Category Archives: Communication

Gadgets Give ‘Cloud’ Computing Clout

By nadiabenchemmar | December 21, 2008

REUTERS
That means much of your vital data is not just at your home, at the office or in your wallet, but can easily be accessed by hooking up to the huge memory of the Internet “cloud” with portable devices.
Expansion came after companies such as Google Inc offered free programs similar to Microsoft’s Word and PowerPoint, [...]

Posted in Communication | Leave a comment

ESPN.com Redesign To Increase Ad Revenue

By sanchurnakoses | December 17, 2008

nbsp;ESPN.com is in the process of unveiling it’s new redesigned website, which will officially launch on Jan 5th, 2009. The site is reducing the amount of clutter, to make it more pleasing for sports fans. Currently the user is bombarded with news and links from every sport, and the new design will limit that. This [...]

Also posted in Interactivity | Leave a comment

Intel will bring internet and TV together.

By gmera0226 | December 16, 2008

Intel is trying to personalize the television. In efforts to accomplish this, they have made a creation in which a prototype device will combine the internet with the TV experience. Widgets will permit TV watchers to talk to friends in real time or buy products advertised on TV from online stores. Intel partnered up with [...]

Also posted in Product | Leave a comment

Most will access web trough cellphone by 2020..

By lejla | December 16, 2008

People are addicted to their blackberries and iphones today but according to a study that was done this week, most tech savvy people will use their smart-phones as the primary internet connection by 2020. The cellphones will change so much that they will be small computers instead of primarily cellphones.
 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,233…

Also posted in Community | Leave a comment

Unlocking the Iphone….

By lejla | December 16, 2008

Some people have been hesitant to purchasing the new Iphone 3G because of the 2-yr AT&T contract. Now there is a solution. The people at Dev-Team say that they have freed the Iphone so its no longer locked under AT&T and will work under any carrier. This is set to be released december 31st 2008.
 http://www.dailytech.com/DevTeam+Unlocks…

Also posted in Product | Leave a comment

Yahoo! email becomes more social.

By gmera0226 | December 15, 2008

In this article, Yahoo! announces that it will launch new features to its free email service to enhance their product. It will add features that are commonly use by social networking sites (e.g Facebook, Myspace, etc). Some of these features include: creating social interactive communities with the help of their email (based on friends and interests), sort [...]

Also posted in Community, Interactivity, Product | Leave a comment

Brand Relaunching

By joana | December 15, 2008

The New Pespi
 http://www.bevnet.com/news/2008/10-13-20…
This article is about PESPI thinking of undergoing a relaunch of their brand and packaging to bring “NEW LIFE” to their tagline. They are also redesigning their global globe logo as a smile. This happened because of a decrease in sale.

Also posted in Brands, Distribution, Product | Leave a comment

Atari Founder’s Bistro Swaps Touchscreens for Waiters (Sort Of)

By michals | December 15, 2008

uWink restaurant has a built-in monitor, and all ordering is done via touchscreen, making waiters obsolete. Its interesting how it diminisher a need for wait staff.
Source:
 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/ma…

Also posted in Interactivity, Product | Leave a comment

Money in facebook

By cheaiamjon | December 14, 2008

This article is about  a former employee of microsoft that started up his own company.  He creates applicatiosn for facebook that have become quite popular.   He sold his applications to another company, just before all applications became relatively cheap or worthless.
 http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/10/ali.e…

Posted in Communication | Leave a comment

Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites

By ritalin | December 14, 2008

Here’s an article in New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/business/media/14digi.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=business
People have learned to ignore the ads shown on social networks like facebook. This article also mentioned a little about facebook’s targeting skills. Faceook was able to target a brand or product speciffically to one person. That brings our attention to issues in invading people’s privacy. What should be the limit in [...]

Posted in Communication | Leave a comment

The Importance of Internet.

By joana | December 13, 2008

“Survey Asks: Internet or Sex?”
 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/12…
The article is very interesting. A survey was conducted by Intel and Harris Interactivity to analyze how important Internet is today in the lives of the Americans.

Also posted in Interactivity | Leave a comment

The New Examined Life

By ccastillo | December 11, 2008

This article talks about the online community and how many sites are offering life trackers. these sites offer agendas where people can write down everything they do and keep a record of it some of these sites are: Dopplr, which allows people to post their iteneraries and cshare them with others., Mon.thly.Info, tracks down menstrual cycles.  and [...]

Also posted in Community | Leave a comment

Poorer Nations Go Online on Cellphones

By ccastillo | December 11, 2008

Alot of people in emerging markets are accesing the internet through their cell phones because many of these poor areasa dont have phone lines for dial up or even cable for broadband. It is also cheaper to use their cellphones becuase if they already have a phone then they dont need to spend extra money [...]

Also posted in Community, Product | Leave a comment

YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money

By ccastillo | December 11, 2008

Sucessful users of you tube who would just post videos on youtube for fun   “partnered” with them and are now making six figures incomes becuase of the advertisemnets.  millions of people post videos on you tube and alot of them get viewed alot of time, someone said they have already gotten 100 million view, this is crazy. [...]

Also posted in Community, Interactivity | Leave a comment

What the Search Engines Have Found Out About All of Us

By ccastillo | December 11, 2008

This Article talks about the how google gathers information on what people searched for in NYC for 2008 and then creates  a list of search queries from it. also it mentions how this information that is gathered by google is then used by other businesses along with the cookies that are captured and IP adresses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/nyregion/10about.html?ref=technology

Also posted in Community | Leave a comment