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The WAVE Report on Digital Media
3D --- Media Creation --- Shared Space ---Published by 4th Wave, Inc.--- Issue #0531------------------8/5/05 |
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0531.1 Comprehensive Security Report
0531.2 Copyright Infringements
0531.3 Cryptography Needs
New Survey: Rapid Increase in the Use of Cryptography Points to a Growing Need for Key Management
0531.4 Disaster Preparedness
Enviro.BLR.com Survey Finds Most Environmental Pros Feel Unprepared for Disasters
0531.5 Vision Systems
New NI Machine Vision Board Combines FireWire with Industrial Digital I/O
0531.6 Virtual Law
Virtual Bar Association Formed to Build the Rule of Law In Cyberspace
0531.7 Keylog Hacking
0531.8 Virtual Education
Educators, Students and Parents Increasingly Frustrated by Costly Physics Textbooks
0531.9 Operating Systems
0531.10 Transportable Storage
NEC Solutions America Delivers High-End Storage to Small and Medium Businesses
0531.11 OLED Break-Through
Universal Display First to Achieve 30 Lumens Per Watt White OLED
0531.12 Anti-Phishing Work Group
Anti-Phishing Working Group Expands Online Identity Theft Charter
0531.13 Shader Graphics
Imagination Technologies Launches Programmable Shader Graphics Family for Wireless Applications
0531.14 Streaming Media
AccuStream Research: Streaming Advertising and Subscription Media to Reach $950 Mil. in '05
0531.15 Outsourcing Survey
0531.16 Internet Publishing
Yahoo! Launches Beta Publisher Network For Small- and Medium-Sized Publishers
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0531.1 Comprehensive Security Report
***IBM Report: Government, Financial Services and Manufacturing Sectors Top Targets of Security Attacks in First Half of 2005; 'Customized' Attacks Jump 50 Percent As New Phishing Threats Emerge
ARMONK, N.Y.
Aug. 2, 2005
IBM has reported that virus-laden emails and criminal driven security attacks increased by 50 percent in the first half of 2005 - underscored by a significant rise in 'customized' attacks on the government, financial services, manufacturing and healthcare industries.
This substantial increase, along with a decrease in less profitable threats, such as spam and simple computer viruses, indicates a growth in targeted attacks against specific organizations and industries -- apparently created with the purpose of stealing critical data, identities or extorting money.
The Global Business Security Index, a worldwide barometer of security trends collected and analyzed by IBM's Global Security Intelligence team and its partners, indicates that such customized, 'for profit' attacks have been predominantly directed at government agencies, financial services companies, healthcare organizations and large multinational corporations, particularly within the aerospace, petroleum, and manufacturing industries.
According to the report, there were more than 237 million overall security attacks in the first half of the year. The government was the most targeted industry, with more than 54 million attacks, while manufacturing ranked second with 36 million attacks, financial services was third with approximately 34 million, and healthcare was hit with more than 17 million attacks - accounting for more than 137 million of all attacks this year.
IBM has seen a resurgence of targeted phishing attacks for money laundering and identity fraud purposes, believed to be largely driven by criminal gangs that have become more astute in the creation and delivery of such attacks. According to its latest Global Business Security Index, in the first half of the year, there were more than 35 million phishing attacks launched to steal critical data and personal information for financial gains.
Spawns of phishing threats such as 'spear phishing' - highly targeted and coordinated attacks at a specific organization or individual designed to extract critical data - increased more than ten-fold since January of this year alone. Unlike in previous years, when viruses were mainly created and launched to slow down and cripple IT systems, these types of 'customized' attacks have shown their potential to defraud businesses, steal identities and intellectual property and extort money, while damaging the brand and eroding customer trust.
The ratio of spam to legitimate email continuously decreased over the course of the last six months, from 83 percent in January to 67 percent in June 2005, while virus-laden email increased fifty percent over the same period. At first glance what appears to be good news - the leveling off of massive outbreaks that cripple IT environments on a regional or global basis in the past six months - seemingly indicates that hijacking computers to send spam is no longer the network disruption of choice.
Hackers have turned toward more criminal and lucrative areas of directing attacks to specific individuals or organizations, often financially, competitively, politically or socially motivated. IBM's Global Business Security Index shows that in December of 2004, one in every 52 emails was infected by some sort of malicious security threat; by January it was one in every 35 emails, and by June, that ratio increased to one in every 28 emails - signifying a fifty percent increase from last year - a disturbing trend for businesses and consumers alike.
Additional key findings from IBM's First Half 2005 Global Business Security Index:
-- Virus-laden emails increase: In January of 2004, 1 in every 129 emails was virus laden; by December 2004, it increased to one in every 51 emails. In January of 2005, the number was one in every 35; by June, the number had grown to one in every 28 emails
-- Phishing gains: 35.7 million emails contained some form of phishing attack; spear phishing directed attacks rose from one of every 56 emails in January, to more than 600,000 in June
-- Spam levels off: Spam consistently decreased from 83 percent of all emails in January to 67 percent of all emails in June 2005
-- Attacks by industry: the government was the most targeted industry with more than 54 million targeted attacks, manufacturing ranked second with almost 36 million attacks recorded, and financial services was third with a little over 34 million**
-- Attacks by location: Over the past six months, the United States was the source of the most attacks with 12 million, followed by New Zealand with 1.2 million, and China with approximately one million; Ireland was last with more than 30,000 attacks
-- Attacks by day: Increased critical security events are seen on Fridays and Sundays
-- Attacks by category: Reconnaissance attacks - probes to discover what devices, software, or vulnerabilities may exist - totaled more than 108 million, followed by service attacks of more than 61 million, web attacks with 29 million, denial of service attacks with 26 million; security administration was last with more than 230,000 attacks
-- Top 10 malware (malicious software) detected, by family, included: W32.Mytob; W32.Agobot; W32.Opaserv; W32.Sober; Ranky and Sdbot Dropper; W32.Backdoor; W32.Ranky; W32.Mydoom; W32.Sdbot and W32.Maslan
-- New threats emerged:
In March 2005, the emergence of a potential new threat affecting the Internet - pervasive Domain Name Service (DNS) cache poisoning was discovered. DNS cache poisoning is the act of corrupting a DNS server's ability to map machine host names to its proper IP address and would hijack visitors to an advertisement or inappropriate web site instead. While these types of threats have been seen for a few years, the new version uses two new technologies and any DNS server that is not configured properly may be susceptible to this type of attack
In May 2005, a malware business was uncovered operating from iframeDOLLARS.biz. This Web site attempted to recruit partner Web sites to host a variety of malicious code to exploit Internet Explorer browsers, which paved the way for numerous trojans, backdoors and spyware installed on a computer
The IBM Global Business Security Index Report is a monthly report that assesses, measures and analyzes potential network security threats based on the data and information collected by IBM's 3,000 worldwide information security professionals and thousands of monitored devices.
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/offering/bcrs/a1008776
0531.2 Copyright Infringements
***Startling Data from Outsell, Inc. Shows Information Users Disregard Copyright Rules, Put Enterprises at Risk; Outsell Analysts Say Ignorance Is Far from Blissful When It Comes to Copyright Violations
BURLINGAME, Calif.
Aug. 2, 2005
The Internet, in all its viral glory, has led to a copyright infringement pandemic that is sweeping the globe, according to Outsell, Inc. People are forwarding information to their peers from the open Web, publishing sites and corporate portals without a clear understanding of whether the forwarding is authorized.
Outsell analysts say the information industry needs to unite and take action to harness this challenge, which is robbing them of significant revenues. Enterprises that are guilty for not adhering to copyright restrictions -- wittingly or otherwise -- risk being sued by companies whose information is wrongly shared.
Startling Statistics
Outsell surveyed 2,000 end users of business information, as well as conducted expert interviews and gleaned information from a database of information best practices to unearth startling statistics on common user behaviors and attitudes. In the new HotTopics report, The Global Copyright Pandemic: A First-Aid Kit for Publishers and Information Providers they reveal that:
-- Eighty-nine percent of workplace information users forward content (articles, pictures, video, clips, etc.) to others. Their behavior is consistent regardless of their age, professional role or company size. On average, users forward just under eight times each week, to an average of nine people each time.
-- Based on this percentage, Outsell conservatively estimates that 56 billion documents are flung far and wide around the globe each year -- many without proper authorization.
-- Only about 10 percent of business information users feel uncomfortable sharing free information from the open Web or print sources. 60 percent feel it's just fine.
-- Fewer than 30 percent of information users believe their organizations obtain permissions in a timely manner. In a real-time, blazing-fast world where taking too much time to gather mission-critical information is a hindrance, asking permission is just another speed bump to them.
The Outsell report identifies three "hot zones" fueling the pandemic -- publishers/aggregators, enterprises, and industry associations. It covers a variety of solutions, from transaction-based licensing to expanded micropayments, and provides essential actions for information companies navigating copyrighting complexities.
***New Survey: Rapid Increase in the Use of Cryptography Points to a Growing Need for Key Management
CAMBRIDGE, England
Aug. 2, 2005
nCipher's 2005 survey of a cross-section of 237 security decision-makers (one-third of them senior management) at companies throughout the world reveals that cryptography is no longer a niche technology. These respondents indicate that they are rapidly increasing their use of cryptography to address an expanding range of security needs. The increasing use of cryptographic keys across such a wide array of functions such as encryption, decryption, signing and authentication means that use of these keys is becoming more complex and diverse, that they are becoming more numerous and that different keys are subject to different security policies. These trends will greatly complicate the management of keys across the enterprise.
In its 2005 study on encryption and the use of cryptography, cryptographic security systems vendor nCipher found that 74% of respondents said that they are using or plan to use encryption in the next 18 months to help address at least five major enterprise security issues including:
-- Authentication of people
-- Authentication of devices
-- Secure communications
-- Protecting data at rest
-- Protecting data integrity
-- Remote connectivity
Currently, just 35% are using encryption right now for five or more security issues, indicating that an additional 39% plan to use cryptography to secure new issues within the next 18 months. This is a significant indication that cryptography is rapidly maturing and is no longer a niche security tool.
As the use of encryption increases so does the number of cryptographic keys within the enterprise. Already, 16% of respondents report that they have more than 1,000 keys on servers, and 24% have more than 1,000 keys on desktops. In the next order of magnitude, 9% of respondents report that they have more than 10,000 keys on servers, and 11% report they have more than 10,000 keys on desktops.
Other significant findings from the survey include:
-- SSL isn't just for the Internet anymore; many respondents are using SSL internally to protect data in motion, authenticate servers and protect against attack
SSL is already widely used to protect e-commerce transactions over the Internet, with 81% of respondents using SSL for Internet-facing servers. But SSL has also become a key component of internal security: 45% of respondents use SSL to protect traffic between internal servers. This is not simply a case of using external security for an internal use. While typical Internet deployments require only one unique certificate per Web site, the use of SSL internally requires a unique certificate for each server. The result is an exploding number of cryptographic keys and certificates within the enterprise.
-- Encryption protects data-at-rest
To protect data-at-rest, 82% of respondents use encryption or plan to use it within 18 months. Data-at-rest could be protected at a number of layers - backup tapes, storage systems, databases or within the application itself - but wherever data-at-rest is encrypted, the protection of long-lived data gives rise to additional key management challenges for enterprises, including the need to securely escrow and recover keys, potentially for many years.
-- Growth for cryptography in device authentication
49% of respondents said that they plan to use 802.1x technologies to authenticate devices, control user traffic to a protected network and reduce the security vulnerabilities associated with connections. Again, as the general issue of authentication expands to include the authentication of devices and even applications – not just users -- the number of cryptographic keys within the enterprise will grow rapidly.
-- Security decision-makers are rapidly deploying Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) to encrypt data within desktop and laptop computers
25% of respondents have already deployed or plan to deploy next generation, TPM-enabled desktop and laptop computers within the next two years, demonstrating that enterprises increasingly want to protect keys within dedicated hardware security components. While this reflects an impressive adoption rate for a relatively new technology. 28% of respondents didn't know what their plans were regarding the new TPM-based security features.
http://www.ncipher.com/crypto2005/
***Enviro.BLR.com Survey Finds Most Environmental Pros Feel Unprepared for Disasters
OLD SAYBROOK, Conn.
Aug. 2, 2005
In the midst of an active hurricane season and less than a year after the deadly tsunamis in Asia, a majority of EHS professionals feel that their facilities' emergency planning is not ready to handle a natural disaster, according to an online poll conducted by Enviro.BLR.com.
Fifty-six percent of respondents said "no" when posed the question "Do you think your facility is prepared for a natural disaster?" The poll was conducted July 14 to July 20 and had 151 participants.
Enviro.BLR.com's team of environmental compliance editors recommends that, at a minimum, facilities take the following steps:
-- Identify vital records and create a backup for storage in a safe place.
-- Train employees on what to do in the event of a disaster.
-- Compile and make employees aware of a list of emergency telephone numbers.
-- Inventory and repair all disaster response equipment.
-- Identify emergency power requirements, and purchase a generator, if necessary.
-- Determine computer requirements for employees who must maintain operations during a disaster.
-- Verify that communications equipment is operational.
-- Collect, label, and store emergency supplies.
-- Ensure that your facility is in compliance with any legal or regulatory requirements (e.g., Resource Conservation and Recovery Act or OSHA regulations).
Copies of all EPA and OSHA emergency response regulation are available at Enviro.BLR.com. To help in the development of a disaster response plan, BLR is providing a free copy of its feature article "Emergencies: Readiness Makes a Difference" at the following link:
http://www.blr.com/80502500/PRS37
***New NI Machine Vision Board Combines FireWire with Industrial Digital I/O; With NI Reconfigurable I/O Board, Engineers Now Can Trigger, Synchronize IEEE 1394 Cameras
AUSTIN, Texas
Aug. 2, 2005
Engineers building machine vision systems now can trigger and synchronize multiple IEEE 1394 (FireWire) cameras without requiring additional digital I/O or custom circuitry using the new National Instruments PCI-8254R image acquisition board. The NI PCI-8254R board, which features NI reconfigurable I/O technology, combines an IEEE 1394 host adaptor with the digital I/O required for industrial control and communication.
Traditionally, engineers developing machine vision systems with FireWire were required to purchase extra hardware or build custom circuitry to synchronize their system components. With the new PCI-8254R board, engineers can access 29 digital I/O lines for synchronizing vision components such as cameras, triggers and lights. In addition, they can use quadrature encoder inputs, pulse generation lines and general-purpose digital I/O for communicating with actuators, PLCs and NI programmable automation controllers (PACs). To help integrate and troubleshoot signals, NI also offers an I/O terminal block and prototyping accessory that simulates inputs and displays outputs on LEDs.
Engineers can extend the functionality of the PCI-8254R board by taking advantage of NI reconfigurable I/O technology. Using the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module, engineers can customize the board's 29 digital I/O lines to perform a wider variety of packaging inspection, assembly verification and robot control applications.
The PCI-8254R image acquisition board includes two IEEE 1394a ports and the NI-IMAQ for IEEE 1394 Cameras driver software to help engineers access, configure and acquire images from up to 16 cameras.
***Virtual Bar Association Formed to Build the Rule of Law In Cyberspace; InternetBar.org Will Link Lawyers in Online Collaboration Across Cultures
CHICAGO
Aug. 2, 2005
An international group of legal practitioners is launching InternetBar.org, a virtual bar association, and its sister educational and research institution, the InternetBar.org Institute. The formal announcement will be made here on August 4 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Bar Association.
InternetBar.org has been established to serve as a catalyst and convener of excellence, creating an online community of trust for systematically advancing the rule of law in cyberspace and altering substantially current legal practice paradigms in the virtual world. It is widely believed that the establishment of the rule of law in cyberspace is of critical importance for the continued growth of e-commerce.
InternetBar.org seeks to create ethical ways for lawyers, jurists and courts to collaborate in cyberspace and harmonize the rule of law in the evolving virtual world. As a virtual bar association, InternetBar.org is dedicated to engendering widespread global collaboration, providing the highest quality education and training and undertaking sophisticated outreach.
InternetBar.org will establish strategic alliances and undertake joint programs with national, regional and local bar associations, universities and other educational institutions and other organizations throughout the world, in order to connect leading entities, engage the best thinking and take advantage of rapid advances in technology, Internet law and related disciplines.
Using the Internet and open source software, InternetBar.org and the Institute will develop and test new practices to achieving the rule of law in cyberspace, and disseminate these broadly via multiple channels so that individuals and organizations - specialists in law and justice as well as interested non-specialists anywhere in the world - will be able to take advantage of its programs, practice outcomes and educational activities.
Members of InternetBar.org will have access to cutting-edge education and training on how to practice law in cyberspace legally, ethically, safely and successfully. They will learn to collaborate across cultural and national borders using the Internet and open source software. Members will participate in emerging global consensus about human rights and the rule of law worldwide. The culture of collaboration, rather than conflict, will be encouraged, and members will have the opportunity to be trained in Online Dispute Resolution (ODR).
InternetBar.org membership is available to any person who shares its mission and values, and will be offered without a fee through 2007.
***StrikeForce Squelches Keylogging for Online Customers; GuardedID(TM) Makes Keystrokes Invisible to Hackers
EDISON, N.J.
Aug. 2, 2005
StrikeForce Technologies has introduced GuardedID, the first anti-keylogging technology designed for financial service institutions and e-commerce Web sites to provide safe online customer interactions - and help prevent identity theft.
Sites with GuardedID ensure fail-safe protection against programs that may be secretly installed on users' systems - and help restore customer confidence in online banking, purchases, transactions and forms used to collect private information.
GuardedID's core strength is that it encrypts data at the keystroke level, bypassing the multiple communication areas vulnerable to keyloggers: the operating system kernel, keyboard driver and messaging service, all which communicate to the Web browser. Hackers' programs lay in wait there to capture keystrokes revealing sensitive data, including user names, passwords, account information and Social Security numbers. Keylogging tools confronting sites with GuardedID will draw a blank: either an empty page or a series of useless "tab" keys.
StrikeForce's suite of identity assurance solutions is used by financial institutions, credit unions and online merchants to prevent identity theft at the greatest points of vulnerability: when new accounts are created and when transactions occur. Its holistic platform offers identity verification and ten methods of highly secure 2-factor authentication to help provide choice and redundancy as customers prove they are who they say they are. StrikeForce's solutions work with a broad range of devices, including cell phones and PDAs.
Stopping the Bad Guys
The market for identity theft is immense: there are more than 250 keylogging tools, many of them free. Hackers have created thousands of sites that can deceptively deploy keyloggers on visitors' systems, according to Websense Security Labs; just visiting an infected page or downloading an innocent-looking file is to risk identity theft.
By extending the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) down to the keyboard level, GuardedID goes several steps beyond today's best-attempts at personalized security. Many of the newest tools match a secret image, like a user-selected photo, with the customer's login. But because many keyloggers also capture images as a matter of course, this image-driven approach leaves banks with another gaping security hole - and places customers at risk, even when they think they're safe.
Identity theft cost $52.6 billion in 2004, according to Javelin Strategy and Research. This number is almost certain to rise in 2005, with nearly 50 million individual records stolen in several large-scale breaches so far this year.
http://www.strikeforcetech.com
***Educators, Students and Parents Increasingly Frustrated by Costly Physics Textbooks; Kinetic Books Responds with Interactive Physics Curriculum at a Savings of about 66 Percent Per Student
SEATTLE
Aug. 2, 2005
At colleges and universities around the country, students are paying $900 per year on average for their textbooks, and over $120 for a physics textbook. High school districts are dropping hard sciences and related lab classes because of decimated budgets. American students continue to lag their counterparts around the world in math and science achievement, at risk to fall behind in the global economy, according to industry experts.
Seattle-based Kinetic Books Company has announced some relief for those struggling to balance quality education with insane textbook prices. Combating high prices, and already having demonstrated how they can excite students about a future in science, the company has created a comprehensive digital physics textbook that costs one-third the price of traditional print textbooks, and a suite of virtual labs that allow for more student involvement and experimentation. At a starting price of $24.95 per student, these new products offer a quality alternative to expensive textbooks, and provide the dynamism and interactivity students seek today.
The digital textbooks and lab created by the Seattle-based company cover first-year physics and include hours of audio, hundreds of interactive java simulations, thousands of animations, hundreds of interactive problems and the requisite end-of-chapter problem sets. The textbook is a complete text covering all the topics from the top textbook vendors for introductory, two-semester physics curricula and is already in use by over 100 instructors and over 4,000 students across the United States and Canada.
Kinetic Books offers three digital textbooks created specifically for different levels of introductory physics: Conceptual Physics, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, and Principles of Physics. Kinetic Books' Virtual Physics Labs is a stand-alone product consisting of 16 labs, and does not require calculus or the use of the company's textbooks. Some of the labs include planning a mission to Mars, and determining velocity using a multi-player cannon game.
In a new version, shipping now for Windows and Macintosh computers, Kinetic Books has included two new chapters on quantum and nuclear physics, as well as new features. To enable students to become further involved in the learning process, the products now also allow students and teachers to add notes and highlight text.
Both the textbook and labs are offered in four pricing strata, starting at $24.95 for individual pricing. Class Set, Computer Lab and Web Access pricing models are also offered. Evaluation copies are available for instructors at no charge.
***MontaVista Breaks Barriers to Native, Hard Real-Time Linux
SUNNYVALE, Calif.
Aug. 2, 2005
MontaVista Software, Inc., has announced native, hard real-time developments to the Linux kernel, thus moving closer to achieving interrupt response characteristics -- the minimum time between the initiation of a command and the execution of an action -- previously attributed to specialized and proprietary commercial real-time operating systems.
MontaVista's new hard real-time developments filter the roughly 6 million lines of Linux code down to around 100 critical interrupt-code segments. The condensed code-base allows users to easily migrate applications developed on proprietary, real-time operating systems to the Linux platform -- giving them both choice and flexibility.
Handset manufacturers and network equipment providers are being pressured to deliver new, unique solutions and services. Such demands cause software requirements to outstrip the capabilities of aging real-time operating systems, making way for Linux to become the strategic end-to-end platform used in building next generation communications infrastructure and mobile and wireless devices.
In October 2004, MontaVista launched the "Open Source Real-Time Linux Project" and contributed reference implementations based on the company's work in the area of real-time Linux determinism. Since that time, community input has taken the original reference concept into a full-fledged real-time kernel that is now suitable to run high-end multimedia and other time-critical embedded applications for the mobile handset and telecommunications markets.
MontaVista's most recent work further enhances the community-established real-time foundation, which pushes the Linux kernel's performance and predictability. MontaVista compared worst-case kernel preemption and interrupt latency against the Community 2.6.12.3 kernel using Fast Real-time Domain (FRD) benchmarks. The results proved MontaVista Linux has 30 times better overall real-time performance. Today's real-time milestone further advances the kernel toward predictable response times, making this one of the last hurdles in evolving a hard real-time Linux kernel.
The native, hard real-time developments, jointly developed with the Linux Open Source community, will be included as a standard feature in next generation MontaVista products.
http://www.mvista.com/products/realtime.html
***NEC Solutions America Delivers High-End Storage to Small and Medium Businesses; NEC Launches Two New SMB Storage Arrays Bundled With Advanced Software; Storage Offerings Ship Pre-Configured for Availability, Performance and Reliability
SANTA CLARA, Calif.
Aug. 3, 2005
NEC Solutions (America), has introduced two new storage disk arrays, advanced management software and pre-configured bundles that deliver high-end features and functionality to the small-to-medium business (SMB) market. The new bundles, pre-configured for reliability, performance and availability, will help businesses address growing strategic concerns, including regulatory compliance, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), business continuity/disaster recovery and email governance.
NEC's new S2400 and S1400 disk arrays provide up to 27.6 terabytes (TB) and 13.8 TB of storage capacity respectively, and both are designed to be integrated in a DAS and SAN environment. An updated version of NEC's Storage Manager Software will simplify management by providing real-time monitoring and statistical performance information across all storage devices.
The products will be offered in build-to-order, as well nine pre-configured solutions, providing easy implementation for companies with different storage requirements:
-- NEC's Availability Solution is designed for corporations, healthcare facilities, financial institutions and government agencies where the priority is compliance, zero downtime and advanced disaster recovery/business continuity. This bundle features NEC's Dynamic Data Replication technology, providing maximum uptime and disaster recovery backup capabilities ensuring data is accessible and safe, as well as NEC's Dynamic Snap Volume software, which cost-effectively creates up to 16 snapshots of data. The entire NEC solution bundle features NEC's Phoenix technology that allows access to the server while checking a faulty disk drive.
-- NEC's Performance Solution is optimized for the Network ISP, ASP and SSP markets, where delivering superior storage operation and functionality is paramount. This bundle, combined with the S2800 advanced cache partitioning feature, enables end-users sustained high performance through advanced cache allocation management. It also ships with high-speed RAID configurations based on NEC's unique RAID Engine.
-- NEC's Reliability Solution is designed for organizations where secure business operations and 24/7 information access are major priorities; this includes companies in the financial and healthcare sectors. This bundle is based upon RAID 6 technology that enables higher availability than standard RAID 5 technology, and ships with NEC StorageManager, PathManager, Performance Monitor and Navigator.
NEC Solutions America's new storage solutions will be sold under the NEC Express Partner Program, which provides access to NEC's complete line of Fault Tolerant and Itanium 2 servers and enterprise software. NEC's commitment to the Express Partner Program provides participants with the ability to receive business planning, certification and sales training, sales incentives, financial programs, demonstration resources, demand generation, and dedicated technical and sales support.
NEC's S1400 and S2400 bundled solutions will begin shipping in September, and will be available through Avnet Partner Solutions, Americas and Team 1 Systems. The NEC S2800 is currently now available.
***Universal Display First to Achieve 30 Lumens Per Watt White OLED; Researchers Announce Record-Breaking Power Efficiency Achievement Using Novel Striped Red-Green-Blue OLED Architecture At 2005 SPIE Symposia
EWING, N.J.
Aug. 2, 2005
Universal Display Corporation has announced the demonstration of a white OLED lighting panel with a record power efficiency of 30 lumens per watt (lm/W) using the Company's PHOLED phosphorescent OLED technology at The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Symposia and Exhibition held in San Diego, CA.
The Company's white OLED performance is based on a novel panel design that consists of an array of red, green and blue colored stripes. Adjusting the intensity of each primary color generates infinite shades of white color, typically characterized by color temperature and color rendering index. Power efficiencies of this 6" x 6" prototype panel were measured at color temperatures between 2,900 and 5,700 degrees Kelvin (K). The record 30 lm/W white OLED power efficiency was achieved at a color temperature of 4,000 K, which is comparable to the color temperature and power efficiency of a cool fluorescent lamp. By comparison, typical incandescent light bulbs emit light at around 15-20 lm/W with a color temperature of 2,900 K. This panel can also operate very brightly. For example, this 6" x 6" panel produced 150 lumens of optical power, at an efficiency of 15 lm/W and 3,700 K color temperature. The record performance of this novel OLED panel is also based on the Company's proprietary PHOLED technology which enables very high efficiency of the constituent red, green and blue stripes. In addition, the color rendering index was greater than 80 across the measured color temperatures because of the broad spectral output of the combined colors.
Lighting consumes approximately 765 trillion Watt-hours (TWh) of electricity each year in the United States, or nearly 30% of all electricity produced for buildings. This translates into a cost of almost $58 billion per year for consumers to light their homes, offices, streets, and factories, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Increasing the efficiency of lighting by a small amount has the potential to generate tremendous savings in both cost and energy use. The development of this white-emitting OLED lighting panel is an important step in this direction.
This advance was reported in a paper, entitled "Phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices for solid-state lighting," presented at the SPIE Optics and Photonics 2005 Symposia, on Monday, August 1st, by Dr. Brian D'Andrade, Senior Scientist at Universal Display, at the San Diego Convention Center. This work was partially funded by a U.S. Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant.
http://www.universaldisplay.com
0531.12 Anti-Phishing Work Group
***Anti-Phishing Working Group Expands Online Identity Theft Charter Launches New Crimeware Report to Track Automated Phishing Technologies and Criminal Spyware
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
Aug. 3, 2005
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has announced that it has expanded its charter to encompass broader identity theft issues on the Internet. The members and steering committee of the APWG have requested the group to expand its focus to encompass emerging identity theft problems including pharming (DNS attacks) and crimeware (malicious spyware designed to steal identities). The APWG is a non-profit consortium of over 1,000 financial institutions, ISPs, security vendors and law enforcement agencies worldwide.
The APWG this month launched "PROJECT: Crimeware", an investigation into malicious software that steals consumer, government and enterprise access credentials and uses them for attacks, identity theft and financial fraud.
While the number of conventional phishing campaigns reported to the APWG rose from 14,987 in May to 15,050 in June, the number of unique crimeware instances detected that were dedicated to password stealing nearly doubled from 79 in May to 154 in June. In a similar trend, the number of password-stealing malicious code URLs detected grew from 260 in April to 495 in May and to 526 in June.
The APWG will be expanding and augmenting the data on crimeware in its monthly reports, drawing from the independent research by its member companies. This month, PandaLabs joins contributing researchers from Websense (WBSN) and Tumbleweed Communications (TMWD). PandaLabs reports in June's APWG survey its finding of a Trojan-type phishing system which includes a list of thousands of brandholders' domains, demonstrating the advance of phishing technology toward automated wide-scope consumer-credential capture techniques.
APWG Secretary General Peter Cassidy said, "Clearly, phishers are in the midst of redrafting their techniques to improve the probabilities of success in their campaigns. A conventional phishing campaign plays the long odds of successfully planting a lure mail into the inbox of a consumer who does business with the targeted brandholder and the longer odds, still, of fooling the consumer into helping the phisher commit his crime by responding.
The APWG June Phishing Trends Report is available at the APWG website. The URL is:
http://antiphishing.org/APWG_Phishing_Activity_Report_Jun_05.pdf
***Imagination Technologies Launches Programmable Shader Graphics Family for Wireless Applications
London, UK
July 29, 2005
The PowerVR SGX cores for wireless applications are part of Imagination's PowerVR Series5 scalable and fully programmable unified shader graphics and video core family, previously codenamed Eurasia. The first cores from this family target mainstream and performance mobile graphics with state-of-the-art support for 2D and 3D and an industry leading feature set that exceeds OGL 2.0 shader and Microsoft Vertex and Pixel Shader Model 3 requirements.
PowerVR SGX is available for licensing in three scaled variants (PowerVR SGX510, SGX520, SGX530) with sizes ranging from less than 2mm2 to 8mm2 in 90nm technology. These variants will enable a wide range of mobile devices from basic phones and entry-level feature phones to mainstream feature phones and advanced feature and smart phones.
PowerVR SGX enables the highest performance, most efficient and lowest power consumption solution for handheld 3D graphics and video. Each scalable PowerVR SGX variant provides highly flexible support for video codecs with zero silicon overhead, using the advanced programmability of the core.
PowerVR SGX builds on the architectural benefits found in Imagination's PowerVR MBX family, which is already the de facto standard for mobile graphics with licensees including six of the world's top 10 semiconductor manufacturers. The first PowerVR SGX deliverables will be available for shipping to lead partners from next quarter.
The PowerVR SGX family will co-exist alongside PowerVR MBX, which is currently integrated in a variety of devices including mobile handhelds, car navigation and entertainment systems.
PowerVR SGX510, SGX520 and SGX530 are compatible with content created for PowerVR MBX. PowerVR SGX is backwardly compatible with key features from the PowerVR MBX family like the vertex shader programs and 2 and 4-bit PVR-TC(tm) texture compression. These compatibilities, and continued support for all existing PowerVR extensions to OpenGL ES 1.1, allow comprehensive software support developed on the PowerVR MBX platform to be carried forward to PowerVR SGX.
The PowerVR SGX Difference
The new-generation PowerVR SGX offers all the advantages of PowerVR's highly efficient tile based architecture. Unlike traditional graphics solutions that demand expensive memory or very large silicon areas, PowerVR's unique, patented tile-based rendering and deferred pixel shading architecture allows a very small silicon die to deliver higher performance and higher image quality, at lower power consumption, than competing technologies.
PowerVR SGX takes the PowerVR architecture to the next level with a unified scalable shader engine (USSE(tm)), which combines vertex shader and pixel shader features in a single scalable processing unit, enabling mobile semiconductor and device manufacturers to plan a roadmap where PowerVR will continue to enable the best performance in the most efficient architecture for the mobile industry.
Shader technology enables superior realism and advanced features when rendering 3D objects and, by making 3D effects more programmable, gives freedom to content developers to create more visually compelling and unique games and applications.
***AccuStream Research: Streaming Advertising and Subscription Media to Reach $950 Mil. in '05
MONTEREY, Calif.
Aug. 2, 2005
Streaming media advertising and subscription revenue is forecast to reach $950 million in 2005, based on the latest market analysis report published by AccuStream iMedia Research.
The research report, Streaming Advertising and Subscription Media: 2003-2006, includes movie and music download revenue figures for 2003-2004, with forecasts for 2005 and 2006.
Combined, the market for streaming advertising, subscription and download media is estimated at $1.36 billion in '05, up 110% over 2004.
This report analyzes market inventory by avail type, including pre-roll, mid-stream, post-roll, embedded units (outside the media player environment), sponsorships, CPMs (which are often blended to account for other synchronized media), campaign sizes, buy/sell dynamics, types of advertisers and product categories.
Sites, services and brands profiled include AOL (video and music radio), Yahoo (audio and video), ESPN, MLB.com, NASCAR.com, Clear Channel's online stations, Live365.com, IFILM, Atomfilms, MusicNet on AOL, Worldnow, WWE, CNN and analysis by rep firms and agencies.
Each inventory type, based on exclusive AccuStream database information, is analyzed by market segment, content category, site, total value in gross ad billings, historical inventory growth rates, sell-out, subscriber analysis for the subscription services, including movies, music, sports, television and download content.
Streaming video advertising is forecast to jump in value by 78% in '05 to $343 million, and streaming audio up by 82% in 2005 to $22 million.
The market for streaming audio ads is 18-24 months behind that of video, even though many radio sites now incorporate pre-roll streaming video before audio streams.
http://www.accustreamresearch.com
***ESCA and Industry Directions Announce Research Project to Measure Impact of Outsourcing on the Electronics Industry; Web-based Survey Open for Industry Response Through August 8, 2005
SAN JOSE, Calif.
Aug. 2, 2005
The Electronics Supply Chain Association (ESCA) and Industry Directions Inc. have announced a ground-breaking research project to examine the impact of outsourced operations in design, manufacturing, logistics and other related operations in the electronics industry. The project's goal is to understand how well current processes and systems allow companies in each segment of the electronics supply chain to mitigate the risks of this now well-established business model.
ESCA and Industry Directions are seeking responses from all companies in the electronics industry to gain a full picture of the state-of-the market. An online survey will be open for industry response through August 8, 2005, with a full report to be presented and distributed at the ESCA Winter Symposium November 14-16, 2005.
The online survey will be available through the ESCA Web site and Industry Directions' Web site and will be open to companies of all sizes and segments in the electronics industry. Questions will focus on both supply side and sell side including the degree of using outsourcing or contracting and resulting changes; various levels of partnership, collaboration and visibility mechanisms and capabilities; specific processes within planning, sourcing, distributed order management, manufacturing, inventory management, logistics and delivery, returns and reverse logistics and financial reconciliation; and budget.
http://www.electronicssupplychain.org
http://www.industrydirections.com
***Yahoo! Launches Beta Publisher Network For Small- and Medium-Sized Publishers; Self-Serve Platform Provides Access to New Sources of Revenue and Yahoo! Content
PASADENA, Calif.
Aug. 3, 2005
Yahoo! Inc. has announced that it is extending the Yahoo! Publisher Network in the U.S. to small- and medium-sized web sites. This will allow the broader publishing community to take advantage of Yahoo!'s relevant advertising products as well as quality content through an easy-to-use self-serve platform.
Initially available in the U.S. through an invitation-only beta, the Yahoo! Publisher Network self-serve platform will allow webmasters to sign up online for Yahoo! advertising products and receive fast, easy access to other syndicated Yahoo! content and products. Through the new platform, small- and medium-sized publishers will now have access to the same large advertising network, content and applications capabilities that Yahoo! uses while working with the world's biggest, brand-name publishers.
The first advertising product Yahoo! will be offering through the beta is its Content Match contextual listings. Content Match enables publishers to place Yahoo!'s contextually-relevant listings on their sites and receive a share of the revenue generated by them. Already proven on Yahoo!'s large distribution sites, Content Match can help small- and medium-sized publishers monetize valuable site inventory and provide additional qualified leads to Yahoo! advertisers.
The Yahoo! Publisher Network self-serve beta will also provide easy access to other Yahoo! products that can enhance their visitor experience, such as "Add to My Yahoo!" and Y!Q Beta. The "Add to My Yahoo!" feature provides publishers of all sizes -- from professional webmasters to independent bloggers -- the opportunity to promote and distribute their content on Yahoo! via RSS, drive traffic back to their sites and develop repeat daily relationships with their readers. The Y!Q Beta is a first-of-its kind contextual search product that can help webmasters increase the "stickiness" of their sites by providing visitors with convenient, related search results overlaid directly on their website.
Yahoo! plans to offer additional features in the near future to enable publishers to enhance their visitor experience, including "Save to My Web" and Web search. The "Save to My Web" feature enables readers to easily save and share pages from a publisher's site to My Web -- Yahoo!'s personal search engine service -- increasing return visits and improving loyalty. In addition, Yahoo! is conducting tests to evaluate the advertising capabilities of Y!Q and RSS feeds.
To create an ongoing dialogue with its small- and medium-sized publishers, Yahoo! has also built feedback channels and opinion surveys into its online Publisher Center that will provide members the opportunity to raise their questions, voice their ideas and express to Yahoo! the types of products and services that would be most helpful to them in the future.
After completing the initial beta period, Yahoo! aims to expand its self-serve beta program before the end of the year.
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