Victoria’s Secret Entices You To Scan Their QR Codes!

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With Due Acknowledgement To:  by Chris Edwards / 708media.com / August 27, 2011.

QR codes are taking off however as the popularity begins to grow, more and more just skip over your QR code and do not scan it. Victoria’s new “Sexier than Skin” campaign has found a way to entice viewers to scan their QR code by using sex appeal in an all new way.

I can explain it to you, however, I feel in this case I will let the pictures do the talking for me.

I have to say, if I were walking around and saw an ad like this, It would be almost impossible for me to pass by and not scan it. This is by far one of the more unique yet cool ideas I have seen for QR codes in recent time.

To scan these QR codes, all a person needs is a smartphone equiped with a QR code reader installed.

QR codes can be easily created by companies using a QR code generator and normally at no cost. This technology is growing at a rapid rate due to the ease of creating them as well as how low the cost is on making them, most times being free. If you are a business and looking to start using QR codes in your business, see how easy it is to start using QR codes in your company’s marketing efforts. Get creative just as Victoria’s Secret has!

Now for a simple poll for the comments below. Would you scan it?

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TECH ALERT: Secure your mobile!

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Ankit Fadia, DC / August 29, 2011.

With the advent of smartphones, there is a very thin line that separates mobile phones from traditional computers.

Nowadays, we use our mobile phones for a variety of entertainment and work — related purposes. Everything from taking pictures, listening to music, chatting with friends, social networking, emails, surfing websites, gaming, e-commerce and even banking is nowadays being done on smartphones.

It has become very common for users to download files and install apps on their phones from the Internet or from other mobile phones. Smartphones have indeed become smaller versions of laptops!

But, at the same time, they have also become vulnerable to attacks. So it’s important to take precautions and protect phones against various security threats.

Gone are the days when viruses and trojans could only infect your computer. In the last few years, there have been hundreds of incidents of mobile phones getting infected with such malware. So, just the way most people have antivirus softwares on their computers, it’s important to install an antivirus software on your cellphone as well.

Some of the popular antivirus solutions for your mobile phone includes McAfee, Kaspersky and AVG. However, my personal favourite antivirus for mobile phones is a tool called Lookout, which works on most popular smartphone platforms like Android, iPhone, Blackberry and others.

It is also advisable for mobile phone users to disable Bluetooth on their mobile phone whenever they are not using it. A lot of viruses, worms and Trojans spread through the mobile phone universe through Bluetooth.

But even if you have a good antivirus already installed on your phone and you have your Bluetooth switched off, you must be careful about where they download data, apps and files from. Do not download things from untrusted and potentially infected sources.

If you have any sensitive applications and data on your mobile phone, it is important to password protect them using this very cool application called App Lock. This ensures that if somebody steals or hacks into your mobile phone, they will be asked to enter a password before they can access any sensitive data on your phone.

Think of this as a secondary layer of protection against criminals! You can also encrypt any sensitive data you may have on your cellphone using tools like Truecrypt and BitLocker.

Finally, you should also enable the power “on” password on your mobile phone, since that protects you against the prying eyes of a snooping friend who might have got his/her hands on your phone when you are not looking.

Although there is nothing like 100 per cent security on your mobile phone, implementing these basic security tips and tricks will definitely help you be more secure!

Steps to secure your phone

* Install anti-virus apps like Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky or AVG

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Nokia unveils two cheap phones, Nokia 100 and 101, for emerging markets!

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Reuters / ibnlive.in.com / Posted on Aug 25, 2011 at 06:14pm IST.

Nairobi: Ailing Nokia Oyj unveiled two cheap cellphone models inspired by consumer needs in Africa, aiming to strengthen its position against low-cost Asian rivals.

Nokia shares have roughly halved this year as the company struggled to keep up with the pace of smartphone development while also losing ground at the cheaper end of the market to Asian brands such as ZTE and G'Five.

The Nokia 101, which comes with slots for two different SIM cards, will be available this quarter for about 25 euros ($35.22), excluding taxes and subsidies, while the Nokia 100 will be available next quarter for about 20 euros.

Nokia's first duel-SIM model reached the market only last quarter, enabling smaller rivals t benefit from growing demand for such models which are increasingly popular in countries such as India, the world's second-biggest and fastest-growing market for mobile phones.

The latest models mark the fifth duo-Sim models for Nokia in the last three months and were inspired by the needs of consumers in countries such as Kenya, where mobile phone penetration is more than 50 percent.

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SHAME OF MEDIA: More Papers in Phone Hacking Scandal!

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July 23, 2011 / PTI, London / DC.

Offices of News International are seen through fencing – AP.

Britain's phone-hacking scandal appeared to be spreading to newspaper titles beyond those owned by Rupert Murdoch, with fresh claims dragging the Mirror group into the mire of allegations of eavesdropping on celebrities.

In a dramatic turn to the scandal, former journalists at the ‘Mirror’ group said they witnessed phone hacking at their newspapers and that the practice was ‘endemic’. So far, the allegations had clouded newspapers of the News International group, the largely affected being the now closed ‘News of the World’.

In fresh developments, James Hipwell, a former journalist of the ‘Daily Mirror’ told ‘The Independent’ that he would be willing to testify in front of a public inquiry into the episode headed by Justice Brian Leveson.

The BBC also quoted a former employee of the ‘Sunday Mirror’ as claiming that he witnessed routine phone hacking in the newsroom, with celebrities including actress Liz Hurley and footballer Rio Ferdinand targeted.

The two newspapers were among the main competitors of News International's tabloids. However, ‘Trinity Mirror’ defended itself against the allegations and said its journalists work within the criminal law and Press Complaints Commission code of conduct. Hipwell, 45, also alleged that hacking took place on other newspapers within the ‘Trinity Mirror’ group, including ‘The People’, where Sean Hoare, the whistleblower who died recently, was working before moving to the ‘News of the World’.

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My phone has been tapped: Karnataka Lokayukta, Santosh Hegde!

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• July 21, 2011 
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• Bengaluru / DC.

Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh N. Hegde, probing the illegal mining in the state, today said his phone has been tapped.

Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge, said that after reports of alleged bugging in the office of Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, he had asked a professional to carry out a check in his office.

"(The professional) told me your telephone has been tapped. Every thing was being recorded from two sources," he said.

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SHAME OF MEDIA: Will Rupert Murdoch Be Arrested?!

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Jul 12, 2011 2:51 PM EDT / http://www.thedailybeast.com.

The revelations about phone hacking and police payoffs might require Rupert Murdoch himself to appear before a judicial committee, says Geoffrey Robertson. And this would be a good thing, not only for the law, but also for News Corp.’s reputation.

Rex Features.

“Be ye ever so high, the law is above you” is the great principle that embodies the rule of law. Should it now require Rupert Murdoch’s detention in custody for long enough to assist police with their inquiries? Anyone whose employees engage in bribery, corruption, or other crimes for his benefit should always be called upon to explain whether he knew or approved of their actions, if only to exculpate himself from secondary liability—e.g., for conspiracy or incitement or aiding and abetting a criminal offense. Murdoch has flown to London to help News Corp. and is therefore available to help “Operation Weeting”—the somewhat puerile name given by Scotland Yard to its inquiry into the hacking scandal. Will his attendance at Wapping police station be required?

This question is of some importance given the prime minister’s refusal to allow a judicial investigation to begin until police inquiries are finished and any trials have run their course. This process will take at least three years and presupposes that police officers have the intellectual ability to get at the truth, through any miasma set up by their corrupt colleagues and by journalists and newspaper executives who are under suspicion. But police inquiries in Britain rarely get to the truth: suspects and potential witnesses have a right not to answer police questions, and no duty to tell the truth if they do.

The incompetence of Scotland Yard in political cases was on display to all yesterday, when its senior officers attended a parliamentary committee and apologized for their behavior back in 2006, when they failed to look at 11,000 pages of evidence because News Corp. told them they would find nothing. What they would have found were the names of 4,000 victims of the ruthless News of the World hacker, Glenn Mulcaire.

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Shame of Media-Milly Dowler Cell Hacking Case: UK Prime Minister calls for new inquiry!

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Associated Press, Updated: July 06, 2011 17:11 IST.

Milly Dowler was abducted and murdered in March, 2002.

London:  Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has called for a further inquiry into the phone hacking scandal engulfing the News of the World tabloid.

Cameron says an independent inquiry needs to look at why an original police investigation did not get to bottom of what happened when the scandal first emerged several years ago.

The demand came as British police revealed they would investigate allegations that officers received payments from the tabloid newspaper, thanks to new documents given police by the tabloid's parent company, News International.

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