India Calling Cards

News of targeted attacks on Google , Adobe , and other large companies were made public last week. The initial assumption was that the attacks were done with malicious PDF files but on Thursday Microsoft released information that the attacks were done with a new security vulnerability in Internet Explorer. This is interesting as the majority of targeted attacks are using email attachments sent to one or a few recipients at a target organization

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New Internet Explorer 0-day Vulnerability and Targeted Attacks

Firstly if you came looking for cheap calls to India and other countries then check out Post on Pingo Calling Cards (offering $0.0039 per min to India – cheapest in the market). Yesterday we posted about Free calls from Haiti (as a help from Skype)

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Free Calls and Conference Calls to Haiti

Well we are now into the new year and I started to reflect on the past year and the year ahead. For the most part 2009 saw a substantial decline in overall phone card sales and I’m afraid we will continue to see the same trend throughout 2010. Prepaid Mobile phones with competitive international rates are only going to get more aggressive this year and with increased penetration of broadband in recent immigrant households, VOIP services like Skype and Vonage will also continue to errode the phone card market share

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New Year Same Old Trend – Phone Card Sales Declining

Who would have thought the government of China would be responsible for tightening security across the Internet? Google not only is getting involved in the politics of blocking censorship in the People’s Republic but moreover has now changed their default email protocol to https . Tags: china , gmail , google , https , security Follow me: Facebook Profile Google Reader Profile Twitter Profile Related Entries Will Silicon Valley go to War with China

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Response to China Hacking – Increase Security

[Editor: I'm sorry for the extreme close-up in the first minute. Finger slipped on the camera.] When your old phone is burned, shredded, melted or otherwise recycled, chances are good that CWG will touch it. CWG of Bohemia, New York , keeps old phones out of landfill

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CES: Reclaiming your dead gear is good for the planet

Pop Tarantino's latest into select Blu-ray players, and Pocket BLU instantly delivers bonus content to your iPhone. (Credit: Rick Broida) Here’s a neat idea: an app that links your iPhone or iPod Touch to whatever Blu-ray movie you’re watching and serves up extra content, a remote control, a soundtrack listing, and even Facebook integration so you can tell friends about the movie

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Hands on: Pocket BLU app serves up Blu-ray extras

Today we sent out a confirmation and update regarding next week’s ITEXPO and I wanted to make sure my readers were aware of many of the happenings at the show. One of the more interesting questions I get in passing is – “Rich, are you still giving away a car at the show?” The answer is yes, a Honda Element and also a Honda motorcycle. Pictures and show details follow: ITEXPO January 20-22, 2010 Miami Beach Convention Center Collocated with 4G Wireless Evolution — Digium/Asterisk World — Smart Grid Summit — M2M Evolution — Cloud Communications Summit — Virtualization Summit — StartUp Camp Telephony — SIP Tutorial CONFIRMATION AND SCHEDULE UPDATE

Mozilla hopes to release the final version of Firefox 3.6 later this month and a stability-improving update code-named Lorentz by March as part of a revised updating strategy. Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s director of Firefox, said Tuesday that he’s pleased so far with his scrutiny of test data from the more than 1 million people using the first release candidate of Firefox 3.6 , which came out late last week. “So far we haven’t found showstoppers,” he said.

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Firefox 3.6 due this month; next comes ‘Lorentz’

In a move to show its 350 million members that it’s serious about their safety, Facebook has launched a partnership with security firm McAfee: six months of McAfee’s Internet Security Suite software, a discount subscription after that, and custom security software and education materials on Facebook. “Facebook is applying all financial incentives from this partnership to the benefit of its users and will not be taking a share of any revenue from user subscriptions,” a release explained.

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McAfee in deal to power Facebook security ops

Thanks to a teenage Firefox aficionado from Tasmania, Australia, you can make your Firefox 3.5 or 3.6 look like mock-ups we’ve seen for Firefox 3.7 and Firefox 4.0. Tabs on top, ‘faviconized’ tabs, a new progress meter (in green), a stop-or-refresh button at the end of the URL bar, and a more Windows 7-friendly look are all part of the Strata40 theme

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Firefox gets a visit from the future

Microsoft patched a critical hole in Windows 2000 on Tuesday that could allow an attacker to take control of a computer if a user viewed a maliciously crafted Embedded OpenType font in Internet Explorer, Office PowerPoint, or Word. The security bulletin is rated “low” severity for Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003, and Server 2008 operating systems, according to the Microsoft advisory , which gave credit for discovering the vulnerability to a Google researcher. According to Microsoft’s Exploitability Index, the hole is rated “2″ which means “inconsistent exploit code likely” while “exploitation of systems running Windows XP and later operating systems is unlikely.” More technical details are available on Microsoft’s Security Research and Defense blog

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Fixes in for Windows 2000, Adobe Reader

As I research Google’s move into energy, I become fascinated by the idea that Google’s influence on our lives may just be beginning. Sure the Google Toilet ( video ) may not be a real product but analysis of Google’s potential in the smart grid market, coupled with the company’s Android operating system leads at least one analyst, Jon Arnold to see a bright future of collaboration between smart devices in the home and the electrical grid

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Google’s Energy Ambitions and Smart Grid Implications

Like many people who work for a company that’s located hundreds of miles from their home, I rely on remote-access programs, specifically the Remote Desktop Connection utility built into Windows. I recently encountered a relatively common bug in the program: in the midst of a remote session, I lost the ability to copy and paste

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Fast fixes for two common copy-and-paste failures

One of the most trusted names in communications Carl Ford – was explaining to me recently how the upcoming tutorial on SIP at ITEXPO, January 20-22, 2010 in Miami will be the best session on SIP – anywhere. He mentioned it in passing and then I realized – wait a minute – I didn’t even blog it

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Can’t Miss SIP Tutorial at ITEXPO

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s recent moves to tighten control of its online and mobile content industries have brought some uncertainty into the market but may not have a major immediate impact on the sector’s biggest players. Analysts say the crackdown, which appears to be aimed at pornography and other controversial content, could however stunt the sector’s prospects in the long-term.

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Q+A: What’s Driving China’s Latest Web Crackdown

Month of December 2009 This month, Fox Sports and NASA discovered that their Web sites were compromised. Web 2.0 widget-maker RockYou suffered a major security breach where it was discovered that RockYou failed to apply the simplest security best-practice: encrypting the password of their users.

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This Month in the Threat Webscape

Virtual interviews seem to have become a hit with recruitment managers across India as it is turning into a cost-effective and smart medium to attract quality candidates. A recent piece in Businessline highlights the growing importance of this segment among the recruitment activity in India.

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Virtual Interviews Finds Rapid Adoption In Indian Recruitment Space

The founders of Helsinki startup Flowdock say you need online/collaborative services to focus on teams, combining the real time aspect of Google Wave and the simplicity of Yammer. You need to be able to stay in close touch with your team without complexity while organizing the team’s data

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Why is collaboration underserved by software?

[UK] TweetSwitch is a new project from the team behind London-based Comufy , the communications platform for businesses. Built on top of Comufy’s technology, TweetSwitch provides a simple but deceptively powerful service, enabling you to send and receive Twitter updates via various Instant Messaging (IM) clients.

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TweetSwitch – send, receive and filter tweets by IM

With the new year now upon us, 2010 already looks to be another big year for international education. As we reported in our Financial Aid Blog, 2009 saw record numbers in the USA for international students with a large 8% increase in the numbers from the previous year. With the worldwide recession and the recent tightening of air security some think that students could be discouraged from studying abroad – but we at InternationalStudent.com believe strongly that, with ongoing government initiatives, the support of the international education community and a little push from us, the overall numbers will continue to grow! The financial scenario for international students has changed over the past two years, mainly due to the recession which has had a large impact on the availability of financial aid and international student loans

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International Student Essentials for 2010

The user interface is very similar to the ASUS video phone. I’ll have more for you from CES tomorrow. For now, here’s their blog post , the @skypeonyourtv twitter page, and text from Skype’s news release: Skype-enabled Televisions Skype is already renowned for popularizing video calling and bringing people closer together through rich, real-time communication.

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CES2010: Skype for Television

“Ready, Set, Pitch” your startup at StartupCamp Telephony Edition ( #SCT ) Thursday, January 21, 2010 from 5:30 PM – 10:00 PM, Miami Beach, Florida. “Five startups will be selected to give brief 5-minute “pitch” presentations following which the panel and audience will ask questions, and provide 5-10 minutes of valuable feedback. Early stage companies wishing to be included in the pitch roster should [ apply to present ].” Participation is free.

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Call for Startups: StartupCamp Telephony #sct

Guest post by Larry Lisser , the man behind the Telephony2Market blog, instigator of the first Startup Camp Telephony Edition (21 January 2010, Miami), and an Emerging Communications Conference alum. He’s the go-to consultant for helping emerging communications startups position, package and get to market growth

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2009: The Year even Clooney lost out to Video Communications.

(Note: This post is a departure from the regularly-scheduled content of this blog.) Here’s the present we got ourselves this year. It’s not quite active yet, as we’re waiting on the county to inspect it (hopefully next week), Xcel Energy to come out and switch out our meter with a net meter, and then Standard Renewable Energy can come out and flip the switch. With the rebate offered by our utility , and the Federal Tax Credit , SRE predicts we’ll break even in about three years.

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Be The Change

So I’ve been thinking a little bit about experimenting with ads on the blog. I’ve been approached quite a few times over the last couple of years with offers to advertise and have always said no (for all the obvious reasons). The reason I’m thinking about it now is not to make money but rather just to see how it all works

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Wondering About Ads

Well, this is an awkward post to write, but it would also feel ungrateful if I didn’t write it, so here goes. Thank you to Edublogs (and Sue Waters ) for all the work that went into the awards, Elluminate (and Steve Hargadon ) for hosting the awards ceremony, and the folks that nominated and voted for this blog for the Edublog Lifetime Achievement Award . It seems a little strange to get a “lifetime” achievement award for a blog I’ve been writing for just over four years and that started simply as a way to continue the conversations in the staff development efforts in my school

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Thank You

1)      I added an email address after I scheduled my Rondee but there was no “send” button. How do I know my guest was invited?   * There is a button in the lower right-hand corner that says “update”.  You’ll want to make sure to click this button in order to have the new invitation sent out.  If you are still not sure if that worked, that refresh and look at the invitation page and see if the new person you invite to the conference call appears there (in the “not replied” section).

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Rondee inquiries

Both LG and MTV have current campaigns centered around CyberSafety/Bullying/Sexting/Ethics. Alec Couros tweeted about the LG Give It A Ponder Campaign which stars James Lipton from Inside the Actors Studio fame. Here’s one of the videos: I like the spots, but tweeted back that I wondered if this campaign would be effective with the target audience – presumably pre-teens, teenagers and young adults.

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Which Campaign is More Effective?

Watch the video overview of the threats expected to increase during the next year and security trends to watch for in 2010. This video covers the following emerging security exploits and 2010 security predictions from Websense Security Labs: · Interesting new trends in Web 2.0 and real-time search exploits · Increased attacks on smartphone, Mac and Microsoft 7 platforms · Changes to the ways that botnets operate, including new aggressive behavior · New sophistication in email and blended attacks

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Video: Next Year in the Threat Webscape – Websense Security Labs Predictions for 2010

When I think of my community, where I belong professionally, I find my peeps highly concentrated in two places: The Emerging Communications Conferences and last week’s Supernova Conference , #sn09 . Collaboration and realtime communication was the topic during a panel discussion on day three. Dr.

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Frontiers of Real Time Collaboration