Norton Collection of Classic and Scientific Literature

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Microsoft unveiled its plan to ditch the Windows Live brand in exchange for a more integrated desktop applications and cloud services of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system.

Windows Live was introduced in 2005 and though its services like Hotmail and SkyDrive are being used by over 500 million users, Microsoft noted that they “did not meet their expectations of a wholly connected experience”. Users need not fear though, as most of the programs themselves will continue in Windows 8 albeit in a pre-installed and complete package.

“Windows Live services and apps were built on versions of Windows that were simply not designed to be connected to a cloud service for anything other than updates, and as a result, they felt ‘bolted on’ to the experience.” Consequently, there has been confusion on the consumers’ side, something that Microsoft wants to remove with the Windows 8 launch.

With Windows 8, a user only needs one Microsoft account, referred to as an “identity service”. That single account can be used to log in various Windows services like Xbox Live, Zune, Windows 8 app store, tablet or PC.

“Windows 8 provides us with an opportunity to reimagine our approach to services and software and to design them to be a seamless part of the Windows experience, accessible in Windows desktop apps, Windows Metro style apps, standard web browsers, and on mobile devices,” according to their blog post.

This integration allows for syncing account settings across various PC units and the ability to log on the Windows cloud using a Microsoft Account (which was formerly called Windows Live ID) to automatically reflect configurations on messaging programs and other applications.

Norton Scientific Collection blog post boasted of the cloud feature of Windows 8 where users can share data across various products, “When you connect a device or service to your Microsoft account, you’re automatically provisioned with a set of cloud services, including a contact list, calendar, inbox, instant messaging, and cloud storage. Because these services are a part of your Microsoft account, they are shared across all Microsoft products and services. For example your contact list is shared across Windows Phone, Windows 8, Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive, so when you add a contact in one place, it shows up in the cloud and on all of your other devices and services.”

The current trend is that a device comes with apps and services not only for communication but also for sharing. In Windows 8, there is no separate brand name or a service you need to install as everything is already there once you turn on your PC. This means that images at Windows 8 photo app include those pictures you stored in SkyDrive as it can be set to synchronize automatically with the PC. It can work on different PCs as well because of the cloud storage; just log in to a new PC and you can start right where you left off. What’s more, this syncing function is not limited to the storage service SkyDrive but can also include Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

The Norton Scientific Collection blog post also mentioned that 

New fraud tools turn Pinterest scams into point-and-click exercise | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/05/new-fraud-tools-turn-pinterest-scams-into-point-and-click-exercise/

With all the attention being showered on Pinterest lately, it was inevitable that criminals would figure out a way to cash in on the popular social-media pinup site. New point-and-click software available in underground markets does just that by helping even the most technically unsophisticated people prey on the gullibility of other users.

A couple of toolkits analyzed by McAfee researcher Hardik Shah allow users to generate fraudulent referral fees from Amazon, online survey services, and premium telephone numbers. They work by redirecting unwitting Pinterest users to links they didn't intend on visiting and can be set up by changing just a few lines of code.

"Such toolkits make it very easy for scammers to start their own scam sites and become functional cybercriminals with a minimum of skills and time," Shah wrote in a blog post that detailed his findings. "They need only change a couple of simple things, such as URLs, and they are ready to go. Almost all these steps—from creating mass Pinterest accounts to mass liking, commenting, and posting—have been automated."

The tools come with "well-written documentation," he adds.

Bing Press Release - Norton Scientific Signs Up Shoko Scientific To Boost Sales In Japan

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>THOROLD, ON, CANADA, September 09, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Norton Scientific continues to accelerate extending its sales distribution network across Asia. As part of this strategic objective, the Company recently inked a deal with Shoko Scientific Co Ltd of Yokohama City, Japan. Shoko have Sales Offices in Osaka, Tsukuba and Fukuoka as well as China and the US West Coast (Shoko America). They are involved with many scientific instruments including analytical products, chemical synthesis related products, purification and separation products and sample preparation equipment for liquid chromatography. Shoko is a distributor for Wyatt Technologies where the PAM Zero can act as a quick and cost effective screening tool. Bryan Webb, President of Norton said "We are very excited to add a company such as Shoko Scientific to our expanding Norton sales channels and even more encouraged they have ordered their first PAM Zero, the new proteinaggregation monitor that consumes 0.0ìl of precious sample. We expect great things from this relationship and continue to build a comprehensive sales presence in the Far East. "

Norton, based in Thorold, ON, is a leader in the development of innovative measurement tools to advance biotech and pharmaceutical research, unveiled the highly anticipated PAM Zero at PITTCON/Atlanta 2011. The PAM Zero is targeted at laboratories and universities around the world. As of June 3, 2011, Norton is traded on the Frankfurt Borse (http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=35&ISIN=CA66869Q1037) under the symbol NT3.

Norton's compact hand-held unit, a protein aggregation monitor, was developed to study how proteins aggregate in solution. Norton's strategy is to develop simple-to-use products that can be used by technicians, rather than analysts, and incorporated into laboratories own process control systems. Over the next few years, Norton is expecting to successfully introduce and commercialize a novel microfluidic-based analytical instrumentation line used in the expanding niche of macromolecular molar mass distributions and nano-particle sizing applications.

The Company's new measurement systems will be used in a wide range of markets from healthcare, biomaterials and green industries to viticulture, including brewing.

Norton Scientific designs the measurement tools necessary to advance modern-day pharma and biotech.

NORTON SCIENTIFIC SCAM-Detection and Prevention of Clinical Research Fraud - FC2 Knowhow

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Scary cybercrime headlines: Fraud surveys helping consumers or selling brands?

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British Columbians are worried about cybersecurity but they're also more likely than other Canadians to share their debit card personal identification numbers with others and take other risks that could leave them open to identity theft and other fraud.

These are among the findings of a survey released today by TD Canada Trust in conjunction with Fraud Prevention Month in Canada.

Visa Canada released its own survey, this one conducted by Ipsos Reid that found young Canadians, those aged 18 to 30 are the most likely to share too much personal information on social networking sites - information such as birthdates, home addresses and phone numbers that provide lucrative pickings for identity thieves, phishing expeditions and other online fraud.

Today's releases come the week after Norton, the security company, released its top riskiest Canadian cities for cybercrime risk rankings. The polls and rankings all add up to a lot of scary headlines and ones Simon Fraser University communication professor Peter Chow-White suggest may be designed more for advertising and brand awareness than for research.

"I think it is to put a discourse of anxiety and fear into the public sphere," he said. "They are all framed around risk, not safety."
Chow-White suggests the practice of companies commissioning surveys and circulating them amongst the media creates a sense of insecurity and anxiety about online security.

"That's what advertising does," he said. "It's trying to create a sense of anxiety amongst people for needing to do something, whether it's white teeth, new tires or anything.

"This is just another episode in the long history of advertisers and companies creating market share, creating a market for their products."

Chow-White points out that in all the survey press releases, the tips or suggestions for cyber security mostly lead back to the company that commissioned the survey.

Chow-White is of course right. We in the media hardly ever see a survey we resist reporting on. And while some are of the heavily academic and scientific variety, able to withstand the scrutiny of peer review, others are hardly more scientific than the 'what do you think of this' polls that I sometimes put on blog posts and still others fall somewhere in between.

Newsrooms get press releases trumpeting survey results pretty much on a daily basis. Some are tried and true favourites - like the one that measures how many people text from the bathroom, a tired headline but one that nonetheless is paraded out perennially. Or this year's variation from eBay promoting eBay as a holiday shopping source:" "Did you know your friends were buying presents in the bathroom?"

Depending on the editor and whether it's a slow news day, surveys get picked up and make headlines in media both online and off.

Do they serve a purpose other than to build brand awareness or provide fodder for techno trivia?

I thought about that as I considered today's releases from Canada Trust and Visa Canada. Are surveys about the risk of fraud prompting people to pay more attention to their security, both online and off?

According to TD Canada Trust's poll more British Columbian's are taking steps to protect themselves from traditional forms of fraud, but there's no telling whether it because they've been reading stories from such survey results. Some 86 per cent of people shield their PINs at banking machines compared to 77 per cent last year. I know I do ever since I wrote a story about fraudsters installing temporary cameras at ATMs to capture your PIN as your punch it in.

Some 27 per cent have spoken to their bank about reducing their withdrawal limit compared to 19 per cent who said that last year. In my case I lowered the limit on a credit card not because I read the stats but because I was the victim of credit card fraud - a circumstance that may lead many consumers to rethink their security measures.

However, the anxiety over risk hasn't reached everyone in British Columbia. We're the most likely of any consumers in Canada to carry our debit or credit card PIN in a wallet along with the card. Clearly we're not frightened enough by the stats.

Visa Canada's survey was also all about risk. Not surprisingly seniors were the least likely to engage in risky online behaviour - at least when it comes to over sharing - while young adults were most likely to take those risks. Young adults are also most likely to lend their bank or debit card to others.

What do you think? Should surveys commissioned by companies be consigned to the junk filter or do you think they serve a purpose?

NORTON SCIENTIFIC-Entertainment (Vienna/McLean/Great Falls) - Care2 News Network

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NORTON SCIENTIFIC-Entertainment (Vienna/McLean/Great Falls)

2012 Run The Show Tour: Tribal Seeds, Fortunate Youth and Bimini Rd. 8 p.m. Jammin' Java, 227 Maple Ave E Vienna. www.jamminjava.com. Vienna Photographic Society Meeting. 7:30 p.m. Thoreau Middle School, 2505 Cedar Lane, Vienna. Chuck Veatch, nature

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Press Release - Norton Scientific Announces New Sales Partner in Washington DC Area

MARKHAM, ON, March 26, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Norton Scientific today announced that the company has signed a deal with Advanced …

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Norton Scientific : Invisible Man

Invisible Man is a novel written by Ralph Ellison, and the only one that he published during his lifetime (his other novels were published posthumously). It won him the National Book Award in 1953.

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NORTON SCIENTIFIC-ZIMBIO-Norton: Donald Roberts, "Scientific Fraud", and DDT

"However, their successes were not a result of the interventions we describe as components of the GEF project. Their successes were mostly a result of wide distributions of antimalarial drugs to suppress malaria (see Table 1).

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