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It was disclosed in the first annual Realtor Safety report that number of violence cases against real estate professionals is on the rise especially this month. In response to that problem, the National Association of Realtor held a convention in celebration of Realtor Safety Month to take a closer look at their preemptive measures in an effort to protect every Realtor from bad elements in the society.

To improve Realtor safety, the Mid-Atlantic real estate Multiple Listing Service (MIRS) has lately announced their partnership with Moby, a personal safety application designed to keep you safe on the job. It has location-based technology feature that send an alert to your chosen contacts, along with a map of your location and securely send up-to-date location to your loved ones. The difference of Moby from other security apps out there in the market is it actually directly connected to the national security monitoring center.

MIRS is not the only one who offer Moby app to its member, the Iowa Association of Realtors has offered this security app following the still unsolved murder of its member Ashley Oakland. The largest broker owed MLS in Michigan the MiRealSource has also suggested this app to its thousands of members to provide additional safety as well as Keller William, Women in Default Services, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Alliance Program and many more.

The rivalry between Facebook and Google+ is getting hotter! On Tuesday, Google social network announced that they will open its registration to public. The global search leader launched its own version of social network on June of this year with user exclusivity, allowing users to register only through friend’s invitation. But despite of exclusivity Google+ managed to put up good numbers in terms of monthly users of over 25 million vs. Facebook 750 million active monthly users.

This move is a serious threat on the part of Facebook as Google Inc., search engine has more than 1 billion monthly visitors and with Google+ registration is now open to the public, a chance that these visitors might also sign-up and become users of plus. If that happens, a billion monthly users could be enough to overtake the current social network leader Facebook.

Some notable features of Google+, according to Tech experts; includes the “video hangout” which allows 10 users to video chat simultaneously or even make it open in the public. With Google+ you are free to share photos, videos, comments and articles with circle of your friends. You can also search whatever topic you want, such as real estate, sports, entertainment etc. and will give you results of relevant users, post and topic within Google+.

In response to the growing threat from viruses, malware and hackers targeting mobile devices, tech firms including Trend Micro, Symantec, McAfee and others are stepping up to market their mobile security services to businesses and consumers.

Anti-virus firms offers all in one security and back up services that costs about $30 per year. This will give subscribers an anti-virus protection, tracking system that will locate a stolen unit and back up data. With additional features that include auto lock to a missing mobile device, safe browsing and parental monitoring.

Google Android smartphones and touch tablets are the main focused of most newly built mobile security services, defending users from malicious software that hackers designed to steal data and take full control of the system. But lately it was reported by some tech firms that number of attacks on Android devices has increased a lot. Threats rose 76% from April through June on Android devices compared to the first quarter of this year, according to McAfee.

In the survey conducted by Symantec shows that only 16% installed the most up-do-date security on their mobile phones (based on 12,704 respondents in 24 nations) and respondents’ victim of cyber-crimes using mobile devices hit at 10%.

If you are an avid user of Google products, such as Google+, Picasa (soon to e called Google pictures), Google Buzz and Google voice, you are now allowed to gather all the data that has been acquired from these products using the new Google service called Google Take Out. This service was launched on June of this year that lets you back up all important data and downloads an archive from your album in Picasa, Google+ and Buzz contacts and your profile and more.

In your Google Takeout dashboard you can see all the archives and can manage if what kind of settings you want your data to be download. You can download it in bulk or can select a particular service you wish to back up. If you are a Realtor you might want to back up data, including phone numbers and voice mail transcripts from your Google voice account.

After choosing services and files to download for backup, it will then show how large it is and will automatically compressed into a ZIP file that is ready to download.

Here is the sample video of how Google Take Out works.

Sony expects to launch its own version of tablet this coming fall and proudly says that will not focus on quantity, rather they will strongly focus on quality. IPad tablet is still the major force in the market but Sony believes that they can grab a huge market shares from them once they launch and start distributing their newest tablets, the Sony S Tablet and Sony P Tablet.

The Sony has already proven that they can compete in smartphone arena when they introduce the Xperia PLAY for gamers in the market and did an excellent job. The company is hoping that their tablets will bring the same success with Xperia.

Sony S Tablet Specs and Features

• Price: $599
• Processor: Tegra 2
• Memory: 16GB/32GB

Like in their television the Sony S Tablet has included with Bravia Technologies and Tru Black display. This can also connected with the Bravia Televisions and Playstation 3.

Sony P Tablet Specs and Features

• Price: $499
• Processor: Tegra 2
• Memory: 16GB/32GB

The only difference is the design of Sony P Tablet, offering a dual screen with five inch display.