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McAfee Releases Top Five Tips to Avoid Bad Apps

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.29.11 under Security & Privacy

Maliciously Modified Apps Becoming Popular Vector for Infecting Devices

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–In response to the increasing interest in mobile applications, McAfee is sharing its top five tips to avoid downloading bad apps. While reported mobile malware incidents are still relatively low in number, McAfee Labs is seeing significant growth in the mobile malware threat landscape. Due to the fact that smartphones and tablets have eclipsed unit sales of desktop and laptop PCs, cybercriminals have set their sights on mobile and maliciously modified apps are becoming a more popular vector for infecting devices. Fortunately, there are some common sense practices that anyone can take to help protect their smartphones and tablets from the growing threat of malware and the persistent threat of unsecured devices.

Here are five easy steps device users can take to secure their own devices.
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Sales Tax Harms Small Business

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.28.11 under Business, Government News

Shifting Sales Tax Compliance Burden Will Harm Small Businesses, Says CompTIA CEO

WASHINGTON–A bipartisan group of Senators led by Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has introduced The Marketplace Freedom Act, a bill giving states the authority to require that online sellers collect and remit state sales taxes. Todd Thibodeaux, president and chief executive officer, CompTIA, made the following statement about the legislation.

“We understand the need of states to address revenue collection based on legitimate sales taxes. However, we must balance the states’ authority to require businesses to collect foreign states’ sales taxes with the compliance burdens that would be foisted onto small businesses. These additional compliance costs to small businesses would have a negative effect on employment and economic growth.
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McAfee Warns Consumers of the “Twelve Scams of Christmas”

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.27.11 under Security & Privacy

Cyber-Scrooges Work Overtime During Holiday Season and on Black Friday/Cyber Monday, New Threats Hit Mobile, Email and the Web

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–‘Tis the season for consumers to spend more time online – shopping for gifts, looking for great holiday deals on new digital gadgets, e-planning family get-togethers and of course, using online or mobile banking to make sure they can afford it all. But before logging on from a PC, Mac, or mobile device, consumers should look out for the “12 Scams of Christmas,” the dozen most dangerous online scams this holiday season, revealed today by McAfee.

“Cybercriminals rub their hands with glee when they think of the holidays,” said Gary Davis, director of consumer product marketing at McAfee. “Consumers are making travel plans, shopping for gifts and bargains, updating Facebook and connecting with friends. However, the vast majority have no security protection for their smartphones or tablets, despite using them heavily during the holiday season. Consumers need to stay one step ahead of this season’s cyber-scrooges, and make sure they have protection for all of their Internet-enabled devices. Otherwise, they could risk giving the bad guys the biggest gift of all – their own personal and financial information.”
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Digital River Globalocity will be May 14-16th, in L.A.

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.26.11 under ASP Member Companies, Events

Digital River to Host Globalocity 2012, an International E-Commerce Conference for Industry Thought Leaders

Opens Call for Speakers

MINNEAPOLIS—Digital River, Inc., a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions announced it is hosting – Globalocity 2012 – an international e-commerce conference for industry thought leaders.

Scheduled May 14-16, 2012, at the JW Marriott L.A. LIVE Hotel, in Los Angeles, Calif., the event will draw top business visionaries, industry analysts, e-commerce executives and senior professionals from the U.S., Europe and Asia to explore some of today’s most pressing e-commerce topics – ranging from social and mobile commerce, to the digital marketplace, the cloud and emerging online geographies. The gathering will provide attendees access to some of the most influential people in e-commerce and a rich agenda of education sessions – all focused on delivering actionable strategies for accelerating online sales across channels and borders. To learn more about the event visit: Save the Date for Globalocity.

“There has never been a time of greater change or opportunity in e-commerce,” said Joel Ronning, Digital River’s CEO. “Through Globalocity, we intend to build a global community of forward-thinking e-commerce leaders. With this diverse group, we will explore what it means to lead in today’s transformative e-commerce market and discuss how this impacts customer relationships and future strategies for growing online sales worldwide.”
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Quickly Find and Launch Programs

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 10.31.11 under ASP Member Companies, Desktop

Chemtable Software has released Handy Start Menu v. 1.32, a nifty little Windows utility that takes the frustration out of finding and launching Windows programs. Instead of wasting time searching for the right program in your Windows Start Menu, use Handy Start Menu to quickly locate and launch the program you want to run.

As you install more programs on your computer, your Windows Start Menu grows in size and complexity. Handy Start Menu automatically collects information about your installed applications, and organizes them by function. The software turns your long Windows Start Menu into a short list of these functional groups, making it quicker and easier to find and launch the program you need. If Handy Start Menu isn’t familiar with some of your applications, you can add them manually to the appropriate group.
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Fast, Efficient Image Editing for Photography Power-Users

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 10.30.11 under ASP Member Companies, Graphic Apps

Bits&Coffee SRL has released BatchPhoto v. 3.0, a powerful all-in-one photo manipulation program for Windows that lets photographers, web designers, business people, and families enhance photos quickly and efficiently. Simply select a group of photographs, and with a single operation annotate, touch-up, apply special effects, convert to different image types, resize, and rename every image in the group.

New features in version 3.0 include built-in support for uploading your pictures to Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, and websites, a newly-designed user interface, automated processing and manipulation of photographs, and new and improved graphical filters.

BatchPhoto lets you easily annotate groups of photos with comments and date/time stamps. You can watermark your photographs with text, logos, or a combination, to keep them from being abused by competitors or strangers.
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