Technology And Application

This new evidence that showing a threat to the digital format printing industry.

Online retailer Amazon.com recently announced that sales of its electronic book far exceed the print book sales.

“The format has been following the Kindle format hardcover book,” said Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, as quoted from the LATimes.com site. According to Bezos, Amazon’s electronic book sold 80 percent more than the printed book. In fact, according to Bezos, Amazon has been selling hardcover books for 15 years. Meanwhile, sales of electronic books on Amazon were only 33 months. Bezos predicted e-book sales spike occurs due to drastic price cuts player portable e-book, Kindle. Some time ago, Amazon’s Kindle price cut from U.S. $ 259 to U.S. $ 189.

Discounts are done only moments after Barnes & Noble also cut the price of their e-book reader products, while Nook, cut to U.S. $ 199 and introduce a valuable new version of U.S. $ 150.

After these cuts, sales of e-book reader Amazon also increased up to three times the previous. Although Amazon does not announce how many successful physical books sold, the growth of digital books has increased very rapidly indeed. According to a survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers and Wilkofsky Gruen Associates Inc., at the time of stagnant sales of printed books, the last few years, sales of electronic books in 2010 actually increased from only U.S. $ 1 billion to U.S. $ 1.6 billion. Meanwhile, in the second quarter of this year, Amazon was able to sell the electronic books 143 100 books printed were sold. In the Amazon alone is about 630 thousand e-books, as well as some downloads of books freely available. Approximately 80 percent of books sold on the site approximately priced U.S. $ 9.99 or less. This price is cheaper than the price printed books that sold an average of about U.S. $ 25.

Dell has launched the web browser Mozilla Firefox versions of virtualization. The browser is designed to keep PC users stay safe while browsing on the internet. Kace Dell Secure Browser, browser name, has been developed jointly with Kace, company management application system. The browser is able to isolate suspicious files while browsing the web and keep it there in the browser, not out into the OS.

“By controlling the process of what is allowed to walk, the browser will not run a program or plug-in without permission,” said Dell spokesman, as quoted from the PC Advisor, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. “This can prevent many attacks before they went into action,” he said.

Browser based on Firefox version 6.3 comes with plug-ins such as Adobe Reader and Flash. He also has the ability to create a list of ‘black’ and ‘white’ from the processes that may be running when users surf the Internet and also create a safe list of sites visited. Kace Dell Secure Browser, which can be downloaded here, also has a reset button feature that will restore the browser to the original condition if discovered mal ware. The user can use this browser is the owner of the Windows XP operating system, Vista, and Windows 7. Dell said, they also are developing versions of Internet Explorer is more secure. The plan, the browser will be presented later this year.