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In this fast pace industry new technology is not being introduced quickly but also being adapted by customer at the same pace.

IBM announced new software and the creation a new consulting practice dedicated to the emerging category of “smarter Commerce,”

which is focused on helping companies swiftly adapt to rising customer demands in today’s digitally transformed marketplace.
The new software and services offerings, supported by global sales and marketing resources, will address the spectrum of enterprise commerce activities–new ways to buy, sell and secure greater customer loyalty in the era of mobile and social networks.
IBM Smarter Commerce initiatives draw on its market-leading WebSphere Commerce platform and a $2.5 billion investment in on-premise and cloud-based software from IBM’S acquisitions of sterling Commerce, Upica and Coremetrics.

This Information Will Help you to how increase the life of SSD drivers in your Windows 7. I have follow these steps and it works really nice.

Follow These Steps:

1- Disable. Windows Indexing Service. Click on start and type in services.msc and hit enter. Double click on “Windows Search” and set it to disabled. Next click on the “My Computer” icon on the desktop, then right click on the SSD drive (Usually C Drive) and click on properties, Then make sure “Allow files on this device to have contents indexed” is unticked, Click apply then ok.

2 – Disable System Restore. Right click on “My Computer” icon on the desktop and select properties. Click on system protection tab. Select your drive and click on configure now select Turn off system protection.

3 – Disable Auto Running Of Defrag. Click on the “My Computer” icon on the desktop, then right click on the SSD drive (Usually C Drive) and click on properties. Click tools tab, click Defrag now, click configure schedule. Untick the box “Run on a schedule” then click ok.

4 – Disable Superfetch. Click on start and type in services.msc and hit enter. Double click on “Superfetch” and set it to disabled

5 – Disable Windows Paging File. Right click on “My Computer” icon on the desktop and select properties, then select Remote Settings > Advanced > Performance Settings > Advanced Tab > Change. Untick the box at the top then select your SSD drive and select no paging file. If you have another hard-disk in your computer you could move the paging file to there.

6 – Disable Windows Defender Scheduled Scan – Go to the control panel, click on windows defender, Click Tools > Options then untick “Automatically scan my computer” then click on save

7 – Disable Unwanted Programs From AutoLaunch. Click start then type in msconfig and hit enter. Now click on the startup tab and untick anything that you do not need windows to run once it has started. If you are unsure what to disable please post here before disabling it.

8 – Anti-Virus. Make sure your anti-virus program does not have a scheduled virus scan, Disable it if it does.

9 – Turn off application updates – With certain programs such as adobe reader and java they can be configured to automatically check if newer versions are available, if newer versions are available they will also automatically downloaded, which means writing files to your SSD.

10 – Check Task Manager For Top I/O Processes – Open task manager by pressing “CTRL + Shift + ESC” Click on “Show processes from all users” click on the processes tab, then sort the “I/O Reads” by max to min. Now take a look at the top processes of I/O Reads and is there funny processes there?? It is possible that there is a process that takes up a lot of I.O that you could stop. If you are unsure about a process post about it in our forum. Repeat the above process for the “I/O Write” column

11 – Check Task Scheduler – Go in to the control panel and click on scheduled tasks. Disable tasks in there that you do not need. There might be a task in here to do a full virus scan on your PC or something similar. If your not to sure what you can disable post about it in our forum.

12 – Stop And Disable Unwanted Windows Services. Click on start and type in services.msc and hit enter. Now double click on a service you don’t need and set it to disabled, then reboot your machine for it to take effect. Below is a list of services you might consider to disable.

Audio Service – Only disable if you don’t want audio on your system

Branch Cache – This caches network content

Computer Browser – If you disable this service your computer will not popup in the mynetwork for the domain

Disk Defrafmenter – Your system will not be able to defrag with this disabled
Print Spooler – Disable only if you never plan to print anything from your system
Server Service – Disable if you don’t plan to share any files / printers on your system

Themes – If you don’t use windows 7 themes disable this service
Windows Audio – Only disable if you don’t want audio on your system
Windows Audio Endpoint Builder – Only disable if you don’t want audio on your system

13 – Install Programs On Sata Drive – If possible only install the OS on your SSD drive and install programs on a secondary sata / IDE drive.

If you have any other tips which you think will increase the life of a SSD drive on windows 7 please post about it in this article.

Apple on Wednesday released iOS 4.3, the latest update of its mobile operating system, two days sooner than expected.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs summarized the new features during the company’s iPad 2 launch event in San Francisco, Calif., last week.

The software powers Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices, which number over 160 million worldwide at the moment. It’s available through Apple’s Software Update control panel.

Apple has also made its iOS 4.3 SDK and Xcode 4, a new version of its integrated development environment (IDE), available to iOS developers. In addition, the company has updated its HTML5 ad creation tool, iAd Producer, to version 1.1.

iOS 4.3 promises faster Web browsing, thanks to an update to Apple’s Nitro JavaScript engine in the mobile version of Safari. Apple claims that the enhancement doubles mobile Safari’s JavaScript performance.

The iOS update also delivers a new feature called iTunes Home Sharing, which allows users to stream iTunes content — music or video — on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad over a local WiFi network.

Apple is also enhancing wireless content streaming from Apple TV devices through a previously introduced feature called AirPlay. iOS 4.3 allows streaming from third-party apps and Web sites through Apple TV, along with videos in the Photos app and previews in iTunes. In addition, AirPlay allows video captured on iOS devices to be streamed back to Apple TV via the Photos app.

Perhaps the most eagerly anticipated feature in iOS 4.3 is the Personal Hotspot, which allows computer users to connect to an iPhone 4 over WiFi and then to use the phone’s cellular data network to reach the Internet. iOS 4.3 brings hotspot support to AT&T GSM iPhones; it was already enabled on Verizon CDMA iPhones.

iOS 4.3 add support for one new mobile app — Photo Booth, a mobile version of the Mac OS X picture taking app — and one updated app — a version of the company’s FaceTime video conferencing app that has been reworked for the iPad 2.

German Mac enthusiast site Macerkopf.de on Tuesday said it has received reports of an iOS 5 event in April when Apple will announce changes to its MobileMe service.

Apple has not announced any such event, but is widely believed to be working to make MobileMe a more appealing cloud-based service, possibly by allowing customers to stream their iTunes content to any of their Apple devices through Apple’s data centers.

Twitter has been resetting passwords for accounts that started distributing links promoting fake antivirus software in an attack that used Google’s Web address shortening service to conceal the links’ destination.

The links, masked by Google “goo.gl” URL shortener, bounce through a series of redirect URLs before landing on a Ukrainian top-level domain that then redirects to an IP address associated with other fake antivirus software scams, wrote Nicolas Brulez of Kaspersky Lab on a company blog.

Victims landing on the fake antivirus software page are prompted to scan their computer. If they approve the scan, the page asks if they want to remove threats from their computer: doing so starts the download of a bogus security program called “Security Shield.”

Fake antivirus programs remain a pervasive problem on the Internet, with hundreds of variations. The applications target Windows users, and the programs are often installed by exploiting vulnerabilities in a computer’s software. Once installed, the applications badger users to pay for a full version of the program. Many of the programs are totally ineffective at actually removing malware from a computer.

Del Harvey, head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Team, wrote on her Twitter account that “we’re working to remove the malware links and reset passwords on compromised accounts.”

“Did you follow a goo.gl link that led to a page telling you to install ‘Security Shield’ Rogue AV?” she wrote. “That’s malware. Don’t install.”

Although Brulez classifed the attack as a worm, implying it spreads from account to account, Harvey said the issue was not related to a worm.

If the problem isn’t spreading between Twitter users, that raises the question of how the attack began.

One possibility is that it is related to an attack on Gawker Media in December. In that incident, the e-mail addresses and passwords for registered users of the media company’s Web sites were pilfered by a group called Gnosis. Twitter saw a raft of spam after the Gawker hack, as it is believed that many users used the same password for the Web sites, which made their Twitter accounts vulnerable.

Sunbelt Software, a security vendor now owned by GFI Software, provides detailed instructions of how to remove the Security Shield fake antivirus program in one of its forums.

Now reach your favorite Voice Portal application in less than 5 seconds.

To facilitate our customers in the best possible manner and to offer a much better user experience on the Mobilink Voice Portal (555) we have restructured the main menu of the service.

All Voice Portal services are now clubbed in five broad categories replacing the earlier linear structure such that you can find services much faster according to your taste and mood.

Moreover to access the categories/ application from the main menu, along with voice recognition a DTMF option has also been added so that you can easily say the “category name” as soon as you enter the portal or press the relevant key. You can always go back to the main menu from any place in the menu by pressing 0.

Movies have always been an integral part of entertainment for decades, love for movies has never diminished for the people of Pakistan.

Jazz brings for its subscribers such blockbusters, with original dialogues & songs to their very own mobile phone! All movies will be available in 60-90 minute duration through an IVR streaming.

Subscription process:

User can subscribe to this service by dialing IVR short code 606.
After subscribing to service, users will get the successful subscription notification via SMS.
After successful subscription of service, users can dial 606 and enjoy the service.

Un-subscription process:

To unsubscribe this service user dials the IVR and select unsubscribe option from the menu. A notification SMS will also be sent to user after un-subscribing the service.

Service Charges

Monthly Subscription Charges @ Rs. 20 + Tax
IVR Browsing @ Rs. 0.20+ Tax per min