A number of new geospatial viewing tools from major players in the Internet industry have recently appeared on the scene and are taking the geospatial world by storm. Google,Yahoo, Microsoft, and Amazon have all released web-based mapping tools in the recent past, and collectively these new players to the industry have raised the bar for Internet mapping. Although their functional capabilities don’t provide anything we haven’t seen in web offerings from traditional GIS vendors, their emergence has been significant in that they have managed to capture a wider audience. Google, in particular, has emerged as the leader of this pack with it’s recently released Google Maps product which provides a slick, highly responsive visual interface built using AJAX technologies along with detailed street and aerial imagery data, and an open API allowing customization of the map output including the ability to add application specific data to the map.
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Telecommunications security (of voice, data, and/or video communications) is the prevention of any type of intrusion to (that is, either unauthorized or malicious access to or use of) your company’s telecommunications equipment by some party. Your company’s “telecommunications equipment” includes both this Avaya product and any other voice/data/video equipment that could be accessed via this Avaya product (that is, “networked equipment”).
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The most striking technology application in this century is the impact of web on the human life. The current period has witnessed the increased use of web to a greater extent and the Web 2.0 has made the cyberspace as the global information space. Web 2.0 is a collection of technologies and services that allow increased user-creator interaction, content syndication, advancements in web-based user interfaces, which ultimately lead to the creation of an entirely new application platform.
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During the past five years, many dramatic changes have occurred on the Web. New services have been announced, new interfaces have been developed and the Web is approaching to be the new platform for many applications. Wikis, RSS feeds, Blogs to name just a few, are dubs of new Web applications (also know as Web 2.0) that sighted people are experimenting and enjoying nowadays. However, the question we want to address is: How these new applications and changes are going to affect on how visually impaired people access them? This paper aims to provide information about the tools, services, projects, and research that are taking place nowadays on the Web and the Semantic Web to make the Web more accessible for visually impaired people. Also, the authors will present a pilot experiment to check the accessibility of some Web 2.0 services.
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Data visualisation has been defined as: The set of techniques used to turn a set of data into visual insight. It aims to give the data a meaningful representation by exploiting the powerful discerning capabilities of the human eye. Part 1 of this briefing paper will highlight some examples of new collaborative web services using Web 2.0 technologies which venture into the numeric data visualisation arena. These mashups allow researchers to upload and analyse their own data in ‘open’ and dynamic environments. Broadly speaking the numeric data being referred to could be micro-data (data about the individual), macro-data or country-level data, derived or summary data.
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The Oracle Academy’s Hosted Database offering provides web-enabled access to an Oracle database for schools that have experienced IT staff to teach database fundamentals using their own curriculum. Using Oracle’s HTML DB web interface, schools harness the power of the Oracle database to teach students relational database concepts. Because this service is hosted by Oracle, there is no need to install or maintain any hardware or software.
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The Web paradigm adds a whole new level of complexity to traditional application development. The phrase “You’ve got just 15 seconds to grab a user’s attention” is fast becoming a cliché, but it really sums up the idea. You’re no longer just creating an application, but a commercial or a TV show, and the user has his or her hand on the remote. It’s called surfing the Web for a reason. As a developer, you need to be keenly aware of the impact of architectural and implementation decisions on application performance and scalability. With this technology, as we are discovering, we are still dealing with a client/server model.
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Simple template to introduce XDoclet First template: XDoclet architecture Case study: Create Web Service Deployment Descriptor 1st try Case study: Create Web Service Deployment Descriptor 2nd try Summary and resources Use XDoclet to generate Web service support files ibm.com/developerWorks Presented by developerWorks, your source for great tutorials Section 1. About this tutorial What is XDoclet? You can skip this page if you already use XDoclet or already read the first XDoclet tutorial. XDoclet facilitates automated deployment descriptor generation.
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