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The 9-11 tragedy made a lot of people and businesses look further into their disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning solutions. Data backup is an integral part of DRP and BCP. But performing data backups onsite alone won’t give you the protection you would need should that particular site be compromised.

The most common backup strategy that companies have is having a copy of their backup media on site and another one to an off site facility where they are stored securely. Bigger companies with bigger budgets who have several sites also tend to replicate their data across several sites to achieve redundancy and have a robust backup solution.

Backup solutions don’t need to be expensive. There are plethora of options you can choose from if you are looking for solutions to backup up your personal files. Take Tilana System’s Tilana Reserve for instance who offer free continuous data protection (CDP).

You can take advantage of their Enterprise CDP infrastructure running on their Cloud storage system which runs on fully redundant systems.

You can avail of their free service or opt for their paid services which gives you bigger online storage capacity.

• FREE 1 GB for 12 months
• $4.95 per month for 5 GB
• $8.95 per month for 10 GB
• $16.95 per month for 20 GB
• $41.95 per month for 50 GB
• $79.95 per month for 100 GB
• $149.95 per month for 200 GB
• $219.95 per month for 300 GB

Tilana Reserve runs only on these Microsoft Windows operating systems:

• Windows Server 2008 (32-bit tested)
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP, 32-bit versions (SP2)
• Windows 2000 (SP4)
• Tilana Reserve is not compatible with Windows XP x64 (64-Bit) Edition.

Mac versions are currently being developed.

Download a copy of Tilana Reserve.

Get your daily dose of free sports picks from AddictSports.com’s online forum where you can get NFL PreSeason picks as well as access to their newsletter and the opportunity to chat online with other forum members.

The site has a great group of people who enjoy baseball and other sports and have become good friends online.

Drop by AddictSports.com if you want info on NFL picks, NFL football, college football, basketball or hockey.

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SQL Injection 2.0: SQL Injection 2.0: Bigger, Badder, Faster…and More Dangerous Than Ever (Webinar)

Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:00 am
Singapore Standard Time (GMT +08:00, Philippines)

SQL Injection has existed as a very real – and documented – threat to enterprise security for years. While the concept is far from novel, the techniques, tools, and scope of SQL Injection attacks is growing exponentially – and at a rate that far outpaces traditional, time-consuming defense mechanisms such as code review. Need proof? A quick scan of the industry headlines produces a lengthy list of international SQL Injection victims, including the United Nations and UK Civil Service.

Join Amichai Shulman, CTO of Imperva and Director of the Application Defense Center (ADC), as he pulls back the covers on the next generation of SQL Injection attacks and provides directions on how you can protect your organization against these increasingly sophisticated and dangerous threats. Mr. Shulman will highlight how hackers are launching non-customized attack code via “botnets” and Google searches to distribute malware with lightning-fast speed and precision efficiency. This educational webinar will also feature live demonstrations of several different types of SQL Injection attacks. Specific topics that will be covered during the webinar include:

• SQL Injection Cocktails
• Mass SQL Injection Attacks and Google Hacking
• SQL Injection Automation Tools
• SQL Injection DoS Attacks
• Lateral SQL Injection and other Database-Related SQL Injection Attacks

Sign up for the free webinar.

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• Avon
• Triumph
• Amway
• Nu Skin
• Tupperware
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Interested individuals are assured of an afternoon of taped conversations, a warm cup of coffee, meaningful business questions and a date with one of the sexiest guys in town.

Interested individuals may call 0929.745.9008.

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Father’s day is just around the corner. Have you shopped around for the perfect gift for your dad? Perhaps you already have one! Dads usually are into gadgets and stuff. So shopping around online for that gift wouldn’t really be a bad idea.

I am not being a cheapskate here but I would want to get the biggest bang for every penny I spend. Let’s face it… who wouldn’t?

Watch out for those Father’s day special sale. Be on the look out for discount codes, discount vouchers, discount coupons and rebates.

DealLocker.com, which is currently in beta, having the tag line “because friends help friends get deals” is just one of the many websites that can help you in getting the latest discount coupons that you can use to buy and also save from some of the famous stores and brands.

Store coupons from Dell coupons, Amazon, BestBuy, GoDaddy, Hewlett Packard, JCPenney, Kohl’s, Nike, Macy’s, Old Navy, Orbitz, Quill, RitzCamera, ShopBop, Staples, Victoria’s Secret and the list goes on and on are up for grabs at DealLocker.

You can easily search coupons by category the likes of camera coupons, cell phones coupons, clothing coupons, computer coupons, hotel coupons, food coupons, nutrisystem coupons, travel coupons, software coupons and yes, even lingerie coupons.

They also have a coupon blog where you can read check out the latest deals and coupons available. If you want you can subscribe to their RSS feed so you always get informed everytime there is a new deal.

In the event that you stumble upon a discount coupon somewhere and it still isn’t listed at DealLocker don’t hesitate to give back to the community and share the details of that particular deal. Adding a new coupon is as easy as entering the url of the website, the coupon code and a short description about the coupon.

So how about you do you know of any other coupon sites that we can use for our Father’s day gift online shopping?

Being an employee and having an 8-5 job is good since you get a guaranteed source of income. There are people who wouldn’t want to be employees forever. Usually people would get employed to a company, get some needed experience, develop connections, develop some ideas and later on venture into their business.

Starting your business from scratch isn’t easy. You could probably try venturing to franchised businesses. Or if you have a group you could probably join forces and form setup your business so you can help each other out and also share the risk.

Another option is buying a business that has been running for quite some time. Even big companies have been doing this. You see big companies with the likes of Google and Microsoft buying smaller companies left and right. There are a lot of businesses for sale in the market right now. You’ll just have to take your time and do your homework as to which business for sale would be your best choice.

BizBen is a site that is all about Buying and Selling Businesses. It is one of the oldest and best in the industry. They have had thousands of businesses listed in our database and get a few hundred new businesses listed every week. They also have many articles, tips and other helpful information for people that are new to the process of buying or selling your business.

So whether you are selling a business or interested in buying one, drop by BizBen and check out what they have in store for you.

Do you travel often? Have you booked your flights and hotel accommodations online? You are all set With just a few keystrokes and mouseclicks! Convenient isn’t it?

Looking for a hotel online used to entail entering either a zip code, state or city where you want to stay. You then get a textual list of hotels within the city, suburb or town that you have chosen. The thing is if you are not familiar with the area, you might not have an idea as to where that hotel really is. Wouldn’t it be great if you could look for a hotel using a map?

The guys over at TravelingNetwork.com just recently launched a new mapping feature to their website which allows the user to map hotels of any particular city within the United States! But it doesn’t stop there. You can actually pick a hotel and check various information about that particular hotel. And here is the best part… you can reserve your hotel accommodation right there and then confidently and easily through their hotel reservation system.

The whole process is actually easy

Step 1: Pick a state
Step 2: Pick a city
Step 3: Pick a hotel on the map

Their system now even features the ability to add user waypoints to any map! Cool huh!?

So whether your looking for Chicago hotels or in Los Angeles, do check out TravelingNetwork.com to experience a new way in booking your hotel online.

Mac lovers used to have both PCs and Macs simply because there weren’t that much games that can run on macs. That has drastically change these past couple of years especially with Apple’s adoption of Intel’s architecture which also brought about ease of development by the software companies.

Let us not forget those small but very addictive games. Take for instance sudoku, Jewel match for mac, neptune’s secret for mac and many more. If you like to be updated on those small and new games made for the mac, check out Mac games and more.

Mac games and more is a website that delivers fresh weekly news on both mac software and hardware. You also get to read reviews on some of the latest mac software especially free mac games, some mac shareware and even mac freeware.

Mac Games and More is maintained by Cate Defrise. The site’s main purpose is to help recognize and publicize the work of independent Mac developers who work really hard but seem to go unnoticed.

So drop by Mac Games and More for the latest scoop on those shareware mac games and help those mac game developers along the way.

In line with the upcoming Mother’s Day Celebration

Ayala Malls

invite you to join

Moments with Mommy

at

Market! Market! Photo Contest

Winning photos will be exhibited for one (1) week from May 11, 2008 to May 17, 2008.

More info on the Moments with Mommy at Market! Market! Photo Contest at Shutter Box Philippines.

Are You Ready for Windows Server 2008?

A White Paper presented by Global Knowledge

When you take your first look at Windows Server 2008, you’ll find that many of the traditional tools that graced Server 2003 are still present. Where things change is in the Server Manager console, which is really the “nerve center” of Server 2008. Parts of this console are simply convenient pointers to other administrative tools.

However, the “Roles” and “Features” nodes may be unfamiliar. This white paper introduces the Server Manager console and will help you find your way around it, so that you can get up to speed with Server 2008 more quickly!

Grab a copy of the Are You Ready for Windows Server 2008 whitepaper.

3Com Presentation Schedule

April 25, 2008 12:15-1PM

Demystifying Unified Communications for SME/SMBs

by Pen Keong Fong
Systems Engineer
3Com Singapore

April 26, 2008 3:15-4PM

Demystifying Unified Communications for SME/SMBs

by James Jose
Senior Systems Engineer
3Com Philippines

Visit 3Com booth, drop your business cards and attend the 3Com presentation for a chance to wind an iPod shuffle.

Cisco is pleased to invite you to the biggest event on Unified Communications

The UC World 2008

April 25-26, 2008

Esplanade, SM Central Business Park, Pasay City, Philippines

See live Unified Communications Demos at the Cisco Booth

Cisco presents the Smart Business Communications System (SBCS). More than  just a phone system, it’s everyhting you need for your growing business in one box! SBCS integrates easily with your existing network and is easy to deploy, manage and operate. Ask about the extra cost savings you’ll get  with the special SBCS promo discount.

Date: April 25-26, 2008

Attend the Cisco Unified Communications Workspace Session

Discover how Cisco Unified Communications can help you enhance your business productivity and profitability.How you can be connected and work seamlessly from where you are. How you can maximize collaboration within the company and with external parties. All these while enjoying cost savings in the long run!

Place:  UCWorld presentation area
Date: April 25, 2008Time: 9 :30 - 11:00am

There will be exciting prizes and giveaways that await Cisco booth visitors and Cisco UC Session attendees!

Reserve your slot now for the Cisco Unified Communications at UC World 08

Do you collect books? I’m not really into collecting books but it just so happens that some books are given to me for free or as a prize from a raffle or a contest. If you’d ask me, I wouldn’t normally buy these books for myself especially if they are IT books. There were even several instances that I had several copies of the same book!

I have already given away several books which I believe I no longer need or would be of good use if it were in somebody else’s possession but my bookshelf  still remains to be packed! I have books on information technology, information security, certifications, inspirational books and even some health reference books. And if that is not enough, I even have more books in electronic format!

The problem I have now is that I can’t seem to keep track of the books I have. I have friends who would drop by my place and borrow a book or two and I didn’t have a way of tracking as to who borrowed what and whether it was returned to me. I was looking around for a software that could help me organize my book collection. Luckily I found All My Books by Bolide Software.

The good thing with All My Books is that it has  Book Sharing Manager which would greatly help if you have your books lent to somebody else. You can even import a list that you have already created either in text format or in excel.

I just love free stuff. Normally, an All My Books license would cost around US$ 34.95 but you can get one for free if you are a blogger simply by doing a review and blogging about it! How cool is that!?

So grab a copy of All My Books now and start organizing your book collection.

Have you ever experienced that an .exe file is being created with the same name as the folder itself in all drives but you  cannot delete them?

How about getting a message “Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator” when you try to run task manager?

Does your USB flash disk seem to be having the same problem and your system is running so terribly slow?

Then your system is most probably are infected with the Newfolder.exe virus.

What is Newfolder.exe?

The real name of this virus is Iddono. This threat copies its file(s) to your hard disk. Its typical file name is Iddono. Then it creates new startup key with name Iddono and value newfolder.exe. You can also find it in your processes list with name newfolder.exe or Iddono. This virus is very difficult to eliminate manually.

So how do you solve Newfolder..exe problem now?

There are actually two ways. There is the quick and easy way and there is the manual way where you dig in deep in to your system and fix files one by one.

The quick solution would be to download Iddono virus remover tool. Security Stronghold’s True Sword solve Newfolder error. True Sword will find and eliminate this problem and more than 280,000 other dangerous threats including trojans, spyware, adware, riskware, problemware, keyloggers, dialers and other kinds of malicious programs in several seconds.

Fast, easy, and handy, True Sword protects your computer against malicious programs that do harm to your computer and break your privacy. True Sword scans your hard disks and registry and destroys any manifestation of such malicious programs. Standard anti-virus software can do nothing against privacy breakers and malicious programs like that. Get rid of trojans, spyware, adware, trackware, dialers and keyloggers in one click now.

If you want to do it manually then check out the guide here.

Can’t get enough of those online social networks? Want to try out a new one?

3GB Community is the newest community online.  At the time of this writing, 3GB community already has around 575 members across 32 groups and over 1700 friendship connections made. It is still a relatively new social networking site that is why the memberbase isn’t that big yet. The beauty of this is that you get to be one of the pioneers of the community. How many people do you know that can claim that they are pioneers of a particular social networking site? Join now and you can be one. How cool is that!?

3GB Community lets you meet new friends as well as old friends online. Just like any other social network sites, you also get to upload and share your photos albums. You might also want to consider joining groups, do blogs chat with other members and even listen to the latest mp3 hits all from the same site.

Concerned with privacy issues? No worries! 3GB community has instituted privacy features which are not available with other social networks. As a member you get to keep your profile private so that only those who you explicitly permit will be the only ones to be able to access. Some sort of a blacklisting facility is available so that you can block someone from contacting you.

So what are you waiting for? Join 3gb community 3gb.biz!