On the 29th of October 1969, the first two servers were interconnected between UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and Stanford Research Institute. They eventually became ARPANET, the predecessor of today’s Internet.
Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
Another 40th anniversary… the Internet!
Friday, October 30th, 2009MS Silverlight bringing .NET to Nokia smart phones
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008“Today’s consumers are very clear in what they want: easy access to tightly integrated services and data on any device,” said Lee Williams, Senior Vice President in Nokia’s Devices software organization. “Nokia’s software strategy is based on cross-platform development environments, enabling the creation of rich applications across the Nokia device range. Nokia aims to support market leading and content rich internet application environments and to embrace and encourage open innovation. By working with Microsoft, we are creating terrific opportunities and additional choices for the development community, S60 licensees and the industry as a whole.” - Nokia press release
I don’t understand how Nokia really aims to embrace open innovation by adding Silverlight. We had already discussed MS openness in innovation and standards.
Without wide adoption of Silverlight throughout the Web there will be not much useful content for mobile users. In my opinion content is what we are really missing for our mobile phones and not fancy interfaces with heavy animation. That would simply put more pressure on your phones resources, drain your battery and drain your wallet by streaming loads of useless bits.
I really don’t see the reason to install it on my N95…
Netscape quietly goes to the Internet history museum
Friday, February 29th, 2008
It has been announced that as of the 1st of March there will be no more support for Netscape browser. Although it is a while since I’ve migrated to Firefox, this headline brought back some emotions on the early days of Web. I felt I’d pay a tribute to the remarkable work of the Internet pioneers who made this nice browser back in 1994 when the Internet was still struggling with gopher, Lynx text browser.
Goodbye Communicator…
Googling you medical records?! You must be joking!
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Google unveils personal medical record service, claiming that it would bring more control of medical records to patients by providing centralized facility to control oneself records. In other terms, we would be able to login to that service and have a look in our medical records. So why would we need to look at our own medical records. The first thing that strikes me of course is who else could have a look at my own medical record. Google said, it would be password protected. How strong would that password be? It is up to each one of us to choose. Are we going to get alarmed if someone tries to brute-force our medical history records?
The advantage of this service, according to Google would be the central storage of now dispersed data. And Google promise not to use any advertising on accessing medical records, but when people do some other medical related searches.
Whenever I visit my doctor and get prescription I am wondering how pharmacist is able to decrypt those scribbles where hardly any letter could be identified. I frankly prefer that it stays like this, and that medical data is managed by those that need access to it, and it definitely not patients but medical service.
What does search engine has to do with storing and managing information? Give me please just one good reason…
Can “Google sites” become your company sites?
Thursday, February 28th, 2008In todays Web news we can read about the new service from Google called Google sites. It is announced as one stop sharing for team information. In news its mostly compared with Microsoft SharePoint but to my surprise not with the one single open-source solution. Why not comparing it to WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or Plone?
Media reports that Google sites actually targets companies. I am not sure how would companies that have viable security policy ensure compliance while sharing information on externally hosted service at Google. While it can be perfectly good for sport clubs, schools, friends, I would be cautious to adopt it for any corporate data unless the Google’s privacy policy complies with client company’s Information Security Policy. Or Google is providing an option to sign a confidentiality statement and non-disclosure agreement with every client company?
In 2006, I have visited Google and amongst products demonstrated was Google calendar. I’ve raised the issue of privacy and personal information security that has triggered a discussion of how to provide free and open services for masses, maintain privacy and yet implement a lucrative business model backed with advertising. Even Internet evangelist like Mr. Vint Cerf agreed that the Internet should remain open and not become inhibitor to creativity.