Video Gaming industry hasn’t been this popular ever, average video game users are just climbing up by minutes. Video game industry is already a huge economical power house and it’s getting huger. The scenario is a lot different than what its used to be 5 years ago. Console games are not making money, while online and mobile games are taking over the market. Currently online and mobile games generates about 35% of total game industries revenue, and it’s market share growing. The way it’s going Consol game will be a relic like thingy in near future. So why is such a boom we are seeing in gaming economy? Console games revenue model was typical selling the game model, which …
We all aware of the spat going on between Adobe and Apple regarding Adobe’s Flash. It wasn’t always like that, not too long ago they had a mutually beneficial relationship creating a niche market based on Apple’s Mac operating system and Adobe’s content creation software. Long story short now these two once friends are now bitter rivals and hostilely fighting (media war) each other over the merits of Flash and the future of interactive content and video on the Mobile & Web. Adobe’s flash which no doubt overwhelmingly dominate web, obviously defend its product and wishes to conquer Mobile device dominance as well. On the other hand Apple the biggest tech company in the world continually refuses to accept flash …
Microsoft planning on a shakeup that will split its mobile and gaming business into two sections, which was not supposed to be together in the first place. This an attempt to reclaim a leading position in the Smartphone market, a position that’s largely slipped away in the face of competition from Apple and Google. There is a good possibility that this shakeup could unleash the company’s mobile device efforts. Now the million dollar question is, whether this decision is on time or too late. In this shakeup Robbie Bach, president of the entertainment and devices group (Microsoft’s highest paid executive), will retire from Microsoft later this year, the company announced Tuesday. Bach won’t be replaced. Instead the two …
Among internet’s big brothers Yahoo is the slowest to expend it’s presence to mobile market. Well it’s better late than never. Isn’t it? Now aiming to expand its presence in the emerging markets, Internet giant Yahoo announced Tuesday that it has acquired Indonesia’s location-based services startup Koprol. This announcement came one day after announcing an expanded mobile partnership with Nokia. Yahoo said it will be leveraging the Jakarta-based startup’s user-generated community information to further localize its content for its products. How much Yahoo did spent for buying Koprol still unknown. Koprol was …
Twitter, the 140 character trend we all love. We might miss or get tardy at work but never miss a tweet J . For the reason of user love and popularity, advertiser’s loves it too, to hook up into the stream. There have been numerous companies, startup grown up recently around Twitter’s timeline. Third-party paid Tweets was making money without even have to share a dime with Twitter, unlike any other Social platforms. Many of these third party company’s business model relies on Twitter API for brokers ads and places them in users’ Twitter streams. Most probably the time for these free riding business is about to come to an end, well not necessarily (if they change their business model)! …
Google Adsense need very little or no introduction at all to most of the web savvy peoples out .there. Why? Cause Google Adsense is one of the most successful advertising networks on web. But funny thing is regardless of overwhelming popularity among web publishers; it’s always been a mystery to Adsense Publishers that how much share does Google keep out of the total revenue generated by their Websites. Needless to say there is quite a bit of conspiracy theories build up around it as well. Well today (May 24th, 2010) Google finally axed these conspiracy theories by revealing this ’secret’ that It had kept since the launch of Adsense. According to Google Adsense shares 68% revenue with …
On our first tier of Web conferencing solution and software we will be looking at Dimdim. Dimdim is a web-based platform for real-time, rich-media collaboration and meetings. Dimdim is originally made available as an enterprise edition and as a Virtual Machine appliance. Good news is an open source edition which is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which allows users to install and host Dimdim in their own networks. Bad news is latest open source edition which is hosted at sourcefourge.com lacks installation instructions, which is a blow to many users. They do offer a free hosted version called Dimdim free, which is available to be used freely with up to 20 people. …
Few Decades ago there was a time when our ancestors used to consider teleconference i.e. the telephone conference is simply fascinating. Well we came a long way since than to an age where teleconference got a broader meaning. Teleconference is now may contain one or all of these- Voice, Video & augmented reality etc. Especially because of the bandwidth efficiency and low costs that VoIP technology can provide in recent years most teleconferencing started to change into web conferencing. Now through Web conferencing we conduct live meetings, training, or presentations; hack someone told me there …
Trac is undoubtedly one of the most issue/bug tracking and project management software to date. Trac installation is far more complex and tiresome than what TracInstall page says it is. First of all it got a huge list of very complex dependencies that can take up your whole day to take care. It’s more painful when it comes to shared hosting installation; I do understand the fact most shared hosting doesn’t even give SSH access. Recently when I was installing Trac for a client came across with tons of issues and had to device a long list of to-dos to take care of the situation. So without further due let’s get on with how we can install Trac …
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Sun Microsystems announced an alliance to simplify sales, service, and support for customers who run – or can be coaxed to run – Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system on HP’s X86. HP already has the same level of agreement for Microsoft Windows, Novell SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, and VMware with their respected vendors. On the other hand Sun had signed similar Solaris distribution deals with IBM and Dell Inc., way back in 2007.
HP and Sun compete each other in the server hardware business, so this move was little unexpected. According to this new partnership HP will distribute and provide support for Solaris 10 on …
