HP introduces thin client hardware

Hewlett-Packard has introduced its first mobile thin client, a notebook that can store data and access applications wirelessly on a centralized server. In addition to the Compaq 6720t, HP introduced on Thursday two desktop thin clients, the Compaq t5730 and t5735. The 6720t and t5730 run Microsoft Windows XPe, and the t5735 uses the Debian Linux operating system and supports open source applications.

HP's thin-client hardware uses technology acquired last year in the $214 million purchase of Neoware, which sold hardware and software that allowed users to build desktop systems that could be centrally managed from servers with little desk-side intervention. Neoware's Linux-based thin-client systems complemented HP's Windows-based systems.
The 6720t mobile PC features a 15.4-inch display and is powered by a 1.06-GHz Intel Celeron M Processor 423. The machine also has 1 GB of memory, a 1-GB solid-state flash drive, and three USB 2.0 ports. For graphics processing, the PC uses the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950.

The mobile thin client has no hard-disk drive, since all storage is hosted on a server, which also handles processing for all business applications, such as Microsoft Office.

Android Seems Promising!!!

http://code.google.com/android/

The Android platform is a software stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Developers can create applications for the platform using the Android SDK. Applications are written using the Java programming language and run on Dalvik, a custom virtual machine designed for embedded use which runs on top of a Linux kernel.

If you want to know how to develop applications for Android, you're in the right place. This site provides a variety of documentation that will help you learn about Android and develop mobile applications for the platform.

An early look at the the Android SDK is also available. It includes sample projects with source code, development tools, an emulator, and of course all the libraries you'll need to build an Android application.

Nestle loses sales as restaurant bans bottled water...

NEW YORK:

Tap water is fine for Alice Waters, who stopped selling bottled stuff last year at her environmentally conscious Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California. That could be bad news for Nestle SA. Per-capita sales of the product in the US will rise 6.3 per cent this year and 3.6 per cent in 2010, slowing from 8.9 per cent last year, according to Euromonitor International Ltd.

Operating profit growth at Nestle's water unit, whose 2006 sales of 9.6 billion Swiss francs ($8.7 billion) were 10 per cent of the Swiss company's total, will shrink by half to 5 per cent in 2008, UBS AG has forecast.


Beverage companies including Nestle, Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. are also facing inroads from private labels in the $15 billion industry. The competition comes as religious groups and environmentalists say that bottling wastes energy and overtaxes landfills.

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Verizon Business India Receives International and National Long-Distance Licenses

Licenses Enhance Delivery of Advanced Communications Services to India-Based Multinational Companies

January 09, 2008

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and MUMBAI, India - Verizon Business India, a joint venture between Verizon Business and Mumbai-based Videocon Group, has received licenses for international and national long-distance services. The licenses, issued by India's Department of Telecommunications, enhance Verizon Business' delivery of advanced telecommunications services to multinational companies with operations in India, as well as to India-based multinationals.

Verizon Business India will offer a full range of services, including international private-leased circuits with multi protocol label switching (MPLS) and Internet protocol (IP) services. These services will complement Verizon Business' existing Indian operations.

Verizon Business already holds an Internet service provider license in India and has various local ISP facilities. The joint venture plans to deploy new nodes in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi to support Verizon Business' MPLS, Global Data Link and Ethernet Virtual Private Line solutions.

Blair Crump, group president international & premier accounts, Verizon Business, commented: "India is a key investment location for many of our multinational customers, and these licenses enable us to further enhance our local capabilities to support their strategic business needs. Verizon Business is focused on providing the highest levels of services and capabilities to our customers around the world. We look forward to bringing our expertise to bear in India as we expand our existing presence to provide direct, high-quality, advanced communications services and support to our locally based customer operations."

Verizon Business also announced the appointment of John Samuel as president of Verizon Business India. Samuel, with more than 20 years of experience in the Indian market, will focus on developing business opportunities in India, working with Verizon Business' locally based telecommunications partners.

Verizon Business is well established in the Indian market, with offices in New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. Verizon Business is also the only U.S. consortium member of the SEA-ME-WE-4 undersea cable network system, which provides diverse connectivity from India to Europe and Asia. The system, which spans 20,000 kilometers, lands in two locations in India and reaches 14 countries in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe.

More details are on http://www.verizonbusiness.com/us/about/news/releases/release.xml?newsid=24193&mode=vzlong&lang=en&width=567&root=/us/about/news/releases/&subroot=release.xml&langlinks=off

Airbus wins $6.9bn order from AWAS

NEW YORK: Airbus has won an order worth $6.9 billion from leasing company AWAS Ltd for as many as 100 planes, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The report comes after a year of strong sales. Louis Gallois, chief executive of Airbus's parent, EADS, said earlier this week that the company was at the "peak of the cycle."
Rival Boeing Co (BA.N) recently posted an industry record 1,413 net plane orders for 2007, worth about $170 billion at list prices.
Airbus reports its tally in the next two weeks. The Journal report quoted Airbus executive John Leahy as saying that the upcoming announcement will not include the AWAS deal, which Airbus will book for this year.

New Country's on DIDx

Following numbers are available now on DIDx:

Germany: Berlin, Hanover and Frankfurt.

Belgium: Brussels DID numbers.

Portugal: Lisbon DID numbers.

Georgia numbers available now.

Dominican Republic numbers available now.

Korean numbers available now.

and many more check the coverage on http://www.didx.net/did

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Green Tea Dieting, A winning combination!

Dieting can be a tricky business for any one who is looking to loose weight for the good of their body. Some prefer to curtail the intake of normal food items while others take help from additional supplements to fulfill the body’s dietary requirements.
As many of us may be aware, green tea can prove to be a useful means of dieting.

Health Benefits

Green Tea helps to decrease unnecessary cholesterol levels and can also actually help increase useful Cholesterol (HDL) in the body. Green Tea also decreases fatty triglycerides.

Where on the one hand Green Tea increases antioxidant and anti-cancer agents’ levels in the body, on the other hand regular use has proven to boost immune strength as well as bringing about weight loss. According to reports Green Tea contains 50 times more strength than Vitamin E and C! Certain studies have also proved that drinking a cup of green tea, every day for one year can cause a visible weight loss of up to 5 pounds.

How Much

To a good degree of surety, it can be safely said that you can drink as much green tea as you want. People are known to drink as much as 20 cups if Green Tea a day without any side effects! Once you select a decaffeinated version you do not decrease the benefits to dieting.

Preparing green Tea at home

The method of preparation has profound effects on the effectiveness of Green Tea. Smaller Tealeaves have better infusion and is cooked faster. Many dieters often use Tea bags, even though loose leaves are recommended. To get the maximum out of tea bags in the longer run, they should be immersed on a continuous basis to extract maximum amounts of Polyphenols, which contain a high concentration of antioxidants and other health benefits.


When tealeaves are used, they should be completely immersed in hot water and not left floating on top. Short time durations leads to higher caffeine levels and low Polyphenols.
Hence higher steeping times should be used to increase Polyphenols producing the best results.

Lastly, once any kind of sweetener is added to Green Tea, It totally kills off the whole dieting benefit of Green Tea. Be it Honey or normal sugar; do not drink sweetened green tea! However, if your taste buds cannot accept the bitterness in any way, as a last resort go for the Herbal replacement Stevia!

PTA Terminates License of Instaphone

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has, with immediate effect, terminated the license of M/S Pakcom (Instaphone) on account of Company’s failure to pay its outstanding dues. The payable amount would be recovered under Section 30 of the Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) Act. The Authority has issued a detailed determination in this regard.

According to details, M/S Pakcom’s license was renewed on April 19, 2005 for another term of 15 years against the price of US$ 291 Million payable in installments as per the license conditions. The licensee failed to follow the payment schedule provided in its renewed license. The licensee, through its representative from time to time, requested the Authority to allow time to make the outstanding payments. Inspite of every concession, to the licensee, in terms of time and its persistent failure to make the payments, action, including show-cause, was initiated as per Section 23 of the Act, which was neither satisfactorily replied nor outstanding dues paid.

In the final hearing on November 29, 2007 the representative of M/S Instaphone requested for further time to make the payments but without any cogent evidence or specific date for the same. The Authority’s considered opinion is that the licensee’s contravention of the terms and conditions of the license regarding its financial obligations is grave and persistent, resulting in the termination of its license. PTA has also directed Frequency Allocation Board to immediately withdraw its frequency spectrum assigned to M/S Instaphone.

(Khurram Ali Mehran)

Deputy Director (PR)

Source: http://www.pta.gov.pk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1072&Itemid=1&catid=92

Hackers quickly move to exploit Bhutto assassination

Hackers quickly move to exploit Bhutto assassination
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/122807-hackers-quickly-move-to-exploit.html

By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld, 12/28/07
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Within hours of yesterday's assassination of former Pakistani Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware makers exploited the breaking news to
dupe users into downloading attack code, security researchers said
Friday.

Searches for news about Bhutto's killing and the ensuing chaos in
Pakistan listed sites pimping a bogus video coder/decoder (codec),
said analysts at McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp. and WebSense Inc.

For instance, WebSense found such a site simply by using "benazir" to
search on Google. Meanwhile, McAfee quickly located 10 sites hosted on
Blogger.com, Google Inc.'s blog service, that were spreading the fake
codec.

The sites use the well-worn tactic of promising a video -- in this
case one of Bhutto's assassination -- but telling Windows users that
they need to install a new high-definition video codec, the program
that decodes the digital data stream, to view the clip. Naturally, the
so-called codec is no such thing, but is instead rigged code that
downloads a variant of the Zlob Trojan horse, a back door that can
infect the compromised PC with a wide range of other malware.

"Even death isn't sacred to some," said Symantec researcher Vikram
Thakur in a post to the company's security response blog.

Other hackers are relying on the news of Bhutto's assassination to
draw users to sites that forgo the codec angle and instead conduct
drive-by attacks, said Rahul Mohandas, a security analyst at McAfee's
Avert Labs unit. "There are a plethora of sites which attempt drive-by
installations when unsuspecting users visit search-engine results for
'Benazir Bhutto,'" said Mohandas in a post to the Avert Labs blog this
morning. "Many of these compromised pages have malicious scripts,
which point to the 3322 domain. These pages contain obfuscated
variants of the MS06-014 exploit, which is perhaps one of the most
popular of all the exploits we see on a daily basis."

MS06-014, issued in April 2006, patched a critical vulnerability in an
ActiveX control that is part of Microsoft Data Access Components
(MDAC), which are packaged with Windows XP and Server 2003.

Shilling bogus codecs is a popular pastime of attackers. The technique
has been used to plant malware on PCs from singer Alicia Keys' MySpace
page, for example, and was the vector used by hackers who went after
Macs last month.