In my previous article – “Making Sense of Video Streaming Formats”, I discussed various video streaming formats and their differences. Before you plan for broadcasting videos, or preparing video streams for streaming, it is important that you understand various video container formats. As a matter of fact, half the mystique in video streaming is knowing
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Making Sense of Video Streaming Formats
Watching streaming video is perhaps the most dominant activity on Internet in terms of bandwidth usage and popularity with average Internet users. Both live streaming and the streaming of the stored video contents require understanding of video formats, streaming servers, content distribution networks (CDNs) and streaming protocols. This is a very confusing area even for
Cloud Monitoring Tools and Best Practices
Cloud computing has seen significant growth in the last few years. There is a clear boom in companies moving away from the dedicated data centers to public or cloud services. This trend is likely to grow even stronger in the coming months as more organizations find value in moving a part (or all) of their
Cross-site Scripting and What You can Do About it
Almost every day we hear or read about the eCommerce sites losing customer credit card data or other critical operational data. The companies lose critical information such as credit cards data, patient health records, and social security numbers to the hackers due to vulnerabilities in their customer facing web applications. While it may be impossible
Drupal vs Joomla vs WordPress, The Best Open Source CMS for Enterprise Web Portals
Summary: There are tons of arguments in favor of each CMS and forums are full of discussions. This blog summarizes the core strength of each CMS, for someone not familiar with the strength of each CMS. At my company, we work with all three CMS platforms, our conclusion is that : All of the CMSes
Developing Great Looking iPhone Applications
Summary iPhone has totally revolutionized the mobile application development. The real reason is the simplicity of the process by which any one can submit applications to iTunes to monetize their efforts. This has its pros and cons both. Just because everyone can submit an application, there is a flood gate of applications being submitted every
iPhone Development: Porting Java Script Web Applications to Apple’s iPhone
Summary: iPhone has revolutionized the mobile world like no other product did before. iPhone touch screen clearly was a generation ahead, and Apple’s marketing as always was flawless – but there was something more to this success. iTune made is easy for the application to be distributed. But what made iPhone hit with developers were
Bluetooth Troubleshooting Guide for Mobile App developers
It is important to start by noting that Bluetooth wireless technology is a wireless standard and specification that product manufacturers build into their products. The manufacturer who produces the Bluetooth enabled product does so in compliance with an industry standard but integrates the technology into its product in its unique way. Therefore, for technical
Mobile Software Development and Mobile Porting – Technology and Cost Issues
There has been big growth in the mobile applications in the last few years. But, before you begin on the path to develop mobile applications, there are a few factors that you must consider to minimize the development costs. We have been doing mobile development for over 20 years, and this has taught us a
Mobile Games Development – Options, Market Directions and Technologies
Mobile phones’ primary purpose was to make phone calls, but that role has now transformed into a personal tool that combines a lot of other functionalities that mobile people need. Recently, mobile phones have emerged as personal entertainment device specially in youth and teenagers. Today’s mobile Phones can play music, browse Internet, record and watch