30 Ways to Stay Safe on the Internet

1. Establish guidelines for Internet use with your parents or another adult.

Before you go online, decide how much time is okay for you to spend on the Internet each day and figure out what you can and cannot do. After you get more familiar with the Internet, you and your parents can talk again and change the guidelines.

Post them next to the computer for easy reference.

2. Don't share your password with anyone else.

3. Before you share any information about yourself on the Internet, get your parents' permission.

4. Double-check the URL (the address of the Web site) before hitting the Enter key. Make sure the spelling is right.

This will help ensure you go to the site you want, and not some other place.

5. Check with your parents or another adult you trust before going into a chat room. Different chat rooms have different rules and different types of people going to them. You and your parents want to make sure it is an appropriate place for you before you enter.

6. If something you see or read online makes you uncomfortable, leave the site. Tell a parent or a teacher right away.

7. Never send a picture of yourself (or anything else) to someone in e-mail unless your parents say it is okay.

8. If you receive unwanted, offensive, mean, threatening, or harassing e- mail, do not respond to it. Tell your parents or another adult right away.

9. Remember: not everything you read on the Internet is true.

10. Don't give out your age without checking with your parents first.

11. Never give out your full name (first and last). Don't give out your first name without checking with your parents or another adult first.

12. Never give out your home address over the Internet.

13. Ask your parents or an adult before signing up for anything online.

14. Don't give out your credit card number (or anyone else's) without permission from a parent.

15. Remember, when you are online, what you do is up to you. Don't do anything you don't want to do.

16. Don't open files or e-mail from someone you don't know. You don't know what might be inside—the files could contain a computer virus or offensive material.

17. Keep the computer in a common space, like the family room, den, or living room.

18. Never agree to meet someone you met on the Internet in person without your parents' permission. You should never meet someone you met online alone. If you do set up a meeting with an online friend, meet in a public place and go with your parent or guardian.

19. Remember that any information you share about yourself can be seen by anyone who is online.

20. Don't give out your phone number.

21. Talk to your parents (or your teacher or another adult) about the kinds of places you go and things you do and see when you are online.

22. Pick a name—different from your real name—to use online.

23. Before you go into a public area, like a chat room or discussion forum, decide with your parents if it is okay to give out your e-mail address.

24. If someone online asks you too many personal questions, be suspicious.

Stop talking with them.

25. Don't give out the name of your school.

26. Always remember that people online may not be who they say they are. It is very easy for people to pretend to be someone they are not.

27. Don't do things online that you wouldn't do in real life.

28. Be careful when someone offers you something for free, like gifts or money. You don't know what their motives are. Decline the offer and tell your parents.

29. Treat other people as you'd like to be treated. Never use bad language or send mean messages online.

30. The "off" button is always there. Use it if you need to. You don't have to stay online if you don't want to.

Source: Microsoft Corporation

 

Steve Zipperstein prosecuted failed savings-and-loan associations in the 1980s and investigated the government's siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in the '90s. Now the battle-hardened lawyer has joined Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry to fight its critics.

Zipperstein, who turns 54 this month, was lured out of retirement in Santa Barbara, California, last year by an offer to become BlackBerry's chief legal officer. He joined the Waterloo, Ontario-based company in July to handle everything from patent disputes to privacy issues, and says his time as a Justice Department lawyer and federal prosecutor in Los Angeles will serve him well in defending BlackBerry's interests.

"I was really blessed to be able to combine jury trial courtroom experience with inside-the-Beltway Washington political policy experience," Zipperstein said in an interview.

After years of market-share losses, BlackBerry is trying to stem a customer exodus to Google's Android and Apple's iOS, and the company's taking a more assertive legal approach to disputes. That includes challenging analysts who publish reports that BlackBerry says are untrue and lobbying for legislation to thwart companies derided as patent trolls, which obtain patents to demand royalties rather than making their own products.

One of Zipperstein's targets: Detwiler Fenton & Co., a Boston-based financial-services firm. Detwiler said in an April report that return rates of the new BlackBerry Z10 were unusually high and in some cases exceeded sales of the phone.

It was a charge that BlackBerry and Zipperstein refused to let stand unchallenged. The company asked both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Ontario Securities Commission to investigate the report. Zipperstein at the time called it either "a gross misreading of the data or a willful manipulation." BlackBerry's stock fell almost 8 percent on April 11 after the Detwiler report appeared.

"Everyone is entitled to their opinion," Zipperstein said. "It was characterized as a statement of actual fact, and it was wrong."

Zipperstein declined to discuss where the investigations now stand, as did representatives from the SEC and the Ontario Securities Commission. Neither Anne Buckley, Detwiler Fenton's chief compliance officer, nor her colleague Steve Abbiuso returned responded to messages seeking comment.

Zipperstein's response to Detwiler Fenton was very much in character, said William Petersen, general counsel at Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless carrier. Zipperstein worked as Verizon's general counsel from 2003 until he retired in 2011.

"As a former federal prosecutor and investigator, he approached the job very creatively and aggressively," Petersen said in an interview. "He never wanted Verizon to be on the defensive, and that really helped."

Zipperstein also backs U.S. legislation that would force plaintiffs in patent litigation to pay the costs of the defendant, an attempt to dissuade frivolous lawsuits.

"For far too long, that conduct has gone on unchallenged," he said.
A week after Zipperstein joined the company in July, a federal jury awarded Mformation Technologies $147.2 million in a patent-infringement case against BlackBerry. Zipperstein went back to the judge to make the argument that Mformation had failed to meet the burden of proof. Six weeks later, the trial judge overturned the verdict and threw it out.

Mformation appealed the decision in September. Stephanie Markham, a spokeswoman for the Edison, New Jersey-based company, didn't return respond to messages seeking comment.

"BlackBerry is no longer an easy target for patent lawsuits," Zipperstein said. "We're fighting back and we're going to continue to fight back."


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Make sure you BUY the correct BlackBerry 10 device

The following are differences between all of the BlackBerry 10 devices

The London (Z10STL100-1) - The London is the Z10 that was made exclusively for networks that don't have LTE (think smaller markets and developing nations that are just getting 3G or HSPA+). If you're in the U.S. or Canada, odds are you will never see a London.

21Mbps HSPA+
Quad-band HSPA+ 1,2,5/6,8 (850/900/1900/2100 MHz)
Quad band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

The Liverpool (Z10STL100-2) - The Liverpool is the Z10 for GSM carriers in Europe and the rest of the world that have LTE. This device can be used

Quad band LTE 3, 7, 8, 20 (1800/2600/900/700 MHz)
Tri band HSPA+ 1, 5/6, 8 (2100/850/900 MHz)
Quad band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

The Lisbon (Z10STL100-3) - The Lisbon is the Z10 for GSM North American carriers that have LTE. This is one that pretty much every carrier in Canada has, and the one that AT&T and T-Mobile will end having as well.

Quad band LTE 2, 5, 4, 17 (700/850/1700/1900 MHz)
Tri band HSPA+ 1, 2, 5/6 (850/1900/2100 MHz)
Quad band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

The Laguna (Z10STL100-4) - The Z10 for CDMA carriers that have LTE (aka the Verizon Z10).

LTE Band-13 (700MHz)
CDMA Cell-band and PCS-band (850/1900 MHz)
WCDMA Band-1 and Band-8 (2100/900 MHz)

If you are in Africa make sure your device has STL100-2 and you can view this by typing “myver” without the quotes in any writing able application on your device. This does not mean the other devices will not work, but they are not optimised for the region, meaning you might face likely connectivity problem on data. Thought the STL100-2 does not support LTE on the devices

Dummies Guide: How To Be Safe On The Internet

1. Establish guidelines for Internet use with your parents or another adult. Before you go online, decide how much time is okay for you to spend on the Internet each day and figure out what you can and cannot do. After you get more familiar with the Internet, you and your parents can talk again and change the guidelines. Post them next to the computer for easy reference.

2. Don't share your password with anyone else.

3. Before you share any information. about yourself on the Internet, get your parents' permission.

4. Double-check the URL (the address of the Web site) before hitting the Enter key. Make sure the spelling is right. This will help ensure you go to the site you want, and not some other place.

5. Check with your parents or another adult you trust before going into a chat room. Different chat rooms have different rules and different types of people going to them. You and your parents want to make sure it is an appropriate place for you before you enter.

6. If something you see or read online makes you uncomfortable, leave the site. Tell a parent or a teacher right away.

7. Never send a picture of yourself (or anything else) to someone in e-mail unless your parents say it is okay.

8. If you receive unwanted, offensive, mean, threatening, or harassing e-mail, do not respond to it. Tell your parents or another adult right away.

9. Remember: not everything you read on the Internet is true.

10. Don't give out your age without checking with your parents first.

11. Never give out your full name (first and last). Don't give out your first name without checking with your parents or another adult first.

12. Never give out your home address over the Internet.

13. Ask your parents or an adult before signing up for anything online.

14. Don't give out your credit card number (or anyone else's) without permission from a parent.

15. Remember, when you are online, what you do is up to you. Don't do anything you don't want to do.

16. Don't open files or e-mail from someone you don't know. You don't know what might be inside—the files could contain a computer virus or offensive material.

17. Keep the computer in a common space, like the family room, den, or living room.

18. Never agree to meet someone you met on the Internet in person without your parents' permission. You should never meet someone you met online alone. If you do set up a meeting with an online friend, meet in a public place and go with your parent or guardian.

19. Remember that any information you share about yourself can be seen by anyone who is online.

20. Don't give out your phone number.

21. Talk to your parents (or your teacher or another adult) about the kinds of places you go and things you do and see when you are online.

22. Pick a name—different from your real name—to use online.

23. Before you go into a public area, like a chat room or discussion forum, decide with your parents if it is okay to give out your e-mail address.

24. If someone online asks you too many personal questions, be suspicious. Stop talking with them.

25. Don't give out the name of your school.

26. Always remember that people online may not be who they say they are. It is very easy for people to pretend to be someone they are not.

27. Don't do things online that you wouldn't do in real life.

28. Be careful when someone offers you something for free, like gifts or money. You don't know what their motives are. Decline the offer and tell your parents.

29. Treat other people as you'd like to be treated. Never use bad language or send mean messages online.

30. The "off" button is always there. Use it if you need to. You don't have to stay online if you don't want to.