China Orders Patches to Planned Web Filter

BEIJING — A designer of Internet filtering software that is required to be preinstalled on computers sold in China has been ordered by the Chinese government to fix potential security breaches, according to a report Monday in China Daily, the official English-language newspaper. The official order is an indication that the government still supports use of the program despite heated debate over it.

The proposed software, called Green Dam-Youth Escort, has come under attack from many computer users in China for both political and technical reasons. Critics say that although the Chinese government insists the software will be used only to block access to pornographic Web sites, the software’s actual use will be to block sites with political content, like those that discuss the Tibet issue or the crackdown during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

The government says all computers sold in China after July 1 must have the software installed. Some computer experts who have studied the software said last week that the software is so flawed that it can allow hackers to monitor a user’s Internet activity, steal data or plant viruses. One expert, J. Alex Halderman, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan, has posted on the Internet a report on its vulnerabilities.

Rather than agreeing to scrap the software altogether, the Chinese government has responded to the technical criticisms by ordering that the potential security breaches be eliminated.

“The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told us to make the software safer as soon as a series of security vulnerabilities were found,” Zhang Chenmin, the general manager of Jinhui Computer System Engineering, which helped design the software, told China Daily.

Mr. Zhang acknowledged that the software had systemic flaws that would allow hackers to attack computers that used the program, “just like any other software of this type.”

Mr. Halderman said last week that it had taken only a few hours for him and his students to infiltrate a computer loaded with Green Dam and force it to crash. A skilled hacker could take over the computer to mine personal data or hitch it to other infected machines in a malevolent network, he added.

Debate about the software exploded on the Internet last week as Chinese “netizens” learned more about the software requirement issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. China Daily reported Monday that surveys done by four of China’s most popular Web portals showed that four in five netizens would not use the software or would have it uninstalled.

Early reports had indicated that the government might simply require Green Dam to be included on a CD packaged with new computers. But it became apparent last week that the government was insisting that all computer makers pre-install the software by July 1.

Foreign computer makers learned of the requirement three weeks ago and have been asking the Chinese government to reconsider the rules.

Meanwhile, Solid Oak Software, a company based in Santa Barbara, California, has accused the designers of Green Dam of stealing programming code from a piece of software developed by Solid Oak that blocks Web sites deemed to be pornographic, violent or offensive. Solid Oak says that some of the “blacklist” files used by Green Dam had been originally developed for its program, which is called Cybersitter.

“I cannot deny that the two filters’ databases of blacklisted URL addresses might share similarities,” Mr. Zhang was quoted as saying in China Daily. “After all, they are all well-known international pornographic Web sites that all porn filters are meant to block. But we didn’t steal their programming code.”

By: EDWARD WONG

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Tetris Turns 25: Is it the next Olympic Sport

In 1984, Russian mathematician Alexey Pajitnov was playing with one of his favorite puzzles when he had an inspiration: How about creating a computer version?

Pajitnov wrote the program in his spare time, simplifying the idea to make it easier for those of us who aren't math geniuses.

He used shapes made of four squares -- hence "Tetris," which comes from the Greek word for four, "Tetra."

In the game, players must position and stack blocky shapes to fill a grid without leaving spaces in between. Successfully completed sections disappear. The more sections the player completes without reaching the top, the higher the score. The faster players accomplish this, the higher their score. iReport: 25 years of Tetris

Steadily, the game worked its way around the world. Millions of people found themselves glued to their computers and game players -- hearts racing and screaming in frustration -- all over getting a simple horizontal line of digital squares to disappear.

"I would just play it for hours and hours," said iReporter Joel Vetsch of New Haven, Connecticut, who got addicted to Tetris on a Game Boy when he was 10. "I'm 29 now, and I still love it." See Vetsch's iReport here

Vetsch became so obsessed with Tetris that the game even showed up in his dreams.
"I'd go to sleep and in my head I'd see blocks. . .going into each other," he told CNN. "It was weird."

More than 125 million Tetris products have been sold, and Guinness World Records' 2009 Gamers' Edition book ranked Tetris No. 2 on its list of the top 50 console games of all time, behind Super Mario Kart.

Twenty-five years to the month after Tetris was born, CNN spoke with Pajitnov and Henk Rogers, CEO of Blue Planet Software, the company that manages the exclusive licensing rights to the game.

The two men talked about what makes Tetris so addictive, how they believe the game can help unite the world, and -- no joke -- why they want a Tetris competition in the Olympics.

By : Josh Levs CNN

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Google Chrome, New Browser From Google

Google has launched its newest browser, Google Chrome. This browser is designed to run web applications (email, office applications, banking, etc.) better. In fact there is no feature that is very new as compared to other browsers, but Google's attempt to take the features of the best browser available at this time. This browser is open source, and developed based on the Webkit engine used by Safari. Some interesting features are:

1. Multiprosess: if one tab (one page) takes a lot of resources, only the tab with problems that need to be closed, another page will not be affected.
2. New JavaScript Engine: various web applications that rely on JavaScript (such as google docs) will be running more flawless.
3. Security is higher: The browser automatically downloads information on the hazardous sites, each plugin is also running in a separate process so that more secure.

Currently the browser is only available for Windows, but instruction is available to compile this program in Linux (although that can be compiled only modules only). Although designed to be secure and stable, this weakness has been found that can make this Google crash when visiting a specific URL. Source: Google and MilW0rm

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Windows 7

On Monday (06 / 4) then, Microsoft has confirmed that his side will be the ability to offer customers that want to buy a PC for Windows 7 to downgrade to Windows XP, the same as that done to Windows Vista. "We will give the user the right to men-to be able to downgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 in the same way as Windows Vista. Volume license customers also become a choice for the customer who will downgrade to a version of Windows 7 before. "Said the Microsoft.

Microsoft, as quoted Channelweb, customer can install Windows 7 is Windows Vista system to delete it first, if already installed in your PC. Announcements are also virtual provide warranty if companies want to use the Windows 7 and Windows Vista as a whole.

At this time Microsoft has not set a deadline right downgrade Windows 7. However, according to AppleInside, Windows 7 will be present in October, and at that time Microsoft will make the OEM (Original Equipment Manufaturer) to downgrade to Windows XP Professional 7 to 30 April 2010.

Meanwhile, Todd Swank, vice president of Nor-Tech in Minnesota revealed that the right downgrade Windows 7 is still strong, proving the existence of Windows XP on the customer. While the upcoming April 14, Microsoft will stop bidding patch for a bug free version of retail customers and Windows XP. After that date, XP users have to pay support for the improvement bug incident, although Microsoft still sends security update to XP for free in 2014.

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Update the Intel Logo, New Law Issues

Intel has introduced a new logo and more Flashy for processor-level processor and chipset combo, Thursday (09 / 4). Logo features the new Intel logo is familiar, in the name of marketing Core i7, Core 2, Pentium 2, Atom, Celeron, and Pentium, the small print below the list contain qualifications, such as Extreme, Duo, Quad, and vPro. Meanwhile, in the upper right corner of the logo, Centrino and Core family picture shows the blue chip sheet. A blue chip does not have the family name of the chip, only contain the slogan "Intel inside". All logos have a term "inside" in the upper left corner.

Intel to design a new logo this seems to have not more can be simple, especially when combined in the body laptop or desktop. However, the new logo with a star rating system, and may create new problems than before. Ranking stars for each chip will share desktop and notebook systems in the five groups based on its potency, ranging from one star to Celeron, up to five stars for the top chip Core i7 and Core 2S.

However, the star rating system will come when the validity of ranking at the end of the month ended September 2009. Processor will not decrease the avoided, and when it happens, Intel marketing department will change the ranking stars, which later can not be accepted as such by a shop that sell them. At the beginning of October, although the seller has trained extra, but it will be possible to feel confused when must explain why the three stars with a laptop for mobile laptop processor Core 2 Duo suddenly replaced its rating into two stars.

While for the Atom processor is not to rank the stars, so that Intel will not place a sticker on the processor chip notebook or laptop. In fact, Xeon chip is also not yet have a logo or a new ranking stars. The advantage of making the logo a new Intel chip is the consumer can do compare of each chip performance.

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Google Indexing Old Newspapers

In the film series Dexter, although the main characters often use the Internet, but he needs to spend enough time to explore its past by visiting the library and read-read old newspapers. With the new features of Google, it will not be needed again. Google currently has started indexing old newspapers to be searched easily via the web. Due to the large newspapers in the period long enough, you can include a range of search time, for example, restrict the year 1950s. Google will display a link to the newspaper that news. Unfortunately, not all newspapers provide news for free, some cost the newspaper interesting enough expensive, several dollars for each article read. Source: Google Blogoscoped.

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Microsoft Releases Windows Azure at PDC

The first thing done in the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference conference is not providing full details about Windows 7, but introduce an operating system (OS) for cloud computing, called Windows Azure. Previously the polecat Steve Ballmer as "Windows Cloud," Windows Azure becomes the basis of the hosting service which gives it easy for developers to operate the application in the cloud computing infrastructure based on Windows - called Azure Services Platform.

Windows Azure as the foundation of the Azure Services Platform to help developers create applications cloud computing - so if you're not a developer, this may not be very meaningful to you, only means that Microsoft also has begun to enter the cloud computing world. Windows Azure is not an OS for user, they will still be using Windows 7, successor of Windows Vista.

Microsoft is not the first big companies that offer services such as this, since Amazon already offers the first affordable infrastructure cloud computing services with Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine. The difference, using the Azure Services Platform to give serious limitation for many developers to develop applications using the only technology that is supported such as Microsoft IIS and. NET.

According to Amitabh Srivastava, Corporate VP of Microsoft is one of the key developers of Windows Azure is a high have scalability infrastructure to operate the Microsoft-based application, offers a variety of services including virtualization, storage and networking and more, all operated in a data center owned by global Microsoft. Some of the main components of the Azure Services Platform are:

Windows Azure as a server for management and storage, computing and network
* Microsoft SQL Services for database services
* Microsoft. NET Services which is the implementation of the. NET in the cloud
* Live Services to share, store and synchronize documents, photos and files in a variety of PC, mobile phone and the site (similar to the Live Mesh may be?)

In addition, Microsoft also offers most of its corporate applications Microsoft Online Services to be used as a paid service. Famous products such as Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Office Communication Online and Office Live Meeting for the user without the need to maintain their own company.

And why Microsoft is now also start lift cloud computing paradigm? If one does not remember, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer a few years ago is one of the most hard cloud computing criticize, accuse Google Chrome as the issue as "the OS for the web application" but still only operated in Windows. Leave your opinion through a comment below.

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Customer Loyalty in E-Commerce

Creating customer loyalty is an important thing done by the because in the online vendors and customers to create new funds needed high enough, that is 20% -40% higher compared to the market noninternet(traditional market) [Reichheld and Schefter 2000].
In addition, customer loyalty is also good for the impact and benefits pekembangan
from online vendors. For example kenaikkan customer loyalty will be of 5% cause the increase in profits 30% -85% (depending on the type of industry that involved) [Reichheld and Schefter 2000].

Therefore, any posts on it this time the author seeks to explain the aspects that can affect customer loyalty. The harafiah customer loyalty on a vendor means that will cause customers to do more transactions with these vendors. One way to increase customer loyalty is to provide services of good quality, which can be expected to create customer re-do the transaction with the vendor's [eg, Heskett et al. 1994].

Quality of service is very subjective depending on customer's side, but on the Generally, the quality of these services are to be guided SERVQUAL, a identify the 5 things that determine the quality of service, namely:
- Tangible: the environment associated with the occurrence of a transaction physical (facilities, equipment, display)
- Reliability: the product in accordance with the orders and sent on time
- Responsiveness: the ability of dealing with service providers assist customers in case of problems
- Assurance: the ability of providers to ensure customers through the ability and the policies that are owned by service providers it.
- Empathy: service providers are able to make the customer feel a personal note.
With the quality of good service and is expected to increase trust of customers.

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Opportunities Organic Agriculture in Indonesia

Entering the 21st century, people began to realize the danger caused by use of synthetic chemicals in agriculture. People are wise in choosing food for health in a safe and friendly environment. Healthy lifestyles with the slogan Back to Nature has been a new trend to leave the old patterns of life using non-natural chemicals, such as fertilizers, chemical pesticides and synthetic hormones in the growth of agricultural production. Food is healthy and nutritious can be produced with high new method, known as organic agriculture.

Organic agriculture is the cultivation of agricultural techniques which rely on natural materials-without the use of synthetic chemicals. The main objectives of organic agriculture is to provide agricultural products, especially food safety for the health of producers and consumers and does not damage the environment. Healthy lifestyles so coordinate has the international security requires that agricultural products should be consumed have attributes safe (food safety attributes), the actual high-nutrition (nutritional attributes) and environmentally friendly (eco-labelling attributes). Consumer preferences, such as this cause demand world of organic agriculture products increased rapidly.

Indonesian wealth of resources have a unique tropical biodiversity, plenty sunlight, water and land, culture and society that respects nature, the potential for organic agriculture is very big. Organic agricultural products market of the world increased by 20% per year, therefore the development of organic cultivation of agricultural crops in priority need high economic value to meet the needs of the domestic market and export.

Opportunities Organic Agriculture in Indonesia

Area of land available for organic agriculture in Indonesia is very large. From 75.5 million ha of land that can be used for agricultural businesses, new about 25.7 million ha of rice fields have been cultivated for crops and (BPS, 2000). Organic agriculture requires that land not used or not by exposed to pollution chemicals and have good accessibility. Quality and area into consideration in the selection of land. Land that is not exposed to pollution land that has not grown, but in general, so is less fertile land. Generally fertile land that has grown with the intensive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Land use such as this requires a long enough period of conversion, which is about 2 years.

Volume of organic agricultural products to reach 5-7% of total agricultural products sold in international markets. Most in supply by developed countries such as Australia, the United States and Europe. In Asia, organic agricultural products market is dominated by many countries far east as Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

Market potential of organic agricultural products in the country is very small, only limited to the middle to the top. Various constraints faced by, among others: 1) there is no adequate price incentives for producers of organic agricultural products, 2) need expensive investments in the early development of the land must select a truly sterile material of Agrochemicals, 3) there is no certainty of the market, so that farmers are reluctant to produce these commodities.

Planting area of organic agriculture, Australia and Oceania have most knowledgeable land that is approximately 7.7 million ha. Europe, Latin America and North America each approximately 4.2 million, 3.7 million and 1.3 million hectares. Planting area of organic agricultural commodities in Asia and Africa are still relatively low at around 0.09 million and 0.06 million hectares (Table 1). Vegetables, coffee and tea dominate the market of agricultural products in addition to the international organic farm products.

Table 1. Organic planting area of each region in the world, 2002

No. Area of region (million ha)

1. Australia and Oceania 7.70
2. Europe 4.20
3. Latin America 3.70
4. United States Utar 1.30
5. Asia 0.09
6. Africa 0.06

Source: IFOAM, 2002; PC-TAS, 2002.

Indonesia has the potential big enough to compete in the international market even if gradually. This is because the various comparative advantages among others: 1) there are many resources that the land can be opened to develop a system of organic agriculture, 2) technology to support organic agriculture is enough available, such as making compost, planting it with soil, biological pesticides, and others.

Further development of organic agriculture in Indonesia should be addressed to meet global market demand. Thus commodities-commodities such as vegetables and exotic crops such as coffee and tea that have the potential to export need to be bright enough to be developed. Products such as coffee, Indonesia is the second largest exporter after Brazil, but the international coffee market in India does not have a trademark.

Development of organic agriculture in Indonesia has not need a new institutional structure, because this system is almost as well as intensive agriculture, such as at this time. Institutional farmers as farmers' groups, cooperatives, associations or corporations are still very relevant. However, the most important agricultural institutions need to be able to strengthen the bargaining position of farmers.

Modern Organic Agriculture

The last few years, organic agriculture, modern agriculture system in the entrance of Indonesia and sporadic small-scale. Developing modern agriculture organic produce safe food for the health system and environment-friendly production. But the general concept of modern organic agriculture has not been much known and much is. While the emphasis is more to leave the synthetic pesticides. With the development of knowledge and technology, health, environment, microbiology, chemistry, molecular biology, biochemistry and others, organic agriculture continues to grow.

In modern organic agricultural system required standards of quality and this is applied by importer countries with very strict. Often one organic agricultural products must be returned to the country, including exporter to Indonesia because the uterus is found residues of pesticides and other chemicals.

The many products that claim a product as organic agriculture that are not certified to create doubt in the consumers. Certification of organic agricultural products can be divided into two criteria, namely:

a) Local Certification for the domestic market. Agriculture is still tolerate the use of synthetic chemical fertilizers in the amount of the minimum or Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture (LEISA), but have very limited the use of synthetic pesticides. Control by using the opt biopestisida, tolerant varieties, biological and agensia. Team to formulate a national certification has been established by the Ministry of Agriculture, with the involvement of universities and other parties associated.

b) Certification for the export and certain circles in the country, such as the certification issued by IFOAM and SKAL. Some of the requirements that must be met, among others, the conversion of land, storage of organic products, seeds, fertilizers and pesticides as well as processing the results must meet specific requirements for organic agricultural products.

Some prospective commodities that can be developed with the organic agriculture system in Indonesia, among other food crops, horticulture, plantation, spices and medicinal plants, and livestock, (Table 2). Facing the era of free trade in 2010 expected future organic agriculture Indonesia can export products to international markets.

Table 2. Eligible commodities to be developed with the organic agriculture system

No. Commodity Category

1. Food Crops Rice
2. Horticulture Vegetables: broccoli, red cabbage, petsai, caisin, cho and white, shoot cabbage, spinach leaves, pumpkin siyam, oyong and baligo. Fruit: jackfruit, durian, salak, mango, oranges and mangosteen.
3. Coconut Plantation, nutmeg, cashew nuts, cloves, pepper, vanilla and coffee.
4. Spices and medicinal Ginger, turmeric, temulawak, meeting and other meetings.
5. Livestock Milk, eggs and meat

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AMD chipmaking arm launches as 'Globalfoundries'

The new company is expected to make New York a hub of chip development and manufacturing. Globalfoundries, which had been provisionally named The Foundry Company, is headed by Doug Grose, formerly senior vice president of manufacturing operations at AMD. Hector Ruiz, formerly AMD's CEO, will become chairman of the board. It will be headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.


The breakup of AMD will present challenges from day one. AMD has become, essentially, a design house for chips. "We will have to step back so we're respecting AMD as one customer of many," Grose said in a phone interview Tuesday. Grose said that this won't be an entirely new experience for AMD, whose ATI graphics chip unit already has a longstanding foundry relationship with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). "They already have that rigor and methodology in place," he said.

Though manufacturing will initially be centered in Dresden, Germany, the company plans to break ground on a $4.2 billion manufacturing facility at the Luther Forest Technology Campus in Saratoga County, N.Y., later this year. This is expected to cement existing R&D ties with IBM, which also has chip development and manufacturing bases in relative proximity to Saratoga County. Last year, AMD described this corridor in upstate New York as "one of the leading areas in the world for nanotechnology."

Grose said that Globalfoundries has joined the "other side" of the IBM alliance, which is "industry standard product." In short, though AMD previously had focused on high-performance PC processor-centric technologies, Globalfoundries will now focus on what is described as "bulk" chip technologies "where the majority of the marketplace is," Grose said. "That's everything from consumer, handheld, wireless up into graphics markets," he said.

Globalfoundries will target next-generation 32-nanometer and 28-nanometer manufacturing process technologies as the "sweet spot for leading-edge customers," Grose said. The company's Dresden facilities are slated to begin 32-nanometer production next year. Output in New York is slated for 2012, focusing on 32-nanometer and smaller geometries, Gross said.

And who specifically will Globalfoundries target as customers? "Look at the top ten fabless companies and you will get a pretty good cross section of who we have started to--or will talk to very quickly," Grose said. Though Gross would not name names, top fabless companies include Qualcomm, Nvidia, SanDisk, and Broadcom.

AMD will own 34.2 percent of Globalfoundries , while the Advanced Technology Investment Co. will own the rest. ATIC is an investment company wholly owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, which is part of the United Arab Emirates.

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Tracking Traffic with Cell Phones

The idea is simple, says Alex Bayen, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the university. “Smart phones with GPS collect data from a regular commute and send it to a central system,” he says. “The system puts the data into a mathematical model that estimates traffic in real time and then broadcasts it back to the Internet and phones.”

The researchers’ model combines traffic data collected from static road sensors as well as from volunteers’ cell phones. Participants will receive personalized information such as travel-time estimates and traffic speeds along relevant routes.

Traffic monitoring is nothing new. Companies such as Inrix and Navteq accumulate traffic data using sensors embedded in streets and in toll booths, and from GPS sensors on vehicles like FedEx delivery trucks and taxis. This information is fed to in-car navigation systems and used by websites such as Google Maps, Mapquest, and traffic.com to provide live traffic data.

But the problem with existing systems, says Bayen, is that they only account for certain roads. Road-based traffic sensors show highway traffic conditions well enough, he says, but do not show conditions on many side roads. The Berkeley project, called Mobile Millennium, will fuse static sensor data provided by Navteq with cell-phone data from (hopefully) thousands of drivers across the Bay Area. Part of the project’s goal, explains Bayen, is to better understand how to use traffic data collected by cell phones–essentially a giant sensor network–for traffic prediction.

The Mobile Millennium software was released to the public at a press conference attended by Bayen and representatives from Nokia (which recently acquired Navteq), the California Center for Innovative Transportation, and the California and U.S. Departments of Transportation. The software runs on Java-enabled cell phones with a GPS chip. This includes Nokia’s N95 handset and the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 but not, currently, Apple’s iPhone. The researchers recommend that people who use the software have an unlimited data plan because large amounts of data need to be streamed from each phone.

For some users, privacy will be a more serious concern, and the researchers are aware that success depends on people feeling safe enough to participate. Bayen says that the software automatically strips out identifying information from data uploaded from each phone. Furthermore, instead of transmitting data constantly, devices only transmit data when they pass through preprogrammed GPS locations, which the researchers call virtual trip lines. This separates traffic-flow data from the identity of a driver or her vehicle without impairing the quality of data that is gathered, Bayen says.

Scott Sedlik, vice president of product marketing at Inrix, says that virtual trip lines are a clever solution to the issue of privacy. “From a technology perspective, we think they’re doing a creative implementation,” he says.

Sedlik believes that GPS-enabled phones will ultimately play an important role in acquiring more-useful traffic data, but he also foresees some challenges. He points out that some people will always be reluctant to upload their location information to a remote server. Another problem, he notes, is that “an app like this is a huge battery drain.”

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Are they the cell phones of the future?

What’s been missing until recently, however, is the cherry on the netbook cake: the ability to get online with a built-in 3G modem. By tapping into a cell network, netbook users could get online just about anywhere the day takes them.

That’s changing quickly as netbook makers scramble to include 3G data cards in these small wonders of the notebook world. “By adding a 3G data radio, an ordinary netbook becomes a powerful online tool,” explains Phil Solis, principal analyst at Oyster Bay, N.Y.-based ABI. “By delivering wireless broadband speeds, it brings the office out into the field.”

With a connected netbook, a mobile executive can not only do the basics, like check on e-mail and keep up with the news on Web sites, but also view online videos, download media-heavy presentations and sit in on videoconferences. In other words, if it can be done in the office with a wired data connection, chances are that it’s now fair game on the road. About the only thing it can’t do is help get the day’s gossip at the coffee machine.

At the moment, only a handful of netbooks come with a 3G option, but Solis forecasts that by 2013, 72% of netbooks will have 3G built in. The irony is that on top of putting mobile mavens in touch with the world, adding a 3G data modem could actually lower the price of such systems.

How? Some netbooks are now being sold the same way as cell phones — the network that supplies the data service effectively subsidizes the purchase price of a 3G netbook by between $200 and $400 in return for a contract for delivering data. For example, you can purchase a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook for only $99 with a two-year AT&T LapConnect contract. You can get the same deal on an Acer Aspire One from RadioShack. Word is that 3G versions of the HP Mini 1000 and the MSI Wind U120 should arrive in the coming weeks.

Sound too good to be true? It might be. With the service costing about $60 a month, the discount turns into a profit over two years. So the $400 subsidy that lowers the price of the netbook to $99 is more than made up with the $1,440 that the user will be spending on data over the next two years.

Already have a netbook? An alternative is to install a USB 3G card. Although it will, in all likelihood, deliver the same flow of data, add-ons do eat more battery life. As with subsidizing the cost of the notebook, the card is usually free or offered at a low price if you sign up for two years of service.

To see how connected netbooks can help those who live and work on the road, I tested two netbooks with built-in 3G capabilities (the Acer Aspire One and the Dell Inspiron Mini 9), along with a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 outfitted with AT&T’s external USBConnect Mercury card.

All three systems are similar in that they weigh the same and tap into the same AT&T network. But how they get online and how they handle the data they get couldn’t be more different. The Mini 9 uses an Ericsson-made card, and the IdeaPad uses a card manufactured by Sierra Wireless; both can work only with AT&T’s network. The Aspire One, on the other hand, uses a Gobi card that can connect with any of 350 networks throughout the world, including AT&T and Verizon in the U.S.

The beauty of incorporating a 3G modem into a netbook is the ease and convenience that it can provide. Rather than searching around for a Wi-Fi hot spot, you have access to over 900Kbit/sec. just about anywhere in the U.S. While their broadband speeds varied widely from place to place, the two netbooks were more than fast enough for working the Web, downloading media-heavy presentations and even watching a few YouTube videos.


-By Brian Nadel-

February 25, 2009 (Computerworld) Sometimes it seems that netbooks are everywhere. I’ve spotted them at airports, coffee shops and on commuter trains. No wonder that ABI Research forecasts sales of 35 million netbooks this year, more than double the 15 million systems sold in 2008.

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Angkringan

Angkringan is a place selling a variety of food available in almost every street and alley of Jogjakarta. If you can heard, angkringan such as the shape of a barrow full of food that contains, and suppose, operate in the afternoon, evening and early morning use of lighting and light senthir (mostly) and his dark-light street lamps Mercury Yogyakarta.
Consumer angkringan, though often labeled as a junior stalls, in reality consist of various circles. Start from becak drivers, children foreign, students, cultural and artists, employees, executives sometimes not to hesitate to spend the night to partake of food and drinking ginger tea in Angkringan.
Consumer behavior also diverse in there. There is only brought home to buy, there is also a buy, eat and then return home briefly, but most often is found to buy, chat, buy again, and again in the coffee shop chatting with colleagues and angkringan "colleagues" and the new found in the know there. Auto, in angkringan no distinction of social strata, religion or race. They all blur together in the light senthir, as a human figure that children eat and drink from the same seller.

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Ethics and Moral Students living in Jogja

Talking about ethics among young people, which of course related to the moral, may be the first time in the minds of our youth is a hoax that the more days the more complex and severe. We still remember about 6-8 years ago, where once a lively scrimmage and drug abuse dangerous drugs among teenagers in the usual trend is a major adolescent mischief. But after a few years later it hoax but it has not increased, ranging from pornography among teenagers, the court is not known, sexual harassment, drug case that more large and free sex among teenagers.

If we think it is very risky when the city had settled students Unsurprisingly, the intellectual people into the market this large circulation and drugs. Which of course one of the large opportunities are among students / students. There are many reasons why this erudite among circulation involved in the illicit goods, from the association fall in users drugs, just try, try, which ultimately continuity or stress because abandoned boyfriend to feel less attention because their parents or because the task? project work which they consider heavy. Whatever reason this shows the ethical and moral degradation among the youth, from the court until the instant the lifestyle you want to resolve the problem quickly without thinking long-term.

Actually a lot ways that can travel at up to improve the rebuilding of ethics and moral disintegration of society among the youth of this. No way should the way
follow as in the new order, which adds character nous lessons for teenagers to cope with mischief, because the moral and ethical is not enough in the text to learn the score on nine books report. But more on the dimensions of the practice in daily life, for that one needs to travel through religious education that is not only based there scholarly it but also on religious activities and practices morals day-to-day. Because religion is the value of the most influential on the personal behavior of a person and if he really learn and practice in daily life-day. Well through worship directly to the gods and through fellow human relations. Actually this is already visible in Jogjakarta Many teenagers that we can see from how to dress the appropriate religious guidance to the more high religious activities in the campuses and schools. Another way that can be taken is to divert attention and spare time with the youth sports activities, art and culture that have been implemented in many other countries.

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How the student's behavior far from the parents? What they do apart from the course?

Education not only provides a different nuance in the community, but people with education can provide something for other people, as a young intellectual at the present time, only in term of education and social status formality only. The role of education to change to fully human when this is not yet implemented. Life is made more complex student orientation change drastically, especially visible in the crowd who tend to be free without limit.
Does not control the individual and collective good of the community and their own friends into more leads to sexual hedonostik. Where is the converse of this leads to more than just biological factors such as sex-free, collect buffalo, and clubbing. This is not closing the possibility it happens degradation of moral values and religion. Ironically true when a student discovered consume drugs, and sell out to make sex outside marriage, but something that is considered normal, and have become a lifestyle of the people have.
Clubbing, for example, is not a negative activity for students, but even a need to get a satisfaction and saturation activity as it continues to campus and for students who live in kost feel alone. Lack of awareness of the collective to provide limits the possibility of moral behavior such as this is considered a normal and commonplace to meet the desires shortly.
World campus seems to be a world exclusive, and far from social reality, but not so even students who create the world for their own world, the permissive, there is no limit on the moral and socially without a limit is part of the lifestyle of Yogyakarta students now. With so many students that deviate behavior, for example, flirt with buxom girlfriend in front of the room kost, they do not feel a loss and tactless to do things like that.

There is no more private space, that space is filled with filth, even public space can also be made in the filthy place for students. This is a phenomenon that is far from home and want to find a joy shortly.

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Latest Trend Students Jogja

There is a trend that is now visible in kost or house rent student / student in Jogja. When I check on their status are still students / student about the facilities kost acquired one of the answers they are. The existence of the Internet connection in their kost. Provider its multifarious, that use instant telkoment, Speedy, and he and other ISPs are also willing to use its own GPRS connection. Once the rich glue them to have an internet connection in the kost? In fact, if not also re-calculated them rich. York region for their own Internet connection with bandwidth are only charged a subscription around 800 rb -1.5 jt / month. If one kost inhabited by 40 people. But if the cooperate together and find around Rp.20 rb - Rp.37.500 / month. And with the cost of the Internet they can connect full-time. Whenever they want and need. Trends such as this have not been there in years 98-99. Internet connection at the time it is expensive and luxurious. But there is a unique in the city Yogyakarta this. With its growing place kost learner Internet. Garnet-cafe also appear in certain areas and there is still only its users.
I do not know the conditions in other cities, such as what, but if there is ever to stop in New York and was going away and around the world to observe the Internet connection you will find the Internet Hotspot in almost every building campuses, Hotspot in the cafe, where Hotspot Billyard, and there is also the hotspot angkringan. Most free access although there is also a pay.
Capital laptop / HP / PDA with wifi facilities can connect. Jogja is the trendsetter, according to my IT world, the world trensetter students. And year by year to learn how they have started to shift to IT, one of the facilities by utilizing the Internet.

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