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Mobile web is already a big part of Europe, Asia, and the US market, beginning with the release of the Apple iPhone. Companies like Nokia, Blackberry, and Sony-Ericsson have been working on mobile web for several years now. And this is only the beginning. Over the next decade, there will be more location aware services available to consumers through mobile devices, like getting map directions while driving or sale alerts and recommendations wihle shopping in the mall. Big internet companies like Google will become key mobile portals and work in conjunction with mobile operators.

One of the issues faced by mobile web is usability, but the iPhone made it easier for users to go online, making this phone the benchmark of mobile devices.

The Internet is becoming both a database and a platform, with major websites becoming web services that will expose their information an dproducts to the world. Although these transformations are not smooth and will encounter legal bumps and sociability issues along the way, the metamorphosis of websites into web services is only a matter of time.

It will probably happen in two ways. First, sites can follow the example of Flickr and Amazon and offer their services through a REST API. Other websites will keep their information proprietary but will open them through services like Yahoo! Pipes. Unstructured information will make room for more structured information and pave the way for more intellegent surfing.

Bing was released sometime ago and Microsoft advertised the search engine with the tag line, “Your search has been found!” Is it really as good as they say it is? Well opinions vary for the world is still a Google world with most of the searches done on their huge data centers that has bots or search engine indexers scanning the internet at regular intervals to keep track of new additions to the internet. With the internet now comprised of 155 Billion web sites, that is indeed a lot of information to index and store. Bing may have some advanced search bot that does things faster to give credence to their claims. Read the rest of this entry »

With every industry leader developing their own version of the cloud, it will only be time when they all agree on their differences and the web begins transition into the web in the clouds where they say it will be simpler and easier to maintain. The concept of cloud computing is actually a mere revision of the old computer network setup then known as the server-client topography. The only difference is that the web is now dynamic with most of the action happening in split seconds out of sight. Doing a mere search takes a few milliseconds but the tasks that have to happen for a search to be successful is simply too complex to fathom should it be laid out and written down. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple has announced the coming release of the new and improved iPhone that has not been so well received as it’s former two kin. Why, well the recession may have something to do with it and the fact that you can turn your old iPhone (the second one actually), through firmware upgrades to function the same as the new one, all of these factors may play in the fate of the ever-loved iPhone. Apple has even been rumored to be wooing app developers, namely for games to start developing apps for their new models even as they overcome the 1 million units sold mark. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody knows of the proliferation of mobile apps and the many browsers that allow people on the go to access the internet. It has taken the office out of the workplace and social life into the office. This has caught the eye of marketing specialists who through viral videos and other mobile marketing trends have begun to exploit their ability to reach people even when they are out of their desks. May you be at home or in the workplace, life is getting wired bit by bit and with the many CMS systems around, people are getting the content they need fast while sending feedback as to their reader’s habits allowing well aimed advertising. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most prevalent malicious attacks on computer systems today is called PHISHING.

Phishing is where sensitive information – such as passwords, addresses, credit card numbers, etc. – is obtained under false premises. The usual modus operandi is for a site to pretend to be a trustworthy site which then ask for users’ personal information. Some also disguise themselves as emails that tell the recipient that he or she won x amount of money in a contest they never heard of. The recipient is then required to log in or register to a site, which then records all the information inputted by the clueless person.

So before you commit to putting down sensitive information on forms on the web, make sure that the site is trustworthy – and always be suspicious of too-good-to-be-true offers that suddenly show up.

Cloud computing is here and MobileMe is here to serve the few faithful Apple fanatics who are benefiting from one of the very few yet effective examples of the new cloud computing framework where all applications and data are stored in data centers, to be called upon when needed. The advantages of secure online backup of information is very much a new thing but it does allow you to back-up some of your vital information into secure servers that should not fail. There are even some providers who offer such services for a fee like Norton’s 360 product which includes a couple of megabytes of free secure online data storage space.
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One of the web trends these days is the improvement of Instant Messengers. Once, you were limited to chatting with the others who weer part of the same IM client as your own. However, there’s been an improvement these days where other clients will be available to you. One of the best examples of these is Meebo:

Meebo is an instant messaging software that runs inside a Web browser, as AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the software necessary to implement them.

It has a ton of great features like changing your wallpaper and themes, however it won’t tbe able to do the features specific for Yahoo Messenger and the other lot.

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What? TCP/IP? Who cares. Fact is, without TCP/IP there would be no Internet. TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol) were the protocols the military developed in its research aiming at developing communication using the early forms of computer. Computers before, were the size of a room. The military was forced to connect different types of machine because not every branch of the military was using the same machine. The first Internet delivered a few basic services like file transfer, electronic mail to name a few. TCP/IP is composed of layers. Each layer has its own responsibility. IP is responsible for moving data from computer to computer. IP forwards each packet based on a four-byte destination address (the IP number). TCP is responsible for ensuring correct delivery of data from computer to computer. Because data can be lost in the network, TCP adds support to detect errors or lost data and to trigger retransmission until the data is correctly and completely received. In short, IP is used to send the data, while TCP verifies that it is sent correctly.