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<title><![CDATA[Back up your data before April Fools' Day]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[March 31 is World Backup Day.(Credit:Screenshot by Dong Ngo/CNET)Hello, world! Today it's your Backup Day. World Backup Day is a new idea promoted by a small team of Redditors, and it's a good idea. You can never be too careful when it comes to backing up.By the way, this is about your data, and not calling your buddies over for help in a hostile situation, which is not really my area of expertise. So let's talk backups!Basically it means putting your data in multiple places so that if something happens to one place (let's say you forget your laptop on the top of yourcar and subsequently back over it), that important PowerPoint presentation you've been working on isn't lost. Backing up is much easier than you might think. For example, if you've been working on an important essay, you can just e-mail it once in a while to your mom or to yourself. Just make sure you use an online free e-mail service, such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, or all of them. This goes for photos as well. If you remember to e-mail them to your mom when you have new ones (and she'll probably appreciate that very much), chances are she'll save them for you on her computer, and even if not, they are still in the Sent Items folder of your online e-mail account in case you have lost the originals.Obviously, e-mailing can only handle a relatively small amount of data and you'll have to remember to do that manually. If you have many files that need backing up, you'll want something more robust. This is when a backup plan is necessary.Online backupSimilar to e-mailing, an online backup plan provides you with a certain amount of storage space that you can access over the Internet, aka &quot;the cloud.&quot; And no, your data is not flying in the sky, it's stored and managed on one or multiple servers located in different parts of the world. There are many online backup services, such as Amazon S3, McAfee, Mozy, or even Comcast. Most of these services offer a certain amount of storage space, like 2GB, for free. While 2GB doesn't seem like much, that's enough to hold about 500 songs or thousands of pages of Word documents, definitely more than enough to store your essays for the finals. In honor of World Backup Day, an online backup company called CrashPlan even offers a few lucky Twitter followers a free year's subscription.The advantages of online backup are that it's convenient and generally safe from disasters. However, it depends heavily on your connection to the Internet. For example, say you have a connection that offers 12Mbps upload speed. That would take about 20 minutes to back up the free 2GB of data. Existing very fast Internet connections at home (which most of us don't have) offer around 2Mbps upload speed at most. If you have lots of photos, songs, and even homemade movies that you need to keep safe, maybe it's better to think of something else.Local backupThis means you back up data on an external storage device, such as an external hard drive or a USB thumbdrive. The good news is that these devices are progressively getting larger in capacity, smaller in size, and cheaper in price. Examples of these are the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultraportable, Western Digital My Passport Studio , Clickfree C2N, and even the supercompact Lexar Echo MX backup drive. If you want something that can even survive disaster, such as fire or flood, the Solo Fireproof Waterproof hard drive from IoSafe is a good choice.Most of these drives come with free backup software to help you back up important data on a regular basis. Or you can use the operating system's built-in backup utilities to get the job done.Mac OS has the renowned Time Machine, andWindows 7 has Backup and Restore. You can make backups of the entire system by using software like Acronis' True Image, which enables you to quickly restore the whole system, not just important files, in the case of hard drive failure. Local backup is fast and can handle lots of data' however, generally you can only back up one computer at a time. If you have multiple computers at home and want to manage backups in one place, it's a good idea to think about network backup. Network backup This means you have one computer as a backup destination for all other computers. The best way to do this is by using a NAS server. Backing up is one of the main features of any NAS server, in addition to media streaming and so on. Using a NAS server, you can even store data directly on the server itself and access it from your computer.  For backup purposes, it's good to get a NAS server that has multiple hard drives set up in a fault-tolerant RAID configuration, such as RAID 1 or RAID 5. Examples of these NAS servers are the Synology DS410, DS1511+, and DS411slim' Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 4' and Seagate BlackArmor 440. A NAS server is generally a much bigger investment than an external hard drive, but in return it offers a lot more features and keeps your desk from getting cluttered with devices. Best practicesWith all the options above, the best practice when it comes to backing up is using all of them, when possible, and doing that regularly. If you have a NAS server, it's still a good idea to back up important data on a disaster-proof external hard drive or with an online service or both. For this reason, most NAS servers offer the option of automatically sending a portion of their data to the cloud. And all of them have USB ports to host an external storage device as a data backup destination.  If you have a mobile device such as a smartphone, make sure you sync it with your computer regularly. If you have an iPhone, then a backup device such as the Iomega SuperHero is handy to have.  It also doesn't hurt to keep e-mailing your mom.  So there you go. Those are a few options you can choose for backing up your data. Remember that this is just a reminder. Backups need to be done regularly, not just today. For important documents, for example, you could back them up each time major changes have been made. April Fools' Day is around the corner, but today, treat this as serious business and back up your important data. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[VentureBeat on the prowl for DEMO startups in New York, Toronto]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We&amp;'re widening our prowl for the best emerging technology products to launch at DEMO this spring.Our next stops are New York and Toronto, Jan 11-13.DEMO, for the uninitiated, is the leading conference for emerging technology. Okay, as executive producer of the conference, I&amp;'m a smidge biased, but hey, everyone from Netscape to Salesforce, WebEx, Palm, VMware, TiVo, and Symantec have launched there over the years.So, if you&amp;'re an entrepreneur or executive who thinks your company has the next best thing, consider applying for one of two days of presentations we&amp;'ll be hosting on the East Coast. DEMO&amp;'s not just for startups &amp;8212' it&amp;'s for anyone bringing a great new tech-driven product to market.I&amp;'m excited about Toronto, because it&amp;'s my first time there. DEMO&amp;'s widening international reach shows how this conference is about the world&amp;'s best new products &amp;8212' I just back from Taiwan a week ago, another first for me.And of course New York is hot right now, because of the innovation happening in advertising and e-commerce there.Here are the details: On Tuesday, January 11, we&amp;'ll be teaming up with RRE Ventures in New York and on Thursday, January 13, we&amp;'ll be in Toronto with Rogers Ventures.At each stop, wea4a4ll be inviting up to 10 companies to present their new products or concepts in front of our team as well as venture partners from the partnering venture capital firms. Each company that is selected will be allotted at least a half-hour (20 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes feedback).Each meetup will be a great opportunity to meet with myself (Ia4a4m in charge of selecting DEMOa4a4s class of companies) and also to meet with partners from each of the VC firms in attendance.Wea4a4ve done this before at other firms, including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, Madrona, and Austin Ventures as part of our worldwide quest to find the best entrepreneurs.If you&amp;'re interested in attending the New York session, please fill out this form. And if you&amp;'re interested in attending the Toronto session, please fill out this form.At the end of the day in New York, we&amp;'re throwing a party for the whole NY tech scene at the Taj Lounge on 21st and 6th from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.. You can register for that event by clicking here. After the Toronto meetup, we&amp;'ll be throwing a party at The Century Room from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., which you can register for by clicking here. At each event we&amp;'ll be buying drinks for the first 50 people through the door, and the ten companies we met with during the day will all have a chance to give a 90-second presentation to the crowd, so make sure you come out for it. To be clear, if you&amp;'re interested in applying to DEMO, you don&amp;'t necessarily have to attend one of these events. You can always apply directly here. The deadline to apply is February 1.Previous Story: Gain Fitness wants to start your gym resolution earlyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: DEMO, DEMO Spring 2011Companies: Rogers Ventures, RRE Ventures          Tags: DEMO, DEMO Spring 2011Companies: Rogers Ventures, RRE VenturesMatt Marshall is editor and CEO of VentureBeat. Follow him on Twitter at @mmarshall, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Android Trojan Soundminer can a4Aheara4 credit card numbers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept Android program that can literally keep an ear out for credit card numbers.Dubbed  Soundminer, the software uses the phonea4a4s microphone to listen for  credit card numbers spoken aloud, or typed into the phone, Forbes reports.  It was developed by six researchers at Indiana University and the City  University of Hong Kong, who plan to demonstrate it next month at a  security symposium in San Diego.The  team set out to show how even a smart user &amp;8212' one who doesna4a4t give  unknown programs access to their keyboard or web browsing &amp;8212' can be  tricked. If a strange application asks for access to their phonea4a4s  microphone instead, they may be less inclined to think it could steal  their data. As they speak or type credit card numbers, Soundminer then  records their information.The  software also doesna4a4t require access to a network connection to  transmit data. It instead relies on a sneaky a4Acovert channela4 &amp;8212' one  that allows apps to send small bits of data to other apps &amp;8212' to forward  the stolen information to an app called Deliverer, which in turn sends  the data to a hacker. According to the researchers, the Deliver app  could be installed automatically upon Soundminera4a4s installation.a4AThe  covert channels that the researchers identify include the phonea4a4s  vibration, volume, and screen wake-up settings, all of which are shared  with other applications when theya4a4re changed,a4 writes Forbes&amp;' Andy  Greenberg. a4ABy tweaking those settings in a certain pattern, Soundminer  sends a simple secret code to Deliverer, which in turn passes it on to  the hacker. And because Soundminer extracts the credit card number from  the audio track rather than transmit the entire file, it only has to  share 16 digits with Deliverer, easily small enough for its subtle  communications to the other malicious app.a4Being  the product of researchers, and not malicious hackers, Soundminera4a4s  real purpose is to expose the security flaw in Android. In their paper on Soundminer (PDF link), the researchers propose that users can  disable audio feedback noises, and Google could implement better app  permissions, to plug the security exploit.Check out a video of Soundminer in action below:Next Story: RightNow acquires Q-go to improve customer service with natural language search Previous Story: Vudu HD streaming video lands on Boxee Box, Netflix coming soonPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, exploits, security, SoundminerCompanies: Google          Tags: Android, exploits, security, SoundminerCompanies: GoogleDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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