The newest addition to the many search engines that ply the internet, Bing is a product of the software giant Microsoft who has failed to acquire the search giant Yahoo even after repetitive attempts. Designed to replace their Live Search Facility, they hope it will take enough of the search market from their prospect Yahoo and even the many other search engines that have been nagging at them for sometime. Microsoft also announced that it will soon be releasing a replacement anti-virus to replace their previously offered Bit Defender that was offered for download from their website as part of their drive to secure their Windows Operating System platform. Read more »

Posted: May 28th, 2009 under News & Updates.
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The many companies who have jumped onto the blogging bandwagon there are the good the bad and the ugly, making news at the top of their agenda but sometimes, over-eagerness takes hold and everything gets all…. messy! Like the previous events that placed Symantec in the hot seat when their people released a test file that was supposed to test the anti-virus software their clients paid for. It turned out into a marketing manager for the guy who released the update forgot to attach a valid security certificate and was deemed as malware sending their paniked customers to flood their support lines and site. Read more »

Posted: April 28th, 2009 under General Information, News & Updates.
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Countries have been screening the internet and even all forms of media for a long time, but mostly for those countries that have maintained either monarchical or communist rule. Countries in the Middle East and in Asia have long enforced internet filtering but with brushes between the government and Google in the recent months regarding nude pictures getting through their image search facility, China has decided to take matters into it’s own hands. In what is being called as the Green Wall of China, it is a home-made screening program that takes matters into it’s own hand, blocking anything that the government deems a s disruptive or counter’s the ideals of the state. Read more »

Posted: April 28th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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The main appeal, of course, of free anti-virus software, is that it’s free. In fact, its actually less of a hassle compared to paid anti-virus programs because you don’t need to bother with activation or serial numbers or expiry dates – you simply download the free software, install it, and then run it. And in most cases, the updates are free and regular so you don’t need to worry about having an outdated virus definition list.

Some of the more common and effective free anti-virus software include Panda Anti-virus, AVG, Avira Anti-Vir, among others. You would do well to check online reviews of the best freeware so you are updated on what free version provides the best protection.

The only disadvantage though, of freeware, is that paid platforms have more features and offer increased safeguards for your protection. But if you are careful, the freeware can give you adequate protection.

Posted: February 18th, 2009 under General Information.
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The introduction of Gmail Webclips has done it again, thrusting Google into the realm of better open-sourced programs and it did so with style. Google’s addition of webclips allows users to create email with embedded pictures rather than sending them along with the rest of the message as attachments. Read more »

Posted: January 12th, 2009 under General Information, News & Updates.
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Instant Messaging clients are one of the more important innovations so far regarding communications via the internet. However, the problem was that not every IM client can talk with the other. It started to change a few years ago when eventually, they opened up to some but still not all. Third party Ims then began creating software that allow you to chat with someone else from another IM client without logging out. One of the exemplary ones was meebo.

Meebo is an instant messaging software that runs inside a Web browser, as AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the software necessary to implement them.

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Posted: December 28th, 2008 under News & Updates.
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Google My Maps is another innovative service by Google for its loyal users. In just a jiffy, you are capable of adding maps to your own website. It will highlight your specified areas which locates your company’s or business’ locations and venues. Or you can simply mark your favorite restaurant or “chilling” place and shoe it to the entire world. Google Maps API enables any user to link text or an image to any map location without writing a code or even if you’re clueless about the whole interface. So try it out yourself now. You just log on, visit the Google Maps, click on My Maps tab and then select Create new map. Go to the area that you want to mark, you can zoom in and then click the “PlaceMark” button. And voila. Share them to everybody that you know.

Posted: November 24th, 2008 under News & Updates.
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The world is going green. And the latest technologies are providing alternative solutions and approaches to survive and thrive in the coming lean times. Everybody’s goal must be to manage efficiently the information and data to further the business’ growth. One way to control the information explosion is to base on procedure for information lifecycle, capacity, data, security and rights management by virtualization, next generation back up and recovery and Fibre Channel over Ethernet or FCoE. It encourages to use shared storage to optimize the data center, thus increasing the performance at the same time cut costs for consumers. It starts with a simple implementation. Since the beginning of this procedure, Choice Point has decreased usage of around 500 rack units of servers. It has consolidated 23 SAN islands to one core-edge SAN and it efficiently cut costs at 40% less. Software licenses can generate big savings.

Posted: October 7th, 2008 under News & Updates.
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Tumblr is one blogging service that offers a fast way to post. Created with tumblelogging in mind. It is a subset of blogging that uses quick, simple mixed media posts. The company hopes that the service hopes will live up to the tumblelog, the same as services like LiveJournal and Blogger did for the blog. The only thing different is that, its simplicity will make luring users a far easier job than acquiring users for the same old weblogging. They can click “Share on Tumblr” bookmark so that it tumbles the snippet directly. It takes very little time and effort to maintain. Features are intuitive and quick to learn and establish. You can begin posting in a minute. As simple as that.

Posted: September 28th, 2008 under News & Updates.
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Nowadays, just about all the companies are greatly relying to a greater or lesser extent on electronic data storage and a strong, secure internet presence. So how does one best meet those very real demands without revealing the business to apocalyptic destruction from evil hackers that intent upon doing destruction?

Online data backup system is one universally acknowledged way and probably the surest means to move from on-site server and media-based data storage.

Having an online data backup system, the data is safely stored on an off site computer — and the business owner has the only key to de-encrypt the information. That means it’s safe from harm by annoyed or crooked employees – or by anyone else out to harm your business. Beyond the recognized safety factor of that the other plus of it is that there’s no salaried time concerned in backing up and storing your vital customer and other business data … there’s no chance for human error to occur … backups can be programmed in the middle of the night … and there’s no chance of a tape, CD, server or any other media-based system being tarnished.

Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Apple TV, News & Updates, Uncategorized, Web Potpourri.
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