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Subscription Based Product Extends Sun’s Industry-Leading Support for the Java SE Platform

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) for Business, a new product subscription designed to more than double Sun’s support periods for releases, provide faster access to technology updates and offer enterprise deployment features for customers. In addition, Sun also announced a redistribution agreement so that ISVs, service providers and integrators can offer Java SE for Business to their customers. Detailed information on Java SE for Business is available at: http://sun.com/software/javaseforbusiness.

Readying an incentive program might seem simple, but implementing it is highly complex and sometimes volatile.

Online reward programs first started emerging in the 1990s but a they have gone through a tremendous change in every aspect of their operation ever since. The surge can be particularly attributed to the huge potential in profits and unlimited possibilities in marketing that they offer. Best of all, they are simple, easily customizable and highly scalable according to your needs. But be warned, you would need to have a long term focus and a clear agenda on what you are looking to achieve through online rewards. Generally, Online Rewards Programs can be broadly classified into Consumer/Retail, Dealer/Partner, Employees.

$99 for a solid electronic product that actually works is very rare to find these days. Palm released the centro last june which started selling like hotcakes and now the company announces that it has sold its one millionth Palm Centro.

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Ever felt the urge to listen to that track from your mobile phone/ipod on your car stereo only to find that you’ve kept your wires at home? Bid goodbye to ugly cables… Say hello to Sony MEX-BT3600U. Wait… there’s more. You can even take calls on your bluetooth enabled mobile phones, safely. One small niggle- You need to buy a bluetooth transmitter if you own an slightly older ipod.

Sun Microsystems have bagged a 44 million defence contract deal from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). The project would run for five and half years and would focus on microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks enabled by Silicon photonics and proximity communication. It is clear from Sun’s Sources that the project will build on existent research done under DARPA’s High Productivity Computing Systems program.

We all know how Helio has been getting a lot of good publicity. Here’s one more. You can now surf the web on Opera Mini if you own a Helio Ocean. So whats the big deal. Opera Mini is available for download with any smartphone or Pocket PC right? The difference however, with the Helio Ocean is that Opera claims to serve users with lightning speed.

Google seems to have introduced a new feature called ” Search in search”. Suppose you search for a shopping brand name like futurebazaar.com, it is now possible to search for specific products inside the site itself which is archived by Google’s Bots. Users will love it… they would not mind Google’s small advertisements nestling in some corner of the page one bit.

Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers. Rapt’s technology, along with its information and advisory services offerings, will become key components of the Atlas Publisher Suite, part of Microsoft’s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group. With the inclusion of Rapt, the Atlas Publisher Suite allows Microsoft to provide its customers with integrated asset and inventory management, forecasting, yield and sales management, and ad delivery and operations.

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