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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Sam Rosen discusses Web TV on NPR (ABI Research)

Posted on Friday 17 December 2010 12: 20: 00 is Jason Blackwell

ABI Research Analyst Sam Rosen appeared on the NPR show item 16 December. The discussion centered on Web TV - technology and its impact on traditional pay-TV suppliers. Listen to the replay here:

http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/12/Web-TV

Depreciation full bonus extended to 2011 (Aero News)

Congress adopted, President Obama signed compromise tax legislation which includes the extension of the depreciation bonus of 100% of assets worth up to $500,000, acquired after September 8, 2010 by December 31 of the next year.

Costs may be a new or used aircraft purchased in 2010 and 2011.

The proposed tax, first described by the White House would be allowing 100 percent load procurement business investments in capital assets and an acceleration, or "bonus", 50% for 2012 depreciation allowance. An extension of depreciation bonus at the end of 2010 has already signed in law. Non-commercial aircraft buyers will have an extra year to implement the service plan and qualify for procurement expenses and bonus depreciation.

"We couldn't be happier with bipartisan effort which resulted in a rapid passage of tax bill by both houses of Congress and now President, said GAMA, President and CEO Pete Bunce." "" This important legislation contains two provisions which are essential to the recovery of general aviation manufacturing industry. The first allows depreciation from 100 per cent of investments, including aircraft engines avionics and other updates for aircraft in 2011 and amortization of 50 per cent of investments carried out in 2012.  Because of their longer production cycles, general aviation aircraft are also eligible for amortization of 100 percent in 2012 and 50% in 2013. The Bill also extends the important research and development (R & D) for two years, tax credit which will enable companies to receive credit for research expenses (2010) this year and also allow firms to plan for 2011. »

Bunce added, "this Bill will help ensure the certainty and our manufacturers incentives need to start encouraging investment and creating demand growth."  More importantly, these provisions will be stimulate employment growth in 2011 and beyond and supports a critical sector of the global economy and the United States.

"NBAA is pleased that the administration and Congressional leaders consider additional means that tax incentives may be applied to investments in strategic assets, including aircraft, said NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen when the Bill was adopted at the end of last week."

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Head of Microsoft patent: 2010 has been an important year for the invention (InterNetNews)

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Lists of HDTV 18 December 2010 (HDBeat.com)

By Richard Lawler posted December 18th 2010 5 H 44 watching tonight: ESPN (720 p) was Ohio/Troy in the bowl in New Orleans at 9 a.m. .Discovery (1080i) p presents ten commandments mafia at 8 a.m. and get live at 10 a.m. .Fox (720 p) p has cops at 8 a.m. .NBC (1080i) p presents WWE paid tribute to the military at 9 a.m. and Saturday Night Live with Jeff Bridges/Eminem at 11: 29 p.m.Food (720 p) has Guy Big Bite 8 hours and Diners, drive-ins & dives at 9 p a.m. .HBO (1080i) Ricky Gervais: 2-10 p a.m. ESPN2 (720 p) England was the NCAA Women's ' [s Championship volleyball with California/Penn State at 8.30 am.]

New inspectors in line-date can show Mr. or Ms. Wrong (NY Times)

It doesn't matter if your date is smart and beautiful. How do you know that you're not flirting with a felon?

Minimal costs, emerging culture business wants to help you discover by nearly 1500 or potential that you encounter on match.com, eHarmony flames running background checks the nation dating websites.

In the same time, at least two States, New York and New Jersey, have begun to regulate the sites of the Internet, and legal experts say they believe that changes to accountability legislation that protect these sites are on the horizon.

And you think that your mother was the only one who wanted to test your love life.

Focus on background screenings comes as some 20 million Americans are of dating sites, more than double the number, according to research firm IBISWorld five years ago. While they find casual dates and even love, they also meet married people do seem to be unique or, worse still, recognized and sexual predators convicted criminals.

Nobody has put a number on how violence follows dating sites, according to the groups to keep track of rape and other violent crimes, such as the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for victims of crime.

Yet, many crime stories begin with two people mutually skimming online dating profiles. Consider the case largely of Jeffrey Marsalis, Philadelphia, serial rapist who met his victims on match.com.

These perils autour since the dawn of the Internet, an ideal way of camouflage complex. But now that dating online is an industry of billions of dollars, defenders of public safety, government representatives and enterprising companies are demanding more guarantees.

It is not known if it is possible, however, detect people efficiently and make the sites more truthful. After all, members are not always honest about their age and weight.

"What we want to do is provide some security, said Robert Buchholz, a York retired, with Andrew j. Scott, a Boca Raton, Florida, former police chief founded MyMatchChecker.com police captain, a website that went live in April, allow individuals to request verification of history to anyone they met on a dating site."

M. Buchholz and Mr. Scott, who have more than 30 years experience in application of law, said that having inspired girls to try to make safer online dating. Their business offers a research base bottom of $9.95.

Most Web sites, a flurry of phone portable apps but, quick and easy to order a pizza history checks: Connect simply facts, such as a name and birth date. ValiMate, the creator of the messaging application national criminal research even allows users to send the audit results to a friend for added security.

Check the date of Intelius, encourages users to "look before you connect." The application is marketed to women who wish to perform a background check on Romeo aspiring "at the time necessary to restore your brilliant lip." (Industry professionals say that predators are usually men).

State officials are also push for safer Internet dating. A law which takes effect this month in the State of New York, Internet Dating Safety Act, requires that sites display common sense safety tips, like "meet in a public place".

Assemblywoman Audrey i. Pheffer, a proponent of the law of the Internet, said he grew his realization that dating online has become pervasive, even among the people that she "ever dream" would pursue romance online.

Some States have considered similar but ultimately rejected legislation. New York is like a past in 2008 New Jersey, which also requires dating sites with a contribution to inform users if they do criminal background checks (most do not).

This legislation was sponsored by True.com, one of the first major companies dating online to members of the screen to determine if they are married, criminal or sex offender (approximately 2% of those attempting to register are rejected, they said). Ruben Buell, President of the company, said as the type of checks carried out were inexpensive. "You're talking cents per check.

More online dating business question whether this control can be effective. They argue that because the State and County data bases are incomplete, controls give singles a false sense of security. Proponents of criminal projections concede that they are imperfect, because databases vary in quality and availability. For example, some counties do not comply with the digital files. Others provide data on sex offenders.

"If I knew really has great ability for us to allow anyone on the site should not be on the site, I would," said Mandy Ginsberg, Executive Director and Executive Vice-President of match.com. Audit history, she said, could lead single to think of all the world they encounter on the site is safe. (Mrs Pheffer said that she was originally wanted background but decided against them for the same reason).

Critics also point out that businesses that perform background screenings are not necessarily perfect. Some abuse information. Another concern is to mobile applications, which may provide personal information to individuals who may abuse.

Braden Cox, a lawyer NetChoice, policy group that advocates for the Internet, companies said background screenings were well-meaning but most could be thwarted.

"Fortunately, most people are good people on these sites," said Mr. Cox, who speaks from experience: a few weeks ago, he married a woman he met on match.com.

Dating sites have no incentive to their members of the police. The Communications Decency Act disclaims responsibility Internet service providers because the sites are not considered as their pages - information publishers are members. The reasoning is that sites would not be able to operate if they were responsible for any posted by their users. Lawyers tried to circumvent the law, but "they usually fail," said Brian Carver, an Assistant Professor in the school of information at the University of California, Berkeley. "Each startup depends on this protection.

Parry Aftab, counsel and expertise, security, said that it is more hearing on alarming involving dating online as pedophiles wooing unmarried mothers to get close to their children. Expects there will be challenges this immunity if sites accept money from members and have a knowledge of criminal behaviour.

In the meantime, she advises caution singles. She said: "Don't give in your heart so quickly,".

Database security reminder: do not make it down your guard (eWeek Security Watch)

18 December 2010 1 H 54

Compromise can happen quickly - something Sentrigo people have recently recalled the attackers came knocking on their door digital.

December 1st, the company deployed an instance of Oracle running on Amazon EC2 database. Six days later, he was pwn?s. Fortunately, no data production was inside - testing data, just as the instance was only there if the company could demonstrate security software.

"In this case, we were indirect capabilities to scan the database and find issues and set configurations, vulnerability assessment", explained Sentrigo CTO Slavik El. "We did not follow in place, but we do not deploy rules blocking." So we were alerted to attack and at that time there, he became interesting we let attackers continue to see real-time, real-world attack evolution.

Attackers have discovered the instance some simple port scan servers on the Internet, he said. When they found an open port, they identified and Oracle instance running behind him. From there, they could have access to the database and the escalation of privileges.

"The initial connection was conducted on a demo account without privileges by brute - force password", he said. "Senior level privileges elevation exploited a vulnerability in one of the components Oracle (OLAP)." Then, in these privileges the hacker took control of the operating system in dbms_scheduler. »

He admitted the instance Oracle has not been fully patched - they were using version 11.107 - but was struck by the speed in which compromise passed yet.

Andy Feit, Vice President of marketing at Sentrigo, said that anonymity is not true protection.

"Nobody knew which server, it was, he was just" said Feit.

He added that the situation could occur with any provider of cloud or a server owned by the company outside of the firewall and that Amazon has a "nice built-in firewall" and monitors outgoing bodies to prevent port scanning traffic.

"On the other hand, in the future, I certainly see Amazon and similar providers offering much more such as out-of-the-box IDS/IPS and other controls network," said technical director.

The moral of the story - expose your database on the Internet without appropriate including firewall security and access controls and make sure that the database is fully patched.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Take-Two Interactive actions increase more than 8 percent (Reuters)

NEW YORK | 17 December 2010 10: 35 am EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - shares of Take Two Interactive Software Inc. (TTWO.O) sudden 8.8% Friday after stronger than expected as investors pleased gains view.

Shares of manufacturer's video game is passed to $12.99 on Nasdaq.

Thursday, depictions society beyond expectations of the street as his playing sports "NBA 2 K 11" hit sales helped in time a year without a new version of its blockbuster franchise "Grand Theft Auto."

"Investors believe that their ability to pay is great and their stock is reflecting," says Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. Wedbush focused its target price of take-Two for $15 to $11.

This year marks the first time, the company has been profitable in close to a decade without the release of a new set of "Grand Theft Auto". … Take-Two stock exceeded those of its larger rivals to United States in 2010, but the sector volatile video game disabled many investors in recent years.

(Statement by Liana b. Baker, editing by Gerald e. McCormick)