MediaToday - 5/2009

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Month, 2009 | Volume 12

Google Announces Support of RDFa Markups

• 100 times cheaper and faster than current flash drive technologies• A Racetrack MP3 player = 500,000 songs or 3,500 full motion pictures

…massive amounts of personal storage that could run on a single battery for weeks at a time and last for decades.

IBM Creates Racetrack Solid-State Memory

India Places Order for 250,000 OLPCs• Powered by Via’s C7-M processor: up to 1GHz speeds• OLPC 2009 target sales to India: 3 million units

• Gives meaning to web page data; the next step toward the Semantic Web• Google’s 72% search market share adds clout to advancing Web 3.0

We are in talks with several urban schools and so far have sales of around 1 million units in the pipeline.

Satish Jha, OLPC India President

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

Tim Berners-Lee, W3C

IBM Press Release


• 100 times cheaper and faster than current flash drive technologies• A Racetrack MP3 player could hold 500,000 songs or 3,500 full motion pictures• In the consumer marketplace < 10 years

IBM Creates ‘Racetrack’ Solid-State Memory

…this technology could enable a handheld device such as an mp3 player to store around 500,000 songs or around 3,500 movies – 100 times more than is possible today – with far lower cost and power consumption.

The devices would not only store vastly more information in the same space, but also require much less power and generate much less heat, and be practically unbreakable; the result: massive amounts of personal storage that could run on a single battery for weeks at a time and last for decades.

IBM press release

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Racetrack+speeds+memory/1488396/story.htmlhttp://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23859.wss


• Powered by Via’s C7-M processor: up to 1GHz speeds• OLPC 2009 target sales to India: 3 million units

India Places Order for 250,000 OLPCs

We are in talks with several urban schools and so far have sales of around 1 million units in the pipeline.

Satish Jha, OLPC India President

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/163813/india_sierra_leone_place_olpc_orders.html

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/04/india-embraces-olpc-buys-250000-xo-laptops.ars

Brazil Nigeria Thailand India

Wireless networking: Integrated 802.11b/g (2.4GHz) interface; 802.11s (Mesh) networking supported; dual adjustable, rotating coaxial antennas; supports diversity reception; capable of mesh operation when CPU is powered down


Google Announces Support of RDFa Markups

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. Tim Berners-Lee, W3C

• RDFa = Resource Description Framework with Attributes• Gives meaning to web page data; the next step toward the Semantic Web• Google’s 72% search market share adds clout to advancing Web 3.0

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-announces-support-for-m.html

HTML

<div> <div> 79 of 98 people found the following review helpful: </div> <div> <span>5.0 out of 5 stars</span> <span><b>American Biographer: Jon Meacham</b>/span> </div></div>

<div xmlns:v="http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org " typeof="v:review"> <div> 79 of 98 people found the following review helpful: </div> <div> <span><span property="v:rating">5.0 out of 5 stars</span> <span><b>American Biographer: Jon Meacham</b>/span> </div>

HTML with RDFa Markup


Short Takes

Possible future of online news: citizen journalists used in conjunctionwith “hyperlocal exclusive community coverage in a tight geographic area.”

There are more opportunities now for entrepreneurs to figure out a system. ... It's going to be tough but, in general, news is vital to our democracy. If it dies, so does the democracy. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/01/future.online.news.hyperlocal/index.html?iref=t2test_techtues

Brooklyn novelist uses his thumbs to write 400-page, 100,000 word “best seller” sci-fi novel during daily commute to NYC.

I started out just trying to take notes. I'd sit on the subway, I'd get a good idea and I'd jot something down. I got very fast at writing with my thumbs. I found myself writing more and more.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/04/22/2009-04-22_train_of_thought_bklyn_writer_found_muse__wrote_first_novel_while_commuting_on_t.html

Revolutionary Wolfram search engine debuts, “that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.”

If you ask it to compare the height of Mount Everest to the length of the Golden Gate Bridge, it will tell you. Or ask what the weather was like in London on the day John F Kennedy was assassinated, it will cross-check and provide the answer. Ask it about D sharp major, it will play the scale.

What are the wider implications exactly? A new paradigm for using computers and the web? Probably. Emerging artificial intelligence and a step towards a self-organising internet? Possibly... I think this could be big.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/an-invention-that-could-change-the-internet-for-ever-1678109.html


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Dr. Harry Sova has worked 35-years in the mass media field, authored several educational resources and designed an automated music video complex for an Orlando-based theme park. He holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Speech, the Masters of Arts degree in Radio-Television-Film and the Ph.D. in Mass Communication.

Lee Graham has worked in many various roles in the eLearning field over the five years, specializing in design and development of eLearning solutions. He has worked with clients such as Tyco Electronics, Discovery Education, National Institute of Health, United Technologies Corporation and the Abraxas Corporation. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Communication.

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