E-Journals

November 19, 2009

Webby Awards name top 10 Internet moments of the decade

Filed under: IT — Tags: , — MOIN @ 5:14 pm

The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.

Other events singled out by the New York-based International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences which bestows the annual Webby Awards were Iran’s election protests, Craigslist’s expansion and the launch of Google AdWords.

“The Internet is the story of the decade because it was the catalyst for change in not just every aspect of our everyday lives, but in everything from commerce and communication to politics and pop culture,” said David-Michel Davies, the executive director of the Webby Awards. (more…)

Nokia sees corporate interest for netbook

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , — MOIN @ 5:11 pm

HELSINKI (Reuters) –

Top cellphone maker Nokia has seen growing interest among companies for its first netbook or mini-laptop, a company executive said on Thursday.

“When we launched the Booklet 3G … we thought it to be primarily a consumer device, but after the launch a big, growing interest is coming from companies,” Heikki Norta, head of Nokia corporate strategy, told a seminar. (more…)

China wants content, values censored in online games

Filed under: IT — Tags: , , — MOIN @ 5:06 pm

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -

China said it will tighten regulations in its rapidly growing online games sector, requiring game operators to enhance socialist values in their games and hire specialized staff to monitor content.

China’s Ministry of Culture said in a circular that game operators must re-examine their game offerings for obscene and violent content and limit the number of virtual marriages and player-versus-player combat.

The changes will affect companies such as Shanda Games, NetEase.com and Tencent Holdings. (more…)

Sony may not fill some e-reader orders by holidays

Filed under: IT — Tags: — MOIN @ 5:04 pm

SAN FRANCISCO -

Sony Corp. says some customers who pre-order its newest e-reader may not get the gadget in time for the holidays.

The company said Wednesday it’s trying to ship the $399 Reader Daily Edition for the holidays. But because interest has exceeded expectations, the company can’t be sure that everyone who buys one will get it by Christmas.

Sony unveiled the Reader Daily Edition in August and planned to release it for the holidays. Like rival Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle, the Daily Edition will be able to download books wirelessly — a first for a Sony Reader. (more…)

Review: $100 Palm Pixi is stylish but sluggish

Filed under: IT — Tags: — MOIN @ 5:02 pm

SAN FRANCISCO -

Palm Inc. is fighting harder than ever to snag a chunk of the smart phone market, and just six months after releasing the stylish Pre it’s back with a lighter, more petite and affordable version called the Pixi.

It’s too bad such a good-looking phone is so aggravating to use.

With its trim candy bar-shaped body, full keyboard and $100 price tag (with a two-year Sprint Nextel contract and $150 in rebates), it’s clear that Palm is aiming the Pixi at younger, text messaging-savvy consumers.

The Pixi is one of the most attractive phones I’ve seen. Its glossy black face features a crisp-though-diminutive 2.6-inch touch screen and a full keyboard that’s about the size of a Pink Pearl eraser. The keys are the sticky, rubbery kind familiar to Palm fans. In between the screen and keyboard sits a small area where you make finger swipes to switch between applications. (more…)

Calif. requires TVs to be more energy-efficient

Filed under: IT — Tags: — MOIN @ 4:59 pm

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California regulators have adopted the nation’s first energy-efficiency standards for televisions, a move that will eventually ban power-hungry sets from the state’s store shelves.

Wednesday’s action by the California Energy Commission could lead the way in a general reform of standards for an industry increasingly focused on wide-view, flat-screen, high-definition sets.

The 5-0 vote by the California Energy Commission is just the latest effort by the state to secure its place in the forefront of the environmental movement.

California represents such a big consumer market that environmental groups hope the new standards will lead manufacturers to make energy-saving TVs for the rest of the nation, just as California’s stringent fuel standards for cars and trucks forced automakers to produce more efficient models for all of the U.S.

“Once again, California is leading the way, and we hope others will follow,” said Noah Horowitz, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council. (more…)

Twitter.com about to get stickier!

Filed under: IT — Tags: , — MOIN @ 4:54 pm

I was reading this post on mashable earlier, from one of my favourite tech bloggers, Jennifer Van Grove.  It’s about a new ‘tweet notification’ feature that Twitter are planning to add, for people who use the Twitter website to tweet.
Twitter business model to include advertising?

twitter_256This got me thinking.  In recent weeks, Twitter has made a number of significant improvements to the functionality of the main Twitter website.  Most recently we saw the addition of the superb Twitter Lists feature, but Twitter are ALSO working on a new retweet feature too.  These improvements have one thing in common; they render web-based apps like Tweetdeck and (my favourite) Seesmic Desktop less and less essential. (more…)

Singapore takes stake in China’s Shanda Games

Filed under: IT — Tags: — MOIN @ 4:49 pm

The Government of Singapore Investment Corp. (GIC), a sovereign wealth fund, has taken a sizable stake in Shanda Games, an online gaming spin-off of China’s Shanda Interactive Entertainment.

GIC purchased nearly 4.5 million American Depository Shares (ADS) in Shanda Games, according to a regulatory filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. ADS represent shares in a foreign company and are traded like stocks. In the case of Shanda Games, each ADS is worth two ordinary shares in the company and trades on Nasdaq. (more…)

November 18, 2009

nginx “engine x” is a HTTP server and mail proxy server

Filed under: IT — Tags: — MOIN @ 7:22 pm

nginx has been running for more than two years on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Rambler. In March 2007 about 20% of all Russian virtual hosts were served or proxied by nginx. According to Google Online Security Blog nginx serves or proxies about 4% of all Internet virtual hosts, although Netcraft shows much less percent.

Basic HTTP features:

  • Handling of static files, index files, and autoindexing; open file descriptor cache;
  • Accelerated reverse proxying without caching, simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
  • Accelerated support without caching of remote FastCGI servers, simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
  • Modular architecture. Filters include gzipping, byte ranges, chunked responses, and SSI. Multiple SSI inclusions within a single page can be processed in parallel if they are handled by FastCGI or proxied servers.
  • SSL and TLS SNI support. (more…)

How To Automatically Start Nginx & Fastcgi on Reboot on Fedora Linux

Filed under: IT — Tags: , , , — MOIN @ 7:14 pm

nginx [engine x] is a high quality, light footprint (much ligher than Apache HTTPD), high performance HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. nginx is distributed under BSD license unlike its competitor Lighttpd. We are progressively transferring our sites over to nginx. Today when I had to restart the server, I realized (after few hours) with horror that we had forgot to add the script to start nginx automatically after reboot. When you want any command to execute everytime after a reboot you should add it to /etc/rc.local. The commands in rc.local are executed *after* all the other init scripts. To automatically start nginx as well as fastcgi on reboot you should add the following lines to /etc/rc.local at the end – (more…)

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