Starting A Career in the Cleaning Service Industry Maids and Janitors

June 25th, 2010

Maids perform typical domestic chores such as cooking, ironing, washing, cleaning the house, grocery shopping, walking the family dog, and taking care of children. In some countries, maids take on the role of a nurse in taking care of the elderly and people with disabilities. Maids are often expected to work at least fifteen hours per day.
Many maids are required by their employers to wear a uniform. Today the maid may be the only domestic worker that upper and even middle-income households can afford. In the Western world, comparatively few households can afford live-in domestic help, usually compromising on periodic cleaners. In less developed nations, fewer educated women and limited opportunities for working women ensures a labour source for domestic work.
Young girls working as scullery maids fell to the bottom of the servant hierarchy which meant they were mocked and ridiculed by upper servants and completely ignored by members of the household despite the fact that they slaved away each day at their work. The scullery maid reported (through the kitchen maid) to the cook or chef.
A between maid (also called hall girl, particularly in the United States) is a female junior servant in a large household with many staff. The position is largely defunct in the 21st century, as few households can afford great retinues of servants with the elaborate hierarchy of the past.
The term hall girl came from her chief duty, which was waitressing in the Servants’ Hall. She was required to set the table and remove the dishes, as well as waiting at table. She may also have carried meals up to the head housekeeper, if, for example, that head of staff had breakfast or afternoon tea in her room(s).
The term between maid came from the fact that her duties came under the area of responsibilites of the housekeeper, butler and cook; if these individuals did not like one another the job of the between maid was a very difficult one.
In developed countries most families can no longer afford live-in help. In nations where there is still a ready supply of inexpensive labour the middle classes may still be able to afford servants. For these households, the remnant of the once grand position of head housekeeper is often a cook-housekeeper. The modern cook-housekeeper performs cooking and cleaning duties.
A maid service, also known as a residential cleaning service or home cleaning service is a business which provides cleaning services as a convenience to homeowners who do not have (or do not wish to spend) the time to clean their own homes. Maid services have become more common over the last 20 years or so, partly because of the rise in two-income families.
Although a maid service may be more expensive than simply hiring a part-time maid, it offers a number of advantages. First, a service will provide not only someone to do the cleaning, but also all of the necessary supplies. Second, in the United States, if you hire a maid directly, you are responsible for withholding social security taxes. Third, a maid service is, or should be, insured, and can be held accountable if something is stolen, whereas a private individual may be difficult to track down.
There are several large maid service franchises in the United States, such as MaidPro, Molly Maid and Merry Maids. There are also thousands of independent perators around the country. They are also becoming more prevalent in England, Australia, South Africa and elsewhere. There are also numerous companies supplying useful services to maid service companies, like training, marketing help and supplying management software.
There are now thousands of residential cleaning businesses throughout the United States and Canada. More spring up every year. Maid services are becoming more popular in other countries, too – perhaps a sign of a relatively well-off population, or perhaps these businesses have sprung up just as the two-earner household has become the norm.
Way back, it was traditionally a woman’s role to clean the home, but as more and more women have joined the work force, the time pressure on families with children has grown immeasurably, so paying someone to do the cleaning makes sense to time-pressured couples where both work, and are making a reasonable income.
A maid service is a relatively easy sort of business to start, because one needs little more than a phone and one or two workers to get started. However, to make the business really successful, one must plan appropriately and have sufficient capital for start-up costs and marketing, and be prepared to go through some relatively lean times at first, while you build up a clientele.
Men working in the cleaning profession are usually called janitors. A janitor is a person who takes care of a building, such as a school, office building, or apartment block. They are responsible primarily for cleaning, and often (though not always) some maintenance and security. A female janitor is called a janitrix, although this term is rarely used. The title custodian is sometimes given to janitors as a term of higher respect. In some settings janitors are called housekeepers or housekeeping staff. Janitors have also come up with a number of alternative job titles.
Domestic workers perform typical domestic chores such as cooking, ironing, washing, cleaning the house, buying foods and drinks, accompanying the female head of the household for grocery shopping, taking the family dog for a walk, and taking care of the children. In some countries, maids replace the role of a nurse in taking care of the elderly and people with disabilities.
Domestic service, or the employment of people for wages in their employer’s residence, is also sometimes simply called “service.” It evolved into a hierarchical system in various countries at various times.
Prior to the labour reforms of the 20th Century, servants had no protection in law. The only real advantage that service provided was the provision of meals and accommodation in addition to the modest wage. Also, service was an apprentice system; there was room for advancement through the ranks. However, it was also perilous, particularly for females, as there was no protection from unscrupulous employers or members of the family. Many employers require their domestic workers to be in a uniform.

Impact of Ict on Developing Countries

June 24th, 2010

The communication revolution, ushered in by the internet, has radically changed the concept of office and the work done therein. The traditional view was that employees should work in an office within the bounds of strict disciplinary control, and that too under close supervision of a superior.

The removal of international geographical boundaries between countries, in this way, has resulted in far-reaching economic consequences which have affected, specially the job market to a very large extent. On-shore and off-shore outsourcing of work has assumed an important method of recruiting employees to do work from home that is normally done in an office.

More and more companies in developed countries now outsource work, such as call centre services, sending e-mails and preparation of salary payment vouchers, business development, Internet Research, Data Entry, web design work, graphics work, article writing, software development, accounting, book keeping, secretarial work, virtual Assistants, many more.

Even developing countries have been caught up by this trend. “Myhome-Myoffice.com” is the caption of an article that appeared, not long ago, in a prestigious newspaper published in Sri Lanka.

This has become the bible citation of several countries in the region to which India has given the lead.  Even in Sri Lanka there are a couple of companies and individuals that provide outsourced services for the U.S.A., Canada, France and the United Kingdom.  They also have some virtual workers in their employ

Outsourcing can be harnessed to blunt the acuteness of joblessness in the region which is considered to be a developing zone. This social problem needs solution if political stability is to be established and terrorist infection eradicated. So the current tendency in this part of the sphere is to maximize the benefits of outsourcing.

In this connection, it has to be mentioned that outsourcing is of special benefit to certain sectors. They are mothers with kids to look after at home, physically disabled persons deprived of movement from place to place and retired and over age individuals who find it difficult to get work.

Another invisible advantage flowing from outsourcing is that it curbs indirectly, at least to some extent, noise pollution and air pollution at a time when environmental degradation is threatening the survival of life on earth. Since the number of people driving decreases as a result of their staying to work from home, the proportionate decline in the volume of smoke and noise emitted by their vehicles is quite considerable. It could be said that, in a way, internet is environmental- friendly, for the information technology has transformed what once identified as white collar jobs to green collar jobs.

Why do companies or firms resort to this method? It is solely because outsourcing is financially advantageous to employers in more ways than one. At the same time, people who are thus employed too gain many benefits. Let’s see how outsourcing is beneficial to the employer as well as the employee.

How the employer is benefitted

1. An employer could enlist employees from a wider area, either locally or from abroad, to perform the work outsourced.

2. As the work done is home-based, there is no need to provide office space or accommodation, office equipment and no involvement of recurrent expenses connected with stationary, furniture, lighting, heating etc.

3. Absence of travelling and late attendance results in increased productivity.

4. In the event of the expansion of the organization, it could be done without additional cost.

5. When there is the feeling in the employee that he himself is the master, it leads to self confidence and job satisfaction which, in turn, result in more productivity.

6. Risk of strike action and go-slows is completely absent.

7. When there are no strikes, customers will have a greater reliance in the organization, which, in turn, will earn increased profits.

8. As it is more or less a privilege to work from home, employees will discipline them and adhere to stipulated targets and other specific requirement voluntarily.

9. There is no necessity to exercise supervision as the employee himself or herself will not behave in a way to jeopardize his or her livelihood.

10. No need to pay fringe benefits such as annual bonuses, retirement pensions, compensations for accidents incurred during work hours, incentive allowances etc.

11. No risk of strikes or go-slows.

12. If the work is not up to the required standard or the output is low, he can be laid aside, at any time, without assigning any reason.

How the employee is benefited

1. Home-based work is a blessing on parents, especially for professionally qualified non-working mothers who have child care responsibilities to attend to. Mothers in developing countries too are vacating their fixed work and gradually taking to outsourcing.

2. Outsourcing gives the opportunity for gainful employment to born disabled persons and soldiers who are deprived of movement.

3. Retired persons who spend the evening of their life at home unprofitably will not be a burden on the society if they could do some outsourcing work.

4. People who come under the over-age group too are highly benefited as age is no barrier for this type of assignments.

5. Absence of disturbances or interruption at home and absence of travelling to an office are factors that will result in greater output.

6. Home-based work results in a monetary saving in the following items:

a) Absence of travelling

b) No need to buy clothes for office wear

c) Can take home-made food.

7. Flexibility of work hours is a big advantage as outsourcing does not require a strictly specified time schedule. It can be adjusted in accordance with the personal needs of the individual concerned.

Impact of Ict on Developing Countries

June 24th, 2010

The communication revolution, ushered in by the internet, has radically changed the concept of office and the work done therein. The traditional view was that employees should work in an office within the bounds of strict disciplinary control, and that too under close supervision of a superior.

The removal of international geographical boundaries between countries, in this way, has resulted in far-reaching economic consequences which have affected, specially the job market to a very large extent. On-shore and off-shore outsourcing of work has assumed an important method of recruiting employees to do work from home that is normally done in an office.

More and more companies in developed countries now outsource work, such as call centre services, sending e-mails and preparation of salary payment vouchers, business development, Internet Research, Data Entry, web design work, graphics work, article writing, software development, accounting, book keeping, secretarial work, virtual Assistants, many more.

Even developing countries have been caught up by this trend. “Myhome-Myoffice.com” is the caption of an article that appeared, not long ago, in a prestigious newspaper published in Sri Lanka.

This has become the bible citation of several countries in the region to which India has given the lead.  Even in Sri Lanka there are a couple of companies and individuals that provide outsourced services for the U.S.A., Canada, France and the United Kingdom.  They also have some virtual workers in their employ

Outsourcing can be harnessed to blunt the acuteness of joblessness in the region which is considered to be a developing zone. This social problem needs solution if political stability is to be established and terrorist infection eradicated. So the current tendency in this part of the sphere is to maximize the benefits of outsourcing.

In this connection, it has to be mentioned that outsourcing is of special benefit to certain sectors. They are mothers with kids to look after at home, physically disabled persons deprived of movement from place to place and retired and over age individuals who find it difficult to get work.

Another invisible advantage flowing from outsourcing is that it curbs indirectly, at least to some extent, noise pollution and air pollution at a time when environmental degradation is threatening the survival of life on earth. Since the number of people driving decreases as a result of their staying to work from home, the proportionate decline in the volume of smoke and noise emitted by their vehicles is quite considerable. It could be said that, in a way, internet is environmental- friendly, for the information technology has transformed what once identified as white collar jobs to green collar jobs.

Why do companies or firms resort to this method? It is solely because outsourcing is financially advantageous to employers in more ways than one. At the same time, people who are thus employed too gain many benefits. Let’s see how outsourcing is beneficial to the employer as well as the employee.

How the employer is benefitted

1. An employer could enlist employees from a wider area, either locally or from abroad, to perform the work outsourced.

2. As the work done is home-based, there is no need to provide office space or accommodation, office equipment and no involvement of recurrent expenses connected with stationary, furniture, lighting, heating etc.

3. Absence of travelling and late attendance results in increased productivity.

4. In the event of the expansion of the organization, it could be done without additional cost.

5. When there is the feeling in the employee that he himself is the master, it leads to self confidence and job satisfaction which, in turn, result in more productivity.

6. Risk of strike action and go-slows is completely absent.

7. When there are no strikes, customers will have a greater reliance in the organization, which, in turn, will earn increased profits.

8. As it is more or less a privilege to work from home, employees will discipline them and adhere to stipulated targets and other specific requirement voluntarily.

9. There is no necessity to exercise supervision as the employee himself or herself will not behave in a way to jeopardize his or her livelihood.

10. No need to pay fringe benefits such as annual bonuses, retirement pensions, compensations for accidents incurred during work hours, incentive allowances etc.

11. No risk of strikes or go-slows.

12. If the work is not up to the required standard or the output is low, he can be laid aside, at any time, without assigning any reason.

How the employee is benefited

1. Home-based work is a blessing on parents, especially for professionally qualified non-working mothers who have child care responsibilities to attend to. Mothers in developing countries too are vacating their fixed work and gradually taking to outsourcing.

2. Outsourcing gives the opportunity for gainful employment to born disabled persons and soldiers who are deprived of movement.

3. Retired persons who spend the evening of their life at home unprofitably will not be a burden on the society if they could do some outsourcing work.

4. People who come under the over-age group too are highly benefited as age is no barrier for this type of assignments.

5. Absence of disturbances or interruption at home and absence of travelling to an office are factors that will result in greater output.

6. Home-based work results in a monetary saving in the following items:

a) Absence of travelling

b) No need to buy clothes for office wear

c) Can take home-made food.

7. Flexibility of work hours is a big advantage as outsourcing does not require a strictly specified time schedule. It can be adjusted in accordance with the personal needs of the individual concerned.

Impact of Ict on Developing Countries

June 24th, 2010

The communication revolution, ushered in by the internet, has radically changed the concept of office and the work done therein. The traditional view was that employees should work in an office within the bounds of strict disciplinary control, and that too under close supervision of a superior.

The removal of international geographical boundaries between countries, in this way, has resulted in far-reaching economic consequences which have affected, specially the job market to a very large extent. On-shore and off-shore outsourcing of work has assumed an important method of recruiting employees to do work from home that is normally done in an office.

More and more companies in developed countries now outsource work, such as call centre services, sending e-mails and preparation of salary payment vouchers, business development, Internet Research, Data Entry, web design work, graphics work, article writing, software development, accounting, book keeping, secretarial work, virtual Assistants, many more.

Even developing countries have been caught up by this trend. “Myhome-Myoffice.com” is the caption of an article that appeared, not long ago, in a prestigious newspaper published in Sri Lanka.

This has become the bible citation of several countries in the region to which India has given the lead.  Even in Sri Lanka there are a couple of companies and individuals that provide outsourced services for the U.S.A., Canada, France and the United Kingdom.  They also have some virtual workers in their employ

Outsourcing can be harnessed to blunt the acuteness of joblessness in the region which is considered to be a developing zone. This social problem needs solution if political stability is to be established and terrorist infection eradicated. So the current tendency in this part of the sphere is to maximize the benefits of outsourcing.

In this connection, it has to be mentioned that outsourcing is of special benefit to certain sectors. They are mothers with kids to look after at home, physically disabled persons deprived of movement from place to place and retired and over age individuals who find it difficult to get work.

Another invisible advantage flowing from outsourcing is that it curbs indirectly, at least to some extent, noise pollution and air pollution at a time when environmental degradation is threatening the survival of life on earth. Since the number of people driving decreases as a result of their staying to work from home, the proportionate decline in the volume of smoke and noise emitted by their vehicles is quite considerable. It could be said that, in a way, internet is environmental- friendly, for the information technology has transformed what once identified as white collar jobs to green collar jobs.

Why do companies or firms resort to this method? It is solely because outsourcing is financially advantageous to employers in more ways than one. At the same time, people who are thus employed too gain many benefits. Let’s see how outsourcing is beneficial to the employer as well as the employee.

How the employer is benefitted

1. An employer could enlist employees from a wider area, either locally or from abroad, to perform the work outsourced.

2. As the work done is home-based, there is no need to provide office space or accommodation, office equipment and no involvement of recurrent expenses connected with stationary, furniture, lighting, heating etc.

3. Absence of travelling and late attendance results in increased productivity.

4. In the event of the expansion of the organization, it could be done without additional cost.

5. When there is the feeling in the employee that he himself is the master, it leads to self confidence and job satisfaction which, in turn, result in more productivity.

6. Risk of strike action and go-slows is completely absent.

7. When there are no strikes, customers will have a greater reliance in the organization, which, in turn, will earn increased profits.

8. As it is more or less a privilege to work from home, employees will discipline them and adhere to stipulated targets and other specific requirement voluntarily.

9. There is no necessity to exercise supervision as the employee himself or herself will not behave in a way to jeopardize his or her livelihood.

10. No need to pay fringe benefits such as annual bonuses, retirement pensions, compensations for accidents incurred during work hours, incentive allowances etc.

11. No risk of strikes or go-slows.

12. If the work is not up to the required standard or the output is low, he can be laid aside, at any time, without assigning any reason.

How the employee is benefited

1. Home-based work is a blessing on parents, especially for professionally qualified non-working mothers who have child care responsibilities to attend to. Mothers in developing countries too are vacating their fixed work and gradually taking to outsourcing.

2. Outsourcing gives the opportunity for gainful employment to born disabled persons and soldiers who are deprived of movement.

3. Retired persons who spend the evening of their life at home unprofitably will not be a burden on the society if they could do some outsourcing work.

4. People who come under the over-age group too are highly benefited as age is no barrier for this type of assignments.

5. Absence of disturbances or interruption at home and absence of travelling to an office are factors that will result in greater output.

6. Home-based work results in a monetary saving in the following items:

a) Absence of travelling

b) No need to buy clothes for office wear

c) Can take home-made food.

7. Flexibility of work hours is a big advantage as outsourcing does not require a strictly specified time schedule. It can be adjusted in accordance with the personal needs of the individual concerned.

Dynamics GP Partner Newsflash: Nationwide Great Plains Support

June 24th, 2010

If you have Microsoft Dynamics GP implemented in your organization, and if you are looking for support options for your Dynamics Corporate ERP, you may have reasons.  It is often the case when local Dynamics GP reseller doesn’t carry enough technical or industry expertise to help you with complex GP customization, integration, EDI, reporting, data migration and conversion.  In this small publication we are describing remote support technology, based on our experience supporting Great Plains USA and Canada nationwide as well as internationally:

1. Web Sessions.  This method is often interactive and your GP users can show us the issue as our technician sees the same screen.  Web session requires somebody at your office to connect to the session.  If you prefer just to email us the description of the problem and expect us to fix it without disturbing your computer users, you should let us use either remote desktop connection to your server or application server (if you use terminal Server or Citrix technologies) or open VPN connection for our Dynamics GP technician

2. VPN or Remote Desktop connections.  You should get more info from your IT department.  Both VPN and RDC methods require you to assign special account for our company, again check on your IT policies and internal security restrictions if any.  With VPN or RDC our consultants could potentially work unlimited time with your Dynamics GP and we can perform such procedures as Dynamics GP version upgrade, new companies creation, data conversion, Dexterity and eConnect customization developing and testing (on your Test companies), FRx, SSRS, GP Report Writer and Crystal Reports design, major or minor data repairs, Extender modifications, ecommerce integration programming (Integration Manager, Order Connector, Posting Server, eConnect)

3. Dynamics GP customizations.  These are the most obvious candidates for outsourcing to experienced Dynamics GP ISV partner, who has Great Plains Software Development Factory.  Dynamics GP programming and Add-ons development typically deploys such tools as Dynamics GP Dexterity, eConnect, SQL Stored Procedures, Modifier with VBA, Integration Manager with VBA and Advanced ODBC integrations

4. Support cost.  We usually give you pretty precise estimation on modification, integration, reporting projects in hours (often you could consider it as fixed price).  You can also have support when you have issues, in this case you pay by hours used

5. Give us a call: 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com

How to recognize a professional SEO company

June 23rd, 2010

Search Engine Optimization has created a new league of web activity and promotion. A number of organizations now outsource their search work to SEO companies who have the required skills and expertise to carry out the task. However companies need to make sure that they hand in their work to genuine SEO firms and for that there is a general criterion that could help in recognition of a professional SEO company. First and foremost an SEO company should have detailed, in-depth knowledge of both the search engine optimization processes and the changing trends of the present day scenarios in the markets worldwide in order to be up to date. Most professional SEO companies resort to research and frequent brainstorming forums which is a constant prodigy of SEO professionals. Another very important thing is to have an understanding of the diverse developments of search engine and its directories. There is a difference between search engines that are directory based and search engines that are robot based, which is not known by a layman so he cannot carry out the optimization proficiently. The search engines that are based on the directory are operated by humans and evaluation is done on a manual account. Wherein humans dictate the possibility of any website submitted in the directory, whether they are meeting the search engine criteria or not. SEO is not a simple task to conduct as there are robot based search engines as well. Here there are some variable algorithms of search engines, which changes on a frequent base. Spiders are automated software android. The function of these spiders is to crawl and read the content within the web pages. They determine whether these pages can be indexed or not and whether they meet the search criteria or not. Now if organizations were to their optimization themselves they would need to have some knowledge of such information whereas a professional SEO company would be excelling in this. Professional SEO companies are fast in adapting pace with the frequently changing algorithms of major search engines and they change their search engine marketing strategies accordingly. The algorithms have come a long way and emerged smarter. SEO companies have corresponded in the same way, by acquiring excellence in Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Submission, Internet Marketing, Blog Writing and SEO Copywriting. For e.g. Opal Infotech is an internet marketing specialist with vast experience of search engine optimization technology. Internet marketing is quite different than website submission in the search engines. Opal Infotech clients for search engine optimization are in many countries including UK, USA, Greece, Canada, Spain, Africa, Netherlands etc. They only apply natural and ethical techniques for search engine optimization to position your website in top search engine rankings.

How To Choose A Voip Service Provider For Residential Internet Phone Service

June 23rd, 2010

How to Choose a VoIP Service Provider for Residential Internet Phone Service

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 you’ll need to decide what type of VoIP plan to get. Every VoIP provider offers a choice of calling plans, depending on your needs. You’ll need to decide between unlimited local and long distance service, or a limited amount of minutes per month. You may also need to consider international long distance calling, as well as whether or not you need the portability of a softphone with your residential VoIP service.

Here are some things to consider when shopping for a residential VoIP plan:

Do You Want Unlimited Long Distance Calling? All VoIP providers offer an unlimited plan, which includes an unrestricted amount of incoming and outgoing calls. An unlimited VoIP plan includes all the free long distance calls you want to make, usually within the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. This is the most popular type of residential VoIP plan and is a real money-saver, particularly if you make long distance calls. Unlimited internet phone service plans typically cost between $20 and $40 a month, depending on the provider.

Do You Want to Maximize Cost Savings? Most people switch to VoIP to save money. Depending on what you currently pay for phone service and long distance calls, you should see a savings of around $500 a year. For even greater savings (another $100 a year or so), you can choose a VoIP provider that offers an annual plan. This is actually “prepaid” internet phone service, and it usually costs around $199 a year (less than $17 a month) for unlimited local and long distance calling. The VoIP provider Sunrocket built their business around an annual plan, and now there are a few other VoIP companies offering an annual plan as well.

Do You Need Cheap International Calling Rates? If you plan to make international long distance calls, VoIP service is definitely the way to go. VoIP providers offer some of the lowest international rates available. Rates vary by VoIP provider though, depending on the country you are calling. All internet phone service providers publish their international long distance rates on their website, so compare rates to the countries you call in order to find the best deal.

Do You Need a SoftPhone for Portability? If you want to take your internet phone service with you when you travel, look for a VoIP plan that offers a free softphone. This is software that installs on your laptop, and allows you to make and receive calls through your VoIP service account. A softphone is a very convenient benefit for business travelers as well as vacationers and snowbirds. It allows you to use your VoIP plan from anywhere, as long as you have access to a broadband internet connection. Many companies charge extra for softphone service. Packet8 and Voip.com are two providers that include it for free.

What Type of Features Do You Want? One of the great things about VoIP service is that you get a ton of free features, no matter which plan you choose. All internet phone service providers give you the basic features like voicemail, call waiting, caller id and call forwarding. If you want the capability to receive voicemail messages attached to an email, or want to have calls transferred to another number if there is no answer, look for a VoIP provider that offers these more enhanced features. Unlike with traditional phone service, internet phone service providers don’t charge extra for all the “bells and whistles”.

Once you’ve determined what kind of VoIP service plan you want, you’re ready to start looking for an internet phone service provider who can meet your needs. There are many good VoIP providers to choose from, but all offer slightly different plans, rates and features. Once you know what type of calling plan you want though, it’s pretty easy to compare the plans offered by the various VoIP providers. Some good providers to consider are Voip.com, Packet8, AT&T and Sunrocket.Visit here http://vonagevoipcalls.blogspot.com

Cyber Terrorism- the Dark Side of the Web World

June 22nd, 2010

Cyber terrorism is the premeditated use of disruptive activities, or the threat thereof, in cyber space, with the intention to further social, ideological, religious, political or similar objectives, or to intimidate any person in furtherance of such objectives.Computers and the internet are becoming an essential part of our daily life. They are being used by individuals and societies to make their life easier. They use them for storing information, processing data, sending and receiving messages, communications, controlling machines, typing, editing, designing, drawing, and almost all aspects of life.The most deadly and destructive consequence of this helplessness is the emergence of the concept of “cyber terrorism”. The traditional concepts and methods of terrorism have taken new dimensions, which are more destructive and deadly in nature. In the age of information technology the terrorists have acquired an expertise to produce the most deadly combination of weapons and technology, which if not properly safeguarded in due course of time, will take its own toll. The damage so produced would be almost irreversible and most catastrophic in nature. In short, we are facing the worst form of terrorism popularly known as “Cyber Terrorism”. The law dealing with cyber terrorism is, however, not adequate to meet the precarious intentions of these cyber terrorists and requires a rejuvenation in the light and context of the latest developments all over the world.Cyber terrorist prefer using the cyber attack methods because of many advantages for it. These are:-1. It is Cheaper than traditional methods.2. The action is very difficult to be tracked.3. They can hide their personalities and location.4. There are no physical barriers or check points to cross.5. They can do it remotely from anywhere in the world.6. They can use this method to attack a big number of targets.7. They can affect a large number of people.Forms of cyber terrorism-(I) Privacy violation:The law of privacy is the recognition of the individual’s right to be let alone and to have his personal space inviolate. The right to privacy as an independent and distinctive concept originated in the field of Tort law, under which a new cause of action for damages resulting from unlawful invasion of privacy was recognized. (II) Secret information appropriation and data theft:The information technology can be misused for appropriating the valuable Government secrets and data of private individuals and the Government and its agencies. (III) Demolition of e-governance base:The aim of e-governance is to make the interaction of the citizens with the government offices hassle free and to share information in a free and transparent manner. It further makes the right to information a meaningful reality. In a democracy, people govern themselves and they cannot govern themselves properly unless they are aware of social, political, economic and other issues confronting them. This, right to receive information is, however, not absolute but is subject to reasonable restrictions which may be imposed by the Government in public interest. (IV) Distributed denial of services attack:The cyber terrorists may also use the method of distributed denial of services (DDOS) to overburden the Government and its agencies electronic bases. This is made possible by first infecting several unprotected computers by way of virus attacks and then taking control of them. Once control is obtained, they can be manipulated from any locality by the terrorists. These infected computers are then made to send information or demand in such a large number that the server of the victim collapses.(V) Network damage and disruptions: The main aim of cyber terrorist activities is to cause networks damage and their disruptions. This activity may divert the attention of the security agencies for the time being thus giving the terrorists extra time and makes their task comparatively easier. This process may involve a combination of computer tampering, virus attacks, hacking, etc. The intention of a cyber terrorism attack could range from economic disruption through the interruption of financial networks and systems or used in support of a physical attack to cause further confusion and possible delays in proper response. Effects of Cyber Terrorism on economic & social life-Direct Cost Implications• Loss of sales during the disruption • Staff time, network delays, intermittent access for business users • Increased insurance costs due to litigation • Loss of intellectual property – research, pricing, etc. • Costs of forensics for recovery and litigation • Loss of critical communications in time of emergency.Indirect Cost Implications• Loss of confidence and credibility in our financial systems • Tarnished relationships& public image globally • Strained business partner relationships – domestic and internationally • Loss of future customer revenues for an individual or group of companies • Loss of trust in the government and computer industry The following are notable incidents of cyber terrorism: • In 1998, ethnic Tamil guerrillas swamped Sri Lankan embassies with 800 e-mails a day over a two-week period. The messages read “We are the Internet Black Tigers and we’re doing this to disrupt your communications.” Intelligence authorities characterized it as the first known attack by terrorists against a country’s computer systems. • During the Kosovo conflict in 1999, NATO computers were blasted with e-mail bombs and hit with denial-of-service attacks by hacktivists protesting the NATO bombings. In addition, businesses, public organizations, and academic institutes received highly politicized virus-laden e-mails from a range of Eastern European countries, according to reports. Web defacements were also common. • Since December 1997, the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) has been conducting Web sit-ins against various sites in support of the Mexican Zapatistas. At a designated time, thousands of protestors point their browsers to a target site using software that floods the target with rapid and repeated download requests. EDT’s software has also been used by animal rights groups against organizations said to abuse animals. Electrohippies, another group of hacktivists, conducted Web sit-ins against the WTO when they met in Seattle in late 1999. The Interpol, with its 178 member countries, is doing a great job in fighting against cyber terrorism. They are helping all the member countries and training their personnel.The Council of Europe Convention on Cyber Crime, which is the first international treaty for fighting against computer crime, is the result of 4 years work by experts from the 45 member and non-member countries including Japan, USA, and Canada. This treaty has already enforced after its ratification by Lithuania on 21st of March 2004. The Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) has set plans for sharing information on computer security. They are going to create a regional cyber-crime unit by the year 2005.The protection of I.T.A can be claimed for:(a) Preventing privacy violations,(b) Preventing information and data theft,(c) Preventing distributed denial of services attack (DDOS), and(d) Preventing network damage and destruction.Here are few key things to remember to protect from cyber-terrorism: 1. All accounts should have passwords and the passwords should be unusual, difficult to guess. 2. Change the network configuration when defects become know. 3. Check with venders for upgrades and patches. 4. Audit systems and check logs to help in detecting and tracing an intruder. 5. If you are ever unsure about the safety of a site, or receive suspicious email from an unknown address, don’t access it. It could be trouble. The problems associated with the use of malware are not peculiar to any particular country as the menace is global in nature. The countries all over the world are facing this problem and are trying their level best to eliminate this problem. The problem, however, cannot be effectively curbed unless popular public support and a vigilant judiciary back it. The legislature cannot enact a law against the general public opinion of the nation at large. Thus, first a public support has to be obtained not only at the national level but at the international level as well. The people all over the world are not against the enactment of statutes curbing the use of malware, but they are conscious about their legitimate rights. Thus, the law to be enacted by the legislature must take care of public interest on a priority basis. This can be achieved if a suitable technology is supported by an apt legislation, which can exclusively take care of the menace created by the computers sending the malware. Thus, the self-help measures recognized by the legislature should not be disproportionate and excessive than the threat received by the malware. Further, while using such self-help measures the property and rights of the general public should not be affected.

Job Search Australia

June 22nd, 2010

Unemployment rates have started increasing and there are other signs of economic downturns in major economies of the world. International Labor Organization predicted that at least 20 million jobs was lost by the middle of 2009 bringing world unemployment level at above many million for the first time. Due to the survey report that the number of unemployed people may increase by more than 1 million in middle of 2009 if the recession intensifies. Advanced economies like USA, Canada, Brazil, China, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Taiwan, Gulf, South Africa, Spain, Germany, France, UK, Sweden, Norway, Russia and Australia have all started feeling the effects of the recession. Employment in Australia rose to its highest level in nearly four years in 2009, showing the global downturn continues to bite despite big interest rate cuts and the government pumping billions of dollars into the economy. Now Economists expected the jobless rate was raised to 5 percent. Now start your job search early, preferably before arrival. Foreigners looking to score a job search Australia in Australia typically stick with what they know, or they go the opposite route and try to do something completely different from their skill set. Figure out for yourself how committed you want to be to your job.

If your primary purpose in working in Australia is to travel around the country, then go with something that will provide you with a flexible schedule. High levels of stability, commitment and nurturance are especially important in this role. Although Australia is not yet officially in a recession, figures released in March 09 indicate that it could be headed that way. Australia economy shrank 0.5 percent in the last quarter of 2008, the economy first contraction in eight years. Having said this, jobs for skilled labor are ever increasing in Australia. Australian jobs are open to people belonging to any field of expertise including accounting & finance, arts, design and media, administration, computer software and hardware, telecommunication, customer service, engineering and medicine, travel, tourism and transportation, human resource management, legal and counsel, marketing and sales.

The list identifies occupation sectors in which a increasing is identified in the market today. The current list shows a increasing in child care coordinators, engineering managers, accountants, anesthetists, architects, chemical engineers, civil engineers, computer professionals, dental specialists, dermatologists, electrical and electronics engineers, emergency medical specialists, external auditors, general medical practitioners, hospital pharmacists, mechanical engineers, radiographers, mining engineers, obstetricians, gynecologists, occupational therapists, ophthalmologists, optometrists, pathologists, petroleum engineers, physiotherapists, podiatrists, psychiatrists, quantity surveyors, radiologists, registered nurses and midwifes, retail pharmacists, specialists physicians, speech pathologists, surgeons, chefs, and many more occupations. Hundreds of Jobs are advertised daily on the internet and print media but it is impossible to apply for each and every of them although you may be eligible for most of them apply for casual jobs in Australia. If you’re looking to gain experience, then get started on your job search early preferably before arrival in Australia. There are few sites which can do this for you for free. Consider volunteering if your primary intention is to travel. Volunteer or unpaid jobs Australia usually have the advantage of covering room and board as well as medical insurance. They also give you far more flexibility, so sometimes these factors can hold just as much value as a paycheck and could be the better option if your real intention is to travel rather than work.

Acer CEO: goal to become the first in the mobile field

June 21st, 2010

Acer CEO: goal to become the first in the mobile field

Notebook: Randy Schmidt to help the Miami Valley Research in the field of sports medicine for students to use laptop Acer Aspire Ones.

In downtown Dayton, 11 miles northwest of the Ohio Valley Vocational Asus EEE PC battery Technical Center in Miami, notebook computers are ubiquitous. Vocational school sports medicine program is the use of computers to track the recovery of data. In nursing, they use the patient simulator. In the cooking classes, they use the online menu.

A few years ago, Dell (DELL – news – people), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ – news – people), or Apple (AAPL – news – people) is likely to provide the Centre with tens of thousands of computers. The recent, almost the entire school computer hardware equipment from Taiwan’s Acer. Technical Director Randy Schmidt school in 2007, this change made the decision. “I have a fixed amount to purchase, but the Acer can give a good discount.” He said, “I have never regretted that decision.”

Similar to Schmidt this case represents a new development of Acer, the rapid development of major computer brands, through the expansion of commercial sales. Acer aims to become a laptop computer in 2011 and the biggest seller of the Internet. According to U.S. research firm Gartner shows that Acer currently ranks second. “Mobile is the next revolution in treatment,” Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci said, “Our goal is to become the first in the mobile area.”

Lanci’s strategy is to: move quickly, keep costs low, to establish close ties with retailers. This approach with considerable certainty of selling products online in this together, so that from a local vendor Acer into the world’s active role and become the focus of choice for the consumer cost savings. Last year the company reported revenues of 18 billion U.S. dollars, in the context of economic crisis, compared with the previous year growth of 5%. Net profit reached 354 million U.S. dollars.

To maintain this growth, Acer is looking for new customers, including schools. In this market, Acer is still long way to go. It’s education market share almost tripled in the last year, but only to 4%. Dell, Apple and HP still led the market. Acer held last year, online forums and school library makeover contest, trying to attract the attention of teachers and administrators. “Our retail business has been very mature,” Acer’s vice president of U.S. commercial sales Gregg Prendergast said, “We believe in vertical markets such as education, the development of promising.”

With the successful fight to Randy Schmidts Acer which has arrived. School where he enrolled students in each new laptop. One day he happened to see the Acer promotions, unit price down to 450 U.S. dollars. He found that Acer will choose to save a lot of money, ultimately will reduce costs.

After starting cooperation with Acer, Schmidt no longer inseparable from it. Because he likes the attitude of Acer, education sales impatience of its trouble to answer his phone, the warranty also very flexible. “I’ve never seen any one at HP, I do not know these companies who should be contacted.” Schmidt said.

Prendergast said his company’s “orderly” development. “And the school FUJITSU FPCBP80 battery building trust and awareness takes a long time, but once they start to recommend the brand, it will have an enormous multiplier effect”, he said. Greatly encouraged by the results of the past, Acer, Acer ready to Canada and Europe, the implementation of school programs, and adopt similar strategies to expand the U.S. health care and government markets.

Acer has been in the small and medium enterprises occupy a certain reputation, in the field of sales accounted for the company with an annual income of 30%, Acer hope that in 2010 this ratio increased to 40%. Ready to upgrade to Microsoft (MSFT – news – people) Windows 7 operating system, companies typically buy new hardware.

“Without a strong sense of professionalism, Acer hard to become the leader in computer suppliers,” the United States, Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa said.

While Acer hopes to introduce new server series, but also in the United States responsible for the management of its business customers to provide substantial support for its dealers, but Acer did not develop the same rate of large enterprise market. “The larger the user needs to provide services and support to the more complex, so we started from small businesses, and use them as development base,” Prendergast said.

Acer not always have such a clear sense of direction. Founded in 1976, its predecessor for the microprocessor consulting firm, until 1990, rapidly grown to become a large and clumsy business groups, including the production of computer components and peripheral devices. Successive losses of hundreds of millions of dollars led to its U.S. subsidiary in 1999 to stop production and sales of computers. In 2001, a downturn in the technology, Acer’s operating loss of up to 9 1 000 9 million. “The company’s prospects are not clear,” said Acer Chairman of North and South American operations center Rudi Schmidleithner recognition. “We know we may fail may succeed.”

Result of some bold decisions to create the Acer back to the beginning of the situation. In 2001, the company canceled its production department. Soon after, began to focus on the development of mobile computing products, and in the future with the help of the administrative Lanci expanded the Western European market, Lanci from Texas Instruments (TXN – news – people) joined the Italian company Acer. In 2003, Acer rally, as of 2008, a series of well-known acquisitions (Gateway (GTW – news – people), eMachines, Packard Bell) to Acer and Hewlett-Packard and Dell among the company can scale to compete status.

Acer also develop truly global company with offices in San Jose, California and HP pavilion ze4400 battery Milan (Lanci your area), its R & D team in Taipei, Manufacturing in China. Lanci said the company and market development as competent Gianpiero Morbello such as Acer, executive director of Europe, has brought global perspective, and Asian manufacturers and suppliers to promote close cooperation and produce better products. “There was a time every company using outsourcing business, we are close to the product producer,” Schmidleithner said.

Partners also agree with this view. Acer organizations to “In the case of innovation still have the incredible cost optimization and efficiency,” Intel (INTC – news – people) sales and marketing director Thomas Kilroy said. “So we know why Acer can achieve today’s success.”

Stan Shih, founder and CEO JT Wang has always been fully involved in the operation and development of Acer, but Acer’s Lanci called the new architect. The engineer was born in Turin in 2008, served as the company top positions.

Earlier this year, Acer asked its partners Nvidia (NVDA – news – people) to accelerate next-generation graphics processor product development work in order to be able to participate in a timely and important trade show. Nvidia completed two weeks ahead of schedule on behalf of the ion-processor, so that Acer can add it to this new Internet technology. “If Acer can be found in a leading position in its ranks in the market the opportunity, will be included as targets,” Nvidia consumer computer sales, said Drew Henry, general manager.

Acer is the use of another creed retailers to control costs (see box). Wal-Mart in the United States (WMT – news – people), Best Buy Inc. (BBY – news – people) and Amazon deal with the bulk of Acer consumer sales. Acer Amazon online sales success of this, thin and light notebooks Timeline series Revo computer desktop. “Years ago everyone would like direct sales, as Dell’s great success in this way,” Schmidleithner said. “But a long time, we know that partners to help us to develop faster.”

Although the guidance has been Lanci, but for Acer, the last being the best portable device business is a very difficult task. Acer plans than others, some of its business by extending the field of smart phones. In the past few years, Acer has developed more than ten kinds of touch screen mobile phone, almost all use Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software (Windows Mobile software). The phone has been marketed in Europe and Asia, through the Canadian carrier Rogers Wireless (Rogers Wireless) signed orders to enter the North American market in June. Lanci hopes Acer 2014 to become one of the five major smart phone vendors.

“Tweener” device is another major gamble. Apple iPad, sparked an uproar in the Tablet PC. As early as in 2002, Acer has already begun R & D Tablet PC test tools for the development of IBM ThinkPad X40 battery network components, according to Lanci’s request, specifications control between smart phones and the Internet this. New products into the market later this year, competes with Amazon’s eBook reader (Kindle).

Acer challenge is how to balance product and budget. “The new ultra-thin device is very good,” said American head Schmidleithner. “But the products reach the public can buy at any time —- to carry people, working ten hours of battery with a laptop or access this —- it will be more exciting.”

Redouble our efforts

In the global PC vendors, the number of units, Acer has jumped to second place.


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