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Indian app software market will cross $227 m this year: Gartner
The Indian application development software market is expected to cross $227 million in 2012, a 22.6 per cent rise over 2011.
Growth will be driven by evolving software delivery models, new development methodologies, emerging mobile application development and open source software, according to a study by research and analyst firm Gartner.
EMERGING TRENDS
“Application modernisation and increasing agility will continue to be a solid driver for app development spending, apart from other emerging dynamics of cloud, mobility and social computing,” said Asheesh Raina, principal research analyst at Gartner.
“These emerging trends are directing app demand towards newer architectures, programming languages, business model and user skills,” he added.
According to Gartner, cloud is changing the way applications are designed, tested and deployed, resulting in a significant shift in app priorities. About 90 per cent of large, mainstream enterprises and government agencies will use some aspect of cloud computing by 2015. Gartner predicts that mobile AD projects targeting smart phones and tablets will outnumber native personal computer projects by a ratio of 4:1 by 2015. Emerging mobile applications, systems and devices are transforming the app development space rapidly, and are one of the top three CIO priorities at the enterprise level.
The research also found that CIOs expect more than 20 per cent of their employees to use tablets instead of laptops by 2013, hastening the process of change as app tools and applications evolve to address the requirements of these new devices.
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Gartner expects open source software to continue to broaden its presence and create pressure on market leaders during the next 3-5 years. It predicts that at least 70 per cent of new enterprise Java applications will be deployed on an open source Java application server by 2017-end.
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Keywords: Indian application development software market, software delivery models, apps, emerging mobile application
21/08/2012
Asia gets its fastest undersea data cable system
A new 7,800 km undersea data cable has opened to traffic in Asia linking Japan, Malaysia,Singapore and the Philippines which could aid in financial trade.
The Submarine-cable Express (ASE) transfers data via an optical fibre system at 40 gigabits per second, and is three milliseconds faster than any other cable between Singapore and Tokyo, the BBC News reported.
The gain in speed may sound small, but could prove critical to financial trades made out of the region.
So-called "high frequency trades", controlled by computers, involve making what may be hundreds of thousands of transactions in less than a second - all determined by a program that tracks market conditions.
With banks and hedge funds competing against each other, the size of the profit or loss can come down to a matter of beating the competition by a fraction of a second, explained Ralph Silva, a strategist at Silva Research Network.
"High frequency trading is basically computer trading - you program a set of rules and as events happen - the computer decides buy or sell commands," he was quoted as saying by the BBC.
"As all incoming data is received by all banks at the same time, and because the computers are all the same with the same speed of processors, the length of time the command takes to get to the exchange makes a big difference," he said.
"Three milliseconds in computer time is an hour in human time," he added.
The route for the new cable was chosen to be as straight as possible, reducing the time to get information from one end to the other to 65 milliseconds.
The data transfer capacity of 40 Gbps is the equivalent of downloading a high-resolution DVD in about two seconds.
The new facility adds to a web of undersea cables in the waters around Japan.
These include ones run by Australian operator Telstra International; Taiwan's largest phone operator Chunghwa Telecom; and the global telecommunications service provider Pacnet, based in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Many were damaged by a powerful earthquake near Japan's northeast coast in March 2011.
The problems helped influence where the new cable was laid, said Japan's biggest telecommunications provider.
"We avoided the area around Taiwan, where earthquakes are common, and laid the route near the Philippines instead, making the cable very safe and reliable," Hiroyuki Matsumoto, senior director of network services at NTT, one of the four partners involved in the project said.
What went wrong with social networking sites?
Just a year ago, social media seemed the next big thing. With dizzying user growth at Twitter, Zynga and especially Facebook, investors were euphoric about Internet sites that connected people with shared interests and experiences, seemingly the perfect media for targeted advertising.
The professional networking and job search site LinkedIn was first to test the public's appetite when it went public in May 2011. Its shares more than doubled to close at $94.25 after trading as high as $122.70 that first day.
Early investors were understandably giddy, but others, like former Treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers, sounded a cautionary note.
"Who could have imagined that the concern with respect to any American financial asset, just two years after the crisis, would be a bubble?" Summers asked at the time.
No one is talking about a bubble now.
Over the past year, Internet companies like Groupon, Zynga and Yelp made their public debuts. Facebook followed in May at $38 a share, instantly giving the newly minted public company a valuation of nearly $105 billion.
Facebook hasn't closed above $38 since. The initial offering was widely deemed a debacle both for trading glitches and the need for underwriters to prop up the stock.
The shares' subsequent decline accelerated after the company's first earnings report as a public company late last month dashed investors' hopes for torrid growth.
This week marked the end of the lockup period, which barred insiders from immediately selling their shares, and Facebook shares hit a new low, slumping below $20 a share.
Other social media companies have fared even worse.
Like Facebook, the Internet discount coupon site Groupon increased its offering price and number of shares just before its public debut in November. After rejecting a $6 billion takeover bid from Google in December 2010, Groupon shares closed at $26.11 on its first day of trading, up from its $20 offering price, giving it a market value of $13 billion.
It has been pretty much downhill ever since. This week, Groupon shares were hovering near $5, a 75 percent decline from its offering price, giving it a market capitalization of just more than $3 billion, barely half what Google offered.
Zynga, a company that makes online social games, went public in December at $10 and dropped 5 percent its first day. Although it traded above $14 a share as recently as March, this week it was below $3, down 70 percent.
Even the best-performing social media sites have seen their shares stagnate. Yelp's shares, which jumped 64 percent on their first day of trading in March to close at $23, were at $22 this week. And LinkedIn, considered by many to be the gold standard for social media concerns, never again hit its opening peak and was trading this week near $102.
Twitter and Living Social have put the brakes on going public; the companies have recently said they're in no rush. That's hardly surprising.
What went wrong?
Every company has its own story, but the euphoria over social media companies as a group was rooted in what economists call the network effect. The more users a site attracts, the more others will want to use it, which creates a natural monopoly and a magnet for advertisers.
Facebook has been a classic example. If your friends, colleagues or classmates are all on it, you're all but compelled to join. But evidence that the network effect is working requires rapid growth in users and revenue, especially during the early stages of a company's public life. So far, social media has failed to deliver the kind of growth that would bolster investor optimism, let alone euphoria.
The network effect is a double-edged sword, Ken Sena, a consumer Internet analyst at Evercore, told me this week.
"The network effect allowed these companies to grow so fast, but the decline can be just as ferocious," Sena said. "If any of them misstep with users, they can leave, and the network effect goes into reverse."
The textbook case is Myspace, once the most visited social networking site, now ashadow of its former self.
This week's Groupon earnings illustrated the problem for social media companies. In theory, Groupon should benefit from the network effect. The more users it attracts, the more merchants will want to offer coupons through Groupon, and vice versa. And on the face of it, the earnings report looked good. Groupon earned a profit of $28.4 million for the quarter, above analysts' expectations, reversing a loss a year ago. Groupon's still-boyish-looking chief executive, Andrew Mason, called it a "solid quarter."
But growth, not profit, is what matters at the early stage in the life of a social media company. Groupon said revenue grew 45 percent over the same quarter last year. But it counts payments that it passes on to merchants as part of its revenue. When that part of revenue was excluded, revenue grew just 30 percent. And compared with the previous quarter, revenue grew just 1.6 percent.
Growth in its core coupon business dropped 7 percent from a year earlier, according to Sena. (Other revenue came from Groupon's Goods business, a lower-margin operation that competes with Amazon.) Groupon projected that revenue growth in the next quarter would be just 2.9 percent higher.
Such slow growth was a jolt for investors, and Wall Street's judgment was swift, with Groupon shares down 27 percent Tuesday, the day after the earnings were announced.
A positive network effect is also supposed to exclude competitors, but Groupon has long suffered from the perception that it's vulnerable to competition.
The online auction market is dominated by eBay, for example, but many merchants offer coupons. Amazon bought a 29 percent interest in a rival coupon site, Living Social, and Google introduced its own offerings after being rebuffed by Groupon.
There are now so many that sites have sprung up to help consumers sort them out. One of these, localdealsites.com, listed 167 sites when I consulted it this week, although many are much smaller in scope than Groupon.
Living Social has run into its own concerns. Although Living Social is still private, Amazon has to release some financial details because of its large ownership stake. Last month, Amazon said that it was writing off $28 million in Living Social's book value and that Living Social lost $93 million in the quarter that ended June 30, even though revenue more than doubled.
Facebook faced a similar backlash rooted in high expectations. In its first earnings report, it reported revenue growth of 32 percent over a year earlier and nearly 1 billion users worldwide. But even though 32 percent topped analysts' estimates, it was not the triple-digit growth many investors were hoping for.
And although the number of monthly active users hit 955 million, that was just 29 percent higher than a year before. Some analysts used the dreaded word mature to describe Facebook's pe*******on in North America, and others noted that user growth was slowing.
A major challenge, as well as an opportunity, for Facebook is the migration of users from personal computers to mobile devices. Facebook said 543 million users looked at the site on mobile devices during the last quarter, and its chief executive and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, acknowledged that the shift "is incredibly important." But Facebook hasn't mastered how to convert customer use into mobile ad revenue.
"Migration to mobile is a big problem," Sena said. If ads become obtrusive and alienate users, Facebook could suffer the reverse network effect.
That hasn't happened yet. New companies, especially in nascent industries like social media, are hard to value. Some may thrive even as others fail. They may yet find ways to turn millions of users into huge profits, as network television did in its heyday.
Many social media investors have been burned in the short term, but it's not as if they've given up hope.
Social media companies still trade at lofty valuations: Even after recent declines, LinkedIn's price-to-earnings ratio is a stratospheric 852; Facebook's is much lower but a still lofty 69. By comparison, the market average for companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index is about 16.
Since they haven't earned a full year's profit, Groupon, Zynga and Yelp don't even have price-to-earnings ratios.
"The valuations are still high," Sena said. "There are few positive catalysts likely near term, and a lot of people think you'll be able to buy these stocks cheaper."
Twitter co-founders create online publishing site
A website launched by Twitter co-founders as a publishing platform for stories, memories and news was open Wednesday to members of the hit one-to-many text messaging service.
A preview version of Medium.com, launched by Biz Stone and Evan Williams, was live with collections such as "This Happened to Me" stories and "When I Was a Kid" pictures.
"We're rethinking publishing and building a new platform from scratch," Williams said in a message on the site. "Lots of services have successfully lowered the bar for sharing information, but there's been less progress toward raising the quality of what's produced."
"While it's great that you can be a one-person media company, it'd be even better if there were more ways you could work with others."
Stone and Williams are building the platform through their Obvious Corporation, an enterprise named for the notion that many great ideas seem "obvious" in retrospect.
"We believe publishing, and media much more broadly, is important... It's easy to forget this given how much pointless and destructive media is in the world," Williams said.
"But there's also more great stuff than ever before -- and we haven't even scratched the surface of what our smart devices and our networks that connect most of the planet might enable."
Reading Medium posts was open to anyone with a Twitter account, but posting was initially limited to an invitation-only group that Williams promised would expand rapidly to include those who register.
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-Should Be Absent At Least 3 Times A Week
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-Should Not Give Any Homework And Assignments
-Should Not Ask Any Questions To Students
-Should Not Disturb The Students By Teaching While They Are Talking
Tomorrow is my exam
But I don't care
Because a single sheet of paper
can't decide my future.
~Thomas Edison
13/08/2012
5 facts about new virus hacking bank accounts
A new computer virus, dubbed Gauss, has been discovered in the Middle East. Researchers say can it steal banking credentials and hijack login information for social networking sites, email and instant messaging accounts.
Cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab said Gauss is the work of the same "factory" or "factories" that built the Stuxnet worm, which attacked Iran's nuclear program. Here are some key facts about Gauss, according to Kaspersky Lab.
What is its purpose?
Gauss is a surveillance tool. It steals credentials for hacking online banking systems, social networking sites and email accounts; it also gathers information about infected PCs, including web browsing history, system passwords and the contents of disk drives.
Can it do anything else?
There is a mysterious module, known as Godel, that copies malicious code onto USB drives when they are plugged into infected PCs. Godel's purpose is unknown because some of its code is compressed and scrambled using a sophisticated encryption method. It only activates when it infects a predetermined target. Researchers have not identified the target or figured out its mission. Kaspersky Lab senior researcher Roel Schouwenberg said he believes it may be a "warhead" designed to damage industrial control systems.
How many victims are there?
Kaspersky Lab has uncovered more than 2,500 computers infected with Gauss since late May. It estimates the total number of victims is in the tens of thousands. The largest number of infections were found were in Lebanon, followed by Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Is Gauss still a threat?
Yes. Infected USB drives could still launch attacks. Servers that controlled infected machines were shut down in July, so it is unlikely that any more information will be stolen from the surveillance part of the operation.
Why is it called Gauss?
The virus is built using modules with internal names that appear to be inspired by famous mathematicians and philosophers, including Kurt Godel, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. Kaspersky named the entire operation after the Gauss component as it implements the data-stealing capabilities