P network applications such as KaZaA or Napster may not have a place in the corporate environment, but the same cannot be said for BitTorrent’s File Sharing technology, currently being used for Linux software distribution, and Groove Networks’ Virtual Office application, designed for shared workspace/online collaboration.The use of BitTorrent and Groove software currently does not impose a significant bandwidth demand on corporate networks. But …
Email This PostSynergy between Peer-to-Peer and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks April 1, 2006
I came across and very good research paper which talks about the a synergy between peerto-peer (p2p) overlay networks for the Internet and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) connecting mobile nodes communicating with each other via multi-hop wireless links – both share the key characteristics of selforganization and decentralization, and both need to solve the same fundamental problem, that is, how to provide connectivity in a decentralized, dynamic environment.The reasrchers have proposed Dynamic P2P Source Routing (DPSR), a new routing protocol for MANETs that exploits the synergy between p2p and MANETs for increased scalability. By integrating Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) …
Email This PostWireless messaging with JXTA March 1, 2006
Learn how to use JXTA technology to integrate thin Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) clients into enterprise-scale messaging applications by developing a set of classes that let you integrate J2ME clients into JMS (Java Message Service) applications running on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) servers.In this two-part series, Faheem Khan demonstrates how to use JXTA technology to integrate thin J2ME clients into enterprise-scale messaging applications. While working through this series, you will develop a set of classes that enable you to integrate J2ME clients into JMS applications running on J2EE servers. This article discusses the basic …
Email This PostAOL ventures P2P February 19, 2006
AOL division, time warner inc will use a peer-to-peer approach used in kaaza and Bittorrent in delivering high-definition Internet video to consumers next . AOL like other ISP is facing problems such as congested broadband pipes. And 93 percent of those pipes are owned by cable and telephone companies wanting to offer their own high-bandwidth services to consumers.AOL plans to borrow space on its customers’ PCs to store video content at the edge of the network. As customers begin ordering video content, small parts of the files are cached on their hard drives. When a consumer orders …
Email This PostPeer to Peer Commerce - PCommerce February 10, 2006
Peers within a Peer-to-Peer network can provide a lot of various resources, e.g. information, disk space, memory space or computing power, and they can deliver different services, e.g. create or provide files, compute complex calculations or act as a required part of the network.To avoid “free-riding” on these resources, contents or services and to balance out the relationship between providers and consumers, market mechanisms have to be established. This requires a fundamental framework which reflects peer-based business models and allows market participants to offer, discover, and consume required resources. Furthermore, mechanisms for accounting …
Email This PostP2P Application - Document Management System January 27, 2006
What is Document Management System (DMS) ?
Originally, a document management system was a computer program (or set of programs) used to track and store images of paper documents. More recently, the term has been used to distinguish between imaging and records management systems that specialize in paper capture and records respectively. Document management systems commonly provide check-in, check-out, storage and retrieval of electronic documents often in the form of word processor files and the like. (Definition Courtesy “Wikipedia”)
A traditional DMS is a centralized solution with a single document repository held at corporate level. This kind of a solution requires actions …
