IG Markets, the UK's leading Contract for Difference (CFD) firm, is now offering its new iPhone dealing app for download. Available free of charge from the AppStore, the application will offer CFD trading (http://www.igmarkets.co.uk/) clients a range of facilities including the ability to view prices on the full range of markets, place trades, obtain real-time charts and also receive breaking news headlines from Thomson Reuters.

Philip Adler, Managing Director of IG Markets (UK), commented:
'The popularity of the iPhone has been nothing short of phenomenal. We launched an award winning browser optimised for the handset in 2009, but this latest move means existing and new clients alike can find IG Markets in the AppStore too.'

IG Markets has been offering an optimised browser for the iPhone since early 2009, which proved to be highly popular with existing clients. Making a widely accessible, downloadable application available from the AppStore was the obvious next step.  At present the app is designed for UK clients only but will be rolled out to other territories in the coming months. In addition to the next-generation features mentioned above, clients will also be able to:

Place CFD trades on the full IG Markets range of instruments – over 8,000 shares, indices, currencies, commodities and bondsOpen and close positionsEdit and delete working ordersAdd stops and limits, including guaranteed stopsView watchlistsSee open positions at a glanceView real-time account balances.

Widely recognised as an innovator in its field, IG Markets has offered dealing on mobile phones since 2004. In addition to the iPhone, IG Markets also fully supports BlackBerry devices, PDAs and other smartphones, such as those running the Android operating system. The iPhone app is also compatible with Apple's iPad.


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Samsung with Schneider-Kreuznach engineering capabilities, designed a stunning lens for its new versatile travel camera, the WB700, which gets a 18x zoom lens equivalent to a 24-432mm. It can even reach higher focal lengths thanks to an "intelligent" digital zoom which could act as a 1.3x extender to get a final focal range of 24x. The lens is optically stabilized.

With artistic effects such as "soft focus" or "fish-eye", the WB700 will satisfy an amateur. In the meantime, the camera gets expert level shooting modes like PSAM modes and the post processing comfort of RAW format which will be of great help to offset the optical defects of the 18x zoom lens in a software that offers lens correction like Aperture 3 for instance. If HD movie recording is offered by the WB700, it seem to be only shooing 720p movies. Yet, an innovative noise canceling software has been designed to erase the sound of the lens motorization which is usually accidentally recorded on video sequences with compact cameras.


Announced in December 2010, as a pre CES 2011 event, the 18x Samsung WB700 will be available in April 2011. Till then, we'll have plenty of time to discover its futur competitors (Panasonic TZ, Fujilm Fxxx, Sony HX...) which should be announced in a few days during the CES 2011 which will open on January 6th 2011. The Samsung WB700 will be sold $299.


Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, announced today the launch of the new WB700, the ultra-slim camera with an impressive 24X zoom function, capable of delivering superb quality images whether your subject is near or far.

The camera features a 24mm ultra-wide Schneider KREUZNACH lens to capture the perfect wide shot, as well as an outstanding 24X zoom function, made up of an 18X optical zoom and 1.3X Smart Zoom. The WB700 delivers sharp images with incredible detail in close up thanks to the camera’s 16 Megapixel (MP) CCD sensor. The flexibility of the WB700’s lens and zoom functions means that you can capture a broad landscape in the same 16MP detail as a bubbling brook in the distance.


Steve Mitchell, General Manager, Samsung UK Digital Imaging, said: “We understand that many of our customers come to us for the very best and most up-to-date technology available, which is why we have chosen to bring all our innovation together in the WB700 for both the advanced and novice photographer, giving a balance of professional quality imaging and the kind of usability anyone can master. On top of the core excellence of the WB700’s 16MP 24mm lens with OIS and Schneider KREUZNACH super-zoom, we have added features that add surprise and delight to the photography experience, such as our new smart filters, the smart lens effect and zoom noise cancellation, adding value throughout the photography experience.”


High quality and fun shooting The WB700 also includes Samsung’s latest advances in HD video technology so users can capture high quality video footage as well as still images. It also features Smart Filter 2.0 - artistic filters in modessuch as ‘soft focus’, ‘half-tone dot’ and ‘cinema’ alongside traditional features such as ‘fish-eye’, ‘miniature’ and ‘sketch’, giving entertaining and professional finishes at the touch of a button.


Zoom Noise Reduction Samsung has also introduced new innovation to remove zoom noise from video content. Unlike camcorders, because of the long zoom capabilities of cameras such as the WB700, users reported that their videoswere being interrupted by the sound of the camera’s mechanical optical zoom sliding backwards and forwards. The WB700 uses an advanced noise reduction algorithm that actively cancels out the zoom noise, giving you uninterrupted clear sound to complement your clear High Definition movies. 


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An increase in the usage of web applications is directly related to an increase in the number of security incidents for them. Today, web application security is finally getting more well-known consideration. The daily discovery of new web vulnerabilities and attacks confirms that web applications are not secure. This attention comes with the benefit of it being addressed as a higher priority now. Web application security is a branch of information security that deals particularly with security of websites and web application. Stories about exploits that compromise sensitive data frequently mention culprits such as “cross-site scripting,” “SQL injection,” and “buffer overflow.” These programs create so many risks for web site application such as User accounts being stolen through session hijacking or through the theft of username and password combinations, the ability for attackers to track your visitors’ web browsing performance infringing on their privacy, Abuse of credentials and trust, Link injections, Keystroke logging of your site’s visitors. It may seem like impossible to keep your site away from attackers, but if you can think like an attacker you can block his entry before he gets there. This following guide introduces you to popular Web application attacks and provides tips and techniques to keeping the hackers out of your websites.

Keep an eye on your file permissions
Double check your file permissions: if you have given someone permission to read or write a file, and you both have Fling accounts, then their CGI programs have the same permissions, and a small programming error could give everyone in the world access to your files. It may be helpful to use the “File Security” option from within the seas accounts management site to reset all file settings to only legible by you. Be careful, if you include your website in the reset, it will make it inaccessible via a web browser.


Restrict access to trusted users
It’s usually a bad idea to allow people without accounts to post to your forum, or blog. Spammers and other nasty users often exploit open web applications for their own uses at the expense of you and your legitimate users. In addition, don’t allow people to create accounts on their own without your explicit permission. In addition to unsuitable content, people can upload programs or commands and then trick your program or other users into executing the commands. You need to only allow submissions from trusted users.

Separate dynamic content from static content
If you have a static portion of your website that doesn’t need dynamic scripting, keep it outside your dynamic directories (dynamic, and wiki). It’s also a good idea to save user uploaded files in non-dynamic directories to avoid a malicious user being able to execute code on the server. All data submitted by a user should always be vetted before you do anything with it. Scan files for viruses before accessing or allowing users to download them

Some popular application like WebDefend is an advanced web application firewall that offers customized, behavior-based security for each protected application. It has some great features like inbound and outbound traffic analysis through the patent-pending and bi-directional Exit Control traffic analysis engine that recognize a specific type of information, such as credit card or Social Security numbers. Even it identifies problems and trends in your site URL and session levels in your web application surroundings with out-of-the-box real time views covering performance metrics such as transaction time, error rate, availability and HTTP and Https throughput. It has also SSL attack detection capability which replicates and decrypts SSL traffic streams without terminating the original encrypted session.

Security has always been a holistic solution, requiring all players and systems to work in concert to form a good defense. The current use of most web application security testing tools is still focused on the access information security professional but still we are a fair distance from holding a developer. If you are a online business man and you have a website by which you are earning some money then you should follow these above tips and keep your website safe and get more customer.


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