Apple said Monday that iPhone 5 pre-orders topped two million units in 24 hours, which is more than double the record set by the previous iPhone 4S model. The announcement pushed Apple stock to within a hair’s breath of $700, which was where it started going when it became apparent that Apple’s initial supply was sold out within an hour last week pushing some deliveries into October. Apple says most pre-orders will be delivered on Friday, September 21. AT&T also reported record orders through the weekend but offered no numbers. Pictures put out by Bloomberg show people starting to camp out in front of Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York ahead of the device going on sale at 8am on Friday.
Apple pushed over $700 on the Nasdaq Monday after-hours, adding a buck and change to its closing price of $699.78. Perhaps it was analyst speculation that Apple could sell eight million iPhone 5s this weekend after the device becomes available in the stores and stick a finger in the eye of market-leader Samsung, which has been convicted of swiping Apple technology.
Like most application servers, WebSphere 8.5 has a rich management infrastructure based on JMX, or Java Management Extensions. In fact, the WebSphere administration console uses JMX to connect to the server to issue queries and perform administrative operations. In a previous post I showed you how to secure JBoss’ JMX connector. While there is a lot of information out there on how to connect to WebSphere via JMX, most of the examples involve either disabling SSL, or worse – disabling security globally. So let’s see how we can access WebSphere’s JMX connector remotely in a secure way. Like most things WebSphere, this could look very daunting at first, but once done, you will have a reliable and secure setup.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) represents a complete preintegrated platform offering for the development and operation of general purpose business applications. A fully preintegrated and standardized platform - offered in a multitenant mode as a managed service - means much less manual effort than installing and configuring middleware components in on-premise servers. Enterprise architecture patterns and framework changed heavily during the last decade, the software / platform / framework upgrades eat up the major chunk of it budgets and leaving relatively smaller portion for business innovation. However, due to the support for Java EE full implementation and open standards along with extended support for common relational databases, Redhat Open Shift provides a better option for porting existing Java EE applications to Cloud.
Samsung Friday lost a patent infringement case it brought against Apple at the International Trade Commission, the US agency with the power to issue product bans. The judge said the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod touch don’t infringe four patents Samsung claims they do including two standards-essential patents (SEPs).
A German regional court Thursday cleared the way for Apple to file for a permanent injunction barring the sale of products in Germany put out by Google satellite Motorola Mobility. It was found guilty of infringing Apple’s “rubber-banding” patent in its Android tablets and smartphones. The feature lets a page on a mobile device bounce back after a user has swiped the bottom of the screen. It’s only a month since a California jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple over a billion dollars because its Android devices infringe Apple IP. There is a “blue glow” workaround for the rubber band but it’s not very effective and FOSS Patents says the “injunction spells further degradation of the Android user experience.” Apple will have to post a €25 million ($31.5 million) bond to get the injunction enforced. For another €10 million it can insist that Motorola destroy any infringing widgetry. Still another €10 million will buy it a product recall. And there the little matter of damages for past infringement.
Load and performance testing web applications will allow you to determine whether or not your deployment will require a clustered environment. When the test results show that the current throughput is restricted by the capacity of the server but target workloads are not yet met, this is a situation where you can achieve higher scalability by implementing clusters to your environment. Clustering achieves higher scalability by introducing more servers or nodes to expand the capacity of the environment. Obviously, the benefits of adding hardware include higher capacity, reliability, availability, and scalability. But also consider that clustering also adds complexity to your deployment by requiring added maintenance and an increased need for deployment/upgrade automation. To ensure quality of the environment you must always validate your clustered environment and prove out the increased scalability. Use a methodical performance testing approach. Don’t try to extrapolate! It’s not as easy as “3 nodes in a cluster will support 3x the workload.”
Alibaba CEO Jack Ma’s most heartfelt wish will reportedly come true next week when he’s able to put something of a period – or at least a coda – to Yahoo!’s rocky involvement with his company. It’s gonna cost him though. All Things Digital, that Yahoo know-it-all, says Yahoo has agreed to sell him back half its 40% interest for $7.6 billion in borrowed money, a sum that values Alibaba at $43 billion. It includes a $550 million final payment in annual licensing fees. Yahoo only paid $1 billion for its 40% piece seven years ago, a handsome return.
Because of the efforts of people like Steve Souders, John Resig, Sergey Chernyshev, Paul Irish, ... a lot has changed when it comes to optimizing web site performance. Browser and Application Performance Vendors built tools to make Web Performance Optimization easier than ever before. Web Frameworks are optimized to generate better web pages. However, looking at the following chart reminds us that best practices, conferences and tools alone didn't succeed and building optimized web sites is getting even harder. As can be seen, the main problem with modern web sites is the growing number of resources, the size of the content, and the declining user experience that results from the first two items.
WebRenderer is one of those SDKs that can appear overwhelming on first look. For this reason we always shipped a “bare bones” Test Browser (TestBrowser.java) with the product. The Test Browser has at times baffled people due to it’s lack of features. The Test Browser was “featureless” by design as we wanted to keep the starter example code as compact as possible so that developers could embed WebRenderer in just a few lines of code. This is important as we never wanted the learning curve and integration to be an overwhelming process. With that being said, for some time now our WebRenderer developer team has been utilizing a “Test Browser” that is rather substantial (130 classes) when compared to our standard Test Browser (one class). This test browser has been dubbed “Rich Test Browser” by the developer team. Given the amount of WebRenderer features demonstrated by the Rich Test Browser we thought it appropriate to publish the browser for all to use. The Rich Test Browser can be downloaded and includes both binary and source code.
Citrix has put an undisclosed amount of money in CumuLogic, the angel-backed private Java Platform-as-a-Service start-up founded last year by Sun Microsystems veterans with Java’s father James Gosling as an advisor. Citrix took the money out of its Citrix Startup Accelerator fund, which invests in early stage start-ups. By transforming virtualized environments and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds into a high-value PaaS cloud, CumuLogic technology is said to simplify the development, deployment and runtime management of mobile, web and enterprise Java applications in public, private and hybrid clouds.
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HTML5 is the latest iteration of the standard used by web programmers and developers. When completed in 2014, it will enable developers to write-once-run-anywhere (WORA) for consistent, cross-platform experiences across all operating systems and browsers. For example, a developer could create a single application with identical performance across Facebook, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and all other [...]
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Despite a push for mobile business, China’s Baidu only has 35 percent of the mobile search volume. The company is pushing for pre-installation of its search engine in mobile devices. Read Original Content
According to a recent survey by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, over 50 percent of full-time employees prefer mobility and employing mobile technology into the workplace. Read Original Content
Indian e-commerce site Freecharge.in offers a unique customer service plan in which customers can simply recharge their prepaid mobiles online and in return receive gift coupons of the same value. Read Original Content
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Globe Telecom is reaching out to the micro, small and medium-sized businesses in The Philippines, which comprise 99.6 percent of all Philippine enterprises, by offering its mobile marketing tool TxtConnect. Read Original Content
Korea’s Samsung is wasting no time after its legal loss to Apple, already implementing plans to change its products and develop new mobile technologies. Read Original Content
Let’s start with the basic question: What is the disruptor? The disruptor is a concurrency framework for Java that allows data sharing between threads. The age old way of coding a producer-consumer model is to use a queue as the buffer area between the producer and the consumer, where the producer adds data objects to the queue, which are in turn processed by the consumer. However, such a model does not work well at the hardware level and ends up being highly inefficient. The disruptor in its simplest form replaces the queue with a data structure known as the ‘ring buffer’. Which brings us to the next question, what is the ring buffer? The ring buffer is an array of fixed length (which must be a power of 2), it’s circular and wraps. This data structure is at the core of what makes the disruptor super fast.
Yesterday, I listed the countries which performed best overall in our latest research at the Tau Institute. Our mission at the Tau Institute is to produce a sophisticated ranking that takes into account relative progress of the nations of the world when it comes to ICT. We integrate several publicly available factors into our own algorithm. There is thus transparency in the data we input combined with a specialized weighting system that we believe reveals new insight into the statistics. We've integrated the following factors into a single, weighted formula: * Per capita income (from the World Bank) * Local cost of living (ditto) * Gini coefficient (income disparity as measured by the United Nations and CIA) * Perception of corruption (from Transparency International) * Human development (according to the United Nations) * Data servers per capita (adjusted for local income, as measured by the World Bank) * Average bandwidth speed (from Ookla, Inc.) * % of population with access to the Internet (from the International Telecommunications Union) * % population with broadband connections (ditto) In the end, we've created a "pound-for-pound" analysis that reveals the countries that are doing the most with what they have. Our method goes far beyond the normal rankings one sees that simply show wealthy countries on top, developing nations on the bottom. We can view the datas in several ways. The "raw" ranking hits a middle ground of opportunity and development. Countries that have lagged regardless of income level (such as Norway and Libya) do not fare as well in this index as countries that have shown good relative ICT commitments (such as Jordan), even if they're still impoverished (such as Ethiopia). As a reality check and benchmark, we've created a "Perfect Land" which has optimal statistics in all categories. The idea is that no country should beat Perfect Land in the overall index, although many countries will beat it in the raw index, which is weighted toward potential. Here are the leaders in the raw ranking: Tier 1 (>$30K in per capita income) Hong Kong Belgium Netherlands United Kingdom Germany Sweden New Zealand Spain Finland Israel Tier 2 ($13K-$29K) Lithuania Hungary South Korea Estonia Taiwan Poland Slovakia Croatia Czech Republic Russia Tier 3 ($6K-$13K) Bulgaria Romania Serbia Montenegro Latvia Kazakhstan Libya Malaysia Turkey Colombia Tier 4 ($2K-$6K) Ukraine Morocco Mongolia Egypt China Philippines Tunisia Armenia Jordan Bolivia Tier 5 (<$2K) Vietnam Kenya Tanzania Ethiopia Nigeria Senegal Ghana Pakistan India Laos Each of these countries has a story to tell, as do all countries covered in our research. We are currently engaging with local resources in some of the places that emerge as leaders. We are also very interested in making new connections within any country – the Tau Index serves merely to start conversations about ICT and its role in increasing economic development and improving the lives of people. Follow me on Twitter
Apple has reportedly cut the number of memory chips it has on order for its new iPhone from Samsung, its biggest supplier and the biggest reason it’s in court all the time trying to stop the Korean company from ripping off its iPhone and iPad widgetry. Everybody’s been wondering when this would start happening.
Samsung Electronics could be a major player if it launched its own mobile operating system in a big way, according to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. “There’s a potential elephant in the room with Samsung,” McAdam said at an investor conference today. While Google Android and Apple’s iOS continue to dominate the market, the carriers are [...]
The Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) Thursday said it was investigating a complaint made by Apple that Samsung is abusing its dominance in third-generation wireless technology. The investigation mirrors a similar one opened in January by the European Commission, which is also investigating Motorola Mobility for the same thing. Both companies are demanding egregiously high fees from Apple to license the standards-essential patents they pledged to offer on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
Java trial judge William Alsup has ordered Oracle to pay $1,130,350 for Google’s court costs, mostly for a court-appointed expert witness. Google, the “prevailing party,” wanted $4,030,699, but the judge cut it back $2,900,349 refusing to accept its bill for third-party e-discovery. Oracle failed to convince the court and the jury that Android infringes its patents and copyrights. The judge ultimately ruled that its APIs weren’t copyrighted. The judge’s order recalls that “Oracle initially sought six billion dollars in damages and injunctive relief but recovered nothing after nearly two years of litigation and six weeks of trial.” His decision explains in stiff language why “Oracle has failed to overcome the presumption of awarding costs to Google.”
Apple Tuesday sent out invitations to what is assumed to be its thinner-than-ever iPhone 5 announcement on Wednesday September 12. The event will start at 10am Pacific time at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Folks who track Apple product announcements like they were expecting the second coming have given up on the notion that Apple will unveil iPhone 5 and the purported iPad mini at the same time. iPhone 5 is now expected to be a solo act with the iPad mini given its own stage in sometime October. That way the attention will be undiluted. Googlerola has a mobile announcement set for Wednesday September 5 to be followed by Nokia and Amazon.
Oracle is appealing to get the whole $1.3 billion in damages a California jury awarded it last year in its copyright infringement case against rival SAP. SAP admitted that its third-party maintenance subsidiary TomorrowNow illegally downloaded scads of software from Oracle’s servers. The trial judge thought the award was “grossly” over the top and offered Oracle $272 million or a new trial. SAP offered Oracle $306 million to make the specter of another image-damaging trial go away. Oracle is appealing in hopes of seeing more money.
Previously, Oracle announced that it would stop developing new versions of its software on Itanium microprocessors. For example, that meant version 12c of the Oracle database due out in early 2013 would not be available on Itanium. However, a judge recently ruled that Oracle has a contract to continue porting its software to Itanium computers for as long as HP sells Itanium computers.
Om nom nom… That sound you hear is Apple’s iPad cannibalizing sales of personal computers. Fortune reports that Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf says that there is now “definitive evidence” that the iPad is gobbling up customers who in years past would have purchased PCs. Wolf’s evidence is that Mac shipments to schools in Q3 2012 fell by 0.1% while overall PC sales to schools dropped nearly 13.9%, even as Apple sold more than 1 million iPads to schools over the same period.
In their first tussle in Japan, a Tokyo Court Friday found that Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and tablets don’t infringe a synchronizing patent held by Apple that lets media players share music and videos with PCs. It dismissed Apple’s suit. It’s unclear if Apple will appeal. It’s got 30 days.