Amazon S3: Web Scalable Storage Facility
Posted by Tech Mentor under Web ArticlesToday is era of web technology. Every one is switching from desktop applications to web applications. One of the major problems in web technology is storage. Although there exist many domains which are providing services for web applications yet peoples are finding some new solution. If you don’t want to set up, configure, and maintain a few extra servers just for hosting your media files, you can instead use Amazon S3. Amazon S3 is storage for the internet; it gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites.
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Solar Battery
Posted by Tech Mentor under MiscBatteries and rechargeable batteries is not a new concept for us. We use them in almost every electronics application including mobile phones, lights etc. but still if we don’t have power we are unable to use these batteries after they expire? So there must be some way so that even if electric power is not available we can use batteries. The solution comes from the sun, the largest energy source available to us. This battery pack can recharge batteries by drawing in the sun’s rays and applying the energy as power. The pack also hosts a USB port which allows all other portable devices to play exclusively from the solar power.
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Technology Disappointments of 2007
Posted by Tech Mentor under Tech News2007 was very good year in the era of technology. In this years lot of new products were launched by different companies and proved as good products. But also many of them have disappointed peoples and companies. Pc World has listed 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007.
1. Windows Vista
2. The High-Def Format War
3. Facebook Beacon
4. Yahoo
5. Apple iPhone
6. The Broadband Industry
7. Voice Over IP
8. Apple “Leopard” OS 10.5
9. Office 2007
10. Wireless Carriers
11. Microsoft Zune
12. Internet Security
13. Social Networks
14. Municipal WiMax
15. Amazon Unbox
For more details
http://www.pcworld.com
GoogleKnol - a Google’s alternative of Wikipedia
Posted by Tech Mentor under Tech NewsWikipedia is a famous internet encyclopedia in which different people contribute. Wikipedia has compiled 2.1 million English-language articles as well as millions more in dozens of other languages. But now a strong competitor is raised as googlepedia an alternative proposed by Google. Idea behind googlepedia is basically that it will consist of material submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibly profit from their knowledge.
Google called its alternative as “knol” - the company’s shorthand for a “unit of knowledge”. “There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it,” Ubi Manber, Google’s vice president of engineering, wrote in the company’s posting about the new service. “We believe that many do not share that knowledge today simply because it is not easy enough to do that”, he added.
Citizendium is other Internet encyclopedia launched earlier this year also insists on identifying the writers of its articles. Unlike Google, Citizendium relies on a collaborative editing process to verify the accuracy of its articles. Google, which is expected to earn more than $4 billion this year, also wants to make money off its encyclopedia. Although the resource will be available for free just like Google’s search engine, the company wants to place ads related to the topics covered on each page.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
