Archive for January, 2008
New Linux platform for mobile devices
Californian company Azingo (former Celunite) has presented the same name operational system on the basis of kernel Linux intended for use on mobile devices.
Under statements of founders, OS Azingo Mobile is the first platform constructed on the basis of development of organization LiMo Foundation based in the beginning of the last year by companies Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung and Vodafone. The Primary goal of project LiMo consists in creation of the unified program platform on the basis of Linux intended for use on mobile phones, communicators and so on. By the way Azingo also is member of LiMo Foundation.
In Azingo especially emphasize that the new operational system is the fullest among all similar platforms. Structure of Azingo Mobile besides a kernel and base components includes accompanying applications, connecting the software and tools of development. All applications in Azingo Mobile are divided into four groups – Mobile Entertainment (mediaplayers, a photo gallery), Mobile Internet (a browser, the RSS-reader and so forth), Mobile Productivity (tools for work with documents) and Mobile Communications (tools of communications).
Developers carry flexibly adjusted user interface to basic advantages Azingo Mobile with support of touch input and animation, support of scaled fonts, tools of localization, and also an opportunity of work with the chamber. Platform Azingo Mobile is already accessible to licensing. In company Azingo mark that negotiations about release of portable devices on the basis of new OS are conducted with several known suppliers however their names are not specified. The first devices on the basis of Azingo Mobile can appear on sale more close by the end of current year.
Monitoring tools
The website being a part of IT world plays the important role in development and promotion of business. The most important currency in internet is attention of users. Site which has problems with loading, execution are not attractive for visitors. Furthermore your website is your face in the Internet and site which is often inaccessible loses constant partners.
The only way to be fully confident is to use website monitoring and website server monitoring.
Website monitoring service helps you to be sure the web site is accessible, has proper content, and is maintaining good performance. There are a number of companies which provide such services. One of the leading companies in this sphere is Dotcom-monitor. They provide next services:
Website monitoring
Dotcom-Monitor has remote agents which are positioned around the world and the have an opportunity to work like an Internet browser. They will start website monitoring and server monitoring immediately after creation of an account. Website monitoring service by Dotcom-monitor has some specific features which distinguish it from other services, such as
Accessibility & Availability Check
Performance Check
Content Check
Form Submission
Secure Sites
Server Digital Certificates
Client Digital Certificate
Cookie Support.
Network Monitoring
Due to this service you are kept informed about your network’s status, availability and performance of network applications. There are a lot of network monitoring tools but I’ll list the most important: FTP Monitoring Service, POP3 Monitoring Service, SMTP Monitoring Service, SMTP/POP3 Monitoring Service, DNS Monitoring Service, DNS Blacklist Monitoring, Ping/ICMP Monitoring Service, Port Monitoring Service, Web Service SOAP/HTTP Monitoring Service, UDP Monitoring Service, Temperature Monitoring Service and Custom Script Monitoring Service.
Web Load Stress Test
With the growth of your site the number of loads on your website, web applications and network infrastructure grow too. This service helps us to get information about such important points as:
Position of bottlenecks on your site.
Performing of website under certain loads.
A number of users can you site handle.
As I have already mentioned there is a great number of different companies such as site24x7, Mon.itor.us, HostTracker. You can also try them but I have been used it for two years and I have no any complaint.
Search Engines Optimization Tool
The attendance is very important factor even for small private website. One of the most effective methods to increase the number of visitors is search engines optimization. You need some tools for this for example Se Monitor which can provide both optimization statistics and special optimization features. There are lots of different features, but I’ll introduce the most important.
Website Indexation – Se Monitor shows pages which are known by search engines, but also their search weight in Google PR.
Log Analyzer – supports IIS formats and Apache. The next information are analyzed: the number of unique IP, the number of visitors, the number of visitors from search engines.
Monitoring of External Links – During the process of searching links Se Monitor determines PR of link pages and there linking text.
HTML Analyzer – gives an opportunity to get full statistics of words and word-combinations not only on separate pages, but also on website as a whole.
Google Data-Centers – This feature helps to forecast your PR after next Google dance.
Se Monitor is intended for monitoring and for statistics. There is only one defect – there is no full help information.