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FACULTY 

Top L-R: Richard Joseph, Sunantha Krishnan, Mahalakshmi Sridhar, 

Vrushali Mudhliyar, Anagha Shashtri,Trupti Ghosalkar, 

Janhavi Baikerikar, Tayyabali Sayyad. 

Bottom L-R: Shiv Negi,Nilesh Ghavate,Dr. N.G.Joag,Satishkumar Chavan,Diana Sequeira. 

S.E IT 

2 - Tech-IT Newsletter v2.0 

EDITORIAL: Newsletter Reborn!! 

Warm greetings to all our lovely readers. 

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The magnitude of pride we feel to present the Information Technology Department’s Newsletter 

called Tech IT v2.0, cannot be expressed merely in words. This version of the newsletter by far 

shows what IT students of Don Bosco Institute of Technology are really made of! It showcases 

the technical knowledge of the students along with the various extraordinary achievements 

during the academic year. 

As students of IT, apart from syllabus related content, we must also be technically sound. 

Keeping this point in mind, we have tried our level best to include articles on varied topics in 

the field of Information Technology, which would appeal to people of age 12 and above! 

We are proud to present to you, the “First Ever Online Version” (visit http://www.dbit.in) of 

the Newsletter! 

Our sincere thanks to the faculty who were very helpful. The support we received from Mr. 

Tayyabali Sayyad and Mr. Nilesh Ghavate is worth a mention. We are humbled by the support 

we got from Ms. Janhavi Baikerikar, Teacher In-charge and Mr. Satishkumar Chavan, H.O.D 

(Information Technology), who constantly gave us their feedback and that helped us make 

amendments. 

As it is famously said “It is only human to make mistakes!”, we are no exception to this 

phenomenon. 

With a request for suggestions and inputs for the improved of this newsletter, we pen our 

thoughts. Hope this version benefits your intellect and hope you like it. We promise you better 

releases here after. 

Regards, 

Sujit Ajitkumar (T.E IT) & Denzil Sequeira (T.E IT) 

The Editorial Team. 

Don Bosco Institute Of Technology- 3

Message from The Director’s Desk, 

Message from the HOD, 


My dear staff and Students of IT department, 

A very happy feast of Don Bosco to you all. May he guide and protect you. 

God bless you all. 

Fr. Adolph Furtado sdb 

Director 

DBIT. 

Fr. Adolph Furtado sdb 

Director 

Congratulations for yet another edition of the department newsletter. 

The content of your letter is interesting. You have taken lot of trouble over 

this edition of the letter. We are proud of you. Keep up the good work. 

For every day, in every way, you are striving to educate yourself, and 

empower your peers. As you grow up, we wish that you adopt a sense of 

curiosity and get adept in a role of responsibility. We wait to see you go out 

into the world with merit, zeal, and creativity. And, we hope that passion 

outdoes performance, and that originality outweighs outcome - in all areas 

of your lives. 

I take a great pleasure to launch second version of our Departmental New Letter for odd semester 2011-12. It has very 

good blend of web and print version. The most popular and developing technologies along with departmental activities 

are emphasized in this version. 

Our aim is to have a class of IT professionals at Don Bosco Institute of Technology with practical knowledge of 

current trends and practices followed in the IT industries. Our students also work for socially disadvantaged people by 

integrating technology into social activities. We have with us the best Teaching Staff who acquire knowledge of the 

recent affairs in Technology and impart it to our students. Department of Information Technology was started in 2001 

and has made a great progress steadily keeping pace with the fast development in IT industries in the decade time. 

Faculty members are providing required mentoring and guidance to nurture the overall development of our students and 

tap right potential of the individual. 

The student chapter Computer Society of India (CSI) is most active student group in the institute. The CSI chapter 

organizes seminars, workshops, coding competition etc. in trends of training juniors by seniors. They are working on 

various projects. Also, our third year students along with faculty are working on different projects in collaboration with 

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. They are using Open Source Software for their projects. 

Now in today’s world, Information Technology is under pressure of economic 

crisis all over the globe. But still, the skilled, knowledgeable and bright 

professionals are most preferred human resource in the industries. We at 

Department of Information Technology are cultivating the best IT engineers 

who have social outreach. 

Mr. Satishkumar Chavan 

H.O.D (Information Technology) 

From the Principal, 

Dr. N.G. Joag, 

Principal 

Four apples have changed the world. The one started 

from the kindergarten, the one offered to Adam, the 

one that fell on Newton and one of the Steve Jobs. 

Jobs built a company where leaps of the imagination 

were combined with engineering. He was a creative 

entrepreneur and had passion for perfection. He revolutionized 

six industries: personal computers, animated 

movies, music, phones, tablet computing and digital 

publishing. Jobs stands as the ultimate iCon of inventiveness 

and applied imagination. Under his able guidance 

Apple introduced such revolutionary products as the 

Macbook Air, iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPad and iPhone, all of 

which have dictated the evolution of modern technology. 

His Genius is enviable. He’s the one who succeeded 

at a young age, paid a price for his arrogance and then 

came back a lot smarter and more capable than before. 

Steve Jobs had a riveting story of the roller-coaster life. 

Jobs had spectacular successes and humiliating failures. 

One of those attributes was the ability to discard old 

thinking when it no longer worked, which was much 

harder than it might seem- especially if that thinking 

helped make one fabulously successful in the past. He 

accepted the failure, learnt from it, instead of blaming 

other people or making excuses for what went wrong. 

Characteristics such as those are the building blocks of 

resilience, which allowed him to overcome setbacks, 

became smarter and reached new level of success. 

We all have up and down time in our life. However, 

good leaders can take the knocks and bounce back for 

more. Most important is to have the courage to follow 

your heart and intuition. But don’t lose faith. The only 

thing that keeps you going is to love what you do. 

Steve Jobs is one of the best examples of keeping a good 

faith and turning around to show the world how successful 

he is. Although Steve Jobs is not with us, his hard work, 

innovativeness will always inspire us for years to come. 

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We use to tell students: there are no jobs, however there 

is only career. However Steve has proved it to be wrong. 

Jobs has made it a Career. 

Message from the Teacher In-charge, 

Greetings to everyone. 

It gives me a lot of pleasure to introduce to you the second 

IT department newsletter ‘TechIT’ v2.0 . 

This newsletter is special in the sense that it is the first 

e-newsletter that we are publishing. It contains articles 

about the latest technologies in the field of Information 

Technology. 

I want to mention my student team consisting of Denzil 

Sequeira and Sujit Ajitkumar ( TE IT) who took a lot 

of efforts to make this version colourful. I hope that you 

will enjoy this issue. I also welcome contribution and 

suggestion from you. 

Happy Reading! 

Janhavi Baikerikar 

The Tech IT v2.0 team that 

made it possible: 

Sujit Ajitkumar & Denzil 

Sequeira (T.E IT) 

and Janhavi Baikerikar 

(Teacher In-charge) 

Cover page assistance: 

Tany Joseph & Anshul 

Prasad (S.E IT) 


Five (serious) symptoms of Facebook 

addiction 

-Denzil Sequeira(T.E. IT) 

Summary: Facebook, in retrospect, can be addictive — not in the “society is addicted to Facebook” but in a very 

serious way. Here are five symptoms to look out for. 

Hi, I’m a DBIT student, and I’m a Facebook addict. 

Addiction is partly in the mind, and we can all be gripped by something that throttles everything else in our life. From 

social media to hardcore broadband connections; even knitting. Well, maybe not knitting as the core Generation Y 

activity of choice, but you can see where I’m going with this. 

My relationship with Facebook is on a rocky edge at the moment. Though I accept I spend a great amount of time on the 

mobile application and site as so many of us do, I have taken a break for my own sense of sanity. 

While I argue that Facebook has become so intrinsic to our social relationships, we have yet to develop the filtering skills 

to take away the emotionless, draining energies from the site that we do not get in real life. Facing social exclusion, the 

need to detach myself from the overly sensitive minutiae that comes with over-use, it’s important to highlight the genuine 

symptoms of Facebook addiction. 

1. You become paranoid: “Why hasn’t this person messaged me back?” 

A common symptom, it seems, paranoia can grip anyone from a small amount to a dangerous level. 

The problem is that Facebook only tells you a little amount, rather than everything. Idle times are displayed with a sleep 

icon, but Facebook mobile users are always ‘online’, but may not have their phone with them. Though Facebook has 

chat presence, it does not guarantee that the person will respond, let alone see the message in the first place. 

Also, what is the maximum time to respond to someone? Sites like Facebook do not take into account individual patterns 

of usage, and all but expects others to be online all the time too. 

For those waiting for a response, the temptation is to call or to text, or to follow up with another Wall post or message. 

“Why haven’t they responded?”; logical processes go out the window and paranoia sets in, questioning why they haven’t 

replied. Who hasn’t been there? 

2. You spend more than an hour or five on the site. 

Excessive use of anything is all-relative. I, personally, have a massive oxygen addiction. I love to breathe, and have no 

plans to kick the habit just yet. 


But spending more than an hour or two on Facebook per day is probably too 

much, for an ordinary ‘consumer’ user. Granted, many use Facebook for work 

or in some corporate setting, but most should not spend more than an hour on 

the social network. 

Running through the day, we spend about half an hour in the bathroom per day, 

excluding showering and whatnot. We take an hour for lunch. We often spend 

an hour or so travelling to and from work or campus. Relatively speaking, if 

you are spending more time on Facebook than you do “on the john” — or using 

Facebook whilst you are on the toilet — please seek help. 

3. A confusion of the divergence of real life and Facebook 

There have been times — no doubt you will have to — where you have seen 

something posted on Facebook as a status update, and later on it has been 

rekindled as an actual memory. 

It’s not uncommon, as often statuses are updated of what people are doing, 

thinking or going to do. But to actively forget when something has not happened 

in person but ‘remembered’ through a passing update, is somewhat worrying. 

It’s indicative that you’ve spent a great deal of time on the site too, which again 

goes as a strike against the addiction from the second point. 

4. Excessive friend building and Wall posts 

Sometimes people find that Facebook is an ego-related thing, and the need 

to build up an online ‘portfolio’ is a social need, in order to fully represent 

whom they want to be in real life. 

To add a constant stream of statuses and photos, videos and application 

updates may be one way of filling up time — time that could be better spent 

elsewhere. 

It can be an addiction in itself; the need to constantly update people on what 

you are doing, where and why you are doing it; something that could be 

construed as ’showing off’ or boasting. 

5. Depression sets in during downtime, and other withdrawal symptoms 

Often, addictions are formed around a lacking something. It would not 

be amiss to suggest that those who spend a lot of time on Facebook do so 

because of a lack of other engagements. 

When that void is not filled but the addictive matter is taken away, withdrawal 

symptoms set in — such as anger, anxiety, depression and other similar feelings. 

It’s not quite as though you have been deprived from coffee all day, but does 

share some similarities. 

When depression or other hidden, mind-orientated symptoms set in, such as 

frustration or as though you are missing out on something, then this again 

should be a cause for concern. Breaking up with an addiction is incredibly hard 

to do, but to do it in stages makes the arduous task easier. 

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FACT FILe 

Couple asks Facebook 

users to pick child’s 

name 

The couple wasn’t interested in the 

conventional methods of picking a name. 

everyone on the social network (a 

potential 800 million votes) can participate. 

Rather than ask for suggestions, they’ve 

narrowed down the list to four names they’re 

particularly fond of: McKenna,Madelyn, 

Addilyne,and emily. 

Voting will end as soon as the baby is born, 

and if there’s a tie, they’ll just flip a coin. 

You can vote on the poll on the following 

Facebook Page, which even has an 

ultrasound scan of the baby: Name My 

Child; you’ll have to give the app access to 

your Facebook account first. 

The Meskes had no trouble 

naming their firstborn, now 4-year-old 

Brianna. 

“My in-laws think it’s funny. They know 

my personality,” Dave told the Daily 

Herald. “My parents think I’m crazy; 

they tell me, ‘You’re such a goofball.’” 

This is not the first time Facebook has 

been involved in naming a baby. Back in 

February, an Egyptian father named his 

firstborn daughter “Facebook” to show 

his appreciation for the social network. 

In May, an Israeli couple named their 

daughter “Like”, after the Facebook 

feature. 


UmeNow vows 

to kill Facebook, 

dismisses Google+ 

Summary: UmeNow is the new social network on the 

block. It has one goal: to kill Facebook. 

UmeNow is a brand new social network that isn’t satisfied 

just competing with the likes of Facebook and Google+. In 

fact, UmeNow has declared it will destroy Facebook’s lead 

in the social networking market and has dismissed Google+ 

as a competitor in the first place. The new service is calling 

itself “the first and only ad-free social communication 

service in the world that is totally focused on privacy.” 

UmeNow was founded by a former single mom who has 

been very vocal about online privacy. She has been even 

more outspoken against Facebook: “We will kill off the 

Facebook data eating monster,” Castillo-Bach said in a 

statement. To make her point, she’s calling UmeNow’s 

marketing campaign “Facebook is Trash, National Privacy 

Celebration.” 

UmeNow has a $6.00 monthly subscription fee (you can 

sign up for a one-month free trial), which gives you the 

following features: 

• No ads. 

• No tracking and No data mining. 

• No selling of personal information. 

• All third party apps banned. 

• Anonymous posting allowed. 

• Protection from privacy violations by “free” sites. 


“Our service is all about privacy. Facebook is a 

professional data collector. Google is the mothership of 

all data collectors. It has nothing on us. They’re not even 

in our league. Let’s not forget, Google chief Eric Schmidt 

told the world straight up that Google+ is not even a social 

network. It’s an ‘identity verification’ service. Anyone 

still think these giants really care about privacy? We’ve 

designed the perfect anti-Facebook service. We give you 

everything they won’t while still making it easy and simple 

to connect with friends. Because we have no ads, we could 

care less about your private information or collecting data 

on you. Our only focus is to give you the power to connect 

and share without risk. Our belief is that most people crave 

privacy and resent Facebook for limiting their access to 

it,” Castillo-Bach said in a statement. 

Facebook and Google have definitely had their fair share 

of privacy issues, and competitors are always a good thing. 

That being said,its just not sure UmeNow is taking the 

right approach here: attacking a competitor right from the 

get-go isn’t the best approach. 

If you want to keep up with UmeNow, you can follow 

the company on Twitter. I wonder why they don’t have 

equivalent accounts on Facebook and Google+ ? 

Vodafone launches 

555 Blue,its first 

Facebook phone 

in India. 

The Vodafone 555 Blue, a Facebook phone, has 

arrived in India with a Rs 4,590 ($100) price tag. 

Vodafone launched the Vodafone 555 Blue in India for Rs 

4,590 ($100). The telecommunications company calls it 

the “world’s first prepay phone with Facebook built-in.” 

The device, which was developed in collaboration with 

Facebook and will be simply sold as the Vodafone Blue in 

India, was expected to arrive in the country last month but 

was delayed for unknown reasons. 

The Vodafone Blue is a locked prepaid phone aimed at 

emerging markets. It is not 3G-enabled but this is arguably 

okay for India since EDGE has a much wider coverage 

area in the country. 

The phone features a dedicated Facebook button (similar 

to HTC’s offerings), which lets you upload pictures, visit 

profiles, and update your status with a single push. The 

device also automatically checks the social network for 

new notifications every 20 minutes, although this time 

period can be changed. Vodafone Blue will give users one 

year of unlimited access to Facebook for free from the date 

of its purchase in India. 

Vodafone lists the following features for the 555 Blue: 

• Ready to go, straight out of the box: Facebook is built 

into the handset’s core – it’s running the moment you 

turn on the mobile phone. 

• Truly integrated messaging: Facebook messages 

appear in the handset’s inbox alongside texts and 

e-mail. 

• Simple photo-sharing: photos taken using the Vodafone 

555 Blue’s 2 megapixel camera can be shared with 

friends with a single click. 

• Easy to stay in contact: friends’ Facebook profiles 

are automatically synchronized in the Vodafone 555 

Blue’s address book. 

• Always available: the Vodafone 555 Blue updates 

regularly in the background, flagging new items on the 

homescreen and quickly loading them when opened. 

• One-click control: the customizable Facebook ‘F’ 

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button can be assigned to a number of tasks, including 

instantly posting a status update with photos from the 

gallery or with links from the browser. 

• Attractive form-factor: touch navigation, 2.4″ 

landscape display, and QWERTY keypad are ideal for 

typing chat, e-mail, and status updates. 

• Music on the Go: fully integrated FM Radio and music 

player with 3.5mm jack 

“Facebook wants to make every phone social and Vodafone 

has taken the integration of Facebook to the next level with 

the Vodafone Blue,” Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile 

Business at Facebook, said in a statement. “We are really 

happy that Vodafone has brought the phone to India and 

enabling people to experience Facebook free of charge 

from the mobile device for a year.” 

“The mobile internet plays a central role in the daily lives 

of millions of Vodafone customers, many of whom are 

avid Facebook users,” Patrick Chomet, Vodafone’s Group 

Terminals Director, said in a statement. “Vodafone Blue is 

the answer to our youth’s mobile social networking needs. 

The phone has been designed to let everyone experience 

the fun of connecting with friends on the go, at a pocket 

friendly price. With our unique, fully integrated Facebook 

customization, the Vodafone Blue offers a compelling, 

out-of-the-box experience.” 


How do you feel when your internet connection goes 

down? 

-Shivani Vaidya(T.E. IT) 

Summary: You fire up your computer, 

click on your favorite browser icon 

(let’s not argue over which one!), 

you type in the URL of your favorite 

website ( … www.google.com …) 

and then … nothing … 

You fire up your computer, click on 

your favorite browser icon (let’s not 

argue over which one!), you type in 

the URL of your favorite website 

(www.google.com …) and then … 

nothing …! 

How do you feel when your internet 

connection goes down? 

According to research carried out by 

Intersperience, chances are that you’re 

going to feel ‘upset’ and ‘lonely’ and 

if that connection was down for 24 

hours, you’d feel like you were in a 

‘nightmare.’ 

The survey looked at more than 

1,000 individuals between the ages 

of 18 to over 65s. These people were 

questioned about their ‘digital lives’ 

including their attitudes and use of 

the internet, smartphones and other 

connected devices. 

Here are the highlights: 

• 53% of Brits feel ‘upset’ 

when deprived of internet 

connection 

• 40% of people surveyed 

feel ‘lonely’ when not able 

to go online 

• Challenge of 24 hours 

without digital devices 

described as ‘nightmare’ 


For some it seems, a day’s fast from 

technology is a major hardship, akin to giving 

up an addiction: 

The project also involved qualitative 

research, including challenging participants 

to get through one full day without using 

technology. Giving up technology was 

considered by some to be as hard as quitting 

smoking or drinking, while one survey 

participant described it as “like having my 

hand chopped off” and another called it 

“My biggest nightmare.” 

A significant number of people ‘cheated’ 

by switching on the television or radio as 

they did not regard them as ‘technology.’ 

Others agreed to the challenge but turned 

their mobile phones to silent, regarding 

being completely disconnected even for 

one day as “inconceivable“ 

Ever imagined a day 

without Facebook? 

Well, frankly, I haven’t and 

I never wish to! 

FACT FILE 

Rcom’s 3G MIMO... 

Rcom improved their 3g 

service with mimo technology. 

Currently reliance is only 

operator in india who provides 

3g speed upto 28mbps.Reliance 

communications paid 5864.29 

Crores for spectrum in 13 

circles. 

Q: What is MIMO technology? 

Ans:MIMO, has the state 

of the art of Intelligent 

antenna (IA), improves 

the performance of radio 

systems by embedding 

electronics intelligence into 

the spatial processing unit. 

Spatial processing includes 

spatial precoding at the 

transmitter postcoding at 

the receiver. Intelligent 

antenna is technology which 

represents smart antenna, 

multiple antenna (MIMO), 

self-tracking directional 

antenna, cooperative virtual 

antenna. 

Five reasons 

Android can 

- Sujit Ajitkumar(T.E. IT) 

Summary: I want Android to succeed and grow, but 

the way things are going, I’m beginning to doubt 

that it will thrive in the long run. 

I use Android every day. I like it a lot. But, I also have 

concerns about how it’s being developed and being 

presented to customers. 

Before jumping into why I think Android faces trouble 

in the long run, let me mention one problem I don’t see 

as standing in Android’s way: The Oracle lawsuits. Yes, 

Oracle claims that Google owes them billions in damages 

for using unlicensed Java technology in Android’s core 

Dalvik virtual machine. 

I follow patent lawsuits and here’s what going to happen 

with this one. It will take years and millions of dollars in 

legal fees, but eventually Google will either beat Oracle’s 

claims or pay them hefty licensing fees. So, yes, one way 

or the other Google, and to a lesser extent Oracle, will 

spend hundreds of millions on this matter before it’s done. 

But, so what? 

The mobile technology space is filled with patent and 

licensing lawsuits. When I checked on these lawsuits in 

mid-October there were dozens of them. Since then, Apple 

has sued Samsung; Dobly has sued RIM; and Lodsys, a 

patent troll, vs. Apple and all its iOS developers, By the 

time u finish reading this article someone will probably 

have sued someone else! 

The end-result of all this, besides lining the pockets of 

lawyers, is that we’re all going to have pay more for our 

tablets and smartphones. It doesn’t matter who wins or 

who loses. Thanks to the U.S’s fouled up patent system, 

everyone who’s a customer, everyone who’s a developer, 

and everyone’s who in business to make something useful 

is the loser. 

That said, here’s where Android is getting it wrong. 

1. Too many developer versions 

When Google first forked Android into two versions–The 

2.x branch for smartphones and the 3.x for tablets–I didn’t 

like the idea. I like it even less now. 

According to the Android Developers site, there are eight 

versions of Android with market presence. If we ignore the 

out-dated Android 1.5 and 1.6, that still leaves us with six 

shipping versions that a developer needs to keep in mind 

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when he or she is creating or updating a program. In the 

case of the 2.x and 3.x lines that’s a lot of work. Oh, and yes 

there are now two versions of 3.x: 3.0 and 3.1 . 

Currently used versions of Android. 

Who can keep up with this? I couldn’t. But, wait there’s 

more! 

2. Too many OEM versions 

You’d think that Android 2.2 on a Droid II would be the 

same on the Samsung Galaxy Pro. You’d think wrong. 

Every original equipment manufacturer (OEM) insists 

on tweaking the software and adding their own particular 

programs to each phone. Sometimes, the same hardware 

doesn’t even work with Android on the exact same model. 

It is found that the useless microSD slot in the Motorola 

XOOM, even after its Android 3.1 update, still doesn’t 

work. Or, to be exact, it won’t work in the U.S. In Europe, 

XOOM users will get a fix that will let them use microSD 

cards. 

Argh! 

Here’s a history lesson for Google and the rest of the movers 

and shakers of Android. I’ve seen a “common” operating 

system used in this way before during a technology boom. 

Once, it was with the pre-PC microcomputers. They all ran 

CP/M-80, but every vendor had their own little tricks they 

added to make their computers “better.” Then along came 

PC-DOS, soon to be followed by MS-DOS, and all those 

companies-KayPro, Osborne, and IMSAI-became answers 

in computer trivia games. 

How did Microsoft make its first step to becoming the 

Evil Empire? By delivering the same blasted operating 

system on every PC. If users can’t count on using the same 

programs and the same hardware accessories, like microSD 

cards, on Android, they’re not going to stick with Android 

devices. If things don’t get better with Android, who knows, 

maybe Windows 8 will have a shot on tablets after all! 


3. Still not open enough 

Google, for reasons that still elude me, decided not to 

open-source Android 3.x’s source code. This is so dumb! 

I’m not talking about playing fast and loose with opensource 

licenses or ethics-so Google really stuck its foot 

into a mess with this move. No, I’m saying this is dumb 

because the whole practical point of open source make 

development easier by sharing the code. Honeycomb’s 

development depends now on a small number of Google 

and big OEM developers. Of them, the OEM staffers will 

be spending their time making Honeycomb, Android 3.0, 

work better with their specific hardware or carrier. That 

doesn’t help anyone else. 

4. Security Holes 

This one really ticks me off. There is no reason for Android 

to be insecure. In fact, in some ways it’s Not insecure. So 

why do you keep reading about Android malware? 

Here’s how it works. Or, rather, how it doesn’t work. 

Android itself, based on Linux, is relatively secure. But, 

if you voluntary, albeit unknowingly, install malware from 

the Android Market, your Android tablet or smartphone 

can’t stop you. Google must start checking “official” 

Android apps for malware. 

Google has made some improvements to how it handles 

Android malware. It’s not enough. 

So until things get better, if you’re going to download 

Android programs by unknown developers, get an Android 

anti-virus program like Lookout. Heck, get it anyway; it’s 

only a matter of time until someone finds a way to add 

malware to brand-name programs. 

5. Pricing 

Seriously. What’s with Android tablet pricing? Apple 

owns the high-end of tablets. If someone has the money, 

they’re going to get an iPad 2. Deal with it. Apple’s the 

luxury brand. Android’s hope is to be the affordable brand. 

So long as OEMs price Android’s tablets at $500 and up, 

they’re not going to move. People will buy a good $250 

Android tablet, which is one reason why the Nook is 

selling well. They’re not buying $500 Android tablets. 

Here’s what I see happening. Android will still prosper… 

right up to the point where some other company comes 

out with an affordable platform and a broad selection of 

compatible software and hardware. 

Maybe that will be webOS, if HP drops the price on its 

TouchPads. Maybe it will be MeeGo. Heck, it could even 


be Windows 8. What it won’t be though in the long run, 

unless Android gets its act together, will be Android. 

FACT FILE 

Android on the HP TouchPad gets a 

touch closer 

Summary: Two groups are porting Android to the HP 

TouchPad, and both report they are getting close to a 

working OS. 

As soon as the HP TouchPad was placed on sale for $99, 

Android homebrew developers started picking them up 

with the intention of porting Android to the tablet. Two 

different camps emerged working separately on a port, 

and as is typical in work of this nature progress has been 

slow so far. One of the primary objectives of both groups 

was to get the touchscreen working properly, as a tablet 

without touch is basically useless. Both groups have now 

demonstrated TouchPads with functioning touchscreens. 

One group working on an Android port is 

the Touchdroid group. This group was formed specifically 

for working this project, and only now did they claim to 

have solved the nasty touchscreen driver problem. The 

other group is very well known in the Android world, 

as CyanogenMod is the most popular homebrew group 

working with Android phones. The CM7 port to the 

TouchPad now has the touchscreen working too, and in a 

video demonstration claims the Touchdroid group reverse 

engineered the CM7 driver for the project. 

The CM7 port is of greater interest considering the quality 

work this group has consistently done with Android 

phones and tablets. No doubt they will turn out a good 

implementation of Android Gingerbread for the TouchPad 

that is stable and fully functional. Also they are making 

the TouchPad port a dual-boot solution, meaning users 

can boot either native webOS or Android as desired. This 

eliminates the need to wipe webOS off the TouchPad as is 

required by the Touchdroid project. 

Its going to be interesting to see the CM7 port in action, 

but frankly as the owner of both Android tablets and the 

TouchPad anyone would find webOS to be a better tablet 

operating environment. It may be fun to play around with 

Android on the TouchPad, but no one can foresee any 

function on a tablet that is not better served by webOS. 

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10 reasons NOT to buy an Android and why I’m 

waiting for the iPhone 5 

-Sujit Ajitkumar(T.E. IT) 

Summary: Unfortunately, the few boons of Androidum don’t make up for the disadvantages. Here’s why I’m not going 

to buy an Android and I’m waiting for the iPhone 5. 

Breaking news: Thank you,Steve.For all you’ve done,for all of us. 

As most of you know, I dislike the iPhone and its Playskool interface. I find it, and Apple’s policies, to be a constant 

source of annoyance. And yet, even as I know there’s almost a 100% probability that the iPhone 5 is going to annoy me, 

I’m going to buy another crappy iPhone and NOT buy an Android phone. 

So here’s the thing. I have an iPhone 3G. Not even a 3GS, not an iPhone 4. It’s a plain old iPhone 3G that I’ve had for 

three years. 

It sucks. It’s slow. It won’t update properly. Half the apps I’d like to run on it won’t run on such an ancient device (only 

in the tech world is a three-year old device ancient). I desperately need a new phone. 

Well, technically, that’s not true. I don’t actually use the iPhone as a phone. I almost never make actual voice calls (does 

anyone, these days)? Instead, I use it for email, for network testing, for an occasional text to my mom, and for reading 

Kindle books. 

I use the email app a lot and I’d use some other apps (particularly some IT-related tools), but most don’t run on the old 

iOS version that my phone will actually work with. Yes, I know, I could upgrade to a later iOS version, but we all know 

that the iPhone 3G runs like even more of a dog than it is with iOS 4. 

So, I need a new phone. And I’ve decided to wait for the iPhone 5. You might think I could easily get rid of the iPhone 

3G pain now by buying one of the many Android devices, but I’m not going to. You might also think that since I really 

dislike the iPhone, I might be a perfect candidate for the Android. 

You might think that, but you’d be wrong. Unfortunately, besides the iPhone and the Android army, there really aren’t 

any other viable smartphone choices. 

As much as I dislike the iPhone, I don’t wish to put up with the hassle of Android even more. I’m insanely busy these 

days, and the last thing I need is a phone that needs as much attention as a puppy. 

Here then, are ten reasons I’m waiting for the iPhone 5 and NOT buying an Android phone. 

Reason 1: Malware present in applications 

Although I’ve long complained about Apple’s capricious approval process in the iPhone App Store, at least they haven’t 

had a rampant malware problem. One security firm has estimated (PDF) that somewhere between 500,000 and a million 

Android users have been hit by malware — and that’s just this year. 

When you have that many users affected, it’s not a minor problem. It’s also something I don’t want to be my problem, 

so I’ll just stay away. I have enough trouble with Windows, thank you very much. 


Reason 2: New and exciting security holes 

Now, admittedly, the whole authorization-token-inthe-clear 

security issue was nothing major and Google 

patched it quickly. But, on top of the whole malware 

problem, this sort of security issue is troubling. 

Old Ben Franklin famously said, “Any people that would 

give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves 

neither liberty nor safety.” I do agree with him, except 

that when it comes to the phone in my pocket, I guess I’m 

willing to give up a little hackety freedom in return for a 

safer, less infested phone. 

Reason 3: Complete lack of version number logic 

Between the folks at Mozilla, who are trying to hide 

Firefox versions in an effort to make us all insane, and the 

folks at Google, who name and number Android versions 

all willy-nilly, I’m getting slightly annoyed. 

Is the current version Froyo or Gingerbread or 

Honeycomb? Do I want an Ice Cream Sandwich or a 

Cupcake or a Donut? Is it possible to run a low-cal version 

of Android? What if I’m cutting carbs and mostly doing 

protein? Then what? 

Seriously, Gingerbread is version 2.3 of Android, but 

Honeycomb is version 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. Seriously? And 

if I’m buying an Android phone, I’m going to need to 

buy one running version 2.3, even though Android 3.1 is 

current, but only for tablets. Seriously? 

Okay, and some phones only run Froyo and others only 

run Gingerbread, and you can’t upgrade from one to the 

other without a hack. Seriously? 

I know Android is gaining market share because of the 

wide diversity of offerings, but there’s got to be some 

compromise between the der fuhrer approach of Steve 

Jobs’ Apple and the herding cats approach of Android. 

Oh, yeah, that was webOS. Sigh. 

Reason 4: Very different user experience on different 

handsets 

Love it or hate it, when you pick up an iPhone, it feels like 

an iPhone. It feels and works like a phone designed for 

use by a five year old, but at least it’s a consistent feeling. 

This is not the case with Android phones. 

Phones from different manufacturers are wildly different, 

with different home screens, UIs, and feature sets. It’s so 

that you could buy two Android phones, put them sideby-side, 

and unless you knew they were both Androids, 

you’d think they were completely different devices. 


I don’t want a phone that’s got a funky user experience. 

I want one that I’m used to and can describe to someone 

else, and they have the same experience. I want to be able 

to tell someone what I’m doing with my phone and have 

them know exactly how that’d work for them. 

With Android, you can’t have that happen, even with 

phones from the same maker. 

Reason 5: Probably can’t upgrade without 

jailbreaking, rooting, modding, whatevah 

The history of Android phone upgrades is not a good 

one. Most manufacturers essentially design a model for 

a given OS, and if there’s an upgrade, your phone might 

not be able to run it. 

The next version of the Android OS is the quixotically 

named Ice Cream Sandwich. If I were to buy an Android 

phone now, it’s highly unlikely I’d be able to upgrade it 

to ICS without a jailbreak. 

And, like I said before, I don’t really have time to hack 

my phone. 

Reason 6: App incompatibility 

Okay, this is a huge, huge deal-breaker. Apps built for 

one handset often don’t work on another. It’s almost 

impossible to be sure that you can run a given application 

without trying. And when you look at the apps, the poor 

developers are often saddled with building a compatibility 

matrix for every phone model. 

This lack of consistency is not good. Even Windows has 

better application compatibility across machines and you 

never know what’ll be inside your friendly neighborhood 

Windows PC 

Reason 7: Too much tweaking required 

While it annoys me to no end that I can’t make minor 

tweaks and add utilities to my iPhone, the necessity of 

tweaking most Android phones to make them usable 

is unacceptable. First, I just don’t want to spend the 

time adjusting everything, adding programs, removing 

programs, and otherwise tuning, just so I can overcome 

the software design decisions of hardware engineers at 

the handset makers. Or, worse, so I can overcome the 

marketing deals put together by product managers at the 

handset makers. 

Then, there’s the temptation. I’m a tech-geek, so the 

temptation might be to spend hours or days futzing with 

the phone interface. This is not something I should be 

spending much time on. 

Even though self-control is an issue, an even bigger one 

is the simple crapware nature of the delivered software on 

most Android phone handsets. 

Reason 8: Poor tablet compatibility 

Once again, compatibility is an issue. Many iPhone 

applications (actually nearly all of them) will run on the 

iPad. They may not be iPad-optimized, but they’ll run. 

Not so much with Android. Even the SDKs between the 

two classes of device are different. Developers are coding 

2.x software for phones and 3.x software for tablets. 

They might as well have completely different names for all 

the native compatibility they have. 

Reason 9: Little ongoing manufacturer support 

The problem with Android tablets - Manufacturers see 

them as disposable. 

Reason 10: Google 

Let me be clear in how much I like and respect most of 

the people at Google. The individuals there are very cool. 

But the company sometimes seems like part Borg and part 

Borgia. If you need personal help, the company is virtually 

impenetrable. 

To be fair, the company has softened up a bit, but when 

you rely completely on Google, you never know if baaaad 

things are going to happen. 

This is also an issue with other Google services. I described 

my frustration a few weeks ago, when I tried setting up a 

YouTube account and discovered once again that there’s 

no account maintenance functionality throughout the 

Google ecosphere. 

On the other hand, there are some advantages 

I know that when I go with the iPhone 5, I’ll be giving 

up some freedom and some self-respect. I’ll be selling my 

soul for the promise of the safety and warmth of the Apple 

mothership. This disturbs me to a level you probably can’t 

understand. 

There are some good aspects to the Android experience 

I’ll be giving up. I’ll be giving up the ability to tune my 

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launcher, which I could easily do back in the Palm/Treo 

days, but Apple doesn’t think we’re adult enough to 

manage now in era of iOS finger painting. 

Beyond having tweaking control (without jailbreaking), I 

do miss the choice of models (you can have any color as 

long as it’s black), access to a built-in physical keyboard, 

and oh, what I would give for a replaceable battery! 

Unfortunately, these few boons of Androidum don’t 

make up for the disadvantages. And, holding my nose, 

this is why I’m not going to buy an Android and why I’m 

waiting for the iPhone 5. 

But thats me and i am NOT God, but only human! 

The decision is yours,so is the money! 

Go ahead. Have your say. I’ve got enough 

food in the bunker to last me two weeks. 


Is the cloud still safe? How to survive a 

cloud computing disaster. 

Summary: The news isn’t just limited to Sony and it’s not just about hacking attacks. There have been cloud failures at 

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and more. 


The news just keeps getting worse and worse for Sony. Now, it’s Sony Music 

and Sony Erickson that’s being hacked. This after weeks of PlayStation 

Network downtime and an expansion of bad news into Sony Online (well, 

offline these days) Entertainment. 

The news isn’t just limited to Sony and it’s not just about hacking attacks. 

There have been cloud failures at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and more. 

The Top 5 Tips to Survive a Cloud Computing Disaster 

Let’s run down the recent list of cloud failures. Then, we’ll ask and try to answer the question of whether the cloud is 

still safe. 

Amazon Web Services 

AWS was down for about a week. The failure also took down some Web services like Quara, FourSquare, and Reddit 

that were dependent on Amazon, providing the valuable lesson that if you’re going to use a backup cloud provider, make 

sure it’s not using the same service provider you are. 

PlayStation Network (and all the other Sony woes) 

Sony has been the target of one or more sustained attacks by outside actors. It seems that once the company solidifies 

security on one front, another perimeter is breached and the company once again gets attacked. 

A lot of old-time IT professionals have little pity for Sony ever since the rootkit fiasco. Even so, the company’s just 

had to weather quite literal storms in terms of the terrible tsunamis and earthquakes in Japan, and so these virtual cloud 

problems are just making things worse. 

Many Sony customers are considering jumping from PlayStation to other platforms, and with E3 coming up in just a few 

short weeks, it’ll be interesting to see how Sony presents these problems to the public — and whether they’ve managed 

to batten down the hatches to any extent. 

Epsilon 

Epsilon Data Management found that it hadn’t managed it’s data all that well. Consumers will wind up paying the price. 

Epsilon provides mailing services for major consumer companies. A breach of its systems resulted in a loss of more than 

60 million email addresses from more than 50 companies you used to, but should no longer, fully trust. 

We expect millions of consumers to get very targeted phishing emails, which means, pretty much, that you should never 

trust any email you get, ever, ever again. 

LastPass 

When password management company LastPass thought it 

might have had a breach, it quite properly shut everything 

down and began an internal investigation. The problem 

was that the company didn’t use best practices, and was 

completely unprepared for all its customers trying to 

change their passwords — all at the same time. 

Millions were shut out of not only LastPass, but also all 

their other password-based online services, including their 

email accounts. 

Blogger 

When free blogging service Blogger.com (part of Google) 

performed some regular maintenance recently, something 

went wrong. The result was about 30 hours of blog posts 

were lost. 

Android 

You might love your Android handset, but it might not 

love you back. A rather extensive security hole was found 

in the service, opening the door to all sorts of disturbing 

penetration possibilities. Google’s hard at work fixing the 

bug, but it’s still scary. 

Dropbox 

Dropbox is a Web file system solution and if you have an 

iPhone and want to use it for anything useful at all, you’re 

probably using Dropbox to supplement the iPhone’s 

internal file system. 

Recently the company changed its terms of service, 

substantially changing their wording for how they manage 

encryption. Short form: it’s adequate for most uses, but if 

you’re hiding something, don’t count on it staying hidden 

from the authorities. 

As more and more businesses of all types and sizes continue 

moving to the cloud for a wide range of IT solutions, the 

risks from a failure at any of the many cloud computing 

providers becomes even more important to business and 

IT professionals. 

In fact, a series of recent cloud computing failures 

demonstrate just how damaging they can be when it 

comes to the potentially permanent loss of information. Of 

course, there are also a great number of preventative steps 

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9 in 10 see cloud as opportunity, not 

threat 

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that any organization can take to minimize the impact by 

simply knowing what to expect when confronted by the 

unexpected. 

Following things could be done to make the cloud safer: 

• A better understanding of the rising risks posed by an 

ever-increasing number of cloud computing solutions 

and providers. 

• Top strategies and tactics to prevent, manage and 

survive an unexpected failure or loss of cloud 

computing resources. 

• The most promising technologies and solutions to 

ensure the most reliable and robust protection for 

cloud-based information and services. 

Cloud computing is one of the most important IT 

innovations ever, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t without its 

problems. 

A survey of supposedly conservative IT decision makers 

has found that 9 in every 10 see cloud as an opportunity 

to reduce costs and smooth operational performance rather 

than a threat to security . 

‘Do you believe that Cloud represents an opportunity 

or threat to your organisation?’ A massive 89 percent 

described cloud as an opportunity, leaving just 11 percent 

calling it a threat. 

When asked to specify the nature of the opportunity, more 

than two-thirds picked ‘reduce our IT infrastructure costs’ 

as the most important factor, while 29 percent said, ‘Cloud 

will help to manage peaks and troughs in system usage.’ 


7 ways cloud computing could be even 

greener.... 

Summary: Pretty much everyone agrees that the 

cloud brings substantial energy-efficiency benefits, but 

Forrester Research offers 7 suggestions for how to make 

your cloud computing agenda even greener. 

Forrester Research is the latest organization to explore 

the link between cloud computing and green IT. 

Like others, it believes that the cloud approach can 

be inherently more energy-efficient than other IT 

infrastructure approaches. But it says that infrastructure 

and facilities professionals should take a stronger 

stand on the choices they make for private cloud 

infrastructure strategies, or cloud infrastructure that will 

serve a limited set of hand-chosen constituents versus 

the public at large. 

The research firm’s suggestions are outlined in a report 

released at the end of June, “Cloud Computing helps 

Accelerate Green IT.” Forrester notes that by its nature, 

cloud computing is more efficient. But here are seven 

ways that an IT professional can make his or her cloud 

computing even greener — regardless of whether or not 

the approach is public or private: 

1. Make sure the data center is using 

power generated by renewable energy 

sources or that it uses “free cooling” methods. 

As an example, Forrester cites the Microsoft data 

center in Quincy, Wash, which uses hydroelectricity. 

As you pick your cloud provider, ask the question: 

Does the data center is uses take advantage of solar, 

wind or other sources. Can it rely on free air cooling 

at least part of the year? 

2. Look for modular data center approaches. 

That means the cloud service provider — or your 

own organization, if we’re talking private cloud — 

is using an “as you go” approach to designing and 

building out the facility. Infrastructure should be 

brought on and provisioned as necessary, in order to 

keep utilization rates high. Forrester also suggests 

looking for a provider that has invested in a green 

certification, such as the Leadership in Energy and 

Environmental Design (LEED) designation that was 

developed by the U.S. Green Building Council. 


3. Get yourself more energy-efficient power and 

cooling systems. 

There has been a lot written about the need to make 

computer hardware more energy-efficient. Now, it’s 

time to extend that mentality to uninterruptible power 

supplies, power distribution units, air-side economizers 

and the like. 

4. Think converged. 

Forrester suggest that blade architectures that converge 

server, storage and network architectures into a single 

rack aren’t just easier to manage, they are far more 

energy-efficient. 

5. Virtualize and automate. 

Sure, pretty much every company has done SOME 

virtualization work. But how much is green enough? 

Forrester suggests that 76 percent to 100 percent of a 

company’s total server footprint should be virtualized 

in order to deliver significant green IT benefits. 

6. Measure and manage. 

Energy information should be coupled with management 

automation that consumption can be optimized. So, 

for example, certain energy-intense workloads could 

be moved (if appropriate) from daytime to night in 

order to take advantage of better prices per kilowatt 

hour. Likewise, an organization could affect its carbon 

footprint position, but centering the most intense It 

workloads in data centers that are more energy-efficient. 

7. Set goals and strive for them. 

You can’t really improve your green IT strategy unless 

you have one. And you can’t make it better, unless 

you focus on specific goals. There are three primary 

areas in which a green IT strategy can be “greener”: 

procurement (as in, buying the most energy-efficient 

technologies), operations (taking advantage of software 

and automation tools to provide the best experience) and 

end-of-life (which means ensuring that technologies are 

disposed of properly according to emerging electronicwaste 

policy standards). 

Bug allows Mac 

OS X Lion clients 

to use any LDAP 

password 

Summary: If you have Mac OS X ‘Lion’ clients and use 

LDAP authentication, you need to read this. 

Reports are circulating that Apple’s latest incarnation of 

Mac OS X - 10.7 ‘Lion’ - contains a serious LDAP network 

authentication bug. 

The bug is a simple one, but 

at the same time a serious 

one - users logging in to 

Macs running OS X 10.7 can 

access restricted network 

resources using any 

password at all when LDAP 

is used for authentication 

(for example Apple’s Open 

Directory or OpenLDAP). 

At the moment it’s not clear what the problem is because 

Apple doesn’t own up to bugs until it has a patch for 

them but there’s a fair bit of discussion about the problem 

on variousforums. Some users claim that they can log into 

the network using any username and password while others 

claim to be completely locked out when using the correct 

username and password. Others are seeing a problem 

where they need the correct password initially but then 

other resources that require LDAP authentication are given 

automatic credentials. 

Bottom line, if you use LDAP for authentication, and you 

have clients using 10.7 ‘Lion’ then this is a pretty big deal. 

If that doesn’t describe your setup then you don’t need to 

worry about this. 

Despite the problem first being reported on July 25, five 

days after Lion was released, Apple as yet to offer users 

a fix. This issue was not addressed in Apple’s 10.7.1 

update for Lion. 

FACT FILE 

Why 37 percent of projects fail! 

Five top causes of troubled projects: 

1. Requirements: Unclear, lack of agreement, 

lack of priority, contradictory, ambiguous, 

imprecise. 

2. Resources: Lack of resources, resource 

conflicts, turnover of key resources, poor 

planning. 

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3. Schedules: Too tight, unrealistic, overly 

optimistic. 

4. Planning: Based on insufficient data, 

missing items, insufficient details, poor 

estimates. 

5. Risks: Unidentified or assumed, not 

managed. 

FACT FILE (CONTD..) 

According to the survey, the most common obstacles 

that interfere with recovering failed projects are: 

• Getting stakeholders to accept the changes 

needed to bring the projects back on trackwhether 

they are changes in scope, budget, 

resources, etc. 

• Poor communication and stakeholder 

engagement; lack of clarity and trust. 

• Conflicting priorities and politics. 

• Finding enough qualified resources needed to 

complete the projects. 

• Lack of a process or methodology to help bring 

the project back on track. 


Five unanswered 

Windows8 

questions 

Summary: By the end of the day, 

we’ll know much more about 

Windows 8. But some questions 

will remain unanswered, even 

after a thorough demo. Here 

are the top five on the list. 

After the first day of 

Microsoft’sBUILD 

conference is in the books, 

we’ll know much more 

about Windows 8. That 

will certainly answer 

some of the questions 

that Microsoft 

watchers have been 

asking over 

the past few months. 

But a few larger questions have yet to be answered 

and may not be addressed in full. Here are the top five on 

the list. 

How will Microsoft manage the transition to a new 

interface? 

Windows 8 will include two interfaces: the “modern” 

Metro-style interface and the traditional desktop as 

embodied in Windows 7. 

That has to be nerve-racking for two groups. Business 

customers will be totaling up the training costs and 

worrying about potential backlash from users. Developers 

will be doing risk-reward calculations to decide which 

interface to invest their time and energy in. 


It’s a tightrope act for Microsoft. If the new interface 

doesn’t get traction quickly enough, early adopters are 

disappointed and developers go broke. 

Where’s the cloud strategy? 

Microsoft has spent the past few years methodically 

building up its cloud-based offerings. With a Windows 

Live ID, you can get 25 GB of online storage for documents 

and photos. Confusingly, you can sync a separate 5 GB of 

data to SkyDrive using the Windows Live Mesh utility. 

But the missing pieces are even more noteworthy. There’s 

no easy way for apps to retrieve a file directly from 

SkyDrive. Online storage is walled off from Windows 

Explorer, and has to be managed in a web browser. And 

so far Microsoft has said nothing about its strategy for 

uploading your music collection into online storage. 

Google and Apple have already gone public with their 

cloud solutions. 

Can a credible Windowspowered 

tablet really wait till 

mid-2012 or later? 

This is probably the question 

heard more often than any 

other. The stunning success 

of the iPad means there’s some 

urgency for Microsoft to respond. 

But a hasty response can be worse 

than none at all. Just ask HP, which 

abruptly canned the TouchPad less 

than two months after rolling it onto 

the market. Or ask anyone who 

bought a current-generation Android 

tablet and is now struggling to make 

it work. 

Based on those competitors’ experiences, Microsoft’s 

decision to wait until it can release a combination of 

hardware and software that works well together is the 

right one. One theory heard is that Windows 8 could be 

delivered in two releases: one version exclusively for 

ARM-based tablet devices, early in 2012, followed by the 

full Windows 8 release for traditional PCs later in the year. 

That scenario is unlikely, but it could happen. 

How much will it cost? 

This question is actually a twofer, because you can’t answer 

without also defining the list of Windows 8 editions. Will 

Windows 8 be delivered in multiple SKUs? Absolutely— 

at a bare minimum you need one for consumers 

and another for businesses on enterprise networks. 

But if history is a guide, it will be months before we 

know the exact lineup. 

And asking this question also raises the question of 

Apple’s $30 upgrade pricing, which it introduced with 

Snow Leopard and continued with Lion. Microsoft and 

Apple are in different businesses, of course. Apple makes 

its money from high-margin hardware, and it can afford to 

break even on an OS upgrade. Microsoft makes its money 

selling software through partners, and a $30 upgrade could 

be a profit-killer. 

Most copies of Windows are sold through hardware 

manufacturers on new PCs. Don’t expect that to change 

in the Windows 8 timeframe. Given Microsoft’s decision 

to engineer the new OS to run on existing hardware, it 

wouldn’t be a surprise to see an offer of cheap upgrades 

for Windows 7 users. But we won’t know those details 

until next year, at the earliest. 

Where’s Office? 

Earlier this year, when Steven Sinofsky and Julie 

Larson-Green showed off Windows 8 at the All Things 

D conference, showed Excel 2010 running on the 

legacy Windows desktop. When Walt Mossberg asked 

why the Office team didn’t rewrite Office for the new 

touch-first interface, Larson-Green responded, “Well. 

They may do something … in the future.” 

It is suspected to be a nice piece of misdirection by 

Microsoft. If you remember the playbook for the Windows 

7 launch, Office 14 (Office 2010) was in beta and available 

for testing along with the new OS. Office 15 is suspected 

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to follow the same schedule, and we may even 

see some clues about how a “modern” version 

of Word, Excel, and the rest will look in the next 

wave of Office Web Apps. 

Microsoft to provide USB 3.0 

support for better battery 

life in Windows 8 

Microsoft officials are promising USB 3.0 

support will be part of Windows 8, which will 

help with battery-life and power-consumption 

on tablets and desktop PCs. 

There are also billions of older USB devices 

that Windows must remain compatible with. 

USB 3.0 is up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 

provides “improved power management that 

results in longer battery life,” Additionally, “by 

2015, all new PCs are expected to offer USB 3.0 

ports, and over 2 billion new ‘SuperSpeed’ USB 

devices will be sold.” 



Certification: 

The Department of Information Technology is offering 

the following certification courses in Oracle 

• IZO-007 (Introduction to Oracle 10g) 

• IZO-042 (Oracle 10g Administration- I) 

Expert Talk On: 

‘Free and Open source Software’, was delivered by Mr. 

Suryakant Sawant, Research Scholar, IITB, Mumbai for 

SE IT students on 18 th October, 2011. 

‘Geospatial Data Mining’, was delivered by Mr. 

Amiyakumar Tripathy, Research Scholar, IITB, Mumbai 

for BE IT students on 12 th October, 2011. 

‘Tricks in Dynamic Programming’, was delivered by 

Mr. Jagadish M., Research Scholar, IITB, Mumbai for SE 

IT students on 7 th October, 2011. 

‘Multimedia Retrieval’, was delivered by Dr. Bhavesh 

Patel Principal, Shah & Anchor Polytechnic, Chembur, 

Mumbai for BE IT students on 17 th October, 2011. 

‘Future of VLSI in IT’, was delivered by Dr. Sudhakar 

Mande, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication 

for SE IT students on 20 th October, 2011. 

‘Game Architecture and Programming’, was delivered 

by Mr. Sanjay Deshmukh, G. V. Acharya Institute of 

Technology, Karjat for BE IT students on 12 th October, 

2011. 

‘General Aptitude Training’, was delivered by Mr. 

Vivek Sarda, Ideal Edusystem Pvt. Ltd., Thane for BE IT 

students on 11 th August, 2011. 

‘Career Guidance’, was delivered by Mr. Nitin Parab, 

Amore Crosslink Inc. Pvt. Ltd., Goregaon, Mumbai for BE 

IT students on 5 th August, 2011. 

‘MBA Career Opportunities’, was delivered by Dr. 

Nirmala Joshi, Don Bosco Institute of Management 

& Research, Kurla, Mumbai for BE IT students on 18 th 

October, 2011. 

‘How to write a Technical Paper’, was delivered by Ms. 

Janhavi Baikerikar, for SE, TE and BE IT students on 26 th 

August, 2011, 30 th August, 2011 and 29 th September, 2011. 

List of College Toppers: 

S.E. IT(2010-2011) 

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Ms. Diana Sequeira attended a workshop on Software 

Tesing Automation tool on 24th September 2011. 

Student Activities: 

Mr. Anthony Selva Jessobalan (T.E. IT) successfully 

completed a certification course on RHCSA and RHSE. 

Mr.Raj Saxena (B.E. IT) was selected as the best NSS 

volunteer at District/ Zone level for the academic year 

2010 – 2011 by NSS Cell, University of Mumbai. 

Mr.Neil Alexander (T.E. IT) secured 1st place in technical 

quiz held at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, 

Bandra West on 20 th August 2011. 

Mr. Shubham Rai (T.E. IT) was elected Technical Secretary 

of the DBIT College Council. 

The T.E. IT cricket team won the Intra College Cricket 

Tournament held in September 2011. 

Ms.Vallerine Mascarenhas, Mr.Cliffton Fernandes, 

Ms.Jigyasa Panchal from T.E. IT took part in the Dance 

Finals at Malhar ’11 held at St.Xaviers College, Fort in 

August 2011. 

Sr No. Name of the student Overall Percentage 

1 Madnani Aarti 74.40% 

2 D’souza Duane Leslie 73.20% 

3 Shetty Nidhi 69.90% 

T.E. IT(2010-2011) 


1 Menezes Valan Leslie Lyentte 69.11% 

2 D’mello Edna Edward Anita 68.44% 

3 Fernandes Caroline Jacinto Natheline 67.44% 

B.E. IT(2010-2011) 


1 Hiwarale Akansha Ashok Urmila 80.42% 

2 Fernandes Cheryl Sebastian Blossom 80.28% 

3 Kadam Sushant Shivaji Ranjana 79.14% 


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