Maple Wooden Phone

The gadget presented to you here is called Maple wooden phone, which is just a piece of wood before you touch it. , when it gets your touch, it’ll turn itself into a cellphone which you can make calls using it.

The Maple phone is made out of African Blackwood, which comes in the dimensions of 4.5 x 10.4 x 9.8 cm. It’s loaded with those common features found on today’s cellphones, such as MP3 player, digital camera, and of course the basic functions like calling or texting.

The Maple phone is to have its display placed at the back, which will be shown to you when you slide the handset. The phone is equipped with various sensors which are sensitive to touches. When it gets your first touch while being at the off state, it’ll turn itself on, light up all those touch-sensitive buttons and become ready waiting for your next inputs. The Maple phone is said to use the capacitive touch technology.

The phone now still stays as a concept, which was designed by Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee. Now words about when it’ll go for production run. The price could be cheaper than any other average cellphones, since it’s made of wood. But, hopefully, it’ll get treated to prevent from becoming the food of termites.

Maple wooden phone concept, touch it turn it into a phone

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Windows 7 Security Features Get Tough

Two years after Windows Vista debuted, many companies have yet to upgrade. And in many instances their reluctance to migrate to Vista stemmed from concern about security.
Microsoft hass responded with its latest operating system, Windows 7, currently in public beta and expected to ship later this year. In Windows 7, new security features have been added, popular features expanded, and familiar features enhanced. Here's a look at a dozen or so security improvements that we expect will convince even the most recalcitrant corporate clients to upgrade.
Improved Migration Tools
Microsoft says that Windows 7 will be faster and easier to roll out across an enterprise than previous OS migrations were. Much of the credit for the anticipated improvement goes to new tools such as Dynamic Driver Provisioning, Multicast Multiple Stream Transfer, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
With Dynamic Driver Provisioning, drivers are stored centrally, separate from images. IT professionals can arrange for installation by individual BIOS sets or by the Plug and Play IDs of a PC's hardware. Microsoft says that reducing the number of unnecessary drivers installed will help avoid potential conflicts and will accelerate installation. With Windows 7, as with Windows Vista, IT professionals can update system images offline, and even maintain a library of images that includes different drivers, packages, features, and software updates.
Rolling out any particular image across the entire network--or even installing individual images on desktops--is faster in Windows 7, thanks to the new Multicast Multiple Stream Transfer feature. Instead of individually connecting to each client, deployment servers "broadcast" the images across the network to multiple clients simultaneously.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), another desktop deployment model, allows users to access their desktops remotely, thereby centralizing data, applications, and operating systems. VDI supports Windows Aero, Windows Media Player 11 video, multiple-monitor configurations, and microphone support for voice over IP (VoIP) and speech recognition. New Easy Print technology permits VDI users to print to local printers. But use of VDI requires a special license from Microsoft, and doesn't offer the full functionality of an installed operating system.
Protecting Corporate Assets
Once the OS is installed, organizations may protect their assets with authentication for log-in. Windows Vista included drivers for fingerprint scanners, and Windows 7 makes such devices easier for IT professionals and end-users to set up, configure, and manage. Windows 7 extends the smart card support offered in Windows Vista by automatically installing the drivers required to support smart cards and smart card readers, without administrative permission.
IT professionals may further protect the contents of their Windows 7 volumes with BitLocker, Microsoft's whole-disk encryption system. Windows Vista users have to repartition their hard drive to create the required hidden boot partition, but Windows 7 creates that partition automatically when BitLocker is enabled. In Windows Vista, IT professionals must use a unique recovery key for each protected volume. But Windows 7 extends the Data Recovery Agent (DRA) to include all encrypted volumes; as a result, only one encryption key is needed on any BitLocker-encrypted Windows machine.
BitLocker To Go is a new feature that lets users share BitLocker-protected files with users running Windows Vista and Windows XP. The BitLocker To Go desktop reader provides simple, read-only access to the protected files on non-BitLocker-protected systems. To unlock the protected files, the user must provide the appropriate password (or smart-card credentials).

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Gmail Goes Offline

If you live in Gmail, but don’t always have a broadband connection available, today should be a happy day for you. Google is rolling out a new system for letting Gmail users access their accounts offline. Google will cache your messages on your system using Google Gears. You’ll be able to open your browser to Gmail.com, see your inbox, read and label messages and even write replies without a Net connection. Your messages will send once your system reconnects to the Web.
The system is beta (of course) and accessible through Gmail Labs. But it won’t be immediately available to everyone – Google is parsing out access as it experiments with the new feature. I don’t have access to the new feature yet, so I’ve still got lots of questions. But Google’s post makes it sound like the experience will be almost indistinguishable from using Gmail normally.
“Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you're connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail's servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer's hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you're used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection,” Gmail Engineer Andy Palay wrote.
There will also be a “flaky connection mode” that’s supposed to give you the best of both worlds. It’ll assume that you’re disconnected and use the local cache to store your data, but whenever your connection is working, it’ll sync with Google’s servers in the background.

This all sounds pretty good, but here are my questions:

How much will Gmail cache?

Just my inbox, my entire 6.2GB mail file or something in between? I work pretty hard to keep my inbox clear, so I hope that it’ll cache more than just my inbox.
How extensively can you search?

The biggest reason we use Gmail is that we can find a message we got two years ago in just a few seconds with the right search terms. But depending on just how much gets cached, your search capability could be severely limited.
Will you work the same way in Gmail whether you’re offline or online?

That’s certainly the way Google makes it sound. If so, that’ll be a big step forward from other attempts to bring webmail offline. You’ve long been able to access your Gmail account through a client like Mozilla Thunderbird. But that doesn’t give you all the Gmail functionality like labels. Yahoo Mail has offered offline access since last summer using Zimbra Desktop. But that also involves using a client on your desktop. For offline access to Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft suggests using their Mail client software.
Is Gears up to the challenge?

Google launched this system for creating offline access to Web apps nearly two years ago. For a long time, the only apps that used it were Google Reader and to do list Remember the Milk -- an indication that developing for and implementing Gears wasn’t quite as simple as Google would have you believe. In fact, bringing Gmail offline was an obvious use of Gears that has taken 21 months to come to fruition.
(Google also says it's readying an offline version of Google Calendar, also presumably using Gears, though the company didn't specifically say that. Offline Calendar will initially be available only for users of Google Apps Standard Edition and there's no firm release date.)
Is Gears ready now? We’ll see soon.

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Russia to Develop Linux-based Alternative to Windows?

Details are scarce, unless Russian is your language of choice, but CNews is reporting that Russia plans to develop its own national operating system. The move is designed to reduce Russia's need to rely on foreign software and licensing agreements. And the alleged "open code" solution, likely a Linux/GNU derivative, will give Russia a greater degree of customization, as well as increased control over how the potentially free OS is used and accessed.
This isn't the first time Russia has dabbled with the idea of widespread open-source software distribution. According to Russia Today, a pilot program is already underway in three Russian regions to replace Microsoft-branded operating systems in Russian schools with Linux alternatives. All Russian schools are expected to make the software switch by 2009, according to Russian leaders.
Expect the national transition to put a large feather in the cap of Linux advocates worldwide. But will it spurn increased U.S. adoption of the open-source OS? The economic crisis might be more fuel for that fire. A "free the penguin" initiative aimed at increasing Linux adoption in U.S. academic institutions signed up more than 3,000 interested schools between September and December of 2008--that's 20,000 new open-source desktops across 29 separate states.

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Add Windows 7-Style Icons to Vista

As most Windows watchers know by now, Windows 7 brings a handful of interface tweaks to the table, starting with large, eye-pleasing program icons that take up residence in the taskbar. Of course, this is little more than an update to the Quick Launch feature that debuted in Windows XP. And believe it or not, Vista users can easily bring that Windows 7 look to their own taskbars.

Here's how:

1. Right-click any open space in the taskbar and clear the checkmark from Lock the Taskbar.
2. Right-click the taskbar again and choose Toolbars, Quick Launch. A small batch of icons appears next to the Start button.
3. Click and drag the Quick Launch toolbar's right handle to the right to create some extra icon space.
4. Right-click in an open space within that toolbar, then choose View, Large Icons.

Presto! Now your Vista taskbar should look a lot like Windows 7's. To add icons, just drag and drop any program, folder, or individual file to the Quick Launch toolbar.

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Cybercrooks Target Social Networks

The distribution of malware on social networking sites first occurred in small amounts towards the end of 2007, but that trend appears to be on the rise.
According to a report from MessageLabs Intelligence, which specializes in the analysis of messaging security issues and threats, a popular tactic in 2008 among cyber criminals involved the creation of fictitious accounts on social networking sites. These fake accounts were then used to post malicious links, which usually led to a phishing site, to legitimate users.
Scammers would then make use of the phished personal information, such as usernames and passwords, to gain access to legitimate accounts. This access would be used to post blog comments on their pages of their friends, and send messages from the phished accounts to other contacts. These messages usually contained spam, including links to spam sites such as online pharmacies.
"Web 2.0 offers endless opportunities to scammers for distributing their malware--from creating bogus social networking accounts to spoofed videos--and in 2008, the threats targeting social networking environments became very real," said Richard Bowman, regional manager, MessageLabs South Asia.
Trend continues
Another report from security expert Symantec, which owns MessageLabs, showed this trend does not look to be slowing down.
The report, which analysed Web threats for the month of January 2009, said social networking sites continue to be popular premises for cyber criminals seeking potential victims.
According to the Symantec report, January saw the emergence of e-mail spam which closely mimicked legitimate notification e-mails of two major social networking sites. These spam messages, which invited users to join a group on the social networking site, contained a link to a virtual group created on the site by the spammers.
This virtual group would be linked to a free blogging site before redirecting the user to the destination URL. Upon clicking this URL, users would be faced with the request to fill out a form collecting personal information. Information collected could then be sold to marketing companies or used for other malicious purposes

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Intel cuts Quad-core Chip Prices by up to 40%

Intel Corp. announced price cuts across a wide range of processors used in mobile and desktop PCs, including reductions of up to 40% on its quad-core chips.
For example, Intel's Core 2 Quad Q9650 processors are now priced at $316, a 40% drop from january. The prices of other Core 2 Quad chips were cut by between 16% and 20%. The quad-core chips, which debuted in January 2007, are used in high-end desktops, such as gaming systems.
Intel's move could be a response to increasing price pressure exerted by rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.which earlier this month announced a pair of Phenom II quad-core chips for high-end desktops. AMD's chips are priced at between $235 and $275.
Intel also cut prices on some of its Xeon chips for servers and Celeron processors for mobile devices. The quad-core Xeon 3370 is now priced at $316, a 40% drop from December, while the Celeron 570 chip was cut by 48%, from $134 to $70.
Amidst the price reductions, Intel introduced three more power-efficient versions of Core 2 Quad chips, adding an "s" at the end of their model numbers. For example, the new Core 2 Quad Q9550s includes 12MB of L2 cache, runs at 2.83GHz and draws 65 watts of power. Priced at $369, the Q9550s is a retooled version of the Core 2 Quad Q9550, which draws 95 watts of power.
The other new chips include the Q9400s, which runs at 2.66GHz, and the Q8200s, which runs at 2.33GHz. Those two processors are priced at $320 and $245, respectively.

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Google shuts off Antiphishing feature in Firefox 2.0

Google Inc. will turn off the antiphishing service used by Firefox 2.0 today, a Mozilla Corp. executive said Monday.
Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox.
"If you're using a previous version of Firefox 2, even though the feature is enabled in your browser, as of January 20 no new data will be sent to your computer," Beltzner said in a post to the Mozilla developer center blog Monday.
Mozilla had warned users last month that Firefox 2.0, which was slated to be dropped from support, would soon lack antiphishing protection because Google wanted to discontinue the obsolete blacklist protocol that served the aged browser.
Google and Mozilla had worked together to update the protocol, first to SafeBrowsing v2.1 in late 2007, and then to SafeBrowsing v2.2 last year. In December, Mozilla urged people still running Firefox 2.0 to upgrade to the newer Firefox 3.0, which includes a working antiphishing feature.
Beltzner repeated that advice Monday. "If you're running Firefox 2.0.0.20, you can select 'Check for Updates' in the Help menu to receive an update right now," he said in another blog entry.
Mozilla has made three separate upgrade offers to Firefox 2.0 users since August, the most recent on Jan. 8. In notes published last week, however, Mozilla said that the uptake on the offer had not been "very good."
Users running versions older than Firefox 2.0.0.20 can download Firefox 3.0 from Mozilla's site.
If users can't or do not want to upgrade to Firefox 3.0, Beltzner recommended that they disable the setting "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery" in the Security preferences section of Firefox 2.0's Options dialog box.

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India Preparing To Launch Bhuvan To Combat Google Earth

India is all set to launch Bhuvan in March 2009 to combat Google Earth. Google Earth is providing high resolution data in the order of less than a metre. But the data is two to three years old. It cannot be of much use for any real-time exercise. But Bhuvan, to be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will get the images from the satellites and provide high resolution imagery data of the order of five metres. This can be of use for real-time exercises like disaster management and military operations.

Bhuvan, India's response to Google Earth, will be launched in March 2009 and will provide high resolution imagery data of the order of five metre which would be of great relevance for real-time exercises, including disaster management and military operations.
"The Google Earth is providing high resolution data in the order of less than a metre. But the data is two to three years old. It cannot be of much use for any real-time exercise. But Bhuvan will provide the relevant data for any real-time exercise," S K Pathan, Head, Geo Informatics Data Division, ISRO, said.
Bhuvan, to be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will be a better alternative to Google Earth in terms of quality of data, he said.
"Bhuvan, which means earth, will get the images from the satellites and provide high resolution imagery data of the order of five metre. This can be of use for real-time exercises like disaster management and military operations," he said.
For real-time exercises, the latest data is a guiding force, he said. It can show the topography, altitude, depth and other features of any specific location.
"This information will be required when you are undertaking a massive exercise like flood management or post-cyclone disaster mitigation," he said.
The data could be of use to manage public services, internal security, town planning and infrastructure development activities.

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Microsoft Violates European Competition Law

According to the European Commission, other browsers are foreclosed from competing because Windows includes Microsoft's own browser.

The European Commission has accused Microsoft of violating European competition law by including Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system. In its statement, the European Commission said, "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between Web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."
As per the EU, other browsers are prevented from competing with IE because Windows includes Microsoft's own browser. Microsoft has included IE with its Windows operating system since 1996.

Yesterday Microsoft received a Statement of Objections from the directorate general for competition of the European Commission. The Statement of Objections expresses the Commission’s preliminary view that the inclusion of Internet Explorer in Windows since 1996 has violated European competition law. According to the Statement of Objections, other browsers are foreclosed from competing because Windows includes Internet Explorer. The Statement of Objections states that the remedies put in place by the US courts in 2002 following antitrust proceedings in Washington, D.C. do not make the inclusion of Internet Explorer in Windows lawful under European Union law.

Microsoft now has two months to issue a written response to the directorate general.

Microsoft said in a statement, "We are committed to conducting our business in full compliance with European law. We are studying the Statement of Objections now. Under European competition law procedure, Microsoft will be afforded an opportunity to respond in writing to this Statement of Objections within about two months. The company is also afforded an opportunity to request a hearing, which would take place after the submission of this response. Under EU procedure, the European Commission will not make a final determination until after it receives and assesses Microsoft’s response and conducts the hearing, should Microsoft request one."

This is not the first time the EU accuses Microsoft of curbing Web browser rivalry. The EU and Microsoft have engaged in legal battles over competition issues for years.

Microsoft encountered turmoil in March 2004 when antitrust legal action was brought against it by the European Union for abusing its current dominance with the Windows operating system, eventually resulting in a judgment to produce new versions of its Windows XP platform—called Windows XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional N—that did not include its Windows Media Player, as well as a fine of €497 million ($613 million).

Microsoft announced on 21 February 2008 that it will share more information about its products and technology in order to make it easier for developers to create software that works with its products. However, the European Union continued to demonstrate its dissatisfaction with the company for its lack of compliance with the March 2004 judgment and subsequently, on 27 February 2008 imposed an additional fine of €899 million ($1.4 billion), the largest fine in the history of EU competition policy.

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Why Vista and Office Could Be the Downfall of Microsoft

Microsoft has made, what I think are, mistakes in changing the user interfaces on their two most important products, Windows and Office. Each is doing its best to drive away existing customers. The techies at Microsoft seem to lack an understanding of the needs of normal people and thus may have started the company on its inevitable decline.
Computerworld may not be the place to make this argument, as many readers, no doubt, enjoy playing with new software. But others don't. I'm speaking of the vast majority of the world whose jobs are not IT related. These people may use computers, even need them, but they view them as a tool to get their job done. Nothing more. As a consultant, I see this all the time in my clients.
Last week, in making a case for cloud computing, fellow Computerworld blogger Mark Everett Hall also spoke out for non-techies:
Like me, working people think of their computers and the software they run as tools. Nothing more. So when it's time to upgrade an operating system or download a new application, we consider it a burden and a waste of our time.
For the most part non-techies know Windows XP. They're comfortable with it and changing is a hassle, perhaps one they can't afford. Or, one they just can't be bothered with.
In Vista, lots of stuff got moved around. Techies adapt easily. Normal people, not so much. User interface changes that seem trivial to techies are a pain to the rest of humanity.
If non-techies ruled at Microsoft, they would have forced Vista to look and act as much like XP as possible. But no. Many Vista reviews, even positive ones, complained about the user interface changes saying much of it was change for changes sake. Big mistake.
And now Microsoft is doing the same with Windows 7 which, again, sports another new user interface, including big changes to the task bar.
The techies in the Redmond home office seem unaware of the millions of people to whom the computer is just a tool, rather than the be all and end all of their existence.
Techies will tell you that most of the driver issues with Vista have been resolved. Perhaps that's true. But try telling that to someone whose old printer doesn't work with their new Vista computer. Someone to whom a driver is the person that makes buses and trucks move. If non-techies had power at Microsoft they would have insisted that Vista support every printer that XP supports. But no, backward compatibility was sacrificed at the altar of a new driver model. The techies win, normal people lose.
Perhaps the best example of how clueless Microsoft is regarding user interfaces is, of course, Vista's annoying UAC. The concept is fine, but the implementation was too much of a pain. Microsoft tried to do the right thing, but did such a poor job on the user interface that some opted to turn off UAC altogether. It's not like Microsoft didn't know that UAC was annoying. I recall reading complaints about UAC while Vista was still in beta and Microsoft claimed they would make it less annoying when the OS was finally finished.This pattern has continued with Office where the 2007 edition looks and acts drastically different from its predecessors (not to mention introducing new file formats). Compared to Office 2000, XP/2002 and 2003 it's as if Office 2007 threw all the cards up in the air and reshuffled the deck. Here too, I don't think Microsoft appreciated how entrenched the classic Office interface is and how difficult it will be for non-techies to use the newer software.
Perhaps there are yardsticks by which the user interface in Office 2007 is judged better, my point isn't to make that judgement. My point is simply that many people can't or won't change. By no longer selling Office 2003, Microsoft is forcing them to eventually change. Where will they go?
Years ago, IBM thought they ruled the world in PCs. After all, they had invented the standard. But the corporate ego was bigger than their power to lead. They introduced a new hardware design called Micro Channel and no one used it. While it solved a problem at the time, there were other ways to solve the same problem and the personal computer industry didn't like Micro Channel. IBM thought they could dictate to the industry, but they were wrong.
Can Microsoft dictate?
Many times they tried to put their foot down on Windows XP, but they keep extending the deadline for selling it. It's been fascinating to watch this tug of war, between what the market wants and what Microsoft wants.
Most companies would be glad to keep selling a product that customers want to buy. Not Microsoft.
Microsoft can force people to change, but they can't force them to change to the latest version of Windows or Office.
On many computers, I've installed the free Open Office, not so much because it's free but because its interface is similar to the older versions of Office and thus it's better suited for someone accustomed to that interface. Open Office will never be great at converting Microsoft Office documents, so I also install the free Office viewers. Often I've wished that Microsoft still sold Office 2003.
When the time comes that Windows XP can no longer be pre-installed on new computers, Macs and Linux will both benefit, of course. How much? I can't wait to see. If someone has to learn a new operating system, they may as well do it on a system that's immune to most malicious software. I hear that the tech support from Apple is terrific, certainly the price on Linux can't be beat. And they can both run Open Office.
As techies, Microsoft builds software for techies. It's only natural. But, they may become irrelevant as normal people look elsewhere.

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Symantec Faces a New Year of New Threats

New year, new threats. And Symantec claims it is ready to defend users against malicious software (malware) attacks now being tried out by well-organized cyber criminals.
Being the first IT firm to hold a media conference in the Philippines this year, the security and storage company brought in its executive vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) Mark Bregman to talk about security threats users should watch out for in 2009 as well as Symantec's IT security strategies.
Bregman revealed four key trends that will impact decisions on the way organizations secure and manage information, namely: consumerization of IT, information as target of malware, IT governance, and migration from tapes to disks, which is more of a data backup concern.
Under consumerization of IT, Bregman said there is a need for IT and business leaders to be confident that their sensitive information is protected, no matter where it is. The concern stems from various reasons, particularly the rising popularity of social networking sites, such as Facebook, which a lot of businesses are taking advantage of.
The executive added employees nowadays also store both personal and corporate data on laptops and mobile devices. He cited this as one of the reasons why data loss prevention and encryption technologies are getting more attention at the C-level and board level.
Bergman said information is the prime target for malicious attacks and the booming underground economy.
"Information is doubling every two years and this increases the risk of malware attacks," he said, adding IT governance is driving organizations to look at their risk-exposures and compliance status while the ongoing migration from tapes to disks dramatically transforms the way data is stored and managed.
Bregman, who guides Symantec's investments in advanced research and is responsible for the company's development centers in India and China, revealed that there will be more targeted threats and a more mature business model for cyber criminals this year.
He said cyber criminals today are getting more sophisticated, outsmarting the blacklisting and whitelisting security approach to malware by creating different software and by launching a more targeted approach.

As a solution, Bregman announced Symantec is deploying a new "reputation-based" software rating system that can accurately categorize less popular legitimate and malicious files in the "long tail."
"Reputation-based is a new strategy and works well into the gray area. It is even quicker than human analysts," Bregman said, claiming the new approach to malicious code protection classifies different types of software whether popular or unpopular.
He said customers of Norton (Symantec's manufacturer of security solutions) shall be armed with the reputation-based software on the next software update and later in Symantec's consumer endpoints.
Yet Bregman noted Symantec would continue to use blacklisting to identify high-prevalence malware programs and would also build a massive whitelist to identify popular, legitimate programs and allow them to run unhindered.
Citing a report from the Symantec Research Lab (SRL), Bregman said among the security trends to watch out for in 2009 are: Explosion of malware variants, advanced Web threats, social networks, spam level rise, virtual machine security, and even the global economic crisis as it will be the basis of many new attacks like emails that promise abilities to easily get a mortgage or refinance.
Bergman confirmed reports that companies would tend to spend less on IT this year but clarified that it will be on using IT in business but not on IT security.

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IT Workshop Tasks(In Detail)

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Nothing Lasts For Ever

In the frenetic world of a big San Francisco hospital, events catapult three women doctors into a white-hot spotlight. Dr Paige Taylor She swore it was euthanasia, but when Paige inherited a million dollars from a patient, the District Attorney called it murder. Dr Kat Hunter She vowed never to let a man too close again – until she accepted the challenge of a deadly bet. Dr Honey Taft To make it in medicine, she knew she'd need something more than the brains God gave her. Racing from the life and death decisions of the operating room to the tension-packed fireworks of a murder trial, 'Nothing Lasts Forever' lays bare the ambitions and fears of healers and killers, lovers and betrayers in a heart-stopping story you wish would never end…

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Morning Noon & Night

Morning, Noon and Night is another master piece of Sidney Sheldon. The story is no less intriguing than the other of his great works. It is full of twists, turns and a very shocking ending. The book consists of various sub-plots each more interesting than the other. This is a great thriller novel having all the elements of successful action novel like revenge, greed, murder and blackmail.

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If Tomorrow Comes

This is a story of intrigue and revenge. Tracy Whitney is young, beautiful and intelligent - and about to marry into wealth and glamour. Until, suddenly, she is betrayed, framed by a ruthless Mafia gang, abandoned by the man she loves. Only her ingenuity saves her and helps her fight back.

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Best Laid Plans

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Are You Afraid Of The Dark

All around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing. In Berlin, a woman vanishes from the city streets. In Paris, a man plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane crashes into the mountains. In Manhattan, a body washes ashore along the East River. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police soon discover that all four of the victims are connected to Kingsley International Group (KIG), the largest think tank in the world.Kelly Harris and Diane Stevens -- young widows of two of the victims -- encounter each other in New York, where they have been asked to meet with Tanner Kingsley, the head of KIG. He assures them that he is using all available resources to find out who is behind the mysterious deaths of their husbands. But he may be too late. Someone is intent on murdering both women, and they suffer a harrowing series of near escapes. Who is trying to kill them and why? Forced together for protection, suspicious of each other and everyone around them, and trying to find answers for themselves, the two widows embark on a terrifying game of cat and mouse against the unknown forces out to destroy them. Taut with suspense and vivid characterization, full of shocking twists, and with an unnervingly realistic premise that could alter all of our lives, the long-awaited Are You Afraid of the Dark? is Sidney Sheldon at the top of his game.

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JNTU BTech. 3-2 Previous Question Papers

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JNTU BTech. 2-2 Previous Question Papers

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JNTU BTech. 1st Year Previous Question Papers

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A Stranger In The Mirror

This book is about the lives of two people- Toby Temple and Jill Castle. Toby Temple, nurtured by his strict mother has always dreamt of only making his mother happy and finds that the only way to make his mother happy is to imitate others and thus the dream of becoming a film star dawns on him and his mother. And at one point of his life he is forced to leave his mother for his own safety (after getting the daughter of a local policeman pregnant) and he goes to Hollywood with huge dreams of becoming a star. But he struggles a lot and somehow gets himself admitted into an acting school and in course of time becomes a huge celebrity and a master of seducing women.
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Windows XP's Death Sentence Postponed -- Again

Microsoft issued a reprieve for Windows XP. To promote adoption of its new Windows 7 OS, Microsoft planned to make Windows XP unavailable in February. Now, Microsoft will allow Windows XP licenses to be received until May 30. Many businesses had stuck with Windows XP rather than upgrade to Windows Vista due to incompatibility issues.

Like movie hero Indiana Jones, Windows XP has once again come back from near-certain death. The venerable Microsoft operating system had been destined to become unavailable to PC makers beginning in February, but now Microsoft will extend its life until the end of May.

Microsoft's intention has been to compel users to adopt its newer operating system, Vista, but many have preferred to stay with the tried-and-true XP.

Windows 7 on the Horizon

The new policy is not a total reprieve, however. It allows resellers to order licenses for XP before January 31, but now they can receive those licenses up until May 30.

Some PC makers have been using a downgrade clause in their licenses with Microsoft to satisfy user requests for the older OS. It lets PC makers sell computers with Vista installed, but users can downgrade the OS to XP if so desired.

Vista's replacement, Windows 7, would presumably address the issues that have fueled users' resistance to Vista. Recent reports indicate that Microsoft may begin its release of Windows 7 late in 2009, although there are also indications that some netbooks with Windows 7 could be available as early as mid-2009.

Laura DiDio of Information Technology Intelligence Corps recently conducted and released a survey of more than 700 corporations on various technology and business topics. The report found resistance to deploying Vista, continuing acceptance of XP, and a willingness to wait for Windows 7.

Only 10 percent of the respondents, including small, medium and large businesses, said they have deployed Vista as their main desktop OS. For 88 percent, XP remains the primary desktop OS.

Forty-six percent said they were going to skip Vista and go directly to Windows 7, because of cost and because of the feeling that XP still met their needs.

Positive Reactions to Vista

But, for the 10 percent of users who were using Vista as their primary desktop OS, the survey found that the reception was positive. On the subject of Vista's performance, reliability and security, 27 percent rated it excellent or very good, 32 percent called it good, and 19 percent said it was satisfactory. In other words, 78 percent rated it satisfactory or better.

For the 19 percent who described it as unsatisfactory, the main reason was "application incompatibility problems."

"Vista itself is a good, solid OS," DiDio said, "but the biggest problem is incompatibilities." She noted that one respondent, whose company was 65 percent deployed with Vista, would have to wait until the middle of next year before getting Vista-compatible versions of two of its main business applications.

DiDio also noted that people have gotten used to XP, and many businesses found that "they have no compelling business reason" to upgrade to Vista.

Her survey also pointed out that, accompanying the Vista resistance, enterprises are continuing or increasing their use and integration of Apple's Macintosh and iPhone. Eighty-two percent rated the Macintosh hardware and OS as excellent or very good, and 68 percent said they are likely to allow deployment of Macs in the upcoming year.

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LG Forms Alliances with YouTube, CinemaNow

LG already partners with Netflix to deliver instant-streaming content to TVs via LG's Network Blu-ray Disc Player. Now, LG is adding CinemaNow's catalog of shows and videos, and YouTube's videos and HD offerings. LG's CinemaNow and YouTube alliances allow consumers to stream millions of Web videos to the LG Network Blu-ray Player.

LG Electronics announced new alliances for its Network Blu-ray Disc Players. LG is now adding CinemaNow and YouTube to its lineup.

Netflix was LG's first partner on the instant-streaming front. In fact, LG was the first manufacturer to stream movies instantly from Netflix on a Network Blu-ray Disc Player. By adding CinemaNow's library of TV shows and videos -- and YouTube's viral video community, with its growing catalog of HD offerings -- LG is priming the pump for the sale of its new Blu-ray products at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

As millions of U.S. consumers view and download movies or TV shows through the Internet, they are demanding easier ways to access content and more home-entertainment options, according to Tim Alessi, LG's director of product development.

"From Blu-ray to instant streaming, from Netflix to CinemaNow and YouTube, LG is bridging the gap between packaged media and video-on-demand services to provide entertainment solutions for consumers' demand for content," Alessi said. "With these new alliances, LG continues its innovation leadership by allowing consumers easy access to multiple entertainment options in one device."

A Trio of Offerings

Joining forces with CinemaNow means LG Electronics can offer consumers access to more than 14,000 titles from the major movie studios, broadcast and cable television shows, more than 250 independent film titles, and music videos from all major labels. Consumers can browse the entire CinemaNow library, instantly stream content, and access and watch movies purchased from other CinemaNow-powered stores.

Meanwhile, LG's alliance with online video community YouTube makes it possible for consumers to instantly stream millions of Web videos directly from the Internet to an LG Network Blu-ray Player for viewing on their television -- without a personal computer. That means unlimited access to millions of videos on topics such as current events, instructional videos for hobbies and interests, and comedic and viral videos. Consumers can also search, see thumbnail previews and view the videos with multiple screen-size viewing options.

"YouTube is an important addition because it's free and it's also very popular," said Phil Leigh, a senior analyst at Inside Digital Media. "It's good that CinemaNow is available, but there's a number of other partners LG could have signed on. Amazon or Movielink both offer download services. I think we'll see a lot Blu-ray disc player manufacturers move in this direction as well."

LG Promises More To Come

LG isn't leaving Netflix out of the equation with its latest announcement. LG's Network Blu-ray Disc Player will deliver more Netflix titles in HD than before through a free online upgrade. The upgrade enhances the standard-definition streaming service LG introduced earlier this year.

LG said its future Network Blu-ray Disc Players will also offer consumers more ways to enjoy more than 12,000 choices of movies and TV episodes from Netflix. Netflix members owning these devices pay one low monthly subscription fee for unlimited DVD rental and unlimited streaming.

LG was tight-lipped about what those new ways are. The company could be saving the news for CES next week, where it has promised to announce additional content, alliances and partnerships.

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