Mobile Internet and Clouds

The introduction of the many mobiles and smart-phones that are capable of accessing the internet have grown as fast as the number of users the net gains day by day and with that, the rest of the internet has evolved, following suit. Most web sites that have growing mobile users have stripped down versions of their pages to allow people using them to gain access as if they were using their desktops. Social bookmarking has allowed us to surf the web and keep tabs on all the sites we are interested in for further review later. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Net – Censored Net ?!?!?

The internet has indeed become one of the most sociable technological wonders the world over yet it has been also subject to controversy time and time again. in countries where the government seeks to control the influx and outflow on information, it is censored and filtered, maybe using keywords or user name databases to block and deny access to them. The upcoming anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Events is sure to get some attention from the Chinese authorities and in the past, Iran has done some filtering of their own when elections and other events of international significance tends to be cut-off from the rest of the internet. Read the rest of this entry »

Touch your Browser. Take A Closer Look.

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Exhausted of Pocket Internet Explorer? Forget about the stylus, the tiny scrollbars and the keyhole view of the internet. TouchBrowser gives you the effortless webbrowsing knowledge of the iPh0ne, right on your Pocket PC.

You can use you finger to move the webpage around the screen. Toggle between mobile view and desktop view. A large finger-keyboard lets you enter URLs with ease, or enter Google searches directly from the keyboard.

The software works on all Pocket PCs, with all versions of Windows Mobile. Get iPhone-style internet browsing on your Pocket PC. TouchBrowser lets you control everything using only your fingers. You can type using the large keyboard, slide along through web content and scroll through pages with a flick, with full page view.

Web Standards

The World Wide Web may not have a distinguishable set of boundaries and limits in its realm, however, one still needs to have a working knowledge of formal standards that help clarify and describe the various aspects of the Web. The term “web standards” is used to refer to the formal standards, technical specifications, and the effective practices for developing web sites. Some web standards include recommendations from the World Wide Web Consortium, requests for comments (RFC) documents from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), name and number registries from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and standards from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Ecma International.