Nov 27, 2011
The article features a spectral database design by highlighting the process of collecting information via remote sensing. The spectral database here obtains information through satellites and other remote sensors. It picks up data regarding topography, vegetation species, soil type, and water type. There are four pillars that the model is built on which is stated, [...]
Nov 20, 2011
My article explains a method of how to allow a user to access information from many databases on the internet using XML as if it were one database. The purpose is to decrease the workload in obtaining information from the internet. It will also help to increase efficiency and save time. Different database types such [...]
Nov 13, 2011
The website Room 77 is a comprehensive hotel room database. It covers every aspect of a hotel including the rooms, grounds, features, food and service. They have indexed over 425,000 rooms in 2,500 properties in North America and the UK. Room 77 is accessible through the website and an iPhone app which allows the user [...]
Nov 6, 2011
This article covers the information regarding Google’s music beta service. Since the article was written the service has been opened to invite only. The service allows users to store their music in the cloud and not on their devices. Then the user will be able to stream it from anywhere. Currently users can have up [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Adobe recently announced in this article that they are working on Flash Player 11. As of October 6th it was released. This release will include rendering of 3D graphics which is a significant update from Flash Player 10. Also announced was Adobe Air 3. Adobe has lost some of its former foothold in the video [...]
Oct 23, 2011
OnLive is a cloud based gaming service. The company uses emulation on their hardware to provide games that are streamed to your computer’s web browser. This allows people who normally don’t own computers with good enough hardware to run games that have very high graphics. This is also an option for someone running Mac OS [...]
Oct 16, 2011
The recent string of earthquakes in Christchurch has changed the way New Zealand citizens want to store medical records in hospitals. The normal way of keeping medical records in paper form pose a serious threat to how well hospitals can respond during an earthquake. As a result Canterbury in particular is prioritizing moving all their [...]
Oct 9, 2011
The startup company Tellago Studios has developed software to allow server administrators to monitor servers with mobile devices such as an iPhone, Android or Windows phone. The technology called Moesion connects to a specific server and then displays this information on the browser of the phone using HTML5. This software can be used with [...]
Oct 2, 2011
The article in summation states that one of the hackers of the group LulzSec has been detained by authorities named. Cody Kretsinger. He is being detained due to his connection with the security breach on Sony Pictures Entertainment. LulzSec managed to obtain thousands of emails, phone numbers, passwords, birth dates, addresses and names. This information [...]
Oct 2, 2011
The CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison, has unveiled the Exalytics Intelligence Machine at the Open World conference. This technology is competing with SAP’s HANA in-memory platform. The data is read off of RAM and not typical hard discs resulting in a higher speed. The machine has 40 processor cores and 1TB of DRAM. The system [...]
