Development of the Internet of Things

Today, there are roughly 1.5 billion Internet-enabled PCs and over 1 billion Internet-enabled cell phones. The present “Internet of PCs” will move towards an “Internet of Things” in which 50 to 100 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020. Some projections indicate that in the same year, the number of mobile machine … Read more

Application Pages vs. Functional Paths

The enumeration techniques described so far have been implicitly driven by one particular picture of how web application content may be conceptualized and catalogued. This picture is inherited from the pre application days of the World Wide Web, in which web servers functioned as repositories of static information, retrieved using URLs that were effectively filenames. … Read more

The HTTP Protocol

The hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is the core communications protocol used to access the World Wide Web and is used by all of today’s web applications. It is a simple protocol that was originally developed for retrieving static text-based resources, and has since been extended and leveraged in various ways to enable it to support the … Read more

World Wide Web

Sometimes we interchangeably use the term internet and world wide web or simply the web, as it is popularly known as. But web is only one of the several the utilities that internet provides. Some of the popular service that internet provides other then web is e-mail, usenet, messaging service, FTP, etc. The web use … Read more