商业报道:手机上网新体验

New Internet-based gadgets¹ 手机上网新体验

Browse² the Web with your voice, share 'how to' projects online, connect devices and go social on your mobile phone.

I’m here in San Francisco at the Web 2.0 Expo. A gathering³ of technology thing companies are all here to look at what’s latest and greatest in web-based computers. We are gonna go inside and see what’s new from large companies and small.

Instructables is a project sharing website. Instructables is a platform, and users can put up projects step by step format⁴, so that you can repeat it. But it’s on any subject you can put up a project that you are excited about and teach me how to do it, I put up a project and teach you how to do that. I can put up 100 steps if I need to. I can put up pictures, I can embed⁵ video, I can put up CAD files if I need to say seen something to a printer file if I need to be able to do something truly complicated. People put up the projects they’re passionate⁶ about, and then they really, the least thing that also comes from the web is that we can interact around it. So people say oh, I do that too, and here is a picture of my finished product, which I think is totally cool.

Nokia’s actually made a strategic shift in its business for the future over the last year. And then Nokia has now moved from being the world’s largest handset manufacturer for mobile phones to now creating a focus in our core business around building Internet services and software that integrate with your mobile phones. Web2.0 is really about bringing the connection between people and communities to the web and building a very people-centric web. And we've, because Nokia’s business is expanding in connecting people from the very beginning and through voice, we are now bringing our services into that space as well. So people is very much at the center of our OV, a strategy that we announced in all the applications that we built.

We are launching a location-based search application on your mobile device, mostly launching a library today. It is called Tellme by mobile, and what you can do is you look for businesses near you, using the power of your voice as an input⁷. You can also look at movies, weather, traffic, maps things like that .Nick’s Crispy Taco’s .There you go, so you’ve found Nick’s Crispy Taco’s. And you can either call them, you can get a map, and directions or share.

Life Mesh⁸ is really kind of born out of the two dominant⁹ trends in the industry today. So one, clearly the Internet is becoming more and more central to our digital life. So that‘s our work style or life style. And then two, we are all adopting a wider and wider diversity of increasingly powerful devices. So all this is pretty good, we do lots of interesting things on the web and even those devices in isolation¹⁰ are pretty useful as well. But we quickly run into a problem we realize we can’t get all this to work together. So really Life Mesh is designed to begin solving these problems. A generic¹¹ definition of Life Mesh is it’s a software plus services platform that enlivens your devices by making them aware of each other over the Internet.

1 gadgets   

n.小机械，小器具（ gadget的名词复数 ）

参考例句：

• Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of gadgets. 当然。设想是房屋不再充满小配件。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
• This meant more gadgets and more experiments. 这意味着要设计出更多的装置，做更多的实验。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史

2 browse   

vi.随意翻阅，浏览；(牛、羊等)吃草

参考例句：

• I had a browse through the books on her shelf.我浏览了一下她书架上的书。
• It is a good idea to browse through it first.最好先通篇浏览一遍。

3 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

4 format   

n.设计，版式；[计算机]格式，DOS命令:格式化(磁盘)，用于空盘或使用过的磁盘建立新空盘来存储数据；v.使格式化，设计，安排

参考例句：

• Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
• The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。

5 embed   

vt.把…嵌(埋、插)入，扎牢；使深留脑中

参考例句：

• The harpoon struck but did not embed.鱼叉击中了但并没有插入。
• This photo showed us how did the root of plant embed the soil deeply.这张照片显示植物的根是如何深入到土壤里去的。

6 passionate   

adj.热情的，热烈的，激昂的，易动情的，易怒的，性情暴躁的

参考例句：

• He is said to be the most passionate man.据说他是最有激情的人。
• He is very passionate about the project.他对那个项目非常热心。

7 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。

8 mesh   

n.网孔，网丝，陷阱；vt.以网捕捉，啮合，匹配；vi.适合； [计算机]网络

参考例句：

• Their characters just don't mesh.他们的性格就是合不来。
• This is the net having half inch mesh.这是有半英寸网眼的网。

9 dominant   

adj.支配的，统治的；占优势的；显性的；n.主因，要素，主要的人(或物)；显性基因

参考例句：

• The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
• She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。

10 isolation   

n.隔离，孤立，分解，分离

参考例句：

• The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
• He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后，生活比较孤寂。

11 generic   

adj.一般的，普通的，共有的

参考例句：

• I usually buy generic clothes instead of name brands.我通常买普通的衣服，不买名牌。
• The generic woman appears to have an extraordinary faculty for swallowing the individual.一般妇女在婚后似乎有特别突出的抑制个性的能力。