Underwriter’s Location Profiler, designed for property and casualty and general insurance carriers, provides the ability to automate the location-based portion of underwriting workflow with a number of location-based assessments based on proximity to a variety of risks.
According to a release, Underwriter’s Location Profiler integrates into existing underwriting workflows for both new business underwriting and policy renewal processes while handling exception processing, single address lookups, and batch processing of files. In addition, the solution will include location-based book-of-business analytics, and competitive rating territory information and pricing. The application improves quality and productivity of new property quote submissions by providing real-time risk assessment of locations without additional burden or cost to IT. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubuntu will get its first entry into the same tablet arena filled by Android and iOS with a newly uncovered model. Tenq’s P07 is running Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 is more optimized for touch as a result. A 32GB SSD provides the main storage; Ubuntu’s light requirements give it an “almost instant” boot time, Giz-China understood.
The system is powered by a netbook-level 1.6GHz Atom chip and 2GB of RAM, but it’s likely to run faster than equivalent Windows tablets. Other details such as battery life are unknowns as bugs are reportedly being “worked out” before the P07 is ready to ship. Read the rest of this entry »

The majority of the computing world “grows up” on Windows, of course, since Microsoft’s operating system still holds by far the largest share of the market. Not everyone stays there, however.
Growing numbers, in fact, are switching to Linux every day, and for good reasons. How do you know when it’s time to switch to Linux? Here are just a few (mostly) serious signs.

1. You’re Tired of Paying for Software
You wake up one day and realize you’re tired of paying for an operating system that’s more bogged down with bugs than most alpha builds are. What, exactly, are you paying for here? Then, of course, there’s also all the antivirus software you have to buy to keep it running. With Linux, on the other hand, countless developers around the world are working around the clock to keep the 100 percent free operating system at the head of its class. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft’s 2010 was one of transitions-and make-or-break decisions.
Although Windows 7’s strong sales indicate the company still has a lock on the traditional desktop-bound software market, the tech industry as a whole has shifted its interest and efforts increasingly toward mobile devices and the cloud. To its credit, Microsoft seems to have recognized that transition, and devoted resources to embrace it. However, it very much remains to be seen whether those multimillion dollar bets will pay off or break the house.
On January 6, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to detail the company’s initiatives in 2010. He had reason for cautious optimism: Read the rest of this entry »

E-Book readers are gaining ground yet again, after the renewal of the Kindle; Asbis has released the utterly slim Prestigio Libretto PER3162B e-Book reader. Featuring a 6-inch (800×600) e-ink display with media player, the e-book can play audio and video both. Besides high-quality display the $300 Prestigio Libretto PER3162B has 2GB of internal memory, 1400mAh battery, 0.8 seconds boot times and measures only 9mm in thickness. Compatible with formats including TXT, LRC, PDB, PDF, HTML, FB2, EUPB, WTXT, the e-Book is good enough to display JPG and BMP images. The Prestigio is provided with a pair of stylish stereo headphones and comes with a USB for charging and data transfer.
The Prestigio Libretto PER3162B is the best choice for literature enthusiasts: a high quality E Ink display grants you enjoyable reading even in broad sunlight. The super slim design and light weight concept makes this the right companion for your travel. Read the rest of this entry »

Days are gone of tiny screens and missing all-important details. Now, with the HTC Desire HD, experience a truly great browsing experience on its large 4.3″ screen. With added features like pin-sharp text display, vivid photos and vibrant video, the HTC Desire HD is designed to enhance the way websites should be, YouTube clips and Facebook photos.
HTC Desire HD has a super-fast 1Ghz processor to go online in seconds, plus a clever zoom that automatically reflows text and images to fit screen. Because the internet should work flowless also it has an impressive 4.3-inch touch screen.
With HTC Desire HD’s high definition video camera. Then relive and share every detail in HD on the TV, long after the memories have faded.
Frustrated when maps take too long to download and miss that vital turn, or when the phone rings and lose your place? Well here’s an idea, downloadable maps that are stored on your phone and load up as soon as they are in need of them. And when a phone rings when looking at your map, the map screen never goes away. Read the rest of this entry »

The omission of Android from the mainline Linux kernel sparked heated debate through much of 2010. Perhaps the most heated exchanges occurred during the LinuxCon conference in Boston where the debate spanned across multiple sessions. At the core of the debate is Android’s use of WakeLocks for power management usage.
During the LinuxCon conference, Google kernel developer Ted Ts’o noted that open source has always allowed for distributions to include non-mainline bits, and in his view, the WakeLocks code falls into that category.
Best web directory list.
“The problem is that Android has been successful, and that has inspired many hardware vendors to write device drivers for Android,” Ts’o said at the time. “WakeLock calls in device drivers become problematic when people want to submit code upstream”.

2010 was a big year for Linux, with four major kernel releases, multiple enterprise Linux updates and some large vendor shifts that will likely affect the Linux market for years to come.

The Kernel

At the core of all Linux based operating systems is the Linux kernel. During 2010, Linus Torvalds presided over the release of four major kernel updates providing new performance, filesystem, security and driver support.
The most recent kernel release is the 2.6.36 kernel which debuted at the end of October. Among the notable inclusions in the 2.6.36 kernel is the AppArmor security access control system, which is an alternative to SELinux which has been backed by Red Hat since at least 2004.
The inclusion of AppArmor in the mainline Linux kernel was achieved in part due to the leadership of developers from Canonical working on Ubuntu Linux. Pete Graner, Manager of the Ubuntu Kernel at Canonical told InternetNews.com at the time, that there had been previous attempts by Novell to get AppArmor included in the Linux kernel, though they seemed to stall for one reason or another. Read the rest of this entry »

WebMarX is a browser- and platform-independent bookmark manager. It is a browser-independent bookmark manager for Linux and Windows. Find stored links quickly and open them in the program of your choice.
WebMarX let you decide, which program to use for any bookmark or decides it for you automatically. Easy drag and drop tagging helps to keep order in large collections and find quickly what you want. All search-results will be shown in their original tree-context. Write your own import-plugins to import any kind of bookmarks and write your own launcher-plugins to perform whatever you want with a launched url.
Webmarx resides in the tray from where the main-window is reachable as well as a full bookmark-menu.

Here are some key features of “WebMarX”:
- Setup a button-set of individual launcher-applications to quick launch any bookmark;
- Browser-independent local management for all kinds of bookmarks;
- Pre-define a preferred default-application for any bookmark; Read the rest of this entry »

The Linux market has experienced exponential growth globally, including in Latin America, particularly last year due to the effects of the global economic crisis, which increased companies’ need to reduce costs while at the same time staying competitive.
Spoke to Carlos Muñoz, general manager at Chilean Linux firm Linux Latin America, about the open source market in the region, and the trends for this year.
How would you evaluate the Linux market in Latin America during 2010?
Muñoz: During 2010 all types of technologies were affected by the global economic crisis, and we saw that the word “project” was diluted by several corporate customers in the region, which led to the suspension of several large projects. Considering this, the Linux target migrated. VPS web hosting. As large projects decreased, we saw a growth in the number of mid and small projects, and although we expect large projects to restart in 2011, the truth is that small and mid-size companies saw in Linux a tremendous opportunity to save costs when adding new technologies.