Digital Inspiration – Blinkx, the largest and most innovative video search engine on the web, could be the next acquisition target of Google or NewsCorp according to Bloomberg and Reuters.
Blinkx is way ahead of other video search engines because it converts audio portion of the video into text using speech recognition technology and makes it searchable.
This will [...] read more
9 to 5 Mac – Apple and Google are testing a way to link YouTube with the iTunes Store, offering links to video available for sale on iTunes beside selected YouTube clips.
Apple has been experimenting with strategies to link iTunes up with social networking websites, and offers a referral scheme to those who want to link their sites up with the service [...] read more
bloginfosec.com – If politics is a contact sport, why do I expect that we will not hear the political argument, “If You Can’t Protect Your Website, How Can You Protect The Country?” Why do I think that is it unlikely to be used as a valid political attack in the public discourse within our current US election?
It seems to me that the main reason politicians stay away from using hacking as a political weapon is the ease at which it may be used against them at some point in the future. Politicians can’t change their public voting record, their former associations or last night’s speech (i.e., the past), but their website could be hacked in the future.
Imagine this scenario: candidate A gets hacked. Candidate B makes [...] read more
Digital World Tokyo – We recently lifted the lid on just how useful – not to mention pervasive – RFID technology is in Japan, so it’s with a glad heart that we bring you news of a move that’s sure to help it spread more quickly in the West.
The FeliCa RFID technology at the heart of almost all the wireless e-cash and ticketing goodness in Japan looks set to reach North America after Sony announced a new scheme to help companies develop systems there to use it.
Sony’s FeliCa System Integrator Application Developer (SIAD) program will focus on delivering the know-how gained in Japan through support and training resources to anyone looking to add RFID to their existing businesses.
That could be anything from creating a [...] read more
Digital Inspiration – Yahoo launched Yahoo Desktop Search software in January 2005 using technology from X1.
Yahoo’s search program was definitely superior than competing products from Google or MSN because it supported many more file-types and would let you preview files even without the associated application.
Yahoo’s desktop tool was good enough that it won the editors’ choice award [...] read more
4sysops – For Windows Administrators – I have been asked to write an article about the Windows Vista vs. XP issue for the German magazine Computerwoche. They translated an InfoWorld article by Randall C. Kennedy which is one of the best Vista bashing articles I read so far. After reading it, I was attracted by the challenge to defend the Vista pro stance. I agree with some of Kennedy’s views, but quite a few of his claims distort the real picture, in my view. [...] read more
Data Center Knowledge – The server thefts are getting out of hand. The latest incident didnt involve a data center, but involved an HSBC server in Hong Kong that contained transaction records for 159,000 customer accounts. The bank said it had lost track of the server during renovation work at a Kwun Tong district branch… read more
Digital Inspiration – Plaxo has added a people search engine to help you find friends who may be using Plaxo but are not connected to you yet.
Earlier, you could search for people on Plaxo only if you remembered their email addresses but now they have relaxed the rules and lets you perform a search by name [...] read more
Blah, Blah! Technology – Company names, slogans and logos can all be legally protected in one way or another. But what about keywords? Where does a company name end and search query begin? In a US law court, of all places [...] read more
Life Rocks! 2.0 – OpenOffice.Org 3.0 which is due in September has released a beta version. This beta release is made available to allow a users to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage. OpenOffice.org 3.0 features new “Start Centre”, fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control [...] read more
9 to 5 Mac – AT&T has updated its iPhone website, promising use of 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the US as included within the regular iPhone tariffs.
The company briefly last week switched on Wi-Fi access at its hotspots across the country, switching it off just a few days later.
At the time, the company offered [...] read more
IT Blogwatch – Two civil rights groups on Wednesday claimed a shared victory in getting the FBI to withdraw a national security letter (NSL) issued to the Internet Archive secretly seeking information on a patron of the online library. The withdrawal of the letter and an associated gag order [...] read more
NuBlue Blog – For Web Developers, text editors are like football – you love your team even though in your heart of hearts you know they’re rubbish. So what happens when you are forced to pick a new team – how do you choose? This is my current predicament – when I’m developing at home I [...] read more
JQ on Technology – fter rumors of its demise and resurrection, it looks like WiMax will finally get the push it needs in the U.S. to become a viable contender in the wireless communications space.
Broadband for the rest of us? Broadband for the rest of us?Sprint and Clearwire finally rekindled a deal to launch a nationwide service—thanks to a multi-billion-dollar push from investors Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, and Google. The new service will be marketed under the Clearwire brand, and it could offer true wireless broadband Internet access a year or two ahead of Verizon and AT&T’s planned offerings.
For those not familiar [...] read more
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