Nokia Developer Conference 2009

I start with a question . Did you ever felt that you need some help regarding developing a Mobile application, a problem with a widget, a problem developing a application, here is a chance given by Forum Nokia for Mobile application developers.

So Nokia is organizing the Forum Nokia Developer Conference 2009. When i heard about the conference i decided to share this with you all. The Basic Objective is to inspire the developers to write codes for Mobile applications that may create a amazing envoirment with user friendly applications. This Conference will also fuel the developers with new idea and application building tools that will give them ideas and expertise to create killer appplications.

Venue : Trinity, Taj Residency, Bangalore.
Date: 20th January 2009

What will be discussed:

There will be different sessions about various Mobile Application Development , issue and possiblities. You will come to know the best minds in the industry. The objective will be to provide a forum so that the devs can discuss the coming future trends, the Impact of 3G on mobile Applications. The sessions will include Various Mobile technologies used by Developers like Symbian, Java, Open source & Others.
Speakers from the leading Industry will also discuss the evolution of the smartphone technologies and its impact on mobile applications. Some Presentations will be made on issues of how the emerging countries in the world are taking the mobile technologies to create a Revolution that will have a significant impact on the future of mobile device applications like never before.

so the bottom line is that will conference will explain the definite shift that is taking place within the industry, the impact and development which is taking place in Games, ringtones, widgets & other important Applications.

So come and hear the Leading Speakers while they discuss the evolution of the Mobile VAS industry and what the future holds.

Who will attend:

If you attend this conference you can meet the Industry leading Operators, Government, Nokia & Forum Nokia so you can network with their peers.

What to know: want more inofrmation visit the links below:

Mobile application developers http://www.nokiadevcon.in
Bangalore Conference http://www.nokiadevcon.in/session.html

Some Lucky Developers can also Cool Mobile Phones and other Exciting gifts from Forum Nokia.

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December 27, 2008 · Filed Under Uncategorized

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Defense Forum Highlights Microsoft Commitment to Global Military Customers

MIcrosoft Some 250 senior operational and IT military leaders from across the world gather in Lisbon, Portugal, today for the two-day Defence Leaders Forum, where they will discuss how information technology can bolster defense and security operations.

The summit is being convened by the NATO Communication and Information Systems Services Agency (NCSA), Microsoft, and Portugal’s Ministry of National Defense. Officials from 22 nations are taking part.

Microsoft’s joint sponsorship role underscores the company’s stature in the defense arena, says Tim Bloechl, managing director, worldwide public safety and national security at Microsoft. “We’ve developed close strategic contacts with a number of national militaries, working in partnership with them to ensure they’re equipped to meet the challenges of the 21^st century and the rapidly changing technology environment,” says Bloechl.

For example, twice a year at its corporate campus near Seattle, Microsoft hosts senior leaders from the international military alliance for strategic briefings. During those meetings, it shares its technology roadmap and conducts needs assessments. NATO is also in the vanguard of military organizations rolling out Windows Vista.

Such relationships are very important to Microsoft. Military organizations rank as the company’s largest and third-largest customers – the US Army and US Air Force respectively – and its top 10 also includes the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence.

Access to the latest technological capabilities is critical for today’s military organizations, which have seen their national security and military roles expanded to include peacekeeping, counterterrorism, conflict resolution, disaster response, and humanitarian and public safety tasks.

To help with these new assignments, military and defense customers often are turning to commercial, off-the-shelf software from vendors such as Microsoft, replacing custom-built or legacy systems that can be costly to operate and less flexible.

Commercial software can support many defense organizations’ back-office operations, which are not unlike those of a regular business – spanning functions such as HR, payroll and accounting. There’s growing usage of Microsoft Dynamics business management products. And Microsoft Office Sharepoint is improving s collaboration among militaries internationally, says Bloechl.

But the military also has distinctive needs that set it apart from civilian organizations.

Military software must be highly reliable, stringently secure, and scalable across thousands to millions of users. It must be fully compliant with the latest standards and protocols, interoperable with disparate systems and ultra versatile across the needs of complex organizations. And in an era of budget-conscious governments, military software must be cost-effective to deploy.

Microsoft delivers these demanding requirements through platform products such as Office 2007 and Windows Vista that today provide the IT infrastructure for military customers. Many partner-developed, Microsoft-based solutions represent a lifeline to soldiers operating on the front lines in dynamic combat conditions, where access to accurate, timely information can make the difference between lives saved and lost.

Take email. Military and defense organizations must keep the lines of communication open to share the very latest intelligence and operational information. But they must also protect highly sensitive information to ensure it doesn’t fall into unauthorized hands.

It’s a tricky balance to strike and regular email won’t suffice. So Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Titus Labs has developed a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook that significantly enhances email security. TMC 3.0, the latest version of Titus Lab’s flagship product, ensures all messages are classified according to their sensitivity level, limiting access to parties with appropriate clearance. This prevents security breaches and inadvertent disclosures.

The tool allows users to designate a security classification for outgoing messages by clicking an icon on their desktop toolbar. If they don’t select a classification, they’re prompted to apply one through a pop-up that appears on their screen like a spellchecker and walks them through a drop-down list of options, based on their organizations’ security policy, to determine the sensitivity of the material being sent. In the case of top-secret emails, it automatically applies encryption.

TMC 3.0 also prevents information “spillage” by instantly labeling messages with attachments with the highest level of security classification contained in the attached materials. The tool accomplishes this through parsing metadata tags embedded in the code within Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and other Office 2007 programs to determine the security status of individual pieces of data in them.

By design, the solution is simple and intuitive to use, says Tim Upton president and CEO of Titus Labs, based in Ottawa, Canada: “We’ve strived to provide extreme ease of use because soldiers may be using the product amid all the distractions of a live military theater. These are not always office workers.”

“We leverage the Office platform, Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft digital rights management and encryption technologies, so that our code is leaner and meaner and it is easier for our customers to deploy, with fewer risks of problem,” adds Upton.

The tool is a growing hit with military customers. It counts 120,000 users within the US Central Command (CENTCOMM), including troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 15,000 more in the Danish military. The Australian Department of Defence recently rolled TMC 3.0 out to 80,000 users to enforce classification of all emails in Outlook, Outlook Web Access and Windows Mobile.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is working directly with the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, to enhance its Knowledge and Information Fusion Exchange (KnIFE) program, which furnishes US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with up-to-the-minute information on the threat from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) via a restricted-access collaborative portal based on Microsoft Office SharePoint.

Microsoft technologies are also in the forefront of efforts to address the growing complexity of defense and security missions, particularly the need to coordinate operations across coalitions straddling disparate military and civilian agencies.

NATO’s Civil Military Overview (CMO) is a portal designed to allow greater collaboration between non-governmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and military communities in crisis or reconstruction operations such as the current rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan.

CMO utilizes Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 to synthesize data from multiple sources, analyze it, and facilitate information exchange. It also harnesses Microsoft Office Groove 2007 to enable secure and effective cooperation across scattered teams, and Microsoft Office Communications Server to deliver presence information, instant messaging, and virtual conferencing capabilities.

Such projects underline the special responsibilities that come with serving customers such as NATO, says Bloechl. “The things we do to help NATO, not only support NATO but also the NATO Alliance nations, and by extension the Partnership for Peace nations and other contributors to NATO, plus of course the people that NATO helps.”

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December 23, 2008 · Filed Under Microsoft

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Windows 7 Public Beta Soon

Windows 7

There have been several reports that indicate that a public beta of Windows 7 would be available in early January. What’s more, according to several sources (ZDNet’s Ed Bott, Internet News.com Andy Patrizio and last week WinInfo’s Paul Thurrott) Windows 7 will ship this summer (a June 2009 shipping date is being mentioned) – way earlier than Microsoft has (so far) indicated.

Some people are thinking that a June 2009 ship date is not likely. This is roughly 31 months after Vista went RTM (Release To Manufacturing). I’ll just point out that Microsoft shipped Windows XP only 20 months after Windows 2000, so a 31 month development cycle for Windows 7 would certainly be a possibility. Most people will remember the painful Windows Vista development cycle, which took 63 months from the day Windows XP went RTM to its own RTM. Microsoft is determined not to let that happen again.

One should also keep in mind that the changes from Windows Vista to Windows 7 are comparable to the changes Microsoft made when it went from Windows 2000 to Windows XP, so although the beta cycle for Windows 7 looks to be very short, it looks plausible.

Source : www.windowsbbs.com

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December 14, 2008 · Filed Under Microsoft

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Microsoft Unveils Clothing Line

OK, I admit that this one made me frown too. And admittedly, “clothing line” is a big word for what is basically a collection of retro-style T-shirts. The line is called “Softwear by Microsoft” and was designed by artist/rapper Common. The designs are said to be ‘reminiscent of the 80s and are meant to be another way to counter the Mac/PC adverts, designed to be an extension of the ‘I’m a PC’ ads campaign Microsoft is hoping will change the public’s opinion of the company.

“Softwear by Microsoft is a clothing line that taps the nostalgia of when PCs were just starting to change our lives,” a Microsoft statement reads. “With retro logos, classic photos, and geek-chic iconography, these pieces showcase the DOS days of the software company that now connects over a billion people.”

The “Softwear by Microsoft” is set to hit stores in the US on December 15th. More information & a view of the designs visit the Microsoft Softwear by Microsoft site.

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December 14, 2008 · Filed Under Microsoft, Other

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Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Public Beta

windows Early this month Microsoft released a Beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 via their Customer Preview Program (CPP). The beta was released in five languages: English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.

The service pack is available as standalone package or as a Windows Update download. The standalone package is around 302 MB for the five language install (32-bit) or 508MB for the 64-bit version. The full language install (36 languages) will be respectively 390MB or 622MB. The Windows Update download size is around 41MB for the 32-bit version, 60MB for the 64-bit version.

Service Pack 2 includes application compatibility improvements, support for 64-bit VIA processors, Bluetooth wireless updates, Wi-Fi performance updates, DirectX updates, high definition audio & video performance updates and Blue-Ray improvements.

Service Pack 2 also includes a Service Pack Clean-up tool (Compcln.exe) which helps restore the hard disk space by permanently deleting the previous versions of the files (RTM and SP1) that are being serviced by SP2. The Pack Clean up tool can also be run offline while creating slipstream images to reduce the size of the image.

You should view Vista SP2’s Release Notes before applying the service pack.

If you want to receive the beta through Windows Update, follow the instructions found on the Microsoft Download site. The standalone package is also available from the Microsoft Download site: