The Portals are designed to offer your employees, partners and customers a single point of access to your organization's data, knowledge and services using a simple and self-explanatory interface. The open source standard compliant portal servers offers Content Management capabilities integrated with groupware that enable the users to create site for Internet, Extranet and Intranet that can be directly accessed through their browser.  The open source portal project require relatively lesser expenses and offers wider ambit of development. There are a number of Java portal software, but not all are efficient enough to meet the growing needs. To overcome this we researched extensively to line up top 5 Java portal software.

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With Google's Chrome 2.0 speeded up after dropping its beta and Opera 10 beta claiming a better browsing speed, all eyes are on Mozilla's new Firefox version hyped to touch Amazing feats of speed. Last Friday Mozilla issued the new browser's first release candidate. It seems to be the most stable and polished make after the year-long development process. Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate (RC) was the first milestone following the beta 4 released in late April.

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After our early story of Acer netbooks embracing Android OS, we along with the whole tech world, were interested in  following up with any further news on the same. As the first news is out, it looks wow-fully interesting. Atom N270 with a 10.1- Aspire one D250 was taken for the test at COMPUTEX by Jim Wang,  Global operations president, Acer. The whole boot up process including the complete desktop load time took about 18 seconds at max. And the shut down was instantaneous, hardly 2 seconds! The demo machine had Wi-Fi connectivity, 3G or WiMAX products powered by the WAN.

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Google is constantly upgrading and improving itself looking at the future of web with their kinds. In their endeavour of doing so, the latest innovation they showed us on Google Developers' conference at San Fransisco, is Google Wave. According to them,

Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.

In other words, its a communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, multimedia management, document sharing and wiki. It is indeed, though I shouldn't sound as a G-fanboy, one of the most ambitious and just-at-the-edge projects Google has put his hands on, ever. I will try to justify my assumptions below. Let's get to know the Wave first.

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You get what you don't pay for in life. So if you want to skim on security software, you'll lose out on customer support, which can save you when badware gets stubborn.

But most of your "tech support" involves waiting on hold and listening to poorly scripted conversation?

Here are the top five free antivirus / antispyware programs. Please note that all these programs are free for home use only.
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Sun Microsystems unveiled its combined open cloud computing infrastructure at the CommunityOne developer event in New York in March. Though some may say that for a company like Sun, this may be a bit late into the game of clouds but nevertheless they came powered by industry-leading software technologies from Sun, including Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and Open Storage. Sun also aims to serve developers, students as well as start-ups by their new Open cloud system. Let us have a close look at all the details that are associated with Sun Open Cloud.

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There can be a number of test cases for every system and only a few of them can be run. These cases can be used to detect most of the defects in the software. Since that is not feasible option, the testing tools are used. The main purpose of testing is to discover the errors.  Testing explores the concealed faults and shortcomings inhibited in a software. These testing tools are designed with specific capabilities and test objectives. Some categories of testing tools are code coverage analyzers, API level tools, stress level tools, test harness and GUI/user level tools. Selecting the best testing tool for a particular development environment is important for accomplishment of testing activities. This led us to aggregate a selection of top 10 Java testing tools.

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A comforting day indeed. Matt Mullenweg is the author of the popular blogging software , WordPress. He is also the founder of WordPress.com, a hosted blogging service based on WordPress Mu, a variant of WordPress. I was rather surprised to see his blog throwing the dreaded error message:

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After doing with the top 16+ Open Source E-Commerce Applications, I discovered open source ecommerce applications engaging a significant proportion of ecommerce professionals. Open source software are considered as entry level choice for shopping carts by most ecommerce professionals. Although the completeness of open source apps are far from realized, they are increasingly making it to the mainstream markets. Extending my support to the open source aficionados, I delved into the intricacies of the up and coming Magento Commerce. It is essentially an open source eCommerce shopping cart platform. The Magneto commerce allows a package of features to setup a fully functional production eCommerce site.
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There are a list of other operating systems beyond the ones that rule the market. For Windows users too, did you know that there is a fast MS-DOS clone for you too? And those of you who love open source operating systems, if you like experimenting or trying out new things, here are some cool alternatives for you. Full article (366 words) »