Archive for April 2010
Voice Over Internet Protocol Hacking
Hacking nowadays doesn’t only happen on the internet’s websites and user profiles. Hackers have now made VoIP as their new target and this have caused people to be wary of using VoIP services and to an extent, there are some who have decided to continue using the traditional phone services instead of switching to VoIP. The dangers of VoIP hacking are at a far lesser degree compared to the usual internet hacking but the analogue voice data that is being transferred over the internet to be transformed into digital form is still vulnerable to attacks by hackers. Bugs, worms, and viruses could now infiltrate the VoIP’s system since hackers now utilize their tools and expertise that they traditionally use to attack VoIP.
Business and Video-Conferencing
Every where you turn in business today, you find staff and executives running around from one little disaster to the next. The current economic climate does not contribute to the situation at all. After the trauma of the recent recession businesses are so careful when considering anything new and with a cost attached to it, that their instinctive reaction is — “will this put me in the dog box again”
The fact of the matter though is that new technology can be of tremendous benefit to most companies if they take the time to consider the benefits of cost reduction and time savings. The latter being one of the most precious commodities nowadays.
Direct TV Or Dish Network?
Satellite TV – it’s a solid investment for your entertainment dollar (beats the heck out of cable TV), but how do you decide between Direct TV or Dish Network? Read on for a bit of help.
Direct TV Pros
Simply put, Direct TV has the best programming on the market. It has a few channels (particularly in HD) that Dish doesn’t. One of their key advantages is the NFL Sunday Ticket (and sports programming in general). If you’re a major sports nut, in my opinion, your decision is already made – go with Direct TV. If you’re a movie junkie, it’s a draw.
Satellite Radio – The XM-Sirius Merger
As most of you probably know Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio formerly merged on July 29th, 2008. If you are like most people, your first reaction was “WHAT?”
The knee-jerk reaction was that this created a monopoly, the very thing the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is supposed to guard against, and how the heck did this happen? Many of you probably remember the Bell Telephone monopoly and how in 1984 it was forced to split. This resulted in AT&T and seven smaller regional companies called the “Baby Bells”. It did not hurt the industry and in fact, resulted in competition that has contributed to keeping telephone costs down. It’s a whole new ballgame today though.
Plan Before Phone Conferencing
More and more business is handled over phone lines and screen-share. Well planned, these are brilliant ways to do business. If you miss important details, however, it can really take away from the experience. Those details have a way of seeming insignificant when two or more parties who haven’t met in person try to become conversational without facial cues. It can get awkward real fast. Don’t you just love it when someone tries to break the tension with a really poor joke or comment? That helps, right? Not.
Six Huge Changes Once You Switch to Satellite Internet april 03 10
It is a seriously invigorating experience to suddenly find yourself able to surf the world wide web fast enough. For anyone who has been trying to make their way through the world of the web using a dial-up connection, this is simply impossible these days. After all, dial-up might have made perfect sense when it first came out. The speed of computers was the same as the speed of a dial-up connection, you were not using your modem to get to anything that required more than a little bit of data transfer, and most people weren’t even prepared to surf the information superhighway. It has definitely changed a whole lot since the days that dial-up was an acceptable way to get online, and this means that sticking with old technology in new times is just not going to work out quite right.
