Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Pandora Brings 10,000 Additional Comedy Clips to Its Database, Giving the Same Services as Music


Pandora has just taken a step ahead after mastering the service of music; it is now beginning to try it’s like with jokes. Pandora has added to its data base of Internet radio service more than ten thousand comedy clips, which are performed by even more than seven hundred different renowned comedians. The same services will be provided with Pandora's Comedy Genome Project, as they are with the Music Genome Project. Pandora will analyze in detail entire content of every clip and determine its style, content and delivery; then it will perform different sophisticated procedures for finding out that which out which comedians are somewhat similar in one way or the other.
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Some of the methods to determine this similarity are like delivery of the jokes or the top on which one comedian has his jokes most on. This unordinary and reliable services of analyzing carefully to recommend the user, is the technique which too Pandora very far in the Internet music industry and has made it a powerhouse it is today.

Apple Announces to Launch New Version of iMac Today, Debuting Its Thunderbolt Technology


Apple has kept itself busy with more and more gadgets making its launch to the market, this week. The new iMac is reportedly extremely enhanced comparing to the previous version, selling at a price of $1,199 for the base model. According to the press release from Apple, it has quoted that the new iMac has a powerful processors, which is measurable to almost 70% faster than the previous versions. It has also been bragged by Apple, that this new iMac has enhanced graphics capabilities than ever before, asserting that this time it’s three times better than before.
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Apple has a reputation to protect with its new products, as it is recognized for its modernizing technology including iMac, which is introduction the new data-transfer technique called Thunderbolt I/O technology. It has been already promised by many, this release will set new stands gold standards for other companies to achieve, especially in the market of desktop computers. Thunderbolt has been told to be working several times faster, in terms of transfer speed, along with an additional better compatibility with the system as well. The technology has more than one interfaces and devices, and this technology is some that Apple has been bigheaded about, considering the main advantages and selling points of its new iMac.

The News of Osama Bin Ladin’s Death Gave another Internet Surge, but It Was Still Well Responding the despite Boosted Traffic


The news of Osama bin Laden's death was another very significant back-to-back for internet age today, relating to the recent royal wedding. The internet traffic was observed to have been jumped dramatically, for almost all the trendy U.S. news websites. And considering such great number of internet traffic, the outages and slowdowns were observed to be extremely less severe related to the traffic and situations at the time of other such previous news events in the past. This means that despite the extra-ordinary internet traffic, there were very few people which actually had to see any kind of error message.
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Keynote Systems Inc. is company located in San Mateo, California which has been monitoring the trends of Internet traffic from a longtime now. The manager of company, Dave Karow, said reported that the first reason for such scenario are smartphones, as it was seen to be very helpful to spread the message of Osama’s death. This consequently means that more people attempted to scroll through the same news sites from their smart phones. Despite all these attempts were simultaneous, the web pages for smartphones are always displayed with slimmer version of the actual Web page, and this in turns reduces the load on the particular websites to a considerate degree.

Mobile advertisements rising in Asia

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The trend of more advertisers feeling comfortable to reach their audience through their mobile phones is growing steeply in the Asia-Pacific region. It has been growing on a way much steeper rate than the global rate, this speculation was announced by the international mobile ad network, InMobi, this Tuesday. It said that the advertisements on the smartphones has gone up to even above 17.6 billion "impressions" just one month of March this year, which is an increase of about 26% from previous four months statistics of the year, it mentioned in the report. Whereas, overall increase in the global market was only 21% for the same exact time period.
InMobi is actually a marketing firm which functions as a middleman for both the advertisers and smartphone users. It reported that the current advertising market is being dominated by the exceptional growth in the use of smartphones. InMobi actually takes up almost around 22% of the total smartphone ads of the region. Smartphone users are published very interactive advertisements during the time they use, the internet with their mobile internet browser or play games online, on most advanced smartphone devices to date.
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