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European Renaissance in Art

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:41:39 -0500

The printing technology gave a right path towards the cultural development. People in Europe started to built their houses, churches with good architecture. The literacy of people, increased day by day. This renaissance also had an effect on the general society. Many people showed interest in politics. People started to look at other towns and places and began to explore. Many people started their own businesses in other towns and began to export and import the commodities.
Due to this relocation and migration culture began to spread all over the nation. The people learned new culture and started to practice and this made a dramatic change in Humanism. Humanism is not a philosophy but it is the method of learning. It deals with the Grammar, poetry and Ethics. This gave a new birth to Education system.
The renaissance in Art was influenced by Giotto De Bondone in 14th century. He treated the painting from window into space and made the painting more realistic and natural. From this change the painters started to study about the shading, studied about light. The city that is celebrated for the Renaissance in painting is Florence in Italy.
Many themes were created based on the church and artists later started to use oil paintings and canvas. Leonado da Vinci who made exceptional study in shading and light created ever lasting paintings. He was called as “Renaissance man”. His paintings such as Mona lisa and Virgin of Rocks he made a advanced study about atmosphere and used light and shade. He also studied about human anatomy and achieved a degree of realism in human expressions.
The Renaissance of Art happened due to the invention of new methods of applying technology to art. Humanism played an major role in expressing the artists feelings and emotions

European Renaissance

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:49:26 -0500

The rebirth of culture, technology and science happened in Europe between the 14th century and 17th century. Most dramatic changes happened between this period. The cultural movement in European history roughly begins in 14th century in Italy. The cultural movement spread throughout the Europe from Italy. The cultural movement gave way to new forms of paining, art, technology and religion.
The invention of printing press in 16th century was the advanced technology which paved the path to the cultural development. Jonah Guttenberg, inventor of printing press was considered as the “the most influential man” in 1000 years. The technology of printing took off because of the quality and economy came together. He printed the first Bible and made several copy and spread the bible throughout the world.
As Bible was considered as a Spiritual book the spirituality began to spread in Europe which directly influences the life of people. The printing technology influenced the Education system and since many people were able to read the books the new scientific methods and technology was created which increased in literacy in people.
This promoted people in constructing church and concentrated on Architecture and design. The new technologies were used to improve the design of architecture.

Mobile Multimedia Push toTalk

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:41:23 -0500

The Ribirth of technolgy gives a smooth path to innovative ideas. Among them Push to talk over cellular is an innovative idea implemented in third Generation technology. Push to talk is another service provided by 3G Networks. Push toTalk functions like a walkie-talkie, with an immediate response. The PTT communication is carried out in half-duplex mode. This service is for quick communication between end users. PoC enables the use of SIP as the signaling protocol over cellular data networks. The SIP protocol extensively works in the packet switched Network. (Vlasach, 2007)
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP):
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an upgrade version of H.323 which is an application protocol used to create, modify and terminate the session with one participant. SIP is mainly used by VoIP to transfer the multimedia applications. It also supports both unicast and multicast streaming modes. SIP is an independent application protocol which can run on Transfer control protocol (TCP) and User-Datagram protocol (UDP).
(Rosenberg, 2002)

The main objective of SIP is to provide the signaling and call-setup for IP-based communications by making and tearing the call connection. The important characteristics of SIP are
• SIP is transport-independent since it can be used by UDP and TCP.
• SIP codes are in text-based allowing the user to read easily.
(Rosenberg, 2002)
The video conferencing technology uses the SIP protocol in IP based networks. The traditional network uses H.323.
Advantages of SIP:
• SIP is more streamlined protocol developed specially for IP telephony.
SIP can take control over the other protocols which cannot done by the H.323
• Call initiation and ending in SIP will be obtained by two communication tools helps to track the location of user.
• SIP can be easily updated like a HTML page.
(advantage of sip for VoIP, 2006
Establishment of Push-to-Talk communication:
SIP framework facilitates the PTT communication by providing end-to-end connection in all devices. SIP introduces a stack that is relevant in handling the wireless SIP User Agents (UAs).

SIP based PTT communication
Source: http://www.networkcomputing.com/gallery/2007/0625/0625ttb.jhtml
In normal standard SIP UA, the other UA communicate directly with the end devices which takes time and sometimes the connection will break which leads to loss of data and takes long time to get back to the normal state. But in PTT communication PoC server catches the status and settings of the wireless device. When the wireless network changes its status SIP updates the PoC server and when another device wants to connect the particular device, it checks with the PoC server and determines the connection to receive the data. This process makes faster connection between end users in PTT communication and also effectively prevents bandwidth use. (Vlasach, 2007)

Mobile Video Telephony

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:23:53 -0500

The first multimedia services in mobile phone started at 2004 with the introduction of MMS. The multimedia applications are carried out by specific protocols and each protocol has their own specifications. Specific protocols are designed to solve certain problems and provide a new service by combining the existing protocol. The different types of protocol used in mobile multimedia are
• 3G H.324M
• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
• Real Time Streaming protocol (RTSP)
• SIP/JSR-180
To enable rich applications such as mobile TV, location-based services, and voice over IP (VoIP), these applications needs to support the end-to-end mobile infrastructure. Reliable and assured transport is essential to achieve the required user experience.

Book Review of "The Search"

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:38:31 -0500

The search by John Battelle is about the Google business from its beginnings to its multi-billion business success. The Google is the most prominent declaration of the power of search. It provides a new way of approach to the Internet technology and this acts as a gateway of instant knowledge than any other resources. Battelle also explains about the war between the search engines and arrival of online advertisements.
John Battelle divides the whole book into three sections. He discussed about the story of rise of Google, the business success and future of search engine. He said that the search engine consists of three major parts- the crawl, the index, and the runtime. He explains the importance and how the search engine will work and also about the search engines that were used in earlier stages. From the year 2000-2004 Google made business from zero to billion dollars. Google changed their business from Double Click Ad to Cost per thousand (CPM) model. This model is like when you search for “Ford cars” an ad would be appear on the top of the page. Mixing CPM with keyword-based advertising had increased their revenue. The year 2001 was as a big year for Google. The significant improvement started with the purchase of Deja News from Usenet which failed to attract people with their service. This made a big success for Google and it continued through 2003 and 2004 with the acquisition of Blogger, Picasa- a photo sharing service, launched a new service called Google Print, Gmail, Google Map, and Google Desktop Search. By introducing these features Google made the revenue of about $4 billion in four years
Battelle states that “The world is in control of Google” and if the Website doesn't allow Google to do its deep linking, that site will be practically invisible. The Google’s official mantra is “Do no evil” where author explains about privacy and the problem on privacy that people facing.

Generating Buy-In a another tool for better communication

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:34:54 -0500

Generating Buy-In provides tool to become the good communicator. According to Mark Walton communication skill plays important role in all type of business.
Walton explains how to create a positive vision of the future. According to the author understanding, commitment and action of people of working are the strategies to obtain the future goals. It is important to influence the people’s thoughts and feelings which have emerged as the vital leadership skill. The author explains the importance of language and he said that language will empower to produce the required result. Author provides lot of examples of organization to make people understand the concept.
He gave the practical approach to mastering the language and leadership
Crafting a strategic story:
Developing the strategic story provides a frame work which connects the future and the future of the audience. This is the way to provide the big picture or vision of the future to the audiences. This approach will provide the future vision with commitment to the listeners.
Speaking the language:
Language of leadership is the most common influences in business, politics, law, and other arenas. According to the author language is the powerful tool to communicate with people which helps to get things done. It is a way to get the desired output. Language will mould the powerful thoughts and emotions in your listeners. The positive future with the objective will provide the clear path to the success.
Putting the language to work:
The strategic story will clear the future goals but goals will vary significantly according to the target audiences and work place. The purpose of this last approach is to put the leadership technology to resolve the challenges faced.
Walton finally concludes that the achievement depends heavily on the communication skills of the leaders and shows the leaders how to take action.

The Leading Competitors in WiMAX Technology

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:33:09 -0500

WiMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access. WiMAX is a pioneering and commercial technology in providing the internet services in wireless. WiMAX has vast potential but it has to cross a few obstacles before becoming the global uniform broadband wireless platform. It has to overcome the initial high cost of its products, decide on a uniform spectrum allocation and availability of its equipments. Due to high potential and market size many organizations want to play a key role in WiMAX deployment and development.
WiMAX is a vast field and thousands of companies are in the competition. It’s very hard to find the top competitors. Since each company differ from one another in respect of their service and technology. Hence the following factors determine the potential market and the future of WiMAX.
• Organization’s Market success
• Future technology and the contribution to the WiMAX.
• Revenue for the latest year (Mostly Revenue for second Quarter for the year 2007)
• Based on the number of patents that the company is holding

Book Summary China Inc

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:44:53 -0500

China INC explains how china is becoming the greatest supreme power in very near future. China is the fastest growing country in the world. China is growing three times faster than U.S. and uses more materials and man power than any country.
Tod Fishman reveals that the huge population and cheap labor plays an important role in influencing the Chinese market. Workforces are not only cheap but they are well trained and operate under a stable political system. Fishman stated that the large number of people migrated from the countryside to the rural areas which deliberately decrease the demand of work force and lead the path to cheap labors. Second factor is the local market is viewed as the “biggest market” where one-fifth of the humanity in the world lives in china which also attracts the global players. Fishman also states that china become the largest manufacturer of electronics product. This shows the improvement in technology and china is moving rapidly in biotech and computer manufacturing.
Although Fishman showed the factors influencing the world market but he didn’t discuss about the ruin of culture when people move from countryside to urban areas.
Fishman observes infrastructure in china is getting better due to privatization of common resources such as roads, water and energy. He also reported the change in political views from communism to Marxism influences the economy of china. Fishman states that “economical miracle” is happening in china and in 20 years if they compete with the quality of the product then china can make everything that U.S. and Europe can make at one third of its price.
Fishman states that china in recent years has lifted more people out of poverty than any other country in the world. Finally the author concludes that china is in right track to attain its supreme power in few fore coming years.

Information Renaissance

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:02:47 -0500

The growth of information technology over the past decade has revolutionized everything we do. It has shrunk our world to such an extent that what happens in the most remote areas is covered instantaneously. The use of the internet has shot up astronomically over the last couple of years. State-of-the-art technology like Wi-Fi and Wimax have grown to change everything the way people communicate, to the performing complex medical operations from remote areas. What would have been deemed as an unthinkable task a decade ago is no longer a dream. Thanks to the rapid growth of information technology. Access to information has increased due to the constant improvements in the contemporary technologies supporting its broadcast, such as mobile technology, wireless technology etc. The meteoric growth in information technology has facilitated the information renaissance. The internet has been the backbone for growth in the access to unlimited extent of information on any single topic one can imagine of. Mobile phones have also radically changed the availability of information to the common man. Today everything from the weather forecast to the latest information on the stock exchange can be accessed instantly using mobile phones. “Overcoming the flat dissemination of knowledge and information and the unavailability of information on both supply and demand sides of the market will create an information society that awakens public knowledge and opens up a vast wealth of information; indeed, this will create a self-actualization society that can be fairly characterized as an information society renaissance” (Kouji Ohboshi). Information renaissance has brought about a change in the approach reach out for information from libraries to online books and journals.

SmartBits a boon to the Networking and Communication Industry

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:00:12 -0500

Internet has become a way of life and communications has become quintessential for all business related solutions. Seamless connectivity and converged networks are the biggest challenges. Communication industry is growing in size and complexity and hence it has become more important to measure the performance of intermediate devices like switches, routers and hubs.

My Theory of Human Communication

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:43:41 -0500

“Human communication is common” my colleague Griffith Goas always tells me. It is common for all human being and helps them in sharing information and helps in creating new ideas. There are one million words in English and people use 2400-3000 words. (Dr. Gillette). Here word count is not important but understanding the concept is important. Human communication helps people in understanding the concept.

what is web 2.0

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:42:48 -0500

Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of web based communities such as social networking sites, and wikis. It is the improved form of World Wide Web. The new web technologies like webblogs, social software, application programming interfaces (APIs), and online web services such as ebay and Gmail provides the user to retrieve the information wherever they are. (O'Reilly, 2007)
Web 2.0 made a big revolution in computer field by keeping the internet as a platform. The main objective of web 2.0 is to facilitate creativity and collaboration by sharing the information between users.

Code Spear

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:21:54 -0500

Code Spear
The Codespear secure, patented technology provides a comprehensive interoperability solution enabling live communications and alert notifications across multiple devices, including: 2-way radios, landline and cellular telephones, computers, pagers, hybrid cell phone/radio devices (such as Nextel Direct Connect). Alert notifications and voice communications can be instantly transmitted in multiple languages on any device or frequency.
Combined with instant alert notification, the Codespear platform makes mission-critical communications dramatically easier, faster and less expensive than hardware alternatives. In addition to providing day-to-day interoperable communications, Codespear software allows incident managers to establish instant tactical communications within minutes of arriving on scene at an emergency where hardware-based networks are unavailable or down due to the nature of the crisis. (Overview, 2007)

Execution-The way to Success

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:25:27 -0500

What is Execution?
Execution is a fundamental strategy and systematic way of getting things done. It is the central part of company’s strategy and its goals. Execution has specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have competitive advantage. It is a discipline of its own.
Why is it important?
Execution is one of the main tactics that every leader, manager should follow. In the year 2000, forty CEO’s from the fortune 500 companies were fired or forced to resign by the management due to their failure in executing the goals. It eventually affects the employee, share holders, economy of the nation and world. So, it’s very important to understand the concept of Execution.
(Bossidy and Charan, 2002)
The three key points will help to understand the Execution
• Execution is a discipline, and integral to strategy
• Execution is the major job of the business leader
• Execution must be a core element of an organization’s culture. (Bossidy and Charan, 2002)
Many people misunderstood that execution is the tactical side of business. This is a big mistake. Tactics are the central to execution, and execution is not tactics. Execution is the fundamental to strategy that has to shape it.
Building blocks of Execution:
There are seven essential behaviors that form the building block of execution.
• Know your people and your business
• Insist on reality
• Set clear goals
• Follow through
• Reward the doers
• Expand people capabilities
• Know yourself. (Bossidy and Charan, 2002)
Leaders have to live their businesses. They have to know about their people’s beliefs and behaviors. Realism is the heart of execution. Realism will help the organization to know about their weaknesses. Organization should aware of people believe and behavior. It directly correlates with the strategy and structure of the company.
The heart of execution lies in three processes. The people process, the strategy process and the operations process.

The People process:
The people process is important of the three. It directly integrates with the company progress. It results in a leadership gene pool that conceives and shapes the executable strategies and converts them into operating plans.
Right people in right place:
Employees in an organization are the most reliable resources for creating good result. There is a good saying that “people are our most important asset”. It’s important to place right people in right job. The advantage of this are
They energize people
Decisive on tough issues
They get things done through others (Bossidy and Charan, 2002)
To get the right people traditional interview will not help. They should dig the person’s record how they performed in their previous jobs. Interviewer should also check their pulses by asking unexpected questions.
The strategy process:
The main aim of the strategic plan is to get the customer preference and defining the business direction and position it to move in that direction. A robust strategy is not only the compilation of numbers or predicting the future but also explains how to execute it. It should also have an action plan that explains how to do it. The outcome of this process is called commitment.
The operations process:
The operation plan is the continuation of the strategy plan and it provides the path for reaching the goal by breaking the long-term output into short term targets. Simply an operation plan looks forward to the hows.
So execution is the systematic way of approach to get things done. These three processes are integrated with one another. Leaders need to master the individual process and the way they work together as a whole.

Reference:
Ram Charan, Larry Bossidy (2002). Execution the Discipline of getting things done. New York: Crown publishing group.

Digital Policy Institute

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:39:13 -0500

Digital Policy Institute (DPI) was created and chaired by Dr. Dom Caristi, Associate Professor of Telecommunications, Ball State University. The Digital Policy Institute is responsible for research and education on issues relevant to digital media. DPI mainly focuses on topics like file sharing software, online infringement, online privacy, e-voting and other topics related to digital media. It is involved in hosting symposiums, workshops and roundtable conferences.There are totally eight members including the chairperson Dr. Dom Caristi working as a team in creating awareness on intellectual property and increases the level of awareness on intellectual theft, rationalizations and demonstrates ways to protect digital rights. [1]