The largest internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia, intends to apply for the UNESCO list of World Heritage. Launched the petition, which claims that Wikipedia provides a better understanding and communication between people.
The people behind this project hope that a petition will have a great success, given the fact that over four million visitors a day use the services of the internet encyclopaedia. The intention is that Wikipedia becomes “the first digital world heritage”.
According to Katrin Schonevil, representatives of the German Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia meets the most important criterion.
“Wikipedia is a masterpiece of human achievement. Wikipedia is more than just web pages. Many think only of internet and technology. Wikipedia is actually the subject of culture, a new way of learning. The old idea of humanity, knowledge acquisition, transfer is now in the digital age”, she told the German state radio Deustch Welle.
Judging from the reactions of the UNESCO, the ambition is not likely to happen.
“The idea that the well-known internet encyclopedia inscribed in the List of World Heritage is not realistic”, says a representative of the German Commission for UNESCO, Dieter Ofenheuser. “Wikipedia is not an option. World Heritage List is intended for buildings, pyramids, historic city centers, natural areas, cathedrals and so on, but it is not intended for such ideas”.
“We look with much sympathy on Wikipedia. As a completely new kind of international libraries, it in itself is something very unique. Wikipedia is a magnificent idea that changed the world. They could enter the program with similar documents”, said the Ofenheuser. read more…
Purchase “from the chair” has its advantages, but would you still prefer personal contact and may be assisted by the seller? One of the telecommunications operators, came out to meet them to Swedes who have such requirements.
Their online store, 3LiveShop, given the possibility of direct communication with the seller, a video chat platform. Vendors, among other things, equipped with touch screen, through which can easily drag the phone model or a potential buyer interested in a table with his specifications.
The people behind the project say they have conducted many studies and research and realized that people feel insecure when they buy things online. The offer was great, they say, and choose the best solution may be complicated if there is no professional assistance.
The technology is entirely based on Flash, and used Apple computers and Unix servers, according to the official website.
Those who still do not want to see vendors may opt to only seller to be visible, to communicate with him by voice or text, and in order to function 3LiveShop required is an Internet speed of at least 0.5 Mbit/s.
Shopping on this way will not burden the customers for any extra costs, according to an official statement.
Swedish operator, announced a promotional video which explains how the service works.
In many countries, multiple IP has generated discord, between the territorial and legal on this technology, it is clear and should be clear that VoIP technology is not a service as such, but a technology that uses the Internet Protocol (IP) through which compressed and decompressed in a highly efficient data packets or datagrams, to allow communication of two or more clients via a network like the Internet. With this technology can deliver voice and videoconferencing, among others.
Defined in 1996 by the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) provides a number of different manufacturers to standards that can evolve together. For the standard structure provides the following advantages:
- Allows you to control network traffic and therefore less chance of the occurrence of significant declines in performance. Supported in IP networks have the following advantages:
- It is independent of the physical network that supports it. Allows integration with existing large IP networks.
- It is independent of hardware.
- Lets be implemented in both software and hardware, with the particularity that the hardware would eliminate the initial impact for the common user.
- The integration of video and POS.
- Provides a link to the traditional telephone network. read more…
The main advantage of these services is that it avoids high telephone charges (mainly long distance) that are common to companies in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Some cost savings are due to using a single network to carry voice and data, especially when users without using the full capacity of an existing network which they can use for VoIP at no additional cost. The VoIP to VoIP calls from any vendor are usually free in contrast to the VoIP to PSTN calls generally costs the VoIP user.
The development of VoIP codecs (aLaw, G.729, G.723, etc.) has allowed the voice is encoded into data packets of diminishing size. The result is that voice communications over IP require very small band widths. Along with continuing progress of ADSL connections in the residential market, these types of communications, are very popular for international calls.
There are two types of PSTN to VoIP services: Direct Inbound Dialing (Direct Inward Dialling: DID) and access numbers. “DID connects the caller directly to the VoIP user while access numbers require that enter the extension number of the VoIP user. The access numbers are usually charged as a local call for those who made the call from the PSTN and free to the VoIP user.
These prices can reach up to 100 times cheaper than the prices of local operators. read more…
Adobe Pacifica is the code name for an Adobe project to develop VoiP (Voice over Internet Protocol) in combination with their Flash multimedia animation platform. Pacifica was initiated by Adobe in 2007.
Pacifica was intended to extend Adobe’s Flash player and AIR development platform on the PC and Mac to provide the highest-quality voice reproduction possible. It was to be based upon on the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), a signaling protocol for voice and video over IP. It was intended to provide voice-based synchronous point-to-point communication on Internet browsers. Users were to need only a microphone and a Flash player to experience high-quality voice communication.
A Pacifica beta was set for release in early summer of 2008. But it never happened. By mid-2008, announcements and updates from Adobe on the status of Pacifica ceased, and at this time it appears the project has been either abandoned or redefined.
