Family Learning Center

Posts Tagged ‘investment’

feature: Lockdown: creating a secure domain policy in Windows

The recent Google hack has brought security to the top of every IT admin’s mind, if it wasn’t there already. But securing a network is a huge investment of time and money, to the point that many best practcices are out-of-reach for many small and medium businesses. Nonetheless, there is hope. Windows shops can get a good, cheap head-start on security by simply ensuring that their domain security policy is solid. In this article, Ars shows you how to create a group policy that will secure Active Directory (AD) according to current best practices, while keeping it open enough to ensure that operational headaches remain at a minimum.

Note: For reference, all policy settings discussed in this article can be found under Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings in the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)

Read the whole story…

Facebook Takes Over Its Own Display Advertising From Microsoft, Keeps Bing For Web Search

When it comes to display advertising on its own site, Facebook is taking full control of its inventory away from Microsoft. Even prior to Microsoft’s initial $240 million investment in Facebook in 2007, the two companies had an advertising partnership giving Microsoft the ability to serve display ads on the social network. That was a three-year deal which was up for renewal. The two companies just finished renegotiating it, and Microsoft will no longer be serving up display ads on Facebook.

However, Bing will still power Web search on Facebook and will serve up search ads. The relationship with Bing will actually be expanded to be global (before it was just U.S.) and to include smart answers and other guided search features within Facebook. Expect Facebook’s Web search to start looking a lot more like Bing. As far as social search goes, however, Facebook continues to develop its own search technologies which return realtime results from your personal stream.

Handing over a large chunk of its display advertising to Microsoft made sense three years ago, but now that Facebook generates more pageviews than Yahoo or Microsoft it doesn’t need to split ad revenues on its own site with anyone. Facebook is still trying to figure out what kind of advertising will work on a social site, but it has so much inventory that its revenues are believed to be growing quickly.

Read the whole story…

I’m 19yrs old second year in college, I have a income of $48,000 a year and I want to purchase a 3 family home for investment property. I have approximately $5,000 dollars with a credit card debt and $10,000 in savings and I’m living in the state of New Jersey. If not a 3 family, what is the best real estate investment for me at this time?

Auto-Lift iron won’t char your threads unless you tell it to
Watch out, Earthlings — Ariete’s 2,400 watt Auto-Lift iron is just a Stateside-release away from being Anthony Sullivan’s next big hit. The concept here is pretty simple (and pretty genius): users have to physically press down on the iron to make it touch whatever piece of wrinkled clothing is beneath, and as soon as they release pressure, the iron pops up to prevent accidental charring. It’ll set you back €65 ($92), but considering that one toasted dress shirt is probably far more expensive than that to replace, the forgetful among us should probably make the investment.

Auto-Lift iron won’t char your threads unless you tell it to originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink Wired  |  Auto-Lift  | Email this | Comments
Read the whole story…

Component shortages lead analysts to forecast rise in prices of personal electronics
As you might well know, we’re not the biggest fans of analyst blather, but this piece of research by Gartner is backed by some substantial numbers. The FT reports that DRAM prices have recently risen by 23 percent, followed closely by LCD prices with a 20 percent jump, both in response to the financial crisis the whole globe seems to be suffering from. Because the effects of recently renewed investment in capacity building won’t be felt for a while, we’re told to prepare for higher prices throughout this year — a significant combo breaker from the previous decade’s average of around 7.8 percent drops. Oh well, let’s just cling to the encouraging signs for the future and ignore this bump on the road to gadget nirvana.

[Thanks, Ben W]

Component shortages lead analysts to forecast rise in prices of personal electronics originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Financial Times  | Email this | Comments
Read the whole story…

The Internet is about to die. Literally die!

In 2007, Nemertes Research released a dire report on Internet traffic. By 2010, it said, the “exponential” growth in demand for bandwidth will butt up against the “linear” investment in networking technology, and that whole Internet thing you’ve come to know and love will start experiencing “brownouts or snow days, during which performance will (seemingly inexplicably) degrade.”

By mid-2009, this certainly seemed implausible. Millions of people now stream Netflix on-demand video to their computers and TV sets, YouTube has added high-quality options to its videos, and Hulu’s launch showed that ad-supported Web video could be hugely popular. Despite the growth in video (which is usually pitched as the thing that will bring the Internet to its knees), “Internet snow days” were about as likely as real snow days in Havana.

Read the whole story…