Monthly Archives: August 2010

3G Phones ? Lets Talk Face to Face

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Almost every month the market is flooded with newer versions of mobile phones. While some of these gizmos earn reputation for their camera and audio player, others take the laurels for good functionalities. And when it comes to connectivity, nothing can be compared to the outstanding potential of 3G phones. The revolutionary 3G promises more sophisticated and diverse range of services than ever been offered before. Primarily targeted for the business class, the phone is apt for the ones who prefer to carry their business along with them, and stay connected everywhere they go.

3G is a generic term used for third generation and points towards the new generation of mobile communication system. This 3G system is based on previous generation of 2G system of the GSM standard – but is more evolved, extended and enhanced.

3G users in many benefits in the domain of voice, text and data services. It marks a shift from voice-centric services to multimedia orientation such as voice data, fax services and video. Downloading video conferencing and video clips become really improved and easy with 3G enabled mobile phones. In addition, it has descent roaming capabilities and broad bandwidth high speed communication. One of the most useful and interesting aspect of 3G is ability to bring all existing cellular standards under a single unified structure. It uses the terrestrial and satellite components for its functioning.

In UK, 3G was first available with three (3), owned by Hutchison Telecom. But now rest of the network operators and telecommunication are gearing up to embrace this latest technology. The reason being obvious – its enormous capacity and value-added services. But then this mobile market is never static, while on one hand the network operators are busy gauging the pros and cons of a 3G network, on the other, the think tanks are already up with a 4G technology!

Review of Business Intelligence Solutions for Mid-Size Company

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I was assigned the task to review a variety of different business intelligence vendors to find out which one would suite our companies needs best. The type of requirements we needed to meet included interactivity with data throughout our different levels of employees and also the ability to generate high quality visual data by leveraging data visualization software. Furthermore, it was vital for us to also use the next generation open-source based business intelligence because this would give our developers the ability to interact with the software at a deep level. When we began searching for vendors we came across a variety of different ones but a company called Actuate seemed to set the standard for business intelligence and carried a powerful product line of offerings tailored for our needs. We also came to find out that Actuate has an entire community of open source developers that help maintain the software. Overall, we were quite pleased with their offerings and decided to download a trial version of their software. We are currently testing out the software and out it to be quite easy to use. The interface is clean and the presentation of rich information is appealing, it’s also a great open source business intelligence tool. Though, we have not made any final decisions, if your company is looking for a similar solution to ours, try out Actuate BIRT yourself.

Get a Great Gaming Experience with Nintendo Wii

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In recent years, gaming has become popular. The advanced technology has offered brilliant powerful machines called Gaming Consoles. These consoles satisfy your desires allowing you to enter into a dream world. Sony entered into the world of console game with the Playstation. Another popular gaming console, Xbox 360 offers excellent realistic games.

With a variety of gaming consoles available in the market, you can surely find a console according to your budget, taste and choice. The best part of these consoles is that you do not need to install a game, it is all about plug and play. They are amazing entertainment systems with latest features that offer high definition gaming. These games have become the latest craze in the world of video gaming. Whether you are looking for hardcore action games or normal fun games, you would get numerous choices according to your interest. All these games are extremely entertaining and addictive. These console games are popular among people of all ages.

These latest games can also be played on television or a compatible audio-video system. There is a controller which controls the game and is connected to the console.

A perfect gaming console, Nintendo Wii is a seventh generation gaming system. This small console is the lightest weight game and ensures to be entertaining and highly addicting. The excellent features and capabilities are the best part of the game.

Some of the advantages of the console game include:

. No hassles, No operating systems as in computers, just plug in and play.

. Easy multiplayer gaming, simply connect to the internet and start playing.

. Play wherever you like to.

. They can be easily learnt to play with.

The Nintendo Wii is a offers an outstanding gaming experience. Playing this game is simple and can be played by young kids and adults too. There are shooters, action, scrollers. This ideal console also allows downloading of games, web surfing and more gaming options. The game opens up a new world of gaming to casual gamers who have never experienced electronic gaming. It gives a tough competition to gaming consoles such as Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3. The game is an advanced version of Nintendo Game Cube with a feature of ‘intuitive control’. The game makes you feel as if you are in the virtual world. The multimedia device also consists of a music player that lets you listen to and download songs. When it is connected with internet, it offers latest news updates and weather forecasting. This impressive game is an improvement over other gaming consoles. You would get engrossed and passionate with the game. This fascinating game lets you make the best use of your leisure time. It is a good way to get over the whole day’s stress.

Nintendo Wii is packed with unique features that make it stand out in the crowd. The impressive controls are suited for left as well as right handed players. Downloading games online is easy with a user-friendly interface.

The WiiConnect24 service allows the console to download information automatically even on standby. Another remarkable feature is “Virtual console”. This gaming console is for the masses as it is easy to use, understand and quite affordable. The 512 MB built-in flash memory of the gaming console can be expanded using an SD card.

Video game consoles are famous among tech savvy gamers and youngsters. The sleek remote makes your gaming experience enjoyable with innovative sensors.

The specialised gaming console has an intuitive control that makes this gadget extremely popular among different classes of people. Overall, it gives a pleasurable gaming experience with simplistic games and straightforward game play. The gaming console features a wireless controller with three dimensional motion detection capabilities. It weighs just 1.2 kg so it is the lightest of all gaming consoles. This cheap and fun to play game is great to play with.

You are bound to enjoy all your favourite games in the Nintendo Wii. So buy the Nintendo Wii and get ensured of an enjoyable gaming experience.

IP-based multi-service core ring network solution – soft switching, 3G, networks – telecommunications industry

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I. Introduction With Softswitch and future 3G services launch, the existing packet-based network services is increasingly apparent. ITU-T is also clear that the next generation network NGN is a packet-based bearer networks. The main use of existing data carrying optical fiber directly connected switches or through the MSTP SDH-based approach, there is a lack of 50ms former carrier-class protection and can not provide end to end QoS; the latter need to implement Ethernet to SDH reconciliation package packaging, increased overhead and costs, also increases the delay, not the economy to meet the future NGN bearer network for data services requirements.   Order to adapt to the development of next generation network, or more fundamentally correct the lack of structure and building out the existing metro network model of restraint, the flames of the network according to its own next generation network (NGN) understanding, put forward based on IP MSPP core, multi-service ring network solution. 2, IP-based packet core multi-service platform:
MSPP (Multi-ServiceProvisioningPlatform): multi-service delivery platform, which combines the bearer network and transmission network technology, a platform, and support data, voice and video traffic simultaneously switching and transmission. MSPP can be implemented on different platforms, according to different physical platform, can be classified based on WDM multi-service optical transport platform, based on SONET / SDH in the MSTP platforms, and IP-based packet core platform. War Network F-engineM8000 using RPR / MSR, flexible Ethernet ring technology, is a new generation of IP with MSPP function multi-service packet core platform, mainly located in the metro access and convergence layer, can be achieved: (1) Multi-service load: can support data, TDM and video services integrated bearing and high reliability transmission. (2) with the MSTP function: to provide 50ms ring operating within the capacity of automatic protection switching (APS),-based RPR / MSR technology fair ring bandwidth allocation mechanism to support the ring (single ring and tangent Central) , star, chain and other graphical network topology and automatic topology discovery and management capabilities, support for distributed fault location and performance monitoring. (3) layer packet switching and load: to provide Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, E1, 2.5GbpsRPR/MSR, 10GbpsEthernet other interfaces, to meet customer network management and application business differentiation needs. F-engineM8000 from the business side of the interface, packet processing unit and the line side interface. Among them, the packet processing unit by the packet switch architecture, service identification unit, the business processing unit, packet forwarding engine, TDM emulation and network security protection unit and six other modules; line side of the unit by the automatic protection switching unit and the loop interface unit composition. MSPP specific functions of various parts of the following:
* Business side of the Interface: The main function is to provide service access interfaces;
* Packet switch architecture: hardware-based non-blocking high-speed switching;
* Business Identification Unit: The main function is to distinguish between conduct business;
* Business processing unit: the results based on business identify appropriate queuing and scheduling;
* Packet Forwarding Engine: complete the second floor of the main wire-speed forwarding; * TDM emulation unit: The main business of the completion of TDM emulation over Ethernet;

Wireless Networks- An Effective and Reliable Way to Connect with the World

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A computer network that is wire free is called a wireless network. Wireless networks are those networks that are interlinked to one anther with some other wire free tools. These networks are generally associated with telecommunications and networking wherein two or more nodes are connected with one another such that the data can flow to and fro between them. These networks do not use wires and are generally implemented with a kind of remote information system which makes the use of electronic radio waves for connectivity. These networks can easily transmit data and other information to other nodes i.e. computers very easily.

 

A wireless network is again divided into four kinds, depending on their features and uses, they are:

 

Wireless PAN: It stands for wireless personal area network; this is known as a personal area network as it covers only a small geographical area. One such example of the WPAN is the Bluetooth; it provides connectivity only to an area of 10mts and thus a wireless personal area connectivity provider.

 

Wireless LAN: This is a sort of wireless network that supports local area connectivity. It stands for wireless local area network. The only difference is that it covers a larger area than pan.

 

Wireless Wan: It stands for Wireless metropolitan area network. This wireless network is spread in a metropolitan area i.e. wide area than when compared to pan and LAN.

 

Wireless WAN: It stands for wireless wide area network wherein a wide are is covered and the nodes are connected with one another perfectly.

 

Mobile networks: This network came in to initiation with the development of mobile smart phones which are used to talk and at the same time can hold computer data with transferring abilities because they are often connected to GSM.

 

A wireless network eases the flow of information from one computer to the other. One can share real time information at a rapid speed and with an amazing efficiency. These networks are age old techniques to send information anywhere in the world without recognizing the geographical frontiers and language barriers. Wireless networks are in operation from a long time and are used to send, receive and communicate through radio electromagnetic signals. People are now sharing data, merging and exchanging files across borders breaking barriers. One can say that wireless networks have considerably changed the world and made it one big family.

 

These networks are inexpensive and a cost efficient way of communicating and sharing files, data and other info between groups of computers. These networks are used in business and other important areas where communication is important. Wireless networks offer a wide range of connectivity and that too without the hassles of wiring. All in all, wireless connectivity is reliable, superficial, fast, flexible and easy to get in. It involves a rapid speed and consumes very little time.  It is an answer to all your connectivity needs and gives you instant access to the world behind your table.

 

Study on Electronic Money

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Study on Electronic Money

 

Mr. Felix Deepak Minj [HOD, Dept. of IT, Shekhawati College, Sikar(Raj.)]

 

Introduction :

 

Commerce refers to all the activities surrounding the purchase or sale of goods or services. As we step into the next century, the Internet promises to bring unpredictable change in the society. Spanning the entire globe, crossing all boundaries, the net has redefined the methods of communication work, study, education, interaction, Entertainment, Health, Trade and commerce. There are some activities in commerce such as marketing, sales, payment, fulfillment, customer service etc.

 

Electronic commerce is the application of communication and information sharing technologies among trading partners to the aim of business objectives. Electronic Commerce is associated with the buying and selling of information, products and services via computer networks.

 

Electronic Commerce  is a new way of conducting managing and executing business transactions using computer and telecommunication networks. Electronic Commerce refers to the paperless exchange of business information using EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) ,Electronic Mail, EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) and other networks based technologies. Electronic Commerce applications started in the early 1970s, with such innovations as EFT.

 

 

Objectives Of The Study:

 

Purpose of the study is to diagnose the state of efficiency in itself and trace out the factors responsible for lower or higher efficiency in discharging various operation and activities of analysis in Electronic Money security.

 

To review rational and motives underlying term lending agencies in the present day complex mechanism of Electronic Money. To analyze the institutional and organizational constraints hampering efficiency, efficiency and effectiveness of Electronic Money. To assess their quality performance through structural analysis. To examine the impact of new business policies and liberalization on these Electronic Money. To study and analyze the security of Electronic Money transaction. To suggest possible remedies for these institutions to halt their present declining trends. To suggest the techniques for lending to higher growth of Electronic Money security.

 

Advantages Of Electronic Money :

 

 

Digital cash will allow for the immediate transfer of funds from an individual’s personal account to a businesses account, without any actual paper transfer of money. This offers a great convenience to many people and businesses alike.

 

Banks can offer many services whereby a customer can transfer funds, purchase stocks,  and offer a variety of other services without having to handle the physical cash or cheques. Customers do not have to wait in lines, and this provides a lower hassle environment.

Disadvantages Of Electronic Money :

 

Although there are many benefits to digital cash, there are also many significant disadvantages. These include fraud, failure of technology, possible tracking of individuals and the loss of human interaction. It is very common that almost all systems have drawbacks. However, the question that needs to be asked is whether the advantages of using the system overpass the disadvantages.

Fraud over digital cash has been a pressing issue in recent years. Hacking into bank accounts and the illegal retrieval of banking records has led to a widespread invasion of privacy, and has promoted identity theft.

There is also a pressing issue in regards to the technology involved in digital cash. Power failures, loss of records, undependable software often cause a major setback in promoting the technology.

 

Fraud over digital cash has been a pressing issue in recent year. Hacking into bank accounts and illegal retrieval of banking records has led to a wide spread invasion of privacy and has promoted identity theft.

 

Power failures, loss of records and undependable software often cause a major set back in promoting the technology. 

 

 

Frame Work Of Electronic Commerce:

 

Many people things Electronic Commerce is just having a web site, but Electronic Commerce is much more than that. There are dozens of applications of Electronic Commerce such as home banking, shopping in online stores and malls, buying stocks, finding a job, conducting an auction and collaborating electronically on research and development projects.

 

To execute these applications, it is necessary to have supporting information and organizational infrastructure and system.

 

Electronic Commerce applications are supported by infrastructures and their implementation is dependent on four major areas such as

            1.people

            2.public policy

            3.technical standards

            4.protocols and organizations

 

Peoples – Buyers, sellers, intermediaries, services  etc.

public policy – Taxes, legal, and privacy issues, domain names.

technical standards – For documents, securities, and network protocols.

Organizations – Partners, competitors, associations, Govt. services.

 

There are some other area of Electronic Commerce infrastructure such as

1.Common business services  infrastructure – security smart cards / authentication, Electronic Payment, directories / catalogs.

2.Messaging and information distribution infrastructure – EDI, Electronic Mail, HTTP.

3.Multimedia content and network publishing infrastructure – HTML, Java, WWW, VRML.

4.Network infrastructure – Telecom, cable, TV, wireless, Internet, WAN, MAN, LAN, Intranet, Extranet.

5.Interfacing infrastructure – To databases, customers and applications.

 

 

Electronic Money System Model:

 

The e-money system is a mechanism that facilitates payments – generally of limited value – in which e-money can be considered as an electronic surrogate for coins and banknotes. The e-money system is described on the basis of a model with a set of sub-systems through which electronic value (EV) is transferred, under the responsibility of a System Supervisor who monitors the security of EV creation, EV extinguishment and EV circulation within the system.

 

The three main elements which make up our e-money system model are EV, EV circulation between sub-systems and supervision. Put together, these elements constitute the core of the e-money system model. The notions of transactions, compensation, EV life cycle and actors then complete this model.

 

EV is a monetary value represented by a claim on an EV Issuer, which is:

– stored on an electronic device;

– issued on receipt of funds for an amount not less in value than the monetary value issued;

–        accepted as a means of payment by undertakings other than the issuer.

The EV circulation starts with a first phase called EV creation, and ends with a final phase called EV extinguishment.

 

This model does not impose any restriction on the number of sub-systems that form an e-money system.

 

 

 

Transactions On The Internet:

 

All the transactions on the internet take place using the customer’s personal computer and the seller’s web server. Customers use a web browser to place on order with the merchant and specify their mode of payment. In the case of an online transaction the customer has the option of paying by credit card or smart card the customers can also to pay using electronic cash or a digital cheque . The software on the seller’s server has to verify the order and has to settle the transaction by receiving authorization for the transfer of funds from a bank or the credit and acquirer. It is possible that the applications on the customer’s, merchant’s and bank’s are not same. Hence the interaction across this step is achieved using a gateway, which is a link between applications.

 

The gateway allows for protocol conversion and communicates with the bank using the bank’s private network or the internet. Gateway, more specifically common gateway interface (CGI) is a specification for communicating data between an information server, for example server, and other application.  CGI is used wherever the web server needs to send or receive data from another application, such as database. A CGI script is a program that negotiates the movement of data between the web server and an outside application. It typically passes data, filled in by the user in an HTML form, from the web server to a database.

 

Payment System:

 

In any business transaction, the customer and merchant enter into an agreement. According to this agreement the merchant supplies the goods and services that the customer requests for while the customer transfers funds to the merchant in lien for the goods received.       Thus the payment is the most important part in the sales cycle.

 

The general requirements of payment system’s are-

(1)Confidentiality – the user expects a secure system of payment.

(2)Authentication – A method to verify the buyer’s identity before payment     is authorized.

(3)Integrity – It ensuring that information will not be accidentally or maliciously altered or destroyed during transmission.

(4)Authorization – It allows the merchant to determine if the buyer actually has funds to pay for the purchase. The  merchant verifies that the customer’s bank account has sufficient balance to honour the cheque amount.

(5)Privacy – There might be situations where both the customer and merchant would want to ensure the privacy of sale. example – a business conducting research might not the details of its purchases.

 

Types Of Electronic Payments:

 

The various methods that have been developed for making payments on the internet are electronic versions of the traditional payment systems that we use everyday. In our daily life we use cash, credit cards or cheques to make payments. All these systems are digitally incorporated on the web as e-cash, electronic cheques and credit cards.

 

(1)Credit Card:

 

 Credit cards are the most popular payment method for cyberspace customer shopping today.

(a)                The card holder- A customer or a corporate purchaser who uses credit cards to pay merchants.

(b)               The merchant- the entity that accepts credit cards and offers goods or services in exchange for  payments.

(c)                The card issuer- A financial institution that establishes accounts for cardholders and issues credit cards.

(d)               The acquirer- A financial institution that establishes an accounts for merchants and acquires the vouchers of authorized sales slips.

 

(2)Electronic Wallet Or Digital Wallet:

 

Secure electronic transaction (SET) protocol was initially designed by visa and master card in 1997. SET protocol meets the four security requirements for EC as SSL does: authentication, encryption, integrity and non repudiation. In addition, SET defines the message format, certificate format, and procedure of message exchange. The role of payment gateway is to connect the internet and proprietary networks of banks. Each participating entity needs its own certificates. To keep the consumer’s certificate in his or her personal computer or IC card, software called the electronic wallet or digital wallet.

 

(3)Debit Card:

 

It is also known as check card, is a card that authorizes the EFT. EFT ,Designed to transfer a  certain amount of money from one account to another. The customer’s terminal can be automatic teller machine (ATM), PC, or telephone terminals. When we use a debit card, the amount is immediately deducted from our checking or savings accounts. The debit card allows we to spend only what is in our bank account.

 

Advantages Of Using Debit Card :

 

1.Obtaining a debit card is much easier than obtaining a credit card .

2.Using a debit card instead of writing checks saves you from showing personal identification .

3.Using a debit card frees we from carrying cash, travelers checks or a check book.

4.Marchants accepts debit cards more readily than checks.

 

 

 

 

(4)Smart Cards:

 

At present we carry many plastic cards such as credit cards, debit cards, charge cards, diving licenses, health insurance cards, employee or student identification cards and other.

 

Now for a moment if we think that all these cards are replaced by a single plastic card carrying all the information of the dozen or  fifty cards. Not only dose it lighten our load, it makes identification and purchasing easer for us. Credit, debit and charge cards currently store limited information about us in a magnetic stripe. And unlike a smart card, a credit card dose not contain cash – it only contains a number of an account that can be charged.

 

A smart card can store hundred times more information than a magnetic striped plastic card. A smart contains private user information such as financial facts, private encryption key, account information, credit cards numbers, health insurance information and so on. The current generation of smart cards includes IC chips with programmable functions.

 

(5)Closed Vs Open Electronic Cash System:

 

Electronic cash system can be either closed or open.

 

A closed system implies that the cash value in the IC card can only be recharged from a banks accounts, and the used money, which was collected   in the memory of the IC card readers will be transferred to the receivers bank account. The direct transfer between IC cards is prohibited.

 

In open system allows direct transfer of money value between IC cards. Because Govt. are afraid of the risk of lost traceability money laundering.

 

 

Conclusion :

 

Nowadays the traditional bills and coins are giving way to the electronic money. With the wide spread of Internet this transformation is inevitable. It is obvious that digital cash is the future of exchange mechanism. It will surely condense many of the prevailing inconveniences such as carrying large amount of cash and will resolve many of the in-security issues experienced today. The electronic money would not only be quicker and cheaper but also more robust and easy to authenticate. People would not be apprehensive in using it as it will respect their privacy and will allow even small merchants to carry out the business all over the world. The digital cash will also reduce the cost of transferring the money internationally, which is quite expensive at present. The electronic money will not replace the traditional form of transaction completely but will facilitate it surely.

 

 

Bibliography:

Books:

1.K.K.Bajaj & D.Nag:- “E-Commerce the cutting edge of business”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd. (New Delhi)

2.Dr.M.M.Maymand:- “E-Commerce”, Deep & Deep Publications Pvt. Ltd. (New Delhi)

3. Prof.V.P.Gupta & Dr.M.C.Sharma:-“E-Commerce” Ramesh Book Depot, (Jaipur)

4. Turban, Lee, King & Chung:-“Electronic Commerce a managerial perspective” Pearson Education,Inc. (New Delhi)

5. Kalakota & Whinston:-“Frontiers of electronic commerce”, Pearson Education, Inc. (New Delhi)

6. W.J.Buttam:-“E-Business and is solutions”, Addison Wesley Indian Edition, (New Delhi)

7. David:-“E-Commerce strategy and technologies”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd. (New Delhi)

8. A.S.Nanenbaum:-“Computer Networks”, Pearson Edition,Inc. (New Delhi)

9. Columbus, Laria:- “Telaizing E_Business with application services provider”, Techmedia Plaza (New Delhi)

10. Raj Kamal:- “Internet & Web technology”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd. (New Delhi)

Magazines:

            1.PC Quest Publish from Mumbai (Monthly)

            2.Devloper IQ Publish from New Delhi (Monthly)

            3.The Internet Digit Publish from New Delhi  (Monthly)

            4.Computer Today Publish from New Delhi (Monthly)

 

Web Search:

Solution provides

http://home.netscape.com/commapps/index.html

http://www.ibm.com/services/ebus/index.html

http://www.microsoft.com/siteserver/commerce/default.asp

Sample internet Electronic Commerce Siteswww.amazon.com                    book shop

www.bababazaar.com  vegetable store

www.netmarket.com    cloth, books etc www.jandr.com                        computer, audio, video etc Search Engines

            http://www.altavista.com

            http://www.yahoo.com/search.html

            http://www.allonesearch.com

            http://www.cs.indisna.edu/cgi-bin/aliweb/search

            http://www.goto.com

            http://www.bigbook.com

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