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Extenze Male Enhancement with Liquid Vitamins Help

Written by Shiv Prasad on 5:31 AM

There has been a huge buzz online about Extenze Male Enhancement Pills and how they can help enlarge your penis and increase your girth just by taking a simple pill one time a day.
Extenze is categorized as a nutritional supplement, one that can help increase the natural blood flow to your penis and increase its size overtime.

While this has never been truly documented as 100% effective, taking care of your body with liquid vitamins and nutritional supplements can help overtime. And that is just what this is about, Extenze Male Enhancement pills and liquid vitamins and minerals for your body can help that overtime if you take care of your body and exercise daily.

You can find discounted prices on Extenze Pills as well as Liquid vitamins at many sites, but finding the right site with the right price and be difficult.

I hope you have learned a little bit more about the all natural Extenze Male Enhancement Pills as well as our valued liquid vitamins.

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Wedding Planning And Making Money Online

Written by Shiv Prasad on 9:20 AM

It is very true that couples will spend a lot of money of their wedding. As a result, there is really a great potential for you to make money online with wedding planning. What I mean here is that you will be able to make money online by selling items related to wedding planning.

When a couple is planning for a wedding, they have to consider a lot of details. For example, they have to send the save the date card at least half year before and send the wedding invitations 12 weeks before their wedding.

People are very busy nowadays. They may not really have enough time to plan for their wedding. Even if they have the time to do so, they may not really know the etiquettes. It can be even more difficult if it is a Chinese couple. There are a lot of etiquettes associated with Chinese wedding traditions. The couple may not really understand or know all these etiquettes.

As a result, there is a possibility of making money online by creating ebooks on wedding etiquettes or ebooks on tips about wedding planning. These kinds of ebooks can be sold very well. In fact, you can see that there are some people who are selling such ebooks when you try to search in clickbank.

Selling ebooks is not the only way to make money online with wedding planning. You can even be able to make money using PPC networks. There are a lot of advertisers in this field and you can earn quite a bit of money with it. You may start a website on free wedding invitation templates and make money. It is not difficult to do so at the end of the day. However, if you are doing SEO work, the keyword wedding can be a very challenging one. As a result, you will still want to concentrate on long tails instead.

Of course you may also consider starting an online shop which sells wedding gifts. The gifts are certainly something very important. However, the capital involved should also be considered. You may need to spend some money on the inventories. Yet you may consider join some affiliate programs which sell such products and this may be an excellent choice.

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Waiora Detox Body Supplement Zeolite

Written by Shiv Prasad on 11:43 AM

Waiora is a company which started from scratch four years from now to become a leading firm in the field of global business. The reasons why Waiora Zeolite grew so rapidly when most failed is because it had a vision and a systematic strategy to realize that dream of detox body process. At present Waiora Natural Cellular Defense is associated with health products and hence it believes in a healthy life and healthier living. The Baby Boomer Generation which comprises of individuals who were born between 1946 and 1964 now comprises of a seventy seven million strong market for improved health and finances.

At present the focus of Waiora Zeolite is on the Baby Boomer generation, as each day in the United States alone, as many as thirteen thousand Baby Boomers turn fifty years of age. Likewise, it is interesting to note that these seventy seven million strong community of ‘Baby Boomers’ control seventy seven percent of the country’s financial assets. Besides, by the year 2012, the population of people over the age of fifty would increase to one third from a mere one quarter at present and will help detox body.

Waiora has estimated that out of the seventy seven million Baby Boomers, almost eighty percent are expected to continue earning after they retire from active jobs. Likewise, seventy two percent of senior citizens prefer to take supplements because they feel better and approximately eighty three percent of the United States Households purchase some or the other form of nutritional supplements.

It is obvious that as the population of Baby Boomers booms, the need for health equipments and related health products would rise and Waiora knows that. This is why we need Waiora Zeolite for its body detox advantages!

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New Inovation Of Cisco

Written by Shiv Prasad on 6:48 AM

Cisco today introduced technology advancements for the Cisco Digital Media System (DMS) that will help organizations enhance their customers' experiences, facilitate learning and improve employee productivity. As part of its industry-leading suite of digital media products and services, Cisco unveiled an interactive application, called Enterprise TV, a number of major advancements, including a new Cisco Digital Media Player 4400G and increased functionality for the company's existing digital signage and desktop video applications

In the 18 months since it was launched, the Cisco Digital Media System has gained significant market traction, seeing strong success across financial services, retail, education, sports, entertainment, and other industries. It now supports the delivery of high-quality, dynamic digital media communications for more than 600 customers around the world.
The Cisco Digital Media System is a key component of Cisco's business video strategy, which combines systems and services, using the network as the platform, to enable end-to-end, any-to-any video solutions that create powerful visual networking experiences.

"As the leading promoter of motorsports activities in the United States, we're in the business of creating compelling experiences for thousands of racing fans," said Bob Shafto, director of information technology for International Speedway Corp. "With Cisco's digital signage, our ability to reach those fans with more targeted visual communications is a significant opportunity. Utilizing digital media in a sports environment will provide us with more effective ways to increase revenues and have more intimate experiences with our fans."

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Digital Equipment Corporation

Written by Shiv Prasad on 5:39 AM

Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the computer industry. It is often referred to within the computing industry as DEC (this acronym was frequently officially used by Digital itself,[1] but the trademark was always DIGITAL). Its PDP and VAX products were arguably the most popular minicomputers for the scientific and engineering communities during the 1970s and 1980s. DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, which subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002. As of 2007 its product lines were still produced under the HP name. From 1957 until 1992 its headquarters was located in an old wool mill in Maynard, Massachusetts.
Digital Equipment Corporation should not be confused with Digital Research; the two were unrelated, separate entities; or with Western Digital (despite the fact that they made the LSI-11 chipsets used in Digital Equipment Corporation's low end PDP-11/03 computers). Note, however, that there were Digital Research Laboratories where DEC did its corporate research.
The company was founded in 1957 by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, two engineers who had been working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the TX-2 project. The TX-2 was a transistor-based computer using the then-huge amount of 64 K 36-bit words of core memory.
When that project ran into difficulties, Olsen and Anderson left MIT to form DEC. Venture capital of about $70,000 was provided by Georges Doriot and his American Research and Development Corporation. AR&D later sold its investment in Digital for approximately $450 million, certainly the best VC return ever to that point. At the time, the VC market was hostile to computer companies, and investors shied from their plans. The original business plan named the company "Digital Computer Corporation," but AR&D required that the name be changed to DEC. Instead, DEC started building small digital "modules" such as flip flops, gates, and transformer drivers that could be combined to run scientific and engineering experiments. In 1959, Ben Gurley started design of the company's first computer, the PDP-1 (PDP being an initialism for Programmable Data Processor) as a means of attracting VC funding. As he put it, "We aren't building computers, we're building 'Programmable Data Processors'." DEC began operations in a Civil War era textile mill in Maynard, Mass., where plenty of inexpensive manufacturing space was available.

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Liquid Crystal Display

Written by Shiv Prasad on 10:28 AM

A thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) is a variant of liquid crystal display (LCD) which uses thin film transistor (TFT) technology to improve image quality. TFT LCD is one type of active matrix LCD, though it is usually synonymous with LCD. It is used in televisions, flat panel displays and projectors.

Small liquid crystal displays as used in calculators and other devices have direct driven image elements – a voltage can be applied across one segment without interfering with other segments of the display. This is impractical for a large display with a large number of picture elements (pixels), since it would require millions of connections - top and bottom connections for each one of the three colors (red, green and blue) of every pixel. To avoid this issue, the pixels are addressed in rows and columns which reduce the connection count from millions to thousands. If all the pixels in one row are driven with a positive voltage and all the pixels in one column are driven with a negative voltage, then the pixel at the intersection has the largest applied voltage and is switched. The problem with this solution is that all the pixels in the same column see a fraction of the applied voltage as do all the pixels in the same row, so although they are not switched completely, they do tend to darken. The solution to the problem is to supply each pixel with its own transistor switch which allows each pixel to be individually controlled. The low leakage current of the transistor prevents the voltage applied to the pixel from leaking away between refreshes to the display image. Each pixel is a small capacitor with a layer of insulating liquid crystal sandwiched between transparent conductive ITO layers.

The circuit layout of a TFT-LCD is very similar to that of a DRAM memory. However, rather than fabricating the transistors from silicon formed into a crystalline wafer, they are made from a thin film of silicon deposited on a glass panel. Transistors take up only a small fraction of the area of each pixel; the rest of the silicon film is etched away to allow light to pass through.

The silicon layer for TFT-LCDs is typically deposited using the PECVD process from a silane gas precursor to produce an amorphous silicon film. Polycrystalline silicon (frequently LTPS, low-temperature poly-Si) is sometimes used in displays requiring higher TFT performance. Examples include high-resolution displays, high-frequency displays or displays where performing some data processing on the display itself is desirable. Amorphous silicon-based TFTs have the lowest performance, polycrystalline silicon TFTs have higher performance (notably mobility), and single-crystal silicon transistors are the best performers.

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Digital Map Products

Written by Shiv Prasad on 7:07 AM

Digital Map is leading the next generation of mapping solutions. We are the pioneer in integrating data with aerial maps and property information on a single, easy to use, map interface for advanced decision-making. Our extensive data and countless display and search options make our products critical to our customer's decision making processes. In addition, there is no software to install, no hardware to upgrade and our data is continually updated.

Digital Map focuses on two primary markets: real estate and local government. Digital Map’s products are built on the DigitalMapCentral platform, a robust and flexible mapping application in a hosted environment. The solution results in minimal overhead, rapid deployment, ease-of-use, and high performance.

We are distinct in our ability to offer GIS technology to non-technical professionals. Our products are designed so that individuals and organizations with no GIS experience or knowledge are able to perform GIS tasks like an expert.

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ALTA Land Surveys

Written by Shiv Prasad on 2:26 AM

Real estate transactions generally need a land title survey to document important details influencing the ownership of the land, such as improvements, easements, rights-of-way and other elements. It provides evidence of any matters that may affect the title or value of the property that are included in record documents and that physically exist on the property.

An ALTA land survey is a survey that is generally required on commercial property transactions. Commercial properties include: restaurants, convenience stores, motels, shopping centers, warehouses, manufacturing plants, service stations, hotels, resort properties, individual retail units, automotive dealerships, office buildings and industrial complexes. In a commercial property transaction, a lender, title company or owner may require a land title survey which meets the ALTA/ACSM Minimum Standard Detail Requirements. Additionally, an ALTA survey shows improvements, easements, rights-of-way, and other elements impacting the ownership of land. It provides the title company with the information required to insure the title to the land and improvements to the high degree that a commercial development may require.

An ALTA survey is usually ordered by a lending institution when a piece of commercial property is being mortgaged or upon completion of a construction project in order to release the funds being secured by the project. Sometimes, a lending institution may require an ALTA survey for a residential mortgage too. Most residential parcels are not required to have this type of survey, though there are some cases that a Title Company will require this type of survey to be done.

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New Digital Media

Written by Shiv Prasad on 6:29 AM

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Stellar Information Systems, provider of data recovery products and services has launched its Phoenix digital media recovery v 2.1 software.

It recovers lost, deleted and formatted digital photos / pictures / images / audio files from removable media, after an accidental deletion, media format or corrupt media. The new version works with any type of digital card reader or external storage media that can mount as a volume. The program displays images that it finds and allows one to recover all of them, Stellar said in a release.

The new software has added file systems like WMA, WMV, MOV, ASF, RM, 3GPP, 3GPP2, DNG (Adobe's standard file format), MP3 and RMI files.

"By adding almost all the file system available in the market place, we have made Phoenix digital media recovery v2.1 the most robust photo recovery software for the Windows," said Sunil Chandna, CEO, Stellar Information Systems Ltd.

The new version of the software recovers lost or deleted pictures from Memory Sticks, Flash Cards, Sony Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, SD Cards, MMC Cards, XD Cards, Secure Digital Card, Zip Disks, Mini Disks. This software supports all major camera manufacturers.

The new version of the software has a standard Windows Explorer style Interface that provides thumbnail and enlarged view of BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and TIFF. This also provides selective scan for various file formats and "Event Log" of the recovery process.

The new version, which comes in three different licensing options—Single User, Administrator and Technician—is available online as well as through the company's partner network across the globe.

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Latest iPod

Written by Shiv Prasad on 3:50 AM



t was too good to be true. Just when we thought we might actually have a day free from Apple rumors (after all, doesn't Microsoft deserve to have the rumor mill to itself for at least a little while?), ThinkSecret has hit us with word that the "true" video iPod is still coming, and that it will have a 4-inch display, rather than the 3.5-inch one that was claimed in earlier rumors. ThinkSecret also reports that the video iPod is on target for a March or April release, pending content deals with studios (which we assume will come through, given that Steve Jobs basically owns Disney now). Of course, even if the video unit is delayed, we assume Stevie will still schedule another big press conference sometime in the next few weeks. After all, Apple has yet to announce the Intel-powered eMac and the pleather case for the shuffle.

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Cheap Digital Camera

Written by Shiv Prasad on 12:47 AM


Do you want to share your images or videos with your family or friends? If yes, then find out for a chic and handy digital camera, equipped with potent megapixel camera, flamboyant screen, excellent camera lens, optical zoom, huge storage space, self-timer, and manual features. Such a digital camera can randomly capture your moments, which you want to share them with your friends or family. But you might think its cost. Initially, digital cameras were expensive; but with the rapid increase of manufacturers in the market, the prices of digital cameras tend to fall, making the devices easily getable for all. You will find a cheap digital camera from the house of Nikon, Panasonic, Olympus, Sony, Kodak and the list goes on. The term “cheap digital camera” does not mean that the camera lacks in software-based features and functions. Every camera, for instance consists of a built-in flash, a viewfinder for framing the picture, battery inserting chamber, brightness controller, megapixel resolution, zoom lens, storage space, and a video capability to make short movies. It does not mean that a cheap digital camera may never deliver good photographs and videos. No doubt, a high end digital camera renders optimal services, but if you have a cheap digital camera with various shooting options such as underwater, foliage, indoor, portrait, and automatic; your motive to look for a high end digital camera might come to an end. Because, this multifunctional cheap digital camera can easily outdo a high end digital camera in terms of pricing, features, and functions.

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PC With TV

Written by Shiv Prasad on 3:24 AM

What exactly is it? Well it's not a literal satellite dish that they cram into your PC. Some gifted entrepreneurs and technology gurus have put together a system that allows you to download software you can use to then pull down stations and shows from the internet onto your PC basically turning it into a Satellite TV.

There are basic computer requirements that your PC will have to meet. Most computers built in the last 6+ years meet this minimum requirements. They are 333Mhz CPU, video card, sound card, headphones or speakers and Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP or Vista.

This software lets you setup Satellite TV on your PC instantly. There are no charges or monthly fees that you need to pay to Watch TV or to pay the local cable or satellite TV provider.

You can now start watching TV on your PC and choosing from upwards of 3000 different stations in dozens of different languages. Its an amazing system that's been setup and it really does feel like they have turned your PC into a Satellite TV.

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Is VoIP Really Affordable?

Written by Shiv Prasad on 11:22 PM

VoIP has been marketed as the affordable alternative to traditional land line calling since it first started being advertised in commercials years ago. As a stand alone product the pricing seems too good to pass up, especially with the promise of quality voice communications for less but is it really an affordable option that anyone can afford?

The technology of broadband phone typically allows for calls to be made domestically for one small monthly fee throughout the country on the most popular calling plans and usually has very low international rates associated with the plan as well. Technology has allowed for better voice quality so that you never even notice a difference between VoIP service and your old phone line. It is a great advancement for consumers and businesses worldwide looking to make calls for less, or is it?

VoIP is the abbreviated terminology for Voice over Internet Protocol. The keyword to look for in this definition of VoIP is Internet. The word Internet means that this technology cannot be accessed without an Internet connection and while it may not seem like much, the word Internet in relation to VoIP is everything.

The truth is, in reality it will only be as affordable as the Internet providers will allow. Your Internet connection or the lack of thereof is a pricing factor that must not be forgotten when considering the move from traditional phone service to broadband phone. You need a minimum of 90 Kbps upload and download speed to run VoIP from your Internet but if you use your computer for browsing the web with the service you may find you need a lot of bandwidth to function while talking over your service.

Some companies such as Packet8 use compression technology that better enable communications with less bandwidth usage meaning you may not need to beef up your broadband access to utilize the services. Some companies like Vonage however it is necessary to make sure you have the required bandwidth if not more to use services uninterrupted.

If you do not have Internet access then you will want to consider getting it and it is recommended you go high speed. The common problem with high speed is not usually the costs of Internet but what you have to purchase in addition to Internet.

Cable high speed Internet usually requires the purchase of television cable services as well. Do you watch much television or want cable television in your home? You might have to consider that option if you are wanting cable Internet.

With DSL the usual option requires a phone land line to your place of residency and that creates a whole new set of problems. You are wanting to replace your old service not combine it with VoIP. You end up paying for a land line and monthly broadband phone fees.

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Printing power tips

Written by Shiv Prasad on 9:07 PM

Printer ink isn't cheap, and there's nothing worse than getting stuck without paper or a new cartridge when you absolutely need to print a document. As with most tech tools, modern printers have more bells and whistles than most people bother to learn about. But a little knowledge can go a long way. Today I've got a few tips for saving on ink, paper, money and time while you print.

Current Selection:- Why waste toner printing online ads, navigation elements, or other extraneous junk? Or what if you just need to print a phone number or graphic, rather than an entire page? You may already use page range printing, but most programs allow you to print even smaller portions of a document.

Print Preview:- Printouts don't always come out looking like you'd expect, especially when printing from the Web. For instance, when printing directions from Google Maps, I often get a page at the end of the printout with nothing but a header and footer. In cases like these, it pays to use your browser's Print Preview function to make sure what you see really is what you'll get.

Duplex Printing:-Many larger printers offer an automatic duplexing option, allowing you to easily print on both sides of a sheet of paper. Unfortunately, the option is not always enabled by default. If you're not sure whether your printer is capable of duplex printing, look in the driver settings or on the printer's configuration page for information on duplex or double-sided printing.

All-In-One:- Windows users may also want to try out a copy of FinePrint. FinePrint installs as a go-between printer driver, providing WYSIWYG preview, n-up printing, and other functions regardless of the software or printer being used. If the $49.95 price tag sounds steep, a feature-limited trial version is available to test before buying. And with the program's wealth of features, it may pay for itself.

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IP Network Camera vs Analog Camera

Written by Shiv Prasad on 11:54 PM

It A are there a number of reasons for which should choose to you a camera of network of IP for your monitoring system. The sure and similar cameras were around longer, but the camera of IP proved its value in the execution.

The camera of tetwork of IP existed since 1996. During its release, the cameras of network trailed one thousand behind the similar cameras in professionalism. In first years, cameras of network of IP were simply regarded as cameras of sequence used to announce events or
Rapid ahead at a decade later, and the good cams of ol ' of sequence are now a part of hundreds of systems of operation of monitoring.

Catching Up with the Analog Camera

A few years after it's introduction, the IP network cameras have been updated and upgraded to catch up with the analog camera in terms of function. Today, the IP camera is at par with the best analog camera in the market, even surpassing it in some aspects.

Winning the Race Against the Analog Camera

Before you choose the model of the camera you want for your surveillance system, you will first have to decide whether you're getting an analog cam or an IP network camera. For you to make the right choice, it is important that you first understand the important differences between two. By the end of this article, you should be able to understand how the IP network surveillance camera gives you more value for your money.

Interlacing

The first notable difference is seen in the camera's interlacing. The IP network surveillance camera is at an advantage in this criteria as analog cameras have significant problems with interlacing. High resolution analog camera are not able to capture fast-moving objects and keep the quality of the image because, with in an analog video signal, images are made of lines and all images are created from two interlaced fields. While the analog camera produces blurry images of fast-moving objects, the IP network camera provides crystal clear images because the whole image is captured at one time.

Power Over Ethernet

Getting power to an analog camera means hurdling a major obstacle and shelling out a major amount of cash. With the IP network camera, you have an IEEE 802.3af standard PoE (Power over Ethernet), which means that your networking devices get its power from an PoE-enabled switch over a standard cable that transmits data and video. The device offers major savings to IP camera users as the standard in place means all models or equipment are compatible with the device. PoE also gives the camera centralized backup power, so they continue to work even with a power failure.

Megapixel Resolution

The analog camera follows the olf NTSC/PAl specifications, which corresponds to 0.4 megapixels at 4CIF. The newer IP Network cameras require a higher megapixel range. The higher the resolution of the camera, the more the detailed the coverage of large areas. The camera's higher resolution also enables essential surveillance functions such as tilt, pan, and zoom.

The above mentioned comparisons are just three of many advantages offered by IP cameras over the analog version. If you want to get a good surveillance camera, get an IP network camera.

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Media Covered

Written by Shiv Prasad on 1:15 PM

Congratulations, you’re traveling to be interviewed! This is agitative but apparently a bit agonizing for you. Actuality are some credibility to bethink in all interviews:

1. The anchorman or biographer may wish to allege to you anon but you may already accept fabricated an arrangement if he/she wants to allege with you. Now, actuality is something I can’t accent too strongly: unless your antecedent charge is one you just can’t change, try to be adjustable and plan about the reporter’s schedule. Otherwise he/she ability just adjudge you aren’t account the trouble.

2. Say what you would like quoted. Jokes, acerb animadversion and off-the-record comments are no-nos. Your comments ability be taken at face amount – and printed as fact.

3. Be affable – even if you’ve been kept waiting, or are afflicted by some of the questions.

4. Never abuse anyone, abnormally your antagonism (you’ll consistently get added account if you yield the top road).

5. If you don’t apperceive the answer, say that you don’t, but that you’ll get it to the anchorman afterwards the interview.

6. Never say “no comment;” this is a red banderole to the media. Instead you can say “we are currently searching into that amount and we’ll let you apperceive added if we are accessible to absolution that information”.

7. Don’t use acronyms or industry abracadabra that you’re accustomed with – but others may not be.

8. Use analogies, belief and “quick bite” answers if possible.

9. Use quick, absorbing statistics or facts to accomplish key credibility (example: according to a contempo study, 95% of Americans would account from at atomic one dental veneer).

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5 Tips On Planning A Successful Video Conference

Written by Shiv Prasad on 12:54 AM

Video conferencing is a useful business tool that brings close people located all over the world. The magic of video conferencing is that it has erased all borders, cut down travel time, as well as costs. Companies as well as research units can choose to conduct important business meetings as well as training modules by using videoconferencing.The steps to planning a successful video conference are simple. First you need to decide on a day and time taking into consideration time zones and holidays.

1. Send out a notification to all concerned about the videoconference and confirm attendance.

2. Decide on a format for the videoconference and ensure smooth functioning by checking whether all participants have the necessary equipment.

3. When choosing a venue think about audio and video quality. The room should be simple and windows must be ideally behind the videoconferencing system or covered with blinds. Choose the right seating arrangement considering aspects like audio echo. Light furniture and an amply lit room with florescent lights are recommended. If the walls are blue its ideal. Insulate the room from external sounds as far as possible.

4. Check whether you have a suitable network connection. It should be a digital network service such as an IP or ISDN service. Consult your local VSGi representative. You will need a Lan connection, suitable power sockets, and cable runners or conduits.

5. Arrange for equipment such as a second monitor of size 27” to 60” plasmas, a VCR or DVD player, document camera, auxiliary camera, lap tops, wired or wireless touch control panels and so on. In case of doubt take professional help.

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vPIP for Video

Written by Shiv Prasad on 3:28 AM

Hi Everyone,

Today I am going to discuss a couple of great ways to embed video on your site. These players will allow you to play video that you have hosted on your own site, or on one of the common video hosting sites. The examples I will show you today are from some videos I have hosted on blip.tv.

The first player is from vPIP.org. vPIP stands for videos Playing In Place, and was developed by Enric Teller. vPIP differs from other methods by playing video directly within the page rather than opening up a new window. Thumbnail images are used as placeholders for the video, and there are two options for viewing the video. The first is the “Embed” option to play video directly in the page in place of the thumbnail, and the second is the “Thickbox” option to play mid-screen with the background darkened out. vPIP also gives you the flexibility to offer your viewers different versions of your video. In the example below I have both the QT and Flash versions that open in the ThickBox. Note that if you click directly on the thumbnail, you will get only the QT version. This can be set up in advance to play the format of your choice. I am not going to give a detailed description of how to set up vPIP because I can’t write anything more clear than the install and user guide wikis that already exist. Additionally there is a Google user group for vPIP for posting questions on. Enric is very responsive and has helped me out in the past.

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How does the media deal with the race card?

Written by Shiv Prasad on 7:54 AM

The resuscitation of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) and racist attacks have turned the spotlight on racism in the media.

On Tuesday, a cross-section of South African journalists attended a discussion on racism in the media, with black editors being accused of acting as white owners' puppets and accusations that the media fails to reflect the reality of South Africa today.

Much of the discussion centred around the relaunch of the FBJ, and the incident where some white journalists decided to attend a private meeting, addressed by ANC president Jacob Zuma, open only to current and former black journalists.

He also believed there was a possibility, due to the controversy in the build-up to the event, that white journalists might have been allowed to attend.

Press Ombudsman Joe Thloloe, who convened the discussion, asked: "Is it wrong for the victims of apartheid to withdraw as a caucus and discuss how far we have come?"

The South African Human Rights Commission was on Wednesday due to hold a hearing into the matter and the broader issue of exclusive organisations.

Commission CEO Tseliso Thipanyane remarked: "If the SAHRC finds the FBJ guilty of racism and sends them to court, we will be accused of being white puppets."

He said that since the South African National Editors' Forum was not in favour of the formation of the FBJ, it could be assumed that the move to resuscitate the organisation must have come from black journalists.

The SAHRC has come in for repeated criticism whenever it has attempted to look at the issue of racism. When the commission led an investigation into racism in the media, said Thipanyane, they were "thrashed" in the same media - and only last year, a senior ANC member said the media were "obsessed with race".

Thipanyane said factors which inhibited discussions on race included white guilt, black people turning a blind eye to incidents of racism and the fact that racism was an unpopular topic.

"We must not delude ourselves that after 14 years we are out of the woods. It happened in Rwanda; it can happen anywhere," said Thipanyane.

Duarte said that although 48 percent of media management was black, this did not mean the media had really changed in South Africa.

"The media is part of the problem and not the solution. It assumes a holier-than-thou attitude," said Mothobi Mutloatse, a seasoned journalist and independent publisher.

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Cloudy visions of the future

Written by Shiv Prasad on 2:00 AM

The change is described in Nick Carr's new book The Big Switch, where he argues that computing power is becoming a utility.

He believes that instead of owning our own processors we will soon be renting time on large systems run by the likes of Google and Amazon, not just for storing data but also for running code.



Carr sees strong parallels between the way electricity generation shifted from local generators in factories to a national grid providing voltage differences where they are needed and the move from local to central processing.

In the world Carr describes most processing takes place in "the cloud", and the computers we actually use will manage the interface and the communications, but do little of the real work.

It is a compelling vision, though not without its problems.

Computing is not a simple service like electricity, and it's not clear that we can solve the administrative problems needed to have business-critical services hosted remotely.

Moving everything onto the network may appeal in the rich countries of the industrialised world but offers little to rural India or sub-Saharan African countries.

And there are massive security and data management issues to be solved.

Even so, the potential benefits are too great to be ignored, and we're likely to see a range of services go live next year that will, if successful, take us closer to the cloud computing model.

It will not be an overnight shift, but when we look back in a decade or so I think we'll see 2008 as the year things started to change

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