Keeping Information Safe

Do you realize just how much information there is about you on the web at this very moment? What is more shocking is just how much people are willing to pay for it. We all know that when using passwords, you have to use different one for every account. In reality, it is nearly impossible to remember every single unique password. The solution? A password manager of course. It will not only remember all your passwords, but will generate super strong and unique ones and automatically fill them into login fields with the click of a button. LastPass is an excellent and free choice. “What is your mother’s maiden name?” or “In what city were you born?” are common questions websites often ask you to answer so as to supposedly keep your account safe from intruders. In reality, there’s nothing secure about such generic queries. That’s because someone who wants access to your account could easily do some Internet research to dig up the answers. Not sure you can remember your lies? You can create “accounts” in your password manager just for this purpose. All of this goes for internet phone services as well because there is nothing worse than someone sending messages on your behalf.

Video Conferencing Growth

The number of telepresence rooms installed at companies worldwide has grown from an estimated 2,000 at the end of 2008 to about 7,000 today. Although most of today’s multi-screen, high-definition audio and video systems are used privately by vendors for “in-person” meetings, hotel chains and conference centers are also embracing telepresence so that business customers can collaborate over a converged network. Video conferencing solutions are also gaining traction with an estimated quarter-million units being shipped per quarter. Despite this impressive turnaround, the difficulties of interoperability and protocols continue to negatively impact widespread telepresence and video conferencing adoption. Today’s increasing demand for interoperability among key market players like Cisco, Polycom, Microsoft is easy to understand. People want to be able to use any device or platform that they want in order to conduct their business in order to increase efficiency and not worry about the technical problems associated with trying to integrate systems.