The beginning of the Internet was cautious and slow. It took a long time for ARPANET to become a truly global Internetwork. Even after ten years there were only 188 computers linked on the network. However, things began to improve in the 80s as computers became (relatively) cheaper and faster. Another, turning point was the development of TCP/IP which went on to become a de-facto standard. By January 1, 1983 all host computers on or connected to ARPANET had switched over to the TCP/IP based Internetwork. Domain name system was created in 1984 and dotcom domain names became available in 1985. By 1987, there were 30,000 host computers and the growth of Internet began to accelerate. In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea of Hypertext and developed the World Wide Web. And the rest is history.

[via Guardian and Yahoo]

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A new technology to insert video in traditional newspapers & magazines has been created to insert video advertisements as you can see in the video below.

The video-in-print ads will start appearing in the US magazine Entertainment Weekly, the magazine with the first video ads will be made available to people in Los Angeles and New York on September 19th.

The magazines will have a small slim line screen as you see in a traditional mobile phone and use a chip technology to store videos up-to 40 minutes.

The first few video-in-print ads will feature ads from CBS and Pepsi, this is definitely a great way to get user attention, but it needs to be seen how feasible this technology is for magazine publishers and whether advertisers will pour in additional advertising money for including their own videos when internet and television advertisement is more cheaper when it comes to video ads.

But like always there will be cheaper ways to do this in future and don’t get surprised if your next edition of morning newspaper carries a video with the headlines instead of just plain text .

[BBC News via Nothing to do]

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Opera has now taken it a step further with Opera Unite, a really interesting way to browse the internet making the browser act as both a server and a client on a network.

With Opera 10, we are introducing a new technology called Opera Unite, radically extending what you are able to do online. Opera Unite harnesses the power of today’s fast connections and hardware, allowing all of us to help define the future landscape of the Web, one computer at a time.

How This Changes The Landscape of Browsers

In a traditional web server setup on home networks you will have a firewall device that acts as a go between your devices and external web servers.

With Opera Unite no configuration is needed, the Web server initiates a connection to the proxy, which uses this to pass information back about incoming requests.

Opera Unite is basically a web server running inside the browser that will allow you to easily share content by installing services developed for Opera Unite.

Opera Unite allows you to easily share your data: photos, music, notes and other files. You can even run chat rooms and host entire Web sites with Opera Unite. It puts the power of a Web server in your browser, giving you greater privacy and flexibility than other online services.

Visit Opera Unite to get more information on the innovative feature, you can also start out by reading Getting started with Opera Unite. Developers may also be interested in reading the Introduction to Opera Unite.

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Watch this video to see freeze in action:

Kinda Artificial Intelligence .. One phone can be used to control number of laptops, and you additionally can set up power saving mode as soon as the phone is moved out of the proximity range. Some of the advantages of using Freeze are power saving and increased productivity.

Best of all, is that this application is available as a free download (a 14 day trial), but currently is tailor made for Windows XP and Vista only. If you are happy with what the trial then you get the full version dirt cheap.

Phoenix is planning to release features more rich and sumptuous, but all that is planned for sometime later, as it is now concentrating on dealing with computer manufactures hoping to get a standard option for new laptops!!

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In the meantime we did see another phone that caught our attention. The Nokia 5800 Tube is rumored to be a real killer phone and it’s possibly the first phone from Nokia to have a touch screen. Nokia 5800 Tube will make use of the S60 Touch UI built on Symbian (which is great) OS for mobile phones. Knowing how good Nokia smartphones are, we can definitely vouch that this phone will prove to be the real competition to iPhones.

Here are a few screenshots we collected that shows leaked pictures of the Nokia 5800 Tube, whose launch date is still unannounced and neither has the product been confirmed officially.

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We will be more than waiting for this one. And yes this could be a real iPhone killer, alas we have to just wait and watch. In the meantime you can check out a good post about Nokia 5800 Tube at Talk About NSeries.

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That problem would be a thing of the past if the Google Research product Google Election Video Search gadget is successful. Google announced a new gadget that recognizes speech and converts them into searchable text.

This is a great piece of innovation and we would definitely want it move forward and cover thousands of video formats, making it easier to find content, not just based on the title of the videos.

Though this gadget has been specifically created for the US Elections we would definitely see these innovations creeping up all over the web. The day search engines can recognize speech and images throughout would be the start of a new era for video blogging.

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