Panasonic "LifeWall"

LifeWall - The wall that interacts with you.

With powerful life-size images and advanced HD quality, it allows you to operate virtually everything inside and outside of the home.

http://www.panasonic.com/cesshow/

Semantic Web

Humans are capable of using the Web to carry out tasks such as finding the Finnish word for "cat", reserving a library book, and searching for a low price on a DVD. However, a computer cannot accomplish the same tasks without human direction because web pages are designed to be read by people, not machines. The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so that they can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing and combining information on the web.

Currently, the World Wide Web is based mainly on documents written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), a markup convention that is used for coding a body of text interspersed with multimedia objects such as images and interactive forms.The semantic web takes the concept further; it involves publishing the data in a language, Resource Description Framework (RDF), specifically for data, so that it can be categorized as human perception and be "understood" by computers.



References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

Yahoo! Everything

Want to browse all Yahoo products in one place?

Try this link: http://everything.yahoo.com/

Microsoft "Surface"

Surface, Microsoft’s first surface computer, provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface computing breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology, changing the way people interact with all kinds of everyday information — from photos to maps to menus.

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AT&T’s deployment of Microsoft Surface will change the way consumers interact with mobile devices and applications. Visitors to AT&T stores will be able to review features of a mobile device by simply placing it on Surface, which will recognize the device and provide a graphical overview of its capabilities.

More Details:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/surfacecomputing/default.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/videos.html

Evolution of tech companies logos

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/the-evolution-of-tech-companies-logos/

Service Oriented Architecture

SOA is an approach to designing systems—in effect the architectural drawings or blueprint—that directs how IT resources will be integrated and which services will be exposed for use. In contrast, Web services is an implementation methodology that uses specific standards and language protocols to execute on a SOA solution.

http://frsun.downloads.edgesuite.net/sun/07D01068/?intcmp=1435

http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/solutions/soa/overview.mspx

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/newto/

The Best Free Software for Windows

http://www.labnol.org/software/download/essential-free-software-programs-for-windows/1994/