"Windows Live SkyDrive"

Microsoft has introduced a technology that enables users to store their data online. As the Microsoft site explains, you can store up to 5 GB online. You can also share your online files with others, depending on your preferences. To use "Windows Live SkyDrive" just sign into Windows Live with your account and sign up for the service. After that, you can begin uploading your files. As the Microsift website explains,"SkyDrive" allows you to have personal, shared, and public files. Personal files are not shared, and the SkyDrive service does not make these files accessible to other users. Shared files are only visible to the users you specify, and you can control their level of access to your files. Public files allow anyone to view them, but they cannot edit them. The site ensures that your data is secure by using secure socket layers, but I still wouldn't suggest storing really personal data on this.All of the information in this post was gathered from the Microsoft Live Skydrive website at: http://skydrive.live.com/welcomemoreinfo.aspx

Cyborg Insect Spies

What if the next bug in your ear is a spy? The U.S. Military is funding the creation of these insect spies. In an article written by Fiona MacRae at http://tinyurl.com/25zab9, she explains that these insects are implanted with electrodes by wires through their nerves. They will be useful for the government to do their spying.

This isn't exactly new... as Jessica Marshall explains in her article titled "The Cyborg Animal Spies Hatching in the Lab" , José Delgado at Yale University was the creator of the first cyborg animal bck in 1950. Delgado experimented with bulls, even getting in the ring with them, letting them charge, then, with the flip of a switch, the bull stops just before he is about to charge. In 2002, the technology was revisited when The University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn created a cyborg rat. According to Marshall, this rat was able to be controlled remotely by humans.

Although this does not seem very moral even on insects in my opinion, I REALLY hope the government never deems this as a way to control unruly humans!


Picture found at:
http://tinyurl.com/25zab9

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19726461.800-the-cyborg-animal-spies-hatching-in-the-lab.html

PowerTerm WebConnect

“PowerTerm WebConnect”, created by Ericom, is a platform that makes applications accessible to client computers across a network. The WebConnect software allows client computers, such as Linux clients, to gain access to applications that servers such as terminal servers, virtual servers, and even legacy systems are hosting.

The PowerTerm WebConnect server, which can run off of various types of operating systems, including Linux, delivers the components needed by client computers, and administrators can set the permissions based on how they want the client machines to access the applications. The client computers then connect to the PTWC server by way of their browser, where they can download the elements needed to access the applications.

For more information pertaining to this software you can visit:
http://products.enterpriseitplanet.com/networking/ra/1176397310.html

This software is readily available for download and a free trial at:
http://www.ericom.com/products.asp