Real Time Embedded Systems

Hello friends in this post i am going to explore one of the most interesting topic in operating system that is Embedded Systems.

Today embedded computers are the most prevalent form of computers in existence.You can found these devices anywhere from car engines and manufacturing robots to VCRs and microwave ovens.Generally these systems are designed to work on a very specific task thats why they are provided with limited features.Today these embedded systems vary considerably,some are general purpose computers that are running on standard operating system such as UNIX with special purpose application to implement the functionality,others are hardware devices with a special purpose embedded operating system providing just the functionality desired.
Within the last few years the use of embedded systems is increased to a great extent.These embedded systems can work as standalone units and as a member of a network.It is believed that embedded systems almost always run real time operating systems.A real time system is used only when rigid time requirements have been placed on the operation of processor or the flow of data.Hence it is used as a control device in a dedicated application.In other words we can also say that real time systems has well defined time constraints.All the processing must be done within the defined time constraints otherwise processing will fail. A real time systems functions correctly only if it returns correct results within the time constraints.

Microsoft Vs Adobe

Now their is a hot news after the summer olympics at Beijing,the web war between the Microsoft Corp and Adobe Systems Inc over the Internet's next big competition. Microsoft's Silverlight technology and rival Adobe's Flash format are currently locked in a race over who delivers the world's online video, but the ultimate prize may be who powers the next generation of Web software.Using Silverlight, the NBC site offers a glimpse of what is possible with future Web applications because viewers are able to watch up to four videos at once or follow the action with an online commentary that runs alongside the video.
More than 40 million US viewers have gone to NBC's Olympics site to watch some of the 2,200 hours of live footage from the Beijing games. All those viewers need is a Silverlight player on their browser if they do not have one already.By building up Silverlight's user base, the world's largest software maker is looking to win over developers who see Web platforms such as Silverlight and Flash as a new way to deliver powerful Web-linked programmes incorporating rich graphics.Currently, those platforms are mainly reserved for multimedia applications such as Google Inc's popular YouTube site, which runs on Adobe's Flash technology.After years of selling licenses for software that runs on a computer's hard drive, Microsoft is facing a new batch of competitors providing software free as a service through the Web browser in exchange for online advertising.Taking advantage of Flash, Silverlight and other more simple Web-coding technologies such as AJAX, a new breed of interactive Web software -- known as rich Internet applications (RIAs) -- has emerged.
Adobe plans to take the next step with tools called Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), which allow programmes to run on the Web or offline on a computer's desktop.On the other hand, Microsoft is approaching Silverlight from the opposite direction. It plans to take advantage of its legions of outside developers experienced in writing for its ubiquitous Windows operating system.The next version of Silverlight, being tested now and due later this year, will support Microsoft's .NET framework -- tools used by developers to create desktop applications that work on Windows.Microsoft introduced its first version of Silverlight a year ago, but Gartner's Valdes said the second version is the first real form of Silverlight since the inclusion of .NET support turns the technology into a great revolution.

Let see who will win this race,Microsoft or Adobe.

Microsoft buy ciao.com

Now finally the Microsoft has agreed to buy Greenfield Online, owner of popular European price comparison website ciao.com, for about $486 mn to boost its Internet search and e-commerce business in Europe.As all we know earlier this year Microsoft failed to buy Yahoo after a log battle.After purchasing ciao.com it is believed that it should help it build a more consumer-friendly, results-oriented search engine.As all we know that Internet search is dominated by Google, which has 62 per cent of the global search market and 79 percent in Europe.

Microsoft has a 2 percent market share in Europe and 9 per cent worldwide, behind both Google and Yahoo.Buying ciao.com was an important step in Microsoft's attempt to distinguish itself by providing search results more useful to consumers, particularly shoppers, than those thrown up by a Google search.Ciao.com is active in seven European countries and attracts 19.6 mn unique visitors per month in Europe, more than twice as many as rival kelkoo.com, according to ComScore, thanks to its large network of members who contribute product reviews.To attract more users, Microsoft also plans to reward consumers who buy products through its shopping sites by giving them cash back, extending a trial started in the United States a few months ago.

Microsoft's offer of $17.50 per share betters an earlier proposal by media-focused US buyout firm Quadrangle Group to acquire the company for $15.50 a share, and represents a slight premium to Greenfield's closing price of $17.25 on Thursday.On August 26, Greenfield had said it had received a $17.50 per share offer but did not reveal from whom.The latest offer represents a premium of about 10 percent over Greenfield's closing share price on August 25.Microsoft said it had agreed to sell Greenfield's main business, which surveys consumer opinion online and sells the results to market researchers, to an unnamed financial buyer.The companies expect both deals to close during the fourth quarter of 2008. Completion of the Greenfield sale to Microsoft does not depend on Microsoft's disposal of the online survey business, the two companies said.This deal really help Microsoft in competing with google.

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Obama's thinking on outsourcing

The hot news of this time is the Obama's thinking over the nature and impact of outsourcing.On his thinking Indian technology companies said Barrack Obama has not a complete understanding of what the America is going to loss if outsourcing from other countries stops.In his acceptance speech, following his nomination as the Democratic candidate for the US presidential post, Obama said that he, unlike the Republican candidate John McCain, "will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship our jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America."

If Obama indeed does that in the event he becomes US president, it would adversely impact the massive flow of work that currently comes to Indian IT and business process ousourcing firms. Though Indian IT companies have been trying to geographically diversify their revenue source, almost 60% of it still comes from the US.But technology companies here pointed out that if Obama were to do any such thing, it would only hurt America.

On this explanation of Obama,Nasscom said that Indian software exports are unlikely to be affected by this stance of Obama as offshoring is a key economic decision for US firms.Anant Koppar, an IT industry observer, also said the US does not have enough skilled workers and scope for scalability. "So outsourcing is the only option for them," he said. Meanwhile, India's software exports, led by companies like Infosys, TCS and Wipro. draw over 70% of revenue from the US market.Facing the heat from US presidential hopefuls who blamed "shipping jobs" to China and India for rising US unemployment, the India Inc had on previous occasions launched a counter-offensive telling Americans that the industry is in fact creating new work opportunities for them.

World's tech most powerful women

Hello friends here is a bad news for all those that thinks only men are the true and powerful faces of technology because Forbes recently released its annual list of ‘The World's 100 Most Powerful Women'.As all we know global IT industry may be led by men, but it has its share of fairer sex. Women who by their grit, substance and vision have emerged among the most powerful people of the global business world.Lets take a look at the profiles of these world's most powerful tech women.This list begins with the profile of Anne Mulcahy who is the Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation.

1.Anne Mulcahy(Xerox Corp): Anne M Mulcahy tops the list of the most powerful tech women. She became CEO of Xerox in August 2001, and chairman on January 1, 2002.Mulcahy is credited of having pulled Xerox out of a near-fatal slump in 2002. Her ideas include colour printing, eco-friendly technologies and lucrative consulting services. To compete with rivals like Canon and Hewlett-Packard, Mulcahy doubled Xerox's software R&D budget to $1.5 billion.

She began her Xerox career as a field sales representative in 1976 and assumed increasingly responsible sales and senior management positions. From 1992-1995, Mulcahy was vice president for human resources, responsible for compensation, benefits, human resource strategy, labor relations, management development and employee training.Mulcahy became chief staff officer in 1997 and corporate senior vice president in 1998. Prior to that, she served as vice president and staff officer for Customer Operations, covering South America and Central America, Europe, Asia and Africa.Mulcahy earned a bachelor of arts degree in English/journalism from Marymount College in Tarrytown, NY.

2.Safra A Catz(Oracle):Co-President of Oracle Corporation, Safra A Catz ranks at no. 15 on the list. An Oracle veteran, she served as an Executive Vice President from November 1999 to January 2004, and as Senior Vice President from April 1999 to October 1999.Safra A Catz has served as a President since January 2004, as Chief Financial Officer since November 2005, and as a Director since October 2001.

The magazine praises Catz for overseeing Oracle's numerous acquisitions -- the company's stock was recently trading near its five-year high.An Israeli, Catz held a key role in $10.3 billion takeover of software rival PeopleSoft. Prior to Oracle, Catz was at Donaldson and Lufkin & Jenrette, global investment banks.A bachelor's degree holder from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, she later pursued law from the University's Law School.

3.Ann Livermore(Hewlett-Packard): Head of Hewlett-Packard's $38 billion division, Ann Livermore ranks at no. 33 in the list of Forbes list of most powerful women.Among the 25 highest-paid women, her group includes servers, storage, software, and services for corporate clients. The products and services from this organization reach business and public sector customers of all sizes in more than 170 countries.Livermore rose through the ranks in sales, marketing and research and development.

She was on the short list of possible HP chiefs to replace Carly Fiorina.For more than two decades, Livermore has been involved with building solutions to help HP customers manage and transform their technology. Livermore was elected a corporate vice president in 1995 after holding a variety of management positions in marketing, sales, research and development, and business management. She joined the company in 1982.Livermore holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree in business administration from Stanford University. In 1997, Livermore was elected to the board of directors of United Parcel Service.

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Intel announces Rs 5,000 Desktop

Now their is a great news for everyone that are interested in computers but don't have sufficient amount of money to purchase it but now Intel has announced the launch of a desktop range that starts at Rs 5,000($ 125).This launching of these computers at such a low cost definitely brings computer revolution in the country.On this event Intel's South Asia's managing director of sales and marketing group R Sivakumar said that "We recognise there is an urgent need for industry and government to collaborate to enable people to connect to the Internet".


The launching of these computers are come under the Intel's India movement i.e "Connected Indians" which aims at providing to users cheap machines dubbed as nettops and netbooks.Collaborating with Intel are industry partners such as original equipment manufacturers and Internet service providers, as well as the government.Less than a decade ago, personal computers came attached with a price tag of more than Rs 50,000, and the average person could at best own an 'assembled' desktop at anything between Rs 20,000-Rs 25,000.

Based on Intel's Atom processor - the chipmaker's lowest priced processor launched earlier this year - OEMs such as Acer, HCL, Zenith, Intex, Lenovo, Wipro and Novatium, showcased various designs at the event.We all Indians hope that "The 'Connected Indians' movement will bring with it rapid broadband deployment and help harness the powers of Internet to accelerate inclusive social and economic change".In addition to this Intel also signed an agreement with state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd to jointly popularise broadband Internet and wireless broadband technology WiMax.