GITEX – Dubai, UAE – October 9 – 13, 2011

GITEX Technology Week, held at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC), is the gateway to one of the world’s fastest emerging and investment ready ICT markets – the Middle East.

Starting from 9th of October till 13th of October 2011. Opening Hours
9 October 2011: 1pm – 7pm
10–12 October 2011: 11am – 7pm
13 October 2011: 11am – 5pm

To Register…click here

NFC – Near Field Communication

This technology allows  for simplified transactions, data exchange, and wireless connections between two devices in close proximity to each other, usually by no more than a few centimeters. It is expected to become a widely used system for making payments by smartphone in the United States. Many smartphones currently on the market already contain embedded NFC chips that can send encrypted data a short distance (“near field”) to a reader located, for instance, next to a retail cash register. Shoppers who have their credit card information stored in their NFC smartphones can pay for purchases by waving their smartphones near or tapping them on the reader, rather than bothering with the actual credit card.

It simplifies

  • File sharing
  • Electronic business card
  • Electronic wallet
  • Mobile payment
  • Parking ticket
  • Boarding pass…etc

Pairing is easy..not like Bluetooth or Wifi

This is the logo for NFC enables devices.

iPhone 5 might come up with NFC included devices in the near future. Persistent rumours and patent applications strongly indicate an NFC enabled iPhone is on the way, though there has been no official announcement yet.

The list of NFC phones available today

  • Google Nexus S
  • Samsumg Galaxy S II
  • Nokia C7 …Etc

NFC – its an ISO 18000-3 RFID compatible, Standardisation body is ISO/IEC, Network Standard is ISO 13157 etc, Network Type is Point-to-point, Cryptography not with RFID, Range <0.2m, Frequency 13.56MHZ, Bit rate 424kbit/s, Setup time <0.1s and Power consumption <15mA

Good luck!!!

Gefen – Full featured Low cost Digital Signage Media Player

The HD Digital Signage Media Player can connect to a display using either analog or digital video connectors. Connect an HDMI, Component, or Composite cable between the HD Digital Signage Media Player and the display. If using the networking capabilities of the HD Digital Signage Media Player, connect your network cable to the Ethernet port. Optionally, the digital or analog audio output connector can be used to connect the HD Digital Signage Media Player to an external audio processor or amplifier. Connect the included USB flash drive to the rear panel of the unit. Connect the 12 V DC power supply to the unit and connect the AC power cord to an available electrical outlet.

More Info Click here

Features:

  • Supports resolutions up to 1080p Full HD
  • HDMI, Component, and Composite A/V outputs active simultaeously
  • Text-based scheduling and playlist using a text editor
  • CMS for multiple units
  • Supports MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5/6, XVid, and H.264/AVC video codecs
  • Supports MP3, MPEG, WMA, PCM, LPCM, ADPCM, FLAC, WAV, AAC, OGG, and MKA audio formats
  • Supports HD JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIF, and TIFF image formats
  • Wall-mountable enclosure for excellent heat dissipation and durability
  • Integrated OSD Menu for device configuration
  • Built-in FTP server and client to push and pull content
  • Full media scheduling and accounting logs
  • NTP client for time synchronization
  • USB 2.0 ports used for storage
  • Programmable PIN code prevents unauthorized access to OSD
  • Compatible file systems: NTFS, FAT16/FAT32, EXT3, and HFS+
  • IR remote control unit

A Good One – Mouse Without Boarders

KVM…Past history…!!!

 Mouse Without Borders allow multiple computers to share a single keyboard and mouse. In fact you can control up to four computers from a single mouse and keyboard with no extra hardware needed – it’s all software magic, developed by Truong Do who by day is a developed for Microsoft Dynamics. Four Computers can linked using this tool. Functions like cut, paste…drag and drop..login and lock to all four machine etc….

To know more & download this ..click here

The Garage is both a physical space in Building 4 at our Redmond HQ, and a company wide program that encourages grass roots invention, tinkering, ideas and incubation of projects. To know more about this click here

IE 10 – Windows developer preview

With the new IE10 engine included in the Windows Developer Preview, developers can work with more HTML5 technologies to build touch-friendly and beautiful interactive Web applications. With this update, IE10 includes support for touch-friendly sites to use many new technologies:

  • Rich Visual Effects: CSS Text Shadow, CSS 3D Transforms, CSS3 Transitions and Animations, CSS3 Gradient, SVG Filter Effects
  • Sophisticated Page Layouts: CSS3 for publication quality page layouts and application UI (CSS3 grid, flexbox, multi-column, positioned floats, regions, and hyphenation), HTML5 Forms, input controls, and validation
  • Enhanced Web Programming Model: Better offline applications through local storage with IndexedDB and the HTML5 Application Cache; Web Sockets, HTML5 History, Async scripts, HTML5 File APIs, HTML5 Drag-drop, HTML5 Sandboxing, Web workers, ES5 Strict mode support.

To download the Windows developer preview to experience IE10 from Microsoft Connect, Click here

IE Blog…click here

Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 3 video overview on Windows 8 ..Click here

Enjoy!!!