Archive for the ‘Information Technology’ Category
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Globalization is a complex phenomenon but undying reality. It neither need any introduction nor pertain a universal definition. But the fact of matter is it really exists and it has brought us in the historic age of transformation. Nations and world has been transformed to a wired planet through which you can enjoy the power of information.
Information Technology (IT) is a driving factor in the process of globalization. Improvements in the early 1990s in computer hardware, software, and telecommunications have caused widespread improvements in access to information and economic potential. These advances have facilitated efficiency gains in all sectors of the economy. IT provides the communication network that facilitates the expansion of products, ideas, and resources among nations and among people regardless of geographic location. Creating efficient and effective channels to exchange information, IT has been the catalyst for global integration.
In Globalization process, Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been implicated in the structuring and restructuring of human social relations. The power to communicate has been one of the greatest achievements by human beings. Since, the development of the electrical telegraph and the telephone in the late 1800s marked a qualitative shift in the scope and power of ICTs, however. The new electrical communication systems brought disparate regions and peoples into an unprecedented, increasingly synchronous global network of information, trade, finance, and culture. In the 20th century, (more…)
Tags: Globalization, Information Technology, Technology
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Millions of new pages of content are being created every day and the vast majority is created by the individual publisher, but the advertising inventory is growing at massive multiples to the actual demand. With this, publishers will need to find new ways to be found and advertisers will need to find innovative ways to get in front of this micro created content. Here are some online advertising trends for 2010.
Advertising Marketplaces
These directories, such as our own AdvertiseSpace marketplace, will sprout up out of need for advertisers to find grouped niches that meet their needs and don’t have the time to scour the entire web looking for great sites to market their products on.
Social Media Advertising
We saw the birth of Twitter Advertising in 09 with companies like Sponsored Tweets and Ad.ly. In 2010 expect to see tons more advertising in your twitter feeds. Facebook and MySpace advertising also grew in ‘09 with their self serve create your own banner, platforms and for this year expect more growth and hopefully some innovations with the tools.
Indy Publisher Advertising
Major advertisers are going to seek our smaller independent ‘voices’ in lieu of massive publishers to return to grass roots. This will be a major shift in 2010 as big percentages of ad dollars will shift to the little guy.
Smart phone Advertising
Advertising within other people apps. You can run standard banners within iphone apps and there are already a ton of iphone app ad networks. iphone is the clear choice right now, with Android a close 2nd and Blackberries’ a distant 3rd. AdMob help show everyone the potential value in this model with its acquisition by Google for 750 million.
Advertising Exchanges
There is tons of buzz lately about Exchanges, but they are not new, and some view as worse than general ad networks with a higher barrier to entry and most publishers fear them because they make inventory even more price sensitive. They are good for advertisers and publishers with billions of remnant inventory and nothing to lose. AdExchanger is a great blog to read more about these, but they are obviously a little biased.
Decline in Ad Networks
2010 will be the year that publishers stand up and realize that Ad Networks having been taking advantages of them for far too long, with low fill rates, crappy ads and terrible payouts. Publishers will take control over their own inventory and demand higher rates.
Remnant Optimization
Publishers are going to demand more for their un-sold inventory and use more remnant inventory optimizing tools. These tools basically scroll through all the ad networks and find the highest paying banner for the open ad spot. 2 of the biggest ones are The Rubicon Project and Pubmatic.
Total Impact Measurements
Advertisers will continue to demand better brand engagement metrics besides the old standard impressions and clicks, measuring conversations and overall impact of advertising campaigns.
Application Advertising
Not advertising within an app, but actually building your own app as an advertising mechanism. Hey when someone is playing a game based on your brand, you can’t get more interactive than that? (Except actually using your real product
Demand Side Platforms
Everyone is also raving about DSP right now too, which is demand side platforms or even publishing. Some agencies are grouping together to have their own pool of ads to buy from. This is bad news for publishers. Basically it is media buyers saying, your content is crap and I think I could do better myself, or I just want to control the price market myself by creating my own exchange.
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
On the basis of recently concluded Quality of Service (QoS) survey of mobile phone operators, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued show cause notices to five mobile phone operators of Pakistan. These results were shared with the mobile phone companies along with instructions to improve their services quality. A reasonable time was also given to them, so that they can improve their network performance. However, it was found that all mobile operators failed to achieve the desired results. As a result PTA issued show cause notices to all mobile companies for failing to maintain the quality as per the license conditions.
This survey include quality of voice and SMS in 14 cities of Pakistan, AJ&K and northern areas including all major highways. This exercise has been conducted by PTA’s enforcement teams with the latest automated QoS equipment. PTA has been conducting this survey throughout the last year and shared results of first three quarters with the operators with directions to improve their services. The final comprehensive survey was conducted in the fourth quarter of 2009.
While talking about survey results, Chairman PTA said that ensuring provision of quality services to the telecom consumers has always been a priority of PTA. The objective of conducting QoS survey is to ensure that the telecom customers are being provided with top quality services. It may be noted that every year PTA defines its targets and goals where QoS survey of all services remains one of the major activities. The aim is to ensure that the telecom companies provide quality services as per the license conditions and instructions of PTA.
Tags: PTA
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Infrarecorder
A free and open source CD burning tool for Windows that allows you to burn your CD/DVD, the software has an easy to use interface, and it has numerous features available with it. One of its prominent features allows you to burn dual-layer DVDs.
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ImgBurn
Small application that makes CD/DVD writing simple. ImgBurn is available for Windows and can be run on Linux using wine. This is small software that lets you burn different types of discs with much ease.
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Nero Burning
Robust and most popular CD/DVD writing tool for multiple platforms that offers very rich features with it. Its complete installation is fairly huge, but you can customize the features installed with it so that it suits best to your needs.
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CDBurnerXP
CDBurnerXP is a Windows based free utility for burning CD/DVD. The software is free to use for everyone. This software lets you burn your discs with easy, you can burn any type of CD like audio disc, data disc and disc images. This utility requires .Net 3.5.
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MacBurn
CD/DVD burning software for Mac platform that offers many features to burn your required data on CD’s and DVD’s.
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Roxio Creator
An easy to use CD/DVD burner with many advanced features bundled with it, available in two different editions, one is the basic one and other is ‘Pro’. Roxio Creator is available for Windows & Mac OSx.
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
With the introduction of its latest netbook, LG continues to put innovations in the competitive laptop market. It boasts of having a really long battery life: 12 hours at that! When it comes to other specifications, however, the LG X130 netbook has nothing new to offer.
A 10-inch screen with 1024×768 resolution
An Atom N270 processor
1 GB of RAM
160 GB hard disk memory
Blutooth
Wireless 802.11 b / g / n (up to 150 Mbps), wired 10/100
Weight: 1.45Kg
Its unique selling point is its claim that this netbook’s 9-cell battery can last for up to 12 hours. Although some people doubt the authenticity of this claim, as a standard 3-cell battery can only last for just over two hours. The LG X130 netbook can be a good steal as more and more people are using their laptops more often.
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
During interview, this is the common question which are asked by the interviewer that How can we track or count total number of online users. This is tricky but really simple question and most of the times interviewee is not able to response on this simple question.
There are two solutions by which you can get the number of online users.
SOLUTION I:
Whenever user come on your site and logged-in on the site. Then set a flag value in DB. And reset the flag whenever user logged-out the site. But this is a major issue in this case. You are totally dependent on the user’s logged-out step. But if user left the site and close the browser or directly goes to other site you can’t reset the flag in the DB. DB state will show that the user is online while he/she is not online. So, this is not recommended.
SOLUTION II:
Make another table for this purpose and add at least 4 fields in this table which are
- username
- datetime
- ipAddress
- session value
Whenever user logged-in on the site insert a record in this table. Also store the session values in COOKIE. Now, on each page first try to read the COOKIE contains the value of session. If the session value found then update the table row with the current datetime where the session value exist.
Now, at this point you can get the information that how many people are currently logged In. Also by the username you can also get the user’s information. But you need to fix you timings that for how long the user’s session should alive. It means if you think that if there is no activity on the site by user within last 10 minutes then it suppose that user has left the site. So, you must get only count of people in last 10 minutes.
You can implement this in any server site scripting like PHP, ASP .Net, CGI, Perl, Ruby etc.
Tags: Computers and Internet
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Today, I have very bad experience with Wateen Telecom customer service. At 1:00 AM, I tried to login to Wateen telecom connection then it returns the error “CRB_ERR_INVALID_PASSWORD”. I tried again and again but failed. Then I called on 111.365.111 from my mobile number which I had filled in the registration form at the time of subscription.
First time, the call dropped after 5 minutes wait.
Second time, After 4 minutes wait, the Customer Support Officer asked me the error message then he said that I am entering wrong password Which was not true. Then, I asked him to change my password he said that your mobile number is not in your profile. So, either you call from your land line or from your registered mobile. It was surprise for me that my mobile number is not listed in the Wateen’s Profile.
Third time, I called from my land line number which was away from my computer. The customer officer said that please approach your computer so he can troubleshoot the issue. I asked him that it is not possible for me as the land line number is not near my computer. Also I told him that I had already called from my mobile but faced the non-registered number issue. He said as your number is saved in your computer, so first goto Tools->Internet Options and remove your saved password. I told him that I already did this. Then I asked him to please change my password, he said that for this purpose you should arrange your registered (on Wateen) mobile number. I asked him that you have my land line number from where I am calling you. You can ask me my NIC number and please provide me the password. He said that system has no provision to show the password. System will regenerate the password and send on Mobile Number as SMS and this is totally for security.
Now, my point is, This is tru that security does matter, But how it is important that the member is calling and he has NIC and other identification then why don’t the system can provide the number?
After that I still insist to provide new password then he asked me for my identifications NIC and mobile number which I provided and finally got the new password.
I don’t know how my password changed? This is at my home connection and I never ever provides my user/password to anybody. I BELIEVE THIS IS THE ERROR IN SYSTEM.
Actually then have my brother’s mobile number in the profile. Now the question is how they know about my brother’s mobile number. Actually, In the start my brother went to franchise about the connection and provided his number for further procedure. But when I finally decided for the connection then I have provided my own information Name, NIC, Mobile number etc. But still they entered my brother’s mobile number. AMAZING.
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
NTC (National Telecommunication Corporation) converted its telephone numbers from 7 to 8 digits. For this purpose they added digit “9″ in the start of numbers.
For example, if number is 920xxxx this number is now 9920xxxx after adding “9” in the start. NTC converted number between the night of April 30, 2009 and May 1, 2009.
Tags: NTC, PTA
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