Written by Ruhani Rabin on May 27, 2006.
Well my home country is planning to get into new ride of technology. I was pleased to hear that.
Bangladesh has launched its first submarine fiber-optic cable, allowing high-speed telecommunications that are likely to enhance the country's information technology sector.
"Today, we begin a new journey as Bangladesh enters the information superhighway," Prime Minister Khaleda Zia said Sunday in the coastal town of Cox's Bazar, about 185 miles south of Dhaka, the national capital.
The cable network — covering some 786 miles across the country from the Bay of Bengal — will provide a fiber-optic link with a data-transfer capacity of 10 gigabits per second, compared to the 150 megabit per second bandwidth now used by the state-owned Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board and dozens of private Internet service providers.
The $95.75 million submarine cable is expected to greatly improve Internet and digital telephone connections and make data transfers faster and cheaper. It is also likely to boost lucrative Internet-enabled services like call centers, data processing, e-commerce, telemedicine and distance learning, industry experts said.
The submarine cable is part of a multimillion-dollar) international project being implemented by a 13-nation consortium called South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe-4.
The project extends from Singapore to France with more than 12,430 miles of undersea fiber-optic cables passing through Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and several Middle Eastern countries
Source CANOE.CA
Written by Ruhani Rabin on May 18, 2006.
Let's say you've just captured some incredible footage of what appears to be a UFO, and you want to share it online with the world before anyone can claim that you're crazy. Lucky for you, Google Video just made sharing your videos a lot faster and a lot easier (and yes, even a crazy person can do it).
With the launch of our new web-based uploader, you're just two clicks away from posting your videos online. Best of all, you can watch and share your videos with friends and family, and embed them on blogs and community websites immediately.
Previously google video was a disapointment for the users cause it took almost few days to make the video available in listing, now that problem is fixed ..
Instant gratification, Google Video style Google Blog
Upload and Share now
Written by Ruhani Rabin on May 18, 2006.
The New Face
The old Face
The Yahoo! home page has changed slowly and incrementally over the years to reflect the evolution of how the Web is used. In the past, this page has been called to task for various causes, but it's continued to serve as a welcoming front door to the Web and a shared experience for hundreds of millions of people.
We've been working on this major makeover for a while, gathering vast amounts of feedback from our audience of users. Since you all began noticing and documenting our tests of the new page back in February, we've tweaked and optimized the experience in response to input from all of you. People's expectations, goals, and information needs have changed over the years. The redesigned home page reflects these new interests and needs. You'll discover:
- Personal Assistant – a preview area displaying recent messages from Yahoo! Mail, an online friends list from Yahoo! Messenger, and local weather forecasts, traffic, and events.
- Yahoo! Pulse – a place to discover the most popular and interesting Yahoo! searches, as well as pop culture trends, music, videos, photos, and all the stuff people are looking for, reading, viewing, listening to, rating or sharing online. It's a window into the attention stream of our estimated half-billion users.
- Simplified navigation, expanded content, an enhanced search box, increased personalization, and more.
from Yahoo search Blog
Check out new Interface
Written by Ruhani Rabin on May 17, 2006.
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatabilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript’s lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.
GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.
get the toolkit
get more detail from googleblog
Written by Ruhani Rabin on May 13, 2006.
you can upload a picture of yourself to your Google account, suggest a contact photo for yourself to your friends, and assign photos to your contacts. This feels a bit Friendstery to me, but I have photos of my close friends and family show up on my phone when they call, and it’s a much more helpful quick visual cue to see who’s calling than I thought. I imagine this would work the same way. Also, there’s a new Flash component to Gmail that will emit a sound when someone chats you up on Google Talk and it’s buried in a background tab.
Useful Link:
New on Gmail [via The Official Google Blog]
Whats Gmail Pictures? [Gmail Help Center]
How to adjust sound notification settings for incoming chats? [Gmail Help Center]
