Samsung Galaxy Note

Samsung Galaxy Note

The New Samsung Galaxy Nexus, a 4.65-inch phone measured diagonally, has a 14.25775-square-inch face. 
That's about as small as you can get and still be considered a "phablet," 
Thanks to the magic of Wolfram Alpha technology , we know that 208 million of those new phone would have a square footage of 2.059 x 107.
These are certainly gaining in popularity, what with Samsung, the world's biggest phonemaker in this industry , basically thisreleasing nothing else. But  just think about the physicality here of that much phone for a second.

The new instrumentation world in forex technology

New instrumentation techniques allow in  individual FX trade flows to be monitored across networks, inside applications are, and then correlated into a coherent view of the whole trade cycle, all close to real-time. 

The real-time element allows alerts and live latency data by hop, or venue or end-to-end to be directed into the trading desks and operational support desks.

The principle of this flow approaches allows these new technologies to look at the FX trading environment from a business perspective. Data is collected through a series of probes or agents unobtrusively- the sole aim being to gather data from a passing message or transaction off the network or from within processes within an application, take a time stamp and pass it back to the analysis centre.

The heterogeneous approach to the collecting of the data with the time stamp - to microsecond accuracy, allows the analysis engine to correlate within and across different business flows. For example a Market Data Flow may be measured from the point that it was initiated by the Price supplier all the way through the feed handler into the pricing or quote engine. The quote flow may be correlated from the quote engine to the client gateway.

FX business flow instrumentations

Like Formula 1 in automobile race, the drive for real-time latency monitoring is coming directly from the technical teams here as they are being put under intense pressure by the business to sort it out. The FX Business sees a P&L issue and assumes that a technology problem is the root cause. 

First With the advent of real-time latency monitoring it allows the business and technology to track the behaviour of individual event histories and to find the causes of a P&L problem. In short it is the explanatory power that is the initial benefit to an organisation. Once you have this capability then other benefits can be achieved.

Anyone here who has sat on the support desk of an FX trading environment can see that there is a vast array of computing technology being utilised to monitor and report on systems. Can there be a new way of monitoring these complex rapidly changing architectures without impacting the highly sensitive low latency business flows? Is there a need for a new way of monitoring these systems

What has been available here until recently has been two generations of technology monitoring system. The first generation was built around hardware and operating system capability which measured the utilisation of individual components within boxes such as memory and CPU usages.

Then in the last five years we have seen the advent of a second generation of products and approaches that started to take some of the business logic out of the price, quote and trade data to understand the individual flows, the routes they take and the time they take, normally at best a few minutes after the flow events. These are typically focussed on the network traffic or the intra-application performance testing environment.

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Daylight Saving Time and Your Gadgets.

Here it’s Time Again For Another Time Change

Last year (2010) was the first time in 20 years that new days were established for changing to Daylight Saving Time. Chances are you survived last year’s change to Daylight Saving Time on March 11th and then back to Standard Time in November. The real problem is unless your device was upgraded to use the new dates your clocks will not change automatically on the right day this year, the second Sunday in March (March 9, 2008) and your clocks may then mistakenly try and adjust the clock on the old date which was the first Sunday in April (April 6, 2008).

Using a Retrevo to Set Your Clocks
Although here some of your gadgets can get time updates over the airwaves or cable most will require manual setting.

The Cell Phone: Today's Technological Wonder

The recent cellular phone has modernized exceptionally since it first came out. When they were first introduced, many years ago, cell phones were applied as exclusively a way to make and receive calls. Things have altered over the years and so have cell phones.

Presently, Now cellular phones are conclusive technological revolutions. Everyday a new cell phone comes out that has some new feature that flat out transforms the way people utilize their phones. What started out as just a tool for making calls has now transformed into something far beyond that and into a tool with more funtionalities than you can shake a stick at.

Digital Camera Phones

Home Theatre Seating

Are you here surprised to see that this subject has a topic of its own? That is because after someone spends the big bucks to get a very nice home theatre system, the aspect of home theatre seating is usually last on their minds. But it should not be. Proper seating is critical to the ultimate enjoyment of your home theatre investment.

Make sure you don't make this kind of  same mistake. Yes, you need to plan for the type of screen you want from the myriad of choices, where to place it, what kind of surround sound system to get for it, where to put the speakers, what options to get with the receiver and amplifer ... but plan for the home theatre seating too. Unless you have a gym-sized room and plan to watch your big screen TV with the entire football team and cheerleading squad, you probably don't want (or can afford) a few dozen Barco loungers in your viewing area. At the same time, you don't want to use plastic folding chairs, since your viewing audience will likely not make it through the opening credits of the movie before they start to get uncomfortable.