The next release of Microsoft Dynamics AX, version 2012, is scheduled for September 8, 2011. Dynamics AX 2012 will launch at the Global Virtual Launch Event.   As a comprehensive ERP (enterprise resource planning) application, Dynamics AX (formerly Axapta) is a solution for midsize and larger companies. It enables businesses to work effectively, manage change, and compete globally. It makes it easy to operate across locations and countries by standardizing processes, providing visibility across your organization, and helping to simplify compliance.

The 2012 version of AX provides hundreds of enhancements to help customers improve productivity, manage change and growth and compete globally. AX 2012 includes built-in industry capabilities for manufacturing, public sector, services, and distribution organizations.

View a list of the Top 10 Microsoft Dynamics AX enhancements including:

• Microsoft Office add-ins to use Microsoft Word and Excel to build templates and documents that combine structured and unstructured information from Dynamics AX.
• New Help system allowing you to customize topics, enabling others in the organization to create Help documentation, promptly applying and distributing updates and using Search and Help viewer to find help on your network or the web.
• RoleTailored user interface including FactBoxes, Fast Tabs, and Preview Panes that let you view data from multiple sources without leaving the current form.
• Time zone improvements including editing time zones, supporting multiple time zones, and synchronizing time zone preferences
• Unified procurement strategy across employees, purchasing agents, and vendors
• Auto-generated SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) reports and basic reports creation using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Charting Control
• Global operations support through development of a report in one language and the reporting framework products for the report in multiple languages
• Ability to create more complex workflows and separate workflows for each line associated with a header, even automated workflows requiring no human intervention
• Graphical Workflow Editor enables drag-and-drop functionality for workflow creation and Work Item Queues help users control what they work on and load balance across the team when necessary.
• Environmental Sustainability Dashboard to track energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions to proactively monitor your organization’s environmental impact plus the new associated data cube to keep track of energy consumption, carbon footprint and KPIs for waste and water usage.
• And More!

Gates is a HERO in many kids plus he is really a visionary, maybe not the perfect person in business and perfect IT person who invented perfect person but he is great person when it come to his vision. I meet many people who hates Microsoft and talk against microsoft but I hardly meet people who hate Bill Gates , his business practice and the way  he come up with Windows may have some ethical misconduct but if we forget about business politics , personally in his life he is such a great person  Respect !

 11 Rules of life by bill gates

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2: The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel
good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school.
You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.
Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping:
They called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault,
So don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now.
They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to
you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your
own room. Keep yourself clean.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT.
In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES
as you want to get the right answer.
*This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters.
You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF.
*Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life.
In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds.
Chances are you’ll end up working for one…

As we’ve covered in great detail in this blog over the last several years, ERP implementations can be a grind. It’s tough to finish on time and on budget while at the same time delivering expected business benefits. Whether you are working for a commercial company or are in the public sector, it’s no secret the the odds are stacked against you when it comes to ERP systems.

However, our experience with non-profits, federal, state and local entities have shown us that certain challenges are especially pronounced in the public sector. Public ERP systems face unique obstacles related to people, business processes, and complexities. It’s not that public ERP implementations are necessarily more difficult than those in the private sector, but there are things that make them unique.

Here are a few distinct challenges to consider before embarking on an ERP implementation for your public-sector organization:

• Organizational change management. Change is hard for employees at most organizations, but it can be even more difficult to manage in the public sector. Employees in the public sector haven’t traditionally been motivated by a fear of having to outperform peers to keep their jobs (although this is changing in recent years), so performance-based incentives may not be as effective. In addition, because government organizations often do not feel the same external market pressures to change quickly, employees may not be used to the large changes entailed by an ERP implementation. For these reasons, organizational change management plans need to pay particular attention to “selling” the changes and positively impacting the culture of the organization.

• Communications. In addition to the cultural change enabled by an organizational change management plan, general communications can be especially challenging with public sector entities. Not only is it important for the project team and executive sponsors to communicate major process and organizational changes to employees, but there are typically a complex series of stakeholders that need to be communicated to as well. Constituents such as internal customers, external taxpayers, and external “customers” all have a vested interest in ensuring the project is successful.  It is for this reason that public ERP systems often take so long and cost so much to implement.

• Complexity. Another challenge for government organizations is that they are generally larger, more complex, and impact people more than in the commercial space. It’s rare to find a small, nimble, and simple government organization – no matter how relatively small it may seem compared to other government entities – so the complexities can be material.  Business processes, systems, people, and organizational structures can all be more complex than what you might see in the commercial space. For this reason, you want to make sure you have a software solution and ERP implementation partner that is accustomed to these complexities.

Public sector ERP implementations are difficult, but as is the case in the public sector, they’re not impossible if managed effectively and with the right implementation partner. However, getting there is easier said than done.  The above three variables are three key complexities to consider as you begin your organization’s ERP initiative.

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Today at the Government Finance Officers Association Annual Conference in the U.S., Microsoft highlighted new public sector capabilities in its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is expected to be generally available in August 2011.

“Public sector organizations have long experienced inflexible, legacy ERP systems, hindering their ability to support open government, compliance requirements and fiscal accountability,” said Charlie Johnson, global industry product director, public sector, Microsoft Dynamics. “Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 will support these requirements at the rapid pace government organizations need to better serve their citizens.”

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 delivers comprehensive ERP functionality combined with the specific capabilities government organizations need to operate and respond efficiently, quickly and reliably to constituent needs and legislative mandates. For example, funding for multiyear grants and projects is managed more easily with configurable budgetary controls that proactively track revenues, expenditures and personnel resources against defined budget objectives.

The solution helps provide organizationwide accountability and increased citizen satisfaction, and helps address accounting requirements issued by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and International Public Sector Accounting Standards.

“Unlike our previous JD Edwards solution, which required separate systems for our customers to manage things like procurement, budgetary control and comprehensive reporting, with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 we have the ability to reconcile all systems and departments in a single solution, allowing us to focus more on our real jobs,” said Mike Bailey, director of Finance and Information Services for the City of Redmond. “Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is the comprehensive and easy-to-use ERP solution we have been waiting for.”

Source : MSDynamics

Instructions for unlocking Blackberry Bold 9780

Warning! The Wireless Mode MUST BE OFF before performing the given SIM Unlock instructions in order to avoid causing the device from becoming defective.

How to turn Wireless Mode Off:

1. Scroll to the Airplane Icon (Turn Wireless Off.)

2. Press Select.

3. Wireless Mode will turn off.

How to SIM Unlock the device:

1. Go to the “Options” screen

2. Select the “SIM Card” option

3. Type ALT-MEPD (hold ALT key while typing the 4 Letters, M-E-P-D)

4. Release the ALT key; it should then display a list “SIM, Network, Network Subset, etc…”

5. To select “Network” type ALT-MEPE (since E is the Key that gives 2 when shifted)

6. Release the ALT key, it should then ask for the code

7. Enter the unlock code provided.

Note: In case of difficulties when entering the code please try the alternative instructions below:

Alternative Instructions how to enter the unlock code.

***** You must have a SIM card in your phone to complete these steps. We recommend using the SIM card that your phone is currently working with *****

1. Go to settings

2. Go to options

3. Go to advanced options

4. Go to SIM card

5. Type MEPD (not case sensitive) (you will not see text appear on screen while typing)

6. Does it say Network active? If so your phone is locked

7. Hold the ALT Key while typing in MEPE (not case sensitive) (you will not see text appear on screen while typing)

8. It will say “Enter Network MEP Code, then you type in the 16 digit unlock code, press in the jog dial to confirm

9. Your phone is now unlocked

When the google account linked to your android its a big drama , where it sync all your google contacts,calender and linked up with android market , at the same times when someone took over the phone its not an easy task to migrate data specially the phone is rooted. my case its HTC HD2 windows mobile rooted to android 2.2 , not even hard reset works unless its rooted to new ROM, with all the crap best option to remove the google account , but how ???

everyone ask ” how to delete google account from android ” ” how to remove gmail account without hard reset ”

best method I Found so far

Use any Android desktop software ,  open the file browser

go to /data/system/ find accounts.db and rename it to accounts.db.bak , or simply delete it

optional tip

/data/system/sync and locate accounts.xml and delete or rename.

Reset the device

Enter your new gmail account and enjoy the world of Android

Corporate culture and customer maybe the words most mobile operators hate, as we remember all our mobile operates used to leech money and made it such a gold mine for them few years ago , now the competition is high and packagers and pricing is very combative, but up to now they only try to offer things countable but never try to improve customer care and offer better service , assume each and every customer will select the mobile operator just for cheap rate .

Corporate mobile solutions ::  we got few options here , let me write some comment on each oprator ( just note that they all my personal opinion )

Dialog : Best GSM coverage I experienced, most fo the places you get 3G plus good reception , pricing structure is bit higher compare  to mobitel, sales team is very aggressive, customer care is been great for me , but personally i hate this company for cheating on my personal mobile bill . fastest 3G i have experienced in sri lanka

Mobitel : Cheapest when it comes to pricing , no one can beat them with pricing , whatever the price you ask they will be able to get them approve trough TRC , coverage is reasonable but network is always busy , you will end up getting no available circuit , congestion and busy tones and lines get cut all the times, 3G network is big time lazy dog , hardly get youtube or streaming working, not only one station most of the places its worst also you less 3g stations compare to dialog. customer care and sales team is such unprofessional people who have lack of technical knowledge and corporate exposure. I always have to make them understand I am not the customer not them , most them so busy with large customer base.

Etisalat : Company has been changing owners many times , but still the same type of service you get I try to contact sales team , sales mangers but they still the same old lazy cell tel team i guess , never come up with solution and never show interest to obtain new business.

If we just compare Dialog vs mobitel , I guess most of them will agree when it come to corporate dialog is the smart choice , mobitel may be the cheap solution but compare to options plus serivice dialog will be the choice , if we concern about business connectivity mobitel will spoil your entire business , due to congested network , dropped calls , poor backberry service , slow 3G and terible customer care. been with them for long i know its the worst nightmare.  so when you select business package think twice dont just got for the cheap price.

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stolencamerafinder crawls the internet searching for photos, collecting the serial numbers of the cameras that took them.

When you use the drag & drop feature, stolencamerafinder reads the unique serial number from the exif data of your photo and uses it to match against serial numbers it has stored.

*UPDATE* RIM has squashed this rumored release date. However, this does not mean we won’t see BBM hit iOS or other platforms in the future.

According to a rumor posted by BGR a few weeks ago, RIM was looking for a way to expand its BlackBerry Messenger platform to iOS and Android devices, with a release coming soon in the App Store. RIM apparently wasn’t happy about the hundreds of apps clearly inspired by BBM available for iPhones and iPads, and decided to develop a version of Messenger that doesn’t have all the features available to BlackBerry owners, but still allows iOS users to communicate with their friends and family. A compromise, that is, to have BlackBerry Messenger available on as many platforms as possible.

A poster on MacRumors Forums now suggests BlackBerry Messenger for iOS may be launching in the App Store on April 26. At a “social media conference” in Toronto, RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie allegedly revealed that BBM and “other services” will come to the iPhone on April 26 through the App Store. Balsillie also confirmed that they plan to release an update “this summer” with a new notification system, which may or may not suggest RIM knows something about iOS 5 and the improved notifications Apple has been rumored to be working on. But, then again, it is unclear why would RIM know about such an important aspect of iOS and Balsillie’s statements might just be speculation on his side.

Looking back at BGR’s report, however, it sounded like the Android version was set to come out first:

Right now, we have heard that Android is definitely a go. But again, we’re not sure on timing, though our sources are confident that it will launch some time this year. RIM chose Android first because of the fact that it could develop and integrate something like this much easier with an open platform, but the plan is to build and deploy an iOS version at some point as well.

So it is possible that in the next few days an Android version of BBM will be unveiled, with the iPhone app scheduled for a late April launch. The rumor hasn’t been confirmed by RIM, but chances are they are really looking for a way to rise among the competition in the App Store (made of apps like WhatsApp, Textie and Ping) by releasing an iOS counterpart of BBM, which counts millions of users worldwide. [via TUAW]

Update: BGR now reports they have contacted RIM and, apparently, Jim Balsillie didn’t speak at any conference in Toronto this week.

RIM tells us that the story, reporting that BlackBerry Messenger would arrive as an app for Apple’s iPhone on April 26th, is false. “RIM did not hold a conference in Toronto this week, and Jim Balsillie did not speak at any event in Toronto this week.

Source http://n4bb.com & macstories.net

We all do mistakes and worst thing is when users do mistakes companies earn millions out of those mistakes, I assume more than 90% Sri lankan 3G users do not have 3g data plan activate on smart phones .

whats dose it mean data plan on mobile ???

some would say ,  My Internet is working on mobile so why extra data plan ? that’s true  but the fact they charge for each and every byte of data , this will generate huge numbers on your monthly bill ,

Data plans

this is very common for many western users GSM operators always explain this and users are well educated on this , smartphones leech data automatically for many apps , weather , maps emails sync apps such bandwidth a lot, due to this GSM operators do have data plans but many people not aware on this , simply sending SMS you will be able tactivate them and pay monthly subcription for limited quota. example :: mobile do have 375/= package for 1GB