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.Mobi is a New technology which is empowering the businesses to enhance the online presence of a web site. These new technologies give web site owners a boost in their business.

Mobi Websites

Mobi, also known as DotMobi, is a top-level domain extension recently approved by ICANN and managed by the mTLD global registry dedicated to delivering the Internet to mobile devices via the Mobile Web. It is financially backed by world’s largest companies such as Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Vodafone, Hutchison and VISA.

.mobi websites are optimized for viewing on smaller screens such as mobile phone, PDAs, and smart phones. Due to small viewable area, and lack of download speed, .mobi websites are optimized with simplicity and faster download time.

With the rapid surge in the sale of mobile and heldheld devices worldwide, there is no doubt that the mobile content is going to be the next big thing with the mobile phone users. Already companies are paying more than $100,000 for buying .mobi domains (Flowers.mobi sold for $200,000) indicating huge potential for this medium. However, the challenge is that .mobi sites need to be re-developed and customized specifically for portable devices.

There are some Web Design Company that have the technology and skills to deliver online content onto mobile devices. They effectively convert your current website to .mobi, or optimize existing website for mobile devices. A few examples of ,mobi sites are:

* www.bmw.mobi

* www.google.mobi

* www.asiapacificdirect.mobi

Web videos

A documentary depicted in a video can be more effective then told directly to the listeners as they get to watch and feel the happenings rather than just hearing them. One of the great things about the Web is that there are so many tools at our fingertips. We can use text, animated graphics, photos, audio or video to tell a story. Video is experiential, immersive, emotional – it puts you at the scene, gives flavor and personality, and of course, shows motion. There has been a huge surge in the traffic to the sites offering video facilities. A few examples of sites using Web Videos are :

* www.shadesofebony.co.uk

* www.rent-a-cloud.com

* www.youtube.com

Microsoft Shows off New Technologies at Faculty Summit

 

Another fun demonstration consists of six vertical tubes back lit to look like lava lamps. Valves at the bottom of the tubes release bubbles and can be programmed to send up bubbles across the tubes that take the shapes of letters. One of the device’s creators, Andrew Malota from the University of Texas A&M, envisions it could be used in a bar to advertise drink specials and generally contribute to the ambiance.

Sphere is a multi-touchscreen,(from: http://www.office-products-suppliers.com/buy-touchscreen/) similar to Microsoft’s Surface computer, but it is round. Microsoft envisions that it could be used in a collaborative public environment, like a hotel lobby.

“There is no master-user position,” said Hrvoje Banko, a Microsoft researcher who showed off the Sphere at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday.

That means that users standing on either side of the globe could separately manipulate the device, viewing photos or videos independently of each other. But it was designed to ensure that such users could also interact with each other, he said. A user on one side can swipe a photo to send it around to the other side.

The Sphere was one of many devices on display at the event’s demo fest. Ken Perlin, a professor in New York University’s computer (from: http://www.office-products-suppliers.com/buy-computer/)science department, showed off what he calls the UnMouse Pad. It looks like a mouse pad, but rather than using a mouse, people just touch the pad with their fingers to navigate a computer. It’s quite sensitive, Perlin said, so it could be easier on wrist and hand muscles than a mouse, and it could be useful to people with disabilities who may have limited use of their hands.

Graduate students from design institutions also showed off prototypes of concepts they developed as part of Microsoft Research sponsored classes. Nadim Matuk Villazon of the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, displayed Foodmate, a system designed to help kids eat better. Kids would wear a bracelet that they can wave over the barcode of a food product. The bracelet grows wider based on the nutritional value of the product. The bracelet will then shrink if the child does enough exercise to work off the calories from the food.

Foodmate comes with software (from: http://www.office-products-suppliers.com/buy-software/)that parents use to monitor the calorie intake of their children and the number of calories they’ve burned off. It also offers them tips on balanced meals and good nutrition. Villazon and his colleagues are working with the health department in Mexico to set up a pilot of the product, he said.

Microsoft  demonstrated a number of technologies that it is developing in its research department or in collaboration with university researchers, including a sphere-shaped touchscreen device, at its annual faculty get together.

 

 

The fact is, that we are all now living in the computer age and it seems that everything we do is effected by this fact. Labor management is no exception to this rule and as a result new technologies are now available to help to streamline labor management systems, no matter what the business is.

To begin with, new online time clock and payroll services take all of the work out of managing and dealing with that end of any business. Rather than a standard time clock with cards that have to be punched, employees clock in on their computer in the workplace, using a password and all the time keeping is done by the online service.

Paychecks and all record keeping is all handled automatically by the service as well. These online time keeping and payroll services also offer a number of other service options that can help to free business management up to tend to the more important task of running a business.

Other new digital technologies to help with managing and running a business include new labor management software that elevates dealing with workers and labor costs to a whole new level. No more shuffling through papers while pounding on a calculator trying to come up with answers and solutions to productivity problems and issues.

Easy to pull up and simple to understand graphs and charts replace confusing and often conflicting numbers and no matter what the business or the labor scenario, there is software the is now specifically designed for it.

The good news is that a person doesn’t have to be a computer programmer to understand and use this revolutionary user friendly new software, because it is designed to be used by anyone that understand the bare bones basics of operating a computer.