Computer And Internet Briefs

Using one password for all your online access might be simple, but it’s also risky. If the password ends up in the hands of a hacker, he would have access to data from any programme used, warns Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). Thus, users should be sure to make up new passwords for each online service they use.

An actual case shows why password safety is needed. Unknown parties managed to get into the accounts of 90,000 users of Sony’s Playstation network this year, partially by using access data they had obviously lifted from other websites.

Passwords should be at least eight characters long; 20 if possible, with a wi-fi connection using WPA or WPA-2 encryption. Don’t use words that can be found in dictionaries, nor names of family members or family pets, since they can be easily guessed. Ideally, the password should contain special symbols and numerals, advises the BSI. Pull data from your browser’s cache [Read more...]

Good Quality Speakers

It seems that the audio technology has been promising wireless speakers for the past years without compromising sound quality. You’ll noticed these days while you’re just hopping around from one place to the other, at work, the mall, or just about anywhere you’ll see many people listening to their kind of music. You might see some with cool accessories such as portable speakers, cool looking cases, voice recorders, FM transmitters, remotes and much more. Thus, when my younger sister seeks help as to what particular brand and where to purchase pleasant audio equipment HI FI Speakers, I advised her to look no further at Audio Visual Revolution which is the best place to be. Let’s face it having no audible resonances, harmonic or inter-modulation distortions with very smooth and wide dispersion characteristics has made their audio equipment most popular among others.

Well, although I only consider myself as a newcomer to the world of music, the first thing I noticed about this product was it has a depth to the dimension of the sound, making each instrument in the recording sound, as if it was situated live in the room. Really it’s an amazing aspect of this Speakers Centre. And having a keen ear for details, I was very impressed with the quality of sound reproduction of these audio speakers. I believe the difference between these speakers and many on the market is their ability to reproduce sound, as if you were sitting next to a live musical group. These speakers play effortlessly and well both soft and loud passages on any type of music, and its transient response is very sharp and accurate. And what made it more amazing is that mind you guys; you can feel and almost see the players in front of you.

Probably, not having much knowledge about good quality speakers, you didn’t know what to expect. But whether you know or don’t know what a good speaker is supposed to sound like, you’ll know when you hear it. Some people may say the design is what makes it popular and makes them purchase and some may say it’s the accessories that come with it. There are many reasons why people buy this equipment; you will just have to find yours. Furthermore, any choice of speaker is a matter of compromise, and the accessories for your audio equipment can be a great extra feature to everything. Now, impress your friends with the new portable Speakers Bookshelf also at Audio Visual Reproduction. Aesthetically, it is eye-pleasing and they’re well built and have a nice heft while they sit pretty on any bookshelf, desk or TV stand.

Why We Need To Get More Connected With The Online World

There are now more than one billion people with access to the Internet – all creating, sharing and searching for information. Everyday, hundreds of millions of people look for restaurants, holidays, news, books, and much more-comparing prices and products, checking to see whether a flight is delayed, or communicating with their friends in far-flung places. Traffic over the web is reaching mind-boggling volumes – over 80 billion emails are sent and 3.7 million photos are uploaded everyday; and the blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just three years ago and doubling every 200 days.

For many, life before the Internet is hard to imagine. It’s easy to understand why – getting online has offered us unprecedented opportunities to discover, learn, connect, and simplify many of the tasks that need to happen to run our daily lives. This level of access to information has brought freedom, power and choice to people in a way that has rarely been seen in recent modern history. [Read more...]

ANALYSIS | Digital Locks Don’t Always Work As Intended

But does the same logic apply to digital music, books, and movies?

Digital locks have been with us for years, under many names — sometimes called “copy protection” or “technological protection measures” or “Digital Rights Management.” But whatever you call them, the goal is the same: to restrict access, often to combat piracy.

Under the federal government’s proposed copyright reform bill, C-11, it will become illegal to break any digital lock, for any reason. And even though the bill includes many exciting new categories for fair dealing (education, parody, and satire), the digital lock provisions trump any of those new uses. [Read more...]

Innovation Wars: Tablet Edition

The tech industry is characterized by brutal competition. Ongoing patent wars, massive company acquisitions, aggressive marketing strategies, all of these in an effort to get the bigger slice of the marketplace. One recent casualty in this race for supremacy is Hewlett-Packard. Unable to keep up with the “tablet effect,” HP recently killed its line of webOS devices and is also spinning off their PC business. Is there a way that this could have been prevented?

The demand for the PC has been steadily decreasing since the release of the iPad. In response, other companies like Samsung, Motorola, HP, RIM, Asus and LG started producing their own tablets, thinking that the tablet itself as a design is what attracted people to the iPad. They have all since gone back to the drawing board, resizing, increasing, shrinking and tweaking the hardware and software. Now we see tablets in all different shapes and sizes, all claiming to be better than the next. “We run flash!” “We are smaller.” “Our battery lasts longer.” “We are thinner.” Some of these tablets have created a short-lived buzz, but Apple still controls the vast majority of the market, no less than 68.7 percent in 2011. [Read more...]

Changing The World To Sustainability

Different businesses have already implemented the use of vending machines, a convenience-led innovation that are stocked with all-natural and healthy foods which could be an important step in helping to combat childhood obesity in some areas. Technology today really is at its simplest creation and in most effective invention when in delivering a help of convenience to time-pressed consumers who need it most. Though healthy vending is committed to changing the world, to sustainability and to turning a profit, these drink vending machines are found on several school campuses, in health and medical centers, shopping malls, and at a variety of other areas.

Meanwhile, in our just concluded high school reunion of batch 2000 at our place, a friend of mine who now happens to be among one of the school’s staff had opined that she’s looking forward of the possibility for their school to implement the use of a vending machine. Accordingly, the ability to put healthy Drink Vending Machines on campus is essential, and besides having such in the campus, it will give the schools an opportunity to earn a portion from all sales and offer snacks to their student body. Well, if you have high expectations of vending service, then look no further than yourchoicevending.com for you to meet and exceed those expectations.

Microsoft Turns The Table On Hackers By Offering $250,000 Reward For Anyone Who Can Protect Windows From Cyber-attacks

Bosses at Microsoft are hoping to turn poachers into gamekeepers by offering computer hackers $250,000 to develop new security defences for their software.

The firm’s BlueHat Prize, which is open to programmers everywhere, will pay $200,000 to the person who comes up with what they judge to be the best new way of preventing cyber-attacks.

Two runners up will split a $50,000 second prize and each receive a MSDN Universal subscription, allowing them to develop their own software for the company, worth $10,000.

In IT terminology, the prizes are being offered for the best ‘novel runtime mitigation technology designed to prevent the exploitation of memory safety vulnerabilities.’ [Read more...]