I’m looking for a few people who can write in English. They will be writing 150 – 200 word blog posts and I will pay you for it. Topics include IT hardware, gadgets and IT news. Drop me an email if you are interested and tell me what sites you have or what you’ve done before. Thanks
Cheers
Colbert
I am now using a Malaysian webhosting company called ES for short. I am now going to move it to another one called IPaccess. So if this site goes down, bear with me while the DNS changes take place. Thanks
The wait for a Power HTPC is finally over, introducing the new CM Media 280, with its roomy interior capable of supporting NVIDIA SLI / ATI Crossfire Configuration and capacity to hold up to five HDDs. It is also compatible with RAID configuration. The spacious dimensions allow you to have full-length cards, including the NVIDIA G80 SLI. With its hair-line high-quality aluminum appearance, it will be the highlight of your home entertainment system.
The most unique mechanical design on CM Media 280 is the two front bezels of the case. They can be removed easily to convert from a desktop to a tower case. You have the freedom to choose which style fits your needs and is best suited for your lifestyle. The thick aluminum plates include VFD and hot key module, which are automatically configured with XPˇs built-in drivers and itˇs Microsoft Window Vista Ready! This elegant power HTPC will enrich your life, now itˇs your time to experience the true meaning of home theater.
WordPress 2.1 codenamed Ella is out. Phew!…And they released WordPress 2.0.7 some 8 days ago. Its crazy. 2.1 also includes over 550 bug fixes.
Here’s a sampling of what’s in the new version:
-Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
-Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
-The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
-Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
London, 23 January 2007 – Attenda Limited, the Always On Managed Services company, today announced that it has signed a contract with CAPS Solutions to deliver a fully resilient hosting service to support Unity, its new portfolio of on demand services.
CAPS Solutions is the UK’s number one provider of land, people and property information solutions to local government. Its market-leading, UNI-form software suite records and integrates information about land, people and property, enabling local government departments to share information using one central repository. Over 260 local government customers, more than 12,000 users and 60% of local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales use UNI-form software solutions.
Unity has been conceived in response to customer demand and offers a new model for the provision of its UNI-form land, people and property software and associated support services. With Unity Managed Hosting and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) local authorities will save up to 50% by selecting hosted UNI-form solutions and managed application delivery. The subscription-based services vary widely in scope, but each helps local authorities to cut and fix costs whilst at the same time improving their operational availability and reliability of UNI-form solutions.
Attenda is delivering the fully resilient hosted service for the technical infrastructure underpinning CAPS’ Unity services, together with application delivery via CITRIX presentation server farm. The solution enables local authority users and the public to access the solution as an always on service, whilst Attenda take on responsibility for the operational certainty and IT risk of this business critical environment. Designed to be highly scalable and delivered in aggressive timescales in order to meet the needs of CAPS’ growing SaaS business, the environment also has options for the provision of Disaster Recovery for those clients who demand the very highest levels of availability.
This win further underpins Attenda’s strategy to build long term partnerships with key independent software vendors (ISV’s) to deliver their software as a hosted service, thereby removing complexity, support costs and providing a more compelling financial model to both ISV and client.
Unity SaaS completely removes the need for any upfront investment in software licences and implementation services, effectively providing UNI-form on a rental basis. Many organisations, private and public sector alike are investing in this type of on demand software delivery to avoid capital investment and benefit from easier scalability, technology refresh and more predictable costs. IDC predicts that the UK SaaS market will be worth $ 8 billion by 2008.
Commenting on the new contract with Attenda, Mark Kennion, Strategic Initiatives Manager, CAPS Solutions, says “The launch of our new SaaS proposition continues to ensure that we keep pace with change, enabling our customers to reap the benefits of new technology developments.”
Kennion continues, “We chose to partner with Attenda because they demonstrated the proven capability to deliver on demand SaaS solutions in a consistent manner, with the high availability and reliability that our applications demand, together with an in-built disaster recovery solution. We look forward to building a long-term partnership with Attenda.”
The fabulously profitable search engine, having pitted two depressed areas in the Carolinas against eachother, has picked Lenoir in Caldwell County as the location of a giant new server farm. I’m sure there will be plenty of rhetoric about the virtues of Lenoir, a former center for North Carolina’s battered furniture industry. But Google just chose the county from which it could extract the most grotesque tax breaks.
Google was offered 150 acres on a plate, a 30-year break on real-estate taxes, and a grant from the state government. In short, a $500,000 sweetener for each of the 200 jobs Google will create.
There’s nothing that new about states, particularly in the South, competing for new plants. North Carolina pitched for the BMW assembly line which was ultimately located in Greenville, in neighboring South Carolina.
Telefónica O2 Czech Republic to offer 3G Video services comprising the Paradial RealTunnel(tm) Firewall/NAT & media tunnelling for 3G-to-PC based calls
Oslo, Norway, January 19, 2007 – Telefónica O2 and Paradial today announced their cooperation on next generation video services. By offering 3G video services that includes the Paradial RealTunnel Firewall/NAT, Telefónica O2 offers one of the most advanced desktop to 3G based solutions in the market.
I’ve been to lazy to upgrade the Wordpress on one of my new site. It seems a bit cumbersome until I saw this great Post-Install Checklist for Wordpress. Now the upgrade won’t look too tedious as this checklist is a good thing to have around.
One of the great things about WordPress is how easily you can have it up and running, completely customized to your liking, in such a short period of time. After setting up WordPress for several of my friends, I found that having a ‘checklist’ makes things go even faster – so I decided to write it all up and share with you.
Please don’t hesitate to use the comments to suggest additions etc, I’ll update the checklist accordingly.
Blancco has made a giant leap in data destruction technology with the latest version of Blancco – Stealth Cleaner, an innovative software designed to remotely destroy data.
Joensuu, FINLAND – January 15, 2007 – Blancco Ltd. the leading provider of professional data destruction and computer reuse management solutions has just released Blancco – Stealth Cleaner 2.0, a technologically advanced erasure software. It is highly secure and is designed to safeguard your data if your laptop or PC is lost or stolen. The software is ideal for securing logistics, a critical phase in the equipment lifecycle where an alarming number of PCs are misplaced or stolen. The unique automatic lock and erase function renders data recovery impossible ensuring maximum security.
“Until recently the market for technology to remotely destroy data barely existed. The common practice by most organizations has been to encrypt sensitive data but companies are now demanding even tighter security. Data leaks pose a huge threat to an organization and can result in lost revenue, loss in consumer confidence and exposure to legal and financial battles,” says Mr. Kim Väisänen, Managing Director of Blancco Ltd.
With the recent spate of high profile laptop theft cases, companies are waking up to the risk of their data falling into the wrong hands. Mounting federal and state regulations have also put pressure on companies to take adequate steps to properly destroy data. However, data leaks continue to wreak havoc in many organsiations.
Redknee Inc., a leading provider of innovative infrastructure software that monetizes and personalizes services and content for mobile users, today announced that CPM, one of Brazil’s largest technology companies, has signed a reseller agreement with Redknee. Together, the companies will be in a position to offer differentiated services that cater specifically to the Brazilian telecom market.
“This new offering, developed in partnership with Redknee, shares CPM’s vision of growth, which focuses on satisfying the needs of the Brazilian market,” said Manoellito Ferreira, Director of IT Consulting and Business Solutions at CPM.
“Redknee is pleased to work with CPM in the Brazilian market to enable operators to differentiate, and remain competitive,” said Lucas Skoczkowski, CEO of Redknee. “The infrastructure solution developed in collaboration with CPM helps operators grow and offer new services and content for mobile users.”
For more information, please visit www.redknee.com
