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SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptivity, the IT transformation company, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (
www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Adaptivity's CEO Tony Bishop will be offering major thought leadership in a Morning Keynote.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (
www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance. Mellanox products deliver market-leading bandwidth, performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution.
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Posted by W3Avenue Team on Dec 20, 2009 in
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View Original Article Roundabout is a fantastic jQuery plugin that allows you to convert set of HTML elements into highly interactive carousel like group. In its simplest configuration, Roundabout works with ordered and unordered lists, however after some quick configuration, Roundabout can work with any set of nested elements.
When used with Roundabout Shapes, you have the ability to move elements in nine additional styles. Roundabout plugin is highly customizable; you can fully customize the look and feel using CSS. It offers many advance configuration options, enabling you to control animation and style just the way you want.
Both plugins are developed by Fred LeBlanc; and both Roundabout & Roundabout Shapes jQuery Plugins are available for download under BSD License. You can find further information, demos & download on Roundabout Website.
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Posted by W3Avenue Team on Dec 20, 2009 in
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View Original Article Meerkat is a JQuery plugin that allows you to create content panel which remain in its fixed position while the rest of the page will scroll normally. You can use it for promotional content; or create a fixed panel on top or bottom of the window for login, advertisements, etc; or even as an alternative to a splash or entry page. Meerkat is unobtrusive, cross-browser compatible, and degrades gracefully if JavaScript has been disabled.
Meerkat can be easily customized to suit you needs. You can allow users to close the panel or automatically disable the panel until browser session has ended or for a set amount of days. You can also customize other options such as fade or slide; animation speed; background colors; height and its panel position.
Developed by Jarod Taylor; Meerkat jQuery Plugin is available for download under MIT License. You can find further information, demos & download on Meerkat Website.
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Posted by Andrew Trice on Dec 20, 2009 in
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I was perusing the Google Code blog recently, and stumbled across a post explaining the new Google Browser Size tool. This is a tool that allows you to compare the size & layout of your design against data showing the most common browser sizes of client machines.
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Posted by Pete Foster on Dec 20, 2009 in
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View Original Article Well, it’s clear that Copenhagen didn’t achieve what was hoped. It probably never could, given the lack of any emissions legislation in the US and the game-playing between developed and developing nations (for which read US and China).
So, setting aside the recriminations, what did happen? Here’s the potted explanation of what was/wasn’t achieved:
• There is now pretty much a worldwide agreement that global warming should be kept to no more than 2oC. (You may wonder why 192 nations had to get together to agree that). Even at the 2oC level, global warming will have a significant impact around the world.
• There is, though, no agreement on what emissions cuts are required to achieve this objective, i.e. no 2020 or 2050 emissions reductions targets were agreed.
• What was agreed was that within six weeks the rich, developed countries will register the emissions cuts they intend to make by 2020. However, with no agreed targets this leaves it up to the individual countries to make their own decisions.
• Developed countries will provide poorer countries with ‘approaching’ $30bn of funding in 2010-2012 to help address the impact of climate change.
• Developed countries have also committed to a ‘goal of mobilizing’ $100bn a year by 2020 to support developing countries. So it’s not guaranteed and is intended to come from a variety of public and private sources.
• It was agreed that funding would be made available to help prevent deforestation, but the details are yet to be agreed.
• No deadline was set to achieve a legally binding emissions reduction agreement in the foreseeable future, although there is hope that something might be achieved in Mexico in a year’s time.
Depending on who you listen to this is either an unmitigated disaster or a necessary stepping stone to a legally binding global emissions agreement.
What does it mean for the ICT sector? Well, the theory was that a global agreement would result in a rush of national legislation which, in turn, would inevitably drive the need for the technology to meet targets. Now that immediate impetus is not there. Perhaps worse, the lack of agreement will lead to protectionism – no country wants to undermine its own industry with more emissions cuts than its neighbour. For example, the EU had said it would increase its 2020 emissions reduction to 30% if other countries agreed to a deal, but they didn’t.
Of course technology will still be a major plank of emissions reductions, keeping global warming to 2oC can’t be done without it, but it may be a longer, slower process.
From another perspective, you could argue that with politics failing to deliver, it’s technology, including ICT, that’s the main hope in getting us through.
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Posted by Amy Blankenship on Dec 20, 2009 in
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I came back from RIAdventure all stoked with new ideas to research and nail down in my own mind. One of the ideas I thought I heard there was the thought that you could probably improve performance by using Object...
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Posted by Smashing Editorial on Dec 20, 2009 in
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The Christmas is coming and Christmas decorations are being prepared. However, it’s not only time to spice up your living environment: your designs could use a bit of the Christmas spirit as well. A week ago our readers asked us to release a set of Christmas-related stock photos; so when a couple of days later Min Thu dropped us an e-mail suggesting to provide us with some Christmas stock photos, we just had to do it.
So, as requested, in this post we are glad to release Christmas Stock Photos Set, a set of 60 original Christmas-related photos in JPG in the resolution 2500×1666px. This set was created by Min Thu especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
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Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Dec 20, 2009 in
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OMG has approved the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN(TM)) 2.0 specification beta submission. OMG's Board of Directors approved the specification at the OMG Technical Meeting held in San Antonio, TX in September 2009. The finalization process for BPMN 2.0 is underway and the final version of the specification is expected to be adopted in mid 2010. The initial version of BPMN provided a graphical notation for specifying and documenting business processes with an emphasis on defining "orchestration processes." BPMN 1.x has been broadly adopted by the industry. OMG lists more than 60 implementations.
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Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Dec 20, 2009 in
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Wednesday was Antitrust Day. Intel got nailed big-time by the FTC and Microsoft was let out on parole by the European Commission. The EC dropped its Windows-IE tying charges in exchange for Microsoft pushing a smorgasbord of 12 rival browsers on 100 million European users of Windows any one or more of which they could already install if they wanted to, but that’s in the nature of EC remedies. Remember the great Windows without Media Player that nobody bought? And Firefox seems to have managed to get 32% of the EU market without any help from the EC. Ah, well, at least Microsoft’s “Get Out of Jail” card comes without further financial penalties. It’s over $2 billion in the hole already. Microsoft still owes the EC some more interoperability documentation.
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