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Professional design blog is becoming more important in today’s ever-charging marketplace. Whether you are trying to establish yourself as an online presence or acquire more business, professional design blog has become a must, what is it that distinguishes you from your competition? How often do you find yourself wishing you had an online presence? Are …

The magical connection called internet change my life forever, the technology and the medium became a tool that dramatically lowered the cost of doing business, but also helped formerly isolated and fragmented audiences for news, social causes and product aggregate into substantial new forces. The web has deeply woven itself into the world economy that in March 2008, a survey of business leader around the world by the international chamber of commerce found that an internet outage of a single day worldwide would result in major losses and costly damage which would have huge and lasting effects. The internet has not only arrived, but it has touched and changes everything. Everything it touches In order to understand how the internet profoundly influences the economy of any segment, consider the music industry and how digital communications is now a part of every aspect of the value chain. At the front end …

One of the first steps in setting up an online business or blog is to domain name registration your domain name. It’s very easy to do, as long as you know where to go and understand the terminology, make sure your domain name has not been registered by someone else by doing a “whois” search. Most domain registration sites maintain a whois database, but I generally use paylessdomains, enter the domain name you want to check into the online form, some “whois” Search forms make you enter a code contained in an on-screen graphic. This is to prevent overuse of the system by automated systems. If you are asked for the code, enter it. The results of the whois search will tell you if anyone already owns the name. If the name is taken, you will have to select another one. If it is unregistered, you can proceed. The most …

Being able to reliably mine the Internet for meaningful information has so far been an elusive skill. While whole galaxies of data float in cyberspace, finding exactly what your business requires, quickly and reliably, has until very recently been difficult to achieve due to the incompatibility of many data formats. Improved access to the Internet’s fertile data fields promises exciting benefits for businesses. A small travel agent, for example, could draw upon a wider pool of online holiday prices, flight offers and hotels to offer customers better service. In finance – where a millisecond’s difference can win or lose you millions – fast, easy electronic access to wider information channels would give businesses a lucrative trading edge.

With reports stating that up to 50 percent of our work day can be spent reading, writing and replying to e-mails, one wonders if work productivity is actually decreasing due to e-mail. It doesn’t help that so many e-mails are junk and spam. Or that studies have shown that workers who are overwhelmed by constant e-mail can suffer burnout or even a temporary drop in their IQ. So is it finally time to ask if there is an alternative? And if so, how and when should your business go without e-mail? Wiki Thinking outside the inbox Have you ever looked up a topic on Wikipedia? If so, you are already familiar with one of the alternatives to e-mail called wiki. Adapted from the Hawaiian word for quick, wiki enables real-time collaboration in a democratic environment. Simply put, wiki is an easy-to-use, website-based database that allows unlimited users to search for, …

The Mozilla team is working really hard to make sure that Firefox 3 will be the best browser we will ever see on this planet. Part of the plan is to enhance the UI of Firefox to make sure it blends with the host OS. Firefox 3 will come out with inbuilt skins that will integrate completely with Windows Vista, OS X and Linux. The Mozilla team posted some screenshots on what we can expect, and here the screenshots of the theme for Vista and OS X in action :

Vulnerability Discovery and Analysis (VDA) Labs, founded in April by Jared DeMott, notifies software vendors of security bugs found in their software, as do many other security researchers. But as part of VDA’s business model, vendors are asked to pay for the bugs it discovers, or its consulting services, otherwise VDA threatens to sell the bug to a third party or make the details of the security flaw public. DeMott, who has done work for the National Security Agency among other places, describes his business model as “edgy,” while other security researchers see it as more akin to “extortion.” The practice, in either case, veers from the more traditional ways bug hunters have worked with software vendors and security firms. Just two weeks ago, LinkedIn, the popular social-networking site, got a taste of VDA’s business practices, when the Michigan security company claimed it had found a critical security flaw in …

When it comes to security expertise, you have two options: become a security expert or hire a security expert. There really is no middle ground. How prepared is your IT department or administrator to handle security incidents? Many organizations learn how to respond to security incidents only after suffering attacks. By this time, incidents often become much more costly than needed. Here’s some guidance on responding to IT security incidents. Learn how to define an incident response plan and contain the damage and minimize risks. And here are six easy steps that every company should take to enhance computer security in terms of getting the proverbial biggest bang for the security buck. Each suggestion is described in some detail with links to more in-depth treatment, templates, and tools. For a heads-up on the latest malware, including e-mail and desktop threats, find it all in one convenient location on the new …