Month: May 2010

Business owners that use Vehicle Tracking Systems to monitor their fleet vehicle activities rely heavily on the GPS Tracking Software. This software is crucial to operation of the system. Although many people would argue that the GPS device itself or wireless communications network is just as important, the GPS Tracking Software takes what would otherwise be raw data and turns it into useful information.

There are, historically, two types of GPS Tracking Software – client-based and web-based. Client-based GPS Tracking Software was typical of early Vehicle Tracking Systems. Prior to the maturation of the internet, client-based software was the most efficient way to display GPS Tracking data. The highly detailed digital maps processed much faster on a local machine. What takes only fractions of a second to load a digital map today through the interent would have taken minutes some years ago. The programming language like Visual Basic, that was used to develop the client-based GPS Tracking Software, is well-known and realatively easy to program. This allowed for programs to be developed quickly.

The other type of GPS Tracking Software is web-based. Today, this has become the defacto standard. It is well superior to the client-based typeof GPS Tracking Software for a number of reasons. First, since it is located on a web server, it can updated with enhancements transparent to the end-user. With client-based versions, the new software updates would have to be downloaded and installed manually. A second advantage of the web-based GPS Tracking Software is the high performance and unique feature set of the underlying program language. Software like Javascript and Ajax make it possible to have advanced features like programmatic updates of layers over static pages. For instance, think of a map that stays the same while the icons representing the location of the vehicles change as they move about. Finally, the other major benefit of web-based GPS Tracking Software is that it can be accessed from any internet-connected computer from any where in the world. This multi-user friendly software can be used at home or overseas while on a business trip just as easily as it is used in the office.

Whether the gps Tracking Software is client or web based, it is loaded with features designed to give the business more control over its fleet vehicles and mobile workforce. For starters, it will show where the entire fleet is in real time. Typically, the map will update every one to two minutes with the latest vehicle location information. Detailed information can be obtained on specific vehicles such as breadcrumb trails showing the route the vehicle has taken throughout the day, speed, stops with addresses and duration, and excessive idling. Most GPS Tracking Software has the ability to print reports and provide alerts. Alerts can be made on over speed and geofence violations, which is a virtual geographic boundary around an area.

Whatever the type, the return on investment of most GPS Tracking Software is well worth the investment. Many systems provide returns in less than six months.

Digital Picture Frames, Hottest New Gadgets

Digital frames are one of the hottest new gadgets on the market. The most common use for digital photo frames is replacing your traditional static picture frames. In essence, consider your new digital frame a high tech, dynamic version of your older photo frames, specifically designed for the new generation of digital pictures. Many people consider digital frames more like digital photo albums than a digital version of a single picture frame.

Digital photo displays also have another use in that they can display different types of media. If part of your collection of pictures includes slideshows with music, or videos, these can be loaded on digital frames as well. Now productions that in the past were mostly limited to display on your television, now have another medium in your home for playback. Digital frames in essence are smaller, more portable versions of large LCD displays used in TVs.

Since many digital photo frames now use wireless technology, using your new frame around the house is easier than ever. Sign up for a new service with Flickr and FrameChannel, and stream pictures from your Flickr albums directly to your frame, or even news, weather, and other information from RSS feeds via FrameChannel.

Another popular use for a new digital photo frame is in your office. Many people have limited desk and office space, and generally have many loved ones that deserve photo frame real estate on their desk. Digital frames immediate solve this problem by combining the single photos of many frames onto one. Again, since your office desk is generally where your computer is, strongly consider a wireless digital frame for your office so you can easily change pictures often via Bluetooth.

There no shame in gifting or ‘re-gifting’ a digital frame, mainly because they are so easy to customize, so if you have a space digital picture frame, load it with pictures your friend or loved one will identify with and send it to them as a gift. They will be able to open your gift, turn it on, and immediately start enjoying photos you both can relate to. This and many other reasons are why digital photo frames are very popular gifts.

Finally, you should consider the uses of digital frames outside of the home and office. Businesses are putting digital photo frames to use in many highly productive ways. Some use digital frames in lobbys or reception areas for advertising, welcome, or information displays.

Digital frames can also be used as displays for calendars or schedules for teams or conference rooms, or as bullentin boards, mainly by displaying any information that can saved from PowerPoint into a JPEG file.

Editor: Afina

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The one that makes GPS tracking devices work is what we call GPS Tracking software. This kind of software makes tracking devices to transmit a signal which will be received by satellites set up in space. In return, the space satellites narrow down the devices geographic location. The location information returned is basically in latitude and longitude, which is then transformed by a decoder into a recognizable address.

GPS tracking software was first put in use by the American Department of Defense, formerly utilizing 21 satellites and 3 replacement satellites. The software was essentially designed for aviation, nautical navigation and land navigation. The GPS tracking software is a very intelligent designed system. The GPS satellites set up in orbit, delivers signals that track the right location of a GPS receiver, be it a vehicle, mobile phone, or other form of transportation or tracking equipment.

Today, the satellites have increased to 30 resulting to a wider range of GPS locations. But a GPS tracking software may also locate vehicles or individuals that are not in possession of a GPS receiver. To quickly get a location, it will just need an unobstructed view of the satellites.

GPS was formerly named NAVSTAR or what we used to call Navigation System for Timing and Ranging, now we have known it as GPS or Global Positioning system. The GPS tracking software has been so helpful in terms of navigation-related works, as traveling in unchartered territories have not been simple since especially during bad weathers. So that, the GPS tracking software was designed basically for traveling in unknown routes, indicating the right location of a moving vehicle in order to compute what routes should be taken to give assistance in reaching its prospective destinations.

The tracking software is also what enables big and bulky delivery trucks in the U.S. to know their locations and inform their base headquarters of where they are. The tracking software can do this because the user can have an interaction with the tracking unit in various methods. By using the GPS tracking software, a two-way communication between the truck driver and base headquarters can be made possible, in order to check on the status of the delivery truck on its way to its target route or destination.

Technology has once again proven that there are more inventions to be designed in order to make our travels safer and exact. With the vast sea and land with which seafarers and land farers must travel, the GPS tracking software is indeed the exact tool to help them assess their destination, whether they are traveling in sky or water, or land.

The best thing which anyone can say about having the GPS software is that for as long as there is no obstruction of the satellite signals, you can be certain on where you are and where you should be heading. But, should you be in the middle of a jungle, then it will cause a bit of a problem for tracking your location with a Global Positioning System.

Cyber law is a generic term, which refers to all the legal and regulatory aspects of Internet and the World Wide Web. This cyber law governs a boundless, timeless, space less, medium which has emerged to environ the future business, known as “cyber medium or cyber space”. The electronic medium that is being discussed here is the “internet”. The popularity of internet raised many critical questions about the regulations and the governance of various aspects. Internet grew in a completely unplanned and unregulated manner and continuing grow rapidly. With the population of Internet multiplying about every 100 days; the internet is becoming the new chosen atmosphere of the world. As the internet users are increasing day to day, the scope for committing crimes also increases. Therefore a need for a Law that would govern this medium was seen.

 

Under the laws for cyber space certain acts have been identified and classified as cyber crimes. A cyber crime is an offence whereby the mode of committing the offence is a computer system and the means is the internet. The psychological factors behind the person committing such cyber crimes can identified as greed, revenge, frustration, grievance and mismanagement. The acts classified as offences under the cyber law are; Hacking, Cyber stalking, Denial of service attack, Virus dissemination, Software piracy, Phishing, & Child Pornography etc. These crimes are real and are affecting everyone, individuals, business organizations, nation states & the international communities. These cyber crimes may be committed against Individuals, Organization, Company, Group of Individuals and Society at large. As the times pass by evolution of almost every thing tales place, so did an evolution take place in the cyber crimes. With the emergence of “Cyber Terrorism” this was evident.

 

Cyber Terrorism can be said to be the act of controlling a victim’s computers, allied information technology, particularly through the cyber space (Internet), to cause physical, real-world harm or severe disturbance. As the Internet continues to expand, and computer systems continue to be allocating more responsibility and while becoming more & more complex and interdependent, disruption or terrorism via cyberspace may become a more grave danger.

 

In the ordinary course of time, when an offence is committed by an individual, the subsequent action is either police report of the offence or investigation. On the successful completion of the investigation the offence is adjudicated by the judiciary, same is the case with Cyber Crimes. There are some techniques prescribed for investigation of such cyber crimes and there are also adjudicating authorities or courts established in order to hear and dispose these cases of cyber crimes.

 

Investigations into cyber crimes can be done through Computer Forensics and Time Stamping. Computer forensics is the process of Identifying, Procuring, Analyzing, & Presenting Digital Evidence in a manner that is legally acceptable in the court of law. Computer forensics is used to conduct investigations into computer related incidents whether the incident is an external intrusion into your systems, internal frauds or staff breaching your security policy. The most important factor in the investigation of cyber crimes is to prove the “Time” of the occurrence of the crimes, as time stands to be most important factor in computer forensics it is very important. Under the concept of time stamping crimes are synchronized as events of an accurate clock. In the case of cyber crimes it is almost impossible to commit a crime without leaving a time trail.  The results of the time stamping are regarded as to be as undisputable evidence.  Time stamping speeds up the investigation and dissuades the cyber criminals.

 

Adjudication of offences under any law is very important in order to penalize the offender. Adjudication is the legal process by which the Judge reviews the evidence and the arguments, including legal reasoning set forth by parties or litigants to come to a decision or judgment which determines rights and obligations between the parties involved, or in other common sense adjudication is the normal court procedure. The courts in United States of America have already begun taking cognizance of various kinds of fraud and crimes being committed in the internet. The victims of such Cyber crimes have found no healing remedy, they can either claim for civil damages or wait for the culprits to be caught and be tried under provisions, made for such offences committed in cyberspace.

 

In India, with the Information Technology Act, 2000 being in force the establishment an adjudicating authority is clearly visible under the Section 46, Chapter IX. This provision states that the Central Government may establish one or more cyber regulation appallet tribunals / cyber appallet tribunals, in order to adjudicate upon the matters of cyber crimes. It is further stated that all matters in such context may be referred to the High Court only through appeal. The statutes like Information Technology Act, 2000 and Indian Penal Code, 1860 lay certain provisions classify certain acts done through internet as offences under the law.

 

Globalization has caused a tremendous increase in the IT sector, resulting in the increase of cyber crimes in each and every corner of the world including the developing countries like India, Japan etc. These nations have opted for their own measures against such internet related offences.  It is a very evident fact about the growth and evolution of laws through out the world, as the world grew larger so did the necessity of governing rules and regulations in the form of law were seen at a high priority. Today, same shall be the case with growing cyberspace and its allied difficulties.

Cyber law encompasses a wide variety of legal issues related to use of communications technology. It includes use of Internet as well as any other form of Computer or Digital Processing Devices. It includes intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression, and jurisdiction.

As the law of Cyber Space, as envisioned by William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer , Cyber Law addresses the issues of Virtual Property and Virtual Persons. It covers rights of Netizens who are the citizens of Cyber Space and regulation of the Cyber Space for a peaceful and harmonious existence of Netizens.

The biggest challenge before Cyber Law is its integration with the legacy system of laws applicable to the physical world.

Since Cyber Space has no geographical boundaries, nor the Netizens have physical characteristics of Sex, Age etc, several conflicts surface when the rights of Netizens are viewed in the eyes of Citizens of a physical space. This is well reflected in the conflict between the Trade mark Laws and system of Domain Names.

There are several countries which have enacted special laws for regulating Cyber Space Transactions of Citizens within their Physical Jurisdiction and these are recognized as the Cyber Laws of the Physical Jurisdiction.

A recent book by Ahmad Kamal entitled “The Law of Cyber-Space” published by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, argues in favor of starting global negotiations on comprehensive and harmonized laws in this domain. The ultimate solution is to “harmonise” the laws of all the countries by making a compatible and commonly acceptable international treaty safeguarding the cyberspace.

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