Natural calamities cause losses in several ways including ruining infrastructure and causing probable data loss, when one talks about organizations. Having a disaster recovery plan is therefore the need of the hour.
Some of the top trends found in IT disaster recovery are as follows:
Mobile improvements over the last year show no sign of stopping. Advances in hardware, software and networks all contribute to more online activities. Many consumers are expecting latest features from devices designed by Apple, Samsung, Nokia, HTC and others. From big screens to experiencing cinema on your phone, mobile devices will offer the latest and greatest features that you can look forward this year.
Big screens
There was a time when 4.3-inch screens were considered as big screens in the software market. However, this year you can expect the release of even bigger displays. At CES, some brands dispayed 5-inch screens. The future of smartphones is in big screens.
4G LTE
In 2013, each and every product you buy whether it’s a smartphone, tablet or Ultrabook will have 4G LTE network. Technology companies are making it easy for the users to stay connected to the Web no matter where they are. Also, smartphone makers need to bring out models that can make use of this higher-speed service.
Android everywhere
Android is officially the best operating system used in the mobile industry. And this year, you will find it almost everywhere. The software will be working on hundreds of platforms from smartphones to tablets. Google has announced that it will launch an updated version this year with brand new features.
NFC
Although Near Field Communication didn’t make much news until recently, this year it’s believed to make its way to all new Android based devices. There are also rumors that Apple will allow NFC in its iphone and ipad.
Slim and light
Until now, mobile companies have been delivering products that are both slimmer and lighter than their ancestors. Even this year, these companies continue to do the same. So, all vendors are planning to launch thinner and lighter mobile phones in 2013.
Bigger tablets
With the tablets getting slimmer and lighter, they’ll also have a bigger display. For instance, the Microsoft Surface Pro is available with a 10.6 inch display. Asus comes with a 12-inch screen in its slate tablet. At CES, several companies showcased devices with at least 10-inch displays. However, Panasonic out-shined the rest with a 20-inch tablet. So this year, the tablet markets will be flooded with larger tablets that perform far better than the previous ones.
Better Tablet Covers
Also, this year, Apple and Samsung are expected to come up with better Tablet covers. Microsoft has already introduced its Surface tablets with covers that function as both – screen protectors and keyboards. This year, Apple is expected to launch an improved Smart Cover for its new iPad.
Better photography
Nvidia is Qualcomm’s competitor in the mobile processor space. This year, the company is planning to launch its Tegra 4-powered Android console which helps the device to automatically adjust an image for light and dark areas on the fly. It’s something that today’s cameras find it difficult to perform.
Wi-Fi gets better both in and out of the home
In the coming years, you can expect seamless connection to Wi-Fi network. Passpoint and Hotspot 2.0 initiatives add new features to Wi-Fi devices, mainly allowing licensed products to automatically register and use a Wi-Fi network.
Home Wi-Fi will also be supporting up to eight antennas for video sharing at home.
A cinema experience on your phone
There was a time when mobile speakers were not given much importance. But with the advance in mobile technology, phones and tablets to be launched in the second half of 2013 are expected to contain features that will transform your home into an entertainment hub. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon processors possess the power to perform like a 7.1 surround speaker system.
When you are going to download the cell phone applications for you, then you will see that some application useful for you and the others are useless at all. So in this case, you have to determine which applications are very much handy for your requirement. But you have to know some criteria which will give you a clear picture about the right application for your cell phone.
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Technology is at its peak in this 21st century and is rapidly advancing. Cell phones have become an inevitable part of our lives due to this rapid advancement of technology. You can literally do all kinds of tasks with that small piece of thing in your hand. One does not need to own a laptop or computer to carry out complex tasks; a cell phone can do most of it.
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The world has suddenly become much smaller with the introduction of a wide range of mobile devices and the internet. People can now connect with their near and dear ones regardless of the distance or the physical barriers that may lie between them. Mobile computing devices have evolved with the passing of time.
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Web 2.0 has grown popular within a very short span, the major reason behind this popularity is freedom it gives to the users. A large number of intermediary sites have created a huge bloggers network. These sites mainly deal in user generated content and provide their users an easy way to upload anything of their interest on the internet. Most of the sites mainly aim at publicizing themselves and therefore provide users extra freedom ultimately making themselves vulnerable to malicious use. These sites have customized the service in an attempt to make it more user friendly to an extent that these sites provide a good fertile platform for malicious coders and have posed a threat to internet security. Not only blog sites are main targets, but the big elephants like MySpace, Wikipedia, Google and Second Life have also encountered swarm of spam and viruses. The reason for this is again same USER GENERATED CONTENT. Dan Hubbard, senior director for security and technology research at Websense has expressed his worries about the increasing internet insecurity. He said: As more internet companies develop tools for turning their audience into the prime source of content, online fraudsters and data thieves are looking to exploit the systems to reach mainstream audiences. User created content is definitely a big security shift. I don’t even think the companies have really thought about how to control things that they don’t have (direct) control over. So, in order to cope up with this problem, all these sites should take some strong steps and come out with a better protective method to increase user interaction without providing dispensing with the freedom, which in fact, is the main factors that attract them. Google, Wikimedia, and Linden Lab have built defenses into their systems, and MySpace has hired former Microsoft investigator Hemanshu Nigam to beef up the social networking site’s security.
The governments worldwide are getting weary of Internet and are putting Internet journalists in jail for what they deemed was an offending article. ‘The Internet Journalists are second in line to the Print Journalists’; these figures were revealed by the Committee to protect Journalists. There are 49 of them languishing in jail for using their right of freedom of expression. China is leading the charge against the net (Chinese law makers are purposing that internet users should provide real names and ID card numbers) and has maximum number of 31 journos in jail out of them 19 are Internet journalists Cuba came second. The director of international programs at Columbia University Joshua Friedman says, “I refer to the freedom of the press as the canary in the coal mine. It’s a barometer of the insecurity of the people running these governments. One of the things that makes them insecure these days is the power of the Internet.” The states with dictator ship are mostly the ones who are the most hostile towards this new medium of news and are now doing everything possible to control the net. Among the note able journalists jailed are Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad (2years), U.S. video blogger Joshua Wolf and China’s Shi Tao (10years) all of them upheld the freedom of expression and were jailed.
The Fox entertainment is taking its frustration out on a small website QuicksilverScreen over the copyright issues. You must be wondering what it has done to annoy Fox so much that it even stopped its auction on SitePoint. Well this small website which is on net for the past 8 years provides you link to the full-length TV shows and movies available on other popular sites. You know what sites I am talking about the YouTube and DailyMotion. You will realize that the Fox wants this small site shut but does not has guts enough to take on these popular sites were the popular and copyrighted content is freely available and further these sites have a safe harbor in law as they are providing a platform for people who in turn sometime misuse it and upload copyrighted material. They then say that if the owners complain they will pull down the video remember Comedy Central. The site QuicksilverScreen is generating $400 for the owner but is hardly enough to fight the brigade of lawyers the Fox will through in against this helpless site. It is not doing anything illegal but is supplying links to all the illegal material on other websites which the public wants to see. Here what the Fox lawyers should do follow the links and ask all the illegal material found through link to be pulled down and instead of going for a smaller fish go for the bigger ones.
An internet company in China has launched the nation’s first blog search service to help Internet users navigate their way through the estimated 52.6 million Chinese blogs. It is the first Chinese search service specifically for blogs. It’s said that the service was based on a database of billions of websites, including all the blogs supported by Chinese blog service providers and individual blog websites. A report released here earlier this week showed the number of bloggers in China had reached 19.87 million, a 24 per cent rise over the same time last year, producing 52.6 million blogs. The number of blog service providers rose nearly 55 per cent in the past year to 1,460. Qzone, run by Tencent, had the most bloggers and visitors. It was followed by Sina.Com, MSN Spaces and Sohu.Com.
It is just a matter of days when we expect the Redmond giant to remove FrontPage from its offerings list. FrontPage has become old and its place has already been taken by some more easy tools that are aimed at the professional Web Designer rather than ordinary PC users. Such products include Expression Web and Sharepoint Designer. The change has come because of the Blogging sites that offer an easier way to create a home page. FrontPage’s own home page comments that the tool will be discontinued in the late 2006. FrontPage requires thorough programming skills for designing a website but the tools like Expression Web offer easy to use interface with which a web page can be created in minutes. But the point here is that if Microsoft drops FrontPage then what about the users who already have designed sophisticated web pages in FrontPage. As after Microsoft drops FrontPage the list of ISPs providing supporting FrontPage extensions will also drop at an alarming rate. For this Microsoft has commented that they will be providing resources to all the FrontPage users to assist them in migrating their sites to the new standards. Till the time Microsoft releases some tools present users can take use of Adobe’s Dreamweaver package to migrate to new standards.