My techno Experience

VoIP Technology For The Little Guy....With Worldwide Origination

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:49:02 -0600

Not everyone in the world has sufficient internet accesscapability to take advantage of the benefits from VoIP.Shoot....most folks are lucky to have phone line for thatmatter. This dose of reality kinda puts the dampers on the "VoIPwill take over the world" conspiracy theory.But hold on there Junior....the little guy may just have found ahero. Mailspeak, a US-based company, is offering users cut-throatrates to place international calls. But wait until you learn howthey do it....read on.For example...... You can call the US and UK from South Africa for R. aminute. Telkom charges between double and triple the price forthese calls. Calls to Australia from SA are also about cheaper. You can call anywhere in the United States and most of Europefrom Malaysia for just sen per minute compared to sen perminute at present charged by a local company using land lines.For mobile phones, the calls will be sen per minute asopposed to sen. A call to China c...

Innovative Business Use of RSS as a Technology

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:43:02 -0600

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a new way to broadcastcorporate news and structured information. RSS offers a quick,easy corporate communication channel. The RSS contents arepublished as a feed and the feed's content keep customers,partners and journalists abreast of corporate news andinformation. The RSS feeds are read using a tool referred to asa news aggregator, or an RSS reader. The aggregator periodicallychecks to see if the RSS feed has been updated. As the feed isupdated, new information will automatically appear in the RSSreader. While RSS was at one point only considered to be a means todeliver news headlines, RSS has quickly become a powerful mediumto disseminate all kinds of information. As traditionalmarketers are attempting to rein in content delivery, measuringe-mail open rates, click-throughs and conversions, Internetusers are fighting to gain control over the content theyreceive. Savvy marketers and business owners are using RSS as away to improve...

Technology and Coping with Disaster

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:17:32 -0600

Technology and Coping with Disaster Natural disasters come in many shapes. From the incomprehensiblecarnage of last weekend's tsunami in the Indian Ocean, tohurricanes and typhoons, to tornadoes and drought, our worlddeals with the horror of disaster as a normal part of our lives.Throw in a bit of human influence through wars, terrorism, orthe threat of weapons of mass destruction, and our need to dealwith and overcome calamity almost becomes routine. Watching CNN and the news channels gives a near real-time viewof disasters. While some may find this a bit macabre, it alsoshows our ability to quickly respond to major events, on aglobal scale. The same technologies that allow us to view theaftermath of a tsunami also allow us to quickly gather factualdata on the extent of a disaster, and use that for disasterplanning and response. Organizations such as the Pacific Disaster Centerhttp:www.pdc.org, the Asia Pacific Area Networkhttp:www.apan-info.net, try to a...

Remain Calm Despite Tempting Computer Prices

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:44:20 -0600

B>Everyone has seen the drastic drop in computer prices in thepast seven to eight months. Large and small companies alikeare luring you and your buddies in with lower-than-ever pricesand best-ever rebates and incentives. You must ask this: Whyis this happening?Three years ago, some important person predicted the arrival ofa one hundred dollar computer; is this it? No. With all the SEClawsuits and investigations, are companies scared to make moneyand have now decided to lose money just for giggles? No. Whatwe're seeing until about Q is a massive, industry-wideyard sale.Thankfully, this yard sale is not filled with junk. In manycases, you can find great computers and peripherals for aboutone-third their original prices. But there is a catch. As goodas some of this stuff is, there's superior stuff on the way andthe yard sales are companies doing Spring Cleaning. Retailersjust can't put the new stuff next to the old stuff on theirshelves... Eating the cost is smarter...

The Story of the First Internet Worm

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:49:52 -0600

Robert Tappan Morris was the first person convicted by a juryunder the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of . The story of theworm he created and what happened to him after it was releasedis a tale of mistakes, infamy, and ultimately the financial andprofessional success of its author.Morris was a -year-old graduate student at Cornell Universityin when he wrote the first Internet worm in lines of Ccode. According to him, his worm was an experiment to gainaccess to as many machines as possible. Morris designed the wormto detect the existence of other copies of itself on infectedmachines and not reinfect those machines. Although he didn'tappear to create the worm to be malicious by destroying files ordamaging systems, according to comments in his source code hedid design it to "break- in" to systems and "steal" passwords.Morris' worm worked by exploiting holes in the debug mode of theUnix sendmail program and in the finger daemonfingerd.On November , , Morr...

A Peek Into the Near Future of Electronics Technology

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:32:34 -0600

How long do you think DVDs have around? years? years?Actually, they have only been around for about seven years, butit seems like they have been around much longer. Many of us canhardly remember life before DVDs. That can be attributed to howrapidly we can become acclimated to some innovations inelectronics technology. I believe there are other electronicstechnologies, either just getting ready to take off, not widelyavailable yet, or just around the corner, that are going tobecome adopted just as quickly in the near future. Once suchitem is Voice over Internet Protocol, also known as VoIP. Thisinnovation renders the whole concept of long distance virtuallyobsolete. It bypasses the traditional telephone companyinfrastructure and delivers phone service over a broadbandinternet connection to a regular phone. Similar to cell phones,this service is purchased based on a fixed andor unlimitednumber of minutes. However, geographical divisions are generallymade by count...

Computer Motherboard Guide

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:25:57 -0600

The heart of any computer is the motherboard. It is that bigboard inside the computer that everything is connected to. Itperforms the role of traffic lights and policemen, directingflows of information to where they are needed, when they areneeded.Choosing the right motherboard does not have to be a huge issue,even though there is a lot to consider. I will start off withthe most major parts and move onto the the things that are lessimportant or non-essential.Firstly is the socket type.The socket is the place where the processor CPU connects tothe motherboard. There is no compatiblility between sockets, soit has to be the right one. The socket connection needs to matchthe connection of the processor you have or the one you intendto buy for the computer.Most older Intel Pentium s utilise socket . Newer ones usesocket . AMD chips utilised socket A for a long time, but nowthe AMD Athlon series and Semprons use socket . Just checkwith someone as to what your...

Computer Certification

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:24:47 -0600

In baseball, a "utility player" is one who plays more than oneposition. These players are usually backups, but they have a jobin the major leagues because of their value to the team; sincethey can play more than one position, they have that much morevalue to their employer.Too often in IT, workers become either LAN or WAN engineers,knowing little if anything about the other side. Many LANadministrators I worked with knew little about routing andswitching, while many WAN engineers I knew not only didn't knowmuch about the LAN side of their network, but they didn't wantto know anything about the servers!In today's IT world, it's a bad idea to specialize in only onething and not know how to do anything else. Not only does itlimit your future career prospects, but it limits your currentprospects as well. Employers don't want to hire someone and havethem get up to speed on the job - they want someone who can walkright in and do the job. The more you know, the better yourcha...

New Cars - New Technology

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:34:08 -0600

Exciting Future Of Automobiles New technologies will improve fuel efficiency, increase safety,aid navigation and repair. Bend Bohn, of the German auto components company, Robert BoschCorporation, recently predicted that internal combustion engineswill continue to dominate the automotive market well into thest Century. Automotive manufacturers have investedconsiderable time and effort in attempt to improve fuelefficiency in these engines, and they have been successful. Infact the U.S.A. Environmental Protection Agency EPA, estimatesengines have become percent more fuel-efficient over the past years than previously. However the gains have been offset bythe introduction of increasingly bigger and more powerfulengines. The average engine in the present industry is percent more powerful than years ago. John Heywood, Director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory atMassachusetts Institute of Technology, estimates new technologywill reduce fuel consumption by a ...