Future of the Mobile Ecosystem – Apple iPhone Applications Vs Google Android Applications

Entire ecosystem is becoming stable and mature constantly. Social media is going mobile. Smartphones are no more a luxury and have become need of the day. Social, deals, B2B segments are changing this world.

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The DNA of the mobile ecosystem is changing. What opportunities will emerge during the course of this decade? Where are the new billion dollar markets? We will explore these questions and more throughout the article with the influential minds who are shaping the mobile industry.
The entire mobile ecosystem is going to hit $1 trillion market by 2014, according to Gartner who is a well-known market- researcher in the mobile world. Gartner advises enterprises to develop a "high-level mobile strategy," rather than committing to any particular device or platform.

What does it mean? It has been a long time that the mobile industry has set in this world. It first started off with the features of devices. Mobile devices like Motorola RAZR have changed the perception of the people using the device. The sole dominance during this phase was of the device manufacturers. This was followed by a phase in the mobile applications market that revolutionized the mobile market. A new phase of the mobile ecosystem emerged with the launching of iPhone in 2007 by Apple. The iPhone that was created by Apple gave a complete new user experience which was unmatched to the experience that was there in all other previous phones. This was the time when the mobile industry saw a new beginning. We say this as an ecosystem because Apple had created its own environment wherein nobody else other than Apple can participate. The ecosystem was closed and Apple had the sole rights of its device. Though other developers were also given a share to contribute to the system but the share is pretty small.


Now with the sole dominance of Apple , with its varied range of iPhone, iPad and iPods other competitors also came up with the market with some awesome features and here is where Google took a plunge and created Android . As a result of this there has been a sudden surge of demand for iphone applications and android applications. Google’s was a more open approach and it invited people from all sorts to take part in its development. There was an opportunity for a third ecosystem and saw the dawn of Windows. This is the third ecosystem that is emerging with a slow and steady pace. Nokia has surprisingly tied up with Windows to get their smartphones and to re-estabilish their position in the market. This phase is traditionally characterized by applications.

Going forward, the emerging phase is that of cloud services and streaming videos. The new era would be dominated by high-end applications and more complex end- to end experience including the cloud. Many mobile business systems will explore contextual cloud services hosted by others. In mature markets, including the U.S., smartphones will dominate device sales for the foreseeable future. Gartner analysts predicted. Many new device types such as tablets and e-book readers will emerge through 2012 but none comparable to the market share of smartphones and laptops. The smartphones market is very competitive with Apple’s OS (iOS) loosing to Google’s Android and onset of Windows


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Incorporating Technology with Response to Intervention

School teachers and administrators employ many different strategies in an effort to bring the best possible education to each student. The modern response to intervention (RTI) method is designed to monitor student progress and provide proper differentiated or individualized instruction as necessary for academic success. When it comes to potentially difficult subjects such as math, having technological tools including virtual manipulatives and online games can make it easier to implement this complex teaching model.

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Intense Adaptive Instruction

One of the hallmarks of response to intervention is differentiated instruction. Depending on where and how much a student is struggling, it may be necessary to tailor his or her educational experience to better address difficulties. To that end, RTI employs three tiers, each designed to focus instruction based on student performance and progress. Sometimes labeled as Benchmark, Strategic, and Intensive, each tier involves progressively more concentrated instruction, ranging from the classroom level to one-on-one instruction conducted outside of a classroom setting. Online games and learning tools fit right in to this model with a targeted teaching approach based on each individual student’s learning pace, level of comprehension and need for help. Using these tools can make it easier for teachers to address the individual needs of each student, as the programs are designed to automatically adapt to a child’s personal skill level.


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Response to intervention techniques won’t work at all if the targeted students have a hard time paying attention or simply aren’t interested in learning. Online educational games help to solve this problem by taking difficult subjects such as math and presenting them in ways that are fun and engaging. When teachers can show kids that learning anything, even things that seem hard at first, can be fun, the response is often positive. Games are also beneficial to students whose learning styles make them better suited to an interactive environment. This is ideal for RTI since part of the model involves effectively targeting students in a way that will give them the greatest chance for academic success.

Essential Monitoring Tools for Teachers

In order to place kids in the proper response to intervention tier, teachers need a comprehensive understanding of the skill levels and academic progress of each of their students. Though traditional progress monitoring methods such as benchmark testing are often used to determine tier placement, these can be time consuming and detract from students’ overall learning experience. Online tools can automate this process by compiling data on each student in real time and forming detailed reports from the results. Instead of having to individually test every child, teachers can use these virtual reports to monitor their classes and identify at-risk students before they fall too far behind.


Response to intervention is meant to meet the needs of students at every level who require help to succeed academically. Internet-based educational games and progress monitoring tools aid teachers in proper placement of students and can be used to present intense individualized instruction that might not otherwise be possible in the classroom. By incorporating technology into the standard model of instruction, teachers can more easily tailor the day to day learning environment to better serve each student.

Jim Wheelin writes about many different educational topics for parents, kids and teachers. Lately, he has been on the lookout for learning programs that offer a response to intervention strategy to support his kids' development. Jim also encourages other to test educational games such as the ones offered at http://www.dreambox.com/math-intervention.

Oracle and SAP given June court date for TomorrowNow retrial

Oracle and SAP may be back in court on June 18 to begin a retrial of Oracle's corporate theft lawsuit involving SAP's former TomorrowNow subsidiary, according to a judge's order Thursday.

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Oracle was awarded US$1.3 billion in damages from SAP last November as compensation for TomorrowNow's theft of software and support materials from an Oracle website.

SAP argued the sum was unfairly high, and the court agreed, overturning the jury's award. Oracle was given a choice of accepting a lower damages amount of $272 million or going into a new trial, and earlier this month it picked the new trial.

The two weeks starting June 18 are the only two weeks free on the judge's calendar this year, Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the Northern District Court of California said in her scheduling order Thursday. If Oracle and SAP reject that date, they can choose Aug. 13, 2013, or else hope an opening comes up before then.

It will be a busy year for Oracle in the courts. The company is fighting two other big cases that are due to go to trial this year. One was brought by Hewlett-Packard, over Oracle's decision to drop support for Itanium. The other is Oracle's suit against Google for alleged patent and copyright violations in Android.

Oracle buying Taleo for $1.9B in direct hit at SAP

Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly $1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for $3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.

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"Human capital management has become a strategic initiative for organizations," said Thomas Kurian , executive vice president, Oracle Development, in a statement. "Taleo's industry leading talent management cloud is an important addition to the Oracle Public Cloud."

The Taleo deal is expected to close in the middle of this year and is subject to shareholder approval, Oracle said. Taleo's board has unanimously approved the sale.

Taleo's applications focus on talent management, which includes areas such as recruitment, learning and development, and compensation and succession planning.

It remains to be seen exactly how Taleo's product portfolio will be aligned with Oracle's Fusion HCM (human capital management) software, which is also available as a cloud offering, and has some overlapping functionality.

Together, the companies "expect to create a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their Human Resource operations and employee careers," Kurian said in a letter to customers. The resulting products will "empower employees and managers to effectively manage careers throughout their entire employment, enable organizations to retain talent and optimize costs, and improve the employee experience through faster on boarding and better collaboration with team members via social media," he added.

Some 5,000 enterprises use Taleo's software, which also handles 15 percent of employee hires in the U.S., according to an Oracle document. About half of the world's top career websites run Taleo as well, Oracle said.

SAP has characterized the pending SuccessFactors purchase as something that will give the company needed "cloud DNA" and expertise in that market.

Oracle's announcement of the Taleo deal included no similar sentiments, but Taleo is its second major acquisition, along with customer-service vendor RightNow, of a cloud application vendor in the past six months.

Since SAP announced the SuccessFactors deal, speculation had run rampant that Oracle would make a move in response, with Taleo bandied about as a possible acquisition target.

Salesforce.com has also begun a push into human-resources software with its recent acquisition of Rypple, which focuses on employee performance management.

Unlike other software categories, the types of products sold by SuccessFactors, Taleo and Rypple have relevance to every employee in a company, allowing for more profitable large-scale SaaS (software as a service) deals.

There will likely be additional acquisitions in the HCM arena soon, said HR software analyst Naomi Bloom, managing partner of the consulting firm Bloom & Wallace. "I think we can expect that the boards of Cornerstone, of Ultimate Software, they are undoubtedly having conversations at least among themselves if not potential acquirers."

Oracle's move doesn't have "much to do with a technology buy," Bloom added. Instead, as with the acquisition of ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor PeopleSoft, Oracle is looking to take out a competitor and gain a revenue stream, she said.

Taleo also has been running a SaaS business and has a lot of knowledge that will be beneficial to Oracle, Bloom said. While Oracle has long sold an on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) application, that experience isn't as relevant since unlike human resources, CRM isn't subject to government regulations and it impacts far fewer employees in an organization, she said.

Meanwhile, "if you are a Taleo customer, or God forbid are in the process [of becoming one], this should put ice water in your veins," Bloom said. "I have great regard for Oracle, they are an amazing financial machine. But if I'm a customer, I might look at it differently."

Oracle's announcement stated that it is currently reviewing Taleo's product road map, and that "any resulting features and timing of release of such features" are at Oracle's "sole discretion."

But Oracle has invested heavily in its Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications as a next-generation software platform. Therefore, Taleo customers could expect some incremental improvements in the software over time, Bloom said. However, "if I entered into business with Taleo because I felt they were going to be a continuous innovation machine, that's not going to happen," she added.

The SuccessFactors and Taleo deals also could reflect growing concern on the part of both SAP and Oracle over the rise of Workday, which has landed large deals for its own cloud-based HCM software, Bloom said.

"I think Oracle was drawn in to having to do this deal," said Forrester Research analyst Paul Hamerman.

"I don't know why they didn't make this deal five years ago," he added. Oracle would have paid much less and would have primarily gained recruitment software, Hamerman said. But today, Taleo has built out the "four pillars" of talent management, namely recruitment, employee job performance, compensation and learning, he said.

While Oracle has had great success selling core HR applications for payroll, benefits and other areas, it hasn't had much luck with talent management, Hamerman said.

The overlap with Fusion HCM is not that significant, since it currently lacks recruitment, learning and succession planning capabilities, all areas where Taleo is strong, according to Hamerman. "It's actually a pretty complementary fit."

Making lame excuses for Microsoft's decision to drop the Start button in Windows 8

Is there method ot Microsoft’s madness, or is the decision pure madness?

Over the past few days I’ve seem a number of Microsoft pundits come up with lame excuses to try to justify Microsoft’s decision to drop the on-screen Start button in Windows 8. Is there method ot Microsoft’s madness, or is the decision pure madness?

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Here’s Paul Thurrott’s justification:

While it’s technically true that the Start button/Orb, which used to adorn the left end of the taskbar on the Windows desktop, is missing in action, most people are missing out on two salient points. First, the Windows desktop is not the primary user interface in Windows 8 anymore. That’s the Start screen.

Second, the Start button isn’t gone, and it’s not going away at all. In fact, it will be present on every single Windows 8 device sold going forward.

He goes on to post a picture of a physical Windows button on a tablet, and points out that a physical Windows Key is required for any PC or device to get the Certified for Windows 8 logo from Microsoft.

Well, I’ve got two counterpoints to Thurrott’s argument. First, and I’m surprised he didn’t mention this, it’s just the visual ‘orb’ hat’s being removed from the left-hand-side of the taskbar. There will still be an invisible hotspot in that part of the screen that does what the button currently does. Microsoft is kinda assuming that everyone will still go there looking for the Start button and will continue to offer the functionality, albeit without the UI.

Secondly, and I think that this is an important point - is a physical button a step forward or a step back compared to an on-screen button?

Before we answer that, let’s consider Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Neither of these devices have any sort of on-screen Home/Start button. Did Microsoft ‘copy’ Apple here? maybe, but that doesn’t matter. The difference is that the iOS platform has never had an on-screen Start/Home button. Windows, on the other hand, has had this feature since Windows 95, and people have come to expect it, so I expect that it’s removal (even if just the symbolic gesture of removing the UI element) will raise (and possibly knit) a few eyebrows.

Personally, I think that removing an on-screen UI element and replacing it with a physical button (a physical button that most systems already have) seems like a step backwards to me because it penalizes people who prefer using a mouse than a keyboard. I’m happy with the Windows key on keyboards, but the idea of having to rely on a physical button on a device that OEMs can put wherever they want puts me off because I know that OEMs can do boneheaded things. If Microsoft was bold enough to remove the functionality as well as the UI element, that would be one thing, but adopting some sort of halfway gesture seems like sitting on the fence to me, and all the lame excuses are just making that decision seem even lamer.

Either keep the Start button in or remove it completely.

Do you think Microsoft was right to follow in Apple’s footsteps and remove the on-screen Start button, or do you think that it’s one UI change too far?

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Counterintelligence is a necessity in the military, the government, and, in a slightly different form, in business. Counterintelligence serves an important purpose for military, government, and business entities because it offers an important defensive function. Those defensive functions involve security and counterespionage. Accordingly, counterintelligence operations will generally involve security investigations, investigations into financial records, individual profiling, and other methods to both catch spies and discourage treason.

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Counterintelligence is obviously a sophisticated field that requires appropriate education and training. Indeed, advanced training in the area of counterintelligence is indicated by the nuanced and difficult fact that a major target of counterintelligence is foreign intelligence services. The aim of targeting a foreign intelligence service is to analyze its processes so it can eventually be modeled. Once the intelligence process has been modeled it can be approached in a manner that allows the opposite intelligence service the upper hand in any future dealings with that foreign entity. Therefore, counterintelligence workers will have to apply their methodologies to discover secrets that are actively being kept secret.


The approach to counterintelligence discussed by Clark is a rather innovative approach to counterintelligence work. Counterintelligence traditionally focused on a defensive denial and deception. Clark, however, proposed an offensive approach that included covert action, denial, and deception, but it also included the application of the opposing intelligence service's model so it can be used as a way of defeating the opponent.

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Feds charge 7 in 'massive' case against Megaupload online piracy ring

A day after thousands of websites went on strike protesting controversial anti-piracy legislation in the U.S., federal authorities today announced they have busted a pirate ring that allegedly hauled in $175 million.

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Seven individuals and two companies were charged with multiple counts of racketeering, copyright infringement, and money laundering, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement.

The two companies -- Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited -- operated sites under the Megaupload name, including megaupload.com from servers located in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands.

According to federal officials, the gang generated $175 million in revenue from advertising sales and premium memberships, and caused more than $500 million in damages to the legitimate copyright holders.

Among the pirated content the Megaupload sites distributed were movies, television programs, music, e-books and business and entertainment software.

"This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States," the DOJ said in a statement Thursday. Prosecutors also called the Megaupload group "an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy."

Of the seven men indicted by a Virginia grand jury earlier this month, four were arrested today in New Zealand by local authorities. The three others -- who live in Estonia, Germany and Slovakia -- remain at large.

Alongside today's arrests, the FBI also seized $50 million in Megaupload assets, and served 20 search warrants in the U.S. and elsewhere to grab the servers used by the websites.

A U.S. District Court also ordered the seizure of 18 domain names belonging to Megaupload.

According to the grand jury's indictment, Megaupload.com was seeing 50 million visitors daily and accounted for 4% of all Internet traffic.

The Alexa site ranking service currently lists the site as the seventy-second-largest in the world. Over the last three months, the site's visitors averaged 1.4% of all Internet users.

Today's arrests followed on the heels of a widespread "Internet strike" Wednesday, when thousands of sites, including Google and Wikipedia, went partially or completely dark in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

Those bills -- drafted by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, respectively -- are designed to make it easier for copyright holders to take down foreign websites that distribute pirated movies, music and software. Opponents, however, have argued that the legislation will give content owners too much power.

The seven men each face a maximum of 55 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

Rise in number of students getting a first or 2:1

The number of firsts and 2:1s awarded by UK universities has continued to rise, now accounting for almost two thirds of undergraduates completing their first degree.

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This is among the facts established in new data from by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, which show that the proportion who gained a first or upper second “has shown a steady increase from 60 per cent in 2006-07 to 64 per cent in 2010-11”.

The figures also show that women scored better than men, with 66 per cent of their first degree classifications being firsts or 2:1s, compared to 61 per cent for men.

The overall number of student enrolments stood at 2,501,295 in 2010-11, according to Hesa, showing no percentage change from the previous year.

Postgraduate enrolments rose 2 per cent between 2009-10 and 2010-11.

The total number of first year undergraduate enrolments, meanwhile, stood at 1,145,970, a fall of 3 per cent on the year before.

While the number of full-time first-year enrolments showed no percentage change, part-time first-year enrolments fell by 8 per cent.

That may concern universities with large numbers of part-time students, as many observers believe the higher fee regime to be introduced this autumn will lead to a further fall in part-time numbers.

There was a significant rise in the number of student enrolments from outside the European Union (up 6 per cent), while the number of UK-domiciled students fell from 2,087,615 to 2,073,070, a 1 per cent decrease.

The data also show a sharp increase in the number of students studying wholly overseas for UK qualifications, up from 408,685 to 503,795.

What Network Administrators Need to Know About Network Inventory Solutions?

If you need to check what CPU is installed on your computer or how many memory do you have, you can open a System information in Windows and find required information there. But it is missing information about a number of occupied and free memory slots, that is required if you plan a memory update. Information about other hardware components is available in other Windows dialogs or through drivers, but in total over 90% of all inventory information isn't available. Nevertheless, it's available for a system and you can use various system utilities to extract detailed specification for installed memory modules, for example. Other utilities can be used to report information about a graphic card, so you have to use different tools to extract inventory information about a computer. Just imagine how many time you need to extract this information about all computers from a local network.

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If you need to collect inventory information from multiple computers you can visit them one-by-one, install required system utilities, export collected data and import it into a centralized inventory database in order to create inventory reports. But there is a less daunting way and you can use specialized network inventory software that is designed to collect inventory information from multiple computers into a centralized repository. Network inventory tools allow collecting information remotely from computers connected to a local network, so you can get inventory data from selected computers in automatic mode with no time-consuming manual actions.

Network inventory software can be classified by approach used to extract inventory information. First category of applications require installation of client modules on network computers. Software and hardware audit information is extracted locally by this module and then inventory tool communicates with this module to extract collected data into a centralized database. It is possible to extract any kind of inventory information available for Windows using this approach, but it requires installation of client modules on all network computers that can take a significant amount of time. Also it's hard to maintain client modules in order to upgrade their versions, install them on all new computers, etc.

Another category of inventory software is called clientless because such tools can collect inventory information from network computers without installing client modules on them. Usually such tools use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) technology from Microsoft to collect inventory data over a network. For security reasons on latest operation systems starting from Vista WMI is disabled by default, so if you like to use a network inventory tool based on WMI you need to configure your network environment. You need to use an administrative account to connect to network computers, turn off a set of standard services and configure firewalls on computers to enable communication using WMI.

There are some inventory tools that also use a clientless approach, but don't use WMI to extract inventory data due to WMI security holes. Usually such tools can extract hardware and software inventory information remotely by connecting to registry on network computers. All inventory information is stored in the Windows registry, so it's possible to extract it directly over a network. This approach requires minimal configuration - you need to use administrative credentials to access remote computers and make sure that remote registry service is enabled, so it's the fastest and easiest way to collect inventory information.

Are you looking for ways to improve your network administration skills or personal performance? Learn more about network inventory software and try it in your network to be able to control all software and hardware assets across entire company or organization.

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It is a time when students from all over the world are trying to maximise their educational qualification. With higher qualifications required in many fields, PhD degrees have become a norm. PhD degrees are considered as the highest class in a particular subject.

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In this, people study a much specialised part of the overall subject and do some kind of research work. They also have to prepare a thesis work on a particular topic. This suggests that the students who are undergoing their PhD studies tend to have a deep seated knowledge on that particular topic. With the attainment of PhD degrees, the students are eligible for many prestigious posts such directors, honorary faculties, and are eligible for becoming professors in various academic institutions. Also, the presence of PhD degrees makes people eligible for superior posts in the research areas.

Although science stream is a common area for the PhD degrees, other subjects can also be pursued under the PhD degree schemes. Many students, who used to get into jobs after completing their arts, management or commerce graduations, are nowadays going into the pursuance of PhD degrees.

PhD in management is becoming a very common option for many MBA students. With so many students passing out from management colleges with post graduate diploma courses or masters degrees, there is a huge competition among them to get into the jobs. But, nowadays some of these students are trying to do PhD in management in order to add a pearl to their resume. By doing PhD in management in a particular topic, they undertake research in a particular subject, present thesis papers and are then considered as experts in that particular area.

Since this concept of doing PhD in management subjects is new, few colleges like Europe Asia Business School, Pearl Business School, etc have the doctorate in Business Administration course which is equivalent to PhD courses. Some of the universities also allow for the pursuance of PhD after completion of MBA degrees.

PhD in computer science is also being demanded by the students as this gives them an edge over many computer science graduates. They are considered as learned in a particular specialised field of computer science and can get into jobs in private and government organisations. Research jobs, academician and even consultant positions, open up for them, after the PhD in computer science.

PhD in computer science is possible to be done in Punjab Technical University, IGNOU, Mumbai University, Jawaharlal National University, Delhi University and few more. After completion of graduation and post graduation in commerce subjects, students can pick up one particular specialised topic related to commerce and then go for the PhD in commerce from the universities which allow for the course.

Interested students can pursue PhD in commerce from Mumbai University, Delhi University, IGNOU, University of Jammu, University of Jaipur, and hordes of other famous universities in India. With many students going for the graduation and masters’ degree, some of them are trying to have an edge in educational qualification by getting PhD degrees in their chosen subjects. By making this possible, many universities are also encouraging the students to get better qualified than others and have an edge in their careers.

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The Bachelor's Business Degree is a general degree that addresses many aspects of the business world. Obviously, the present day business world is very complicated and has many components. However, there are several general subjects that all companies face. This is what the bachelor's degree program would cover.



A few of the topics covered would include accounting, administration, marketing, and administration information systems. They are things that nearly all businesses have to face. For instance, all businesses need accounting to make sure that all the cash is counted properly. All businesses also have management which could be essential to either failure or success based on a boss' management style. All of these subjects will be covered in a mild introduction for this program, so there is no stress about needing to take previous classes at the high school level.



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One of the reasons why students want to get a Bachelor Business Degree is because it is very helpful in gaining employment. That's most evident with the many useful disciplines that are covered in business. Graduates have gone onto jobs in several parts of business. Some become accountants while some decide to enter the IT field as MIS analysts. It's also possible to utilize the data gained in this degree program to start a business.




The salary of graduates in this program are usually very competitive versus those of other graduates in four year degree programs. That's not surprising since the skills discovered are directly applicable to starting relevant work right away.



When



The time to begin a Bachelor Business Degree is actually anytime after high school graduation graduation. Generally, high school graduation or even a GED is required before beginning college. Many students choose to declare this major upon graduating from high school and starting university.



It is also a great choice for people who need to do a career change. For example, an individual who has struggled with enduring with another career may want to have a more business associated resume to offer. Also, those looking to upgrade their career will benefit from this system. For example, those people who are in low wage service jobs might get into better paying jobs upon graduating from this degree program.



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It's going to be quite a bit of work to earn a Bachelor Business Degree. It's a baccalaureate program, meaning 4 years worth of academic study is required. It's also required that students maintain a C average throughout the entire program or face suspension or dismissal from the degree program. Particularly, financial aid mandates that students make timely improvement with satisfactory marks towards graduation in order to continue receiving loans and grants.



The classes attending college are usually a great deal harder than secondary school classes. Professors will expect more work and a higher standard of labor from the students. As a result, students within this business program should be prepared to work tirelessly for four or more years. However, the work ethic gained in a college program like this can be really handy when it is time to switch to working a job.



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VMware announcements on day two of VMworld

VMware quickly moved to announce products based upon its view of the industry moving into the “Post PC era.”

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Here is a quick summary of VMware’s announcements on day two of its VMworld.

Today at VMworld 2011, VMware unveiled new products and cloud-based services that help organizations break free from device-centric legacy desktop models and accelerate their journey to a new way to work in the post-PC era:

VMware View™ 5: Simplifying the Delivery of a Better Desktop – Available in the coming weeks, VMware View 5 will simplify IT manageability and control, while providing a high fidelity desktop virtualization experience. View 5 will deliver protocol enhancements that provide as much as 75 percent bandwidth improvement over LAN and WAN connections, advanced support of 3D graphics, scalable unified communications integration for voice and video media services with industry leaders, including Avaya and Mitel, and virtual desktop personalization with integrated persona management.
VMware Horizon: Building the Platform for the Post-PC Era – New updates to VMware Horizon extend the benefits of its identity, policy and entitlement engine to virtualized Windows applications and connected mobile workspaces – providing an open, user-centric platform for delivery of different application types within a unified application catalog from a wide range of devices.
VMware Horizon Application Manager™ – Leveraging the application virtualization capabilities of VMware ThinApp®, VMware Horizon Application Manager will now offer a centralized console to manage access, deployment and updates to virtual Windows applications independent from device type and the underlying operating system. These new capabilities will be available in beta by the end of the year. Horizon’s unified application catalog service promises to benefit both IT and end-users by collapsing separate identity silos into a single enterprise identity for secure employee access across private and public clouds.
VMware Horizon Mobile™ – Based on the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) technology previewed earlier this year at Mobile World Congress, VMware Horizon Mobile will offer new features that enable an enterprise to establish and securely manage an employee’s connected mobile workspace in isolation from their personal mobile environment. As a result, employees will gain the freedom to choose a single Android device for both personal and work use.
Projects AppBlast™ and Octopus: Delivering Universal Cloud Access At VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, VMware will preview two new end-user computing technologies – code named Projects AppBlast and Octopus – that advance the company’s vision for enabling universal application and data delivery for the post-PC era. Project AppBlast will provide the universal delivery of any application, including Windows-based applications, to any device supporting HTML5, enabling instant remote access to applications without the heavy footprint of the underlying operating system. Project Octopus will leverage data sync technology from VMware Zimbra™ and Mozy™ to enable enterprise-grade collaboration and information/data sharing. Additionally, Project Octopus will offer easyintegration with VMware Horizon, VMware View and Project AppBlast to create a secure enterprise cloud service. These two projects promise to dramaticallysimplify the access and sharing of information across people and mobile devices, contributing to the Connected Enterprise.

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Mozilla ponders demise of Firefox for Apple's Leopard

Mozilla is mulling the end of Firefox support for Mac owners running Leopard, the Apple operating system released four years ago, developer discussions show.

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In a message Wednesday to a planning thread, Mozilla engineering manager Josh Aas proposed that the company pull the plug on Mac OS X 10.5 in six months.

"Maintaining Mac OS X 10.5 support consumes a non-trivial portion of the resources we have available for Mac OS X development," Aas said. "Not maintaining Mac OS X 10.5 support will allow us to devote more resources to the product as used by the majority of our Mac OS X users, those on Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7."

Citing Mozilla's own data, Aas said that 24% of active Mac Firefox users currently run the browser on machines powered by Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard. By June 2012, when Aas suggested support stop, Leopard users should comprise only about 13% of Mac Firefox users.


Aas also noted that Apple itself has halted support for Leopard; it released the last security update for the 2007 operating system last June, several weeks before the launch of Mac OS X 10.7, better known as Lion.

The last time Apple updated its own Safari browser for Leopard was July 20, when it released Safari 5.0.6.

Apple typically stops issuing security updates for an older edition of Mac OS X when there are two successors available.

If Aas' plan is adopted, Firefox 13, now set to ship June 5, would be the last to support Leopard.

Although there were some dissenting voices in the discussion thread Aas kicked off, none objected to the eventual demise of Firefox support for Leopard, instead wondering when would be the best time to retire Mac OS X 10.5.

Some Leopard users have already been left behind by Mozilla. The open-source developer dropped support for PowerPC-equipped Macs earlier this year. Leopard is the newest Apple OS that runs on PowerPC, as opposed to Intel-based Macs.

Mozilla ditched Leopard's ancestor, Mac OS X 10.4, or Tiger, in early 2010 after the launch of Firefox 3.6.

Firefox fans have other options in the face of the looming retirement.

A group of developers calling themselves TenFourFox have created a browser built with Mozilla's code but fine-tuned for PowerPC Macs running Tiger or Leopard.

Camino, also built atop Mozilla's code, is another option: Camino runs on Tiger and later, and on both Intel and PowerPC Macs.

Both TenFourFox and Camino are free downloads.

RIM moves to higher mobile ground with BlackBerry Mobile Fusion: Is it too late?

The new plan for RIM revolves around focusing on what it does best for mobile device management software—asset management, configuration, security policies, group administration and centralized management.

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Research in Motion on Tuesday outlined plans to launch BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, enterprise software designed to manage a bevy of mobile devices including the iPhone and Android smartphones.

With RIM’s smartphone share taking its knocks, the company can’t afford to rely on selling a complete mobile stack—BlackBerry device, BlackBerry Enterprise Server and RIM management software—-any more. BlackBerry Mobile Fusion will be available in March 2012.

The new plan for RIM revolves around focusing on what it does best for mobile device management software—asset management, configuration, security policies, group administration and centralized management. The challenge for RIM here is obvious: There are multiple mobile device management software providers and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server doesn’t have the lock-in it once did.

RIM appears to be trying to thread the needle between the bring your own device movement and selling its BlackBerry stack of mobile hardware and software.

How will this turn out? Here are three scenarios:

Best case: RIM’s focus on security and enterprise management puts it at the top of the mobile stack. RIM brings its security and enterprise management knowhow to a bevy of devices. RIM’s enterprise foothold gives it a leg up.

Middle-of-the-road case: RIM’s BlackBerry Mobile Fusion effort is a bit late, but manages to keep the company relevant even as it fades on smartphones. Companies loyal to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server naturally gravitate to Mobile Fusion. Other CIOs, however, look to other mobile device management suites offered by Sybase, Good and a bevy of other players that include Microsoft and Google.

Worst case: BlackBerry Mobile Fusion is viewed as a Hail Mary pass that comes too late. Technology executives begin to wonder why they need RIM as a mobile device management middleman when employees aren’t bringing BlackBerry devices to work.

It’s unclear how this BlackBerry Mobile Fusion effort will pan out. All of the cases outlined above are likely to have an equal probability of actually happening.

RIM’s move does remind me of a Clayton Christensen talk about innovation. Christensen, a Harvard professor, outlines innovation conundrums through the years. The common theme in multiple examples is how companies cede the lower ground in a market to move upstream to higher margin products. If you follow profit margin religion, you’re likely to outsource and give up on tough markets. The higher ground always looks better. The issue is that companies eventually run out of headroom and nothing is left. See Smart Planet: Clay Christensen: 5 observations on innovation

It’s a bit of a stretch to argue that RIM is ceding the device market in a bid to move up the mobile stack, but the writing—beginning with Mobile Fusion—may be on the wall.

Better Windows support due on IBM mainframes

IBM mainframes will soon be able to manage Windows applications, bridging one of the last major divides in data centers.

IBM had already announced that it intended to deliver that capability with its zEnterprise 196 mainframe, but it recently said the Windows management function will be available on Dec. 16.

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There are many Windows-based applications, including ones made by IBM, inside most data centers; they typically interact with mainframes to access data. Historically, all Windows software has had to be managed separately.

But now, IBM has promised, the security and speed of mainframe environments that include Windows systems will be improved. It will be possible to connect systems on a private network, thus avoiding some network hops and enabling the use of integrated management tools.

Joe Clabby, an analyst at Clabby Analytics, said the new features should reduce the labor required to run mainframe environments that have multiple operating systems. Moreover, he added, "if you can manage this as a single architecture, it saves money."

Greg Lotko, business line executive in IBM's System z division, said the addition of Windows support "is really recognizing that the world is heterogeneous."

This version of this story was originally published in Computerworld's print edition. It was adapted from an article that appeared earlier on Computerworld.com.

Oracle: HP paying Intel to keep Itanium going

Hewlett-Packard has secretly contracted with Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that HP can maintain the appearance that "a dead microprocessor is still alive", and make money from its locked-in Itanium customer base and take business away from Oracle's Sun servers, Oracle said in a court filing on Friday.

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The market has never been told that Itanium lives on because HP is paying Intel to keep it going, Oracle said. Intel's independent business judgement would have killed off Itanium years ago, it added.

HP however described the filing as a "desperate delay tactic designed to extend the paralyzing uncertainty in the marketplace" that it said was created when Oracle announced in March, 2011, in a breach of contract, that "it would no longer support HP's Itanium platform".

HP has made statements to the marketplace to the effect that Intel's commitment to Itanium is its own, based on its normal calculations for investing in processors that it believes have a future, Oracle said in a filing before the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Santa Clara.

A public redacted version of the filing was made available to The Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD blog. Intel said it is not a party to the lawsuit, and therefore does not have any comment on it. "Intel does not comment on commercial agreements that we may or may not have with our customers," the chip giant said in an e-mailed statement.

Oracle also claimed that HP had kept secret from the market, but revealed in a filing two days previously, that HP and Intel have a contractual commitment that Itanium will continue through the next two generations of microprocessors.

HP's strategy behind its "false statements" about Intel's support for Itanium was to take away business from Oracle Sun, and "reap lucrative revenues from the locked-in Itanium customer base using HP's HP-UX operating system on Itanium servers", as the company gets few service contracts on operating systems like Linux that run on x86 processors, Oracle said.

Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems last year.

HP filed a suit in June over Oracle's decision to stop developing software for the Itanium processor, the chip used in HP's high-end servers, claiming that Oracle's decision violates "legally binding commitments" that it made to HP and the companies' 140,000 joint customers.

Oracle said at the time that HP tricked it into signing an agreement last September to continue its support for Itanium, even though HP knew of an Intel plan to discontinue Itanium. HP already knew all about Intel's plans to discontinue Itanium, and HP was concerned about what would happen when Oracle found out about that plan, Oracle said in a statement in June.

As Oracle well knows, HP and Intel have a contractual commitment to continue to sell mission-critical Itanium processors to customers through the next two generations of microprocessors, thus ensuring the availability of Itanium through at least the end of the decade, HP said in a statement.

"The fact remains that Oracle's decision to cut off support for Itanium was an illicit business strategy it conjured to try to force Itanium customers into buying Sun servers -- and destroy choice in the marketplace," HP said.

Firewalls fail to stem tide of DDoS attacks, survey finds

Companies still rely heavily on firewalls to defend themselves against denial-of-service attacks despite the fact that this class of device is often not up to the task, a new survey by F5 Networks has found.

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The survey of 1,000 medium and large organisations in 10 countries found that up to 45 percent of respondents experience such attacks on a regular basis, a mixture of application and network-layer incursions.

About half rated denial of service attacks as highly effective with 79 percent saying they still relied on firewalls to deflect them despite 42 percent finding that such devices were ineffective against conventional attacks at the network layer.

The research also found that nearly half had detected attempts to access encrypted data on networks, with 44 percent noticing attacks against DNS servers, one of the most difficult-to-defend assets.

"Whilst many organisations can view insider threats as the most difficult to defend against, the research clearly demonstrates that external threats remain a potent force, and companies need to be aware of the most effective ways to safeguard themselves," said F5's technical director, Gary Newel.

Attacks on DNS servers were a clear worry, rated as being in the top three hard to repel attacks by a third of those asked.

"IT managers are between a rock and a hard place as attacks become more sophisticated and the cost of a breach continues to rise," said Newel.

The anxiety over DDoS attacks is far from new although exactly how to defend against it, not surprisingly, divides vendors.

Some see the best solution as being better routing infrastructure because routers are the first to handle DDoS packets as they move into a network. F5 is out to push its Big-IP Application Delivery Controllers which act in effect as load-balancing application firewalls. Another option is to use multiple layers and bundle the hardware level as a service.

During the recent launch of the Technology Operations Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, organisers touted an array of security measures to counter the menace of a large DDoS disrupting content distribution from the global event.

BlackBerry finds safe haven in UK, despite a fall in sales

While BlackBerry sales continues to suffer across the U.S and Canada, the smartphone has found safe haven in the UK, of all places.

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BlackBerrys, despite their once popular status across the U.S., Canada and Europe, have found a safe haven in exile in the United Kingdom, of all places.

It has been only a month since the BlackBerry global outage, which spread across four days and affected over half its worldwide user base, an estimated 50 million users. The press alone ripped a hole in Research in Motion’s communications strategy, which left BlackBerry users in some cases more frustrated than the outage itself.

But despite the odds, BlackBerrys retained high status and stormed ahead of both Nokia and Apple in the UK market, despite shipments declining 2 percent, as Apple’s iPhone fell by just over a quarter.

On a bright side, Samsung jumped 178 percent to 1.1 million shipments, and HTC grew by nearly half to 800,000 shipments.

While Nokia’s sales slumped the most by 87 percent to a meagre 130,000 shipments, Sony Ericsson fell 32 percent to just 300,000 shipments, after it was announced last month that Sony would buy out Ericsson’s share to take the venture into its wholly-owned arms.

Nokia hopes that, as many consider the company’s Symbian mobile operating system of choice is outdated or “perceived as dead”, Canalys senior analyst Tim Shepherd said, the Finnish phone giant is hoping to regroup with its Microsoft partnership as it rolls out Windows powered phones.

One of the reasons for Apple’s loss could be the lacking availability of the new iPhone 4S smartphone, with mobile phone contract renewal or upgrade dates falling at an inconvenient time. It is thought however that the Christmas holiday period will boost smartphone sales.

Plus, as many had hoped that the next-generation iPhone 5 would be out in September, many are still holding out for the model next year, skipping the iPhone 4S altogether.

Statistics from analytics firm Canalys show smartphone shipments declined by 7 percent to 5.3 million, with a mediocre performance across the major manufacturers.

Research in Motions’ marketshare has fallen below 10 percent, according to Shepherd, noting its 58 percent year-over-year drop in North America.

But in areas of high wealth, the United Arab Emirates for example showed a massive strong quarter of growth, up 181 percent to 1.4 million units shipped in the region.

But the outage alone did not deter loyal followers of the BlackBerry brand. The popular BlackBerry Messenger service was still a unique selling point for particularly the younger generation across Europe, though now rivalled by Apple’s iMessage service, which offers vastly the same function amongst iPhone and iOS 5 users.