Mozilla, the group that oversees scores of volunteer programmers collaborating on the free Firefox Web browser, hopes to attract more visionaries to help change the way people surf the Internet, a newspaper report said on Tuesday.
This week, the group’’s research arm, Mozilla Labs, is calling for developers, designers and artists across the globe to ponder the future of the browser and submit their creative ideas, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“We just touched the surface of the potential on the Web,” Chris Beard, vice president of Mozilla Labs, was quoted as saying.”Now we need to turn up the volume and to get more people involved, explore what the future could look like and inspire us to do it.”
China Netcom has developed eight innovations in digital communications used for the first time at the “hi-tech Olympics.”
An ASON-based intelligent optical transmission network is in use for the first time to improve the quality and security of the video transmission and special services for the Games.
It is also the first time light-compression high-definition (HD) video transmission technology has been used. Netcom is employing long-distance non-compressed methods to deliver original HD TV signal without any loss globally. The result is TV viewers can watch events almost as instantaneously as visitors on the spot, solving the problem of delay in TV transmission.
Libraries are the storehouse of knowledge as they maintain the book and other knowledge resource available - mostly in printed form. However, with the advent of digital technology and Internet connectivity, the library scenario is changing fast. Digital technology, Internet connectivity and physical content can be dovetailed resulting in Digital Library. Data available in physical form can be preserved digitally in Digital Library. Digital Libraries have the ability to enhance access to information and knowledge. They also Bridge barriers of time and space.
After almost eleven months of talks and five rounds, Colombia closed the negotiations of a free trade agreement with Canada on June 7 of 2008.
Beyond market access and rules in trade in goods and, services, and investment, and government procurement, the agreement establishes disciplines in areas such as services, investment, competition, labor, environment, and technical assistance.
Most of goods exported from Colombia already enter Canada duty-free. These include coal, coffee, bananas that together accounted for 67 percent of total Colombian
exports to Canada in 2007.
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