The Gadgeteer » Internet http://the-gadgeteer.com Gadget reviews and news by Julie Strietelmeier and friends since 1997 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Protect Your Small Business with Norton Internet Security Products from Symantec http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/11/26/protect-your-small-business-with-norton-internet-security-products-from-symantec/ http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/11/26/protect-your-small-business-with-norton-internet-security-products-from-symantec/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:00:31 +0000 Janet Cloninger http://the-gadgeteer.com/?p=81755

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When I surf the Internet or read email, I always try to avoid places and situations that could be dangerous – I never open emails with attachments from people I don’t know, I never click on random links in emails, and I avoid sites that sound skeevy.  Still, I once got a virus from a website that I had been to thousands of times before.  That virus wrecked my computer so badly that it had to be reimaged, and I consider myself lucky that I didn’t lose any of my important files and that no one was able to steal my identity. I was foolish not to have Internet-security software on my PC.

Losing family pictures from a personal computer would be heartbreaking, but losing customer databases and financial records could destroy your business.  You’ll be careful, but you can you trust all your employees to be as careful?  And sometimes, simply being careful isn’t enough.  Norton Small Business by Symantec will constantly monitor your PC and stop viruses before they can be downloaded from emails or from harmful sites.  Click to learn more.

In a survey, about 28% of small-business owners say technology is of more concern to them than reducing labor costs.  And about 60% say they have experienced malware problems in the past 3 years, and half of them had to pay an expert to resolve the resulting problems.

Earlier this year, Symantec introduced two new products designed for small-business protection.  Both Norton 360 and Norton Internet Security 2012 protect against theft of your confidential business information so you can safely bank, surf, and do business online; notify you if a website or downloaded file is safe before your PC is infected; and protect your PC as you surf, email, and chat – all without slowing down your computer.  Norton 360 adds some important features: automatically backs up important files and documents to disk, USB, or secure Norton online data centers, and allows you to access them securely from any internet-connected computer; and keeps your computer running at top speed.

Best of all, Norton offers a 30% discount to small business owners.  Why not go learn how protect your Small Business from the latest online threats.  Or how it can protect important files and information on your personal PC, too.

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Protect Your Small Business with Norton Internet Security Products from Symantec originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on November 26, 2011 at 8:00 am.

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Researchers have used rapid pulses of light to transmit information at speeds of over 500 megabytes per second  at the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin. Dubbed Li-Fi (not to be confused with Light Fidelity) is this a viable competitor to conventional wifi ?

“At the heart of this technology is a new generation of high-brightness light-emitting diodes” says Harold Hass from the University of Edinburgh ”Very simply, if the LED is on, you transmit a digital 1, if it’s off you transmit a 0. They can be switched on and off very quickly, which gives nice opportunities for transmitting data.”

It is possible to encode data in the light by varying the rate at which the LEDs flicker on an off to give different strings of 1s and 0s. The modulation is so fast that the human eye doesn’t notice.

“There are over 14 billion light bulbs world wide, they just need to be replaced with LED ones that transmit data”.

This may solve issues such as the shortage of radio-frequency bandwidth and also allow internet where traditional radio based wireless isn’t allowed such as aircraft or hospitals. One of the shortcomings however is that it only work in direct line of sight.

More information at New Scientist

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Li-Fi – Internet at the Speed of Light originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 29, 2011 at 9:00 am.

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If you are a fan of Pandora radio and have been wishing for a stand alone device, today is your lucky day. The Livio Radio stuffs your favorite music service into a retro-ish looking console. It even offers Pandora’s signature “thumbs up, thumbs down” controls on both the front panel and the remote. The radio features both an Ethernet jack and WiFi and will set you back $150.

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Get your Pandora fix with the Livio Radio originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on April 15, 2009 at 12:30 am.

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