E-Mail That Self Destructs
Here is a new level the email services are going to reach.
VaporStream, a product for confidential electronic communications, caused a bit of a stir when it was unveiled. When the VaporStream software is installed on a computer or a smartphone, messages disappear from the sender’s computing device the minute they are sent and disappear from the recipient’s device the moment they are read or replied to. It’s not really e-mail, or at least not standard e-mail, although the software is available as a plug-in to Outlook and other e-mail clients. The communication is peer-to-peer, so messages are never stored on any intermediary server the way they are with standard e-mail. The software also prevents messages from being printed or forwarded, and file attachments can be viewed but not saved. Or at least those are the company’s claims.
E-Mail That Self Destructs – Forbes.com.
Software Mantra Creates Drink Configurator
http://www.rajeevvaid.org/moim/ A website is soon getting launched for the lovers of Bacchus, the Greek god of wine and intoxication. Software Mantra has made this site for a Korean customer.
Software Mantra Salutes The 50 Most Innovative Companies 2010
Innovation is a way of life at Software Mantra and we take this opportunity to salute 2010’s Most Innovative Companies ranked by Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
| 2010 | 2009 | Company | HQ Country | HQ Continent | Stock Returns | Revenue Growth | Margin Growth |
| Rank | Rank | 2006-09 * (in %) | 2006-09 ** (in %) | 2006-09 *** (in %) | |||
| 1 | 1 | Apple | U.S. | North America | 35 | 30 | 29 |
| 2 | 2 | U.S. | North America | 10 | 31 | 2 | |
| 3 | 4 | Microsoft | U.S. | North America | 3 | 10 | -4 |
| 4 | 6 | IBM | U.S. | North America | 12 | 2 | 11 |
| 5 | 3 | Toyota Motor | Japan | Asia | -20 | -11 | NA |
| 6 | 11 | Amazon.com | U.S. | North America | 51 | 29 | 6 |
| 7 | 27 | LG Electronics | South Korea | Asia | 31 | 16 | 707 |
| 8 | NR | BYD | China | Asia | 99 | 42 | -1 |
| 9 | 17 | General Electric | U.S. | North America | -22 | -1 | -25 |
| 10 | 14 | Sony | Japan | Asia | -19 | -5 | NA |
| 11 | 16 | Samsung Electronics | South Korea | Asia | 10 | 17 | -9 |
| 12 | 33 | Intel | U.S. | North America | 3 | 0 | 12 |
| 13 | 31 | Ford Motor | U.S. | North America | 10 | -12 | NA |
| 14 | 8 | Research In Motion | Canada | North America | 17 | 75 | -6 |
| 15 | 18 | Volkswagen | Germany | Europe | 8 | 0 | 14 |
| 16 | 7 | Hewlett-Packard | U.S. | North America | 9 | 8 | 9 |
| 17 | 13 | Tata Group | India | Asia | Private | Private | Private |
| 18 | 20 | BMW | Germany | Europe | -8 | 0 | NA |
| 19 | 24 | Coca-Cola | U.S. | North America | 9 | 9 | 1 |
| 20 | 5 | Nintendo | Japan | Asia | -8 | 22 | 3 |
| 21 | 10 | Wal-Mart Stores | U.S. | North America | 7 | 6 | -1 |
| 22 | NR | Hyundai Motor | South Korea | Asia | 23 | 12 | 17 |
| 23 | 9 | Nokia | Finland | Europe | -14 | 0 | -37 |
| 24 | 34 | Virgin Group | Britain | Europe | Private | Private | Private |
| 25 | 12 | Procter & Gamble | U.S. | North America | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| 26 | 22 | Honda Motor | Japan | Asia | -11 | -9 | NA |
| 27 | NR | Fast Retailing | Japan | Asia | 17 | 15 | 0 |
| 28 | NR | Haier Electronics | China | Asia | 28 | 22 | -15 |
| 29 | 19 | McDonald’s | U.S. | North America | 15 | 2 | 10 |
| 30 | 46 | Lenovo | China | Asia | 18 | -1 | NA |
| 31 | 32 | Cisco Systems | U.S. | North America | -4 | 8 | -6 |
| 32 | 21 | Walt Disney | U.S. | North America | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 33 | 15 | Reliance Industries | India | Asia | 21 | 23 | -4 |
| 34 | NR | Siemens | Germany | Europe | -3 | -4 | 27 |
| 35 | NR | Dell | U.S. | North America | -17 | -4 | -7 |
| 36 | 38 | Nestlé | Switzerland | Europe | 8 | 4 | 1 |
| 37 | NR | British Sky Broadcasting | Britain | Europe | 6 | 9 | -10 |
| 38 | 25 | Vodafone | Britain | Europe | 6 | 17 | -13 |
| 39 | 47 | JPMorgan Chase | U.S. | North America | -2 | 18 | -21 |
| 40 | NR | Oracle | U.S. | North America | 13 | 13 | 5 |
| 41 | NR | Petrobras | Brazil | South America | 18 | 5 | -11 |
| 42 | 42 | Banco Santander | Spain | Europe | 2 | -1 | 8 |
| 43 | 48 | Fiat | Italy | Europe | -10 | -2 | -12 |
| 44 | NR | China Mobile | China | Asia | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| 45 | NR | Goldman Sachs | U.S. | North America | -5 | 6 | 4 |
| 46 | 43 | Nike | U.S. | North America | 12 | 5 | 2 |
| 47 | NR | HTC | Taiwan | Asia | 6 | 11 | -11 |
| 48 | 40 | U.S. | North America | Private | Private | Private | |
| 49 | 36 | HSBC | Britain | Europe | -5 | -7 | -45 |
| 50 | 30 | Verizon Communications | U.S. | North America | 1 | 7 | 6 |
Software Mantra Social Media Promotion
The growth of the Social Media is really mind blowing and the speed at which it is increasing is unbelievable.
Social Medias are all regarding networking in a manner that supports confidence amongst groups and communities that are involved. Any of the websites that lets users to share their data, views, outlooks and supports communication and community construction can be believed to be a social media. Some of the popular and famous Social Media web sites are: – YouTube, Twitter, Facebook ,Digg, , Stumble Upon, Flickr ,Del.icio.us, MySpace ,Scribd, etc.
Faith and friendliness are the foundation of the social networking, and by advertising in the area of the Social Media you will need to hold on to these primary concepts. It is most possibly the only platform of marketing that supports perfect communications and responsibility among the makers as well as clients.
All over the world companies and organizations have accepted Social Media Marketing as the probable platform for marketing and have used them with improvements to command their advertising campaigns with the use of Social Media marketing.
Software Mantra can help you optimize your Social Media services. A group of services that will improve the usability of your website by means of integration with the social tools and applications, develop site amiability, allow effortless sharing of the websites contents on famous and popular social networking websites, boost visibility on routine and niche related search engines, simple recording of updates on the site, encourage discussions on the website and much more.
Software Mantra can also help you market Social Media services. Place your company on social networking sites to increase online visibility of your brand, protection of your brand / management of reputation, sales and leads production and improve high quality inbound weblinks.
Software Mantra PHP Vs ASP.net debate
Software Mantra works with PHP when it comes to making database driven dynamic websites. We chose PHP over Microsoft’s ASP.net because it is much more faster, economical and keeps our customers happy. Facebook, one of the most popular website, uses PHP. Here is a article on PHP Vs ASP.net we found on the net which will give you a good idea in which direction to go when it comes to programming language for your website.
Ever since Microsoft has come up with ASP.net, there has been a widespread debate among programmers as to whether it is any better than the existing open source programming language of PHP.
If you were to make a search on the Internet on how loyalists of both PHP and ASP.net are doing almost everything by biting each other’s heads off, you will realize how hot this debate actually is. The major contention is that Microsoft products are generally considered to be superior to other products, but then there are programmers that have been using PHP since ages and never once has it let them down. While there is acclaim for ASP.net being more robust and speedier, PHP fans maintain that PHP has much better support and a very easy to understand language.
As the debate between PHP and ASP.net rages on, it is important to make a frank comparison between the two languages, so that other developers who are not so strong in their opinions are not caught in the argument between the two. Here are some of the important points that distinguish the two programming languages from each other:-
(For the uninitiated, PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and ASP.net stand for Active Server Pages. It helps to put things into better perspective!)
» PHP is a relatively simpler language to use than ASP.net. Initially, PHP was written in the C programming language to replace a set of scripts in Perl. That is the reason why coding in PHP remains simple even today. Many developers find themselves to be more at ease with the user-friendly nature of PHP when it comes to coding. However, critics also count this advantage of PHP as a disadvantage. Some of them maintain that the language of PHP has not been updated much, and hence it is still quite archaic and even, somewhat cumbersome for coding. ASP.net, which is a relatively new development, has a lot of options when it comes to languages. Here, you can use languages such as C#, J#, C++ and VB.net. Hence, when it comes to sheer choice, ASP.net has better to offer. But PHP is no less, since it can do its task quite well, even with its minimum language tools.
» PHP is has much better support for the database management system, MySQL. In fact, the very popular blogging platform, WordPress uses the formidable combination of PHP coding on MySQL for its content management system, which includes about hundreds of thousands of blog posts every single day. Another very popular and frequently updated service that uses the combination of PHP and MySQL is Wikipedia. ASP.net can also support MySQL, but PHP is unanimously hailed, by the masses and classes alike, for its great support for this database management system.
» People who use both PHP and ASP.net also maintain their opinion that PHP is better for embedded support with another database management system, viz. SQLite. SQLite is described as a relational database management system and since it is contained in a C programming library, PHP can provide better support to it.
» PHP has also a very good support for object oriented programming, on which whole scripting languages are being built nowadays. ASP.net also provides very capable support to OOP.
» When it comes to support, PHP wins over ASP.net. The main reason for this is that PHP is open source. Hence, the support can come freely from all over the world. In most cases, PHP fixes are made instantly. Being open source also ensures that there are very few snags in PHP. While, ASP.net could take a while to make fixes. That is because it is owned by Microsoft, and it is the development team of Microsoft that will need to respond to the support query. That could take more time than the worldwide open source support that PHP is able to get. Most PHP supports can be instantly found online by doing a simple search on the Internet. Some of the providers of support for PHP are Zend, NuSphere and ThinkPHP.
» PHP can use the command line to perform many everyday activities. Some of the things that the PHP command line is useful for is for manipulating across many files and for putting files into multiple directories at once. These are just some of the important features that PHP’s command line is used for.
» PHP is an open source programming language, which means it is free for anyone to use. Programmers can develop PHP applications virtually at no cost, because PHP is free to use. ASP.net is not free too, but its extensions are available for free on Windows platforms, upwards of 98. Hence, ASP.net is available to Windows users when they buy it. That puts a bit of restriction in its use.
» ASP.net is compiled into memory in binary code. So, when ASP.net is used for coding, it is evident that it takes much longer time to process since the codes need to be retrieved from memory. However, PHP is not compiled into memory like ASP.net is. It is interpreted at runtime. That is the reason why PHP coding leads to better speed and even efficiency. However, it must be said that both PHP and ASP.net can run at supreme speeds and efficiency when they are coded expertly.
» Talking about hosting charges, both PHP and ASP.net are quite cheap to host. If you do a good deal of shopping online, you will also be able to find hosting for as little as $4. While there are several pricier hosting services out there, their charges are higher for both PHP and ASP.net. Hence, it can be said that both PHP and ASP.net are at par with each other on the hosting charges.
» Since PHP is older, there are many people who claim that it is much more secure than ASP.net where coding is concerned. ASP.net is much new, and the security options may not be fully in place yet. However, many programmers will pooh-pooh at this point, because they maintain that security in coding does not depend on the language that is used, but in the way that the coding is done by the coder. Even so, there is a lot of talk on the Internet about PHP coded sites being more difficult to hack into than those done with ASP.net.
Hence, there is a lot to debate on about the worthiness of PHP over ASP.net or vice-versa. There is probably no end to it, and there never shall be. The problem mainly is that both of them are good in their own place, but people who have been staunchly using PHP for several years now – some of them for more than a decade – would certainly not like to go in for the new ASP.net. The price to be paid is quite high, i.e. learning a whole new syntax and getting used to it. That is more the reason why PHP is still so popular.
But, to ASP.net’s credit it must be said that it is much more dynamic, even if the mere use of different languages are concerned. While PHP is still stuck to its scripting language days, ASP.net has broken new grounds by entering into new languages, and even developing some of its own. However, a new shadow is looming large on these language-programming tools – the coming of the WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver, which are making coding a very simple task to do for even the lay computer user.
Software Mantra Our Customer Becomes Number 4 In the Top Ten In Its Category
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, UK’s Times Newspapers Limited, one of leading newspaper publishers which brings out The Times and The Sunday Times besides Times Online, brought out its ratings on the top 10 ‘ask an expert’ websites in the world.
Mr. Mohnish Verma, Director-Marketing, Askfromexperts.com, said, “Our service has been rated as fourth due to unique, user friendly features and most economical rates. We are the best service providers when it comes to Online Expert Service, Legal Outsourcing Services and Helpline Member Services”
Software Mantra has long been associated with Askfromexperts.com in its development and web processes. Askfromexperts.com provides expert advice on everything from weddings to plumbing.
The Times Online article can be read at http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article7008689.ece