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BENGALURU
MONDAY 28 | NOVEMBER 2011
Tech upgrade
Aakash to get more features,
prices may go down: Suneet Singh
Tuli, CEO, Datawind
Footballer Lionel Messi has been
signed by EA Sports to be the poster
boy for its 2012 release FIFA Street TECHNOMICS
Internet is no child’s play: How Kapil Khandelwal
MS TO STREAMLINE
WINDOWS 8
Upgrade and setup have
to keep children safe from it? A dose of IT
long been hurdles for
Windows OS owners, said
Steven Sinofsky, Windows
Live president. With the
SANGEETHA CHENGAPPA
BENGALURU, NOV. 27
Shruthi Muddaiah, mother of
and Trend Micro have already
launched a range of Internet
security products for 2012 that
provide a suite of features like
In healthcare tech
upcoming Windows 8, he
said, Microsoft wants to
make installation an all-
two teenagers, is constantly on
the edge trying to keep a track on
her children’s online activities
antivirus, anti-spyware, parental
controls, remote file lock, social
networking security, web threat
protection, data theft prevention,
cloud over the cloud
around simpler process. and spotting potential dangers
Sinosky said the company before they can inflict any dam- they are also working towards The healthcare cloud- ics cloud. Closer home, we
was looking into how best to ages on them. educating kids and families to /mobility venture invest- are still scratching the sur-
streamline the process for “I have bought a licensed game, ensure their safety online. ment hype is out of the bag! face on how to implement
those updating from Grand Theft Auto, for my son “We have been running the Valuations in healthcare cloud/mobility solutions at
Windows 7 and customers which includes cheats, but he ‘Internet Safety for Kids and cloud/mobility business- large. Do we need to
starting fresh with the new still ‘Googles’ for cheat codes Families’ programme, to gener- model driven companies encourage users to adopt
OS.“Our aim in improving from different gaming sites thus ate awareness about social media have grown over 400 per- such practices? We are also
setup is to reduce the time exposing his computer to various sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, cent in the last one year. If in the process of figuring
from start to finish so that malware attacks,” she says. Twitter and promote internet these valuations continue out the rules for such inte-
customers can get to Like Shruthi, another parent, security videos for kids online, in to grow at the same rate, we gration across the ecosys-
Windows and use the full Vinay Kumar is worried that his India for the last two years,” said are quickly going to hit the tem.
power of Windows to further tech-savvy, 9-year-old daughter Amit Nath, country manager, disillusionment zone of Third: Clearing the regu-
customize and ultimately may access graphically violent Trend Micro, India and SAARC. this cloud/mobility, which latory cloud. The players in
enjoy their new Windows videos or pornographic sites “With tips from our experts, will lead to another 'dot our healthcare ecosystem
experience,” he said. online. parents can frame timelines for com' burst-like scenario. currently feel that the regu-
The risks of growing up in the their kids to go online and stop Rather than playing these lation elephant is wearing
Robot scan digital age are increasing every-
day says cyber security experts.
them from posting sensitive per-
sonal information on social net-
valuations games, I have a
more pragmatic approach
a blindfold. Pharma,
devices, diagnostics and
“Today, children are developing works, choose who they commu- in investing and looking other players are not sure if
their online identity at an earlier nicate with, and predefine which into the inherent business the tablets or mobile
age than before. They need par- games and websites they can models of such ventures' devices provided by them
ents, teachers and others to help access. A lost credit card can be that can be disruptive and to the doctors for data col-
them figure out where to go, replaced, however, if your kid’s stand the acid test of their lection and closer integra-
what to say, how to act, and per- identity and personal informa- valuation on five key fac- tion is deemed as a gift as
haps most importantly how not tion gets compromised, it is very tors. per MCI norms. The ser-
to act,” said Vanessa Van Petten, difficult to undo the damage,” First: The adoption of vice providers have no clar-
youthologist and author of their parent’s credit card to shop added Amit. these technologies that dri- ity on the rules for revenue
Radical Parenting. online for music, magazine sub-
Negative situations Consumer awareness about ves the revenue models. recognition from the taxa-
“Negative situations online can scriptions and event tickets with- online can have online security threats in India is There have been umpteen tion angle. Fourth: Intero-
have repercussions in the real out the knowledge of their par- pretty much stagnating at a studies and surveys that perability and standardisa-
world — from bullying to losing ents. While 26 per cent of kids repercussions in the decade-ago level says Altaf have thrown in figures of tion issues. While there are
money on scams to giving admitted to visiting adult con- real world - from bul- Halde, MD, Kaspersky Lab, current adoption on mobili- several international stan-
strangers personal information,” tent sites when their parents are South Asia. ty and cloud-based busi- dards that are well recog-
she says. not around, 30 per cent had seen lying to losing money “To increase awareness, we ness models. The crux is nised and adopted by a
A jail in Pohang, South The Norton Online Family violent images, games and videos have initiated a student project laptop and notebook PCs large majority of the play-
Korea, will soon begin a one- Report 2011 reveals that 60 per online. on scams to giving this year where MBA and engi- are common in the medical ers, the issue is to bring all
month trial of three new cent of kids in India have had “The statistics show the real strangers personal neering students from across the community but the next players on a single interop-
robots, which will be there in serious negative experiences need for further educating par- country have been invited to pre- wave of mobile adoption is erable standard.
a support capacity to moni- online, such as, receiving inap- ents and teachers, who play an information sent research papers on the well underway as health- Finally: Managing the
tor for “abnormal behavior.” propriate pictures from enormous role in keeping their theme, ‘IT Security for the Next care workers turn to disruptive business model
The robots, which stand strangers, being bullied or kids and themselves safe online” –– Vanessa Van Petten, Generation’ at the International tablets, smartphones and and the transition risks. I
about five feet tall, were becoming the victims of cyber said Effendy Ibrahim, Internet youthologist Student Conference hosted by applications to increase have seen many innovative
developed by the Asian crime. It said that 84 per cent of Safety Advocate & Director, Kaspersky Lab. The most innova- productivity and improve business models in this
Forum for Corrections. The kids on social networks often Consumer Business, Asia, kids in a safe environment like at tive IT security projects will be patient care in a bigger space. I prefer to steer clear
robots are wheeled, and find themselves in unpleasant Symantec. home or school can be much chosen by the conference com- way. Second: The scalabili- of most assumptive and
equipped with cameras and situations online, compared to 58 “While 57 per cent of Indian more effective than secretly mon- mittee, comprising of our in- ty across the healthcare dream-like scenarios. The
other sensors to monitor the per cent who stay away from parents say they talk to their itoring. Parents should also arm house experts and IT security ecosystem that drives cloud/mobility ventures'
inmates. If the robot notices social networking. kids about online safety, 43 per their children with tools to stay professors, and the authors will growth. There is enough valuation expectations will
what it is programmed to A further cause for alarm is cent still secretly check their safe online,” he said. be invited to present their papers hype on how cloud tran- turn sour as their cloud
understand as “risky behav- that 20 per cent of the kids have children’s online activities. Although IT security firms like at the regional rounds early next scended D2C (doctor to con- bursts when the disruptive
ior,” then they will immedi- admitted that they have used Having an open dialogue with Symantec, Kaspersky, McAfee year.” sumer) to all the other business models meet the
ately alert the guards. stakeholders such as phar- harsh ground reality.
ma and device companies,
Tech plus TIPS TO KEEP YOUR CHILDREN SAFE ONLINE insurance, lab and diagnos-
tics and the government
Kapil Khandelwal is a
leading healthcare and ICT
OVER 380 PHISHING ■ Work as a team to set bound-
aries. Discuss with your chil-
outward into the room so
there is no secrecy.
cyberspace for long periods of
time.
■ Don’t let your children open
attachments on emails from
health workers to integrate
a national health informat-
expert. Kapil@KapilKh-
andelwal.com
INCIDENTS IN 2011 dren exactly what is fine and ■ Stress to your children that
We also have Siri-like
■ Make it clear to your children friends or file-sharing services
what is ‘out of bounds’ they need to tell you if they that people in chat rooms are without you being there to
regarding the sites, chat receive any odd or upsetting approve and scan the content
always strangers, no matter
rooms they visit, and the kind
technology: Microsoft
messages while chatting, and how often they chat with for viruses.
of conversation they can have that you will not be angry with
there. Only let them use moni- them, and no matter how well ■ Install up-to-date security
them or ban the Internet as a they think they know them. software on your PC.
tored chat rooms. Avoid “.alt” result.
chat rooms as they focus on ■ Make sure your child under- ■ Learn how to save chat sessi- Washington, Nov. 27: At through Bing or send texts
alternative topics that may be ■ Set strict time limits for the Techonomy conference while using natural lan-
Internet use and enforce them. stands that they are never to on logs, how to block users,
inappropriate for children. reveal personally-identifiable and how to report problems. in Tuscon, Arizona, guage. In fact, Tellme does
Software is available that Microsoft’s Chief Research things Siri does not as of
■ Position the computer in your enforces these limits. Ban late- information such as their real You can save sessions by cop-
and Strategy Officer, Craig yet, such as transcribing
main living space and make night use. Do not permit your name, gender, age, school, ying and pasting the message voicemails to text.
Mundie, dismissed Apple’s
Over 380 phishing incidents sure that the monitor faces children to be left alone in phone number, etc. text into a word document. new voice recognition tech- However, the Microsoft
have been reported in the nology as something official conceded the com-
January-October 2011 period Microsoft has had for over pany had a few things to
and 508 in 2010 to the a year in Windows Phone 7. learn about marketing.
Indian Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT-In),
the government said Friday.
“A total number of 508 and
Is Facebook starting to lose its touch? In an interview with
Forbes discussing user
interfaces, Craig Mundie
was asked about Apple’s
Craig Mundie suggested,
“maybe we need to pick a
feature and hammer on it
harder,” while explaining
386 phishing incidents have New York, Nov.27: developers conference that tionless experiences” and that automatically opted theme: This time, the prob- personal voice assistant, that Apple had little choice
been reported to CERT-In in Facebook is steamrolling it was upgrading its Open “real-time serendipity.” At all users into its sharing lem is that Facebook is get- Siri. Mundie replied, “as a but to push Siri hard. His
the year 2010 and during forward. It now boasts 800 Graph technology. the time, only a few features. In time, ting the social web wrong. technological capability, reasoning is that many peo-
January-October 2011 million active users. The Facebook CEO Mark observers found them to be Facebook learned to allow One of the key reasons for you could argue that ple were disappointed with
respectively,” Minister of company is reportedly Zuckerberg introduced scary. “They are seeking users to opt in. But more Facebook’s success is that Microsoft has had a similar the iPhone 4S. The disap-
State for Communications preparting for an initial Open Graph in 2010 to let out information to report importantly, its site Zuckerberg didn’t try to capability in Windows pointment stemmed from
and IT Sachin Pilot said. The public offering. It’s laying web sites and apps share about you,” wrote develop- changed how its users tell its users how to use a Phones for more than a the lack of substantial
minister also said a large plans to sell a Facebook information about users er and blogger Dave thought about privacy social network. He kept year, since Windows Phone changes to separate it from
number of phishing incidents phone, strengthening its with Facebook. The Winer. But suddenly, a online. Today, it’s a given things simple and made 7 was introduced”. the iPhone 4. As a result,
leading to hacking of bank presence on the mobile revamped Open Graph critical mass of critics are that the web is evolving changes only when the Mundie went on to point Apple had to focus on the
accounts have also been web. But Facebook’s plans takes sharing to a new speaking up about the into a social landscape online behavior of users out that Tellme, the eventu- one thing that would turn
reported. may be hampered by a new level, allowing apps that changes, how they affect where sharing personal dictated them. Zuckerberg al fruit of an acquisition in eyeballs: Siri. Voice recog-
backlash against the com- automatically share what users and publishers alike. information online is believed that, in time, peo- 2007, does what Siri does. nition itself is actually far
APPly yourself pany’s efforts to get its
users to share more of
articles users are reading
or what music they’re lis-
Facebook has had its
share of controversies in
increasingly common. You
either learn to share, or
ple would grow more com-
fortable sharing personal
Windows Phone 7 and even
Xbox users are most likely
from new but Apple would
certainly suggest that they
their lives online. tening to. the past. In 2007, it intro- you stay off Facebook. data on its site, even if they already familiar with the do it better, leveraging
In September, Facebook Zuckerberg said the new duced Beacon, an early The latest round of com- found it creepy at first. product. You can ask it for decade-old technology from
announced at its annual f8 feature would allow “fric- version of Open Graph plaints have a different —Reuters directions, search the web DARPA. —Techspot
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