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Company Red Hat plans to bring within the nearest two-three years a number of changes in existing model of business dealing, informs PC World. Now Red Hat receives the basic part of profit on distribution and support of server operational system Linux. The company also develops a direction of virtualization and advances Linux in sphere of desktop computers, however while the income of these initiatives is rather low. At the same time, Red Hat it is compelled to compete to other large suppliers Linux, pressure from which constantly amplifies.

About two weeks ago Red Hat has appointed new vice-president of company of the head of division which employees should borrow in transformation business-model. It is supposed, that process of transformation will be carried out in some stages. Now experts analyze the scheme of management of the company, features of mutual relations with clients and partners, subscription model, a financial system and so forth

At following stage Red Hat will borrow in elimination of the revealed weak places and increase of an overall performance of service of interaction with buyers. Besides Red Hat expects to increase profit on distribution of software JBoss. This company Red Hat, we shall remind, has got in the past to year for 420 million US dollars.

It is supposed that modification in business-model will allow Red Hat to strengthen position in the market. Besides the company expects to double the size of annual proceeds. Now Red Hat receives the income at a rate of approximately 500 million US dollars a year.

Company Yahoo has released the beta-version of the Internet-pager Yahoo Messenger 9.0.

In the presented software product a plenty of improvements and innovations is realized. Developers, in particular, allocate the advanced interface, completely updated appearance of the list of contacts and additional skins. In pager Yahoo Messenger 9.0 there was a support of additional languages for the users living in territories of Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Vietnam.

The expanded integration with on-line service Flickr will allow users Yahoo Messenger 9.0 to exchange photos and to keep them in the accounts on site Flickr. Besides structure Yahoo Messenger 9.0 includes the new mediaplayer providing an opportunity of reproduction of videoclips and viewing of images directly in a window the Internet-pager. Among other it is necessary to mention the increased area for accommodation of images, associated with names in the book of contacts, and also the expanded opportunities of voice dialogue.

The European market of IT services is challenged by powerful competition pressure, but observers predict the growth in outsourcing sector. Using outsourcing services not only in the billion-dollar projects of international business, but by middle and even small enterprises proves advantages of such functions delegation.

Low-cost expenses allow to imitate and to conduct possible economic decisions in real time mode when plenty of participants are involved. In consequence the accuracy of made decisions rises and also co-ordination of participants’ activity in the process of the accepted decisions realization is improved. Opportunities extension and quality increase of works co-ordination for different collectives change the structure of internal expenses. It is cheaper to pass on work execution to temporaries or external companies, then to hold regular employees for this purpose.

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In the Worldnet the serious sensation has inflamed in connection with that company Google without any explanations has unexpectedly lowered index PageRank for of some known a web-sites.

Technology PageRank is applied to sorting search results by inquiry of the user. Work of system PageRank is based on the account of quantity of references to the given page from other sites. Thus the weight of the reference from page with high rating PageRank is more, than at page with a low parameter. PageRank - not unique, but very important way of definition of position of a site in results of search Google.

Back Internet users have started to notice some time, that index PageRank for many visited resources has sharply fallen to two-rub items. In particular, value PageRank has gone down for such known sites, as Engadget (with 7 up to 5), AutoBlog (with 6 up to 4), Washington Post (with 7 up to 5), New Scientist (with 7 up to 5), Forbes (with 7 up to 5), Seattle Times (with 6 up to 4) and many other things.

Many observers and bloggers tend to opinion that Google has lowered rating PageRank for those resources and news editions on which pages paid references are placed. Besides come out with assumptions, that Google modernizes technology PageRank. However in this case there is a question why index PageRank has been lowered only for certain the Internet-resources. In company Google on a situation while in any way do not make comments.

Softland is pleased to announce the release of novaPDF SDK v 5.3. This update includes several enhancements and fixes such as:

1. Added Text Watermarks option
2. Optimized text compression algorithm - the size of PDF files is now reduced by up to 80% (for documents consisting mainly of text)
3. Finnish and Arabic user interface localizations added

For more information, visit: http://www.novapdf.com/pdf-sdk.php
Direct Download (~ 13MB): http://www.novapdf.com/download/setup/nvsdk.exe

About novaPDF SDK

novaPDF SDK is a PDF software development kit that software developers can use to add the ability to create PDF files in their own applications.

novaPDF SDK includes:

1. a COM interface for customizing novaPDF options. Any option that can be configured in the novaPDF Printing Preferences dialog, can be also configured with the COM interface, including profiles management.
2. a silent installer for novaPDF. This silent installer can be integrated in the installation program that uses novaPDF SDK and this way novaPDF will be installed with customized options, without any user interaction.
3. novaPDF SDK documentation.
4. several code samples on how to use novaPDF SDK (samples available in C#, C++, Delphi, Ms Access, Visual Basic, VBNet).

novaPDF SDK can be integrated both in server and desktop/client applications. For server applications there is no need to install novaPDF Printer on the client machines.

Being distributed as a COM object, novaPDF SDK can be integrated in any Windows application, no matter the language it is programmed in (C/C++/C#, Visual C, Delphi, .Net, ASP, Visual Basic). It requires about 20Mb of free space and works on Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server.

Integrating novaPDF SDK in another application will give users a chance to use all the features of a professional PDF printer driver: customizable resolution, quality settings, PDF security, PDF links, embed fonts, compression and much more.

About Softland
Softland is a privately held company founded in 1999 that provides a complete range of custom software development and consulting services, offering cost-effective, innovative and practical solutions in client/server architecture and Internet solutions.

Softland provides complete software development lifecycle services, as well as maintenance for systems after implementation. Services include project management, software design, software development, quality assurance, documentation and technical support.

Mentioning computer software in Jamaica, we probably mean market-leading Microsoft and not those developed by local companies.

But that shouldn’t be the case, maintains Glen Gill, head of local company Info Group, which has sold its software abroad and is part of a local community of developers sponsored by Microsoft.
Info Group is one of several Information Communication Technology (ICT) companies based at the University of Technology (UTech) Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) business incubator. TIC this year awarded Info Group its annual Innovation Award for software providing a range of solutions from organising bauxite production to tracking the treatment of sickle cell patients.

The tide may be turning believes Gill, suggesting that a recent business inquiry he received from the United States could have been influenced by the strong performance of a team of student software developers from Northern Caribbean University (NCU) who placed a creditable third at the worldwide annual Microsoft-sponsored Cup competition.

“Think of what happened with this Imagine Cup team,” Gill told the Business Observer. “The Microsoft guy from Puerto Rico was telling us that the entire region was shocked that a team from Jamaica came third and it made people start to look up and realise there are people who can do software development and is helping to change people’s perception,” he said.

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The international musical library (IMSLP) in which access to musical partitas was given to Internet users has stopped the existence. The on-line resource has been closed after the owner of a site has received the second letter from the Viennese company Universal Edition a classical musical literature engaged by the edition with the requirement to stop infringement of a copyright.

The international musical library enjoied the big popularity at students, teachers and musicians of all world. The resource has been created by the pupil of college who disappears under anybody Feldmahler. According to the young man, it has counted, that access to culture and art is a fundamental right of each person, instead of the privilege. Also has laid out on a site of library of the partita of pieces of music, to use with which free of charge any interested person could.

All work on start of a site and gathering of partitas Feldmahler carried out independently. It has spent for creation of the International musical library a lot of time, forces and money, not receiving thus any profit. Less than in two years of work IMSLP became the world’s largest on-line musical library. Then Universal Edition also has paid to a resource the attention.

The overwhelming majority of the materials which have been laid out on a site, were the public property. However some of these partitas were not public property in the United States and the EU countries where the copyright operates not less than seventy years after death of the author of product. At the same time, in Canada and other countries of the world these materials were popular on the lawful bases. Therefore the owner of a resource has taken care of that all the partitas protected by a copyright, had corresponding marks, and has hung out on a site the reference to users from the USA and EU with the request to observe laws on the copyright.

However publishing house Universal Edition has counted, that it is not enough such measures for observance of a copyright, and that the best way to protect interests for a long time the late composers begins closing on-line musical library. The first letter from Universal Edition with the requirement to stop to break laws on copyright Feldmahler has received in August of current year. The second message has been directed to it in October in it the publishing house has demanded to remove from a site all copyright materials not later on October, 19th and to supply a resource with filtering system which will not allow users to hang out the partita. Otherwise Universal Edition was threatened to address in court.

Having consulted with lawyers, the student has understood, that at it is not present either forces, or means for struggle against publishing house, and has made a decision to obey to requirement Universal Edition and to close IMSLP. Forums IMSLP will not stop the work. Feldmahler plans to prepare copies of database IMSLP Mediawiki and begins to send them by inquiry to any interested person. Besides the former head of the International musical library promises to transfer five domain names, belonging IMSLP, any organization which will want to continue the project in this or that kind.

Last week there was a summit dedicated to Web 2.0 next development. It took place in San Francisco. Summit Web 2.0 is hold every year since 2004. Under Web 2.0 we understand new World Wide Web conception, wich is dedicated to new communicative environment such as blogs or Wiki.

Google has also participated in this Summit. The representative of Google declared about new Health service where people can upload their own medical history and there deseases. This service will appear in the next year.

If you have something to say more about Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco please feel free to register and place a comment.

Company Google plans to begin in 2008 to use their own operational system for mobile phones. There was an information that Google itself will borrow in manufacture of phones then it has appeared that their development will be conducted by the third party. However as a result it became clear that it is a question of operational system for cellular telephones.

Exact date of release of the final version of operational system is unknown but in the near future 50 thousand devices with OS from Google will be widespread among developers for testing. According to some information only ” somewhere in 2008 ” the first commercial prototype of phone with the high-grade version of operational system Google will be ready informs Mobile Magazine.

In opinion of some experts the output of OS with the open initial code from company Google (if it will be those), will strike a crushing blow on company Microsoft and is concrete - OS Windows Mobile. Besides OS Google in a combination to use of service Google Maps it will be convenient for systems GPS, representing more “alive” picture the districts rather than existing гаджеты, equipped GPS.

Vice-president Google on search systems Marissa Mayer within the limits of conference Web 2.0 in San Francisco has informed that the company plans to open new service of a medical orientation.

To press in any details concerning the future service as informs ComputerWorld Mayer did not become. It is known only that users of service can load on servers on the Internet the information on a condition of the health and the case record, and also to exchange data with the attending physician. Will earn service presumably in the beginning of next year.

It is necessary to note that the application Mayer about intention Google to open medical service has sounded later only two weeks after Microsoft has started service HealthVault. The given service represents on-line storehouse in which users can accumulate the information of medical character. Into structure HealthVault enters integrated search engine and to load data on a site of service it is possible directly from the compatible medical equipment. Service HealthVault is free-of-charge, for the foreign companies and manufacturers corporation Microsoft offers the special means of development facilitating process of creation of devices, compatible to a new platform.

Considering that fact that for access to HealthVault corporation Microsoft does not raise any payment from users it is possible to assume as similar service Google will be free-of-charge. It is not excluded that on pages of service Google advertisements will be displayed.