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A little basic training can go a long way, however. Ninety-two percent of the organizations that already have implemented security awareness training said they have experienced fewer major security breaches. Read more at http://www.certmag.com/read. php?in=3524. shelf. According to the article, the Hybrid boasts five USB ports and lightning-fast Wi-Fi technology. It is priced starting at $499. Scrabulous Goes Down, Online Scrabble Pops Up IT Giants Contribute to Cloud Computing Research Some of the biggest names in IT — Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo — made an announcement in July that they will join government officials and academics to develop research for cloud computing, the subset of grid computing that includes utility computing. According to an InformationWeek.com article, experts believe cloud computing will be the dominant IT delivery model of the future. Some of the other founders include international entities such as the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. A total of six data centers will be set up to host cloud computing infrastructure across three continents. The centers are expected to be completed late this year and will be made available to specific researchers around the world. Following trademark and copyright violations, the India-based makers of Scrabulous — brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla — were forced to discontinue the wildly successful, unauthorized free version of popular board game Scrabble on Facebook pages in the United States and Canada. Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble in the U.S. and Canada, filed a lawsuit against Scrabulous in July. According to a report by the Agence France-Presse, more than 500,000 users of the social networking Web site reportedly played Scrabulous every day. But fans need not worry: With Hasbro’s permission, a free, online version of Scrabble has been released on Facebook pages in the United States and Canada by Electronic Arts. Portuguese Students to Receive Low-Cost Laptops E-commerce giant Amazon recently introduced two hosted payment services: Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay. The payment services will compete with eBay’s PayPal and Google Checkout. According to PCWorld, the payment options are intended to help merchants outsource some or all of their online transactions, as well as provide customers with a complete checkout solution (for a fee). For example, Techtree.com reported that Amazon’s checkout function features single-click payment and tools to manage shipping charges, sales tax, refunds, cancellations and more. Amazon Expands Online Payment Options for Consumers Approximately 500,000 young students in Portugal will receive state-of-the-art mobile computers to facilitate learning at educational institutions, according to the government of Portugal. The program — known as the Magellan Initiative — rivals One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit organization that provides affordable laptops to Third World countries for the purpose of education, according to Arstechnica.com. The laptops, based on Intel’s Classmate PC concept, sell for about $250 to $500. LG Introduces Multi-Purpose DVD Player Dell Announces Launch of Smallest Desktop In July, Dell introduced a compact consumer desktop that measures a mere 8 inches deep, 8 inches long and 3 inches high and weighs in at just less than five pounds, according to an InformationWeek. com article. Available in a variety of colors, the “Studio Hybrid” PC is designed to be conveniently stored anywhere in the house — even on a book- In July, consumer electronics bigwig LG rolled out a new DVD player, the LG BD300 Network Blu-ray Disc Player, according to PCMag.com. In addition to playing high-definition Blu-ray discs, as well as standard DVDs, the device will be the first of its kind to enable Netflix subscribers to instantly stream TV shows and movies from Netflix onto their TV screens at no additional charge. Users also can access regular Netflix features such as browsing, rating and reading movie and show summaries. 8 – Deanna Hartley, dhartley@certmag.com October 2008 CERTIFICATION MAGAZINE http://www.certmag.com/read.php?in=3524 http://www.certmag.com/read.php?in=3524 http://www.hp.com/ http://www.scrabble.com/ http://www.hp.com/ http://www.intel.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/grid_cluster/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209800449 http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/grid_cluster/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209800449 http://www.ida.gov.sg/home/index.aspx http://www.ida.gov.sg/home/index.aspx http://www.fzk.de/fzk/idcplg?IdcService=KIT&lang=en http://www.fzk.de/fzk/idcplg?IdcService=KIT&lang=en http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080730corp.htm?iid=pr1_releasepri_20080730r https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=cba/o http://laptop.org/ https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=paynow/o https://www.paypal.com/ https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fcheckout.google.com%2F%3Fupgrade%3Dtrue&service=sierra&nui=1<mpl=default&hl=en_US https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fcheckout.google.com%2F%3Fupgrade%3Dtrue&service=sierra&nui=1<mpl=default&hl=en_US http://www.Arstechnica.com http://www.intel.com/intel/worldahead/classmatepc/ http://www.Techtree.com http://www.PCMag.com http://www.blu-ray.com/info/ http://www.netflix.com/ http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/desktop/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209900039 http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/desktop/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209900039

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