Qualcomm and Nokia team up

As recently announced Qualcomm and Nokia are teaming up to develop new mobile phone chipsets. Just last year Qualcomm and Nokia were eyeing each-other from across the court room and now they are partners.

The partnership points out that the two are working together to produce a new third generation 3G mobile phone. The deal could also help Qualcomm survive through the expected downturn of the mobile market as well as hurt its opponents, Broadcomm and Texas Instruments.

"We view the announcement as a positive for Qualcomm as it further solidifies the companies' leadership in 3G technologies and presents an opportunity for growing its addressable market," UBS analyst Maynard Um said.

No word has been announced on what exactly their new product will be, but we'll be sure to let people know once it's announced.

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Adobe, Nokia Create $10 Million Open Screen Project Fund

Well there is lot of buzz around this "Open screen project".
According to David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, platform business unit, Adobe he said "We are excited about the Open Screen Project fund and the possibilities it offers to designers and developers worldwide"
The new fund is a result of the Open Screen Project, an industry-wide initiative of more than 20 industry leaders set to enable a consistent experience for Web browsing and standalone applications. Additional Open Screen Project partners are expected to join the fund in the future.

"The Open Screen Project fund encourages the use of Adobe tools and existing developer skills to create exciting and unique Flash applications for millions of Nokia devices," said Tero Ojanpera, executive vice president, Nokia Services. "With more than 300 million Flash enabled Nokia devices in market, we will support these developers through the Forum Nokia developer community while providing a more targeted distribution channel to consumers with Nokia's Ovi Store."

Developers are invited to submit concepts for applications that are based on the Adobe Flash Platform, will run on Nokia devices and will work on multiple screens, including mobile, desktop and consumer electronics devices.

Applications will be reviewed for how innovative and compelling the user experience is, how robust the application or planned implementation is, and how well it exploits the capabilities and features of Nokia devices, Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR, which enables developers to use proven Web technologies to build applications that extend outside the browser.

The projects submitted will be screened by a group of multi-screen application
and services experts from Open Screen Project partners including Adobe and Nokia. Focus areas include: entertainment, social networking, productivity, gaming, news and information. Developers retain all rights to their applications while Adobe and Nokia have the right to evaluate, test and promote the content.

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CSC wins contract from US Army's PEO STRI

CSC, a provider of technology-enabled services, has won a contract from the US Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, or PEO STRI, to provide a range of engineering and training services under the Omnibus Contract II.

CSC is one of 118 companies in the Full and Open Lot 1 group of contractors awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which has a three-year base period, two two-year options and one three-year option. The total combined maximum ceiling value of the 10-year competitively awarded contract for all firms is $17.5 billion.

Under the terms of the new contract, CSC will compete for task orders to provide services that address the training and testing requirements of PEO STRI's customers. Among the services to be provided are front-end analysis, design, development, fielding and sustainment for instrumentation, systems and simulators used by the military.

James Sheaffer, president of North American public sector line of business at CSC, said: "For nearly 20 years, CSC has provided a full spectrum of training support to PEO STRI to enhance the proficiency and readiness of our military. This contract allows us to continue drawing upon our proven and innovative engineering, technical and management solutions to provide our war fighters with the tools they need for individual, crew and collective training in real and virtual environments."

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Best wiki engines of linux

I just want to share this information for all the users who wants to know about best free wiki engines of open source.
A Wiki engine is a type of collaborative software that runs a wiki system. This facilitates web pages being created and edited using a web browser. This type of software is usually implemented as an application server that runs on one or more web servers.

the content is stored in a file system, and changes to the content are typically stored in a relational database management system (such as MySQL), although some simple wiki engines use text files instead.

Here is the list of wiki engines

MediaWiki Collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia
DokuWiki Targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies
MoinMoin Advanced, easy to use and extensible wiki engine implemented in Python
PmWiki Offers a simple-to-install system
PhpWiki Wiki engine written in PHP
Zwiki Powerful, innovative engine based on the Zope web application server
XWiki Enterprise wiki written in Java
MindTouch Deki Web-based enterprise collaboration, wiki software and mashup platform
Foswiki Supports the embedding of active and passive macros
JSPWiki Built around the standard J2EE components of Java, servlets and JSP
WackoWiki Small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual written in PHP
Triki-Wiki Simple, robust, flat-file XHTML-Wiki in PHP
WikkaWiki Flexible, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine
TWiki Easy to use enterprise wiki and collaboration platform

Got this information from linuxlinks.com

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Helio Ocean 2 : Debut on Feb 12

This will be the one of the Good looking mobiles for the start of this year. I dont have any idea is getting released in India or not. Shortly after officially confirming the upcoming release of Helio Ocean 2, Virgin Mobile USA has now unveiled the handset’s launch date, price and features.

This mobiles cost around 149 $ in red and Black. Its comes medium range mobiles with very gook and features are listed below

* 2.6 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels
* 3G connectivity
* GPS with Google Maps
* Easy access to Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Flickr
* Stereo Bluetooth
* Media player with background mode playback
* 3.5mm headset jack
* Opera Mini
* Mail for Microsoft Exchange
* File Viewer with document editing capabilities
* 3D gaming
* 2MP camera with location tagging and video recording
* 512MB MicroSD card included in the package

Just keep waiting for the launch of this mobile .

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