VISIONary app delivers one-click temporary root access for T-Mobile G2

While there is still no permanent root access on the T-Mobile G2 at the moment, folks who want a temporary fix can check out the VISIONary application that is the brainchild of @paulobrien, where it will enable G2 owners a far faster root workaround as currently, root access is lost each time the handset is restarted. Should you find running the application itself each time the G2 is reset a cumbersome thing to do, the second version of the app will now automatically perform its magic with each reboot.

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Flash 10.1 For Android Hits 1M Downloads In Android Market

The lack of Flash on iOS devices has been a sore point to many folks, but Android users don't particularly have that issue as word is out that the Android Market has served its 1 millionth Flash Player 10.1 download since its release. The 1 million mark is always a significant milestone and has certainly contributed to Android's increasing market share. Flash on Android obviously isn't perfect at the moment, as it doesn't give the full desktop experience, but it's moving along nicely. 

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IDATE: Serious Games - A 10 billion euro market in 2015 on reports-research.com

IDATE has just released its Serious Games market report which provides in-depth analysis on the different markets, and their growth outlook up to 2015. The top serious game market players are profiled, along with the sector’s latest trends.


“This report provides readers with a comprehensive portrait of the serious games market through an analysis of its impact on the video game industry’s value chain, and by examining a series of business models,” explains Laurent Michaud, Head of IDATE’s Digital Home Entertainment Unit. “Up until now, serious games have been designed to be played on a computer, but mobile handsets are already much more widely used in emerging economies which makes them the platform of choice for the development of serious games.”

The serious game sector is expected to grow significantly in the medium term. IDATE estimates that it currently generates 1.5 billion EUR in revenue around the globe, and that by 2015 sales will be almost seven times what they are in 2010 – with an average annual growth rate of 47% between 2010 and 2015. Plus, we can expect to see the business world’s interest in serious games increase around 2013, and especially small and medium enterprises (SME) whose awareness of these tools is still rather limited.

An original value chain

The value chain for serious games has fewer links than the classic video game chain. The most common structure is a single player that handles the development, publication, distribution and sales of its games. A great many players actually publish only a single title whose sales and installation/implementation for customers occupy its entire sales and support staff. Low-end instruments are the most widely used development tools in the sector today, as they are the only ones that most developers can afford – with high-end gaming engines costing in excess of 250,000 USD. At this stage in the serious gaming sector’s development, the value chain is more software and service-centric than device-centric. Here, most serious games are designed to be played on a computer, and few have been developed for other platforms. The mobile phone is still the device that currently offers the most interesting alternative to the PC, and it is also the platform of choice for the development of serious games in emerging economies where people can get hold of a mobile much more easily than a computer. Serious gaming software is still more important than any service that might be associated with it. In other words, the most common configuration is a user playing the game alone and usually locally, as opposed to online. But serious games are not meant to replace existing forms of information, communication or training, but rather to flesh them out and enhance them with interactivity, GUI and a video game’s ability to plunge the user into an environment where she will be more receptive to the message being transmitted. Plus the social aspect of a serious game, which fits naturally with a multi-user or even a massively multiplayer approach, will be the prime areas of focus in the coming years, for both the “player” of the game and the professional using it as a tool.

As a result, serious games cannot do away with:

• professional support for the game;
• an associated service (aside from management of the application and its functionalities in software-as-a-service mode) which:
- trains future users of the serious game, whether they are professionals, citizens, consumers or students;
- regularly tailors the application to the situation;
- configures the game, possibly remotely, according to the targeted users, patient, citizen or learner/student;
- collects the results from use of the serious game, interprets them, shares them and injects them back into the gameplay to help the player progress.

	Serious Games Training & Teaching - Healthcare - Defence & security - Information & Communication Type: Marktstudie Year: 06/2010 Publisher: IDATE Language: english Availability: available

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Inmedius® Delivers World’s First Integrated Business Rules and S1000D BREX Engine

Ensures Compliance with Project Business Rules & Document Standards
Inmedius®, Inc. announces the latest release of Inmedius Advisor™, an advanced software tool that enables an organization to ensure the quality of its SGML and XML documents through the use of extensive quality validation rules. Advisor 2.0 is the first of its kind to integrate S1000D Business Rules Exchange (BREX) with authoring and management functions. A Web service provided with the server edition allows organizations to fully integrate the quality assurance cycle into existing production processes and workflows.

With Advisor 2.0, Inmedius added and incorporated S1000D BREX checking with Advisor’s already comprehensive Business Rules inspection process. The combination of these two powerful engines allows for validation of project and internal rule sets along with unique S1000D Specification requirements. S1000D Data Module support allows users to read and export BREX data from the CSDB client, with project BREX lists available to integrated authoring.

“The reality is that BREX checking by itself does not and cannot lead to complete compliance with project rules. There are many checks that need to be performed beyond the S1000D rule set,” stated Sean Rushing, Director of S1000D Products and Services, “Supplier and program unique rules are not S1000D specific and must also be checked for full compliance. Logical groupings using and/or and a regular expression check are examples of more general or universal types of rule checking.”

Advisor is easy to use, automating quality assurance so that publication authors no longer have to manually check each and every document. The software provides the ability to configure custom content rules from an extensive library of validation templates. Content rules are created in the graphical interface, SGML or XML documents are selected to validate, and Advisor takes care of the rest. Authors receive a detailed report of each problem, so they can easily update content.

“Inmedius is committed to bringing improvements to the compliance marketplace,” stated Gary Schaffer, President and CEO, Inmedius, Inc. “In the near future we will launch a number of product offerings in the areas of language checking, terminology compliance, and reuse efficiency that will bring much needed innovation to quality assurance processes.”

For a complete document lifecycle solution, Advisor Server integrates seamlessly with both Inmedius S1000Dmanager™ and Inmedius Horizon®. Manager, part of the seven-module Inmedius S1000D Publishing Suite™, is a comprehensive management system offering extensive features that provide a framework for controlling the development of technical data utilizing S1000D publishing concepts. Horizon is a publication production system to comprehensively manage a technical documentation operation. Advisor is also available as a stand-alone server to be integrated into third-party systems.

Advisor can be deployed for cloud computing on a server, or on an individual desktop. Advisor’s unique architecture allows for one product to essentially support both deployment options. Learn more, view product literature, request a demo, or purchase the software online at http://www.inmediushorizon.com/advisor.

About Inmedius  Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, with offices throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom, Australia and India, Inmedius is a global leader in delivering innovative, performance-oriented applications and services that capture, create, manage and deploy information and learning assets. Our customers, and their clients, are enabled to share an unprecedented level of productivity and efficiency. In addition to program services, Inmedius provides Content Management, S1000D, ATA, and DITA solutions for publishing, aerospace, defense, government, manufacturing, and health care organizations, worldwide. http://www.inmedius.com

Inmedius and Inmedius Horizon are registered trademarks, Inmedius Advisor, S1000Dmanager and the Inmedius S1000D Publishing Suite are trademarks of Inmedius, Inc. S1000D is a specification of the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe. All other companies’ names, products, trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective holders. Companies mentioned do not imply endorsement.

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Advanced Quality Assurance tool for SGML and XML data

Advanced Quality Assurance tool for SGML and XML data ensures conformance to business rules and document standards. With Advisor, you don’t have to worry about whether or not your authored SGML or XML content conforms to rules and standards. Authors no longer have to manually check each and every SGML and XML document. Advisor automates Quality Assurance and ensures delivery of material that meets your needs. Go Beyond the DTD to Insure Quality Standards Use Advisor to go beyond the simple, structural validation that a Document Type Definition (DTD) or Schema parser does, and give your customer the SGML and XML content they want and expect. Advisor is completely configurable to your Quality Assurance rules, and features a broad library of validation templates that will guarantee authored SGML and XML content has the data your business needs defined. Advisor allows non-technical users to create SGML or XML business rules, enabling rapid validation of documents to an organization’s standards. From simple to complex rule checking, implement a standard without any coding, yet allow yourself the security that SGML and XML documents maintain and pass the quality standard you want to have enforced.

Integrated S1000D BREX Checking In addition to ensuring the quality of its SGML and XML documents through the use of extensive quality validation rules, Advisor is the first of its kind to integrate S1000D Business Rules Exchange (BREX) with authoring and management functions. This combination of the Business Rules and BREX engine allows for the validation of project and internal rule sets along with the unique S1000D requirements. Users can read and export BREX data from the CSDB client, with project BREX lists available to integrated authoring.

Key Features Build Content Rules Rule Creation Quickly and easily create content rules using pre-defined validation templates for Attributes, Children, Elements, Files and XPath. Advisor is completely configurable to the user’s Quality Assurance (QA) rules and features a broad collection of validation templates that will ensure authored SGML and XML content adhere to pre-defined business rules and standards. Extensive Validation Template Library Configure custom content rules that go beyond the simple, structural validation that a Document Type Definition (DTD) or Schema parser does. With Adviser, users select rules from an extensive library of validation templates. Authors are guaranteed that the SGML and XML content has the data that their business needs define. XPath & Logical AND/OR Groupings Build and customize new XML Path Language (XPath) rules to meet complex organizational validation requirements. Users can also logically group validation rules into “AND/OR” combinations. Create & Manage Multiple Rule Files for Multiple Projects Create and manage separate rule files for different projects, ensuring that each project has its own validation requirements.

Validate Documents Check SGML & XML Content for Errors Quickly validate documents against your organization’s QA standards. From simple to complex rules checking, authors can implement a standard without any coding, yet have the piece of mind that SGML and XML documents maintain and pass the quality standards that they want enforced. Automate the Validation Process Create content rules in the graphical interface, select the SGML or XML document to validate and Advisor takes care of the rest. Authors no longer have to manually check each and every SGML and XML document. The SGML and XML Quality Assurance process is transferred from man to machine. Incorporate S1000D BREX Rules Read and utilize S1000D BREX Data Modules. BREX rules can also be used with the Advisor Web Server and be integrated with S1000Dmanager™ and S1000DauthorPro™ for document validation.

Validation Results Review Content Error Reports Advisor automatically generates a report containing the specific content errors with a document. The report specifies which rule was broken and details the exact line where the error occurs. Authors can quickly and easily use the information to make the required alterations to ensure that the document conforms to the business rules. Print Details on Content Discrepancies Print detailed information on content discrepancies for tracking and heightened accountability. Users can create an entire detailed history of their QA process.

Both Desktop and Server Versions The desktop version can integrate with Arbortext Editor™, Adobe® FrameMaker®, Altova XMLSpy® and other SGML and XML editors. The server version provides a Web service that can fully integrate the Quality Assurance cycle into your existing production process and workflows. The Power of Integration For a complete document lifecycle solution, Advisor integrates seamlessly with both Inmedius S1000Dmanager™ and Inmedius Horizon™.  Manager, part of the seven-module Inmedius S1000D Publishing Suite™, is a comprehensive management system offering extensive features that provide a framework for controlling the development of technical data utilizing S1000D™ publishing concepts. A business process driven solution, Horizon is technical publication production system that delivers the tools and information needed to comprehensively manage a technical documentation operation.

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