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ring the last years there’s been a trend in many developers to gravitate towards languages such as Ruby, Python and PHP, that offer quick solutions for the development of web applications.
In this context some new technologies emerged, inspired by Ruby on Rails. Grails, Spring Roo and Play Framework. What do they propose?
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Rapid Web Application Development? Piece of cake!
Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez10 Free Plugins for Visual Studio 2010
Posted on November 15th, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
Visual Studio 2010 opened to the plugins world. The new Extension Manager (matchless in benefits to the add-in Manager of Visual Studio 2008) allows browsing and downloading easily an immense amount of plugins.
GIS
Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
For some years it has been observed the use of Geographic Information Systems in commercial applications because they offer an interesting added value for the final user of the system. Probably the most popular case is Google Maps, since it was used in many applications, for its dissemination, easy to use and free service for geographic locations or multiple locations. This functionality by its own is key in most systems that currently work with locations (we can´t imagine a social network, a real state web site, or a site for booking hotels without a map that shows locations).
BlackBerrys will be manufactured in Argentina
Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that manufactures BlackBerry, announced that they started to manufacture the first smartphones in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
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Argentina’s path to e-government
Posted on October 4th, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
The emergence of New Information Technologies and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in recent decades generated a major impact on the everyday life of society.
Being aware of this new reality Governments began to outline the framework for promoting the intensive use of these new technologies to optimize public administration in order to provide better services to citizens, ensure transparency in acts of government, facilitate procedures, reduce costs, generate new spaces for participation and promoting the integration of the domestic to global markets.
Hexacta sponsors the 4th Latin American Conference on Agile Methodologies
Posted on September 27th, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
The event that has gathered enthusiastic professionals mostly related to software development for over three years will land in Buenos Aires (Argentina) this year. These will be days where learning, teaching, networking and meeting others will be the norm. This time is in Buenos Aires (Argentina) again where it all began in 2008, after passing through Florianópolis (Brazil) in 2009 and Lima (Peru) in 2010. Hexacta will be participating as a sponsor of the event. Read more »
Argentina: one of the main destinations for outsourcing
Posted on September 20th, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
The arrival of multinational computing and IT companies to Argentina began in 1993 when EDS installed its offices in Buenos Aires. EDS is a company from Texas, US. that leads the market of IT services in business solutions. The company operates in 50 countries. Currently in Argentina it holds 1,650 employees among the three centers it has in the country: Buenos Aires, Rosario and Córdoba. From Córdoba the company does software maintenance and develops new Java and .NET projects. 70% of the operations done there comes from clients in Europe or US. In return Córdoba province agreed to pay 7.5% of the salaries for five years, half of the costs of the construction of a building of 4000m2 and exempt EDS from taxes for ten years.
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Google acquired Motorola Wireless for 12,500 million dollars
Posted on September 13th, 2011 by Andrea Sanchez
The atmosphere in the current market is odd and unpredictable. Google´s Android mobile OS emerged and started growing to an unexpected extent, comfortably exceeding Apple. In the last quarter, 50% of smartphones sold worldwide use Android, compared to 20% of IOS, the system of the iPhone and iPad.
But, which are the main reasons that explain this move? Why Google decided to buy Motorola?
1-Patents: by buying Motorola, Google acquires around 17.000 patents. This will allow Google to defend against an avalanche of lawsuits to its Android software, used in more than 150 million mobile devices worldwide.
2-Hardware division: Google needs a hardware division. Its own business, software and advertising, is much more profitable, but it is also volatile. Motorola has the know-how, the procedures and the engineering to manufacture devices. Google is now in a much more robust position than before. They have a wide spectrum of possibilities: smartphones, tablets, televisions connected to the web, etc. Read more »
Telcom Industry, Global Economic Melt-down Proved
Posted on September 5th, 2011 by Ricardo Farias
This industry covers land lines, mobile phones, broadband Internet connections and a whole host of services accessed through the net among others. It is a Global market worth of 1,400 billion USD.
The top 5 telecom companies worldwide by the number of subscribers are China Mobile (522millions), Vodafone Group (333millions), Telefonica (202millions) and AmericaMovil (201millions), most of them have considerably increased their stocks value in the NYSE index in the last 5 years.
Who sets the global “G” family standards?
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by Ricardo Farias
Over the last weeks I have been involved in a company´s marketing initiative regarding mobile technology and I started learning about 4G technology, how it was developed and adopted around the globe.
It was fascinating to find out the history of the “G” family and its beginnings, starting from the 1G system introduced by NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) in 1981. Then how it was upgraded by its predecessor in the 90s, the 2G or “second generation” primarily using the GSM standard and later on by the 3G (W-CDMA/FOMA), which appeared in 2001 and the more recent breakthrough of 4G. Read more »