And that one, Hall-of-fame asset stands to be nothing else but Knowledge. If someone feels that Knowledge is nothing more than metal coin in a company’s treasury, then these are misconceptions galore.

If I consider the world stage today, a lot of cross-Industry firms have started moving towards A strategy build-up based on “Knowledge Economy”. For a domain that was primarily resting with Medium-tech manufacturing and services, financial services, health and education and other tertiary services, Knowledge is now being sold and marketed by almost all firm s spanning all Industries. Doesn’t this eradicate all Sector barriers and open up revenue grounds?

Yes it surely does, but only if a company gets smart enough to leverage the benefits in its own domain. Consider this, UK has reported a 10-year dominance till 2005 by the knowledge driven sectors like Legal and compliance, education, etc. In this period, they hired more people and enjoyed synergy of operations based on the diversity of their employee skill-set.

What this model stresses is that today technology can help you decide what Industry advantages you can lever in your business if you have the right grip over your Knowledge potential. This potential can fructify into potential business opportunities if you feel that your work force can learn to extract value out of Ideas, any significant R&D, Intellectual property of self-created design, product, expertise and software. Now comes the main point- How do you earn out if it?

The idea behind knowledge extraction out of unlikely elements and processes is to trade them with corporates and countries. That’s how one will walk towards “Conglomerate growth”.

If this starts happening in a big way, we most certainly will start catching the essential signals of premiership and unanticipated revenue proceeds.

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A recently research shows that More than 82 % people are using search engines, comparison websites which provide comparison of different products.

The goal of this research is to find out the role of web in purchase of financial products. And it shows that search engines is the top tool in this purchase-decision process

User-generated content like Blogs, reviews and social networking sites as well as online videos also are the other important tools which is also used by users to finalize the purchases. More than 40 per cent users said they opted to watch finance-related videos sites or financial news or company sites before deciding to purchase any financial product.

Increase in usage of User Generated Content  shows the need to effectively managed brand awareness, which is very vital for the financial companies as trust is a major component of the final purchase decision.

What are your views on it ? Do you also use Internet for buying financial product?

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Hello Readers! Welcome to Ebw Smart Solutions!
Ebw Smart Solutions is ready to address you and your Business requirements. We are available 24×7 to support our clients and interested candidates through our Outsourcing services.
eBusinessware is a Global Service Provider of Quality and experienced professionals at all levels of IT staff supplementation. We have spread to clientele in US, UK, India and Singapore.  Our Engagement in Recruitment solutions is a dynamic one; wherein we keep measuring the ever-changing Industry / Business scenarios, and the gap between demand & supply for professionals and then finally, we adopt Industry Standard practices and methodologies to find the best resources.
Our Staff Augmentation has enormously grown from the year 2003 in which we serviced our first Staffing Client and continue to do on a bigger scale today, ranging three continents.
Our Contractual Model is bringing the difference in ‘Expertise Delivery’. We offer on contract our consultants with experience on latest technologies in varying Business domains. We send our candidates for set project durations with the option of ‘right to hire’. Our clients can take the candidates on their pay rolls if they wish for it. As a policy, we ensure to provide Immigration services and Travel Desk support. This People Deployment model run by us takes care of the resource life cycle at the client site.

It pays to be different-

Working towards being a preferred supplier for IT and Technology Infrastructure services has been our conscious motto from the word Go. We have, from time to time, been providing the desired blend of technical resources tour clients across diff geo-locations.
We have pioneered our exposure on not only financial domain – We’re also hiring extensively in insurance, e-commerce, Health Care, Energy, Media & Entertainment, Public Sector and Manufacturing Sector also.
We are working within the diametric arena of all these different sectors and are constantly working towards meeting the growth outlook of our diverse clients.
Of late, we have also extended towards providing non technical staff (For e.g.-Language Experts) to our clients, realizing the ever-dynamic Business requirements of our clients.

How we are Different-
Our core difference lies in the fact that we take care of resource management throughout client engagement.

•    We understand the ever-dynamic client requirements and the sensitivity of having to bring the right consultant to our clients in the minimum timeframe possible.
•    We deliver the right technology-experience mix to our client keeping in mind the urgency of the requirement.
•    We perform with utmost diligence, transparency and honesty. Our all resources are guaranteed on domain knowledge, experience and practical expertise.

Our legacy-“That we Care….”

Moving from one strength to another has been made possible by a mutual trust-sincerity relationship between us and our esteemed clients. We at Ebw Smart Solutions, pride ourselves in the relationship that we build with our clients- a relationship that works towards both, our clients as well as our professional consultants.
Our dedicated HR managers and recruiters are solely working towards the candidate’s and the client’s requirements at all times – and this, we believe, are our legacy!

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Google said the software will initially be available by the holiday season of 2010 on low-cost netbooks that meet Google’s hardware specifications, such as using only memory chips to store data instead of slower hard drives, the current standard.

Netbooks running Chrome OS will only be able to run Web applications and the user’s data will automatically be stored on the Web in the so-called cloud of Internet servers.

It’s basically a Web browsing machine. Such a machine is made for a world of near-constant, extremely fast Web connection, without the type of software that made Microsoft famous, since most of the work would be done by big machines on the Web which take directions and send information to relatively uncomplicated devices like a Chrome PC. Computers running Chrome OS will be able to start in less than seven seconds.

But analysts noted that the differences between conventional PCs and Chrome OS netbooks might give some consumers pause.

Google officials said Chrome OS netbooks will be able to provide some functions when offline, but that the product was primarily designed to be connected to the Internet.

Google made the computer code for the Chrome OS available to outside developers on Thursday, allowing developers to tinker with the software and potentially design new applications to run alongside it.

With Chrome, Google is seeking to challenge the dominance of Microsoft Corp’s Windows, which runs on nine out of 10 personal computers.

The Chrome OS also challenges makers of traditional, desktop software, including Microsoft and its lucrative Office suite of productivity software, since Chrome OS only runs Web applications.

Chrome OS-based PCs would be interoperable with Web-based versions of software, such as Microsoft’s online version of its Excel spreadsheet.

Google said all data in Chrome will automatically be housed in the so-called cloud, or on external servers, but also cached on the computer’s internal hardware to boost performance.

If a person loses their netbook, they can buy a new one, log in and within seconds have a machine with access to all the same data as their previous device.

Lets wait for another new Trend in IT from Google.

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First the good news - Gartner says by 2010 more than 60 percent of Fortune 1000 companies with a web site will connect to or host a form of online community that can be utilized for customer relationship purposes. 

Now the bad news (Not surprising however) - Gartner predicts that by 2010, more than 50 percent of companies that have established an online community will fail to establish mutual purpose, ultimately eroding customer and company values.

It is not difficult to predict the failure seeing the way some companies’ adopt social media - “Set it and forget it” approach. The reason behind Social Media failure is because many businesses dive in due to the buzz created by a recently successful campaign or because it’s trendy to do so with little thought for the ongoing management and goals necessary for such a strategy.

Social media should be approached as an ongoing marketing activity that doesn’t start or stop with a product launch or a new logo. To attain success in Social Media, it is necessary to have a social media strategy. It is extremely important to understand and clearly define your objectives and the audience you are trying to target. Only then one can implement and measure the results.

Also, social media marketing and traditional forms of marketing require different skill sets and strategies. What then are the skill sets and strategies for this new media?

The answer is - there are No common strategies.

As with any powerful medium, adoption has to be carefully planned and implemented. Industry–specific strategies have to be developed after careful analysis of company’s goals, objectives and target market, so that a unique social-media marketing plan can be created.

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• Direct Marketing vs Social Media Marketing

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The objective of designing 4GL was to reduce programming effort, the time it takes to develop software, and the cost of software development.

Some researchers have stated that 4GLs are subset of domain-specific programming languages i.e. DSLs because fourth-generation languages are often been compared to DSL. Still, some people expect that even in advanced development environments like MS Studio, system must have the mixture of all the generations with a very limited use of the first one. This expectation is quite obvious because the need is to have a system which can be extended further without loosing compatibility with older ones. 3GL just offered power only to the programmer but 4GL opened the development environment to a wider population.

A number of different types of 4GLs exist:

• Table-driven (codeless) programming: Here instead of coding, the developer uses Table-driven algorithm programming, an example of this is edeveloper. This kind of tool can be used for business application development. Usually they come in a package allowing for both business data manipulation and reporting

• Report Generators: They take a description of the data format and the report to generate. From that description they either generate the required report directly or they generate a program to generate the report.

• Forms Generators: They manage online interactions with the application system users or generate programs to do so.

• Data Management 4GLs like SAS, SPSS and Stata provide sophisticated coding commands for data manipulation, file reshaping, case selection and data documentation in the preparation of data for statistical analysis and reporting.

Some of the 4GL languages are Agile Business Suite, Clipper, DataFlex, Discovery Machine Modeler, FoxPro, IBM Rational EGL (Enterprise Generation Language) etc.

In terms of applications, a 4GL can be business oriented or it could deal with some technical domain also. The usability improvements obtained by some 4GLs and their environments led to the better exploration for solutions.

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Some of the features of Google Voice which are making it unique from other such services are:

• A single Google forwarding number to all of the user’s phones.
• Free calls and SMS in US and Canada.
• Calling international numbers at lower call rates.
• Listening in on someone’s recording of a voice message before taking a call.
• Blocking calls from specified number.
• Send, receive and store SMS online.
• Call routing - selection of phones and answering calls that should ring based depending on calling numbers.
• Voicemail transcription: Reading and listening of voicemail messages online.
• Notification of voicemail messages via email or SMS.
• Forward or downloading of voicemails.
• Call recording and online archiving.
• Customize preferences for contacts by group.

In this way, benefiting all the features of Google Voice, user will increase the life of his phone.

Apple said that the Google Voice duplicates certain iphone functions and features but the secret of Google Voice is the “Number Portability”. Google provides a Google Voice number to its users. Whenever subscriber changes his number, there is no need to circulate the new number among his social circle. They just have to configure their new number at Google Voice Account. Now, subscribers won’t have to worry about figuring out which phone numbers to give to different people. They just have to forward one number that is Google Voice number and they are sorted.

Google also assigns a temporary forwarding number directly from the phone. This would help in a way if someone suddenly finds cell phone out of range but have access to another number to reach easily. Google Voice can call up to six phones simultaneously. The most significant advantage of Google Voice is unified communication through single phone number.

Google Voice has created a new standard in the field of communication and people are enjoying the offerings pretty well.

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In Google Wave one can create a wave and add people to it. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. Anyone can view each others screen real time. Wave can be rewound to see how it evolved by using “playback”. Google Wave can also serve as a multi-user note-taking platform for meetings and sessions in a company or university or any such organization.

To understand this new communication platform, knowledge of following terms is necessary:

• WAVE: It is a specific threaded conversation. It can include just one person or it could be a group of users or even robots.
• WAVELET: It is also a threaded conversation, but a subset of larger conversation or can be called as wave. These can be created and managed separately from a wave.
• BLIP: It is a single individual message smaller than a wavelet. Blips can have other blips attached to them known as children. It can either be published or unpublished.
• DOCUMENT: It is content within a blip. It refers to the characters, words, files associated with blip.
• EXTENSION: It’s a mini application within a wave. These are the apps to play with while using Wave. The two main types of extensions: Gadgets and Robots.
• GADGETS: It’s an application where user can participate. Many of these applications are built on Google’s Open Social platform like iGoogle gadgets or Facebook applications.
• ROBOTS: They are automated participant within a wave. They can talk with users and interact with waves. They also provide information from outside sources like Twitter. They can check content within a wave and performs actions based on them.
• EMBEDED WAVE: An embeded wave is a way to take a Google Wave and the conversation within it and place it on your website. Users can use this as a chat room.

People who have reviewed Google wave claim it has a slick and easy to navigate interface. Adding gadgets and robots seems an easy task. Google hopes that waves may replace e-mail as the dominant form of Internet communication. Google intends to be only one of many wave providers.

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Most of the Android code is released by Google under Apache license, freeware software and an open source license. Anyone can download an Android software development kit (SDK) from Google and can write an application for Android. Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing application on the Android platform using Java as the only programming language.

An Android application can be classified as:

• Activities

An application that has a visible UI implemented with an activity. Whenever an application is
selected from home screen or application launcher by a user, an activity is started.

• Services

A service used for any application that is required to persist for a long time like
network monitor or update-checking application.

• Content providers

Content providers can be considered as database servers. Job of content provider is to manage access to persisted data like SQLite database. If the application is simple, there is no need to create a content provider. If a larger application is build, content provider is the means of accessing data.

• Broadcast Receivers

To process an element of data or respond to an event like reception of a text message, an
Android application can be launched.

Google has participated in the Android market by offering several applications for its services. These applications include Google Voice, Scoreboard for following sports, Sky Map for watching stars, Finance for their finance service, Maps Editor for their MyMaps service, Places Directory for their Local Search, Secrets for safely storing passwords and My Tracks, a jogging application.

As per the concerns of web compatibility or technology support, some of the users feel that Android has outperformed Symbian, Windows Mobile OS and many other Mobile Operating Systems. This is the reason that there are hundreds of Android apps developed by third party developers and many more waiting in the queue to enter in Android Market.

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Is Google Apps secure?

Google Apps™ is a suite of communication and collaboration tools by Google providing several Google products to its users under single domain name. It features several Web Applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites. It is a set of hosted applications for organizations that want high quality communication tools for their users without the hassle of installing and maintaining software or hardware.  Google Apps is the focus of today’s cloud computing boon, a combination of new age messaging and collaboration applications which are Proven, Reliable, Secure and Highly Cost Effective.

However, there is lot of apprehension about its security features. It is reasoned that JavaScript has become so complicated, it’s difficult to find all its vulnerabilities. So it’s very difficult to find automated ways to check the security of Web 2.0 applications that rely on JavaScript. Experts however argue that this apprehension is only due to the fact that people are still not fully aware of the security features offered by cloud computing.

Google applications provide a variety of security features. Google claims that it utilizes numerous physical, logical, and operational security measures to ensure the maximum data security and privacy.

Google focuses on several aspects of security that are critical to business customers:

• Organizational and Operational Security – Various policies and procedures are followed to ensure security at every phase of design, deployment and ongoing operations.
• Data Security – Here, customer data is stored on secure servers within secure applications.
• Threat Evasion – All the information of users are protected from the hackers.
• Safe Access – It refers that only authorized users can access data hence the access channel is secure.
• Data Privacy – Confidential information of users are kept private.

Organizations of all sizes are facing common challenge of helping their users to communicate and share information more effectively. They can hand this over to Google - experts in delivering high quality email, messaging and other web-based services, while they focus on the needs of their users.

Moreover, if figures are any indication, security is defenitely not an issue with busineess using Google Apps. A survey revealed that more than 1.75 million businesses have already signed up for the Google Apps suite, and this number is expanding by an additional 3,000 businesses each day.

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