Monday, March 31, 2008

Site for Women

Yahoo has launch a site directed towards women. They are targeting women from the ages of 24-54. The site is geared toward women who do most of the shopping in their households. They are trying to help businesses across the web who are struggling with their business. The name of the site is, "Shine."

"With Shine, Yahoo plans to expand its offerings in parenting, sex and love, healthy living, food, career and money, entertainment, fashion, beauty, home life, and astrology." You will be able to find entries about this site in blog form. If you would like to know more about this site you can visit www.nytimes.com and http://shine,yahoo.com. Come on women lets go shopping.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Microsoft Licenses - Adobe Mobile Software

Do you have a cell phone? If you do what features do you have on it? Maybe you use the internet on it for shopping.

Well, "Microsoft Corp. has licensed Adobe's software for viewing online videos a nd other files on cell phones" "Microsoft will give out Flash Lite and Reader programs from the system to cell phone makers who use its Window Mobile Software." The Flash Lite will give the user the chance to visit more sites and view windows in differnt colors. "Flash Lite is the software behind most shoppoing sites." Adobe is offering this service free of charge to its end users. Microsoft will be offering Silverlight to a billion of its customer to promote it.

"In 2007, 11 million phones carried Windows Mobile." This year they claim they will double their profits. I would think this would be a very challenging thing for Microsoft since they have to pay Adobe for there service when they have their own Silverlight for viewing videos. What do you think about about this? Will Adobe continue to dominate Microsoft in this field or will Microsoft be able to pull it off?

www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Microsoft-Adobe.html

Monday, March 10, 2008

Yahoo! Go 3.0

Hello, everyone. I was browsing through the internet trying to find something to write about. I had an account with Yahoo a long time ago, so I decided to see what has be updated since my last visit.

Yahoo! Go 3.0 has added several new additions to its site. It has added a New Carousel, and you can revise a set of navigation shortcuts in the keypad, and you can revise a menu structure for quick access to Widget functions.

You can do many things on mobile Yahoo! Go 3.0. You can download and install this from the Yahoo! Go 3.0 site. If you decide to use it as an application it is free. If you decide to download it you need to check with to see how much your network carrier charges for data you use. If you decide to download it you need to check to see if your firmware needs to be upgraded.

The site has many Widgets. The Widget gallery is used to to enhance and restore your widget collection. The Home Widget is the first Widget in Yahoo! Go 3.0. It includes oneSearch which is on the top of the home list. oneSearch organizes the results of a search into a list convenient categories. Home Widget also has the features What's New, My Snippets and Quick Links.

Whenever you have some free time visit Yahoo! and see what they are doing over there.

http://mobile.yahoo.com/go

Monday, March 3, 2008

One Laptop per Child Foundation

Hello everybody. How's everyone doing? I know everyone is enjoying the weather we've had lately. This weekend was great. I only had to work three days and was off the rest of the week. I really enjoyed myself.

One laptop per child was meant to be use as a learning tool for children that are less fortunate than us. It gives children the opportunity to browse the web and use rich media player and other software they don't have access to. It helps them use the laptop as tool for learning more about the world and for using writing tools to write or compose papers.

The software is built from free and a open source software. It gives the kids the opportunity to use the laptop under their own terms. They can reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software and other tools. The user interface is tailored to their knowledge.

The "SUGAR" interface was created, it's a zoom interface that graphically captures the world of fellow learners and teachers. They talk about the connections going on in the community and surrounding world.

Do you know anyone who could benefit from this laptop? Many of our children are getting left behind. Some don't have access to computers to do the assignments, or they don't have transportation to the library. OLCF can help children like this. OLCF was founded in San Francisco. If it works out they plan to move the program to other cities and states.

www.laptop.org