College of Information and Computer Science, Long Island University
Published by September 21st, 2008
in communities, social sites, social networking and software.
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Dion Hinchcliffe writes: “Creating online communities of customers and workers has been one of the hotter topics in business and technology this year. Whether you’re on the business side, in IT, or are just trying to build virtual teams around shared goals, online communities are rapidly becoming a popular way to organize people and accomplish work in a highly collaborative manner. These communities aren’t just for socializing but for getting things done.”
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Published by July 19th, 2008
in business intelligence, software and iPhone.
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Business intelligence and CRM software vendors are the most supportive of the Apple 3G iPhone. For those using their iPhones for business, software providers are increasingly allowing access to their offerings via the Safari browser, yet there are few native iPhone apps to choose from. Just 24 applications grace the business section in the App Store — out of a total of about 500 App Store offerings on iTunes — proving the iPhone remains largely a consumer device.
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Apple is breaking the padlock on the iPhone. The new version of the smartphone operating system will allow users to run third-party applications, the first time they’ve been able to do so with Apple’s blessing. Third-party developers are busy cooking up hot apps for the iPhone 3G. Our top picks for those likely to be winners include Quickoffice, NotepadSync, Nuance OSV, and OmniFocus.
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Published by July 12th, 2008
in education, software and open source.
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Educational institutions have rushed to put their academic resources and services online, bringing the global community onto a common platform and awakening the interest of investors. Despite continuing technical challenges, online education shows great promise. Open source software offers one approach to addressing the technical problems in providing optimal delivery of online learning. Open source refers to both the concept and practice of making program source code openly available. Users and developers have access to the core designing functionalities that enable them to modify or add features to the source code and redistribute it. Extensive collaboration and circulation are central to the open source movement.
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Scientists studying a colony of rare penguins on a remote South African island are using sophisticated object-recognition software to identify and track individual animals–an approach that they believe could transform conservation fieldwork. The software involved–originally developed for recognizing individual human faces–has developed rapidly in recent years. But so far, the so-called Penguin Recognition Project, run by Bristol University, in England, is the first large-scale attempt to use this technology to catalogue and monitor an entire population of animals in the field.
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Published by June 29th, 2008
in digital, software and music.
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Andrew H. Bullen writes: “As an (admittedly amateur) local historian, it has been frustrating to be presented with spectacular examples of sheet music that give shape and depth to history yet be totally inept at playing the tunes on a piano or other musical instrument. Happily, as it turns out, through a combination of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) and music composing software, I can scan the music, ‘read’ it to detect the notes, time signature, etc., and tweak its playback to get just the right sound I want.”
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Published by June 1st, 2008
in technology, Microsoft and software.
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Microsoft Corp. said recently that its next operating system will be made for touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse. Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer unveiled the iPhone-like touch-screen feature at The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference, calling it “just the smallest snippet” of the Windows 7 operating system slated for release in late 2009.
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Published by June 1st, 2008
in technology and software.
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Most of the time, Linux is run from either an installation on a hard drive or a live CD/DVD distribution. The first is fast, but not very portable; the second can be run anywhere you have a computer and a CD drive with boot access, but typically isn’t very fast. Over the last few years, though, we’ve seen the emergence of something that combines the speed of a hard drive install with the convenience of a live CD: running Linux from a USB flash drive.
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Published by March 29th, 2008
in social networking, Google, Yahoo, MySpace and software.
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Google, MySpace , and Yahoo recently said they have agreed to form a non-profit group that would govern the development of a standard application programming interface that developers could use in building software for supporting online social networks. The three Internet companies expected the OpenSocial Foundation to launch in 90 days, and asked for others in the industry to rally behind the OpenSocial API, which was developed by Google to foster development across emerging social-network development platforms.
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Published by March 29th, 2008
in software.
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The maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop recently launched a basic version available for free online. San Jose, California-based Adobe Systems Inc. says it hopes to boost its name recognition among a new generation of consumers who edit, store and share photos online. While Photoshop is designed for trained professionals, Adobe says Photoshop Express, which it launched in a ”beta” test version, is easier to learn. User comments will be taken into account for future upgrades.
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Published by January 26th, 2008
in education and software.
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Open source software will nearly double in the education space over the next four years. From its present level of $286.2 million, the market–including software, services, and maintenance–will reach $489.9 million by 2012, according to a report released recently by market analyst Datamonitor, which proclaimed that “open source software has the ability to change the face of the education Industry.”
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The Internet is growing up, and, while search is still a dominant area of research, many of the year’s biggest software stories have to do with how users are finding ways to live, play, and do business online. The Internet’s reach is growing, as mobile devices become capable of ever more sophisticated functions and companies encourage users to store ever more data in the Internet cloud.
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