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Software facilitates mobile application development. (ThomasNet)
Mobile/PDA Software includes Web standards-based mobile enterprise application enablement component that supports Windows Mobile 6 as well as Vista desktop and tablet platforms in addition to Windows Mobile 5, Win32, and Palm. It helps application developers build solutions for mixed device environments and lets then tailor device client UI via JavaScript. Other components include mobile ...
TestMaker 5.2 (Default branch)
PushToTest TestMaker is a platform for real-time monitoring and governance of information systems. Software developers use TestMaker turn their unit tests into functional tests that run on their development machine. TestMaker includes Wizards and Recorders to automatically build tests and supports a variety of languages to build tests, including Java, .NET, Jython, Groovy, PHP, Ruby, and many others. It supports SOA, Web Service, AJAX, and REST services using HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, XML-RPC, and the email protocols. The TestMaker test runtime environment automatically turns these same functional tests into load tests, scalability and performance tests, regression tests, and service monitors for QA technicians, IT operations managers, and CIOs.License: GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:This release has a new results analysis engine, Selenium IDE/RC for AJAX testing, multiple target monitoring, Web debugging utilities, new tutorials, and new data production libraries.
Tech Startup Tackles Energy Use by Data Centers
Data centers in the U.S. have created a carbon footprint that is larger than that of countries such as The Netherlands and Argentina. Internet companies such as Google are investing billions of dollars in setting up massive data centers and struggling to control soaring power usage. While Google may want its users to trawl thousands of terabytes of data and get their search results almost immediately, this activity gobbles up plenty of energy.Here's the problem for companies such as Google: power usage by data centers accounts for around 2 percent of all the power supplied to the U.S. grid and 2-3 percent globally.As companies struggle to balance their quest for greater computing capacity while controlling power use, they are turning to technology for answers. Virident, a California-based startup set up by a couple of IIT grads who also went to the same graduate school at University of Illinois, is looking to address this issue using by enhancing the memory capacity of servers using specially designed flash memory chips (commonly used in cell phones, for example) to increase the computing capability of servers.Virident (derived from Viridus in Latin meaning green and dent meaning to make; literally to make green), was started by Kumar Ganapathy and Vijay Karamcheti, who blended their experience across the semiconductor industry and academia to set up this company.Ganapathy was a Fellow with Rockwell Semiconductor before he set up his own start-up, VX Tel, which built voice over IP chipsets, and then worked with Artiman Ventures. Karamcheti worked with Google and spent the last 15 years working on parallelization techniques at New York University.The duo has teamed up with an assortment of business acquaintances to set up Virident and embed these flash memory chips in data centers. As a first step, the company roped in Raj Parekh, a...
Finally, an Apple notebook built with green credentials in mind
I ve been writing stories about Apple products for longer than I care to enumerate here, and have always been agog over the sheer creativity that s associated with its product design. Too expensive, yes. Too heavy, absolutely. Self-indulgent, probably. But my second-hand, three-year-old PowerBook G4 notebook still draws comments (not all of them negative) at the very business-oriented industry conferences where I lug it, and it still serves me well. I am very biased, and I admit it. My main knock against Apple lately has been that its astonishing design hasn t been all the eco-conscious compared with its rivals like Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Lenovo and Dell. That's why you rarely see product mentions in this particular blog venue, but its latest product launch ...
Rethinking the Taskbar
Back when Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green demonstrated Windows 7's multitouch framework during the All Things Digital conference, many noted the different taskbar that she was using on the demo machine. When Walt Mossberg asked her about it, she smiled and replied "It's something we're working on for Windows 7 and I'm not supposed to talk about right now, today..." Personally, I was quite intrigued by this revamped taskbar, seeing how static and old the current one already is (Windows 95, people). Microsoft has remained mum on the issue ever since, but last Tuesday, the silence was broken when Microsoft's Chaitanya Sareen posted a detailed entry on the taskbar on the Engineering Windows 7 blog.
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