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Enterprise 2.0 overview, originally uploaded by fredcavazza.

Found an excellent article on Enterprise 2.0 Concepts, including a great visual summarizing it up. A good read for management perspective.

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“The world doesn’t need another computer language. What is really needed right now, is a cross-compiler.” – Sohail Iqbal (21 October 2009)

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Just found a good feature of WCF, which seems quiet useful for distributed application developing/deployment practices. Through Net.TCP Port Sharing Service, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) allows different processes to share the same TCP Ports. Now you can deploy your .Net based network services side-by-side with IIS on port 80 or 8080, the standard HTTP and HTTP Proxy ports you find open in many firewalls by default. No need to mess around with client’s network department on this one.

Read on at MSDN: Net.TCP Port Sharing, and don’t forget to read the related articles on enabling and configuring the Port Sharing Service.

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"I feel, therefore you are." — Sohail Iqbal

Wait a minute… you think you can leech some bits of torrents from every public hotspot that comes your way? No sir, that’s not the case (at least for now). This neat piece of software is not a torrent client, it actually lets you control the uTorrent from your mobile, ideally on Wi-Fi in home or office, where you have uTorrent running with WebUI installed.

I just happen to setup WebUI for myself and had this wild idea to get the remote control on my mobile, and guess what, “Your best idea is already copyrighted.” proves true again!

These guys here have done a great job actually. The uTorrent Remote Control is done in J2ME, with a simple interface, lets you control and monitor torrent activity on your uTorrent application.

I also found some other useful bits here on the same site, but I’m in love with this torrent thingy I tell you that. Go try it for yourself!

Cheers,

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The scene has now become interesting with a number of e-paper based portable e-book readers on the market, and we are getting a brand new gadget every once in a while in this pool now.

Just like BeBook, yet another cool e-book reader on the block…but still no luck with the prices…the asking price for this gizmo is huge 329.95 EUR with converts to almost 510 USD!!!

The success of Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle Reader proves that even latest large screen mobile phones and other hand-held media gadgets are insufficient for reading books, specifically for mature readers.

For other options available, here is a good Feature Matrix on E-book Readers I found on MobileRead Wiki.

cheers,

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Eid Mubarik to all Muslims around the world Eid-ul-Fitr is truly a family event and my best wishes to those who are abroad and for any reason, couldn’t make it home with their families. 

Me and Faisal has also upgraded our blogs to WP2.3 with brand new themes from N.Design Studio… And these are really cool Web 2.0 designs. Thank you Nick La for great themes. Your work is really cool.

Enjoy your Eid Moments and Happy surfing!

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iRex Technologies has come up with yet another cool application of e-paper… iLiad, a portable tablet device which also lets you write on its e-paper display.

Software features are cool, technical specifications look promising but its price, which is US$699, is a little too high for a gadget like this. I’ll definitely buy  it when it will come under US$300

Features suggest that this device is the most ultimate one in the electronic reading/writing devices available on the market.

Seems like this e-paper stuff is going to replace conventional paper and “analog recoding devices” (pen and pencils) with their digital counterparts pretty soon.

Cheers

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As I prophesied in my blog post almost two years ago…this french video by editis is almost materializing the revolutionary concept of e-book and access to online content.

There has been a tremendous development in this area since my last post. Transparent OLED Displays, Flexible LCDs and 4-Bit color depth in powerless e-paper is all heading towards what is envisioned in this video.

Reader from Sony and nuutbook from Korea also show us some glimpse from the future.

Here are some shots from the video.

Its a fascinating video to watch, but the online player’s size proportion is not according to the video size, so I suggest downloading the video (77.6 MB) with some web grabbing  tool like UnPlug…for better quality.

Here’s the link to the video.

 cheers,

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Hi All,

I’m pleased to announce our brand new product: SWF2Go – A Professional SWF Packaging and Launching Toolkit aiming Flash Lite developers to ease and automate their development for Symbian S60 Platform.

Visit for official press release:
http://www.orison.biz/pressroom/pr_swf2go.aspx

Products details:
http://www.orison.biz/products/swf2go/

Flash Lite community has grown tremendously in the past few years and lots of existing Flash-only companies are focusing on this mobile platform to take advantage of their Flash skill set. Development on the Symbian side has also been consistent for the new range of devices form Nokia and others – and it’s not easy to catch up with all the new features offered by the platform, especially when you are into developing something which tends to exploit them.

I congratulate Faisal for his untiring effort to implement the whole range of S60 Platform yet – and this is how it went: whenever he discovered a new feature or trick, he asked me: “it’s gonna take a day or two to implement… and if we include this in the release…” and it includes every bit and piece…from S60 SDK detection to command line processing for build automation…and you know the rest .

I cannot forget the other team members, Najam and Khawar for their contribution, and certainly all the beta testers for their consistent support to shape the product for the release. Thank you all.

Happy programming!

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