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EOS 600D & 1100D, Canon New Champion for Beginners

Canon introduced two new whiz products brand-new digital SLR camera for entry-level class. Vendors from Japan's carrying the camera EOS 600D and 1100D are now beginning to address the Indonesian market. both cameras are equipped with several facilities that staying digadang can help a novice user to tamper with DSLR camera. Like what?

Canon EOS 600D armed with resolution 18-megapixel CMOS sensor and DIGIC 4 image processor. This camera is claimed to work faster in processing images and minimize noise, while high ISO settings. Features continuous shoothing to 3.7 frames per second and faster start-up time is also a mainstay. While the Scene features Intelligent Auto and Auto Picture Style is intended to help novice photographers, who can automatically determine the settings pencahyaan and feel right color images based on the targeted species. To record a moving moment, the EOS 600D equipped with a video recorder full HD (1920x1080) with digital zoom up to 10x. Video feature allows recording short video snapshot, which could then be put together. Taking photos in dark conditions without flash assistance supported high ISO settings up to 12,800. Canon EOS 600D DSLR camera is also the first Canon entry-level, which presents a built in wireless transmitter. Point to expand the creative space with a variety of flash lamp fired from different positions.

Smartphone Android Can Be Space Satellite

Android phones probably will not only serve as a smartphone or smart phone. A satellite development company in the UK have a crazy plan because planning to use satellite phones android as the brain.

Experiments are currently being undertaken by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in Guildford, England, as part of the initiative using advances in technology to make the cost of the satellite be cheaper.

The idea of this project makes sense. As reported by the BBC, the SSTL assess modern smartphone is remarkable after 1 GHz processor equipped and has a large capacity memory, especially android phone that has an additional SD card slot.

Swiss WikiLeaker gets $7.5k fine

Former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, who on Monday handed Julian Assange a CD containing details of tax evasion by the wealthy, has escaped a jail term after facing a Swiss court on Wednesday.

Prosecutors for the Swiss bank Julius Bär accused its former employee of breaching Swiss banking secrecy laws over a previous leak to WikiLeaks.

The prosecution aimed to secure an eight month sentence against the former banker.

They alleged that Elmer stole the bank's client data after being fired from its Cayman Islands operations.

Elmer personally handed the CD to Assange at a press conference earlier this week.

The former banker was fined 7,500 Swiss Francs (AU$7,500) and handed a two year suspended sentence.

Do you Ubuntu - or do you do 'poo poo' Ubuntu?

The Ubuntu "server team" and Canonical are in inquisitive lot, they want to ask the community just exactly how it is using the Ubuntu Server Edition -- and in what kinds of organisations, scenarios, environments and/or deployments -- hence the Ubuntu Server Edition was born and is now in its third year.

Canonical says that Ubuntu Server Edition is one of the most popular operating systems on public cloud environments and has established itself as the core host Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution for private clouds. The company says that this has come about as a result of the OS proving that it can perform numerous standard and critical tasks in multiple environments.

Librarians rewrite the book on disaster recovery

When flood waters threatened to breach the banks of the Brisbane River last Wednesday, the State Library of Queensland looked to be one of its first casualties.

Fortunately for the library and Queensland's bookworms, management had a well-developed disaster recovery plan that went beyond simple data backup and that included all the minutiae of surviving catastrophe so that librarians didn't have to make it up as they went along.

As the water started flowing into the basement levels, the library's client services director Rory McLeod and staff swung into action.

"It was about following basic disaster procedures," McLeod said.

"Once we knew water encroached into the basements we knew there was a chance that we would lose power so it was about getting [backup power] checked and online and taking down essential systems as quickly as we could."

The library systems were replicated and a library principle is "lots of copies keeps stuff safe - so it's quite easy for us to point people at different servers at other state libraries", he said. The collections were safe and systems were being brought back online as staff returned.

McLeod's confidence in being able to recover in the face of disaster was reinforced by a written and annually updated disaster plan that included what to do to physically secure and protect an installation and how to handle the inevitable staff absences at a time of great stress. It included disaster scenario planning procedures to cater for contingencies.

Rackspace launches system administrator app

Rackspace has launched an app that allows a CIO or system administrator to dial up or take down servers and storage moment by moment.

Hardware costs, ranging from a penny to 83p an hour are billed to the company credit card. Software pricing is more complicated, especially for virtualised SQL applications, the company said.The app gives the CIO a range of choices of hardware and operating environment.

Simply selecting and saving the choices spins up the configuration in seconds, or minutes if it’s a Microsoft environment.

Admins can do the following from their smartphones or iPads:

List all Cloud Servers in their rackspace account

    * Create new Cloud Servers (including from any existing backups)
    * Delete Cloud Servers
    * Resize Cloud Servers
    * Perform Hard and Soft Reboots

Orascom Telecom CEO meets North Korean leader

The CEO of Egypt's Orascom Telecom has been given a rare honor during his current trip to Pyongyang: an audience with Kim Jong-il and dinner hosted by the reclusive leader for the businessman whose firm owns a majority of North Korea's only 3G cellular network.

Naguib Sawiris arrived in the North Korean capital on Friday and was received on Sunday by Kim Jong-il, the Korea Central News Agency reported on Monday.

Kim Jong-il, "warmly welcomed his DPRK visit taking place at a time when Orascom′s investment is making successful progress in different fields of the DPRK, including telecommunications," the report said.

Orascom holds a 75 percent stake in Cheo Technology, which operates North Korea's only 3G cellular network.

The network, the remaining stake in which is held by the government, uses the Koryolink service name. It has seen fast growth in subscribers and currently claims more than 300,000 accounts in just the two years since its launch.

Exclusive: Flood victims get real-time payments

The Federal Government has already paid over $166 million in relief payments to victims of Australia’s flood crisis, thanks in part to a systems integration project some decade in the making.

The flood crisis is the first real test of a workflow process set-up between welfare agency Centrelink and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) which allows for thousands of payments to be made into flood victims' bank accounts in close to real-time.

Centrelink is making use of the Reserve Bank’s Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, developed in the late 90s to settle large value wholesale payments to reduce settlement risks.

(For example, should an investment company purchase $100 million in bonds from another, the RTGS system would be used to cut down the time between the transaction being approved and the money from seller’s bank appearing in the accounts of the buyer.)

Federal Government agencies – which are customers of the Reserve Bank – have been able to access this capability for some time, but the workflow between their systems and those of the RBA was biased toward these large, one-off transactions rather than large numbers of relatively smaller payments made to individuals or small businesses.

Australia mandates Microsoft's Open Office XML

Australia's Department of Finance has released a desktop policy that required all agencies to adopt Office Open XML as the standard document format - a move that in the short term ensures Microsoft's Office suite remains embedded in government.  

The Whole-of-Government Common Operating Environment (WofG COE) Policy [pdf] mandates that an agency's productivity suite "must have the ability to read and write the endorsed file format" that complies with the ECMA-376 version Office Open XML (OOXML) standard.

That particular OOXML standard was rejected by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) because it was littered with Windows-platform dependencies, according to its opponents.

The ODF Alliance, backed by IBM and Google, has warned about the adoption of the ECMA-376 standard by governments.

"The use of ECMA-376 essentially ties the adopter to Microsoft Office," the lobby group warned in October last year in a document entitled "What Government's Need to Know".

That standard, it pointed out, contained "many Windows-platform dependencies" that Microsoft was forced to remove under the ISO process in order to get it approved as ISO-29500 -- a standard that the Microsoft Office 2010 product has so far failed to comply with.

Ubuntu 'trusted client' secures Windows and Citrix

Trusted Client, an Ubuntu-based encrypted clean boot utility, has received its Common Criteria certification and been included in the Defence Signals Directorate Evaluated Product List.

The device is designed to allow secure and safe access to a corporate or government network - even if the host machine is infected with malware.

Developed by UK-based encryption specialist Becrypt, Trusted Client is a hardened version of Ubuntu 9.04 that has been cut down to its bare components - about 500mb - and then bundled with Windows deployment tools. This is all wrapped in a layer of encryption and deployed on a standard USB drive.

David Jones, senior product consultant at Becrypt explained that in order to bypass any malware on an untrusted PC, users just boot from the Trusted Client memory stick. The PC then requests a username and password before loading Ubuntu.

The potentially infected hard drive is completely ignored.

"We boot the machine from the USB stick so you come from a known clean starting point. We never allow users to see the hard drive, we never touch it - we assume it is dirty. Instead we use the available RAM on the machine as our work area.

Defence seeks info-sharing proposals

The Defence Signals Directorate has invited vendors to propose commercial tools for sharing classified data between high and low security networks.

The national intelligence agency sought to inform itself on commercially available software applications and associated hardware to improve how information was shared between agencies.

A Defence spokesman declined to disclose a timeline and budget for the project, noting that purchasing decisions had not yet been made.

Facebook to begin reporting financials

Facebook is preparing to open its books this year or early in 2012 to give investors a glimpse into the financial workings of the world's largest social network, after it sealed an oversubscribed US$1.5 billion round of financing led by Goldman Sachs.

The financing, US$1 billion of which is from Goldman Sachs' overseas clients and US$500 million from Goldman itself and Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, gives the company a projected value of US$50 billion, setting the stage for what could be one of the largest initial public offerings next year.

Facebook, founded in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, said it would begin to file public financial reports no later than April 30, 2012, in a statement detailing the new investment.

United States securities regulations require companies with more than 499 shareholders to disclose financial information whether they are publicly traded or not. Facebook expects to exceed that number some time this year.

Apple's App Store Hits 10 Billion Downloads

After two and a half years (or so) of existence Apple's iOS App Store has seen 10 billion downloads.

To celebrate, Apple is handing out one $10,000 iTunes gift card. Folks were entered into the drawing by downloading an app from the App Store or visiting Apple's website between January 6 and the download of the 10 billionth app.

Contest aside; this marks a huge milestone for Apple and the storefront launched a few years ago to go along with Apple's iPhone SDK.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs first publicly demonstrated the then-new App Store in March of 2008 along with the iPhone 2.0 software, calling it "an application we've written to deliver apps to the iPhone."

Sepaton unveils next-gen private cloud OS

Sepaton today announced the next-generation operating system for its grid-based deduplication, backup appliance, the S2100-ES2.

The new 64-bit operating system, combined with Intel's new Westmere processor, runs the updated appliance at twice the speeds of its predecessor, the company said.

The updated S2100-ES2 appliance has a maximum throughput of 1,500MB/sec throughput per node or as much as 43.2TB/hr. The system initially will scale to 8-nodes; the company has qualified up to 16 nodes in its labs, said Linda Mentzer, vice president of product and program management at Sepaton.

The S2100-ES2 series consists of its version 6.0 OS running on Intel 2U (3.5-in high) commodity servers with Hitachi Data Systems AMS 2100 storage arrays. Like all grid-based architectures, as more nodes are added, both processing power and storage capacity increase.

There S2100-ES2 appliance is available in two models -- the 1910, which has 1TB serial ATA (SATA) drives, and the 2910, which has comes with 2TB capacity SATA drives.

Alcohol and poor diet linked to UK breast cancer rates

Women in Britain are more likely to be be diagnosed with breast cancer than those in most other developed countries because of their unhealthy lifestyles, according to a new study.
Analysis of data collected by the respected World Health Organisation shows Britain has higher rates of the potentially fatal disease than the USA, Australia, Germany and Spain.

In only 10 of the 50 countries assessed by the researchers do women have a higher chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer than those in the UK.

The experts said that many of the 46,000 breast cancer cases in the UK each year could be avoided if British women drank less, ate more healthily or took more exercise.


More than a quarter of women who develop the disease in Britain die from it, as survival rates have remained low despite record investment in the NHS under Labour.

Professor Martin Wiseman, medical and scientific adviser for the World Cancer Research Fund, which compiled the new study, said: “We know that people in high-income countries are more likely to be overweight, to drink a lot of alcohol and to be inactive.

Free Hard Disk and Partition Imaging and Backup Software

The hard disk and partition imaging software take a snapshot of your hard disk so that you can restore your system at a later time to the exact same state the system was when you imaged the disk or partition. This is useful for system recovery in case of a hard disk disaster. The term "image" is used because such software often copy the state of the hard disk sector by sector to your image. Hence if your hard disk was (say) defragmented with certain software occupying certain sectors when you backed up, it will be returned to that same state when you restore your backup. The image utilities often do not allow fine control what you backup - you can specify the partitions or hard disks to back up, but you usually will not be able to specify which folders to exclude or include. They are useful for backing up your system drive or partition, that is, the drive that you placed your operating system on. Hard disk imaging software are sometimes also used to clone a hard disk to another (useful for the times you change or upgrade your hard disk).

Spam volume reduced, But more Threatening danger

Monthly reports traffic conditions junk messages (Spam) of the world showing a decline. But on the other hand, it increases the level of danger Spam.

In a monthly report Symantec Messaging and Web Security from security companySymantec stated that the world's spam volume has decreased.

In October 2010, according to the report which quoted on Wednesday (11/24/2010),the global spam volume in October 2010 adalh 86.6 percent.

This figure represents 22.5 percent decline from October 2009. Compared to August 2010, declining even reached 47 percent.

Because of this decline is believed to arrest gang spammers Zeus, terminationSpamIt.com site and also turned off the servers associated Bredolab botnet in the Netherlands.

Email Spam Reduced in 2011

A recent survey conducted Internet security firm discovered the global email volumehas decreased. And usually, in a single day there are about 67 billion spammessages. The decline came after the long holiday period of Christmas and the end of the year ends.

Such information is referred to internet security firm Symantec and Netwitnes.Unfortunately, no mention certain magnitude of the decline.

As quoted by the BBC on Wednesday (01/12/2011), Symantec and Netwitnes detectRustock botnet, a network of infected computers on a massive scale 'stirring' billions of spam emails per day, mysteriously stop the action in early December.