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The DTrace trouble-shooting software from Sun was chosen as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest...Bryan Cantrill and a team of engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc. have devised a way to diagnose misbehaving software quickly and while it's still doing its work. While traditional trouble-shooting programs can take several days of testing to locate a problem, the new technology, called DTrace, is able to track down problems quickly and relatively easily, even if the cause is buried deep in a complex computer system.
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The Silver award went to HelioVolt Corp., of Austin, Texas, which has come up with a way to make lightweight solar-energy panels that are powered by an alternative to the more common silicon solar material and that can be applied to glass or other building materials.

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Forbes recommends Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Notebook, Google Spreadsheets, Pageflakes and YouOS, amd ZohoWriter.

Read/Write Web quotes from the latest internetworldstats.com statistics: India is estimated to have 50 million Internet users.

One also needs to keep in mind that a majority of these users access the Internet from cybercafes.

MEX writes:

The Japanese operator’s annual report, entitled ‘The Mobile Phone as the Key to Daily Life’, makes fascinating reading. It discusses DoCoMo’s immediate challenges of number portability, increasing competition from new entrants and efforts to reduce marketing expenditure. However, it also addresses the long-term future of Japan’s mobile market and the role DoCoMo sees for itself as a provider of banking, multimedia and communication services.

I’ve long held the belief the next generational leap in mobile technology will be the integration of services with the physical environment: point-of-sale payments, interactive advertising boards, ticketing, identity and home automation. DoCoMo has been one of the most progressive operators in this area and is making substantial investments to enable these services. It has bought into credit card providers and is subsidising the rollout of contactless IC card technology throughout its handset portfolio.

This has been abstracted from a recent series Ramesh Jain has written on his blog. The EventWeb, as he and I look at it, is a fundamental upgrade from the DocumentWeb that we are familiar with. Today’s World Wide Web is primarily built around documents. We have also referred to it as the Reference Web. As Ramesh put it in a recent interview: “Today’s Web is a document Web. Everything is presented as a page. Yet, audio and video are becoming easier to store and disseminate. Figuring out how we’ll search through ‘events’ is only one small piece of the problem. For example, as mobile phones become the primary client, people will use the devices to look for information: how do you design search tools for that platform?”

The EventWeb will be the foundation for the Now Web. Ramesh’s first post deals with the importance of Events.

Two things are distinct in emerging applications of information systems: they contain vast amount of multimedia (both live and archived) data and attention is moving away from examining isolated silos of data toward more holistic pictures of evolving situations. Multimedia systems, including text, video, images, and audio, provide both information and experience related to a dynamic situation. As information and communication technology evolved, multimedia has become increasingly ubiquitous; structured data is now a very small fraction of useful data in emerging applications.

Current information tools are very good in dealing with entities, objects, and keywords. To address the needs of information management in dynamic multimedia environments, new concepts and techniques are needed. It is clear that the current concepts and tools are good for the text oriented and structured information systems. These tools are not good for dealing with images, video, audio, and other sensory information. A very good example of their limitation is the poor results that one sees on every major search engine for images and video. Since these search engines try to apply search tools effective for text to the text associated with images and video, but not processing images and video, their results, contrasting them to text search, are surprisingly bad.

Current information tools evolved before the wave of mobile phones, digital cameras, and broadband systems changed the landscape of information systems. With all these advances, experiences are becoming an integral part of information systems. In fact, we can already see signs of the dawn of experiential computing. There is a very intimate relationship between events and experiences in experiential computing, events will play a central role.

I believe that ‘events’ may be used as fundamental organizational concept in multimedia systems that are becoming ubiquitous. There are strong and deep conceptual, engineering, computational, and human centered design reasons to consider events as a primary structure for organizing and accessing dynamic multimedia systems. We are developing multiple applications using event models to validate our hypothesis that events are effective in capturing multimedia semantics and building efficient systems to deal with multimedia information.

Tomorrow: EventWeb (continued)