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Users in our forrums are noting that Clearwire appears to be shaking up their pricing once again, right on the heels of a pending new wholesale LTE arrangement with Sprint. “Clear.com no longer shows 3G plans,” writes in user uid://1700337 — adding “there is now no 3g coverage map for new customers.” Clear had been offering 3G (EVDO) Sprint add on plans, but that appears to be changing with both companies migrating to LTE. Users in our forums also note that Clearwire appears to have some pricing changes planned for this week, a San Antonio Clearwire retailer’s website posting changes suggesting Clear might be getting rid of some exiting voice plans, in addition to significantly simplifying plans for new customers. From the website:

The site also suggests new pricing for hardware:

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It has been all over the news lately that corporations and even government computer systems have been broken into. While this is happening, sensitive data is being stolen and leaked onto the Internet or used to distribute company secrets. This is the nightmare of every head of network security in the world at this time as well as for home users and telecommuting workers all around the globe. When careful attention is paid to trends in the news and through specialty publications that focus solely on network security, there is a far better chance of keeping protocols up to date and avoiding any significant breaches. Within this article, the focus will be on Wireless LAN security and the various pitfalls and methods currently in use that has proven to be reliable.

Closed Networks

Most networks will be a closed system of one flavor or another. It can be a home network where a user does personal banking or a telecommuting employee whose laptop is like the best friend and travelling companion. The most common example of a closed network is a home network or a small organization or company network. It is those that we will be focusing on in this article. When configuring this setup, the most effective point of security will be the access point itself. Through the access point, there is access to options that will govern how information is sent and received and at what level of encryption. There are a few options available to ensure this; some are more effective than others. There are some methods of network protection like WIPS that will require more physical hardware.

They are:

• MAC address screening
• Using a Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
• Use of a Captive Portal
• Use of a secure VPN

MAC Address Screening

The best option is to require MAC address screening and to disable ESSID broadcasting entirely. The combination of these two precautions makes the network connection itself difficult to detect by outsiders let alone to initiate information theft. This option does not require the purchase of additional hardware or software and is configurable through the router gateway itself. This is the most popular choice and will be the option that most people require without additional steps. There are those individuals and organizations whose networks require more security though and the following options are available to them. Most often these options below are used by those who conduct work from home or for those who telecommute and may be anywhere in the world.

Use of a Wireless Intrusion Prevention System

In a nutshell, a wireless intrusion prevention system (also known as WIPS) is simply a network device that scans the wireless signals for unauthorized access point and then begins the process of locking them down and sending a notification through an instant messaging (IM) system or a pop-up or page to the currently on duty network administrator. This is an additional piece of equipment and the cost can vary from couple hundred dollars to many thousands, depending on the size of your network. Most private residences and networks will not have this protection unless they tend to work from home and are in a high security IT-related field.

Use of a Captive Portal

This is a fairly common approach taken by small businesses who either offer wireless access for its customers only, or for those who sell wireless access by the hour, day, week etc, like hotels. A captive portal turns the web browser into an authentication site that all traffic is driven to before having access to the entire network in order to provide authentication through a guest password, receipt number or payment type and only when those forms of identification are met, will a user have access to the entire network. This security will most often be seen at hotels, coffee shops and other places where customers might spend a usable amount of time with their laptops while enjoying the location they are at. Many city parks now have such wireless access, in fact.

Use of a Secure VPN

The use of a virtual private network, or more commonly called a VPN, is found most often with telecommuting workers who need access to the company’s entire network and applications, but on a secure line. Think of a VPN as a secret passage way through the World Wide Web, which protects the user from eavesdroppers and those who would virtually pick your pockets by stealing bits of private and valuable data while the user exchanges information between your network and your personal mobile computer.

In the past, companies would spend lots of money to lease telecommunications lines in order to ensure that their network was shut off from the internet. With the resurgence of VPN (for it is decidedly much not new technology) companies have the option to cut costs significantly, take some of the weight off of their likely over-worked IT network administration team and offer their workers a bit more in the way of flexibility when it comes to the location in which they choose to work.

When all is said and done, network security is becoming one of the world’s hottest topics because of how fast technology is moving along. In some cases, it is developing faster than there are ways to be found to protect one’s self from the privacy shredding changes that are being made. From cell phones having tracking and GPS abilities that make your information available to the manufacturer to programs that track your usage under the guide of a “customer experience improvement” program, there is no dearth of new learning available for those who choose the career of network security professional. There is also much to learn for the small corporate and home users.

When choosing a method of wireless security for a closed wireless network, the options are out there. Making certain that the settings are correct and hardware is installed right should fall to a network security professional. This will ensure that slight mistakes do not make your network open to those who would relish the secrets that your network will share with its users. Once implemented, you can be rest assured that the information shared on the network will remain safe, and out of the hands of those who are no better off than they should be.

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On our personal computers, we have AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Skype and perhaps, if you are one of those users who has friends on all of those networks, a multi-messenger program, like Trillian or Pidgin.  On our phones, we have mobile versions of these, or we have proprietary messaging software such as Blackberry Messenger.

We live in a world where the ability to be connected to others instantly is so important that we are bombarded with ways to do so.

IRC: the program that helped the world communicate in real time

In 1988, an avid Bulletin Board Service (BBS) user was inspired to replace the chat function on the service called “MUT” or “MultiUser Talk” with something a bit more elegant.  From that moment of inspiration came IRC, for “Internet Relay Chat”.

During its early days, IRC was used primarily for group discussions held in real time.  Through the use of a client to reach the server, the user chooses a nickname to go by in the channel (chat room) that they choose to be in.  Most IRC servers do not require that you register an account, however most offer the option so that your nickname will not be taken by another user.

When a user connects to a server, they then choose a channel or a chat room in which they want to participate and from there go on to meet and speak with others from around the globe. Initially IRC was a plain-text only service, however as time went by and new client programs were created, this became more of a standard although not a hard and fast rule.

Common and historical uses for IRC:

• Common chat about topics with groups of people: Usually each channel will have a topic assigned to it by the person who created it.  It is generally considered rude to break away from the topic unless the room is designated as a hang out rather than a discussion room (don’t you wish some days on the Internet that rule was still respected?).

• File Sharing: Some of the first file sharing activities originated on IRC through its transfer protocol called DCC (Direct Client to Client) transfer.  Users would enter a room and through the use of automated “bots”, which allow users to set up profiles and list what files they had available for sharing, they would then send a private message (PM) to the user who had files which they desired and negotiated a transfer.

• Government uses: A little known fact is that in the early ‘90s both the US government and the Russian military had critical uses for IRC.  The United States used it during the Gulf War to securely and quickly send information about ongoing conflicts.  The Russian military the next year used it to report on their coup, otherwise silenced by a Russian media blackout.

IRC in today’s information superhighway

Other chat services have followed it throughout the years, but IRC has remained a favorite for the technologically astute because of the flexibility of the code used to communicate and share files across the net.   For example, IRC was one of the first protocols to be ready for the jump to IPv6.  Users are the base of the IRC experience, creating scripts and bots that host user profiles, play music in the channel, handle notes as if they were e-mail from user to user and even play games.

The channels became one of the first real examples of the Internet, becoming a world onto itself.  While not flashy and filled with bright colors like some chat programs now available, and certainly not offering web cam chats or voice chats, the atmosphere keeps bringing people back.  Even in this day of Flash everything and phones that do everything but read your mind (is there an app for that?), IRC still today pulls users back into its simple, elegant world.

Servers, Channels and Services

So, are you ready to go explore the world of IRC? Excellent! Allow me to give you a short guide to the spoken and unspoken rules of this ancient place:

IRC was created to facilitate communication between people all over the world in order to share information about their hobbies and interests. While its command-line interface may be increasingly foreign to a world that’s even phasing out mice and keyboards for touch screens, it’s not hard to learn. There are many great servers out there, ranging from those aimed at teenagers and their interests, to adult dating sites and colleges who have rooms for their students to gather and converse about last night’s lecture. More than twenty years after its introduction there is still something for everyone! So, kick back, log in and have a nice chat!

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We live in a day and age where technology is advancing so fast that just ten years ago we could not have foreseen the technological advances that we enjoy today. Certainly we have seen plenty of retina scanning and fingerprint scanners in the movies and in science fiction books. Now, however, we see fingerprint security on personal laptops and just about everyone knows what encryption is and uses some form of it. So, when this strange phenomenon called “Cloud Computing” came into the public eye, it set imaginations running and people began asking questions about what it was and what is it capable of.

A large part of the problem in accurately describing cloud computing is that there are many different definitions that are all technically correct. It is application deployment, decentralized office applications, customer service management solutions, storage and much more. Today, I want to focus on the three most popular uses of cloud computing: Cloud Storage, Cloud Hosting, and Software as a Service.

Cloud Storage

This is really a simple idea that can be made complex when you put too much thought into it. At the end of the day, cloud storage is off site backups and storage that can be accessed from any computer or cellular with an Internet connection. It lets the user share large multimedia files across several locations with several people at the same time, all without needing a laptop or a flash drive. Most cloud storage services also allow for multiple users to access the account, such as in cloud services like AVG’s LiveKive which assigns a separate file sharing link to whomever you wish to share with.  The link accesses only the files that the administrator designates. Some of the most popular cloud storage services are:

Amazon Cloud | http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

This Amazon product allows you to store your documents and applications as well as e-books bought in Kindle format.  It also allows you to upload your music to their service and no matter how much music there is, you have unlimited space that does not go against your quota for photos, movies, documents and other file types.

DropBox | http://www.dropbox.com/

DropBox allows you to upload your files to their service through a downloaded client that will allow you to simply drop files into a folder that it then synchronizes with your files online.  It also allows for sharing by creating folders that get shared with specified users through their email.

AVG LiveKive | http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-livekive

AVG is well known for their virus and firewall software, and now they’ve entered the cloud storage game by offering their service as a backup solution.  LiveKive also allows you to have your backed-up data shared between authorized users and devices.

Having an off-site non-physical backup location is an attractive option for those who worry about their external drives falling to their death when a cat runs across their desk. In order to make the most use of cloud storage and be certain of your backup integrity, a recommendation of on and off site storage and redundancy is recommenced by experts.

Cloud Hosting

Cloud hosting is fast becoming the web hosting solution of choice, especially with e-commerce merchants. Instead of being limited by the space and utilities of a physical web server, those who use the cloud to host their shops and take payments and orders through it find that they can scale their server space to meet their needs without paying for unnecessary utilities or running out of space and having to make the hard decision of which items and services need to be cut from their enterprise.

Cloud hosting can save businesses the expense of not having to negotiate higher bandwidth caps or purchasing new software and hardware in order to keep up with the flow of traffic that their site produces, since most pricing schemes are per-use. More and more hosting companies are moving towards this form of hosting in order to expand upon their current infrastructures and to offer their clients more competitive pricing.

Software as a Service

Here we come to one of the newest but most well known implementations of cloud computing. Software as a Service (SaaS) is an invaluable service for companies who have employees who need their information at a moment’s notice and on the go. SaaS involves the access of applications by users at any time from any location.

One excellent example of SaaS is Salesforce, the ever popular customer management program. It keeps track of all contacts and sales pipelines as well as customer service inquiries so that, no matter where you are, you can reach the information at your fingertips through laptop, desktop, tablet or cell phone. The information is kept in an organized fashion and each installation of Salesforce is customized to the client’s needs so there is very little bloating that makes similar traditional programs so annoying to use and complex to understand. It also allows for far better oversight for employees who spend a lot of time away from the office.

Other similar software would include the Google Docs suit and Microsoft Office 365 where individuals can create accounts and store their documents, spreadsheets, .pdf files and more on the <a href="http://www.argonhosting.com/blog/tag/cloud/” target=”_blank”>cloud and edit them whenever they desire, from any location. Also, these services offer options for collaboration and sharing at different levels of security. A document can either be only visible to others or they can have read/write access. At the top of the access list, the user can read and write as well as delete and invite others to share and assign privileges. These types of software are becoming more popular as more companies and other organizations take their enterprises to the cloud, working with a population that is spread out all over the city, if not the world.

The Future of Cloud Computing

These are only some of the uses that cloud technology currently supports. When it comes to the future, it is obvious that this will become the way of life for those who rely on vast amounts of data and require portability across systems and devices. Cloud services offer a less expensive and far more versatile experience for users to work with their information and to provide services for others on short notice. Also, it decentralizes data storage which will assist the users in feeling far more secure about their data and give one more tool against corrupted hard drives and other accidents of nature. As time goes on, it is certain that the cloud will become integrated with just about every type of activity that takes place on the Internet.

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In this world today, it’s unbelievable sometimes how many things we take for granted. One of the ones that I think we should be most appreciative of is how readily-accessible music is. Among the many “When I was your age” lessons that’s already taking root is how just 20 years ago, you had to wait for songs on the small handful of radio stations available, or else buy an expensive CD or tape.

We’ve now gone so far to the opposite extreme that we can’t picture it being any other way. Almost every song ever recorded is now available somewhere. Sometimes you have to (*gasp*) pay $0.99 for it if it’s truly rare, assuming you want to listen to it legally, and listen to it now. Most of the times, you don’t. Usually, it takes not even a minute to find it and start playing it. If you find it on YouTube, it may even come with a wonderful little music video that someone took it upon themselves to make for free. Have I mentioned again that we’re spoiled?

Down by the stream

Knowing how many users are going to download music for free and needing a way to rope them back in, companies offering streaming music services are now common. The peace of mind of never having to worry about piracy charges combined with the ease of use many of these services offer, typically makes the slight annoyance of advertisements and occasional fees worth it for a lot of people. This, in turn, has resulted in a proliferation of streaming music web sites.

If you’ve never sat down and just let the web sing to you, then you could use a good pointer towards the best services. Here’s a quick summary of some of the most popular music streaming web sites out there:

1. Pandora | http://www.pandora.com/

One of the first music streaming sites is still one of the most popular. It is populated by 80 million users, who push it to a ranking of 346^th most popular site on the web according to Alexa.

What makes Pandora so popular? Likely it is because of the site’s elegant design, ease of use, and intelligent style-matching algorithms. The user can create “stations” that are based around a set of like and dislike criteria. Pandora then attempts to play songs that match your criteria based on what other users listening to the same thing have listened to. You can also click on a song and it will tell you exactly why that song was listed.

Downside of the service is that while you can pause a song, you can’t rewind or repeat a song, or even repeat an artist. It’s sort of like a real-life DJ that way. It also implemented a limit of 40 hours of free streaming per month, before a near-revolt caused them to relent last month to a more reasonable 320 hours.

2. Grooveshark | http://grooveshark.com/

Grooveshark boasts no small following either, having passed the 35 million user mark in May of 2011. It is also a very loyal following: one online poll rated this as the most popular of all streaming music services.

The design could be part of the reason. Grooveshark gives you freer reign in creating the type of playlist you want, with a nicely done drag-and-drop interface. Grooveshark also lets you upload your own music to add to the communal library, which might be the largest of all sites with a massive 22 million songs (it’s a great place for mash up seekers). You can use a free account, or you can register an upgraded account, which you can use to remove ads and listen to Grooveshark on your phone.

3. Last.fm | http://www.last.fm/

Last.fm is the social networking hub of music streaming. Instead of just a simple page with a list of songs like on many streaming sites, the site is filled with options for listening and finding new music, artist and song information, and data about who else likes your favorite songs and artists. It also works with you to exchange information back and forth between local music listening applications like Winamp, and with other social media sites. All of this does give it a more corporate feel, but it compensates for this with a gigantic library of 12 million tracks.

4. Spotify | http://www.spotify.com/

As opposed to the above sites, Spotify runs as a stand-alone application instead of through your browser. It’s been a popular streaming service in Europe, but is now rapidly expanding.

Part of this is because of its partnership with FaceBook. You are shown in the main window which of your friends are online listening to music, and you can update your FaceBook feed with what you are currently listening to. Combined with its recent US launch (it was mostly confined to the UK before), this is one of the fastest rising choices.

5. Rdio | http://www.rdio.com/

Rdio is the choice for listeners who are interested in expanding their musical horizons. While, like a lot of the services, you can just use it as a personal DJ, its strength comes from the fact that it is heavily designed around using your friends’ lists to influence yours, combined with its extensive library of 9 million songs. It is also available for just about every smart phone platform, despite being one of the newest offerings. Do note that it is subscription-only, but it is ad-free.

6. MOG | http://mog.com/

MOG is one of the best choices for the person that is just listening for themselves. It lacks the social networking aspect of most of the other choices. Making up for that is the free 12 million song library, an easy-to-use interface, and the fact that the songs are streamed to you at 320 kbps. Mobile apps for MOG are available for both iOS and Android.

7. Slacker Radio | http://www.slacker.com/

Rounding out our list is one of the best overall packages around. Its best features are reserved for its paid service, though its free service does offer unlimited streaming. The interface is attractive and simple to navigate, and songs are available for immediate playing. The subscription accounts let you play entire albums on demand, and offer a host of customization options.

What’s next?

I suppose we should close that by pointing out that Google is getting into the game with “Music Beta by Google“. They just can’t leave anything alone, can they? By the way, Music Beta is currently only available in the United States. Stay tuned!

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