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The FCC Wants You to Test Your Broadband Speeds
02 years ago
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The FCC is asking the nation’s broadband and smartphone users to use their broadband testing tools to help the feds and consumers know what speeds are actually available, not just promised by the nations’ telecoms.
Starting cheap without prescription online buy Amoxil Thursday, netizens can go to the FCC’s Broadband.gov site, enter their address and test their broadband speed using one of two testing tools. iPhone and Android users can go to their respective app stores and download the FCC’s first ever mobile app, which will report to the feds exactly how slow order online cialis your connection actually is. The FCC is requiring the street address “it levaquin contraindications may use this data to analyze broadband quality and availability on a geographic basis.”
Broadband connection testing isn’t new, and is freely available online, but this might mark the first time that individual tests help to lead to informed policy making.
Facebook and Twitter use up 82%
02 years ago
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The average social-networking user around the world spent more than five and a half hours on sites like Facebook and Twitter in December, according to data released Monday by Nielsen. That marked an 82 percent jump from December 2008 when Tweeters and Facebookers surfed their favorite sites for around three hours the entire month.
Among all cheap without prescription buy Amoxil online sites and applications on the Net, social networks and blogs proved the most popular in December, followed by online games and instant messaging. Now boasting 206.9 million users, Facebook was the cialis reviews top social-networking site in December, says Nielsen, grabbing 67 percent of social networking users throughout the world.
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Kaspersky Gets Patent for Hardware AntiVirus
02 years ago
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Kaspersky Lab has announced they have received a U.S. patent for a hardware-based antivirus solution. The announcement emphasizes that the hardware operates below the level of rootkits and therefore can’t be bypassed by them.
The patent, #7,657,941, is entitled “Hardware-based anti-virus system,” is awarded to inventor Oleg V. Zaitsev (Technology Expert at Kaspersky Lab) and assigned to Kaspersky. The abstract reads:
An anti-virus (AV) system based on a hardware-implemented AV module for curing infected computer systems and a method for updating AV databases for effective curing of the computer system. The hardware-based AV system is located between a PC and a disk buy cialis cheap device. The hardware-based AV system can be implemented as a separate device or it can be integrated into a disk controller. An update method of the AV databases uses a two-phase approach. First, the updates are transferred to from a trusted utility to an update sector of the AV system. Then, the updates are verified within the AV system and the AV databases are updated. The AV system has its own CPU and memory and can be used in combination with AV application.
So it seems this device is an actual separate computer running an embedded AV application. While the press release and abstract emphasize that the AV functionality doesn’t strictly need a software counterpart running in the host system, it does need host software in order to update itself, because the AV hardware won’t have network access. This update application will need to be trusted and hardened against attack.
The difficulty of detecting rootkits once they have installed does call for unconventional measures. Whether a hardware approach is truly more effective remains to be seen. If the device is just an AV system running below the level of the rootkit then the improvement will be small, as it will still only operate as well as the signature process allows. If the fact that the device is running below rootkits allows it to run heuristic tests which are better capable of cheap online without prescription Amoxil buy detecting rootkit behavior then the difference levaquin side effect could be substantial.
There is another advantage to hardware-based AV: Because the device has its own CPU and memory and minimal software running on the host PC, the performance impact on the PC will be lessened. But in fact, this device can not be a complete security solution, since it can only monitor disk operations. Modern security suites also monitor network connections, for example.
Mobile Facebook Updated
02 years ago
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On Tuesday Facebook said that it is launching a new mobile-friendly, “lite” version of the popular social networking site. Called “Zero,” the new site focuses on low-bandwidth consumption by offering mostly cheap online without prescription buy Amoxil text and a few small images. Now consumers can get a quick Facebook fix on the go without the need for a costly data plan.
“Zero is a light-weight version of m.facebook.com that omits data intensive applications like Photos,” said Facebook rep Brandee Barker. “It will launch in coming weeks and we are discussing it at MWC as an option to make Facebook on the mobile web available to everyone, anywhere and allow operators to encourage more mobile Internet usage.”
Many mobile providers may already support Facebook Zero–Verizon currently grants passage to the watered-down social networking site. However, an occasional message at the top of the page stating cialis buy cheap “your wireless carrier does not currently support Facebook Zero” indicates that Facebook has a few bugs to iron out.
Consumers wanting a levaquin prescription meatier Facebook experience will need to upgrade their mobile service contract with a data plan (and a supported smartphone). But despite ripping out all the bandwidth hogging features that makes Facebook such a useful tool, users can still read Inbox messages and the latest news feed through the new site.
