Posts Tagged ‘Free Software’
Real sector and small and medium enterprises are the spearhead of the national economy by the employment of more than 90 percent, and the contributions of about 61 percent of the total gross domestic product of Indonesia.
To assist in the technology sector, developers of Linux distributions homeland, RimbaLinux, launched a free software for the cashier, who offered free of charge to small entrepreneurs, to coincide with the momentum of the independence of Indonesia.
Software named AhadPOS it expected would help SMEs to overcome their biggest obstacle in the sales process and monitor the inventory (inventory control).
Stock control job is quite time consuming and manually implementation is very prone to error.
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On October 31, 2010, Nimbuzz application users will no longer be able to use Skype services from within an application bearing the ‘N’ is. Skype decided to immediately pull out of Nimbuzz.
Skype steps that can be tolerated. Because as a service provider Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) on board, before Skype does have a mandate to stop the cooperation with all third parties who also have VoIP. In case this is the Nimbuzz.
For information, Nimbuzz is a FREE mobile application that provides instant messaging and social networking. Through Nimbuzz, users can stay connected with their friends by going to facebook, twitter, YM, GTalk and some other services simultaneously. Read the rest of this entry »
Google’s fate was not too good in China. They had trouble with the relevant local government internet censorship policies, even though the company eventually led Eric Schmidt is still able to operate there.
Google’s search engine market in China continues to decline, eroded by the skyrocketing popularity of locally-made search engine, Baidu.
The final step was taken by the Chinese government will surely not too much fun Google. Through the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, they launched an online mapping service called the World Map. This service is projected to challenge the Google Earth service in the future.
World Map can be accessed free of charge and allows its user to search for two or three-dimensional images across the face of the earth. To explore it, Internet users simply visit the site or www.chinaonmap.cn www.tianditu.cn and do not need to install the service like Google Earth.
The Chinese government seems quite optimistic with the prospect of the World Map. They believe this service will quickly popular, at least at the national level.
In the near future, the World Map will grow into a famous Chinese brand in the online map services market proven reliability. World Map featuring satellite images with a resolution of 500 meters. Resolution can be increased up to 2.5 meters for a map of China and 0.6 meters in particular to map more than 300 cities in China.
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Facebook is proven as the largest social networking site worldwide, with a total of more than 500 million citizens is not an easy matter to take care of him. That’s needed for an adequate software support.
As a social networking site of the most loved, Facebook does have a fairly high activity. For example, up to serve at least 570 billion page views every month.
In addition, there were approximately 3 billion photos uploaded every month by all users. That’s what makes up a large enough number of servers, which is about 30 thousand servers that existed until 2009.
In addition to hardware that supports, survival up also could not be separated from the role of supporting software such as:
Memcached, a software that served to distribute the cache memory on the up. That said, Facebook has been using this application for several years. But of course with some adjustment to the needs of today.
HipHop for PHP, the application is responsible for converting the C programming language PHP. So that will accelerate the processing of data within Facebook.
Haystack, this application is in charge of storage images in the database up. For information, Facebook has 80 billion photos in various resolutions. So it takes an application that really tough to manage.
The third addition to the software, up also has several other applications such as BigPipe, Cassandra, Scribe, Hadoop and Hive, Thrift, and Varnish. All the software used to maintain the continuity up to the present.
Still remember the iPhone 4 antenna problems and sensors too sensitive? Apparently these two problems in Apple’s mobile phone output is still noisy discussed outside of Indonesia. The user still charge Steve Jobs promised improvements.
Previously, when it held a news conference late last June, the number one in the company besides Apple iPhone confirm the problem on an antenna 4, is also telling that the best engineers are investigating this sensor problem.
So far there has been no report about the improvements in iPhone sensors 4, and the possibility of a new software update it in the next two weeks.
Still the site was launched, a spokesman for Apple in Australia, Fiona Martin also admitted that his company has not yet issued fixes for problems of software in the iPhone 4 this. The news was kept waiting by its users. Read the rest of this entry »
