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Businesses

Submission + - IBM to Set Up New IT Solution Centers in India and

Shushmul Maheshwari writes: "IBM — the largest computer services company in world — plans to launch two new IT solution centers in China and India, underscoring the growing importance of Asian countries as an outsourcing hub.

Each of these centers will employ about 500 developers, whose main focus will be to create service-oriented architecture (SOA) for consumers across the globe (including those in the US). SOA's feature standard based software components allow easy connectivity and reusability of various business applications & services. IBM expects that SOA based services will reach US$ 160 Billion by the year 2008. However, the company hasn't declared how much investment it's making in these two facilities.

The proclamation marks the most recent steps in IBM's plans for centralizing software development activities in economical regions stuffed with talent. The company's operations in China are comparatively smaller than in India. IBM service staff in China, currently, comprises 7,000 employees and above 40,000 employees in India. However, the company sees good growth in China.

This further exhibits the commitment of the company to Asian market where it's expanding its operations at full tilt. The new centers will likely be set up in Beijing (China) and Pune (India).

As per a Research Analyst's view at RNCOS, who has recently researched a report on "Opportunities in Chinese Software Industry (2007)", the accelerated growth of the software in Indian and Chinese markets leads the US firms to put their money in Asian software Industry. Thereby, creating further investment demand in software in China.

The research report on China Software Industry also addresses the issues and facts that are critical to your success, such as:

- Pinpoint sectors of growth and identify the driving factors.
- The situation of China in Software outsourcing.
- The software export levels in China.
- The piracy rate in last few years.
- Trends in market performance.
- Government policies for software industry.
- Future opportunities for Chinese software industry.
- Identify market, brand leaders, and understand the competitive environment.
- Key challenges and strategies in this sector.

About RNCOS:

RNCOS, incorporated in 2002, provides Market Research Reports for your business needs and aims to put an end to your information pursuit. Our expertise in gathering global business information for industry research, corporate training, growth consulting, and business consulting, brings reputed companies and firms to us for business enhancement solutions. We can be your one-stop-shop for Industry research information and niche market analysis.

For more information visit: http://www.rncos.com/Report/IM087.htm
Current Industry News: http://www.rncos.com/blog"
XBox (Games)

Submission + - 2 Free Gears of War Maps on 1/10/2006

jayintune writes: "Microsoft has announced that Epic will kick out 2 new free maps for download this week on Wednesday January 10th. The new content will consist of the maps, Raven Down and Old Bones, as well as a short video hosted by Cliff B. The map pack is sponsored by the Discovery Channel (huh?) and which will also be giving away two million Microsoft points as part of the promo. Points will be given out in 400 points increments via www.readyaimfire.com from January 13th-15th."
Portables

Submission + - Seamless UMPC nearly a dream machine

An anonymous reader writes: Ultimate portability and easily replaced or charged batteries is what ultra portable computer users are after, which is why the Seamless NeXt Generation ultra mobile PC — S-XGen for short — at first seems like the ideal ultra portable computer, according to TECH.BLORGE.com. It has a fold-out qwerty keyboard, a 4-inch LCD screen and seems quite the article. Sadly, TECH.BLORGE.com thinks it will not make it in the market place. It will be a footnote in computer history because there is competition coming which will see it off.
Microsoft

Submission + - CES 07: Gates' vision - content, community, games

An anonymous reader writes: It's hard to be a visionary these days, but Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, certainly have gave it his best shot while speaking at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, according to TECH.BLORGE.com. He and Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach showed off Microsoft's latest products, which they said are "inspired by the universal desire to create community and share interests and passions with friends and family".
Businesses

Submission + - Microsoft Announces Collaboration With Ford Motors

mbstone writes: "Bill Gates has announced Microsoft Auto, voice-activated software to allow drivers to control cell phones and media players. Sync, the first major commercial introduction of the Microsoft Auto software, offers hands-free phone dialing and can read incoming text messages through the car's audio system. Similar software is already available in German and Japanese autos. "Hi! It looks like you're trying to change lanes right now...."
Security

Submission + - Article: Writing Software Security Test Cases

CGISecurity.com writes: "QASec.com has just released an article titled Writing Software Security Test Cases: Putting security test cases into your test plan. "Unlike typical penetration testing QA has access to internal documents and insider information giving them advantages to aide in the testing of an application. In addition to documenting customer use cases it's important to begin the process of documenting what an attacker may attempt against your application as well and incorporating these attacker 'use cases' into a security section of your standard test plan.""
Google

Journal Journal: Google's Anti-Spyware Project, now default?

Google's Anti-Spyware Project was reported here about one year ago.
It seems that it's now used by default by the Google search engine, it redirects you to a warning page when you try to visit a "bad" site.
That may be good for some people on request...
It seems to be based on a very bad database look for example at
Media

Submission + - Blu-Ray + HD-DVD: The End is Near?

Nrbelex writes: According to the New York Times, 'Warner Brothers, which helped popularize the DVD more than a decade ago, plans to announce next week a single videodisc that can play films and television programs in both Blu-ray and HD-DVD , the rival DVD technologies. Warner Brothers, a division of Time Warner, plans to formally announce the new disc, which it is calling a Total HD disc, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday.' Will this finally be the end of a very complicated format war?
United States

Submission + - ExxonMobil paid to mislead public

An anonymous reader writes: Taken from USA Today:

WASHINGTON (AP) — ExxonMobil (XOM) gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in an effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted Wednesday.

The report by the advocacy group mirrors similar claims by Britain's leading scientific academy. Last September, The Royal Society wrote the oil company asking it to halt support for groups that "misrepresented the science of climate change."

The whole story:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/20 07-01-03-global-warming_x.htm
Digital

Submission + - New Disc to play HD-DVD and Blu-ray

srizah writes: "Warner Brothers plans to announce next week a new videodisc, called a Total HD Disc, that can play both HD-DVD and Blu-ray. The announcement is expected to come at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this Tuesday. An excerpt from a New York Times article here "Barry M. Meyer, the chairman and chief executive of Warner Brothers, said in an interview that the company came up with the Total HD disc after concluding that neither Blu-ray nor HD-DVD was going the way of Betamax anytime soon. "The next best thing is to recognize that there will be two formats and to make that not a negative for the consumer," Mr. Meyer said. "We felt that the most significant constituency for us to satisfy was the consumer first, and the retailer second. The retailer wants to sell hardware and doesn't want to be forced into stocking two formats for everything. This is ideal for them."" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/technology/04vid eo.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin"
Power

Submission + - Wal-Mart wants to install Solar Power.

RipTides9x writes: " last month Wal-Mart put out a RFP (request for proposal) to Solar Electric Suppliers and expects to receive responses early this month, according to a representative. The move is part of a long-term plan to convert to renewable energy sources. Wal-Mart has already set up two experimental stores, one in McKinney, Texas, the other in Aurora, Colo. These stores are already using renewable power sources, including solar and wind. Makower said the Wal-Mart proposal called for a system that could be replicated across its stores in five states and make use of available roofing space.... Wal-Mart!"
United States

Submission + - U.S. Bars Lab from Testing Electronic Voting

joshdick writes: "A laboratory that has tested most of the nation's electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests. The federal Election Assistance Commission made this decision last summer, but the problem was not disclosed then. In a shock to no one here on Slashdot, experts say the deficiencies of the laboratory suggest that crucial features like the vote-counting software and security against hacking may not have been thoroughly tested on many machines now in use."
Google

Journal Journal: Google's crappy domain registration

I decided to give a friend of mine a domain name for Xmas. Instead of using my normal server provider (pair.net), I decided to try out Google. What a mistake.

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