BCS and CompTIA launch new green IT certificate
Comptia, the global IT association, has launched a new green IT certificate.
The new Strata Green IT certificate, which is backed by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, is for IT professionals who can demonstrate they have the technical skills to ensure that IT policies that reduce emissions are implemented, maintained and monitored Comptia A+ Training.
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The launch of the certificate comes as the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme is due to come into force on 1 April. The scheme provides financial incentives for companies who reduce their use of electricity.
To gain the certificate, IT professionals will learn how to develop and implement an internal IT strategy, understand how to use assessment tools, and ensure the strategy delivers a good return on investment.
Specific skills that will be assessed for the certificate include disposal of hazardous materials, preservation of power and virtualisation.
IT professionals can study for the new qualification independently or through accredited training providers across the country.
The Institute recently launched a Foundation Certificate in IT which aims to help policy makers and facilities managers understand carbon energy accounting, green IT strategies and regulations.
Matthew Poyiadgi, European vice-president at CompTIA A+ Certification, said: "For many organisations, green IT offers untapped potential to reduce both costs and emissions. Holders of the CompTIA and BCS qualifications will have the means to help organisations take advantage of this potential."
CompTIA A+ certification validates the latest skills needed by today's computer support professionals. It is an international, vendor-neutral certification recognized by major hardware and software vendors, distributors
Friday, July 30, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Implementing VoIP in your Business Set Up
Implementing VoIP in your Business Set Up
Integration of VoIP in the business processes brings about a radical change in the face of business communications. Transmission of voice as digital signals through the Internet provides respite from the ’shackles’ of ‘wires’. VoIP provides a cost-effective telephony solution to small, medium and large business set ups Comptia A+ Training.
However, careful calculation is crucial before an organisation decides to switch to VoIP telephony system.
When should a business switch to VoIP telephony system?
when a business involves significant call charges
when a business needs to make significant overseas calls
VoIP allows you to make very cheap or even free calls to overseas destinations
VoIP for businesses (commercial VoIP) should be selected with utmost care. Selection of a right VoIP service provider is crucial as the success of the commercial VoIP will depend significantly upon the service provider you choose.
Which factors should you consider while selecting a service provider?
reliability
quality of service
call charges
value-added features
Selecting the right VoIP service provider can prove to be very economical. You may get the benefit of making many calls to a significant amount of destinations absolutely free!
You can avail the benefits of the VoIP technology even with the conventional fully featured telephone system currently present in your set up. You need to use VoIP routers to achieve seamless VoIP integration into your business. A router will enable the connecting of the DECT, analog or digital telephones to the Internet. As a result, you will be able to make VoIP calls without the need for a computer Comptia A+ Certification.
However, it needs to be noted that VoIP routers are suitable for small enterprises that require a simple entry level VoIP solution. Routers will not turn out to be an effective solution where the organisation involved is exceptionally large and operates a very complex telephone system.
Large enterprises having a large number of employees need sophisticated VoIP solutions. Such large businesses should opt for VoIP servers and gateways to fulfil their communication objective(s).
Integration of VoIP in the business processes brings about a radical change in the face of business communications. Transmission of voice as digital signals through the Internet provides respite from the ’shackles’ of ‘wires’. VoIP provides a cost-effective telephony solution to small, medium and large business set ups Comptia A+ Training.
However, careful calculation is crucial before an organisation decides to switch to VoIP telephony system.
When should a business switch to VoIP telephony system?
when a business involves significant call charges
when a business needs to make significant overseas calls
VoIP allows you to make very cheap or even free calls to overseas destinations
VoIP for businesses (commercial VoIP) should be selected with utmost care. Selection of a right VoIP service provider is crucial as the success of the commercial VoIP will depend significantly upon the service provider you choose.
Which factors should you consider while selecting a service provider?
reliability
quality of service
call charges
value-added features
Selecting the right VoIP service provider can prove to be very economical. You may get the benefit of making many calls to a significant amount of destinations absolutely free!
You can avail the benefits of the VoIP technology even with the conventional fully featured telephone system currently present in your set up. You need to use VoIP routers to achieve seamless VoIP integration into your business. A router will enable the connecting of the DECT, analog or digital telephones to the Internet. As a result, you will be able to make VoIP calls without the need for a computer Comptia A+ Certification.
However, it needs to be noted that VoIP routers are suitable for small enterprises that require a simple entry level VoIP solution. Routers will not turn out to be an effective solution where the organisation involved is exceptionally large and operates a very complex telephone system.
Large enterprises having a large number of employees need sophisticated VoIP solutions. Such large businesses should opt for VoIP servers and gateways to fulfil their communication objective(s).
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Know What to Expect From Direct Mail
Know What to Expect From Direct Mail
What to expect part 2.
1.Process
Direct mail fundraising is a process, not an event. It’s a way for you to build solid, mutually rewarding relationships with lots of donors – without necessarily ever meeting them face-to-face.
2. Long-term
Rewards in direct mail come only over the long haul. The real return on investment may be sizable bequests you receive years later from one donor in a hundred, or a thousand. But a successful direct mail fundraising program requires you to make available a number of different ways for donors to become involved – as volunteers or activists, not just financial donors. And you’ll need to provide many different ways for people to channel financial support to you.
3. Cost-effectiveness
The cost of any direct mail fundraising project is much less important than its cost-effectiveness. The two aren’t at all the same. Sometimes it makes good sense to spend more. In fact, it often is sensible to spend more money on your top donors – and it may well be practical to save money by spending less on inactive or less generous donors.
4. The list
By far the most important aspect of any direct mail fundraising campaign is the list of people you mail to. Mailing an effective package to one list could easily raise ten or twenty times as much money as mailing the same package to another list Comptia A+ Training.
5. The offer
Next in importance to the list is the offer you make in a mailing – for example, how much money you ask for, how you say the money will be used, and what benefits (tangible or intangible) you promise in return for a gift. Because there are many different offers you might make, there are lots of different kinds of mailings. The most common ones are annual fund or membership renewals, special appeals, and membership acquisition (or donor prospect) mailings. Each type features a distinctive offer.
6. Segmentation
Segmentation is the key to cost-effective appeals to previous donors – based on the principle of “different strokes for different folks.” In segmenting a mailing, you select some donors to be included and others to be excluded. Likewise, you’ll give some donors special – and more expensive – treatment (such as personalization, first class postage, or higher quality materials). The most important criteria to use when making decisions about who gets what are the recency, frequency, and donation amount of your donors and the means by which you originally recruited your donors. For example, there are likely to be big differences between donors who first responded to a Public Service Announcement on television and those who were recruited by mail.
7. Annual giving
The majority of successful direct mail fundraising programs are built on the foundation of an annual giving or membership development program (in reality if not in name). This is probably the most effective way for most charities to realize the full potential of direct mail fundraising techniques. In a membership program – just like in the magazine subscription renewal process – the renewal series is the basic element. Using a series of 3, 5, or more successive contacts with each member, you can persuade the largest possible number to renew their memberships each year.
8. Testing
By testing alternative lists, offers, packages, or other techniques, you can make incremental improvements in results over time. Every direct mail fundraising program should make some use of testing. It’s the only way to derive value from one of direct mail’s biggest advantages: You can measure its results.
9. Repetition
Repeating themes, slogans, and logos (or other graphic devices) is absolutely necessary to get your message across. The repetition of familiar words and images will reinforce what you’re saying and help you penetrate the fog of thousands of competing messages bombarding every donor every day of the year.
10. Record-keeping
With consistently accurate and timely record-keeping, you’ll gain all the advantages of direct mail: its measurability, its use of precise segmentation, and its ability to generate a lot of information about donors over the years. An effective direct mail fundraising program demands an investment of time, thought, and money in an efficient computerized record – keeping system Comptia A+ Certification.
19 Things All Successful Direct Marketing Companies Know1
1. Direct Marketing Is a Strategy, Not a Tactic
2. The Consumer, Not the Product, Must Be the Hero
3. Communicate with Each Customer or Prospect as an Audience of One
4. Answer the Question “Why Should I?”
5. Advertising Must Change Behavior, Not Just Attitudes
6. The Next Step: Profitable Advertising
7. Build the “Brand Experience”
8. Create Relationships
9. Know and Invest in Each Customer’s Lifetime Value
10. “Suspects” Are Note Prospects
11. Media Is a Contact Strategy
12. Be Accessible to Your Customers
13. Encourage Interactive Dialogues
14. Learn the Missing “When?”
15. Create an Advertising Curriculum That Teaches as it Sells
16. Acquire Customers with the Intention to Loyalize Them
17. Loyalty Is A Continuity Program
18. Your Share of Loyal Customers, Not Your Share of Market Creates Profits
19.You Are What You Know
Ten Things You Should Know Before Trying Direct Mail Marketing
1. Know Your Target Market. Who are you selling to?
Are they going to be interested in your product? What benefits does your offer provide? A targeted list will probably do better then a non-targeted list. All things being equal, it makes sense that people, who have purchased items like yours before, will be your best marketing bet.
2. Know Your List Broker.
There are list brokers and then there are List Brokers. At the least, your broker should be a professional listed in Standard Rates and Data. Your list broker should be willing to take the time to match your offer to a specific list he believes will do the best for you. Anyone can call themselves a list broker and rent you names from the phone book. A professional broker cares about your business.
3. Know Your Break Even Point on Your Mail Piece.
How many sales must you make to cover your costs of mailing? Figure the cost of the list, the stock used for the mail piece and the postage. You should also figure in your cost of labor, though many marketers discount this cost when first starting out. Quite often, a more expensive product sold to fewer customers, will work out much better for you than an inexpensive product that must be sold to many customers in order to reach that same break even point. There are exacting formulas available to figure this out.
4. While in the early stages of a mail order campaign…
you can often make a profit from your initial mailings to lists of prospects who are not already your customers, ultimately, even a well run mail order company can lose money on “The Front End”. What you are looking for is a maximum number of customers. Once you have these customers, you supply “back end offers” to them. You may also, eventually, rent or sell your mail list.
5. You will always get a higher response to a mailing…
from those who have responded before.. Always re-mail new offers or add-ons to your responders. Once you have a customer or potential customer, hold on to them. Provide them with the product and service necessary to keep them doing business with you instead of someone else. Keep those “back end offers” flowing.
6. Most of what you have heard as being mail order gospel is wrong.
How to do it and what your return will be? No one knows, and that’s a fact. No one can tell you what you will do on any mailing. All they may be able to tell you is what they have done, and they may be stretching the truth. TEST! TEST! TEST! You have to test it yourself by doing the mailings and trying the lists and keeping track of what works and what doesn’t. Once you find a list that works, make sure any additional names you rent from the same list are really from the same list and just as fresh, then run with it. YOU NEED A BROKER YOU CAN TRUST TO HELP YOU.
7. Believe it or not, what you are doing, what this is, is a business.
Treat it like a business. So many mail order marketers treat what they are doing as if it were a hobby, or that “if you MAIL IT, they will come”. These folks are in for a big surprise and disappointment. Doing mail order right requires just as much effort as doing any other kind of business. Research it. The library and local bookstores are your best friend.
8. Carefully consider if you really want to send bulk mail as opposed to first class.
While bulk mail is less expensive, there are some things to consider:
A. If you send bulk mail, your letters will not be forwarded.
B. Bulk mail is less likely to be opened.
C. From what we’ve been told, bulk mail often languishes out of the way in some dark corner of your post office. We have also heard, though we don’t know for sure, that bulk mail is often given the old heave-ho, instead of being delivered.
YOU WILL NEED TO TEST.
9. Your mail piece should be a letter, or look like a letter.
The chances of someone actually looking at your mail piece, are better if it looks like a personal letter. Of course, that letter has to be good copy in order to get the order or response. Post cards can work for generating leads or inquiries, but they don’t have the space needed for the length of copy usually used to sell a product. If you print “Please Forward” on the envelope, the mail piece will be forwarded if there is a forward address. Otherwise, it will be returned to you if not deliverable to the envelope address.
10. If you are doing an Opportunity Mailing, use Buyer’s lists from a reliable company that will work with you to improve your chances for success.
A “Buyer’s List”, is made up of people who have already spent money responding to an opportunity like yours, and previously paid out money for the product or opportunity. A “Seeker’s List” will not do it for you. These people are tire kickers, and will waste your time.
What to expect part 2.
1.Process
Direct mail fundraising is a process, not an event. It’s a way for you to build solid, mutually rewarding relationships with lots of donors – without necessarily ever meeting them face-to-face.
2. Long-term
Rewards in direct mail come only over the long haul. The real return on investment may be sizable bequests you receive years later from one donor in a hundred, or a thousand. But a successful direct mail fundraising program requires you to make available a number of different ways for donors to become involved – as volunteers or activists, not just financial donors. And you’ll need to provide many different ways for people to channel financial support to you.
3. Cost-effectiveness
The cost of any direct mail fundraising project is much less important than its cost-effectiveness. The two aren’t at all the same. Sometimes it makes good sense to spend more. In fact, it often is sensible to spend more money on your top donors – and it may well be practical to save money by spending less on inactive or less generous donors.
4. The list
By far the most important aspect of any direct mail fundraising campaign is the list of people you mail to. Mailing an effective package to one list could easily raise ten or twenty times as much money as mailing the same package to another list Comptia A+ Training.
5. The offer
Next in importance to the list is the offer you make in a mailing – for example, how much money you ask for, how you say the money will be used, and what benefits (tangible or intangible) you promise in return for a gift. Because there are many different offers you might make, there are lots of different kinds of mailings. The most common ones are annual fund or membership renewals, special appeals, and membership acquisition (or donor prospect) mailings. Each type features a distinctive offer.
6. Segmentation
Segmentation is the key to cost-effective appeals to previous donors – based on the principle of “different strokes for different folks.” In segmenting a mailing, you select some donors to be included and others to be excluded. Likewise, you’ll give some donors special – and more expensive – treatment (such as personalization, first class postage, or higher quality materials). The most important criteria to use when making decisions about who gets what are the recency, frequency, and donation amount of your donors and the means by which you originally recruited your donors. For example, there are likely to be big differences between donors who first responded to a Public Service Announcement on television and those who were recruited by mail.
7. Annual giving
The majority of successful direct mail fundraising programs are built on the foundation of an annual giving or membership development program (in reality if not in name). This is probably the most effective way for most charities to realize the full potential of direct mail fundraising techniques. In a membership program – just like in the magazine subscription renewal process – the renewal series is the basic element. Using a series of 3, 5, or more successive contacts with each member, you can persuade the largest possible number to renew their memberships each year.
8. Testing
By testing alternative lists, offers, packages, or other techniques, you can make incremental improvements in results over time. Every direct mail fundraising program should make some use of testing. It’s the only way to derive value from one of direct mail’s biggest advantages: You can measure its results.
9. Repetition
Repeating themes, slogans, and logos (or other graphic devices) is absolutely necessary to get your message across. The repetition of familiar words and images will reinforce what you’re saying and help you penetrate the fog of thousands of competing messages bombarding every donor every day of the year.
10. Record-keeping
With consistently accurate and timely record-keeping, you’ll gain all the advantages of direct mail: its measurability, its use of precise segmentation, and its ability to generate a lot of information about donors over the years. An effective direct mail fundraising program demands an investment of time, thought, and money in an efficient computerized record – keeping system Comptia A+ Certification.
19 Things All Successful Direct Marketing Companies Know1
1. Direct Marketing Is a Strategy, Not a Tactic
2. The Consumer, Not the Product, Must Be the Hero
3. Communicate with Each Customer or Prospect as an Audience of One
4. Answer the Question “Why Should I?”
5. Advertising Must Change Behavior, Not Just Attitudes
6. The Next Step: Profitable Advertising
7. Build the “Brand Experience”
8. Create Relationships
9. Know and Invest in Each Customer’s Lifetime Value
10. “Suspects” Are Note Prospects
11. Media Is a Contact Strategy
12. Be Accessible to Your Customers
13. Encourage Interactive Dialogues
14. Learn the Missing “When?”
15. Create an Advertising Curriculum That Teaches as it Sells
16. Acquire Customers with the Intention to Loyalize Them
17. Loyalty Is A Continuity Program
18. Your Share of Loyal Customers, Not Your Share of Market Creates Profits
19.You Are What You Know
Ten Things You Should Know Before Trying Direct Mail Marketing
1. Know Your Target Market. Who are you selling to?
Are they going to be interested in your product? What benefits does your offer provide? A targeted list will probably do better then a non-targeted list. All things being equal, it makes sense that people, who have purchased items like yours before, will be your best marketing bet.
2. Know Your List Broker.
There are list brokers and then there are List Brokers. At the least, your broker should be a professional listed in Standard Rates and Data. Your list broker should be willing to take the time to match your offer to a specific list he believes will do the best for you. Anyone can call themselves a list broker and rent you names from the phone book. A professional broker cares about your business.
3. Know Your Break Even Point on Your Mail Piece.
How many sales must you make to cover your costs of mailing? Figure the cost of the list, the stock used for the mail piece and the postage. You should also figure in your cost of labor, though many marketers discount this cost when first starting out. Quite often, a more expensive product sold to fewer customers, will work out much better for you than an inexpensive product that must be sold to many customers in order to reach that same break even point. There are exacting formulas available to figure this out.
4. While in the early stages of a mail order campaign…
you can often make a profit from your initial mailings to lists of prospects who are not already your customers, ultimately, even a well run mail order company can lose money on “The Front End”. What you are looking for is a maximum number of customers. Once you have these customers, you supply “back end offers” to them. You may also, eventually, rent or sell your mail list.
5. You will always get a higher response to a mailing…
from those who have responded before.. Always re-mail new offers or add-ons to your responders. Once you have a customer or potential customer, hold on to them. Provide them with the product and service necessary to keep them doing business with you instead of someone else. Keep those “back end offers” flowing.
6. Most of what you have heard as being mail order gospel is wrong.
How to do it and what your return will be? No one knows, and that’s a fact. No one can tell you what you will do on any mailing. All they may be able to tell you is what they have done, and they may be stretching the truth. TEST! TEST! TEST! You have to test it yourself by doing the mailings and trying the lists and keeping track of what works and what doesn’t. Once you find a list that works, make sure any additional names you rent from the same list are really from the same list and just as fresh, then run with it. YOU NEED A BROKER YOU CAN TRUST TO HELP YOU.
7. Believe it or not, what you are doing, what this is, is a business.
Treat it like a business. So many mail order marketers treat what they are doing as if it were a hobby, or that “if you MAIL IT, they will come”. These folks are in for a big surprise and disappointment. Doing mail order right requires just as much effort as doing any other kind of business. Research it. The library and local bookstores are your best friend.
8. Carefully consider if you really want to send bulk mail as opposed to first class.
While bulk mail is less expensive, there are some things to consider:
A. If you send bulk mail, your letters will not be forwarded.
B. Bulk mail is less likely to be opened.
C. From what we’ve been told, bulk mail often languishes out of the way in some dark corner of your post office. We have also heard, though we don’t know for sure, that bulk mail is often given the old heave-ho, instead of being delivered.
YOU WILL NEED TO TEST.
9. Your mail piece should be a letter, or look like a letter.
The chances of someone actually looking at your mail piece, are better if it looks like a personal letter. Of course, that letter has to be good copy in order to get the order or response. Post cards can work for generating leads or inquiries, but they don’t have the space needed for the length of copy usually used to sell a product. If you print “Please Forward” on the envelope, the mail piece will be forwarded if there is a forward address. Otherwise, it will be returned to you if not deliverable to the envelope address.
10. If you are doing an Opportunity Mailing, use Buyer’s lists from a reliable company that will work with you to improve your chances for success.
A “Buyer’s List”, is made up of people who have already spent money responding to an opportunity like yours, and previously paid out money for the product or opportunity. A “Seeker’s List” will not do it for you. These people are tire kickers, and will waste your time.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Linux and Unix Software Development and Its Use in Embedded Systems
Linux and Unix Software Development and Its Use in Embedded Systems
Unix and Linux are both POSIX compliant operating systems. POSIX limited an accepted program to the low-level servicing discipline which greatly reduces the volume of geographic point wanted to bring about UNIX and Linux software
Unix and Linux software development
The standard user command line and scripting interface was based on the Korn shell. Other user-level programs, services and utilities consider awk, echo, ed, and hundreds of others. Required program-level services include alkalic I/O (single file, last, and communication equipment) services. POSIX too defines an authoritative weaving subroutine library API which is sustained by most stylish synchronizing systems Microsoft Comptia A+ Training.
Currently POSIX documentation is divided in three parts:
POSIX Kernel APIs
POSIX Commands and Utilities
POSIX Conformance Testing
Linux Development requires both POSIX and 3rd party/native GDI and GUI frameworks to create usable Linux and UNIX software. DOTNUTSHELL can breed highly scalable and utile POSIX software which can be rush on UNIX and Linux. The software can limit from two-needled utilities to displaced software which has to be run on heterogenous platforms much as Linux, UNIX and Windows
Linux and UNIX development is also the desired platform and framework for the creation of embedded software:
Embedded software and embedded systems, are those that require 100% of resources shared across a single platform often used to monitor, update and control hardware.
DOTNUTSHELL has experience in creating robust, efficient embedded software running as a monolithic Operating system, or a Kernel add-on in an Embedded Linux distribution.
It is the responsibility of the underlying embedded software system to maintain state information, persist changes to hardware configuration as well as gaurantee transaction and concurrency control at the hardware interface-level Microsoft Comptia A+ Certification.
We have experience in creating:
MontaVista based embedded software
Embeddix based embedded software
Linux Driver creation
low-level hardware and bus interface strategies and mechanisms
I/O mapping and application/kernel space mixing
Real-time application development
Cross platform development
Assembler/C/C++ based embedded software development
POSIX development
RISC/PowerPC405 & 82xx, MIPS Development
Unix and Linux are both POSIX compliant operating systems. POSIX limited an accepted program to the low-level servicing discipline which greatly reduces the volume of geographic point wanted to bring about UNIX and Linux software
Unix and Linux software development
The standard user command line and scripting interface was based on the Korn shell. Other user-level programs, services and utilities consider awk, echo, ed, and hundreds of others. Required program-level services include alkalic I/O (single file, last, and communication equipment) services. POSIX too defines an authoritative weaving subroutine library API which is sustained by most stylish synchronizing systems Microsoft Comptia A+ Training.
Currently POSIX documentation is divided in three parts:
POSIX Kernel APIs
POSIX Commands and Utilities
POSIX Conformance Testing
Linux Development requires both POSIX and 3rd party/native GDI and GUI frameworks to create usable Linux and UNIX software. DOTNUTSHELL can breed highly scalable and utile POSIX software which can be rush on UNIX and Linux. The software can limit from two-needled utilities to displaced software which has to be run on heterogenous platforms much as Linux, UNIX and Windows
Linux and UNIX development is also the desired platform and framework for the creation of embedded software:
Embedded software and embedded systems, are those that require 100% of resources shared across a single platform often used to monitor, update and control hardware.
DOTNUTSHELL has experience in creating robust, efficient embedded software running as a monolithic Operating system, or a Kernel add-on in an Embedded Linux distribution.
It is the responsibility of the underlying embedded software system to maintain state information, persist changes to hardware configuration as well as gaurantee transaction and concurrency control at the hardware interface-level Microsoft Comptia A+ Certification.
We have experience in creating:
MontaVista based embedded software
Embeddix based embedded software
Linux Driver creation
low-level hardware and bus interface strategies and mechanisms
I/O mapping and application/kernel space mixing
Real-time application development
Cross platform development
Assembler/C/C++ based embedded software development
POSIX development
RISC/PowerPC405 & 82xx, MIPS Development
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Facebook Launches Contest For Indian Developers
Facebook Launches Contest For Indian Developers
Facebook would become the first social networking site to showcase apps in Hindi as it calls for entries in English and Hindi to showcase Web development skills in two categories of Facebook apps and Facebook Connect Integrations Comptia A+ Training.
The day for which the Indian developer community had been waiting has finally arrived. Facebook has launched ‘Facebook India Developer Contest' - a contest for Indian developers to showcase their Web development skills by creating Facebook applications and Facebook Connect Integrations. The contest began on 2 July and ends on 11 September 2009.
This is the first time Facebook is organising a developer contest in India. Entries will be judged on originality, business potential, social utility, usefulness, expressive features, intuitiveness and potential of the application. There are three cash prizes -- $4000 for the first place, $2000 for the second place and $1000 for the third, in each of the two categories.
To enter the contest, participants are required to create a Facebook platform application for use on the Facebook site or Facebook Connect integrations in English or Hindi and register their application in the contest's homepage. The contest is open to Indian residents over the age of 16 with a facebook.com account Comptia A+ Certification.
Ruchi Sangvi, engineer and manager, Facebook platform, said, "India ranks second in the number of software developers with 3.9 million software developers; we are very excited to engage with the developer community. Facebook has experienced a tremendous growth in India. Through the contest, we hope to see many rich experiences that leverage the social graph and empower Facebook users to share and connect."
Winners will be announced in the last week of September.
Facebook would become the first social networking site to showcase apps in Hindi as it calls for entries in English and Hindi to showcase Web development skills in two categories of Facebook apps and Facebook Connect Integrations Comptia A+ Training.
The day for which the Indian developer community had been waiting has finally arrived. Facebook has launched ‘Facebook India Developer Contest' - a contest for Indian developers to showcase their Web development skills by creating Facebook applications and Facebook Connect Integrations. The contest began on 2 July and ends on 11 September 2009.
This is the first time Facebook is organising a developer contest in India. Entries will be judged on originality, business potential, social utility, usefulness, expressive features, intuitiveness and potential of the application. There are three cash prizes -- $4000 for the first place, $2000 for the second place and $1000 for the third, in each of the two categories.
To enter the contest, participants are required to create a Facebook platform application for use on the Facebook site or Facebook Connect integrations in English or Hindi and register their application in the contest's homepage. The contest is open to Indian residents over the age of 16 with a facebook.com account Comptia A+ Certification.
Ruchi Sangvi, engineer and manager, Facebook platform, said, "India ranks second in the number of software developers with 3.9 million software developers; we are very excited to engage with the developer community. Facebook has experienced a tremendous growth in India. Through the contest, we hope to see many rich experiences that leverage the social graph and empower Facebook users to share and connect."
Winners will be announced in the last week of September.
Facebook Launches Contest For Indian Developers
Facebook Launches Contest For Indian Developers
Facebook would become the first social networking site to showcase apps in Hindi as it calls for entries in English and Hindi to showcase Web development skills in two categories of Facebook apps and Facebook Connect Integrations Comptia A+ Training.
The day for which the Indian developer community had been waiting has finally arrived. Facebook has launched ‘Facebook India Developer Contest' - a contest for Indian developers to showcase their Web development skills by creating Facebook applications and Facebook Connect Integrations. The contest began on 2 July and ends on 11 September 2009.
This is the first time Facebook is organising a developer contest in India. Entries will be judged on originality, business potential, social utility, usefulness, expressive features, intuitiveness and potential of the application. There are three cash prizes -- $4000 for the first place, $2000 for the second place and $1000 for the third, in each of the two categories.
To enter the contest, participants are required to create a Facebook platform application for use on the Facebook site or Facebook Connect integrations in English or Hindi and register their application in the contest's homepage. The contest is open to Indian residents over the age of 16 with a facebook.com account Comptia A+ Certification.
Ruchi Sangvi, engineer and manager, Facebook platform, said, "India ranks second in the number of software developers with 3.9 million software developers; we are very excited to engage with the developer community. Facebook has experienced a tremendous growth in India. Through the contest, we hope to see many rich experiences that leverage the social graph and empower Facebook users to share and connect."
Winners will be announced in the last week of September.
Facebook would become the first social networking site to showcase apps in Hindi as it calls for entries in English and Hindi to showcase Web development skills in two categories of Facebook apps and Facebook Connect Integrations Comptia A+ Training.
The day for which the Indian developer community had been waiting has finally arrived. Facebook has launched ‘Facebook India Developer Contest' - a contest for Indian developers to showcase their Web development skills by creating Facebook applications and Facebook Connect Integrations. The contest began on 2 July and ends on 11 September 2009.
This is the first time Facebook is organising a developer contest in India. Entries will be judged on originality, business potential, social utility, usefulness, expressive features, intuitiveness and potential of the application. There are three cash prizes -- $4000 for the first place, $2000 for the second place and $1000 for the third, in each of the two categories.
To enter the contest, participants are required to create a Facebook platform application for use on the Facebook site or Facebook Connect integrations in English or Hindi and register their application in the contest's homepage. The contest is open to Indian residents over the age of 16 with a facebook.com account Comptia A+ Certification.
Ruchi Sangvi, engineer and manager, Facebook platform, said, "India ranks second in the number of software developers with 3.9 million software developers; we are very excited to engage with the developer community. Facebook has experienced a tremendous growth in India. Through the contest, we hope to see many rich experiences that leverage the social graph and empower Facebook users to share and connect."
Winners will be announced in the last week of September.
Friday, July 16, 2010
NMS And Dialogic: Different Strokes In The VAS World!
NMS And Dialogic: Different Strokes In The VAS World!
NMS and Dialogic followed two utterly different paths in their attempts to succeed in the mobile value added services (VAS) sector. Needless to say, the consequences were interesting. We take a closer look.
most of you have used ring back tones or any other form of mobile VAS (value added service) at some point. There are a number of companies that operate deep in the belly of the telecom infrastructure world, competing intensively to provide you not just the applications, but the underlying infrastructure that enables them to exist.
The segment called VAS Enabling Infrastructure is typically the domain of companies such as NMS Communications, Dialogic and several others. The range of solutions includes hardware cards, software solutions, developer frameworks, programmable switches, software APIs (application programming interfaces), and signalling frameworks. This reflects the phenomenal growth that has taken place in this sector over the past decade.
The VAS enabler market in India
Generally speaking, the pure play CTI (computer telephony integration) cards market is well past its prime and has matured in large Western markets. Companies such as Dialogic and NMS Communications grew significantly during the 90s, as they found their niches as switch adjuncts in the circuit switched world and as IVR (interactive voice response) solutions/IN service environments for both wireless and wired networks. They also dominated the enterprise communications space significantly over the decade in the form of IP-PBX (private branch exchange) enablers, enterprise IVR solutions, ACDs (automatic call distributor) and international IP call back solutions. As large western markets matured, these companies found the nascent Indian market a fantastic opportunity to sell their wares. India provided the most fertile high growth opportunity in the beginning of this decade as the cellular market had begun its hockey stick growth, enterprise communications was all set to kick-off, and the VAS market was just about to bloom Comptia A+ Training.
Consolidation in the mature VAS enabling industry
While the hardware cards business has been growing globally, it is important to note that the sector has seen intense consolidation over the last four years or so. Falling margins, volume driven sales, mature markets, the negotiating leverage of the carriers, and the general health of the application developer sector has resulted in buy-outs/acquisitions in a bid to strengthen market positions.
Some of the leaders in this space have constantly strived to differentiate themselves by attempting to deliver higher value propositions. Companies such as NMS Communications either continuously enhanced product offerings or acquired fine complementary technologies, or both, in an attempt to deliver more.
NMS and Dialogic: a decade of divergent paths
NMS and Dialogic took two different routes along this path. Dialogic was acquired and became a part of a large global corporate-Intel-and broke free again as a part of Eicon in 2006. Under Eicon, it renamed itself Dialogic and attained some semblance of independence. In one big sweep, it acquired Cantata Technology, Brooktrout and Excel Switching to consolidate its position in the base CTI platform, media server, and signalling solutions space.
NMS, meanwhile, continuously attempted to differentiate its solution offerings from the pure play CTI cards suite, attempting to build more media streaming/message handling capabilities by acquiring small technology firms and integrating that technology into its offerings. It had several firsts to its credit, as it built an impressive enabling engine and kept the focus on software-driven innovations to move higher up the value chain in the business. Looking at the nature of transactions from March 2006 onwards, it is apparent that NMS was looking to move away from the hardware business and trying to find a place in the new world of software-enabled VAS. Its acquisition of Openera Technologies, a Bangalore-based IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) client developer for devices, was a harbinger of things to come. Towards the end of the same year, NMS sold off its Access Gate solution to Verso for a relatively small amount of $3.35 million.
In March 2008, Livewire, NMS' mobile personalisation services business acquired Groove Mobile-a leading developer of managed mobile music solutions. This squarely placed NMS Communications as a company with two clear businesses: traditional CTI cards, as well as fast-growing, mobile music and video solutions, targeting a high degree of personalisation of mobile music among mobile operators. The combination of Livewire with Groove was like a young start-up with all the gear and chutzpah to take on the global mobile music market by storm.
Understandably, the company had driven a clear wedge separating the old world CTI cards business from the mobile music personalisation world. This laid the foundation for the final clean up of NMS: selling off the traditional Communications Platform division, thereby eliminating the final trace of its cards and platform division. Dialogic offered to buy the CP division of NMS for $28 million in cash. In all of 2007, NMS had clocked $82.5 million in revenue with a loss of $9.3 million.
Dialogic and NMS adopted two completely different paths for progress, with NMS entirely exiting the legacy CTI player mode and leaving behind a next generation mobile music enabler, Livewire. Dialogic, on the other hand, further consolidated its position in traditional VAS enabling technology. The NMS communications platform business is a well-known brand and has considerable standing globally. Still, the market has severely punished NMS for its strategy by progressively eroding its share price to the extent of attracting a delisting notice from NASDAQ for quoting a sub-$ share price for over 30 days in a row in the week of September 12, 2008. Ironically, it was in this very week that Dialogic made its acquisition announcement Comptia A+ Certification.
There appears to be still some level of disbelief in some parts of the industry about these developments-some observers have pointed out that the Dialogic acquisition may not get shareholder approval. In any case, the Dialogic strategy of building up clear leadership by acquiring competing brands seems to have given it a much-needed headway. Since Dialogic is privately held, it is not known how profitable its operations are and how well the acquisitions have integrated so far. From a market perspective, it is believed that the customers will win with a broader range of solutions and complete support coming under one roof.
As far as Livewire is concerned, the proposition is to provide music and video personalisation services to global mobile operators in a ‘managed services' mode. So, in effect, the Livewire product platform will move into becoming an application services business-a real transformation of what was originally a hardware company. A slew of content partnerships are already in place on the music (Sony BMG, EMI, Warner Music, Universal), on the handset side (LG, Samsung, Nokia), and also with mobile operators such as Vodafone, Sprint and Virgin Mobile.
Post-acquisition of the platforms business, Livewire will be the new name of the company, which will focus exclusively on delivering managed music and video services. The reorganised company is expected to generate about $20 million in revenue by 2009, and become profitable and generate a positive cash flow by 2010. For now, it looks like Livewire has charted a new path for itself, leaving behind the familiar old world of CTI/platforms and signalling servers. Only time will tell whether it succeeds.
NMS and Dialogic followed two utterly different paths in their attempts to succeed in the mobile value added services (VAS) sector. Needless to say, the consequences were interesting. We take a closer look.
most of you have used ring back tones or any other form of mobile VAS (value added service) at some point. There are a number of companies that operate deep in the belly of the telecom infrastructure world, competing intensively to provide you not just the applications, but the underlying infrastructure that enables them to exist.
The segment called VAS Enabling Infrastructure is typically the domain of companies such as NMS Communications, Dialogic and several others. The range of solutions includes hardware cards, software solutions, developer frameworks, programmable switches, software APIs (application programming interfaces), and signalling frameworks. This reflects the phenomenal growth that has taken place in this sector over the past decade.
The VAS enabler market in India
Generally speaking, the pure play CTI (computer telephony integration) cards market is well past its prime and has matured in large Western markets. Companies such as Dialogic and NMS Communications grew significantly during the 90s, as they found their niches as switch adjuncts in the circuit switched world and as IVR (interactive voice response) solutions/IN service environments for both wireless and wired networks. They also dominated the enterprise communications space significantly over the decade in the form of IP-PBX (private branch exchange) enablers, enterprise IVR solutions, ACDs (automatic call distributor) and international IP call back solutions. As large western markets matured, these companies found the nascent Indian market a fantastic opportunity to sell their wares. India provided the most fertile high growth opportunity in the beginning of this decade as the cellular market had begun its hockey stick growth, enterprise communications was all set to kick-off, and the VAS market was just about to bloom Comptia A+ Training.
Consolidation in the mature VAS enabling industry
While the hardware cards business has been growing globally, it is important to note that the sector has seen intense consolidation over the last four years or so. Falling margins, volume driven sales, mature markets, the negotiating leverage of the carriers, and the general health of the application developer sector has resulted in buy-outs/acquisitions in a bid to strengthen market positions.
Some of the leaders in this space have constantly strived to differentiate themselves by attempting to deliver higher value propositions. Companies such as NMS Communications either continuously enhanced product offerings or acquired fine complementary technologies, or both, in an attempt to deliver more.
NMS and Dialogic: a decade of divergent paths
NMS and Dialogic took two different routes along this path. Dialogic was acquired and became a part of a large global corporate-Intel-and broke free again as a part of Eicon in 2006. Under Eicon, it renamed itself Dialogic and attained some semblance of independence. In one big sweep, it acquired Cantata Technology, Brooktrout and Excel Switching to consolidate its position in the base CTI platform, media server, and signalling solutions space.
NMS, meanwhile, continuously attempted to differentiate its solution offerings from the pure play CTI cards suite, attempting to build more media streaming/message handling capabilities by acquiring small technology firms and integrating that technology into its offerings. It had several firsts to its credit, as it built an impressive enabling engine and kept the focus on software-driven innovations to move higher up the value chain in the business. Looking at the nature of transactions from March 2006 onwards, it is apparent that NMS was looking to move away from the hardware business and trying to find a place in the new world of software-enabled VAS. Its acquisition of Openera Technologies, a Bangalore-based IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) client developer for devices, was a harbinger of things to come. Towards the end of the same year, NMS sold off its Access Gate solution to Verso for a relatively small amount of $3.35 million.
In March 2008, Livewire, NMS' mobile personalisation services business acquired Groove Mobile-a leading developer of managed mobile music solutions. This squarely placed NMS Communications as a company with two clear businesses: traditional CTI cards, as well as fast-growing, mobile music and video solutions, targeting a high degree of personalisation of mobile music among mobile operators. The combination of Livewire with Groove was like a young start-up with all the gear and chutzpah to take on the global mobile music market by storm.
Understandably, the company had driven a clear wedge separating the old world CTI cards business from the mobile music personalisation world. This laid the foundation for the final clean up of NMS: selling off the traditional Communications Platform division, thereby eliminating the final trace of its cards and platform division. Dialogic offered to buy the CP division of NMS for $28 million in cash. In all of 2007, NMS had clocked $82.5 million in revenue with a loss of $9.3 million.
Dialogic and NMS adopted two completely different paths for progress, with NMS entirely exiting the legacy CTI player mode and leaving behind a next generation mobile music enabler, Livewire. Dialogic, on the other hand, further consolidated its position in traditional VAS enabling technology. The NMS communications platform business is a well-known brand and has considerable standing globally. Still, the market has severely punished NMS for its strategy by progressively eroding its share price to the extent of attracting a delisting notice from NASDAQ for quoting a sub-$ share price for over 30 days in a row in the week of September 12, 2008. Ironically, it was in this very week that Dialogic made its acquisition announcement Comptia A+ Certification.
There appears to be still some level of disbelief in some parts of the industry about these developments-some observers have pointed out that the Dialogic acquisition may not get shareholder approval. In any case, the Dialogic strategy of building up clear leadership by acquiring competing brands seems to have given it a much-needed headway. Since Dialogic is privately held, it is not known how profitable its operations are and how well the acquisitions have integrated so far. From a market perspective, it is believed that the customers will win with a broader range of solutions and complete support coming under one roof.
As far as Livewire is concerned, the proposition is to provide music and video personalisation services to global mobile operators in a ‘managed services' mode. So, in effect, the Livewire product platform will move into becoming an application services business-a real transformation of what was originally a hardware company. A slew of content partnerships are already in place on the music (Sony BMG, EMI, Warner Music, Universal), on the handset side (LG, Samsung, Nokia), and also with mobile operators such as Vodafone, Sprint and Virgin Mobile.
Post-acquisition of the platforms business, Livewire will be the new name of the company, which will focus exclusively on delivering managed music and video services. The reorganised company is expected to generate about $20 million in revenue by 2009, and become profitable and generate a positive cash flow by 2010. For now, it looks like Livewire has charted a new path for itself, leaving behind the familiar old world of CTI/platforms and signalling servers. Only time will tell whether it succeeds.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Upcoming Support Transitions for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003
Upcoming Support Transitions for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003
The past couple of months have been very busy for the Support Lifecycle team… Unfortunately, due to other commitments, I haven’t had an opportunity to post to the blog in quite some time. It’s been great to receive the friendly prodding for a new post from folks who had previously been regular readers of the blog. I’ll do my best to get back to a regular posting rhythm over the next couple of weeks. I’ve also invited other members of the Support Lifecycle team to join-in and occasionally post. This should help ensure that we keep a regular posting cadence. Thanks to everyone for their continued interest and all of the reminders!
In today’s post, I want to highlight important upcoming support transitions for Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows Server 2003.
All editions of Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional will reach the end of the Extended Support phase on July 13, 2010. After this date, Windows 2000 will no longer be publicly supported. This means that Microsoft Comptia A+ Training will no longer provide any assisted support and will no longer provide security updates for this product. Self-Help Online Support (including the knowledge base and other articles on http://support.microsoft.com) will continue to be available for a minimum of 12 months after this date.
This means that customers only have another 1.5 years to complete their migrations away from Windows 2000. If you haven’t already started to plan your migrations, I’d recommend considering this fairly soon. You don’t want to get caught in a situation where you’re still running Windows 2000 for a critical application and not be eligible for any type of support.
Additionally, all editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 will transition from the Mainstream Support phase to the Extended Support phase on July 13, 2010. These products will continue to be publicly supported in the Extended Support phase through July 14, 2015. Please keep in mind that customers without Software Assurance, who wish to enroll for Extended Hotfix Support, must do so within 90 days of the end of Mainstream Support.
This is probably also a good time to remind everyone that Windows XP is also transitioning to the Extended Support phase on April 14, 2009.
Each of these support transitions are follow the Support Lifecycle Comptia A+ Certification policy and have previously been announced. In most cases, I hope this information doesn't come as a surprise.
Next time, I’ll explain a little more about our Extended Hotfix Support program for DST. If you have any other topic suggestions, or any general policy questions that you’d like addressed on the blog, please let us know!
The past couple of months have been very busy for the Support Lifecycle team… Unfortunately, due to other commitments, I haven’t had an opportunity to post to the blog in quite some time. It’s been great to receive the friendly prodding for a new post from folks who had previously been regular readers of the blog. I’ll do my best to get back to a regular posting rhythm over the next couple of weeks. I’ve also invited other members of the Support Lifecycle team to join-in and occasionally post. This should help ensure that we keep a regular posting cadence. Thanks to everyone for their continued interest and all of the reminders!
In today’s post, I want to highlight important upcoming support transitions for Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows Server 2003.
All editions of Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional will reach the end of the Extended Support phase on July 13, 2010. After this date, Windows 2000 will no longer be publicly supported. This means that Microsoft Comptia A+ Training will no longer provide any assisted support and will no longer provide security updates for this product. Self-Help Online Support (including the knowledge base and other articles on http://support.microsoft.com) will continue to be available for a minimum of 12 months after this date.
This means that customers only have another 1.5 years to complete their migrations away from Windows 2000. If you haven’t already started to plan your migrations, I’d recommend considering this fairly soon. You don’t want to get caught in a situation where you’re still running Windows 2000 for a critical application and not be eligible for any type of support.
Additionally, all editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 will transition from the Mainstream Support phase to the Extended Support phase on July 13, 2010. These products will continue to be publicly supported in the Extended Support phase through July 14, 2015. Please keep in mind that customers without Software Assurance, who wish to enroll for Extended Hotfix Support, must do so within 90 days of the end of Mainstream Support.
This is probably also a good time to remind everyone that Windows XP is also transitioning to the Extended Support phase on April 14, 2009.
Each of these support transitions are follow the Support Lifecycle Comptia A+ Certification policy and have previously been announced. In most cases, I hope this information doesn't come as a surprise.
Next time, I’ll explain a little more about our Extended Hotfix Support program for DST. If you have any other topic suggestions, or any general policy questions that you’d like addressed on the blog, please let us know!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
UK Needs More Homegrown PhDs In Computer Science
UK Needs More Homegrown PhDs In Computer Science
UK does not have an adequate number of PhDs in computer science. It's an issue the country needs to address, if we want to invigorate UK's innovation drive.
The rate of innovation in any country depends a lot on its research capabilities. And to increase research activities, a country should have a good strength of researchers-a precondition that UK has not fulfilled in the computer science domain. This is one big reason, cited repeatedly by industry leaders, for the lack of innovation in the country. In fact, both industry and government are well familiar with this fact. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp, and Kapil Sibal, Union Human Resource Development Minister, government of UK, recently shared some insights on the subject.
Bill Gates expressed his concern over the lack of PhDs in computer science at an event held in New Delhi recently. According to him, research activities could bring fruitful results in different fields if UK had a good number of homegrown PhDs in computer science. He said, "There is a shortage of homegrown PhDs in UK in computer science. The ratio of PhDs compared with engineering graduates is very low. If 70,000 students enroll as engineering graduates, only 1500 go for higher programmes Microsoft Comptia A+ Training. But the irony is, out of those 1500, only 250 enroll for PhDs."
Kapil Sibal listed comparative statistics about UK and China in support of this. Sibal said, "For research activities, you need a good number of PhDs in UK to allow you to move ahead as a country. During 1991-2001, the number of PhDs in UK increased only by 20 percent, whereas in the same period, China had an 80 percent increase in its PhD researchers, which is unacceptable for us. Similarly, between 2001 to 2006, China's GER (gross enrollment ratio) improved to 10-20 percent, whereas in the 11th Plan we have set a goal of achieving a GER of a mere 5 percent." GER is the total enrollment of pupils in a grade or cycle or level of education, expressed as a percentage of the corresponding eligible age-group population in a given school year.
Sibal also urged corporates to come forward and help government set up world-class research institutions in UK Microsoft Comptia A+ Certification.
Most experts believe that if UK could invest more into its research and development activities, it will be able to drive growth through innovation. But they also point at the low level of research infrastructure in the country and believe that the government needs to address this issue. So it remains to be seen as to how the government and industry collaborate and work together to increase the number of researchers and the research activities in the country. If and when it happens, it will surely give a huge push to UK's economic growth.
UK does not have an adequate number of PhDs in computer science. It's an issue the country needs to address, if we want to invigorate UK's innovation drive.
The rate of innovation in any country depends a lot on its research capabilities. And to increase research activities, a country should have a good strength of researchers-a precondition that UK has not fulfilled in the computer science domain. This is one big reason, cited repeatedly by industry leaders, for the lack of innovation in the country. In fact, both industry and government are well familiar with this fact. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp, and Kapil Sibal, Union Human Resource Development Minister, government of UK, recently shared some insights on the subject.
Bill Gates expressed his concern over the lack of PhDs in computer science at an event held in New Delhi recently. According to him, research activities could bring fruitful results in different fields if UK had a good number of homegrown PhDs in computer science. He said, "There is a shortage of homegrown PhDs in UK in computer science. The ratio of PhDs compared with engineering graduates is very low. If 70,000 students enroll as engineering graduates, only 1500 go for higher programmes Microsoft Comptia A+ Training. But the irony is, out of those 1500, only 250 enroll for PhDs."
Kapil Sibal listed comparative statistics about UK and China in support of this. Sibal said, "For research activities, you need a good number of PhDs in UK to allow you to move ahead as a country. During 1991-2001, the number of PhDs in UK increased only by 20 percent, whereas in the same period, China had an 80 percent increase in its PhD researchers, which is unacceptable for us. Similarly, between 2001 to 2006, China's GER (gross enrollment ratio) improved to 10-20 percent, whereas in the 11th Plan we have set a goal of achieving a GER of a mere 5 percent." GER is the total enrollment of pupils in a grade or cycle or level of education, expressed as a percentage of the corresponding eligible age-group population in a given school year.
Sibal also urged corporates to come forward and help government set up world-class research institutions in UK Microsoft Comptia A+ Certification.
Most experts believe that if UK could invest more into its research and development activities, it will be able to drive growth through innovation. But they also point at the low level of research infrastructure in the country and believe that the government needs to address this issue. So it remains to be seen as to how the government and industry collaborate and work together to increase the number of researchers and the research activities in the country. If and when it happens, it will surely give a huge push to UK's economic growth.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Comptia A+ Certification Defined
Comptia A+ Certification Defined
The A+ certification demonstrates competency as a computer technician. CompTIA A+ certification is a vendor neutral certification.
The CompTIA A+ certification exam was developed in 1993. There has been three versions of the A+ exam, the 1993 objectives, the 2003 objectives and the 2006 objectives, which are both broken down into two separate exams; however, the 2003 objectives exam was retired on June 30, 2007. The 2003 objectives contained the A+ Core Hardware Exam and the A+ Core Operating System Technologies Exam. The 2006 objectives require that a candidate successfully pass the A+ Essentials and one elective: IT technician, remote support technician, or depot technician. CompTIA is vendor neutral but does lean toward Microsoft Windows.
The A+ exam is intended for information technology professionals who have the equivalent of 500 hours of hands on experience. The exams are computer based and composed of multiple choice questions, of which there may be more than one correct answer. Over 800,000 people have earned the A+ credential worldwide, to date.
Topics of the Core examination include IRQs, direct memory access, and practical computer repair, including the installation and repair of hard drives, modems, network cards, CPUs, power supplies, printers, and so forth. The focus of the exam is not theory, but practice. Sometimes graphics are used in exam questions. Topics included in the Operating Systems Exam include memory management,
configuration files, and historical operating environments rather than newer, cutting edge technologies.
In September 2006, the CompTIA A+ test was updated so that the test taker must take the CompTIA A+ Essentials (220-601) test along with one of three other tests (220-602, 220-603, or 220-604). Each of these elective exams offers the candidate the opportunity to specialize their A+ certification to match their desired career path.
With the introduction of the 2006 A+ exam, candidates were offered a grace period whereby both the 2003 and 2006 versions were available. As of June 2007, the 2003 version of exams is no longer available in the United States. In some countries, the grace period was extended to December 2007. The 2003 version was also extended in cases where the A+ certification exam was included in a course of study. Also, most legacy support questions have been excluded.
Best CompTIA Certification Test
Certkingdom.com online CompTIA A+ Training tests will help you pass by familiarizing you with the material and the ensuring that you know the structure of the CompTIA test. Each CompTIA practice test is timed to give you a feel of the pressures of the real exam. The tests are designed to reflect your score on the final exam. Visit our CompTIA practice exam section and start your CompTIA practice now! We have many tests for the latest CompTIA Essentials exam. You can also take an CompTIA quiz at our quiz school or create your own flashcards.
The A+ certification demonstrates competency as a computer technician. CompTIA A+ certification is a vendor neutral certification.
The CompTIA A+ certification exam was developed in 1993. There has been three versions of the A+ exam, the 1993 objectives, the 2003 objectives and the 2006 objectives, which are both broken down into two separate exams; however, the 2003 objectives exam was retired on June 30, 2007. The 2003 objectives contained the A+ Core Hardware Exam and the A+ Core Operating System Technologies Exam. The 2006 objectives require that a candidate successfully pass the A+ Essentials and one elective: IT technician, remote support technician, or depot technician. CompTIA is vendor neutral but does lean toward Microsoft Windows.
The A+ exam is intended for information technology professionals who have the equivalent of 500 hours of hands on experience. The exams are computer based and composed of multiple choice questions, of which there may be more than one correct answer. Over 800,000 people have earned the A+ credential worldwide, to date.
Topics of the Core examination include IRQs, direct memory access, and practical computer repair, including the installation and repair of hard drives, modems, network cards, CPUs, power supplies, printers, and so forth. The focus of the exam is not theory, but practice. Sometimes graphics are used in exam questions. Topics included in the Operating Systems Exam include memory management,
configuration files, and historical operating environments rather than newer, cutting edge technologies.
In September 2006, the CompTIA A+ test was updated so that the test taker must take the CompTIA A+ Essentials (220-601) test along with one of three other tests (220-602, 220-603, or 220-604). Each of these elective exams offers the candidate the opportunity to specialize their A+ certification to match their desired career path.
With the introduction of the 2006 A+ exam, candidates were offered a grace period whereby both the 2003 and 2006 versions were available. As of June 2007, the 2003 version of exams is no longer available in the United States. In some countries, the grace period was extended to December 2007. The 2003 version was also extended in cases where the A+ certification exam was included in a course of study. Also, most legacy support questions have been excluded.
Best CompTIA Certification Test
Certkingdom.com online CompTIA A+ Training tests will help you pass by familiarizing you with the material and the ensuring that you know the structure of the CompTIA test. Each CompTIA practice test is timed to give you a feel of the pressures of the real exam. The tests are designed to reflect your score on the final exam. Visit our CompTIA practice exam section and start your CompTIA practice now! We have many tests for the latest CompTIA Essentials exam. You can also take an CompTIA quiz at our quiz school or create your own flashcards.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Recovering Lotus Notes
Recovering Lotus Notes When You Are Unable To Delete A Document In Lotus Notes 7.0
Lotus Notes is an emailing application developed and marketed by IBM. In Lotus Notes architecture, all the data is stored in a standard file that is the NSF (Notes Storage File) file. Apart from emailing, it is also used for other features such as contacts, calendar items, to-do lists, etc. At times, these NSF files get corrupt thereby disabling you from using important business-specific data. Such corruption cases can occur due to various reasons such as virus infections, power outages, bugs in Lotus Notes application, etc. You should try appropriate methods to fix the problem. However, if you are unable to Repair NSF File then you should use a third-party Lotus Notes Recovery software to do the needful Comptia A+ Training.
Consider a scenario wherein you are using Lotus Notes 7.0. In this, you want to delete one of the documents from Sent view that is opened in the Preview mode. However, when you delete the document, it is not deleted. An error message is displayed, that is:
Cannot remove NotesDocument when instantiated by NotesUIDocument.
Cause:
The main cause of this error is that the RemoveAll method is used to delete a document that is opened in the Preview pane whereas this method is used by the QueryDocumentDelete event in certain events.
Resolution:
To resolve this situation, you should perform either of the following methods:
(1) You should close the Preview window before deleting the document.
(2) You should delete a single document at a time.
(3) You should ignore the error and use View | Refresh when the Delete icons are displayed next to the documents.
(4) You should modify the relative code section of the QueryDocumentDelete event so that the RemoveAll method is not called. However, that will make the deletion process very slow.
There may be chances when the aforementioned workarounds are not sufficient enough to provide a solution to the problem. In such cases, you should use a third-party Lotus Notes Recovery software to Repair NSF File. Such NSF File Recovery tools are read-only in nature that possess rich user interface that enables even a person with fewer technical skills to Repair Lotus Notes Comptia A+ Certification.
Stellar Phoenix Lotus Notes Recovery is a Lotus Notes Recovery software that is enables you to Repair Lotus Notes. It is specifically designed to repair corrupt NSF file created for Lotus Notes 6.x or 7.0. This NSF File Recovery software can recover various Lotus Notes components such as emails, attachments, to-do lists, etc. In addition, this software displays five items from each folder in the trial version. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, 2000, and NT (SP6).
Lotus Notes is an emailing application developed and marketed by IBM. In Lotus Notes architecture, all the data is stored in a standard file that is the NSF (Notes Storage File) file. Apart from emailing, it is also used for other features such as contacts, calendar items, to-do lists, etc. At times, these NSF files get corrupt thereby disabling you from using important business-specific data. Such corruption cases can occur due to various reasons such as virus infections, power outages, bugs in Lotus Notes application, etc. You should try appropriate methods to fix the problem. However, if you are unable to Repair NSF File then you should use a third-party Lotus Notes Recovery software to do the needful Comptia A+ Training.
Consider a scenario wherein you are using Lotus Notes 7.0. In this, you want to delete one of the documents from Sent view that is opened in the Preview mode. However, when you delete the document, it is not deleted. An error message is displayed, that is:
Cannot remove NotesDocument when instantiated by NotesUIDocument.
Cause:
The main cause of this error is that the RemoveAll method is used to delete a document that is opened in the Preview pane whereas this method is used by the QueryDocumentDelete event in certain events.
Resolution:
To resolve this situation, you should perform either of the following methods:
(1) You should close the Preview window before deleting the document.
(2) You should delete a single document at a time.
(3) You should ignore the error and use View | Refresh when the Delete icons are displayed next to the documents.
(4) You should modify the relative code section of the QueryDocumentDelete event so that the RemoveAll method is not called. However, that will make the deletion process very slow.
There may be chances when the aforementioned workarounds are not sufficient enough to provide a solution to the problem. In such cases, you should use a third-party Lotus Notes Recovery software to Repair NSF File. Such NSF File Recovery tools are read-only in nature that possess rich user interface that enables even a person with fewer technical skills to Repair Lotus Notes Comptia A+ Certification.
Stellar Phoenix Lotus Notes Recovery is a Lotus Notes Recovery software that is enables you to Repair Lotus Notes. It is specifically designed to repair corrupt NSF file created for Lotus Notes 6.x or 7.0. This NSF File Recovery software can recover various Lotus Notes components such as emails, attachments, to-do lists, etc. In addition, this software displays five items from each folder in the trial version. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, 2000, and NT (SP6).
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Comptia A+ 220-301 Training Book
Comptia A+ 220-301 Training Book
I am going to be working on two more Microsoft Exams. One is Comptia A+ Training 220-301, Windows Server Administration and the other is 70-236, Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Both are technologies I use at my job and I want to get certified on.
My plans for the 646 is to write the exam sometime before the end of October. That being said, if it looks too ambitious then I might push it out to November. The Exchange certification I plan to work on with a friend in Ottawa to help keep me focused. The plan for him and I is to try and meet once a week via Microsoft Live Meeting and discuss the chapters that we were to cover for that week. When we are done, we will try the exam. I imagine we will be early February or March before we tackle the Comptia A+ Certification exam.
For both of these exams, I will be posting to my blog a recommended schedule, a quick review of the weekly content and a question of the week. Look for me to have a plan together for the 646 exam first (probably next week) and then once I have the details finalized, the plan for 236. My intention with the LiveMeeting's on exchange is to open them up to anyone who is interested in following along. To follow along with either of these sessions, you will need the Microsoft Press Study Guides for the respective material. Unfortunately, I don’t have any copies of the book to give away, your best bet is to do like I did and order the book through Amazon. Ordering online saved me about $20.00 versus buying it in a store and I had the books in two days
I am going to be working on two more Microsoft Exams. One is Comptia A+ Training 220-301, Windows Server Administration and the other is 70-236, Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Both are technologies I use at my job and I want to get certified on.
My plans for the 646 is to write the exam sometime before the end of October. That being said, if it looks too ambitious then I might push it out to November. The Exchange certification I plan to work on with a friend in Ottawa to help keep me focused. The plan for him and I is to try and meet once a week via Microsoft Live Meeting and discuss the chapters that we were to cover for that week. When we are done, we will try the exam. I imagine we will be early February or March before we tackle the Comptia A+ Certification exam.
For both of these exams, I will be posting to my blog a recommended schedule, a quick review of the weekly content and a question of the week. Look for me to have a plan together for the 646 exam first (probably next week) and then once I have the details finalized, the plan for 236. My intention with the LiveMeeting's on exchange is to open them up to anyone who is interested in following along. To follow along with either of these sessions, you will need the Microsoft Press Study Guides for the respective material. Unfortunately, I don’t have any copies of the book to give away, your best bet is to do like I did and order the book through Amazon. Ordering online saved me about $20.00 versus buying it in a store and I had the books in two days
Friday, July 2, 2010
Android 2.2
Android 2.2
Google's Android has done what many thought impossible: It unseated the iPhone as the number two selling smartphone platform in the US (after Research in Motion—RIM) and will soon displace the iPhone worldwide as well. There are a number of reasons for this success, but a simplified view is that Google has simply taken the best parts of each major smartphone platform and created its own open and free alternative Comptia A+ Training.
Looking ahead to the next major update, Android 2.2, it's pretty clear that Google aims to extend its lead and, over time, position Android as the dominant platform in the mobile space. And Android 2.2 hits Microsoft squarely in its one remaining successful mobile markets—the enterprise. It will adopt a number of Exchange compatibility features, including remote wipe, auto-discovery, global address book lookup and security policy support, and device administration APIs. Android already supports multiple Exchange accounts.
For its part, Microsoft is rebooting its mobile phone efforts with Windows Phone. And while I feel that this upcoming entry is innovative and exciting, success is not assured. Looking ahead, I think that Android will be the dominant player in this market and that the remainder will be split in some way by RIM, Apple, Microsoft, and perhaps one other player. Microsoft's biggest advantage in this future is that Windows Phone will offer the best integration across the PC, consumer-oriented products like Xbox and Zune, and its various online services. That will prove a big draw for some users, but not others, especially the younger crowd that's growing up on free Google services Comptia A+ Certification.
Microsoft calls its strategy "three screens and a cloud" but it's so poorly realized in today's products and services that I've renamed it to "three screams and a clod" because there's nothing more disheartening that adopting a particular Microsoft solution and discovering that the company didn't go the distance to integrate it into its other products. In the fast moving world of cloud computing, Microsoft will need to adopt at least one aspect of Google's strategy: to iterate early and often. Microsoft still doesn't get this—it's been a year and a half since the last Windows Live release, which is ridiculous. And until it does, it will continue to lose mindshare—and then usage share and market share—to faster moving companies like Google. This is the real danger of Google's market power, both to Microsoft and to the companies that rely on its technology solutions.
Google's Android has done what many thought impossible: It unseated the iPhone as the number two selling smartphone platform in the US (after Research in Motion—RIM) and will soon displace the iPhone worldwide as well. There are a number of reasons for this success, but a simplified view is that Google has simply taken the best parts of each major smartphone platform and created its own open and free alternative Comptia A+ Training.
Looking ahead to the next major update, Android 2.2, it's pretty clear that Google aims to extend its lead and, over time, position Android as the dominant platform in the mobile space. And Android 2.2 hits Microsoft squarely in its one remaining successful mobile markets—the enterprise. It will adopt a number of Exchange compatibility features, including remote wipe, auto-discovery, global address book lookup and security policy support, and device administration APIs. Android already supports multiple Exchange accounts.
For its part, Microsoft is rebooting its mobile phone efforts with Windows Phone. And while I feel that this upcoming entry is innovative and exciting, success is not assured. Looking ahead, I think that Android will be the dominant player in this market and that the remainder will be split in some way by RIM, Apple, Microsoft, and perhaps one other player. Microsoft's biggest advantage in this future is that Windows Phone will offer the best integration across the PC, consumer-oriented products like Xbox and Zune, and its various online services. That will prove a big draw for some users, but not others, especially the younger crowd that's growing up on free Google services Comptia A+ Certification.
Microsoft calls its strategy "three screens and a cloud" but it's so poorly realized in today's products and services that I've renamed it to "three screams and a clod" because there's nothing more disheartening that adopting a particular Microsoft solution and discovering that the company didn't go the distance to integrate it into its other products. In the fast moving world of cloud computing, Microsoft will need to adopt at least one aspect of Google's strategy: to iterate early and often. Microsoft still doesn't get this—it's been a year and a half since the last Windows Live release, which is ridiculous. And until it does, it will continue to lose mindshare—and then usage share and market share—to faster moving companies like Google. This is the real danger of Google's market power, both to Microsoft and to the companies that rely on its technology solutions.
Android 2.2
Android 2.2
Google's Android has done what many thought impossible: It unseated the iPhone as the number two selling smartphone platform in the US (after Research in Motion—RIM) and will soon displace the iPhone worldwide as well. There are a number of reasons for this success, but a simplified view is that Google has simply taken the best parts of each major smartphone platform and created its own open and free alternative Comptia A+ Training.
Looking ahead to the next major update, Android 2.2, it's pretty clear that Google aims to extend its lead and, over time, position Android as the dominant platform in the mobile space. And Android 2.2 hits Microsoft squarely in its one remaining successful mobile markets—the enterprise. It will adopt a number of Exchange compatibility features, including remote wipe, auto-discovery, global address book lookup and security policy support, and device administration APIs. Android already supports multiple Exchange accounts.
For its part, Microsoft is rebooting its mobile phone efforts with Windows Phone. And while I feel that this upcoming entry is innovative and exciting, success is not assured. Looking ahead, I think that Android will be the dominant player in this market and that the remainder will be split in some way by RIM, Apple, Microsoft, and perhaps one other player. Microsoft's biggest advantage in this future is that Windows Phone will offer the best integration across the PC, consumer-oriented products like Xbox and Zune, and its various online services. That will prove a big draw for some users, but not others, especially the younger crowd that's growing up on free Google services Comptia A+ Certification.
Microsoft calls its strategy "three screens and a cloud" but it's so poorly realized in today's products and services that I've renamed it to "three screams and a clod" because there's nothing more disheartening that adopting a particular Microsoft solution and discovering that the company didn't go the distance to integrate it into its other products. In the fast moving world of cloud computing, Microsoft will need to adopt at least one aspect of Google's strategy: to iterate early and often. Microsoft still doesn't get this—it's been a year and a half since the last Windows Live release, which is ridiculous. And until it does, it will continue to lose mindshare—and then usage share and market share—to faster moving companies like Google. This is the real danger of Google's market power, both to Microsoft and to the companies that rely on its technology solutions.
Google's Android has done what many thought impossible: It unseated the iPhone as the number two selling smartphone platform in the US (after Research in Motion—RIM) and will soon displace the iPhone worldwide as well. There are a number of reasons for this success, but a simplified view is that Google has simply taken the best parts of each major smartphone platform and created its own open and free alternative Comptia A+ Training.
Looking ahead to the next major update, Android 2.2, it's pretty clear that Google aims to extend its lead and, over time, position Android as the dominant platform in the mobile space. And Android 2.2 hits Microsoft squarely in its one remaining successful mobile markets—the enterprise. It will adopt a number of Exchange compatibility features, including remote wipe, auto-discovery, global address book lookup and security policy support, and device administration APIs. Android already supports multiple Exchange accounts.
For its part, Microsoft is rebooting its mobile phone efforts with Windows Phone. And while I feel that this upcoming entry is innovative and exciting, success is not assured. Looking ahead, I think that Android will be the dominant player in this market and that the remainder will be split in some way by RIM, Apple, Microsoft, and perhaps one other player. Microsoft's biggest advantage in this future is that Windows Phone will offer the best integration across the PC, consumer-oriented products like Xbox and Zune, and its various online services. That will prove a big draw for some users, but not others, especially the younger crowd that's growing up on free Google services Comptia A+ Certification.
Microsoft calls its strategy "three screens and a cloud" but it's so poorly realized in today's products and services that I've renamed it to "three screams and a clod" because there's nothing more disheartening that adopting a particular Microsoft solution and discovering that the company didn't go the distance to integrate it into its other products. In the fast moving world of cloud computing, Microsoft will need to adopt at least one aspect of Google's strategy: to iterate early and often. Microsoft still doesn't get this—it's been a year and a half since the last Windows Live release, which is ridiculous. And until it does, it will continue to lose mindshare—and then usage share and market share—to faster moving companies like Google. This is the real danger of Google's market power, both to Microsoft and to the companies that rely on its technology solutions.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Award-winning courseware catches on around the world
Award-winning courseware catches on around the world
Windows IT Pro award-winning courseware LabSim is helping a British IT training specialist do big things in Europe and beyond.
The LabSim range of certification courses are developed by U.S. firm CertKingdom Corporation and won Windows IT Pro's Training Certification gold award in 2009. CertKingdom has been offering teaching packages for MCSE qualification since 1998 and also provides courses for Comptia A+ Training and Cisco certification. London-based GTS Learning is responsible for sales outside the U.S. in the form of LabSim.co.uk.
LabSim's creators say that their training courses set themselves apart with high-quality online labs where students work in a simulated environment using virtual hardware, operating systems and networking components. Video instruction is taught by experts with written lessons. Practice exams support a slickly presented experience.
Enthusiastically running through a checklist of features from a dashboard that maps courses to certifications to virtual workbenches and end-of-section quizzes, GTS Learning managing director Robin Adda says: "The thing with CertKingdom’s LabSim is that it’s everything in one, it’s a whole learning experience." Other e-learning products can be "incredibly dull" he says."Basically, you reading with pictures on a slideshow, more or less, and clicking to advance."
LabSim, on the other hand, he describes as "very engaging" and last year Windows IT Pro's Brian Reinholz wrote: "Newcomers to the field can gain a level of hands-on experience on or off campus unlike ever before, and seasoned professionals have easy access to skills-based online training to earn additional certifications or degrees."
Adda says: "We’ve found that basically it tends to sell itself. Once people have seen it they like it because there’s nothing really quite like it. There are people who do similar components, there are companies that do the video instruction, companies that do the exam preps, but there’s nobody that has it all in one self-contained module."
GTS has been selling the LabSim range since 2005. "We started in the UK and, as we sell learning material to companies around the world, the next port of call was South Africa because we’ve got representation there and that was extremely popular," says Adda. "And from there all over the place. Australia, Canada Comptia A+ Certification, Greenland, Pakistan, everywhere, really, and every type of learner from vocational colleges, universities, career changers, individuals working within corporates, individuals trying to better themselves. So it seems to span the entire market of people who are interested in an IT certification."
He cites work with Lenovo across EMEA, a university in South Africa, UK colleges and Australian printers. Plus there are firms using the courses for their technical support and help-desk staff. In the Microsoft world, GTS Learning is seeing growing demand for Windows Server 2008 administrator and enterprise administrator courses and MCIPT certification is very much the order of the day. On-demand versions of the courses will be available soon.
As an IT training veteran, does Adda think that a proliferation of technologies is leading to IT people becoming too siloed in their own specialities?
"I think that so long as vendors are going to continue to promote their products you are always going to have to have specific skills which do appear siloed," he says. "The other thing about certifications is that its about the vendor’s requirements to remain current. If you take an exam and then you don’t do anything more for ten years, the chances are you are going to be stale. And that’s why I think these vendor requirements to remain current in the certification actually make sure that people know about the latest technologies and don’t just say that they are certified to maintain your installation if they haven’t actually been trained on the latest product."
Windows IT Pro award-winning courseware LabSim is helping a British IT training specialist do big things in Europe and beyond.
The LabSim range of certification courses are developed by U.S. firm CertKingdom Corporation and won Windows IT Pro's Training Certification gold award in 2009. CertKingdom has been offering teaching packages for MCSE qualification since 1998 and also provides courses for Comptia A+ Training and Cisco certification. London-based GTS Learning is responsible for sales outside the U.S. in the form of LabSim.co.uk.
LabSim's creators say that their training courses set themselves apart with high-quality online labs where students work in a simulated environment using virtual hardware, operating systems and networking components. Video instruction is taught by experts with written lessons. Practice exams support a slickly presented experience.
Enthusiastically running through a checklist of features from a dashboard that maps courses to certifications to virtual workbenches and end-of-section quizzes, GTS Learning managing director Robin Adda says: "The thing with CertKingdom’s LabSim is that it’s everything in one, it’s a whole learning experience." Other e-learning products can be "incredibly dull" he says."Basically, you reading with pictures on a slideshow, more or less, and clicking to advance."
LabSim, on the other hand, he describes as "very engaging" and last year Windows IT Pro's Brian Reinholz wrote: "Newcomers to the field can gain a level of hands-on experience on or off campus unlike ever before, and seasoned professionals have easy access to skills-based online training to earn additional certifications or degrees."
Adda says: "We’ve found that basically it tends to sell itself. Once people have seen it they like it because there’s nothing really quite like it. There are people who do similar components, there are companies that do the video instruction, companies that do the exam preps, but there’s nobody that has it all in one self-contained module."
GTS has been selling the LabSim range since 2005. "We started in the UK and, as we sell learning material to companies around the world, the next port of call was South Africa because we’ve got representation there and that was extremely popular," says Adda. "And from there all over the place. Australia, Canada Comptia A+ Certification, Greenland, Pakistan, everywhere, really, and every type of learner from vocational colleges, universities, career changers, individuals working within corporates, individuals trying to better themselves. So it seems to span the entire market of people who are interested in an IT certification."
He cites work with Lenovo across EMEA, a university in South Africa, UK colleges and Australian printers. Plus there are firms using the courses for their technical support and help-desk staff. In the Microsoft world, GTS Learning is seeing growing demand for Windows Server 2008 administrator and enterprise administrator courses and MCIPT certification is very much the order of the day. On-demand versions of the courses will be available soon.
As an IT training veteran, does Adda think that a proliferation of technologies is leading to IT people becoming too siloed in their own specialities?
"I think that so long as vendors are going to continue to promote their products you are always going to have to have specific skills which do appear siloed," he says. "The other thing about certifications is that its about the vendor’s requirements to remain current. If you take an exam and then you don’t do anything more for ten years, the chances are you are going to be stale. And that’s why I think these vendor requirements to remain current in the certification actually make sure that people know about the latest technologies and don’t just say that they are certified to maintain your installation if they haven’t actually been trained on the latest product."
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