Tag: REAL TIME

Watch the video! Pretty awesome, eh? The problem is, as TechCrunch says, what about the advertising? Does every page refresh count as an ad impression? Will slower typists incur more screen refreshes? By the same rationale, surely real-time results like that must chew through the bandwidth, especially as search results become more interactive and media-rich. Chances are, though, we won't ...

You thought GPU-accelerated fonts in Firefox were cool...? Well, Internet Explorer 9 will go one HUGE step further: GPU-accelerated HTML5. Websites will, at long last, be hardware accelerated -- as long as you're using IE9 anyway. I have no idea why we've had to wait quite this long for DirectX utilization in the browser. Zooming, scrolling, physics -- all REALLY fast, really smooth. They ...

Not only will the next version of Microsoft Exchange transcribe telephone calls, it'll go one step further: Microsoft is also trying to translate telephone calls in real time. You're speaking English, she's speaking Russian -- but you can both understand each other! HOW COOL IS THAT? It was only a matter of time, of course -- and Google's also working on the same tech -- but still, watch the ...

RSS readers are a fantastic way to get news, but what if RSS just isn't fast enough for you? Well, Speed Racer, you'll love PubSubHubBub, the protocol that pushed new blog posts out to your reader, instead of waiting for your reader to come looking for them. The result: you get new posts from PubSub-enabled blogs in real time. "But," you wonder, "what if my reader doesn't support PubSub?" If ...

If you're looking to implement a secure, private chat environment in your company, have a look at what's going on at Ignite Realtime with their OpenFire real time collaboration server and Spark cross-platform IM client. Being that they are open source, both OpenFire and Spark are free; that makes it easy to convince management to give it a try. But the open source nature of the products also ...

Tumblr, the fast-growing lightweight blogging platform, is constantly adding new features. Tumblr's latest move is to start pushing users' blog updates in real time, using PubSubHubbub (try saying that 10 times fast). Tumblr's real-time will be powered by Superfeedr, which is the same service used by Tumblr competitor Posterous. This is more of a step for the future than a right-now sort of ...

Never be late again with real time streaming traffic on your mobile device. This way cool mobile traffic report from 3rd Dimension is a free application that lets users keep on top of real time traffic reports through live videos. The application will only run on compatible mobile devices like Blackberry's, Palm Treos, and Motorola RAZRs. Don't know how we missed this one, but it launched back in ...

I try not to post every cool AJAX gadget that turns up, but this one, though just a proof of concept, is pretty fun: AJAX Translator translates the text that you type in almost-real-time. You choose your "in" and "out" languages, type into the top box, and as you type a translation is printed in the bottom box. Perhaps not especially useful, unless you're trying to communicate ...