Archives for the ‘Information Technology’ Category

Overview on Cloud based DNS hosting

December 13th, 2011 Information Technology No Comments
Couple of years ago 3rd party DNS hosting was in boom, but for some unknown reason DNS hosting via 3rd party started to lose its ground. Surprisingly recently after few years of pause 3rd party DNS hosting once gain on the rise, credit might goes to increasing dependency and popularity of Cloud Hosting. There are growing numbers of DNS hosting providers who operates servers on various geographic locations that provide resilience and minimize latency for clients around the world. Good news for personal & small business is a lot of DNS hosting provider is free or partially free. Usually free DNS hosting includes facilities to manage A, MX, CNAME, TXT and NS records of the domain zone. But why do you need DNS hosting, when most of the web hosting and registrar already has that for free. Well many people justify using 3rd party DNS for reason such as – Redundant DNS hosting by web host, uptime guarantee, TTL control (as many web host DNS lacks it), more feature than web host, failover, load balancing and many more. But ultimately the key reason being 3rd party hosting is used more often is for better control over your Domain’s DNS. Anyway…
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HTML5 & Flash, the two story technology

November 13th, 2011 Featured, Information Technology No Comments
The demise of Adobe Flash for mobile devices came as a surprise and reeling flash developers and mobile device vendors alike(source). Flash enjoyed almost unchallenged supremacy as multimedia platform since its macromedia days up until Apple’s iPhone came to life. Still now majority rich media application & Games on the web circumnavigate around Flash. Flash Player for smart phones was made available to handset manufacturers at the end of 2009 in order to achieve mobile platform dominance just as web. But unfortunately the rein of Flash is about to come to an end. Things started to fall apart for Adobe Flash, when Steve Jobs famously posted a note on Apple’s website calling Flash closed, unstable, and antiquated. Accusing Adobe of living in the past and not innovating to keep up with the mobile Web, he reason why Adobe Flash won’t be supported by iPhone & iPad. Nonetheless Adobe kept investing on Flash and managed to get Apple’s Mobile & Tablet market competitors as partners who are willing to support Flash on their device in order to get an edge over Apple. So things aren’t that bad for Flash, right? Support for all vendor’s mobile device minus one, even though Apple’s…
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Missing Children App for iPhone by FBI

August 8th, 2011 Information Technology No Comments
This isn’t the first time Government agency’s (most notably US & UK) launching iPhone/iPad application to reach out to public. Ever since the emergence of iPhone, different government agencies around the globe tried to harness the power and reach out to popular i (Phone and Pad) users. Now the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has just released its very first mobile app, for helping parents deal with their worst nightmare, “missing a child”. Obviously this is a step forward to arm parents with right needed info at the time of worst case scenario for quicker law enforcement reporting. Child ID app—the first mobile application created by the FBI, provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about user’s children so that it’s literally right at hand if need arise. According to FBI – the FBI (and iTunes for that matter) is not collecting or storing any photos or information that you enter in the app. All data resides solely on your mobile device unless you need to send it to authorities. Please read your mobile provider’s terms of service for information about the security of applications stored on your device. –credit: FBI News Stories So that means…
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Online game economy

August 13th, 2010 Featured, Information Technology No Comments
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 don’t exactly fit for today’s gaming economy. On the other hand today’s online and mobile games got strong revenue models, based on user demand & supply rather than sales revenue, well most of them. For example- FarmVille, created by Zynga, an online gaming company based in San Francisco, has become a web phenomenon, played by more than 56 million people within three months of its launch, making it the fastest-growing social game on the internet. After the United States, Britain has…
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Adobe, HTML5 and Apple why needs to be observed

May 28th, 2010 Featured, Information Technology No Comments
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 on their iPhone and iPad instead advocates HTML5 as standard. It’s seems after quite a bit news battle, Adobe decided to take two approach to stay on the top of food chain. Flash defending-ad campaign Take the lead in HTML5 development Now Adobe showcased a new HTML5 addition to its Creative Suite software on Wednesday at the Google I/O developer conference. Seems Adobe would like to be more of a leader and less of a follower when it comes to…
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Microsoft’s shakeup, new possibilities!

May 27th, 2010 Information Technology No Comments
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 deputy executives who head both units will report directly to Ballmer from June 1st, 2010. Microsoft was being outpaced, out-developed and out-marketed by longtime rivals such as Apple, and even worse by brand-new mobile platforms like Android. First Apple’s widely successful iPhone and then Google’s Android mobile OS, it’s seems Microsoft’s nightmare is a never ending epic. Its aging Windows Mobile platform was, and is, shrinking in market share. Which Microsoft certainly wishes to change and make a dramatic comeback! The good…
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Yahoo buys Mobile Social Network Service Korpol

May 26th, 2010 Information Technology 1 Comment
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 always the second choice for Yahoo, Foursquare which was its first choice probably asked for higher price than what yahoo had in mind (US$100 million-plus offers). Koprol specializes in mobile networking, lets people make friends, share photos, and find popular nearby locations all on the go. This only indicates Internet giant’s rising interest in geo-location offerings, pledging to bring Nokia’s Navteq mapping service to Yahoo, and Yahoo’s email and instant-messaging technology to Nokia’s Ovi service. With the Yahoo buyout, Koprol will maintain its base in Jakarta, Indonesia and all employees will be converted to the Yahoo team. Koprol noted in a blog post that many of its planned…
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Paid tweets business models, beware!

May 26th, 2010 Featured, Information Technology No Comments
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)! Twitter has its own advertising system called Promoted Tweets, which launched about a month ago. It shares about half of the revenue with developers. Now the news break out that Twitter is banning third-party advertisements on its site in a move to control the monetization. Official statement for this move is, to protect the relevance and integrity of the platform. But we all know what the real reason- It’s the Green baby! As our primary concern is the long-term health…
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Google declassifies revenue share for Adsense

May 24th, 2010 Information Technology No Comments
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 the publishers of Adsense for content ads, and 51% revenue for the Adsense for search program. This means Google keeps 32 cents out of every dime ($1) you earn through your Adsense. Well that’s not much isn’t it? I no see evil in there, well it’s just me. The remaining portion that we keep reflects Google’s costs for our continued investment in Adsense — including the development of new technologies, products and features that help maximize the earnings you generate from these ads….
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