ABSTRACT

Presented by Daniel A. Nagy.

Since the early days of the Web, the holy grail of charging viewers for content has eluded developers and publishers alike. All of the implemented solutions have very serious shortcomings, of which users hating them is one of the most pervasive. In the presentation, the reasons of this failure are explored and a somewhat novel approach is demonstrated where economics sets the goals for engineering. The talk focuses on issues such as
– Micropayment
– Mental accounting and associated costs
– User experience and interface design

Daniel A. Nagy is an information security researcher interested in the application of economics-based designs to real-life problems of telecommunication security. His background is Telecommunications Engineering (MS) and Applied Mathematics (PhD). His home page is: https://www.epointsystem.org/~nagydani/homepage

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Video footage from Day 1 keynote at Google I/O 2010

Vic Gundotra, Engineering Vice President, Google
Sundar Pichai, Vice President, Product Management, Google
Charles Pritchard, Founder, MugTug
Jim Lanzone, CEO, Clicker
Mike Shaver, VP Engineering, Mozilla Corporation
Håkon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera Software
Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe Systems
Terry McDonell, Editor, Sports Illustrated Group
Lars Rasmussen, Manager, Google Wave
David Glazer, Engineering Director, Google
Paul Maritz, President & CEO, VMware
Ben Alex, Senior Staff Engineer, SpringSource Division of VMware,
Bruce Johnson, Engineering Director, Google
Kevin Gibbs, Software Engineer, Google

For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html

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LYRICS:

It’s Close To Midnight And Something Evil’s Lurking In The Dark
Under The Moonlight You See A Sight That Almost Stops Your Heart
You Try To Scream But Terror Takes The Sound Before You Make It
You Start To Freeze As Horror Looks You Right Between The Eyes,
You’re Paralyzed

[Chorus]
‘Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
And No One’s Gonna Save You From The Beast About
Strike
You Know It’s Thriller, Thriller Night
You’re Fighting For Your Life Inside A Killer, Thriller
Tonight

[2nd Verse]
You Hear The Door Slam And Realize There’s Nowhere Left To Run
You Feel The Cold Hand And Wonder If You’ll Ever See The Sun
You Close Your Eyes And Hope That This Is Just
Imagination
But All The While You Hear The Creature Creepin’ Up
Behind
You’re Out Of Time

[Chorus]
‘Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
There Ain’t No Second Chance Against The Thing With
Forty Eyes
You Know It’s Thriller, Thriller Night
You’re Fighting For Your Life Inside Of Killer, Thriller Tonight

[Bridge]
Night Creatures Call
And The Dead Start To Walk In Their Masquerade
There’s No Escapin’ The Jaws Of The Alien This Time
(They’re Open Wide)
This Is The End Of Your Life

[3rd Verse]
They’re Out To Get You, There’s Demons Closing In On Every Side
They Will Possess You Unless You Change The Number On Your Dial
Now Is The Time For You And I To Cuddle Close Together
All Thru The Night I’ll Save You From The Terror On The Screen,
I’ll Make You See

[Chorus]
That This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
‘Cause I Can Thrill You More Than Any Ghost Would Dare To Try
Girl, This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
So Let Me Hold You Tight And Share A Killer, Diller, Chiller
Thriller Here Tonight

[Rap Performed By Vincent Price]
Darkness Falls Across The Land
The Midnite Hour Is Close At Hand
Creatures Crawl In Search Of Blood
To Terrorize Y’awl’s Neighbourhood
And Whosoever Shall Be Found
Without The Soul For Getting Down
Must Stand And Face The Hounds Of Hell
And Rot Inside A Corpse’s Shell
The Foulest Stench Is In The Air
The Funk Of Forty Thousand Years
And Grizzy Ghouls From Every Tomb
Are Closing In To Seal Your Doom
And Though You Fight To Stay Alive
Your Body Starts To Shiver
For No Mere Mortal Can Resist
The Evil Of The Thriller

[Into Maniacal Laugh, In Deep Echo]

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I’m Cathy Rankin and for Monday May 21st we’re bringing you the latest news from around the markets as well as the top movers to look out for today…

(HEADLINE NEWS)

In Headline News Today…

A day after taking a breather, the bulls returned Friday fully rested and ready to silence the bears yet again with another upward surge into the record books. The Dow closed at another new high, its 24th record this year, while the S&P 500 finished at its best level in 6 1/2 years and within five points of its all-time closing high. All 10 economic sectors finished positive.

The bulls’ was established early in the session when a preliminary read on consumer sentiment unexpectedly rose for the first time in four months. More M&A news, though, and anticipation of another merger-filled Monday, were the driving factors behind the broad-based move that forced sellers to the sidelines going into the weekend.

Reports that General Electric (GE 36.91 +0.38) is nearing a deal to sell its plastics division for roughly $11 bln was the first, noteworthy item to hit the wires

The second item, the bigger M&A driver was word from Microsoft that it will acquire aQuantive for $6 bln or $66.50 per share in cash. That marked a huge premium to AQNT’s closing price on Thursday and it underscored the liquidity factor that continues to provide a floor of support in this market

Some upbeat analyst commentary provided an added boost of optimism. Intel a suggested holding in the Briefing.com Active Portfolio, and Verizon Communications were upgraded. Fellow Dow component IBM hit a new multi-year high after UBS raised its price target on the stock to $124.

The performance of those three components, along with GE’s 1.0% gain and Exxon Mobil’s surge to an all-time high, even as oil prices closed flat, accounted for more than half of the Dow’s 79-point gain.

And now for our Small Cap News… brought to you by Hybrid Technologies, Inc. (HYBT.OB)

Hybrid is a development stage company who engages in the development and marketing of electric powered vehicles and products in the United States.

…Some of the movers and shakers we’ll be watching this week,

Dot VN Inc. announced that Dr. Mai Liem Truc has joined the Company’s Strategic Advisory Board. Dr. Truc will assist the Company with strategic planning for future growth and implementation of key projects. The company also announced last month the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Quang Trung Software City Development Company to build out a 20,000 square foot Internet Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

This will become the largest software park in Vietnam. The company also reported that the number of .VN domain names registered online by Dot VN increased 143% for the first quarter of 2007. The .VN is the Vietnamese equivalent of .com, which the company plans to register and promote .VN domain names worldwide.

Dot VN Inc. opens today at $2.48 a share

BioStem, Inc. had a nice week, getting a boost on the anticipation of the company’s planned acquisition of Cryobanks International, Inc. (CII) which reports state is progressing to its final stages. The Merger, which is contingent upon Cryobanks raising at least $9,000,000 pursuant to a private placement, has been extended to March 31, 2007.

If the financing successfully closes, this will put Cryobanks substantially over the $9,000,000 financing condition, and BioStem and Cryobanks will immediately proceed to close the merger.
BioStem, Inc. specializes in the collection, processing, and banking of stem cells derived from the umbilical cord immediately after birth.

BioStem, Inc. opens their week at $2.01 cents a share

And that’s our newsmakers, Stay tuned right here to Quality Stocks Daily for the latest news from small cap to large cap, and everything in by QualityStocks.Net, where performance is tracked daily.

Thank you for tuning in, I’m Cathy Rankin, Have a great day and we’ll see you tomorrow, right here on the daily report.

Please see Disclaimer on site: http://Disclaimer.QualityStocks.net

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With the dotDefender Web application security solution, shared and dedicated hosting providers can protect their customers’ websites from many types of application-based attacks, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, path traversal, and defacement. By installing dotDefender, hosting providers can offer Web application security as a service to their hosted sites, increasing revenues with minimal investment.

Reduce Costly Customer Support Calls
As targeted application-level attacks proliferate, hosting providers are becoming swamped with complaint calls from customers whose websites have been hacked (e.g., SQL injection, compromised servers, corrupted and/or stolen data). As a result, the hosting companies are forced to invest substantial time and money on handling complaints, fixing hacked sites and restoring data.

dotDefender Web Application Security: Win-Win Proposition for Hosting Providers and Their Customers
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* Add profitable service to your current business model
* Premium security service offering to gain a competitive edge
* Boost your company reputation for reliability and security
* Prevent potential legal issues
* Increase customer satisfaction and retention by maximizing uptime
* Annual/monthly payment model

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* Manage your customers servers from one central location
* A single dotDefender instance protects all websites on a hosting server

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* Works in dedicated, shared and virtual server environments
* Multi platform solution for IIS and Apache servers with Central Management
* Granularity allows unique security profiles for specific websites and domains
* Rapid implementation, immediate protection and simple maintenance.

Benefits for hosted website:
Complete web application security

* Monitoring, filtering and logging of all HTTP/HTTPS traffic
* Intelligent rule based security model avoids false positives
* Robust application security with automatic security updates
* Ongoing research and automatic updates eliminate zero-day attacks
* Best practices based website security rules provide out of the box protection

Support for regulatory compliance

* dotDefender is an essential component to meet PCI requirements for application security – PCI DSS (6.6)

No upfront investment required

* Annual/monthly payment model
* Lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in the industry

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