November 30th, 2008 by informationconsultant

Apple has certainly set the standard with its niche software solution for the iPhone. The innovative way that this niche software solution interacts with the user has provided a new experience that most users find intuitive.

However, for it to really take the lead the Internet market must be captured by allowing this niche software solution to operate seamless data transfer over hpda. Hpda has become an important transfer medium for data through mobile phones, and although its coverage can allow high data rates, there are many areas where the actual rates you see are quite poor.

I am in one of these areas, and having tried mobile data, I can attest that when its good, it is good, but when its bad, its frustratingly awful! Think in terms of narrowband (56k) over 3G.
It’s not surprising therefore to find an advert for these devices that claimed blistering speeds was held to account by the Advertising Standards Authority. Although the manufacturer defended their corner, they could only justify the advert in terms of the relative speed between 2G and 3G. But when the advert uses the word ‘fast’ to sell it’s product, then the consumer has a right to believe that it will blow away their mind.

November 30th, 2008 by businessconsultant

It might not quite be the nuclear reactor in the back garden but business technology consulting firm Hyperion is quite close. In the nuclear business their business technology consulting expertise has led them to win a license to produce shed sized nuclear power plants that are intended to provide power to communities in the United States.

Hailing from Mexico, the firm has already won orders for this technology solution from places as far a field as the Czech republic and the Bahamas, with each of them expecting this business technology solution to provide cheap electricity for up to ten years before needing to be re-fuelled.

It is claimed that the power unit will be delivered on the back of a lorry, and that it would be buried deep in the ground for both aesthetic and safety reasons. Because the unit is encased in a thick wall of concrete, the manufacturers are confident that there can be no environmental or safety issues, and by being buried they believe that they will avoid any label of the product being an eyesore.

If this entrepreneur can crank up the production line, then there is every prospect that the nuclear shed will become an inconspicuous energy provider.

November 29th, 2008 by nichebusinessconsultant

Will Nintendo capture our hearts as the niche market consultant for cooking in 2008? As a culinary niche market consultant it is quite unique in the marketplace by providing expert advice for those who despair of ever making the grade in the kitchen.

A cartoon chef is there to guide you through the stages of your next culinary treasure, but the on screen antics are more likely to distract than to inform. It might be better just to use the audible sounds of voice as your guide so that you can concentrate on the job in hand, and perhaps avoid chopping off your finger.

As a culinary niche market consultant, its advantage is that you can rewind and hear a section over and again, until you actually understand what is needed of you, but it could be argued that is no better than turning back the page on a book!

Your Nintendo is most likely to be small of screen, which leaves those of us who are challenged in the glasses front with a more difficult task to overcome. Allowing for flour on the keyboard and the odd egg white on the screen, the computer that you use would need to be extremely robust.

November 29th, 2008 by informationconsultant

Information technology crime is an area of growth that has provided large cash rewards for two UK immigrants. Based in Redhill two criminals set about the information technology crime of the decade by providing foreign nationals help with their immigration tests.

The candidate, who may have no knowledge of English, is fitted out with surveillance equipment that allows the waiting scammers to view the test paper through miniature cameras placed around the candidate’s body. From a waiting car the test can be subverted by giving instructions to the person under test through a miniature earpiece.

By getting them to position their body it was possible to view the exam paper, and since the questions are just multiple choice it was easy for the controllers to cheat the system from their remote location.

It was just by chance that this information technology crime was detected. Although a member of the public alerted the police they didn’t make the connection with the felony that was actually being committed. The breakthrough was made as a man joined the group in the waiting car with one thousand pounds in his pocket, ready to pay the criminals.

It was only then that the penny started to drop!

November 28th, 2008 by informationconsultant

When the first supercomputer was deployed in 1976 Cray way heralded as the foremost information technology solution provider. As information technology solution providers Cray has stayed at the lead in supercomputing technology despite a rocky corporate history. It’s first solution; Cray-1 was far ahead of the competition when yielding a blistering 0.25 Gigaflops of processing effort.

With each leap forward, comes a new opportunity to challenge the supercomputing fraternity, and with the Fi7epower from YoYoTech another benchmark ahs been set. By combining the very latest that technology can offer, from the X58 Express chipset to the Asus P6T motherboard this new build PC has blown away the standard that the PC is currently built to.

With speeds that tip the scales at 320 times that of the Cray-1 it is positioned to execute 80billion floating point instructions a second. That’s surely enough for even the most avid gamer and central server. In terms of information an technology solution for 2008 the amount of raw processing far exceeds that needed in the average office environment, but from the level of sales that the manufacturer has seen to date, that is no deterring people from paying the £4000 price tag.

November 28th, 2008 by technicalconsultant

Dragon runner is the latest in a series of military robots from the original concept by UK software consultant Qinetiq as the Talon series. The original software consultant solution was a chunky tracked miniature vehicle equipped with ordnance or sensors that could be deployed into high-risk areas.

The concept that the dragon runner is promoting is one of remote urban combat, where much smaller rugged equipment can be deployed for surveillance and observer roles.

It has been developed by systems and software consultant Carnegie Mellon University and can be deployed in a soldier’s backpack. Ideally suited for urban fighting it can be deployed into caves and areas of potential danger so that the infantry can see what’s around the corner before they move in.

Where there is no obvious concealment, such as in deserts, there is little point in deploying this weapon, since its primary role is to provide intelligence information in areas where there may be an ambush or booby traps.

Three operational scenarios are envisaged for this tool, allowing the robot to drive and watch, provide a sentry capability using sensors to detect and alert the controller to nearby movement, and as a passive observer that relays information from a fixed position.

November 27th, 2008 by nicheconsultant

Real world benchmarks using niche software solutions are a good way to evaluate a particular operating system, and both AMD and independent testing of niche software solutions have arrived at fairly consistent results for 64 bit processors.

Even the AMD web site makes it clear that its not all a bed of roses on the ‘long mode’ front, and they emphasise that in the transition period that most users will be using a food dose of 32 bit as a supplement.

As soon as the 64 bit world arrives, you can expect everything to size up, with all of your niche software solutions running either in compatibility mode, or taking up an extra wedge of memory.

Every instruction and data element is extended across the new addressing range, so that applications that are re-compiled on the new architecture will automatically consume almost twice the memory and twice the disk space. Then a new race begins to provide more memory and storage on the next generation of PC. It looks like the upgrade could be costly.

If you are using heavy processing, or shifting a lot of user data, the upgrade may well be worthwhile, but for the games players linux.com believes that there is little to be gained.

November 27th, 2008 by smallbusinessconsultant

In an amazing shift in focus, according to the TechNetWorld small business consulting team, Adobe have announced a 64 bit version of flash in advance of the one for Windows. Tectonic were also quick off the mark with their own small business consulting announcement, both of which have filtered through the Linux world like a proverbial virus.

Now what is all the fuss about, you might ask yourself. The fuss is that Linux seems to have stolen a march over its rival operating system because of its solid 64 bit processor support. You might think you have the same technology when you load up 64 bit Vista and fire up your apps, but in fact much of the onboard software, such as Internet Explorer, continues to run in 32 bit.

You won’t find a quantum leap in performance on a Windows system for some time, but Linux is sitting pretty, with Gentoo having launched its own 64 bit version of Linux as long ago as 2005! That leaves the community in a position of strength, since there have been updates and refinements since then.

The small business consulting team at tactips.com believes that some performance increases are around the corner with 64 bit.

November 26th, 2008 by businessconsultant

Spin is evident in Europe, as the business technology consulting team has detected in the launch of Europeana, a pan European online library. But has the fanfare and promise come up to our normal business technology consulting standards?

A quick visit to the site today informs us that it was finally launched on 20th of November, but was immediately brought down by over subscription! Whilst the spin on the site promotes the success of the venture, it could be described as a failure from a business technology consulting viewpoint.

It would be beyond credibility for such an august endeavour not to have employed a sea of expertise to support its development, and since the endeavour has been supported by many of the EEC members, including the British Library, it is also unlikely that its profile would ever be anything other than very high.

As a consequence it is strange that the technology had not been designed with future proofing in mind. In pan European endeavours such as this, a large amount, estimated in millions of euros by quoi9, would seem to have offered much scope for developing a scalable solution.

Under the spin, we should ask what happened?

November 26th, 2008 by nicheconsultant

With the Microsoft news that it’s dropping Onecare the niche market consulting expert at tactips wonders if it’s a sea change in the giant’s strategy. The niche market consulting view of the PC security market is that many of the commercial offerings have become too bloated and a huge drain on processor resources.

The Onecare product falls into this category and this is reflected in its slipping sales as the market has woken up to its limitations. With many free products that provide adequate protection that can be upgraded for little money, it has to be asked whether Microsoft is finally waking up to their market.

With Vista already recognised by industry as a resource hungry solution that doesn’t fit the corporate niche market consulting opinion is that they need to review all of their product range. If Windows 7 doesn’t fall foul of bloat culture, then it could be the flag ship we have waited for. In concert with this initiative they have also announced a forthcoming free product under the name Morro which they claim will be a low footprint security solution.

Only history will be able to judge whether this lives up to its promise.