Monthly archives: April 2004

According to the WebSense press release:

92 Percent of Organizations with at Least 100 Employees Have Been Contaminated With Spyware, Yet Only Six Percent of Employees Believe They Have Been Infected

Forty percent of IT managers report the number of spyware-infected workstations has increased in past year, according to Websense survey

According to Websense’s fifth annual Web@Work survey conducted by Harris Interactive®, there is a major discrepancy between employees’ knowledge and understanding of spyware versus IT managements’ findings on the number of corporate workstations that are actually infected. For example, one-third of employees either do not believe, or are unsure, that their computers could be infected with spyware. However, IT management reported that spyware was on the rise—of those that acknowledged they had a spyware infection, forty percent believe that the number of spyware-infected workstations at their organization has increased.

One of the most common ways for an employee to download spyware is by using a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application such as KaZaa or Morpheus. Many P2P users do not realize that by downloading a seemingly harmless mp3 file, it may be accompanied by a spyware application. By connecting users directly to each other to download or swap files, P2P networks bypass normal security barriers and can be easily exploited by hackers to spread spyware.

“Employees are typically exposed to spyware as a parasitic program that is attached to something useful they’ve intentionally downloaded from the Internet, or been tricked into downloading, or it is surreptitiously loaded by a malicious hacker,” said Peter Firstbrook, program manger at META Group. “Most employees don’t even know they are infected; however, spyware can be merely a nuisance, clogging the network with advertising traffic or pestering the user with pop up ads; or it can be an invasion of privacy and collect what sites they’ve been browsing on; or less often, a security threat that records keystrokes or screenshots that reveal confidential corporate information and potentially create backdoors by revealing passwords and user names.”

Related Links:

* What is spyware?

* For a list of software tools that can help you detect and remove spyware applications, click here

* How To Remove Spyware From Your Computer

* Fighting back against spyware

* Latest Spyware News on Google News

Neha Kaushik & Gaurav Raghuvanshi write in Hindu about how the Mobile Manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung, LG, etc are wooing india with the Made in India or Made for India concepts. The mobile and the mobile phone features are becoming more ‘desi’.

LARA Croft in Tomb Raider may not cut much ice with your cell-phone toting neighbourhood delivery boy even if his handset were to sport it. To the growing tribe of Indian mobile phone users, playing `Makhan Chor’ on the mobile would make more sense.

Recognising the importance of going local to appeal to Indian consumers, multinational mobile manufacturers are going beyond the patriotic or Bollywood-centric ring tones and have started introducing special “made for India” features. These include local language menu and messaging, games that click with the masses and features to suit local conditions.

Neha Kaushik & Gaurav Raghuvanshi write in Hindu about how the Mobile Manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung, LG, etc are wooing india with the Made in India or Made for India concepts. The mobile and the mobile phone features are becoming more ‘desi’.

LARA Croft in Tomb Raider may not cut much ice with your cell-phone toting neighbourhood delivery boy even if his handset were to sport it. To the growing tribe of Indian mobile phone users, playing `Makhan Chor’ on the mobile would make more sense.

Recognising the importance of going local to appeal to Indian consumers, multinational mobile manufacturers are going beyond the patriotic or Bollywood-centric ring tones and have started introducing special “made for India” features. These include local language menu and messaging, games that click with the masses and features to suit local conditions.

p2pnet.net reports:

Forgent Networks owns Compression Labs which in turn owns the patent on .jpg and now Compression Labs is suing a whole raft of companies for infringing the patent.

Forgent “has initiated litigation against 31 companies for infringement of United States Patent No. 4,698,672 (the ’672 Patent) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division,” it says on its web site

Related Links :

* Made a JPEG Image? You’re getting Sued!”

* Forgent Networks Sues 31 Companies for Patent Infringement

Via PRNewsWire: Multiply, Inc. has launched Multiply (http://multiply.com), a web site that combines web publishing tools with a new type of messaging application powered by social networks.

Other social networking sites exist so you can build your social network, while Multiply exists so you can use it,” says Michael Gersh, Multiply’s co-founder. “By integrating applications such as photo sharing, blogging and a marketplace with a new messaging concept, we’ve created a much more compelling social networking tool. People use Multiply on an ongoing basis to see what others are saying about their content, and what new information is being shared with them.”

Related Links :

* Social-networking Web sites growing in popularity

* Ask Jeeves Brings Search to Tickle

Roblimo writes :

Philadelphia-area development economics and finance student Rachel Anderika and her associate, programmer/filmmaker Krishnan, are making a documentary about the effects of offshore outsourcing. Their “still under construction” Web site, Project Outsourced, gives you more information about their work. They’re interviewing economists, bankers, anti-outsourcing advocacy groups, pro-outsourcing CEOs, columnists, and others. Where you come in is helping Rachel and Krishnan come up with good questions to ask. We’ll forward 10 – 15 of the highest-moderated ones posted here (within the next 24 hours) to them. Expect summaries (and possibly audio or video clips) of the answers in late May, and news about the finished film this Fall.

After Infosys & TCS, Wipro has joined the one billion dollar club:

Wipro Limited, India’s third-largest software exporter, said Friday it crossed the $1-billion revenue mark during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 on increased outsourcing from overseas companies.

In the full fiscal year 2003-04, total revenues were Rs.58.43 billion ($1.3 billion), representing a 36 percent increase over the corresponding period in the last year.

The Bangalore-based company’s net profit in the year ended March 31, 2004 rose to Rs.10.32 billion ($235 million), representing an increase of 26 percent over net income for the year 2002-03.

Wipro joins Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest software exporter, and Infosys Technologies, the second biggest firm, in the premier club of IT companies who have crossed the $1 billion revenue mark.

The better-than-expected financial numbers for the fiscal year 2003-04 and January-March quarterly period unveiled by Wipro, promoted by India’s richest man Azim Premji, boosted the share market sentiment.

Shares of Wipro, which is also listed on the New York Stock Exchange, ended 1.7 percent higher at Rs.1,624.50 while the stock market benchmark 30-share Bombay Stock Exchange sensitive index closed marginally high.

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Vivek Paul amongst the best managers of 2003: BusinessWeek

On Emergic : CXOToday has put up a case study about FCB Ulka’s deployment of our Linux-based messaging solution – Emergic MailServ- developed by Netcore

According to Kalpit Jain, CTO of Netcore, “The solution that runs only on Linux, has an anti-virus application, armed with a firewall, enhanced with load balancing features apart from bandwith management and monitoring. The mail server has been placed in the DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone)- a server zone, which is accessible to the public as well as to the private network. In other words, it separates the internal network from the outside world.”

Commenting about the inherent benefits, Madbhavi cited reliability, flexibility coupled with ease of administration and simplicity. “However,” acknowledged Madbhavi, “Netcore was able to execute a high degree of customization primarily because the solution was built on open source.”

“Emergic Mailserv has been built with a judicious mix of certain open source components alongwith internally developed software,” affirmed Jain.

Spelling the minimum technical requirements, Jain stated that for 25 users a P III with a 64 MB RAM with 20 GB hard disk is needed.

Founded in 1998, Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd. is an enterprise solutions company, focused on messaging, collaboration, and security software offering a range of enterprise products and hosted services. Among its several corporate customers using this solution are IDBI Bank and Raymonds.

Do you really understood the meaning of Public Domain Content / Copyright , if not check this out!!!Public domain – Wikipedia

Andy Oram in continuation to his article : “From P2P to Web Services: Identification and Addressing” writes another article on XML.com, this time focussing on the “TRUST” aspect of Social Netwoking and hence named as : From P2P to Web Services: Trust
In this detailed two page article Andy talks about :

* Trust

* P2P Solution

* State-of-the-art Specifications

* Security Basic

* Future Trends

* The Modest and the Grand Promise

So, to sum up, what do I see in the near future? We need to do something about addressing. We need an easy system that assigns each person a persistent address that is useful for all applications; ideally the system would be distributed and resistant to attack or capture. Current Web Services specifications work on the problem of trust without solving the problem of addressing–that is, the problem as I’ve stated it, the problem of finding someone several hours later

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The Next Level of Social Networking Red Herring (Registration Required)