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Microsoft Corp filed suit Monday in federal court against eight resellers of its software, including Pronet Cyber Technologies Inc., for piracy.

Microsoft claims Alexandria-based Pronet sold unlicensed software
and counterfeit activation codes and certificates of authenticity to
its customers through its two Web sites, Pronetcd.com and USSoftware.com.
The company, owned by Joseph Teshome, is certified by the Small
Business Administration as a minority- and woman-owned small business.
Teshome could not be reached for comment.BizJournal.

The DigitalFilipino.com Club is organizing a networking event where e-business and e-commerce industry players can catch up and exchange updates. This will be on May 13, Tuesday, 6 to 9 pm at Formo, Banilad Town Center, Banilad, Cebu City.Our sincerest thanks to Microsoft Philippines (Independent Software Vendor - Developer Platform Evangelist Group) for hosting this networking event and sponsor the dinner as well.Who can attend?

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Do you watch Numb3rs? For the last two days, i was able to have a time to watch the TV show season series where the two main characters are a FBI agent (Don Eppes) and his younger brother (Charlie), a very clever mathematician. The show is based on the idea that crimes can be solved with numbers. In each episode, Charlie uses different mathematic techniques to find information regarding some crime scene. One of which is how they solved the crime in phishing.

"Phishing is an electronic way for scam artists to steal your identity and your money. If you’ve got a computer and/or an e-mail account, you’re a potential target. Please be aware of at least two attempts to get at your information.  Some phishing e-mails threaten a dire consequence if you don’t respond. The messages direct you to a Web site that looks just like a legitimate organization’s site. But it isn’t. It’s a bogus site whose sole purpose is to trick you into divulging your personal information so the operators can steal your identity and run up bills or commit crimes in your name.”

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Teenagers between seventh and 10th grades are less likely to illegally download content from the Internet when they know the laws for downloading and sharing content online, according the results of a new survey conducted on behalf of Microsoft.

The online survey of teenagers found that 49% were not familiar with downloading laws, and only 11% of them clearly understood the current rules for downloading images, literature, music, movies and software.
Teenagers between seventh and 10th grades are less likely to illegally download content from the Internet when they know the laws for downloading and sharing content online, according the results of a new survey conducted on behalf of Microsoft.
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A must-read posts from last week:

1. Intel goes the nano way
2. Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing
3  HP Pavilion Desktop Promo
4. Intel unveils new chip
5. It’s NGenius 34 - WE will rule the World …. Someday
5. NK February Training Schedule
6. NK Value PC @P12,999 only
7. NK Online Trivia Winners of the Week

A popular Myanmar blogger who belongs to Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party has been arrested in Yangon, apparently for violating the nation’s tough Internet controls.

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The Cisco ASA 5505 Adaptive Security Appliance is a next-generation, full-featured security appliance for small business, branch office, and enterprise teleworker environments that delivers high-performance firewall, SSL and IPsec VPN, and rich networking services in a modular, “plug-and-play” appliance. Using the integrated Web-based Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager, the Cisco ASA 5505 can be rapidly deployed and easily managed, enabling businesses to minimize operations costs. The Cisco ASA 5505 features a flexible 8-port 10/100 Fast Ethernet switch, whose ports can be dynamically grouped to create up to three separate VLANs for home, business, and Internet traffic for improved network segmentation and security. The Cisco ASA 5505 provides two Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports, enabling simplified deployment of Cisco IP phones with zero-touch secure voice over IP (VoIP) capabilities, and deployment of external wireless access points for extended network mobility. The Cisco ASA 5505 also provides significant expandability and investment protection through its modular design, similar to the rest of the Cisco ASA 5500 Series, offering both an external expansion slot and multiple USB ports that enable the addition of services in the future.

Is Microsoft negotiating to buy Yahoo? How big a competitive threat is Google? What is the biggest threat to IT at this point? These were all questions that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers fielded in a lengthy debate they had in New York on August 20 about working more closely together on interoperability. When asked by moderator Charlie Rose why Microsoft had not bought Yahoo, Ballmer quickly corrected him by saying "Why don’t we buy Yahoo," before going on to say that Yahoo was an independent company with its own vision.Platform Dive.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - November 1, 2007 - Cisco® today announced an agreement to acquire Securent, Inc., a leading provider of policy management software for enterprises. Securent’s scalable, distributed policy platform allows enterprises to administer, enforce, and audit access to data, communications, and applications in heterogeneous IT application environments. Securent is privately held and based in Mountain View, Calif.

Securent’s software will enable Cisco customers to protect and secure valuable application data regardless of vendor, platform, or operating system while still allowing ubiquitous access to the content workers and their collaborative communities need to be productive. By delivering policy from the network, Cisco will simplify entitlement decisions for all communications, collaboration and other third party applications.

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Children using computers with WiFi connections should be monitored until more research into the possible health risks is carried out as advised by Professor Lawrie Challis.

“With a desktop computer, the transmitter will be in the tower. This might be perhaps 20cms from your leg and the exposure would then be around one per cent of that from a mobile phone. However, if you put a laptop straight on your lap and are using wi-fi, you could be around two centimetres from the transmitter, and receiving comparable exposure to that from a mobile phone.” More

Is this true or not?

Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective. The following has been making the rounds on just about every internal email list I belong to in Microsoft. Here it is to share a little insight with the rest of the world. "Microsoft is an amazingly transparent company. Google is not. Any peek is a good peek. Google has no facility for career growth.  Microsoft has more, but could do better.  Continuing Microsoft-specific education for things like project management, managing people, communication skills, etc. should be promoted." More..

Spyware is among the most prevalent PC annoyances I am aware of. It threats our online privacy, not only by monitoring our activity; but also by potentially collecting personal information such as passwords and transmitting them to unauthorized 3rd parties.Read the rest of this entry.

1.Adware
2.Trend Micro HijackThis
3.SpywareTerminator
4.SpywareBlaster
5.Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.5

I am creating a new blog, but this is actually a directory or compilation.  Its called Philippine Bloggers directory, and any Philippine blogger may add his blog into the list.

Just go visit, and then click on Add my feed, and we will check whether your blog is really a Philippine blog, and it passes the quality and frequency of update of a good blog.

Then we will incorporate your RSS feed into the directory, and the program will automatically pull your latest update and present the summary in this directory.

So far, we have a compilation of 50 of the best Philippine blogs, and we are hoping we can include yours to make a hundred.

The Cisco Smart Business Communications System offers secure anytime, anywhere communications that is easy to set up, has award-winning support, and offers hassle-free financing options. It also provides a new way to reach, serve, and retain customers, with the ability to add up to 50 phones per location. Read More From Cisco.com