Press release: GENIVI Alliance supports community projects... - Europa Press

SAN RAMON, California, 19 September 2012/PRNewswire / - GENIVI Alliance, an Association of the automotive industry and electronic consumption driving the development and adoption of a reference open In-vehicle platform Infotainment (IVI), today announced that its development of components becomes new public open source community projects sponsored by the Alliance.

All the code specified for compliance with GENIVI is, and will continue to be made up of approved open source components. Today, 95% of the GENIVI compliance software components is already adopted or adapted from existing open source projects.

When the Alliance was initially unable to find a home in the community for some components, GENIVI had originally developed this "in-house" software. Through these projects supported recently created, the components now will develop in the FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) community.

The first three projects are Layer Manager, Audio Manager and Automotive DLT (Diagnostic Log and Trace). More technical information about these projects is available at www.genivi.org [http://www.genivi.org/].

During his opening statement in the Automotive Linux Summit of the Linux Foundation in Gaydon, England, Matt Jones, Vice President, GENIVI and technical leader of Next Generation Infotainment Systems, Jaguar Land Rover, said: "Moving our code internal to the public model of open source community development activities, GENIVI expected to simplify the contribution of its members and become involved with individual taxpayers in community FOSS which are not members." "The benefit for developers of open source is freely available access to automotive software advanced, an opportunity to directly contribute to its development, and clear a path for the adoption of this technology by related industries." Adding: "the benefit for GENIVI is a level of increased interest and activity towards the goal of the Alliance of a common software for IVI infrastructure".

The Linux Foundation, the non-profit consortium dedicated to the growth of Linux and FOSS, will offer professional services to accommodate all the GENIVI sponsored projects.

"Giving GENIVI centralized resources for hosting your code, can help to increase collaboration in the Linux community and open source", said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation.

All projects will be maintained by GENIVI throughout his life in the open source environment. When it deemed beneficial, GENIVI can also merge specific projects with other existing successful community projects to foster development.

In addition, the Alliance also sponsor new projects of "incubation" for IVI software automotive in the open source community. These projects will encourage the development of experimental technologies and initial phase that are consistent with the mission and technical scope of the Alliance, but not currently part of the GENIVI compliance specification.

About GENIVI Alliance AllianceGENIVI is an industry association non-profit whose mission is to promote the widespread adoption of an open source In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) development platform. GENIVI will do this by aligning requirements, delivering reference implementations, offering certification programs and fostering a vibrant open source IVI community. GENIVI's work will result in trimmed development cycles, faster commercialization and reduced costs for companies developing IVI software and equipment. Consisting of more than 165 member companies, GENIVI is headquartered in San Ramon, California. www.genivi.org [http://www.genivi.org/]

[Media-GENIVI contact: Craig Miner + 1-248-840-8368-Cminer1@att.net[mailto:Cminer1@att.net]

Web site: http://www.genivi.org/

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IBM enters the environment of 'social business' with one... - Europa Press

MADRID, 14 Sep. (Portaltic/EP)-

IBM Connections 4 tabled by the IBM Spain, Ricardo Miguez del Olmo, director of collaboration solutions. The company's social software platform is a conglomerate of social tools that bring the multinational and its customers closer to promising environment 'social business'.

This Friday, Miguez del Olmo has demonstrated the importance that the incorporation of social networks to the company's strategy. Since, as has been explained, "technology has reinvented the rules of the game" and enterprises must adapt to them with platforms such as IBM Connections.

IBM has a new platform of social software that integrates analysis tools that allow the user to know the activity generated in their social networks in real time and in an integrated manner.

IBM Connections 4 incorporates both analytical capabilities and real-time tracking information and faster collaboration networks, either in the company's own facilities, through mobile devices - such as 'smartphones' or 'tablets '- or in the cloud (IBM SmartCloud).

Thanks to this social software platform companies can integrate and analyze massive amounts of information generated by people, devices or sensors and align this knowledge to your business to make more accurate business decisions and processes more agile way.

The design of Connections 4 is characterized by "a minimalist look reminiscent of other social tools" such as Facebook or LinkedIn.

   The IBM social platform offers a personalized service, hence, Connections present a space dedicated to the user, the profile information. This has, as usual, with a picture of the user, your contact information and a field of labelling. The latter has been noted by Olmo Míguez as "rule number one of all social network" already that, according to the IBM Spain solution director in social networks "must be labelled" to be able to position in the network.

The most relevant factor by which you can link to 4 Connections with other social network is Facebook is the introduction of a wall of conversation. This space is necessary above all to that when a user receives a question that must be answered, are various people will benefit from the answer. As well as it will also strengthen the idea that "four heads think more than one", according to Ricardo Miguez del Olmo.

The recommendation of "people you may know" appearing in the social network of Facebook, as well as in others such as LinkedIn, will be one of the tools which will have Connections. In this case, the utility is intended for professional use, in such a way that the user can connect with other professionals to work in the future.

The communities in which the user enrolls will serve ultimately to "transfer knowledge from generation to generation". These words define Miguez del Olmo one of the main objectives of Connections: help translate knowledge from the previous generations of professionals.

The need to use 4 Connections as a transmitter of knowledge is because that take longer in the company about 50 percent retire from one moment to another. And, according to del Olmo Miguez, everything they have learned not to be missed, but that should be moved to future generations.

   Connections also brings with it a multimedia gallery, Media Gallery, with which you can share both videos and images. Likewise, this conglomeration of social tools will also offer the possibility to organize events with the calendar function, cross views in Forums, recourse to Bookmarks or upload files from the Files option.

With this social platform companies will have the possibility of discovering typical patterns, not only to react quickly to changes, but also to make future predictions. All from the Connections which are grouped into features: calendar, wikis, blogs, email and workflow activity - with the "latest news" section.

   Activity flows will be allowing any Department of the company employees access information structured and unstructured, as 'feeds' of Twitter, Facebook, weather, videos, log files publications, SAP applications or documents for electronic signature and use it as part of their daily work experience.

The demand for corporate platform for IBM social networking is even higher among companies and industries that operate in more regulated markets. In fact, 41 percent of the companies that have participated in the beta version of IBM Connections 4 tests are banking institutions, financial and health care.

This project of adoption of 'social business' companies by IBM led the company to extend its support centers to provide service to their customers in Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Located in Manila, Philippines and Sao Paolo (Brazil), these centres will favour a rapid adoption of the 'social business' tools in these growth markets. Both join the other centres already present in North America, Dublin, Japan, China and India.

The need of this social implementation in the company originates from the growth of social media. This phenomenon is taking those who targeted the companies - from directors 'marketing' to HR directors or directors of technology - to analyze how to create opportunities that promote the transformation of the company through the use of social technologies.

According to Forrester Research, is expected that the corporate social applications market opportunity to grow at a rate of 61 per cent throughout the next 2016.

Miguez del Olmo has also expressed the need to innovate both in the external Department - optimizing the workforce - the company and the internal -improving relations with customers. Since, if both are positioned at the same pace, a company with great operational efficiency will be achieved.

According to the study published by IDC, the market for social enterprise platforms will come to move more than 4,500 million dollars (3.451 billion euros) in 2016, experiencing a growth of 43 percent over the next four years. And in this social world is found IBM, considered the social software world market leader for the third consecutive year.

80% Of companies with more than 10 employees are using software... - Europa Press

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 10 September. (EUROPA PRESS)-

About 80 percent of the companies in Galicia uses any type of sopen source software, five points higher than in the year 2011, which made it a 75.2 percent, as it contains a report of the National Observatory of the open sources of Cenatic Software on these two exercises.

The increase, according to the regional government in a statement is recorded in the three sectors of activity analyzed by Cenatic, as it is the case of the services sector, which experienced a growth of 7.9 points (75.6 per cent of the companies in 2011 compared to 83.5 per cent of 2012); in the construction (81.1 per cent last year and 82.4 per cent this) and in industry (71 per cent compared to 73.2%).

This increase is due, as highlights the Galician Government, "much" to an "increased use of the free software web browsers", used by 75.1 percent of companies with more than 10 workers in the year 2012, but also to the use of Office applications (56.8 per cent), operating systems (32.2 per cent) and other applications for use outdoors.

The data provided by the Observatory of the national centre of reference of the free Software confirm, as it exposes the Xunta de Galicia, that larger companies are committed to free software, as a strategy to improve productivity and reduce costs.

In this sense, throughout the State, 82.3 percent of companies with more than 250 employees used this type of software during the year 2011.

For companies with less than ten employees, only 45.5 per cent acknowledges that he used some type of software code opened during the past year. The tools used by Galician enterprises were the Internet browsers (36 per cent) and Office applications (29.8 per cent), as it is the case of Mozilla Firefox and Open Office respectively.

Samsung could be key to the fight of the mobile software - Europa Press

NEW YORK, 10 September. (Reuters/EP)-

   Samsung could enter the battle for dominance of the 'smartphones' softwaremarket, said Friday Lowell McAdam, Chief Executive of Verizon Communications.

Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems currently dominate the market for 'smartphones'.

But Verizon Wireless, Verizon mobile division, he has not attempted to hide that it wants to see a third strong competitor. The largest mobile operator of United States has already said that it will sell phones with the software Microsoft Windows Phone 8 at the end of the year to support a third system.

Another contender, Research In Motion (RIM), through difficult times and sales of Christmas of 2012 will be lost after delay your next BlackBerry system until the coming year. Verizon also said that he wanted to sell the next BlackBerry phones, which will be ready in early 2013.

McAdam said it was too soon to put RIM out of the game and that it was not clear which system would win the third position.

McAdam also said that he expected competition from Samsung, which focuses mainly on to sell phones with the Androidoperating software, after their recent defeat in the case of infringement of patents against Apple in California.

"The third in discord here could be Samsung," said McAdam. "They have the ability to create their own operating system." They have already been doing something"."

   Samsung has developed a mobile operating system called Bada, which uses for basic models. In their high-end devices using Android.