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The Blackberry Bold 9700 combines the best in the Blackberry Bold and Blackberry Tour 9360 in an elegant and slimmer device. Not much may have changed from the older versions in the inside and out but the subtle yet bold changes and upgrades to a more industrial and contemporary look would surely be a hit. You can bet the Canadians have pretty good ideas of how beauty should be manifested.

Bolder Look

This is indeed an improved version of the original Blackberry Bold and comes in a smaller, slimmer, less heavy and definitely more attractive presentation. Weighing only 136 grams, it is a full 14 grams lighter than the original Blackberry Bold. It is also slimmer by almost a millimeter and comes in a smaller dimension. It measures 109 mm x 60 mm x 14.1 mm whereas its predecessor measures 114 mm x 66 mm x 15 mm.  It is definitely more suited to placing in your pockets or small bags as you go around.

The leatherette back, which gives the Bold 9000 its character, is still present but is minimized to incorporate sleek metal and plastic components giving it a more sophisticated look. The gun metal grey band around the edges of the device, albeit made of plastic, gives off a more metal-like sheen and gives the smart phone its dashing intensity. The form factor alone is enough to toss this phone into the next James Bond movie.

Replacing the track ball with an optical track pad similar to those found in laptops and in the Curve 8520 boosts its elegant appeal as well as functionality. While both offers great navigation, the track ball has been found to collect dirt through time and eventually fall off with use.

Bolder Features

But the boldness doesn’t stop there. There are a multitude of upgraded features that makes this thing worth your while.

Hi-resolution display – This smart phone’s large high resolution screen (480 x 360 pixel) displays over 65,000 colors making your viewing experience vivid and more realistic. Use the transmissitive TFT LCD and 2.44”-wide screen to view your photos, playback videos, read through your files or browse websites.

Multimedia Functional – This is also great for any multimedia application as this easily syncs data, video and audio files from your desktop and supports up to 35 hours of music playing time. It has a high resolution 3.2 mega pixel camera that comes with video camera functionality. You can share recorded videos through text messages, e-mail or social networking sites.

Connectivity – Already a 3G smart phone, connectivity is boosted with a Wi-Fi support. Both modes of connection allow you to browse the web, view emails and attachments faster and connect to friends in any social networking sites.

Bolder You

A recent marketing study showed that new gadgets are a big factor in the over-all attractiveness and appeal, especially in guys. On the other hand, ancient devices are downright turn – offs. So, I you are planning to launch a bolder image or simply continue to wow old and new friends alike, go get yourself the new Blackberry Bold 9700.

According to recent industry research, experts estimate that software pirates and hackers steal $35 billion worth of software each year. Securing and managing source code has become vital, a matter of survival for software producers. Knowledgeable software customers are demanding new and innovative packaging and licensing models to allow them purchase exactly what they want, when they want it, and use it how they want to. For the Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) software management solutions are vital in order to control and manage the demands of their customers as well as protect their software from pirates and hackers.

The three major points involved in software management solutions are: Software Licensing, software protection and software packaging.

Software Licensing

ISV’s need flexible licensing solutions that allow for quick creation of new pricing models and product configurations so the ISV’s can target new market segments effectively. They also need license-compliance solutions that ensure software security.

Software Security

Even with electronic licensing in place, many software and hardware companies continue to lose product revenues due to piracy and hackers. However, there are licenses that allow companies to recapture this revenue with tamper-resistant and trusted storage technologies—a set of powerful options that guard against unauthorized access or usage.

Software Packaging

Specific licenses for trial versions also exist, enabling software to be immediately placed in the hands of prospective customers. The specialized license protects evaluation copies from hacking and reverse engineering, as it packages the evaluation copy into a code-less file – ensuring that all IP is safe from theft.

Pay-Per-Use restrictions may be set per feature, for example the number of documents to be processed, in order to price certain segments of the application according to ongoing use. Once installed and used, the user may apply for a refill of the feature “cartridge” or alternatively pay periodically based on the actual use of the specific licensed feature.

Pay-Per-Time restrictions enable the ISV to limit the time which the application or a specific feature can be used. Settings can be applied in advance per time quota or per actual usage.

In today’s market, ISV’s need to apply complete software management solutions goes beyond tailoring software to customer-specific needs. Therefore, today’s vendors seek a complete software management solutions that will cover the three major aspects of software security, software licensing and software packaging. As the software business grows more complex, real-time sales figures and usage data needs to flow uniformly, enabling decision makers to rapidly adapt in a dynamic market.

For more information on software management solutions for ISV’s visit www.securelm.net

Cyberstalking is a recent form of criminal behavior involving persistent threats or unwanted attention using the Internet and other means of computer communications.

With more and more people going “online,” the opportunity to target someone on the Internet is becoming limitless. Cyberstalkers visit chat rooms, discussion forums or message boards in search of victims. The range of cyberstalking can range from aggressive and hostile email, chat room bullying, leaving abusing messages in guest books to sending e-viruses, tracing a victim’s computer and identity theft.

Like regular stalkers, cyberstalkers want to intimidate and control their victims. Cyberstalkers do it with the use of the Internet. The Internet can be used to trace the victim’s real name and address. For instance, it is remarkably easy to find out what party a victim is planning to attend and when by checking the information on a site such as Facebook.

The use of technology makes locating a victim easier than ever before. Anyone can type in certain key words into the computer which will bring up a myriad of internet datafurnishing companies that supply private records and information online, either free or for a nominal fee. The internet can do what private detectives of the past only dreamed of doing.

States are attempting to deal with this new form of criminal behavior. Early in 2009, the state of California enacted a set of new stalking laws. These laws make it a misdemeanor to publish information on the Internet which describes a teacher or his or her family or mentions where the teacher lives with the intent of having another person commit a crime against that teacher. The penalty is up to one year in prison and/or a $1,000 fine. This law can also be invoked to protect people other than teachers against cyber-threats. It is now considered a misdemeanor in California to place any person in fear of his or her safety by means of Internet threats and threats using cell phones, PDAs, video recorders or pagers.

Several cases of cyberstalking have been prosecuted under California’s new cyberstalking laws. In the state’s very first case, the state prosecuted a man who used the internet to impersonate his victim, a young woman who’d spurned his attentions. Pretending to be the victim, the man posted her phone number and address and stated that she had rape fantasies she wanted fulfilled. Strange men started to show up at the victim’s apartment ready to rape her and became angry when she refused. The cyberstalker was sentenced to six years in prison.

In another case, a graduate student from the University of San Diego cyberstalked five female students for a year. He sent hundreds of threatening emails. The graduate student was arrested and sentenced to six years in prison. He told police the women were ridiculing him. The victims, in fact, had never met this man.

Prior to California’s anti-cyberstalking laws, the crime was difficult to prosecute. Deidre Des Jardins, a student at UC-Santa Cruz, started getting violet emails from her ex-boyfriend. Some threats were directed at her, others dealt with violence in general. Local law enforcement agents were unable to do anything since the act of cyberstalking had not been clearly defined as a crime. The campus police, also, were unable to act, even though the threatening emails continued for several years. Deidre was told that since some of the messages dealt with violence in general and not specifically with her, it didn’t fit the definition of cyberstalking. Her ex-boyfriend was never arrested.

Cyberstalking can evolve into real-life stalking where the victim is harassed by excessive telephone calls, vandalism, trespassing and even physical assault.

Some cyberstalkers know their victims. Others have some kind of imaginary connection to the ones they stalk. It is not unusual for a celebrity cyberstalker to become violent when his fantasy is threatened. In a recent news story, a cyberstalker sent cyberthreats to a Knox County state’s attorney because the stalker believed that the state’s attorney was interfering in his relationship with model Cheryl Tiegs. The cyberstalker was obsessed with Tiegs and had been stalking her for years. She had never met him. The relationship existed in the cyberstalker’s mind only.

Cyberstalking is a real threat. Due to limited laws, the only real defense to use caution when revealing personal information on the Internet. The less, the better.

Computers have become indispensable objects in every home and all the industries and offices. The advancements in computing technologies have made life simpler than ever before. In fact we cannot imagine a developing world without computers. Though the computers and laptops have made life simpler, they have made life expensive too. You will be well aware of the fact that great technologies never come cheap. The powerful computers with cutting edge graphics cards and fast processors will drain your wallet. To make things worse the fall of the stock markets and the nosedived economic conditions has made buying new computers almost an uphill task. No matter what the economic condition is, we have to upgrade our computer to stay updated with the new technologies. Thankfully, there are some options which you can use to buy computers and laptops for cheap prices. Just keep on reading the article to explore the opportunities to buy computers, computer accessories and laptops at very cheap prices.

The rock bottomed global markets have made many indispensable objects like the new computers out of reach for a normal person. However, the global economic slowdown has forced many IT companies to shut down leading to a high availability of used computers. As these computers are used in IT companies, they will have the newest computer accessories installed in them. With the need for surviving in the business, these used computers are sold for very cheap prices. There are some IT companies where the computers are made available for bulk bargains. These are the best sources for buying the computers and laptops for very cheap prices. However, you have to be well knowledgeable about the computer accessories to check the quality to the used computers.

If you are not sure about checking the quality of the used computers, you can go with the refurbished computers from genuine suppliers. There are a few places where you can find the factory seconds computers and laptops too. These factory seconds computers and laptops are directly sold by the manufacturers to increase the sales. Due to the market slowdown in the computer sales, the factory seconds computers are available in huge numbers today.

This is the right time to upgrade your computer if it is outdated. The computer accessories such as the Laptop memory and ATI Video Cards are available at dead cheap prices from the factory direct seconds sales. Remember the fact that the cheap pricing of the computer accessories is likely to continue only for a few months from now. So be wise and grab the opportunity to buy cheap computers from any IT clearance or new factory seconds computer and laptop suppliers.

There were many rumors the last half year about a tablet PC apple was going to announce. Like before at almost every big Apple release or announcement like a new iPod or the iPhone, the internet was flooded by “top secret” information about features and reports on Apples purchases of component parts etc. The new product has been hyped long before its release. And at the day of the official announcement Apple always matched the high expectation, except this time.

When Steve Jobs presented their new baby, the iPad, everyone waited for the unexpected feature Jobs would name soon. But there was no super stunning feature. Though the ipad seemed cool, it was not the revolutionary tablet PC everybody was waiting for.

One of the reasons for this is, that the OS of the tablet will be a pimped iPhone OS, not a adjusted version of Mac OS Snow Leopard as hoped by many potential customers. The iPad seems to be just a really big iPhone or iPod touch. Another critic point is that Apples new mini computer won’t support Flash. Apple don’t like to support Flash, because they think it’s an outdated format and caused many errors on the OS. Especially with the slowly upcoming HTML 5 which is meant to replace flash, Apple had a reason to ignore it. While many customers are upset about Apple’s ignorance on flash, others are more than happy with this decision. The dependency of a lot of content in the internet just from a privet company like Adobe isn’t a good solution, so some people see Apples’s politics as a chance to make Flash dispensable.

Additionally criticized points for the iPad are the leak of multitasking for most applications (the ability to open several programs at the same time), a missing cam for video chat and the fact that only software from the App Store will run on the iPad.

People expected a equivalent to all the netbooks out there, just with Apple’s and Jobs’ touch, but got something else. Apple didn’t try to make a better netbook with touchscreen, they are going to offer a whole new product. The iPad was a disappointment for those who expected a real mini computer like a windows or mac PC. If you look at the iPad from a neutral perspective it’s not that bad at all.

The iPad is a product that’s made for a market which grew just in the last years. It’s a simple gate to the portable internet, to information and fun everywhere. And that’s what it’s meant to be, the iPad is made to offer people an easy access to the internet. If you have to look up something quickly, if you’re sitting on the couch and like to surf or if you just want to read newspaper articles or ebooks, the iPad is a great solution. Especially the last feature mentioned above is something Apple tries to improve with their tablet computer. The New York Times already announced an application to offer paid content you normally only get with their printed media. Apple also tries to beat Amazon’s popular ebook-reader Kindle.

So you have to think about all this and for what reason you like to have an iPad to be clear if it’s something for you. But one thing is for sure, the iPad will sell as almost all Apple products do. At least the hype and the design will contribute enough to make this true.