Monthly Archives: February 2011

Android users can now purchase e-books from the Android Market using a new feature that allows them to tap into Google’s ebookstore for Android-ready reading. Google launched its ebookstore last December. Users can search its database by genre, and in addition to books for sale, it offers a section for free books.

For those of us who love Ubuntu, it was both distressing and perplexing to read Bruce Byfield’s recent blog post entitled, "Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go?" Growing concerns and criticisms about Ubuntu’s relationship with the open source community at large are Byfield’s focus. Chief among them "the gap between the expectations created by Ubuntu and Canonical in their early days and their increasing tendency to focus on commercial concerns."

Enterprises are grappling with the skyrocketing amount of data they have to handle as that data proliferates into the terabyte and petabyte stage. Datasets that large are known as "big data" to IT practitioners. Relational databases and desktop statistics or visualization packages can’t handle big data; instead, massively parallel software running on up to thousands of servers is needed to do the job.

Little did we know when Microsoft’s Jean Paoli uttered the words, "We love open source" late last summer that there would be so many occasions in subsequent months to look back on that statement and scratch our heads in wonder. Case in point: the company’s recent decision to severely restrict the open source licenses that can be involved in any application distributed through its Windows Phone Marketplace.

Creating a New InfotypeStep 1 Execute transaction PM01 (If you get a message saying the infotype can not be enhanced, Try transaction PPCI).Step 2Select create IT tab and enter new infotype number into selection box.Step 3Press the create ‘ALL’ but…

One of the endearing traits of open source applications for Linux distros is that they rarely look the same, unlike on those other desktop computing platforms. That is especially the case with GTimelog Time Tracker, a tiny application that tracks what you do and when you do it during your work — and if you wish, your play — sessions.

With Lot-for-Lot items, the reorder cycle needs to be considered when a change on the demand profile arise. As an example, we have a lot-for-lot item for which a replenishment exist which is consistent with demand profile. Now, the user changes a …

Have in mind the following scenario: “Order” item with a sales order reserved against stock and sales order shipment date in frozen zone. Under these circumstances, we need to consider this scenario should only occur exceptionally…

In the past year, Android has managed to replace iOS as the most popular smartphone platform for new purchases, and it even toppled Nokia’s Symbian OS on a global scale, according to at least one report. So it’s not surprising that at the Mobile World Congress last week, Android took center stage.

For most of us, there are events in history that we remember with crystal clarity, even down to the specific details of what we were doing when they happened. The Twin Towers tragedy is one recent example; another might be a positive event, such as the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. On some relative scale, it doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable to say that news of Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft was in some way comparable to some small degree.