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NEW YORK, July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, today launched the “Security Clan” (), a specialized information resource for investigating the myriad internal and external threats to corporate resources and the Internet. The Security Clan is part of Internet Evolution (), TechWeb’s upstart Website focused on the future of the Internet.
The Security Clan’s readership will comprise senior IT security professionals and CIOs working within large enterprise organizations. Site users will receive access to exclusive, in-depth intelligence about the future of the Internet and its impact on the enterprise and their jobs.
The Security Clan also features an active social networking component with household names in IT and Internet technology bloggers who interact daily with readers via message boards on the site.
“Security consistently tops IT spending categories, and with good reason: The nature of the underlying threats is constantly changing,” says Terry Sweeney, Editor-in-Chief of Internet Evolution. “Our Security Clan’s bloggers collectively bring several decades of experience in virtually every aspect of security, from software to networks and personal security and beyond. That’s critical for IT departments, since the value of corporate data only continues to increase and has never been more vulnerable.”
Internet Evolution also announced new contributors to the Security Clan today:
Steven Batson — In addition to his CISSP, MCSE, TCP, and BSEE credentials, Batson is also CEO of N-Shield LLC, a security consultancy, and brings years of experience in enterprise security management.
Paul Doyle — Doyle is a security consultant who was most recently CEO of security startup Proofspace, which is focused on authentication and data integrity. Doyle is an active participant in the Sedona Group.
Rob Hansen — Hansen is a freelance hacker and self-described “dabbler in the black arts of information security.” He’s also a doctoral student at the University of Iowa’s Department of computer Science and is working on hacking of voting system technologies.
Greg Hughes — As an independent IT security consultant, Hughes brings experience as a chief security executive and as a former law enforcement officer. He focuses on forensic security in IT and software development projects.
Ira Winkler — Winkler is recognized as one of the world’s experts in Internet security, information warfare, and industrial espionage. He’s the founder and president of the Internet Security Advisors Group (ISAG) and also worked at the National Security Agency (NSA).
Topics covered on Security Clan include viruses, worms, and other malware; hacking; penetration testing; social engineering; authentication; access control; wireless security; data protection; spam; botnets; phishing; cross-site scripting (XSS); computer crime; security administration and management. The site also provides regular broadcast-quality broadband video technology tutorials on subjects like the best ways to thwart botnets.
The Security Clan is co-produced with Light Reading (), the world’s leading authority on telecommunications, and InformationWeek (), the largest, most influential community of IT buyers and providers in the world.
About Internet Evolution
Internet Evolution hosts more than 100 world-famous Internet experts — such as Kevin Mitnick, once the most-wanted computer hacker in the world; Dr. Lawrence Roberts, inventor of packet switching and one of the world’s foremost authorities on telecom network architectures; Jack Uldrich, futurist, scholar, and author; Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.com; David Weinberger, technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto; Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity adviser; and Norman J. Ornstein, political scientist and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) — all of whom are addressing today’s critical socioeconomic issues within its ThinkerNet blogosphere. Internet Evolution also offers broadcast-quality broadband video documentaries and interviews; investigative reports; and user-generated content facilitated via the latest Web 2.0 technology.
About TechWeb ()
TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3 million(*) business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created around our global face-to-face events, Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial Technology Network; and the market-leading, award-winning InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, and Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.
(*)13.3 million business decision-makers: based on number of monthly connections
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WASHINGTON, July 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ronald B. Vaughn Jr., 42, a former sergeant for the Fresno County, Calif., Sheriff’s Department was sentenced to serve 168 months in federal prison for child exploitation offenses, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California McGregor W. Scott announced today. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Oliver W. Wanger also ordered Vaughn to register as a sex offender and remain on supervised release for 30 years.
On Feb. 29, 2008, after a 27-day trial, a federal jury in Fresno convicted Vaughn of two counts of possessing and attempting to possess child pornography, as well as one count of receiving and attempting to receive child pornography. The evidence and testimony at the trial established that between 2000 and 2001, Vaughn investigated child exploitation offenses as a detective in the Sex Crimes Unit of the Sheriff’s Department. He later became a sergeant and transferred out of the unit in June 2001. He left the department entirely in 2004 to operate “Ron Vaughn Jr. Photography,” a private photography business that specialized in photographing weddings, students and area sports teams.
While working in the Sex Crimes Unit in 2000, Vaughn gained access to approximately 275 still and video images of child pornography, 100 of which were discovered on a CD-ROM found in his photography studio in November 2005. Vaughn raised numerous defenses at trial, including that he was legally authorized to receive and possess child pornography by virtue of his position at the Sheriff’s Department. However, the evidence and testimony in the case established that the CD-ROM was created in October 2002 — after Vaughn left the Sex Crimes Unit.
At trial, evidence showed that a forensic analysis of a computer Vaughn shared with his ex-wife, a computer he shared with his ex-girlfriend and his own personal laptop computer revealed that the CD-ROM found in Vaughn’s photography studio had been viewed or copied on each of the computers. Also discovered on Vaughn’s three computers was evidence that a user downloaded files with titles indicative of child pornography using a peer-to-peer file sharing program not involved in any case that Vaughn investigated for the Sheriff’s Department. Peer-to-peer software programs permit computer users connected to the Internet to link computers around the world, for the purpose of sharing files. Such programs can also be used to search for and download child pornography. Evidence found on Vaughn’s laptop and presented at trial showed that he used the peer-to-peer program to download at least six images depicting the rape and molestation of children, at least two of which featured a minor whose abuse had not been photographed until after Vaughn left the Sex Crimes Unit.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David L. Gappa of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California and Trial Attorney Jill Trumbull-Harris of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS). The investigation in the case was conducted jointly by the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Fresno. computer forensic analysis and expert trial testimony was provided by the High Tech Investigative Unit of CEOS.
U.S. Department of Justice

SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 /PRNewswire/ — Web 2.0 Expo (booth #211) — Gomez, Inc., a leader in web application experience management, today announced that its Peer community, a global network of desktop computers used to test and measure website performance at the “last mile,” has grown to 40,000.
The Gomez Peer community is the industry’s only global website monitoring network comprised of real online users. These 40,000 desktops, belonging to computer users in 154 countries, provide the most accurate data of an end-user’s online experience via different connection speeds, ISPs and geographies. Gomez customers are leveraging its Peer community to help improve the quality of the web experience they deliver to customers around the world, however they connect to the Internet.
According to Forrester Research’s March 2008 “The Business Impact Of Customer Experience” report(1), “good customer experience correlates highly to loyalty — especially when it comes to consumers’ plans for making additional purchases.”
Gomez’s unique approach captures the ‘noise’ of real-world Internet conditions, exposing localized web performance issues that impact the customer’s experience — critical detail that data center testing alone may not reveal. In doing so, it has enabled Gomez’s customers like top-tier online retailer Newegg.com to stay close to their customer base.
“As the second largest internet-only retailer in the US, Newegg.com’s business and brand are defined by the web experience we deliver to our customers,” said Bernard Luthi, vice president of merchandising, Newegg.com. “Gomez’s Last Mile Peer community gives us the opportunity to gain insight of how our customers interface with our website based on their location, ISP and connection speed revealing where we may need to make improvements. Monitoring and adapting to our customers’ needs is critical to delivering a consistently great web experience.”
Gomez’s Peer community complements its network of 150 globally-located Internet backbone testing nodes. Together they form the world’s largest and most distributed network for on-demand website performance testing and monitoring. This network powers the Gomez(R) ExperienceFirst(SM) platform and specifically, Gomez’s Active Network(SM) XF and Active Last Mile(SM) XF website monitoring services and its Reality Load(SM) XF on-demand external load testing service.
“Real web users don’t live inside data centers,” said Jaime Ellertson, CEO of Gomez, Inc. “Testing website performance from Internet backbones is a very important and necessary element of ensuring quality web experiences — but testing at the Last Mile completes the picture. The real-world metrics provided by the desktops in the Gomez Peer community help our customers to better measure their customers’ web experience, wherever they do business.”
How the Gomez Peer application works
Distributed much like the SETI@Home project (which utilizes many computers to crunch numbers in the search for extraterrestrial life), Gomez Peer desktop computers are used to run tests that measure the speed, availability and consistency of Gomez’s customers’ websites. Gomez Peers simply download a free and secure application — an intelligent agent that emulates the most popular Internet browsers — which executes these tests quietly in the background when the peer machine is online. One hundred percent non-invasive, the application cannot track the Peer’s personal web usage nor collect any private data, assuring the Peer’s privacy.
How to become a Gomez Peer
Gomez is actively seeking to grow its Peer Community with a goal of more than doubling its size by the end of 2008. Anyone interested in signing up, and being compensated, for being a Gomez Peer, should visit:
About Gomez
Gomez, Inc. is a leading on-demand infrastructure provider for web application experience management solutions, helping businesses ensure quality web experiences for their customers. More than 1,000 companies use Gomez(R) ExperienceFirst(SM) services worldwide, including 14 of the top 20 most visited websites. Gomez provides a comprehensive solution for managing the web application experience from development through deployment and the entire application life cycle, featuring visual, functional and load testing, actual end-user and active website monitoring, competitive benchmarking, and more than 40,000 data sources worldwide. For more information, please visit .
About Newegg
Newegg.com is the second-largest online-only retailer in the United States, attracting more than 8.7 million registered users and earning industry-leading customer service ratings. Founded in 2001, Newegg Inc. attained approximately $1.9 billion in net sales in 2007. “Those who know” — IT professionals, do-it-yourself computer enthusiasts, avid online gamers, students, small-to-midsize businesses, resellers and consumers — consider newegg.com their top choice for computer and IT products and consumer electronics. At its award-winning Web site, shoppers can compare a comprehensive selection of the latest high-tech products, view detailed product descriptions, pictures, how to information and customers reviews, and interact with other members of the technology and gaming community. Newegg.com is headquartered in City of Industry, Calif. For more information, visit or e-mail .
Gomez(R) and Gomez.com(R) are registered service marks, and ExperienceFirst(SM), Active Network(SM) XF, Active Last Mile(SM) XF and Reality Load(SM) XF are service marks, of Gomez, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.
(1) Forrester Research “The Business Impact Of Customer Experience,” March
24, 2008 by Bruce Temkin, with Harley Manning, Olga Melnikova, Steven
Geller.

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LITTLETON, Mass., May 1 /PRNewswire/ — Startup company ZeeVee Inc. announced today the launch of ZvBox(TM), a new consumer electronics product for watching any Internet TV, online video, or computer content on HDTVs at home. Available for preorder online exclusively at Amazon.com (), ZvBox will redefine television as we know it.
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Until today, the explosion of Internet TV and movie downloads has been confined to the computer’s small screen. Alternative solutions have failed to solve this problem, with drawbacks including limited content, added subscription fees, the need for a box at each TV, and the inability to show everything a computer can do with high-quality video and audio. ZeeVee’s new ZvBox is the first device that allows consumers to watch anything they can get online or on their computers on all the HDTVs in their homes. ZvBox achieves this by simply connecting to the monitor output of the computer and turning it into a new high-definition (HD) TV channel called Zv, which is then broadcast across the existing cable wiring to all HDTVs in the home. As a result, ZvBox frees TV watchers from restrictive set-top boxes, rigid network schedules, and the strain of hunching over laptops to view online video.
ZvBox represents a new product category for consumer electronics called “localcasting,” a breakthrough method for broadcasting anything a computer can do using the home’s existing cable wiring and the TV tuners already embedded in HDTVs. As demonstrated by ZeeVee’s own ZvCast(TM) technology upon which ZvBox is built, localcasting has several benefits which surpass alternative methods for watching Internet video on TV:
— Lets you watch anything available online or on your computer, with no
new subscription fees
— Broadcasts the same great HD resolution that is displayed by your
computer
— Uses your existing cable wiring to reach all the HDTVs in your house
with just one box
— Eliminates the need for a receiving device near your HDTV
— Experiences no wireless interference or performance problems
— Allows you to start watching Zv in one room and finish in another

The best benefit of all is that ZvBox requires no change in consumer behavior. Because ZvBox localcasts its signal to an open TV channel, you only need to turn to that channel to watch Zv — just like any other TV channel. And since ZvCast delivers such a crisp screen resolution, any computer application is accessible from the HDTV, including email, web browsing, photos, music, home movies, and of course the computer’s own DVD player.
“ZvBox closes the huge gap that has existed between HDTVs, which have the best viewing experience, and the computer, which provides virtually unlimited content options and many applications already in use by consumers,” said ZeeVee Co-founder and CEO Vic Odryna. “Instead of the walled garden world of set-top box solutions, ZvBox opens up the entire universe of Internet video and computer applications, where innovation usually happens first. And since ZvBox provides a duplication of what you see on your monitor, anything you can do on your computer you can now do on your HDTVs.”
To enhance the Zv viewing experience, ZeeVee has also pioneered a new remote control, called ZvRemote(TM). ZvRemote controls your media playback and has an integrated touchpad which controls the computer’s mouse and desktop interface from across the house - up to 150 feet away. The ZvKeyboard(TM) makes it even easier to compose email, surf the web, and type text for desktop applications. ZeeVee also provides a “widescreen guide” called Zviewer(TM) that is optimized for a 10-foot viewing experience on an HDTV.
According to Dallas-based research firm Parks Associates, premium online video streams and downloads (TV shows and movies) will grow from one billion in 2008 to more than 18 billion by year-end 2012. “Why should Internet video be exiled to the PC?” said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst at Parks Associates. “The Internet hosts an increasing treasure trove of high- quality video content, but it’s been a difficult road for vendors to come up with a seamless solution that does not add clutter or complexity and does not limit the menu of content available. ZvBox solves a big problem for consumers eager to watch online shows from sites like Hulu and Joost. ZeeVee’s straightforward approach eliminates thorny technical issues like competing encoding formats, APIs, and video player support.”
ZeeVee Inc. is a startup funded by venture capital firms Alpond Capital and JLL Ventures.
Pricing and Availability
The ZvBox is being offered as a bundle including the ZvRemote and Zviewer and is now available for preorder exclusively at Amazon.com’s Electronics store () for $499. ZvBox will be shipped to customers on June 30, 2008, its scheduled release date. “Our customers have come to expect breakthrough products to be available at Amazon.com first, and we’re excited that ZvBox is available for preorder online exclusively at Amazon.com,” said Paul Ryder, vice president of consumer electronics at Amazon. “ZvBox aims to fill a clear need for a simplified and flexible way to enjoy Internet content on HDTVs throughout the home. It’s a fresh approach and a full solution for enjoying media and entertainment in new ways.”
About ZeeVee
ZeeVee Inc., the creators of ZvCast(TM) technology for localcasting anything a computer can do to all the HDTVs in the home, is helping to redefine television as we know it. The company’s ZvBox(TM) is liberating captive TV viewers from hardware, content and scheduling restraints, and opening the HDTV to the universe of Internet and computer video and applications. Through the creation of a new high-definition channel called “Zv,” localcasted from ZvBox across the home’s existing cable wiring, ZeeVee’s technology allows for a more content-rich, interactive, and enjoyable entertainment experience — all from the comfort of the couch. For more information, visit .

ZeeVee Inc.