How Object-Oriented Programming Started

by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo

SIMULA I (1962-65) and Simula 67 (1967) are the two first object-oriented languages. Simula 67 introduced most of the key concepts of object-oriented programming: both objects and classes, subclasses (usually referred to as inheritance) and virtual procedures, combined with safe referencing and mechanisms for bringing into a program collections of program structures described under a common class heading (prefixed blocks).

The Simula languages were developed at the Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Nygaard's work in Operational Research in the 1950s and early 1960s created the need for precise tools for the description and simulation of complex man-machine systems. In 1961 the idea emerged for developing a language that both could be used for system description (for people) and for system prescription (as a computer program through a compiler). Such a language had to contain an algorithmic language, and Dahl's knowledge of compilers became essential.

The SIMULA I compiler was partially financed by UNIVAC and was ready in January 1965. SIMULA I quickly got a reputation as a simulation programming language, but turned out in addition to posess interesting properties as a general programming language. When the inheritance mechanism was invented in 1967, Simula 67 was developed as a general programming language that also could be specialised for many domains, including system simulation. Simula 67 compilers started to appear for UNIVAC, IBM, Control Data, Burroughs, DEC and other computers in the early 1970s.

Simula 67 still is being used many places around the world, but its main impact has been through introducing one of the main categories of programming, more generally labelled object-oriented programming. Simula concepts have been important in the discussion of abstract data types and of models for concurrent program execution, starting in the early 1970s. Simula 67 and modifications of Simula were used in the design of VLSI circuitry (Intel, Caltech, Stanford). Alan Kay's group at Xerox PARC used Simula as a platform for their development of Smalltalk (first language versions in the 1970s), extending object-oriented programming importantly by the integration of graphical user interfaces and interactive program execution. Bjarne Stroustrup started his development of C++ (in the 1980s) by bringing the key concepts of Simula into the C programming language. Simula has also inspired much work in the area of program component reuse and the construction of program libraries.

In the 1980s tremendous resources were put behind the ADA language (US Department of Defense) and PROLOG (the Japanese "Fifth Generation Computer Project"), and many believed that ADA and PROLOG would fight for dominance in the 1990s. Instead object-oriented programming is today (in the late 1990s) becoming the dominant style for implementing complex programs with large numbers of interacting components. Among the multitude of object-oriented language are Eiffel (B. Meyer) , CLOS (D. Bobrow and G. Kiczales), SELF (D. Ungar and others). In particular the Internet-related Java (developed by Sun) has rapidly become widely used in recent years. BETA (B. Bruun-Kristensen, O. Lehrmann Madsen, B. Møller-Pedersen and K. Nygaard) is a very general object-oriented language in the Simula tradition.

Developing on USB memory sticks

Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror fame recently wrote about USB memory sticks and why we don’t ‘yet’ put our whole computing environment one a flash drive. Basically it comes down to speed according to him. Personally, for the last year or so with no problems, I’ve been using my memory stick to store development code on so that I can easily work between different machines. At work I check the code out onto the stick, take it out and work disconnect at home on another machine. Next morning I just plug in my stick and commit the changes to the repository. Obviously the environment needs tweaking, for instance when dealing with databases etc. Also check the company policy regarding security.

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This will create a Wireless Access Point for devices, such as desktop PC, PDA, Notebook.

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The Product(NSK) is a Portable Wireless Access Point (AP) device and very simple to use.
Just plug NSK USB WiFi dongle into your internet-enabled PC, and it will install
and configure the device itself without having you install any drivers.
This will create a Wireless Access Point for devices, such as Desktop PC, PDA, Notebook.

2. Description

Minimum System Requirements
OS : Microsoft Windows (Win 98SE/ME/2000/XP/XP64)
CPU : Pentium 133Mhz
MEMORY : 64MB

Specifications
IEEE 802.11b/g
Wi-Fi Alliance

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1. When you want to use your Notebook or PDA devices from home.
2. While visiting client site and trying to use a wireless Internet connection.
3. When your device doesn? have a built in wireless and want to connect to the internet.
4. When you are over at your friend? house and want to place network game.
5. When you are at public place like library or cafe and want to setup a share network.
6. You want to setup an internet connection for your client at your office.
7. When you want to use KAI Network and play SONY PSP.
8. When it is too difficult for you to setup and use wireless network.
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Five Thousand Bucks for Your Genome

A new sequencing service could change the face of human genomics.

Starting next spring, a complete human-genome sequence can be ordered for just $5,000, thanks to a new sequencing service announced by Complete Genomics, a startup based in Mountain View, CA. The stunning price drop--sequencing currently costs approximately 20 times that amount--could completely change the way that human-genomics research is done and open up new possibilities in personalized medicine. Researchers say that a $5,000 genome would enable new studies to identify rare genetic variants linked to common diseases, and it could open up the sequencing market to diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies, making genome sequencing a routine part of clinical drug testing.

Complete Genomics, which has received $46 million in venture funding to date and has largely stayed under the radar, plans to launch with a bang and anticipates the capacity to sequence 1,000 genomes in 2009 and 20,000 in 2010. That would represent a massive jump: with a price tag of $100,000 to $1 million over the past two years, only a handful of human genomes have been sequenced to date.

"Suddenly, these guys are talking about sequencing hundreds to thousands of genomes in the next couple of years," says Chad Nusbaum, codirector of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program at the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, MA. "That opens up tremendous vistas for the kind of science we want to do. It's really by generating hundreds of human-genome sequences that you can start to ask hard questions about human genetics."

Complete Genomics says that it has already sequenced a human genome, although it has not yet released the data for independent review. "'Stunning' is not too strong a word, if they can do it in the very near term," says Jeffrey Schloss, program director for technology development at the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute, on the possibility of a $5,000 genome. "But I haven't seen any data and I don't know anyone who has, which is of course critical."
J. Craig Venter, founder of the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Rockville, MD, is working with Complete Genomics to validate its technology, comparing the sequence that it generates with a reference sequence of his own genome.

Complete Genomics says that its cheap price tag comes thanks to two innovations: a way to densely pack DNA, developed by Rade Drmanac, the company's chief scientific officer, and a method to randomly read DNA letters, based on sequencing technology developed at George Church's lab at Harvard.
To start with, an 80-base-pair piece of DNA is inserted into a circular piece of synthetic DNA and replicated 1,000 times with a specialized enzyme. That large aggregate of DNA spontaneously compresses into a tightly packed ball, thanks to chemical characteristics engineered into the synthetic DNA. These DNA "nanoballs" are then packed onto specially fabricated arrays with unprecedented density--about a billion balls fit on a chip the size of a microscope slide. The high density of DNA allows large volumes to be sequenced quickly with few reagents, one of the most costly components of the process.

Next, as with other approaches, Complete Genomics determines the sequence of the target DNA using a series of fluorescently labeled DNA strands designed to bind to corresponding letters. But while advanced sequencing technologies currently in use--including those from Illumina, Applied Biosystems, and 454--read the sequence sequentially, letter by letter, Complete Genomics's labels bind to the target DNA randomly. Both the labels and the DNA circle are designed to allow scientists to deduce the position of each highlighted base--information that is then used to computationally reconstruct the sequence of the target DNA. (With both Complete Genomics's and other companies' methods, the short strands are computationally stitched together to generate the entire genome sequence.)

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ST Net has significantly enhanced our training capabilities by acquiring Orange Technologies, Inc., located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Orange Technologies is a well-known 24-year old IT services company and has provided a wide range of computer training and related consulting and services to public and private sector clients in the United States and abroad. In addition, Orange Technical Institute is a Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions®, and has trained thousands of information technology specialists over the years, is now an integral part of ST Net’s operations.

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Adobe Releases New Products

As ADOBE Systems works to understand the pains of its customers, it launched recently the Adobe Creative Suit 4 (CS4).

Ashley Wearne, managing director of Adobe Systems for Southeast Asia, said in a press briefing at the Ayala Museum in Makati Tuesday that people could now create more cool stuff with Adobe CS4.

According to Wearne, they focused on three aspects of delivering content - time savers, integration, and innovation - when they developed their new product.

With CS4, he said there will be increased productivity and visual expression. 'It is now possible to create a movie with the use of computer, but make it real".

Non-technical persons could also use Adobe CS4. "Our applications can be easily installed and we offer support too," said Wearne.

New Technology, Work and Employment

New Technology, Work and Employment
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ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 48/81 (Management), 8/13 (Ergonomics) Impact Factor: 0.857

New Technology, Work and Employment presents analysis of the changing contours of technological and organisational systems and processes, to encourage an enhanced understanding of the many dimensions of technological change in the workplace. The journal is eclectic and multidisciplinary, inviting contributions from all the applied social sciences. Its objective is to promote understanding through conceptual debate firmly rooted in the analysis of current practice.

The new chip that will let an iPod store 500,000 songs

A new storage technology will pave the way for MP3 players and other gadgets to store a hundred times more information

Mobile phones, iPods and other consumer devices may soon be able to hold a hundred times more information than they do at present thanks to a breakthrough in storage technology.
Scientists at IBM say they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs - or 3,500 films - and cost far less to produce.

In a paper published in the current issue of Science, a team at the company's research centre in San Jose, California, said that devices which use the new technology would require much less power, would run on a single battery charge for "weeks at a time", and would last for decades.
So-called 'racetrack' memory uses the 'spin' of an electron to store data, and can operate far more quickly than regular hard drives.


Like flash memory - the most advanced type of memory for small devices such as mobile phones - it has no moving parts, meaning that the problems associated with mechanical reliability are dramatically reduced.
Unlike flash, however, it can 'write data' - or store information - extremely quickly, and does not have the 'wear out' mechanism that means flash memory drives can only be used a few thousand times before they wear out.

"The promise of racetrack memory - for example, the ability to carry massive amounts of information in your pocket - could unleash creativity leading to devices and applications that nobody has imagined yet," Stuart Parkin, the IBM fellow who led the research, said.
At present the most capacious iPod - the 160GB iPod Classic - can store 40,000 songs.
Dr Parkin said that racetrack memory could lead to the development of 'three-dimensional micro-electronics', breaking with the tradition of scientists trying to fit an ever greater number on transistors on an ultra-thin piece of silicon shaped like a wafer.

"The combination of extraordinarily interesting physics and spintronic materials engineering, one atomic layer at a time, continues to be highly challenging and very rewarding," he said.
The breakthrough also potentially paves the way for a radical re-writing of one of the most basic laws of computing - so-called Moore's Law, the maxim coined in 1965 by the co-founder of Intel, Gordon Moore, according to which computing speed doubles roughly every two years.
In September, Mr Moore himself said that the continued application of his law would come up against some fundamental laws of physics by about 2020 - laws which forced Mr Parkin and his team to rethink how silicon chips operate.

For nearly fifty years, scientists have explored the possibility of storing information inside the walls that exist between magnetic domains, but to date manipulating such walls has been too expensive and complicated to achieve significant results.

In his paper, Mr Parkin describes a milestone in which he and his team were able to store data in columns of magnetic material arranged on the surface of a silicon wafer. The information moves around the columns at high speed, giving the technology its racetrack name.
IBM said the technology was still "exploratory" at this stage, but that it expected devices which used it to be on the market within ten years.

New Technology Software

Operating Systems
Linux : The choice of the GNU generation
BSD Unix : An operating system with a real history
MS Windows : An operating system used on a lot of PCs

Linux distributions
All Linux distributions start with the Linux core and add many open source applications to the mix which ends up as a few CD-ROMs (or a large download).
Some of the current well known distributions are:
Debian GNU/Linux : The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
Red Hat Linux : A commercial Linux distribution based in Raleigh, USA. Currently it is splitting into Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Fedora project. It has helped finance a lot of well known Linux developers and has purchased companies such as cygwin.
Mandrake : A commercial Linux distribution based in France.
SuSE : A commercial Linux distribution based in Germany. SuSE has recently been purchased by Novell.
Other distributions that have existed include:
Yggdrasil : The producers of the very first CD-ROM based linux distribution "Plug & play Linux" which Adam J. Richter pruduced in 1993. An archive of this exists.
SLS (Softlanding Linux System) : One of the first linux distributions... how many floppy disks?? Check with the archive.
Slackware : Another of the early linux distributions, again on floppy disks... Link to archive
You can find many of these historic linux distributions still on the internet.
ntsoft was there at the start... selling Yggdrasil on CD-ROM and the InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource Cd-ROM sets.


History of BSD
A good history of BSD can be found on the oreilly site . The lawsuit between AT&T and BSDI caused so much noise that developers started working with Linux... (does anyone else remember the Net2 tape from 1994?)
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, DEC Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures.
NetBSD
NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable UNIX-like operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit AlphaServers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source.
OpenBSD
The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. OpenBSD emphasizes portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography.


History of Microsoft
There are many histories of microsoft.. including microsoft's own museum . Microsoft's success is the success story of American Corporate law. Bill Gates studied law at Harvard until he dropped out to start up microsoft. A link to recent legal notes.
BASIC
The first major product from microsoft was a BASIC interpreter for some newly emerged PCs in 1988.
DOS
Disk Operating System.
Windows 9x
32 Bit User interface running on top of 16bit DOS... Windows 95, Windows 98 and then Windows ME.
Windows NT
32 bit operating system WNT (one on from VMS ?) by Dave Cuttler (of the Dec VMS team)..
Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0, 2000 and then 2003...
Office
Well how else can you see BASIC alive and kicking... again MS Office was a marketing development. Combining a word processor, spread sheet and some other applications for a price just over the price of one application removed a number of competitors from the market.
But when open office is free, will Microsoft still be able to sell it's office pack??

New Technology Connection

Welcome to the New Technology Connections portal.
Your connection with the IEEE brings you access to a wealth of knowledge. We have a selected a few technologies to feature first, some are brand new, some are well entrenched but have some new twists and new applications that make them interesting.

For each featured technology, you will find a general description, upcoming conferences, news articles, technical papers, related standards, professional organizations, and academic programs ... all here, in one place. Depending on your goal and interests, you can further explore these new connections for more depth.

We have kept the content level broad enough to be useful to a wide audience of professionals, academicians, students, technical press, and the general public eager to keep watch on the newest happenings in an easy-to-understand way.

For additional in-depth information, we invite you to visit the Technology Discourse that complement some selected technologies.

We invite you to participate in our Technology Discourses!
A Technology Discourse is a conversation – an extended and interactive communication about a particular technology and its implications, environmental, economic, social and public policy. Its purpose is to stimulate more discussion and encourage participants to debate and probe further.
In addition to articles and essays, the Technology Discourses include video segments which are also hosted by IEEE.tv.

Our first series of discourses will include: Wind Power, Earth Observations, Green Engineering and Electronics Recycling.

Exchange Server 2007

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Get ready for Windows Vista!

Get ready for Windows Vista!
New business opportunities don't come around every day. That's why the launch of the Windows Vista operating system is so significant. Windows Vista is more secure, more reliable, easier to use, and has more potential to fuel your business success than any previous version of Windows.
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Office 2007 - New Classes!

Office 2007 - New Classes!
Experience how the 2007 Microsoft Office system can help you better manage documents, organize your workload, and collaborate with coworkers—not just from your desk, but from almost anywhere.
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IBM to Power Xcel Energy's Technology Infrastructure

Somers, NY & Minneapolis, MN - 26 Sep 2000: -- IBM and Xcel Energy, one of the nation's 10 largest utilities, have announced an 11-year strategic relationship aimed at strengthening Xcel Energy's technology infrastructure while cutting information technology costs in the 12 states the company serves. IBM Global Services and Xcel Energy, a new company created last month by the merger of Minneapolis-based Northern States Power and Denver-based New Century Energies, have forged a "second generation" services relationship in which IBM will partner with Xcel Energy to build its technology infrastructure into an engine that can support and foster corporate re-engineering and future business growth.

Xcel Energy will maintain a small but critical core staff within its corporate IT area. Together with IBM, they will help the company develop business cases for a variety of e-business and technology projects aimed at cutting Xcel Energy's IT and operating costs and generating new sources of revenue. IBM will have the opportunity to share in the savings or profits the company attains as a result of implementing these technologies. Executives from both companies will sit on a joint committee to confirm the business proposals and monitor the progress of the projects underway.The new contract, valued at $440 million, builds on an existing agreement signed in 1999 between IBM and New Century Energies as an extension of a 1995 contract between IBM and Public Service Company of Colorado. The total value of the relationship now exceeds $1.2 billion. Under the new agreement, IBM will work with Xcel Energy to help it achieve the "synergy savings" -- or post-merger cost savings -- that New Century Energies and Northern States Power promised state regulators as a condition of their merger.
The services IBM will provide to Xcel Energy will include data center operations, disaster recovery, networking, help desk, PC and LAN support, distributed services support, and application development and maintenance.

All services will be provided within IBM's second generation service delivery framework, which places significant emphasis on business strategy in addition to IT operations. To this end, utility industry experts from IBM Consulting will join IBM's service delivery team to work within Xcel Energy's new I/T organizational model. In addition, the IBM Global Services team at Xcel Energy will be closely linked to IBM Research -- which spends approximately $6 billion per year on research and development -- in order to determine how new technology breakthroughs can be leveraged for competitive advantage. "Through the many changes we have made in our business during the past five years -- including a major corporate restructuring and two important mergers -- IBM has been the backbone of our IT function at New Century Energies," said Wayne Brunetti, president and CEO of Xcel Energy. "Working with our partners at IBM, we expect to be even more effective at continuing to drive cost from our IT operations and to achieve the savings our shareholders expect."

Tom Cotney, general manager, communications sector, IBM Global Services, said: "The implementation of this new model for IT outsourcing -- which far surpasses the usual provision of commodity services -- is the first among utilities and energy services companies. It's a great opportunity for both companies. Xcel Energy's visionary use of technology will push it ahead of the competition and help the company deliver the synergy savings it promised to industry regulators. And for IBM, this is a chance to demonstrate the unique value we can deliver as an IT services provider to leaders in utilities and energy industries, such as Xcel Energy."
Through this agreement, Xcel Energy has awarded IBM preferred provider status, making IBM the vendor of choice for any IT products and services the company may purchase for the duration of their contract.

About IBM Global ServicesIBM Global Services is the world's largest information technology services provider, with 1999 revenues of more than $32 billion. Services is the fastest growing part of IBM, with more than 140,000 professionals serving customers in 160 countries. IBM Global Services integrates IBM's broad range of capabilities -- services, hardware, software and research -- to help companies of all sizes realize the full value of information technology. For more information, visit www.ibm.com.

About Xcel Energy Inc.Xcel Energy is a prominent U.S. electric and natural gas utility with annual revenues of $8 billion and operations in 12 Western and Midwestern states. Formed in August 2000 by the merger of New Century Energies and Northern States Power Company, Xcel Energy provides a complete portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3 million electricity customers and 1.5 million natural gas customers. One of the company's nonregulated subsidiaries, NRG Energy, Inc., has projects or offices in 25 U.S. states and 10 countries worldwide.

Featured Blog

Source: Philip Virgo: When IT Meets Politics
My attention has just been drawn to an article on the value of regularly purging datafiles to cut cost, legal risk cost and enhance security and privacy. It reminded me of a very thoughful contribution to last year's Parliament and the Internet Conference - on the need to pay more attention to disaggregation as one of the safest approaches to enhancing security.&... View Philip Virgo: When IT Meets Politics
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FirEfox 3 Sets Download Record

Firefox 3 Sets Download RecordJune 20th, 2008 by Anil
Firefox 3 was released on 17 June. And its already downloaded more than 14 million as of now, heading for a record.

You can watch the live count as it streams in from Mozilla’s raw server logs, and according to the download day page, the majority of downloads have come from the US. Despite some hiccups, Firefox had no problem setting the record (though no one really seems to know if there was any old mark to break — so anything might have been a record with Guinness watching).

Download Firefox!.
Check out the ultimate guide by Mozilla and power users guide for FF3 by lifehacker.
Check out this video which shows what the soon expected FF for mobile might look like.

Chrome: Another Browser From Google

Chrome: Another Browser From GoogleSeptember 9th, 2008
Google released beta of Chrome, their own browser.
Google said in its announcement: “To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.”
Currently Beta version is available for only Windows platform, but Google is working on releases for Mac and Linux.
As per Google’s Chrome download page:
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
One box for everythingType in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.
Thumbnails of your top sitesAccess your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.
Shortcuts for your appsGet desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.Tagged:computers, Google, internet, Open Source, software, web
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Linux Killer Application: AppCheckerAugust 8th, 2008
Many of the developers face one problem in Linux applications development, that to ensure the application works fine in all distributions like SUSE, Redhat, Debian etc.
Fortunately, The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that’s going to make vendors and programmers start to love developing for Linux. The Linux Application Checker (also referred to as “AppChecker”) is a powerful new tool designed to help software developers target Linux. It draws on the extensive testing framework developed by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Linux Foundation and leverages the work of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) workgroup.
Some of the highlights of Linux Application Checker (AppChecker):
Its open source
It checks .rpm, .deb, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files.
Checks the application for LSB compliance.
And check against all the Linux distribution.
So you can check if your app will work with all Linux distributions without actually installing all the distributions. Now that’s something that should excite all the developers.
For more information, visit Linux Developer Network Linux Application Checker. You do need to register on the site before downloading the Linux Application Checker source code. And, once you do, you want to review the Getting Started page for information on installing and using the tool.Tagged:computers, Innovative, Linux, Open Source, os, software, Tips & Tricks, trends
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Nokia Acquires Symbian, Plans To Open PlatformJune 25th, 2008
Nokia announced it will acquire the remaining shares of mobile software licensing company Symbian Limited–moreover, the handset giant will team with Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo to unite the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP technologies and forge a single open mobile software platform. The firms will also collaborate with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone to establish the Symbian Foundation, a non-profit initiative dedicated to accelerating the availability of new services and mobile experiences. The foundation will be open to all developers and “will provide a unified platform with common UI framework” under the royalty-free Eclipse Public License.Read the rest of this entry »Tagged:gadgets, Google, gphone, mobiles, nokia, Open Source, os, smart phone, software, trends

IT 'not just for boys'

The stigma attached with being a woman working in IT is disappearing and women are now being appointed in some of the industry's best jobs, according to experts.A skills shortage is contributing to increased demand for women in IT and females are taking up the roles more and more frequently, the Independent reports.Differences between male and female IT learning begins at a young age, with Microsoft systems engineer Eileen Brown stating that "women see computers as tools whereas men see them as toys".A continued increase in the amount of women in IT is expected, with 45 per cent of people entering into a University College London financial computing course this year being women, compared to an average of 20 per cent in the department.Christopher Clack, the course director, commented: "Our women students, in particular, like the career-oriented nature of the degree and the fact that they can see a purpose to all this computing stuff."At Microsoft, 28 per cent of the staff is female, compared to an industry average of 11 per cent.View careers advice to help you secure your ideal position on womenintechnology.co.uk.

The New IT Worker Shortage

Software giant Microsoft could be set to make the working life of employees that bit easier with the launch of a new mouse. Men and women in technology and IT jobs look set to benefit from the new technology which has so far only been hinted at. No official word has yet been given on the new equipment but the company has released an animation with the tag-line 'say goodbye to laser'.The teaser has set tongues wagging across the technology world, but a full announcement is not expected to be made by the firm until an event it is holding in Seattle, USA, next month. Computer experts have already been attempting to guess at the new technology, with some such as gadget website T3 predicting it will be Blue Track technology.This is similar to LED but is joined with a wide-angle lens to allow the mouse to work on a larger variety of surfaces than the current laser version.

Information Technology

Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.
Today, the term information technology has ballooned to encompass many aspects of computing and technology, and the term is more recognizable than ever before. The information technology umbrella can be quite large, covering many fields. IT professionals perform a variety of duties that range from installing applications to designing complex computer networks and information databases. A few of the duties that IT professionals perform may include data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database and software design, as well as the management and administration of entire systems. When computer and communications technologies are combined, the result is information technology, or "infotech". Information Technology (IT) is a general term that describes any technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and/or disseminate information. Presumably, when speaking of Information Technology (IT) as a whole, it is noted that the use of computers and information are associated.

[edit] Professional organizations
AITech-Assinform is an Italian association of information & communication technology companies and an affiliate of Confindustria.
Malaysian National Computer Confederation is a Malaysian confederation dedicated to the development of IT Professionals and the creation of an Information Rich Society. [1]
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) was founded in 1957 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. [2]
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) is an association for information & communications technology (ICT) professionals in Australia.
The Australian Information Industry Association is the national organisation representing ICT companies in Australia. [3]
The British Computer Society (BCS) is the largest UK-based professional body representing those working in IT.
The Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) is the largest professional body for computing in Canada.
The Computer Manufacturers, Distributors, and Dealers Association of the Philippines (COMDDAP) is an association of leading information technology businesses in the Philippines.
The Computer Society of India (CSI) is the national body representing computer professionals in India.
The Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) is a non-profit organisation that promotes high standards among informatics professionals across Europe. [4]
The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) is an industry trade group for most of the world's major ICT companies.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is an association of Indian IT companies.
The New Zealand Computer Society (NZCS) is the national body representing ICT professionals in New Zealand
The Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) is an association of Philippine IT companies.
The Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) of Armenia is Armenia's first and largest IT association. [5]
The Professional Computer Association (PCA), Lebanon, is an association for information & communications technology (ICT) professionals.[6]

Vic IT centre to create 300 jobs

THE Victorian Government is doing its best to brave the onset of an economic slowdown by teaming up with the University of Ballarat to build a new $10.8 million technology centre that is expected to bring 300 new jobs to the region.

THREE hundred jobs will be created at a new information technology centre in the Victorian regional city of Ballarat The project, which is being funded with a $5.8 million investment from the University of Ballarat and $5 million from the Victorian Government, will set up an IT services centre that will create the new jobs in areas such as software application development, ICT support and consulting for IBM's global operations. An IBM spokesman said customer demand would dictate the number of new employees recruited to each job category. IBM said most of the new jobs would be filled by graduates from the company's Earn As You Learn program -- a collaborative project with the University of Ballarat that provides employment opportunities for students during study and after graduation. The program produces 25 graduates a year. The other staff recruits will be from the University's IT and science faculties. The additional positions will be phased in over the next five years, taking IBM's total number of employees in Ballarat to 1117. Construction of the 3500sqm IT services centre will begin soon and is expected to be completed by the new year, IBM said.

New I.T. Discovery

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New I.T. Discovery

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Open House
E-Mail and the process of electronic discovery
By RONNIE LATINAZO EMC Philippines Country Manager
While e-mail may be a crucial application, poorly archived e-mail can kill a business. During a recent prescription drug antitrust case in the US, the plaintiff demanded a discovery search of 30 million pages of e-mail stored on the defendant’s backup tapes for names of particular individuals. The defendant suggested the plaintiff shoulder the cost of compiling, formatting, searching, eliminating duplicates, and retrieving the requested e-mail. Sadly, the defendant lost the argument and the court found the burdensome and expensive discovery process was the defendant’s problem because of a bad e-mail retrieval process. The defendant, in the process, paid a hefty amount for consulting and legal fees.
Electronic discovery is a process used by the legal industry to search email documents. This involves the retrieval and use of electronic records of companies such as evidences of business transactions that enable companies to support current and future management decisions, satisfy client obligations, achieve regulatory compliance and protect against adverse legal actions.
In the United States and Europe, a number of federal and state laws and regulations cover records retention and how they should be stored.
Increasingly, said regulations focus on the process by which records are maintained over time in order to ensure the accuracy, and integrity of such records.
Soon, the same compliance may be applied in the Philippines, as the government learns and appreciates the value of setting the groundwork for similar regulations for local companies.
Court cases routinely approve discovery motions to sift through electronic documents, especially ubiquitous e-mail. The consequences of NOT having the information available or being able to access it in a reasonable amount of time may be severe. Despite this, few companies have enforceable records retention policies and fewer still have the technology tools needed to support it.
Another problem is keeping e-mail you don’t legally have to keep, as Microsoft found out. The smoking gun e-mail surfaced during the discovery phase of Microsoft’s antitrust trial, even though it was AOL’s e-mail, not Microsoft’s. The Justice Department found one of Gates’ own e-mails with the undying line: "We have to make sure that we don’t allow them to promote Netscape."
Electronic discovery isn’t just for enterprise corporations. Mid-sized companies frequently experience legal discovery, so if it hasn’t happened to an individual business it almost certainly will. So how can organizations best prepare for electronic discovery? By balancing risk against cost �- in essence; it’s establishing policies and capabilities for efficiently accessing secure archives without breaking the bank.
MANAGING THE ARCHIVE FOR DISCOVERY
Companies should begin by establishing and enforcing retention policies, including policies against destroying or altering data potentially relevant to discovery motions. This goes double for destroying or altering data after discovery or litigation starts. Seems obvious, but over the last few years we’ve heard about executives being indicted for deleting messages pointing to insider trading. Not only did federal investigators recover the deleted messages, they tacked on additional serious charges. Archiving procedures must support evidentiary measures and record retention policies must be in writing and enforced with a method to prove regular enforcement.
This is a tall order and its success depends on a cost-effective technology to support electronic discovery for messaging files. This strategy hinges on two major elements: managing cost and managing risk. A balance between the two yields a cost-effective technology for managing messaging archives and enforcing records retention.

MANAGING COST
Managing cost includes reining in storage costs, improving operational efficiency and company productivity, and decreasing retrieval/discovery costs.
Until recently companies were limited to first-generation archiving applications. These applications backed up incremental or full copies of data to backup media. With no way to manage duplicate copies of data and an awkward and time-consuming retrieval process, archiving would complicate discovery procedures and significantly increase cost.
In fact, storing e-mail alone often represents over 40% of an organization’s storage costs because of both the sheer volume of e-mails and the multiple copies of messages that are retained.
New archive applications are engineered to compare e-mail messages, record and validate the original, and eliminate duplicates across multiple messaging servers. E-mail archives can now take up a fraction of the storage space previously used, allowing companies to shrink the amount of backup media, backup windows, and retrieval time. These archiving apps are also capable of rapid searches based on a number of parameters, letting organizations quickly retrieve detailed e-mail subsets in response to a discovery demand.
MANAGING RISK
Managing risk includes keeping a complete archive, enforcing retention policies, proving authenticity and evidentiary weight, and maintaining security and privacy.
Poor archive retrieval systems are extremely time-consuming and costly due to their big-dump approach -� archive everything and hope for the best. This results in huge volumes of badly indexed messages, an awkward and labor-intensive retrieval process, and no way to prove the archived media’s integrity.
Next-generation e-mail archive management can audit and report on all archive access and operations, automatically run retention schedules, and capture and index all messaging data, including attachments and IMs. It should also allow for real-time data capture, monitor user information and support privacy by protecting user access.
Being unprepared for electronic discovery can be disastrous, resulting in thousands of hours of employee labor and millions of dollars in consulting and legal fees. It’s vital that companies develop, audit, and enforce electronic discovery policies and invest in supporting technology from companies like EMC. Protecting, auditing, and producing information on-demand not only allows organizations to protect themselves during litigation, but also supports strategic business goals by cost-effectively managing critical business information.

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