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Here's some valuable advice for Startups from the King of the Ethernet Bob Metcalfe. Don’t be afraid of going up against entrenched incumbents, like he did with IBM, and its Token Ring technology. Long story short, Metcalfe and Ethernet won. Read about the disruptive technologies he thinks will change everything.

IBM’s global startup competition ‘world tour’ called SmartCamp kicks off in Bangalore on April 27. Slots for India are now full, but there are still openings in the next leg of the competition in Austin. You can take a look at all the Mentors that will be helping and get five SmartCamp tips to help you get your Startup accepted.

Startups fail often because they create a product or service that no one really wants in mass. To mitigate Startup failure you can test your Idea at Kickstarter - A cool place to not only test interest in your idea, but also a great place tp obtain croudsourced funding for your Startup. A good idea, communicated well on KickStarter can spread fast and wide, and the large Kickstarter community can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement.

As part of IBM’s ongoing commitment to foster innovation among Entrepreneurs, IBM announces its ‘SmartCamp’ contest in Bangalore, India on April 27, 2011. This is an exclusive global entrepreneur initiative program bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and experienced mentors with innovative ideas that can help to build a Smarter Planet.

Recently at CeBIT Hannover IBM announced that it would expand the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program to include Germany in 2011 effective immediately. With an amazing bunch of ecosystems partners we believe the German market offers a great opportunity for translating innovation and Entrepreneurship into scalable international businesses.

We are almost there in terms of confirming the mentors for SmartCamp Bangalore. We are delighted to present details of the mentors. This is an amazing collection of talent from the investor, corporate and most importantly entrepreneur communities.

Interpol has determined that in Nigeria 80% of all drugs are fake, and in Kenya fake drugs are big business with more than 11,000 illegal products sold every day. With millions of dollars worth of counterfeit drugs sold yearly, Sproxil's innovation is a greatly needed tech solution to a big problem that will save countless lives every day.

The trip started in a very cold Kansas City before escaping a massive snow storm to make it to sunny Silicon Valley, before returning east to NYC and finally London. Way too many insights to list here however the one major takeaway from the trip was the level of excitement and energy around startups seems to be exploding.

The Hadoop Database (HBase) is well suited for creating a semantic Web and for extracting existing or computed knowledge. Learn how to represent RDF/XML assertions in an HBase database for scientific articles, and discover how HBase and Bigtable are promoting a new approach to storing and processing data.

jQuery makes writing a good JavaScript-based Web application easy and straightforward, but turning a good app into a great app can be accomplished with just a few extra advanced jQuery steps. This article introduced you to 5 concepts that can help your good jQuery code become great jQuery code.

Grails is a modern Web development framework that mixes familiar Java technologies like Spring and Hibernate. See how easy it is to implement a Grails file-upload capabilities for the body of a blog entry and put together a hand-rolled Atom feed for syndication.

CakePHP is a stable production-ready, rapid-development aid for building Web sites in PHP. Learn how to install and configure CakePHP, the basics of MVC design, how to validate user data in CakePHP, how to use CakePHP helpers, and how to get an application up and running quickly using CakePHP.

jQuery lets you create your own plug-ins to extend the functions of jQuery—and to give back to the jQuery community. This article steps you through the process for creating your own jQuery plug-in and as well as getting it listed on the jQuery plug-in community Web pages. Be a part of the JQuery JavaScript library many have grown to depend on.

Using Non-Blocking I/O (NIO) improves server performance drastically because of its efficient use of system resources (threads). The gain in performance is very noticeable in Ajax applications. It also lets you control system-resource usage on a server under pressure. This article explains how to optimize your server for performance during the handling of both Ajax and regular requests.

Now you can Combine the power of Adobe Flex's Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) capability, with the power of WebSphere Portal's ability to build flexible, SOA-based solutions. This article walks you through a process to quickly build rich client and component-based Flex applications for WebSphere Portal.

JSF 1 was developed in an ivory tower, and the results, arguably, were less than spectacular. But JSF got one thing right — it let the marketplace come up with lots of real-world innovations. See how with the greatly improved JSF 2.0 you can Get rid of XML, simplify navigation, use Groovy, and take advantage of resource handling to easily implement robust, Ajaxified Web applications.

Grails provides all the basic building blocks you need to put together a secure Web application. Setting up an authentication infrastructure answers the question, "Who are you?" Get a hands-on lesson in enabling logins, limiting activity based on whether or not the User is logged in, and how to add in some authorization based on the User's role.

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Your system has specific performance settings that you can change to make it handle its workload better. Get every drop of performance out of your Central processing unit (CPU), Memory, Disk (both space and access speed), your Network throughput and JVM garbage collection with these performance tunning tips.

This tutorial shows how you can use Java, and PHP to quickly and easily work with CICS programs and expose them on the Web. If you are a PHP developer, find out how you can use your PHP skills to interact with enterprise assets in CICS; if you are a CICS developer, see how PHP provides a simple and agile way to manipulate your existing resources.

The jQuery UI package aims to create a well-defined and reliable set of user interface widgets that you can reuse within your own Web applications. This article takes you through all of the widgets that are offered in the 1.6 version of JQuery UI. These 6 widgets are the first of hopefully many widgets you'll see from the UI team.

Many digital dashboards that cropped up in the 1980s were horrible (if not unsubtle) analogs to a car's dashboard. Discover what makes a good dashboard, and learn to identify and leverage key performance indicators (KPIs) for more effective digital dashboards. Finally, build a Web dashboard using the eXist XML database and XQuery.

Are you part of a team that wants to get on board the agile planning bandwagon? Are you using iterative development and still stuck doing "waterations"? This article answers the question, "How do I start developing releases with agile planning?". It shows what worked, as well as the mistakes made, to illustrate a coherent and realistic understanding of the basics of agile planning.

CouchDB is an open source document-oriented database-management system, accessible using a RESTful JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) API. CouchDB never claimed to be a replacement for relational databases, but it has become increasingly popular in Web applications, iPhone applications, and Facebook applications. See how CouchDB stores data in a semi-structured fashion, using a JavaScript-based view model

For some, Ajax is still a mystery. It's something that the "cool kids" and "bad boys" of Web development do, and they've never had the time, patience, or skill to take it on. If you're one of these PHP developers, never fear: By the time you're done reading this article, you'll know enough to become a real Ajax pro. This article shows how to use jQuery to easily add Ajax functionality to any PHP Web application. When you're done, you should have a pretty good grounding in not only some jQuery basics but also in the fundamentals of Ajax.