As it is generally the case, a new wave of technology releases from Microsoft spurs in its turn a new generation of certifications and exams for IT professionals.
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Business users whose lives revolve around their mobile phones won’t be disappointed with Samsung’s Intrepid smartphone. The handset, which uses Sprint’s 3G network domestically and also connects to 3G networks abroad, is packed with features aimed at the pinstripe crowd. Intrepid runs under the latest version of Microsoft’s cellphone operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional. One improvement in this edition of Windows Mobile is a customizable Today screen.
Until now, there’s been a lot of chatter about Put.io in the Turkish tech scene – but no-one had seen it. Today they’ve let us in to have a look at the service.
So imagine a service that downloads files from Rapidshare for you, then saves them on your 50GB Put.io account. Or forget about Rapidshare, maybe it collects files from Bittorrent automatically. Here’s an another example. Put.io lets you watch a DivX video online, without downloading it to your computer, in high quality, and listen to your music files inside your browser.
Put.io will be launched as a paid service. The service is in private beta right now, but they soon plan to accept beta users.
And what if I told you that the service will automatically follow RSS feeds that you give it and save the torrents, MP3 and AVI files included in those feeds automatically? The service works totally on the server side, so its download performance is higher than home connections. Put.io downloads 700 MB files in a few minutes and lets you watch them online.
We tried this. So for instance you can paste a link like this into the servie and store the file
http://rapidshare.com/files/140596948/HD.Wallpaper.Huge.Pack-iAPULA.Tahir.part01.rar
A divx fetch test:
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.avi/bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/revision3/web/diggnation/0224/diggnation–0224–darkside–large.xvid.avi
A torrent:
http://www.legaltorrents.com/get/91-elephants-dream-1024.torrent
Or some RSS feeds:
http://www.legaltorrents.com/feeds/cat/music.rss
http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed/Xvid-Large
You can reach your files on put.io via iPhone, iPod Touch, all kinds of smart phones, PSP and PlayStation 3, and even convert video files into MP4 format automatically and watch them with your iPhone if you like.
It’s also social in that it lets you share your files on put.io.
As far as I know the closest other product would be Wuala. But, they’ll probably be competing with box.net, BitTorrent and even P2P clients.
Microsoft has plumped up Bing with Visual Search, a Silverlight-powered add-on that returns search results based on images instead of text. A user can initiate a search for digital cameras, for example, by clicking on an image in the Visual Search gallery. That generates hundreds of camera images; the user can click on any one of them for further investigation or narrow the results using one-click filters. Introduced as a beta, Visual Search will become available to users on a rolling basis over the month.
You couldn’t help but feel for the U.S. president last week as he tried to sell an unpopular health plan. Sometimes you have to realize the foundation of something is just so bad that no amount of patching or selling will fix it, and while it looks like you are close to done, you’d actually get done more quickly if you started over properly. The PC market is a mess like that with simply too much confusion. There are so many brands, product names, versions, speeds and component mixes that consumers have to know more about technology than they want to.
The smoke and haze from the 190-square mile Station Fire near Los Angeles isn’t just making it difficult to see in the area of the San Gabriel Mountains. It’s also having an impact on advanced forms of communications in Southern California: cellphone signals, television and radio broadcasting, even transmissions among the police, sheriff and fire crews battling the blaze and directing evacuation procedures for suburban residents. Federal Communications Commission officials are maintaining close contact with first responders and commercial broadcast interests in the region.
Consider the juice inside a hot new portable gaming device: It has a speedy processor, a powerful graphics chip, plenty of memory and wireless capabilities for instant downloads. You can play the latest blood-soaked first-person shooters like “Resident Evil,” dizzying platformers like “Assassin’s Creed” and some killer racing games that don’t even require punching combinations of buttons and triggers; just lean the device this way or that, thanks to a built-in accelerometer, and you’re careening down boulevards at top speeds in a shiny red Ferrari.
Web 2.0 enables companies to build dynamic networking communities and foster ad hoc collaboration. This can be great for businesses, as they can gain insights and feedback in hours instead of weeks or months. However, the trusting, collaborative and open nature of the Web 2.0 environment is precisely what makes it ripe for malicious exploitation. Social media, file sharing, instant messaging, streaming media and mobile apps have not only taken over our personal lives, but also have made irreversible inroads into our businesses.
You can look at it as the beginnings of real interactive television — or simply one big episode of the cult comedy TV series “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ brought to life. In any event, thanks to forthcoming plans from IBM and Fox, viewers will soon be able to talk back to their flat-screen televisions via social media such as Twitter and Facebook. The blogosphere has dug up a Big Blue patent application involving Texas-based researchers for a remote control device that will let viewers blog, tweet or Facebook-update their thoughts about what they watching on TV.
Wikipedia plans to roll out a new feature with the goal of enhancing the site’s credibility. Called “WikiTrust,” the optional feature color codes entries based on reliability, according to a Wikipedia page describing the new development. The color-coding tool gives users a “check text tab” that reveals author, origin and reliability of the text. The intent is to highlight spam, surreptitious changes and outright information-tampering by contributors who might have ulterior motives for making changes.
