Liberty Global and Cable & Wireless Communications have announced that Liberty Global would acquire the shares of Cable and Wireless in a deal worth $5.5 billion US dollars.

Read NYTimes article for more details.

 

Adobe Flash has a security update. According to the Adobe security bulletin dated November 10 2015:

“Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player.  These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Many conferencing solutions (like Adobe Connect) and Flash games use the Flash plugin. So if you have Adobe Flash installed, UPDATE ASAP!

However, consider uninstalling Flash if you’re not using it. If you were only using Adobe Flash to watch YouTube videos, YouTube now defaults to HTML5 instead of Adobe Flash for playing videos in Google Chrome, IE 11, Apple Safari 8 and Mozilla Firefox. So you can uninstall Adobe Flash if you are using these browsers (and not worry about keeping Adobe Flash up to date).

The latest update bumps the latest version of Flash Player for Windows and Mac OS X to version 19.0.0.245.

To determine what version of the Adobe Flash player you have on your Windows, Macintosh or Linux system, visit
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

To download an offline version of Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux without any adware or bundled third-party offers, visit
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

Opera and Chromium browser users, you’ll have to download the flash player installer from http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash.

Windows users should take note that

• the Flash Player in Microsoft Internet Explorer v9 and earlier versions of Internet Explorer,
• the Flash player in web browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Safari.
• the Flash player in web browsers in Chromium and Opera.

are separate installs. You should install and update versions of Adobe Flash for all three browser variations if you have all three installed.

For Internet Explorer v10 and Internet Explorer v11 (for users for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows 8), these browsers have Adobe Flash Player built-in and users should update their Internet Explorer browser versions.

For Microsoft Edge, the default browser in Windows 10, this browser has Adobe Flash Player built in and users should update their Edge browser.

Google Chrome browser users has Adobe Flash Player built-in and users should update the Google Chrome browser to the latest version.
See https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95414 on how to do so.

The Caribbean Network Operators Group (CaribNOG) and LACNIC will be jointly hosting CaribNOG’s 10th Regional Meeting and LACNIC Caribbean on the Move at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel in Belize City, Belize, from Nov 2nd to 6th 2015.

A key objective of CaribNOG is to better position the Caribbean to address critical technology challenges and issues and to collaboratively derive relevant solutions. CaribNOG 10 is expected to draw industry experts from across the region and around the world to the beautiful country of Belize.

CaribNOG is a critical forum on the region’s technology landscape for rich technical discussions where we seek to better position the Caribbean to address critical technology challenges and issues and to collaboratively derive relevant solutions. LACNIC Caribbean on the move consists of seminars on LACNIC services, Internet number resources and Internet Governance.

The Agenda of CaribNOG 10 can be found here:
http://www.lacnic.net/en/web/eventos/otm-2015-belice-agenda

And you can watch the livestream at http://webcast.arkitechs.com/c10/

Note that the times on the agenda are the times in Belize. So add two hours to the CaribNOG 10 / LACNIC Caribbean on the move agenda to get the local time in Trinidad and Tobago.

 

 

Adobe Flash has a 2nd security update this week. According to the Adobe security bulletin dated October 16 2015:

“Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player.  These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Apparently these vulnerabilities are being exploited online. So if you use Adobe Flash, UPDATE ASAP!

 

However, consider uninstalling Flash if you’re not using it. If you were only using Adobe Flash to watch YouTube videos, YouTube now defaults to HTML5 instead of Adobe Flash for playing videos in Google Chrome, IE 11, Apple Safari 8 and Mozilla Firefox. So you can uninstall Adobe Flash if you are using these browsers (and not worry about keeping Adobe Flash up to date).

The latest update bumps the latest version of Flash Player for Windows and Mac OS X to version 19.0.0.226.

To determine what version of the Adobe Flash player you have on your Windows, Macintosh or Linux system, visit
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

To download an offline version of Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux without any adware or bundled third-party offers, visit
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

Opera and Chromium browser users, you’ll have to download the flash player installer from http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash.

Windows users should take note that

• the Flash Player in Microsoft Internet Explorer v9 and earlier versions of Internet Explorer,
• the Flash player in web browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Safari.
• the Flash player in web browsers in Chromium and Opera.

are separate installs. You should install and update versions of Adobe Flash for all three browser variations if you have all three installed.

For Internet Explorer v10 and Internet Explorer v11 (for users for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows 8), these browsers have Adobe Flash Player built-in and users should update their Internet Explorer browser versions.

For Microsoft Edge, the default browser in Windows 10, this browser has Adobe Flash Player built in and users should update their Edge browser.

Google Chrome browser users has Adobe Flash Player built-in and users should update the Google Chrome browser to the latest version.
See https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95414 on how to do so.

Adobe Flash has a security update. According to the Adobe security bulletin dated October 13 2015:

“Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player.  These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Many conferencing solutions (like Adobe Connect) and Flash games use the Flash plugin. So if you have Adobe Flash installed, UPDATE ASAP!

However, consider uninstalling Flash if you’re not using it. If you were only using Adobe Flash to watch YouTube videos, YouTube now defaults to HTML5 instead of Adobe Flash for playing videos in Google Chrome, IE 11, Apple Safari 8 and Mozilla Firefox. So you can uninstall Adobe Flash if you are using these browsers (and not worry about keeping Adobe Flash up to date).

The latest update bumps the latest version of Flash Player for Windows and Mac OS X to version 19.0.0.207.

To determine what version of the Adobe Flash player you have on your Windows, Macintosh or Linux system, visit
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

To download an offline version of Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux without any adware or bundled third-party offers, visit
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

Opera and Chromium browser users, you’ll have to download the flash player installer from http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash.

Windows users should take note that

• the Flash Player in Microsoft Internet Explorer v9 and earlier versions of Internet Explorer,
• the Flash player in web browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Safari.
• the Flash player in web browsers in Chromium and Opera.

are separate installs. You should install and update versions of Adobe Flash for all three browser variations if you have all three installed.

For Internet Explorer v10 and Internet Explorer v11 (for users for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows 8), these browsers have Adobe Flash Player built-in and users should update their Internet Explorer browser versions.

For Microsoft Edge, the default browser in Windows 10, this browser has Adobe Flash Player built in and users should update their Edge browser.

Google Chrome browser users has Adobe Flash Player built-in and users should update the Google Chrome browser to the latest version.
See https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95414 on how to do so.

The Minister of Finance, Honourable Colm Imbert presented the 2016 Budget Statement in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament on October 10 2015.

This post will focus on the ICT related aspects of the 2016 Budget Statement.

The ICT related aspects of the 2016 Budget Statement :

The 2016 Budget Statement and related documents can be downloaded at http://finance.gov.tt/budget-statement-2016-presentation/

Page 18 under “Information and Communication Technology”

“Madam Speaker, a first-world information technology network will need to be a critical part of the Trinidad and Tobago International Financial Centre. We will commence the process through the implementation of a national broadband network which will represent a central pillar for driving economic and social development. We cannot improve our productive capacity and create a vibrant and competitive economy without a nationwide high-speed broadband network –  the centerpiece for creating a knowledge-based andinnovative society. This country has in place a fibre optic broadband network; but we are suffering from
inadequate broadband service coverage in many areas which remain unserved and underserved.

We will continue to collaborate with the World Bank Group to widen our broadband infrastructure as well as to eliminate the risk of having international connection in only one station.

All schools will now be equipped with a technological capability with adequate training for our teachers.

We will ensure that all students have free and easy access in all schools to fast broadband internet and not just laptops. This early use of technology will
underpin an expanding knowledge-based society.

The Government will foster usage by providing a free national public broadband wireless network beginning with free hotspots in popular areas.”

Page 37 under Home and Business Security

Madam Speaker, we believe that every citizen and every business should be encouraged to take an active part in enhancing their own security.
Unfortunately, the existing incentives for CCTV and alarm systems have proven to be highly ineffective with many technical loopholes. I propose to revise
immediately the existing technical specifications for these systems to make them practical and workable, so that we can implement an appropriate suite of
incentives and concessions to encourage actively citizens to install suitable CCTV and alarm systems in their homes and businesses in 2016.

 

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society is pleased to announce the release of the TTCS OSSWIN DVD v1.54, a collection of the latest version of Free and Open Source Software for Microsoft Windows (XP/Vista/7/8) and available for download.

Our collection features a web based interface for browsing programs organised into several categories:  Desktop Applications, Educational, Games, Graphics, Internet, Server, Sound and Video and Utilities.

For TTCS OSSWIN DVD v1.54, many software updates were done, and this version includes LibreOffice 5.0.2, Mozilla Firefox 41 and Virtualbox 5.4

See the changelog for more details.

Visit the TTCS OSSWIN DVD page at http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-dvd/ for more details and to download the DVD as an ISO file for burning onto a DVD or extracting to your harddrive or USB storage device.

Adobe Flash has a security update. According to the Adobe security bulletin dated September 21, 2015:

“Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player.  These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Many conferencing solutions (like Adobe Connect) and Flash games use the Flash plugin. So if you have Adobe Flash installed, UPDATE ASAP!

However, consider uninstalling Flash if you’re not using it. If you were only using Adobe Flash to watch YouTube videos, YouTube now defaults to HTML5 instead of Adobe Flash for playing videos in Google Chrome, IE 11, Apple Safari 8 and Mozilla Firefox. So you can uninstall Adobe Flash if you are using these browsers (and not worry about keeping Adobe Flash up to date).

The latest update bumps the latest version of Flash Player for Windows and Mac OS X to version 19.0.0.185.

To determine what version of the Adobe Flash player you have on your Windows, Macintosh or Linux system, visit
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

To download an offline version of Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux without any adware or bundled third-party offers, visit
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

Opera and Chromium browser users, you’ll have to download the flash player installer from http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash.

Windows users should take note that

• the Flash Player in Microsoft Internet Explorer v9 and earlier versions of Internet Explorer,
• the Flash player in web browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Safari.
• the Flash player in web browsers in Chromium and Opera.

are separate installs. You should install and update versions of Adobe Flash for all three browser variations if you have all three installed.

For Internet Explorer v10 and Internet Explorer v11 (for users for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows 8), these browsers have Adobe Flash Player built-in and users should update their Internet Explorer browser versions.

For Microsoft Edge, the default browser in Windows 10, this browser has Adobe Flash Player built in and users should update their Edge browser.

Google Chrome browser users has Adobe Flash Player built-in and users should update the Google Chrome browser to the latest version.
See https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95414 on how to do so.