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Points of consideration for SharePoint 2013.

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:37:00 +0000

The latest 2013 version of SharePoint is collaborated server resolving Microsoft’s all-purpose enterprise issues. It encapsulates many enhanced features, including redesigned user interface, SkyDrive Pro for increased storage and documents synchronization, improved task management, renovated search engine and creative e- discovery features.

As a content management and enterprise collaboration tool, SharePoint has reached to matured status. Enterprises primarily use SharePoint to build public sites, intranets, blogs and wikis even for searching and arranging documents, storing documents. It is generating around 2 billion annual revenue and Microsoft is pushing hard this latest version.

With more feasible alternatives to SharePoint dynamically coming to market, there exist certain challenges those need to be resolved by Microsoft.

SharePoint mobile challenges Mobility is the need of the hour and workplace is totally entrenched by Smartphones and Tablets. Getting mobile access to enterprise application has become indispensable. According to reviews, Microsoft has not focused much on SharePoint integration and mobility, In fact there is no sense of urgency around it and it is confounding.

SharePoint News Feed Application is provided by Microsoft, which is designed to give users access to people and documents they consider.Currently this facility is available on iOS and Windows Phone. At the end of the second calendar quarter, Windows 8 version is due which will have deeper integration of SharePoint mobile and later on Android. These apps are not much broader in their scope and functionality. You can implement only the part of SharePoint offers with this.

SharePoint social media challenges SharePoint’s enterprise social networking capabilities were incapable and this fact was revealed by Microsoft’s decision taken last summer to plunk down 1.2 billion for Yammer. And further, to make up for that Microsoft has banked upon third party add ons from companies. Takeup of SharePoint Online is a matter of concern as the cloud hosted version of the product is not up to the par.

Competitors list is increasing its number including IBM, Jive Software and Box, and Google. Despite of its enthusiastic success in enterprise, situation is entirely changed, and SharePoint must prove its worth all over again.

The Nitty-Gritty of Mobile Cloud Computing.

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:09:00 +0000

Instead of developing mobile apps for the rigid platform, Cloud computing has made developing applications much flexible. Cloud computing encompasses on demand availability of the storage, software and processing power. It is embedded with device independence, reliability, ease in access, security and least required maintenance. Cloud computing services have become easy to reach for all enterprises that deliver compatible and resilient services to employees and customers with enhanced business agility.

Bringing the cloud computing services to the mobile environment is termed as Mobile cloud computing. It consolidates the elements of cloud computing and mobile networks, providing excellent services to mobile users. In mobile cloud computing, powerful mobile configuration is not much required since all the entangled and complicated computing modules are processed in the cloud itself.

It is the amalgamation between cloud computing and mobile network offering optimal applicability for mobile users. Rather than keeping on individual devices when data is kept on internet, cloud computing exists there providing on demand access.

Security aspect of Mobile cloud computing

One of the key issues that most of the cloud providers are considering is securing user protection and integration of application data. As mobile cloud computing is a combinational field of cloud computing and mobile networks, the security related matters are categorized as: mobile networks user’s security and cloud security.

Mobile network user’s security – Different mobile handsets such as Smartphones, laptops, PDA’s and cellular phones are well aware of the numerous security instability and vulnerabilities such as malicious codes. Some cloud computing applications can prompt to security breaches as these devices troubling the user ultimately. Two main issues regarding subscriber’s security are:
1. The best way of capturing security vulnerability is to run security software and anti-virus programs on mobile devices. Mobile devices are litigated with processing limitations which is why securing them from these threats could be more hazardous as compared to regular computers. Number of approaches can be developed transferring vulnerability detection and protection mechanism to the cloud. The application must handover to the user after it passes through some level of threat evaluation. All file activities before sending to the user need to be verified if it is malicious or not.
2. Scenarios are created for privacy issues when personal information such as your current location or user’s hidden information is revealed.
Information secured on the clouds – Enterprise and individuals both take the bonanza of storing large amount of data in the cloud.

The integrity of the information stored on the cloud must be properly ensured by the user. Every user access must be authenticated. Different approaches can be proposed ensuring integrity of the information stored on the cloud.
Numerous authorization mechanism have been proposed with the means of cloud computing in order to secure the data access. Some make use of open standards and support the integrity of the various authorization methods.

Open Source is a Proven Hit.

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:17:00 +0000

Open source technology is considered as production and development a trend that allows end users and developers to go through the source code and can even modify it. Although, open source is not only product enforced by open source licenses rather is most popular, stepping well to manipulation of its code and add- ons.

The times you create a web site, chances are you are using a web browser. The cost of using out of line products can add up, especially when trying to enhance your business. This article emphasize on some top open source options for you to consider.

PHP – Stated as personal home page, PHP is a strong storage for many message boards. Proprietary Softwares can be used but you need to pay licensing fees and updation fees. Using single site doesn’t calls for compulsive fees but if browsing different sites your cost can become significant part of your budget. Internet provides with some free providers, you need to search for it.
Email client – Thunderbird is the project developed by the brand who brought Firefox to the market. Using Thunderbird you can stop SPAM, send and receive Emails, and add plugins to design the program as per your requirement.
Web templates – There are number of sites offering some exceptionally well designed templates that is even reasonable to purchase separately. Everyone downloads copies but you can make changes in it accordingly to give it your own look. Best amongst all is CSS derived and web standard compliant.
Office software – MS office dominates as WordPerfect hardly hangs on. Even then there are ways out to these two productivity suites in the form of openoffice.org. Another grand freebie associated with this site is the *pdf maker, saving heavy amount on Adobe acrobat purchase.
Web browsers – Gone are the days when only internet explorer was the only name suggested for internet browsing. Infact they are dormant but many web folks are not willing with Microsoft’s dominance and most of them are switching to Firefox, Opera, Netscape and Safari.

Facebook’s Graph Search

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:11:00 +0000

Facebook graph search is a search engine which is designed to respond user query. The search engine acquires collective data from over one billion users and external sources in order to serve users with best possible search result.

But now Facebook is stretching arms by taking preventive measures for the user protection. Facebook is slowing down its move to a tool that let user search out others by personal information or by common interest. This new idea emphasis on special minor security. Social network is implementing specific graph search rules for teenagers.

In January Facebook launched graph search in beta. As a social network search engine it offers various new ways to uncover friends, photos, places those are saved in this big pool of Facebook. But its other side exposes personal information that should strictly not be revealed.

According to the new rules if a minor is searching, only friend and friends of friends between the ages 13 to 17 will be shown. If an adult does a search that could display a minor’s age or location, the only result that comes is that person’s friend. Details like birthdays, school, and hometown will be only available about users under 18 years to their friends and friends of friends. But yes, the minors will be secured only if they provide their correct age to Facebook.

But privacy consultants are worried. Though the new Graph Search will not display any unwanted or prohibited information and put all the data together at one place that could be used awfully. Graph search has currently been available only to some handful testers. And Facebook will keep on fine tuning the tool as it rolls out.

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Cloud Based Development is the Future of Application Development.

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:32:00 +0000

Organizations have often faced lot of hassles while developing and testing web applications. It has been seen time and again that traditional roadblocks like cost, lack of process, scalability and methodology often hinder the successful deployment of an application. Often done at a project level, these actions remain underutilized and under-resourced. There is a huge demand for substantial infrastructure and flexible management of resources to undertake a large scale project.

There are various variables that account for unpredictable operations, gradual building of capacity and optimal utilization. Although it is a crucial IT function and many administrators understand the inability to provide the scale and flexibility for development and testing teams, it often delays the application development life cycle and hampers the delivery of an application.

In order to overcome all these hurdles, a cloud based developmental model can be undertaken to match the highly dynamic and resource intensive needs of the application development and testing. The pace of technology is moving at a rapid pace and developmental teams need to be flexible and agile in order to incorporate new ideas and functions in deploying an application.

Cloud-based development offers immediate deployment of application without upfront infrastructure cost which can be up-scaled or downsized as per requirement. Mobile application development can be taken to a whole new level while incorporating with cloud computing. It changes the whole scenario and the way an application is developed, tested and deployed.

One of the biggest advantages of undertaking cloud-based resources is that it enhances the competitive edge over the competition of maintaining their own data center without any additional cost input. It also provides testing teams with a self service model from a pool of shared but secure infrastructure resources. By making configurable templates, they can run them in parallel with the development team and customize it as per a particular project.

It is an hybrid solution which gives enhanced ID and access control to safeguard data. By automating approval work-flows and encapsulating infrastructure management it reduces the cost as well as time taken to develop an application.

However for any enterprise or business to undertake cloud computing development, there are some consideration that ought to be kept in mind. Control and Security, Overall performance, Real time monitoring of development, Operational management should be foreseen in order to ensure that there are no hindrances. In this competitive environment, success only embraces those who are able to incorporate new technology to have an edge over the others.

Exploring Facebook App Center for Offering Android and iOS apps!!

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:05:00 +0000

Facebook launched its own Facebook App Center back in June. Since then it has seen 150 million users coming to Facebook App Center. This app center was launch with a goal of making app search for mobile users more relevant. It is also described as the way to solve the crisis of app discovery faced by Android and iOS developers.

Facebook apps developers also cleared the air by saying that Facebook app center is not promoting Facebook apps only, though it is promoting all general mobile apps. The Android apps and iOS apps available on Facebook App Center have Facebook integration for buying or downloading the app to their devices. User’s direct login to Facebook App center via Facebook has increases Facebook’s own engagement with maximum users especially among mobile users.

This is also joyous news for iPhoneapps developers and Android apps developers. Now, all small and mid sized development companied also has a chance to be the star that is why they are using various combinations of curations and search algorithms to come in the few hundred list of Facebook. New App Center is only picking few hundred mass appealing and quality apps for its huge mobile audience.

But still it does not exposure what it deserves. It has a long way to go. We can say that Facebook App Center is bit underrated. Users and Android/ iOS developers actually have not realized the profit that can be generated by the new App Store. Now, the success of Facebook’s though for its mobile audience is only in hands of its developers and users. Let’s see how much users consider it useful.

PHP Language Getting Popular for Web Development

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:53:00 +0000

HP has become the most preferable scripting language for various web development projects. Out of 5 every 3 websites developed each day are coded in PHP. There has been a great number of websites today in terms of content, images, graphics and visual effects.

Every offshore outsourcing company providing web solutions are now rendering PHP web development also. It is getting high popularity as it is open source software which can be downloaded by anyone for use. It is said that PHP will deliver best outcomes of web development in the least possible time. With time, this scripting language has acquired many great features which made it the first choice for website development.

Reasons for rising Trend of PHP development:

1. It can be acquired by anyone from a new comer to a professional without many efforts.

2. It is free, means open source programming language.

3. It also supports various databases like Informix, Oracle, MySQL, Solid, Sybase, postgreSQL, Generic ODBC, IBM DB2, SQLite etc.

4. It supports all major servers like Netscape, iPlanet, Apache, Microsoft, IIS, Personal Web Server, omniHttpd and many others.

5. It reduces the work pressure from your server as it uses its own memory space.

6. It also fastens the processing speed.

All leading offshore software development companies render custom PHP development services which entails maintenance, system analysis, design, coding and lots more.

Approaches Followed by Android Game Development Companies!

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:01:00 +0000

Android platform is a successful platform in terms of mobile application development. In a very short span of time, it has given a tough competition to Apple iOS by having almost equal apps in respective app stores. Android application development is a booming business these days. It has gained attention and support from developers all across the globe.

Android application development services have given a great reputation to many development companies and individual developers. Android MarketPlace now Google Place hold plethora of application in various different categories. So, we can say that better and market specific applications can be developed by hiring Android game developers. Gaming applications are always at the winning side. In very rare cases games are non productive. Otherwise, good and interesting games always make a successful ways user’s smartphone.

Every company and individual Android game developers has their own way of carry on the development process. Following are some of the approaches that are adopted by many companies and individual developers.

1. Agile Development: In this a big project is divided into small parts. Each part will have its own scope and requirements. Further each part will go through its application development life cycle. Under this approach the project is protected from over all risk factors.

2. Waterfall Method: this approach is followed when Android application development has static requirements.

3. Extreme coding: It is done in case of dynamic requirements of the project. It helps in maintain the software quality of the project.

4. Rapid Action Development: It helps in completing the urgent requirements of the client and avoids pre planning of the project.

Approaches Followed by Android Game Development Companies!

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Android platform is a successful platform in terms of mobile application development. In a very short span of time, it has given a tough competition to Apple iOS by having almost equal apps in respective app stores. Android applicationdevelopment is a booming business these days. It has gained attention and support from developers all across the globe.

2. Waterfall Method: this approach is followed when Android application development has static requirements.

3. Extreme coding: It is done in case of dynamic requirements of the project. It helps in maintain the software quality of the project.

4. Rapid Action Development: It helps in completing the urgent requirements of the client and avoids pre planning of the project.

SharePoint Consulting Services Assist Great Survival in IT World

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:59:00 +0000

Most of the It people are still not aware of the incredible service tool provided by software Maestro Microsoft called SharePoint. With the advancements there has been increasing demand for share-point consulting services today. The competition is on all time rise among big IT giants to render their consumers with best and low cost services to survive the competition.

SharePoint solutions are meant to boost and amplify your business capacity and generate more organized results. It will also improves the communication level among various departments in an organization. For big enterprises, Sharepoint consulting services are more effective in comparison to other servers or tools.

All you need to do is hire an expert SharePoint solution provider who would set the system on your behalf and would assist you in all ways to take full advantage of this incredible software. There are many organizations are having professional consultants to lead other organizations in deploying Microsoft SharePoint in their core system.

Therefore it is said if you want to give an edge to your business, move ahead with Microsoft SharePoint and hire sharepoint experts to make your working environment more stable and productive.

What Makes HTML5 Apps Development More Developer Friendly

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:44:00 +0000

The HTML5 based mobile development has gone mainstream. There is no exact reason behind the sheer inclination of enterprises towards HTML5 platform. One could say it is the luring promises made by the HTML5 for solving the problems currently faced by the enterprises these days in offering high end mobile solutions.

Moreover, the continuing battle between mobile platforms for market share has forced many companies to cater services for more than one platform, i.e. at least two or possibly more than that. Development of native mobile applications allows very little reuse of code because all the platforms are very different. As a result, supporting all multiple mobile platforms can incur three times the cost for development of an application.

Therefore, it is said that HTML5 development has answers to all these hurdles. It is because all three major mobile platforms allow for embedded web components, HTML5 components can be easily shared among all available platforms. However, a basic HTML5 app can be simply built with HTML, CSS and Javascript, many companies want some host connectivity which make use of the existing servers.

In the web technology world, there has been long debates over merits of HTML5 application development over native application development. In the end, it is concluded that each way of development has its own merits and demerits. Therefore, if you are going for HTML5 web development Services you must think it with a different perspective from traditional web application.

MS Dynamics AX 2012 with Ms Dynamic CRM for Better Performance

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:54:00 +0000

We all are well aware of the power of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 since its launch. Now, we can make it more powerful by connecting it with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Till date more than 300 consumers have already deployed the connector joining Ms Dynamics AX 2012 and Ms Dynamics CRM to amplify the business process integration. The purpose behind the integration of these two modules is to bestow customer a robust integration that works just well and reduces the infrastructure overhead required to run.

The connector is based on the .NET technology and do not require any other transformation technology like XSLT and Biztalk. To maintain a connection it will only create a small SQL database whose purpose is to maintain state of integrations as well as the currently running maps.

Dynamics AX 2012 is truly designed as a global solution to scale with your business. It means that from a single instance deployment of the software will support the unique requirements for business systems in 36 countries. It has evolved a s set of unified, natural models that will allow you see, measure and change your business. Therefore we can say that merging Dynamics AX 2012 with CRM will double its power and improves the overall performance of the organization.

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HTML5 Brings Bright Future for Web Content.

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:28:00 +0000

HTML5 is reaching every nook and corner of web technologies. Another aspect of web that is found to be benefitted by HTML5 is the web content. HTML5 development is reaching close to the format which can be made a universal thing. It is a cross platform technology and can adapt to various different screen dimensions. It will be very instrumental in giving publishing houses to work freely without bothering about how to fit in the screen.

Moreover, they will not require buying any special software to read HTML5 enables text. It is because every PC, smartphone, tablet comes with preinstalled one or more web browser which will consistently do the job. HTML 5 developments has its roots concepts inspired from the most interactive technology i.e. JavaScript which brings down the cost of developing new task based on it. Further, it expands the pool of resources available to you for use.

HTML5 is future proof

Interesting to read! HTML5 developers call it a future proof technology. It is because every new device that has sprung up in last few years is designed in a way to support HTML5 in one way or the other. To elaborate we can say that being futuristic means it can be poured in any container to deliver best results. The favorable containers can be iOS or Android, a web app, ePUB. So, undoubtedly HTML5 is in-thing in the future but its usage will depend on the type of content or audience you cater.

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HTML5 Makes Gaming Industry Million Dollar Business.

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:28:00 +0000

Gaming industry is very bright theses day because it is an industry where money lies. Its development is all time favorite with web software developers. Game application development is the fastest route to success in the field of development. It is an era of smartphones and their smart apps. Every company which is involved in mobile application development mostly concentrates on gaming apps as this these are very popular among all age groups. But OS fragmentation prohibits people from experiencing cross platform web apps and web pages as they are not accessible through every smartphone.

HTML 5 development is an intelligent solution to this problem. HTML5 is gaining popularity very fast. It is a technology which is mostly used in games development these days. Most popular games are coming out with HTML5 as it is offering a lot of features which were missing in before versions of HTML and other programming languages. Big advantage of HTML5 is that it is able to run on multiple platforms smoothly because it is a web technology. It means that all games and application developed in HTML5 are run in web browsers.

Its revolutionary feature is that it excludes involvement of third-party plug-ins like Microsoft silver light and Adobe Flash. This is the reason why it is preferable among HTML5 developers. Graphics and videos are highly advanced and attractive feature of HTML5 in comparison to previous versions of HTML.

Rising demand of smartphones and smart applications made HTML5 development turned thousand dollar business into million dollar business. Many big names in the gaming industry like Angry Birds, Robots are people too, Fieldrunners, Sumon, Bejeweled, World's Biggest PAC-MAN, Word Squared are developed in HTML5. Many more big names are planning to invest in HTML5 like Zynga , Game closure etc.

3 Benefits Making .Net App Development Profitable.

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:28:00 +0000

.Net is very popular and established Framework for software development offered by Microsoft. It is used by some of the best and reputed professionals in the industry for developing apps with high functionality and a very secure environment. Outsourcing software companies are the best service providers to hire for any Microsoft.Net consulting development. To elaborate here are the benefits of outsource a Microsoft dot net application to vendors in offshore locations.

Simplified development process: Outsourcing of project will ease the pressure on client or organization. They can concentrate on other details like marketing, sales etc rather than struggling for coding and testing.
Time and money saving: It also saves lot of time and money in comparison to in-house development of project.
Requirement Specific development: Outsourcing application development companies always make a point to strictly work as per client’s and industry’s need. It is done via consistent and updated communication with client and end users.

Therefore, we can say that if you are looking for a secure and robust business software that will stay with you for long then Microsoft dot net application development is impeccable selection.

Why Facebook is so important for SMO?

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:39:00 +0000

Facebook is a celebrated name in World Wide Web. It is one of the most visited website all across the globe. It is a social networking website loved by one and all. Facebook has become the most promising platform for brand promotions and social media marketing.

Aacording to web experts, Facebook has become the foremost target of all web marketers especially related to Social Media Optimization (SMO). It has such wide existence that it cannot be ignored at any cost. Every company big or small is thriving to have a brand page or an app on Facebook to support their business. In last few years the social networking site has expanded its horizons in all spheres. From personal profiles to corporate brand pages and exclusive applications , games all are part of prolific Facebook domain. Facebook application development is also gaining momentum from last few years with many companies investing huge amount on this platform.

What is SMO?

SMO stands for Social Media Optimization. It is a new web marketing technique that targets social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Pinterest etc. SMO is spin off technique that came into light from a popular SEO technique i.e. link building.

Why Facebook should be targeted?

The foremost reason for targeting this social networking website is the extensive number of users having profiles on this website. As it has the maximum clicks and usage all over the world, it shows great potential to web marketers for marketing purposes.

Moreover, with time Facebook has introduced many interesting features which lures many Facebook application developers towards this platform. It has also incorporated the use of Facebook advertisements or ads. Facebook ads works in similar fashion to Google Ads. Facebook application development is regarded as the most effective and easy medium for Brand promotion.

This social networking website has very wide network and any happening can spread like forest fire on it. Further its sharing and tagging feature has also grabbed many eyeballs of marketers in spreading a word.

Therefore we can say attention towards Facebook is impeccable job for the web marketers. Not only for marketers, it has great future aspect for aspiring Facebook application developers.

Why Facebook application development is on high for small business.

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:36:00 +0000

Facebook has become an integral part of our lives these days. This social media platform actually made our world small where we can share, discuss and find anything just through few clicks. It also boosted the social interactivity between people and gave a a great place for boosting business.
Thus, we can say that Facebook application development hold great potential for small businesses with its great social media platform. Facebook let it developers to go ahead with Facebook applications development and in turn augments the promotion of the specific brand. Facebook application development could be anything from games, horoscope and astrology, personal questions and many more.
Recent Facebook applications actual added the charm to this social networking website. If you are lucky enough to make you Facebook application popular than you can just relax and enjoy the revenue.
If you are an owner of a small business and is looking for a new Facebook application development for the promotion of your brand then you need to keep in mind few points. Initially start with exactly what type of applications does Facebook approve so that you can choose you category of your application correctly.
After you are sure of the category look for an experienced and imaginative Facebook application developers. The foremost thing to check with the development company is their application ideas and designing capability. Because applications which are visually non appealing usually fail to lure audiences.
Always check that the application development must have very easy user navigation along with being unique and engaging also. For this Facebook application developers need to have out of the box ideas to actually grab attention on the Facebook.

Mozilla's Thunderbird 8 with lightening 1.0 calendar

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:14:00 +0000

Mozilla's ultimate Thunderbird 8, e-mail software was launched recently. Thunderbird 8 has been associated with the Firefox rapid release program. Thunderbolt 8 is crafted on the Gecko 8 Browser engine and Firefox 8 is also built on the same engine which is also released along side.

The new version of Thunderbird 8 is accompanied by the much awaited Lightening 1.0. It is an add-on under development for many years which provides Thunderbird with a calendar module. Mozilla's Thunderbird 8 also bestow enhancements in the attachment handling and accessibility, improved search feature and shortcuts. It has also introduced enough security and stability features.

The add on of Lightening 1.0 to Thunderbird 8 make it more lovable over Outlook for the people who prefer open source medium to send, recieve, search and archive email. It is built to work with Thunderbird 8 but can work equally good with older versions. The Mozilla's Lightening 1.0 will let people add their calendar entries, subscribe online calendars, manage a to do list and many more.

Thunderbird 8 will be supporting new keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+F would be used for search inside an individual message depending on the selection. For using the quick filter, you can use Ctrl+ Shift + K shortcut.

What to lookout in an Android tab?

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:19:00 +0000

Android too has hit the tablet market with a vengeance, with tablet sales soaring al across the globe. Their cost on the lower side of the scale has been tempting users to find this as an alternative to the iPad as well as other netbooks. Android tabs generally come with a capacitive touchscreen which are non responsive to any stylus. Most of the android tabs are running on Gingerbread 2.3.

Most of these tabs comes with 256MB to 1 GB of RAM and an average processor speed of 800Mhz.

Android 2.2 and above has flash which is generally required by most users for their work. Google market place is exclusive and is available only to few manufacturers which comply with its terms and conditions. In case of a google marketplace you can have access to thousands of applications which are both paid as well as free. Android tabs are trying to take on the iPad, however it remains to be seen whether they overcome their drawbacks and are successful in doing so.

What effects does Cloud Computing have on information technology?

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:07:00 +0000

The ever growing advancements of information technology is focussing on reduced infrastructure, greater applications, storage space and cutting down on costs. Cloud computing has garnered an immense amount of attention of late, it is increasingly also being used for mobile computing. Cloud computing can also be confused for web hosting, however they both have different technologies.

What is cloud computing?. Cloud computing helps us in accessing software, data services and storage services without investing in IT infrastructure or software over the medium of the internet.Involving third party hosting these in large servers. Cloud computing solutions are being used by topo notch companies like Amazon, Yahoo,Google and Microsoft.

This is of three types software as service(SaaS, platform for service (PaaS) for developers and Infrastructure as a service(IaaS). Cloud computing seems to have remarkable effects on information technology.It offers to bring down the costs which are otherwise spent on manpower or infrastructure.Offering easy expansion it gives you the flexibility of using more resources if you are expanding your business.It has gained its brownie points in being environmental friendly.

It would be unfair to call this technology as the answer to Information technology issues. It's security as well as privacy is questionable. Maintenance of sensitive and encrypted data,recovery over loss of data and accountability are issues that have been raised with its gaining momentum.The end user today wants to protect his privacy and avoid abuse or be monitored by someone.

Increasingly being deemed as the answer to all IT requirements,it has to pass the litmus test to be adopted for IT requirements globally.

Custom Software Development

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:06:00 +0000

Custom software development is the process which involves development of any unique software for any specific organisation. Most software which are developed are projected to cater a wide market of millions. This type of software is generally free or can be available as commercial off the shelf (COTS) software.

There are many companies dealing in custom software,as termed as bespoke software it can be developed by the company itself or outsourced to another organisation. The initial development of bespoke software involves all the departments of any company like marketing, sales, development, research and engineering. Since this software is primarily made to cater to the various requirements, every step of development involves accommodating nuances. This also involves modifying any previously built programs which is immensely time and labour consuming.

Custom software development helps in increasing the efficiency as well as the productivity of any organisation. It helps in overcoming the security issues as there is more control over access. It also helps in further expansion of business and generating more revenues. This software development can certainly lend any organisation a competitive edge however it also has the cons of unavoidable costs and risk at times. Organisations all around the globe are investing in offshore resources for the development of custom software. Investing in appropriate custom software development can make your business prosper.

Apple Ruling the Smart Phone Market.

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:54:00 +0000

Nokia is on a downward slide. The giant handset maker announced its second quarterly earnings couple of days back and confirmed it shipped 16.7 million smartphones in the most recent quarter. This drop now puts Nokia in third place behind Apple and Samsung. The company reports 7% decline in net sales. The decline was so steep which makes the Apple now officially the new king of the smartphone market. The company reported the loss of $529 million in second quarter as compared to $320 million profit in the same quarter last year. Apple, which hit the cell phone market just over five years ago, its now rank as the most profitable global mobile phone maker. After this results, nokia company official's said -The challenges we are facing during our strategic transformation manifested is greater than expected way in Q2 2011.

Apple is now become the most profitable player in the cell phone market, overtaking previous king Nokia for the crown. Apple earned $1.5 billion profit in last quarter,beating Nokia's best $1.0 billion profit during the last financial quarter, which makes Apple to dominate the mobile phone world.

Apple also overtook Samsung, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. Apple smart Phone revenue was approximately 3 times to that of Nokia. Apple reported $8 billion in iPhone revenue against to Nokia lowly $3.5 billion. The most astonishing number is the fall of Nokia market share in Australia. Market share of Nokia fell from 55% to 24% in the second quarter, as the Apple gained top spot in the country. Apple fans are likely prefer to choose the more expensive iPhone 3G. Apple earning approx $500 per iPhone it sells, but users are paying actually a small protion with carriers wireless subsidizing the largest chunk.

People prefer to buy iPhone because of its vast applications. In addition to being the most preferred smartphone, Apple also ranks high in customer satisfaction, according to latest survey. Over 70 percent of iPhone users indicated that they were happy with the devices. Only 50 percent of Android users expressed their satisfaction over the device, and in case of BlackBerry users the level of satisfaction was only 26 percent. Numbers itself indicates the ruling of Apple in smart phone market.

Nokia official's hoping to partnership with Microsoft and to shift the platform to Windows Phone 7 will may help to boost these lagging numbers but on the other side, with iPhone5 & iOS5 on the horizon, which makes possibly the Apple to lead its position further in the smart phone market.

Android Market for Smartphones Redesigned by Google

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:52:00 +0000

It has not been really long since Google came out with a whole new Android Market website and now its all set to unveil a renovated storefront client for Android smartphones, with the aim of offering more user-friendly way to application discovery. Google is hopeful that the new Android Market client displays top apps and games in a more effective manner, as it boasts an enhanced UI and more functional download and purchase processes. Apart from this, it also will let the developers to experience better ways to market and merchandise their apps.

Some of the innovative features of the new Android Market client are a new homescreen promotional page created to feature top content, instant access to apps and games. Moreover, the page also connects users to books and movies. Whats even more exciting is that the Apps and Games pages will now include Top Paid, Top Free, Top Grossing, Top New Paid, Top New Free and Trending lists. In order to offer a more appropriate consumer experience, Google will make each list country specific.

Android market now also boasts a brand new app details page, which make it possible to move the name and price into an action bar at the top. Furthermore, the users will now be able to go through screen shots, scroll down to read the description of the app, add more information, reviews and related data or click a thumbnail link to screen a product video that displays in fullscreen mode when the device is in landscape orientation.

A more streamlined click-to-purchase flow that allows two-click transactions from the app details page is presented by the new Android Market client, when users decide to purchase an application. The Android Market also works to enhance cross-sell opportunities by presenting a list of other apps available from the same developer to the user , when he purchases an app.
In other developments, Google is striving hard to move the Android Market update to smartphones running Android 2.2 and above. It's a matter of another few weeks and the update might reach all phones.

At present, there are over 250,000 apps being offered by Android Market. May onwards, Google has been living over 500,000 new Android devices each day. The U.S. Smartphone market is 38.1 pct dominated by the Android operating system, higher from 33.0 percent three months earlier. Next comes Apple iOS with 26.6 percent market share, followed by Research In Motion's BlackBerry at 24.7 percent.

Google Trying to Take Over FB with Google+

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:54:00 +0000

It wouldn't be wrong to say at all that Google has pulled up its socks to soar above its competitors. That's why it recently unwrapped its new updated look, apart from unveiling Plus One, the Plus social network and the recent PageRank update. Speculations are strong that Google is planning to unveil a social network via Google+. It is unsure whether this strategy of Google will work or not.

One thing is absolutely clear that Google is aiming at taking over the popularity of Face book and become the big social players themselves. Though Google refuses to admit it, but insiders have said that the project is even called “Googbook” internally.

Before Facebook had taken over, it was Google's Orkut which used to triumph its music on web. But Google has pretty much information regarding the visitors on orkut, who can now acquire their own social opinions called +1 which helps quality websites climb up the pages. But practically seeing, it should not act as a hurdle for highly successful Facebook. Though Google+ has got an excellent response from everywhere, at the end of the day, its about an individual's own choice. Those who are addicted to FB will still remain its fan.

Also it would be hard for anyone to give up over 500 friends and 1000 tagged pics just to switch over to some other social site, even if benefits are larger. However, lets not conclude that Google+ wont have any following. One can have two accounts on different social networking sites. Apart from this, Google+ does offer quite a lot of attractive features like connections not requiring to be two-way, eradicating any clutter from people you don’t actually care about in your stream. Apart from this, it will be pretty amazing to watch how Google advertises with the aim of showing Facebook stars in daytime. But there still lies a possibility that once the initial excitement fades out, Facebook might prevail again.

Now let us give the comparison between Google and FB a backseat and rather talk about the innovative features of Google+. Overall, it's a very simple interface, notifications are great, interactions like hanging out voice chat etc are commendable. As of now, its on BETA, but it wouldn't be wrong to say that the version is much better than many other unveiled by Google in past.

Symantec calls Apple's iOS more secure than Google's Android

noreply@blogger.com (A-1 Technology) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:49:00 +0000

Recently, Symantic came out with its latest report, in which it ranked Apple's iOS as more secure in comparison to Google's Android. The report dubbed "A Window Into Mobile Device Security," includes 23 pages, in which the security approaches used by Apple and Google in its mobile operating systems are described. Apart from this, the report also emphasizes the past and possible future holes found in the iOS and Android platforms.

The report made close comparisons of both the platforms and reached on the conclusion that iOS offers full protection against malware attacks, while its counterpart offers only a little.

The report also ranked iOS higher than Android for protection against resource abuse and service attacks, data loss, and data integrity attacks. Moving further, even the fields like access control, application provenance, and encryption were found to be more securely protected by iOS.

Isolation was the only security category, in which Google's Android was termed as better than iOS. Android received highest marks for this category, while iOS was told to offer moderate protection.

On the whole, the report by Symantec credited the provenance approach of Apple for building a steady security barrier. This because all of the apps, before getting launched on the App store has to undergo vetting procedures. The report said that this avoids malware attacks, data loss attacks, data integrity attacks, and denial of service attacks.

While coming over to Android, Symantec pointed out two major weaknesses in it. The report said, “First, the provenance system in place enables attackers to anonymously create and distribute malware. In addition, its permission system relies upon the user to make the important security decisions, and considering most of Android users are not of high technical capability, this causes problems.”

But the report did term Google's mobile operating system as an enormous improvement over traditional desktop operating systems.