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When Steve Ballmer was interviewed by the Gartner symposium, he stated that windows 8 will be the riskiest upcomming products. The release date is estimated to be a in the last quarter of 2012 according to windows8news. The majority of users would think of Windows Phone 7, XBoxKinetic (a camera based motion sensor). An impressive … Continue reading
Foxconn is the worlds largest electronics contractor which employs about 900000 to 1 Mio people and produces e.g. for Dell, Nokia, Sony, HP, Nintendo and Apple. The company could increase its revenues in the first quarter of 2010 and is only one example of China’s economic boom and increasingly important role in the global market. … Continue reading
The new skype, version 5, comes with group video calling and facebook user integration support. A nice new feature is the dynamic video calling view, which allows the user to see which other user is currently talking by moving the focus to the person who is currently speaking during a call. Another nice feature is … Continue reading
This is not just another giant panorama view, it is the biggest available so far.It enables you to zoom in and out and have a look at buildings in detail. It is a photo of 200 GB filesize and a 15-meter wide print of the beautiful Budapest hillside (Source Vizworld). It was shot during under … Continue reading
Microsoft research “LightSpace combines elements of surface computing and augmented reality research” (2010 Microsoft Corporation). Surface computing is used in a 3D environment. Any surface in a room can be fully interactive. Cameras and projectors in a small room will enable you to interact with a system. These cameras and projectors are calibrated for the … Continue reading
Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site Yslow is a plugin for firefox that integrates into your firebug and will help you to optimize your website. The tool itself can be downloaded here:r https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/5369/ It helps you to improve your website in 6 different domains, which are: Content Cookie CSS Images Javascript Server It … Continue reading
Extjs and jquery – comparing javascript frameworks I am using extjs for quite a while already and it is in my opinion one of the best frameworks for complex javascript widgets out there . Now I had a first glance at jquery and of course I want to compare both of them. A more detailed … Continue reading
As we experienced in class by testing firebug on various websites, the biggest and longest http requests on a webpage come from its images and of course videos. Google tries to make the web faster and therefore introduces standard formats that aim to improve these domains. Html5 is coming up and codecs such as H.264 … Continue reading
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