LG's DP889 Portable DVD player and digital photo frame features a brilliant 8-inch LCD screen to provide high quality, portable DVD playback.Price: $169.10 and free shipping from ABT
The Dell 1320c color laser printer has print speeds of up to 16 pages per minute in black and delivers professional quality prints up to 600x600dpi. Dell offers its Toner Management System to help you easily manage printer supplies.
Price: $199, after $100 instant savings
The HP Pavilion dv5t includes a low-light Webcam and digital microphones. It also has HP's ProtectSmart hard drive protection on customizable models.
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The Dell E228WFP?s fast 5ms response time, high contrast ratio, and 1,680x1,050-pixel resolution lets you view images, documents, graphics, and video with stunning detail, vivid color, and fluid motion.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Introducing the Pulse Smartpen from Livescribe.
Introducing the Pulse Smartpen from Livescribe.
Spend a lot of time in business meetings or class lectures trying to keep up? Now there's an easier way - the Pulse smartpen from Livescribe. Pulse is a computer in a pen that records everything you hear and links it to what you write, so you'll never miss a word again.
Here's how it works:
* At the tip of the Pulse smartpen is an infrared camera that captures everything you write and draw.
* An embedded microphone records audio while you write, and the digital recordings are automatically linked to the words you wrote.
* Later, you can tap on the words or diagrams in your notes, and the Pulse smartpen will play back the audio it recorded at that moment in time.
* The Pulse smartpen easily transfers your notes to your computer through a USB cradle. From there, you can replay your notes, search for words within your notes, or share your notes online.
Ideal for classroom lectures, meetings or interviews, the Pulse smartpen combines different methods of taking notes ™ laptop, digital recorder, and pen and paper ™ all into one portable device. It's a perfect holiday gift for students, technology enthusiasts, and anyone who spends too much time in meetings.
Special offer
The 1GB Pulse smartpen ($149.99) can capture over 100 hours of recorded audio and the 2GB model ($199.99) can hold over 200 hours of recorded audio. For a limited time, Livescribe is offering an exclusive 5% discount* for the 1GB or 2GB Pulse smartpen to CNET readers. Just go to www.livescribe.com and enter SCRIBE5A50 in the store during checkout.
[Buy Now]BUY NOW & more CNET
Spend a lot of time in business meetings or class lectures trying to keep up? Now there's an easier way - the Pulse smartpen from Livescribe. Pulse is a computer in a pen that records everything you hear and links it to what you write, so you'll never miss a word again.
Here's how it works:
* At the tip of the Pulse smartpen is an infrared camera that captures everything you write and draw.
* An embedded microphone records audio while you write, and the digital recordings are automatically linked to the words you wrote.
* Later, you can tap on the words or diagrams in your notes, and the Pulse smartpen will play back the audio it recorded at that moment in time.
* The Pulse smartpen easily transfers your notes to your computer through a USB cradle. From there, you can replay your notes, search for words within your notes, or share your notes online.
Ideal for classroom lectures, meetings or interviews, the Pulse smartpen combines different methods of taking notes ™ laptop, digital recorder, and pen and paper ™ all into one portable device. It's a perfect holiday gift for students, technology enthusiasts, and anyone who spends too much time in meetings.
Special offer
The 1GB Pulse smartpen ($149.99) can capture over 100 hours of recorded audio and the 2GB model ($199.99) can hold over 200 hours of recorded audio. For a limited time, Livescribe is offering an exclusive 5% discount* for the 1GB or 2GB Pulse smartpen to CNET readers. Just go to www.livescribe.com and enter SCRIBE5A50 in the store during checkout.
[Buy Now]BUY NOW & more CNET
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Security as a Service ARTICLE
Security as a Service
Keeping in line with the shift of applications being ported on the pay-per-use model, so too are security solutions being delivered out from the capital expenditure account into the operational expenditure. Once a purview of IT departments, with strong service level agreements in place, CIO’s are finding it easier to outsource the security function as well.
P J Nath, Executive President, Enterprise Solutions, Sify Technologies points out that as investments in managed security services by the Medium Enterprises is growing at a much faster pace than traditional security solutions, it’s the Banks and financial institutions that have accepted the remote MSS delivery model with ease.
He also feels the government’s initiative to move away from paper work to having the information available centrally by automating all manual activity has resulted in a huge centralized IT infrastructure and application setup. In which security becomes an integral part as critical information transaction takes place. It’s increasingly seen that government organizations are outsourcing their IT services with MSS being part of it, though it is still early days in this segment.
This is in keeping with the trend that has been set by local Telco’s, who were the first off the block to outsourcing their entire IT infrastructure so that they could be more focused on their service delivery business.
Cisco’s Gupta feels that in the case of SMBs, the trend shifts towards outsourcing security management. A Pricewaterhouse Coopers 2007 report says that the SMB segment would increasingly look at use of outsourced security management of their first line of defense including firewall, IDS and incident reporting services. Additionally, a recent survey by Forrester estimates that 30% of SMBs outsource their enterprise applications and 59% of those are concerned about the security of their data. In India, outsourcing of security is still a tough decision for network managers.READ MORE
RAJPUT HARENDRASINGH
Keeping in line with the shift of applications being ported on the pay-per-use model, so too are security solutions being delivered out from the capital expenditure account into the operational expenditure. Once a purview of IT departments, with strong service level agreements in place, CIO’s are finding it easier to outsource the security function as well.
P J Nath, Executive President, Enterprise Solutions, Sify Technologies points out that as investments in managed security services by the Medium Enterprises is growing at a much faster pace than traditional security solutions, it’s the Banks and financial institutions that have accepted the remote MSS delivery model with ease.
He also feels the government’s initiative to move away from paper work to having the information available centrally by automating all manual activity has resulted in a huge centralized IT infrastructure and application setup. In which security becomes an integral part as critical information transaction takes place. It’s increasingly seen that government organizations are outsourcing their IT services with MSS being part of it, though it is still early days in this segment.
This is in keeping with the trend that has been set by local Telco’s, who were the first off the block to outsourcing their entire IT infrastructure so that they could be more focused on their service delivery business.
Cisco’s Gupta feels that in the case of SMBs, the trend shifts towards outsourcing security management. A Pricewaterhouse Coopers 2007 report says that the SMB segment would increasingly look at use of outsourced security management of their first line of defense including firewall, IDS and incident reporting services. Additionally, a recent survey by Forrester estimates that 30% of SMBs outsource their enterprise applications and 59% of those are concerned about the security of their data. In India, outsourcing of security is still a tough decision for network managers.READ MORE
RAJPUT HARENDRASINGH
Salesforce.com will announce Monday its plan to host public Web sites
Salesforce.com will announce Monday its plan to host public Web sites using its Force.com platform. Called Force.com Sites, it's an aggressive effort by the company to extend its development and hosting platform more broadly across the Web, and expand beyond its roots in on-demand sales force automation software.
Developers have built tens of thousands of applications on Salesforce's Force.com platform, meaning they used Salesforce's Apex development language and run them in its data centers, where they are delivered in a software-as-a-service model.
But typically these applications are add-ons to the company's sales force automation/customer-relationship management offerings, such as a small software utility by Appirio to sync a Salesforce calendar with a Google Apps calendar.
Force.com Sites will let developers build applications to run in Salesforce.com data centers, use the company's Visualforce tool to develop public-facing Web pages, and register a domain name. Salesforce.com sees the effort as expanding the role of its Force.com platform in the bigger trend toward cloud computing.
A company, for example, could build a staff recruiting application that runs on Force.com that the general public could access on the Web. It could be presented as an independent Web site; it also could be presented as if it were part of a company's existing Web site, with a similar look and feel, but hosted by Salesforce.com.
Salesforce.com hasn't had to build out its data centers for this new offering, said Bruce Francis, the company's VP of corporate strategy, in an interview. Most of the work involved writing new software code and tweaking the Force.com platform to support access by potentially thousands of people over the Web.
Salesforce.com says an example of Force.com Sites in play is an online marketplace for Cathedral Partners that its business partner Appirio built, to match private businesses and investors. Another, Jobs4MyFriends, runs on Facebook and can be used by a company to recruit new employees by using existing employees' friend's networks.
Force.com Sites' four-tiered pricing will be based on the number of monthly page views to a site. It's currently only available as a developer preview, and is slated for general availability next year. READ MORE
RAJPUT HARENDRASINGH
Developers have built tens of thousands of applications on Salesforce's Force.com platform, meaning they used Salesforce's Apex development language and run them in its data centers, where they are delivered in a software-as-a-service model.
But typically these applications are add-ons to the company's sales force automation/customer-relationship management offerings, such as a small software utility by Appirio to sync a Salesforce calendar with a Google Apps calendar.
Force.com Sites will let developers build applications to run in Salesforce.com data centers, use the company's Visualforce tool to develop public-facing Web pages, and register a domain name. Salesforce.com sees the effort as expanding the role of its Force.com platform in the bigger trend toward cloud computing.
A company, for example, could build a staff recruiting application that runs on Force.com that the general public could access on the Web. It could be presented as an independent Web site; it also could be presented as if it were part of a company's existing Web site, with a similar look and feel, but hosted by Salesforce.com.
Salesforce.com hasn't had to build out its data centers for this new offering, said Bruce Francis, the company's VP of corporate strategy, in an interview. Most of the work involved writing new software code and tweaking the Force.com platform to support access by potentially thousands of people over the Web.
Salesforce.com says an example of Force.com Sites in play is an online marketplace for Cathedral Partners that its business partner Appirio built, to match private businesses and investors. Another, Jobs4MyFriends, runs on Facebook and can be used by a company to recruit new employees by using existing employees' friend's networks.
Force.com Sites' four-tiered pricing will be based on the number of monthly page views to a site. It's currently only available as a developer preview, and is slated for general availability next year. READ MORE
RAJPUT HARENDRASINGH
icrosoft lifted the veil on Windows Server 2008 R2 last week
When Microsoft lifted the veil on Windows Server 2008 R2 last week, the company's big push into cloud computing and Windows 7 largely trumped the server update. However, with a series of improvements to things like virtualization and performance, the well-received Windows Server 2008 gets a notable tune-up.
Server virtualization made its first appearance as an operating system feature in Windows Server 2008's Hyper-V, but Microsoft still had some catching up to do to meet the level of sophistication of competitive offerings. In Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft has made a few tweaks to Hyper-V and added some much-desired features.
Microsoft has added live virtual machine migration, a pre-condition for an automated data center and something competitors like VMware already have in their products, to Windows Server 2008 R2. With live migration, companies can move virtual images between host machines in "less than two seconds," providing no-downtime migration and better manageability.
The company has also done a bunch of work under the hood on Hyper-V. "We tend to talk about features, but a lot of infrastructure work is going on in Hyper-V too," Bill Hilf, Microsoft's general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform strategy, said in an interview. Microsoft claims the new Hyper-V will be more reliable, faster, and able to run in more configurations.
Hyper-V isn't the only virtualization technology in Windows Server 2008 getting some work done. Terminal Services, the company's presentation virtualization technology, gets a significant boost and a new name. Terminal Services becomes Remote Desktop Services. It's now supports full-on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and gets enhanced remote management capabilities as well as Web-based access to a remote desktop instance.
Remote Desktop Services users will see significant improvements as well, though some of them will require Windows 7. New user support includes better multimedia, multiple monitor support, improved audio support, the ability to run Windows' AeroGlass user interface, and single sign-on.
Among the recent networking technologies to get big play, few have been as popular as WAN optimization and application acceleration, which seek to improve the performance of applications and data served over the network. In Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft adds branch office file caching and optimization of a few protocols, such as its proprietary Server Message Block protocol. That follows up on a jointly developed appliance from Cisco and Microsoft announced last month.
Several other new features demand some close attention as well. A new feature called DirectAccess will allow VPN-less connection to corporate networks for Windows 7 users. Microsoft's Web server, Internet Information Services, gets support for PowerShell scripting. And Windows Server 2008 R2 will support more than 64 processing cores.
It's unclear whether it will be included in Windows Server 2008 R2, or if it will be relegated to future versions of the OS, but Microsoft last week also released the first test version of its new application server technology, code-named "Dublin." Dublin blends some features of application servers and Web servers and, Microsoft says, makes it easier for developers to deploy and manage composite apps.
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