POD(Personal-On-Demand) Casting

Podcasting is a method of publishing(Ofcourse thru the Internet) allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in late 2004, largely to automate downloading of audio onto portable players or personal computers.

The word "podcasting" is a SIGMA that combines the words "broadcasting" and "iPod." The term can be misleading since neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod(Boy ! I thought iPod is a Pre-req) or any portable music player.


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MOBile

Thinking on the foot as Google R&D quotes, People are getting hooked to mobiles ( I heard of some divorce cases,Yup !the privacy intruder-The Mob. Phone), Now the big players in the wireless domain are competing to hook the mobile on to the net... AOL wants to prove it to the world with their new idea which is going for the QA phase soon...

Users can reach the site directly from their phones by typing in the address (mobile.aolsearch.com).

EVERYBODY'S PHONE SURFIN' NOW

AOL's test comes amid a flurry of other major deals between phone manufacturers and wireless operators. In June, Google struck a deal with Deutsche Telekom's mobile arm T-Mobile to use Google as the starting point for surfing the Internet on T-Mobile handsets.

Yahoo struck a partnership with handset maker Motorola Inc.to make accessing e-mail, news, instant messaging and searching easier on more powerful phones...

I did write a suggestive piece to Apple folks to launch.. an iPod Mobile... a mobile + iPod ... This would rock... a device of iPod's size(MEMORY) with mobile features and bigger display on the same panel and they can have a foldable UI/or a Soft UI(I need not tell Apple folks abt UI design...) then iPod will sweep the market.. The countdown has begun... 9..8...7..

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Prasanna Rambhatla

IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS for short, is a new network architecture designed to give telecom operators more flexibility to deliver services
Great Resource:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Multimedia_Subsystem



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@iLabs

Java Open Source Stuff..

http://www.theopensourcery.com/javaopens.htm

Crandy is the first independent company in Europe to be issued with an
E-Bank Licence. This allows them to operate a mobile payment system and
believe me, these things aren't easy to get hold of. They're a German
operation, though their website is in English, French, Spanish and
Turkish too, which gives an idea of their ambitions.

Their major success so far has been in Germany, with 200,000 users,
largely driven by word of mouth as the mainstream press seems intent on
ignoring them. What's also weird is that despite their relative success
and apparently excellent product, I've never heard of them until some of
their people left a comment on my blog. So forwarding the pretty useful
update of life.

Hossein Eslambolchi of AT&T Global Networking Technology Services and AT&T Labs gave a fascinating talk -- about three times too fast, alas -- about the rise of collaborative IT networks. A few highlights:

Customer business drivers include:

Security (anti-viruses worms, spam, terrorism, etc.)

• Right-time collaboration (broadband, Metro Ethernet, presence IM, IP, VoIP, Grid, new access technologies)

• Mobility/remote worker (telecommuting, wi-fi, Wimax, RFID, sensors, personal firewalls)

• Flexibility/pay per use: We're at the beginning of on-demand computing design, virtualization, real-time enterprise, software as a service.

• Business process/integration. More companies are moving to web services. The network is shielding the customers.

• Compliance challenges: as much as 8% of corporate budgets is spent on compliance technologies for section 17a3, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.


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Creative Labs -Redefining

Good Article on HTTPClient and FileUpload From the house of Apache
http://www.theserverside.com/articles/content/HttpClient_FileUpload/article.html

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iLabs