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<strong>Newsletter</strong><br />

<strong>v2.0</strong><br />

<strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong><br />

<strong>Department</strong><br />

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FACULTY<br />

Top L-R: Richard Joseph, Sunantha Krishnan, Mahalakshmi Sridhar,<br />

Vrushali Mudhliyar, Anagha Shashtri,Trupti Ghosalkar,<br />

Janhavi Baikerikar, Tayyabali Sayyad.<br />

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

S.E IT<br />

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EDITORIAL: <strong>Newsletter</strong> Reborn!!<br />

Warm greetings to all our lovely readers.<br />

V2.0<br />

The magnitude of pride we feel to present the <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> <strong>Department</strong>’s <strong>Newsletter</strong><br />

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

shows what IT students of Don Bosco Institute of <strong>Technology</strong> are really made of! It showcases<br />

the technical knowledge of the students along with the various extraordinary achievements<br />

during the academic year.<br />

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

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

the field of <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong>, which would appeal to people of age 12 and above!<br />

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

the <strong>Newsletter</strong>!<br />

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

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

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

(<strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong>), who constantly gave us their feedback and that helped us make<br />

amendments.<br />

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

phenomenon.<br />

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

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

releases here after.<br />

Regards,<br />

Sujit Ajitkumar (T.E IT) & Denzil Sequeira (T.E IT)<br />

The Editorial Team.<br />

Don Bosco Institute Of <strong>Technology</strong>- 3


Message from The Director’s Desk,<br />

Message from the HOD,<br />

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My dear staff and Students of IT department,<br />

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

God bless you all.<br />

Fr. Adolph Furtado sdb<br />

Director<br />

DBIT.<br />

Fr. Adolph Furtado sdb<br />

Director<br />

Congratulations for yet another edition of the department newsletter.<br />

The content of your letter is interesting. You have taken lot of trouble over<br />

this edition of the letter. We are proud of you. Keep up the good work.<br />

For every day, in every way, you are striving to educate yourself, and<br />

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

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

into the world with merit, zeal, and creativity. And, we hope that passion<br />

outdoes performance, and that originality outweighs outcome - in all areas<br />

of your lives.<br />

I take a great pleasure to launch second version of our <strong>Department</strong>al New Letter for odd semester 2011-12. It has very<br />

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

are emphasized in this version.<br />

Our aim is to have a class of IT professionals at Don Bosco Institute of <strong>Technology</strong> with practical knowledge of<br />

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

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

recent affairs in <strong>Technology</strong> and impart it to our students. <strong>Department</strong> of <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> was started in 2001<br />

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

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

tap right potential of the individual.<br />

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

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

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

Indian Institute of <strong>Technology</strong>, Mumbai. They are using Open Source Software for their projects.<br />

Now in today’s world, <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> is under pressure of economic<br />

crisis all over the globe. But still, the skilled, knowledgeable and bright<br />

professionals are most preferred human resource in the industries. We at<br />

<strong>Department</strong> of <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> are cultivating the best IT engineers<br />

who have social outreach.<br />

Mr. Satishkumar Chavan<br />

H.O.D (<strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong>)<br />

From the Principal,<br />

Dr. N.G. Joag,<br />

Principal<br />

Four apples have changed the world. The one started<br />

from the kindergarten, the one offered to Adam, the<br />

one that fell on Newton and one of the Steve Jobs.<br />

Jobs built a company where leaps of the imagination<br />

were combined with engineering. He was a creative<br />

entrepreneur and had passion for perfection. He revolutionized<br />

six industries: personal computers, animated<br />

movies, music, phones, tablet computing and digital<br />

publishing. Jobs stands as the ultimate iCon of inventiveness<br />

and applied imagination. Under his able guidance<br />

Apple introduced such revolutionary products as the<br />

Macbook Air, iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPad and iPhone, all of<br />

which have dictated the evolution of modern technology.<br />

His Genius is enviable. He’s the one who succeeded<br />

at a young age, paid a price for his arrogance and then<br />

came back a lot smarter and more capable than before.<br />

Steve Jobs had a riveting story of the roller-coaster life.<br />

Jobs had spectacular successes and humiliating failures.<br />

One of those attributes was the ability to discard old<br />

thinking when it no longer worked, which was much<br />

harder than it might seem- especially if that thinking<br />

helped make one fabulously successful in the past. He<br />

accepted the failure, learnt from it, instead of blaming<br />

other people or making excuses for what went wrong.<br />

Characteristics such as those are the building blocks of<br />

resilience, which allowed him to overcome setbacks,<br />

became smarter and reached new level of success.<br />

We all have up and down time in our life. However,<br />

good leaders can take the knocks and bounce back for<br />

more. Most important is to have the courage to follow<br />

your heart and intuition. But don’t lose faith. The only<br />

thing that keeps you going is to love what you do.<br />

Steve Jobs is one of the best examples of keeping a good<br />

faith and turning around to show the world how successful<br />

he is. Although Steve Jobs is not with us, his hard work,<br />

innovativeness will always inspire us for years to come.<br />

V2.0<br />

We use to tell students: there are no jobs, however there<br />

is only career. However Steve has proved it to be wrong.<br />

Jobs has made it a Career.<br />

Message from the Teacher In-charge,<br />

Greetings to everyone.<br />

It gives me a lot of pleasure to introduce to you the second<br />

IT department newsletter ‘TechIT’ <strong>v2.0</strong> .<br />

This newsletter is special in the sense that it is the first<br />

e-newsletter that we are publishing. It contains articles<br />

about the latest technologies in the field of <strong>Information</strong><br />

<strong>Technology</strong>.<br />

I want to mention my student team consisting of Denzil<br />

Sequeira and Sujit Ajitkumar ( TE IT) who took a lot<br />

of efforts to make this version colourful. I hope that you<br />

will enjoy this issue. I also welcome contribution and<br />

suggestion from you.<br />

Happy Reading!<br />

Janhavi Baikerikar<br />

The Tech IT <strong>v2.0</strong> team that<br />

made it possible:<br />

Sujit Ajitkumar & Denzil<br />

Sequeira (T.E IT)<br />

and Janhavi Baikerikar<br />

(Teacher In-charge)<br />

Cover page assistance:<br />

Tany Joseph & Anshul<br />

Prasad (S.E IT)<br />

Don Bosco Institute Of <strong>Technology</strong>- 5


Five (serious) symptoms of Facebook<br />

addiction<br />

-Denzil Sequeira(T.E. IT)<br />

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

serious way. Here are five symptoms to look out for.<br />

Hi, I’m a DBIT student, and I’m a Facebook addict.<br />

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

symptoms of Facebook addiction.<br />

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

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

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

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

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

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

of usage, and all but expects others to be online all the time too.<br />

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

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

replied. Who hasn’t been there?<br />

2. You spend more than an hour or five on the site.<br />

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

plans to kick the habit just yet.<br />

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But spending more than an hour or two on Facebook per day is probably too<br />

much, for an ordinary ‘consumer’ user. Granted, many use Facebook for work<br />

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

the social network.<br />

Running through the day, we spend about half an hour in the bathroom per day,<br />

excluding showering and whatnot. We take an hour for lunch. We often spend<br />

an hour or so travelling to and from work or campus. Relatively speaking, if<br />

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

Facebook whilst you are on the toilet — please seek help.<br />

3. A confusion of the divergence of real life and Facebook<br />

There have been times — no doubt you will have to — where you have seen<br />

something posted on Facebook as a status update, and later on it has been<br />

rekindled as an actual memory.<br />

It’s not uncommon, as often statuses are updated of what people are doing,<br />

thinking or going to do. But to actively forget when something has not happened<br />

in person but ‘remembered’ through a passing update, is somewhat worrying.<br />

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

goes as a strike against the addiction from the second point.<br />

4. Excessive friend building and Wall posts<br />

Sometimes people find that Facebook is an ego-related thing, and the need<br />

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

whom they want to be in real life.<br />

To add a constant stream of statuses and photos, videos and application<br />

updates may be one way of filling up time — time that could be better spent<br />

elsewhere.<br />

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

you are doing, where and why you are doing it; something that could be<br />

construed as ’showing off’ or boasting.<br />

5. Depression sets in during downtime, and other withdrawal symptoms<br />

Often, addictions are formed around a lacking something. It would not<br />

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

because of a lack of other engagements.<br />

When that void is not filled but the addictive matter is taken away, withdrawal<br />

symptoms set in — such as anger, anxiety, depression and other similar feelings.<br />

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

share some similarities.<br />

When depression or other hidden, mind-orientated symptoms set in, such as<br />

frustration or as though you are missing out on something, then this again<br />

should be a cause for concern. Breaking up with an addiction is incredibly hard<br />

to do, but to do it in stages makes the arduous task easier.<br />

V2.0<br />

FACT FILe<br />

Couple asks Facebook<br />

users to pick child’s<br />

name<br />

The couple wasn’t interested in the<br />

conventional methods of picking a name.<br />

everyone on the social network (a<br />

potential 800 million votes) can participate.<br />

Rather than ask for suggestions, they’ve<br />

narrowed down the list to four names they’re<br />

particularly fond of: McKenna,Madelyn,<br />

Addilyne,and emily.<br />

Voting will end as soon as the baby is born,<br />

and if there’s a tie, they’ll just flip a coin.<br />

You can vote on the poll on the following<br />

Facebook Page, which even has an<br />

ultrasound scan of the baby: Name My<br />

Child; you’ll have to give the app access to<br />

your Facebook account first.<br />

The Meskes had no trouble<br />

naming their firstborn, now 4-year-old<br />

Brianna.<br />

“My in-laws think it’s funny. They know<br />

my personality,” Dave told the Daily<br />

Herald. “My parents think I’m crazy;<br />

they tell me, ‘You’re such a goofball.’”<br />

This is not the first time Facebook has<br />

been involved in naming a baby. Back in<br />

February, an Egyptian father named his<br />

firstborn daughter “Facebook” to show<br />

his appreciation for the social network.<br />

In May, an Israeli couple named their<br />

daughter “Like”, after the Facebook<br />

feature.<br />

Don Bosco Institute Of <strong>Technology</strong>- 7


UmeNow vows<br />

to kill Facebook,<br />

dismisses Google+<br />

Summary: UmeNow is the new social network on the<br />

block. It has one goal: to kill Facebook.<br />

UmeNow is a brand new social network that isn’t satisfied<br />

just competing with the likes of Facebook and Google+. In<br />

fact, UmeNow has declared it will destroy Facebook’s lead<br />

in the social networking market and has dismissed Google+<br />

as a competitor in the first place. The new service is calling<br />

itself “the first and only ad-free social communication<br />

service in the world that is totally focused on privacy.”<br />

UmeNow was founded by a former single mom who has<br />

been very vocal about online privacy. She has been even<br />

more outspoken against Facebook: “We will kill off the<br />

Facebook data eating monster,” Castillo-Bach said in a<br />

statement. To make her point, she’s calling UmeNow’s<br />

marketing campaign “Facebook is Trash, National Privacy<br />

Celebration.”<br />

UmeNow has a $6.00 monthly subscription fee (you can<br />

sign up for a one-month free trial), which gives you the<br />

following features:<br />

• No ads.<br />

• No tracking and No data mining.<br />

• No selling of personal information.<br />

• All third party apps banned.<br />

• Anonymous posting allowed.<br />

• Protection from privacy violations by “free” sites.<br />

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“Our service is all about privacy. Facebook is a<br />

professional data collector. Google is the mothership of<br />

all data collectors. It has nothing on us. They’re not even<br />

in our league. Let’s not forget, Google chief Eric Schmidt<br />

told the world straight up that Google+ is not even a social<br />

network. It’s an ‘identity verification’ service. Anyone<br />

still think these giants really care about privacy? We’ve<br />

designed the perfect anti-Facebook service. We give you<br />

everything they won’t while still making it easy and simple<br />

to connect with friends. Because we have no ads, we could<br />

care less about your private information or collecting data<br />

on you. Our only focus is to give you the power to connect<br />

and share without risk. Our belief is that most people crave<br />

privacy and resent Facebook for limiting their access to<br />

it,” Castillo-Bach said in a statement.<br />

Facebook and Google have definitely had their fair share<br />

of privacy issues, and competitors are always a good thing.<br />

That being said,its just not sure UmeNow is taking the<br />

right approach here: attacking a competitor right from the<br />

get-go isn’t the best approach.<br />

If you want to keep up with UmeNow, you can follow<br />

the company on Twitter. I wonder why they don’t have<br />

equivalent accounts on Facebook and Google+ ?<br />

Vodafone launches<br />

555 Blue,its first<br />

Facebook phone<br />

in India.<br />

The Vodafone 555 Blue, a Facebook phone, has<br />

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

Vodafone launched the Vodafone 555 Blue in India for Rs<br />

4,590 ($100). The telecommunications company calls it<br />

the “world’s first prepay phone with Facebook built-in.”<br />

The device, which was developed in collaboration with<br />

Facebook and will be simply sold as the Vodafone Blue in<br />

India, was expected to arrive in the country last month but<br />

was delayed for unknown reasons.<br />

The Vodafone Blue is a locked prepaid phone aimed at<br />

emerging markets. It is not 3G-enabled but this is arguably<br />

okay for India since EDGE has a much wider coverage<br />

area in the country.<br />

The phone features a dedicated Facebook button (similar<br />

to HTC’s offerings), which lets you upload pictures, visit<br />

profiles, and update your status with a single push. The<br />

device also automatically checks the social network for<br />

new notifications every 20 minutes, although this time<br />

period can be changed. Vodafone Blue will give users one<br />

year of unlimited access to Facebook for free from the date<br />

of its purchase in India.<br />

Vodafone lists the following features for the 555 Blue:<br />

• Ready to go, straight out of the box: Facebook is built<br />

into the handset’s core – it’s running the moment you<br />

turn on the mobile phone.<br />

• Truly integrated messaging: Facebook messages<br />

appear in the handset’s inbox alongside texts and<br />

e-mail.<br />

• Simple photo-sharing: photos taken using the Vodafone<br />

555 Blue’s 2 megapixel camera can be shared with<br />

friends with a single click.<br />

• Easy to stay in contact: friends’ Facebook profiles<br />

are automatically synchronized in the Vodafone 555<br />

Blue’s address book.<br />

• Always available: the Vodafone 555 Blue updates<br />

regularly in the background, flagging new items on the<br />

homescreen and quickly loading them when opened.<br />

• One-click control: the customizable Facebook ‘F’<br />

V2.0<br />

button can be assigned to a number of tasks, including<br />

instantly posting a status update with photos from the<br />

gallery or with links from the browser.<br />

• Attractive form-factor: touch navigation, 2.4″<br />

landscape display, and QWERTY keypad are ideal for<br />

typing chat, e-mail, and status updates.<br />

• Music on the Go: fully integrated FM Radio and music<br />

player with 3.5mm jack<br />

“Facebook wants to make every phone social and Vodafone<br />

has taken the integration of Facebook to the next level with<br />

the Vodafone Blue,” Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile<br />

Business at Facebook, said in a statement. “We are really<br />

happy that Vodafone has brought the phone to India and<br />

enabling people to experience Facebook free of charge<br />

from the mobile device for a year.”<br />

“The mobile internet plays a central role in the daily lives<br />

of millions of Vodafone customers, many of whom are<br />

avid Facebook users,” Patrick Chomet, Vodafone’s Group<br />

Terminals Director, said in a statement. “Vodafone Blue is<br />

the answer to our youth’s mobile social networking needs.<br />

The phone has been designed to let everyone experience<br />

the fun of connecting with friends on the go, at a pocket<br />

friendly price. With our unique, fully integrated Facebook<br />

customization, the Vodafone Blue offers a compelling,<br />

out-of-the-box experience.”<br />

Don Bosco Institute Of <strong>Technology</strong>- 9


How do you feel when your internet connection goes<br />

down?<br />

-Shivani Vaidya(T.E. IT)<br />

Summary: You fire up your computer,<br />

click on your favorite browser icon<br />

(let’s not argue over which one!),<br />

you type in the URL of your favorite<br />

website ( … www.google.com …)<br />

and then … nothing …<br />

You fire up your computer, click on<br />

your favorite browser icon (let’s not<br />

argue over which one!), you type in<br />

the URL of your favorite website<br />

(www.google.com …) and then …<br />

nothing …!<br />

How do you feel when your internet<br />

connection goes down?<br />

According to research carried out by<br />

Intersperience, chances are that you’re<br />

going to feel ‘upset’ and ‘lonely’ and<br />

if that connection was down for 24<br />

hours, you’d feel like you were in a<br />

‘nightmare.’<br />

The survey looked at more than<br />

1,000 individuals between the ages<br />

of 18 to over 65s. These people were<br />

questioned about their ‘digital lives’<br />

including their attitudes and use of<br />

the internet, smartphones and other<br />

connected devices.<br />

Here are the highlights:<br />

• 53% of Brits feel ‘upset’<br />

when deprived of internet<br />

connection<br />

• 40% of people surveyed<br />

feel ‘lonely’ when not able<br />

to go online<br />

• Challenge of 24 hours<br />

without digital devices<br />

described as ‘nightmare’<br />

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For some it seems, a day’s fast from<br />

technology is a major hardship, akin to giving<br />

up an addiction:<br />

The project also involved qualitative<br />

research, including challenging participants<br />

to get through one full day without using<br />

technology. Giving up technology was<br />

considered by some to be as hard as quitting<br />

smoking or drinking, while one survey<br />

participant described it as “like having my<br />

hand chopped off” and another called it<br />

“My biggest nightmare.”<br />

A significant number of people ‘cheated’<br />

by switching on the television or radio as<br />

they did not regard them as ‘technology.’<br />

Others agreed to the challenge but turned<br />

their mobile phones to silent, regarding<br />

being completely disconnected even for<br />

one day as “inconceivable“<br />

Ever imagined a day<br />

without Facebook?<br />

Well, frankly, I haven’t and<br />

I never wish to!<br />

FACT FILE<br />

Rcom’s 3G MIMO...<br />

Rcom improved their 3g<br />

service with mimo technology.<br />

Currently reliance is only<br />

operator in india who provides<br />

3g speed upto 28mbps.Reliance<br />

communications paid 5864.29<br />

Crores for spectrum in 13<br />

circles.<br />

Q: What is MIMO technology?<br />

Ans:MIMO, has the state<br />

of the art of Intelligent<br />

antenna (IA), improves<br />

the performance of radio<br />

systems by embedding<br />

electronics intelligence into<br />

the spatial processing unit.<br />

Spatial processing includes<br />

spatial precoding at the<br />

transmitter postcoding at<br />

the receiver. Intelligent<br />

antenna is technology which<br />

represents smart antenna,<br />

multiple antenna (MIMO),<br />

self-tracking directional<br />

antenna, cooperative virtual<br />

antenna.<br />

Five reasons<br />

Android can<br />

- Sujit Ajitkumar(T.E. IT)<br />

Summary: I want Android to succeed and grow, but<br />

the way things are going, I’m beginning to doubt<br />

that it will thrive in the long run.<br />

I use Android every day. I like it a lot. But, I also have<br />

concerns about how it’s being developed and being<br />

presented to customers.<br />

Before jumping into why I think Android faces trouble<br />

in the long run, let me mention one problem I don’t see<br />

as standing in Android’s way: The Oracle lawsuits. Yes,<br />

Oracle claims that Google owes them billions in damages<br />

for using unlicensed Java technology in Android’s core<br />

Dalvik virtual machine.<br />

I follow patent lawsuits and here’s what going to happen<br />

with this one. It will take years and millions of dollars in<br />

legal fees, but eventually Google will either beat Oracle’s<br />

claims or pay them hefty licensing fees. So, yes, one way<br />

or the other Google, and to a lesser extent Oracle, will<br />

spend hundreds of millions on this matter before it’s done.<br />

But, so what?<br />

The mobile technology space is filled with patent and<br />

licensing lawsuits. When I checked on these lawsuits in<br />

mid-October there were dozens of them. Since then, Apple<br />

has sued Samsung; Dobly has sued RIM; and Lodsys, a<br />

patent troll, vs. Apple and all its iOS developers, By the<br />

time u finish reading this article someone will probably<br />

have sued someone else!<br />

The end-result of all this, besides lining the pockets of<br />

lawyers, is that we’re all going to have pay more for our<br />

tablets and smartphones. It doesn’t matter who wins or<br />

who loses. Thanks to the U.S’s fouled up patent system,<br />

everyone who’s a customer, everyone who’s a developer,<br />

and everyone’s who in business to make something useful<br />

is the loser.<br />

That said, here’s where Android is getting it wrong.<br />

1. Too many developer versions<br />

When Google first forked Android into two versions–The<br />

2.x branch for smartphones and the 3.x for tablets–I didn’t<br />

like the idea. I like it even less now.<br />

According to the Android Developers site, there are eight<br />

versions of Android with market presence. If we ignore the<br />

out-dated Android 1.5 and 1.6, that still leaves us with six<br />

shipping versions that a developer needs to keep in mind<br />

V2.0<br />

when he or she is creating or updating a program. In the<br />

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

there are now two versions of 3.x: 3.0 and 3.1 .<br />

Currently used versions of Android.<br />

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

more!<br />

2. Too many OEM versions<br />

You’d think that Android 2.2 on a Droid II would be the<br />

same on the Samsung Galaxy Pro. You’d think wrong.<br />

Every original equipment manufacturer (OEM) insists<br />

on tweaking the software and adding their own particular<br />

programs to each phone. Sometimes, the same hardware<br />

doesn’t even work with Android on the exact same model.<br />

It is found that the useless microSD slot in the Motorola<br />

XOOM, even after its Android 3.1 update, still doesn’t<br />

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

XOOM users will get a fix that will let them use microSD<br />

cards.<br />

Argh!<br />

Here’s a history lesson for Google and the rest of the movers<br />

and shakers of Android. I’ve seen a “common” operating<br />

system used in this way before during a technology boom.<br />

Once, it was with the pre-PC microcomputers. They all ran<br />

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

added to make their computers “better.” Then along came<br />

PC-DOS, soon to be followed by MS-DOS, and all those<br />

companies-KayPro, Osborne, and IMSAI-became answers<br />

in computer trivia games.<br />

How did Microsoft make its first step to becoming the<br />

Evil Empire? By delivering the same blasted operating<br />

system on every PC. If users can’t count on using the same<br />

programs and the same hardware accessories, like microSD<br />

cards, on Android, they’re not going to stick with Android<br />

devices. If things don’t get better with Android, who knows,<br />

maybe Windows 8 will have a shot on tablets after all!<br />

Don Bosco Institute Of <strong>Technology</strong>- 11


3. Still not open enough<br />

Google, for reasons that still elude me, decided not to<br />

open-source Android 3.x’s source code. This is so dumb!<br />

I’m not talking about playing fast and loose with opensource<br />

licenses or ethics-so Google really stuck its foot<br />

into a mess with this move. No, I’m saying this is dumb<br />

because the whole practical point of open source make<br />

development easier by sharing the code. Honeycomb’s<br />

development depends now on a small number of Google<br />

and big OEM developers. Of them, the OEM staffers will<br />

be spending their time making Honeycomb, Android 3.0,<br />

work better with their specific hardware or carrier. That<br />

doesn’t help anyone else.<br />

4. Security Holes<br />

This one really ticks me off. There is no reason for Android<br />

to be insecure. In fact, in some ways it’s Not insecure. So<br />

why do you keep reading about Android malware?<br />

Here’s how it works. Or, rather, how it doesn’t work.<br />

Android itself, based on Linux, is relatively secure. But,<br />

if you voluntary, albeit unknowingly, install malware from<br />

the Android Market, your Android tablet or smartphone<br />

can’t stop you. Google must start checking “official”<br />

Android apps for malware.<br />

Google has made some improvements to how it handles<br />

Android malware. It’s not enough.<br />

So until things get better, if you’re going to download<br />

Android programs by unknown developers, get an Android<br />

anti-virus program like Lookout. Heck, get it anyway; it’s<br />

only a matter of time until someone finds a way to add<br />

malware to brand-name programs.<br />

5. Pricing<br />

Seriously. What’s with Android tablet pricing? Apple<br />

owns the high-end of tablets. If someone has the money,<br />

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

luxury brand. Android’s hope is to be the affordable brand.<br />

So long as OEMs price Android’s tablets at $500 and up,<br />

they’re not going to move. People will buy a good $250<br />

Android tablet, which is one reason why the Nook is<br />

selling well. They’re not buying $500 Android tablets.<br />

Here’s what I see happening. Android will still prosper…<br />

right up to the point where some other company comes<br />

out with an affordable platform and a broad selection of<br />

compatible software and hardware.<br />

Maybe that will be webOS, if HP drops the price on its<br />

TouchPads. Maybe it will be MeeGo. Heck, it could even<br />

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be Windows 8. What it won’t be though in the long run,<br />

unless Android gets its act together, will be Android.<br />

FACT FILE<br />

Android on the HP TouchPad gets a<br />

touch closer<br />

Summary: Two groups are porting Android to the HP<br />

TouchPad, and both report they are getting close to a<br />

working OS.<br />

As soon as the HP TouchPad was placed on sale for $99,<br />

Android homebrew developers started picking them up<br />

with the intention of porting Android to the tablet. Two<br />

different camps emerged working separately on a port,<br />

and as is typical in work of this nature progress has been<br />

slow so far. One of the primary objectives of both groups<br />

was to get the touchscreen working properly, as a tablet<br />

without touch is basically useless. Both groups have now<br />

demonstrated TouchPads with functioning touchscreens.<br />

One group working on an Android port is<br />

the Touchdroid group. This group was formed specifically<br />

for working this project, and only now did they claim to<br />

have solved the nasty touchscreen driver problem. The<br />

other group is very well known in the Android world,<br />

as CyanogenMod is the most popular homebrew group<br />

working with Android phones. The CM7 port to the<br />

TouchPad now has the touchscreen working too, and in a<br />

video demonstration claims the Touchdroid group reverse<br />

engineered the CM7 driver for the project.<br />

The CM7 port is of greater interest considering the quality<br />

work this group has consistently done with Android<br />

phones and tablets. No doubt they will turn out a good<br />

implementation of Android Gingerbread for the TouchPad<br />

that is stable and fully functional. Also they are making<br />

the TouchPad port a dual-boot solution, meaning users<br />

can boot either native webOS or Android as desired. This<br />

eliminates the need to wipe webOS off the TouchPad as is<br />

required by the Touchdroid project.<br />

Its going to be interesting to see the CM7 port in action,<br />

but frankly as the owner of both Android tablets and the<br />

TouchPad anyone would find webOS to be a better tablet<br />

operating environment. It may be fun to play around with<br />

Android on the TouchPad, but no one can foresee any<br />

function on a tablet that is not better served by webOS.<br />

V2.0<br />

10 reasons NOT to buy an Android and why I’m<br />

waiting for the iPhone 5<br />

-Sujit Ajitkumar(T.E. IT)<br />

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

to buy an Android and I’m waiting for the iPhone 5.<br />

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

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

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

I’m going to buy another crappy iPhone and NOT buy an Android phone.<br />

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<br />

three years.<br />

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<br />

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

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

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

Kindle books.<br />

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<br />

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

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

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<br />

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<br />

dislike the iPhone, I might be a perfect candidate for the Android.<br />

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

any other viable smartphone choices.<br />

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<br />

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

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

Reason 1: Malware present in applications<br />

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

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

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

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,<br />

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

Don Bosco Institute Of <strong>Technology</strong>- 13


Reason 2: New and exciting security holes<br />

Now, admittedly, the whole authorization-token-inthe-clear<br />

security issue was nothing major and Google<br />

patched it quickly. But, on top of the whole malware<br />

problem, this sort of security issue is troubling.<br />

Old Ben Franklin famously said, “Any people that would<br />

give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves<br />

neither liberty nor safety.” I do agree with him, except<br />

that when it comes to the phone in my pocket, I guess I’m<br />

willing to give up a little hackety freedom in return for a<br />

safer, less infested phone.<br />

Reason 3: Complete lack of version number logic<br />

Between the folks at Mozilla, who are trying to hide<br />

Firefox versions in an effort to make us all insane, and the<br />

folks at Google, who name and number Android versions<br />

all willy-nilly, I’m getting slightly annoyed.<br />

Is the current version Froyo or Gingerbread or<br />

Honeycomb? Do I want an Ice Cream Sandwich or a<br />

Cupcake or a Donut? Is it possible to run a low-cal version<br />

of Android? What if I’m cutting carbs and mostly doing<br />

protein? Then what?<br />

Seriously, Gingerbread is version 2.3 of Android, but<br />

Honeycomb is version 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. Seriously? And<br />

if I’m buying an Android phone, I’m going to need to<br />

buy one running version 2.3, even though Android 3.1 is<br />

current, but only for tablets. Seriously?<br />

Okay, and some phones only run Froyo and others only<br />

run Gingerbread, and you can’t upgrade from one to the<br />

other without a hack. Seriously?<br />

I know Android is gaining market share because of the<br />

wide diversity of offerings, but there’s got to be some<br />

compromise between the der fuhrer approach of Steve<br />

Jobs’ Apple and the herding cats approach of Android.<br />

Oh, yeah, that was webOS. Sigh.<br />

Reason 4: Very different user experience on different<br />

handsets<br />

Love it or hate it, when you pick up an iPhone, it feels like<br />

an iPhone. It feels and works like a phone designed for<br />

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

This is not the case with Android phones.<br />

Phones from different manufacturers are wildly different,<br />

with different home screens, UIs, and feature sets. It’s so<br />

that you could buy two Android phones, put them sideby-side,<br />

and unless you knew they were both Androids,<br />

you’d think they were completely different devices.<br />

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I don’t want a phone that’s got a funky user experience.<br />

I want one that I’m used to and can describe to someone<br />

else, and they have the same experience. I want to be able<br />

to tell someone what I’m doing with my phone and have<br />

them know exactly how that’d work for them.<br />

With Android, you can’t have that happen, even with<br />

phones from the same maker.<br />

Reason 5: Probably can’t upgrade without<br />

jailbreaking, rooting, modding, whatevah<br />

The history of Android phone upgrades is not a good<br />

one. Most manufacturers essentially design a model for<br />

a given OS, and if there’s an upgrade, your phone might<br />

not be able to run it.<br />

The next version of the Android OS is the quixotically<br />

named Ice Cream Sandwich. If I were to buy an Android<br />

phone now, it’s highly unlikely I’d be able to upgrade it<br />

to ICS without a jailbreak.<br />

And, like I said before, I don’t really have time to hack<br />

my phone.<br />

Reason 6: App incompatibility<br />

Okay, this is a huge, huge deal-breaker. Apps built for<br />

one handset often don’t work on another. It’s almost<br />

impossible to be sure that you can run a given application<br />

without trying. And when you look at the apps, the poor<br />

developers are often saddled with building a compatibility<br />

matrix for every phone model.<br />

This lack of consistency is not good. Even Windows has<br />

better application compatibility across machines and you<br />

never know what’ll be inside your friendly neighborhood<br />

Windows PC<br />

Reason 7: Too much tweaking required<br />

While it annoys me to no end that I can’t make minor<br />

tweaks and add utilities to my iPhone, the necessity of<br />

tweaking most Android phones to make them usable<br />

is unacceptable. First, I just don’t want to spend the<br />

time adjusting everything, adding programs, removing<br />

programs, and otherwise tuning, just so I can overcome<br />

the software design decisions of hardware engineers at<br />

the handset makers. Or, worse, so I can overcome the<br />

marketing deals put together by product managers at the<br />

handset makers.<br />

Then, there’s the temptation. I’m a tech-geek, so the<br />

temptation might be to spend hours or days futzing with<br />

the phone interface. This is not something I should be<br />

spending much time on.<br />

Even though self-control is an issue, an even bigger one<br />

is the simple crapware nature of the delivered software on<br />

most Android phone handsets.<br />

Reason 8: Poor tablet compatibility<br />

Once again, compatibility is an issue. Many iPhone<br />

applications (actually nearly all of them) will run on the<br />

iPad. They may not be iPad-optimized, but they’ll run.<br />

Not so much with Android. Even the SDKs between the<br />

two classes of device are different. Developers are coding<br />

2.x software for phones and 3.x software for tablets.<br />

They might as well have completely different names for all<br />

the native compatibility they have.<br />

Reason 9: Little ongoing manufacturer support<br />

The problem with Android tablets - Manufacturers see<br />

them as disposable.<br />

Reason 10: Google<br />

Let me be clear in how much I like and respect most of<br />

the people at Google. The individuals there are very cool.<br />

But the company sometimes seems like part Borg and part<br />

Borgia. If you need personal help, the company is virtually<br />

impenetrable.<br />

To be fair, the company has softened up a bit, but when<br />

you rely completely on Google, you never know if baaaad<br />

things are going to happen.<br />

This is also an issue with other Google services. I described<br />

my frustration a few weeks ago, when I tried setting up a<br />

YouTube account and discovered once again that there’s<br />

no account maintenance functionality throughout the<br />

Google ecosphere.<br />

On the other hand, there are some advantages<br />

I know that when I go with the iPhone 5, I’ll be giving<br />

up some freedom and some self-respect. I’ll be selling my<br />

soul for the promise of the safety and warmth of the Apple<br />

mothership. This disturbs me to a level you probably can’t<br />

understand.<br />

There are some good aspects to the Android experience<br />

I’ll be giving up. I’ll be giving up the ability to tune my<br />

V2.0<br />

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

days, but Apple doesn’t think we’re adult enough to<br />

manage now in era of iOS finger painting.<br />

Beyond having tweaking control (without jailbreaking), I<br />

do miss the choice of models (you can have any color as<br />

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

and oh, what I would give for a replaceable battery!<br />

Unfortunately, these few boons of Androidum don’t<br />

make up for the disadvantages. And, holding my nose,<br />

this is why I’m not going to buy an Android and why I’m<br />

waiting for the iPhone 5.<br />

But thats me and i am NOT God, but only human!<br />

The decision is yours,so is the money!<br />

Go ahead. Have your say. I’ve got enough<br />

food in the bunker to last me two weeks.<br />

Don Bosco Institute Of <strong>Technology</strong>- 15


Is the cloud still safe? How to survive a<br />

cloud computing disaster.<br />

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

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and more.<br />

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

and Sony Erickson that’s being hacked. This after weeks of PlayStation<br />

Network downtime and an expansion of bad news into Sony Online (well,<br />

offline these days) Entertainment.<br />

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

There have been cloud failures at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and more.<br />

The Top 5 Tips to Survive a Cloud Computing Disaster<br />

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<br />

still safe.<br />

Amazon Web Services<br />

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

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

sure it’s not using the same service provider you are.<br />

PlayStation Network (and all the other Sony woes)<br />

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

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

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

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

problems are just making things worse.<br />

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

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

to batten down the hatches to any extent.<br />

Epsilon<br />

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

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

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

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

trust any email you get, ever, ever again.<br />

LastPass<br />

When password management company LastPass thought it<br />

might have had a breach, it quite properly shut everything<br />

down and began an internal investigation. The problem<br />

was that the company didn’t use best practices, and was<br />

completely unprepared for all its customers trying to<br />

change their passwords — all at the same time.<br />

Millions were shut out of not only LastPass, but also all<br />

their other password-based online services, including their<br />

email accounts.<br />

Blogger<br />

When free blogging service Blogger.com (part of Google)<br />

performed some regular maintenance recently, something<br />

went wrong. The result was about 30 hours of blog posts<br />

were lost.<br />

Android<br />

You might love your Android handset, but it might not<br />

love you back. A rather extensive security hole was found<br />

in the service, opening the door to all sorts of disturbing<br />

penetration possibilities. Google’s hard at work fixing the<br />

bug, but it’s still scary.<br />

Dropbox<br />

Dropbox is a Web file system solution and if you have an<br />

iPhone and want to use it for anything useful at all, you’re<br />

probably using Dropbox to supplement the iPhone’s<br />

internal file system.<br />

Recently the company changed its terms of service,<br />

substantially changing their wording for how they manage<br />

encryption. Short form: it’s adequate for most uses, but if<br />

you’re hiding something, don’t count on it staying hidden<br />

from the authorities.<br />

As more and more businesses of all types and sizes continue<br />

moving to the cloud for a wide range of IT solutions, the<br />

risks from a failure at any of the many cloud computing<br />

providers becomes even more important to business and<br />

IT professionals.<br />

In fact, a series of recent cloud computing failures<br />

demonstrate just how damaging they can be when it<br />

comes to the potentially permanent loss of information. Of<br />

course, there are also a great number of preventative steps<br />

FACT FILE<br />

9 in 10 see cloud as opportunity, not<br />

threat<br />

V2.0<br />

that any organization can take to minimize the impact by<br />

simply knowing what to expect when confronted by the<br />

unexpected.<br />

Following things could be done to make the cloud safer:<br />

• A better understanding of the rising risks posed by an<br />

ever-increasing number of cloud computing solutions<br />

and providers.<br />

• Top strategies and tactics to prevent, manage and<br />

survive an unexpected failure or loss of cloud<br />

computing resources.<br />

• The most promising technologies and solutions to<br />

ensure the most reliable and robust protection for<br />

cloud-based information and services.<br />

Cloud computing is one of the most important IT<br />

innovations ever, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t without its<br />

problems.<br />

A survey of supposedly conservative IT decision makers<br />

has found that 9 in every 10 see cloud as an opportunity<br />

to reduce costs and smooth operational performance rather<br />

than a threat to security .<br />

‘Do you believe that Cloud represents an opportunity<br />

or threat to your organisation?’ A massive 89 percent<br />

described cloud as an opportunity, leaving just 11 percent<br />

calling it a threat.<br />

When asked to specify the nature of the opportunity, more<br />

than two-thirds picked ‘reduce our IT infrastructure costs’<br />

as the most important factor, while 29 percent said, ‘Cloud<br />

will help to manage peaks and troughs in system usage.’<br />

Don Bosco Institute Of <strong>Technology</strong>- 17


7 ways cloud computing could be even<br />

greener....<br />

Summary: Pretty much everyone agrees that the<br />

cloud brings substantial energy-efficiency benefits, but<br />

Forrester Research offers 7 suggestions for how to make<br />

your cloud computing agenda even greener.<br />

Forrester Research is the latest organization to explore<br />

the link between cloud computing and green IT.<br />

Like others, it believes that the cloud approach can<br />

be inherently more energy-efficient than other IT<br />

infrastructure approaches. But it says that infrastructure<br />

and facilities professionals should take a stronger<br />

stand on the choices they make for private cloud<br />

infrastructure strategies, or cloud infrastructure that will<br />

serve a limited set of hand-chosen constituents versus<br />

the public at large.<br />

The research firm’s suggestions are outlined in a report<br />

released at the end of June, “Cloud Computing helps<br />

Accelerate Green IT.” Forrester notes that by its nature,<br />

cloud computing is more efficient. But here are seven<br />

ways that an IT professional can make his or her cloud<br />

computing even greener — regardless of whether or not<br />

the approach is public or private:<br />

1. Make sure the data center is using<br />

power generated by renewable energy<br />

sources or that it uses “free cooling” methods.<br />

As an example, Forrester cites the Microsoft data<br />

center in Quincy, Wash, which uses hydroelectricity.<br />

As you pick your cloud provider, ask the question:<br />

Does the data center is uses take advantage of solar,<br />

wind or other sources. Can it rely on free air cooling<br />

at least part of the year?<br />

2. Look for modular data center approaches.<br />

That means the cloud service provider — or your<br />

own organization, if we’re talking private cloud —<br />

is using an “as you go” approach to designing and<br />

building out the facility. Infrastructure should be<br />

brought on and provisioned as necessary, in order to<br />

keep utilization rates high. Forrester also suggests<br />

looking for a provider that has invested in a green<br />

certification, such as the Leadership in Energy and<br />

Environmental Design (LEED) designation that was<br />

developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.<br />

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3. Get yourself more energy-efficient power and<br />

cooling systems.<br />

There has been a lot written about the need to make<br />

computer hardware more energy-efficient. Now, it’s<br />

time to extend that mentality to uninterruptible power<br />

supplies, power distribution units, air-side economizers<br />

and the like.<br />

4. Think converged.<br />

Forrester suggest that blade architectures that converge<br />

server, storage and network architectures into a single<br />

rack aren’t just easier to manage, they are far more<br />

energy-efficient.<br />

5. Virtualize and automate.<br />

Sure, pretty much every company has done SOME<br />

virtualization work. But how much is green enough?<br />

Forrester suggests that 76 percent to 100 percent of a<br />

company’s total server footprint should be virtualized<br />

in order to deliver significant green IT benefits.<br />

6. Measure and manage.<br />

Energy information should be coupled with management<br />

automation that consumption can be optimized. So,<br />

for example, certain energy-intense workloads could<br />

be moved (if appropriate) from daytime to night in<br />

order to take advantage of better prices per kilowatt<br />

hour. Likewise, an organization could affect its carbon<br />

footprint position, but centering the most intense It<br />

workloads in data centers that are more energy-efficient.<br />

7. Set goals and strive for them.<br />

You can’t really improve your green IT strategy unless<br />

you have one. And you can’t make it better, unless<br />

you focus on specific goals. There are three primary<br />

areas in which a green IT strategy can be “greener”:<br />

procurement (as in, buying the most energy-efficient<br />

technologies), operations (taking advantage of software<br />

and automation tools to provide the best experience) and<br />

end-of-life (which means ensuring that technologies are<br />

disposed of properly according to emerging electronicwaste<br />

policy standards).<br />

Bug allows Mac<br />

OS X Lion clients<br />

to use any LDAP<br />

password<br />

Summary: If you have Mac OS X ‘Lion’ clients and use<br />

LDAP authentication, you need to read this.<br />

Reports are circulating that Apple’s latest incarnation of<br />

Mac OS X - 10.7 ‘Lion’ - contains a serious LDAP network<br />

authentication bug.<br />

The bug is a simple one, but<br />

at the same time a serious<br />

one - users logging in to<br />

Macs running OS X 10.7 can<br />

access restricted network<br />

resources using any<br />

password at all when LDAP<br />

is used for authentication<br />

(for example Apple’s Open<br />

Directory or OpenLDAP).<br />

At the moment it’s not clear what the problem is because<br />

Apple doesn’t own up to bugs until it has a patch for<br />

them but there’s a fair bit of discussion about the problem<br />

on variousforums. Some users claim that they can log into<br />

the network using any username and password while others<br />

claim to be completely locked out when using the correct<br />

username and password. Others are seeing a problem<br />

where they need the correct password initially but then<br />

other resources that require LDAP authentication are given<br />

automatic credentials.<br />

Bottom line, if you use LDAP for authentication, and you<br />

have clients using 10.7 ‘Lion’ then this is a pretty big deal.<br />

If that doesn’t describe your setup then you don’t need to<br />

worry about this.<br />

Despite the problem first being reported on July 25, five<br />

days after Lion was released, Apple as yet to offer users<br />

a fix. This issue was not addressed in Apple’s 10.7.1<br />

update for Lion.<br />

FACT FILE<br />

Why 37 percent of projects fail!<br />

Five top causes of troubled projects:<br />

1. Requirements: Unclear, lack of agreement,<br />

lack of priority, contradictory, ambiguous,<br />

imprecise.<br />

2. Resources: Lack of resources, resource<br />

conflicts, turnover of key resources, poor<br />

planning.<br />

V2.0<br />

3. Schedules: Too tight, unrealistic, overly<br />

optimistic.<br />

4. Planning: Based on insufficient data,<br />

missing items, insufficient details, poor<br />

estimates.<br />

5. Risks: Unidentified or assumed, not<br />

managed.<br />

FACT FILE (CONTD..)<br />

According to the survey, the most common obstacles<br />

that interfere with recovering failed projects are:<br />

• Getting stakeholders to accept the changes<br />

needed to bring the projects back on trackwhether<br />

they are changes in scope, budget,<br />

resources, etc.<br />

• Poor communication and stakeholder<br />

engagement; lack of clarity and trust.<br />

• Conflicting priorities and politics.<br />

• Finding enough qualified resources needed to<br />

complete the projects.<br />

• Lack of a process or methodology to help bring<br />

the project back on track.<br />

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Five unanswered<br />

Windows8<br />

questions<br />

Summary: By the end of the day,<br />

we’ll know much more about<br />

Windows 8. But some questions<br />

will remain unanswered, even<br />

after a thorough demo. Here<br />

are the top five on the list.<br />

After the first day of<br />

Microsoft’sBUILD<br />

conference is in the books,<br />

we’ll know much more<br />

about Windows 8. That<br />

will certainly answer<br />

some of the questions<br />

that Microsoft<br />

watchers have been<br />

asking over<br />

the past few months.<br />

But a few larger questions have yet to be answered<br />

and may not be addressed in full. Here are the top five on<br />

the list.<br />

How will Microsoft manage the transition to a new<br />

interface?<br />

Windows 8 will include two interfaces: the “modern”<br />

Metro-style interface and the traditional desktop as<br />

embodied in Windows 7.<br />

That has to be nerve-racking for two groups. Business<br />

customers will be totaling up the training costs and<br />

worrying about potential backlash from users. Developers<br />

will be doing risk-reward calculations to decide which<br />

interface to invest their time and energy in.<br />

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It’s a tightrope act for Microsoft. If the new interface<br />

doesn’t get traction quickly enough, early adopters are<br />

disappointed and developers go broke.<br />

Where’s the cloud strategy?<br />

Microsoft has spent the past few years methodically<br />

building up its cloud-based offerings. With a Windows<br />

Live ID, you can get 25 GB of online storage for documents<br />

and photos. Confusingly, you can sync a separate 5 GB of<br />

data to SkyDrive using the Windows Live Mesh utility.<br />

But the missing pieces are even more noteworthy. There’s<br />

no easy way for apps to retrieve a file directly from<br />

SkyDrive. Online storage is walled off from Windows<br />

Explorer, and has to be managed in a web browser. And<br />

so far Microsoft has said nothing about its strategy for<br />

uploading your music collection into online storage.<br />

Google and Apple have already gone public with their<br />

cloud solutions.<br />

Can a credible Windowspowered<br />

tablet really wait till<br />

mid-2012 or later?<br />

This is probably the question<br />

heard more often than any<br />

other. The stunning success<br />

of the iPad means there’s some<br />

urgency for Microsoft to respond.<br />

But a hasty response can be worse<br />

than none at all. Just ask HP, which<br />

abruptly canned the TouchPad less<br />

than two months after rolling it onto<br />

the market. Or ask anyone who<br />

bought a current-generation Android<br />

tablet and is now struggling to make<br />

it work.<br />

Based on those competitors’ experiences, Microsoft’s<br />

decision to wait until it can release a combination of<br />

hardware and software that works well together is the<br />

right one. One theory heard is that Windows 8 could be<br />

delivered in two releases: one version exclusively for<br />

ARM-based tablet devices, early in 2012, followed by the<br />

full Windows 8 release for traditional PCs later in the year.<br />

That scenario is unlikely, but it could happen.<br />

How much will it cost?<br />

This question is actually a twofer, because you can’t answer<br />

without also defining the list of Windows 8 editions. Will<br />

Windows 8 be delivered in multiple SKUs? Absolutely—<br />

at a bare minimum you need one for consumers<br />

and another for businesses on enterprise networks.<br />

But if history is a guide, it will be months before we<br />

know the exact lineup.<br />

And asking this question also raises the question of<br />

Apple’s $30 upgrade pricing, which it introduced with<br />

Snow Leopard and continued with Lion. Microsoft and<br />

Apple are in different businesses, of course. Apple makes<br />

its money from high-margin hardware, and it can afford to<br />

break even on an OS upgrade. Microsoft makes its money<br />

selling software through partners, and a $30 upgrade could<br />

be a profit-killer.<br />

Most copies of Windows are sold through hardware<br />

manufacturers on new PCs. Don’t expect that to change<br />

in the Windows 8 timeframe. Given Microsoft’s decision<br />

to engineer the new OS to run on existing hardware, it<br />

wouldn’t be a surprise to see an offer of cheap upgrades<br />

for Windows 7 users. But we won’t know those details<br />

until next year, at the earliest.<br />

Where’s Office?<br />

Earlier this year, when Steven Sinofsky and Julie<br />

Larson-Green showed off Windows 8 at the All Things<br />

D conference, showed Excel 2010 running on the<br />

legacy Windows desktop. When Walt Mossberg asked<br />

why the Office team didn’t rewrite Office for the new<br />

touch-first interface, Larson-Green responded, “Well.<br />

They may do something … in the future.”<br />

It is suspected to be a nice piece of misdirection by<br />

Microsoft. If you remember the playbook for the Windows<br />

7 launch, Office 14 (Office 2010) was in beta and available<br />

for testing along with the new OS. Office 15 is suspected<br />

FACT FILE<br />

V2.0<br />

to follow the same schedule, and we may even<br />

see some clues about how a “modern” version<br />

of Word, Excel, and the rest will look in the next<br />

wave of Office Web Apps.<br />

Microsoft to provide USB 3.0<br />

support for better battery<br />

life in Windows 8<br />

Microsoft officials are promising USB 3.0<br />

support will be part of Windows 8, which will<br />

help with battery-life and power-consumption<br />

on tablets and desktop PCs.<br />

There are also billions of older USB devices<br />

that Windows must remain compatible with.<br />

USB 3.0 is up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0<br />

provides “improved power management that<br />

results in longer battery life,” Additionally, “by<br />

2015, all new PCs are expected to offer USB 3.0<br />

ports, and over 2 billion new ‘SuperSpeed’ USB<br />

devices will be sold.”<br />

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Certification:<br />

The <strong>Department</strong> of <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> is offering<br />

the following certification courses in Oracle<br />

• IZO-007 (Introduction to Oracle 10g)<br />

• IZO-042 (Oracle 10g Administration- I)<br />

Expert Talk On:<br />

‘Free and Open source Software’, was delivered by Mr.<br />

Suryakant Sawant, Research Scholar, IITB, Mumbai for<br />

SE IT students on 18 th October, 2011.<br />

‘Geospatial Data Mining’, was delivered by Mr.<br />

Amiyakumar Tripathy, Research Scholar, IITB, Mumbai<br />

for BE IT students on 12 th October, 2011.<br />

‘Tricks in Dynamic Programming’, was delivered by<br />

Mr. Jagadish M., Research Scholar, IITB, Mumbai for SE<br />

IT students on 7 th October, 2011.<br />

‘Multimedia Retrieval’, was delivered by Dr. Bhavesh<br />

Patel Principal, Shah & Anchor Polytechnic, Chembur,<br />

Mumbai for BE IT students on 17 th October, 2011.<br />

‘Future of VLSI in IT’, was delivered by Dr. Sudhakar<br />

Mande, <strong>Department</strong> of Electronics and Telecommunication<br />

for SE IT students on 20 th October, 2011.<br />

‘Game Architecture and Programming’, was delivered<br />

by Mr. Sanjay Deshmukh, G. V. Acharya Institute of<br />

<strong>Technology</strong>, Karjat for BE IT students on 12 th October,<br />

2011.<br />

‘General Aptitude Training’, was delivered by Mr.<br />

Vivek Sarda, Ideal Edusystem Pvt. Ltd., Thane for BE IT<br />

students on 11 th August, 2011.<br />

‘Career Guidance’, was delivered by Mr. Nitin Parab,<br />

Amore Crosslink Inc. Pvt. Ltd., Goregaon, Mumbai for BE<br />

IT students on 5 th August, 2011.<br />

‘MBA Career Opportunities’, was delivered by Dr.<br />

Nirmala Joshi, Don Bosco Institute of Management<br />

& Research, Kurla, Mumbai for BE IT students on 18 th<br />

October, 2011.<br />

‘How to write a Technical Paper’, was delivered by Ms.<br />

Janhavi Baikerikar, for SE, TE and BE IT students on 26 th<br />

August, 2011, 30 th August, 2011 and 29 th September, 2011.<br />

List of College Toppers:<br />

S.E. IT(2010-2011)<br />

V2.0<br />

Ms. Diana Sequeira attended a workshop on Software<br />

Tesing Automation tool on 24th September 2011.<br />

Student Activities:<br />

Mr. Anthony Selva Jessobalan (T.E. IT) successfully<br />

completed a certification course on RHCSA and RHSE.<br />

Mr.Raj Saxena (B.E. IT) was selected as the best NSS<br />

volunteer at District/ Zone level for the academic year<br />

2010 – 2011 by NSS Cell, University of Mumbai.<br />

Mr.Neil Alexander (T.E. IT) secured 1st place in technical<br />

quiz held at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College,<br />

Bandra West on 20 th August 2011.<br />

Mr. Shubham Rai (T.E. IT) was elected Technical Secretary<br />

of the DBIT College Council.<br />

The T.E. IT cricket team won the Intra College Cricket<br />

Tournament held in September 2011.<br />

Ms.Vallerine Mascarenhas, Mr.Cliffton Fernandes,<br />

Ms.Jigyasa Panchal from T.E. IT took part in the Dance<br />

Finals at Malhar ’11 held at St.Xaviers College, Fort in<br />

August 2011.<br />

Sr No. Name of the student Overall Percentage<br />

1 Madnani Aarti 74.40%<br />

2 D’souza Duane Leslie 73.20%<br />

3 Shetty Nidhi 69.90%<br />

T.E. IT(2010-2011)<br />

Sr No. Name of the student Overall Percentage<br />

1 Menezes Valan Leslie Lyentte 69.11%<br />

2 D’mello Edna Edward Anita 68.44%<br />

3 Fernandes Caroline Jacinto Natheline 67.44%<br />

B.E. IT(2010-2011)<br />

Sr No. Name of the student Overall Percentage<br />

1 Hiwarale Akansha Ashok Urmila 80.42%<br />

2 Fernandes Cheryl Sebastian Blossom 80.28%<br />

3 Kadam Sushant Shivaji Ranjana 79.14%<br />

Don Bosco Institute Of <strong>Technology</strong>- 23


T.E IT<br />

B.E IT

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