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We’ve been hearing about Windows mobile 7 for a while now. The launch will mimic Google’s Nexus one strategy: Launch Zune Phone Microsoft’s long-rumored ‘Pink’ phone project has started to get up again. In a note to clients few days back, Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert claimed that Microsoft is gearing […]
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NMS and Dialogic followed two utterly different paths in their attempts to succeed in the mobile value added services (VAS) sector. Needless to say, the consequences were interesting. We take a closer look. most of you have used ring back tones or any other form of mobile VAS (value added […]
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As the recession grips more economies and enterprises, it’s the perfect time to adopt the open source business model. We explain why. the technology landscape has been undergoing a massive transformation over the past couple of years. In the early 2000s, organisations were going after products and appliances irrationally, investing […]
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As the complexity of software applications increases, testing becomes more crucial. And in the process, more time consuming. Here is a list of emerging testing practices. Software is everywhere today and is becoming increasingly mission critical, whether in satellites and planes, or e-commerce websites. Software complexity is also on […]
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After taking a lot of flak for Windows Vista, Microsoft has recently released beta versions of two of its most popular products-Windows and Internet Explorer-in an attempt to recover lost ground. the past few years have not been easy for Microsoft. The company that’s been synonymous with operating systems on […]
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Here’s an interesting take on how an enterprise application can be made to achieve high performance, scale and high availability, using mid-tier caching. Modern enterprise applications are being pushed to become faster, with a higher scale. Consequently, the 3-tier architecture model is changing to move data closer to the applications […]
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Android pioneer Andy Rubin has a message for developers carping about Android fragmentation: Calm down. Posting on Google’s Android Developers blog, Rubin said that Android owed much of its success to the fact that it could be modified by device manufacturers and thus isn’t a “one size fits all” platform […]
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Want to get tech fans fighting? Ask them to pick the 10 products that most shaped the industry. It’s an experiment we attempted earlier in the week, to fairly disastrous results. Since our very opinionated editors and analysts couldn’t whittle the list down to anywhere close to that number, we’ve […]
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These handy add-ons do everything from automatic spell-checking to easy image cropping and resizing Hard-to-find IE9 enhancers Microsoft’s just released IE9 offers many improvements, particularly in the area of security. On the other hand, none of the new features blew us away. One unfortunate thing about Internet Explorer is that […]
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GUI Industries starts its cutover on a Friday after hours. The new circuit tests clean and they’re ready to do the cutover. Armed with printouts of the spreadsheet, the DNS and firewall admins sit down in front of their workstations and painstakingly go through each record in DNS, and each […]