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I was trying to think about why the Democrats kept pusing for government socialized internet access and based off of the other behavior of Obama, Bush, and even Clinton I realized why.

The private companies providing access makes it harder for the government to monitor who searches what when and to more heavily monitor the internet.

One of my customers used to work for the White House under clinton in the data mining department. He said that when people would search the internet they could monitor everything they surf including bank and credit card information. I was shocked by this, but it brought everything together for me.

This can be effective in combating terrorism, but is a massive invasion of privacy if misused.

For those of you that were afraid of Bush listening in on your phone conversations, this should really scare you and is much more invasive to me. What if you write something they do not like? They are watching everything.

The Clinton administration consistently championed the
> right of government employees to stick their noses
> almost anywhere — into people’s email, car, house, or
> personal effects. Clintonites set off one false alarm
> after another to justify extending government’s right
> to intrude. The administration consistently sought to
> exploit technological development in order to maximize
> government’s control over the citizenry.

> A 1998 ACLU report observed that the Clinton
> administration had
>
> engaged in surreptitious surveillance, such as
> wiretapping, on a far greater scale than ever
> before…. The Administration is using scare tactics
> to acquire vast new powers to spy on all Americans.
> On April 16, 1993, the Clinton administration revealed
> that the National Security Agency had secretly
> developed a new microchip known as the Clipper Chip. A
> White House press release announced “a new initiative
> that will bring the Federal Government together with
> industry in a voluntary program to improve the
> security and privacy of telephone communications while
> meeting the legitimate needs of law enforcement.” This
> was practically the last time that the word
> “voluntary” was used.
>
> The Clipper Chip presumed that it should be a crime
> for anyone to use technology that frustrates curious
> government agents. The ACLU noted,
>
> The Clipper Chip proposal would have required every
> encryption user (that is, every individual or business
> using a digital telephone system, fax machine, the
> Internet, etc.) to hand over their decryption keys to
> the government, giving it access to both stored data
> and real-time communications. This is the equivalent
> of the government requiring all home-builders to embed
> microphones in the walls of homes and apartments.
> Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy
> Information Center, observed, “You don’t want to buy a
> set of car keys from a guy who specializes in stealing
> cars.” When the federal National Institute for
> Standards and Technology formally published the
> proposal for the new surveillance chip, fewer than one
> percent of the comments supported the plan.
>
> The administration eventually abandoned its Clipper
> campaign but stepped up its attacks on purveyors of
> encryption software.
For those of you that want to know what I mean by Government run aka
“socialized internet”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97692002

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/obama_says_internet_key_to_eco.php

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/72354

Do you have an internet income opportunity or program that you currently promote?

Are you doing any affiliate program?

Are you a shining success in the online income opportunity that you’re doing?

Are you making enough money and are you financially secured?

Read on, to discover how to succeed in any internet income opportunity and create true wealth.

Most people are like the hound dog that lies on his back and howls all day because he is in pains and feels lazy to get up and do something about it.

They waste their time and lives in dead end jobs that they hate.

Some dabble in various internet income opportunities.

They seem to think that their lives are like a TV show which will have a happy ending.

So they stay in the same job for years, waste their lives and whine.
Like a hound dog.

Some of them will retire, but will walk around for the rest of their lives wounded and miserable because of the stress they accumulated from their jobs.

The others will get downsized, and end up in the skid row, where they will continue howling and whining for the rest of their lives, unable to figure out where their happy ending went.

You don’t have to be a hound dog because you can do something about your current financial situation.

Most people rush into online income opportunity for various reasons.

Some people are tired of working hard at their jobs and desire an online income opportunity as away to escape from the 9-5 job rat race.

Some other people desire an internet income opportunity so as to earn extra incomes to supplement the money they make at their jobs.

Other people desire online income opportunity because of the comfort and freedom of working from their homes and the power it gives them to control their financial destinies.

There are some people who have bought an internet income opportunity because they are retired and need something to keep them busy.

When the internet gold rush happened about 6 years ago, millions of average people all over the world rushed into different types of internet income opportunities because they bought the internet hype of get rich fast.

Millions of companies were born overnight and they began to offer free affiliate programs.

Millions of people signed up with the mistaken notion that just by signing up and getting a free website to promote an internet income opportunity will make them rich over night.

This gave birth to various internet promotions and marketing.

One of the most annoying internet promotions was spa-mm-ing.

This in turn gave birth to anti-spam activism which has almost wiped out spamming.

After 1 or 2 years, most of these millions of people who rushed into internet income opportunities had to admit failure because they were not making any money.

Their dreams of fast internet wealth were shattered.

As a way to console themselves, they started labeling every online income opportunity as a scam.

Most of these people will buy an online income opportunity and after they download or receive it will claim that the internet income opportunity is a sc-am (even though they have not tried it yet and have no proof) and apply for a chargeback and a refund so as to eat their cake and have it also.

By so doing, they ripped off the sellers of these online income opportunities.

While some of the companies that promote internet income opportunities may engage in deceptive advertising, it is not true that all internet income opportunities are scams.

Most internet income opportunities are valid and can make the buyer a lot of money.

The problem is that most people who buy internet income opportunity are not capable of doing them because they are not business oriented.

Most of them don’t have a clue about marketing and internet promotion.

Most of them buy the programs or sign up in free affiliate programs and after they get the websites they don’t do any serious marketing.

A lot of these people don’t even know the difference between selling and marketing.

I have known some of these people who don’t even know how to write a simple business letter or e-mail.

They write an e-mail without beginning it with a salutation and at the end of the e-mail, they don’t include their names or phone numbers or physical addresses.

When they phone you and leave a message on your answering machine, they don’t even know that they have to state their names, the reason why they called and their own phone numbers and the best times you may call them back.

Most of them don’t even know how to create a folder or save or upload a file or install a software and yet they had signed up in 100 different affiliate programs and internet income opportunities and had dreams of making a million bucks overnight!

Is it any surprise that these people fail miserably?

The least that any serious business person should know how to do should be how to write a business letter.

Most of the people who fail in online income opportunity have no discipline and are disorganized.

They have the mistaken notion that working from home and doing an internet income opportunity program means that they can wake up anytime they like and that they can choose whether to work or not and when to work or not.

They fail to realize that doing an online income opportunity can be more demanding than doing a regular job.

Doing an online income opportunity requires more discipline and competence than a regular job because you may have to do many different chores all by yourself because at the beginning, you probably will be working alone and may not be able to hire helpers.

This means that you may have to play many roles and do so many things all at the same time.

You may be forced to become a website designer, a copy editor, a sales person, a customer service person, a spokes person, an attorney, a book keeper, an accountant and a publisher all at the same time.

This is one of the biggest reasons why most people fail in online income opportunity because they are unable to play all these roles at the same time.

Another reason why most people fail in online income opportunity is that they don’t spend enough money to promote it.

To attain success in any internet income opportunity may require that you spend thousands of dollars.

But most people spend $25 a month to place an ad and if they don’t make any sale, they conclude that the internet income opportunity doesn’t work and give up.

To succeed in any online income opportunity may require that you do different types of marketing and internet promotions.

Your website must be optimized and competently submitted to both the major directories and the search engines on a regular basis.

You must have a link exchange program that is effective.

You may have to do both online and offline marketing.

You may have to do many press releases in order to get free publicity and generate free traffic to buy your online income opportunity.

You may even have to do direct marketing to drive traffic to your websites.

This depends on what type of product or service that you promote.

You may have to go offline to find the targeted customers who need what you promote.

To succeed in doing this, you must know how to locate a targeted mailing list and how to test it.

You may have to do magazine and newspapers advertising too.

Above all, depending on the type of product or service that you’re promoting, it may take time for you to start seeing a return on your investment and to become profitable.

Unfortunately, most people that get into online income opportunity lack patience because they are looking for quick ways to make money.

For that reason, they don’t do enough marketing and internet promotion and don’t network and don’t spend enough money to generate traffic and so consequently they fail.

But when they fail, they are unable to admit that they are at fault.

Instead they blame the internet income opportunity and the company who sold it to them and label all internet income opportunities as sc-ams.

May these internet income opportunity insights open your eyes to the possibility of infinite wealth and success that can be yours.

Internet use is growing year to year, and as more and more people have access, more and more companies are recognising the importance of integrating some form of ecommerce as part of their marketing portfolio. The internet never goes offline, and sites are accessible every hour of the day – there are no opening and closing times on the internet. For the average working person, the ability to be able to do their shopping in the comfort of their own home is welcome, and is becoming a very popular method of purchasing goods. Even for customers who still prefer the reality of a high street store, the internet provides a way of researching the product they are after, to compare different prices from different outlets, and to gain a little bit of prior knowledge about what they want that they can be armed with when listening to the sales patter of an overly enthusiastic salesperson.

Another advantage of the internet is its worldwide reach. Retailers no longer have to have stores in many different locations to become a national brand – by selling through the internet, they can get their product seen by thousands more people. However, it is not as simple as setting up online and customers automatically flocking to your site; a lot of hard work needs to go into promoting your online store, in exactly the same way as a standard shop. The only difference is cost, in that whilst you may end up paying a couple of thousand pounds in total to be listed permanently in online directories such as Yahoo and Google, you will still make savings on start up fees, rent and other overheads that accompany a traditional store. These savings can then be passed on to the customers, who then get the products at a much cheaper rate than they would in the shops.

The disadvantages of having an ecommerce store lie with the security and privacy element. There has been an increase year to year in the amount of online fraud, which does nothing to calm the nerves of customers who are unsure whether to hand over their personal details over the internet. There is still a big difference in the number of customers who would use the internet to research a product and those who would actually make the purchase over the internet. Whilst above it was mentioned that running costs are a lot lower online, companies still need to employ a web team to keep the site up to date, and make any necessary changes. These workers would need to be more qualified and more skilled than the average shop assistant, for example. Finally, a lot of customers still need that reassurance of being able to touch the product, and see it in full 3D before they decide to buy – pictures can be deceiving, and no matter how high the quality of the image, products can seem entirely different in real life perspective.

Undoubtedly then, businesses would be foolish to overlook the power of the internet, and should do their utmost to incorporate some form of ecommerce into their current marketing portfolio, but be aware of the major differences between selling online and selling in real life, and build up a high level of trust with their customers.

GOOGLES 10th BIRTHDAY

Either Google or I mixed up their birthday date.  In my last newsletter I had it down as September 7th. It seems I was wrong. Google says its September 27th. (I like the day 27, as it is my birth date). But they need another 70 years to catch up to me.

Check their birthday page out, go to;

http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/

WEB PAGE TRANSLATION
This feature is particularly helpful if your search has non-English results.  Google offers a facility to auto-martially translate a page for you in English.  Currently, Google supports Italian, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese languages.

CURRENCY

It’s fairly easy to work out a price for your item in another currency. For example if you sell chairs for $35 each in the US and you want a price in British pounds, simply type ‘35 USD to GBP’ and Google will give you a rate.

WARNING FROM HOLLAND

Do not open any message with an attachment entitled ‘POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK,’ regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which “burns” the whole hard disc C of your computer. If you receive a mail called’ POSTCARD,’ even though sent to you by a friend, do not open it!

This is the worst virus announced by CNN, Microsoft and the most destructive.  This virus was first appeared in July of this year and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disk.

CLIPBOARD

Your Clipboard can be seen by any hacker.  For your protection you should not copy passwords, credit card numbers or other sensitive information. To prevent this from happening go to: Internet Explorer: Click Tools, Internet Options, Security tab, Internet section. Go down to the Security level box, and click the Custom Level button. Scroll down to Scripting, and find the entry, “Allow Programmatic clipboard access” or “Allow paste operations via script”. Click Disable or Prompt. Click OK.

LIGHTSIDE

A service call

Customer: “Can you give me Jacks phone number please”?

Service department: “I am sorry I don’t understand who your talking about”.

Caller: “on page 1, Section a, of the user guide it clearly states I need to unplug the fax machine from the AC wall socket and telephone Jack before cleaning. Now can you give me Jack’s number? 

Avoiding Counterfeit Prescription Drugs

Closely examine the packaging and lot numbers of prescription drugs and be alert of any changes from one prescription to the next.

Product promotions or cost reductions and other “special deals” may be associated with counterfeit product promotion.

Use caution when purchasing drugs on the Internet. Do not purchase medications from unlicensed online distributors or those who sell medications without a prescription. Reputable online pharmacies will have a seal of approval called the Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site (VIPPS), provided by the Association of Boards of Pharmacy in the United States.

SECURITY PROGRAMS

Looking for a picture of your star on the web? Be very careful; make sure your security programs are up to date.

Scammers and hackers are using popular stars to their website, and infecting their PCs’. If you search for pictures, wallpaper or screensavers of famous stars there is a good chance you will land on a hackers website.

ANOTHER Email scam 

For the last little while, emails have been circulating with a Subject Line that reads something like “Your Internet access is about to be suspended”.

If you open it, the email accuses you of downloading copyrighted stuff illegally.  It says your ISP is aware of your activities, and has a record of them.  To see it, you are asked to click a link or open the attachment.  You are strongly warned to cease these activities or else.

This is spam.  If you click on the link within or try to open the attachment, your computer may be infected with malware.  You should always type in the URL yourself, and do not unload any attachments unless you know for sure who is sending it, and you are expecting it.

Avoiding Internet Auction Fraud

Understand as much as possible about how the auction works, what your obligations are as a buyer, and what the seller’s obligations are before you bid.

Find out what actions the web site/company takes if a problem occurs and consider insuring the transaction and shipment.

Learn as much as possible about the seller, especially if the only information you have is an e-mail address. If it is a business, check the Better Business Bureau where the seller/business is located.

Examine the feedback on the seller.

Determine what method of payment the seller is asking from the buyer and where he/she is asking to send payment.

If a problem occurs with the auction transaction, it could be much more difficult if the seller is located outside the USA, Canada, because of the difference in laws.

Ask the seller about when delivery can be expected and if there is a problem with the merchandise is it covered by a warranty or can you exchange it.

Find out if shipping and delivery are included in the auction price or are additional costs so there are no unexpected costs.

There should be no reason to give out your social security number or drivers license number to the seller.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center or IC3, a partnership of the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, in 2007 released its latest annual report on victims’ complaints received and referred to law enforcement.

Among the results:

“Internet auction fraud was by far the most reported offense, comprising 44.9% of referred complaints. Non-delivered merchandise and/or payment accounted for 19.0% of complaints. Check fraud made up 4.9% of complaints. Credit/debit card fraud, computer fraud, confidence fraud, and financial institutions fraud round out the top seven categories of complaints referred to law enforcement during the year.”

For the full report, go to the IC3 webpage on statistics.

DROP SHIP, WHOLESALE

SaleHoo makes importing easy. SaleHoo is a leading directory of drop ship, wholesale, liquidation and manufacturing distributors, and presents a constant and reliable supply of wanted items. Start your importing adventure with SaleHoo, and then spread your wings over the world.

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Affiliate marketing is nothing more than a Web site network. Let’s say you own an interior decorating business. Your Web site is dedicated to promoting your company and reaching out to potential customers. While your service is basically traveling to locations and performing consultations for redecorating rooms and businesses, you know that those who are interested in redecorating their homes are also into household accessories such as candles, curtains, antique furniture, etc. In this case, affiliate marketing for home internet business would involve contacting companies who sell these items, getting their permission to post links to their sites on your Web site, and collecting a percentage of profit for each purchase that company receives because someone clicked the link from your site to theirs and bought an item.

In turn, these companies will probably post a link to your Web site on their site. Someone who is browsing for discount furniture may see the link to your interior decorating business and decide to contact you for a consultation. Once the contract is signed between you and the client, the Web site that sent business your way will then collect a referral fee.

For affiliate marketing for home internet business, having a business yourself is not even really a requirement. If you are nuts about hair products, you can make a living selling hair products without having to take orders or stock products. That’s what I’m talking about. No stocking product in your garage, taking orders and everything else associated with a typical business.

How is this done? Create a content based web site dedicated to hair tips and hair trends. Include columns and articles all about hair that will attract other hair gurus to your site. Make sure your content is packed with great information. After your Web site is established, contact several online beauty product stores and set up affiliate marketing agreements. Most of this is already done in most cases. That’s if you get with net savvy companies.

Those who hit your site and/or become a regular visitor will inevitably be interested in ordering these products advertised on your site. Once that advertisement link is hit by your site visitor, and a purchase is made, you will then receive commission.

The key to having successful affiliate marketing for home Internet business is simply continuing to increase traffic to your site. The more hits on your site, the more chances you have of gaining profit from purchases made through links on your site. Promoting your Web site, writing articles that contain appropriate keywords and instituting a newsletter to subscribers would be promising ways to attract browsers to your Web site.

More traffic equals more profits. The more traffic you can drive to your site, the more successful your home Internet business will be. If a company sees that your Web site is regularly visited by hundreds of people daily, you won’t have a problem with getting other businesses wanting to partner with you. I know what you’re thinking! Drive traffic? How do I do that?

How to Increase Your Site Traffic and Succeed With Your Affiliate Marketing Programs

Are you ready to get to work? Well, let’s get to it then! As an affiliate, your main objective is to sell the products and services offered by your partner merchants. Unless you can do this, you can never hope to make a significant amount of money with affiliate marketing programs. Ok, that’s it! Just kidding. So how do you boost sales? All things being equal, you will need to increase your site traffic before you can experience more sales. By the law of averages, the more people are aware of the products you are offering, the more products you will sell. It’s just that simple folks, it’s a numbers game.

I bet you want a few tips that can help you boost your site traffic don’t you? Here you go:

1. Optimize you site for the search engines. The most successful sites on the internet are the most visible ones. Now there are various ways to achieve increased visibility on the internet, but the foremost method is that of search engine optimization. The details are too technical to discuss here, but the purpose of search engine optimization (SEO) is to help your site achieve higher rankings on the search engines. If you have used a search engine, you will notice that any particular keyword search will return thousands, if not millions of results. Most people will not bother to browse through all those results; they will prefer to look into the sites already displayed. Statistically speaking, the sites listed on the first results page will garner the highest amount of traffic, putting those sites in a better position to make money.

2. Joining internet directories. While internet directories are no longer as widely used as search engines, some people do use them. It is important that you do not overlook the potential customers that these directories can bring to your site. To join an internet directory, you will have to submit your site for approval, and you will be categorized accordingly.

3. Provide fresh content. Your site must continually be updated if you expect your visitors to keep coming back. Your site must have useful content, as well as tools that will help your target audience. Make your site as easy to navigate as possible, and be sure that your links work the way that they should. There is nothing that frustrates people more than a “broken” website, and once your site has been labeled as such, chances are slim that many people will want to come back.

4. Build an online community. In other words, build relationships with your potential customers. Make your visitors feel welcome and appreciated, and they are likely to come back. Be interested in solving their problems and they will thank you with their business.
Making your affiliate marketing program work is really not that much different from operating a traditional business. The only way you can keep your customers is to treat them right. The Japanese have a saying: The customer is God. As long as you treat your customers with respect and exert effort in trying to meet their needs, you will find that they will be more than willing to help you with yours.

Affiliate Marketing and Requesting Customer Support

As a webmaster, you are bound to run into problems. Even though you have spent a good amount of time learning the affiliate marketing trade, sooner or later you will run into some challenges that you will need help to resolve. Areas such as e-mail services, affiliate marketing software, and online services are often particularly troublesome.

Unfortunately, getting help is not often easy, even from your web host. But there are ways to make the process simpler for both sides. Here are some questions that you might consider before you call your service provider:

Who are you? Many people report their problems without providing their personal information, such as their username. Unless the support team knows who you are, how do you expect them to solve your problem?

What is the problem? Be specific. Identify which product or service is not working properly. Keep in mind that you are just one of your web host’s customers. Unless you can pinpoint the problem, chances are pretty slim that you will receive appropriate and timely help.

What software are you using? Your web host’s support team will need information on the software you are using. For instance, they will ask you what type of system you are using in your computer. It is a well-known fact that certain applications do not work well on certain systems. Be sure to give any relevant details about the services or applications that you use.

When did the problem start? Identifying the time you became aware of the problem is important. If you have recently made any changes to your system and the problem appeared soon after, it is quite likely that particular change is the cause. Don’t withhold information from the support team; every bit of knowledge is crucial to identifying the source of difficulty.

What have you tried to fix the problem? If you have attempted to fix the problem yourself, be sure to include an account of your attempts in your report. Letting the support team know what you’ve already done will help them save time, and also make a more accurate diagnosis of what’s wrong.

Have you kept it simple? For security purposes, some support systems do not allow HTML display. To avoid having your e-mail intercepted, it is best to send your messages in plain text format.

Remember to be polite. Keep in mind that the support team is composed of human beings – they certainly will not appreciate if you maltreat them. Never insult them; never use profanity. If you want your problem to be resolved, it is better to hold your peace and act civilly. Despite what you may think, you are just one of their customers — they reserve the right to discontinue their services to you whenever they like.

These pointers will not always get you the speedy service that you deserve, but they can certainly help. Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest businesses to operate because you don’t have to mess with all the paperwork and stocking. This article is just a small sample of what it takes to be an affiliate home business operator. There are many programs available to help you out as I hope that this article clears up your questions. If you have more, you know where to go.

Growing use of internet now makes life easy as apart from getting pooled information, a user can now buy something using the online shops. But at the same time, there are numerous shops available with internet making it difficult to choose best one where you can get all the need fulfilled. Keeping this point of view, I was searching a website which contains the directory of all the leading online shops. Here is a website which is really fantastic in terms of providing such information bank. Expert4u.co.uk is a telecom portal, dedicated its services to the UK. Though the focus is on online mobile phone shops, still other telecom services such as Voip, Broadband internet etc is also available.

Online mobile phone shops are gathering momentum now days in UK for mobile phone selling. Buying a mobile phone using internet saves time and energy. With selected purchase exhilarating gifts are presented. Sometimes free home delivery and free insurance is too provided by these shops. In UK the most popular deals are phone contracts. Excellent contract deals are offered by network operators. In these contracts, phone for a particular time period is provided along with the network connection. Apart from mobile contracts, the second option available is pay as you go or SIM free. With online warehouse, both types of deals can be bought. With the website expert4u, you come to know some all those shops where you can get your desired deal of both the types. You will find various links through which you can directly jump to that website with a different window. You will also find the shops list through which you can get mobile insurance.

Trendy screensavers are latest drift in UK. To refresh mobile phone and to demonstrate themes, screensavers are considerably appealing. The same is applicable for the ringtones. From the time, polyphonic ringtones has incorporated in mobile phones, ringtones get a primary position in telecom industries. Now polyphonic ringtones combined with MP3 ringtones turn out astounding effects. Movie songs clips, voice clips, recorded sounds etc can be assigned as ringtones adding fun to the mobile life. With Expert4u, you come to know some online-shops from which stunning ringtones and screensavers can be purchased at very cheap price.

Mobile phones now used not only as a calling device but as a perfect entertainment tool. Music players, video streaming and many more such entertainment features are integrated with the handsets which are greatly helpful in providing full utilization of time. Games are one of them. The JAVA enabled handset can download new applications too. Therefore apart from built-in games, downloading of new games is feasible. At Exper4u, you will find some links which directly put you at some of the most cost-effective online games shops. Here, you will find out excellent games and at very cheap price.

VOIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. In simpler terms, it can be defined as “Internet telephony” or “Broadband telephony” through which voice conversations are transferred over the internet. Various companies are providing VOIP services, called providers, which use VOIP protocol to transmit voice signals over IP network. The voice clarity is remarkable and services for voice-transferring is relatively fast. Above all, VOIP services are cheaper than usual and it is wonderful for making international calls. There are numerous VOIP services providers in UK. At Expert4u, you will find the topmost service providers which have undoubtedly splendid services along with most competitive price plan and service rate. Here enlistment also contains the sites offering VOIP equipment, if you desire to establish your own VOIP router.

With Expert4u, it is not too hard to avail much required services. Online shops regarding Landline Phone connections, links to shops providing Digital TV services and URL of those shops providing Bundled Services are accessible with Expert4u. The digital TV services providers offers various plans and cheap rental. Apart from merchant sites, there are several affiliate sites and we, after detail analysis, put only those sites whose services are fast and effective as well as cheap. Comprehensive comparing and enlisting of all internet shops providing bundled services makes it easier to get quality deals. It is good to buy bundled services as generally in bundled services provides landline connection, internet connection, digital TV services etc together. With bundled services money can be saved as separate services could cost more. Again with one dealer all the required services can be availed instead of getting services from more providers.

Telecom services which include network management, network security, LAN and Routers can also be availed with online telecom shops. Networking for computers is become mandatory for office works, as file and data transfer, local messenger and many other functions is performed. For this purpose, LAN or Local Area Network is preferred choice and therefore becomes obligatory to buy it. The cheap price service can be bought well through online shops as comparison become simple.

Internet becomes integral part of various aspects of life. More or less the entire world uses this service to work faster. ISP or Internet Service Providers offers net connection either through modem or by line hookups. Usually the charges are monthly basis for both. Sometimes, ISP provides software to get domain names, browsers and many more to the customers. With larger players, internet forums and database may also be availed. The most telephone companies are ISP. Usually Dial-up and Broadband connection are offered in internet connection. In broadband connection the data transfer speed is faster than Dial-up connection. In UK it is good to get net connection through online shops. Here at Expert4u, you will find the best ISPs with their several price plans.

Telecom industry is one of the largest industries and constantly expanding. There are countless jobs available in this industry. Jobs in telecom sector are ever expanding and provide good career growth. At Expert4u, you will found job enlistment in the sector. UK specific as well as international openings are available with the website. Therefore get a job and make the sky your limit.

Demise of the Public Switched Telephone Network

For decades, PSTN has been the chosen communication platform for the transmission of alarm signals. Today, many are predicting its days are numbered. Two transmission paths have emerged as the preferred methods of communication between an alarm panel and Monitoring Centre – IP (the Internet) and GSM. This article will examine the pros and cons of each.

GSM Wireless Networks

In today’s high tech world, almost everybody owns a mobile phone. The perception is that GSM networks are very reliable and rarely suffer from network outages. This makes GSM a viable platform for alarm communications and three different technologies can be employed for signal transmission – SMS, Voice and Data. The reliability of SMS varies greatly from country to country and delays in message delivery rule it out from being considered a serious option in countries where messages can often be delayed for many hours. In countries that do not experience such delays, SMS can be a good low cost method of alarm communication, however, it is often not popular with alarm monitoring companies as it opens up the possibility of self monitoring where messages can be sent directly to the end users mobile phone.

The use of a GSM Dialer/Communicator allows an alarm panel modem to dial out and make a phone call to the Monitoring Centre over the GSM network. When a conventional analogue alarm receiver answers the call, an audio/voice channel is opened up and the alarm panel can communicate with the receiver just as it would over a PSTN line. This technology benefits from being alarm protocol independent and industry
experts claim a transmission success rate of somewhere between 80% and 100%.

PROS: Both SMS and Voice benefit from low equipment costs and low network rates.

CONS: SMS and Voice technologies do not allow for the cost efficient supervision of a connection to the Monitoring Centre and often the first anyone gets to know about sabotage or network failure is when a scheduled signal, or worse, an emergency signal fails to arrive.

GPRS Wireless Networks

The use of a GPRS data plan overcomes this problem and allows constant supervision of the connection between the protected premises and the Monitoring Centre. A GPRS device uses the GSM network to achieve an ‘always on’ wireless connection to the Internet. Once connected, it can communicate using Internet Protocols (IP) just like any other Internet enabled device. This allows the sending of regular heartbeats to the monitoring server so that any equipment failure, sabotage or loss of network can be detected within seconds.

GPRS devices do not support audio/voice communications, so any alarm signals using standard protocols such as Ademco Contact ID or Fast Format have to be converted from analogue to digital within the device itself. This is referred to as Dialer Capture. GPRS enabled devices are more expensive than SMS and Voice devices and the cost of data plans vary widely from country to country. Asian countries tend to have very reasonable rates whereas rates in North America are very restrictive.

CONS: All of the GSM technologies are vulnerable to sabotage from a GSM Jammer which can be
used to prevent devices from connecting to the network.

IP Networks (the Internet)

Due to the widespread availability of the Internet, a large number of consumers are turning to voice over IP for voice service. For the continuity of clear telephone calls from human to human it’s a simple case of unplugging your analogue telephone handset from the PSTN line and plugging it into an analogue terminal adapter to make and receive calls over the Internet. The human ear is very forgiving and even though delays and echo in voice conversations can sometimes be off-putting, both parties are usually able to understand each other.

Unfortunately, this is not the case with alarm communications. Somewhere between converting analogue into digital, traveling over the wire and converting digital back to analogue, things like noise and latency are introduced and along with other problems with VoIP networks, can cause alarm communications to fail.

An in depth knowledge of alarm panel protocols, alarm receivers and Internet protocols has made it possible for some solutions providers to allow the use of regular low cost ‘off the shelf’ VoIP ATA’s for the reliable transmission of alarm signals over the Internet. This obviously provides huge cost benefits to both installers and end users as devices can be sourced locally and existing Internet connections can be utilized as the transmission path.

It should be noted that these solutions do not use or rely on the services of a VoIP service provider. A fully controlled connection direct from the VoIP ATA device to the monitoring server effectively creates a private network.

CONS: All fixed wire IP solutions are subject to sabotage from line cut which prevent devices connecting to the network.

Dual Path Signaling

Even trusty old PSTN was not immune from network failure and was definitely prone to line cut attacks. The line cut vulnerability has been removed with the supervised connections incorporated by IP and GPRS solutions but it is clear that even they cannot guarantee 100% network uptime.

With this in mind, many consumers refuse to rely 100% on a single transmission path and insist on a secondary backup path. There are several combinations that can be used to provide a dual path solution with different levels of security. The lowest level dual path solution is provided by using a combination of PSTN and GSM. As PSTN continues to decline and neither path allows for cost efficient network supervision, this is not a future-proof option.

A more popular combination for cost sensitive applications is the use of the Internet as the primary path and GSM Voice as the secondary path. The Internet path benefits from network supervision and the GSM path can take over if the primary path fails. Certain model VoIP ATA’s used in conjunction with GSM dialer have the ability to send signals over the Internet when a panel dials the primary telephone number and over the GSM network when it dials the secondary telephone number.

A similar level of security can be provided by using GPRS as the primary path and PSTN as the secondary path. Some solutions providers claim a dual path capability by using GPRS as the primary path and GSM Voice or SMS as a secondary path. Others claim dual path capability by using two GPRS SIM cards. These claims are somewhat misguided as a GSM jammer will effectively prevent all communications over the GSM network regardless of which method is used. GSM can only ever be treated as a single path even though it allows for 3 different methods (SMS, Voice & GPRS) of transmission.

High security applications demand two independently supervised transmission paths and this is usually achieved by using the Internet as the primary path and GPRS as the secondary path. Both are fully supervised, so even if the primary Internet path fails the system is left with a supervised alternative path.

Some solutions providers claim that by using a combination of broadband Internet, GPRS, GSM, PSTN and Dialup Internet their product supports 5 paths. As both broadband and Dialup Internet generally depend on the availability of a PSTN line and GPRS depends on a GSM connection a more accurate claim would be that such a solution can use 5 different methods of communication over two independent transmission paths. A dual path solution with bells and whistles.

Remote Programming and Audio Verification

If it is important for your company to retain the ability to remotely program control panels or to open up a two way audio connection to the monitored site then you should carefully consider which of the above mentioned solutions you chose.

It is not possible to open up an audio path using GPRS. It is possible using GSM voice and PSTN, however, both usually attract call charges. You should check that the solutions provider supports both client and server initiated remote programming connections to the panel.

Some control panel manufacturers allow remote programming over the Internet but this method is proprietary and restricted to their particular brand. The preferred universal method is to use an audio connection over the Internet from a solution that incorporates a VoIP ATA as the primary transmission device. Such devices have the ability to reliably transmit alarm signals, allow operators to have two way voice conversations and allow Alarm Companies to remotely program any make of alarm panel over the Internet.

Summary

The cost and availability of the various networks, existing equipment and infrastructure, insurance requirements and other concerns may ultimately determine which solutions you chose to migrate from the analogue to digital world. My hope is that this article has helped cover some of the more technical aspects of the decision making process and makes your transition as smooth as possible.

GOOGLES 10th BIRTHDAY

Either Google or I mixed up their birthday date.  In my last newsletter I had it down as September 7th. It seems I was wrong. Google says its September 27th. (I like the day 27, as it is my birth date). But they need another 70 years to catch up to me.

Check their birthday page out, go to;

http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/

WEB PAGE TRANSLATION
This feature is particularly helpful if your search has non-English results.  Google offers a facility to auto-martially translate a page for you in English.  Currently, Google supports Italian, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese languages.

CURRENCY

It’s fairly easy to work out a price for your item in another currency. For example if you sell chairs for $35 each in the US and you want a price in British pounds, simply type ‘35 USD to GBP’ and Google will give you a rate.

WARNING FROM HOLLAND

Do not open any message with an attachment entitled ‘POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK,’ regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which “burns” the whole hard disc C of your computer. If you receive a mail called’ POSTCARD,’ even though sent to you by a friend, do not open it!

This is the worst virus announced by CNN, Microsoft and the most destructive.  This virus was first appeared in July of this year and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disk.

CLIPBOARD

Your Clipboard can be seen by any hacker.  For your protection you should not copy passwords, credit card numbers or other sensitive information. To prevent this from happening go to: Internet Explorer: Click Tools, Internet Options, Security tab, Internet section. Go down to the Security level box, and click the Custom Level button. Scroll down to Scripting, and find the entry, “Allow Programmatic clipboard access” or “Allow paste operations via script”. Click Disable or Prompt. Click OK.

LIGHTSIDE

A service call

Customer: “Can you give me Jacks phone number please”?

Service department: “I am sorry I don’t understand who your talking about”.

Caller: “on page 1, Section a, of the user guide it clearly states I need to unplug the fax machine from the AC wall socket and telephone Jack before cleaning. Now can you give me Jack’s number? 

Avoiding Counterfeit Prescription Drugs

Closely examine the packaging and lot numbers of prescription drugs and be alert of any changes from one prescription to the next.

Product promotions or cost reductions and other “special deals” may be associated with counterfeit product promotion.

Use caution when purchasing drugs on the Internet. Do not purchase medications from unlicensed online distributors or those who sell medications without a prescription. Reputable online pharmacies will have a seal of approval called the Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site (VIPPS), provided by the Association of Boards of Pharmacy in the United States.

SECURITY PROGRAMS

Looking for a picture of your star on the web? Be very careful; make sure your security programs are up to date.

Scammers and hackers are using popular stars to their website, and infecting their PCs’. If you search for pictures, wallpaper or screensavers of famous stars there is a good chance you will land on a hackers website.

ANOTHER Email scam 

For the last little while, emails have been circulating with a Subject Line that reads something like “Your Internet access is about to be suspended”.

If you open it, the email accuses you of downloading copyrighted stuff illegally.  It says your ISP is aware of your activities, and has a record of them.  To see it, you are asked to click a link or open the attachment.  You are strongly warned to cease these activities or else.

This is spam.  If you click on the link within or try to open the attachment, your computer may be infected with malware.  You should always type in the URL yourself, and do not unload any attachments unless you know for sure who is sending it, and you are expecting it.

Avoiding Internet Auction Fraud

Understand as much as possible about how the auction works, what your obligations are as a buyer, and what the seller’s obligations are before you bid.

Find out what actions the web site/company takes if a problem occurs and consider insuring the transaction and shipment.

Learn as much as possible about the seller, especially if the only information you have is an e-mail address. If it is a business, check the Better Business Bureau where the seller/business is located.

Examine the feedback on the seller.

Determine what method of payment the seller is asking from the buyer and where he/she is asking to send payment.

If a problem occurs with the auction transaction, it could be much more difficult if the seller is located outside the USA, Canada, because of the difference in laws.

Ask the seller about when delivery can be expected and if there is a problem with the merchandise is it covered by a warranty or can you exchange it.

Find out if shipping and delivery are included in the auction price or are additional costs so there are no unexpected costs.

There should be no reason to give out your social security number or drivers license number to the seller.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center or IC3, a partnership of the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, in 2007 released its latest annual report on victims’ complaints received and referred to law enforcement.

Among the results:

“Internet auction fraud was by far the most reported offense, comprising 44.9% of referred complaints. Non-delivered merchandise and/or payment accounted for 19.0% of complaints. Check fraud made up 4.9% of complaints. Credit/debit card fraud, computer fraud, confidence fraud, and financial institutions fraud round out the top seven categories of complaints referred to law enforcement during the year.”

For the full report, go to the IC3 webpage on statistics.

DROP SHIP, WHOLESALE

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The internet has done amazing things for society, but it has also created problems that didn’t previously exist. People are now able to communicate more easily and quicker than they could before things like email and social networking websites existed, but sometimes that online communication can lead to trouble. Often times, parents take the time and effort to warn their children about the risks of meeting strangers online, but all too often, adults fail to think about those risks for themselves. If you are going to start meeting new people online, it’s important to make sure you have a good home security system installed in your house.

 

No matter where you live, whether it’s in Washington or Florida, it’s always a good idea to have a home alarm system installed so you can protect yourself from any threats that may surprise you, but it’s particularly important to own such a system if you are interacting with strangers a lot. Many people want to think they are good at judging the character of new people they meet, and they want to believe that people are good deep down. Yet, the reality is that criminals are deceptive people who are excellent at tricking everyone they meet. Criminals who prey on people online aren’t going to come out and tell you that they want to steal from you because they need to gain your trust before they can easily sneak into your home. A lot of thieves prefer to steal from their victims without using violence, so they use deceptive tactics to get inside homes rather than using a gun to do so. Once inside, they may pull a gun on the homeowner because they’re out of the view of the public and have all of the control. Although it may not seem like a home alarm is the best form of home security for these kinds of crimes, they can be very effective in helping to stop a crime while it is happening.

 

Once you have an alarm installed in your house, you can easily contact the authorities to alert them that you need help. Home alarms don’t just help notify homeowners and the police when a break-in occurs, and you can use one to help protect yourself even if you are the one who invited a criminal into your home. These systems come equipped with an emergency panel that you can use to contact both a private security company and your local police or fire departments. If someone is doing something criminal inside your home, simply push one of the buttons to alert the authorities that a problem is happening on your property. They will respond quickly by calling your home, and then by sending someone over to check on you if no one answers the phone. If you invite someone that you met online over to your house, just make sure you are seated near the panel so you can use it to discreetly get help if you need to.

Congratulations on your new web business. Now you will need to focus on internet marketing. You have already found a domain name, secured website hosting, and had your website developed. You have also been working to find a niche product or item to sell. Your website is live but you’re not getting as many customers as you had hoped for. What can be done about that? You could embark on an Internet marketing campaign for your online business. That may sound a little intimidating for a beginner, but it’s easier than you may think! Let’s take a look at some cost effective and fun Internet marketing methods to attract more visitors to your site.

Offer your visitors interesting, informative and fresh content to read while visiting your site. While pictures are nice, you must recognize that most visitors are educated, if not highly educated individuals. Website visitors like reading content that is related to your website. Make sure your content is fresh, meaning new and unpublished. Having fresh content will help your rankings in search engines such as Google and Yahoo!

Your visitors will love having a newsletter from your site delivered to them weekly. You could include specials, coupons, and more free content in each newsletter. Make the newsletters exciting to read! If you lack the necessary skills to write a weekly newsletter about your product, then you could out source a newsletter writer to do that for you. Newsletter writers can be found in abundance on Elance.com, a freelance out sourcing company.

Most email programs offer the option of adding a signature to your outgoing emails. Advertise your site and increase traffic by adding a link to your website and a description of what your website is about. This Internet marketing method affords you the opportunity to make a new customer with each email sent.

Offer your visitors coupons for your products. Your customers and visitors will love the opportunity to receive free products or discounts on some of your most popular and sought after items.

When a customer purchases an item through your shopping cart, cross-sell another item that they will need or may want to have along with the item in the cart. Give suggestions on a few of your items that may go well along with the item that they’ve just purchased. For instance: A bookstore owner cross-sells custom bookmarks with every book that is sold. He also offers the companion book along with it. The possibilities are endless for you when you choose cross-selling as your method of Internet marketing.

Write articles and submit them to directories

This method of Internet marketing has become more popular. Website owners write articles about their particular product or industry and submit them to free directories. But the key to massive Internet traffic is in what is called the “Resource Box”. The resource box is where the author (you) include information about yourself, including your website address. These articles are then blasted all over the Internet and in turn you receive free traffic through your articles.

Place your website address on everything that you have. Stamp it on your utility bills, correspondence, business cards, flyers and more. If you want to give away free samples of your product at flea markets or craft shows, print up some gold or silver labels that have your website address and product information on it. There is no end to the possibilities when using offline promotion to promote your website.

Whatever method you use, take comfort in knowing that if you do your best and are creative in finding ways to market your website, you will have great success. Internet marketing is an art form that can be mastered. Research these methods and others to see which ones fit your needs and budget for your website. There is no guarantee that everything you try will work for you, but some will likely work. The key is finding which Internet marketing method is best for you.