Microsoft's new chief architect is taking software into "the cloud"

Consumers are getting used to retrieving their digital information and collections — contacts, photographs, e-mail, documents — on practically any computer and a growing number of mobile devices.

These Internet services are replacing much of what was done only a few years ago with software firmly rooted to an individual computer.

The software industry is in the midst of a transformation that will see an expanding range of desktop-software functions delivered to users as Internet services.

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Microsoft adds to framework to simplify development

ADO.Net Entity Framework and tools to eliminate impedance mismatch are implemented to help developers build business apps

Looking to assist developers in building business applications, Microsoft published a second beta version of ADO.Net Entity Framework this week and a community technology preview of tools to work with the framework.

The goal of the ADO.Net Entity Framework is to eliminate the impedance mismatch between data models and languages, saving developers from having to deal with these. An example of such a mismatch is objects and relational stores.

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Wipro will set up software development centre in Egypt

Wipro, the leading consulting and information technology company from India, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) of Egypt to set up a global development centre in Smart Village.

Dr Tarek Kamal, Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, was present at the signing of the deal in which Wipro will target the IT Export Services for the Middle East and global markets.

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Keeping Your Website Simple is Most Effective

What do the Internet’s most profitable websites such as Dell, Amazon and Yahoo all have in common? They are plain, simple, and easy to use. The most effective web sites do not employ fancy graphics or animations to sell their products and services because these distractions take away from the goal of a website – selling! Your goal is to sell your products, services, and yourself – not impress people with your technical prowess. It just does not make sense to pay a website development company thousands of dollars to design a fancy website that will not be as effective as its cheaper, simpler counter-part.

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Web 2.0 'neglecting good design'

Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said.

He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served.

He said sites peppered with personalisation tools were in danger of resembling the "glossy but useless" sites at the height of the dotcom boom.

Research into website use shows that sites were better off getting the basics right, said Mr Nielsen.

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Export controls could harm software development

The government is being urged to act to prevent overseas collaboration on software development being crippled by export control laws designed to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

The appeal follows a report from MPs which signaled alarm at the potential damage the heavy-handed application of existing export control regulations could cause.

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Boost productivity with lean software development

Lean software development is one of the latest hot topics at strategy consultancies like McKinsey. A report conducted by McKinsey dubbed "Applying Lean To Application Development And Maintenance," says implementing the approach can lead to productivity gains of between 20% and 40%, and that quality and speed of execution can improve markedly within a matter of months. Both valuable benefits when the cost of developing and maintaining applications now accounts for about 50% of the average IT budget - a figure that is set to rise in the future.

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Adobe Extends Web Video Leadership with H.264 Support

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the latest update for Adobe® Flash® Player 9 software, code-named Moviestar, which includes H.264 standard video support - the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players - and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support, as well as hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback. These advancements will extend Adobe's leadership position in Web video by enabling the delivery of HD television quality and premium audio content through the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player and pave the way to expand rich media Flash experiences on the desktop and H.264 ready consumer devices. The latest update for Adobe Flash Player 9 will be available in beta for immediate download later today on Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com.

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Introduction To Software Development Lifecycle

Software Development Lifecycle.

In order to understand what is Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) let us break these words into two parts: Software Development , and LifeCycle.

Software Development.

Software Development is A PROCESS to create software.At first glance to a developer - this is the coding process. This is when you sit down with the computer and start to write codes that later processed (compiled,linked etc.) become the actual software that is used by the end user. This is might be the case for beginners or novice developer who are working on "garage" project.

In a small one person project its common for developers to go directly into coding and then testing their code. They are using common divide and conquer, then trial and error testing.But for a significant size software development trial and error method will be expensive.This is because large size project normally involved few developers. Any change in any part of the codes might requires other developers to change their code also.

Larger software development also requires better way to communicate, between the developers.The communication is to make sure developers understand what to be developed, when to start the development, when the other part of the software that they dependence to will be developed, when to test these parts together, what is considered pass..etc.etc. Lot of issues to synchronized the developers.

The larger the group, the harder it is to communicate to all the team members.
This can be worst if the team members are not located in the same place - which are common these day. The team that I am part of have people working in 4 different continents in different time zone.

To make it easier, a concept of "Lifecycle" is introduced.

Lifecycle

Common concept of lifecycle is communicated to a development team to synchronized all the team members - so that every one knows when are the important milestones.
Milestones are dates when certain important criteria or requirement has to be met.

Concept of lifecycle is not exclusive to software development.
For example a human being also has lifecycle. Start from the day a human being is born.
Then s/he grows become baby,teenager,adult, old and died. This lifecycle also can be traced differently based on different view -example if look from education lifecycle (of the same human being) it can start from pre-school,junior high, high school,college undergrad, and graduate.

To software lifecycle is look like normal products (cars,computers,furnitures) creation lifecycle.It can be splitted into 5 phases:

+ Requirement
+ Design
+ Implementation
+ Final test
+ Delivery

This phases actually applicable to the final product, or even into the individual component that make up the product. For example if you are creating a chair, then you have components such as the arm rest, legs,cushions, and back rest. Once the "high level" requirements (description, specification - lot of different names of the same thing) is defined the developer of each component should be able to continue on their own to produce the components. Each of the components will go through the same 5 phases lifecycle also.

This concept of "component" developement is that not far off from what is happening in software development. If you have been in the industry long enough I bet you have heard of "component based" development. The idea is to introduce generic requirement on how components can be handled, then as long as a component is developped in conformant to this standard it can be "plugged in" into another software that understand this standard with very little effort.

Even a lot of people say that software development should be the same as other product developement -- such as car and building constructions, but experience has proven that this is not true. The normal discipline that is used in building construction does not really work in software development.

From what the expert observation this is because in normal product construction such as a freeway, ideas and creativity are injected to the project only in very specific part of the phase -- early phase. In building construction creativity can come from the architect and also the civil engineers who has to figure out how to build what is envisioned by the architect. This is done in early stage (design) of the development phase. Once it is fixed the implementation, testing and delivery just need to follow the instructions.

In software development on the other hand, the injection of ideas is hard to controlled since its actually needed in every phase. From the high level architecture, down to low level programming, ingenuity and creativity is needed. Most software development actually depending on in development discoveries to come up with innovative products. New way of coding, new algorithm, new component can make the difference between on software to the other in term of feature offered,resource usage and performance.

Because of this software development process is normally "less rigid" compare to car or buiding construction. The side effect is that this can also caused two major problems:

+ project delay
+ low quality -- more bugs, untested code/features.

This is part of the challenge in software development.

About the Author: sawahid is a software developer and project lead by day and the owner of of http://www.dzikry.com a site dedicated with free information about software development.

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Reality Check for Web Design

"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, recognized that universal access is a critical element of good design.

The Web's landscape has altered dramatically since its inception, when many websites completely ignored users with disabilities.

"Most project managers assumed that blind people could not use the Web anyway, so therefore they also could not use the specific website that was being developed," said Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen.

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MySQL – is this database fit for the Enterprise?

MySQL has recently appeared as an Enterprise edition. We have already looked at whether MySQL (the company) is enterprise ready, but we can also ask whether the product itself is suitable for enterprise use.

Some Reg Dev readers clearly have strong views about this already.

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Mistral Intros Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Software Development Kit

For use with Texas Instruments’ DaVinci Technology, Windows Embedded CE 6.0 drivers and Software Development Kit help designers accelerate digital video applications development.

Mistral Solutions today announced the availability of its Accelerator Program for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 for use with Texas Instruments Incorporated’s (TI) DaVinci technology.

Mistral’s Accelerator Program for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 is a complete Software Development Kit (SDK) for TI’s TMS320DM6446 Digital Video Evaluation Module (DVEVM) based on DaVinci technology. Mistral’s BSP enables customers of DaVinci technology to prototype their software on the DVEVM board before implementing their products.

DaVinci technology and the Windows Embedded CE development environment are both optimal choices for applications such as set-top boxes, digital media adapters, voice-over-IP (VoIP) phones, navigation systems and portable media players. Mistral’s latest offering empowers product developers to blend the high performance of DaVinci technology with the versatility of the Windows Embedded CE development environment in creating innovative products with shorter development cycles and faster time to market.

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Testing times for slack software development

Australian businesses are wasting up to 50% of software development budgets because they lack the resources, tools and knowledge to conduct efficient software testing, according to market analysts.

Gartner application development analyst Partha Iyengar says shrinking time-to-market project deadlines and naivety about the benefits of software testing mean that businesses are missing out on an opportunity to streamline and improve the quality of software development.

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How To Start Your Own Web Design & Development Company?

Internet marketing is comprises of a large number of options for people who want to make money online. There are many openings for those who are willing to work and are dedicated. The web designing is one of the Internet marketing options, which have a great scope. Although the work is not very simple but learning a couple of development tools can really provide help.

There is a number of software available in the market that allows the user design the web pages with ease. The tolls such as dream weaver and other are more of graphic user interface software that can be learnt quickly.

To start any business one need to have a good amount of knowledge on the related subject. Same is the case with web design and web development industry. The website designers are available in a large number and hence to select a few web site designers for your company from the large pool of designers you need to have a good grasp of the subject.

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Visa gets mobile payment trials underway

At the Consumer Electronic Show in January, Visa International announced a mobile platform initiative that would lay the foundation for mobile payment solutions based on near field communications and featuring electronic coupon redemption and bar code transfer capabilities. At CTIA in March, the company announced that Ecrio and VeriSign would be two of its primary partners and that trials would begin this year. Today, Visa said it has teamed with Wells Fargo & Co. to launch of an extensive mobile pilot to test consumer mobile payments and services.

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E-mail e-card virus scams are hot again

"You've received a greeting e-card from a Family member!"

Anyone with e-mail probably has seen variations on this theme lately. At first blush, these cyber-hellos from unnamed "Mates" and "School mates," which appear to come from reputable online greeting services, seem worth a click.

Resist the urge.

Experts say these e-mail blasts are yet another scheme by spammers bent on tricking you to click Internet links that will infect your computer and steal your identity, your money or both.

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Software Development As A Business - The Right Time To Take The Plunge

The Right Time

The signs are ominous. And they are everywhere.

With every passing day, more and more consumers are switching to the online route for transacting businesses. With every passing moment, businesses are reporting a jump of few points in the transactions that people are doing online. Quite a number of offline purchases nowadays are a result of customer reading up on information about the products on the web, or a result of research that they have conducted through search engines, forums, blogs, yahoo groups, and the like.

Couch potatoes are displacing their tastes of the newspaper, the radio, and the soap opera with online surfing and chatting. This displacement has reached to such an extent that media publications and Radio & TV stations are now forced to rework their strategies to leverage the power of the internet: if you cannot keep them hooked to your traditional platform, make a website your platform!

Footfalls in malls and shopping plazas are geared more towards window shopping than actual purchases - as people try to connect what they saw on the web with the actual look and feel of the product with their eyes and fingers. Yes, there is a very perceptible shift in the way the world is doing business.

Ideas, Ideas, and Software

Whatever be the business that you may be in, you know what it takes to jazz it up to give it that immediate, competitive edge which will appeal to the customer who will bypass all your rivals in favor of your product or service. It is that spark of an idea. It is your creative and innovative ideas that sets your business apart from the rest of the crowd. Driving this particular revolution of the internet too are *ideas*. Transforming creative, juicy ideas, formed as an abstract thought, into practical, workable implementation that are useful to everyone, is a business mantra that works for software business, too.

Whether it is Apple's Macintosh or Microsoft's Windows Vista, whether it is Nokia's mobiles and cellphones or remotely-controlled domestic devices such as the oven or the coffee-maker or the hot shower, it is ideas that rule the world. Things have become so easy now that the moment an idea pops into your mind, the wherewithal to build a software based on it is readily available, right there on your desktop!

Entrepreneur! Avail of this opportunity

This is where you, an entrepreneur, come in. The omnipresence of computers and internet connectivity all around us cries for even better computer softwares that will improve the life of customers as well as bring moolah to your bank. All that you need to do - if you haven’t done already, that is -; is to plunge into the business of software.

Just like any other business, the business of developing and marketing software is not an easy cakewalk; the success rate here is as high or as low as any other business. Add to this is the phobia that most entrepreneurs harbor about technology in general, and computer software in particular. The word "Software" brings to mind a world full of high-tech stuff that one reads about in computer magazines: it is supposedly a world of "tough" (sic) computer programming languages, and techno-geeks strutting around mouthing all that mumbo-jumbo. It becomes difficult for any businessperson, otherwise very, very worldly-wise and resourceful, to overcome the mindset of being an outsider to this altogether different world.

And yet, there is this opportunity that is waiting to be exploited.

Just like any other business, the business of software has its own unique models and style of doing things. But at the very basic basics, the business models and style remain essentially the same. It is just a matter of your opening up to the possibility of being able to understand the nitty-gritty of what it involves.

Taking you to Software Success

There is a very good book that can get you started on the business model of software. This book by Benjamin Prater is titled – "Software Secrets Exposed!" – with the subtitle – "The Ultimate How-To Guide for Building Your Own Software Empire". The book was written in 2001: this was the time when the dotcom bust was hogging headlines. Not the perfect time to launch a book that extols how to build a software empire, eh? I do not know how the book fared then, though I did come across links to the book in the search engines. Yet, it contains gems of wisdom and insight that you can make most use of.

Have you already tried software development before? Was there any aspect of this business that made you uncomfortable? Or have you tasted failure in this venture earlier? While I empathize with you, I know for sure that if you couple the wealth of your hindsight with the experience distilled in the pages of this book, you can still make another go at it, and succeed this time.

Another interesting aspect of the book that I would like to highlight here, without crossing the threshold that makes this piece a blatant advertisement, is a separate chapter on how to go about generating, or in the author’s words, "incubating" ideas. This particular section is actually useful for not only software, but also for any other business, since hitting upon the right innovative idea is the key to obtaining a competitive edge anywhere.

Final Word

Explosion of the internet, change in lifestyles and buying trends, people preferring to work from homes rather than commuting to work, online funds transfers, drop-shipping, are all hallmarks of an ongoing renaissance unleashed in the past two decades. This renaissance requires ideas to feed itself: ideas that require to be dressed in software, in order to be implemented. This is the right time for Entrepreneurs to take the plunge. And generate wealth by truckloads.

About the Author:

Sanjay Agrawal is a Business Coach and self-development enthusiast. His blog can be surfed here, http://success-nirvana.blogspot.com/. Benjamin Prater's book can be picked up here, http://www.ultimatesoftwaresecrets.com/outsourcing/ .

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Outsourcing Software - Go For IT!

Without the outsourcing of their software development, there are many international conglomerates which would be facing dwindling profits and angry shareholders. All the software giants, including Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and Dell have taken to outsourcing software development in a big way, and their favorite outsourcing partners are Indian companies. Wipro, TCS, and Infosys are recognized as IT companies perfectly capable of handling the outsourcing needs of the big software players on the other side of the globe.

Outsourcing Software Needs To India In the early days of outsourcing, the typical outsourced business project was a non-core operation which was deemed too insignificant to be done by highly paid in-house employees. There were many Indian companies happy to take on these outsourced jobs, but as the Indian workforce became more and more versed in IT management, the Fortune 500 companies bagan to see them in a new light.

Today more than half of the Fortune 500 companies turn to Indian IT firms like TCS and Wipro to design, alter, and maintain their IT systems, and the Indian IT companies have seen their balance sheets and market capitalizations reflect the results. With over two billion dollars in annual revenues, and a market cap exceeding twenty billion dollars, the Indian companies are now in the same league as Adobe and Accenture.

Small Businesses Can Outsource Software Needs As Well

But outsourcing software needs is not limited to the mega-software companies; today there are hundreds of smaller businesses looking at outsourcing as an attractive alternative in their struggle to decrease their expenses and get technological input which their in-house staff might not be capable of providing. When outsourcing their software needs, these companies can choose to turn some, or all of them over to developers in other parts of the world, and may outsource different parts of the same software project to different IT service providers.

Business process outsourcing; software development outsourcing; knowledge process outsourcing; all are IT outsourcing projects which, while they can be done by a company's onsite employees, are simply less expensive when turned over to qualified IT workers in countries with lower wage structures and taxes.

The market for software is going to continue to expand, and software development is the future of the IT industry. Outsourcing software development to proven IT companies in developing countries like India whose workers have established themselves as the equal of any IT workers in the world will keep software development costs low, and the prices of the most advanced software within the reach of the businesses which continue to depend on it.

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Effective And Efficient Spyware Cleaners

Now removing spyware has become much easier than ever before. You can block spyware, by installing spyware cleaners software on your computer system. Before we move further, it is very important to understand the word ’spyware’, how it can harm our window registry and the working of the spyware adware remover.

Spyware can be explained as a program or software that purposely passes on data about the websites visited by the user. This malevolent software automatically installed on your pc without your knowledge and works secretly by transferring all your important details and information to their creators.

Spyware and adware are so powerful that the creators of these spyware can easily access your computer even when you are not working online. They generate irritating pop-ups advertisements and disturb you while working. These spyware and adware can sometime change your settings in homepage and computer panel. So if you see some changes that are described above, take it as a wake up call and understand this fact that adware and spyware are a chief hazard to you internet security. Spywares are specially design by the companies to track your personal information; information about the websites you visit or to hack your passwords or he messages you send to other peoples. The main purpose behind introducing thee software is to sell the information that gathers from these programs by working silently behind the scene.

Now, you must be thinking how it can occur without your information. These spyware and adware software are designed in such a way that without your prior knowledge or permission, they are installed and start working automatically. While installing some free software or music files or something like, this malicious software gets installed in your window registry. The researches show that 8 out of ten computers are infected with these software and the only solution available to get rid from them is to run spyware cleaners.

So for healthily and safe working of your computer, it become very important to spot these harmful files and get them treated with the help of spyware cleaners. These anti-spyware will not only guard your private records and but also improves the performance and speed pf your computer system. And, if by chance you come to know about various running spyware, trojans and adware on your pc, you will probably get a solid shock. So if you want to avoid that silent shock do run spyware cleaners regularly on your computer.

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Anti Spyware Hub is an online resource, providing in-depth information about Anti Spyware software, which is an essential tool to keep your system free of dangerous spywares, protecting your privacy and your PC. Here you will get vast technical information about anti spyware software to block spyware.

The Design of Sites: An outstanding guide to Web Design.

“The ‘pattern’ book has become a familiar genre for frequent readers of technical manuals. The idea is to sift through mountains of architectural or design schemes and then to categorize and catalogue the most frequent ideas and present their strengths and weaknesses. This type of book has been a success in software engineering, but can it translate to website design, where designers have everyday and frequent access to other designs? At worst, these books provide a common industry vocabulary (assuming it was read by everyone in the industry). How many people knew what a factory method referred to before Erich Gamma’s Design Patterns was released? At best, as in the case of that ‘original’ software design patterns book, mountains of complex ideas are archived into a single reference and will sit within arm’s reach for the rest of your life. So, is the web design discipline full of patterns that evade common sense?”

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Saving Money In The Jewelry Business Through Beading Software

Any jewelry business is difficult to operate. Whether you are working with fake jewelry or with the real thing, it is very difficult to ensure that you are having your accounts clear. There are several reasons for this. For one, your business works with a lot of raw materials that are in small parts. You will need a stock of things like precious stones, metals and so many another things that you think of using in your designs. It is very difficult to maintain authentic goods of them. Furthermore, the accounting itself can be a mammoth task to do. Calculating the expense you incur for your jewelry, taking into account each raw material used with the labor and electricity; it can become quite puzzling to pin a proper cost on the jewelry.

In short, with such problems involved in the jewelry designing business, there are many possibilities of making some grave errors and losing out on money. But, you know how disadvantageous that can be. Even if you miss out on including the cost of a single pearl in a necklace you have crafted, that could mean a big loss for you.

The crux of it all is that you requirement to be very special about your accounting. Yes, it is true that as a jewelry designer, most of your attention will be focused on the creative side of things after all, that's where your real talent lies. But, forgetting about the accounting part won't do either. That way, you will just pile up on your debts and won't be able to pursue your hobby at all.

Don't get alarmed yet, though! There is respite from this situation. Indeed, the solution is quite simple. All you have to do is to invest in good beading software and then let it do most of your work for you. This is a software tool, which can help you interminably in each and every aspect of the management of your jewelry industry. It works almost as relentlessly as a human employee, but much more meticulously and accurately. Let me tell you how beading software will help you in your business.

Bead management software contains several features for helping jewelry designing businesses. It has an account management feature, which can calculate the total cost involved in designing each piece of jewelry. Each trinket is included. That means, you can peg a better price on your product. And, as you keep selling your wares, the total expenses and profits are routinely calculated. That will help you not only in paying your taxes at the end of the year accurately, but also in paying your bills correctly and before the due dates each time.

But that is not all, either. Bead management software will also hold an inventory list for your raw material stock. You can configure it to give you an alert when you reach low on your raw materials. That will ensure your business will never have to be stalled for lack of materials.

There are many more benefits of beading jewelry inventory management software that you will find out as your business progresses along. However, the conclusion is certainly that you can manage your business in a much profitable way using such a feature-laden tool.

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Sean took over his mother's sagging jewelry business with skepticism, but then he invested Beading Software and was pleasantly surprised when the profits began to pile up. He has written some more reviews about how this software works. You can read them here: www.beadingsoftwarereview.com

Harnessing web 2.0 development

World has come closer and communication has become faster with the harnessing web 2.0, I won’t be wrong if I say ‘Network made easy with web 2.0’.

O'Reilly Media in 2003 coined the term Web 2.0 to emphasis a post-dot-com generation of sites and service that use web as platform. Web 2.0 is the new generation of web with new set of principles of web-based communities and hosted services for all its users. Web 2.0 is vanquishing the internet world because of its flexibility, usability and impetus that is driving various social communities.

Web 2.0 is quintessential internet online solution that has given web 1.0 a shove on one side and has foster mashups, banner Ads, wikis, file sharing, photo sharing, podcasts and technologies like weblogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds on other side; these technologies have gained more visibility, ultimately improving interactivity of web. We are observing major shift in web usage, new development paradigm has refined the overall process letting users to benefit from software continuously being refined without waiting for upgraded version or SDLC. Different applications that operate well off online (del.icio.us, Skype, dodgeball) and offline (Flickr, Google Maps) have also helped to improve effectiveness of web.
Transition of Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 has consolidated different segments of web and now a website is not mere a website promoting its product and services but a good source of information exchange where visitors can maintain their own blogs and communities and share more information.

This new generation technology is synonymous for public communities, cloverleaf exchange of information, open communication; all these speak of its cosmopolitan nature in the market place and are serving web application to end users.

Broaden your web horizon harnessing web 2.0, for your help web is available as an open source where you can use and reuse the market and resources and have individual control, openly conversing and communicating, sharing your resources and views, and easily creating new corporate paradigm using readily available spontaneous modular elements. We also find remarkable growth in web economy as a result of web 2.0. Web 2.0 is data driven platform developed by independent developers and their participation, it creates network effects and very simple business paradigms driven by content and service unification.

The technical demography of traffic statistics shows increased figures from social media sites and rising trends in deployment of web 2.0 technologies. Recent statistics shows that social networking as the most popular tool, with 19% of companies having invested in it, followed by podcasts (17%), blogs (16%), RSS (14%), wikis (13%), and mashups (4%). When we sum up companies planning to invest in the tools, the percentages says: social networking (37%), RSS (35%), podcasts (35%), wikis (33%), blogs (32%), and mashups (21%).

In a nutshell I would say, Web 2.0 is a holistic approach that includes software for servers, content assimilation, standard based browser, rules for messaging, rich-interactive applications, and extensive use of folksonomies, all start with information inculcation, its management, storage and dissemination.

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Hacking the Physical World: What we taught software designers, and what they're trying to teach us

I attended a conference in the suburbs of Portland last month, hosted jointly by local chapters of the Project Management Forum and the Product Design and Management Association. The topic was collaboration—a broad and encompassing theme that had the effect of attracting a satisfyingly wide cross-section of skilled professionals from across Portland's high-tech industries. And as is becoming more and more the case with such events, there were designers and planners present who work in both the physical and virtual worlds: industrial designers, software developers, project managers who deal with new airplanes and tractor-trailers, and those who deal with Java and Ruby. It makes for interesting conversation usually, but it placed me in an awkward semantic situation I've seen many times before: having to put an untoward amount of energy into convincing people that I design actual things.

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POS software

POS software, (Point Of Sale), is a fantastic tool for a small business owner. This product can be helpful in managing different aspects of a small retail store. This product is not for larger businesses or corporations. However, a small one store business can receive fantastic benefits from using POS software. Each individual can assist their business venture to run smoothly and without complicated procedures. Every owner will find this type of system a time saver and a fabulous management program. POS software will bring more profits in and the owner can sit back and relax more and enjoy their business once again. This program is available from different online resources and at retail stores. A person can download a demonstration to try out before they decide to purchase it.

The benefits for this type of program are staggering. It will not take much time or effort for a person or their employees to learn and use in their daily business practices. An individual will be able to manage their inventory with ease and straightforward keystrokes. The owner can keep tabs on their employees, their profits and purchasing new products for their store. With easy to understand POS software, a person can begin a brand new way to run their business successfully. An employee with be able to check-out a customer in a quicker time frame. They will be able to order new products and keep an eye on their inventory stock. This is the perfect solution to any small business that is struggling with their company. Time is of the essence. It is vital to have products on the shelves and clients in and out the doors quickly. POS software can make this all happen and more.

Each individual will be able to hire and keep track of the payments they make to their employees quickly and without much effort. Bookkeeping will be a breeze and the owner will have more time to enjoy their business. This type of software is simple to locate. It is important to try it before an individual buys it. However, it is a fabulous method in giving more freedom to the employees while the boss can be basking in the sun on a tropical island. Everyone will get a use out of POS software solutions.

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Nigerian software industry can earn $10 billion annually-Uwaje

A one time 1st Vice President, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON). Chris Uwaje has estimated that Nigeria can earn not less than $10 billion annually from the software industry said to have been neglected.

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