software directs the response at a nearby command center

With a tsunami roaring toward Sendai, Japan, Hewlett-Packard's Photon Engine software directs the response at a nearby command center. Collecting data from traffic cameras, first-responder vehicles, smartphones, and satellites, the software displays information on a huge touchscreen. It lets emergency personnel have what military types call "full situational awareness," and quickly suggest escape routes. It's only a simulation, one that took place recently on HP's Cupertino (California) campus. Todd Bradley nods approval. The executive vice-president of printing and personal systems at the computer giant's newly merged PC and printer business says Photon Engine is a step toward renewing the company's "heritage of innovation" and silencing critics who say its best days have passed. Bradley and Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman say they plan to reverse the decline in research and development spending that occurred under previous CEOs. Last year, HP spent 2.6% of sales on R&D, down from more than 4% seven years ago. "We underinvested in innovation," Whitman says.

The popularity of mobile computing - and HP's inability to adapt to this new world - has left Bradley's group producing commoditized gear with dwindling profits. Operating margins have fallen from 8% a decade ago to 5.2% in January. The increasingly paperless offices that mobile devices make possible have weakened HP's once highly-profitable printer business. The company's attempt to enter more lucrative markets by spending Amountin $1.2 billion on mobile device maker Palm in 2010 fell flat. HP stopped making devices using Palm's webOS software in 2011. Bradley acknowledges that the company is behind in integrating hardware and software into "really compelling packages that can compete with Apple and anyone out there". Photon Engine is an early attempt at catch-up. The package varies, but typically includes projectors, screens, and a high-powered personal computers and costs Amountin $10,000 to Amountin $12,500. At the heart of it is software called Pluribus, which is geared to taking disparate forms of data - video streams, GPS coordinates overlaid on a map, Web pages, even 3D footage - and then instantly formatting high-resolution versions for screens of any size.

The data can come from iPads, traffic cameras, or other sources, and the output can be displayed with cheap projectors or on Amountin $100,000 screens appropriate for concert stages. Thanks to Photon Engine, HP is "years ahead" of rivals in the so-called immersive displays business, says Richard Doherty, co-founder and director of consulting firm Envisioneering Group. "It should be named the emotion engine because it gives people the ability to see motion, and process information, with the same depth and connection that you'd get from looking at something with your naked eye," he says. Fashion house Marchesa recently used Photon Engine at a Bergdorf Goodman store in Florida. Shoppers wore glasses to watch 3D images of models wearing Marchesa's spring line saunter across a huge screen. Marchesa marketing director Allison Lubin credits the technology with doubling sales that weekend. IMS Research expects the immersive displays business to grow 40 percent annually and reach Amountin $7 billion worldwide by 2013. Photon Engine could also help HP sell monitors, projectors, and high-powered PCs, lines that brought in Amountin $3 billion in sales last year. HP is waiting for the fall launch of Windows 8, with its new touch-optimised Metro interface, to have another go at the consumer mobile market. Bradley hints a big emphasis will be on convertible laptops - lightweight PCs with swiveling or detachable touchscreens - to compete with Apple's iPad and other tablets. Whitman says HP's turnaround will take three to five years. "It took us a while to get into this, and it's going to take us a while to get out," she said in February.

Source: The Economic Times

machine and people need to be educated about what all can be done with such machine

In the field of engineering and science, ‘Nanotechnology’ seems to be the buzz word. Technically speaking, it is not an easy task to create something that is nano, considering that nano means engineering functional systems at molecular scale. However, it is a proven fact that scientists are capable of surprising the society and Azeem Suri, an electronic and telecommunication engineer from Nerul based RAIT College, who created India’s first nanotechnology electrochemical machine. Suri is chief executive officer at Vashi-based Sinergy Nano Systems. The ECM, named Hyper-10, was inaugurated on Friday. The machine would cater to the booming and emerging space of Micro and Nano Technology. The machine, after its inauguration, was handed over to Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, to help them conduct strategic research for the Defence Research and Development Organization project.

On the occasion, Suri said, “The making of the machine is a result of more than five years of extensive hard work. I started working on this machine in 2006 and the design and concept was ready on paper within a year. After that it took some time to get the machine ready considering the fact that I wanted it to be small table top machine, which could expand in all proportions. Suri added that he was well aware of the fact that there’s not a ready market for this technology, for such a machine and people need to be educated about what all can be done with such machine. “It was my mission to promote micro technology in our country by providing low cost, economic, easy to use and table top solution for educational institutes,” said Suri. The inaugural ceremony o Friday was attended by senior academicians, scientist and researchers and other dignitaries who praised of the new machine.

Source: DNA Money

microsoft partners developed automated tools to transfer websites

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Microsoft is sticking to its plan to shut down its office livesmall business  suite of cloud-based services on monday, even though it seems many customers are either unaware of the deadline or are having difficulties migrating. many office livesmall business   customers are still posting questions and reporting problems related to the migration in discussion forums, social media sites and blogs, as the clock ticks. it's unclear how many office livesmall business   customers remain oblivious to the suite's impending shutdown. office livesmall business   is used primarily for email communications and website hosting. microsoft partners still plans to start dismantling office livesmall business   after midnight u.s. pacific time on tuesday, when it will start taking down office livesmall business  - hosted websites, a microsoft spokeswoman confirmed. however, microsoft partners will keep operational the windows live hotmail custom email addresses hosted by the service for six months, she said via email. microsoft will also provide an online form that office livesmall business   customers who miss today's deadline can fill out to recover lost website data, she said. it's not clear when microsoft decided to keep the email accounts active for six more months and to offer the website data-recovery form. the decisions may be a sign that microsoft partners is aware that a significant number of office livesmall business   customers will not transition in time.

Microsoft email and website hosting providers

microsoft declined to estimate what percentage of the office livesmall business   customer base has migrated away from the service already and what percentage remains on the service. microsoft first announced its intention to close office livesmall business   about 18 months ago and launched the suite's replacement, office 365, in june of last year. customers also have the option to migrate to non-microsoft email and website hosting providers such as godaddy. "we're communicating directly with office livesmall business   users via email, the office livesmall business   community, the office livesmall business   website and through notifications in the service to help them transition to office 365 or another provider," the microsoft spokeswoman wrote. microsoft has an online transition center for office livesmall business  , where it published, among other things, a transition guide for customers willing to do the migration manually.  several microsoft partners are also providing migration services and tools. one of them is lucid pointe, based in stamford, connecticut. lucid pointe has been providing office livesmall business   migration services since the launch of office 365, on whose implementations it specializes, said robert clark, managing principal at the company.

Business   migration services

however, the demand for office livesmall business   migration services began to pick up considerably at the beginning of march of this year, he said via email. so far, lucid pointe has provided migration services to "dozens" of office livesmall business   customers, all of them transferred to office 365, he said. lucid pointe fees vary depending on the nature of the services provided and the complexity of the migration. asked whether it was still getting requests for office livesmall business   migration services as of monday, clark said: "yes, we are." "we offer a complete migration service that includes setting up an office 365 account and users, rebuilding the client website in office 365, and managing the redirection of web and email traffic to office 365, working with the domain registrar as necessary. clients may also retain us to perform specific aspects of the migration," he said. the extent of the fallout will become clearer on tuesday and on the days after. if the number of affected customers is significant, the consequences for them and for microsoft partners could be very costly. even if their email continues to work for six more months, small businesses that find their website is suddenly offline will inevitably be harmed by the situation, since websites have become essential in sales and marketing efforts.

Microsoft partners could have closed office

for microsoft partners, it would be a black eye as it battles google and others providers of cloud-based communication and collaboration suites with its new office 365. the complaints from office livesmall business   customers about the decision to close the service began many months ago and have grown in intensity as the deadline approached. many office livesmall business   customers have argued that the transition to office 365 or to another third-party email / website hosting provider is too complicated technically for them to carry out. some have suggested that microsoft partners could have closed office livesmall business   to new signups while keeping the service operational for existing customers. many have said that microsoft could have made the transition to office 365 easier. a specific issue that has drawn many complaints is that the work of migrating an office livesmall business   website to office 365 is arduous and erratic, because the web hosting platforms are different. as a result, some functionality and design features have to be manually re-done in office 365. thus, many users are reporting formatting problems in the transition, especially if the websites have custom design features.

Microsoft partners developed automated tools

recently, some microsoft partners developed automated tools to transfer websites from office livesmall business   to office 365, including cloudvisors. however, microsoft never developed its own tool to do this. office livesmall business   customers have also complained that office 365 is generally more expensive, and that having to hire a microsoft partner to carry out the transition adds to the cost. office livesmall business   is free, with optional fee-based add-ons. in comparison, the office 365 plan for small businesses, called p1, costs us$6 per user, per month, and more if customers add the option of office professional plus, an upgrade over the standard office web apps. while office 365 is more feature-rich than office livesmall business  , the question for office livesmall business   customers is whether they will use the additional features they're paying more for. "office livesmall business   appealed to a lot of different people, especially because of the free website. office 365 is targeted at meeting the needs of small business owners and professionals. many office livesmall business   customers won't see office 365 as a good fit, especially since office 365 isn't free," reads a web page on the official office livesmall business   website.

source: computer world



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Google had to remove over 100 malicious apps from the official Android market

Being connected to social networks through mobile devices has become quite a necessity from majority of mobile users. But this connection is fast turning out to be lucrative for cyber criminals to spread malware, AVG’s Q1 2012 Community Powered Threat Report released by AVG. The report highlights that hot target is particularly the devices running on Android operating system. Michael McKinnon, Security Advisor at AVG (AU/NZ) told CSO, “AVG detected a big increase in the use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to target Android users. Cyber criminals are finding it very convenient to distribute their malware straight to a mobile device via these networks. The growth of the Android platform has been phenomenal, which has not gone unnoticed with cyber criminals who have discovered it to be a lucrative target for their malware. In 2011, Google had to remove over 100 malicious apps from the official Android market, Google Play.”

Social networks have become a key source of information and communication. Twitter now has more than 140 million active users ; and Facebook has over 845 million users , with some analysts expecting that figure to reach 1 billion this year . The result: targeting those who use Facebook  website is like targeting around 14 per cent of world’s population or approximately 43 per cent of global internet users. Consider also that there are over 300 million Android phones already activated, with over 850,000 Android phones and tablets added to that number each day , and it is clear these two trends combined result in a new threat: infecting Android devices using social networks. Most mobile devices are tied into operator billing systems making monetisation of malware a lot more effective than on traditional computer systems. All the attackers need to do is trick users to install a malicious app on their device through which they can then gather cash using the phone companies’ billing systems by utilising premium SMS services. In many cases, this is done by charging low amounts on an infrequent basis so users don’t even notice.

The Q1 2012 Community Powered Threat Report includes examples of this:

•        On Facebook, all it takes for a cyber criminal to attack is to set up a fake profile which downloads malware to a device and randomly invite Facebook users.

•        On Twitter, a cyber criminal creates a spam profile and then posts tweets containing shortened hyperlinks to malware using trending hashtags. The way in which Twitter works makes sure the tweet appears on the top of many people’s Twitter feed.

Source: CIOL World

Bangalore - software solutions available in the market offered by major players like IBM, Microsoft, HP, SAP and Cisco

Small - medium enterprises have always been a vital part of the economy of major countries across the globe. This segment has played a crucial role in the GDP growth of all these countries. India, being one of the major developing economies, is giving huge priority to this sector, by way of lending low-interest loans and providing various entrepreneurship schemes etc. But is that enough? Is the government serious enough about this burgeoning sector, which is the backbone of India's economy?  In the other parts of the world, especially in the Western and European countries, there are innumerable SMEs that are being run successfully, as they are getting adequate support from their respective governments. And they don't mind risking their money or property to invest in what they think is right. They are sure that if something bad happens to their business, the government will stand by them and provide support to put it back on track. But the Indian scenario is entirely different.

The Small and medium enterprises havein the country are facing innumerable issues, right from access to funds and technology to lack of knowledge and unavailability of qualified staff. Despite the number of programmes and schemes announced for the upliftment of this sector, the benefits of do not reach the right beneficiaries. In an interview with CIOL sometime ago, Mr,S.M.Jamkhandi, director, MSME Development Institute, Bangalore, had said, “Though number of schemes have been announced for the Small and medium enterprises havesector, the benefits hardly reach the intended target, as there is a is lack of definite steps in the direction of creating awareness about these programmes.” Also, when we contacted some small business owners in Bangalore in the backdrop of the presentation of the Union Budget for financial year 2012-13, despite the budget giving some hope to them, we found that they expected the government to give more importance to the sector.

What are the major challenges faced by our SME sector?

Lack of finance: Finance is key factor in starting a venture. Though most lenders – including new generation banks – in our country have turned their focus on this sector, many Small and medium enterprises haveare not aware of various loan schemes provided by these banks. Since majority of SMEs are located in rural areas, they do not have access to developments happening in the banking sector. The State Bank of India recently revised its interest rates on Small and medium enterprises haveloans, reducing it by 2 per cent. The bank has already launched a collateral-free loan scheme for SMEs. So, if we create awareness about various schemes provided by banks and other government-backed financial institutions, like the SIDBI, that can serve as a huge boost for the sector. Lack of infrastructure: Lack of adequate Infrastructure is another headache SMEs in India are facing.

Irregular power and water supply, bad road and railway connectivity are some of the factors that are hampering the growth of Small and medium enterprises havein India. If the government is serious about the growth of Small and medium enterprises haveit has to take all necessary steps to provide better infrastructure to these small and medium industries. Lack of Technology: Technology, a crucial component of Small and medium enterprises hav, is what decides the success of an Small and medium enterprises havein this era of IT revolution. There are umpteen number of IT and software solutions available in the market offered by major players like IBM, Microsoft, HP, SAP and Cisco, etc. If you do not make the most of these solutions, you might be chucked out of the market by your competitors.

Many of these IT solutions are easy to deploy and highly cost-effective. There are cloud solutions, HR management tools, unified communications tools, supply chain management software, ERP, etc at your doorstep. What you need to do is take the right step in this direction. This can help reduce your cost to a very large extent. Lack of marketing assistance: Many Small and medium enterprises havein the country do not have the expertise on how to go to market with a product or service. The MSME ministry has various schemes for Small and medium enterprises havethat want to market their products in the country and foreign markets. The government provides financial aids to those who are looking at major global markets to sell their products. “A major problem is that many Small and medium enterprises haveare not focusing on global markets, as they know that they can sell their products or services here itself, since ours is a very huge market. This is a serious issue. We have to look at the global markets. The government is there for your assistance, both in terms of providing finance and logistics. Moreover, you need to innovate your products so that they get better acceptance in foreign countries. This will help you build your own brand name,” Jamkhandi pointed out.

Source: CIOL World

migrate from the US and Canada to Central and South America

Birds Killing System

Telecom towers are killing nearly seven million birds every year as they migrate from the US and Canada to Central and South America, says a new study. According to the study, around 84,000 telecom towers, some of which can rise nearly 2,000 feet into the sky, much higher than the Empire State Building at 1,250 feet, dot the two countries. However, the birds are killed not by running into the tower itself but the dozens of cables, known as guy wires, that prop up the thin, freestanding structures, said study co-author Travis Longcore, associate professor at the University of Southern California Spatial Sciences Institute, US. "This is a tragedy that does not have to be," added Longcore. The taller the tower the greater the threat, the study found. The 1,000 or so towers above 900 feet accounted for only 1.6 percent of the total number of towers. Yet these skyscraper towers killed 70 percent of the birds, about 4.5 million a year, Longcore said, the journal the Public Library of Science ONE reports.

During bad weather, the birds were pushed down by cloud cover and flew at lower altitudes. The clouds also removed navigation cues, such as stars, leaving only the blinking or static red lights of towers. The blinking did not fool the birds, but towers with a static red light resulted in more dead birds, according to a Southern California statement. "In the presence of the solid red lights, the birds are unable to get out of their spell," Longcore said. "They circle the tower and run into the big cables holding it up." Longcore estimated that changing the steady-burning lights on the 4,500 towers greater than 490 feet tall (about six percent of the total) could reduce mortality about 45 percent, or around 2.5 million birds. The study also recommended that businesses should share towers to reduce their number and build more freestanding towers to reduce the need for guy wires. The study did not include shorter towers that typically are used for transmission.

Source: CIOL World

Mumbai - Salary Primer 2012 by TeamLease Staffing Solutions

So what if the likes of Infosys announce increment freeze, retention rates have still gone up in the Information Technology  sector, especially for higher skilled talent. According to the Salary Primer 2012 by TeamLease Staffing Solutions, profiles like business analyst and program manager  have delivered significantly higher, longevity scores despite being rewarded lesser than the last year. "Attrition rates have dipped across several industries – and for specific profiles – and touched 3-year lows. Select profiles within healthcare, retail, FMCG and agriculture/agrochemical have longevity scores that have now overshot 93 per cent. On the skills front, while Information Technology  gets away with lesser increments than many other industries, it still manages to retain top-of-the-line talent. The Information Technology  industry's comparatively higher salary structure, couFpled with a not-so-ebullient market ensures this works," the report states. Yet, despite the Information Technology  sector registering modest increments, Bangalore (INDIA), the largest hub of the industry, is a leader with the highest median salary growth in last one year. "Bangalore (INDIA) has been holding the reins for about 3 years in succession now. With a median salary growth rate of 8.6 per cent - incrementally higher than last year's – Bangalore (INDIA) seems in no mood to give up on its top position. Mumbai (8.1 per cent), Delhi (7.7 per cent) and Chennai (6.8 per cent) stay their courses as well," according to the report.

In fact, the biggest salary at junior / middle levels, drawn this year was Rs 142,000 per month by a SAS Programmer in Information Technology  Bangalore (INDIA). The profile received an increment of 14 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y), across geographies. The overall hiring in the Information Technology  sector grew by almost 20 per cent y-o-y, with a continued upward trend. As per the report, the sector also managed to retain top talent without having to increment salaries by a large margin. "The Information Technology  industry is currently in a win-win situation. The slowdown in market has made employees consider the old adage of 'one in hand is worth two in bush'. Moreover, with employees staying back, the Information Technology  companies have been saving up on otherwise additional costs they would have had to incur on continuing certain projects," says Rajiv Vaishnav, vice president, National Association of Software and Services Companies. The other sector to get away with modest increment is retail. "The marginally higher increment the retail industry pays here is paid back in gratitude with a significant increase in longevity," Salary Primer 2012 states.

However, contrary to Information Technology  and retail industry, not rewarding its higher talented profiles cost the FMCG industry in terms of increased attrition. "Thankfully, the attrition rates are well under 10 per cent in most cases and the industry can, perhaps, look at a more equitable reward structure," the report adds. According to Salary Primer, as industries get smarter at hiring and rewarding the right talent, the diversity and sheer number of profiles getting rewarded with double digit salary growth have zipped up. "There is increased prevalence of industry city clusters where this incidence occurs – healthcare in Bangalore (INDIA), automotive in Delhi and hospitality in Mumbai and Goa are prime examples. Power and energy beats 10 per cent salary increments across four cities and three distinct profiles," the report highlights. Meanwhile, the average salary difference between temporary and permanent jobs has also come down from 15 per cent a few years ago to four per cent. "With even more parity forged across industries, cities and profiles, temp and perm jobs are seen to be fast converging on salaries," the report adds.

Source: Business Standard

After the write downs,Telenor has no further accounting exposure related to India

Norwegian telecom major Telenor today wrote off its remaining fixed and intangible assets in India worth 3.9 billion Norwegian krone (Rs 3,583 crore). And, the company said it was likely to quit the country if the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) recommendations of a steep base price for re-auction of 2G band spectrum were accepted by the government. With this, Telenor, which holds 67 per cent stake in Unitech Wireless, has written down investments to the tune of 8.1 billion NOK (Rs 7,403 crore) in two tranches in its Indian mobile arm. following the Supreme Court's order cancelling 122 of the 2G licences in February this year. Earlier, it had written down 4.2 billion NOK. Blaming its decision on the uncertainty clouding the sector after the cancellation of licences by the SC and subsequent re-auction recommendations of Trai, it said, in a statement: “As a precautionary measure, Telenor ASA has decided to write down the remaining fixed and intangible assets in India, amounting to NOK 3.9 billion (NOK 2.6 billion after non-controlling interests).”

The write down will be included in Telenor's results for the first quarter of 2012, to be presented on May 8. Though Siggve Brekke, the Asia head of Telenor, said the move did not mean the company “is exiting India,” he said if things did not improve, they would eventually have to take such as decision. “If the Trai recommendation becomes policy, then the government is forcing us to leave. It's quite clear that it will not work for us,” Brekke told reporters. After the write downs,Telenor has no further accounting exposure related to India as of March 31. In its statement, the company added: “Following the Supreme Court's ruling in February to cancel Uninor's licenses and the recent recommendation from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India regarding the 2G license re-auction, the uncertainty has increased significantly.” If the recommendation from Trai in its current form should be approved by the department of telecommunications, it would be almost impossible, says Telenor, to participate in the auction.

It was working actively towards Indian authorities bringing forward an acceptable framework for continued operations, it added. The telecom regulator has suggested the government start the auction with a base price of Rs 3,600 crore per MHz. Brekke said there were three reasons why the recommendations do not make a business case. “Auction of 5MHz spectrum is not an auction. It's a trial balloon and the government is only trying to set the price level for future rounds. We can't do with so little spectrum,” he said. Second, he said the reserve price of Rs 3,600 crore was too high. Brekke added the rollout obligations — mandating each operator set up infrastructure in villages with a population of at least 2,000 was also not acceptable. “It isn't logical to ask each operator to set up its own tower in every village when this is done (in a ) smarter (way) through collaboration and sharing between operators,” he said.

Source: Business Standard

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Now, Microsoft Corporation is entering one area that doesn't have an operating system...and guess what that area is none other than our "Home". Don't be confused as Microsoft Corporation guys are actually developing an "operating system" for homes. "HomeOS (Home Oprating system) provides a centralized, holistic control of devices in the home such as set-top boxes, game consoles, wireless routers, home automation devices, tablets, smart phones, and security cameras etc. It provides to users intuitive controls to manage their devices," according to Microsoft Corporation Research blog. HomeOS (Home Oprating system) is coupled with a HomeStore through which users can add obtain applications that are compatible with devices in their homes and obtain any additional devices that are needed to enable desired applications. In-fact, Microsoft Corporation has developed a research prototype of HomeOS (Home Oprating system). "Our current prototype includes support for a range of devices (e.g., switches, cameras, TVs) and applications." "Experimental results show that it is easy for developers to write applications and for non-technical users to manage their home networks with HomeOS (Home Oprating system). A dozen homes have "dogfooded" our prototype, and over 50 students have developers applications and drivers for it." HomeOS (Home Oprating system) is an experimental operating system for the home which focuses on providing centralized control of connected devices in the home, useful programming abstractions for developers, and allows for the easy addition of new devices and application functionality to the home environment, said Microsoft Corporation. The company is licensing (free; non-commercial use) HomeOS (Home Oprating system) prototype to academic instituitions to encourage teaching and research on connected homes and devices.

Source: EE Times

Document Management Software and Systems Information

Different organizations use different types of commercial software for document management. The program performs the function of creating the full-text indexing, versioning, retrieval and so on.

An important component of any technology and database systems and program management and monitoring of distribution and of the documents those were created and maintained. Existing system in the database and retrieves the requested document or documents in the files under control based on the document management software.

A document management system prevents unauthorized access of information. There will be additions to the data without changing the existing database. In addition the system is designed to filter duplicate records.

For all documents created and stored the system produces a large database of information about the documents. This information is stored separately from the document itself.

System must be reliable database and enjoys a high level of efficiency in the management of large amounts of text-based documents, images, audio and video. Can be a central database or distributed according to the document management systems to install programs in your organization.

Management Systems this document provides information on document management software and electronic document management system, databases and document management systems and more.