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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Great Bay Software's Beacon Endpoint Profiler Named Best Endpoint Security Product of 2008

GREENLAND, NH, Aug 05 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
Great Bay Software, the innovator of Endpoint Profiling for enterprise
networks, today announced that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley
Communications publication on technologies and solutions, has named
Beacon Endpoint Profiler(TM) winner of the 2008 Best Products and
Services Award in the "Best Endpoint Security" Category. This respected
annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly
changing needs and interests of technology end-users. As part of the
tech-industry's leading global awards program, this year's Best Products
and Services were nominated from all over the world.

Great Bay Software's flagship software product, Beacon Endpoint Profiler,
allows network administrators to locate, map and secure thousands of
difficult-to-track endpoint devices such as IP phones, printers and
biomedical devices -- a crucial step in the successful installation of NAC
systems. Further, Beacon Endpoint Profiler provides automated endpoint
behavior management, alerting administrators to any unauthorized use of
networked ports and devices.

 "Increased end-user awareness and ongoing advances in technology are
helping shape better products and services," said Rake Narang,
editor-in-chief, Network Products Guide. "Beacon Endpoint Profiler is
consistently providing improvements in endpoint profiling, security and
lifecycle management."

 "These awards go to the best technology products every year, and we are
honored that our Beacon Endpoint Profiler has gained the Network Products
Guide readers' trust," said Steve Pettit, president of Great Bay Software.
"We're looking forward to continuing our execution in providing solutions
to compelling customer challenges, such as endpoint identity, provisioning
and monitoring in support of network authentication and Network Access
Control (NAC)."

About Network Products Guide Awards:
Network Products Guide, published from the heart of Silicon Valley, is a
leading provider of products, technologies and vendor related research and
analysis. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this
guide, including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry
directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations
that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions
impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious
research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To
learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com.

About Great Bay Software:
Great Bay Software, Inc. is a leading software development firm
specializing in Enterprise Endpoint discovery, identity, and
administration. The companies flagship product the Beacon Endpoint
Profiler(TM) has applications including the enabling and extending of NAC
and 802.1X, providing a comprehensive inventory of all network attached
endpoints, and supporting Compliance initiatives mandated in today's
business climate. For more information on the Beacon System from Great Bay
Software, please visit www.greatbaysoftware.com or call 800.503.1715.



Contacts:
Bob Durkee
Great Bay Software
603.866.1134
Bdurkee@greatbaysoftware.com

Michelle Saturley
BridgeView Marketing
603-809-2748
michelle@bridgeviewmarketing.com

Sophos release Klingon Anti-Virus

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US Cyber Security Report Due May 29th

Washington, DC - Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 3:00 pm ET -The Whitehouse made the following statement today at the daily Press Office Press Briefing by Whitehouse Press Secretary Robert Gibbs: 60-Day Cyber Space Policy Review Report To be released May 29^th, 2009

The President will release the 60-Day Cyber Space policy review report at the Whitehouse on Friday, May 29, 2009. The administration recognizes the very serious threats Public & Private sector Networks face from cyber-crime and cyber-attack.

Recognizing these threats the President has elevated cybersecurity to a major administration priority by undertaking an early comprehensive interagency review.

The administration is also committed to establishing the proper structure within the government to insure that cybersecurity issues continue to receive top-level attention and enhanced coordination. The report is an important first step toward securing the nation’s cyber-infrastructure.

In the early edition of Washington Post, staff writer by Ellen Nakashima in her article entitled “Obama Set to Create a Cybersecurity Czar with Broad Mandate - Shielding Public, Private Networks Is Goal” reported President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a “cyber czar,” a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation’s government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan.

The adviser will have the most comprehensive mandate granted to such an official to date and will probably be a member of the National Security Council but will report to the national security adviser as well as the senior White House economic adviser, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations are not final.

The announcement will coincide with the long-anticipated release of a 40-page report that evaluates the government’s cybersecurity initiatives and policies. The report is intended to outline a “strategic vision” and the range of issues the new adviser must handle.

Green IT - Business Technology

A common myth is that technology has not yet advanced enough to create a paperless office.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The main obstacle is not technology, but people.

Replacing paper with electronic forms is easy, reduces business costs and wasted time.
Not only is a paperless organisation more eco-friendly, but it also benefits in increased organisational efficiency, increased business visibility and enables you to abide to compliance, legal and regulatory requirements.

Business Benefits

Cost - cost of paper, cost of office storage space, cost of staff dealing with paper
Staff - reduces the number of employees dealing with paperwork and manual tasks
Visibility - audit trails - electronic forms enable you to have visibility over your processes. everything is stored in the database.
Compliance, legal and regulatory requirements - government regulations, legal requirements, lost documents, data security
Efficiency - Improves organisational efficiency, minimizes risks, enforces organisational policies.

Paperless Technology

Paperless technology is available today and is proven to be successful.

Convert your paper forms to web-based, online forms, electronic forms.
Convert your manual paper-based processes into automated electronic processes
Convert your manual approvals into automated approval cycles

How does the paperless software work?

Lets take a common expense approval process for example:

The user opens a link to an internal web page and fills in the expense request online.
- the data is saved in the database, so the user won't need to re-submit the information in other forms.
- the system recognises who is logged in, so the user won't need to write in their details - saves time and hassle
- the information is validated before submitting - reduces errors
The system sends a task to the first approver.
- the approver gets an email with the request information already embedded in the email.
- the email has a link that enables to approve/decline and add comments.
- all the information and comments are saved in the database - enables to create reports like: show me the reasons for unapproved requests
If the expense is over the company expense limit - send it to the finance department for approval
- automated business rules - lets you set company policies
- decisions are enforced by the software, not by humans
Approved - create purchase order.
- submitting forms online eliminates the need to mail purchase orders and create paper documentation.
SLAs and escalations
- if one of the approvers has not completed their task in time, the system will send a reminder, send a warning, forward the task to another approver in the group or escalate the problem to the manager - making sure that nothing falls in the cracks.
- humans make mistakes - software picks up on the mistakes.
Monitoring and reports
- the paperless software will show visual gauges and data reports of the budget used, budget left and any irregularities.
- trend analysis - based on current spending, when will we go over-budget?
- alerts and notifications during the approval process to all participants
Audit trails
- timestamps – who approved, when did they approve?
- how many requests were sent to the finance department?
- transparency and process visibility

Replacing traditional paper-based processes with paperless software enables you to increase your business efficiency, productivity, and operational visibility.
Paperless software automates manual tasks, automates decisions and streamlines work processes

Paperless software enables you the flexibility of reducing printed paper, but still enabling users to print copies, if needed.
All the paper that your business uses has both a financial and environmental cost associated with it.

The impact on the environment - Statistics

The use of paper in businesses causes forest degradation, and increases the use of chemicals, water and energy to manufacture the paper.
Recycling does not solve the problem. The only way forward is to completely eliminate the use of paper in the office.

UK

UK uses 12.5 million tonnes of paper and cardboard every year
On average, each person in the UK uses over 200 kg of paper per year.
80.6m tonnes of writing and printing paper enters the waste stream each year
To grow enough trees to provide the amount of paper that Britain uses each year, you would need a forest the size of Wales
Every tonne of biodegradable waste produces 300-500 cubic metres of landfill gas

USA

U.S. businesses use around 21 million tons of paper every year
On average, each person in the U.S. uses 650 pounds of paper a year
Every year, nearly 900,000,000 trees are cut down to provide raw materials for American paper and pulp mills
On average, every American, in one lifetime, uses: 18 ton of paper, 23 ton of wood, 16 ton of metal, and 32 ton of organic chemicals.
America is home to 5% of the world's population, yet it consumes a third of the Earth's paper and timber, making paper the largest part of the waste stream at 37.5% of the total waste stream

It takes 24 trees to make 1 tonne of paper
Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees
One tonne of paper from recycled pulp saves 17 trees, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 7,000 gallons of water, 390 gallons of oil, 4,200 kilowatt hours and prevents 60 pounds of air pollutants

Paperless software can help you support the environment while generating significant time and cost savings for your business

Reduce costs, Reduce wasted time, Reduce your environmental footprint

For more about paperless software, contact us or request our white paper

Monday, May 18, 2009

Users can automatically encrypt Gmail connection

Gmail now can be set to encrypt communications between a browser and Google's servers by default, an option that makes the e-mail service harder to snoop on but also potentially slower.

Users already could encrypt communications with Gmail servers (by going to https://mail.google.com), but on Thursday, the company added an option to use that encrypted connection automatically.

"Your computer has to do extra work to decrypt all that data, and encrypted data doesn't travel across the Internet as efficiently as unencrypted data," Gmail engineer Ariel Rideout said in a blog post Thursday. "That's why we leave the choice up to you."

The encryption comes through use of HTTPS, a secure version of the HTTP protocol that governs how Web browsers fetch information from servers. It's not simple to snoop on somebody else's network traffic, but it can be done when the communications aren't encrypted.

HTTPS encrypts communications only between the browser and Gmail's servers. It's not like PGP (nee Pretty Good Privacy) or GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) software that encrypts e-mail all the way from source to destination.

The Gmail login process is always encrypted.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Present Market Price of Pocessor

This week we bring you the prices of AMD and Intel CPUs currently available in the market. All the prices are for boxed CPUs with bill and 3 years warranty.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Now 400 GB LAPTOP hard disks from Toshiba

Toshiba just bested its own 320GB hard drive with a 400GB offering in the same 9.5-mm height form factor favored by most thin laptops.

That's as good as it gets unless you can track down Sammy's elusive 500GB Spinpoint M6. The MK4058GSX spins just 2 platters which means the disk sports an impressive 477Mbit/mm2 (308Gbpsi) areal density while consuming 20% less power (0.0015W/GB energy consumption efficiency) and 2dB less noise than its own 320GB predecessor. Rounding out the specs are a 12-ms average seek and 8MB cache. Toshiba also boosted the rest of its 9.5-mm, 2.5-inch, 3.0Gbps SATA disk lineup to 7,200rpm including the 320GB MK3254GSY. Mass production of the 400GB slab is expected to begin in September while the 7,200 HDDs will hit the market in August. No prices announced yet.

Now get an ATM machine right in your living room

At first look, the ATM Bank looks like a toy. You know, the sort of thing best summed up with a remark about training our kids to regard banking as a consumption facilitation service. As it happens, it's pitched as a serious at-home alternative to the real thing!

Wouldn't it be ideal to have a cash machine in your front room? There's nothing worse than having to walk half a mile down the road in grotty weather to pick up your very own money. This nifty mini ATM Machine is the piggy bank of the new millennium. Every time you make a deposit the ATM keeps a running total giving you an account balance you can keep tabs on on a regular basis. Withdrawing money couldn't be easier, just pop the card in the slot, enter your PIN and select the amount you need. The high street in the comfort of your own home and without the 'Sorry- Out of Order' disappointments.

It costs £25 and you don't get a free toaster for opening an account. What's the overdraft policy?

Let your computer download and change wallpapers for you

There are number of wallpaper changers that will change the wallpaper on your computer after pre-defined time from selected set of wallpapers. How about a program that downloads fresh wallpapers from internet and change it for you?

Free application Bee Wallpapers does the same. It automatically changes your desktop wallpaper at predefinedÂ intervals or at windows startup. It sits in system tray and you can pause the randomizer at any time by right clicking in the system tray.

It directly download wallpapers from their regularly updated wallpapers collection. All wallpapers are saved in a tree structure and you can even drag - drop images on your computer into this application.

You can create your own categories and subcategories. It also displays current date on desktop. You can preview wallpapers from within the program before downloading them. Download Bee Wallpapers to make your computer download and change wallpaper for you, automatically!

Some of the world's biggest Hi-Fi Speaker systems - 6 unbelievable pictures

A coin-sized ball with a powerful SPY video camera built-in

This is a fairly neat looking and rather discrete video recorder. The CamBall is a miniature digital video recorder that can record MPEG-4 video in 320×240 or 640×480 resolution. It can store up to 8GB of data on a tiny SD card(and it looks like the card is sold separately).

And like many great gadgets, this one is currently only available in Korea, for around $200 US. And while my Korean language skills are limited to 0 words, my looking at a photo ability has discovered that this spy ball also has an underwater case(might be sold separately) for taking videos while you’re snorkeling or scuba diving.

There is also an alternate version that comes with an mp3 player built in.

Interiors of an A380 Airbus from Singapore Airlines - picture gallery

iPod, iPhone gadget accessory that can sync, store and charge

Normally my eyes tend to glaze over when it comes to the hundreds of accessories available for the iPod or the iPhone, but this relatively compact USB dongle from Macally seems to be pretty useful. On one end you’ll find a standard USB connection but on the other there’s the 30 pin connector used by the iPhone and the various iPod’s for charging and syncing. I guess the primary use of the PowerLink is as an emergency backup battery to extend the life of your device if you happen to be away from a power source.

Unfortunately there’s no details on the Macally site as to how much longer you can expect a device to run with the PowerLink attached, but given its size I don’t think we’re talking hours and hours.

The PowerLink can also be used as a substitute sync cable between your PC and iPod/iPhone if you’ve forgotten or chose not to carry the standard cable. Given the fact that it’s not flexible like the cable though, it might be a bit awkward to use if you don’t have a table or flat surface to put the devices on. But as an added bonus Macally has also crammed 2GB of flash memory in there so it’s even useful as just a USB flash drive. While it’s still listed as ‘Coming Soon’ on the Macally website, when it is available the PowerLink will sell for $49.99.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Color Picker by Jinsun Park

Designer Jinsun Park from Korea has come out with a simple tool called Color Picker. Place the pen against an object and press the scan button, the color will be detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridges in the pen will mixed the required inks to create the target color.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Make your Computer Talk

Open a text file in notepad and write:

Dim msg, sapi
msg=InputBox( "Enter your text","Talk it")
Set sapi=CreateObject( "sapi.spvoice" )
sapi.Speak msg

Save the file with a (*.vbs) extension,
it will create a VBScript File.
Now open the saved file, input the text and press ok."

You will hear what you typed

this works in Windows XP and in Vista also.

enjoy!!!

Monday, May 4, 2009

Surf the net while surfing waves

Sun, sea, sand - spam?

For a decade, "surfing" has come to mean browsing the net rather than riding ocean waves on a plank.

But a surfboard has now been developed that lets surfers surf while surfing. The prototype board has been built by Devon "shaper" Jools Matthews.

It houses a laptop, solar panels, and video camera, and is to launch at the Intel GoldCoast Oceanfest on 18 June.

The world's first wi-fi board uses a high-speed net connection point - hotspot - positioned on the beach.

Chip makers Intel has commissioned the unusual surfboard as part of the free sports and music festival in North Devon to show off how technology can be brought to the sea and sand.

The board will have its maiden outing on the waves when it is used by international pro surfer Duncan Scott at the event.

Ride with the best

"As a professional surfer, explorer, writer, film producer and world traveller, being able to communicate quickly and effectively is critical to my success," said Mr Scott, who also advised on the board's design.

The board is a prototype to show off technology

"In the near future," he added, "via wireless real-time streaming, it could be possible that observers will, for the first time, actually be able to 'ride' a wave with the best surfers in the world."

The board itself is 9ft 4 inch long board, ideally suited to the particular waves found along the UK's "Surfers' Paradise" in North Devon.

The technology, supplied by Intel, is tucked away neatly in the board, inside a specially designed waterproof casing.

The casing is made of a tough but lightweight tray, and has a silicone seal, a crystal PVC cover and an aluminium gasket.

The tablet laptop has a wireless chip, a 1.7Ghz processor and a 80Gb hard drive.

Power comes from the solar panels fitted onto the board, and it also has a video camera which can store 64Mb worth of wave-catching action.

Serious side

But even though it is all a bit of fun, serious efforts have been made to ensure the technology did not interfere with the ride and feel of the board, said Intel.

The laptop weighs in at 2.3kg and its position in the board was careful calculated to maintain the desired balance for surfers.

"It's all about giving people the freedom to get online when and where they want - and this technology demonstrates that with a bit of imagination you can do just that," said Tim Hatch, Intel's consumer marketing manager.

The GoldCoast Oceanfest takes place from 18 to 20 June at Croyde beach in North Devon.

Where are the device drivers settings for Microsoft Windows stored?

By adding the Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomiza tionW inPE or Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomiza tionN onWinPE components and specifying the configuration passes in which you intend to install them. You can install device drivers in the windowsPE, offlineServicing, auditUser or auditSystem configuration passes.By adding device drivers during the windowsPE or offlineServicing configuration passes, you can add out.

How can i encrypt and decrypt my web address in asp.net?

Connection String in Web.configBy default, the DataProtectionConfigurationProvider is configured to use DPAPI with the machine store.To encrypt the connectionStrings section in Web.config 1. Create a new Web site named MachineDPAPI. Make sure that this directory is configured as a virtual directory. 2. Add a Web.config configuration file to this directory. 3. Add a sample connectionString similar.

How can i use internet information services for asp.net with vb?

you cannot programmatically configure the remoting system for your remotable type directly in the host process, because the host application domains are created by IIS and ASP.NET. However, you can use the Global.asax file to do much of the same programmatic configuration that you can do in other types of application domains. To use a configuration file to configure remoting when IIS is your host process.