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Linksys Wireless-N Home Router (WRT150N)
By webmaster | April 15, 2008
The Linksys Wireless-N Home Router (WRT150N) is a wireless router suitable for home networks with faster speed of upto 9 times made possible thru the advanced MIMO (Multiple in, Multiple out) Radio technology. The router is easy to set up and can be configured in a web based environment using web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox etc.
The Linksys Wireless-N Home Router has 4 built in Ethernet Ports allowing access for wired connection. This wireless router helps to share a high speed Internet connection allowing transfer of large files within your network, without any data loss. This makes possible to watch streaming videos, video chat, hear online music, play multimedia games and make Internet Phone calls.
In today’s technology world security is of a major concern. Protecting private or personal data files is not only applicable to businesses but also to an individual user. Keeping this in mind, the router is also secured to use, protecting you from hackers as it uses the industry standard 128 bit encryption in encoding the transmission of wireless data.
The Linksys Wireless-N Home Router is priced at $116.89 but can be purchased for $79.99 with a FREE shipping offer in Amazon.com
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Carnegie Science Center to host Robots Exhibition
By webmaster | April 14, 2008
The Carnegie Science Center, dedicated to inspire learning and curiosity by connecting Science and Technology has announced that it in spring 2009 it would host an Exhibition for Robots in the name of “Roboworld”. The exhibition is estimated for a value of 3.4 million US dollars and will be held on the Second floor of the Carnegie Science Center (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) with more than 30 exhibit stations for focusing on Robotic behavior in 3 areas (sensing, thinking and acting).
The Sensing area will focus on robot’s vision, motion detection, abilities for ultrasonic mapping etc. The Thinking area will capitalize on artificial intelligence, robots’ simulation and robot programming. The acting area will demonstrate how robots walk, fly, roll or climb.
The Robotic Exhibition will honor the work of regional universities, students, companies and corporations that have involved in the development of Robotics. The “Roboworld” exhibition will be the largest in US and a comprehensive, permanent robotics exhibition.
More than 2 and a half million dollars has been raised towards this exhibition, which includes a million dollar contribution from Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Bozzone and from The Grable Foundation.
“Roboworld” will be a great inspiration for robotic students, robot-developers and the robotics community!
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Marketing your Business online
By webmaster | April 12, 2008
Online Marketing also referred as Internet Marketing is the process of marketing the products or services of a Business over the internet with the goal of making increased sales and to enhance profit. Internet Marketing is relatively cheaper than the conventional marketing. Thru the power of the World Wide Web, Internet Marketing has the power of reaching a broader base of audience spread throughout the World.
Before one starts to market their product online it is important to have a quality website which would enable to showcase their products or services and save time in handling customer queries (general info). Businesses selling products can also sell their products online thru their website. There are many Ecommerce Software like ZenCart, Agora Cart, Cube Cart, osCommerce etc. which enables to list products in form of catalogs and wherein customers could buy your products by paying thru credit/debit card.
Once you have a website with the shopping cart it is the time to promote or publicize your website so that you would attract visitors, maybe your prospective customers! You could submit your websites to search engines, web directories and sites from your niche. The website needs to be optimized for search engines so that it would rank better in the SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages). One could sort the help of a SEO consultant or companies that offer Search Engine Optimisation Service to achieve top rankings in Search Engines.
After the website starts receiving visitors, it is important for the Business to analyze visitor’s preference which is possible by getting feedbacks from customers by online forms. The Marketing Department has to find out which products their customers like, introduce new products and make any changes to their products according to the customer’s feedback.
Topics: Internet | 3 Comments »
IBM WebSphere 6.1 with web 2.0 support
By webmaster | April 11, 2008
IBM unveiled its new portal software, the IBM WebSphere 6.1 featuring web 2.0 support at the IBM IMPACT SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The portal software is expected to ship out this quarter (April – June 2008). It should be noted that IBM WebSphere is ranked the No. 1 in the EPM (Enterprise Portal Market) consistently for the last 5 years.
IBM WebSphere will integrate the information between internal company website as well as from the World Wide Web. The new portal software is bundled with many new features which will result in time saving tasks, increased production, cost reduction and real time updates.
The IBM WebSphere 6.1 supports IBM AIX, IBM I5/OS, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Microsoft Windows Server.
The beta version of this portal software was tested in various sectors like Financial, IT, Telecommunications, Healthcare and Government sectors. IBM has made many improvements after getting feedbacks from about 4000 beta testers and believes that the IBM WebSphere 6.1 will be a preferred choice for any business organization to collaborate and execute business tasks in a more secured and reliable way with less resource.
Topics: Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Oakley O ROKR Bluetooth Eyewear
By webmaster | April 9, 2008
Oakley O ROKR Bluetooth Eyewear is the next generation of bluetooth eyewear from Oakley and Motorola which enables attending calls and hearing music wirelessly. The eyewear features HIGH DEFINITION OPTICS, an Oakley’s patented technologies that surpasses ANSI standards for clarity, refraction and prism.
The Eyewear has an USB port, Indicator light, control buttons for playing Music, attending call, increasing and decreasing volume with fast forward and fast backward options.
The Eyewear’s frame color is Brown Smoke and the Lens color is Bronze. This Bluetooth Eyewear is intended for outdoor use like while biking, hiking etc. Connectivity to music player may require a small add-on bluetooth adapter. O ROKR Bluetooth Eyewear has the capability of switching between stereo music and wireless connectivity with your mobile phone with a supporting distance of upto 33 feet, 5 hours of talk time and more than 100 hours of standby time.
This Bluetooth Eyewear priced @ $199 is really suitable for persons who like techie stuffs and love wireless freedom.
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Web Collaboration made easy
By webmaster | April 8, 2008
Web collaboration is easy to achieve
The majority of CEOs have faced the necessity to gather absolutely all the employees and discuss the burning issues without any delays or excuses. Especially productive could be a meeting when the agenda is strictly drawn and the personell actually sees each other and can share opinions. From the first glance this is possible and there should not be stumbling blocks but in reality it is not so ideal and 100% attendance is a rare situation, especially if you are a head of a big corporation and many of your top-management representatives are absent being on business trips sometimes thousands kilos from work. What to do in such a case? Is the idea to gather your colleagues and discuss business with them a utopia?
Not in any case! Modern technologies allow to establish an online meeting wherever you are! All you need is just a computer (no matter what OS you are on) and a broadband with installed web collaboration software from Megameeting.com. Such a software can boast of embedded features that allow full-duplex communication, shared calendar, file sharing opportunities, video broadcasting and many others.
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Pizza.com sold for $2.6 million
By webmaster | April 8, 2008
Pizza.com was sold by an American named Chris Clark for $2.6 million to an anonymous company. Clark had registered this valuable domain in June 1994. He said that this would make a significant difference in his life and also regretted that he didn’t register other generic domains in 1990s.
Knowing the fact that Vodka.com was sold for $3 million, Clark listed the domain in auction at Sedo.com, one of the leading domain name market place where one can buy and sell domains. Sedo also runs a domain parking program wherein users can earn money if they have a traffic domain.
Clark started the auction on March 27, 2008 with the first bid of $100. At the end of the auction, the domain pizza.com was sold for $2.6 million.
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Nokia unveils 4 new models
By webmaster | April 7, 2008
Nokia, the world leader in mobile phone manufacturing announced the launch of four new mobile phones at the “Growing Together 2008″ conference held in Johannesburg (South Africa). These new models are expected to hit the market by Second quarter (Nokia 5000 and Nokia 1680) and Third quarter (Nokia 7070 and Nokia 2680) of the year(2008).
Nokia 5000
Nokia 5000 is equipped with a 1.3 megapixel camera, mp3 ringtones, FM Radio (recording facility), high resolution QVGA (Quarter Video Graphics Array) display, email accessibility, Bluetooth, GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) connectivity, It would also include Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging, a feature first introduced in Nokia 6101 models which enables users to record and send voice messages with the help of GPRS connection. Nokia 5000 is estimated to be priced at 90 Euros (US$141 approximately)
Nokia 7070 Prism
Nokia 7070 Prism is a stylish folding design with geometric patterns and external light effects. Users can personalize themes, wallpapers and Mp3 grade ringtones. This model includes voice recording and hands-free speaker. Estimated retail price is 50 Euros (US$ 78 approximately)
Nokia 2680 slide
Nokia 2680 slide is a sliding model, the first of its kind to hit the emerging markets. This model is easy to use, supports mp3 ringtones, FM functionality with recording facility, integrated digital camera and features an expanded phone book. Nokia 2680 is expected to be priced at 75 Euros (US$ 117 approximately).
Nokia 1680 classic
Nokia 1680 classic is targeted for users who are in search of “Cheap and Best mobiles”. The model includes basic mobile features with a digital camera. Nokia 1680 classic allows easy access to email, includes VGA camera, video-recording feature and phone sharing capabilities. The estimated price is 50 Euros (US$ 78 approximately).
These mobiles are suitable for emerging markets and especially for replacement purchases. Nokia believes that there would be more number of replacement purchases than the first-time buyers in emerging markets (China, India, Middle East and Africa).
Topics: Mobiles & Telephony | 1 Comment »
Intel-Powered Classmate PC for children’s education
By webmaster | April 5, 2008
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, unveiled a new design of the Intel-powered classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai (China) with a vision of supporting the IT industry in spreading the benefits of technology in education for children around the world.
According to the Company’s Vice-President Andrew Chien the second-generation Intel-powered classmate PC is an affordable, fully functional, rugged Internet-centric computer platform. Intel has termed this type of computers has “netbooks”. The classmate PC is built on Intel Celeron M processor with 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and mesh network capabilities. The top range of these netbooks includes a 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery life, 512 MB memory, a 30 GB HDD (hard disk drive) storage and an integrated webcam. It will support Windows XP and Linux.
The forum members included many hardware and software vendor, content providers, educational services providers and local OEMs who have been working with Intel to develop a complete infrastructure that will support the Intel-powered classmate PC.
It is true that most of the children around the world fail to get such high tech products due to financial constraints but an initiative like this one would surely make them to cope up with the technological world and also foster a better education.
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An Analysis on PCI Standards
By webmaster | April 3, 2008
Do you run a business which requires storing your Customer’s Credit Card? Or Do you run an ecommerce/ online website that require accepting credit/debit card payments. If yes, it is really essential for you to know about the PCI DSS(Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). By adhering to these PCI Standards - Merchants, Vendors, Small scale or Large Scale Businesses can ensure the safety of their customer’s account data and mitigate losses arising due to identity theft because of weak security practices.
The Formation of PCI
PCI Council was formed by 5 major credit card brands - Visa, MasterCard, American Express, DiscoverCard, JCB International. The council works on providing a common security practice, enhance payment data security and manage training and certification programs for Qualified Security Assessors and Approved Scanning Vendors. It also publishes a list of certified assessors and vendors.
PCI Compliance
Each card issuer has its own criteria for assigning a merchant level and validation compliance classification level for a merchant, third party or service provider for PCI Compliance. The merchant level is based on volume of transactions and the validation compliance level on merchant level and validation actions.
PCI Certifications
The certification for QSA (Qualified Security Assessor) is based on a two-tier structure. The first being that the Security Company must possess security assessment experience similar or related to the PCI data security assessment. The QSA must have a dedicated security practice that includes staff with specific job functions that support the security practice. And the second is that the QSA employees must have sufficient knowledge and experience in conducting security assessments, and must possess industry recognized security certifications or equivalent work experience. All QSA and its employees must re-quality on an annual basis.
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