Know More About Php

PHP is an extremely popular scripting language. It was originally created in 1995 and designed for the web. PHP is used to manage your. Most of the websites such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, Digg, Joomla, WordPress, YouTube, Drupal and more run completely or some part of it on PHP. Almost more than 20 million websites and over 1 million web servers running PHP, and there is drastic increase noted in the numbers day by day.

Now just suppose if you wanna add a new link to the menu or if you feel like changing your sites banner then youll have to edit all HTML files you had already created, which is almost an impossible task if your website contains fifty pages or more. PHP include file is the ideal solution for this problem. You can easily use include page statement to include HTML or PHP file, but the parent file where you had put the include statement must be a PHP file. So while saving that page you can use PHP extension, thats it and your work is done.

PHP was actually created to develop dynamic Web Pages, so its faster on websites. Your resulting page is always smaller so you always require smaller web space and its really easy to maintain because your codes are divided into multiple segments. Now you must be worried about its difficult computer language but dont worry guys because PHP generator will make your life easier. This generator does all the code generation for you. This means that you don't need to spend your time in learning this difficult computer language. Did you ever know that there are free PHP generators online that can be used to generate any form you need for your site? You can anytime buy a generator to use, but for most of us, using a free one makes sense. So you dont need to learn the syntax of PHP, your generator will take care of your codes.

Now lets talk about its speed and performance. So guys dont worry it runs very fast and it is complied by the PHP engine on the runtime, thus it increases its execution speed. This makes it easier and quicker.

So if you're an organization there are lots of professional developers who can be hired easily. So you can get the software for free but will have to only for support and save yourself a lot of money & time.PHP is is used by web hosting service providers and data center service providers.

Find out more about PHP outsourcing and Software Application Maintenance at the software outsourcing company website: Symbyo.com

How To Hire Php Developers

PHP is an open-source, general-purpose scripting language that is particularly suited for Web Development & can be written in HTML. PHP is a strong Server-Side language & has become very popular due to its high demand for its varied usability on web development area.

A professional PHP Programming company gets numerous clients from varied different industries, as PHP programming is usually used as an alternative of ASP.NET programming & Cold Fusion Development. The other supported technologies in which a highly professional PHP Developer should be knowledgeable are PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, VB Script, XML, etc. All these are extremely important for the proper execution of PHP Functions.

Benefits of Hiring PHP Dedicated Developers:

For PHP development, one needs highly professional & experienced PHP Dedicated Developers, as it needs effective implementation & skills. Hiring PHP Dedicated Developers reduces the IT costs, with which there is higher scope of business development

The high-performance data warehouse applications in PHP & MySQL improve the organizational profitability with the latest updates in the business trends.

The operational costs are minimized with the creation of the automated application development systems which would improve the manual processes of its users.

There is broader technical platform support of PHP Development.

With these benefits, it becomes more enticing to Hire the PHP Developers. Hiring the PHP Dedicated PHP Developers with the help of PHP outsourcing is more beneficial than hiring any local PHP Designers as the cost involved in the outsourcing procedure is much more lower & cost-effective method of hiring the expert technicians. Also, it is important to be careful while hiring the PHP dedicated developers, as they need a combination of perfect skills & knowledge.

The Dedicated PHP Developer needs experience in the following fields:

• Website Integration, maintenance & enhancement

• Website designing & development

• Development of Customized eCommerce

• Social Network Applications

• Multimedia Applications

• Content Management System Development & Integration

Hiring PHP Dedicated Developers is very necessary as the PHP Web development needs perfect skills & knowledge. There are many companies lending out the PHP dedicated developers, with which, no person has to do anywhere to find them. These PHP dedicated developers are available online so that the clients can interact with the hired dedicated developers while their projects are under construction with these developers & instant communication takes place.

While hiring the dedicated PHP Developers for an open-source company, there are few points that should be kept in mind like- their quality standards as per your expectations and also, that the hired dedicated developer should be flexible enough to adapt to your standards which can be absolutely or partially different from the ones pre-taught by the managements.

To find out more about PHP outsourcing & Software Application Maintenance, kindly refer to the software outsourcing company: www.symbyo.com

Source: articlesnatch.com

In 2009, Web goes on a diet

Hello everybody,

I found that interesting article about 2009, Happy 2010 everybody...

2009 was, in many ways, a good year for the Web and the technologies that help us access it. Companies big and small had to re-evaluate what was important: an ethos that channeled into more focused product launches and notable improvements to existing software and services.

That refocus meant tech giants spent the early part of 2009 trimming the fat on services that were too costly to run, or simply underused. Google cut a myriad of its offerings, shelving microblogging service Jaiku, its social network Dodgeball, Google Video, catalog search, "shared stuff," and its notebook service. Yahoo followed suit, dropping the ax on its Briefcase online storage service, closing off access to its Jumpcut Web video editor, and 360 blogging tool. Yahoo also pulled the plug on Geocities--one of the Web's early relics. Other notable discontinuations include Microsoft killing off its online encyclopedia Encarta, and HP getting rid of its Upline backup solution.

Services that were not shut down saw improvements. Google's Gmail finally left beta, and gained a feature that lets users access it offline. The company also launched Google Wave--a somewhat experimental real-time collaboration service. Microsoft's Windows Live Search was relaunched as a new product called Bing, which was received well both by the press and users. Bing, along with Yahoo and Google, also integrated real-time results from social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Credit: Yahoo/Microsoft

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer signs a Microhoo
pact alongside Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, though
the deal was not as it was originally intended.

Speaking of Microsoft and Yahoo, Microhoo finally happened--though not as it was originally intended. In late July, Microsoft and Yahoo entered a 10-year search deal that gave Yahoo Microsoft's search engine technology, while Microsoft got Yahoo's ad sales force and partners; The result was quite different from 2008's $44.6 billion unsolicited bid that would have given Microsoft complete control of the company.

2009 also brought new location-based tools, some of which, by some accounts, are a little creepy. Microsoft's Bing got its own version of local maps, complete with a street-level view. And at the South by Southwest tech and music conference in Austin, Texas, Foursquare debuted. The service lets people show where they are to their friends, and vice versa. The month prior, Google launched a similar service called Latitude that would put a user's exact location on a map--right down to the city block. Google also expanded its Maps and Earth services, taking street view outside of the U.S., and Google Earth took users to the Earth's oceans, the moon, and Mars.

Along with search and location, 2009 was a boon year for social networks. Facebook in particular saw huge gains in its number of registered users. It began the year with 150 million users, and is now well past 350 million. That's no small feat, as recent projections boasted the much-hyped and talked about Twitter somewhere close to 60 million, up from less than 10 million at the beginning of the year. Twitter also gained some celebrity traction, netting an account from Oprah Winfrey as well as Ashton Kutcher. Kutcher went on to become the first Twitter user to hit 1 million followers, beating out news network CNN. He's since blown past 4 million.

Both Twitter and Facebook also continued to show that they are an integral part in the spread of information. Controversy over Iran's presidential elections, and the Iranian government censorship that followed made the social networks one of the few places Iranians could go to vent frustrations and pass across news tidbits that would have otherwise gone unseen. Twitter even skipped its scheduled maintenance to stay up--as per a request from the U.S. State Department. Facebook, in turn, rushed to provide support for Farsi so Iranian users could join it.

Twitter was also the first place to go to see photos of U.S. Airways Flight 1549, which had to make an emergency landing in New York's Hudson River. Nearby ferry riders snapped the first shots of the crash and uploaded them to photo host Twitpic, which ended up crashing because of the sudden, and massive traffic spike.

Besides social networks, voice services and VoIP telephony were big in 2009. E-commerce giant eBay sold off its Skype services to an investor group that now runs it as its own product, with hopes of an IPO in 2010. Google redesigned its GrandCentral service as a product called Google Voice, which was opened up to users after a year and a half of dormancy. Google also snatched up Web-based VoIP service Gizmo5, which could end up being integrated into Google Voice. Other notable telephony launches include 3Jam, which does voice forwarding and transcription, and Ribbit's mobile service. Both of those companies, along with Google, are trying to get users to manage their calls and voice mails online, functionality that is likely to expand in 2010.

Even with a flashy relaunch, Google Voice had its own share of controversy. This year the service got into hot water with AT&T. It started when Apple pulled all the third-party Google Voice applications from its App Store, along with rejecting Google's submission of its own Google Voice application. This action caused the FCC to launch an inquiry to see why the apps were removed, as well as why Google's Voice application was not allowed onto Apple's store.

It turns out AT&T was not having any part of Google's blocking phone calls to certain parts of the country that would have cost the company more money to connect users to. In late-October Google bounced back, announcing that it had limited the amount of blocked numbers to fewer than 100. Despite this, 2009 closed out without any Google Voice apps (including Google's own) making it back onto the App Store.

Finally, 2009 saw a continuation of the browser wars. Mozilla iterated on the third version of its Firefox browser several times, while Microsoft, Apple, and Opera introduced brand new versions of Explorer, Safari and Opera, respectively. Google took the crown though--it managed to jump two version numbers, going from version one to three, with version four currently in developer testing.

Chrome also jumped from being just a browser to a full-fledged operating system. In late November, Google publicly demoed Chrome OS, an instant-on browser-based operating system designed for Netbooks. Users, however won't be getting their hands on hardware that will run Chrome OS until mid- to late 2010.

Source: Cnet.com

GSM is "NOT" Encrypted now !

A German computer engineer said Monday Dec 28 that he had deciphered GSM encryption that most of the world’s digital mobile phone calls, saying it was his attempt to expose weaknesses in the security of global wireless systems.

Karsten Nohl, the encryption expert, put the effectiveness of the 21-year-old G.S.M. algorithm in a challenge, the code developed in 1988 and still used to protect the privacy of 80 percent of mobile calls around the world. In an attempt to expose holes in the security of global wireless systems, 28-year-old Karsten Nohl cracked the 21-year-old GSM algorithm, which is used to encrypt 80 percent of the world's mobile calls, reports The New York Times.

In a presentation given at the Chaos Communication Conference in Berlin, the researcher said that he had compiled 2 terabytes worth of data -- cracking tables that can be used as a kind of reverse phone-book to determine the encryption key used to secure a GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) telephone conversation or text message.

While Nohl stopped short of releasing a GSM-cracking device " that would be illegal in many countries, including the U.S." he said he divulged information that has been common knowledge in academic circles and made it "practically useable."

Intercepting mobile phone calls is illegal in many countries, including the U.S., but GSM-cracking tools are already available to law enforcement. Knoll believes that criminals are probably using them too. "We have just basically copied what you can already buy in a commercial product," he said.

There are about 3.5 billion GSM phones worldwide, making up about 80 percent of the mobile market, according to data from the GSM Alliance, a communications industry association representing operators and phone-makers.

" 2010 will face the hottest struggle for innovating a more secure encryption algorithm" said Yahia Megahed, Vice President of Symbyo Technologies USA - a Global leader in Mobile software application development - " GSM organizations are at risk now, as within few months if their developers don't reach to a more secure encryption algorithm they will be in a hard situation and the whole industry will face its biggest challenge" he said in a statement.

Egypt Signs up for 1st Arabic Domain Name on the Web

Minister of Communications Information Technolog, Dr. Tarek Kamel and Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Hani Helal announced that Egypt had signed up to acquire the first Arabic domain name suffixed ".misr"The announcement was made during a session on managing internet resources at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting attended by Rod Beckstrom, CEO of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).ICANN opened at the 4th annual IGF meeting held in Sharm El-Sheikh, resort the registration of domain names in several languages including Arabic, Korean, Chinese and others in addition to Latin letters. ICANN declared the initiative in Egypt in recognition of the country's leading role in spreading the culture of internet usage nationwide.

Dr. Kamel stated that Egypt was the first Arab country to sign up in this system, which boost traffic on Arabic websites as well as open new investment horizons. Domain names ended by “.misr” will then be available on search engines for internet users to find.National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) will be the entity in charge of finalizing the procedures for Egypt's registration.Coordination is underway between the Egyptian Universities Network at the Supreme Council of Universities, which undertakes the registration of the websites of academic and governmental sector to be suffixed “.misr” in Arabic letters.The registration of companies, non-governmental organizations and other civil organizations will be carried out through specialized Egyptian companies.Also, the sign up process is expected to include thousands followed by millions of Arabic domain names in the coming years.Egypt has been actively involved in the process as a member of the Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN through the participation of Eng. Manal Ismail from NTRA. Egypt is also an active member in the Arabic Domain Names Task Force.Last October, the ICANN board approved during the annual meeting held in Seoul, Korea an executive plan to apply international domain names with non-Latin names. Egypt sees such a decision as a positive step toward multilingualism on the web, which supports the spread of the internet in different societies’ native languages.The announcement followed a decision by the US-based ICANN to end the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses, allowing Internet users to write an entire website address in any of the world's language scripts.IGF 2009 groups over 1,500 representatives of government, non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups and the private sector to discuss the future of the Internet.Under the banner "Creating Opportunities for All", this year's forum will discuss increasing accessibility to the Network, the development of local content and the encouragement of cultural and language diversity, the promotion of safe use of the Internet, means of combating cybercrime and managing critical Internet resources.

This step will support a broader wing for outsourcing business in Egypt. For example, Cartel Capital, a private equity firm which owns Symbyo technologies, an IT outsourcing company that is based in Tampa, FL and has got one of its offshore development centers in Egypt.
Yahia Megahed, one of the General Partners of Cartel Group commented as follow:"With the high qualifications of Egyptian software developers, Egypt will succeed to attract a bigger share of outsourcing from Gulf and other Arabic speakers worldwide who need to develop and build their own IT infrastructure without facing the burden of language. Instead of importing high qualified manpower from Egypt to work in Gulf as developers and other IT related stuff, workers can work from their own motherland and get a lower cost by decreasing the living allowances and getting the work done easily and efficiently" Many countries, specially the United States, outsource the IT related stuff offshorly to other countries as Egypt, India & China to get a high quality software with a competitive rates.