Apa sih maksud dan bedanya: WAP, XML, socket, HTML, dan HTTP?

WAP merupakan standar terbuka untuk aplikasi wireless reless sehingga kamu bisa nengakses internet dari ponsel atau PDA. Sebuah WAP browser mempunyai spek dasar seperti browser di komputer tapi disederhanakan sesuai keterbatasan kecepatan akses yang rendah, tampilan hanya teks dan gambar sederhana. Socket merupakan sebuah Cara untuk berkomunikasi dengan program atau node lain. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) merupakan Bahasa program yang digunakan untuk membuat website. Extensible Markup Language (XML) merupakan perluasan HTML agar situs bisa dinikmati di ponsel atau PDA. Perintahnya mirip HTML namun penggunaannya tidak terbatas pada tampilan halaman Web raja. HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) adalah protokol yang dipergunakan untuk mentransfer clokumen dalam situs. Kelimanya dibutuhkan sebagai prasyarat untuk mengakses dan membuka situs di Internet.

Apa maksudnya GPRS kelas 8 dan kelas 10? Apa makin tinggi kelasnya makin cepat dalam pencarian/input data?

S: Benar, ponsel dengan GPRS kelas 8 dan 10 akan berbeda kecepatannya saat browsing ke Internet. Secara teoritis, GPRS kelas 8 memiliki kecepatan transfer data 8- 12 kbps 4xbod dan 32 – 40 kbps download, sedangkan GPRS kelas 10 t>erkecepatan 16 – 24 kbps upload dan 32 – 48 kbps download. ” +irnun dalarn prakteknya. kecepatan sebesar itu tak pernah tercapaj Karena keterbatasan kemampuan jaringan operator di Indonesia. jadi, memakai ponsel dengan GPRS kelas 8 atau 10 tidak akan terlihat bedanya.

15. Apa yang memengaruhi waktu bicara clan waktu siaga baterai ponsel?
S: Pengaruh terbesar pada daya tahan baterai adalah pola pemakaian ponsel, bukan kapasitas baterainya. Pengaruh kedua adalah ada tidaknya sistem operasi pada ponsel, jumlah aplikasi aktif yang di-install di ponsel, banyaknya nama di Phonebook, dan banyaknya file di memori ponsel. Semuanya memengaruhi daya tahan baterai, karena untuk
mengakses semua file yang ada, tentu dibutuhkan
daya dari baterai. Ponsel yang sering dipakai menelepon pasti akan lebih cepat habis baterainya. Begitu pula jika ponsel sering ditelepon, berkirim SMS atau bermain game, baterai akan lebih cepat habis.

source : tabloid PC+

Coors Light is giving beer drinkers a chance to win 6 days in Whistler with 4 friends during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Consumers can enter a pin found in cases of Coors Light, online or text it in to 26677 to gain an entry into the contest. Once a consumer texts in their pin, they are encouraged to earn additional entries by sending their pal a mobile invite. For each invite that gets accepted, an additional point is gained. Consumers can choose to send their pal a Cold Call or a more formal picture invite right to their friends phone. National contest closes December 31st. For more details, text CHALET to 26677 or visit www.coorslight.ca

MOFUSE

Mofuse adalah layanan kontent web berbasis mobile view, jika anda mempunyai web sites atau blok yang ingin ditampilkan dengan format mobile dengan domain dot mobi maka layanan ini patut untuk dicoba. dengan hanya melakukan register secara gratis pada weblog anda baik dari wordpress maupun dari web blog akan sangat mudah ditampilkan di handphone anda dengan mengunkan nama domain sendiri…

Pertama lakukan register di web www.mufuse.com

Setelah melakukan registrasi secara gratis maka adan mendapatkan dashboard seperti ini, yang digunakan untuk melakukan custom pada web anda nantinya…

setelah melakukan settinagan yang diperlukan barulah tampilan akan dapat dilihat di preview seperti tampilan pada handphone…

De acordo com a E-life e a InPress Porter Novelli, o Orkut não é mais a rede social número um no Brasil. Esse posto agora pertence ao Twitter, que é a rede em que os internautas brasileiros passam mais tempo. A empresa de pesquisas e monitoramento na internet comparou todas as ferramentas consideradas de mídia social.
O levantamento entrevistou quase 1300 pessoas, que afirmaram acessar o Twitter de sete a cinco vezes por semana, contra quatro a duas vezes o Orkut no mesmo período.

Segundo a pesquisa, 43% dos entrevistados acessam a internet via celular, através das redes 3G, WAP ou Wi-Fi.

Apesar de estar em segundo lugar no tempo de uso dos internautas, o Orkut é a rede social com mais cadastrados no Brasil, já que 89,6% dos entrevistados afirmaram ter conta no Orkut. Em seguida vem o Twitter, com 80,1%; a terceira posição ficou com o YouTube, com 79,6% e apenas 57,6% dos entrevistados têm conta no Facebook.

O estudo apontou que, para os entrevistados, cada mídia social tem uma função definida na rotina dos usuários. Para 70% dos participantes, o Twitter é fonte de notícias. Já o Orkut serve para obter contato com amigos, de acordo com 86% das pessoas ouvidas, enquanto que o YouTube é usado para passatempo e diversão pó 89,6%.

De acordo com Alessandro Barbosa Lima, CEO da E.Life, essa diferenciação é interessante pelo fato de várias empresas usarem abordagens semelhantes para redes sociais, mas é provável que uma única estratégia não funcione para todas elas. ”As redes são usadas para finalidades muito diferentes, e não uma abordagem para cobrir tudo”, completa o executivo.

Via Blog Zero e Uns

Autor de este post: Carlos Alonso: Director de Desarrollo de Negocio de Techex.

Estoy seguro que todos, unos más que otros, tenemos esa canción preferida que nos recuerda un momento inolvidable de nuestra vida, pero también estoy seguro que si todos tenéis la memoria discográfica que tengo yo, no recordareis el titulo, ni siquiera el interprete o el álbum en el que se publicó dicha canción, incluso siendo habiendo significado tanto en nuestra vida.

Ni que decir tiene, de aquellas que también marcaron otros momentos y que aún de vez en cuando se pueden escuchar en alguna emisora de radio.Sinceramente, a veces envidio un poco a esas personas que tiene la capacidad o el interés de recordar títulos o interpretes de canciones, ya sean antiguas o nuevas, y que con escuchar los temas un par de veces, ya saben si merece la pena o no recordarlos.

Por suerte, a día de hoy, en las puertas del año 2010, la tecnología, puede resolver esas situaciones por mí, de la misma forma que mi teléfono móvil (o algo más) me recuerda los cumpleaños de amigos o mi agenda de reuniones. Me basta con tan sólo acercarlo a un altavoz donde esté sonando mi música preferida, o algún tema por el que sienta curiosidad, y tan sólo tras 10 segundos escuchándola me dice qué tema es, el interprete, en que álbum esta, la discográfica, etc. Además de ello, me propone  navegar por Internet para escuchar un fragmento, u otros temas también incluidos en ese mismo disco, incluso, puedo comprarlo en línea y descargarlo inmediatamente a mi móvil.

¡Que  tecnología Satánica puede contener un aparatito tan pequeño!, ¿Cómo es posible que pueda identificar y reconocer la música, siendo el oído humano uno de los órganos más complejos del cuerpo?. ¿Es acaso verdad que además de la expresión “esa música me dejo una huella” existe de verdad una huella en la música?

La respuesta es sí, definitivamente, la música, así como cualquier señal acústica tiene una determinada energía, un volumen, un determinado espectro de frecuencias, armónicos, ritmo y otras características que hacen de la música una pieza de contenido única, con características únicas, que además, podemos registrar digitalmente y convertir del dominio analógico de niveles y frecuencias, al dominio digital de 0 y 1. Gracias a esa tecnología, un pequeño teléfono móvil, puede decirnos que canción está sonando ahora mismo.

¿Cómo es posible? ¿Compara la música que está escuchando con las que hay en una base de datos?. Pues sí,  pero… no.

Realmente si pensamos en música digital, y todos estamos familiarizados con los formatos digitales, mp3 o wma, veremos que el resultado binario de una canción, ocupa según su formato, unos cuantos megas de información, y sería realmente tedioso y pesado, enviar toda esa información por la red, para compararlo con lo que está almacenado en una base de datos, que a su vez, tendría que ser enorme.

Necesitamos identificar las piezas de música de otra manera, reducir la información a un identificador más pequeño, lo que se ha venido a llamar “huella digital” o como le llaman los guingos, “acoustic fingerprint”, que viene a ser el ADN de cada pieza musical y que se determina digitalmente. Con el fin de representar cada pieza musical de una forma más compacta, con un valor pequeño, que podamos guardar en una base de datos, transmitir por Internet y comparar con otra base de datos de la que obtener información, no tenemos más remedio que simplificar la información, comprimirla y resumirla, y para ello, debemos recurrir de nuevo a los conocidos métodos de todo proceso de digitalización o compresión, cuantificación, cualificación y comparación.

De igual manera que ocurrre con el video, es decir, que se aprovecha un determinado defecto del ojo humano que posee muchos más bastoncillos de color verde que de color azul y rojo, llevando las imágenes de video mucha menos información del color verde que de los otros dos colores, el oído humano, también tiene sus defectos, en este caso limitaciones.

La principal es que sólo es capaz de distinguir frecuencias acústicas, que tienen una diferencia notable (todo esto depende de cada ser humano y de lo entrenado que podamos tener el oído). Por lo general aunque la música pueda estar compuesta por muchas frecuencias, el oído humano solo distingue entre 0 y 20 Khz, y como hemos dicho antes sólo reconoce las diferencias notables de frecuencias, así que lo primero que haremos de cara a cuantificar cuanta información escogemos para su análisis, será dividir el espectro de frecuencias del tema a analizar en 25 bandas de frecuencia, lo cual reduce bastante la información.

Con respecto a las muestras que tomamos en el tiempo, se determina que 37 milisegundos, según la Función de Hanning o la Ventana de Hanning (Hanning Windows), que es una función matemática que genera matrices de datos, con esta función, tendremos el proceso de cuantificación terminado, ya sabemos los datos que vamos a evaluar. Ahora para la cualificación, pasaremos la Transformada Rápida de Fourier, una función algorítmica que permitirá pasar del dominio analógico de frecuencias, al dominio digital de niveles; Y después de todo este compendio matemático, ¿Qué tenemos?.

Pues tendremos tantas ventanas de información (Hanning) como la duración de la canción a evaluar dividido entre 37 milisegundos, a la que habremos pasado la Transformada Rápida de Fourier y el espectro de niveles resultante; dividido en 25 bandas de frecuencia, calculamos el patrón de energía para cada una de las bandas, que resulta en un sólo número, es decir, 25 valores. Comparamos el valor de la primera banda con las dos siguientes, esa comparación es hecha para cada una de las ventanas de Hanning resultantes, y según el valor de la comparación, obtendremos un -1 si comparando la energía resultante con las dos siguientes, esta es menor, y un valor de 1 si la comparación resulta ser mayor.

De todo esto obtenemos una matriz, de dimensiones 24 x (Numero de ventanas-1) y eso, exactamente eso, es la huella digital de nuestra canción evaluada. Ahora podremos enviar esta información muy comprimida, por Internet, buscar su gemelo en una base de datos, y si la encontramos, obtendremos la información del título, interprete, álbum y toda aquella información referenciada como metadata de esa misma huella digital.

Una vez contamos con la tecnología, las aplicaciones pueden ser muchas, identificar canciones, anuncios publicitarios, realizar una autoría de contenido de ciertas emisiones de radio o televisión, auditar la emisión de propaganda política, o seguir el rastro de determinado segmento de audio, que pudiera ser la intervención de un orador o cualquier otra información de intereres.

Todo esto unido com capacidad adicional a un sistema de gestión de contenido, constituye una herramienta muy potente y de completa actualidad. La principal ventaja que para mi representa el uso de esta tecnología, es precisamente usarla, para obtener información de forma automática, guardarla como metadatos de mi contenido, y dotar al sistema de gestión, de inteligencia y automatización.

It took me one week end to be successful. The instructions found around in the web are far from being complete. Navigami is a very nice Java application to build tracks on landmarks in easy and intuitive way, in my opinion better than Nokia Maps (I still do not understand why the compass in Navigami is not very accurate: if you know why, please tell me what should I do). Nevertheless, the installation of Navigami maps is quite tricky. Read below and follow step by step the instructions. I assume you know how to pair devices via BT.

.Hardware and basic software you need

- Pc with Windows XP, JAVA and Nokia PC suite
- Mobile Device with Java Support (like Nokia 6700)
- External or Integrated GPS Receiver (integrated in Nokia 6700)
- BT dongle

1) Download of the necessary additional software

a.    Go http://www.navigami.com/download/navigami.jar and download the .JAR file to your PC on c:\ – I did not need the .JAD
b.    I’ve a DIKOM BT dongle. With Windows XP BT drivers nothing worked out. I needed to download the WIDIKOM drivers. You find them at  http://www.broadcom.com/support/bluetooth/update.php – save the package on your PC.
c.    Download and save to your PC in c:\ the file comproxy.jar http://www.navigami.com/download/comproxy.jar and in c:\Windows\system32 the file rxtxSerial.dll http://www.navigami.com/download/rxtxSerial.dll

2)    Installation protocols for Win XP and Nokia 6700 mobile phone and BT setup

a.    Install the WIDIKOM BT drivers. If you have already installed the XP BT drivers, leave them there and just don’t use them. Restart the PC. To check if your WIDIKOM drivers work, try to connect via BT your mobile and Nokia PC Suite. It should work out easy. After the test I left the Nokia PC suite open and connected to the mobile – I do not know if it is necessary.

b.    If Nokia PC Suite works properly via BT, now it is time to setup the COM port you will use to connect navigami and your PC via BT. Go to advanced configuration/local services of the BT WIDIKOM program (right click on BT WIDIKOM taskbar icon) and push Add serial device (in my case COM17 came out – I set secure connection not required). Follow the requests to finish the setup of the new COM port. Now the port to exchange data between Navigami and XP is set.

c.    Install navigami.jar on your mobile. Drag it on Nokia PC Suite or just double click on it, as .jar should be opened by default by Nokia PC suite. Now it is time to go out of your cave for some minutes to get Navigami memorize at least one GPS coordinate (this will be the coordinate used to auto download the maps later). Start Navigami when you are outside with open sky on your head, stay in Navigami main screen so that you can give a look to the satellite icon for satellite lock. My Nokia 6700 takes as long as 10-15 minutes to have satellite locks. When I am lucky, 1-5 minutes are enough. While waiting, play around with Navigami to get confident with it, as no manual is written yet – do not play with networking settings, though! Once you get the satellite lock, you can save the position as a landmark and go back home to your PC.

d.    Install comproxy.jar on the PC. XP Start button/Run and write java -jar c:\comproxy.jar – a DOS window opens together with a small window. In the small window select COM17 (or the COM number you obtained in BT WIDIKOM when you added the COM port) and press Start.

3)    Navigami connection to PC (tricky step)

Open Navigami on your mobile and go on Settings/Network. Set the Proxy on Bluetooth, click on Search, find your PC and select it. Then tick the Enable option and left soft key/save . If going out and back in the menu Settings/Network the option Enable does not remain ticked, it means there was no connection between comproxy on the PC and navigami on the mobile. Be sure you selected the same COM port in Widikom and comproxy. Be sure your devices are paired via BT. If so, when you went on Settings/Network and set Proxy on Bluetooth, after search Navigami should have found your PC and announced “PC name” connected. If you are not able to pair navigami with comproxy, then no need to go futher

4)    Download of the maps

Now the magic part. Go on Maps/Manage Maps on Navigami. You should get a white screen with the last coordinates and a small red dot in the middle. This means: you’ve no maps installed. Bring the DOS window on the front in your PC – just to see what happens when you request map download in the next step. Left soft key/Download maps on the mobile. If your mobile tries to connect via wap, a error 27 will return. If this happens, it means your comproxy and navigami are not paired. Try to fix the problem by repeating the previous steps more carefully. If you see code scrolls on the DOS window and the mobile screen becoming red and maps appearing: CONGRATULATIONS! You installed the map relative to your position!  Enjoy now tracking and exploring!

And now my question: If you can help me to surf the web on my Nokia 6700 through BT, I will be very thankful I did not manage it, yet.

Last Friday was a major milestone in the extensive reporting requirements of the Recovery Act.  Recovery.gov released the first round of reports by local recipients regarding the status of some 142,825 initiatives receiving recovery funds.   This round of reports covered Feb. 17, 2009, through Sept. 30, 2009—the reports will be updated quarterly going forward.

As TXLIHIS is closely following the recovery act funds related to housing, we awaited these initial reports with interest.  However, a quick glance at the data revealed little new insight regarding the programs we are following.

TCAP, the supplemental funding program for low income housing tax credit developments, is well underway in Texas.  In fact, the TDHCA board has already awarded the first round of TCAP funding.  However, none of the funds have been dispersed because the winning developments are still undergoing underwriting and the contract language for the funding structures are still being finalized.

Because none of the funds have been actually dispersed, the Recovery.gov report on the TCAP program in Texas merely states “During the first reporting period project activity has been limited to administrative activities at the Prime Recipient level.”   This is in line with other states:  The only state to report actually expending TCAP funds by September 30th is Colorado, which reported making its first award in mid-September.

Similar language describes the status of the Weatherization Assistance Program in Texas.   While that funding was available in early September to local service providers that executed contracts with TDHCA, as of September 30^th, Texas reported spending just .03% of its weatherization funding from the recovery act.  While this lags behind other states (Georgia reports spending 19% of its funding, South Carolina 15%), this may indicate that service providers initially prioritized conventional Weatherization Assistance Program funding over Recovery Act funding rather than a lack of weatherization activity.  At a housing conference in early October, TDHCA staff indicated that some 4,000 units had been weatherized in Texas.

So, this data release is a case where the interesting details were those behind the data, not in the data itself.  The next round of recipient reports should be released Jan 29^th.  By then, we hope to have more activity reported from these programs.

Related Links:

• Coalition For An Accountable Recovery
• Recovery.gov

Visual Web Developer Team Blog : Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project.

Vishal Joshi’s Tangent: App_Code folder doesn’t work with Web Application Projects (WAPs).

Converting a ASP.NET Web Site to a Web Application Project.

Vishal Joshi’s Tangent: Web Application Project Vs Web Site.

Consumers are increasingly active on their mobile devices and the mobile channel is now essential for brands, advertisers and businesses. How does a business make the most of the mobile opportunity?

In our latest report, “Netsize Mobile Marketing Survey 2009: Can companies and brands rise to challenge and cash in on the mobile marketing opportunity?”, we explore the do’s and don’ts.

Key results

• Companies and brands bullish on mobile marketing benefits, but lack skills set to execute campaigns
• Strong growth ahead for SMS and MMS messaging, positive outlook for branded apps and mobile websites
• High interest in targeting consumers, but high concerns that opt-in databases won’t deliver

Click here to request your free copy of the 12-page Summary Report of this study, and we’ll send you an email with your personal download link to the report.

We’ll present the results of this study at the MobileSQUARED Roadshow “Taking Internet Mobile” seminar in London, November 5, 2009.

Last week I was invited to appear on the Warhammer Alliance Podcast as the fourth host. We recorded on Sunday, and it was put online last night.

The whole experience was a blast. We discussed the next patch, which included the Underdog System, as well as the Gates of Ekrund scenario and the Dev Diary on game performance.

The WAP gang – Frank, Martin, Kristen and the silent producer Amber – were absolutely hilarious and incredibly easy to speak with. It was great to have an open conversation about the positive and negative aspects of the game.

In the beginning of the podcast I gave a shout-out to not only my guild, but also to my alliance. Due to some recent reorganizing, the alliance had changed its name and I couldn’t remember it offhand. Just for the record, The Murder Junkies and I are in the Chaotica Infinitum Alliance.

Also, I mentioned that Serpent Cross, one of our allied guilds, had exciting things planned for the Halloween weekend. They are hosting Spook-Fest, with such fun events as zombie chickens in Chrace (I sure love those chickens) and hide-and-seek with pie.

I hope everyone enjoys the podcast and has a happy Halloween!

Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) in Texas

Another housing program expanded by the 2009 Recovery Act was the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP).  WAP funds local agencies to provide minor home repairs to low-income Texans.  These repairs increase the energy efficiency of the housing stock and reduce the heating and cool components of the housing cost.

The recovery act bumped up the funding of weatherization in Texas from $13 million to $327 million, a 2500% increase.  Half of this funding has already been sent to Texas by the Department of Energy, and TDHCA has awarded it to some 66 local governments and non-profit agencies.  This is an expansion from the 34 agencies funded under the program prior to the recovery act.

The details of the program are well summarized in fact sheets by the Center for Public Policy Priorities (Texas) and  Green for All (National), so we won’t repeat them here, but we thought it was worth sharing some of the policy questions surrounding this program that we think are important:

• Is the program helping those who need it most? The income eligibility threshold for the program increased from 150% of the poverty level to 200%.  Lower-income residents may require more outreach by the local agencies, and agencies may have incentive to skim the top of the eligible population.  TDHCA should make sure that local agencies are both prioritizing and providing active outreach to families at or below the poverty level to make certain such families are benefiting from the program.
• Does the program training provide sustainable skills? The recovery act increased the funding available for training and technical assistance from 10% of the program funds to 20%.  This is an opportunity for a strong job-training component of the program that can provide skills to workers that will outlast the temporary WAP funding.  TDHCA should maximize the workforce development impact of this funding.
• Does the program actively enforce a high level of quality control? Weatherization is more than just caulking the holes in a house, and if done poorly can adverse affect air-quality.  Weatherized homes should be inspected to ensure that the repairs created or maintained a healthful indoor environment in the home.

These are a few of the things we hope to follow as these programs get underway, and we’ll share any insights we discover here at Texas housers.

Additional resources for those interested in learning more:

National resources on the WAP program and the Recovery Act:

• Green for All WAP fact sheet
• Department of Energy WAP page

Texas resources on the WAP program and the Recovery Act:

• TDHCA Recovery Act WAP page
• Center for Public Policy Priorities WAP fact sheet
• United States Government Accountability Office Report on Texas Recovery Act WAP funds

My first stab at The Meliorist’s opinion piece:

Political change in Alberta tends to reflect the open expanse of land and the spread too thin homesteads that dominate our prairie province. Pockets of individuals alienated and disaffected by the central government, afraid the brave the harsh climate they perceive. Coupled with groups of elites, people in small and shaky compartments, lifted away from the groundswell, and isolated from each other.

These past six months have seen the political landscape in Alberta shift. It may be small and it may be that only the most hard core of political pundits have followed the minutia of our political landscape, but this shift is cataclysmic in terms of Alberta politics.

With another provincial election still three years away, voters are already questioning what their elected officials are doing to reflect their voice, in the legislature and in policy decisions. Albertan’s expressing dissidence have evolved past letter writing and direct engagement with MLA’s through town halls and the like. The calls for change are progressively more vocal and more public.

Pieces of legislation, such as Bill 44, are debated in the streets, in cafés, on Twitter, blogs, and through mainstream media. Daily newspapers now have blogging added to their web content to allow their journalists to be ever more present in Alberta and ever more relevant, and these journalists are using that to express and reflect Albertan’s dissatisfaction with their governments.

The Wildrose Alliance Party, a party that few Albertans took note of a mere 4 months ago, now has over 11 000 members, a seat in the Legislature, and more media coverage for their leadership convention than the opposition parties could muster for town hall on health care.

The visible advantage the WAP has gained is in large part due to their vocal criticisms of the Stelmach-led government. While the current opposition seems content to rest on their laurels and travel the province speaking to small groups of disenchanted Albertan’s, the WAP was aggregating legions of Albertan’s frustrated with the lack of responsiveness by their MLA’s and channeling that desire to “send Ed a message.” The Glenmore by-election win was the first public clue that we are indeed in the midst of a fundamental shift in the way Albertan’s are participating in their provincial democracy.

Progressives are seeing this, and noting the advantage it presents. Split the right to strengthen the left is a historically oft-used tactic, though in Alberta, changes in government rarely go left but they do always go big.

Events like ChangeCamp, and other grassroots movements do what the WAP has done already. They bring people together and work to unite them around a common cause. For the WAP it was to “send Ed a message”, which its new leader, Danielle Smith, seems to have taken up as her personal war cry. For the progressives, the rallying cry seems still unclear.

It may be the security support built into the the wireless driver.  I worked with a Dell yesterday that had a utility that only supported WPA.  I had set up the WAP for WPA2 because the other devices supported it.  It would connect to the wireless point but wouldn’t get a DHCP address.  Once I changed the WAP to use just WPA the XP/Dell was able to get the DHCP and work fine.

Summary: The number of people in the U.S. diagnosed with diabetes is now reaching 24 million. Diabetes requires monitoring. In this article, get an introduction to the concept of continuing care, particularly in the home. This article describes how diabetes monitoring can be improved through collaborative technologies. See how software from MyCareTeam, IBM, and other organizations are used in an example in support of diabetes monitoring. Understand information and Web-based technologies, such as XML storage and services (for example, through IBM® DB2® pureXML™) in the context of continuing care, as well as related initiatives, such as the Continua Health Alliance’s role in selecting appropriate standards. This article summarizes the impact of these technologies on the building of agile and collaborative systems for healthcare, and highlights the significant benefits of collaborative continuing care that include cost reduction and increased quality of healthcare.

This article introduced some results concerning continuing care for diabetes. In particular, studies have shown that increased patient Health Care Practitioner interaction, especially more personalized interactions, increases patient frequency of blood glucose monitoring. Providing software that encourages personalized interactions improves diabetes monitoring. The contribution of Web-based technologies and associated initiatives, such as the MyCareTeam software, to share data is significant. In addition, the diabetes monitoring demonstration described in this article used standard specifications in the area of healthcare from HL7, IHE, and Continua, and in the area of XML from the W3C, such as XQuery. An XML store, DB2 pureXML, accessed through Universal Services, was used to easily store and manipulate monitoring information. The demonstration illustrated the first steps towards building a Web-based infrastructure for continuing care in the home.

Resources

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• MyCareTeam: Learn more about MyCareTeam, disease management software for diabetes patients.
• Continua Health Alliance: Learn more about Continua Health Alliance, a non-profit, open industry coalition of healthcare and technology companies.
• DB2 pureXML: Get more information about, a hybrid XML and relational store from IBM.
• “Universal Services for pureXML using Data Web Services” (developerWorks, August 2008): Enable DB2 pureXML columns to be accessed through Web service operations.
• “IBM Lotus Sametime and DB2 pureXML supporting healthcare collaboration” (developerWorks, Feb 2009): Follow a healthcare scenario based on an end-to-end XML architecture.
• IBM Lotus Mobile Portal Accelerator: Learn more about this content adaption product that helps enterprises and service providers deliver portal content to a broad range of mobile devices.
• IBM WebSphere Sensor Events: Learn more about this product that delivers services supporting sensor integration.
• developerWorks Information Management zone: Learn more about Information Management. Find technical documentation, how-to articles, education, downloads, product information, and more.
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Netsize, the leading mobile commerce and communications enabler, today published its latest market report, “Netsize Mobile Marketing Survey 2009: Can companies and brands rise to challenge and cash in on the mobile marketing opportunity?”. Drawing from an online survey of 221+ professionals and practitioners, the report identifies the chief drivers and obstacles impacting mobile marketing growth. It also highlights the exciting business opportunities ahead for companies and brands that use the current economic climate to rethink marketing strategies and ramp up activities.

• International survey reveals companies and brands bullish on mobile marketing benefits, but lack skills set to execute campaigns
• Strong growth ahead for SMS and MMS messaging, positive outlook for branded apps and mobile websites
• High interest in targeting consumers, high concerns that opt-in databases won’t deliver

Among the key findings:

• Mobile is part of the mix to attract and keep customers: The vast majority of respondents (56%) currently use mobile to acquire new customers. But that will change as respondents follow through on their plans to boost customer retention and loyalty through mobile marketing (64%), streamline transactions (37%) and enable commerce and sales using a mobile device (37%).
• Messaging is essential: Usage of MMS is poised for significant growth, with with 22% of respondents revealing plans to double deployment in the next six months. The use of SMS messaging is also on the rise, but will move from a one-way message to a two-way conversation.
• Marked interest in more innovative formats: Respondents reported use of branded content will increase from 29% to 35%, use of branded apps will rise from 23% to 35%. Finally, use of mobile coupons and QR codes will jump from 20% to 31%.
• Mobile marketing is teamwork: The vast majority of respondents (47%) outsource to providers that can meet their requirements for a fully-managed marketing solution. Campaign execution services was the most sought-after skill (57%), followed by measurement, analytics and reporting (54%), technical services and integration (52%), and mobile campaign management (52%).
• Quality of opt-in campaign databases is a main concern: One-third of respondents (32%) expressed concern over the quality of the customer mobile phone numbers stored in their opt-in databases.

“Market adoption of mobile marketing is accelerating. The survey results and analysis show companies and brands recognize the business benefits associated with mobile marketing and are serious about integrating mobile in their strategies,” says Stanislas Chesnais, Chairman and CEO, Netsize. “Respondents told us they are increasing use of messaging to engage in conversations with consumers on their mobile phone, and stepping up efforts to harness other exciting formats and approaches such as WAP sites, mobile websites and branded content. This momentum can only grow as the economy picks up steam.”

ABOUT THE REPORT

“Netsize Mobile Marketing Survey 2009: Can companies and brands rise to challenge and cash in on the mobile marketing opportunity?” is available from www.netsize.com.
The survey was conducted by Netsize to determine the role and usage of mobile marketing and the perceived business benefits. In total 221 respondents from four regions (Europe, Americas, Asia Pacific/Australia and Africa/Middle East) participated in this online survey for the period from September 15, 2009 through October 1, 2009.

1. Ordenadores: Hardware, software, pantalla, módem, impresora, scanner, Cd-Rom, disco duro extraíble, pendrive… La lista es interminable. Con el File Transfer Protocol (FTP), podemos transferir archivos entre ordenadores que estén conectados en Red. Con VLSI (circuítos integrados a gran escala) podemos ampliar la velocidad en el tratamiento de la información.

En cuanto a las imágenes, éstas pueden ser de dos tipos: analógicas y digitales. En Comunicaión, siempre hablamos de digitales (representadas en píxeles) ya que pueden ser procesadas por un ordenador, manipuladas, subidas a la red y todo lo que se nos ocurra.

Junto a estos avances, tenemos la comprensión de datos, lo que nos permite enviar información de una forma más rápida.  Programas que hacen esto son WinZip y WinRar por ejemplo.

El ordenador e Internet están intimamente ligados, un ordenador sin Internet es como un corredor de atletismo sin piernas. El ancho de banda nos indica el volumen de la información que el canal puede ajustar en un periodo de tiempo disponible.  Y el módem es un instrumento externo al ordenador que convierte las señales digitales en frecuencias.

2. Teléfono móvil: En España, el número de teléfonos móviles, supera al número de habitantes. Las prestaciones que nos ofrecen los celulares, cada vez son mayores: fotografía y vídeo digital, radio, bluetooth, juegos, agenda, navegación por Internet con la tecnología WAP…  En 1999 se reunieron 80 entidades para crear un protocolo para acceder a Internet desde el celular, y así, nace la tecnología WAP.

3. Telecomunicaciones: Las comunicaciones vía satélite permiten la comunicación a grandes distancias. Son naves espaciales situadas en órbitas que rodean la Tierra  que repiten señales de radiofrecuencia. Asi, hemos llegado a una globalización en la comuniacción.

Se hace necesario nombrar, la alta definición (HDTV) como progreso sobre todo en la industria cinematográfica.

A través del software, que utiliza un lenguaje determinado, le decimos al ordenador como debe realizar una actividad. Con el avance de los distintos softwares, conseguimos una mayor adaptación a las necesidades del ser humano.

En la década de los sesenta, los lenguajes que se empleaban para los software eran el “Cobol, el “Lisp” y el “Basic”, el C++ aparece en los ochenta, Java y HTML en los noventa. Con HTML creamos páginas en Internet, el XML aparece en 1998, lenguaje con el que se avnaza en almacenamiento y distribución de datos.

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The Sony Ericsson S500 is a device which is inspired by the beauty and charm of nature. When you open this page absolutely gorgeous handset, you get a refreshing view on the central platform. The S500 is available in many shades, including soothing spring, yellow, green and mysterious. This useful tool (only 94 g), is very thin (99 mm x 47 mm x 14 mm) and contains a large TFT screen that displays up to 256,000 colors in high resolution. So you get the desired option of enhanced content such as photos, videos, wallpapers, and so on.

You may want to connect to the world, even if you sit before a computer or to your laptop, the S500 can do so easily. With the WAP browser 2.0/HTML included in this phone, you can enjoy surfing the Internet and send, receive and check the mail when you want it. Bluetooth, USB, WLAN, EDGE, GPRS, 3G and many other technologies supported by this device.

You can also send text messages, instant messages, multimedia messages or pictures that support and / or audio / video of your family and friends with this third-generation mobile phones. It may also include the scenery or special moments with a 2 mega pixels, which is included in this device. Pictures or video clips you capture with your mobile phone, the S500 can be shared with others. All you need to do is just prepare ablog, insert images that you want to share with others, and publish on the web. Fun does not stop only with the S500.

You can enjoy the games pre-installed, and if necessary, you can download games of their choice on it. The S500 allows you to store your important data on it, no storage problems. The gadget comes with 12 MB of memory and, if necessary, can also be extended. The battery is also more of this cool gadget. Up to nine hours of talk time and 370 hours standby time, supported by this device.