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The Threat to Privacy by GSM Technology

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The technology used in mobile phones is increasingly finding its way into eavesdropping devices. The use of bugs based on mobile phone technology (GSM) allows spies to monitor private conversations from anywhere in the world.

What is GSM?

GSM (Global System for Mobile) communications is an open, digital cellular technology used for transmitting mobile voice and data services. In very simple terms, GSM technology works by searching GSM networks to find nearby mobile phone masts to transfer voice, data and SMS between mobile phones.

GSM technology was originally created in 1982 by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), who designed the Groupe Spcial Mobile (GSM) with the aim of creating a pan-European mobile phone technology.

Thanks to GSM’s international roaming capabilities, it is now the most widely used mobile phone technology. According to the GSMA (the GSM Association), terrestrial GSM networks now cover more than 80% of the world’s population. That’s more than 6 billion people across more than 218 countries.

The GSM bugging threat

With the advantages brought by the wide coverage GSM technology offers, comes a growing threat to privacy. The same GSM technology used to service mobile phones is also used in the world of covert surveillance and spying to eavesdrop on private conversations from anywhere in the world.

This is possible through using GSM audio bugging devices that use specially adapted mobile phone technology to listen in and transmit conversations taking place in one location to another. These devices work in the same way as mobile phones and can be used anywhere you can use a mobile phone.

Once hidden in the target location, the GSM bug waits silently in standby mode until the eavesdropper calls the SIM card number being used in the device. At this time the call is silently answered and the microphone activated, allowing the caller to listen in to conversations taking place in the nearby vicinity. When the conversation has ended the bug is then switched back to standby (passive) mode. Other more advanced devices have the facility for sound, vibration and motion activation whilst others can be manually or remotely set by SMS commands.

These bugging devices are small and discreet and are normally concealed within innocent looking items that are frequently found around the home or office. Because they use GSM technology they can even pick up audio whilst on the move, just like mobile phones, so are not limited to static locations. This makes them ideal for picking up conversations in cars, or they can even be slipped inside a pocket or handbag to ensure a target is constantly monitored wherever they are.

How to spot GSM bugging devices?

Not only are GSM devices getting smaller and more sophisticated, making them hard to detect, but their signals are often lost amongst legitimate GSM and mobile phone communications. This is a particular problem when being operated in urban areas, which where most eavesdropping targets tend to be located.

It is for this reason that using professional counter surveillance services is the only practical option for effectively detecting and dealing with these bugs. Counter surveillance specialists have the training, experience and equipment needed to detect, locate and deal with the presence of GSM bugs. In particular, these experts are able to find both active and passive GSM bugs in order to provide a 100% secure environment.

How CRM hosting becomes beneficial to our business process

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A type of application that often pulls much of its data from the organizations data warehouse is customer relationship management (CRM). A CRM system attempts to provide an integrated approach to all aspects of interaction a company has with its customers, including marketing, sales, and support. The goal of a CRM system is to use technology to forge a strong relationship between a business and its customers. To look at CRM in another way, the business is seeking to better manage its own enterprise around customer behaviors.

A variety of software packages have been created to manage customer relationships, most based on capturing, updating, and utilizing extensive profiles of individual customers. These profiles are often stored in a data warehouse, and data mining is used to extract relevant information about the firms customers. Furthermore, customer profiles are made available online to all those in the company who might interact with a customer. In addition, Web-based frontends have been created so that a customer can interact with the company online to obtain information about products and services offered by the company, to place an order, to check on the status of an existing order, to seek answers from a knowledge base, or to request service.

CRM software packages enable organizations to market to, sell to, and service customers across multiple channels, including the Web, call centers, field representatives, business partners, and retail and dealer networks.

The capabilities of CRM tools can further be increased by hosting it on our own hosted platform or by getting service with any application hosting provider. Hosted CRM helps us to have access from anywhere and anytime, that ultimately becomes very productive if we have frequently traveling employees. CRM hosting also works perfectly with a business that is spreaded in the form of many branches located at different physical locations. If we host our CRM using by any service provider, we get unlimited free technical support. Hosting provider also takes care of different IT aspects like: daily data backup, security, updates, installation and uninstallation, upgrades and technical supports.

Hosting providers use cloud computing to deliver hosted CRM software. Cloud computing increases the performance to have a fast infrastructure resources. Cloud based CRMs are even cheaper than the locally setup CRM tools. We can further derive our hosted CRM platform setup to host our other software or associated tools. This way, we can get a combined setup for our entire office needs and that is accessible from anywhere and using any device like: PC, MAC, notebook and smartphones.

Introduction To Frozen Dough Technology

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After working for years in the frozen dough industry, supplying frozen products to bakeries, cafes and restaurants, I had the chance and the pleasure to get quite a lot of experience in the production of good quality frozen dough. A good quality frozen dough product is a product which, after having been frozen for up to 6 months, still comes out of the oven as beautiful, appetising, attractive to the eyes and tasty as a fresh product. So it gives me a great pleasure to share with you some of the secrets about frozen dough production.

First don’t get mixed up with “Retarded Dough System” and “Frozen Dough Technology”. Those are two different ways of processing the dough, the first one is very simple and the second one is very much more elaborate.
– The Retarded Dough System is just normal dough that we place in a normal freezer, to be used up at a later time, may be 1, 2, or 3 days later. This dough loses some of its performance capability during the freezing process and cannot be kept frozen for more than a few days only. This is just a convenient process that we can use in some short term situations.
– The Frozen Dough Technology on the other hand is a very detailed and specific way of processing the dough, that enable the user to get the optimum performance out of the dough which has been frozen for a longer period of time. This period of time could be from just a few weeks to a few months; 6 months being regarded as a maximum for a live dough containing yeast. This is exactly what this article is all about.

First, how many kinds of frozen dough processes can we differentiate?
1) Ready to Prove Frozen Dough, good for most yeast dough and puff pastry as well.
2) Ready to Bake Frozen Dough, recommended especially for croissant and Danish pastry items.
3) Part Baked Frozen Dough, good for bread items, not recommended for croissant, Danish pastry items, and sweet bread and bun items.
4) Full Baked Frozen Dough, good for sweet bread/bun and soft roll, not recommended for bread, croissant, Danish pastry and puff pastry items.
5) Raw Frozen Dough Ready to Bake (Proving in the oven), not available yet, new technology still under intense research and development.

Critical points to succeed in frozen dough preparation
1) Make sure that the fermentation process does not start at any stage during the production.
To achieve that: one must control the temperature of the dough during all the different stages of the process, from the very beginning (mixing) to the very end (proving baking).
Ideally dough temperature must not exceed 16C (61F) during the mixing, dividing and filling of the products.
After the blast freezing procedure the ideal storage temperature is from -18C (64F) TO -22C (72F).

2) To keep the dough temperature under 16C (61F), at all time during processing, is the most difficult part and to achieve this goal we need to:
a) Keep the room temperature at between 16C (61F) and 20C (68F).
b) Use cold flour. Before use, the flour should be stored in a chiller (+4C) (39F).
c) Use cold water from a chiller or a water cooler.
d) Replace 25% of the liquid used (water/milk) with ice flakes. Or if ice flakes are not available the use of icy cold water (+2C) (35F) is recommended.
e) Work the dough straight away from the mixer without or with as little rest as possible between the different stages.
f) Freeze the dough, after shaping and filling, as fast as possible and this is when we need a blast freezer to freeze the product very fast up to the core. Why do we need to freeze the dough as fast as possible? The answer is: To bring the temperature deep inside the products to around -8C (17F) to -15C (5F) very fast, around 10 to 30 minutes, depending of the size of the products. This way the ice crystals formed during the freezing process are very small and do not damage the dough structure. If the freezing process is too long (from 3 to 6 hours with a conventional freezer) the crystals formed inside the dough are very big and will damage the yeast and the gluten structure. Then in this case the product will be very long to prove and will not rise to its maximum desired size, this is typically a low quality frozen dough.

Now looking at each kind of frozen dough processes one by one, we can say that for bread items the part baked system is the best and gives very good results. For croissant and Danish pastry items (as well as bread items) the ready to bake system gives outstanding results, but demands strict supervision, good equipment and premise.

Regarding the ingredients used in the production of frozen dough, they are almost the same as for the normal type of dough except two slight differences.
First, the yeast. Instant yeast and fresh yeast are both good to use but we always have better results with fresh yeast, products are faster to prove with more oven spring as well. Also when it comes to the quantity of yeast used, we have to increase it quite a lot (up to 2 to 3 times the normal quantity) to compensate of the yeast dying during the freezing process.
Second, the dough/bread improver used should be a special kind of improver for frozen dough only. There are many brands available on the market.

Hopefully this article has given you some useful things to think about before you start mixing the dough and I really hope you enjoyed this introduction to the process of frozen production.

Audi Headlight Technology

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The new Audi A6 intends to challenge a lot of technology found in its competitor models, one of these innovations is the new all LED headlights. The A6 will be the first executive saloon in the market to have all LED headlights, an optional extra in exchange for the more familiar halogen or bi-xenon lamps that come as standard.

The Audi A6s advanced LED headlight units emit a strong white light that is similar to daylight, and use just 40 watts of electricity each, making them yet another important weapon in the battle against energy consumption. The advanced LED units use just four one-chip and five two-chip LEDs to create dipped-beam light, and 24 white LEDs to make up the daytime running lights in each headlight. This keeps power consumption and maintenance down, and gives excellent life span.

All LED headlights are not new in the Audi line-up, the Audi R8 was the first ever production car to feature all-LED headlights and now are becoming common across the Audi range. The advanced all LED headlights will also be available on the new A7 Sportback and Audi A8 luxury saloon.

The all LED headlights are further enhanced by intelligent systems such as adaptive light control and high-beam assist, which give maximum visibility without dazzling other road users. Simply put the adaptive light system adapts the light provided by the headlights to the driving conditions, with different arrangements of light when driving in the city, country roads and on motorways.

The Audi high-beam assistant automatically varies the range and width of the headlight beam between dipped and full according to the road conditions. The system also incorporates an all-weather function that uses the rear view mirror camera to detect the lights of on-coming traffic and adjust the headlight intensity to give optimum visibility in varying conditions without disturbing other road users.

The Audi A6 is now available to order from Audi Bury St Edmunds, prices start from 30,145 for the 2.0 litre TDI model. The all LED headlight upgrade costs an additional 2,710.

LED HDTV Technology On Television Today

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LED’s also referred to as lighting emitting diodes, are electric factors that exhibit an apparent coloring dependent on some level of latest place inside the diode. higher present produces darker colors, jointly with vice versa, in accordance thinking about the lighting spectrum. LED’s have been implemented in electronics for decades, as well as the newest innovations in LED solutions exclusive brought us this sort of significant type objects as HDTV and several LED-based toys and supplies.

High Definition tv may be considered a latest growth in tv set up broadcast and viewing in which an electrical signal is broadcast providing a bigger resolution inside the image inside the display than what a regular tv can. The image often clearer and much more extremely correct in definition that conventional tv by getting displayed on one of a few of significant types of monitors. one is plasma tv for pc technology. another is certainly fluid crystal display (liquid extremely display) know-how.

Encouraged solutions arrives in the direction of engage in much more prominently in tv as backlighting for all screens. The real fluid crystal screen, the identical solutions for just about any electric watch, is darkish by method of its nature, and youngster should be see a scene concerning the tv screen, LED solutions is carried out to brighten the display from at the rear of so concerning create the image noticeable concerning the viewer.

LED’s are large by nature, and the development on the full-screen LED TV is currently under design construction business, particularly in the pants pocket size TV market. Many TVs overseas that get into the pocket TV category are sold in LCD format, and, once again, are backlit by LED technology. The introduction of TV sets that use LED’s to form the main picture is literally being developed overseas, and in an experimental manner with the U.S.

The backlighting ability linked to LED technology was first implemented with the early 1990’s in Personal Digital Assistants and hand-held gaming system and cell phone screens. The particular technology has propagate around many electronic products from MP3 players and therefore portable DVD players.