Department of Agriculture develops novel software to guide … – Jornal do Brazil

The farmer has available a unique software to help you make an effective spray with practical guidance for each step. The Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply of São Paulo, through the Agronomy Institute (IAC) of Campinas (SP), launched the program called DropScope technology that guides you step by step professionals of the field in the application of pesticides, helping from the positioning and organization of water sensitive papers to indicate improvements when necessary. For now, the software features are compatible for use on grain crops, fiber and sugarcane. The studies are being continued to adapt the system for use in spraying trees and shrubs, such as citrus and coffee.

The IAC developed the technology in partnership with the company Ablevision Computer Systems and support from the Mato Grosso Cotton Institute . The tool also provides support for conducting studies on pesticide application technology area, by generating data that assist scientific researchers.

The IAC developed the technology in partnership with the company Ablevision Computer Systems and support the Cotton Mato Grosso Institute

The DropScope evaluates the quality of spraying in plantations. With the use of a notebook computer, a procedure can be done in the field during application of chemicals. “The tool acts as a virtual consultant, the system asks questions to farmers to indicate the best way to use of pesticides. Producers have difficulty in this area, hence the importance of DropScope “said Hamilton Humberto Ramos, the IAC researcher and one of the developers of the tool.

The system, which was first developed in 2004, works as follows: the producer installs the software on the computer and connect a water sensitive paper scanner. The program asks the farmer on the type of product to be applied – herbicide, insecticide or fungicide – asks about the size of the plant to be treated and also the pest or disease occurs on the stem, fruit or leaf. The technical information about the product, found on the packaging, are also requested by the software.

After completing the questionnaire, which is all illustrated, DropScope begins the process of evaluation of spraying. For this step, the system instructs the user of technology on using water sensitive papers. According to Ramos, to assess the spraying, the producer puts the water sensitive paper in the scanner, connected to the computer, which points to spray quality is poor, fair or good, through red, yellow and green. “When the program identifies that the producer is making a misapplication, he points out the problem and suggests what should be done to achieve an appropriate application,” explains Ramos.

“The DropScope differentials are credibility because the whole tool was developed with scientific basis and practical applications, and the adoption of simplicity, which enables its use directly in the field, just access to a notebook, “said the IAC researcher.

investment to acquire DropScope is R $ 6,500.00 or so. The value can be recovered only with the economy of water used in a crop. It is emphasized that the adequacy of the application of pesticides brings great save water. In a culture with 200-day cycle, such as soybeans, which are made five sprays are consumed 200 liters of slurry per hectare. In an area of ​​1000 hectares, the economy is R $ 2,500.00, only to reduce the volume of water applied. In Mato Grosso, there are many cotton farmers using the system to achieve efficiency in spraying.

The Secretary of Agriculture of the State of São Paulo, Arnaldo Jardim, points out that technological innovation is fundamental in the field, as it allows produce more efficiently. For him, so it is the fundamental research carried out by institutes of the Secretariat. “In this case, as we recommended the governor Geraldo Alckmin, is a technology that helps to have more efficient use of water, which is key,” he said.

Support for science

In addition to helping farmers, the DropScope is an important tool for scientific researchers in the spray area. The program offers the advanced search option, it is possible to obtain relevant parameters on the application, as the size of syrup drop being applied to plants and the product range. “The tool also provides a graph with the analysis of spraying number of drops or volume. This information is important because the higher the percentage of small droplets, the greater the evaporation of the product, reducing its efficiency, “says IAC researcher.

spray quality

According to the researcher of the Agronomic Institute (IAC), in Campinas, Hamilton Humberto Ramos, one of the most common mistakes in applying activity of agrochemicals is the amount of water taken. “The producer believes, mistakenly, that when using large volumes of water, will have better efficiency in the application of pesticides, when in fact it is the opposite,” he explains.

Ramos explains that efficiency is related to accuracy in hitting the target application, i.e., placing the chemical where it is really needed. “The use of less water, and more efficient, reduce waste,” says.

IAC Research has shown that the amount of 100 liters of water to dilute the chemical sprays is sufficient for application on a hectare of sugarcane. In general, this area is used 250 to 300 liters. The IAC showed that it is possible to achieve the same efficiency with up to one third of this volume.

With this technology, already adopted by large numbers of São Paulo plants, you can save 100 to 200 gallons of water per hectare . Reducing the volume adopted in application increases the operational capacity of the equipment by 17% on average, while preserving water resources.

The work of IAC allow save about 600 million liters of water per year . The amount is enough to supply a city like Campinas, with about one million inhabitants, for three days.

In the citrus orchards, the Agronomic Institute managed to reduce eight thousand to ten thousand liters the volume of syrup used in the treatment plant, for two thousand liters to three thousand liters without any loss in the application or the effectiveness of pest control period. The IAC work continues in partnership with the Citrus Defense Fund (Fundecitrus), and are already being carried out evaluations with use of 500 a thousand liters per hectare.

IAC technology in phytosanitary treatment citrus can save 35 billion liters of freshwater per year in São Paulo. This reduction would be enough to supply a city of 960,000 inhabitants, for 365 days.

Alterdata promotes online demonstration management software in … – Jornal do Brazil

The Alterdata, software developer for commercial automation, accounting, electronic invoices, among others, will promote the online lecture “Online Demo Wshop” on 26 June at 14:45. André Luiz Garbelini will demonstrate in practice the use of Shop Alterdata system, traders focused on management.

The program content includes the buffer stock, the evolution of sales and financial and DRE (exercise result Statement). “The goal is to show the system differential in the use of the routines of a trade and focus on the use of these tools in business management.” Says Garbelini, which is active in the commercial sector of Alterdata Software.

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Free subscriptions at the site Alterdata, which can also be found the schedule other online and classroom lectures promoted by the company. The site can be accessed by clicking here.

Microsoft recalls that sells software and goes back on upgrades … – Half Bit

 

 

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Ask your parents, children.

Microsoft has a complicated past. She made a lot of ugly, nor refer to Microsoft Bob. In one of the questionable attitudes, when you ran Windows using the DR DOS, the clone of Digital Research ( and not Doctor DOS, as we called ) to start, an error message. Pure psychological terror.

Giving a discount, was the Wild West, no one was holy, and all these companies are much better now, in calmer times. Even Microsoft, which was the favorite villain of Slashdot ( is not your time ) today has a very positive image, especially with the excellent command of our favorite Indian.

Now they took a vacilada. In the friendly desire to appear Microsoft has strongly emphasized the Windows 10, with free upgrades for everybody with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. That’s really, really cool. Coolest was even when he left the information that the Windows Insider, the beta program of Windows 10, would allow participants atualizassem for the final version, authenticated and enabled.

Great, great news, but more speeches that are an internet company, selling services, etc, beans with rice Microsoft is still software. Release a new version of an operating system, updating existing users for free, selling OEM licenses to far less than the price full And on top of giving away to everyone who signs the beta is slightly too.

The promise that Insider users would upgrade to the final version was changed. Now if you upgrade Windows 10 to copy is not enabled, but if they continue using version prerelease on, all right

In other words:. Windows for free only without update version.

The Ars Technica speculates that this is to hold the wave of companies that have this as a way for upgrades at no cost. It makes sense.

In any case, the mere fact that the internet be discussing this change rationally shows how Microsoft’s image improved. Thankfully, no one misses the time when Balmer ranted that Linux was a Communist thing. Although today is a thing of WWF …

 
 

 

 
 

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Friday, June 19, 2015

Wynyard is a specialized software in the detection of young people … – Review Computers

More than 20 thousand people from across the world joined in recent times, the so-called Islamic State. The number far exceeds the total foreign recruits to the Afghan war recorded in the 1980s – and the Internet persuasiveness may be related to the success of funding campaigns of young soldiers of the terrorist organization .. It is in this context that the Advanced software Crime Analytics Wynyard. A British company claims to have created the necessary tools to detect, on the Internet, terrorist organization recruitment attempts. What will act before the youth or adults follow trip to Syria or Iraq.

The software Wynyard operates on data stores collected from Twitter accounts, blog posts, or even file sharing sites. To this information is added to data communications processed by e-mail, mobile phone or computer.

All of these data are analyzed by an algorithm able to “understand” the texts published on the web and establish relations that indicate a potential recruitment. In the end, the information is presented through a graphical interface that reflects a network of jihadist suspects and recruits. According to New Scientist, the Wynyard of the platform analysis can also be refined by analysis carried out by researchers of the secret services which may, at any time, broader view of each of the network nodes and try to get more information each person who established relations with these nodes.

Is the Wynyard platform to be used today? The brand itself does not indicate that the intelligence services turn today to this pattern analysis software on the Internet. New Scientist questioned the British secret service and the FBI, the US, but received no response on the matter.

The Internet substantially accelerated persuasion and recruitment processes of potential radicals soldiers and the use of software analyzes the different communications on the Net may represent a gain of time – but it is not the ultimate solution: a specialized event in the subject held in London, there were those who remembered the case of an extremist suspect had already created 140 Twitter accounts, in Following the various blocks that was the target. This confirms that the technology may not be enough to change mentalities.

Jonathan Russell, a member of the group of anti-terrorism experts from the Quilliam Foundation, remember that the fight against propaganda of the Islamists can not be limited to the identification of suspects or censorship of content on the Net, “(the platform content analysis) try not know why people want to go (to the so-called Islamic State). Despite being in favor of using these solutions, do not hesitate to remember that we are neglecting other counter-narrative strategies’.

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Featured free software in the debate of political parties – TeK.sapo

 
 
 Representatives of the government parties, PSD and CDS, used the meeting to list the programs and initiatives over the past years the executive has implemented or to tune in the case of the initiatives that were already on the ground promoted by previous governments. Monica Iron and Paulo Almeida, PSD and CDS respectively, also stressed that the cost-cutting program in the AP has allowed savings of 147 million euros.

The free software is one of the areas targeted in this program and had prominent space in the debate, with João Sá the Green and Michael James PCP to defend the need for a stronger use of this alternative in AP, but also considers that measures are needed to promote their use generally in society.

Michael James argued that the change should happen in schools where today “learn Microsoft” and “do not learn computer”. The deputy considers that a major obstacle to the use of free software is the unfamiliarity of users with alternatives to Microsoft software and that should change once in school education, because it has risks and helps to limit the market.

“We are creating a generation of hardware and software that consumers not take potential technology Party”, said Michael James, noting that today we do not know manipulate programming languages. We use proprietary programs that we can not move because it is forbidden, and there are legal consequences for it.

These restrictions, also defended the representative of the CFP, not only to prevent products that already exist are improved, but also prevent products are developed in areas which do not concern the companies from an economic point view. A logic that applies to the software but also to telecommunications and other services.

The representatives of the PSD and the CDS emphasized that the public measures have sought to promote the use of free software in some areas and set an example Map Citizen recently launched.

The increasing use of ICT in professional life (as the trivialization of company mobile phones, for example) and the impact it has on other spheres of life of citizens, was also the subject of debate, with Porfirio Silva, Deputy PS, to stress the issue and to consider that we are not getting the amount owed technology if we can not promote a balance between slick social and professional aspects. Also it considered that the issue “raises the same issues in relation to quality of work.” “The ability to create networks is not only technology is also social” and implies an evolution levels, said the deputy, in a meeting not attended by the Left Bloc.

A bet of $ 1 billion in software that holds hackers – EXAME.com

 The only thing that seems to be growing as fast as the malicious actions in the Internet are the actions of companies who are trying to stop them.

 

 Several companies, such as FireEye Inc. and Palo Alto Networks Inc., took off in 2015 and spread to more than 200 percent gain in an index that has existed for four years and monitors network security companies.

 

 An exchange-traded fund (ETF) linked to the actions just passed $ 1 billion in market value, having doubled in size since the beginning of April.

 

 Virtual invasions such as leakage of confidential records of US officials took place last week, urged cyber paranoia, which boosted network security spending and granted the status of darlings to companies that contribute to the protection of digital data .

 

 The subject is starting to feed back among investors who are afraid to be left out.

 

 “The more the price goes up, this sector will be more attractive to people,” said John Manley, who helps manage about US $ 233 billion as chief strategist of shares of Wells Fargo Funds Management in New York.

 

 “In these actions have prevailed a herd mentality, as these companies offer a level of security that did not exist before.”

 

 A gain of 25 percent in 2015 and a flood of investors inflows inflated the market value of the ISE PureFunds Cyber ​​Security ETF to surpass the $ 1 billion threshold on Tuesday.

 

 The figure compares with $ 107 million earlier this year and $ 494 million at the end of the first quarter. The fund rose 0.6 percent at 9.40 am in the morning, New York time.

 

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 Although the average number of shares in Cyber ​​ISE index is trading at 24.6 times earnings estimates of analysts, only 18 of the 30 companies are profitable – however, it is projected that the number will rise to 25 over the next 12 months, data show compiled by Bloomberg. The multiple compares with 17.6 times the expected income for the S & amp;. P 500

 

 Just over 3,000 data breach incidents occurred worldwide last year, which exposed 1.1 billion records, of which 97 percent were linked to attacks of hackers or fraud, wrote David Kostin, chief strategist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shares to the US, in a statement on 12 June.

 

 Last week, a union of government employees said hackers stole data and social security numbers of all employees of the federal government.

 

 The fervor surpassed the enthusiasm of investors by developers of drugs, a group of companies so popular that Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve (Fed) said it twice a review last year.

 

 The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index rose 20 percent in 2015 and was 5 percentage points behind cyber security.

 

  General Growth

 

 The ISE Cyber ​​Security Index is rising not only because of a handful of companies. Twenty-seven of the 30 stocks in the index had gains this year and FireEye and CyberArk Software Ltd. were ahead with gains of more than 68 percent.

 

 

 As cases of data breaches are piling up, large companies technology are analyzing smaller data security companies as potential acquisition targets, said the CEO of FireEye, Dave DeWalt, in a interview in May.

 

 Several companies, such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Google Inc. are interested in one of the markets’ most popular and fastest growing “of information technology, he said.

 

 The interest of equity investors that branch extended to the options market. Contracts to protect against a decline of 10 percent in the exchange-traded fund that tracks the ISE Cyber ​​Security Index costing 27 points lower than bets on a gain of the same magnitude on June 4, according to data compiled by Bloomberg quarterly.

 

 It was the lowest level of the relationship known as skew since entered the ETF trading in November, the data show.

 

 “Investors are looking for an instrument” to enter the stock, Manley said. “This space is now attractive.”

Software royalties with insurance – National Insurance Portal

 

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 Software consists of the programs that control the computer, it is a logical part and has the function of providing instructions for the hardware. But the hardware is the physical part, composed of various electronic components, parts and equipment needed to operate the computer.

 There are two basic types of computer program, the “custom software” and the “shelf software.” They are considered intangible assets, and financial and accounting purposes capital goods. Taxation is differentiated and applied as a service or merchandise, due to the form of production and marketing. The custom software is produced to order to meet the specific requirements of a given user, while the shelf software is produced on a large scale and in a uniform manner, can be purchased by any interested party.

 

 Imported software is recorded in the Import Declaration (DI) to their customs value consists of the physical value (cd rom), freight and related taxes. The media values ​​(physical environment and intellectual property) are given only in the commercial invoice (invoice) separately, and the value of intellectual property is legally reissued to the seller abroad, in the form of royalty payments and IR gathering.

 

 The import of transport insurance covers damages during international travel, after landing in Brazil and delivery to site of the importer. The insured amount is based on the value entered in DI and can consist of physical cost of merchandise, freight, 10% expenses, expected profits of 10% and taxes. Thus, the amount of royalties that represents virtually all of the imported goods is not covered.

 

 The importer has the possibility of negotiating with the insurance company to include a particular term to also cover the amount of the royalties, but few insurers who accept this condition, it all depends on commercial interests.

 

 Aparecido Mendes Rocha, an expert on international insurance

 

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Facial recognition software controls the faithful present in … – Globo.com

A US company has just launched a facial recognition software for churches. The “Churchix” controls the people who go to church. For example, if a pastor or a priest wants to know what faithful attended the service or Mass, he can use this new technology.

Through the photos of the faithful in the system upload, the software automatically identifies the person when she goes to the church and records the presence.

The use of easy recognition software raises the discussion about privacy, since anyone with access to this technology can track individuals even without authorization and against their will. In addition to this new kind used in churches, it is already used in supermarkets, shopping malls and other establishments.

That such a quality software – iMasters

Save, folks.

Much has been said lately about software quality, quality development. Even up with some questions that have become almost catchphrases. So, what is quality? How can we say that our applications are or not quality? It is even easy to say that an application is bad?

For more people than I’ve seen answer that question, I saw few directly respond to what I think personally. An experienced developer can mention:. Software that does not use standards, or that it is not well structured or that has many keys “hardcoded” … are numerous defects that an expert can list on another’s software

To the present writer, bad software that is difficult to maintain – is for the sole developer of it, is for the rest of the current or future team. Many of the cited reasons contribute to an application hinders the development of a team – but is not crucial to the development of standardized stream. Yes, when I say “software”, I mean not only the code but to work committed to developing it.

We could be discussing practices and bad practices, but it would be an endless discussion. Many “bad practices” persist for no reason within companies and projects for other reasons n. I’ve seen some teams that have adopted a “bad practice” as part of the flow – how it worked that scope, it was played and the project was still working. Was a failure? Possibly, but controlled and science of all.

Quality, in short, is a gradation of anything within a measurable expectations. Complicated? We can say that something has quality when we know that the hope that “something” and we can determine these you about it – if that determination is positive, that “something” is / has quality. Think of the screen right in front of him: what you expect from her? She handed you a clear image without deadpixels with good visibility into possible light variations, with precise adjustments … if you can measure these questions and prove the effectiveness of the screen in each of them, if these are the definition of quality criteria then it is good.

And with software? How we measure quality? First of all, we need to raise what criteria will the project evaluation screens. Let’s assume that one of the criteria is based on Unit Testing. Our project needs to have a coverage of more than 80% E (AND, +) must pass completely. If only this criterion is important to you and your team, and you can apply this, congratulations, you have a quality software – although, to deliver to production, users complain that it is impossible to browse your application. So I ask: the user’s eyes / client, your application is quality

Choose quality criteria is essential in any project?. Unit tests are great, but it has some tangible value to those who will use? We can add behavioral testing, usability … to add value to the product, why not not include them as a criterion? A survey of each layer interested in the project regarding the expected can lead to a successful quality management adoption strategy. The developers expect? What does management expect? The Product Owners? More importantly, the consumer?

We have criteria, and we how to measure each of them. Great. How do you know if the quality improves or worsens, every delivery? You should keep a history of measurements, follow these results and see if delivery delivery, they improve. Ideally, knowing the metrics, you can map out a plan of goals and continuous improvement and to monitor developments. It may be that the compliance rate of the target can also be a criterion – who does not like recursion

In a hypothetical case, we are in a project and have different metrics, with goals being met. We have a quality product? Within the criteria, yes. We have a good software? Yes and no (who personally know me probably hates that my answer).

Yes, for a project with many quality criteria being met tends to give little bad job. For poor job meant last minute corrections, redeploys, unnecessary stress. Tends, not necessarily you will get rid of it.

Why not? Good software practices are not easily measured. For example: as you know you are using DDD looking at the code? And Object Calisthenics? and SOLID? E Design Patterns in general? You are applying well? I may be committing a great blunder here, but outside some practices of Object Calisthenics, which can be measured via style analysis, there is no “SOLID-Adherence-Detector” or “D4″ (Domain Driven Design Detector) – which in prevents, at first, to measure how we are adhering to these practices.

These practices / standards are essential to make sustainable code. That code base can grow smoothly. It also avoids common problems in maintaining code. It also allows several people to interact in the code within certain standards in order to avoid conflicts of understanding. This kind of care when developing shows me whether software is good or not, as I mentioned at the beginning.

While there is no D4 or SAD, unfortunately we can not use them directly as metrics. But the implementation of these best practices, architectural precepts etc. brings benefits and these but can be quantified and applied to quality management – number of bugs for release, reducing conflict and product development, new features for release, etc.

In short:. make a good software, apply best practices as is possible and have a good and sustainable application. Meanwhile, study which metrics are relevant to the project and to measure them continually, giving a quality control him. Expand these “advice” beyond code:. Make your team, your project, your best company and understand and improve quality

Until the next

Software stars in the new era of data centers – Digital Convergence

Roberta Prescott … 06.17.2015 … Digital Convergence

In a world with natural resources increasingly scarce and restricted, build and operate data center follows a challenge for corporations. Technologies such as software defined-network (SDN), virtual servers and cloud computing are gaining ground and should lead the transformation of large data centers.

During panel on efficiency and data center intelligence in Ciab, event banking technology that takes place this week in Sao Paulo Henrique Cecci, research director at Gartner Research, signaled we live in the new era of digital processing and it the amount of data centers is decreasing worldwide. “They are disappearing and the hype-scale data center are growing. By 2025, they will hold a third of the world processing power, “he said.

In this new scenario in the future, the data center will be totally different from what we have today with new operating models. “Software is dominating. SDN is what is most developed. “The waves of digital disruptions pass to put the software as the main agent and build infrastructure oriented to business. “When we look at the data center we are doing we need to let them ready for scanning. This divides traditional IT the new IT, which is technologically different. We are in the middle [ this change ], “said Armughan Ahmad, vice president for enterprise solutions from Dell.

For Mirian Guimaraes, executive superintendent of Santander, a jump of efficiency came from the service model within the concept of virtual data center that allows isolation without interference. “Virtualization has more agility. Now, let the line SDN. “

All Santander’s data centers follow a global model. The units in Brazil, Mexico, the UK and Spain have a network that interconnect so that it can operate the countries from any of them. The two data centers in Brazil, located in Campinas (SP), has a capacity of 5 petabytes of storage, processing more than 80,000 MIPS and medium capacity to 210 million transactions per day. “The infrastructure to be standardized, allows faster delivery,” said the executive of Santander.

At Bradesco, cloud computing is a reality. Today, 300 servers in production for private cloud, supporting rural credit and mobile banking operations. Already the public cloud began to be used this year to cognitive computing, as explained Waldemar Ruggiero, director of the processing department and Bradesco data communication. “Data center defined by software is another trend we are working every day, it promises strong shift in the way we operate the system,” he said.

At the bank, two data centers operate at 18 km away redundantly. Are 250,000 production levels in mainframe and 12 petabytes of storage. “Our infrastructure and the technology park are allowing us to implement the bimodal IT,” said Ruggiero, Bradesco.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Approved software that will give interactivity to digital TV – iMasters

The Brazilian System of the Forum of Digital Terrestrial TV (SBTVD) approved the adoption of a third version of Ginga software tool that will enable the interactivity of TVs that receive digital signals. In comparison with the other versions (Ginga A and B), Ginga C will, and greater data storage capacity – especially applications and multimedia files – a hardware structure that will put you in connection conditions to the internet.

“Through an optional add, Ginga C will provide greater storage capacity for setup box . Thus you have more room to keep resident applications and to download more content. It is the first step towards a real integration of broadcasting with the internet, “said the president of the forum, Roberto Franco.

The SBTVD Forum is composed of representatives of the broadcasting industry, equipment manufacturers and academics.

According to Franco, although supported by technicians during previous meetings, the new equipment concerned so-called “reception industry” – companies in the electronics sector who will assume manufacturing of devices for the reception. “This concern [corporate] is legitimate and common to any system in the implementation phase, and was founded on new challenges and risks of incompatibility with the profiles A and B of Ginga,” said Franco.

A working group was set up to identify and resolve as soon as possible any problems presented by software. “I am sure that the risk of having problems is very low,” he added.

The Brazilian digital TV is part of Brazil 4D Project, which is coordinated by Brazil Communications Company (EBC). Through television, citizen access to public information and services will be possible. The idea is to take the tool to about 14 million families benefiting from the Bolsa Família program.

Part of the costs will be covered by approximately R $ 3.6 billion in funds obtained as compensation paid by mobile phone companies that won the tender of the 700 MHz band (MHz).

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Software does consumerization entity discuss SaaS in Brazil – Digital Convergence

The ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies) announces the creation of a committee focused on the needs of the Brazilian market in relation to the SaaS marketing model. – Software as a Service (Software as a Service)

The new group aims to identify best practices, foster innovation and guide companies interested in migrating their solutions to the selling format as a service. The organization also aims to develop a certification that demonstrates the maturity of software companies in relation to SaaS.

According to Carlos Sacco, Marketing Director of ABES, thanks to the explosion of mobility, the current ‘consumerization’ of software has brought thousands of new developers, new forms of delivery, high scale, low prices and directly impacted professionals and companies in the sector.

“With this new scenario, manufacturers and developers need a quick and thorough strategic repositioning to understand and learn to stand on issues related to governance, application architecture, coding, reset costs, pricing, consumer behavior analysis and market dynamics, “said Carlos Sacco.

The first activity of the Committee will be a survey of members to identify the maturity of both the company be prepared for the cloud business model – which among other things substantially changes the cash flow – as the solutions offered, from a technical point of view.

The coordinator of the Committee, Lauro de Freitas, CEO of Dualtec explains that in addition to making the reference entity in the market about the best SaaS practices and support members in the process of transition from on-premise business model to SaaS, the group aims to create a certification that demonstrates the maturity of software companies in relation to this new model.

“With this certification, our goal is to educate the market and the particularities of this business model, thereby ensuring that the contractor make the choice by a supplier who follow best practices and standards for SaaS, “says Lauro.

The new committee It is open to the participation of more members of ABES and already has Alexandre Soncini and Rafael Forte, the VTEX; Boris Kuszka and Fernanda Escobar, the RedHat; Francisco Camargo, the CLM; Onivaldo Roncatti and Leonardo Noshi, the Business Station; Ricardo Ogata, Cisco; as well as its coordinator, Lauro de Freitas, the Dualtec, and the director of marketing for ABES, Carlos Sacco.

Monday, June 15, 2015

[Sony recognizes overheating Xperia Z3 + and promises … – Mobile Xpert

There is some weeks, we posted an article about the Xperia Z3 +, the new international variant of Xperia Z4, which was launched with a new design, new specifications and an updated processor, which apparently walking giving headaches to its manufacturer, Sony. It turns out the chip that equips this device is nothing less than 810 Snapdragon Qualcomm, already mentioned in several articles here, for reasons involving overheating problems. Just as in the HTC One M9, Xiaomi Mi Note Pro, and various other portable bringing factory chip, the Z3 + is also suffering from poor cooling performance of this chip, even the manufacturer itself has acknowledged the problem, and apparently, promised an update to fix it.

The Snapdragon 810 walks giving problems in various parts of the world, as we have already commented here, even in Japan, some mobile operators, for example, NTT DoCoMo, advise their customers turn off appliances while they are being loaded and avoid opening many apps at once. The Z3 + joins the statistical apparatus with the “esquentadinho” chip, especially when playing games with more elaborate graphics, or use the camera; According to GSMArena site, tests in the Netherlands with this device claim that the temperature is so high that even touching the device becomes an uncomfortable experience, and that it has, under certain circumstances, a message about high temperatures.

US Navy will buy security flaws in software – Pplware

Access to information is a power that holds many and can also be a great advantage. The US Navy has present this idea and so now if predispose to pay a value to all who deliver software failures.

The idea itself is not new, but is the first Since it is put into practice by a well-known military entity.

The idea of ​​the US Navy for this” hunting to failure “is the simple fact that so able to exploit their enemies making use of this software.

This advantage will be significant not only to remove them for good, probably remotely, but also to get to collect information on these and on their plans.

The discovery of this new intention came at a site of military bodies and other state bodies they put their requests for contracts being described very simply, but also very direct.

the vendor Shall Provide the government with a proposed list of available vulnerabilities, 0 -day or N-day (in the older than 6 months old). . . .the Government will select from the list supplied and direct development of exploit binaries.

Despite being described that intend to pay, there is at any time indication of the values ​​that are at issue .

This measure is not new and it is followed by various companies for many years. The idea of ​​rewarding those who find flaws and problems in software lets make them safer while motivating whom the demand.

The intention of the North American Navy follows the same concept, but want to use it different and a much more aggressive way way.

The question is whether some of the many who are dedicated to this task accept that its flaws are exploited, instead of being corrected.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Software that will allow interaction in digital TV is approved – NE10