Monday, April 10, 2006
The Year that was
So it was the year of the iPod craze? Not just you, but even the Queen thinks on similar lines. No wonder, the chief designer of iPod, has been named in the Queen's Honours List. The 38 year old Janathan Ive, who is incidently London born ,has been awarded the title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth.
If one Galileo shook the world in the sixteenth century, this one promises to shake the skies. The first of a series of 30 satellites, Giove A has been put into orbit, and it promises to be accurate to within one metre. This is significant since traditional GPS systems are accurate within 30 metres for civilian applications. With Galileo, it would be even easier to track mobile locations. And more important it is designed to work inside buildings and congested areas as well.
2005 continued to be a spammer's delight. The American giant AOL stated that it stopped an average of 1.5 billion spam messages daily and by the end of the year blocked 500 billion e-mails during 2005. Spam, according to the company accounts for 80 per cent of the email sent to its servers.
Moving to online shopping. A report from Goldman Sachs, Nielsen and other reveals that Oct. 29 and Dec 23, i.e the shopping season, retail shoppers in the U.S. spent $30.1 billion on online purchases. People spent 3 billion $ on books, 5.3 billion $ on clothes and 4.8 billion $ on computer harware and peripherals.
But if online shopping was going up, RSS and podcasting was not really up to that mark. A recent research conducted by Yahoo! and Ipsos reveals that while 12% of surveyed Yahoo users know what RSS is, while only 4% of use it. Regarding podcasting, 2% of surveyed people use it.
Computers are entering diverse fields and wine making seems to be the latest. A scientist from Carnegie Melon University is now trying to deduce a model of the behaviour of yeast, so that the fermentation process could be controlled to produce better designer wines.
here's to more merrymaking
If one Galileo shook the world in the sixteenth century, this one promises to shake the skies. The first of a series of 30 satellites, Giove A has been put into orbit, and it promises to be accurate to within one metre. This is significant since traditional GPS systems are accurate within 30 metres for civilian applications. With Galileo, it would be even easier to track mobile locations. And more important it is designed to work inside buildings and congested areas as well.
2005 continued to be a spammer's delight. The American giant AOL stated that it stopped an average of 1.5 billion spam messages daily and by the end of the year blocked 500 billion e-mails during 2005. Spam, according to the company accounts for 80 per cent of the email sent to its servers.
Moving to online shopping. A report from Goldman Sachs, Nielsen and other reveals that Oct. 29 and Dec 23, i.e the shopping season, retail shoppers in the U.S. spent $30.1 billion on online purchases. People spent 3 billion $ on books, 5.3 billion $ on clothes and 4.8 billion $ on computer harware and peripherals.
But if online shopping was going up, RSS and podcasting was not really up to that mark. A recent research conducted by Yahoo! and Ipsos reveals that while 12% of surveyed Yahoo users know what RSS is, while only 4% of use it. Regarding podcasting, 2% of surveyed people use it.
Computers are entering diverse fields and wine making seems to be the latest. A scientist from Carnegie Melon University is now trying to deduce a model of the behaviour of yeast, so that the fermentation process could be controlled to produce better designer wines.
here's to more merrymaking
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