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Asus launched tablet pc, Eee Pad
Whether you are Apple fanboy or Windows fanboy, if you are honest techy you have to admit Apple got a history of motivating/pushing other tech companies towards new technologies. For example – before iPod there was nothing comparable to iPod (First of its kind), yeah I know there was Sony Discman, Walkman but truly nothing even close to iPod. But once Apple unwrap iPod, thousands of devices popped up in the market either mimicking iPod or inspired by iPod. More or less same scenario we have observed after the launch of iPhone. Now iPad, the tablet computing device released by Apple, seems to be gaining same momentum in tech arena just like iPod and iPhone did. All these three are three different kind of device, but common are all of them come from Apple and all motivational devices for tech scene. This is good for the tech environment, since no matter who motivated the bottom-line is creative, competitive technological evolution continues. Apple iPad is an excellent device which is unique and first of its kind, but does have its fair share of limitations. Well those who are didn’t relented to iPad fever, here is another provocation to get onboard table…
Fight spam at server level: GFI MailEssentials
For a person, email spam may be just another day of 21st century where most well known email clients can keep the danger level well under control. But when it comes to server level spam protection, you really have to seat on the edge to keep up with the spammers. With fraudulent, inappropriate and offensive emails being delivered in vast quantities to businesses every day, spam protection is a vital component of your network’s security strategy. Spam wastes network users’ time and network resources, and can also be dangerous (especially since now days crooks deliver financial Trojans through mail- which can bring you down to your knees overnight). Most email server products provide limited monitoring, security, and anti-spam functions. In those that do, the feature set tends to be weak and seemingly implemented as an afterthought. However, the new GFI MailEssentials from GFI Software not only provides the most comprehensive anti-spam capabilities currently available, but also industrial-strength mail monitoring, the ability to add disclaimers to all outgoing messages, and more. Impressively, GFI provides many of the product’s best features as freeware, making GFI MailEssentials a must-evaluate product for administrators of both large and small networks alike. GFI MailEssentials managed to…
Fight back Spyware: CounterSpy
Spyware sucks! Even the God dam! Spyware makers hate Spyware. You should be aware of that unlike viruses and worms, Spyware does not usually self-replicate. Like many recent viruses; however, Spyware—by design—exploits infected computers for commercial gain. Typical tactics furthering this goal include delivery of unsolicited pop-up advertisements; theft of personal information (including financial information such as credit card numbers); monitoring of Web-browsing activity for marketing purposes; or routing of HTTP requests to advertising sites. Many people have a misconception about Spyware that, since it don’t infect computer and rapidly spread it merely pose threat. Call it adware, Spyware or badware—for general user it’s always harmful, since it does invade his/her privacy none the less. So here are some weapons that you may wish to armed with in order to stay one step ahead of those filthy, slimy Spyware. CounterSpy is first in this series: CounterSpy Current Version: 2.5.1032 OS: Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista Price: $19.95/single user Memory & CPU usage: Minimal CounterSpy 2.x is a top notch Spyware, adware, rootkits, and other malware killer, but is light on system resources and memory. Not only the attractive interface and usability but as well thorough scan, delete, quarantine and removal of Spyware…
Cisco data centre architecture rework
Few days ago Cisco Systems, Inc announced an innovative family of data centre-class switching platforms, the Cisco Nexus Series, to meet customer demands for next-generation mission-critical data centres. As the data centre transitions to a more services-centric model, the network plays a pivotal role in orchestrating virtual IT resources and scaling workloads. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed with this environment in mind, delivering the infrastructure chapter of Cisco’s Data Centre 3.0 vision. The series is designed specifically for the data centre with improved airflow, integrated cable management, and resilient platform architecture. The product is designed around a lossless unified fabric capable of simultaneously forwarding storage, Ethernet, and IP traffic. Experts says this is an effort to reconstruct the data centre and cut expenses by creating what it calls a “unified fabric architecture” that seeks to converge the input/output (I/O) of servers into one pipe. The fabric scales performance linearly with each fabric module and is logically partitioned for efficient unicast and multicast traffic, making it ideally suited for market data video as well as collaboration applications. So we are looking at a whole new generation of hardware and software innovation from Cisco house: The Cisco Nexus Operating System…
Online shopping series A: Spare Parts Warehouse
The mass improvements of Internet technology and virtualization bring us in a stage where we nearly buy/want to buy everything from online. But as the online shopping spree grows so is the online scam and fraud. There are thousands of online shopping sites out there with lowest quality products (that they can’t sell on site), some with zero customer care, much worse some are just crooks/frauds. So they only way to be safe is buying from someone reliable, certified by proper authority. In United States BBB online reliability program is one such scheme, where they scrutinizes online companies to adhere some basic guidelines to make online shopping safer for consumers. Spare Parts Warehouse is a member of BBB online reliability program, which is a fantastic online shopping place for laptop parts such as laptop batteries, hard drives, AC adapters, DVD/CDRWs, LCD displays, etc. Spare Parts Warehouse is a subsidiary service of Dayton, OH based UCR LLC, which has a long illustrated 22 years of service track. Apart from just laptop parts sales, they do have an outstanding Laptop LCD Screens & Laptop Screens repair service, which is well within the reasonable cost. And hey they are an Authorized Laptop Repair…
Intel pulled the plug from OLPC
Just a few days ago when OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen announced her departure, optimists were still hopeful that Nicholas Negroponte will turn the things around in no time; after all it all is for a good cause. But just a few days before mass production begin when Intel announced it’s puling the plug on its dealings with Nicholas Negroponte’s brainchild’ things are not looking good at all for OLPC. When Intel joined OLPC’s educational programme last July, the aim was to combine two major attempts at providing low-cost laptops for the sake of delivering global progress. Intel left the partnership end of last week, giving reasons of “impossible to reconcile” differences between the organisations, as well as accusing OLPC of demanding that Intel end its supply of the Classmate PC, which is part of Intel’s World Ahead programme. Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC chairman, said Intel issued a statement to the press behind our backs while simultaneously asking us to work on a joint statement with them. Intel had not responded to OLPC’s accusations at the time of going to press. Or maybe they have nothing left to say! OLPC said the differences between the two organisations were that …
The OLPC future cloudy?
The OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project seems to encounter another major setback, as its CTO Mary Lou Jepsen is stepping down to pursue a commercial project based on OLPC technologies. Since the day one this project has proved difficult to get off the ground. Now sudden departure of CTO, might be the end of the Give One Get One scheme which sold the laptop commercially to users in the US. According to OLPC they were very successful in “Give One Get One scheme”, though no independent data available to support this claim. Though now many children have access to the OLPC XO laptops but the success has been modest when compared to the original vision. Since Nov, 2007 OLPC goes on Mass Production of XO laptop, you may consider Lou Jepsen contribution come to an end, but many observer thinks it does raise question marks about the long-term design evolution of the laptop. There may not be such a good future for OLPC in Brazil as in the Brazil “auction”, factors like local production and import taxes are more significant than the educational questions. Things are not being compared on a like-for-like or lifetime usage basis. Many consider OLPC…
Microsoft’s eager to power OLPC laptops
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the Delaware, USA based, non-profit organization, created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab, set up to oversee The Children’s Machine project and the construction of the XO-1 "$100 laptop". Both the project and the organization were announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2005. It has attracted news whirl, since its birth, once again it’s in limelight reason-Microsoft. Microsoft Corp. this week said that it is working on a version of Windows XP operating system compatible with laptops from OLPC. The company said that Windows XP may work already on the current XO model, which was once supposed to sell for $100; obviously they are targeting future versions of the notebook as well. Microsoft’s appearance certainly contradicting the OLPC policy described here, which says- XO is built from free and open-source software. Our commitment to software freedom gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on their own terms…… We are using open-document formats for much the same reason: transparency is empowering. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Will Poole expresses uncertainty on this during an interview on Thursday.(Source Reuters) We’re spending a nontrivial amount of money on it … We…
Gmail gets the IMAP upgrade, at last!
Few days ago Google began giving its Gmail user’s access to IMAP; have to say it’s about God dam time. Google’s free Gmail service has been admired for its massive storage capabilities, streamlined interface, and functionality, but many email power users have never considered using Gmail just for the lack of interpretability. Things are about to be change a lot. IMAP is not a new technology—it’s been around for over a decade, and its widely supported in modern email clients, even those built into mobile devices. IMAP is based on almost the reverse idea of POP-based mail: instead of downloading mail to your device and deleting it from the server like traditional POP mail, with IMAP users leave their mail on the server, and the server keeps track of what messages you’ve already seen, which messages are new, and how you filed the messages. E-mail providers have been loath to adopt the superior protocol, in part because it requires a significant storage commitment on the provider’s side. With POP, on the other hand, the user carries the burden of keeping all the mail locally. The new IMAP feature is free, and can be activated within Gmail in the Forwarding and…
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