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- Posted by Subodh Bhide
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In this multi-part series of blog posts, I want to highlight the trends in Solid-State Drives or SSDs as storage devices and understand some of the challenges it faces. We at Harbinger Systems have been testing and developing Windows applications around storage systems for over four years. Based on our experience in working with some of the companies in the industry and interacting with storage...
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- Posted by Shivesh Vishwanathan
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Over three years ago, Andrew McAfee wrote an insightful post on The 9X Email Problem. In the post backed by research of a colleague from Harvard, Andrew makes a case for Enterprise 2.0 software to be nine times better than Email to be accepted by businesses and their decision makers.
The number nine, he and his colleague say, comes from the multiplier effect of two pieces of irrational behavior...
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- Posted by Harbinger Systems
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We have a new white paper that identifies Interactive User Experience, or IUX as the next frontier in human-computer interaction. IUX combines three types of interactivity, which in turn exploit unique platform capabilities such as direction, touch, orientation, location, movement and proximity. The transition from user interface (UI) to IUX is as revolutionary as the transition from...
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- Posted by Shivesh Vishwanathan
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The Apple iPad is bringing in a new kind of user experience to our lives in front of computers. Just like computers reinvented themselves from a command-line-based console interface to a window-based graphical user interface (GUI) three decades ago, they will now have to reinvent themselves from graphical user interface to what I call, the Interactive User Experience (IUX) or First-person User...
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- Posted by Shivesh Vishwanathan
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First-Person Tetris is a truly unique take on the old game of Tetris, and exemplifies out-of-the-box thinking in interactivity design (quite literally).
What makes First-Person Tetris really interesting is that it turns the concept of the game on its head. In Tetris, you interact with the objects through your keyboard to place them properly in the box. First-Person Tetris makes you, the user,...
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- Posted by Prachi
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It is not easy to take Apple head on when it innovates. And if it was Microsoft in the early days, it is Google today. Both have gone in a direction of making open systems against Apple’s proprietary approach.
Google made Android open source (free using Apache license), and went on to launch Android through Open Handset Alliance (OHA), a collaboration of around 50 companies...
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- Posted by Shivesh Vishwanathan
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Bonnier R&D came up with the following great concept for an e-Magazine Reader that offers great colors, animations, user interface and reading experience.
Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.We at Harbinger are passionate about interactivity and user experience, and have built great user experiences like flip-book on desktop, web and iPhone. The advent of a new breed of devices with touch-screen,...
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- Posted by Shivesh Vishwanathan
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Twitter's blog is talking about a feature that could put it in the path of starting to generate revenue. It is a feature called "Contributors" targeted at businesses. Check out http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/feature-test-with-businesses.html
Twitter has been under a lot of debate about its viability as a business and its ability to monetize its microblogging service. Twitter was recently also...
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- Posted by Shivesh Vishwanathan
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Cloud Computing is becoming a mainstream technology with almost all major industry heavyweights backing it. As details emerge and the platforms and technologies are refined, many software vendors are evaluating the move to cloud. Being a fairly new and emerging technology, there is a need to evaluate the value of migration to cloud at minimal cost.
In this post, we will look at two pieces of...
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- Posted by Harbinger Systems
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We released a white paper comparing Adobe Flex and JavaScript. Both are leading technologies available today for creating rich internet applications (RIA). In this paper, we compare these from the standpoint of their compatibility with existing technologies, UI capability, feature richness, performance and development support....
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- Posted by Harbinger Systems
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There are many JavaScript frameworks available today for programming rich client-side interactions in web applications. With many such different options, it is important to choose a framework that not only serves your current requirement, but also serves you in the long run. We drew up a visual comparison between Ext JS and four other popular JavaScript frameworks: Prototype, Dojo, JQuery and YUI...
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- Posted by Shivesh Vishwanathan
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At Harbinger Systems, we have developed IT systems and enterprise software that have incorporated the best of web 2.0 features. Our new white paper, The Enterprise Software Makeover Guide enumerates ten of the best UI elements that came out of Web 2.0 that have performed well in the enterprise environment over a sustained period of time.
Visit our website to request the white paper....
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- Posted by Harbinger Systems
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We made a presentation earlier this year at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco with real life applications of Web 2.0 inside the enterprise. The presentation covers how Web 2.0 can be used for improving employee productivity and for management visibility within the enterprise.
An abridged version of the presentation is available at http://www.slideshare.net/hsplmkting/enterprise-web-20-...
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- Posted by Harbinger Systems
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We are coming to the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and presenting "10 Enterprise 2.0 Screens in 10 Minutes". Our presentation is at 11:20 AM on April 1.The full presentation schedule is available at: http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/content/solutions-showcaseAnd do come and visit us at booth #721!...
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