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March
February
January
November
Meet the Code For Freedom Contest participants
Amit Kumar Saha is a participant in the recently announced Code For Freedom Contest.
August
Meet the 2007 JavaJive Champions
A team of three students from the Diploma in Mobile and Wireless Computing jived their way to clinch the TOP position at the JavaJive Challenge Sun Developer Day on 18 July 2007.
July
June
Second Life to see new sites in Asia
Popular virtual world Second Life will soon be closer to users in Asia, as its creator Linden Lab looks to host new servers in foreign markets, says the company's IT head S'pore businesses benefit from e-govt success
Industry business leaders in the island-state have given the thumbs-up to Singapore's move to further develop its IT infrastructure and capabilities.
May
Scott McNealy's visit to India
Scott's globe trotting continued as he traveled to Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore to promote Sun's open source strategy with government leaders and CEOs in India, all in the name of economic progress and eliminating the digital divide. Innovations and Beyond at the Sun Technology Summit, 18th May 2007, Bangalore, India
Get ready to meet the legend - Chairman and Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy - an innovator and leader in the IT industry. Scott's valuable insights and vision will inspire you and help you shape your ideas and break into tomorrow's breakthrough technologies.
April
Are Asian enterprises ready to mobile blog?
Consumers may buck the fledging trend in mobile blogging, but Asia's enterprises will only be ready to follow suit when converged mobile devices are more affordable and blog sites more accessible. Indonesian schools get connected
Indonesia's education ministry says it is on schedule to ensure students and schools across the vast country are plugged into the digital information economy.
February
Thailand gets taste of 2.5G mobile TV Thai mobile operator AIS is launching a new mobile TV service that uses 2.5G
technology to deliver content to a subscriber's mobile phone. Source: zdnetasia.com
Sun-Intel Alliance Learn more about this landmark alliance
January
Bollywood movies go mobile Roamware and Hungama Mobile have joined GSM Association (GSMA) to announce the launch of a 'Mobile Bollywood Initiative' to create short movies tailored for mobile devices. Source: ciol.com
Indian IT market on upward spiral IDC India predicts IT spending worth Rs 75,891 crore in 2007. Source: ciol.com
And now an animation policy Andhra Pradesh principal IT secretary moots animation policy before setting up the Animation Academy in Hyderabad. Source: ciol.com
IDC: WiMax to take off this year WiMax will start to take off this year, along with Web 2.0 and public Wi-Fi, according to IDC's list of top ten predictions in the Asia-Pacific telecoms industry. Source: zdnetasia.com
GameQ crosses 500 mark GameQ, the game testing division of RelQ Software, announced the milestone of successfully completing testing of 500 different game titles at their Bangalore
Game Testing Lab. Recently, GameQ was approved for the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii consoles Source: zdnetasia.com
December
Sun Microsystems Launches The Big Mashup Sun Microsystems, Inc, the creator of the open source Solaris Operating System(Solaris OS), today announced the launch of The Big Mashup (at
www.sun.com/thebigmashup), a unique online experience examining how the world of entertainment and news gathering is rapidly changing as the network blurs the
line between audience and entertainer, viewer and newscaster, fan and producer
Sun Announces Revolutionary Version of Java Technology ... Java Platform Standard Edition 6 Sun Microsystems recently announced the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). The Java SE 6 release is the result of over two years of
industry-wide development involving open review, weekly builds and extensive collaboration between Sun engineers and over 330 external developers.
November
'No such thing as an IT problem' When it comes to the adoption of technology and IT security, Disneyland takes a strictly pragmatic approach. Source: zdnetasia.com
Free Your Mind How a Small, Persistent Team Created a Revolutionary File System
Netizens drive Web 2.0 Web 2.0, a phrase coined by Tim O'Reilly two years ago has become the buzzword in 2006. Call it the second generation Internet or the web in a new avatar, the Web 2.0 has caught up with social networking. Source: ciol.com
RFID heralds the 'Internet of things' We will soon be in the middle of a blizzard of tiny computers embedded into everyday items and constantly talking to each other. Source: zdnetindia.com
Moving to the forefront of IT For the Hong Kong Immigration Department, technology has not only helped garner over 1,000 letters of appreciation from the country's population of 6.9 million,
it has also transformed the department's IT team into "supermen and superwomen" able to work faster, more effectively and efficiently to better serve the public. Source: zdnetindia.com
Computer, Heal Yourself How a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems turned buzz into reality
IT service management gains momentum Tay Kheng Tiong, the newly-appointed head of the Singapore chapter of the itSMF, an independent non-profit organization,
said that the mature markets in the adoption of ITSM best practices and standards, such as Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, will spur
its uptake in the region. The itSMF has over 30 chapters worldwide and promotes best practices through IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Source: zdnetasia.com
Asia's financial players to spend US$42M on security Smaller players in the Asia-Pacific banking and financial services sector will increase their IT security budget by 40 percent this year, according to a new study. Source: zdnetasia.com
October
Two Years of Free Wi-Fi for Singapore Come 2007, Singaporeans will be ushering the new year with at least 24 months, or two years, of free (basic tier) wireless connectivity at up
to 512 kbps speeds almost everywhere - thanks to IDA's 'Wireless@SG' programme. Source - www.ida.gov.sg
Asia-Pacific to top 1B mobile subscribers The Asia-Pacific region looks set to surpass the 1 billion mobile subscription barrier by the end of October, a new report has predicted. Source - zdnetasia.com
Infosys plans expansion in Thiruvananthapuram An integrated township called Technocity is on the cards in Thiruvananthapuram. Source - ciol.com
Bangalore meet to focus on embedded technology For the first time in the Indian subcontinent, strategic planners from the IT, telecom and consumer electronics industries are meeting in
India's silicon hub to deliberate on the increasing role of embedded systems in telecom and other verticals. Source - zdnetindia.com
Indian mobile users will cross 300 mn mark With the arrival of third generation telephony and more penetration into rural areas, Indian mobile phone users are going to cross the 300 million mark by 2011 against the current 125 million, say industry leaders. Source - zdnetindia.com
Sun, Laszlo and Project Orbit... In a recent tie up, between Sun Microsystems and Laszlo Systems, OpenLaszlo applications can run on devices supporting the Java Micro Edition (Java ME) platform. Source - ciol.com
Open standards 'essential to Europe's IT future' A high ranking French government official has called for open standards for software to be adopted by all European countries*. Source - zdnetindia.com
VoIP becomes a mainstream technology Service providers and carriers promise huge growth opportunities for vendors in the world VoIP monitoring solutions markets. Source - ciol.com
BtoB magazine.s annual look at some of the best websites features sun.com Each year, /BtoB/ provides a behind-the-scenes look at 10 b-to-b Web sites that excel at communicating with customers and prospects. Source - btobonline.com
India expects to launch 3G mobile telephone services in the second
half of 2007. Source - zdnetasia.com
Sun bets on managed services Managed services ensure that IT really does what it is supposed to do -- giving an edge to the business rather than becoming a
problem. Source - ciol.com
APAC WAN services market to witness steady growth
China and India are leading the way in the growth of WAN services in the region, says a Frost & Sullivan analysis study. Source - ciol.com
September
S'pore: Asian patent filings on the rise
Source - zdnetasia.com Web 2.0 industry and Ajax Community boosted by OpenAjax Alliance
Source - ciol.com Could mobiles revolutionize banking sector?
Mobile banking, considered to be the next evolution in the banking space, looks all set to revolutionize the banking sector. Source: moneycontrol.com Internet users reach 38 million
Joint research conducted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International says youth and small towns lead the way in increasing Internet penetration. Source - ciol.com Record Number Of National Infocomm Scholarships This Year
A total of 36 university, polytechnic and "A" level students (Please see Annex A for profiles.) received the much sought after National Infocomm Scholarships (NIS) today. This is almost double the number of 20 awarded in 2005. You can download movies at Amazon.com now
Amazon.com has unveiled a widely anticipated Internet service offering movies and TV shows that can be downloaded to personal computers, solidly moving the online retailer into the nascent market. The service, called Amazon Unbox, will offer content from six major Hollywood studios. Source - ciol.com Sun Microsystems announces education initiative in Bangladesh with Jobs-Iris Bangladesh
Sun Academic Initiative (SAI) programme enhances Bangladesh students' marketability skills and core competency in Sun technologies. Sun Microsystems holds first ever sun developer days conference 2006 in Sri Lanka
Developers in Sri Lanka converge with well-renowned Sun technologists to share expertise and improve skill sets. Google offers free downloads of classics
Google is expanding access to books that are out of copyright and have become public domain material. Readers can find new, and free, downloadable versions of some of the classic books on Google Book Search. Source - ciol.com Singapore clinics get a dose of IT
The Singapore government has unveiled a new program aimed at helping general practitioners (GPs) in the island-state manage patient records and related information via a common IT system. Source - zdnetindia.com Wikipedia for more Indian languages on its website
More and more Indians can contribute to the volunteer edited Wikipedia encyclopedia project, now rated among the top 20 websites globally Source - zdnetindia.com Sun Tech Days 2006-07
Sun Microsystems Expands 2006-2007 Sun Tech Days Schedule to 13 Locations Building Mashup Portlets
Find out how to build a sample Mashup Portlet by merging geospatial data with an Ajax-based mapping service and deploy to Sun Java System Portal Server 7 ZMQ launches four mobile games on HIV/AIDS awareness
New Delhi based gaming and e-Learning company ZMQ Software Systems has used an innovative method to spread HIV/AIDS awareness and educate people about AIDS epidemic, using mobile devices. Infovision2006 to be held in Bangalore
To help accelerate India's march towards becoming global knowledge super power by 2020, the CII is hosting Infovision, an annual global summit in India for Knowledge Industry and Knowledge Society for the second consecutive year next month. Source: ciol.com eGovWorld portal to be launched soon
The first site of reference on e-government in India, .eGovWorld. will be launched within a month. Bangalore to host gaming fest
ABAI, the Association of Bangalore Animation Industry today announced that the First Annual Event on Animations and Gaming ABAI Fest 2006 will be held on Sept 3, 2006 at J.N.Tata Auditorium, located in the IISC Campus, Bangalore.
August
Learn more about Ajax by Chuk Munn Lee
With the whole industry moving towards the next wave of web applications, Asynchronous JavaScript with XML (Ajax) is emerging as a hot technology and represents a fundamental shift in what's possible on the Web. Opening Up: Laurie Tolson on Open Source Strategy for the Java Platform
Curious about Sun's intention to open source its implementations of the Java platform? We sat down with Laurie Tolson, VP of Developer Products and Programs, to find out more. Securing Web Apps on Tomcat with SSL
Web applications can be made secure to ensure confidentiality and data integrity by running sensitive network traffic on HTTPS. Source: PC Quest. Reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid
Rural India has more than 60 per cent of the disposable income, and thanks to the Internet, the rural Indian can now buy what his urban counterpart is buying. The Internet has become a great leveler, providing almost a level playing field to people in both rural and urban areas. Those in rural areas today have access to the latest products available in the market.It is not just the urbanites who now shop over the Net. The growth of Internet penetration in the top eight metros, second and three-tier towns have lead to broad based participation of people in e-commerce across India. Source - ciol.com Ajax brings Web 2.0 to Web Services: EDC
An EDC survey report says the developers are already working with Ajax or plan to do so in the coming year. Source - ciol.com Call for Asia to adopt ODF
An official from the United Nations (U.N.) has called for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to embrace the OpenDocument format. Sunil Abraham, manager of the International Open Source Network (IOSN) at the U.N., told ZDNet Asia that most governments in the region have already stated their support for open standards, through their respective government interoperability frameworks. Source - zdnetasia.com Smart cards make contact in Indonesia
The electronic payment space in Indonesia is expected to hot up in 2007, as financial institutions migrate from magnetic-striped cards to those with smart chips embedded in them. Ellyana Fuad, country manager for Indonesia at Visa International, told ZDNet Asia via e-mail that the electronic payment solutions provider is on track with its plan to speed up EMV (Europay-Mastercard-Visa) chip migration next year. Source - zdnetasia.com Study: Grid adoption growing fastest in AP
The number of organizations that have, or are planning to adopt grid computing is growing faster in the Asia-Pacific region than the rest of the world, according to a new report. Source - zdnetasia.com CommunicAsia goes to Vietnam
The organizer of CommunicAsia is now hoping to take a bite out of Vietnam's booming telecoms pie. Source - zdnetasia.com Tata Sky launches satellite television service
Tata Sky Ltd, an 80:20 JV between TATA and STAR, today announced the launch of Tata Sky satellite television service across 300 cities in India. Source - ciol.com Sample Ajax Components
Ajax components are available bundled in the Sun Java Studio Creator software or from the Ajax BluePrints Resource Center. Try out the Ajax component catalog now.
Wireless Bangalore Bangalore could be the first city in India to go totally wireless soon. The state government, which had announced this initiative months ago, expects it to happen in the next one year. Source - www.ciol.com
Future of the environment is in the smart cards A technological advancement in smart cards--which resemble credit cards, but contain an embedded microprocessor--could someday let people keep track of their ecological behavior. Source - www.zdnet.com
Next-Gen technologies drive consumer telecom market As Internet Protocol (IP) technology becomes more pervasive in the telecommunications industry, next-generation services is increasingly driving growth in the consumer market. Source - www.zdnet.com
July
Paris aims for Wi-Fi Internet across city Paris wants blanket wireless Internet cover by the end of 2007, helping to make it the most connected capital city in the world. Source - www.ciol.com
Philippines celebrates JEDI's first anniversary JEDI (Java Education and Development Initiative) is a project initiated by Sun Microsystems, Inc. through the University of Philippines Java Research and Development Center and in partnership with the Philippine Society of IT Educators and various groups from the industry sector.
June
Sun celebrated successful one-year anniversary of OpenSolaris Sun developers, system administrators and customers embrace thriving open source business model and deliver innovative new contributions to Solaris 10 through the OpenSolaris community.
Sun Joins the OpenAjax Alliance and Dojo Foundation Plans to help drive the next phase of Internet application development Using the Ajax model.
It takes two to 'TANGO' Project Tango is Sun's new project under which its engineers are working in close coordination with their counterparts
at MS to develop interoperable WSIT components. Source - www.ciol.com
Sun Microsystems, NIIT offer specialized education courses Sun Microsystems India and NIIT recently launched an initiative to expand the technology horizons of India's large student
population by introducing specialized education and training programmes on Sun technologies. Through this alliance, NIIT will
have access to the latest Sun technologies, tools, technical resources and curricula on the Java and Solaris platforms. Source - www.moneycontrol.com
Java innovations A look into Java innovations that can improve and change the world were showcased at JavaOne 2006. Source - www.ciol.com
And now, mind-reading computers The computer will be able to read an individual's thoughts by analyzing a combination of facial movements. Source - www.ciol.com
Thinking mobility? Then think tactical Too few companies are taking advantage of the benefits of mobility, but those that do find that thinking small at the start is
the best bet, says Gartner. Source - zdnetindia.com
Religion scores at Reliance Mobile Application Contest At the recently held Reliance Developer Programme Mobile Application Contest 2005, religion based applications won in both the categories of
the contest. Source - www.ciol.com
TCS to invest $109 m in new Pune facility Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, India's top software services exporter, plans to invest 5 billion rupees ($109 million) in a new
software development centre in Pune. Source - www.ciol.com
May
Animation industry seeks government aid According to NASSCOM's Animation report, the size of the Indian animation market (from the developers' perspective) is expected to witness a CAGR of 35 per cent from 2005-2009 and increase to $950 million by 2009. The report also states that currently there are only 3,000 skilled personnel against a demand for 10,000. Lack of skilled personnel and specialized training institutes could be a major factor hampering the growth of the domestic animation industry. With animation companies chipping in to the best of their ability to increase the skill base, the government also has to play its part as an enabler. Source - www.moneycontrol.com
Hindi movies will soon be available as games Indian companies like Suresh Productions, Fx Labs and Spirit have joined hands to produce the game versions of Indian hit films like 'Sholay'. These three firms are already into the gaming business and their products "Inferno" and "Archies Riverdale Run" are scheduled for release in early 2007. According to them Indian films have great potential of being converted into games and for the first time, this market is going to be tapped. Source - www.moneycontrol.com
March
Object Persistence with Hibernate Hibernate, an open-source high-performance ORM (Object Relational Mapping) framework, allows you to persist Java classes to any database.
Source- PC Quest
February
Web start your Java Apps Java Web Start, a deployment and launch technology, can be used to deploy standalone Java applications with a single click over the network
JWS technology is designed exclusively to launch applications written for the Java SE (Java platform Standard Edition). JWS is browser and platform-independent.
Source- PC Quest
January
Java EE Apps Development with Spring Spring enables POJO-based programming model, allowing developers to concentrate more on business logic, thus, reducing EJB complexities.
Source- PC Quest
November
Smart Logging with Log4j Logging is a crucial aspect of any development cycle. With Log4j, you can debug and monitor your Java web apps with simplicity and flexibility.
Source- PC Quest
April
In Depth - Wild Wild Wireless Wireless technologies are being developed to keep you connected wherever you are. Indeed, so much has happened in the wireless world till date, and so much more is going to happen that very soon you might be living in a world that's completely free of wires-no strings attached (literally!).
Source- PC Quest
February
Java Native Interface Java Native Interface allows the use of function libraries made in languages such as C, C++, VB from Java applications. The advantage of JNI is that you don't need to write the calling function definition in Java. This ability resides in the native language. Java code can also be invoked from C or C++ but you need to load the Java Virtual Machine in C or C++ program.
Source- PC Quest
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