"IBM develops 3D patient record software"

Although the article is not directly related to the Web I think it’s valuable  to mention such as technology development as 3D software for medical records. Mainly, ” Physicians at Thy-Mors hospital in Denmark and IBM have developed patient record software that uses a three-dimensional computer model of the human anatomy to visualize a patient's medical information.” It emphasizes the importance of technology in our everyday lives – the better it is, the more dependant on it we become. Immediately, it made me think of the future. Maybe we will not need any appointment in a doctor’s office to evaluate our illness. And medical examination will be conducted through the Web and you’ll be able to see, on a 3D model, what’s wrong with you. The only thing you’ll have to buy will be medication, but …you can do it online and have it delivered straight to your door. Well, the future is intriguing.

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Web Vocabulary #3

Encryption – The translation of data into a secret code. Encryption is the most effective way to achieve data security. To read an encrypted file, you must have access to a secret key or password that enables you to decrypt it. Unencrypted data is called plain text; encrypted data is referred to ascipher text. Click here for source 

Firewall – A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks connected to the Internet, especially intranets. All messages entering or leaving the intranet pass through the firewall, which examines each message and blocks those that do not meet the specified security criteria. Click here for source

Proxy Server – A server that sits between a client application, such as a Web browser, and a real server It intercepts all requests to the real server to see if it can fulfill the requests itself. If not, it forwards the request to the real server. Click here for source

Script – Another term for macro or batch file, a script is a list of commands that can be executed without user interaction. A script language is a simple programming language with which you can write scripts.  Click here for source

ActiveX – A loosely defined set of technologies developed by Microsoft for sharing information among different applications. ActiveX is an outgrowth of two other Microsoft technologies called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) and COM (Component Object Model). As a moniker, ActiveX can be very confusing because it applies to a whole set of COM-based technologies. Most people, however, think only of ActiveX controls, which represent a specific way of implementing ActiveX technologies.  Click here for source

"Web founder warns against website snooping"

“Surfers on the Internet are at increasing risk from governments and corporations tracking the sites they visit to build up a picture of their activities.” These are the words of Tim Berners-Lee, a person who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1990. Snooping is a way to find out who people are and what habits they have behind curtains.

The fact is that most of us when surfing the Web do not realize someone is spying our actions. Well, the more developed technology is, the less privacy we have.

What Berners-Lee also emphasizes is that “the Web is not all done, it’s just the tip of the iceberg” and “the new changes are going to rock the world even more.” He has in mind “linked data, in which individual bits of data are machine-readable, not just Web pages they appear on.” According to him such development has a great potential when generating/managing data by a user and can be used in a variety of ways. 

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Web Vocabulary #2

Evite.com – a social planning website for creating, sending and managing online invitations. Owned by IAC/Interactive Corp. Click here for source

Delicious.com  – a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing and discovering bookmarks. Click here for source

Mappoint – is a technology and a specific software created by Microsoft that allows users to view, edit and integrate maps. Click here for source

Upcoming.com – a social event calendar website with upcoming events: music concerts, art exhibits, business conferences, etc. users can indicate their plans. Click here for source

Google AdSense - is an advertisement application run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and more recently, video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. Click here for source

"Google Finding More Fans in the Workplace"

I think that nowadays, in the era of crisis, every single company is trying to cut the costs. They can find cheaper alternatives by using Google Search Appliance, which has “the ability to search all content through one search box. This includes content within your web servers, intranets, file shares, databases, content management systems, and business applications. The Google Search Appliance incorporates hardware, software, and enterprise-specific relevance algorithms into a single, easy-to-deploy solution” (source). Well, the fact is that if Google can provide such cheaper solutions, why not to use it? I think Google is a company that is worth to invest to, since it’s all the time improving its products and implementing new ideas/solutions. Google is growing each day…

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