The format, HD Photo — recently renamed from Windows Media Photo — is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year-old technology widely used in digital cameras and image applications.

Both formats take images and use compression to make the file sizes smaller so more photos can fit on a memory card. During compression, however, the quality of the photo tends to degrade.

Microsoft said HD Photo’s lightweight algorithm causes less damage to photos during compression, with higher-quality images that are half the size of a JPEG.

The format can also accommodate “lossless” and “lossy” compression, two methods of compressing photo data with different effects on image quality. Microsoft said adjustments can be made to color balance and exposure settings that won’t discard or truncate data that occurs with other bitmap formats.

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Information Support Concepts (ISC) Demonstrates How Newly Improved Sensor Hubs Proactively Monitor a Company’s Environment Avoiding Catastrophic Loss of Computer Equipment

Environmental conditions have a huge impact on the reliability and longevity of computer equipment. Failure to proactively monitor a company’s environment 24×7 could result in a shorter lifespan of equipment or a catastrophic failure that could cost a company a large amount of money.

(PRWEB) February 23, 2007 — Whether it’s small computer room with a few devices or a large data center with multiple devices, balanced temperature and humidity are two key factors that should be monitored in order to maintain the most favorable computing environment. Maintaining a balanced temperature in a computer room or data center is essential. Without a balanced environment, hot spots can form and build up heat behind equipment racks or near large machines. To solve this problem, Information Support Concepts (ISC, http://www.iscdfw.com) recommends positioning sensors near the identified hot spot areas to alert the tech team of unacceptable temperature fluxes.

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ISC Answers the “What” and “Why” Questions about Intrusion Prevention Services (IPS) for Small and Medium Sized Businesses

Intrusion Prevention Services??? Never heard of it. And then the next thought might be … Why do companies need it? The Internet has become critical to us in all aspects of daily lives. That’s a fact. And with the convenience of the Internet, comes the increasingly daunting concern over internet fraud, identity theft, medical records getting into the wrong hands, Social Security numbers being breached on computers, military records getting hacked into and a myriad of other woes. Almost daily people read in the headlines of some 12 year old hacking into business computers, compromising financial and personnel records that could cause unlimited damage over the long term.

(PRWEB) February 4, 2007 — While some of this intrusion might be from disgruntled employees, the vast majority is being done by hackers using random algorithms to shotgun the internet with numeric combinations in the hopes of pinging a live address. These programs create millions of random combinations of numeric addresses in the hopes that they will be able to penetrate an open portal on a firewall.

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