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"Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences & applications (RIA) for the Web." - Microsoft.
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Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
05/12/2008
Microsoft Silverlight
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01/12/2008
Silicon India
The story of how Jaswant became Jack, as India became the world's back office, is out-of-date. Here's a look at how Jack became Jaswant as Indian firms increased their global footprint.
It started in the late ‘90s when Indian IT companies started opening new centres and acquiring companies from Japan to Mexico, South Africa to Australia.
Every such move meant adding local employees to their rolls. It also meant training them about the company's work culture and mindset.
“In global workplace, ignoring cultural differences can heighten the risk of miscommunication,” explains K Venkataraman, director, Cognizant.
In fact, there's a growing demand even among clients preparing for their maiden visit to India for help with understanding the cultural traits and differences that separate them from their Indian counterparts. Realising this need, most IT companies have now created capsules and e-learning courses for their expat employees and clients. While each country has its own national culture, there is an overriding commercial culture that makes MNCs tick.
This works for Indian firms too. Wipro, for example, has over 26 development centres across the globe but it has some core values that are rooted in India.
These values give them an identity as an Indian organisation.
We simply do two things for our expat employees. Everyone is made to go through a 'Spirit of Wipro' workshop which initiates them about our core values. Then they are given a cultural orientation about India,” says Supriti Bhandary, GM talent engagement and development (Americas), Wipro Technology.
Similarly, Cognizant has an e-learning tool for foreigners. "It helps them understand Indian communication styles, social courtesies, body-talk, facial and other gestures, personal and social conversation," explains Venkataraman.
NIIT, which has been actively recruiting locals abroad since 1999, has a vision document. "We take them through the document when they join. Also, things like events in the social calendar of the company are followed across the globe uniformly," says Ashish Basu, President, Corporate Learning Solutions, NIIT.
Web is life. Television is furniture.
In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some lessons and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."
30/11/2008
The Matrix Revealed
Seen on: Muslim Social Network
Many of the movies that have hit the big screen over the last few years share a common subject as part of their storyline. These films question reality, as we know it — pointing out that artificially created worlds produced by simulations can actually be realistic. One of the reasons why these films based on scientific explanations, captivates millions, is the fact that people now question the reliability of the external pre-conditions.
29/11/2008
Ask Google
The fight to take on the might of Google, is hotting up. Ask.com, one of the smaller but still significant search players, has relaunched its service in the US with claims of faster, more relevant answers using new semantic technologies.
Cesar Mascaraque, of Ask.com said: "It's our business to give answers. But this time we were asking the question: How did our users want us to improve?
It is to appeal to its mostly female, middle-American, middle-Britain roots with improved searches in health, nutrition, education, reference and entertainment.
Via Times Online
The Viral Marketing Guide
"With some canditates in the 2008 Presidential election embracing every facet of Web 2.0 to get their message out...your next president may be no further than a friend-add on Facebook." - Time
According to JupiterResearch, 70% of viral marketers report increasing brand awareness as one of the most successful areas of their social marketing campaigns.
With millions of active users, Facebook is the Internet's leading social utility. Facebook Pages give businesses the opportunity to build a consumer base, sell products, run promotions, share information and interact with customers. Today, leading brands are leveraging Facebook Pages to reach consumers.
Businesses now have the ability to expand their revenue base and acquire new customers through free Facebook Pages. Pages anable customers to interact, learn, purchase, and spread the word about your business too friends.
Every day, most of Facebook's active users log on to Facebook to learn about their friends and share information about their interests. This regular interaction gives businesses the opportunity to connect with customers.
Project 10^100
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If you could suggest a unique idea that would help as many people as possible, what would it be? It's a question worth considering. Project 10^100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
The Social Media Bubble
With social media, no one's figured out how to monetize things yet ... In a certain sense, it looks a lot like 1997. The hiccup will be if there is a recession.
Via /Message
The Business of Social Networks
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Social networking cemented its status as a bona fide Internet phenomenon in 2007. The question for businesses taking a long, hard look at this trend is whether its growth is sustainable, and if so, how can it really support marketing?
01/10/2008
The Five Predictions
Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas-Negroponte waxes on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design. Years before anyone was using the word "convergence," Negroponte was thinking about TV screens as the "electronic books of the future" and computers as the future.
In excerpts from his 2-hour talk (this was before TED's 18-minute time limit), he foreshadowed CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone, and his own One Laptop per Child project.
13/09/2008
Man & Computer
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Man & Computer, made in 1965 by IBM's UK branch, provides a basic understanding of computer operations. It employs a number of different techniques, including animations, and features a few brief scenes of an IBM System/360 in use—just months after the first machines were delivered.
09/09/2008
08/09/2008
Next Web Innovation
The dot-com boom-and-bust is often compared to the 1849 Gold Rush. Amazon founder Jeff-Bezos offers evidence showing how similar they were.
06/09/2008
Google Chrome BETA
Why Google built a browser
Since everyone spends so much time online, Google began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if you started from scratch.
They realised that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that they needed to completely rethink the browser. What was really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications.Learn more
The story behind Google Chrome
Watch a video on the thinking & features behind Google Chrome Browser.
14/01/2008
Image Day - Superfast Britain
Britain's whizziest new-computer, going by the name of HECToR (high-end computing terascale resource), officially opened today.
HECToR is the UK's new high-end computing resource, funded by the Research Councils and available for researchers at UK universities.
19/12/2007
Government loses pension-data
Revenue & Customs, the government department responsible for collecting taxes, has admitted losing personal-details of more than 6,500-people. The details were lost at an office of HMRC in Cardiff, the capital and largest city in Wales, after a data cartridge went missing in September, an HMRC spokesperson said.
HMRC said in a statement on Tuesday: "We are taking this loss extremely seriously and have done everything possible to locate the data cartridge. We would like to apologize to all those affected."
In November, HMRC admitted to losing the details, including bank account information, of 25 million people claiming and receiving child benefits, while, earlier this week, the Driving Standards Agency admitted to compromising personal details of 3 million driver's test candidates.
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