Information Technology

WebEx Pass The Ball

2009-06-24T19:06:00.001+02:00

The law of accelerating returns

2008-07-16T20:18:00.001+02:00

The use of the law of accelerating returns to predict innovations and trends happens to be a scientific ways of proving the impossible. There are many similarities and differences in when the predictions of the world innovations trends have been taking place. Intuitive linear, imaginative ways of thinking about technological progress, in quite very different from the historical exponential view. Yes the technological progress and the development in the past decades have not shown constant linear development progresses, the history has showed us, that these developments technologically have been very explosively, rapidly, radically and intensively in nature. Many count these to be more exponential mathematically, but I will rather put it in another mathematical form.

There will be no doubt about the upcoming paradigms shifts when it comes to the future developments and the existences of the human race, all these changes that we have been experiencing in the information technological aspects and all other aspects also, are not going to be things of the past. The tools of today’s job will be replace with more efficient and effective tools, the humans of today will definitely not be the humans of the future. Our abilities to prevent deadlocks between the advance technological developments and the human race will be only hope of the continuations of our ways of the past. The impacts of religion believes in present day will be sublime by the future technological happenings and developments. It all boils down to actions and reactions are equal and opposite. The more advance we are in technological fronts the more the threats human existence will be facing.

That the singularity is here, is a fact that we must face, what is more important is the aftermath of singularity. There maybe no reconciliation time, and positive progression when there are no standard governance, the managements of today will definitely be supersedes by the super intelligences of the future. Life is the reinventions of wheels, in which one generation leaves the burden and the joy of the inventions to the next generation. Intelligent humans will only have the abilities to modified wheels, invents new wheels and neglect the serial pattern of growth, into more upgradeable fashion of humans evolutions. But what most humans practically forget is that our generation abilities to create and invent is directly proportional to the coming generations abilities to live, generate and multiple.

Read More:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1&bcsi_scan_1EDB6BA972F45AE2=7+oBxn0BdsX8rKLFNmIXWwMAAADOE+sF&bcsi_scan_filename=art0134.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change
http://www.accelerationwatch.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03tier.html
http://www.bizmanualz.com/information/2005/10/10/accelerating-returns-and-paradigm-shifts.html
http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/01/magazines/fortune/kurzweil.fortune/index.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/15/bio.tech/index.html?bcsi_scan_5834DC8D5F5685AA=aSXgrMNwYggS6Pxt3LoXOAYAAABx83wQ&bcsi_scan_filename=index.html

The writing of a business report.

2008-06-14T21:37:00.002+02:00

We will all agreed that an effective communication style is very important when writing a business report. The content, format, style, feelings and eloquent abilities contribute to a very good business report. These business reports can be very helpful understanding the in-depth of a project, customers and business wishes and scalability planning. The abilities to understand the modes of the report readers will be very important in the determinations of the success of our report.

Breaking of many complex subjects into smaller once we learned at school, that this method will definitely help us in other to achieve our goals. Knowing all the ins and outs of the subject matter may not help us in the one hundred percent effective business report writing, this may even limits the scope of our knowledge and prevent us in doing more research into the subject matter.

The arts of effective writing will be planning and executions of the plannings, the effective utilisations of templates, take your time to revise and review what you are writing being the truth, proofreading is a way to correct all the grammatical mistakes and the creations of the our audience mode and perceptions. The concept report will have to be read by an expert analyst before sending this report to the stakeholders and the world.

References:
[1] http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/student_resources/writing_process.html
[2] http://www.theiiba.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Learning/BodyofKnowledge/Version16/BOKV1_6.pdf

Information security

2008-06-14T20:48:00.002+02:00

What did I have to write on information security, which has not ringed bell to you? The importance of secure digital and nor digital environment is very important and crucial. Since the depart of defences and many government agencies are very worried about intelligences and technological thefts, writing about the impact of security breaches is not going to create the secure environment that is probably needed.

The question now is, where must any organisations start the implementation of security and digital anger awareness? Since most technical solutions tries on dealing with the security issues on a later stage of projects implementations, these happens not to be the most effective way to deal with security issues. Security will have to be imposed from the organisation management, buried into their governance and from the governance level security solutions initialisations.

Secure information is everyone responsibilities, when you are in possession of an information, the level of security of the information depends on the level of security awareness and willingness to protect the information. The digital wars will be waned, by the most people able to keep the information secure, respects others privacies and the supporter of innovation and creativities. Our information can be save starting from you today.

Reference:
[1] http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/ISACAWinnipegNov07GESAllen.pdf
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security
[4] http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/multimedia/interactive/infosecurity/index.html
[5] http://www.ftc.gov/infosecurity/
[6] http://www.ffiec.gov/ffiecinfobase/booklets/information_security/information_security.pdf
[7] http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/Tips?SearchView&Query=security&SearchMax=4999
[8] http://www.sans.org/reading_room/papers/download.php?id=251&c=5c97cf3a5c064a3cc49c357e15548819

DVB-H network (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handheld devices)

2008-06-01T09:50:00.001+02:00

All the technological innovations have predecessors, just like the invention and the utilisation of mobile televisions technology. There are still more to come, like the radically movements from cash money utilisations, unto digital money flow paradigm. There are many day-to-day activities that can be converted into new digital age of awareness. In principal many attributes like wristwatches, make-ups, jewellery's, tracking and navigating systems can all be digitalised and produced inform of many nano-devices.

In the next coming years, the trends of all these technological advancements will show multipliable increases, paving the way for more consumers oriented shared devices. To buy or not to buy, buying will be a thing of the past and community sharing will be the device utilisation of the future. The rate at which these devices and the technologies will be appearing, it will be practically unforeseeable mistakes to continua our old patrons of consuming mentalities.

The recycling of many old devices will definitely leads to atmospheric changes, if we are not ready with many contingencies plans, our ways of living and perceiving things in and around us will change for the coming generations. So who needs a television at home anywhere, if it possible to watch the TV in cars, anywhere and anyhow. The DVB-H network uses time-slicing to improve the energy consumptions because the prolonging of the battery usages in the mobile devices is very important.

References:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-H
[2] http://www.digitag.org/DTTResources/DVBHandbook.pdf
[3] http://www.phonegg.com/List/DVB-H-Cell-Phones.html
[4] http://www.dvb.org/technology/standards/index.xml
[5] http://www.wsa-conference.org/presentation/karim_taga.pdf?bcsi_scan_1EDB6BA972F45AE2=0&bcsi_scan_filename=karim_taga.pdf
[6] http://www.wsa-conference.org/presentation/karim_taga.pdf?bcsi_scan_1EDB6BA972F45AE2=0&bcsi_scan_filename=karim_taga.pdf
[7] http://www1.dibcom.info/Images/Upload/pdf/Publications/DVB-H_article_KM_SP.pdf

The Role Of an Information Analyst

2008-05-25T21:55:00.002+02:00

The role an Information analyst played, within an enterprise is very important for the continuations, the making of profit and improving the qualities of the software productions. The under standing points are the qualities I think any good analyst will like to process.

- As an information analyst the development and the utilisation of methods for maintaining systems that are performing business functions will be very important. The most rewarding task of an information analyst is also the effective software application to improve business tasks and employee efficiencies. The utilisation of a structured approach in other progress more effectively in the maintenance and the development systems are very crucial.

- Use methodology as a way of reducing risk.

- The information must be analyst in the context of organisation, business, application, and technical environment.

- The utilisations of the waterfall or the spiral methods in a very complex software projects, will have to be breakdown into smaller project cells.

- The utilisation of a suitable system development method, depending on the project and specifications.

- Documentation is the most effective way of giving the software process a professional view.

- The documentations arrangement structures may follow this pattern:
Requests & Discussions map
Software/system Requirements & Specification map
Software/system Architecture map
Interface Design Policies & specification map
Software/system Component Detailed Design map
Source Code & Review map
Software/system test map
Software/system implementation map
Software/system Evaluation map

- The knowledge of types of information systems, will be very relevant to an analyst:
Transaction Processing Systems (TPS)
Management Information Systems (MIS)
Decision Support Systems (DSS)
Artificial Intelligent/Expert Systems (ES)

- The possessions of all the necessary characters like manage mental abilities, problem analytics abilities, technical and communication abilities.

Lifetime learning is a very important practice, in other to be very successful as professional Information Technology analyst. Advance technological understanding, higher level of human relationships and intelligences.

References
[1] http://www.cms.hhs.gov/SystemLifecycleFramework/Downloads/SelectingDevelopmentApproach.pdf (Accessed on: Sunday, 25 May 2008)
[2] http://webhome.csc.uvic.ca/~jmcbride/s375.htm (Accessed on: Sunday, 25 May 2008)
[3] http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~tdrewry/ (Accessed on: Sunday, 25 May 2008)
[4] http://businessanalyst.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_Become_(or_Manage)_a_Successful_Business_Analyst
(Accessed on: Sunday, 25 May 2008)

Semantic searching in a semantic web, receding in a semantic network

2008-05-18T21:29:00.001+02:00

Retrievable contents to humans and computers alike demands new ways of contents storage, problem elevations and web base database. Categorisation of semantic searching method navigational and research has been researched into by many scholars, performances, reliabilities and accuracy happens to be many of the valued gain a semantic process. Disambiguation of any searching object or accuracy will have to be effectively looked into. Semantic needs perfects ambiguous differentiations technology to make many Internet searching process reliable and accurate.

The abilities of the computers and a group of computers understanding and be able to read the web, the creations of multiple reading channels for both humans and computers prompt for the creations of the semantic webs. If the computers are able to interpret the webs accurately without humans’ interventions, many fraudulent activities on the web can be easily detected, stopped and reported. Resource Description Framework (RDF), data, XML and Web Ontology Language will help in the understanding and the realisations of the needed qualities.

Web 3.0 will show more of the semantic nature of the web and the Internet improvements. The combination of these three semantics technologies will improve the humans’ computers interactions, security and possibilities. Understanding and perfect interactions between humans and computers are inevitable; the creations of perfect solutions for perfect problems will be aimed into the age of information technology.

References:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search (Accessed on: Sunday, 18 May 2008)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web (Accessed on: Sunday, 18 May 2008)
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0 (Accessed on: Sunday, 18 May 2008)
[4] http://www2003.org/cdrom/papers/refereed/p779/ess.html (Accessed on: Sunday, 18 May 2008)
[5] http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/papers/semantic-searching.ppt (Accessed on: Sunday, 18 May 2008)
[6] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0508lang/ (Accessed on: Sunday, 18 May 2008)
[7] http://www.vldb.org/conf/2003/papers/S03P02.pdf (Accessed on: Sunday, 18 May 2008)

ASAP (Accelerated SAP)

2008-05-16T21:34:00.003+02:00

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The growth of any business depends on the fully understanding of its business arena. Predicting and make an adequate preparedness for the future. Making use of the latest technologies to certify the customers and the creation of many new customers.

But there are urgent needs in minimising the projects implementations cost, labour/efforts, and time to market. Standard implementation approach through the usage of well sound improvements methods has been proving to increase the productivities and qualities.

There should be evaluations steps build into each and every steps of the phases, to make these phases lessons to learn from, knowledge acquiring and distributions, quality improvements and project development forecasting purposes. The ‘As Soon As Possible’ slogan should be changed by the creations of concrete deadlines, time to market is very important.

The last phase of the roadmap must be fallowed by the sixth phase, which maybe called traffics. In this traffics phases more emphasis should be set on monitoring project product activities and the creations many new projects to follow the same pattern or different pattern in other to marginalized the stakeholders’ profits and the creation of effective phases deadlines.

References
[1] http://ocw.kfupm.edu.sa/user/SE46401/ASAP%20%20Phase%201%20and%202%20Handout%20(061).pdf
[2] http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/irm/archives/implementing-a-methodology-12590
[3] http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/print46b/en/data/en/pdf/SVASAP.pdf

There are many ways of keeping the IT infrastructure safe and to prevents attacks

2008-04-07T06:43:00.001+02:00

The utilisations of up to date security policies, all security policies that are not maintained is as good as no policies at all.

The use of single logon in other to monitor and the effective utilisations of firewalls.

The effective utilisations of encryption technology to protect data, company’s images, and confidentiality against hardware and many other IT components misplaced or stolen.

The utilisations of intrusion detection systems (IDS) and pattern recognising systems.

The utilisations of files and folder auditing mechanisms.

Regular updates of firmware on all the IT components, anti-virus, anti-phishing, and pharming technologies need constant protections and improvements.

Progressive user accounts managements, in other to maximise securities.

The utilisations of networking segmentations maybe very appropriate.

Real time applications monitoring to eliminate enemies within.

The revisions of experts’ ideas, motivations, and reliabilities when it comes to security consultancies.

Vigilantism is the mother of all prevents, the psychological effects of not been safe within the digital world, is higher the effects of been save because of level of trust administrations. There are many ways in deriving trust when dealing within electronics or doing on-line business, is to know how its real working.

Further Readings
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=116257&WT.svl=news1_2
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/a_security_mark.html

U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology

2008-04-04T05:35:00.002+02:00

The values of security in general are what will be more essential and importance for the continuum of civilisation. The ideas of alien invasions, unexpected guests getting into national territorial domains unnoticed will be like watching a very terrorising screenshots, the level of damages can be of higher magnitudes. There are basic fundamental laws that will have to be observed, compromises on when to come and when to go in peace, to breach the level of trust, one of the party will have to violate, by breaching the fundamental contracts.

In other to create secure environments and to grantee future existence, people and nations will have to guide through the rules of law and technological advancements, single or collectives’ lawbreakers will have to be tackled by preparedness, predictions, morally and technological tooling. Centralised databases and the effective utilisations of biometric can be among the needed strategies that will have to be employed. The Europeans Union (EU) will have to centralised and control the floods of migrations, for the protections of its indigenous citizens.

The nightmares of any economical stable nations will be the positives and negatives immigrant flooding, picking the bad eggs out of multiple, multiple eggs needs effectives and efficient detecting mechanisms, the creations of dialogical environment and helping hands will be needed. The larger and complex the territorial protected zones are, the higher the technological advancements that will be needed and finances plus efforts.

Further Readings (links accessed on: Friday, 04 April 2008)
http://epic.org/privacy/us-visit/crs_us-visit.pdf
http://www.dhs.gov/xtrvlsec/programs/content_multi_image_0006.shtm
http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/20738.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-VISIT_(United_States_Visitor_and_Immigrant_Status_Indicator_Technology)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3367893.stm
http://www.biometrics.org/bc2004/CD/PDF_PROCEEDINGS/new_visit%20program%20speaker%20update.pdf
http://aero-defense.ihs.com/news/biometrics-registered-travelers.htm
http://www.nilc.org/pubs/iru/iru2007-02-20.htm
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA072605.1E.usvisit.ccfadaa.html

Geothermal Energy distributions

2008-03-31T21:36:00.001+02:00

Geologically writing there are enough energies stored in the universe, enough to keep the ecological balances of humans needs. The exploring, exploiting, utilisations of these sources of energies happen to be many of the challenges facing scientist today. Humans have get more used to the quick and dirty ways of infrastructures and appliances productions, there are needs for many design mentality changes in other to be able to meet the challenges ahead pertaining to inefficient utilisations of all the available energies and for the long run shortages of energies.

The solar energies utilisations to increases mobility speeds, increases also the visibilities of many rural areas with less infrastructure adjustments. There are more to gain in these eras of energies utilisations adjustments, the more we research the more we are going to be able to equal distributes energies more efficiently. This is to mention but few of the sources of energies utilisations and the preservations of the earth.

To improve the environmental conditions of the world, the circle of energy distributions and utilisations will have to change drastically. If I have a wing like a bird, I will fly, fly away. The dream is to turn the desert into profitable living arena. There are ways of achieving these steps just lets start by considering environmental developments designs for a change.

Further Readings:
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/office_eere/pdfs/geothermal_fs.pdf
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/geothermal/overview.html#heat_pump
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/renewable/solar.html
http://www.solarenergy.com/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/solar_energy/

New kid on the block of many companies, Virtualisations

2008-03-30T22:05:00.002+02:00

Many complex computing environments are now switching to virtualisations technologies in order to improve their services performances, decreases complexities and reduce administrative handlings. What are visualisation technologies anyway? There are also different types of visualisations: the group server visualisations, the applications virtualisations, and the massive storage systems virtualisations. The intensities and the utilisations of the systems are many of the factors considered before a firm embark on the needed investments in these technologies. The most needed positive results are the performance improvement.

The clustering of many components and locations or physical presents of these components is of no great importance for the end users. Virtualisations are not new, but many companies are now exploring and exploiting the advantages these technologies. Many companies will probably be in need of combine virtualisation packets; all three infrastructures virtualisations combine to one general solution.

There are still many developments going on pertaining to the GRIDS technologies in making the availabilities of many of the services very efficient. Technologies have advanced into a stage when consolidations of infrastructures are very important, end-to-end virtualisation of SUN is trying to solve the fundamental infrastructure management issues. To understand the needs of complex environments and the needs for virtualisation, companies IT strategically policies will have to play a very essential role.

Further Readings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization (Accessed On: Sunday, 30 March 2008)
http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/ (Accessed On: Sunday, 30 March 2008)
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/070307-test-virtualization-readiness.html?zb&rc=dc_virt (Accessed On: Sunday, 30 March 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/default.mspx (Accessed On: Sunday, 30 March 2008)
http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/virtualization/ (Accessed On: Sunday, 30 March 2008)
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/virtualization/(Accessed On: Sunday, 30 March 2008)
http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13569_22-155248.html(Accessed On: Sunday, 30 March 2008)
http://www.sun.com/datacenter/consolidation/index.jsp(Accessed On: Sunday, 30 March 2008)

Multi-core –chips and parallel software programming

2008-03-24T20:14:00.001+01:00

Multi-core is the combinations of two separate central processing unit into one unit comprises of IC (Integrated Circuit) normally called the die, there are also many combinations possibilities between various dies in other to provide the needed parallel computational power. Performances and complex software developments is pushing the developments and the motivations of parallelism, the needed computational values can no more be met with sequential computational power, parallel power is needed. The effective programming and the utilisation of the cache involved in the decisions making needs scientific researches.

Is the Moore’s law reaching its critical mass? The transistors sizes and the prices are no more directly proportional to the performance needed. The usage of multi-core will change the computational architecture, the programming level and increases certain hardwares capabilities. Software engineering is very dependent of hardware developments, which makes many produced softwares of today practically useless in the near future because of technological improvements in the hardware industries.

Parallel software programming happens to be the newly acquired challenges in the utilisations of multi-core and the minimalism of energy consumptions. However, are all programmers ready to take up these challenges? The creation of standardise framework will have to take place and the acceptableness of the newly found wealth. Is parallelism the present and the future or do we now have to anticipate for dual-parallelism?

Further Readings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/mags/co/2005/05/r5011.pdf (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=112303 (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22842693/ (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.isi.edu/~kintali/stmcs06/stmcs-06-hu.pdf (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19269/page1/ (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://gyandotcom.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/multi-core-chips-makes-computer-runs-faster/ (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.cio.com/article/109452/Software_Aimed_at_Multicore_Chips_Gain_Boost_from_AMD (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.karganov.ru/Eng/parallel.html (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://blogs.sun.com/morganic/resource/paralleltermsarticle.html (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)

Mobile Device Viruses, Worms, and Trojans

2008-03-24T09:37:00.001+01:00

The intensive utilisations of mobile devices will create epidemical mal-practises problems. Histories have thought us, were there are hardwares, softwares, there are many or probably will be viruses, worms, Trojans and many embodiments of evil codes. There will arise the needs of protecting many of our mobile devices from been attacked, but how do we go about doing that?

The mobile network providers most serve has gateways in which any device getting into the enterprise will have to be thoroughly checked of controlled of been in possessions of contra-banned items. Leaving the borders to be controlled by the citizens themselves will lack centralised control; I think the taxpayers and all citizens will have to be protected.

The mobile networking providers, the mobile application ware-house, the merchants and the mobile users will have to reach a reasonable agreements on how the circularity of protects will have to take place. There most not be rooms for blaming one another for the centralised negligence and non-protective habits of many producers. So get prepared, to before warn is to before harm.

Further Readings:
http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/02/26/windows-mobile-trojan-sends-unauthorized-information-and-leaves-device-vulnerable/ (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/news/Some-Viruses-Come-Pre-Installed/story.xhtml?story_id=120008LPLTMO (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.filebuzz.com/findsoftware/HP_Nokia_5610_Antivirus/1.html (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/antivirus-mobile.php (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://us.mcafee.com/root/landingpages/afflandpage.asp?lpname=vs_mobile (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci970552,00.html (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://support.drweb.com/faq/windows/?a1 (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=170773606 (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6442087-1.html (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/mobile.mspx (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/feb/08spec1.htm (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://www.hull.ac.uk/comp/get_connected/mobile.html (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/19/wireless.virus.help.idg/index.html (Accessed On: Monday, 24 March 2008)

The Internet Videos and The TelePresence-Systems

2008-03-22T17:59:00.002+01:00

The present big thing on the Internet technological improvement is video, bridging the social isolations, emotional validations, and improves trust in many Internet electronics transactions.

YouTube to mention but less have real creates many opportunities and talents. The demands for more technological reliabilities promotes the developments of qualitative extreme video qualities, compressing and placing the videos on the Internet demands more technological knowledge.Placing a videos into the web pages can be easily achieved with certain html codes,embed src="t235600a.wmv" /embed (<> <>)
but making these video available for mass productions and consumptions demands good directories structures, compressions technologies and adequate storage facilities.

The Cisco telePresence systems are for many applicable means, and they happens to be the right ways of saving time, money, exposing the psychological and the emotional parts of humans behaviours and bringing reliabilities and sense of togetherness into the corporate world.

Related Readings:
http://en.theorasea.org/ (Accessed On: Saturday, 22 March 2008)
http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/ (Accessed On: Saturday, 22 March 2008)
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns669/networking_solutions_solution_segment_home.html (Accessed On: Saturday, 22 March 2008)
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps7060/ps8329/ps8330/ps7073/prod_brochure0900aecd8054c7bd.pdf?POSITION=LINK&COUNTRY_SITE=us&CAMPAIGN=HN2&CREATIVE=Relief+Worker+Link+to+Telepresence+Overview&REFERRING_SITE=CISCO%2ECOM+TELEPRESENCE (Accessed On: Saturday, 22 March 2008)
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628039 (Accessed On: Saturday, 22 March 2008)
http://ezinearticles.com/?Use-Video-Streaming-to-Increase-Sales&id=907600 (Accessed On: Saturday, 22 March 2008)
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2005/internet_communications.asp (Accessed On: Saturday, 22 March 2008)
http://www.bnl.gov/itd/video_conf/ (Accessed On: Saturday, 22 March 2008)
http://www.blogzinger.com/2007/02/ (Accessed On: Saturday, 22 March 2008)

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) and the Office Open XML (OOXML) formats bargaining.

2008-03-10T22:44:00.001+01:00

Sparing you all the history of the two formats, the qualities of these products in the end should not be overrated or under estimated. Documents standards formats demands a check-list of qualitative demands. The disadvantages over one format over the other one should been finalised from scientific points of establishments. The formats bargaining has also increases many interests for the two products, many users of MS-Office packets tend to be very curious about what OpenOffice.org has to offer them. When considering that Microsoft created, many innovative money mongers products and OpenOffice.org relies on freedom of software’s, innovations, honesty, and creative.

Instant information lost through accident or ageing are the nightmares of many Information Technologies Scientist. The answers to these problems cannot be solved through commercially motivated discussions, the creations of a test bed maybe needed in other to be sure about durability’s of all the documents produced. Open standard to limit document format monopoly, less documents portability and power strides. It will be the ultimate duty of many data creating and storage authorities to be able to predict the usability of their documents

Related Readings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.1/OS/OpenDocument-v1.1-html/OpenDocument-v1.1.html (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)
http://www.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/index.xml (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/25/odf-the-inevitable-format/ (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)
http://odfalliance.in/files/AboutODF.pdf (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)
http://odf.cita.uiuc.edu/ (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)
http://oojaro.googlepages.com/validator (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)
ftp://officeboxsystems.com/odfa_ukag/ODFA%20UKAG%20Technical%20White%20Paper.pdf (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080204-ibm-responds-to-microsoft-ooxml-is-technically-inferior.html (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)
http://www.opensource.org/node/266 (Accessed On: Monday, 10 March 2008)

The Ringtones Formats

2008-03-07T23:18:00.002+01:00

The joy of making and downloading ringtones unto any mobile device as increases the needs of more technology advancements. Many mobile devices manufacturers tends not to follow any given standards on the ringtones format that all the devices will be able to utilised effective. Due to many hardware disadvantages, many end users are left to guest about the format of the ringtones that they will be able to utilised.

There are more than five ringtones formats known today, the mp3 happens to be the one format i was able made and used yesterday and effective utilised. There are also many ways in which these ringtones can be distribute to the world, the users can through downloading and wireless technologies, the ringtone format on his/her mobile device, with the so call the push and pull technology.

Related Readings:
http://www.adiusa.com/faq/ringtones-formats.html
http://lifehacker.com/software/ringtones/geek-to-live--make-a-ringtone-from-any-mp3-212232.php
http://www.freesms2world.com/

Wireless scanners for mobile devices

2008-03-06T22:30:00.001+01:00

The security of all the mobile devices are very important, keeping tracks and the protections of these devices within and outside the networking environment is very important and crucial for the survival of many business. What are wireless scanners? This will be said to be the ability to detect all the devices within the networking and be able to detect any scrupulous intended devices.

To take the passive approach towards the scanning of the networking, will be rendered many devices not been scanned, and imposes many security loopholes. The utilisations of the wireless Intrusion Protection and detections devices will be needed in other to be able to create the needed security. The real-time protections of all the access points within the network and the real-time utilisations of the component management tools will also improve the needed security.

Related reading
http://www.csoonline.com/analyst/report2794.html (Accessed On: Thursday, 06 March 2008)
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid40_gci1163542,00.html (Accessed On: Thursday, 06 March 2008)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/security/securecomputing/mobile_devices.html (Accessed On: Thursday, 06 March 2008)
http://www.vega-group.com/assets/documents/10000629SecuringMobileDevicesv1.pdf (Accessed On: Thursday, 06 March 2008)
https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/groups/mobile/Final_iGR_mobile_security_white_paper_sept_2006.pdf (Accessed On: Thursday, 06 March 2008)
http://www.21stcentury.co.uk/technology/biometrics-for-mobiles.asp (Accessed On: Thursday, 06 March 2008)
http://www.findbiometrics.com/article/252 (Accessed On: Thursday, 06 March 2008)

Wireless WAP Gateways

2008-03-04T23:10:00.001+01:00

The connections of the mobile devices to the Internet can be arrange by many Internet providers, and if the ip address ranges of these providers are known by the application merchant, correct and secure connections can be set. The process of devices communications with WSP (Wireless Session Protocol)/WTA (Wireless Telephony Application) requests, over TCP/IP to the providers WAP gateways and further the http request to the application merchants. In return, the application merchants and the content providers reply many devices with WML ((Wireless Markup Language) to the providers WAP gateways and the WAP gateways concluded the connectivity’s by sending the Bytecode to the requesting devices.
The WAP gateway acts as the encoder, the decoder and protocol translator.

There are also other connectivity devices requests that did not pass through the WAP gateway of any mobile services providers, these devices set-up an Http request in the directions of many content providers, many content providers can easily reply there request by replying with the application html. In many Internet transactions environment, many firewall restrictions can be allowed to take place, for many reasons. These restrictions can be very detrimental to many customers who will be denied access to any application behind the firewalls.

The introduction of multiple authentication protocols and the elevations of ip-address restrictions maybe more profitable and more customers friendly. The security of many Internet transactions are very important, the lost of customers private data will do no good to many businesses.

Related Readings:
http://www.wireless-message.com/WAP_gateway.htm (Accesses On: 4 March 2008)
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs2/659/http:zSzzSzwww.comnets.uni-bremen.dezSz~austzSzEW2002_Paper_aust.pdf/aust02enabling.pdf (Accesses On: 4 March 2008)
http://www.answers.com/topic/push-proxy-gateway?cat=technology (Accesses On: 4 March 2008)
http://www.wap-shareware.com/directory/wapgateways.shtml (Accesses On: 4 March 2008)
http://www.ssimail.com/WAP_gateway.htm (Accesses On: 4 March 2008)
http://www.thewirelessfaq.com/which_wap_gateways_and_wap_servers_are_available_on_the_market (Accesses On: 4 March 2008)

The Creations and Utilisations of favicon.ico

2008-03-02T15:50:00.001+01:00

There may be needs in the creations of personal favicon for the good quality of a site, company logo incorporation. To make the site more acceptable and companies conformed the use of favicon may be needed. There are also many tools that we can use in other to be able to create a favicon in a very usable format. I downloaded Icon Craft, create icon in a needed format, and with this command link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" in tag, between the head en the /head i was able to point the browser to the icon.

Related Readings
http://www.iconempire.com/iconcraft/ (Accessed On: 12:35 2-3-2008)
http://www.iconempire.com/download.htm (Accessed On: 12:30 2-3-2008)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon (Accessed On: 12:45 2-3-2008)
http://www.favicon.com/ (Accessed On: 13:35 2-3-2008)
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ (Accessed On: 13:55 2-3-2008)
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon (Accessed On: 14:35 2-3-2008)
http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/favicon.html (Accessed On: 14:45 2-3-2008)
http://www.answers.com/topic/favicon?cat=technology (Accessed On: 14:35 2-3-2008)
http://www.controlstyle.com/articles/programming/text/php-favicon/ (Accessed On: 14:37 2-3-2008)

JavaScript Cookies

2008-03-02T15:07:00.003+01:00

The additions of special icon into the web, enhance the quality of the site we are building.
The creation and the distributions of cookies improves the customers and producers relationships. There are certain risks that can also be imposed through the utilisations of cookies. There are various forms of cookies characteristics that can be provided.

The use of cookies will be worthless if the client-side turned off cookies acceptance, and also in a situation of multiple user of single computer profile usage, cookies saying welcome to Mr Charles instead of Mrs Charles will not be appropriate.

Related Links:
http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_cookies.asp (Accessed On: 9:49 2-3-2008)
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html (Accessed On: 9:51 2-3-2008)
http://www.bruceclay.com/analytics/disadvantages.htm (Accessed On: 914:58 2-3-2008)

DNS DDoS Attacks

2008-03-01T23:34:00.003+01:00

There are certain attacks on the domain name server that can easily prevent, these systems form performing their intended tasks. There are many kinds of attacked and there intended aims: The age of computational resources consumptions, the higher the consumptions of the attacks, the less effective and performance distortions the server will be. Blocking the utilisations of needed services on the server to prevent any other user access to the same service can also be considered an act of DOS attack.

DDoS attacks is an Distributed attacks that can be considered as the act of coordinating many compromised and controlled zombies, to launch an effective attacks on another on compromised systems. The main attacks were intended to render the system functionless, compromised and control.

Related links:
[1] http://www.answers.com/topic/denial-of-service-attack?cat=technology (Accessed On: 14:26 1-3-2008)
[2] http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/23/09OPsecadvise_1.html (Accessed On: 23:13 1-3-2008)
[3] http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ipall.ch?domain=83.111.45.89 (Accessed On: 17:26 1-3-2008)
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack (Accessed On: 19:26 1-3-2008)
[5] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~sunshine/publications/udel_tech_report_2005-02.pdf (Accessed On: 22:27 1-3-2008)

The Crawlers

2008-02-27T21:54:00.000+01:00

Crawlers are defined tools that can automatically browses for documents and extra tasks can be programmed. The use of spider techniques in the locations and the updates of many documents happen to be daily routines for many search engines. We have many web crawlers in form of spider, ant, intelligent agent, and many other Internet bots. There are also situations while the utilisations of a single crawler will not be effective enough, the parallel crawler technology has bee proposed by Junghoo Cho & Hector Garcia-Molina.

XML Encryption

2008-02-25T21:55:00.001+01:00

The content of an XML file maybe needed to be protected, the act of protecting the XML content with certain algorithms, cipher text, and all elements involved. There are many domain related information that are stored in the XML Schema that will have to put protected in other to guarantee the integrity of many critical business applications.

The protection of the whole transporting channel maybe the needs options through the utilisation of SSL, there are certain situations while full secure environment is not necessary. In this situation the utilisation of XML encryption maybe the right option.

Internet As A Service

2008-02-24T20:30:00.000+01:00

For any business that do not make effective use of the Internet As A Service, the business is missing out on the Internet hype and fun. The fear of Internet fraudulent activities must not be the reason not to be active on the Internet.

There are many services that are been offered on the Internet, these services and the Internet users are acting on the law of demands and supply. There are also certain risks involved because of certain uncertainties.

Related link:
http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=dkbzmws_0dvnn2k29&skipauth=true

XBRL - Extensible Business Reporting Language

2008-02-23T22:39:00.001+01:00

XBRL is a unified reporting language meant to reduce the portability’s problems.This language claimed to have the ability of improving implementation, cost reductions, effective and efficiency information technology data leverage. The abilities of computers to understand and able to interpret electronics financial transactions using tags reduces manual efforts and less error prone data exchanges. The significant improvement in the collections and the distributions of financial information is what many financial institutions all of the world will be very interested in.

The extensible of XBRL makes it more perfect reporting language for many financial institutes; there are also many tools that can be used to generate the needed reports and to view these reports. In making XBRL available to many financial companies, there will have to be a decision making moment along the line over the upgrade of the in-house financial software to XBRL enabled, or to purchase new financial software with XBRL. In both ways the effective utilisations of XBRL depends on the accurate understanding of the taximology including its linkbases usages.

Related links:
- http://www.xbrl.org/WhatIsXBRL/ (Accessed On:23:26 22-2-2008)
- http://www.xbrl.org/tr/2000-07-31/xbrl-2000-07-31.pdf (Accessed On:00:47 23-2-2008)
- http://www.xbrl.org/Specification/XBRL-RECOMMENDATION-2003-12-31+Corrected-Errata-2006-12-18.htm (Accessed On:1:18 23-2-2008)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL (Accessed On:1:27 23-2-2008)
- http://www.xbrl.org/tools/ (Accessed On:14:18 23-2-2008)
- http://www.accountingsoftware411.com/Press/Insider/InsiderArticleView.aspx?docid=9416&iid=1015 (Accessed On:1:18 15-2-2008)
- http://www.xbrlwiki.info/index.php?title=XBRL_Industry_Solutions (Accessed On:15:18 23-2-2008)
- http://www.ebxml.org/specs/bpOVER.pdf (Accessed On:07:58 28-4-2008)

SMIL

2008-02-19T22:08:00.000+01:00

Curiosity has brought me to finding out more about the use of SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language). The bringing of television interactive possibilities into the web arena and to what extents will this interactive programming language is able to guide and increases the design formats of Web 2.0. SMIL animations can be a way out for many web content providers that are not programmers but will like to enrich their contents with powerful animations.

Why is SMIL not intensively by many, instead of the use of expensive multimedia tools in the managements of the web contents? There are also many sub generations of SMIL like the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) for mobile devices. SMIL is still very hot or is the critic mass reached?

Literatures:
[1] http://www.smilguide.com/guide/tutorial/learning-to-smil (Accessed On: 14:40 17-2-2008)
[2] http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/PDXML/PDXML.pdf (Accessed On: 16:40 18-2-2008)
[3] http://www.w3.org/Press/SMIL (Accessed On: 19:40 18-2-2008)
[4] http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/01/24/index3a.html (Accessed On: 20:40 18-2-2008)
[5] http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/1999/10/058/default.shtml (Accessed On: 14:40 17-2-2008)
[6] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20050107/ (Accessed On: 21:28 19-2-2008)
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_Multimedia_Integration_Language (Accessed On: 21:58 19-2-2008)

Bell's Law of Computer Classes

2008-02-17T22:15:00.000+01:00

Bell's Law of Computer Classes and the Moore's law has been vividly explained and interpreted many times again. For these predictions is to the world in general as to many scholars seeking to know and find out the truth. The truths will pave ways for technological advancement and economical advantages, human resources and values that will utilised these resources must not be underestimated.

Bell's Law of Computer Classes said every decades will at least bring fort a form of computer class, depending on the old, the present and the future platform software and systems programming, taking the advantages of the computing networking connectivity’s improvements, advance humans computing interactions Interfaces and of course the industrial demands.

SaaS (Software As-A-Service)

2008-02-16T11:42:00.000+01:00

Sometimes trends happen not to be new anyway, the terminals and centralised server hosting that has dominated the 1960s, until early 90s has experienced many transformational changes. The use of client and server technologies spreads more rapidly increasing the rate of maintenances, unrealistic project expenditure headaches. The Citrix computing technologies set the old terminals applications environments into the present day effective remote computing, yes these changes have there own shortcomings and benefits.

The SaaS (Software As-A-Service) as the renting of any software instead of buying this software. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of the newly Internet profound ways of software distributions? SaaS can be effectively applied on to the present ways of software distributions just by merely normalising and conventions the present software licensing methods. The present web-applications being the best candidates for software on demands, improves the traditional ways of software distributions.

The era of applications virtualisations has arrived, renting the hardware, systems and applications software will create new set of ownership and intellectual properties law. Who is the owner of the innovations derived from rents components? the answers to these questions maybe very obvious, but if SaaS has come to stay, there are still many things that we have to take care of, like the security and the protections of innovations integrities, the creation of the rules and regulations as governances and honesty. The birth of PaaS (Platform-As-A-Service) era.

Near Field Communication (NFC) Technology

2008-02-10T22:29:00.000+01:00

There are much contact less technology in the market today, the needs for the short-distance communication, safe, reliable, fast and secure, are the motivating factors. Many merchants and mobile networking providers are using the near field communication technology. The combination of NFC technology and mobile technology will be a very attractive way to future payments. These technologies will reduce the administrative factor involved in the old and modern forms of business, promotes fast and reliable transactions and improves profits.

Related Writings:

[1] http://www.gsmworld.com/documents/prd/aa9310.pdf (Accessed On: 18:45 10-2-2008)

[2] http://www.nfc-forum.org/home (Accessed On: 21:57 10-2-2008)

[3] http://www.tiresias.org/guidelines/nfc.htm (Accessed On: 22:08 10-2-2008)

[4] http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=BW&Date=20080129&ID=8107023&Symbol=USAT (Accessed On: 22:15 10-2-2008)

[5] http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/pubdb/publications/pub/falke2007mobileServicesTR/falke2007mobileServicesTR.pdf (Accessed On: 22:24 10-2-2008)

[6] http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/contactlessP.html (Accessed On: 22:24 10-2-2008)

The open of docx extensions

2008-02-09T19:00:00.000+01:00

Many of the compatibility issues surrounding Microsoft docx and other applications documents producers can be easily avoided by many industrial leading software producers, they starts using Compatibility Managements Matrix (CMM).

Since not all the previous software can be easily upgraded, cumulative software upgrading techniques and the utilisations of effective, efficient, and standard translators can easily eliminate most of these conversions problems. These translators will be able to recognises documents extensions and interpret these documents accordingly.

Related Writings:
[1] http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/25/how-do-i-open-docx-files/ (accessed on: 13:52 9-2-2008)
[2] http://blog.zamzar.com/2007/04/10/convert-docx-files-to-doc-pdf-odt-and-txt/ (accessed on: 14:01 9-2-2008)
[3] http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/07/edit-print-or-convert-docx-to-doc.html (accessed on: 14:01 9-2-2008)
[4] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en (accessed on: 14:01 9-2-2008)
[5] http://lifehacker.com/software/microsoft-office/read-word-2007-files-with-docx-converter-219741.php (accessed on: 14:01 9-2-2008)

Set-top boxes

2008-02-09T18:57:00.000+01:00

Set-top boxes bring digitalised media contents into many educational and entertainments arena, transforming old television analogy receiving channel into digital forms at a very reasonable price.

The utilisation of the set-top boxes are very important moving to the digitalise era of televisions contents distributions, the price to pay for new digital television like HDTV with a digitalised capacities are still very high.

Related Writings:
[1] http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/freeviewboxes.html (accessed on: 12:40 9-2-2008)
[2] http://itc.mit.edu/rpcp/Pubs/settop_mkt/settop2.pdf (accessed on: 18:35 9-2-2008)
[3] http://www.itnews.com.au/News/52328,can-microsoft-beat-the-settop-box.aspx (accessed on: 18:42 9-2-2008)
[4] http://www.hdtvprimer.com/ISSUES/STBs.html (accessed on: 18:42 9-2-2008)

Embedded Systems and Nano technology

2008-02-06T20:36:00.000+01:00

Many electronics devices that use CPU chips, but cannot be said to have the status of computers can be called embedded system. There are many embedded systems used today in many bigger and small types of machinery like the trains and smart phones. The improvements in the Nano technology arena is also pushing the innovations of many embedded systems.

References:

Db4Objects

2008-02-05T21:09:00.000+01:00

When i was writing my dissertation for my Master of Science (IT) at the University of Liverpool, i did research into certain databases that will be of advantages to many embedded devices performances, integrity, and scalability. “db4o is an object-oriented database. It provides all the benefits of an OO environment including data abstraction, inheritance, and encapsulation. The object model simplifies maintenance and refactoring and seamlessly integrates with the modern programming languages (Java, .NET). One of the valuable benefits of the OO technology is Native Queries - database queries expressed in a native programming language.”[1]

Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability (ACID)

Atomicity promotes the integrity and reliabilities of many database transactions. Any critical transactions will either be committed or not before, it can be writing into the database. Consistencies will also be necessary because there are certain rules and regulations that certain transactions will have to follow. Isolations prevent the collisions of transactions and database inconsistencies. No transactions committed must be lost.

References:

[1] http://developer.db4o.com/Resources/view.aspx/Reference/Basic_Concepts (Accessed on: 05 February 2008)

[2] http://www.answers.com/db4o (Accessed on: 05 February 2008)

[3] http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=38794 (Accessed on: 05 February 2008)

[4] http://microsoft.apress.com/asptodayarchive/74063/using-an-object-oriented-database-in-a-web-site (Accessed on: 05 February 2008)

Flash memory card (USB memory sticks )

2008-02-04T22:43:00.000+01:00

The comfort of USB memory sticks to storages and files transferring capacities are of create importance. "A flash memory card that plugs into the computer's USB port. Small enough to hook onto a keychain, it emulates a small disk drive and allows data to be easily transferred from one machine to another. Software drivers are not required for the latest operating systems, but are available on the Web for legacy systems such as Windows 98, Windows NT and Mac OS 8. See USB drive kit." [1]

The conveniences of USB memory sticks imposes another risks, which are security, virus worms transfers and easy lost of the stick. The use of encryptions will definitely protect most of our data.

References:
[1] http://www.answers.com/usb-sticks?cat=technology (Accessed on: 4th February 2008)
[2] http://www.cclonline.com/product-categories.asp?category_id=147 (Accessed on: 4th February 2008)
[3] http://www.usb-flashdrive.co.uk/ (Accessed on: 4th February 2008)
[4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4946512.stm (Accessed on: 4th February 2008)
[5] http://www.truecrypt.org/ (Accessed on: 4th February 2008)

HD DVD and Blue Ray

2008-02-03T13:41:00.000+01:00

It takes more than creativity for any reasonable technology to be completely accepted as a complete innovation. The time to market and the critical mass playing essential factors for acceptations. The dominating power of certain economical figures must also be considered, whenever the time of market arrives.

References:

http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/19/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-state-of-the-s-union-s-division/

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/hackers-discover-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-processing-key-all-hd-t/

http://www.hddvd.org/hddvd/

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070925-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-deadlock-to-continue-into-2009-at-least.html