A Swiss Movement intends to fight the inflationary use of the popular software. Presentations by useless company arises in a multi-billion damage.
"Destroy billion francs': Party founder Matthias Pöhm via Power Point.
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The anti-Powerpoint-party (appp) believe that the software is used far too often. It therefore wants to act as counsel for the approximately 250 million people worldwide, with boring presentations in business, in study and training must necessarily be present.
Party program to be paid: in-house advertising
With the party's likely party founder Matthias Pöhm advertising also operate our own: Who wants to read on the website appp the party program, on the purchase of his book, "The error of PowerPoint" reference. Members receive the reading, which serves as a party platform, cheaper. In Switzerland, it also need not a party program, says Pöhm against baz.ch / Newsnet, but only statutes.
Flipchart the better choice?
It is a common misconception that require supervisors to their employees the use of PowerPoint and student teachers are committed to using Power Point. In the comparison reveals that 95 percent of cases, a flip chart is more efficient than a Power Point presentation.
The aim of appp, the number of boring PowerPoint presentations to decrease and reach, is that those who want to give up the software, no longer have to justify. "This should not be abolished Powerpoint, but only the PowerPoint coercion."
Deliberately chosen as the party organization
In order to gain worldwide attention to their concerns, the movement as an international organization with headquarters party has elected to Switzerland. There may be any citizen of the world are members. The appp calls its members "advocate". The PowerPoint problem is to become a political issue about which we then discuss world wide and deep. "The more is being talked about, the more change," says founder Matthias appp Pöhm.
The appp wants to make presentations attentively consider the participants in their presence in hindsight than useless. She calculates that merely caused by the hourly wages of those present humanity with an economic loss of 350 billion € per month.
The party is loud Phöhm currently 360 members. They now collect signatures to be eligible for the Swiss parliamentary elections in October.
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Safety Warning for Power Point
Computer Viruses
Experts from the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) have found a serious vulnerability in the popular presentation program Power Point.
Contaminated with harmful files, PowerPoint files could thus get unnoticed on personal computers. Powerpoint is part of the office package "Microsoft Office" and serves to facts in chronological tables, pictures, and graphics display.
A specially crafted PowerPoint file, for example, could arrive as an attachment to a subject as important in the declared e-mail. Loads of unsuspecting users download the file and opens it with his Power Point program, he has probably caught a virus, worm, trojan horse or spyware file. They could spy on its users data, manipulate data, keep the PC for other malicious software or open remote control it as a spam sender.
Mail attachments from strangers is not open
BSI warns therefore against unsolicited e-mail attachments from unknown senders to open. If in doubt they should be deleted sight unseen and not only after consultation with the sender because the address is likely to fake.
More recently similar precarious security gaps in the other MS Office applications Word, Excel, and had appeared. Later than the next "Patch Tuesday" Microsoft wants users the opportunity to close by downloading a safety program ("Patch"), the gap in Powerpoint. This "patch Days" leads from Microsoft since 2003 in a four-week cycle every second Tuesday of the month. Europe falls into the "Patch Tuesday" due to the time difference often found on the following Wednesday.
Free Warning and Information Service
To be informed about any security holes in programs and the latest threats from the Internet regularly, the BSI has set up the website citizen-Cert. This is a free warning and information service for all home users who often have to do on the internet and communicate a lot.
The links to the patch download from Microsoft and other security information can be found directly on the websites of software manufacturers. Direct links are also on the info-web "in the safety net", an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and a leading IT companies and organizations such as Eco, Microsoft, T-Com, eBay, SAP, the German Savings Bank Publishing.
Experts from the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) have found a serious vulnerability in the popular presentation program Power Point.
Contaminated with harmful files, PowerPoint files could thus get unnoticed on personal computers. Powerpoint is part of the office package "Microsoft Office" and serves to facts in chronological tables, pictures, and graphics display.
A specially crafted PowerPoint file, for example, could arrive as an attachment to a subject as important in the declared e-mail. Loads of unsuspecting users download the file and opens it with his Power Point program, he has probably caught a virus, worm, trojan horse or spyware file. They could spy on its users data, manipulate data, keep the PC for other malicious software or open remote control it as a spam sender.
Mail attachments from strangers is not open
BSI warns therefore against unsolicited e-mail attachments from unknown senders to open. If in doubt they should be deleted sight unseen and not only after consultation with the sender because the address is likely to fake.
More recently similar precarious security gaps in the other MS Office applications Word, Excel, and had appeared. Later than the next "Patch Tuesday" Microsoft wants users the opportunity to close by downloading a safety program ("Patch"), the gap in Powerpoint. This "patch Days" leads from Microsoft since 2003 in a four-week cycle every second Tuesday of the month. Europe falls into the "Patch Tuesday" due to the time difference often found on the following Wednesday.
Free Warning and Information Service
To be informed about any security holes in programs and the latest threats from the Internet regularly, the BSI has set up the website citizen-Cert. This is a free warning and information service for all home users who often have to do on the internet and communicate a lot.
The links to the patch download from Microsoft and other security information can be found directly on the websites of software manufacturers. Direct links are also on the info-web "in the safety net", an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and a leading IT companies and organizations such as Eco, Microsoft, T-Com, eBay, SAP, the German Savings Bank Publishing.
Google vs Powerpoint counterpart. Microsoft
While the competition still mosert the DoubleClick purchase, Google is already planning the next coup: The Internet company wants to offer a program that is comparable to Microsoft's PowerPoint. With a further technical innovation, Google intends to appease the media giant Viacom.
San Francisco - Unlike its competitor, Microsoft could come from Google, the PowerPoint counterpart "Google Docs & Spreadsheets' use over the Internet and store it on the company's servers, including Google CEO Eric Schmidt told an industry conference. As the buying power point program designed to enable the Google application to create and edit presentations.
Microsoft criticizes Google's DoubleClick purchase:
"The allegations are completely false"
The conflict between Google and Microsoft has intensified in recent days, after the Internet company had taken over the online marketer DoubleClick for $ 3.1 billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft's chief lawyer criticized the DoubleClick purchase merge the two largest providers of Internet advertising and cabinets considerably the competition in the industry. Google and DoubleClick together would turn more than 80 percent of the advertising, an Internet user sees when he drives a website.
Google CEO Schmidt dismissed the accusations: "The allegations are completely false." Microsoft and AT & T had itself carried out its "antitrust skirmishes." Microsoft aims to expand its Internet business significantly and should even have been interested in a takeover of Doubleclick.
Viacom dispute Google wants to solve technical
Dealing with Microsoft is not the only one currently needs to host the Google: The MTV parent Viacom has filed in March in a New York district court against Google and calls for more than a billion dollars in compensation. Google and YouTube would have illegally distributed Viacom programming content, it was said to justify.
Contrast, Google now wants to proceed with technical means: The Internet company wants to install a program, the copyright violations in the video portal Youtube automatically recognize and media companies that facilitated the display says CEO Schmidt. Thus allegations would lapse, Google tolerate the unauthorized copying of other people's videos. With the installation of the new program become the billion lawsuit from Viacom removed from the base, said Schmidt.
Youtube not been prevented from the outset the uploading of copyrighted material. When the portal is, however, prompted by the rights holders to remove it the corresponding video clips from his offer.
Google had taken over from the very popular Internet portal YouTube users in the fall, it will make it a dominant distribution channel for entertainment and simultaneously expand the advertising platform.
San Francisco - Unlike its competitor, Microsoft could come from Google, the PowerPoint counterpart "Google Docs & Spreadsheets' use over the Internet and store it on the company's servers, including Google CEO Eric Schmidt told an industry conference. As the buying power point program designed to enable the Google application to create and edit presentations.
Microsoft criticizes Google's DoubleClick purchase:
"The allegations are completely false"
The conflict between Google and Microsoft has intensified in recent days, after the Internet company had taken over the online marketer DoubleClick for $ 3.1 billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft's chief lawyer criticized the DoubleClick purchase merge the two largest providers of Internet advertising and cabinets considerably the competition in the industry. Google and DoubleClick together would turn more than 80 percent of the advertising, an Internet user sees when he drives a website.
Google CEO Schmidt dismissed the accusations: "The allegations are completely false." Microsoft and AT & T had itself carried out its "antitrust skirmishes." Microsoft aims to expand its Internet business significantly and should even have been interested in a takeover of Doubleclick.
Viacom dispute Google wants to solve technical
Dealing with Microsoft is not the only one currently needs to host the Google: The MTV parent Viacom has filed in March in a New York district court against Google and calls for more than a billion dollars in compensation. Google and YouTube would have illegally distributed Viacom programming content, it was said to justify.
Contrast, Google now wants to proceed with technical means: The Internet company wants to install a program, the copyright violations in the video portal Youtube automatically recognize and media companies that facilitated the display says CEO Schmidt. Thus allegations would lapse, Google tolerate the unauthorized copying of other people's videos. With the installation of the new program become the billion lawsuit from Viacom removed from the base, said Schmidt.
Youtube not been prevented from the outset the uploading of copyrighted material. When the portal is, however, prompted by the rights holders to remove it the corresponding video clips from his offer.
Google had taken over from the very popular Internet portal YouTube users in the fall, it will make it a dominant distribution channel for entertainment and simultaneously expand the advertising platform.
Thursday, 10 November 2011
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