ADOBE - Security Hole Allows Free Movie Downloads from Amazon

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Here is a piece of news for movie lovers that is already causing faces of the Adobe and Amazon bosses to turn red.

Ever since the flaw has been made public it has caused considerable commotion in the movie industries around the world but hackers are surely taking enough advantage to make movie piracy more lucrative as ever. 

After all as much as 40,000 movies can be downloaded for a fee from amazon, but can be viewed for free for two minutes as trial. That's where the defect has been noticed and movie buffs are taking quite a lot of advantage by illegally breaking into the Amazon movie library cum store to download them.  

According to the Reuters they have discovered a serious lacuna in the Adobe Software that allows anyone to hack into Amazon.com and download unlimited number of movies for free, without having to shell out money for watching them. 

The security hole has been detected in the Adobe-Powered Video on Demand Software that Amazon.com uses that provides viewers with free access to any movie for the first two minutes of any TV show or a Movie. 

Similar discrepancy in the security has been noticed in other similar video streaming delivery software too. 

The software from Adobe does not encrypt the video content but simply sends a coded command to the video players to start and stop playing a particular video for a limited duration depending on what it has been paid for i.e. free trial for two minutes, rent a movie for a day or permanent download all which comes with varying price tag. 

What Adobe has done to speed up download time, is that they have totally done away with a very high security portion that protected the connection to the video players. 

The flaw is possibly with the Adobe Flash Video Servers which connects the Adobe's players that are installed in almost all the computers around the globe connected by the Internet. 

However Amazon has repeatedly insisted that downloading of streaming movies by any  video catcher software is illegal and is subjected to piracy. 

Such flaws is reminiscent of the Napster era when video piracy was widely spread out and gave the movie industries sleepless nights be it Hollywood or Bollywood movies. 

The hole must be plugged immediately and I certainly do not endorse hacking or cracking, although I would keep you informed as usual about the going on in the gadgets and gizmo world as usual. 

So keep following my blog. 

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Free GOOGLE Case Study - Curbing Costs with Google Apps

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Search Marketing and Its Importance for Successful Online Sales

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I have earlier explained elsewhere many times in my blog about how important Internet marketing has become in recent times.

However many people seems to grope in the dark not knowing how to reach out to a large audience that would make their products sale on its own without much persuasion. 

People often mix up the two most popular jargon in management but loosely used by the layman wanting to carryout some kind of business, be it tangible or intangible, offline or online, products or services. 

These words are 'Marketing' and 'Sales'. Although both are related but each have two different objectives or at best approach to generate revenue from sales of offers that are brought or purchased by willing buyers. 

Whereas Sales means to persuade buyers anyhow, at times possibly by either temptation or fear, that leaves very little choice for the customer to either use or lose. 

On the other hand Marketing actually tries to unravel the pertinent needs of many different customers and clients belonging to all walks of life or demographic segment from varied habitat ed regions of the world population. 

A large number of companies actually spend millions and millions of dollars only to find out what do customers really expect from a new product sometime in the future if at all it is launched. 

Based on their market survey the Research and Development wing of the large corporate multinationals actually try to create a product that fulfills many of the requirements, needs and taste of those for whom it is being created and is to be sold at a price that fits their purse. 

Well, something similar too is applicable in case of online marketing too. However the medium of the Internet provides lot of advantage that is not possible in the offline world. 

It is now possible to get the statistics of the kind of products or services that are in great demand from the search habits of the surfers as well as of what all are being sold like hot cakes across the Internet. This one could find out from the Google Trends as well as from the eBay who keeps updating the information for sellers and buyers alike. 

Moreover Search Marketing has become very important for online marketing, since one can find out which Key phrases are in great demand that forms the basis of any search engine ranking of websites that cover as many key phrases that are being repeatedly looked up on Google, Yahoo, Ask Me, Cull and many other search engines available on the net.

The economic theory such as of demand and supply is applicable for Internet marketing too.  If a key phrase is suddenly being looked up too frequently and if not many websites are available to provide the information about the niche product or services, then here is a good chance to make inroads and make your presence noticeable on the net. 

Search Marketing has no wonder caught the attention even that of marketing professionals and consultants who work for big corporate giants. Search marketing has made it easier for corporate houses to reach out to as many people across the globe and create greater brand awareness, as more people are visiting the net on a regular basis round the globe than ever before. 

Moreover Search Marketing is highly economically viable since compared to other marketing and advertising methods that has been traditionally applied it is low cost as well as the amount of risk involved is too insignificant. 

What is required for success in Search Marketing strategies is Search Engine Optimization or SEO where websites and products are packaged around important keywords or key phrases that are popularly in demand over the search engines. 

If you wish to make your website interesting and popular then it is vital that the contents of the website must not only contain the popular keywords but must be written in a manner that targets a specific group of people and not in general for the mass. 

Try to get the contents written not by any IT professional or a website designer but by a professional SEO Copywriter who understands search engine marketing and is in a better position to make web pages crawl better by various search engines popularly by Yahoo and Google. 

This would help the search engines to rank your website and its web pages  better depending on keywords and key phrases that are frequently looked up by most surfers and potential buyers related to such products and services. 

As the popular of your website continues to surge better would be the possibility to receive more buyers. 
No wonder all those websites that a search engine lists out in order of its rank on the first two pages of any search by using a particular keyword, can be safely concluded that they are raking in a good mullah for the webmasters. 

It is always better to have the right mix of organic search, the one which I am currently discussing as well as a good dose of Pay Per Click Ads or PPC such as the Google AdWords.

This would hopefully give a good lot of exposure to as many web surfers when they are wanting to look for information, products or services related to the keyword or phrases that they put in the search box on any search engine during any overt search. 

So if you wish to sell and earn good revenue then concentrate on Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization. 

eBay - How to Source Genuine Products from Reliable Wholesale Supplier and Dropshipper at Lowest Price for Online Sales and Auction

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I am sure I need not elaborate the importance of online marketing particularly when you sell products from eBay. 

In fact you could sell on eBay to the highest bidder some of those tit-bits that you had long discarded into the confines of your garage and was so long gathering dust while it still retains much of its utility, which could be priceless to many such as hard to find old antique furniture or motorbikes. 

Maybe you could possibly  source certain products that are in great demand from suppliers who drop ships them and which you could offer on eBay at competitive prices for sale yet make decent profit while you obtain them at wholesale prices from the very source. 

No wonder eBay has established itself as a great global platform, an online mart where peoplecan move from local to global by putting up for sale anything be it handcrafted goods such as quilts or it could possibly many hard to obtain products, such as rare stamp, coins or jewelry at bargain prices. eBay has indeed opened a lot many opportunities to  many families and communities who are actually earning quite a lot of money as a primary or secondary source of income. 

However when you wish to make selling on the eBay a whole time or a serious online business opportunity you have to offer products that are in great demand that are not only genuine but are priced at the lowest so that they are tempting to the bargain hunters who make their rounds frequently on eBay. 

While pricing them low, it is equally important that you make a good income, taking into account the fees and miscellaneous expenses involved from the sale proceeds of such products that commands  good demand from online buyers on eBay. 

No wonder it is important that you obtain your products that you wish to put under the hammer on the eBay or offer it for sale at a fixed price, from  genuine and highly reliable wholesale supplier at down to earth prices. 

Although a good many websites offer you a directory of many wholesale suppliers but most often they are stale and outdated, many of whom long ceased to carry on with the bsuiness. 

It is exactly beacuse of this very reason I have in my mind to recommend the only website that actually meets many of the requirements for becoming a successful eBay power seller. 

SaleHoo has now established as a reliable website for any prospective eBay powerseller to share information and read through the feedbacks of many like minded eBay seller who are already in the eBay business and carrying on with it well. 

SaleHoo offers a platform where members can share information about their experiences with eBay selling as well as with wholesale suppliers of whom you will get a good lot of honest and straight answers, enough to provide a good lot of inkling before you actually approach these suppliers for doing business on the eBay. 

If you wish to have access to many of the free resources that SaleHoo offers then you may follow this link for ready access. 

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Moreover at SaleHoo you would find a good lot of peers who are eager to help each other out and is ready to answer any of the queries in case you have any regarding successful selling on the eBay. 

SaleHoo by their own admission as of now provides an upto date directory consisting of as many as 8000 genuine wholesale supplier and dropshipper for all types of goods or items for sale on the eBay. 

According to them each of these wholesale suppliers that find mention in their directory have been thoroughly verified by their own SaleHoo Staff or Members, before they have qualified to be enlisted with the same. 

On top of that the private forum at SaleHoo consists of as many as 50000 strong members who discusses openly on the forum and is moderated by a highly rated eBay Powerseller. 

• For more information on the SaleHoo Wholesale Supplier Directory you may follow this link  for your perusal. 
  

• Click Here Now for Free Directory Review of eBay Wholesale Supplier and Dropshipper
  
  
  
• Video Tour for eBay Opportunities from SaleHoo

Oracle Launches Maiden Hardware Products along with HP - Exadata and Oracle Database Machine

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Oracle Enters Hardware Market for the First Time by Unveiling the HP Oracle Exadata and Database Machine with embedded Oracle Software, jointly Developed by Oracle and HP Together

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was joined by Hewlett -Packard CEO Mark Hurd via video conferencing on Oracle's OpenWorld Conference to jointly launch the Exadata and the Oracle Database Machine, on Wednesday last. 

Oracle and HP had been for many years working together on the problem of handling and balancing multiple software and large data storage hardware efficiently without fall in performance during operation. 

The purpose of this joint collaboration is to address the growing problem of transferring large volumes of data from hard drives to the database storage servers that caused data bandwidth problem. 

This is much akin to familiar problems of vehicular movement that choke roads and highways in our daily life when we commute or transport goods from factories to warehouse and then distribute them to various stores and malls in different parts of the district or within big metropolitan cities. 

As is evident when the volume of data keeps swelling it eventually cause tremendous slowdown in the transfer rate which at times is frustrating and time consuming. According to Ellison at one terabyte the data bandwidth slippages become noticeable. 

With each year as data continues to be stored in greater volumes the problem aggravates resulting to a snails pace when data storage capacity touches 10 terabytes. 

For three long years Oracle along with Hewlett Packard worked closely to deal with the pertinent issue and finally when it was developed they tested its performance with important clients and customers such as Google. 

The Exadata which is a storage server that can be programmed to suit ones requirements has been embedded with specially developed software by oracle that could work in tandem with the company’s databases as well as distribute the load over a Grid system to improve traffic management for better and faster data storage. 

The Exadata storage server with embedded Oracle software is expected to be marketed as part of a grid system that would be capable of handling various query processing and other vital function in greater volume speedily and efficiently. Moreover the system would be capable of searching drives in parallel too. 

The Exadata has been built based on the Proliant Server technology developed by Hewlett Packard, which is also an open platform. 

Oracle has by entering into the hardware market with its own embedded software is going the Apple way to a great extent. 

Just as Apple produces both software such as the iTunes and manufactures specially designed hardware like the iPods to make them tailor made and compatible to each other that matches each other requirements for a common purpose, which is better performance and customer satisfaction as well as win over their loyalty. 

Thus by customizing database software along with specially designed hardware such as the Exadata would go a long way to improve the various data centers of important clients round the globe.  

The Exadata Server would as of now be available with Linux that runs on Intel. Soon many more platforms too would be accommodated to achieve the same purpose of deriving the advantages that Exadata would offer for storage and transfer of data efficiently. 

For those customers who are not keen to configure and switch from their current system for them too Oracle has along with HP has produced the Oracle Database Machine. The former would have a disk storage capacity of 168 terabytes along with 64 Intel Cores.

The following are the salient points:

• The Exadata Storage Servers has a data storage capacity to as much as 12 terabytes.
  
• It has got Infiniband connectivity at the rate of 1 GB/sec of data bandwidth for each storage server. 
  
• It has  64 Intel processor cores, and is embedded with the Oracle Enterprise Linux,
  
• The grid system is connected by 14 Exadata Storage Servers that together combines to give a whopping 168 terabytes of data storage volume. 
  
• Moreover It would also provide 14 GB/sec data bandwidth to each of the database servers.
  
• The Database Machine has been pre-configured and are certified to run Oracle’s business intelligence apps and real application clusters. 
  
• The Hardware can be ordered directly from Oracle. 
  
• On the other hand HP has been entrusted to provide necessary hardware support. 
  

G1 T- Mobile Phones Launched by Google based on Android Technology

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Dimension is 4.60” x 2.16” x 0.62”; Weight: 5.6 ounces.
It is  available in black, brown and white colors.

Friends!

If you are a T-Mobile subscriber, in USA or UK you will be able to order online G1, the latest mobile  that Google along with T-Mobile unveiled  in New York today. 

The cost of the T-Mobile G1 phone has been fixed at $179.99 plus Taxes and Fees. You will also have to sign a two year Data and Voice agreement. 

You can order online at www.T-Mobile.com and if you place your order now then  it will be delivered by 22nd October 2008 in USA. 

The design of the G1 phone is by the Taiwanese based HTC Corp. that has established itself for designing and  manufacturing smart phones which uses the Windows Mobile Software. 

The commercial launch of G1 T-mobile phones has been announced on 22nd October for USA. As for UK it will be in early November this year. Regarding the rest of Europe, the prospective buyers and subscribers of G1 along with the T-Mobile package will have to wait until next year i.e. on 2009. 

The following is the package plan offered for G1, by Google together with T-Mobile the official carrier for G1 phones. 

• $25 data plan with unlimited web but with limited messaging or  £40 a month. 
• $35 data plan with unlimited web along with 400 messages that you can send. 
• There will be no free email and email will be SIM Locked. 
• You can read Web Documents and Excel but will not be able to use any Exchange facility. 
• You will be able to download songs from a mind boggling choice of 6 Million songs from Amazon's MP3 store. The cost of downloading is @ 89 cents for each MP3 song. 

In addition the following features are available on the T-Mobile G1 phones by Google and T-Mobile.

• It has got a Touch Screen with a 480x320 65K color screen with HVGA resolution.
  
  
• With the superb touch screen on G1 T-Mobile phones it is easy to drag and drop a photo on the homescreen as well as swipe and frame them. 
  
  
• The Keyboard is the most important looking feature in T-Moble G1 phones that sets it apart from those in Apple i-Phones. It has a complete QWERTY keyboard that slides out from under the screen. 
  
  
• It also features a trackball for single-handed navigation.
  
  
• It also has got a 3.1 MP camera with 4x6 Print Quality, however you won't be able to take any video using the same. 
  
  
• It supports Wi-Fi but lacks stereo Bluetooth streaming facility. 

• Any G1 user will be able to use A-GPS and Google Maps. This will be useful for the T-Mobile G1 user cum subscriber to find his way through the labrynths in any urban locality or in the middle of no where. 

• It has also got an inbuilt digital compass too which along with the above navigation facilities will be a breeze for the G1 user. It also has got a tilt-sensor in it too. 
  
  
  You won't ever feel lost, as you can enjoy all these facilities at the touch of the finger using the touch screen much like the i-phones, on G1 T- Mobile cell phones. The Google Maps allow you to view the traffic in all directions. The street view offers you to notice the landmarks to help you find your way, and the scene shifts as you keep moving. 

• The Music player is excellent and at the touch of a button you can delve deep to retrieve something very special that you wish to listen. It is capable of playing WMA, AAC in addition to MP3 files Moreover the sound quality is really cool. 
  
  
  
• For search there is a dedicated button to do that which makes it easy for anything that you wish to look for. It is as if having the Microsoft Office as well as the Internet Explorer bundled together on the Desktop. 
  
  
• You can at the touch of your finger have access to many of the Google Aplications such as the YouTube, Google Talk, Search Maps and Calendar.
  
  
• The Battery life in G1 phones also offer Five Hours of talk time or on 130 hours of standby mode.  
  
  
• It also comes preinstalled with a 1 GB of MicroSD Card storage capacity and can support 8 GB of MicroSD as well. 
  
  
• The G1 supports the following range of frequencies  
  
  
  GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi and UMTS/HSDPA
  
  850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100Mhz
  
  
  
  
• If you enjoy shopping well it has also got an inbuilt barcode scanner that will help you to get the comparative pricing to choose your pick at the store. 
  
  
• The G1 phones by Google and T-Mobile is based on the Android technology, which is the open source operating system. So a lot of games and applications will be available for you to download to suit your lifestyle and requirements. The PacMan is the killer application amongst the whole lot. 
  
  
• Moreover the Android technology has made the T-Moble G1 phones an Open Handset Alliance, the first of its kind so far. This will allow folks to write their own applications as well as embrace those of others and thereby make the mobile internet useful and popular. 
  
  
• Other applications available with G1 phones is the Ecorio for those who are concerned about the envronment. It helps to maintain track record that notifies about their carbon footprints during the course of their daily travels. 
  
  
• With the BreadCrumbz application people can create their own routes such as a step-by-step visual map using photos. This they can share with others around the world. 

 

T-Moble G1 is the first mobile to be launched with Android an Open Software cum Operating System for Mobile Devices.