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Immersive Underworld Makes 'GTA IV' a Great, Gritty Ride With the long-anticipated arrival of the next installment in the "Grand Theft Auto" series, Liberty City does little to disappoint. Car chases, assassinations and shady drug dealers still litter the landscape of Liberty City, yet this game adds an in-depth view from the perspective of the main character. The player's own choices and actions are more evident in "Grand Theft Auto IV" than in previous titles. Mobile Applications With a Sense of Place What do you want your cell phone to be able to do? Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Hal Abelson put that question to about 20 computer science students this semester when he gave them one assignment: Design a software program for cell phones that use Google's upcoming Android mobile operating system. Video Links: The Best Lures in the SEO Tackle Box? Video is changing the way we use the Internet for entertainment, education, blogging, product promotion and so many other forms of content. Services like YouTube, Metacafe, Google Video, AOL Video and a host of others have created an enormous online viewing audience by making it easy for anyone to upload, search and share videos. iPhone Supplies Dry Up as World Waits for 3G Apple said Monday its online stores in the U.S. and UK are sold out of the iPhone, a sign supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device's next generation featuring faster Internet surfing speeds. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company confirmed that the iPhone is out of stock online. Microsoft Opens Windows to BlackBerry Web-based e-mail and instant messaging services from Microsoft are set to arrive on BlackBerry mobile devices later this summer. The new BlackBerry Bold, along with phones in the BlackBerry 7000 and 8000 ranges, will be the first to ship with Windows Live services, which include Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger. RIM Polishes Svelte Smartphone for a Face-Off With Apple BlackBerry maker Research In Motion introduced its new high-end handset Monday, the BlackBerry 9000, a.k.a. "Bold." Aimed at business pros and power users, Bold updates the product line with a device aimed at taking on Apple's iPhone. It's the first new model from RIM in over a year. "They're really just trying to take the BlackBerry franchise to a higher level," said Carl Howe, a Forrester Research analyst. Stolen MacBook Owner Logs On, Takes a Photo, Busts Thieves When Apple created the Back to My Mac feature on its .Mac service, it probably never envisioned it as a crime-solving tool. Yet that's just what it became last week, when the service helped the owner of a stolen MacBook recover her lost computer. Kait Duplaga, a young Apple store employee from White Plains, N.Y., lost her MacBook to thieves in late April, when her apartment was robbed. Social Net Data Portability: Too Much Information? It seems as though everyone wants to be both social and portable these days. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and MySpace all have recently trumpeted their latest efforts at openness. Are they really the same? In some cases -- Yahoo and Google, primarily -- the OpenSocial framework is providing a set of standards to ensure interoperability among the applications themselves. New Powerset Search Tech Gets Your Drift Powerset, a new Internet search engine company, has launched a proof-of-concept salvo in the search engine war -- a natural language processing engine that attempts to understand the meaning behind a search phrase and the text it's searching against. Instead of returning a long list of results that simply contain the key words a user enters, Powerset attempts to unlock the meaning encoded in ordinary human language. XP Update Ushers In Fresh Round of Bugaboos Shortly following Microsoft's release of the third service pack for its Windows XP operating system, reports of problems regarding the SP's installation began appearing on blogs and the Windows XP Newsgroup. XP users have experienced an assortment of issues both with the installation itself and after the installation. Gaming's Play for Social Networks Long before social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook set up shop online, there was a social element to playing video games. Gamers have always congregated together, extolling or deriding the merits of one game over another, participating in tournaments and broadcasting their gaming exploits and accomplishments. Can a Windows PC Really Be Cheaper Than a Linux Box? It must have been a chilly week in hell last week, because the unthinkable appears to have happened: A Windows PC has been announced that will be cheaper than a Linux one. That's right, folks: The Windows XP version of the Asus Eee PC 900 will sell for $599 in Australia, while the Linux version will cost $649, according to APC Magazine.

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On 7th July 2005, Avion Technology, LLC was formed in Jersey City, New Jersey with a seed capital of $500.

Avion Today
Sixteen months later, today, Avion Technology has 30+ employees, based out of their development center in Poona, India.
Avion has its sales office in Schaumburg, Illinois. The development center is based out of a 2000 square feet office with T1 internet lines, video and conferencing facilities, elaborate security arrangements. Its developmental force is comprised of approximately of 20 open source technology developers, 10 Microsoft technology developers and 10 web designers. Avion employs a blended delivery model as the core of its project execution strategy. This implies that all the project management is done through our mainland USA based office while the development takes place at the offshore development center in India. This adds strength to our project execution capabilities by allaying clients’ fear of sending their project miles away for development. Currently, the verticals serviced by Avion include Financial, Real Estate, Healthcare, Entertainment, Services, Health and Fitness and Online Retail sectors. We are also scheduled to open a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) unit to service US-based clients for their customer support needs. Also, on the very near horizon are plans to venture into product design outsourcing and other outsourcing services related to product engineering.

Avion understands the potential issues arising in IT outsourcing which can lead to a project not being executed to the client’s satisfaction. Taking cognizance of their existence, we have placed innovative client communication and project management protocols such as daily and weekly conference calls between Project Managers and clients, sending out Daily Status Reports which communicate textually and visually the work done on a project on any and every given development day. All our Project Managers have excellent command over written and spoken English. We have also instituted meticulous accounting practices according to both GAAP and Indian accounting standards, out-of-the box HR practices for talent hunting and innovative marketing strategies to contact potential clients.

One of the hallmarks of Avion within the IT outsourcing industry is the “Google-ish” atmosphere in the company where product and process innovation is encouraged and rewarded. Avion also has an internship program where future IT professionals and business leaders are honed in our in-house internship program.

Avion’s Future
Our utopian ideals are rooted in pragmatic foresight. Globally, outsourcing will be a $110 billion industry out of which software and customer services will account for $60 billion. India, alone, is positioned to capture a 45% market share of this pie. (Source: NASSCOM, India’s premier IT regulatory body).This includes software development and other customer-centric business services such as BPO and KPO. By aligning ourselves with this global migration of service providers based out of countries which can offer labor and time arbitrage strategies, we can achieve our core concept of compassionate capitalism by creating jobs for the local labor market without compromising on profit for our stakeholders.
Avion has also identified emerging regions such as MENA (Middle East and North Africa) and Latin America as future bedrocks of talent and developmental expertise.

Current expansionary plans include Sales Offices for Europe (London) and Australia, Asia-Pacific region (Sydney) on the anvil by September 2007 and a 2nd development Center in Amman, Jordan by January 2008. In order to harvest business development potential in the MENA region, Avion will open a Sales and Marketing Center to service MENA region in May 2008. This center will be based out of Dubai.
Noticing the global technology gravitation towards the open source movement, Avion has began augmenting its staff with developers well versed in open source platforms such as PHP. We have also taken the initiative to embrace upcoming web services technologies such as Ruby-on-rails. Such a pro-active approach to technology helps us stay ahead of the curve and help create a niche in the marketplace.

Social Change
The genesis of Avion is in the concept of social change. Unlike other organizations which feel that corporate social responsibility is a function to be carried out after reaching a particular monetary milestone, we feel that it is an inherent part of an organization’s day-to-day activities and should be implemented from the day an organization comes into existence. True to our ethos, we engage in philanthropic activities such as donating a monthly sum out of our income to a local orphanage in India. We are also shortlisting a school to adopt in rural India and sponsor the students’ clothes, books and education.

Another interesting social project, wherein we use technology to better people’s lives, is by creating an online not-for-profit website using Wiki technology wherein people in India can bypass the local bureaucracy and receive expertise and/or funds for necessary local projects. Similar to an online marketplace, these needy individuals will post the developmental project on the website and overseas Indians who feel they can respond to that need will contribute in cash or through their expertise. The biggest hindrance to progress in the developing world is the inability of needy and the benevolent to find a meeting place. This project would try and eliminate this issue.


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