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Telecom service providers serve a diverse customer base over an increasingly complex combination of broadband, wireless and wireline networks. The emergence of these converged networks has impacted the service provider’s business model and changed the nature of fraud. Today, telecom fraud has become the leading cause for the loss of telecom operators. Due to this, telecom service providers are looking for network traffic analysis in order to accelerate their gains. As the telecom fraud is increasing, there are plenty of companies which are providing the solutions to overcome this telecom fraud.

They try to eliminate risk for mobile carriers with a comprehensive solution for monitoring high-usage and fraud on the network. These solutions are high scalable solution features real-time processing of all sorts of transactions like Voice, SMS, GPRS, MMS, etc. to ensure that relevant fraud or high-usage events trigger alerts in seconds. These solutions are designed to supervise and proactively handle a network based on CDR records, IP messages or C7/SS7 records. Network solution is capable of processing information from a number of industry standard switches, C7/SS7 probes and other network elements. Network traffic analysis solution provides:

• Real time mediation of visiting subscriber calls detail records
• Swift processing of call records for transmission to home operators
• Management of file distribution, exchange and interchange
• Management of in-processing of call records from sending operators

It also provide statistics, alarms and trending reports vital to monitoring and managing traffic for a landline, GSM/CDMA and broadband network.

Agilis International provides effective network traffic analysis and traffic optimization solutions to overcome telecom fraud and enable telecom operators to accelerate their profit. TrafficMind, an effective solution that enables service providers to manage their network capacity and network routing consistent with their business models.

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Mike Nicholson

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/business/communication/advantages-of-outsourcing-business-processes-and-operational-support-services.html http://www.articletrader.com/business/communication/advantages-of-outsourcing-business-processes-and-operational-support-services.html Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600
On-demand Information Access
24/7 technical support centers act as “always online” link among businesses and their customers. Therefore, availability of products and services is no longer limited by geographical boundaries. It provides on-demand information and support to whoever might require it, regardless of the actual location or time zone. It is basically helps to make sure that customers bond to the same brand and don’t shift on to the competitors’ products.

Professional Expertise
Business processing outsourcing firms have highly skilled and qualified staff in order to provide best quality technical support services to customers. Improved customer satisfaction attracts more customers, generally through references and personal recommendations shared between family, friends and associates.

Cost Savings
Most of the service providers those are dealing in technical support services operate from developing countries where operational costs are extensively less. So, cost advantages are passed on to the customers, it created advantage for both providers and customers.

May be you have some hesitations regarding outsourcing your technical support, but you should not forget that it has become a common trend and chances are high that your competitors might already be deriving the associated advantages. It is advisable for you to consult technical support service provider and see what all advantages you can receive.

Agilis international provides BPO (business process outsourcing) and operations support services that consistently produced savings and provided their customers the ability to scale without risk. Their services vary from processing of transactional data to provisioning services that interface with multiple trading partners. Agilis international perform data analysis on billions of transactions to provide their customers actionable intelligence to accelerate their gain.

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/computers/software/embedded-gui-toolkit-for-rich-and-interactive-graphical-user-interfaces.html http://www.articletrader.com/computers/software/embedded-gui-toolkit-for-rich-and-interactive-graphical-user-interfaces.html Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600
1. Touch screens should use large buttons to allocate the width of fingers and inaccurate measurements.
2. Softkeys need a dedicated on-screen softkey region.
3. A keyboard-centric device should organize data into vertical lists, whereas a mouse-centric device should organize data into geographic space.

There are lots of GUI toolkits for Linux including QT GUI toolkit for embedded platform and FLTK. Before narrowing down on the toolkit one should get the answers of various questions which are listed below:
• Which toolkit provides ease of use to the developer?
• What all controls/widgets are provided by the toolkit?
• How much engineering effort is needed to tweak the spec?
• What is the footprint size?

EmPresent, an embedded graphical user interface toolkit, provides low footprint, is easy to use, has customizable layouts and rich set of widgets. Due to persistent demand from embedded developers EmPresent is also planning to provide 3D graphics support via OpenGL GUI library and GLUT emulation.

EmPresent provides highly portable framework designed explicitly for embedded development. It offers an advanced graphical framework that is independent of underlying platform. This permits an embedded developer to use several operating system and hardware devices while maintaining the same look and feel across distinct platforms.

EmPresent provides the end user with user interface framework which comprise of a large set of widgets/controls and utilities written in C and C++, for emerging richly interactive embedded applications. All components in the UI framework are available on different compilers, processors and RTOS. It has multi lingual support and follows strict strategies for localization of UI. User can easily do settings of language dynamically as well as statically. EmPresent “uses generic images and icons which are culturally neutral and that do not contain anything that must be localized”, “consider difference in length of text string”, “use text that can wrap”. It can be easily modified to add a new language as and when needed.


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Mike Nicholson

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/food/enjoy-the-rich-taste-of-chinese-seafood.html http://www.articletrader.com/food/enjoy-the-rich-taste-of-chinese-seafood.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
China has one of the world's largest seafood industries processing and exporting an enormously varied range of both warm water and cold-water products. China has now surpassed Thailand and other countries to become the largest exporter of fishery products. China has an enormous aquatic production. A large part of this production comes to the International market.

China seafood is rapidly gaining a foothold throughout markets in North American, Europe and Australia as well as Asian countries. Its quality and competitive pricing make it an obvious choice for the restaurants, hotels and resorts. In China, small restaurants also keep a tank of live fish for their customers to choose from. Big cities with their higher classed restaurants have tanks with an unimaginable variety of aquatic creatures.

China is rich in seafood, fish and beef. In any Chinese restaurant you will get various varieties of these seafood, fish and beef. China owns many fisheries resources and over 3000 marine species. Chinese seafood, beef and fish have become the most demanded non-vegetarian food since the last five years. The best thing about Chinese seafood is its rich taste and deliciousness.

Siam Canadian is one of the leading seafood exporters and suppliers which offer different variety of Chinese seafood, fish and beef. China beef, China seafood and China fish are the most popular among Chinese food. With state of art of processing and packaging facilities, Siam Canadian also employs improved procedures for processing, packaging and product offering to make it beneficial for customer and regular clients.

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Mike Nicholson

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Freezing stops bacterial growth. The complex chemical changes that cause deterioration of the meat, such as rancidity, are also slowed down considerably. Freezing meat can therefore preserve the meat in good condition and retain its wholesomeness and quality for long periods ranging from 6 months to a year depending on the kinds of meat. Upon thawing, the quality of the meat should be as acceptable to the consumer as the fresh product. Frozen meat and frozen poultry are convenient and ready for use straight from the refrigerator. You can be assured that the frozen meat that you buy is fresh, wholesome and safe.

The origin country of frozen duck is Thailand and china. Different restaurants and exporters offers large variety of frozen duck products like breast (skinon boneless BB & SBB), leg bone-in/ boneless, wings, paws, tongue, liver, gizzards etc. Frozen poultry basically origins in Thailand, China and South America. Various restaurants and exporters offers different products of frozen poultry like whole, griller type, breast (skinon boneless and skinless boneless BB & SBB), fillet (tendon-on, tendon less), legs (bone-in/ boneless), drumstick, wings, wingstick, paws, liver, wing tips, gizzards etc.

Frozen duck and frozen poultry are rapidly gaining a foothold throughout markets in North America, Europe and Australia as well as Asian countries. Their consistent tastes make it an obvious choice for the restaurant, retail, food service and processing sectors.

Siam Canadian is one of the industry leaders in sourcing and delivery of the highest quality frozen poultry meat like frozen duck and frozen chicken liver to major buyers worldwide. Siam Canadian currently supplies these items from Thailand, China, India, the Middle East, Argentina and South America.

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Mike Nicholson

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/computers/software/portable-and-cross-platform-embedded-gui-toolkit.html http://www.articletrader.com/computers/software/portable-and-cross-platform-embedded-gui-toolkit.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500
The days of the simple text-based interface are gone. Today users want to see clear, readable fonts, animated icons, dropdown menu schemes, full color maps, and high resolution screen displays. Developing the interface can be a task in itself and managing it from within an embedded application can be frightening.

The use of ultra modern technology and high tech gadgets like PDAs, medical equipment, factory automation equipment, mobile phones have all put an extra pressure of developing user interfaces for these devices on the Embedded application developers. The biggest challenge that the application developers face is the issues concerning constantly changing platforms.

Because of the constantly changing platforms, embedded application developers feel the need to port their applications to new platforms. But porting embedded applications to new platforms in not an easy task. Because of this difficulty in porting embedded applications across platforms developers have now started to feel the need for a porting toolkit.

Empresent is a cross platform GUI toolkit which contains a rich widget set and a Windowing environment to help develop powerful GUI applications which can be ported virtually on all embedded development platforms that have a display device, and an optimum memory and processing power. Embedded application developers can use the capabilities of this portable embedded GUI toolkit to enhance their embedded applications. Empresent’s portable embedded GUI software makes your embedded environment more simple and easy to use.

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/computers/software/cutting-edge-software-for-embedded-systems.html http://www.articletrader.com/computers/software/cutting-edge-software-for-embedded-systems.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Embedded systems are becoming more and more important in today’s world as they control almost all of the communication, computing, display and any other electronic device that we can think of. Embedded systems span across all aspects of modern life whether it be education, entertainment, communication or science. Embedded systems are dedicated to specific tasks, so embedded design engineers need to optimize it, reducing the size and cost of the product, and increasing the reliability and performance.

Embedded systems range from portable devices such as digital watches and music players, to large devices and machineries like factory controllers and giant display boards that we see on airports.

Most of the consumer electronic items like personal digital assistants (PDAs), music players, mobile phones, gaming consoles, digital cameras, and DVD players use embedded systems. Many household appliances, such as microwave ovens, washing machines and dishwashers, too include embedded systems to provide efficiency and ease of use.

Embedded systems range from no user interface at all — dedicated only to one task — to full user interfaces similar to desktop operating systems in devices such as PDAs and mobile phones. If you have used any of the modern electronic devices then you must be familiar with the rich graphic displays that guide you or let you choose various options to control the operation of the device. The rich graphic display that you see is known as the Graphical User Interface or GUI of the device. The ease of use of a device depends on how good the interface is.

Designing a user friendly and enticing graphical interface is a difficult task knowing the implicit complexities associated with embedded application development. Because of this complexity in designing the user interface of the embedded devices, embedded application designers and developers feel the need of software for embedded systems that let them build rich interfaces quickly.

EmPresent is Portable GUI software which helps develop powerful GUI applications which can be ported virtually across all embedded development platforms. EmPresent’s embedded software solutions make your embedded environment more simple and easy to use.

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Mike Nicholson

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The technology behind all these smart displays is known as embedded graphical user interface. And the graphical user interface is one thing that consumes a lot of effort of the embedded device designers and developers. Productivity and being on time are key goals in the real world of business. Device designers in the embedded industry are looking for new ways to speed up development and create embedded graphic user interfaces (GUI) by using some sort of GUI toolkits. These GUI toolkits are very powerful and provide means for rapid embedded design.

The most difficult task when it comes to embedded devices is the designing of user friendly and appealing graphical displays. The graphical user interface of a device will eventually decide the success or failure of that device, as the usability of an embedded device depends on how user friendly the interface is. Because of this complexity in designing the user interface of the embedded devices, more and more embedded device developers are looking for embedded GUI design services that offer rich and highly engrossing embedded device interfaces.

Apart from the rich and appealing graphic displays one more thing that always haunts the embedded application developers is the problem of constantly changing platforms because of which embedded application developers feel the need to port their applications to new platforms. But porting embedded applications to new platforms is not an easy task. Because of this difficulty in porting embedded applications across platforms developers have now started to feel the need for a porting toolkit. Embedded application developers also feel the need of an embedded toolkit that provides rapid application development using some form of a visual editor.

EmPresent provides quick prototyping with Visual Editor & GUI simulator.
It is for developers who want to use advanced software for embedded systems like the graphical editing tools & interactive design environment to develop application interfaces. EmPresent team also offers embedded software consulting services for medical device GUI or any other embedded device GUI, which helps in making your embedded environment more simple and easy to use.

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Building information modeling (BIM) is the creation and use of coordinated information for design, production of high quality construction documents, predicting performance, cost estimation and construction planning. Building information modeling (BIM) is a model based technology linked with a database of project information to enable seamless communication between all stakeholders associated with the construction process.

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BIM Services is revolutionizing the AEC industry by virtual construction of the project even before moving to the construction site.
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