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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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T.E IT<br />
B.E IT