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India develops Worlds cheapest laptop

dotCOMreport Editor — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:01:05 +0000

It was announced today that India has designed the world’s cheapest laptop, which includes a touch screen computing device for the cost of $35.00.

Kapil Sibal who is India’s Human Resource Development Minister, stated that they have unveiled the low cost computing device which was and is intended for students. They are now in talks with global manufacturers to start mass producing these laptops.

In their development stage their motherboard, chip, the processing along with the connectivity totaled an accumulative cost of around $35.00 which they add does include the memory, display – all of it.

The touch screen is packed with internet browser, PDF reader and video conferencing, however, the hardware was created with sufficient flexibility to incorporate newer components according to each user’s requirement.

The Linux based computing device is being expected to be introduced to higher education institutions however, the aim is to drop this price further to $20.00 and with high expectations to have it go as low as $10.00.

This laptop was developed by research teams in India’s premier technological institutes, the Indian Institute of Technology as well as the Indian Institute of Science.

Today India spends approximately three percent of their annual budget on education and their literacy rates have now improved to well over 64 per cent of their population.

I guess I am wondering, is this laptop device that has been created going to be “you get what you pay for” scenerios?

Seo Services India

Baidu ‘s Hacker Attack

dotCOMreport Editor — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:00:56 +0000

Baidu, Inc., China’s leading search engine may be considering a lawsuit against Register.com Inc. for their breach of contract and gross negligence along with the recklessness that is being associated by hackers.

The New York federal court is allowing Baidu to proceed with their lawsuit that was filed in January of this year.

On January 11^th, of this year an attack by hackers prevented users from around the world to gain access to Baidu as service had been disrupted in its operations for an attack that lasting two days. Baidu currently holds the biggest share of the Chinese online search market.

The January 11 attack prevented Internet users around the world from gaining access to Baidu for five hours and disrupted its operations for two days, according to the lawsuit. Baidu holds the greatest share of the Chinese online search market.

The hackers have called themselves the Iranian Cyber Army which hijacked Baidu’s home page by gaining unauthorized access to Baidu’s account at Register. Also prior to this the same hackers claimed to do the same thing to the popular micro blogging site of Twitter.

Baidu is accusing Register.com service representative of allowing an intruder that falsely claimed to be an agent of Baidu to access their account and doing so without the properly matched security codes.

If Baidu proves this accusation, Register Inc.com indeed failed to follow their own security protocols and essentially gave this intruder the capability to commit cyber vandalism. A jury may indeed find that Register.com acted grossly negligent and as well in a wreck less manner.

A judge dismissed five out of seven claims against Register.com over this breach including trademark infringement and aiding and abetting the hacker criminals.

Baidu has expanded their market base since Google, Inc had threatened to leave China over its censorship and hacking concerns.

Microsoft Windows XP Support System – Attacked

dotCOMreport Editor — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:45:15 +0000

In June, a bug found by a Google Engineer, revolved around the help and support system build into XP. Around the middle of June the exploits began and these hackers adopting it with full abandon. It was found that it would be possible to exploit when it comes to the ability to give remote aid and apply fixes to machines that need aid.

Microsoft has stated that they have seen more then 10,000 machines hit by the hacker attack and to date they have yet to find a fix for this bug that is affecting the well established Windows XP operating system.

Reports of a variety of Trojans, spam tools and other viruses are being downloaded to compromised machines. Also what seems to be automated is the randomly generated web pages are hosting the exploit. Portugal, Russia and Croatia are the countries with the worst hits by these attackers.

Microsoft urges users to take steps to protect themselves from being attacked. They advise users to turn off the part of the Help and Support System that is vulnerable to this attack It has produced an automated tool that can do this for users. Make sure your antivirus software is up to date and is capable of identifying and can block malicious websites. The reason for this is that you can be certain that the hackers behind this are going to be constantly updating their malicious files to try to avoid traditional security measures.

In the meantime, we all have to sit back and wait for Microsoft as they work on a fix that will last and that will fix their loophole.

New Malware Report

dotCOMreport Editor — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:24:29 +0000

There has been a great deal of nervousness in the security world regarding the spread of a malware via USB devices. This new malware is has been programmed to steal data from systems that run specific software used in industrial manufacturing plants.

Malware is an attack on components, a worm, that spreads via a USB drive and takes advantage of any unknown weakness in Windows and the Trojan backdoor looks to see if an the machine infected is running that particular software. This software was created by Siemens to control systems in manufacturing, utilities and yes, even in nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

This worm is being called, Stuxnet, and it makes the most of a hole that is in all versions of Windows code that is processing shortcut files that end in .lnk. Just by browsing the removable media drive using that application the application that shows the shortcut icons, as in Windows Explorer, will run this malware without even having a user click on the icons.

The worm infects the USB drives and or other removable storage devices that are connected to the machine that is infected. That USB drive will then infect the other machines.

Malware includes a root kit and this software is designed to hide the fact that the particular computer is being compromised as well as other software that sneaks onto computers by using digital certificates.

Once a machine is infected, this Trojan looks at the computer it landed on and checks for the Siemens’ Simatic WinCC software. This malware automatically uses a default password that seems to be hard coded into the software to access control of Microsoft SQL database. The even scarier part is that this password has been on the internet for years!

What is the malware does is steals industrial automation layout designs and control files that are specific to the control system. Once the malware locates this data it starts looking for encodes and attempts to upload it to the remote server.

This malware was discovered approximately a month ago from the antivirus vendor Belarus with its VirusBlikAda. Microsoft has released the security advisory on this and states that it shows that the targeted attacks are limited.

This is impacting countries such as India, Indonesia and Iran as well as the U.S. At this point Siemens has no idea how many systems are being or have been affected. It is advised that plant operators restrict access to critical control system data via USB drives to prevent any compromises.

Siemens is saying that they are hoping to have a fix for this worm to the major antivirus software companies sometime this week. Siemens is addressing the issues and will provide a software tool this week to its customers that they will be able to use to check for the virus on their PC’s, while for the moment, Microsoft is working on a patch and will provide instructions for a workaround.

IT staff’s will be able to handle the workaround and will be able to adopt other fixes so that it will not allow files to execute that are not on the C Drive, which would prevent a computer from running the software on the USB drives.

VeriSign as well as Microsoft have revoked the digital certificate that is used to sneak this root kit onto computers; however even with the tests going on this malware is still loading up and without warning despite the revocation.

In the meantime it is still being debated as to who is behind these attacks and actually why they are attacking, so there rush is on to get the fix to all that are being effected as quickly as possible.

Rackspace Open Source Cloud Platform

dotCOMreport Editor — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:26:58 +0000

Rackspace is to announce the release of their new open source, which will allow a user to build and launch their very own internal and hosted clouds.

It is being called OpenStack and this Apache licensed project will feature several cloud infrastructure components. It will include the capability to distribute an object store based on Rackspace Cloud Files.

It will also initially offer a scalable compute provisioning engine based upon NASA Nebula cloud technology. Rackspace Cloud Servers technology is expected to be available sometime later this year.

Rackspace has hosted this enterprise computing for a good number of years and the use cases of OpenStack software is a compatible partnership for both the software enterprises.

It is also a good thing to note that this software powers a good deal of Rackspace’s cloud infrastructure. It definitely is not a new casual new open source project. This software is being proven for in production and more then likely supplies a good confidence level for those interested.

If you are a smart company you don’t want to get locked in to a specific technology or a certain cloud provider at this time. The market is promising and many have spent a great deal of money with their efforts and find that they are confined to a particular VM provider.

This project has the potential to soar with the opportunities in open source cloud infrastructures.

Hulu Goes to Subscription Mode

dotCOMreport Editor — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:11:20 +0000

Hulu has recently announced on their blog they will be offering a subscription and making it available to devices such as iPhones and in the near future the PlayStation 3. The subscription will cost $9.99 per month. It will allow CBS to provide content through Hulu as they have previously stated they won’t place their content on Hulu if it remained to be free. The paid revenue from Hulu’s advertising has been stagnant. Earlier this year, Viacom pulled out their Comedy Central programs” The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” from Hulu’s website.

The Hulu Plus subscription will offer current and past seasons of TV shows such as Glee, Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Office. Past seasons of favorite shows such as Arrested Development, X-Files, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer but keep in mind that Hulu will still has their free side of the service. The Hulu Plus will have availability to those who subscribe Samsung Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players with the application ability to be downloaded from the Samsung app store. Hulu Plus service will also be available through 3G, or Wi-Fi on the Apple iPad, iPhone4, iPhone 3GS or 3rd generation iPod Touch.

Hulu hasn’t place any ad-supported content on their broadband-enabled TVs and other connected-like devices. Viacom, and Time Warner have left out connected TVs out of their “TV Everywhere” their online on-demand programming but limited it to just laptops, mobile devices and computers.

Gmail Features: Out With The Old, In With The New

dotCOMreport Editor — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:15:59 +0000

Google has restructured a number of Gmail features, withdrawing some and promoting others, based on customer feedback.

As explained by Google software engineer Mark Knichel in a blog post that the Gmail Labs began with just 13 features and now has more than 60.

“Today, true to the original intention of Gmail Labs, we are graduating six more features and retiring five. These decisions were made based mainly on usage, taking feature polish and your feedback into account,” he wrote.

“We have also tweaked some of the graduating features to improve them before making them default Gmail features. For example, we’ve combined Go To Label with Search Autocomplete, making it easier to find what you’re looking for.”

Additional features that have been added include: suggestions in the Gmail search box, a feature that looks at the text of an email to assess whether the user might have forgotten to attach something, YouTube previews with emails, automatic auto-respond settings that refer to the calendar to show when a user is away, and a new colour palette for custom labels.

There are also a number of features will be retired, which Knichel said is “always a tough decision”.

“We invest in building and maintaining them, and we realize that some of you are probably fans of some of Gmail’s lesser-used features. But Labs are experimental features,” he added. “Over the next few days, you will see Muzzle, Fixed Width Font, Email Addict, Location in Signature and Random Signature stop working and disappear from the Labs tab.”

Connecting Your SEO With Your Website

dotCOMreport Editor — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:52:33 +0000

In the 1970s, during the dawn of the Environmental Movement, there was a very profound book – “Small Is Beautiful: Technology As If People Mattered”. It came out during the Carter Administration and it talked about building low intensity technology (like easily made peanut shelling equipment) for developing countries. It, along with the Green Revolution, have helped transform how international development is done.

Why are we bringing it up when talking about SEO? Because a lot of SEO specialists do search engine optimization as though getting the top page rank on the search engine of your choice were solely a technical matter. They forget that the most important part of search engine optimization is the person who reads your web site, rather than the web spider who led them there.

Now, we can’t argue with the importance of web spiders for running an internet business; being on the top few organic search links for Google is a great way to boost your traffic and your business’ bottom line. However, it does you no good whatsoever to get people to come to your site if they scroll down once, and hit the back button. And for that, we need to do search engine and web site design geared towards human beings, not web searching software.

First things first – content is king on the internet. People are going to come to your site because they’re looking for specific information on a topic. Choose your keywords appropriately; remember that when selecting keywords, it’s better to have a specific keyword (such as ‘real estate waukesha’) than a general keyword (‘real estate’) or even one that’s geographically specific (like ‘real estate milwaukee’ or ‘real estate Wisconsin’). However, once someone gets to your web site, they need information and they need it fast.

Write your content so that the first few hundred words are interesting and on topic. Don’t overoptimize on keywords. Google will delist sites that have keyword densities in excess of 1-2%. Look at the Journalism School inverted pyramid; you want to make sure that the most generally applicable information is at the top of your page, and that the people who scroll down further are engrossed in the message.

When you’re getting your content written, make sure it reads well. If you’re not a gifted writer, hire someone who is – ghost writers will write web content for anywhere from a penny a word to a nickel a word, depending on the quality needed and the expertise required. Expect to pay as much for a good article as you would for a decent lunch to a fancy dinner, and think about how much that writing will make you in the long run, before you immediately search for the lowest price. (The people who promise you 30 articles for 20 bucks are almost always in the Phillippines or India, and it shows in the quality of what you get.)

While it’s easy to get lulled into thinking you need latent semantic indexing, the reality is that all latent semantic indexing is trying to do is make a bunch of keyword optimized drivel look like a well written, sensible article on the subject in question. Rather than try to fake relevance, why not write (or buy) relevant ad copy? Having something unique to say, and saying it clearly and cleanly, is the best way to not only get good page ranks, but to have people who come to your web site and regard it as a resource.

While you’re at it, don’t forget to offer them a value proposition. You want to make sure that they give you a valid contact email so you can contact them with future articles of interest. The obligatory squeeze page is one way to do it; another is to say “If you liked this article, we have archives with a lot more content – let us know what you found useful and we’ll give you access to the rest.” Too many marketing driven web sites look like ‘paint by the numbers’ get rich quick schemes. We’re trying to help you build a community around your site, and help you provide value to the people who regularly visit it.

How To Use Budget Web Hosting

dotCOMreport Editor — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:24:23 +0000

At first glance, budget web hosting sounds like a terrible idea. After all, the conventional wisdom is that you get what you pay for. A really cheap web host shouldn’t give you all that much, right? There’s more to it than meets the eye, however. While it’s true that there are some uses that a budget web host isn’t ideal for (such as running your own large, complex business site), it can be an excellent choice for your marketing blog.

You see, blogs don’t require the more advanced features you’ll pay for with a more expensive webhost. Your average blog won’t be built on a complicated content management system, or CMS, doesn’t need the latest in database support, and won’t draw an enormous amount of bandwidth, even if your traffic climbs. That’s why a carefully selected budget webhost can be the perfect choice for blogging.

We need to make sure we’re choosing the right one, of course. There are some hosts out there that are little more than scams. If you ever see a host offering “unlimited” space or bandwidth, don’t be taken in. Run, don’t walk, to a host that’s not going to misrepresent its terms. In most cases, unlimited hosts will kick your site off if you use more space or have more traffic than they think you should, and they might not give you any warning, either. It’s like those unlimited text messaging plans that don’t deliver what they claim.

Instead, look for a budget host that spells out just what you are and aren’t getting. If you don’t think you’re going to need a lot of space, a lot of bandwidth, and the latest in administrator tools, don’t pay for them. Choose a plan that gives you a dependable site without a lot of downtime, and that provides as much room as you need – not more than you’ll ever use. The savings won’t be huge – usually a few dollars a month – but that’s a few dollars you can put toward other endeavors, such as getting the word out about your blog, or your products and services.

Now, if you know your blog is going to require more than just the basic plan, don’t back yourself into a corner. There’s no reason to choose a bare bones plan if you know you’ll be hosting a lot of your own multimedia and expect to get plenty of visitors, or if you believe that you’re going to require advanced features. After all, you’ll have to pay for them eventually, or you’ll have to give up on those features. Choose your host intelligently.

Business isn’t the place to cut corners, but it’s also not an area where you should spend money stupidly. Take the time to think about what your blog is really going to need out of a hosting service, then buy just that. Many so-called budget hosts are actually very good buys, as long as you know what you’re getting into. Choose the plan that’s right for you, and don’t pay too much. The savings will be worth it.

Creating Sitemaps Explained

dotCOMreport Editor — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:02:39 +0000

Site Map Making Using Google Maps

A sitemap of a website is similar to the table of contents of a book. Sitemaps are important because it guides web surfers to the particular part of the website they have a point of interest in. With it they would save time following links and get right to the point instead.

Sitemaps are also where search engines look at if somebody is looking for a particular keyword or phrase. If you have a site map, you can most likely be searched.

Creating a sitemap, now with software technology surging in, is relatively easier than before. You need not be a programming guru to be one. All need is a notepad, a program editor, and some patience. Here’s how you do it:

Create the listing on a notepad.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a notepad. Any word processing program will do. First off, make sure to type in all the parts and pieces of your website. Include all pages and all links you have. Create it as if you listing the contents of your book. Make a draft first. You’re sure no to miss something out this way.

Create a new page for your sitemap.

You can insert the sitemap on your website on one of its pages or you can create an entirely different page for it. Using your notepad, incorporate all tags necessary to it to make another webpage. Open up your website creator program and tag your sitemap using it. If you have created your website on your own, this will be easy for you.

Create a link for the sitemap.

You won’t be able to view the sitemap if you won’t put a link for it, of course. Create the link on the front page of your website so that visitors can view it right away and be directed appropriately.

Check your work.

It is important to validate the functionality of the links you created on the sitemap. Test each and every one in there and if you get an error, be sure to fix it accurately. Run through every single page to make sure that all are accounted for.

Upload your work.

Place the sitemap now on your live browser and double check it. It should function as smoothly as the dry run. Error should be minimal at this stage since you already have verified it locally.

The steps provided herewith is the manual way of creating a sitemap. These days, if you search hard enough on the web, you will find online programs that will do all these work for you. All you have to do it type in the URL or the link of your website and they will create the sitemap with click of a button.

Of course that method is generic. All of you who have created their sitemap that way will have an end product that is all the same, plus there’s that possibility that something else will be inserted in there too. Then again, the process is less taxing and way, way simpler.

But if you want a more personalized output, and you are pretty good with computers and programming yourself, better make one of your own. And since you made your website anyway, creating sitemap is just like creating any other page on the website. Other than you’ll know for sure the links are accurate, you can organize the links the way you prefer it to be. Major parts of the site are emphasized compared to less significant. This is important especially if you are selling products or offering services online.

Sitemap is vital to a website. People search the web a lot for something. If your website has what that particular person is looking for, and your sitemap reports it, then you have a new customer looking at your items. Not only that, they will see some other things up for sale that they might be interested in as well.

Sitemaps, be it generated by a program automatically or you made it yourself, presents the same purpose. That is to lead your visitors to where they’re likely headed, and for you to be seen on the World Wide Web through search spiders. So with these, make sure your website has a sitemap of its own, lest make one.

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