Destination Nagpur - an event by NASSCOM

Destination Nagpur
9:00 AM To 6:00 PM
24 November, 2006
Hotel Centre Point Ramdaspeth Nagpur

Its an IT event presented by NASSCOM & organised by VED Council & VASE, following the tremendous success of its precursor "Opportunity Nagpur".

This event, to be held on the 24th November 2006, will highlight the advantages of Nagpur as the hub of IT business in India. It will attract the big players in the IT and associated industries, making it one of the most important events in NASSCOM's calendar for the year.

Nagpur is India's fastest developing city with International importance due to the 4000 Hectares MIHAN project that is fast coming up here. Boeing has already decided to put their MRO facility here and big Logistics, IT and Health care corporates are expected to start operations shortly.

For more info please check out:
http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/Templates/Events.aspx?id=50333

Next Generation Mobile Phone coming your way...

Synaptics, the company which makes the trackpads which you use on your laptops intends to offer a high resolution touch screen material called ClearPad to mobile phone manufacturers.

If I understand it correctly whole phone can be made up of this new material, so it possibly mean we can touch anywhere on the phone body and it can do something we want? And we can also show some grphics anywhere on any side of the phone.

Synaptics calls this concept Onyx and you can check this out on their website at http://www.synaptics.com/onyx/

There have been a lot of innovations in mobile software/platform level and obviously hardware has been also scaled up to meet the advanced software, but this truely can mean a giant leap and can begin a new era and we can see the phones which we have till now only seen in sci-fi movies or may be even better than them.

It means phone displays, stylus, phone keypad will be things of past and you will be able to change the look of your phone everyday, whenever you want without need for any add-on cover or things like that.

Whole phone will be your display screen as well as touch screen.

Future looks wonderful :-)

Read mobilecrunch discussion at: http://mobilecrunch.com/2006/08/22/synaptics-offers-up-its-vision-of-future-mobile-devices/

Software platform for small devices

Microsoft announced .NET Micro Framework a couple of days back. Its a platform for devices like watches, Sensors, actuators, remote controls, wearable devices etc.

I think it will be subset of CF (compact framework), as CF is a subset of .NET Framework.

You can read more about it on Daniel Moth's blog at: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006/05/net-micro-framework.html

and on: http://www.aboutnetmf.com/

Well I am certainly looking forward to it and want to know more about how it can be ported to a device.

Agile - A revolutionary approach to programming

Agile development emphasizes close collaboration between the programmer team and business experts; face-to-face communication (as more efficient than written documentation); frequent delivery of new deployable business value; tight, self-organizing teams; and ways to craft the code and the team such that the inevitable requirements churn was not a crisis.

It helps the companies to adopt proactively to ever changing requirements. They are revolutionary in the sense that they contradict the tradional waterfall model in many ways and present a whole new different yet very practical approach to software development process.

Read the Manifesto for Agile Software Development at: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/

and visit the agile alliance at http://agilealliance.org/ to get more info about agile methods.

Palm OS fights back

Palm OS users have reasons to rejoice as their favourite Palm OS is back with new Treo 700p.

The 700p announced today sports a 1.3-megapixel camera, bluetooth, and software allowing it to act as a modem -via bluetooth or USB- to Windows and Mac PCs. Its a CDMA device which supports EV-DO (evolution, data optimized) and this is really a big plus for it as it allows users to experience broadband internet on their devices.

We hope that soon its GSM version will be launched and available in India. Current CDMA model is going to be available only on sprint and verizon in near future.