Over the years, user interfaces have improved dramatically, and these improvements have been an integral part of the consumer experience whether it concerns domains such as e-commerce that require developing the customer's confidence to buy a product or simply easing the user's experience of navigating a website.
Technology event management firm HasGeek is organising Meta Refresh, a learning conference on User Interface (UI) Engineering on April 21 at the Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Christ College campus, Bangalore. At this conference, participants will get to listen to and interact with speakers from Cleartrip, Flipkart, Opera, the Rubymonk project and HP UX Design studio, among others.
Sessions spanning over a day will have experts speak about how they built beautiful, responsive Web applications and what challenges they faced in scaling their applications, a press release from HasGeek stated.
Beginner, intermediate and advanced lectures and tutorials at Meta Refresh will also help participants understand the decisions, tools, frameworks and resources that aid in making good user interfaces, it added.
The event also includes a contest titled ‘Take Charge'. This contest invites developers to redesign any government website and showcase their work at the event.
For more details, log on to www.metarefresh.in/2012 or contact 97390-74618, email anu@hasgeek.com
Portfolio expansion, a new road show
Networking major Cisco announced that it has expanded its small business product portfolio with new wireless access points, routers, switches, unified communications and partner-managed service offerings. These new solutions allow small businesses to get the most out of smartphones, tablets, and cloud applications and services, a release from Cisco stated.
The firm also stated that it would be running its biannual ‘Advantage Now! Road Show' in India in May with the focus on up-skilling its partner base. Spread over a month, the event will cover eight cities and reach out to approximately 500 partners across India and SAARC. This road show has been running in the Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China region for four years and is available to both Cisco-certified as well as non Cisco-certified partners in tier-1 and tier-2 cities throughout the region.
Each road show typically comprises presentations and training sessions about the latest initiatives and products.
A ‘Bubbly' new Android app
Bubble Motion, a firm focussed on mobile-based social networking services, has announced the release of a new app for its Android users in India, a voice blogging app called Bubbly. According to the company, around 16 million users of its Bubbly voice blogging service would be able to use this app.
Previously rolled out on the iPhone in March, Bubbly can now be downloaded on to Android phones. Early usage of the app has seen incredibly high engagement and social traction, with the majority of users following other users in addition to celebrities, and using the app an average of three times a day, the company claims. This app allows you to share short voice updates with your friends and followers on social media using your smartphone.
Distinction for SAP
SAP, enterprise solutions firm, has been named the overall market share leader in the worldwide business intelligence (BI) market, which spans BI platforms, corporate performance management suites, analytic applications and performance management, a press release from the firm stated.
According to the April 2012 report issued by Gartner Inc., SAP ranks No. 1 with 23.6 per cent share of the worldwide market based on revenue for 2011, reflecting a 19.5 per cent growth from 2010. In a release, John Schweitzer, senior vice-president and general manager, Analytics, SAP, said: “It is great to see recognition of our leadership. Our portfolio represents the future of analytics with real-time, mobile and social capabilities that give business users access to information so they can make better-informed decisions that leads to improve financial and operational performance.”
