As per George Colony, chief executive of consultancy firm Forrester Research, firms are using new technological innovation to come out of economic recession. In the IT business whenever someone asks for a new system or programme, it means new invention. Full article (606 words) »

Agile projects emphasize on  working software, which is quite different from traditional software. Traditionally, the success of a project is measured by the functional milestone.  (analysis complete, documentation complete, code complete etc). In agile projects, however, working software is the final measurement of project status. At the end of each short iteration, a working product is produced  and available for review. There are several metrics available for agile project. This is important to go through some of them. Full article (433 words) »

MonALISA is  a framework based on dynamic distributed service architecture and was developed by Caltech for its HEP(High Energy Physics) dept.  The abbreviation stands for Monitoring Agents using Large Integrated Service Architecture. The scope of the framework is to monitor, control and optimize complex systems. The design principle of Monalisa is based on multi-threaded, self-describing agent-based subsystems that gathers information and process tasks by means of collaboration and generates alerts or take automated decisions based on it. With a large monitoring modules like SNMP, Ganglia, network probes and embedded program monitoring hooks, MonALISA is currently used in monitoring GRID systems, networks and distributed applications and as a platform for distributed agents. The underlying technology of the framework is Java JINI and Web services, WSDL and SOAP technologies. Full article (518 words) »

Are you an Apple i-Phone user? Well this news is gonna make you love or hate the i-Phone in a new way. Cisco  is extending its web conferencing and collaboration capabilities to the Apple iPhone 3G user experience, with Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace. That simply means if you are on the move you can still chat with your buddies in a conference with the same comfort you share with them at home. The hated part is even if you are at home, your boss can ask you to have conference with clients no matter what. Lol, like this or hate it but you can not ignore it anymore.

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IBM today announced new software and services for mobile devices that closely mimic desktop features formerly found only on the PC. The new software & services can help individuals make better business decisions faster, while connecting friends, work colleagues and teams above and beyond PC era.

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