I don’t know how many of you know already about this, especially those of you that don’t live in the US, but i think this is a very important subject for our tech blog.

OK! So what is Verichip? Well, Verichip was until now a tiny RDIF chip that used to be implanted in pets as a digital under skin TAG, but now Verichip has the FCC approval to be used on humans as well. Some companies in the US have already requested their employees to have the Verichip implanted and probably more will join this Big Brother style of tracking their employees.

Officially there are lots of reasonable applications for this RDIF chip but you can’t stop thinking of all the privacy issues that could come with this.

We’ll show you a video material from CNN that will explain more on this issue!

The underlying problem is that the Alexa data is derived from users who use the Alexa toolbar. At the end of the day, the audience is just not large enough, and the dependency on a willingness to install the toolbar introduces a natural bias into the date. My own experience suggests that these problem become worse and worse as you deal with lower and lower traffic level sites. Have a site that gets 20,000 visitors per day? You are not really on the map with Alexa at that level.

Because your competitors are in the same business as you are, the bias problem no longer is a factor to worry about (because the bias will affect all the compares sites equally). For most businesses this will provide a quick way to compare the relative web site traffic levels in their industry. So the accuracy problems are real, but there is still a way to use the tool to extract useful information.

A markup language helps your computer to know how to react and show you certain things! Let’s say you are using a word processor, you are typing your text and format it to fit your needs, but under those simple words there’s much more information than we see in the word processor, the information that tells our computer what font you want for that document, what size, color, if you have a paragraph after 57 words or not, if it’s bold or italic and so on.

As computers and developers became more and more sophisticated we needed to tell the computer more than how to show a text on our screen. It’s useful to define the type of content information.

When you define the content of your documents you are creating structured information. The structured information hes more to it than just the formating of the text on the screen. There are many types of structured information that we use every day. An address book hold information in a structured format. Each entry is defined.

One thing to note. XML, unlike HTML, isn’t really a language of tags. XML doesn’t have a set of tags or rules for use in that fashion. Rather, XML is the definition of how to create the tags in the first place.

XML Can Create Tags
Some say that XML is a meta language, or a language for building other languages. In a sense, this is true.

XML is a computer language for defining markup languages to create structured documents. You can use XML to create tags for defining your own documents or use tag languages created with XML for compatibility across the Internet.

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The well known auto manufacturer Maybach made a partnership with HP to produce a luxury notebook! This notebook is designed to compete on the market with the Acer Ferrari and Asus Lamborghini, but unlike the others the HP notebook will be shipped only as a notebook!HP Maybach ns42 will probably  be the name of the product and will have a cover made out of high quality leather, with the logos of the two
 brands!

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Mobile search, and mobile Web use in general, has been over-hyped by many people for years. The promise of widespread mobile Internet use has never come to fruition, especially in the U.S., but it has steadily grown.

In 2005, research from Telephia found that search was done by less than 3 percent of the mobile audience. In December 2006, Forrester Research reported that 11 percent of U.S. mobile consumers search on the mobile Internet.

According to an August 2006 report from the Mobile Marketing Association, Mobile search is in its early stages of adoption, but shows significant upside potential. In a study of mobile device users, 31-percent had used search in the past month, and more than half of the phone users that were not aware of the ability to search via their phones said they planned to use mobile search after they were made aware.

While 2005 and 2006 have each been hailed as the “Year of Mobile,” there are increasing signs that those predictions may finally come true in 2007. And if not, there’s always next year.

At the beginning  of 2007 Steve Jobs said in his keynote that phones shouln’t be built with a pre designed keyboard and presented the way the iPhone interacts with the user with the help of it’s multitouch screen! Now Nokia wants to take this idea to the next level: the shapeless phone! It’s called Nokia 888 and it’s very flexible, you can keep it in virtually any shape you want, as a clip, a bracelet and so on! The built in liquid battery, the flexible touch screen allow you to do so many cool things with your phone!

Used technologies:

- Liquid battery

- Flexible touchscreen

- Speech recognition

- Touch sensitive body that allows it to change with the environment

- A Body mechanism that can be programed to change it’s shape in different situations

Functionality:

- you’ll be able to carry the phone no only in your pocket, but on your wrist, on your shirt, and so on

- the big touch screen gives you plenty of display space

- the ability to change it’s shape makes it more ergonomical

- you can share shapes with your friends