Naresh on Nov 30th 2007 IT
Gaming became a viable entertainment option in India in 2007 and is all set to computer more hearts and minds this year. The surge in popularity of Zapak Digital Entertainment has been inspiring other game sites too.
In a matter of 12 months, Zapak got four million registered users and 100 million page views. It boasts 2,70,000 visits a day. According to Rohit Sharma, COO of Zapak, one percent of its free users had opted to become paid users to download games as well as to play cash games. Zapak expects the number of paid gamers to rise in 2008 with the launch of its Zapak cards.
Analysts have predicted that online gaming will grow to a Rs-800 crore market by 2010.
Naresh on Nov 26th 2007 IT
Wikipedia’s search application, Wiki Search, will be launched on January 7, 2008. Like the popular online encyclopedia. Wikia Search will also be an open source and community enterprise.
Apart from the usual search algorithm and Web crawler, Wikia Search will also use the help of technology enthusiasts of its wide spread community to rank and filter sites. Wikipedia founders believe this will make the search more transparent and human.
Popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo work solely on algorithms which sometimes throw up irrelevant search results. Wikia Search will not come fully armed to take on established players but will evolve over time its Wikipedia did.
Naresh on Nov 21st 2007 IT
IBM has launched a personal email search application that will quickly find essential data such as phone numbers and addresses. Though “IBM OmniFind Personal Email Search” carries a ponderous name, it is quite smart.
IOPES is powered by advanced algorithms that completes half-written queries and finds answers from the personal email database in a jiffy. According to IBM, it eliminates the frustration one feels when irrelevant results are returned for a simple search.
IOPES, which was built by IBM research labs in the United States, India and Israel, uses the Unstructured Information Management Architecture to do its job. It works with Lotus Notes and outlook also.
Naresh on Sep 24th 2007 IT
IBM has launched dual-core POWER6, the world’s fastest computer chip, in India. The chip will power IBM’s System 570 and Blade Center JS22 servers. According to IBM engineers, the chip ensures “unparalleled power savings” on mid-range servers.
It will reduce the energy meant to power and cool data centers by over 50 per cent and would thus be part of IBM’s Project Green Initiative. At 4.7GHZ, POWER6 has double the speed of POWER5,but would use only the same amount of power. This would also help Indian entrepreneurs who are budget-conscious to increase their performance without increasing power bills.
