Dell Carries on the Negotiations with Google

It is not just a short contract, but a long-term cooperation. Chrome OS offers a completely new experience of work with a PC and integrates it with the Cloud. Dell sees the future of computing in this technology and wants to be among the leaders of the emerging market. But the company is not going to be limited with one operating system. In addition to the Chrome OS, Android or any other Internet-oriented operating system can be used.

Midha also announced upcoming Dell’s release – the new Smartphone on Chinese market. It will work in the national network of 3G standard TD-SCDMA. The Smartphone will be distributed by mobile operator China Mobile. The device will have a built- in TV tuner and a complete mobile operating system. It’s not the first phone experience of Dell on the Chinese market. Last year the company released Mini 3.

Many users of WHS Vail can be disappointed by the lack of some important functions of Windows Server. For example, the proposed solution has no built-in printer support. Vail is also not intended for use as a terminal server, providing remote access to applications. But the proposed Beta Windows Home Server Vail allows decoding video data, and its transmission on remote machines. Users also can interact with personal music library and digital photo archive with a remote connection to the server.

One of the most significant improvements shown in the new version is the updated system data storage. The mechanism of Drive Extender, which provides the possibility of expanding the storage, wasn’t successful in the previous versions. Users often had problems with getting patches and updates; the mechanism wasn’t good at handling defective or damaged disks. Modified Drive Extender ensures more rapid and effective identification and error handling, and also provides an opportunity to remove and replace hard disks, without suspending the server.

To avoid problems in the process of testing the product, the beta testers have to follow the proposed recommendations. It is advised to perform installation on a “clean” system and do not use beta version as the main production server. Also, it should not be installed on a computer with previous version of WHS.

IT department of Miami had to cut the staff from 102 to 80 people. To prevent a reduction in the volume and quality of urban services, the department decided to compensate for the lack of staff with new technologies.

IT Companies Cut the Spending

The first results are already evident. For example, city residents now can use web application Miami 311, to track the status of requests for some municipal services, such as road repair and towing abandoned vehicles. The municipality is also considering the introduction of commercial Web applications for business.

The situation in Miami is typical for many government agencies and companies: they have to start new technologies. However, they are often more effective.

For example, the American Lincoln Property Company decided to use Gmail instead of Google to save some money. Before it, they had used Novell GroupWise package. The savings turned out to be more than substantial: using of Novell GroupWise cost about $ 25 per employee per month, but now it costs about $8,5.

Los Angeles municipal government decided to do the similar thing. 30 thousand employees of giant IT department were transferred to the Google Apps cloud platform.

The pressure of the global economic crisis on small and medium business is really great, says an analyst of IDC. As a result, IT spending in this sector will amount to no more than 5,5% in the period from 2010 till 2014, that is significantly lower than was projected earlier.

In addition, experts allocate more points that will be relevant for small and medium-sized businesses in the near future. Thus, by the end of 2014 the volume of IT spending here will reach 629.3 billion dollars.

Linux-distro Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1

The new version has significant changes in KVM, virtualization technology support.  There are integrated tools for managing virtual environments and creating new environments. In addition, the new version has simplified installation process. The developers added special option which allows installing configured service sets of programs designed for a specific type of functionality (mail server, file server, print server, directory services, etc.). Distribution package also includes a directory server Mandriva Directory Server for organizing a centralized database of users integrated with such server applications as Samba, Postfix, Squid and CUPS. The special web-interface is created to manage LDAP-server.

The price of distribution is equal to 299 euros with an annual support contract, or 500 euros with a three-year support contract. The distribution will function during 5 years. In 2014 the company will present the new version. Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1 is certified for compatibility with standard LSB 4.0.

HTML5 Technology Broke the Hegemony of Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash

Silverlight technology has become extremely popular. Its plug-in is installed on 45% of computers in the whole world (60% – in Europe and Asia). Adobe Flash is even more popular. During the ten years of existence it has become an indispensable part of the 98% of personal computers in the world. The latest version of the plug-in for web browsers Flash 10 is already installed on 95% of computers, though it released just a year ago.

Adobe Flash technology is used by a huge number of developers. Microsoft has announced that more than five hundred of thousands of developers around the world use Silverlight. Silverlight Technology was used serious purposes: Winter Olympics in Vancouver, March Madness (the annual basketball tournament for college teams), and Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Adobe monitors the content of the world’s largest web sites, for example, YouTube and Hulu.

Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash will be competing not only with each other, but also with an open technology HTML5, which promotes Internet giant Google. In the future, Adobe and Microsoft will try to implement their proprietary technologies. Also, they will work hard to make it easier for users to find content in network. But easy search is still the advantage of HTML5.

Recently, Adobe and Microsoft are pushing their web-based technology to the mobile phone market. Microsoft Silverlight is a key part of the new operating system Windows Mobile 7. Adobe is introducing a very successful Flash technology in modern mobile platform: nineteen of the twenty largest manufacturers of mobile phones support Adobe Flash. Only one manufacturer of smart phones is still refusing to support Flash content – Apple.

Adobe and Microsoft should be afraid of another competitor – Sun. Its product JavaFX, which appeared in December 2008, has similar capabilities and has already interested many developers.

John Tillman is one of the prisoners of the death chamber, captured and sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. To get an excuse he must participate in the virtual game. For a young rich player, John Tillman is a game hero named Cable. He is just a virtual sim-controlled character having great. Because of his braveness Cable becomes a national hero and occupies first position in the game.
Every week, millions of people around the world watch online game. Hundreds of other sentenced prisoners are involved in the battles. According to the rebel group that opposes Castle; his game is high-tech slavery, which must be destroyed. Cable / Tillman is caught between two powerful opposing forces that are not interested in his survival. With each step being monitored by millions of people, John Tillman is fighting to get freedom, to restore their identity and overthrow the awful system.

You can find, watch and download “Gamer” movie!

FontExplorer X Pro 2.5

The previous version of the software (2.0) won the Editors’ Choice Award in 2009. Since that time program developers have been working on improving the software. They’ve presented version 2.5 with expanded capabilities and advanced characteristics. FontExplore X Pro 2.5 allows users to create font sample books without activating fonts in a separate application. Users also can put individual elements into the preview mode and choose the template from the special program menu.

Monotype’s New Softwares

The new software also allows classifying fonts. It’s possible not only to choose and sort the fonts but make smart sets with the keywords: for example, “serif” or “cover sheet”. Linotype offer automatic downloads of all software available fonts.

FontExplorer X Pro main window was also improved. Now it has wider mode. The main window can be set to a transparency mode.

FontExplorer X Server 1.5

New FontExplorer 1.5 version is created for workgroups. It has special lockdown that help administrators to limit users’ access. The software allows hiding Linotype’s integrated font store and the workgroup’s local library.

Administrators are able to set automatic fonts for installation on selected clients. The software has the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. LDAP allows administrators to authenticate users with the help of domain password. Program interface was also changed, now it’s more convenient for handling.

Prices

• You can download FontExplorer X Pro 2.5 for $79. Also you can find a free trial version available for 30 days.
• FontExplorer X Server 1.5 starts from the price $1.599. It includes 10 client licenses.

Newmarketshare report showed that Windows 7 have become one of the most popular programs all over the world. It’s a great success for the company and Microsoft’s shares rose up for 10 percents. Though Windows 7 has been launched recently it got leading position.

When you look at the total market share of operating systems, Windows hogs 92 percent of the total – Mac OSX accounts for 5.13 percent, and Linux accounts for 1.02 percent.

IBM hasn’t changed its position. Android and Blackberry have risen only for half a percent.

The Situation on the Stock

Orhan Yorukoglu, CTO of Active Innovations and chief developer of infoRouter says: “One of the corner stones of our success has been the involvement of our user community in our development decisions”.

Let’s see what the new infoRouter is! It is and Electronic Document Management Software including:

• Content Management
• Digital Asset Management
• Document Imaging
• Workflow
• ISO Document Control
• Document Scanning
• Records Management
• Archiving Documents
• Storage
• Electronic Forms
• Paperless Modules.

The server-based application operates on the Microsoft Windows Server platform. All documents are stored in a central document warehouse at the customer’s location.

InfoReuter functions in many languages. It allows customers and partners using platform wherever they prefer to do it. The platform settings detect the language automatically. The integrated document management helps to organize the day-to-day business activities. It is the best way to save your time and money!

The web interface of the browser has many functions. Is supports LDAP authentication and synchronization, library management and application settings.

InfoReuter also supports fax and e-mail services. Vice President of Sales Ed Quackenbush explains: “Our EDMS can support all kinds of scanners and multi-function peripherals (MFPs) such as Kyocera and HP through a series of tools designed for flexible integration.”

PlaSec creates physical security solutions using IT-centric technology. This technology makes convergence of physical and logical access functions within an organization easier. Moran and Wine will adjust the sales channels and regulate marketing schemes for PlaSec line.

Wine told about PlaSec’s Fusion product: “what an IT team would design … looking at head end functionality as a means to extend logical security to PACS instead of the other way around.”

It is browser-based using open source Linux with an LDAP database. IT-modeled directory structure relieves data sharing, events, privileges across IT systems. Now Fusion supports open field hardware from Mercury Security and HID.