‘Ubiquity’ is a Mozilla Lab experiment to do common web tasks more quickly. It enables user generated mashups in email that takes advantage of the language and open API. It facilitates language translation, map incorporation and adding reviews into your e mail content. Also, allows micro formatting of the map links together.
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The latest sat nav technology embedded in the trolley will help the supermarket users to find the grocery details much effectively now. Sat –nav trolley is fitted with computer aboard for making the super market purchasing easy and hassle free. The gadget has been tested in Germany. It allows the user to define a map route and enter the shopping items electronically. The device will guide the user regarding the shortest route to the item. Not only that, it provides the fat content of the food item as well. Technical details: 12-inch screen at the end of the trolley Microsoft TechnologyBrainchild of: exas-based firm MediaCart.
Voice-recognition software: shows the location of the item along with the phone home facility.
I always had a fascination for animated characters and the virtual reality they create around. Now the interaction between the real users and the virtual space is intertwined by CNN. The company has announced a hub within second Life, a virtual reality world developed by Linden Research, Inc.This concept of Internet-based virtual world was deployed in 2003 but gained much popularity last year and early this year. Science fiction genre, and the novel ‘Snow Crash’ by Neal Stephenson inspire the concept.
The news channel will function as in the real world with video shooting, reports creation based on any event in second life. The selected submission by CNN will go back to the virtual world as SL iReport. It also provides a Kiosk that offers free gears and tools such as video on SL iReport, apparel, hats, T-Shirts and press badges etc. It will be interesting to know how the residents in second life respond to “SL iReports”.
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