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Surfing safely in the web2.0 trend

Securing the Web Gateway in the Web 2.0 World Source: Websense.com Websense Web Security Gateway allows organizations to secure Web traffic effectively while still enabling the latest Web-based tools and applications. Through a multi-vector traffic-scanning engine, the Websense Web Security Gateway analyzes Web traffic in real-time, instantly categorizing new sites and dynamic content and proactively discovering security risks and blocking dangerous malware. Using the powerful Websense ThreatSeeker Network, the Websense Web Security Gateway provides advanced analytics, including rules, signatures, heuristics, and application behaviors, to detect and block proxy avoidance, hacking sites, adult content, botnets, key-loggers, phishing attacks, spyware, and many other types of unsafe content. Websense Web Security Gateway also closes a common security gap: decrypting and analyzing SSL-encrypted content before it enters your network. These real-time capabilities integrate with the industry...

Emerging Technologies of 2008

According to eweek. by Jim Rapoza Click here to read eweek According to wired. By Priya Ganapati Click to read wired Best Web Books of 2008 3 best Web books of 2008 Looking to capitalize on the Facebook revolution? These must-reads show you how. By Jessi Hempel , writer Facebook struggles to grow up This was the year that businesses finally embraced the social Internet, setting up blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 services. But for all their experimentation, relatively few companies have figured out how to be strategic about these new technologies. Here's the best of this year's literature for companies obsessed with how to get social media right: What Would Google Do? By Jeff Jarvis (Collins Business, January 2009) Three years ago, new media impresario Jeff Jarvis posted a blog entry under the headline "Dell Sucks" in which he described his new laptop purchase and the accompanying four-year in-home service. "The machine is a lemon and the service is a lie,...
Fake iPhone Nanos hit Thailand According to Apple Insider, knockoff iPhone Nanos have surfaced in stores around Thailand, all fitting the description of the rumored Nano which has yet to be confirmed by Apple or any manufacturer.
Are Android, Chrome-Flavored Netbooks on Tap for Google Earlier this week, I lamented what Google didn't do in 2008 , but with the year winding down let's consider what's on tap at Google for 2009. Garret Rogers over at ZDNet is thinking that there will be several mobile devices running Google's Android mobile operating system. I know, I know. Stating the obvious a little. But in this obscene economy, it's OK to play it safe. Of course, there will be more Android devices, probably from Sprint, Motorola, Samsung, Kogan, Garmin and God knows who else. But while we're on the subject, I'd like to add to this list that we should see an Android netbook in 2008. Why not? Netbooks have gone gangbusters in 2008. Just ask Amazon , which said the Acer Aspire One netbook was king. If the Ubuntu-EEE operating system on Asus netbooks is a hit, why can't the Linux-based Android OS score points with manufacturers and consumers alike? Speaking of working with manufact...
Yahoo mail with new Look Yahoo Mail has unveiled some of the new features and applications. Yahoo Mail, the world's biggest webmail service, has unveiled what it calls a 'smarter Inbox'.  Among the changes to Yahoo Mail is a welcome page with update notifications from other socially-enabled sites such as Twitter.  From next year Yahoo Mail will also support third-party applications such as Flixster and Xoopit.  "One way to make an Inbox smarter (is to) make applications that can work within it, opening up Yahoo Mail to content and services built outside the Yahoo network," said Mark Risher, product management director at Yahoo Mail.  Other changes will allow members to access the photo-sharing website Flickr from within their Inbox under its 'Open Mail Initiative'.  The new features are currently only available to power users, but Yahoo said it will be extending the beta test to other users during 2009.  have look at this new feature at  http://beta.mail.y...
New Games and media downloading site from  PronetSharing   pronetsharing.com  offers a programme to download new games and other media like MP3, MPEG, AVI, ASF, MOV, JPEG, GIF etc.  Using the most recent p2p technology you will obtain excellent results by speed and by the number of search results. It has a familiar interface which is intuitive and easy to use. It runs on windows based systems. Try it out at  http://www.pronetsharing.com/