U.S. ban on Internet gambling...opposed by anti-gambling Republicans

Gambling is the wagering of money or something of...material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods. Typically, the outcome of the wager is evident within a short period.


U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, said he would introduce a bill next week to overturn a three-year-old U.S. ban on Internet gambling.

The legislation, likely to be opposed by anti-gambling Republicans, would overturn a law imposed during the Bush administration that has hurt U.S. trade ties with the European Union. Frank said the bill was being drafted this week.

"We'll be introducing it next week and I plan to move on it," said Frank, a Democrat, speaking at the Reuters Global Financial Regulation Summit in Washington.

The European Commission, the EU's executive, said late last month in a draft report that a U.S. Justice Department crackdown on European online gambling companies violated U.S. commitments under the World Trade Organization.

But the commission, which oversees trade policy for the 27-nation EU bloc, said it would seek a negotiated solution with the United States rather than file a WTO complaint.

European online gambling firms lost billions of euros in market value after Congress in 2006 made it illegal for banks and credit card companies to make payments to online gambling sites.

Republicans still controlled the White House and Congress when the law was approved. Now, Democrats are in control in both branches of the government, but it's unclear how the Obama administration will handle the issue.

The term gaming in this context typically refers to instances in which the activity has been specifically permitted by law. The two words are not mutually exclusive; i.e., a “gaming” company offers (legal) “gambling” activities to the public.

Netbook Computers might upset the IT

A laptop is a personal computer designed for mobile...use small enough to sit on one's lap.A laptop includes most of the typical components of a desktop computer, including a display, a keyboard, a pointing device speakers, as well as a battery, into a single small and light unit. The rechargeable battery required is charged from an AC/DC adapter and typically stores enough energy to run the laptop for two to three hours in its initial state, depending on the configuration and power management of the computer.

netbook computers might upset the IT establishment this year and potentially usher in new players in a hotly competitive market.

The biggest change in the new pint-sized laptops is what they won't have: Intel Corp chips or a Microsoft Corp Windows PC operating system, which dominate netbooks today.

The new netbooks, which use less energy, will run on the low-power ARM processor platform now used in nine out of 10 mobile phones, rather than Intel's x86-based Atom chip. The UK-based ARM Holdings Plc licenses the chip technology.

As many as 10 ARM-based netbook models could hit the market this year, according to ARM, which declined to identify specific manufacturers. Major PC players and Asian contract manufacturers alike are interested, analysts say.

Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle called the new netbooks "incredibly disruptive," saying: "This is a market that puts the existing PC structure at risk."

While analysts say it's not yet clear if consumers will embrace the ARM devices, interest has been galvanized by the emphasis on power efficiency, prices as low as $200 and the promise of anywhere, anytime computing on PCs small enough to slip into a purse.

What's sacrificed is users' familiarity with PC-based interfaces and systems and sheer processing power. The current $300-$400 Atom netbooks are already mainly good for just surfing the web and less graphics-intensive applications.

So the netbook world arise very fastly, according to the situation

Illegal Copies of Vista now MS Word

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338)...is an American-based multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.


Microsoft has settled with 12 computer retailers caught selling illegal software to unsuspecting customers across the UK over the last six months.

According to the software giant, the majority of the software being pre-loaded onto new PCs were unlicensed copies of Office and the Vista operating system (OS).The move towards illegal copies of Vista is a change from last year when the software giant found large numbers of the perennially popular Windows XP OS being sold illegally.

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“These traders tend to be a bit behind the times but they are catching up with the latest software now,” said a Microsoft representative.

The company said the main aim of its anti-piracy drive is to protect unwitting customers and honest computer shops. It said it will offer consumers free replacement software if they have been duped by sophisticated counterfeit copies.

But Graham Arthur, anti-piracy attorney for Microsoft UK, said: “It’s not always easy to get your money back if you find out you’ve been duped. Having to fork out a second time to replace illegal software is the kind of financial headache no-one needs.”

The 12 traders have all escaped prosecution because they all admitted selling illegal software. The software giant said many of the traders did not realise that they had been illegally hard-loading the software.

Burnt Warranty in AM/PS motherboard

ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated (ASUS)Taiwanese multinational...company, produces motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, PDAs, computer monitors, notebook computers, servers, networking products, mobile phones, computer cases, computer components, and computer cooling systems. Commonly called by its brand name ASUS (pronounced ah-SOOS ] and commonly mispronounced as AY-sus), it has listings on both the London Stock Exchange and the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE: 2357). In 2007, one in three desktop PCs sold used an ASUS motherboard; and the company's 2007 revenues reached US$6.9 billion

Asus has introduced the burnt warranty in AM/PS motherboard with anti-surge technology.

T Vinay Shetty, Country Head, Component Products, Asus said, “The P5KPL-AM/PS motherboard" was conceived by our R&D team especially keeping the Indian environment in mind and under this new warranty policy, the company will replace the motherboard that’s burnt due to power fluctuation. With this little step of providing a real solution to the loss a user could have had due to the power fluctuation problem, we want make a strong impression in the mind of our partners in business and to the users at large, that we are a brand that cares for our customers and work towards a real solution. Technically such an innovative technology would have made its entry in the high-end product line but we wanted this to be a product of the common man; the one who faces the brunt of the power fluctuations.”

Under the new warranty policy, if at all the P5KPL-AM/PS motherboard is burnt due to power supply (SMPS) failure; the customer need not worry as the motherboard will be replaced by the vendor at no extra cost. The company is committed towards offering better services and better products to its customers and partners. And as part of this commitment, Asus along with its exclusive distributor Rashi Peripherals has also set up a toll free number for all service support.

Yahoo Microsoft Deal...Again

Yahoo! Inc.is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and social media websites and services. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.

U.S. software company Microsoft still sees value in a potential partnership with Yahoo even though it is no longer wants to buy it, chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Friday.

"I have said many times that we no longer are interested in acquiring Yahoo, but we'd see the potential to create real value by partnering with Yahoo," he said at an industry event in Germany.

"I have said many times that when the time is right I'm sure we will have such discussions and I've said many times I'm not going to tell you when the time is right."

Technology blog All Things Digital reported this month the chief executives of Microsoft and Yahoo had met to discuss potential partnerships between the companies' Internet search and advertising operations. At the time, both companies declined to comment on the report.

Earlier this week, Ballmer said Microsoft was not interested in buying a hardware company following Oracle Corp's proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems.

2009's Virus Attack

Malware, a portmanteau from the words malicious...and software, is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.The term "computer virus" is sometimes used as a catch-all phrase to include all types of malware, including true viruses.

A malicious software programme known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said.

Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, is quietly turning thousands of personal computers into servers of e-mail spam and installing spyware, they said.

The worm started spreading late last year, infecting millions of computers and turning them into "slaves" that respond to commands sent from a remote server that effectively controls an army of computers known as a botnet.

Vincent Weafer, a vice president, Symantec Security Response, the research arm of Symantec Corp., said: "Its unidentified creators started using those machines for criminal purposes in recent weeks by loading more malicious software onto a small percentage of computers under their control."

"Expect this to be long-term, slowly changing," he said of the worm. "It's not going to be fast, aggressive."

Free Firewall based on the GNU/Linux

A firewall is a part of a computer system or...network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication. It is also a device or set of devices configured to permit, deny, encrypt, decrypt, or proxy all computer traffic between different security domains based upon a set of rules and other criteria.

The Smoothwall Open Source Project is a free firewall based on the GNU/Linux operating system.It is ideal for installation on older computers that are no longer fast enough for day-to-day use but can still perform an important job of keeping a network safe.

The only thing that will probably be needed for the old computer is an extra network card.The download is an ISO image that should be copied to a blank CDR using software such as Active@ ISO Burner. It can then be used to boot the old computer and start the install process.

As this is designed for one purpose only, unlike other Linux distributions, it will wipe the hard disk so make sure all your files are off it first. Once installed it does not need to have a monitor, keyboard or mouse attached and can be controlled over the network.

Graphics Cards For High Level Gaming

ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated (ASUS)a Taiwanese...multinational company, produces motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, PDAs, computer monitors, notebook computers, servers, networking products, mobile phones, computer cases, computer components, and computer cooling systems.

Asus has launched EAH4890 Series graphics cards that utilize Voltage Tweak technology. Hereafter, users will be able to boost GPU voltages via the SmartDoctor application and enjoy up to 15 percent in performance improvement.


“Gaming has been the segment which has made the graphics card industry more challenging and has helped to raise the performance bar for graphics cards. At Asus we take pleasure in providing state of art technology that evolves with every new chipset,” said Vinay Shetty, Country Head, Component Product, Asus.

Equipped with the Voltage Tweak technology and SmartDoctor application, the graphics card raises GPU voltages from 1.312 V to 1.4 V, allowing GPU and memory clock performances to be boosted from 850 MHz to 950 MHz and 3900 MHz to 4600 MHz respectively.

The EAH4890 TOP offers an increase of its GPU and memory clock performances from 850MHz up to 900MHz and 3900MHz up to 4000MHz respectively.

High speed USB 3.0 device Ports are Wait For Pendrive

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard...to connect devices to a host computer. USB was designed to allow many peripherals to be connected using a single standardized interface socket and to improve plug and play capabilities by allowing hot swapping; that is, by allowing devices to be connected and disconnected without rebooting the computer or turning off the device.

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Symwave Inc. announced Symwave's use of the Agilent DSA91304A real-time oscilloscope and J-BERT N4903A high-performance serial BERT as part of its comprehensive USB 3.0 device testing and validation.


Symwave is a leading silicon supplier of system solutions for SuperSpeed USB storage devices.Verifying physical layer device (PHY) performance and compliance to the standard is a critical step to ensure a design will interoperate with other USB 3.0 products. Robust PHY performance can help compensate for poor-quality cables or signal impairments, leading to a better user experience with the end-consumer product.

Agilent's USB 3.0 validation solution is the most comprehensive toolset for USB compliance. To support USB 3.0 PHY silicon testing, Agilent has created a comprehensive test solution for both transmitter and receiver testing that allows design and validation teams to verify specification requirements. Agilent USB testing tools are chosen by test labs and compliance workshops worldwide because of their ease of use, automation and accuracy. Agilent's USB 3.0 toolset will continue this tradition.

USB 3.0 receptacles are compatible with USB 2.0 device plugs for the respective physical form factors. However, only USB 3.0 Standard-B receptacles can accept USB 3.0 Standard-B device plugs.

When operating in SuperSpeed mode, dual-simplex signaling occurs over 2 differential pairs separate from the non-SuperSpeed differential pair. This results in USB 3.0 cables containing 2 wires for power, 2 wires for non-SuperSpeed data, and 4 wires for SuperSpeed data.

Sony Ericsson's Latest Walkman-branded handset -W705

Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established on October 3, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. The stated reason for this venture is to combine Sony's consumer electronics expertise with Ericsson's technological leadership in the communications sector. Both companies have stopped making their own mobile phones.


Sony Ericsson's latest Walkman-branded handset -W705 - recently made its official entry into India. The multimedia and music phone would be is available in two colors, Luxury Silver and Passionate Red. The official price of the W705 is Rs. 17,786.
Features of W705


Award-winning clear audio experience – listen to music as it was meant to be heard
4GB memory card – store up to 3900 songs
Desktop direct search to online music – Go online for the best songs and most popular videos on YouTube
Wi-Fi and DLNA certified – connect the way you want
PlayNow arena - a complete range of mobile entertainment
Shake control – switch tracks and control the volume with the flick of a wrist SensMe Large 2.4" screen
Automatic rotation – switch from portrait to landscape with just a tilt of the phone
Google Maps for Mobile
3.2 megapixel camera
FM radio with TrackID

MySpace Loss His co-founder Soon

MySpace is a social networking website with an...interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said on Wednesday that MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe will not be renewing his contract and will step down from the chief executive post.

DeWolfe will continue to serve on the board of MySpace China and be a strategic advisor to the company, News Corp said in a statement. It said the decision was "by mutual agreement."

News Corp may be courting a former top executive at social network Facebook to replace the chief executive and co-founder of its top rival MySpace, All Things Digital, a media and technology website, reported on Wednesday.

News Corp's recently appointed digital chief, Jonathan Miller, had been considering getting rid of DeWolfe, Peter Kafka reported on Wednesday afternoon on his Media Memo blog, which is part of All Things Digital.

News Corp officials have been gauging former Facebook Chief Operating Officer Owen Van Natta's interest in replacing him, Kafka reported.

News Corp's Miller is also in discussions with the company's other co-founder, Tom Anderson, about assuming a new role in the organization, News Corp said in a statement. Their contracts are set to expire this fall.

The possibility of DeWolfe's departure was first reported by Michael Arrington on his TechCrunch blog on Tuesday.

Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA,[1] where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; which is owned by News Corporation, which has its headquarters in New York City. In June 2006, MySpace was the most popular social networking site in the United States.

Yahoo Inc is shutting down GeoCities

Yahoo! GeoCities was a web hosting service founded...by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet.In its original form, site users selected a "city" in which to place their web pages. The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content
Example-computer-related sites were placed in "SiliconValley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood"—hence the name of the site. This feature has since been abandoned; however, a number of older sites using the original "city" system still exist.

Yahoo Inc is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages for consumers, which it acquired for more than $4 billion 10 years ago during the heyday of the dotcom boom.

A posting on a Yahoo Help page for GeoCities on Thursday said the service was no longer accepting new customers and that it will be closing later this year, with more details about how individuals can save their data coming this summer.

The move comes a few days after Yahoo said it would lay off nearly 700 workers, or 5 percent of its workforce.

Since Chief Executive Carol Bartz took the reins in January, Yahoo has pruned various products and properties to cut costs and focus on fundamentals, as it seeks to revive growth in a tough economy and fierce competition from Google Inc.

Last week, Yahoo said it was shutting down Jumpcut, an online service for editing videos.

Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 in a stock deal valued at roughly $4.6 billion, Reuters reported at the time.

Three New CCNA Specializations Now

Cisco Systems, Inc.is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenue of US$39 billion as of 2008. Headquartered in San Jose, California, it designs and sells networking and communications technology and services.

There are three new CCNA specializations

CCNA Security

The CCNA Security grounds you in core security technologies that every Cisco admin should know and use to secure the network. To pass the certification test, you need to demonstrate that you have the knowledge to set up a security infrastructure that will defend your network from outside threats. For example, you will be tested on security threats, securing a Cisco router with the IOS, implementing AAA, ACLs, the IOS Firewall, and IOS IPS features.

CCNA Voice
The CCNA Voice certification ensures that you have the skill set to perform installation, operation, and administration of VoIP solutions. In preparing for the certification, you will gain a solid foundation in voice applications and their concepts, including Cisco Unified Communications architecture.


CCNA Wireless
This is the "wave" of the future. You will be able to support wireless LANS in your network, as well as be able to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot any Cisco WLANS, which can be of great benefit to you on your Cisco career path.

Mobile viruses can spread in two ways

Mobile virus is an electronic virus...that targets mobile phones or wireless-enabled PDAs wireless phone and PDA networks become more numerous and more complex, it has become more difficult to secure them against electronic attacks in the form of viruses or other malicious software.

Mobile viruses can spread in two ways: through Bluetooth, or via a file sent as a multimedia message. "You have to have the right operating system; the viruses that will spread on the iPhone will not spread on Nokias, and vice versa," said Prof Barabasi.

"It turns out that the Bluetooth way, because it's driven by human mobility, is relatively slow. If you launch a Bluetooth virus it may take anywhere from days to months to spread, particularly if it's not a popular phone."


Mobile viruses have struck when lots of people gatherEventually users take infected phones to shops and replace or reset them, or change phones altogether, and the viruses spread no further.

"The real question is about MMS viruses. They're instantaneous: within two minutes everyone in your address book could have it; within a few hours everyone who is reachable would have it."

To discover the reason that this hasn't happened, the team turned to the network theory that was used in the 2008 work, making use of the data set that showed them the details of users' movement and social connections.

In the network theory, there is a phenomenon known as a "percolation transition".

In social networks, beyond the transition, everyone is connected to everyone. Applied to mobile viruses, the transition describes the point of no return: when everyone who could conceivably have a given virus will get it.

Up to now, viruses transmitted by MMS have spread sufficiently slowly that operators have had a chance to block them. The future scenario will be very different.

"Right now, we're under the percolation threshold. Only 5% of users have smartphones and even those are fragmented into different operating systems - the largest one doesn't even reach 3% of the overall market.

The first instance of a mobile virus occurred in June 2004 when it was discovered that a company called Ojam had engineered an anti-piracy Trojan virus in older versions of their mobile phone game Mosquito. This virus sent SMS text messages to the company without the user's knowledge. This virus was removed from more recent versions of the game; however it still exists on older, unlicensed versions. These older versions may still be distributed on file-sharing networks and free software download web sites.

Hotline Reports Of Child Abuse Images...

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)..., an organization set up by internet service providers to monitor child sexual abuse Web sites, caused a furore in December when it attempted to block a page on online collaborative encyclopaedia Wikipedia.

But the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) says it has moved on after the row in December 2008, and claims its quest to eradicate child abuse images from the web is now having real success.

Critics have accused the organisation of being both unaccountable and ineffective. This week the BBC was given unique access to the work of the IWF, as the watchdog tries to fight back.

It's in a house in a quiet village north of Cambridge that the Internet Watch Foundation runs a hotline for reports of child abuse images. It's a job the self-regulatory body was given in 1996, as the internet industry sought to avoid direct control by the police or government.

wikipedia officials said "Issues included the way that Wikipedia was set up so that the edit facility was frozen, and the way filtering systems were set up at ISPs. Yet all the pressure came to us. Unfortunately the debate was touched off around censorship, but that's not our function. We publish a list [of content] that organizations block on a voluntary basis. But that is secondary to our main [activities], which have always been our hotline, and notice and takedown. That's what self-regulation brought about".

TATA indicom's Facebook mobile on SMS

India's leading Wireless Internet service provider... Leaders in wireless USB Modem, Wireless Laptop Internet Card and Mobile PhonesTata Teleservices Limited,Tata Communications, dialup india from Tata Indicom is India's leading Dialup internet service provider in India.

High speed, superfast internet connection a telecom service provider, launched Facebook mobile on SMS in India recently.The service enables users to receive or send messages and notifications from Facebook, set Facebook status via SMS and also stay connected while offline.

Zubin Jimmy Dubash, AVP, VAS, Tata Teleservices Limited, says: "At Tata Indicom, it is has been our vision to provide ubiquitous access to all our services. We are truly excited to be the first operator in India to launch Facebook on SMS, a very addictive and useful feature for our subscribers to be in touch with their friends anytime, anywhere, and on any handset."

Henri Moissinac, director of Mobile, Facebook, said: "We're very happy to be working with Tata Indicom to bring its customers a great Facebook experience, and give even more people around the world the opportunity to share and connect on Facebook through their mobile devices. More than 30 million Facebook users currently access the site through their mobile devices. This number has quadrupled over the past year, and we expect it to grow as we continue to work with great operators, like Tata Indicom."

To activate the service, Tata Indicom subscribers can register their mobile number on Facebook and start receiving via SMS Facebook messages and notifications. Users can also update their Facebook status at any time by sending a text message to the short code 51555. Users will be charged Rs. 1/- for every SMS sent via short code.

YouTube announced deals with 11 partners For Movies

YouTube is a video sharing websit...where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005.[2] In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google.

Google Inc's YouTube said on Thursday it has reached a deal to post Sony Corp films and TV shows and was talking with other big studios to ramp up content and attract more advertising dollars.

YouTube also announced deals with 11 other partners including the Anime Network, Shout Factory, Telenext Media, Documentary Channel and First Look Studios, bolstering its licensed content offerings from dozens of movies and hundreds of TV episodes to 700 movies and thousands of TV episodes.

YouTube also recently announced a partnership with Walt Disney Co to get shortform excerpts of content from ABC and ESPN, reflecting its aggressive efforts to thaw a chilly relationship with Hollywood, which had criticized it in the past for posting unauthorized content.

Pirate Bay Breaching Copyright???????

The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website...that indexes and tracks BitTorrent (.torrent) files. It bills itself as "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker" and is ranked as the 107th most popular website by Alexa Internet.When breaching the copyright then what the law could do this all about here in reuters,Four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, were each sentenced to a year in jail on Friday for breaching copyright, and ordered to pay $3.6 million in compensation.

Analysts said the guilty verdict in the closely-watched test case could help music and film companies recoup millions of dollars in lost revenues, though they doubted it would stem the tide of illegal downloading.

In a broadcast on The Pirate Bay's website one of the four defendants, Peter Sunde, taunted the court, holding up a mock IOU note for 31 million Swedish crowns ($3.6 million) followed by the initials "JK" -- Internet lingo for "just kidding."

"That's the closest they're going to get to getting money from me," Sunde said.

International trade body IFPI, which represents some 1,400 record companies across the world, reported earlier this year that about 95 percent of music downloaded in 2008 was illegal.On its website, The Pirate Bay scorned the ruling, calling it a "crazy verdict."

"It was lol (laugh out loud) to read and hear," the message read. "But as in all good movies, the heroes lose in the beginning but have an epic victory in the end anyhow. That's the only thing Hollywood has ever taught us."

IFPI Chairman John Kennedy welcomed the court sentence which he said in a statement provided a "a strong deterrent" against copyright infringement.

"This is good news for everyone, in Sweden and internationally, who is making a living or a business from creative activity and who needs to know their rights will protected by law," he said.

The men linked to The Pirate Bay -- Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom -- were charged early last year by a Swedish prosecutor with conspiracy to break copyright law and related offences. They denied the charges.

Companies including Warner Bros., MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony BMG, Universal and EMI also sought damages of more than 100 million crowns ($12 million) to cover lost revenues.

The Stockholm district court said in a statement the four were found guilty of breaching copyright laws and each sentenced to a year in prison.

So please aware of the file sharing websites.

Phishing Is The Criminally Fraudulent Process

In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT Administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting. Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail or instant messaging.Phishing scams have grown up from the unsophisticated swindles of the past in which fake Nigerian princes e-mailed victims, who would get a big windfall if they just provide their bank account number.

Even as authorities try to stamp out that con and other e-mail and online scams, scammers are getting more wily and finding new loopholes to exploit.The vast majority of e-mail is spam and an unknown percentage of that is meant to defraud. The scale of electronic fraud means that that the criminals can make huge profits even if only a small percentage of people are duped.

Phishing commonly refers to hoax e-mails purportedly from banks or other trustworthy sources that seek to trick recipients into revealing bank or credit card account numbers and passwords.

The U.S. government scored a big victory in November when the web hosting company McColo Corp. was taken offline. Estimates vary, but the Washington Post said that 75 percent of spam worldwide had been sent through that single company.But the spam e-mails offering celebrity diets, cheap printer ink, erased credit card debt and amazing orgasms quickly found a new way to inboxes, according to Google's security subsidiary Postini.

Now spammers use a variety of computers to send out spam e-mails to obscure their origins, meaning that a dramatic McColo-style takedown will be harder to reproduce, said Adam Swidler, product marketing manager for Google's Postini.

And they've largely abandoned scams that are easy to see through -- like the Nigerian prince -- in favor of more sophisticated "location-based spam," which directs the victim to a Web site discussing a local disaster or similar issue. If they click on the offered video, the Web site downloads a virus to the user's computer, Google said in a blog on security.

Tim Cranton, a Microsoft cybersecurity expert, said there was no way to know how much money is stolen. "We don't have a way to estimate numbers because there are so many victims that you're not aware of," he said.

WHAT IS 'SMISHING'?

New technology means new ways to steal. One of the latest is "smishing," which is nothing more than a phishing fraud sent via SMS text messaging.E-con artists are getting more sophisticated in approaching potential victims. One tactic has been to write spam that purports to come from a trusted source, like Paypal.

When Paypal, which is owned by eBay, learned that spammers were using its name, they put a digital signature on their e-mails and asked providers like Yahoo and Google to block any e-mail purporting to come from them which did not have that signature.

"We know how many they throw away and it's approximately speaking about 10 million a month," said Michael Barrett, Paypal's chief information security officer. "If the consumer never sees the e-mail in the first place then it's hard for them to get victimized."

A phishing technique was described in detail in 1987, and the first recorded use of the term "phishing" was made in 1996. The term is a variant of fishing,[4] probably influenced by phreaking,[5][6] and alludes to baits used to "catch" financial information and passwords.

Google Never Hit By Economy But Not Enough To Beat google

The worlds no:1 Search Engine google facing some crisis factor
The rotten economy may have broken Google's string of sequential sales gains, but the search giant's shares surged more than 5% in after-hours trading Thursday thanks to stronger than expected first quarter earnings and year-over-year sales gains.

Google ( GOOG - news - people ) also announced that its longtime sales chief, Omid Kordestani, will be moving to the position of senior advisor to the office of the chief executive and founder. Kordestani will be replaced by Nikesh Arora, now president of international operations, as president of global sales operations and business development.

Yahoo! BuzzThe moves come after Tim Armstrong, Google's North America sales chief, jumped ship to take the CEO slot at struggling portal AOL in March. Since then Google has laid off 200 employees in its sales and marketing group.

Excluding special items, Google reported earnings of $5.16 per share, beating the consensus estimate of $4.93 reported by Thomson Reuters. After subtracting traffic-acquisition costs, sales rose 10% to $4.07 billion from $3.70 billlion.

However, the results do mark the first sequential sales drop for the online powerhouse, with sales, when not adjusted for traffic-acquisition costs, down 3% from the previous quarter.

Google shares surged $19.52, or 5.02%, to $409.25 in after-hours trading.

who stolen my lapop.......lets track..

goddamn it........what happenOh my God I loss my laptop.......is this your problem lets read it first

The software runs unobtrusively on your computer, with no icons, popups or saved emails. And the thief who has stolen your laptop, will not even know that LocatePC is running. As soon as the thief connects it to the Internet, it gives out a message to the mail id you have provided thus helping you map out your laptop. Working with LocatePC is simple. We will guide you here on how to install and work with this software.

The software runs on Windows Vista/XP/Me/98. Log in to your system and connect it to Internet. Remember LocatePC does not support HTTP proxy servers, mail servers that use SSL or SPA or IMAP (including Gmail and Hotmail), or email accounts that only work when the PC is connected to a specific ISP. Download the software from http://www.iconico.com/locatePC/index.aspx and install it.

Configure you email by clicking on "Settings" in the main "Console" menu. You need a POP email account for LocatePC to send you email. You can create one from AOL, Gawab, Bluebottle or @inMail24. Next, click on "Email message" under "Settings" menu and enter the mail id which is not your regular one, you can use your friend's id.

Now go to "Email schedule" and set when you want to get an alert from LocatePC. The "Settings" menu also has an "Advanced" menu, that you shouldn't normally need to change. It includes options such as, trace route, show reported IP address, etc. Now try an IP change. You will be greeted with an email with informationlike the IP address of the thief. In our case, we got the following message within three minutes.

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PC sales are stuned the fall rate of 8% all over the world

The sales personel computers fall well enough Global shipments of personal computers slid 8 percent in the first quarter, industry tracker, although falling prices and the increasing popularity of netbooks helped keep sales from slipping even further, IDC said.

In a break from the past, the PC market in the United States fared better than the larger global market with shipments falling just 3.1 percent, IDC added."The US was surprisingly strong, it outperformed our forecast," said Bob O'Donnell, VP, IDC adding that the numbers were a positive sign for the overall market.

"The fact that the US outperformed the worldwide total is hopeful."

IDC also said the global result was slightly better than it had expected, and that PC demand has shown some resilience compared with the previous downturn.It estimated the total global PC market in 2008 was $243 billion.

The firm expects more stable production over the coming quarters, with growth returning around the end of the year.George Shiffler, research director, Gartner, said that there is evidence of restocking of inventory in the distribution channel, but that this should not be interpreted as a recovery in demand.

"It's still unclear if the global PC market has hit the bottom," he added.What is clear is that consumers' move to low-cost laptops--including netbooks--is keeping PC shipments from slipping further. Netbooks shipments remain on track to double in 2009, IDC said.

Top PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co managed to grow overall shipments by 2.9 percent and increase its industry-leading global market share to 20.5 percent.HP also claimed the top spot in the US market from Dell, which had held that position since 1999, IDC said.

The way of IT fall down is affect the hardware industry very well such cases make fact dirty, so the dealers all over the world suffer from this fall down

Dell continued to lose ground, with shipments diving 16.7 percent in the first quarter, hurt by weakness in the enterprise market.Dell's market share slipped to 13.6 percent, IDC said, good for second-place, while number three Acer Inc gained ground and increased its share to 11.6 percent.

But Gartner's data showed Dell and Acer in a virtual tie for second place.

Lenovo and Toshiba Corp rounded out the top five.

Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, said it saw signs that a bottom in the PC market had been reached, a hopeful indicator for the sector.

Twitter is the micro blogging website

The World About bLogging is now start its how going it doesnt matter its about Twitter, Evan Williams, the co-founder of the micro-blogging site Twitter, unleashed a storm of rumours with just a tweet.

"Tomorrow just became a very big day" his 70-odd character tweet read.

The moment it appeared on Twitter, there were interpretations and rumours from many corners – while some interpreted it could be a big announcement, others felt it could be something related to Evan's personal life.

What could be the possible announcement? It could be that talk queen Oprah Winfrey is starting to use Twitter from Friday.According to news reports, the megastar talk show host plans to send her first "tweet," on the hot micro-blogging service on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Friday.

Within hours of Oprah announcing the creation of her Twitter account, @oprah, on her Facebook page on Thursday, it attracted more than 36,000 followers.oprah has also said that the guest on her show on Friday would be the man she described as the "King of Twitter" - Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher.

Recently Twitter was in news following the rumour that Google may buy the microblogging site. Then came the news of CNN taking control of the popular Twitter account CNNbrk, which is being handled by London-based developer James Cox.

And now this mysterious tweet has once again made news. And there are people like Dan Frommer from Silicon Alley Insider, who believes the announcement could be totally personal. "Is Even telling us something about his personal life - perhaps a development in his wife's pregnancy?" he asked.

Anyhow, a less-than-140-character tweet is enough for Twitter to unleash a wind for Twitter, it is for sure. But do you think the 'mysterious' tweet is a hype to be in the media limelight

So twitter will emerge well as in the blogging world

Track your site or blog with extreme tracking

extreme Tracker is the high rated traffic tracker its provide stats for following information....
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its counting the sites ip address and the location of the visitors and country with map advanced contents are including in the follwing way
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In this extreme tracking in the two ways one is called in the format of public tracker and another one is the private tracker in this private tracker you get extra optins for finding the visitors of your website and also it is very useful to finding the high level chart map.

compare with other tracker its very simple login format and sats are giving the exact result, some of the other trackers also very some thing like feedjit is one of interesting tracker and state counter is also is one of the traffic finder.

SEO is the success of your blgs try some thiing

Search Engine Optimization Is one of the best

phase of site or blog validation so if you want your site very popular means then follow the tip given below


Must use bold tags. Use the tags around some of your keywords on each page. Do NOT use them everywhere the keyword appears. Once or twice is plenty.

Best is do linking. Make sure you have links coming in to as many pages as possible. What does it tell a search engine when other web sites are linking to different pages on your site? That you obviously have lots of worthwhile content. What does it tell a search engine that all your links are coming in to the home page? That you have a shallow site of little value, or that your links were generated by automation rather than by the value of your site. Here is an example of deep linking, in this case to my personal happiness workbook.

See canada, Uk Directories. Canada and the UK have many directories for websites of companies based in those countries. Can you get a business address in one of those countries?

Subcribe the newsletters. Offer articles to ezine publishers that archive their ezines. The links stay live often for many years in their archives.

Be the first to show. If you must have image links in your navigation bar, include also text links. However, make sure the text links show up first in the source code, because search engine robots will follow the first link they find to any particular page. They won't follow additional links to the same page. You can see this in action at the link to the home page on this web site monitoring page

Trying to put Multiple domains. If you have several topics that could each support their own website, it might be worth having multiple domains. Why? First, search engines usually list only one page per domain for any given search, and you might warrant two. Second, directories usually accept only home pages, so you can get more directory listings this way. Why not a site dedicated to gumbo pudding pops?

Search Article exchanges websites. You've heard of link exchanges, useless as they generally are. Article exchanges are like link exchanges, only much more useful. You publish someone else's article on the history of pudding pops with a link back to their site. They publish your article on the top ten pudding pop flavors in Viet Nam, with a link back to your site. You both have content. You both get high quality links. (More on high quality links in other tips.)

Give Titles for Each links. Links can get titles, too. Not only does this help visually impaired surfers know where you are sending them, but some search engines figure this into their relevancy for a page.

Aware of using Not anchor text. Don't overdo the anchor text. You don't want all your inbound links looking the same, because that looks like automation - something Google frowns upon. Use your URL sometimes, your company name other times, "Gumbo Pudding Pop" occasionally, "Get gumbo pudding pops" as well, "Gumbo-flavored pudding pops" some other times, etc.

Site map Important task. A big site needs a site map, which should be linked to from every page on the site. This will help the search engine robots find every page with just two clicks. A small site needs a site map, too. It's called the navigation bar. See how the second navigation bar at the bottom of Last Minute Florida Villas is like a mini-site map?

How to improve the pagerank to your blog,or website

Pagerank is given hightraffic...

value every blog owners and domains, so this rank is give accoring to the backlinks of your website, so u want achieving this page rank means u must add your site to social bookmark site like digg,vov like websites, then only you are going to achive the good page rank for your site, if you put the posts in genuine way then surely you are going to get page rank.

The page ranks are starting from 0->10 when u got 0 then you are able to get higher rank also, so put the genuiene articles in the site and also watch out for bokmaking your site links.
if u want to know your page rank to all the visitors means you must want to add some scriptor links toyour blog or site

To install Page Rank Checking tool on your site, you just need to add a small piece of HTML code to those web pages where you want to check the page rank and free PR checker tool will show the small icon that displays the current Google.com PageRank of the web page.these below useful know about yoursite pagerank

http://www.prchecker.info/

Sample Software Project Documentation

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

SYNOPSIS
1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Overview of the Project
1.2 Organization Profile

2. SYSTEM ANALYSIS
2.1 Existing System
2.2 Proposed System
2.3 System Specification
2.3.1 Hardware Specification
2.3.2 Software Specification

3. SYSTEM DESIGN

3.1 Design Notations
3.1.1 Data Flow Diagram
3.1.2 System Flow Diagram
3.1.3 E-R Diagram
3.2 Design Process
3.2.1 Input Design
3.2.2 Output Design
3.2.3 Database Design
3.2.4 Code Design

4. SYSTEM TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION

4.1 System Testing
4.1.1 Testing Methodologies
4.2 System Implementation
4.3 System Security
4.4 System Maintenance

5. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE ENHANCEMENT

BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX

Yahoo reports its first-quarter financial

What happens when we put a few folks... on the Yahoo! Search team in aprons and task them to cook a meal for 450 hungry Yahoos? Find out tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Food Network’s Dinner Impossible episode, “Yahoo! Search Scramble.”

The layoffs could be announced next Tuesday, when Yahoo reports its first-quarter financial results, the newspaper cited sources as saying. Yahoo's last round of layoffs was in December, under former CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang.

The company, which is the No 2 US Internet search provider, finished 2008 with roughly 13,600 employees, down by more than 1,600 employees from the third quarter of 2008.

A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment on the reports of further layoffs.

The cuts would come almost two months after Bartz implemented a broad internal management reorganization and as Yahoo explores partnerships to help revive its growth. Yahoo and Microsoft Corp met recently to discuss a deal involving the company's search business, according to a source familiar with the matter who wished to remain anonymous.

BlackBerry App World

BlackBerry Curve 8900 to try out...


The recently rolled out BlackBerry App World.

The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager. In 2002, the more commonly known smartphone BlackBerry was released, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services as well as a multi-touch interface.

Lately, any smart phone maker worth its salt is operating or about to launch an application store that corrals all kinds of free and paid software you can download straight to your handset. Apple Inc started the trend with July's release of its App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Google Inc runs one for phones that support its Android operating system, currently just the T-Mobile G1, though more are expected, and Nokia Corp runs several it plans to consolidate into one. Palm Inc is developing the Palm App Catalog for its upcoming Pre handset, while Microsoft Corp is making one for phones that use its Windows Mobile OS.

Not wanting to be left in the dust, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd unveiled App World early this month, marking a major change from the past, when third-party programs were available for BlackBerrys but not in one convenient spot.

App World will undoubtedly appeal to RIM's growing legion of consumer users, as well as business users with some free time. But with only a fraction of the applications available through Apple's App Store and many fewer than Google's Android Market, App World has a lot of growing to do before it can become a serious contender in the booming smart phone application market. It doesn't help either that starting prices are three times those for Apple and Google programs.

eBay for $350 million

eBay Inc offered to buy South Korean...

online retailer Gmarket Inc for up to $1.2 billion, making it the leader in the world's sixth-largest e-commerce market.

The US online auctioneer said it already secured 67 per cent of Gmarket, as top shareholders including Yahoo Inc and Interpark agreed to eBay's cash tender offer.

Interpark, a South Korean online mall operator, said it would sell its 29 per cent stake in Gmarket to eBay for $350 million, while Yahoo said it was selling its 10 per cent stake. A source familiar with the situation said the sale would result in $120 million in proceeds for Yahoo, and a $52 million pre-tax gain.

The tender price of $24 per share represents a 20.2 per cent premium to Gmarket's latest close of $19.96. Assuming all outstanding shares are tendered, the total purchase price would be about $1.2 billion.

Nasdaq-listed Gmarket runs customer-to-customer market places and has more than 10 million registered users in South Korea. It competes with eBay's South Korean unit, Internet Auction Co. eBay said it would combine Gmarket, which is focused on fashion, with Internet Auction, whose strengths are in electronics and sports goods.

Nokia sales for the first three months

Nokia Thursday reported first-quarter...sales down about 27 percent year-on-year, as sales of mobile phones dropped below 100 million units.

Nokia sales for the first three months of 2009 were €9.3 billion (US$12.3 billion), below analyst expectations of €9.7 billion. Profit was €4 million, compared to €1.2 billion a year ago.

The current environment is exceptionally tough, according to Nokia. Looking forward it expects sales during the second quarter to be about the same or maybe up slightly. Nokia also reiterates that sales volumes for 2009 will drop by about 10 percent, compared to 2008.

The company sold 93.2 million phones during the first quarter, a steep drop from the 113.1 million it sold during the fourth quarter of 2008.

Despite the drop, sales were still slightly higher than expected, according to Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner. Although the market remained very challenging the good news today is that it is showing some signs that it is stabilizing, she said via e-mail. She pointed to the fact that Nokia hasn't changed its outlook for 2009.

Nokia highlighted sales of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which came in at 2.6 million units, as a bright spot.

Also, despite the sales drop Nokia's market share has steady at 37 percent over the past two quarters, based on the company's own estimates.

"The bottom line is that although sales were a bit better than anticipated the strain on the market is clearly seen in the financial results with an average sales price that dropped," said Milanesi.

England High rated BT Group Plc Telecommunication

BT backs Tech Mahindra Satyam deal

England High rated BT Group Plc, the British telecommunications carrier that holds 31per cent of Tech Mahindra, said it backed its affiliate's plan to acquire a stake in scandal-hit Satyam Computer Services.

"As a shareholder in Tech Mahindra we support the deal," a BT spokesman said.

BT is also a major customer of Tech Mahindra, which provides software services.

Tech Mahindra said on Monday it would pay more than $550 million for a controlling stake in Satyam Computer Services Ltd, throwing a lifeline to the fraud-hit company and propelling itself into the top tier of Indian outsourcing companies..

So the techmahendra evaluting its share holders to develope the scandel company to provide embedded software produts once again