New Browser from Google:Chrome

Google have announced plans to take on Microsoft and Firefox with their own browser.
The Google Chrome browser will be based on the existing Webkit rendering engine and integrate not only tab-based browsing but
Google Gears and the latest version of the company’s search technology, called Omnibox.

Omnibox, which will replace the address bar and search bar in the Google Chrome browser, will offer search suggestions,
popular pages and history pages. Omnibox will also automatically replicate a webpage’s own search box, allowing site and
query strings to be entered simultaneously: for instance, entering “amazon”, pressing tab and then the search term will automatically
go to an Amazon search results page for that term.

Google Chrome BrowserThe Google Chrome browser will also include some of the more popular features from existing rivals.
It will have a homepage of nine instant-access shortcut thumbnails along with recent search history and recent tabs.
Tabs themselves will be switched to above the window, not below it as on Firefox. There’ll be a privacy mode - which Google are
calling an “incognito” window - within which no record of surfing will be kept. Malware and phishing will be protected against, with
the Google Chrome browser automatically downloading a constantly updated list of harmful sites in the background.

An updated JavaScript Virtual Machine, called V8, will also be an integral part of the Google Chrome browser,
which has been specially developed in Denmark. It promises to speed up JavaScript and reduce memory bloat,
which will make a significant difference in webapps. It’ll also flag up any core offenders, whether webpages or plug-ins,
that use up more memory than they should. Chrome will allow webapps to create their own, address and toolbar free windows,
better replicating traditional desktop apps and blurring the differentiation between the two.Intended for release as an open-source project,
the Google Chrome browser has no specific release date attached to it. -SlashGear Take Google Chrome for a test drive!



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Emerging Technologies: Developments in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RealTime

by Emerging Technologies Team

You may have heard the news from Red Hat’s CTO Brian Stevens’ keynote at the Red Hat Summit that we are building a realtime variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. There were a few sessions at the Summit describing our initiative in more detail. For those of you who weren’t present, we’d like to share some realtime info with you here.

We can simplify the primary functional objectives of our realtime initiative down to a few key points:

1. Determinism: provide consistent, repeatable response times
2. Priority: ensure the highest priority processes run first

Sounds rather basic, right?

For most workloads, a properly tuned Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel (in RHEL 2.1, 3, 4 or 5) meets customer requirements. Typical timing requirements are in the range of millisecond response time. However for the most demanding customer workloads, the requirements are in the microsecond range. To give just a few representative examples:

* Financial Services industry: here time is money. In this highly competitive market, shaving fractions of a second off the time it takes to performs market analytics yields huge advantage. Additionally, there are increasing government regulations for consistency in trading. They don’t want things smelling fishy if some trades take longer than others.
* Federal command and control systems: here, “close enough” isn’t good enough. They need to dependably know that the highest priority application threads will run and complete in predictable periods of time.

The primary reason why the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux products can’t completely meet the most demanding response time requirements is because there are numerous lengthy kernel codepaths which are non-preemptable. Without getting too technical here, this means that while these non-preemptable kernel codepaths are running, the high priority application threads are not running. Hence these long-running kernel codepaths result in delays in the application running, which is the cause of inconsistent response times (also referred to as non-determinism). In his keynote address at the Summit, Brian displayed a performance chart illustrating that when running a messaging workload on standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux, there was substantial deviation in response times. Whereas when running the realtime kernel, the response times were highly consistent.

Sun's next goal: A Linux ecosystem

The server and software company launched its servers based on its own UltraSparc T1 "Niagara" chips in December, a major part of a drive to restore its lost lustre and financial strength.

But alongside the hardware launch came a more quiet software push: an attempt to make the Linux and BSD Unix open-source operating systems a serious option for buyers of Sparc-based computers. To promote the technology combination, Sun is trying to coax an accompanying software business into existence.

Sun has had some experience building such software "ecosystems." For example, it's in the process of resurrecting a version of its own Solaris operating system for computers with x86 processors such as Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron. But Sun, which already has several irons in the fire, faces formidable challenges in the Linux and BSD effort.

"The time for Linux on Sparc as any kind of major market phenomenon has come and gone -- over five years ago now, maybe longer," Illuminata analyst Jonathan Eunice said. "It just serves to split the available development resources."

Through projects such as UltraLinux and Aurora Linux, Linux and some BSD variants can already run on Sparc processors. But the products are not commercially relevant for most potential customers. The two major Linux sellers have already pulled back -- Red Hat dropped its Sparc support in 2000, and Novell Suse's last supported version was released in 2002.

Still, Sun has no shortage of gumption. "Linux on Sparc is dead serious," President Jonathan Schwartz said in an e-mail interview. "I'm personally talking to leaders in the community. BSD, too."

The effort is part of Sun's attempt to restore its relevance and financial fortunes by shaking its image as a proprietary technology company. That legacy from the '90s hurt the Santa Clara, California-based company when it missed out on two major growth trends that spanned the rest of the server industry: machines built with x86 processors such as Opteron and Intel's Xeon, and the open-source Linux operating system.

Now, one 180-degree turn later, Sun is making its Solaris an open-source project and plans to do the same with its UltraSparc processor. "To be successful, Solaris has to go beyond Sparc. But also to be successful, Sparc has to go beyond Solaris," said David Yen, who as executive vice president of Sun's Sparc server group is trying to make the chip family "the new industry standard."

Intel to launch Linux-powered mobile Internet device

Intel is developing its own take on the mini-tablet, with a new ultra-mobile PC platform to be announced at this week's Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. The big surprise? It's based on Linux.

Called a Mobile Internet Device (pic), or MID, the devices will have screen sizes from 4.5 to six inches with a target audience described as "consumers and prosumers" rather than mobile professionals.

The MID2007 platform, currently codenamed McCaslin, will gain a more marketing-friendly moniker closer to next year's release of the products. This is tipped to be an extension of the successful Centrino mobile brand, in the same manner as the recent announcement earlier this month of a higher-end Centrino Pro brand for enterprise-class notebooks incorporating Intel's vPro management technology.

While McCaslin's CPU components -- codenamed Stealey -- will be dual-core processors clocked at 600-800MHz and capable of running Windows XP and Vista, Intel plans for the devices to run an embedded Linux OS but with a mix of open-source and proprietary code in the final products.

Typical MID uses will be "staying in touch", entertainment, information and location-based services. Intel's presentation specifically cites Google Maps and Web-based "office and enterprise applications" in the last two categories. Connectivity will be provided through Wi-Fi and support for wide-area coverage via 3G HSDPA.

MID tablets will run a simplified "finger-friendly" user interface optimised for the small screens, based on the Gnome desktop but with an Intel-developed "master user interface" layer to serve as an equivalent to the desktop.

Developers will next month see the first MID-specific OS -- a tweak of China's RedFlag Linux known as RedFlag MIDINUX -- while the IDF schedule itself includes a stream of "ultra mobile sessions" including one on "Designing for Linux-based mobile Internet devices".

Intel first tipped its hand in the UMPC space at least year's IDF, when it showcased several prototype devices no larger than a paperback book and announced a partnership with Yahoo to deliver a rich Web-based back end of business and personal services.

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Platform As A Service: Cloudo

Platform As A Service: Cloudo


Platform As A Service, or PaaS is the latest development in virtualization. Where companies started to offer applications online (Saas, Software As A Service) and the use of virtual servers is becoming mainstream, more and more companies now offer a complete operating system as a service online.
Cloudo is the latest addition to platform providers. There are several others that have existed for a while now in the consumer market, but to be honest I have no idea if there is a consumer market for this technology. Virtualization is huge in the business market - after offering servers with virtual servers on top even SUN Microsystems now considers offering online platforms for businesses.

So what is so interesting about Cloudo? Why would we want a webbased operating system? Well, something that makes a huge difference is the option to sync your files to the operating system. Until now, nobody else offers this.

There currently is a private beta for developers only, so there's nothing for me there right now. But I will keep an eye on it.

New wireless sensor network keeps tabs on the environment

New wireless sensor network keeps tabs on the environment

Have you ever wondered what happens in the rainforest when no one is looking?.

Research in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Science may soon be able to answer that question. The departments of computing science and earth and atmospheric science have been working together to create a Wireless Sensor Network that allows for the clandestine data collection of environmental factors in remote locations and its monitoring from anywhere in the world where the Internet is available.

The research team, including Pawel Gburzynski, Mario Nascimento, and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, recently launched EcoNet, a functional model of a WSN for environmental monitoring in the display house in the University of Alberta's Agriculture/Forestry Centre. The display house hosts a small but feature-rich environment that mimics that of a tropical forest. Using a WSN, many sensors can continuously monitor factors like temperature and luminosity and will process, store and transmit data co-operatively and wirelessly with other sensors to generate data that can then be collected and made available to users virtually anywhere on the globe. The sensors represent a technology for scientists to monitor diverse phenomena continuously and inconspicuously.

Having the data continuously monitored by scientists substantially increases the chances of uncovering anomalies early enough to investigate them promptly and thoroughly.........

ClearForest Gnosis: The Future of Web Searches

ClearForest Gnosis is early example of the possibilities of semantic web searches,
hinting at the facility semantic web applications will allow in the future.
Gnosis, a plugin for Firefox or Internet Explorer (link currently unavailable),
does a real-time semantic search of textual key words.

Gnosis effectively puts a powerful search engine right into the text of any web page you visit.
After processing the page, Gnosis offers a series of hyperlinks, each one operating like a sort of minisearch,
highlighting people, organizations, medical conditions, companies, currency, city, country, or industry terms,
for example. The thematically color-coded hyperlinks link to automatic searches on Google, Wikipedia,
Facebook, Linked In, Reuters News, Technorati and various financial services.

A simple click on the linked word can either Google it, find it in Wikipedia, or,
if it’s a person, easily find their Facebook or LinkedIn page. Another way Gnosis makes searching
easier is it highlights every instance of a word, instead of just the first time, as is usual on most web sites.

At this point Gnosis mainly serves to make searches faster. It allows you to process a site after you’ve gone to it,
or you can choose to automatically search a site by adding its address to the options menu. Not having to leave the text to type in key words certainly allows for a much quicker gathering of contextual information than a traditional search.

Gnosis is part of Thomson Reuters’ semantic web project, OpenCalais, and is integrated into Reuter’s GIST,
a “360-degree” news service, featuring articles, images, and videos. GIST aims to use ClearForest searches to create its context-based news pages.

Microsoft Surface:New Technology From Microsoft.

Microsoft Surface (Codename: Milan), is a Multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a
software and hardware combination technology
that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of natural motions,
hand gestures, or physical objects. It was announced on May 29, 2007 at D5 conference.
Initial customers will be in the hospitality businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, retail,
public entertainment venues and the military for tactical overviews.
The preliminary launch was on April 17, 2008, when Surface became available for customer use in AT&T stores.

Overview-
Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a table, topped with a 30-inch reflective surface
in a clear acrylic frame. A projector underneath the surface projects an image onto its underside,
while five cameras in the machine's housing record reflections of infrared light from human fingertips.
The camera can also recognize objects placed on the surface if those objects have specially-designed "tags"
applied to them. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects
such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by placing and moving tagged objects.

Surface has been optimized to respond to 52 touches at a time. During a demonstration with a reporter,
Mark Bolger, the Surface Computing group's marketing director, "dipped" his finger in an on-screen paint palette,
then dragged it across the screen to draw a smiley face. Then he used all 10 fingers at once to give the face
a full head of hair.

Using the specially-designed "tags" on objects, Microsoft Surface can automatically offer
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IT News:Democratising IT

A New Model For PC Penetration
INDIA has emerged as a global leader in the advance of information technology. Yet the country faces a fundamental challenge — building on its successes by enabling greater access to technology for its people. This will drive expanded economic growth and opportunity. Less than 3% of Indians own a personal computer — compared to nearly 8% of Chinese, almost 14% of Brazilians and more than 15% of Russians. Despite the very low penetration of computers in India, the impact has been profound. India is home to three of the world’s 10 biggest IT firms — Tata, Infosys, and Wipro, and already generates nearly $40 billion in revenues from its IT software and services sector. Nasscom forecasts this figure to grow by nearly 27% next year. It must be recognised that the benefits of broader IT use and deeper Internet access are substantial, and will be a catalyst for — not a result of — economic growth and modernisation. India is already benefiting from e-governance initiatives that deliver real-time tallying of results of the world’s largest elections and from technology-driven distance learning that brings the world’s educational resources to students without regard to location or economic background. But cost has been a major roadblock for broader technology adoption in India. Reducing taxes and tariffs is essential to facilitating broader access to technology and driving growth in the technology sectors. Global hardware exports are 43% of Chinese exports versus only 2.3% for India. India is clearly missing out on a big opportunity. If it doesn’t act soon, investments will go further into China and emerging countries such as Vietnam, instead of India.
Consider also that, in India, a typical desktop computer costs 44% of the average Indian’s annual wage. Brazil’s experience in supporting technology adoption is particularly instructive. Since reducing taxes on computer purchases two years ago, the PC market tripled, and more than two million families bought their first PC, making Brazil the world’s fourth-largest PC market. What was more important was the multiplier effect this had on the economy. Thousands of IT industry jobs were created and government revenue from the IT sector increased by 50%. But cost isn’t the only barrier. IT complexity will also threaten access to technology while increasing its cost and environmental impact. We are all members of what we at Dell call the ReGeneration — a new global movement concerned with the regeneration of not just our businesses but also our planet. Environmental protection efforts are improving, as reflected in the Nobel Prize jointly awarded to former US vice-president Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change headed by Rajendra Pachauri. And technology is an important part of these efforts. The future will bring even more benefits.
By 2020 microprocessors will run one thousand times as many computations per second as they do today. That will mean enormous gains in productivity and efficiency, giving people unimaginable power to access, organise, and transform information. Indian citizens will more fully benefit from this progress as government and industry leaders strengthen their cooperation. This will help create the conditions in which IT can flourish and reach all people, businesses, and institutions across the country. India plays a pivotal role in global IT. Technology users in the western world benefit every day from the work of bright, talented Indian employees and their constant innovation. But more than serving as the world’s software writer or back office, India is harnessing the productivity, efficiency, and innovation benefits of IT as a foundation for global economic competitiveness. I see industry working, with great commitment, with India’s government to build on this progress, and to help further democratize access to technology, so that more Indian citizens enjoy even more of technology’s benefits with an ever-decreasing impact on our environment. That is our shared responsibility. By harnessing these forces — the democratization and simplification of technology, we can make a positive impact not just on our economies, but also our planet.

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IT News:Cognizant pips Infy to acquire marketRx for $135 m

Cognizant pips Infy to acquire marketRx for $135 m
COGNIZANT Technology Solutions, an IT and BPO services company, said it will pay $135 million in cash to acquire New Jersey-based marketRx, a provider of analytics and related software services to life sciences companies. It’s the biggest acquisition made by Cognizant so far, and among the biggest in high-end business process outsourcing space recently.
In a deal structured on Thursday night, Cognizant is believed to have pipped IT services giant Infosys Technologies in bagging the deal. Earlier, ET reported that a host of suitors, including biggies Infosys and Wipro, had evinced interest in acquiring marketRx, one of the largest, independent offshore KPO businesses. Two investment banks, Mumbai-based Avendus and US-based William Blair, advised marketRx in sealing the deal.
This is the second high-profile dealmaking in the KPO space, after WNS snapped up Bangalore headquartered Marketics for $65 million earlier this year. Sources said while Infosys’ valuation of the marketRx was higher, Cognizant offered upfront cash pay out. It is believed that Infy’s offer had a substantial chunk of earnings payout, which essentially means a combination of upfront money and the remaining to be based on future performance.
The Nasdaq-listed Cognizant with predominant operations in India said the acquisition would help strengthen its analytics unit and offer more services to life sciences industry. The deal is expected to close in fourth quarter of 2007, and would be funded from its cash reserves. marketRx with per employee revenue of about $100,000 is projected to report revenues of over $40 million in 2007. It has 430 people, with 260 in Gurgaon, 160 in the US (four locations), and 10 in London.
Cognizant is expected to cross 55,000 people by end of this year and with revenue guidance of $2.11 billion in 2007. It’s manpower addition this year is expected to be over 16,000, 40 times the strength of marketRx. Cognizant president R Chandrasekaran said: “It is a ‘tuck-under’ acquisition that is consistent with our acquisition strategy of selectively acquiring businesses that complement or enhance our business model and value to our customers.
Cognizant president and CEO Francisco D’- Souza said: “This acquisition expands our capabilities in the analytics segment and broadens our service offerings for the life sciences industry while providing strong synergies with our existing business intelligence/data warehousing and CRM (customer relationship management) services.”
marketRx has a proven global delivery model for analytics, deep domain knowledge and proprietary analytics software platform, he said. “We expect to leverage these assets to establish a pre-eminent position in the fast-growing analytics market both in life sciences and other industries,” Mr D’Souza said in a statement.
marketRx president & CEO Jaswinder (Jassi) Chadha said: “The combination of our market leading position in the life sciences analytics segment and Cognizant’s strengths as a top global services player will allow us to expand our relationships with our life sciences clients by providing them with a broader range of outsourced services, and conversely enables us to extend our capabilities to other vertical markets.”

IT News:Talent pool may raise biz for IT product cos

Talent pool may raise biz for IT product cos

WITH India becoming the global IT services hub, leading product companies including Oracle, Sun Micro systems, IBM and Microsoft are sharpening their focus on the education sector to promote their technologies and bolster revenues. These companies are actively forging ties with educational and training institutes to develop a ready-touse talent pool. The partnerships could indirectly bring in more business, say analysts.
The programmers are designed to help companies position their products in the global marketplace. Availability of talent pool could be a differentiating factor in a closely-contested deal. In a multi-million dollar deal, when a client is selecting a product partner, they will look at market capabilities, mainly the number of professionals who have trained on the product technologies. “With more and more businesses outsourcing their services to India, it is important for major product development companies to create a large tech-savvy resource pool here,” said Gartner principal analyst Kamlesh Bhatia.
IBM, for instance, has imparted training on open standards-based technologies to more than 80,000 students across 745 colleges in India in 2006. “As part of IBM Academic Initiative, we offer workshops and certification programmes on various technologies. The aim is to develop strategic linkages with universities and colleges and to assist them in developing talent pool,” says IBM programme director Amol Mahamuni.
Microsoft India has also partnered with the Board for Information Technology Education Standards (BITES) in Karnataka to address the training needs of students in BITES member institutes.
TALENT CONTEST
IT cos are tying up with educational & training institutes to develop ready-to-use talent pool Availability of talent pool could be a differentiating factor in a closely-contested deal IBM has imparted training on open standards-based technologies to 80,000 students across 745 colleges in India

IT News:Microsoft

MS in talks with retail chains for RFID software

MICROSOFT is in talks with retail biggies, financial service providers and government agencies for its new radio frequency identification device (RFID) software. The software, called Microsoft Biztalk server 2006 R2, can be used across sectors to improve business processes such as asset tracking, supply chain management and inventory control. This is possible as the software enables all types of RFID to become fully compatible with the Microsoft platform.
The US retail chain Wal-Mart adopted radio frequency identification device software nearly three years ago to improve its back-end operations. Retail chains in India could take a cue and use the new platform for inventory management. Banks, on the other hand, can use it to track transaction records or even their high-networth clients. RFID solutions
can be used for e-passports as well.
BizTalk RFID was developed at the MIDC centre in Hyderabad. Microsoft has tied up with over 100 partners including HP, Intel, TCS, small software and hardware vendors to develop the platform. In fact, TCS was among the early movers in developing RFID applications. “We have implemented this technology for ITC’s cigarette unit in Kolkata,” said Pradeep Misra, centre of excellence (RFID), TCS.
HP is also implementing the technology for Bajaj Auto in partnership with Microsoft. The technology can also serve many other enterprises. “With the drop in hardware prices and devices becoming standardised, RFID technology will become affordable. With our easy to use software, RFID technology will be ready for mass adoption in due course, said Srini Koppolu, corporate vice-president, Microsoft India Development Centre.