Entry-level Samsung Galaxy V appears in a retail listing

Another day, another entry level smartphone from Samsung! A retail listing from Vietnam reveals that the South Korean giant is gearing up to introduce a new smartphone dubbed Galaxy V to attract entry-level users.
Samsung Galaxy V will come out with a 4-inch display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels. The handset will be powered by an unknown 1.2GHz processor along with 512MB of RAM. There is a 3 megapixel rear camera with LED flash and it looks like the front facing shooter has been scrapped to keep the cost down.

Another day, another entry level smartphone from Samsung! A retail listing from Vietnam reveals that the South Korean giant is gearing up to introduce a new smartphone dubbed Galaxy V to attract entry-level users.
Samsung Galaxy V will come out with a 4-inch display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels. The handset will be powered by an unknown 1.2GHz processor along with 512MB of RAM. There is a 3 megapixel rear camera with LED flash and it looks like the front facing shooter has been scrapped to keep the cost down.

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Asus Zenfone 6 review

Key Features: 6-inch 1,280 x 720 pixel IPS screen; 16GB storage; 2GB RAM; 2GHz Intel Atom Z2580 CPU
Manufacturer: Asus

What is the Asus Zenfone 6?
The Asus Zenfone 6 is the largest model in Asus’s new phone line-up – a set of phones out to establish Asus as a real phone brand. It gets you a 6-inch screen, and both a better processor and camera than the slightly smaller Zenfone 5.

We think the Zenfone 5 phone is pretty great, especially as it starts at just £150. The Zenfone 6 is a slightly tricker proposition as its size introduces a few usability issues, and it costs a fair bit more at £250 without 4G. But it’s ultimately a solid phone in almost every respect, and a good deal if you don’t mind about having a brand on the back your friends might turn their noses up at.

Asus Zenfone 6 – Design
The Asus Zenfone 6 is a huge phone. There was no way around this one really – you can’t make a phone with a 6-inch screen and make it small.

As you have probably guessed by now from the score, we quite like the Zenfone 6, but this size is something you should consider seriously before buying. It means that when you hold the phone in one hand, you need to grip it with your fingertips and there’s really no room for manoeuvring the thing unless you get a second hand involved.

It’s more of a handful than a naughty three-year old with a sugar high and soon-to-be-diagnosed ADHD.

The only way Asus could have made this slightly better is by trimming down the screen bezels as much as possible, a bit like the LG G3. We wouldn’t expect this from a company that’s pretty new to phones, and sure enough the Zenfone 6’s are pretty ordinary, resulting in a width almost 6mm greater than the Galaxy Note 4.

Yes, that phone has a smaller 5.7-inch screen, but it’s one of the few genuinely desirable big-screen alternatives out there. The Zenfone 6 isn’t exactly light at 196g either.

Aside from the largely unavoidable size issue, the Asus Zenfone 6 design is mostly a complete success. The look isn’t showy but has just enough little Asus inflections here to give the phone something bordering on an identity.

ou get a shiny bit of metal below the screen bearing a neat-looking finish of concentric circles - an Asus signature - a small Asus logo on back and front, and a simple, curved plastic rear.

In the Zenfone 5 we complained that the hardware soft keys looked a bit toy-like, a bit too large. However – strangely enough – they’re actually a bit smaller in this larger phone, giving them a more refined and sophisticated look.

The Zenfone 6’s design is not dynamic or particularly different. But from a company whose previous ‘phones’ like the Padfone 2 have been as ‘out there’ as the professor from Back to the Future, that’s no bad thing.

We should also note that Asus has put some clear thought into making the Zenfone 6 as usable as it can be. Where in the Zenfone 5 the power button sits above the volume rocker, here it’s below, keeping it within reach of your thumb. It’s hardly a eureka moment, but it’s reassuring.

Build quality of the Zenfone 6 is commendable, even though the whole rear of the phone is a fairly standard moulded piece of plastic. It feels tough, there are no wide seams or creaky bits and the front of the phone is covered with Gorilla Glass 3.

This is the kind of toughened glass used in a great many high-end phones, and means you don’t really need a screen protector unless you really want to sell it on in perfect condition in a year or so. It’s highly scratch-resistant, and while it’s used in quite a lot of lower-cost phones these days – even the Motorola Moto E – it’s good to see Asus managed to fit such a large pane of the stuff into the budget.

As well as looking and feeling really rather good, the Zenfone 6 is also a bit more flexible than an obvious rival on price, if not size: the Nexus 5. There’s a microSD card slot under that back cover, which is a great addition in a phone that really should be used as a little video buddy. If that isn't one of your primary considerations, why not get something smaller?

There are 8GB, 16GB and 32GB versions of the Zenfone 6 in existence, but the one we get in the UK at present has 16GB. There’s no 4G option at the moment, though. Given the £249 price, this is an issue.

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The Success Key of BlackBerry in Indonesia

Compared to all countries in Southeast Asia, Indonesia does have the largest number of BlackBerry users. So what makes this phone so successful?

There are about three million BlackBerry subscribers in Indonesia. This figure is believed to still be growing along with the incessant activity of RIM's marketing partners in Indonesia. Indonesia itself has a mobile market with a rate of more than 180 million subscribers.

Behind the success of the BlackBerry was not spared from the habits of the users in Indonesia. It is utilized RIM to continue to aggressively promote their products.

"The people of Indonesia is fond of texting. So they get a better experience with the fuel features, email and social media. That's what makes the BlackBerry sold in Indonesia," said Francois Mahieu, Senior Director, Head of Product Management Asia Pacific Rim.

In addition, RIM also implement their various strategies such as building community, providing a diverse selection of products, or offer efficiency and durability of products that claimed to be the best in its class.

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Trust in cloud security at all-time low: Execs still betting on the cloud

A BT study covering 11 countries reveals that more than three-quarters of IT decision makers are "extremely anxious" about security using cloud-based services -- yet 79 percent of U.S. enterprise execs (70 percent globally) are adopting cloud storage and web applications within their business.

BT says this trust drop (82 percent in the US, 76 percent globally) is "a substantial increase of 10 percent globally from previous research in 2012."

With recent news of serious cloud security breaches, such as the Xen bug forcing Amazon to reboot its EC2 instances, and Xen making Rackspace do the same this weekend, plus consumer fears fanned by the "celebrity nudes iCloud hack" -- it's no wonder IT is losing its faith.

But with cloud security trust as rock bottom, is enterprise IT nuts for putting its data security into cloud and SaaS?

OpenStack's Matt Joyce thinks that's "a fair question."

ZDNet asked Joyce which known issues in cloud security are still unaddressed and he said, "I cannot list them all."

Joyce should know: He's an alumni of the NASA Nebula project, where OpenStack was created, an active contributor to the OpenStack project, and a member of the OpenStack Security Group. He told ZDNet,

OpenStack's focus on peer review of code has identified a great many problems and risks including those promoted potentially by state actors.

We are a project utilized by both the NSA and the People’s Liberation Army along with groups like vietnamese dissidents and CERN.
Talking to Joyce makes the disconnect between trust and adoption feel more acute. Even though their confidence around cloud security is at an all-time low, 69 percent of large U.S. organizations (50 percent globally) are still opting for mass market "consumer" cloud services -- rather than those intended for enterprise.
report explores the rift, saying that around half of the respondents see enterprise cloud applications and services as "too expensive" and believe that mass market public cloud apps and services are just as good as those for enterprise users.

Joyce explained why this is happening. "Cloud promotes the sharing of resources at a very large scale." He said, "This is where it is most economically viable. And that makes its utility in an environment requiring trust relationships limited in scope."

And trust is where cloud is failing the hardest. Joyce opined, "I am a firm believer that trust relationships do not scale. You must segment into shared trusts if you intend to maintain a trust relationship regarding the distribution of information and resources."

He continued:

Now, sharing resources means sharing risk. No matter what, we all face risk, and that means we take a chance on paying a terrible price.

Sharing the costs along with the risk is quite often a prudent and responsible act. There's a reason companies seek to insure themselves. For many a cloud environments shared risk is a step up because the infrastructure is no longer a cost center. And at least some risk is a shared burden.
BT's research attempted to nail down the places trust is failing cloud the most. The report stated,

For more than half (54 percent in U.S. and globally) of IT decision makers, trusting a third party is also a concern.

In the US, 40 percent (41 percent globally) of respondents have the impression that all cloud services are inherently insecure and 22 percent (26 percent globally) of those surveyed said that they had experienced a data breach incident where their cloud service provider was the party at fault.
Cloud's paradox of risk and reward
Joyce explained, "From an OpenStack perspective our first real issue was trying to get on top of identifying risks and addressing them as best we could, and frankly in the early years we simply didn't have the resources to do it."

He explained that with adoption, that "has changed dramatically."

Joyce said, "We now have a number of highly capable folks contributing to the growth of a community of researchers and professionals that support the cause of security in the OpenStack project (through the OpenStack Security Group and the OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team)."

The biggest fear in cloud security is in IaaS, where Joyce said "the big fear is hypervisor escapes. There is no guaranteed way to address this risk today."  He said:

Due to the homogeniety of cloud infrastructure (thousands of the same exact device with the same software), one vulnerability that affects it will affect all of it. You could conceivably hit and compromise thousands of nodes with the same exploit and then use that to hit all of the varied array of difference virtual machines from the hypervisor host. And people have been turning to TPM and other technologies to try to address this.

Building on that the trust model in UNIX/Linux assumes that root can be used to protect shared secrets. If you want to store service credentials in a host but do not trust the users you can make that information available only to root and allow access to it as a daemon or service with a defined scope.

Since every user in an IaaS environment is root in their environment that trust model is broken. In and of itself this is not terrible, except that it's a paradigm shift from the way UNIX and Linux has operated for 40 years.
Echoing current sentiment pervasive in today's infosec discussion circles, Joyce added wisely, "As with issues such as Shellshock, the ability to change and adapt to this sort of shift in the landscape is mired in the chains of technical debt."

Joyce said that at heart, cloud must be a constant -- and by necessity, productive -- conversation about risk. "Ultimately, Cloud has a different exposure to risk than traditional shared services. But, as with any risk, you need to be able to assess for yourself if the risk to benefit ratio is in your best interest." He added, "Going into a deep dive on risk and exposure of cloud environments could literally fill a very large book."

The best thing IT can do, Joyce told ZDNet, is to refine risk analysis for each unique situation, specifically "evaluation of risk from a C-level perspective especially geared to infosec concerns."

Joyce strongly recommends information gleaned from the presentations of researcher Dan Geer will help IT folks frame their concerns in terms their managers can understand and respond effectively to, and that means doing their jobs better."

See also: Dan Geer's Measuring Security (.PDF link)
This, Joyce told ZDNet, can "help C level execs understand that information security isn't boogie men, or the magic of Hollywood, but just another risk they can quantify and address as is their stock in trade."

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How to Teach 1st Grade

Teaching 1st grade will be different by teaching high school students. Required certain techniques so that the child can absorb lessons more fun considering the psychological child is still in the early learning stages.

The voice sounded clear enough by children, intonation, etc. are things that are very important to be possessed by the teacher. For early elementary grades, they are still considered early childhood, before providing early childhood learning, as teachers need to recognize the characteristics of elementary school age children first. Do not forget to always give something new and varied for them. No need expensive, objects in the environment can be the object of exploration for children.

The period is also very short of their concentration. Thus, teachers must have a second plan, and even third, fourth plan needs to be prepared for them so they do not saturate. Keep in mind that early childhood is a period play. Thus, the instruction given to them should be based on the principles of play (fun, children can explore, gain a lot of experience).

Children are not miniature adults but they have the characteristics and uniqueness of each. So, do not equate them with the high school kids that are easier on the set and was able to concentrate for a long time.

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Self-Confidence

Self-confidence is one aspect of personality that is very important in human life. Self confident people are confident about their own abilities and have realistic expectations, even when their expectations are not realized; they stayed positive and can take it.

Definition
Self-confidence is a mental or psychological condition of a person who gives a strong confidence in him to do or perform any act. People who do not believe in themselves have a negative self-concept, lack of confidence in his ability, because it is often kept to them. Self confidence is a mental or psychological condition, which individuals can evaluate the entirety of her strong belief in giving him the ability to take action in achieving various goals in life.
People who have good self-confidence, they have positive feelings toward themselves, have strong beliefs on him and had accurate knowledge of the capabilities. People who have good self-confidence are not the only person who feels capable of (but not really afford) but is a person who knows that he can be caused by experience and calculation that he did.
Synonyms:  aplomb, inner strength, positive self-image, self-assurance

Personality traits of people with low self-confidence
When this is linked to the practice of everyday life, people who have low self-confidence or have lost confidence, tend to feel / be as below:
• Do not have anything (desires, goals, targets) which fought energetically
• Do not have a decision to step decisive
• Easily frustrated or give up when faced with a problem or difficulty
• Less motivated to go forward, laziness or half and half
• Often fails to accomplish its tasks or responsibilities
• Awkward in dealing with people
• Can not demonstrate the ability to speak and the ability to listen to a convincing
• Often have unrealistic expectations
• Too perfectionist
• Too sensitive

Help: low self-confindence
Counselling,  life coaching, and hypnotherapy are common therapies used to help improve self-confidence.

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Acyclovir Pharmacology and Indication

Acyclovir is acyclic purine nucleoside analogue active against herpes simplex virus, varicella zoster, Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus. In the cell, undergo phosphorylation acyclovir acyclovir triphosphate into an active form that inhibit the herpes simplex virus DNA polymerase and viral DNA replication, thereby preventing viral DNA synthesis without affecting normal cell processes.

Acyclovir Pharmacology
Acyclovir is an antiviral agent highly active in vitro against herpes simplex virus (HSV) types I and II, and varicella zoster virus. Upon entry into the infected cell, the phosphorylated form of the active compound Acyclovir Acyclovir trifosfate. The initial phase of the process depends on the enzyme thymidine kinase viral-coded. Acyclovir trifosfate act as inhibitors and as a false substrate for the herpes-specified DNA polymerase which prevents viral DNA synthesis without affecting normal cellular processes.

Treatment of herpes simplex virus infections of the skin and mucous membranes including initial and recurrent genital herpes / recurrent, herpes zoster (shingles / shingles / shingles). Preventing recurrence of herpes simplex infections in patients with strong immune systems. Preventing herpes simplex infection in patients with poor immune systems.

Another acyclovir pharmacology is a treatment of herpes simplex virus infections of the skin and mucous membranes including initial and recurrent genital herpes / recurrent, herpes zoster (shingles / shingles / shingles); preventing recurrence of herpes simplex infections in patients with strong immune systems; preventing herpes simplex infection in patients with poor immune systems.

Acyclovir Indication
Acyclovir indication such as treatment of herpes simplex virus on the skin and mucus membranes, including initial and recurrent genital herpes; treatment of herpes zoster and varicella infections; treatment of infections caused by the herpes simplex of the skin and mucous membranes including initial and recurrent genital herpes, herpes simplex infection prevention in immuno-compromised patients; treatment of herpes zoster infection.

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