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I decided to take a look at the statistics for InetDaemon.Com with an eye towards looking for mobile users to see if access to my site corresponded to trends I saw elsewhere.  I have a tool called AWSTATS installed which logs the basic TCP and HTTP transaction information for all accesses to the website.  This provides me a fairly comprehensive look at what sorts of computerized devices are accessing my website.

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Mobile phone use is exploding all over the planet. Mobile access to the web in North America was up more than 148% in 2009, according to Quantcast.  Asian and South American countries still lag behind but are growing. More than 50% of the mobile web users are on iPhones, according to Quantcast.

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How can you tell when an e-mail address isn’t correctly constructed or formatted?  What about a website address or URL?   Part of recognizing bad addresses and knowing how to address an e-mail correctly is understanding and knowing what the top level domains are, and how domain names are structured.

FULL ARTICLE: TOP LEVEL DOMAINS: What are they?

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Even if you are a computer expert, you need to protect your computer against viruses, worms and other malware to protect your data and financial security.  Anti-virus isn’t enough any more, you need what is called an Internet Security Suite to even the odds and protect yourself and your computer.   PC World did a bit more scientific review this year, testing performance instead of just comparing features.

Symantec, Kaspersky, AVG, PC Tools and Bit Defender top out the PC World list.

Symantec’s Norton Internet Security Suite the only suite to achieve a perfect score in detecting, disabling and removing malware based solely on behavioral detection. This makes Symantec your best choice in protecting your system from 0-day threats.  McAfee scored an overall distant 7th.

The “Top Ten” List at PC World

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/collection/3247/2010_suites.html

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