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Via: Information Week

Are you ready to split your screen of your videos? I am not joking. Yes you can split you’re the screen of your videos directly from your Webcam through Tjoon.

Industrial Defender, a leading provider of SCADA security software has launched the latest version of its application suit, version 3.0, which manages multiple firewalls. The version 3.0 allows manufacturers and other companies to prevent and detect IT based threats, which can come from hackers, malicious software, employees and partner companies.

The new application suit is featured with enhanced firewall support, greater product scalability, and additional intrusion-detection capabilities specific to power substations. The version 3.0 allows users to monitor firewalls from Cisco and Secure Computing in collaboration with Industrial Defenders. The version has ability to manage more than 200 host devices through its single application. The version 3.0 allows users to use the company’s support services to implement the new software.

The latest Industrial Defender system provides industrial signatures for the IEC 61850 automation protocol, which defines the communications and system requirements of devices in a substation environment. The recognition of these signatures allows the system to detect illicit activity, including port scans and unauthorized commands in the substation. The version 3.0 has the following features:

1) It supports the Industrial Defender Guard, which supplies perimeter defense to SCADA and control systems
2) It also supports the Security Event Monitoring (SEM), which displays information and threat alerts to the IT infrastructure.
3) It has another module, the Network Intrusion Detection System, which catches malware at the network level

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Via: Managing & Automation

Now it’s bad news for video pirates! Many copyrights owners have had sleepless nights because of the many fold faces of Digital piracy. Few months back Google has assured the video sharing website YouTube of developing a video recognition anti-piracy tool. Goolge along with a number of media companies had come forward with a software to stop uploading of copyrighted videos on the website. This task was not an easy task as each video needed to have a digital fingerprint and this made it difficult to completely automate process.

Adobe systems is boosting its strategy of delivering dynamic web content on mobile devices with the launch of new Adobe Flash Lite 3 software, which brings quality live video on mobile phones.

A leading provider of the secure and managed digital workspace, RingCube Technologies, Inc., has launched MojoPac Enterprise Suite a unique and powerful way for businesses to stop data leakage while providing a secure and productive computing environment to its employees.

The MojoPac Enterprise Suite allows IT managers to capture the vital business applications and settings in a secure way. It enables IT managers to centrally manage digital image, which can be easily distributed to employees for implementing secure and distributed computing. The MojoPac offers an effective way to reduce the cost and complexity to support employee desktops. The MojoPac Enterprise Suite includes three new product lines, which are given below:

1) MojoStation Series: The MojoStation Series allow IT managers to build a completely secure and optimized digital MojoPac image, so that employees can download it from a secure corporate Web site to the employee’s desktop. Other user can transform their home and personal PC into a secure and manage their digital workplace by clicking on the image. The MojoStation is fully encrypted and isolated from the host computer, so all work and vital information is secure and safe. MojoStation can be disabled remotely, if any employee leaves and also stops former employees to access and share or corrupting proprietary information.

2) MojoDrive Series: It offers a portable enterprise MojoPac, so that business IT staff can build and load onto a USB storage device. Other users can transform any Windows PC into a secure and managed digital workspace, as the user clicks on the MojoDrive image on the drive. It also supports for all corporate security policies, which may prohibit copying sensitive information to any storage device out of MojoPac. MojoDrive is also fully encrypted and keeps all information and applications separate from the host computer like other Mojo Series. IT managers can easily stop access to Mojo Drive or implements any changes remotely, as any employee leaves the staff. MojoDrive is particularly useful for campus roaming workers, employees who take work home with them.

3) MojoNet Series: Enterprise IT managers can configure a secure MojoPac image with Mojojet, which is provided to employees through a secure corporate network. As, the employee connects its network and clicks on the MojoNet image, the complete digital workspace is downloaded to their desktop. Users can use the processing power, network connections and approved peripherals on the host PC till the MojoNet is opened. As, the users closes the MojoNet it automatically deleted from the host PC.

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Via: Searchio

Microsoft has moved up for the next version of its highly reliable BizTalk business process management server that enables companies to automate and optimize process. Based on RFID line, the beta version of BizTalk server is known as BizTalk Server 2006 R2. It will be official released in September this year.

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is the successor of BizTalk Server 2006. It has rich data exchanging options supporting Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) data and Availability Statement 2 (AS2) data for EDI over the Internet. The server has also some additional enhancements to B2B accelerators for HIPAA, HL7, SWIFT, and RosettaNet.

The BizTalk Server 2006 R2 supports a wide-ranging RFID platform infrastructure by brining a device abstraction layer and management tools for connecting to intelligent RFID devices. It includes a complex event-processing layer for applying filters, alerts and transforms to RFID events.

The latest version is compatible with Vista and Office 2007. The price of the server is $35,000 per CPU for the enterprise edition and $8,500 for the standard edition. Nearly 100 channel partners have registered for the beat version and other 90 partners are using the software with RFID, claims Microsoft.

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Moblf’s tagline ‘Web on SMS’ should be enough to tell you about the new service. Yes, I’m talking about the new FriendFeed app released by Moblf that allows you to get updates from various web services delivered to your mobile phones via SMS.

Twitter brings all your friends’ updates, however, misses out on the friends’ feed front. Here Moblf plays its role. Simply use your Twitter username to set up an account along with the promotion code “Insta” (invite for first 300 people). FriendFeed users will certainly find the service useful.

If you are a big fan of Microsoft, there’s a good news for you. Microsoft has released a free module for it’s Office Communication Server 2007, which will allow users to troubleshoot the voice quality issues over a network. The best part is that it will be done in real time and the tool is free of cost.

Mostly known as QMS, the Quality of Monitoring Server is designed as a software based competitor. This is Microsoft’s competition to Cisco Systems Inc. The QMS will be used to collect data or rather metrics regarding the individual calls. The software will then analyze the information and compare the parameters like loss, jitter, delay, device quality, etc.

A leading provider of Limitless LIDAR software tools, QCoherent Software has debuted the LP360 v1.5 and LP360 Classify v1.5 with an advanced architecture for accessing and processing LIDAR points.

The LP360 v1.5 offers new abilities to ESRI users to enhance enormous LIDAR point cloud datasets into sophisticated geospatial analysis. The LP360 classifies LIDAR point clouds by using GIS layers, operations and selection sets. The LP360 evaluates conflation tools for adding LIDAR elevations and statistics into features. LP360 utilizes the LIDAR point cloud to develop 3D geometrics and breaklines. The features of LP360 v 1.5 include:

1) The LP360 v1.5 has contour exporting with annotation options of shapefile, .dgn or .dxf formats.
2) The classify utilizes Shapefile point for exporting
3) It has integrated breakline options
4) The LP360 v1.5 provides floating/Concurrent licensing

The LP360 v1.5 fulfills the mission of developing flexible LIDAR software, which allows LIDAR data users to easily access gigantic LIDAR point clouds in day-to-day geospatial operations. Users can also export contours directly from LIDAR LAS files. They can also integrate and create 3D breaklines from 2D features. Users can use familiar geospatial operations to classify LIDAR points and conflate elevation statistics to features.

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Via: Spatial News