Foundations Services Launched for Oracle by CSC

Oracle by CSC

CSC, which is one of the most reputed companies for technology-enabled business solutions, launched Foundation Services for Oracle on March 20, 2012. This tool will allow users to utilize Oracle software products and hardware for transforming their business tools to a computing infrastructure that is cloud based. Clients will be able to leverage the integrated stack from the applications-to-disk … [Read more...]

Django 1.4 March Release with Support for Time Zone

Python Updates

It was just over one year ago that the last major version for Django was launched. On March 26th 2012, Django 1.4, which is a Python based web framework, was launched. The biggest addition to the framework is that it includes help for handling dates and times in the form of time zone support. The new objects in the framework, called 'time-zone-aware' objects, are capable of storing time and date … [Read more...]

Voice To Text Apps Improving

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Although voice to text applications have been on the market for some time, the technology is becoming more progressive at recognizing different annunciations.  If you have ever experienced voice to text messaging with the result being less than accurate or understandable, newer applications are now programmed to understand your unique speech patterns much more clearly. The new VoiceToApps … [Read more...]

Is CISPA the New SOPA?

The Senate and House postponed passing SOPA in January due to loud opposition from the community, Google and Wikipedia.  The Senate and House said the bill was being developed  in order to combat online piracy from the entertainment industry and other businesses that lose billions of dollars annually to intellectual property theft and online sales of counterfeit products.  However, people out … [Read more...]

Android Fragmentation is Better Than You Think

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Google came out with Android OS in response to the iOS and iPhone made by Apple. A lot of people thought that Google was too late in making their move, however, in a very short time, Android has become the most popular smartphone platform in US, UK and most other countries in the world. In fact, the growing demand of Android training classes and numerous apps available on the Android market … [Read more...]

Numerous Java Developments in February

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Those who work with Java should be interested in learning that February saw a lot of development as far as Java is concerned. This means companies stayed abreast with all these changes with the help of the latest Java training courses in the market. Today, there are many websites on the internet that can keep you updated with news regarding Java. One such page is the Java page, which is maintained … [Read more...]

Jelastic to Release Java PaaS

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Jelastic is a company that provides Java PaaS (platform as a service) solutions. It recently announced that the PaaS service that it provides will move from beta and become a commercial product. The announcement was done at Parallels Summit 2012 in Orlando, Florida. This may compel a lot of companies to sign up for Java training classes for their employees so they become better accustomed with the … [Read more...]

Cloud Cover Update by ZyLab and Guidance Software

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ZyLab North America is a company that provides products related to information management and e-discovery. They make use of XML to archive data for their customers. That is why basic information of XML, which can come from XML training courses, is useful when dealing with products from ZyLab. E-discovery has been growing over the last few years as well, with big companies like EMC, Symantec, … [Read more...]

Issues of Malware in Android Market

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Two major companies in the field of online security, Symantec and Lookout, are arguing whether a particular app is infecting more than 5 million Android phones. The fact that this app is available in the official Android marketplace is bothering these security experts. According to Symantec, a lot of publishers are pushing out an app called Android.Counterclank. Symantec believes that this app is … [Read more...]

Anonymous Group Continues Threats of Attacks

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Anonymous  is a group that formed in 2003 and represented the ideals of many online and offline community users co-existing as an anarchic group.   In its early form, the Anonymous group acted in a coordinated manner toward a common goal and primarily focused on the entertainment industry. Five years later, in 2008, the Anonymous group became increasingly associated with hacking and … [Read more...]

New Application Detects Ad Networks on Mobile Phone Devices

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More and more people own mobile phones and advertisers have gotten increasingly aggressive about tapping into the mobile phone market.   If you have problems with ads showing up in your pulldown notification tray or some mysterious star, circle, or plus icon in the corner of your notification bar, you might have an app on your device that pushes ads. Ad networks collect information that … [Read more...]

Evi and Siri Similar App

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The Siri app on Apple's  iPhone 4S lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more.  You can ask Siri to do things just by talking to it and Siri understands what you say, knows what you mean, and answers.   You can say something like, “Tell my husband I’m running late”  or “Remind me to call the vet” or even “Any good burger joints around … [Read more...]

W3C Continues To Work On Privacy Issues

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where a full-time staff, Member organizations and the public work together to develop Web Standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.  The staff at W3C is made up of 65 people working from locations across the world. W3C is hosted by the … [Read more...]

Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights To Be Unveiled Today

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President Obama will be unveiling the new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights today in response to consumer tracking from mobile devices and on-line search tracking.  The administration has been working on the bill of rights for online privacy for two years with industry leaders, privacy advocates, academics and enforcement agencies.  On line tracking from Google and Facebook, among others, in … [Read more...]

Oracle and Teradata Launch Next Generation Business Abilities

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Teradata is one of the leading analytic data solutions companies in the world. On the 23rd of January, the company announced next generation capabilities for organizations that want more functionality, control and business value.  These capabilities are to be provided by Oracle's Business Intelligence technologies and will soon be incorporated into the education systems of IT professionals … [Read more...]

Oracle’s Hadoop may Motivate Competitors Towards Bigger Data Bundles

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Oracle recently shipped its Big Data Appliance in January, according to a ComputerWorld.com report. This appliance together with the NoSQL database was unveiled last fall at the OpenWorld user conference. The company declared that this new appliance will run Cloudera's Apache Hadoop implementation and management software. This announcement was made on the day of the shipment of the appliance. This … [Read more...]

The Importance of Virtualization to Unix Customers

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An annual survey conducted by a consultancy group known as Gabriel Consulting points to the fact that virtualization is not very important to Unix customers. This survey was called "Is Commercial Unix Relevant in the Midmarket.”  There were nine factors that were taken into consideration for the survey, according to a ZDNet.com report. These nine factors are the deciding factors during the … [Read more...]

Android’s Market Share Outdoes iPhone’s Share By Double in U.S

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According to a recent BGR.com report, only 27% of smartphone owners in the U.S. owns an iPhone, while 47% of them owned Android devices. The research also found that less than half the people researched their phones before purchase and their decision was mostly based on Google's reputation. This amounts to Android having almost twice the market share as compared to Google. The most popular brand … [Read more...]

About 74% of Potential Smartphone Buyers to Opt for Android or iPhone

Android

The results of a recent survey conducted by the Yankee Group show that more than 70% of customers, who are planning on buying a smartphone in the first half of 2012, will buy a handset based on Google's Android software or an iPhone. With increase in the use of these software, the number of people enrolling for iOS and Android training courses is also increasing. Research by Yankee … [Read more...]

Programming Language Trends From 2011

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Last year was a year that saw a lot of changes in the world of programming languages. Mobile phones continued to emerge as a popular platform for programming, and when it came to applications and data use, the most popular platforms were cloud based. PCs and laptops got a lot more computing power though the multiple core processors and RAM, which also ended up affecting the programming languages … [Read more...]