Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Improving Netflix
It is quite sometime now since Netflix, one of the web’s largest movie rental businesses has posted a challenge worth $1 Million. To date, no one has taken the top prize was for a recommendation system that would improve products movement more than the one they already have. Many have been working on the said [...]
Read More..>>Web Sites That Count
Many companies got so engrossed in the design and facilities of their web sites that they forgot to put their mouths behind their said web sites. Many of these so-called killer sites utilized the latest technology in their stunning graphics and visual presentations. Many even winning design awards based solely on the way their sites [...]
Read More..>>Google Expansion
Google, one of the biggest web based searched engines has announced the launch of it’s expanded search capabilities to the global market. Google�s powerful custom search was previously available to the US market and with this announcement makes it the premier search engines of the world. The said Custom Search feature uses the latest technology [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits you and me? (Part 3)
With common transactional data, 128 bit encryption is standard for it is estimated that it would take a couple of years for a computer that is fast enough to crack it. Take it a notch up, and you get a time frame goes up to a couple of decades or so till technology can get [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits You and Me? (Part 2)
That all happens in a couple of minutes without you ever knowing that there was some very fascinating stuff happening in the background. For credit cards and other major bank transactions, they are now using PCI-DSS; an encryption standard that encrypts the transaction information as it travels thought the network. Anyone who taps into the [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits You and Me? (Part 1)
As you surf the web as part of your job or for more trivial pursuits you send information through the internet at breakneck speeds that a web page that is based on a server in California takes only milliseconds to open. You go to the grocery and pick up the monthly goods using your credit [...]
Read More..>>The Web is Helping Out Personal Lives
As far as the Internet is concerned, it has now become more of a simple reference for getting information. It has now gone as far as helping us interact, enjoy and even help at times when our health is not as good as it should be.
The Internet is really continuing to evolve. And there [...]
Making Sales on the Web
If you are having trouble marketing an selling stuff in the real world, why not try using a different medium such as the web. Online buying and selling has been the new age of doing business and apparently many people are getting hooked to it as well.
Just consider the fact that you don’t have [...]
The Web – When will it End
Never, or till somebody pulls the plug and drives the world into chaos, out of Twitter and their other social affiliations. As of 2007, there was already a record number of 155 billion web sites on record, and the buck didn’t stop there for who knows how many more have been added to this day. [...]
Read More..>>Gadgets for All Weather
Gadgets may be getting smaller and smarter but have you noticed they have also gotten a whole lot tougher. gadgets and gizmos for every environment are now available, enough to withstand the rugged ways we use and take them. From waterproof cameras and electronic goods, manufacturers have finally taken the human factor to heart and [...]
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