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La Oficina Virtual
144 Un servicio que usan mas de 400 millones de personas en todo el mundo
La Oficina Virtual
146 Telfono inalmbrico que se conecta a la lnea telefnica y a la computadora. Viene con el servicio Skype instalado. Agenda para guardar hasta 50 nmeros. Con 10 tonos a eleccin. Topcom 211 Se puede usar con MSN Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger y Skype. Con micrfono y altavoz incorporado. Incluye cinco tipos de ringtones para llamadas entrantes.
Por: Ricardo Sametband Recurso: La Nacin http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=791304 Marzo 2009 Foto: Ilustracin: Simn Chvez La idea no es nueva, pero tom fuerza por la evolucin de dos tecnologas: AJAX, una combinacin de lenguajes de programacin que permite interactuar con una aplicacin basada en la Web, y la banda ancha, que lleg a empresas, hogares y cibercafs.
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148 Hoy es posible tener las aplicaciones que usaramos en la oficina, sin importar qu computadora usemos. Basta con acceder a la Web para tenerlas gratis, junto con nuestros archivos. No hay que instalar nada; alcanza con un browser moderno, como Internet Explorer 6, Firefox u Opera. Los buscadores fueron pioneros en esto: Google permite personalizar su pgina para usuarios registrados en www.google.com/ig , Microsoft, en www.live.com y Yahoo! en ar.my.yahoo.com . No usa AJAX, pero tiene el mismo espritu: hacer de la Web un reservorio de aplicaciones y archivos generados a gusto del usuario. Recin llegados estn los portales como Netvibes (www.netvibes.com ), Protopage ( www.protopage.com ) o Pageflakes ( www.pageflakes.com ). Permiten buscar en uno o ms motores, y aprovechar el resto de la pantalla para incluir ms informacin, como el estado del tiempo, fotos, noticias en formato RSS (ver ms abajo), favoritos, juegos, un anotador o una lista de tareas. Y revisar e-mail: al cliquear sobre el mensaje, el servicio lo lleva a la pgina del webmail. Cada herramienta se puede ubicar en la pgina a gusto del usuario. Basta con entrar al sitio para que comiencen a cargarse los datos, que se actualizan en forma automtica. Una vez registrados (con un e-mail y una contrasea) estas herramientas estn disponibles en cualquier PC conectada a la Red, sin importar su ubicacin. Meebo ( www.meebo.com ) y E-messenger ( www.e-messenger.net ) son mensajeros instantneos compatibles con los servicios ms populares. Y Hotmail o Yahoo!, entre otros, son capaces de almacenar una lista de contactos tan completa como la de Windows, adems de una agenda de citas. Gmail todava no tiene calendario, aunque se rumorea que est desarrollando uno. Yahoo! ofrece una lista de tareas, que al igual que su calendario se pueden compartir. Hay alternativas, como CalendarHub ( www.calendarhub.com ), SpongeCell ( spongecell.com ), 30boxes ( 30boxes.com ) o Upcoming ( upcoming.org ). Exportan eventos como RSS, todo un mes en formato iCal (el de los calendarios de Mac OS, que tendr soporte en Windows Vista), con versiones privadas o p-
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150 mximo de subida mensual). Permiten organizar los datos en carpetas, definir cules son pblicas, y dems. Los agregadores de noticias RSS permiten recibir noticias, fotos y otro tipo de contenidos sin tener que visitar el sitio que los origina; entre otros, estn Bloglines ( www.bloglines.com ), Alesti ( www.alesti.org ), FeedFeeds ( www.feedfeeds.com ) o NewsGator ( www.newsgator.com ). Una pyme aprovechar herramientas como ContactOffice ( www.contactoffice.com ), Backpack ( www.backpackit.com ) o ZohoPlanner ( www.zohoplanner.com ) para crear listas y notas, subir archivos o armar proyectos. AirSet ( www.airset.com ), sincroniza sus datos con Outlook y Palm Desktop para tenerlos en lnea. Basecamp ( www.basecamphq.com ) y Voo2do ( www.voo2do.com ) permiten coordinar un grupo y asignar tareas y datos, sin importar dnde estn los usuarios ni qu PC tienen: la Web incluye las herramientas necesarias.
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152 files, chatrooms and, of course, friends. Applications are free to download and communities are free to join, while members are charged only for SMS and VoIP calls, bridging communications between mobile devices and desktop computers. The softwares are fully functional on both 3G and any smart (Internet-enabled) 2.5G phones running such platforms as Java, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, S60 and the iPhone OS. Nimbuzz in particular boasts compatibility with Skype, Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Live Messenger, Jabber, MySpace and Facebook. But it is hardly alone in partnering with traditional desktop live chat sites, as well as industry partners around the world. Playfully packaged, internationally-based Fring works with WiFi providers in Europe and Australia as well as SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) providers based in both North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, South Africa and China, also consolidating all chat buddies into a single mobile contact list. In this context, one way to stand out from the all-encompassing bunch with the global reach is through niche audience focus. MyHappyPlanet, a free online language-exchange network that allows members to create profiles and chat with language partners in real time (text, voice, video), will go mobile in the near future. A2Aworld, an upcoming mobile social networking startup, will focus on connecting social networkers between the worlds two largest online communities -- America and Asia -- in terms of communication, information, culture and ecommerce. Furthermore, its business model is based on revenue from emerging online advertising, VoIP calls and premium membership fees, without the mobile ads and viral marketing.
Fierce competition
Meanwhile in the mobile marketplace, VoIP competition is getting fierce. While SIPphones open-source Gizmo Project was heralded by early beta testers as the first viable Skype alternative in July 2005, its clear today that Skype itself is the big winner in the VoIP game. Most recently, iSkoot has extended its partnership with Skype, following its collaboration with mobile operator 3 for the global launch of the 3 Skypephone in October 2007, which was the first mass-market Skype-enabled handset as a carrier-integrated solution for mobile-VoIP IM services. But mobile VoIP itself still faces multiple challenges, including fragmented access and distribution. While some applications choose to collaborate with mobile network carriers, others choose to compete with them by using data networks such as WiFi. In the near future, there will be a hyper-convergence solution, predicts A2Aworlds Michael Liu. However, WiFi/WiMax to cell/IMS will be playing a bigger and bigger role. In the long run, there will be all-in-IP IMS solutions. Insecure communications also pose a new threat to VoIP, as Liu points out: In the early days of VoIP, people were mostly concerned with its cost, functionality and reliability. Now that VoIP is gaining wide acceptance and becoming one of the mainstream communication technologies, security has become a major issue. And to satisfy the YouTube generation, applications such as myZen Mobile encourage the circulation of photos and viral videos optimized for mobile viewing in real time, with an all-in-one interface featuring YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo podcast, etc, with the possibility to add other community sites such as ifilm and blogger.
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Going mobile
Simon Newstead, founder and CEO of Frenzoo, a social-networking site specialized in 3D fashion avatars, is enthusiastic about going mobile. We have a roadmap to implement our service on mobile platforms such as iPhone, he says. Today users are already using 3D in gaming platforms like the wildly successful Nintendo DS Lite, so the logical integration of 3D avatars into the mobile platform will certainly present a great opportunity. Technically, new handsets already integrate hardware acceleration for 3G, and battery life is increasing rapidly. Now the only remaining factor is availability or higher-speed affordable mobile bandwidth, which is already emerging in advanced mobile markets such as South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan. Indeed in Hong Kong, where the mobile-phone penetration rate hovers around 150 percent, mastering the mobile market is becoming increasingly lucrative. Hong Kongs largest mobile network carrier CSL introduced Asias first 3G videosharing service in 2005, launched Hong Kongs first 3G interactive mobile TV in 2006, and partnered with blogging site Xanga in early 2008. From the carriers point of view, peoples choice of mobile communication is a question of coverage and user-friendliness -- of price, packaging, usability, according to CSLs (Create a Simple Life) chief marketing officer Christina Teo. We try to replicate any desktop experience to the mobile phone. You can call it replicating, extending, adding value, continues Teo. And with every new partnership, we need to make sure that the application works on each new handset we launch... With mobile phones [as opposed to desktop computers] there is still some concern, stigma, so we need to educate people to get over that hurdle. Its the faster we can get it at the click of a button. More and more, the mission of the mobile industry is to make seamless that virtual space between desktop and handset.
Its where we want people to embrace life, says Teo. Its what we all aim to do. No downtime, no downspace... Over time Xanga will add more features, and we will mobilize as much as possible. Podemos traducir este artculo, cualquier texto o sitio web mediante el traductor on-line http://www.babelfish.com./
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