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Node.js sees Windows compatibility as key to success

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The creator of Node.js says he wants to avoid the mistakes of other development environments, and support cross-platform systems as much as possible.

Ryan Dahl, who devised Node.js as a way of running JavaScript on the server side, was speaking in a group session with Rackspace and Microsoft at the first Node Summit in San Francisco. In the opening keynote, he laid out his plans for the Node.js development environment – and about the importance of addressing the Windows market.

“Ruby on Rails decided it wasn’t interested in Windows and that’s hurt Ruby in the long run,” Dahl explained. “Python has done a good effort, on the other hand. To be a big platform, a real platform, you have to be on Windows.”

He explained that while he wasn’t a Windows user himself, there were plenty of people who were, and that their needs should be addressed. Not surprisingly, Microsoft and Rackspace agreed. Rackspace has been working with Redmond and Joyent, Dahl’s employer, to port the platform to Windows via Azure.

“To build a diverse open source community, you need a wide platform,” said the impressively bearded (even by developer standards) Paul Querna, architect at Rackspace. “Ruby didn’t do a Windows port and it hurt, Python did and it helped. It’s obvious it makes sense.”

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/24/nodejs_windows_developer

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Developers to Soon Favor Android Over iOS?

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Application developers may favor Apple’s mobile operating system iOS now, but they are expected to grow fonder of Google’s Android platform in the near future, according to research firm Ovum.

Android will overtake iOS within the next 12 months to become the most important mobile operating system to developers, Ovum said. In its second-annual developer survey, Ovum also found, however, that nearly all developers will support both platforms.

Though Android leads the smartphone market, iOS has traditionally been thought of as a bigger money-maker. Last year, Apple was number one in terms of revenue generation, with 74 percent of developers ranking it a number one or two. Consequently, apps have traditionally been made available for Apple users first. But the tide may be changing as Android becomes more important to app makers. During a recent earnings call, Google said users have now downloaded more than 11 billion apps from the Android Market.

Also, while developers focus most of their efforts on Android and iOS, they are also growing increasingly interested in BlackBerry OS and Microsoft Windows Phone, according to Ovum.

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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399214,00.asp

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Ciklum Presents Forecasts for the 2012 European IT Outsourcing Market

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Ciklum, a Danish innovative IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Eastern Europe, presents a general review of the most thought-provoking predictions for the European IT Outsourcing Industry in 2012.

The year 2011 has seen both an extensive use of ITO services in traditional niches such as IT and Telecom, and a rapid penetration of ITO into the innovative lucrative niches such as digital media, mobile computing, online gaming and others.

While it is yet too early to make any forecasts for the 2012 European ITO market volume, increase or decrease in outsourcing activity and the overall IT spending, it is still possible to identify some of the trends that will most likely be ruling the market throughout this year:

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http://www.pr.com/press-release/387497

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IT outsourcing deals worth $1 bn in limbo

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

The fate of over a billion dollars worth of information technology (IT) outsourcing contracts is in a limbo after on Thursday’s Supreme Court verdict cancelling 122 licences of telecom firms. For, the order comes at a time when both Indian and multi-national IT firms like Wipro, Tech Mahindra and IBM, besides business process firms such as Firstsource, Intelenet and Aegis, have signed multi-million dollar deals with telecom firms including Uninor, Etisalat DB, Videocon and Idea.

For instance, Wipro had signed an estimated $500-600 million outsourcing deal with Uninor in 2009. Similarly, Tech Mahindra had signed an outsourcing deal from Etisalat, with a revenue estimate of $400-500 million. MNC firm IBM, which has a $1 billion outsourcing deal with Bharti-Airtel, had also bagged a $200-million deal from Videocon-led Datacom Solutions.

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http://business-standard.com/india/news/it-outsourcing-deals-worth-1-bn-in-limbo/463598/

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Smaller Is Better for Outsourcing Market

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Since the peak of the financial crisis, when companies put many projects on hold, they have apparently found smaller to be better. The past year was the busiest for outsourcing service providers, with 870 contracts awarded in 2011. Just over 75% of those contracts were between $25 million and $99 million, according to Information Services Group (ISG).

The outsourcing data and analysis firm included only deals worth at least $25 million in its latest tally, released on Wednesday. But its analysts have found that projects on an even smaller scale are getting more prevalent as well. “Small contracts worth less than $1 million have really taken off,” says John Keppel, president of research and managed services and chief marketing officer of ISG.

The trend toward smaller contracts will likely continue, particularly in the United States, where businesses have long been accustomed to using outside service providers. ISG believes the shift is a sign of a mature market, while other regions newer to outsourcing are still making larger deals. The smaller contracts have been high enough in volume to also keep the total worth of contracts relatively high. In 2011, total contract value (which covers the life of the contracts) of the overall outsourcing market was $95 billion, a 3% increase over 2010. ISG gave the industry an optimistic future, believing outsourcing activity will  increase by 5% to 7% this year.

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http://www3.cfo.com/article/2012/1/supply-chain_outsourcing-smaller-contracts-bpo

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Even Woz Thinks the Android Bests the iPhone

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Apple CEO Steve Jobs hated the Android smartphone operating system so much that he vowed he would spend his last dying breath and every penny Apple had in the bank trying to destroy it. Android, created by Google, entered the market after Apple but soon gained greater market share. A lot of Apple fans dismiss Android as a ripoff of Apple’s ideas, and a crappy one at that.

But oddly enough, Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Jobs in 1976, says he’s a big fan of Android phones. Woz says he still thinks Apple’s iPhone is the best overall smartphone, but he says there are ways in which Android has leapt ahead of Apple.

“My primary phone is the iPhone,” Woz says. “I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.”

Woz says voice commands work better on Android. Android’s built-in navigation system, where the phone acts like a GPS system, is another advantage, he says.

Android phones aren’t as simple to use as the iPhone, but they’re not that much more complicated, and “if you’re willing to do the work to understand it a little bit, well I hate to say it, but there’s more available in some ways,” Woz says.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/14/even-woz-thinks-the-android-bests-the-iphone.html

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iPad Application Development: A Powerful Tool For Promotion

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

iPad has emerged as one of the tools for promotion of businesses and organizations.

The properties that make it so useful are:

Its interactive nature: iPad applications can be highly attractive and interactive if properly developed. Being highly user interactive, iPad applications can be used as a great tool for marketing and promotional purposes. It can easily capture the attention of the user and help in proper delivery of the message.

Rich Graphics: iPad helps in conveying an impressive message that features sharp graphics and rich colors. Developers can create highly appealing and visually attractive iPad applications that can create a good first impression on the viewer. However, organizations should also remember that the promotional material should also be of high quality and could justify the visual effects used for it.

Powerful Messages: iPad applications can be used to deliver powerful messages that cannot be ignored by the user. Suppose you create a great application that allows users to view the weather of various different locations and put the logo of your company at the beginning when the application is loading. Now it will be really difficult for the user to ignore your logo if he wants to use your application. Moreover, it will also leave a very strong and powerful impression on their minds.

Add Fun Quotient to make it Irresistible: iPad applications can be loaded with fun and entertainment features to make it irresistible. iPad users are always looking for entertaining apps that they can download and use. Organizations can now deliver their messages in one of the most entertaining form that is liked by the user.

Source: http://2lix.com/2012/01/11/ipad-application-development-powerful-tool-for-promotion/

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Cloud is complex—deal with it

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Cloud as a complex system

What’s interesting is that it turns out science has a whole body of work around complex systems. A complex system, according to Wikipedia, is “a system composed of interconnected parts that as a whole exhibit one or more properties (behavior among the possible properties) not obvious from the properties of the individual parts.”

That’s certainly true of the modern interconnected IT environment. Just look at automated trading systems and the famous “flash crash” for an example—systems designed for increasing market returns reacted to each other in a way that temporarily crashed that very market. Other examples abound, and I’m sure your own IT environment often behaves in ways that no single application or other element was designed to do explicitly.

What science teaches us about complex systems is that they are made up of many individual agents, each of which effect and are affected by agents around them. The feedback loops of events created by agents affecting each other both directly and indirectly, combined with the mechanisms that choose behaviors to in response to those events, combine to create the systemic behavior that is so unpredictable.

Cloud as an adaptive system

The thing is, however, a certain class of complex systems, complex adaptive systems, have the additional trait that they can change their behavior in response to the success or failure of previous behaviors when a given event occurs—or when a certain series of events occurs. This ability to “learn” and adapt to the surrounding system environment creates amazing outcomes, including many of the most rich, enduring and powerful systems in our universe

The developer as DNA

I want to leave you with one last thought, however. One of the things about complex adaptive systems is the learning or adapting traits of the agents in the system. In the world of evolution, the main agent of learning or change is DNA. In the world of IT, the agent of learning or change is the engineer or software developer.

If something goes wrong with an application, developers are on the hook to fix it, change it or kill it. If existing hardware fails to create new opportunities to innovate, engineers find new approaches to introduce into the ecosystem to shake things up.

Source: http://gigaom.com/cloud/cloud-is-complex-deal-with-it/

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Challenges And Opportunities Within The Mobile Application Development

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Mobile users have often been finicky concerning the whole user experience as well as mostly choose a look that is most effective for undertaking different sorts of actions like social networking, chatting, messaging, hear new music etc. simply. Developers often look for to create the native experience in cell programs for better reputation.

Probably the most profound alter introduced about by mobility could be the terrific evolution from being linked to being converged. All programs such as voice, messaging, place solutions and video clip now converge within the smartphone for an experience depending on convergence. With the advent of SOA, several firms started the idea which included Connected Systems. Mobile programs evolved from linked methods and now possess an arbitrary software which contain several programs for messaging, information, place and video clip solutions which are managed by different third party companies. Such Converged Applications will also be operate on the downgraded mode when the user is just not authenticated. The majority of the attributes are then downplayed for this kind of users.

Mobility has revolutionized the numerous software distribution methods that had been present previously to the wonderful ring tone business product. The ringtone business product reaches hundreds of countless people today with quite a few ringtones and the listing is often expanding. The developers have scores of alternatives to duplicate their programs and numerous more possibilities to market them since they are mostly dedicated to certain domains. For instance, Angry Birds had a universal charm and and proved to be preferable across different sections of the culture too as different geographic locations. There is often numerous cell apps which is often specific in the course of an individual year all pertaining to different markets and domains. There needs to be a household of cell apps if one desires to delve into cell software improvement since the degree of competitors is highly substantial and there ought to be a score of apps which need to be excellent enough for that in-app payment.

Source: http://taxila-academy.com/challenges-and-opportunities-within-the-mobile-application-development-globe/

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Android platform distribution statistics updated

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

The latest Android platform versions distributions chart was announced yesterday after the Android Developers’ website collected data for two weeks, and the share results reaped a few surprising figures.

Gingerbread gobbled 55 percent of the share, and Froyo landed at second place with 30 percent. However, according to last month’s results, Gingerbread increased from 50.6-percent while Froyo decreased from 35.3-percent. The statistical difference may be due to Froyo smartphones receiving an upgrade or Gingerbread smartphones seeing an increase in activations over the holiday season. Google recently announced it added 3.7 million devices on Christmas.

Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, is making the biggest amount of noise with these latest results. Ice Cream Sandwich devices -only the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S for now- account for just .6-percent of the share of all of the devices that have called the Android market in the last two weeks.  If that total is near the 200 million that Google announced in November, that means over a million Galaxy Nexus Devices have been activated in the few weeks since release.

Ice Cream Sandwich unveiled at the “May 2011 Google I/O” event, and it officially launched Oct. 19, 2011.

Source: http://9to5google.com/2012/01/04/android-platform-distribution-statistics-updated-only-6-percent-of-devices-on-ics-gingerbread-maintains-majority/

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