By Our Special Correspondent
First it was e-commerce, then came m-commerce, and now the buzzword is u-commerce aka ubiquitous-commerce. What ever the name, e-commerce is ginning popularity in the international market.
We get most of the gadgets that we use today in our day-to day lives from the B2B sites. With mobile phones devices penetrating our everyday lives and computing technologies omnipresent, electronic commerce technologies are set to take its next big leap.
Cloud computing will have a crucial role to play in the technology evolution, but, unfortunately so far, the ‘clouds’ of different providers are not inter-operable, pointed out executive director, C-DAC, Bangalore, N. Sarat Chandra Babu, “Clouds don’t talk. Sky computing is the need of the hour,” he said pitching for open software that could greatly aid inters operability.
Further, with the rapid explosion of social networking sites, managing social media and harnessing data patterns to make the most of social media is another area that holds a lot of promise.
The total network traffic on internet will increase to 56 Exabyte’s a month in 2013 from the current 21 Exabyte, Dr. Babu quoted Cisco experts. The annual global IP traffic will reach two thirds of a zettabyte in the same year.
Keynote address
He was delivering the on mobile internet devices organized by city-based Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology and Aliciom, a French technology firm here Friday.
The two-day conference had over 100 participants from all over the country presenting 65 papers in eight sessions.
From security and user experience, performance enhancement techniques and applications and services to hardware design, network protocols and routing algorithms, wireless sensor networks and communications and enabling technologies, the conference halls were abuzz with ideas.
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