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Everyone in IT understands that there are disasters and then there are disasters. Regardless of the scale of any interruption in operations, disaster recovery plans generally comprise details describing how IT will accomplish the two most important tasks they will face in the event of a disaster: business continuity contingencies and the recovery of lost data. While being “down” and “disconnected” from the rest of the world can be financially devastating, losing the data upon which the business relies is equivalent to a monarch losing the crown jewels. Now that’s a disaster, no matter what the underlying cause.

Before Web 2.0 made its way onto the corporate stage, a backup – or two – kept us convinced that, should we lose data for some reason, we could always get it back and, more important, get it back in such a state that we’d have lost nothing more than time. With Web 2.0, however, that task has become a bit trickier. There’s more data, more often, that needs to be backed up and replicated, and only so many hours in the day (the dreaded maintenance window) in which we can accomplish this important task.

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Security for e-commerce Web
By: MJ

It is very important to check whether the site you are entering is not a scam where you lose your assets. You have to make sure that you have made the necessary and practical security systems in your computer. If you are still at a loos on how to do so, then please refer to the following suggestions:

• Check the security of the server hosting the site
• download the appropriate Security Configuration Guide from the U.S. National Security Agency Web site
• use the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Security Configuration Checklists Repository for instructions and procedures
• Benchmark and Scoring Tools from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to evaluate an e-commerce Web infrastructure and compare its level of security against minimum due-care security benchmarks

By: MJ

As time passes, laptop computers have become more recognized than the normal computers. They are portable and can be brought anywhere. Aside from Mac laptops and Asus, there is now another competitor in the business. Asus, which originally offered small and affordable laptops is now faced with The Neo Explore. Though it seems that the new gadget had won over the consumers because of its lower price, there are still glitches that the company had overlooked.

To be able to sell their product for a cheaper price, they have used Linux instead of Microsoft. Though the company aimed the younger generation to use this gadget, they have neglected to see through the possibility that they may become shocked with the unfamiliar system.

With their offline Google Gears released last year, Google Inc., reinforced it’s dominance of online ads and development further that Microsoft tried to get their hands on Yahoo, one of the leading competitors of Google in the Search Engine aspect of internet use. This has been an unprecedented move by Google for they were the first to release a distributed web application platform and their move to make the same system independent of the web has Microsoft clamoring for a piece of the market it has dominated for so long. Why the sudden move from one of the world’s largest software maker? The internet it helped evolve has become more than many have expected it to be and they have again been caught at the seams of their pants trying to find a piece of the pie so to speak. Microsoft’s domination of the world’s software market has continuously been under threat from open-sourced apps that are now increasing their share (or maybe simply because most open apps are FREE) of the market and big companies are being threatened that even Microsoft has opened doors to open-sourced developers for more inter-operability functionality with Microsoft’s existing Office systems.

Widgets are small applications that are updated dynamically through the internet that can be something as simple as an ornate clock to a small pocket sized game similar to those battery-powered games you used to play with as a kid only on your PC. They are fun and easy to use that many advertising companies have started to use them for online ad campaigns as they shift to more productive ad campaigns. Compared to more traditional ad campaigns, done throught the internet and getting other people to work for you takes more of the guess work out of the total solution. It needs a small program that is sent out through popular websites. The Ad part can be changed dynamically and easily through the link the widget maintains with the servers where they are updates as the ads changed.

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Many of us today create our own site for making money, giving information, offering other service and some other features. It is a problem for us how to increase the view of our website everyday. One of the best way is the help of search engines by using search engines optimization your site will get a best chance to be found first on the list depending on the keyword use. But many site already has this features, Andy Mindel and Mike Mindel has a great idea how to increase your seach engine optimization by creating WORDTRACKER. WordTracker is a online analyzer that analyst keyword or key phase that are relevant to them and their client to boost or optimize the use of search engine. It can also determine the number of competing sites that use the same keywords or key phrases that have the greatest traffic potential in selected search engine.

Web apps have been a normal occurence on the internet for a long time and they have now entered the arena of mobile communications. With more and more mobile phones going 3G, the higher transmission speeds have turned them into more than just wireless telephones but mobile computers that is one step closer to a pocket PC. They use specially designed OS’s and browsers that allows them to access the internet on the go, anywhere there is a bar on your signal indicator. Companies like Instant Access Technologies with their Zabidoo that allows one to browse the web without the need for a URL, wow, now that’s movile internet access. Browsing the internet used to be cumbersome and difficult especially on your mobile where the keypads are as compact as they can get. It supports 1,000 mobile websites and just the thought of browsing with such ease would be enough to claim praise from your aching thumb.

With WEB 2.0 still to reach the whole globe, talk of a more social web is now underway and many are quite stunned for not all have embraced the advent of WEB 2.0 and here comes WEB 3.0 soon afterwards. Most teens and young adults now form a huge percentage of the market share when it comes to web users and they want more of the social web. With sketchy details, there is a lot to expect from the newer web for the social web has taken the power over the internet away from the PC taking it online and out of the grasp on big businesses. With more and more people using free open-sourced applications, the next evolution for the net may come in the form of the net being ever present with us everywhere we go.

The internet has become so entwined with our everyday life that it has even had applications in the area of education. Time may come when the classroom may become more of a virtual presence type class reducing the fuel and expenses of having to physically go to school. Today, there are online courses that cater to disabled children and distance education classes in far areas of the globe where teachers are hundreds of miles away and the children in their own homes attending classes in a virtual space they get their education from. The teacher or professor gives out lectures directly citing online sources they can all share and view and the internet is a wondeful place for information. Just hope they figure out a way of ensuring the true ones from the nots (web sites) for do a search on any engine and you still end up with a lot of junk sites.

The days of the dumb search engine algorithms may be numbered for google has started some form opf semantic web searching whereby pages are ranked and submitted as results not only as the most likely ones to answer the search but analyzes the context in which the words are used giving a more exact result. Up to now, the concept of a semantic web was only in the hearts and minds of the inventors of the web but behind the scenes programmers and developers are hard at work doing just that. With some semantic processing already in effect over the web through paid searches, it is only time before they become staple of our everyday web experience.