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You may have heard that a cloud server platform is more eco-friendly than a traditional physical server platform, but why is that? What does that really boil down to for energy and cost savings? The average server running today is being utilized at 8-15% of full capacity. This ensures that there is additional space if more computing resources are needed. However, with server virtualization cloud servers server capacity can be improved to 70-80% utilization. This allows for servers to be consolidated at about a 15:1 ratio, which is the true reason that cloud servers are greener. For every one server that is consolidated, there is a huge energy and cost savings: • 7000kWh of energy is saved per year (about 0 today, and energy costs are rising). • 4 tons of carbon dioxide emissions are removed (the equivalent of taking 1.5 cars off the road).

Additional energy savings come from the cloud service provider’s ability to power down under utilized servers during times of lower need without affecting service. As more resources are needed, the provider can simply power servers back on to accommodate the demand. Servers running idle can use just as much energy as when they are actively running. In addition to savings to the environment, there is a huge cost savings for companies. On average, after moving to a cloud platform, companies are seeing an 50% reduction in total cost of ownership. The truth is that with server consolidation, less resources are needed. Cooling, heating and power requirements decline. Tech staff resources can be reallocated towards higher corporate valued projects since less server maintenance, upgrades, and repairs are needed. Combining the fact that cloud servers are greener, with their ability to be more economical, reliable and scalable, it is no wonder that so many companies are moving to the cloud. Kristen is a wife, mother of 2 preschoolers and a very old dog. She is also the marketing manager for Green House Data, a 100% wind powered data center; although, she definitely claims not to be a techie. Her hope in article writing is to help other non-techies better understand the world of technology, especially green technology. She also passionate about the fact that green should not be more expensive and in fact can be less expensive.

OK, so you finally broke down and got a new smartphone to replace the old device that you’ve been using for the last few years.  Whether you are a first time user of a smartphone or you are an expert, changing to a new device can be overwhelming and frustrating.  If you’ve found yourself on overwhelmed and frustrated street, here are some directions to make it back to satisfaction ave.

The first thing to do is to keep in mind why you made such a change in the first place.  For those coming from a plain cell phone, the attraction of the smartphone’s power and flexibility brought about the need to change.  For others moving from one smartphone platform to another, it was the limitation of the old platform that forced change.  At this point you should then realize that it is not the smartphone that has you overwhelmed, it is the change from the old to the new that does.  As with anything that has routine familiarity in our lives, change in that routine can cause havoc – if we allow it to.

The second thing to realize with a new smartphone is that you are in a “go back to go” situation.  Essentially, you are in a state where you have to educate yourself about your smartphone and then go about the process of integration of the device into your daily routine.  This “go back to go” situation applies to every smartphone user, novice to pro.

Going back to go means also learning how to do things in the following order – simple to complex.  Simple would be a familiarization process with the basic controls of the phone.  Or in other words finding out what every button does on the smartphone by reading the user manual. Simple also means familiarizing yourself with the basic functions of the phone – like being able to make a call.  If anything, make sure that your smartphone can make and receive calls properly.  Also make sure that other call functions such as voice mail work correctly.  Although it may seem like a hassle to do this, these are essential first steps.  Even though most carriers set up their phones at the point of sale, things can still go wrong when it comes to making a call.  You can avoid a lot of initial frustration by first familiarizing yourself with your new smartphone’s controls and then ensuring that it can indeed make calls.

Once you have the basics under control, then it is time to move on to the more complex functions of the smartphone.  Whether you are a novice or a pro, when it comes to the more complex features of a new smartphone, your best bet is the new user tutorials.  Even if they seem lame, new user tutorials can be very useful in explaining how to browse the web or to set up email on your new device.  Once you’ve gone through the tutorials, then start using the features of your new smartphone.  Again, this process should be done in the simple to complex order.  Start off with a simple task like browsing the web.  Then methodically move on to more complex operations like email setup, installing social networking apps and so forth.  The new user tutorials can be found either on the smartphone itself or in the user manual.  If you find that there are no tutorials for your device, then consult the user manual for the info you need.

The final step is the integration of the new device into your daily life.  For novice smartphone users this may mean adapting to texting as apposed to calling as the primary means of communication.  For pros this could mean for instance, adapting to the way Android works with Microsoft Exchange as opposed to Windows Mobile.  In either case the integration process is in itself a learning process that could take a up to few weeks to accomplish.

Throughout this learning process with your new device, keep in mind that it’s going to take time.  To put things in another way, you and your new smartphone are now in a relationship.  As with human relationships, there is always the infatuation phase and then the long haul love phase.  Learning about your new smartphone in the infatuation phase will make the long haul love phase go much better.

A giant leap to provide new access to space may actually be just around the corner. Within the past few months (circa November 2010), PayPal founder Elon Musk’s space exploration company, SpaceX, moved us closer to that goal. It did so by successfully launching a medium-lift rocket into low Earth orbit.

SpaceX was the first company to launch a privately funded rocket, Falcon 1, into orbit in late 2008. Other rockets being used by the defense industry are privately manufactured, of course, but they are the product of taxpayer funding. The Falcon is the first orbital platform that adheres to what we could consider an effort of free market entrepreneurship.

The new rocket, called Falcon 9, is of a more powerful design, with sufficient thrust to bring passengers into orbit. The payload was an unmanned space capsule, called Dragon. It is a test bed for a future human-rated space vehicle.

SpaceX has pursued a simple, redundant, scalable design for their rockets. Falcon 9, for example, uses the same Merlin engines as the Falcon 1. As its name suggests, Falcon 9’s first stage uses nine Merlins. The second stage also uses a Merlin engine, with modifications for reignition and operation in a vacuum. This reduces the final cost of the launch vehicle.

Having multiple engines also improves reliability for the same reason that multiengined aircraft are safer. The rocket can lose an engine and still make it into space. Since reuse also helps reduce costs, the Dragon capsule is designed to perform many missions. Eventually, SpaceX wants to reuse the first and second stages, as well.

Although many have regretted the cancellation of Constellation, NASA’s future space vehicle program, it might actually prove a catalyst for increased long-term space exploration. Rather than depending on a vast wasteful bureaucracy to design and launch rockets, the U.S. space program contracts out transportation services to more efficient startups like SpaceX. No more mythical 0 toilet seats. Instead of a single platform, a diversity of many smaller players will emerge in the space launch business. This is the sort of environment that cuts costs and improves performance.

With the Space Shuttle winding down as a launch platform, SpaceX has already earned contracts to resupply the International Space Station to the tune of .8 billion. Full ISS resupply missions are scheduled for 2011. Following on June’s successful Falcon 9 launch, SpaceX also inked the largest launch contract in history. Iridium Communications plans to put its next-generation communications satellites in space via SpaceX and has signed a 0 billion contract with SpaceX to do so.

I strongly suspect that if space launch costs fall enough, we will be seeing space access put to commercial use in unexpected ways. How many people saw the eventual existence of Google, Facebook or even Musk’s own PayPal back when the Internet was a small government defense network?

Even with more efficient designs and organizational structures, however, rocket technology of the kind being used by SpaceX suffers from the same drawback: propellant. More than 70% of the mass required to get to orbit is fuel. When we consider a possible return to the Moon, this rises to over 95%.

Moving fuel and oxidizer is the single most important logistical component of any space mission. According to Dr. Hunter of Quicklaunch, the space gun technology he pioneered at Lawrence Livermore would reduce launch costs for fuel to 5% of the current price. An orbiting fuel depot would be a crucial piece of infrastructure for future missions to the moon or Mars. Space gun technology, however, can’t be used for humans. The acceleration required to get vehicle to orbital speed is simply too great. This leaves the market for passengers open to companies like SpaceX, which has designed the Falcon for human space launch from the very beginning.

Mark Twain once famously said that history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. In a sense, access to orbit is taking a path similar to what colonial exploration did in the 15th and 16th centuries. Early expeditions were government-sponsored affairs. Christopher Columbus, for instance, was funded by the Spanish crown. However, over time, private enterprises came to dominate the sea routes to the New World. Like the early venture capitalists looking to get rich in the New World, today’s investors will also grow wealthy.

I trust this post has provided some background and evidence that powerful efforts are underway with breakthroughs for a new access to space. These activities will soon provide alternative wealth creating opportunities and our economy will become significantly stronger around a competitive market of private space taxis that will lower the cost to get to orbit and will open up new vistas for space exploration.

In closing, I favor a quote from Steve Forbes. Forbes says that pursuing additional financial education and the resulting increase in our financial literacy (including the investment potential of breakthrough technology) will open our eyes to alternative wealth creating strategies and this will be the key to resolving our global financial crisis.

To gain the necessary financial education, it is best to obtain association with, access to, and membership in a wealth creation community. As a result, you will learn and have the knowledge to use alternative wealth creating strategies such as Bank on Yourself, debt reduction, and asset protection. You will be exposed to wealth acceleration investments in areas (discussed in this and previous blog posts) such as a new access to space, 3D virtual technology, atomically precise manufacturing, nuclear power generation, commercial space ventures, Carrier Ethernet technologies, nanotech lithography, robotics, nano-based next-generation battery technology, precious metals, water rights, oil, natural gas, potash mines, food commodities, and gold mines. You will have the knowledge to consider investments in assets that are inherently useful like oil rigs, hydropower, or methanol plants; things that are hard to build, difficult to replace, and costly to substitute; definitely not financial stocks, definitely not retail stocks, definitely not commercial property.

Another benefit of membership in a wealth creation community is exposure to entrepreneurial leadership and business opportunities. Many of these leaders suggest that if you don’t focus on being a digital entrepreneur, being self-employed, or being a small business owner, it will be a very tough road in the months and years ahead; actually it will be an uphill battle. As a result, the innovative wealth creation communities provide education and training on B2B, and B2C, eCommerce enabling a new breed of professionals that are creating six figure second incomes.

It is wise to monitor breakthrough technology as there are truly exciting developments underway with a new access to space and related business activities. I will continue to monitor developments and provide updates in future articles and at my blog.

Finally, I want to thank Patrick Cox of Agora Financial as he was the source of some of the materials about the technology advancements mentioned in this post.

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Mobile software development is defined as the process in which applications are developed for these low-power handheld devices. These applications are either pre-installed on phones at the time of manufacture, or are downloaded by customers from App Stores and other mobile software distribution platforms.

There are many platforms that support devices by multiple as well as by single manufacturer. Platforms that support devices by multiple manufacturers are Java ME, Android, Qt, Flash Lite etc and the platforms that support devices by single manufacturer are BlackBerry and iOS (Apple). Each of the platforms available for mobile applications also has a development environment. This development environment provides tools to allow a developer to write, test, and deploy applications into the target platform environment.

Features of mobile application development have modernized the concept of mobile technology in every outsourcing software development firm. Mobile applications include a set of mighty mobile applications that aid Internet browsing, gaming, video players, audio and video applications, utilities etc. In other words it is absolutely relevant to state that one has access to the world through his mobile.

There are many advantages of mobile applications. Few of these are listed below:

A customer exactly gets the mobile application evolved by the mobile program and does not require to engage in any kind of a third party for trading its products.

It is an interactive intermediate; mobile application developers can conceive, develop and customize the application as per the client’s requirements. Also, it is one of the most cost-effective means of broadcasting the customer’s purpose.

With the availability of numerous mobile platform development options such as Java, Android, BREW, etc – mobile application development is gaining huge popularity these days. Just like the facilities available in PCs, hi-tech mobile phones of today have countless and versatile technical features such as advanced memory, better bandwidth, and enormous multimedia support and processing power that makes them one of the best complements of human.

The compact size of mobile phones makes them a very handy and friendly component. Today’s mobile application development supports infinite features that allows communication as well as provides enhanced features such as Internet supported with GPRS technology, advanced satellite navigation, live video conferencing, music facilities etc. Other than these, mobile phones let you play games, watch TV, and listen to your choice of music anytime and anywhere. Mobile application development continues to use more technologically favored features that offer endless opportunities and versatile applications for everyone with the hunt to move and grow as the time passes.