2012年9月30日 星期日

Criteria for Choosing an Online Trading Platform

In recent years, there are enormous numbers of trading platform emerged in the financial market. Most of them look identical, some are inethical, you have to be careful when choosing one for your own trading.

There are fours factors that I look into when choosing a trading plaform: Uniqueness, Dealing spreads, Commission rate and Minimum amount for account opening.


UNIQUENESS
There are many platforms in the market now, ask yourself why must I choose this platform to trade? Do this platform offers something unique that other platforms do not offer?

Well I had identified a trading platform that is unique compared to most other platforms. That platform is from ForexYard.

1. This platform offers super mini contract for oil which most platforms do not offer. Most platforms only offer oil futures contract from Nymex exchange.
Contract size for Nymex oil futures is too huge for a normal employee to st omach the risk, value of 1 point is US$1000.
As for super mini oil contract offers by ForexYard, 1 point is only US$100, which is very affordable for a normal employee.

2. Most platform offers contracts that have expiration date, but contracts from ForexYard does not expire.
If you had traded oil using other platforms, say you are bullish on oil, so you bought oil June futures contract. You will be forced to sell off your position last week on 20 May as the contract had expired on that day. If you want to hold on to a oil position, you will need to buy July contract again, again you face the risk of your contract expired before you see profit in your trading. It will be painful to see oil price rally after your contract expires, missing the great profit gain.

But with ForexYard platform you will not have this problem, because its oil, gold and silve contracts do not expire. As long as your account has suffic ient equity, you will be able to hold on to your positions.

DEALING SPREADS
Most customers are not awared that there is a group of dealers behind every trading platform, controlling the dealing prices 24 hours a day. When there is an event that is not favourable to the company (such as during major economics news release or fast market), the dealers will widen the spreads of the quoting prices.

With ForexYard platform you will not have this problem. The platform offers the clients 3 pips spread for EUR/USD and 3-5 pips spread for other majors. The company promises not to widen spreads under any market condition.
An example of such senario is: US Non-Farm payroll data is going to be announced in 5 minutes time, you think that this data is going to be bearish, so you can place an order to buy EUR/USD and at the same time place a stop loss limit in case your view is wrong, ForexYard will still quote 3 pips spread. As for other platforms, they may quote you 7 - 10 pips sp read.

ForexYard has also promised to quote prices at all times, irregularless of market conditions, so you will be able to trade even during important news events. Some other platforms may just widen their spreads or freeze their price in a volatile market. Most of the big run comes during important news events, it would be frustrating if your platform had freezed the price at that time.


COMMISSION RATE
Since most trading platforms looks the same, functions are the same, one of the way for them to differentiate itself is to lower commission rate. Guess what? ForexYard is not charging commission for all its products.

ForexYard only makes money from the spreads. Here are the spreads for their commodity products:
1. Gold spread is $1, spread for spot gold range from $0.60 to $1.00, so $1 spread without commission is pretty reasonable.
2. Silver spread is $0.06, spread for s pot silver range from $0.04 to $0.06, so $0.06 spread without commission is reasonable.
3. Oil spread is $0.06, spread for oil futures range from $0.04 to $0.07, so $0.06 spread without commission is reasonable, and not forgetting that their oil contract does not have an expiration date.


MINIMUM AMOUNT FOR ACCOUNT OPENING
Most companies required their customers to deposit US$30,000 in order to open a trading account. Customers may not have problem coming out with USD30,000, but that does not mean that we are willing to start trading with a capital of US$30,000, US$30,000 is a huge sum of money to most people.

The customers may just want to start out with a smaller capital, trade mini contract as a practice for a start, then increase their capital when we are more comfortable and more skillful in their trading. But not a lot of companies realised that, they just want big customers, big accounts. In my view, trading is ju st like any other skills, practice makes perfect.

For ForexYard, minimum amount required to open a standard account is only US$1000, and minimum amount required to open a mini account is only US$100. If you are opening the trading account for the purpose of trading super mini oil, then you have to choose Standard account, Mini account can only be used for trading mini forex.


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2012年9月29日 星期六

Attorney Internet Marketing: The ultimate lawyer marketing mechanism

Attorney internet marketing helps a brand boost its visibility on the web. Law firms and attorneys alike need websites that are especially designed to accomplish this. Innovative technologies and an effective attorney internet marketing strategy can help take a brand to the next level.

The attorney internet marketing strategy takes into account the history of the professional. It looks at the profile of the attorney, previous marketing efforts, involvement in the community, area of expertise, and other important aspects of an attorney's professional life. The marketing strategy expert will take all of these factors into account and develop the most effective campaign for the attorney.

The marketing strategist might also compare the advertising efforts of other attorneys to evaluate the most effective strategy. In working with an established attorney internet marketing firm, the lawyer is able to benefit from the expertise the firm has to offer. The attorney internet marketing consultant will be able to draw on previous experience, and incorporate the most successful campaign for the lawyer.

An attorney internet marketing expert will evaluate the lawyer's long-term plan. In doing so, the marketing firm will be able to create marketing strategies that complement each other over time. Over time the campaign can be managed and tweaked to properly align with the attorney's professional goals. This means that the campaign successfully markets the attorney throughout the various stages of growth.

Most attorney internet marketing strategists are successful at helping a lawyer target the audience on a local level. A broad category for an attorney isn't desirable, and most new to internet marketing make this mistake. The marketing expert can help an attorney target an audience on the local level. It can also target the audience in a way that can help generate the leads that are most likely to act. Targeting on a local level leads to higher conversion rate. This is to the benefit of the attorney to advertise strategically on the local level through targeting.

Attorney internet marketing can help a firm generate a SEO-friendly website. This means that the site can be easily indexed through search engine results. This increases the potential customer's likelihood of visiting a website. The best optimized legal websites are able to help an attorney's site land within the first few pages of search results. A well-optimized site is essential in attorney internet marketing. This is how attorneys get located.

An attractive website is effective in catching a viewer's attention. Compelling content is what keeps a visitor on the attorney website. Compelling content is content that is most likely to generate buzz. In attorney internet marketing, the content could include upcoming community or events, new products or services, or industry-specific news of interest to a potential client. The attorney should have a brand that is highly visible and active outside of the firm to help increase brand awareness. New products or services of interest to an audience could include advertising the option to subscribe to a monthly newsletter or get a free consultation. Industry-specific news could include new changes in law or proposed legislation pertaining to an attorney's area of expertise. Compelling content should be incorporated into the attorney site to distinguish one website from another. This type of content helps a brand stand out.

Attorney internet marketing should help a brand consistently get its message out to the right audience. This can be hit-or-miss for many basic web design firms. Many web design firms are capable of designing the attractive, eye-catching product, but lack the expertise to market the professional. In working with some web design firms, the message is incorporated into the content, but not in a way that it can be easily found on the web. Boosting the attorney's web presence requires that the message does more than rest neatly on a website, it requires that the message be highly visible to a larger audience.

An attorney can also benefit from a blog. Attorney internet marketing experts agree that a blog, if regularly updated can accomplish multiple things for the lawyer. If regularly maintained and updated, it can provide fresh content for the search engine to crawl. This means that the search engine results will be updated more frequently as a result of the increased activity on a particular website. This can improve the chances of an attorney site placing higher in search engine ranking. It also provides the lawyer with the ability to demonstrate expertise. Unlike tangible products that can be reviewed and blogged about, the professional is difficult to market in the same manner. Attorney internet marketing efforts that include a blog can help an attorney demonstrate to the public his or her knowledge and professionalism.

Attorney internet marketing firms provide specialized services developed for lawyers. This means that there is an individualized approach tailored to fit the lawyer's needs. Proven expertise and a specialty in advertising lawyers is needed to ensure that a brand reaches the desired audience with SEO technique and quality content.

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2012年9月28日 星期五

2010 French Quarter Festival, Nab Show, Country Music Awards, Tribeca Film Festival, Focal Awards, Highlight April Media Industry Events

The 2010 International Experimental Media Congress, the first Congress of its kind since the 1989 Toronto Experimental Film Congress, will assemble film, video, new media artists, theorists, archivists, and curators from around the world, who will be in Toronto through April 11 for panels and discussions related to experimental media production, exhibition, dissemination, criticism, pedagogy and reception. The International Film Festival Summit (IFFS) is an annual conference and trade show for professionals from the film festival industry who will be in Amsterdam through April 9 to participate in presentations, interactive panel discussions and networking events, and to look forward to the Dinner With Strangers event that allows attendees a unique and fun opportunity to meet and dine with festival colleagues from all over the world. The 2010 French Quarter Festival, opening April 9-11, highlights New Orleans' signature music, food, and culture in the historic neighborhood, mostly by a musical smorgasbord of jazz, r&b, funk, folk, opera, gospel, blues, and brass bands, but also with over 105 food and beverage booths located in Jackson Square, Woldenberg Riverfront Park, and the Louisiana State Museum's Old U.S. Mint, forming the "World's Largest Jazz Brunch" with local cuisines from the area's finest restaurants including such festival favorites as Jambalaya, Crawfish Bread, Gumbo, Red Beans and Rice, Muffaletta, Crawfish, and more.

The annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference and expo for professionals who create filmed entertainment, and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums and platforms, happens this year from April 10-15 in Las Vegas. Comic strip icon, Stan Lee (co-creator of Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, Silver Surfer), will be at this year's event, and the NAB Education Foundation (NABEF) in partnership with the Broadca st Education Association (BEA) and Radio-Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) will host its annual spring Career Fair at the NAB Show. Nailing Jello Productions conducts a short film screening, fundraiser and panel discussion on how independent filmmakers are using social and emerging media to fundraise, market and distribute their films at an event conducted in New York City on April 14. Tours and activities in Wine Country sets the theme for the Sonoma International Film Festival as activities interwoven into the festival's daily screenings, happening April 14-18. Leading off the Sonoma Festival will be the world premiere of the documentary, "Coals to Newcastle", about one of Britain's cutting-edge funk bands, the New Mastersounds, who will be in town for the festival and perform live after the screening.

The Beverly Hills Film Festival, a competition festival dedicated to showcasing non-studio films and screenplays of emerging filmmakers in the city gene rally recognized as the headquarters for VIPs to the motion picture industry, is now in its tenth year, opening for a run from April 14-18, while treating festival goers to nightly theme parties, seminars, and a charity benefit. Nashville Film Festival, an Academy qualifier for short films, opens April 15 this year, through April 22, and because it takes place in "Music City" it is only natural that part of the focus be on music in films. So in addition to the many films about music and the Music Films in Music City awards, NaFF presents showcases, workshops, and other events where songwriters and artists come together with film professionals from Hollywood and around the world to promote collaboration. The 45th Academy of Country Music Awards will broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas on CBS television network Sunday, April 18 at 8 pm (EST), hosted by Reba McEntire. For those fortunate to attend the Awards live in Las Vegas, the ACM All-Star Jam follows the award ceremony featuring impromptu performances from artists who participated in the Awards show. Mediabistro hosts an April 20 L.A. Cocktail Party for professionals in the media industry. Conversation will be geared toward the latest media industry developments as party hosts, Write On! Online freelance writer, Debra Eckerling, and Kaiser Permanente senior web editor, Michelle Thatcher, help you enjoy yourself and make some great connections.
The mission of the Rincn International Film Festival is to support and promote culture and the arts in Puerto Rico through the medium of film. Rincn, Puerto Rico is also a Surfer's paradise, so the festival is also looking to screen great surfing films, particularly at the beachfront resorts that will be used as screening venues during the festival run, April 20-25. The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) is a nonprofit organization devoted to a greater appreciation of Indian cinema and culture by showcasing films, honoring entertainment industry performers and business executives, and promoting the diverse perspectives of the Indian diaspora. Awards will be presented on April 22 (the festival itself runs April 20-25) at the IFFLA Industry Leadership Award Luncheon held at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. The show will include performances by TAAL Dance Collective. Championing the short film format, Filmfest Dresden promotes a film category which is mostly dis regarded by cinemas and television. This year, Filmfest Dresden is supplementing its film programmes with an extensive range of special events discussions, receptions and get-togethers such as on April 22 when the Saxony Film Association, the German Short Film Association, Filmfest Dresden, the School-goers Cinema Dresden, the Dresden Narrow Gauge Festival and other institutes are holding a reception where people will have an opportunity to get together for mutual exchanges.

As it usually does, the Tribeca Film Festival in New York will host many free events during its run from April 21 to May 5, for film fans and families, including: Tribeca Drive-In, an outdoor screening series that takes place at the World Financial Center Plaza, where you can watch professional salsa dancers, listen to live salsa music, enter dancing contests, and even take salsa lessons, following the screening of the HBO documentary The Spirit of Salsa. Then there will be the Tribeca Talks: Industry panels touching on all aspects of the filmmaking trade, and The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day. Opening on April 22 until April 26, Palm Beach International Film Festival, started in 1996 to give the area a foothold in the film industry as well as to benefit the area's community schools through grant and scholarship awards, will emphasize its newly formed Friends of the PBIFF, which offers an array of fun-filled events to raise funds and awareness on a year-round basis for the PBIFF. Founded in 1957, the San Francisco International Film Festival, running April 22 to May 6, is thought to be one of the longest-running film festival in the Americas. This year, SFIFF has an line-up of narrative feature films, live action and animated shorts, television and theatrical documentaries, experimental work, digital media, and industry panels, seminars, awards events, onstage tributes, retrospectives, and the well regarded Schools at the Festival program, which brings an estimated 4, 200 grade school students into the festival.

ShowBiz Expo Los Angeles is the west coast counterpart to the show held in New York City in March but runs for two days, April 24-25. Like New York the Los Angeles Expo includes a wide range of networking opportunities including the Exhibit Hall, Workshops/Seminars, Round Table Discussions, Headshot Displays, etc., and most importantly, live audition opportunities for which there is limited enrollment on a first come basis. MUSEEXPO 2010 will be in Los Angeles from April 25-28, and will incorporate the intimate format that marked its beginnings as organic networking dinners organized by A&R Network and A&R Worldwide architect Sat Bisla, aimed at bringing together friends and like-minded relationships from the global radio, A&R, film/TV music supervision, publishing, new media and artist management communities. In London on April 27, noted film director and FOCAL International's Chair of Patrons, Lord David Putnam, opens the FOCAL International Awards festivities with a champagne reception sponsored by AP Archive, followed by a three-course dinner. FOCAL was formed in 1985 as an international, non-profit professional trade association representing commercial film/audiovisual, stills and sound libraries. The black tie and evening cocktail attire affair ends late with an after party also sponsored by AP Archive.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events" page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Daily Motion, as well as on The Actor's Checklist podcast blog. Follow the posting of the news summary on Twitter. Last month on the video news summary you saw new video from newly released single on iTunes - Make Your Move - from UK's soulful, R&B songstress, Bukola. Musi c producing Padded Cell Productions of Toronto with a newly released art film, Jane Doe. And there was the "spiritual fusion of acoustic sitar experimental chanting spoken word improvisation" of Scot Aaron and Govinda Schlegel who form Shaman Strings. These videos are now available on the Free Home Video Showcase which now serves as an archive for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration.





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2012年9月27日 星期四

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2012年9月26日 星期三

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2012年9月25日 星期二

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2012年9月24日 星期一

How to Make a Facebook Page and Use it For Marketing Your Online Business

There are now over 400 million registered users on Facebook worldwide, 100 million of whom live in the USA. Below, I will show you how to make a Facebook page so that, as an Internet marketer, you can tap into some of the traffic.

Facebook is the second most visited site on the internet and is fast becoming Google's biggest rival. Facebook Ads are also set to take a lot of business away from Google Adwords.

Facebook has simply become too big for any serious Internet marketer to ignore, but I am betting that a lot of home-based Internet entrepreneurs haven't even begun to consider Facebook as being one of the most important weapons in their Internet marketing arsenal. This is because a lot of people still consider Facebook as being the place where you connect with your friends and family and feel uncomfortable mixing social chat with business promotion.

A solution to this problem is to create multiple Facebook accounts. The problem, though, is that Facebook strictly limits each person to just one Facebook account.

So, what can you do to tap into the huge amount of traffic that Facebook receives, but you're not ready to buy Facebook Ads and don't want to clog up the news feed on your personal Facebook page with a lot of business messages, sales pitches and spammy comments from "friends" who you've never met and who are hoping to do business with you?

One thing you could do is to edit your news feed to accept posts from people you want to hear from. While that is a good way to clean up your Facebook page without deleting business friends from your list, it doesn't do much to help you publicize your business brand.

The solution is to make a Facebook page. A Facebook Page can be used to market a specific product or service through your Facebook account. Once you make a Facebook Page, you can start promoting it and invite other Facebook users to become "fans" of your Page. Fans are different than friends, and their updates won't show up on your main Facebook site; although, news from any pages that you become a fan of will show up in your news feed.

Setting up Facebook Pages for each of your products or services is a great way to tightly segment your Facebook traffic into specific audiences and to keep your business activities separate from your social activities.

You can post text, photos, videos, discussion boards and numerous other Facebook applications to your Page. Your Page will also provide good link juice to your other webpages and blogs.

Speaking of blogs, you can publicize your fan Pages on your blog and set-up blog feeds on your fan Pages.

What kind of fan Pages will do well on Facebook?

Like everything else, it depends on how much effort you put into it, but it's good to know that the leading demographic profile on Facebook is the "young educated women" bracket, so if you can find a product or service to match that niche you might be onto a winner.

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2012年9月23日 星期日

Getting your Social Marketing Off the Ground

Social marketing is an often misunderstood form of marketing that is reaping huge rewards for website owners who use it. Most webmasters who understand it, even while being very new to social marketing, are seeing results like:

1. Higher search engine rankings for their top keywords

2. More rankings of additional keywords or "long tail" keyword phrases

3. More link popularity from sites linking on their own accord

4. More link popularity from social media sites

5. More activity on their blogs, such as more commenting and interaction

6. Direct traffic from incoming links on social media sites (One good StumbleUpon.com submission can net thousands of visitors alone.)

7. Fast traffic increases and steady growth in unique visitors month after month

8. An increase in subscribers and sales. Social traffic, properly acquired, is very warm to your message and products.

The problem for most people when thinking about social marketing, after getting a taste of all the hundreds of sites there are to interact with, is becoming overwhelmed and paralyzed into inaction.

They assume established social marketers gained their "social authority" in a short period of time. This is simply not true. Although the opportunities for driving serious traffic and rankings from hundreds of social sites exists, it is an embarrassment of riches.

And it cannot be conquered over night. It is a gradual process you manage with all your other responsibilities and grow as time allows.

What I encourage my clients to do is set aside enough time each day to get one more link, participate in one more conversation, or sign up for one more account on a social site.

A little goes a long way and social marketing is not an "all or nothing" situation. After some time you will become established on the social sites you need to have a presence on. And you will have a schedule that allows you to keep up with your other work while adding this extremely powerful marketing method to the mix.

10 Steps For Starting a Social Marketing Campaign

1. Schedule a bit of time each day to do some new things. Don't just say you are going to do them. Write the time into your day and follow through.
2. Sign up for the major social news sites: Digg.com, Propeller.com, Mixx.com. Don't submit anything to these sites until you have filled out your profile completely and submitted news from elsewhere on the web to generate a real presence and avoid being labeled as a spammer.

In fact, BE a real presence and don't try to push your own content onto the networks you belong to. It should feel and be natural and you will know what "natural is on each network by participating, commenting, voting and getting a general sense of what members think is good and bad content. Watch their comments and votes and you will know how to proceed with your own site's content from there.

3. If you don't have a blog, you must install one immediately. This is not an option. It is an absolute necessity on today's web. Our company uses Wordpress and recommends it over any other blogging platform, and it can be installed easily by you or your webmaster. Wordpress download: http://wordpress.org/download/

Option #2: Check with your web host to see if they have Fantastico available to you and, if so, that it installs the latest version of Wordpress. If so you are very lucky because the software can be installed by you very easily in just a few steps with Fantastico.

4. Once you have your blog set up, join the following networks. (These are blog communities that will help you generate visitors, authority, and links and most bloggers belong to them.) MyBlogLog.com (install the widget on your Wordpress blog), and BlogCatalog.com. (they also have a widget to install)

5. Join groups, interact with other publishers, and make friends with the easy networking tools these sites provide. Especially the people who would be most likely to link to your blog and send you traffic who write about similar things or have an audience similar to yours who'd benefit by knowing you. You can even start your own group, promote it in the network, and send "shouts" to the group when you have announcements or need attention to a new post.

6. As soon as you establish yourself on the sites mentioned above, move on to other sites like them that might be more targeted directly to your niche and the market you work in. There are a lot of new "vertical" social sites popping up that focus on much more narrow markets and their membership is far warmer to your kind of information than on the bigger, more general networks above.

Add a new site to the mix as often as you can and repeat the steps for becoming established there as mentioned in Step 2 above.

7. Join a group dedicated to social marketing to pick up tips from other social marketers and find new places you can sign up with to continue building your social authority. New sites pop up every single day. Follow places like Go2Web20.net to find new opportunities to connect with your market.

8. Remote blog. Join blogger.com and put content there that is good, just not good enough to go on your main blog. This serves two purposes: 1) you get to use more of the great content you find as you travel through all the social news sites and 2) it gives you another place to link back to your main site and pass on traffic and link popularity over time.

9. Track your progress diligently. If something you are trying on a social network isn't working, you need to know that in order to save time and move on to something more fruitful. MyBlogLog.com (above) has a tracking system which will show you where your traffic is coming from so you can avoid time wasting efforts and focus more on the sites that are really pulling in good traffic for you.

10. Don't freak out! This is only overwhelming if you act like someone at an all-you-can-eat buffet with no self control. You have other things to do and this needs to fit into, not dominate, your current business and marketing.

Social marketing can partially or completely replace other methods you are using to promote your site including paid advertising. Many people completely drop their paid advertising or PPC campaigns once they see the organic, natural traffic and search engine rankings pile up from social marketing.

Until then, just take it one step at a time and do some social marketing. A little goes a long way and before you know it, you will reach a point where a lot of traffic and lots of search engine rankings are piling up because you simply started doing something each day.

There's a lot you can learn about social marketing. And not all of it can be found on free blogs.





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2012年9月22日 星期六

Blogging Tactics - Merge Blogging with Social Networking To Get Greater Traffic

Not using social book-marking with blogging is a bit like putting together a jigsaw with pieces missing.

One of the fastest and easiest ways to get free targeted traffic to your website is with blogging. However, writing a blog and keeping it up to date is only a fraction of the story. One of the best blog strategies involves taking advantage of social networking sites to promote your blog posts.

If you have a presence on the Internet but you're not blogging to the world, then you are missing out on one of the great options to get free targeted traffic to your website. However, creating a blog and maintaining it is only a fraction of the work of the story. One of the productive blog strategies requires taking advantage of web 2.0 social networking sites to advertise your blog posts.

The primary reason why social bookmarking sites should be a part of your day-to-day Internet business activities is that numerous individuals use these places as their main source of gossip and news. A favorite social news site such as Digg draws agood deal of traffic. Digg attracted over 200 million visitors a few years ago. Peoplevisit Digg and look-alike websites todetermine what's current and to communicate content from the web, including their own blog posts. If users love what they see, they are able to select the article, and if an website article is favourite, it will make the top pages of Digg and be found by millions of visitors. Other social sites have a similar balloting system.

If the blog posts you submit to Digg, StumbleUpon and other social networking sites do not get any votes, you're still getting the help of building unidirectional backlinks to your blog, so it's meriting of the effort in making the effort to present your blog posts to social marketing sites. Besides, it's simple to do and quite often takes just a mouse-click.

Yet another profit from blogging often and adding your posts to social networking sites is branding yourself and building your credibility. Make sure that you use keywords that individuals are using to research for your kind of business. Social networking can also supply your blog a cracking hike in search engine rankings, and you could notice that you are able to get your website into the top ten of Google for a sweeping range of keyword terms if you take a controlled approach to marketing on social networks.

Do not take on too much when it comes to social networking. A lot of individuals endeavor to submit their post to every social networking site that they can find only to feel overwhelmed by the vast number of social networking sites.

It's much simpler to buy a dozen of the finest social networking sites for your website and to centralize the majority of your social networking and marketing endeavors on generating frequent entries to those social networking sites. The other portion of your assigned time should be utilised to create casual entries to additional social marketing sites wherever you hope to maintain a presence.

Keep yourself centred, disciplined and work to a schedule to blogging and social networking, then you can pull in so much more publicity for your blog and online business than you will if you take a scattered approach to social marketing. Blending your blog posts with social networking is one of the topmost blog strategies that you can employ.

Follow the advice of this article and always post to your favourite social networking sites every time you post a new blog entry and you will be amazed at how effective it is for creating high quality traffic to your blog.

Not using social book-marking with blogging is a bit like putting together a jigsaw with pieces missing. One of the fastest and easiest ways to get free targeted traffic to your website is with blogging. However, writing a blog and keeping it up to date is only a fraction of the story. One of the best blog strategies involves taking advantage of social networking sites to promote your blog posts. If you have a presence on the Internet but you're not blogging to the world, then you are missing out on one of the great options to get free targeted traffic to your website. However, creating a blog and maintaining it is only a fraction of the work of the story. One of the productive blog strategies requires taking advantage of web 2.0 social networking sites to advertise your blog posts. The primary reason why social bookmarking sites should be a part of your day-to-day Internet business activities is that numerous individuals use these places as their main source of gossip and news. A favorite social news site such as Digg draws agood deal of traffic. Digg attracted over 200 million visitors a few years ago. Peoplevisit Digg and look-alike websites todetermine what's current and to communicate content from the web, including their own blog posts. If users love what they see, they are able to select the article, and if an website article is favourite, it will make the top pages of Digg and be found by millions of visitors. Other social sites have a similar balloting system. If the blog posts you submit to Digg, StumbleUpon and other social networking sites do not get any votes, you're still getting the help of building unidirectional backlinks to your blog, so it's meriting of the effort in making the effort to present your blog posts to social marketing sites. Besides, it's simple to do and quite often takes just a mouse-click. Yet another profit from blogging often and adding your posts to social networking sites is branding yourself and building your credibility. Make sure that you use keywords that individuals are using to research for your kind of business. Social networking can also supply your blog a cracking hike in search engine rankings, and you could notice that you are able to get your website into the top ten of Google for a sweeping range of keyword terms if you take a controlled approach to marketing on social networks. Do not take on too much when it comes to social networking. A lot of individuals endeavor to submit their post to every social networking site that they can find only to feel overwhelmed by the vast number of social networking sites. It's much simpler to buy a dozen of the finest social networking sites for your website and to centralize the majority of your social networking and marketing endeavors on generating frequent entries to those social networking sites. The other portion of your assigned time should be utilised to create casual entries to additional social marketing sites wherever you hope to maintain a presence. Keep yourself centred, disciplined and work to a schedule to blogging and social networking, then you can pull in so much more publicity for your blog and online business than you will if you take a scattered approach to social marketing. Blending your blog posts with social networking is one of the topmost blog strategies that you can employ. Follow the advice of this article and always post to your favourite social networking sites every time you post a new blog entry and you will be amazed at how effective it is for creating high quality traffic to your blog.



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2012年9月21日 星期五

South Asian Urdu Packages of DISH Network

If you want to relish some great Urdu programs while residing in USA, then you must choose DISH Network Urdu Packages. DISH Network brings before its Urdu spectators in USA the best of Urdu TV programs. You can enjoy a wide variety of Urdu TV Program right from the comforts of your own space. You can savor the most watched shows and dramas, Urdu music videos, songs, chat shows, cooking shows, award ceremonies and much more by subscribing to DISH Network Urdu Packages. Urdu Packages of DISH TV consist of Urdu Pak Mega, Urdu ARY Pack, Urdu Geo Pack, Urdu Geo TV and Urdu QTV.

URDU PAK MEGA of DISH Network

This DISH NETWORK Urdu Pak Mega Pack offers its clients the extensive range of Urdu-language programming including all of the latest news, entertainment, dramas, current affairs, talk shows, reality shows and game shows at $34.99 per month. The channels included with this Urdu Package are AAG TV (903), ARY DIGITAL (746), ARY MUSIK (663 ), ARY NEWS (747), DAWN NEWS (748), EXPRESS NEWS (616), GEO NEWS (902), GEO TV (745), HUM TV (620), INDUS MUSIC (674), MASALA TV (623), PTV (744) and TVONE (904).

ARY Musik- It is a 24 hour-a-day Urdu-language channel from Pakistan, offering a variety of music videos and shows based on folk, cinema, classical and pop music of Pakistan. ARY Musik also broadcasts debates, Pakistani music talk shows, live interactive request shows, countdown programs and music videos.

DAWN NEWS- It is the first 24/7 English-language news channel of Pakistan. Available throughout Pakistan, Europe, Middle East and now in United States, Dawn News is brought to you by Dawn Newspaper Group.
Express News- It is one of the most viewed news channels in Pakistan presenting the best mix of news, views, infotainment shows and documentaries by seasoned journalists like Javed Chaudhry, Fahd Husain, Mubasher Lucman, Kamran Shahid and Abbas Ather.

TVONE- TVONE is a 24 hour channel based out of Pakistan, adapted for its US viewers. It presents non-stop entertainment and this entails programming in all genres conducive to all age groups with an insight and understanding of its target audience. Notable programs in different categories are dramas, serials, series and soaps.

URDU ARY PACK of DISH Network

DISH TV ARY Pack is the largest Pakistani privately owned bouquet of TV channels providing quality family entertainment to millions of viewers all over the world. Catch the best drama and reality shows on ARY Digital, hottest news and current affair shows on ARY News, the latest tunes on ARY Musik and learn to cook the finest cuisines by top chefs on ARY Zauq. This DISH Network Urdu Pack is available at $29.99 per month. This DISH Satellite TV pack includes channels like ARY DIGITAL (746), ARY MUSIK (663) and ARY NEWS (747).

URDU GEO PACK of DISH Network

This Urdu GEO Pack of DISH Network offers the best programming available from GEO Networks including top-rated channels GEO TV and GEO News. You can get the latest in soaps, dramas, talk shows, current affairs, news and music from this DISH TV Package that comes at $29.99 per month. DISH TV Channels of this pack consist of AAG TV (903), GEO NEWS (902) and GEO TV (745).

GEO TV of DISH Network is a general entertainment channel, broadcasting fantastic Urdu-language television direct from Pakistan. The programming of Geo TV consists of the first interactive infotainment programs in Pakistan, daily serials such as Faaslay', children's programs , daily news including Follow up with Fahad', current and social affairs programs like Capital Talk', variety programs and much more. You can avail this DISH TV Pack at $19.99/month.

URDU QTV Pack of DISH Network

Urdu QTV (662) Pack of DISH Network is a 24 hour-a-day Urdu-language channel broadcast live from Pakistan, providing Islamic religious education and informative content. QTV features programs on the history of Islam as well as teaching and interpretation of the Holy Quran. QTV is a part of the ARY Digital Network. This Package requires purchase of any other Urdu package. You can get this DISH TV Urdu Pack at $10 per month.

Subscribe for any of the lucrative Urdu packages of DISH TV and enliven your mood with incredible Urdu programming while living in USA.





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2012年9月20日 星期四

Bluetooth Technology And Wireless on Cellphones

Bluetooth technology and wireless on cellphones are fast becoming standard features. Almost 55% of cellphones sold worldwide are Bluetooth-enabled, and an increasing number of smartphones are wireless-capable.

Isn't it annoying when you want to email someone your latest holiday pics and they're stuck on your cellphone?

There is no need to struggle with files stuck on only one device (laptop, desktop or cellphone) anymore. Taking some time in setting up device synchronization between your many gadgets means you will never be without an essential bit of data again.

Device synchronization enables you to share files, contacts, music and images if you set up your own little private network at home, connecting your desktop, laptop and smartphone - creating your own little wireless world, where all your information is shared.

Syncing is not as difficult as it seems. The first thing to check is compatibility across your different devices - are they using the same or compatible technologies. A quick visit to your hardware or device manager on your computer, or the settings menu or user guide on your cellphone, should answer that. If they are compatible, make sure the hardware is available and the drivers for the devices are all installed.

Some older desktops may not have Bluetooth, but Bluetooth dongles are inexpensive and can plug into a USB port, enabling your desktop to join a Bluetooth network.

The user manual that comes with your cellphone should have the specific setup procedures, as these differ slightly from cellphone to cellphone, but most operating systems like Windows XP, Windows 2000, Vista and Macs will automatically find and add a new Bluetooth device, provided that you have set it to be discovered on your cellphone settings.

Setting up a Personal Information Network is now a matter of adding your devices to the network and giving them permission to communicate with each other. The tricky thing about Bluetooth is that devices must be set up to both send and receive files (setting up one function does not imply that you can use the other function).

You will also have to use a passkey or password in the setup, which is either provided in your user manual or you can set up your own passkey, so your information is protected. Any file exchange will require your passkey to be entered by both parties.

The best way to test if your Bluetooth is communicating with your laptop is to send a picture or a file from the cellphone or external device to your laptop and then do the same from the laptop to the device. To do that, select the image or file you want to send, right-click on it and select Send to and then Bluetooth device and you should be able to select the specific device to which you want to send files.

You can synchronize your contact lists, photos and even a manageable number of files this way.

If you have a wireless network set up at work or home, use it to check your mails and send files. It's as simple as adding your cellphone or smartphone to the wireless network. All you need to do is find your cellphone's wireless settings (either in your Settings or Setup menu). Next, search for the network, then add it by entering the network name, and the key or password - and you should be able to use your wireless to download email and exchange files between your smartphone and laptop or wireless desktop computer fairly effortlessly.

If you're concerned about security remember that anyone within range can see your Bluetooth network, though they will have to go through the same procedure to connect to you, making it unlikely that anyone will be able to see your personal information.

Having your own information network at home can make work and play much easier.

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2012年9月19日 星期三

The Outcomes Of A Hacker Finding Your Personal Info

Everyone has heard of the most recent scandal relating to the Monster.com website being hacked and very important info for over a million folks being stolen. Now what would a hacker need with the information some would wonder? The although behind a hackers motives most often, is to just be capable to hack the location that claims it's hack proof. In different instances involving fraud, it is to acquire your personal data and both makes use of it for spamming or to sell it to scam artists. In any case, a site that's hacked has legal obligations one would think.

The newest Monster.com scare is more than seemingly simply the theft of work history and identify along with references. Now if the data also included Social Security data or annual salary requirements in addition to cellphone numbers and credit card or financial institution data, people are going to have main problems. This sort of activity happens on a regular basis, however we solely hear in regards to the big news firms corresponding to / Monster.com or others within the spotlight. Now if a pet product website that is simply starting out and is not a well-known title, they are not going to disclose that data and in the event that they do, it won't make the information headlines.

Everybody makes use of the Internet for one motive or one other and in case you are like most individuals, you might shop, look for work, play games or simply browse. In any circumstances, it's essential be careful the way you provide your information. / A secure site to display your data must comprise encryption to guard your information if it is for purchasing and gaming as well. Anytime you give out private information about yourself, you wish to know your information is protected. With the newest scare with Monster.com, people have to wonder, what is going to they do with that information?

As hackers develop into more devious of their endeavor to hack into web sites and steal the knowledge, more IT technicians will work tougher to make the websites and products to secure the websites even better. All the scares that we encounter with our Web experiences are just one other form of prison exercise, sadly, it could possibly cause issues for your complete world. Defending yourself and your laptop from a hack attack is high priority and day-after-day, businesses are upgrading their programs and infrastructures to protect important information.

One of the best ways to guard your self some had said is, never give out private information. Unfortunately, this isn't at all times possible. If you want to shop, search for work, do some gaming or sign up for essential newsletters and promotions, you must supply the pertinent information. Therefore, using a bit of caution as to what websites you use is nice, however as it was proved with Monster, even the perfect of websites can endure problems. This nonetheless, is not any purpose to cease utilizing the Internet. /

You simply want to concentrate on the deal with and use common sense if you visit a website. Some day we are going to see a system to track and cease hackers from stealing important information. Firms who make the software program and other software for safety measures work exhausting on daily basis to seek out new ways to stop a hacker. As the hacker beneficial properties extra strength, software program builders acquire more security information to stop them in their tracks.





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2012年9月18日 星期二

How a Romanian song was made Famous

We lived in Austria for couple of years, then we established in the States in 1992. Years later, after we visited about 45 States, we were I was traveling to Europe, It was in 2004. Our flight went smooth and we were trying alternatives for passing the time, when I put the headphones to listen to some music - provided by the crew, and I hear this song in Romanian - my mother language, I was , wowed...not many songs make it to America or...to become so popular to be commercially played in public places,...

The name of the song was "dragostea din tei", it was written and composed by Dan B?lan , and the original version was sung by B?lan, Arsenie Todira? , and Radu Srbu . The single was first released in 2003 in Moldova , where the group lived and produced at that time, and in the spring of 2004 in most other European countries.

The song was not popular in America by any means, before they made it here , they had an English version ready for us.

The translation is quiet difficult, because the Moldavian language was a mixture of Russian influence and the Latin Romanian based language.

"Dragostea din tei" is written in Romanian . There are several proposed translations of the title, such as Love from the linden trees (also called "linden trees") and Love out of the linden trees . And it's very well possible that the intended meaning was also NOT the love from the linden tree but, the FIRST LOVE,

/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o New Jersey - Gary Brolsma introduces song to America's culture

The 19 year old New Jersey your tube performance is a hit.

He become famous instantly!

If you follow the guys story, he made it big!

The Miya Hee Song! The Numa Numa Song!

/watch?v=f36wolLtkbE

ABC news crew introduces the group finally to the United States in June of 2006.Listen carefully what the news crew says before introducing them. It's made it to number ONE in 27 COUNTRIES!

The famous song know as The Miya Hee Song! The Numa Numa Song!

more of the song's versions

/watch?v=qYXI2-5qzI8 - English version /watch?v=MtE8O2jvyA0 - spanish version

/watch?v=tnETNpOhrYg - backstreet boys

/watch?v=cF68iLhzMpQ - Bin-laden style

/watch?v=MZ3lXZT7PFY opera style

/watch?v=ZSRF5oERKzU - Bloodhound Gang - Dragostea din Tei

This is the Romanian and the English lirycs. Ma-ia-hii Ma-ia-huu Ma-ia-hooMa-ia-haha Miya-hee Miya-hoo Miya-ho Miya-haha [These are just sounds.] -

Verse 2 - Alo, Salut, sunt eu, un haiduc, Si te rog, iubirea mea, primeste fericirea. Alo, alo, sunt eu Picasso, Ti-am dat beep, si sunt voinic, Dar sa stii nu-ti cer nimic.

Hello [on a cellphone], greetings, it's me, an outlaw, I ask you, my love, to accept happiness. Hello, hello, it's me, Picasso, I sent you a beep [cellphone signal], and I'm brave [or strong], But you should know that I'm not asking for anything from you.

Chorus 3 (2 times) - Vrei sa pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei, Nu ma, nu ma iei, nu ma, nu ma, nu ma iei. Chipul tau si dragostea din tei, Mi-amintesc de ochii tai.

You want to leave but you don't want don't want to take me,

don't want don't want to take me, don't want don't want don't want to take me. Your face and the love from the linden trees, And I remember your eyes.

Verse 4 - Te sun, sa-ti spun, ce simt acum, Alo, iubirea mea, sunt eu, fericirea. Alo, alo, sunt iarasi eu, Picasso, Ti-am dat beep, si sunt voinic, Dar sa stii nu-ti cer nimic.

I call you [over the phone], to tell you what I feel right now, Hello, my love, it's me, your happiness. Hello, hello, it's me again, Picasso, I sent you a beep [cellphone signal] and I'm brave [or strong], But you should know that I'm not asking for anything from you.

Repeat chorus again:

Miya-hee Miya-hoo Miya-ho Miya-haha [These are just sounds.]

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2012年9月17日 星期一

S60v2 Renaming Trick

Long time ago, I have read a trick about renaming applications on my one and only N6600. That has been quite hard and it took me a hard time figuring out how it really works. Finally I did and everytime I have new applications in my phone, I change its name to my desired name. It helped me reduce confusions and it's kinda cool because my friends are amazed on how I've change the name of each of my applications. Now, I'll gonna share it in my own way.

This trick works on s60v2 devices like n6600, n6630, n6680, n70 etc.

Requirements: 1. S60v2 mobile phone 2. File explorer like xplore. If you don't have an Xplore application yet, you may download it at or

Steps 1. Open menu by pressing menu key. 2. Move the application you want to rename in the first row, first column of the screen. 3. Open your file explorer and go to E:system/apps. 4. Rename any folder in this directory(just add a letter). 5. Immediately after rename, press menu key and point the cursor in a folder then press option (a number of choices appear including rename). 6. Wait until refresh (a refresh will occur because of the change we made on a folder in E:system/apps ) 7. When you notice that the cursor points automatically to the file in the first row first column, which is the application you want to rename, it means the phone refreshed. 8. Choose rename and have fun creating a cool and unique file name.





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2012年9月16日 星期日

Webcasting Technology And Its Uses

The word broadcasting means relaying some news or entertainment or business stuff over the radio or television in the right sense. The same thing when happens over the internet, it is meant as webcasting. Simply it can be indicated as internet radio in the other context. Now it would be useful to understand another term related to this terms as simulcasting. This is nothing, but the short form of simultaneous broadcasting i.e. one matter is broadcasted over the internet utilizing multiple mediums in live or offline, such as video, chat systems, via cell phone, etc., Absolute radio of United Kingdom is also of its kind. Webcasting generally termed as slow linear torrents of happenings.

Comparing other broadcasting methods such as television and others, webcasting is low-cost and easily reachable expertise of its kind. Mainly this method or broadcasting is very useful in the happenings like yearly or monthly meetings of offices of big businesses and also in educational institutions to organize educational discussion groups in various universities all over the world. Like we talk in cellphones using conference call facility, the webcasting technology is used in discussions of many people to interact at the same time even they live in various place at the time of the meeting.

All the chief radio stations in the world such as, British Broadcasting Center, Cable News Network, and Al Jazeera are having their own webcasting production units. It is really fun to hear that even marriages too to be organized using this radio technology. Even onea family members and friends live all over the world, they can participate in any occasions over the internet using webcasting. This will reduce the risk of traveling, but feel the same feeling of real participation of an event even from the far distance. One big computer giant Apple has also organized the grand Grammy musical award ceremony utilizing this internet-based radio method of relay of programs. To cut down the broadcasting charges to less, one United Nation radio broadcasting center has been broadcasting using both FM and AM lines via simulcasting technique of webcasting.

Simply webcasting is a know-how method of broadcasting of anything and so people get the benefit of participation in any field, such as businesses, educational participation, family events etc., while they live in any corner of the world without traveling and avoiding other risks. Simply it is extension of radio broadcasting skill by utilization of internet.

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2012年9月15日 星期六

Samsung Continuum Phone

Design The Samsung Continuum is a slimmer, more compact device than the rest of the Galaxy S family. It measures 4.9 inches tall by 2.3 inches wide by 0.5 inch thick, weighs 4.4 ounces, and has rounded edges for a nice fit in the hand and pants pocket. It has an all-black, lacquered finish, which is very sleek-looking but makes the plastic battery door a little slick and prone to smudges and fingerprints.The Continuum instead has two Super AMOLED displays the main one is 3.4 with a resolution of 480x800, and the second ticker display is 1.8 with a 480x96 pixel resolution. Because of the difference in the main screen size (4 to 3.4), but having the same WVGA resolution, we found that text and images on the Continuum look sharper and clearer.

Ticker display So what's the ticker display all about? Well, it's a small, customizable window that streams real-time information from your social networks and your news, sports, entertainment, and weather feeds and acts as a notification area, with the idea being that you can simply look at the ticker display for quick updates rather than having to wake up your phone from its standby state. To help in this, the Continuum features grip sensor technology that will automatically activate the ticker screen when you touch the bottom sides of the phone with your hand. From there, you can swipe from left to right and vice versa to see your various updates.

Features Ticker display aside, the Samsung Continuum has a feature set very similar to that of the Samsung Fascinate and other Galaxy S series models. The smartphone ships running Android 2.1, which is disappointing, since Android 2.3 is expected to be released soon.The Continuum supports a number of Google services, including Gmail, Google Talk, and YouTube, but like the Fascinate, its default search engine is set to Bing, not Google.

Internet and Connectivity The Samsung Continuum i400 is a dual-band CDMA (800/1900 MHz) handset with high speed data connectivity available through 3G EVDO Rev A or Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n.The standard WebKit-based Android browser is on board to serve your browsing needs, and it does provide for a great overall experience. Pages load very fast and scrolling is smooth, while zooming can be accomplished by double-tap or multi-touch.

Software The Samsung Continuum is a Verizon device, where would it be without included the apps for VCast Music, Tones, and Videos, as well as VZ Navigator for GPS guided driving directions (Google Maps with Navigation can be download from the Market).As an Android handset, the Samsung Continuum has access to over 70K applications via the Android Market, so the variety is great. There are a few preloaded apps, such as 3G Mobile Hotspot for connecting up to 5 devices wirelessly, Blockbuster movie service, City ID, Kindle, Skype, Twidroyd, Scrabble and Tetris. Samsung has included a file manager, memo pad and Think Free, which is a full Microsoft Office compatible suite that offers local and online document storage, and allows for creation and editing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, as well as viewing PDF files.

Performance The included Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor is fast, humming along at 1GHz speed. There was no delay when moving between the 7 home screens, as well as opening apps and switching between them. There is also 2GB of memory on-board, which is used for saving your apps, and also has 512MB of ROM and 384MB of RAM. We are glad to see a preinstalled 8GB microSDHC memory card to provide plenty of room to store your pictures, music, and videos. We preformed the Quadrant Benchmark on the Continuum, which tests the CPU, memory, I/O, 2D and 3D graphics, and got a score of 850, while the Fascinate got 892, and the Motorola DROID X with Android 2.2 got 1410.

Call quality The speakerphone on the Continuum was noticeably louder due to the two rear speakers, but it experienced some distortion at its highest level, so we had to turn it down a bit for it to sound clearer. Reception on the Continuum was also quite good, with 3-4 bars showing and with a signal of -89 dBm, while the Fascinate wasnt as good with -96dBm, though the Motorola DROID X was in the middle with a signal of -94 dBm. But regardless, we didnt drop any calls while using these phones.

Battery The Continuum included 1500mAh battery is rated to provide up to 7 hours of talk time or 13 days of standby time on a full charge. During our testing, we were able to achieve the 7 hours of continuous talk time (same as on the Fascinate), though the Motorola DROID X is still king here with 9.5 hours of talk time. For mixed usage, which includes some talk, text, email, web, app use, and standby, we were able to get about a full 24 hours of use on the Continuum and Fascinate, while the DROID X got up to 32 hours. Read more Cellphone Review & Guide





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2012年9月14日 星期五

Droid X, Slowing Down or Boosting Motorola?

In the current flurry of smartphone introductions, it's rare that a cellphone launch is as closely observed as that of the Droid X. Analysts have been intently monitoring sales of Motorola's latest gadget since its July 15 debut to assess the company's ongoing turnaround. McKechnie said in a research note this morning that he went around checking late last week and over the weekend, and found no supply available at retail as all production is still going to fill pre-order backlog. Droid X certainly isn't the only hot summer smartphone in short supply. Apple pushed back ship dates on iPhone 4 several times, and the HTC EVO 4G -- a Sprint phone claiming the crown as the country's first 4G-ready smartphone -- has also seen a number of delays since its June launch.

Meanwhile Droid X vs iPhone 4 continues to be the analysts hot topic for discussion. Which phone is better? Whose features are better? The list is endless with the number of questions comparing the two devices. The first difference notable is the Droid X extra large display at 4.3 inches while the iPhone 4 is 3.5 inches. Experts say size does matter when viewing videos and photos. In terms of better experience while watching videos, Droid X is the winner because of its larger display, experts say. Another important difference to be considered before judging the phone is the battery life. When used as a hotspot, Droid X battery would last three to four hours so it must be in charge, when used for this purpose. Another difference is that while iPhone 4 can be used both as a phone and data service together, the same cant be said about Droid X. With Droid X, youve the liberty to download anything you want. But, with iPhone, you can download those stuff that are approved by Appl e.

Verizon Droid X acts as a mobile hotspot because it allows you to connect up to five compatible Wi-Fi devices to Verizons network. In this comparison, though iPhone 4 fails to acts as a mobile hotspot, it can be used for tethering. But, to avail these facilities on both the devices, you need to pay $20 per month subject to a 2 GB limitation. Verizon and Motorola's Droid X launch hasn't been without its headaches. Last week, some early buyers reported flickering and the appearance of vertical bands on their Droid X displays. Motorola and Verizon addressed the issue, saying that customers experiencing those problems should contact one of the two companies immediately, and indicated it affected a "very small number" of the phones.

Motorola is set to report quarterly earnings on Thursday. An average of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expects Motorola to report earnings of 8 cents per share on sales of $5.2 billion, compared to a 1 cent-per-share loss on $5.5 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Given the Droid X's late launch, analysts will be seeking information beyond its sales on Thursday's call. Co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha, who heads Motorola's handset unit, will likely be asked about other 2010 phone releases and whether he still believes his division will break even by the fourth quarter. Barclays ( BCS - news - people ) Capital analyst Jeffrey Kvaal thinks Motorola will bow eight more smartphones this year. Motorola previously said it expects to ship 12 million to 14 million smartphones in 2010. Some analysts expect the company to raise those figures or focus them on the higher end on Thursday.

Achieving break-even would be a significant milestone as Motorola's handset division has reported losses for nearly four years. It would also be a sign of readiness as Motorola prepares to split into two independent companies--one focused on consumers, the other on businesses and government agencies--by March 2011. Jha has said that Motorola aims to spin off the handset unit, which it will rename Motorola Mobility, without any long-term debt. Read more Cellphone Review, News & Guide





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2012年9月13日 星期四

Windows Phone 7 Series With Zune And Xbox Live

And now that you've seen this in action we believe Microsoft is actually during the cellphone competition, actually putting the likes of RIM and Android upon discover with regards to the actual user encounter. Windows Phone Sequence 7 has a refurbished interface reminiscent of the organization's Zune portable media players, other than its already been extended method past media to include everything from people (social networking) to gaming, photos, as well as productivity.

With this particular version of their mobile OS, Microsoft can also be making it mandatory upon strict equipment needs, including capacitive touch and the same 3 buttons on every system. We just attended Microsofts press conference for this brand new platform, which will be striking phones at the end associated with 2010, as well as arrived aside impressed with the companys capability toahemthink various about cellphones. Something is for sure: Microsoft is de-emphasizing the need to leap into as well as out of multiple apps, rather focusing on a far more integrated encounter.

The other design component coursing via Windows Phone Series 7 tend to be hubs: pages that cull information about a variety of things: your favorite people, your workplace documents, as well as photos, to name some. The People hub, for example, get its contact lenses through variety sources, like Facebook and e-mail accounts. After that you can cut through all this information by selecting just the people you have contacted recently, or even alphabetically. Inside a prosper which reminds us associated with Android 2.1, the written text animates while you select letters of the alphabet or perhaps a specific buddy. Exactly the same organizational philosophy applies not just in order to contact lenses, but to photos, multimedia, as well as Office paperwork. From the Workplace hub, particularly, users can create, read, as well as modify Word, Ms powerpoint, as well as Excel documents, as well as send to and receive from the SharePoint machine.

Confirming those continual gossips, Windows Phone 7 Sequence includes the Zune encounter. Essentially, the actual Zune is to future Windows 7 phones what the ipod device is to the iPhone: the user interface would be the same. Its just like having the Zune inside your phone (minus HD radio). Therefore, the interface looks exactly the same. Users can also look for music and other content material upon their phones, as they would upon Zune Marketplace using their own Zune player. Microsoft also announced which users can install third-party plug-ins, such as Pandora. Consistent with the rest of the OS, users may pin your favorite music, as well as access their background, because they would current contact lenses. In this case, the music hub is actually mostly Zune, after that, with a splash of other services you might use.

While Microsofts mobile OS has always been pitched toward business users, Windows Phone Series 7 constitutes a serious situation with regard to amusement junkies, as well, by getting users to get into and perform their Xbox Live games on the device. So far as Microsoft can be involved, the actual plug-in with its own gaming system means that the phones are not just effective and practical, however , fun, said Joe Belfiori, VP associated with Windows Phone. You will be able to observe your Xbox Live avatar as well as invites through other people to get familiar with multiplayer action.

In addition to the Office hub, there are more ways Windows Phone Sequence 7 remains loyal in order to its professional users. Like the rest of the actual OS, the actual calendar draws within appointments from various sources, it nicely color rules expert and personal occasions differently. Users can choose to see their own calendars in various ways, such as daily or even monthly. While you navigate through the actual calendar, the actual screen animates, just like lists associated with contacts perform. Other professional touches consist of the ability to flag e-mails and delete several products at the same time very easily, some thing users may currently do within Outlook 2007.

One of the OSs secret weapons might be Bing, Microsofts search engine, that places an emphasis upon producing decisions, such as shopping and restaurant searches, simpler. The actual phone automatically hyperlinks address, phone numbers, along with other get in touch with information through the OS in e-mails, calendar entries, Web pages. The faucet with an tackle launches Bing Maps, which include in depth illustrations at the street degree.

When it comes to search, the phone uses location to put your own leads to circumstance. Therefore, a search for sushi will yield, first and foremost, nearby sushi important joints. You will find 3 tab at the top of the actual search page: nearby, information, and Internet, therefore, should you wanted to research steps to make sushi, you could easily find that information, too. Microsoft additionally announced partnerships along with services like Yelp, that will help to make it's contextual results (in this case, restaurant and club evaluations) much more useful.

In addition to the spectacular, revamped, work-and-play-friendly OS, among Microsofts biggest departures was its insistence upon hardware uniformity among its phones moving forward. All Windows Phone 7 Series phones must have capacitive touch screens, as well as three buttons for accessing the home display, navigating in reverse, as well as searching. This requirement, particularly, appears to be a solution in order to Androids fragmented handset abilities across various producers. The hardware lovers Microsoft introduced these days incorporated Qualcomm, Samsung, LG, ASUS, Garmin-ASUS, Dell, as well as Toshiba. All four major US carriers take presctiption panel, amongst other worldwide ones. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned the company has established especially strong associations along with AT&T and Orange, working with them so they can include their very own software program and providers. Read more Cellphone Review, News & Guide





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2012年9月12日 星期三

The Current Status of World Hunger

Where does starvation exist in the world today? What are some of the causes of world hunger? Are citizens of developed countries donating monetarily to the ongoing relief efforts? In this article I will address these questions with the hope that by creating an understanding of the current world hunger situation, morally conscious individuals will do their part in contributing to the eradication of this unseen suffering.

It is a well known fact that there is enough food in the world to feed every human being on earth. Sadly, malnutrition and hunger still afflict one out of every seven people in the world today. Or, from a slightly different statistical perspective, the current world population is 4,712,200,000. The number of malnourished is 797,900,000. Therefore 17% of the world population is currently malnourished or starving. No matter how you examine the issue, a current crisis is at hand. Why is this so?

The causes of starvation are complex, but there are some common threads that seem to be associated with this problem. First and foremost, starvation is caused by poverty. To address the problem of world hunger then the problem of global poverty must be addressed. Therefore, the question that we should examine is what are the causes of poverty. A thorough discussion on the causes of global poverty is outside the purview of this article. Entire textbooks have been written on the subject. For our discussion, it is suffice to say that one of the major causes of poverty is governments pursuing policies that inhibit self sufficiency.

Areas of starvation are also characterized by persistent problems in cultivating food from lack of seed, arable land, and tools. Those that can grow food, must deal with insects, drought, floods, and war, which can result in complete destruction of crops. Historically, areas of Africa have experienced periodic locusts infestations, which can completely destroy crops.

Other causes of world hunger are related to the globalize system of food production. The globalize system of food production and trade favors a reliance on export crops while discriminating against small-scale farmers and subsistence crops. Many third world countries export out to much food while concomitantly not keeping enough food to sustain their own people.

AIDS is a significant cause of hunger. In societies affected by AIDS, famine is more deadly and difficult to combat. Why is this so? AIDS attacks the most productive individuals within society. Fewer productive people within society means fewer individuals to work the jobs that involve food production. This is one contributor to the starvation currently taking place in Africa.

Weather plays a major role in terms of the prevalence of starvation. Areas of drought leads to non-useable land with subsequent famine. This is well known. But less well known is that floods can also lead to starvation. Crops can be flooded and therefore destroyed, which in essence produces the same result as drought. In both cases, weather can produce a complete lack of self sufficiency.

Military conflicts, both internal and between neighboring countries, can lead to starvation. These conflicts can result in destruction of crops. Government money is directed at funding the conflict at the expense of the starving people. Funds are diverted from social and economic development. Military conflicts can also result in the displacement of large groups of people, removing them from their farms and their way of life. People can end up in refugee camps, completely dependent on relief aid.

The causative factors of world hunger are numerous, and certain factors change from year to year, therefore at any given time, some areas may be more prone then others. The extent of drought, flood, internal conflicts, and war with neighboring countries can vary over time. Therefore, these factors incorporate a variable affect on the degree to which inhabitants of susceptible countries suffer from starvation.

A combination of these causative factors in a particular region is a formula for disaster. When this occurs, large scale starvation can take place. A case in point. The Horn of Africa has seen severe drought coupled with internal conflicts. This is leading to the development of a tragedy. In this region currently 11 million people are on the brink of starvation.

Historically, certain areas of the world have had a high prevalence of hunger and starvation. These areas are the central region of South America, large areas of East, Central, and Southern Africa, and regions of South Asia. As of 2006, the current hot spots, those areas which are suffering the greatest degree of starvation, are as follows:

Niger:

This area in central Africa has been struggling to cope with the devastating impact of drought and locusts infestations.

Haiti:

In this region extreme poverty has been further exacerbated by a political crisis, floods, tropical storms, and hurricanes.

Horn of Africa:

An estimated 11 million people in the Horn of Africa "are on the brink of starvation" because of severe drought and war. Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia need food aid, water, new livestock and seeds. This is a major hunger crisis in development.

Afghanistan:

Poverty in Afghanistan, made worse by drought, has contributed greatly to their hunger problem.

Pakistan:

The recent earthquake coupled with a severe winter have produced starvation conditions. Recently, mud slides have hampered relief efforts.

North Korea:

Food insecurity caused by the countries economic problems, is compounded by unpredictable and severe weather conditions. To date, the North Korean government has failed in its duty to provide for its starving people. The North Korean government has actually refused foreign aid.

Columbia:

A 40 year civil conflict and the illegal drug trade have caused mass displacement and poverty.

Democratic Republic of Congo:

3.4 million people have been internally displaced as a result of a continuing internal conflict.

Mali:

They are struggling to cope with the devastating impact of a recent drought.

Southern Africa:

Erratic weather, lack of seed and fertilizer, chronic poverty, and AIDS have been contributing factors to starvation.

These are the areas of the world which are currently suffering the highest levels of malnutrition and hunger. With this understanding of where relief efforts are needed, we must address the question of individual response. Are individuals of developed countries donating to relief efforts? Most morally conscious individuals donate to relief efforts when the problem is presented to them.

A major problem in the relief effort is the general population of developed countries not knowing about the current hunger crisis. News organizations, more specifically television news, are not giving enough attention to the global hunger situation. While an in depth discussion as to the reasons for this is outside the purview of this article, a few points can be made.

Evidently, the American TV news organizations, do not think world hunger is much of a story since starvation is a daily occurrence. I suspect, from the perspective of the these news organizations, that 24,000 people per day dying from hunger is not a big enough news story. When 1,386 people died from hurricane Katrina, the news coverage was enormous. Five months after hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, TV news organizations were still squeezing all they could out of this story. Granted this was an obvious tragedy, but an even bigger tragedy, much bigger, is going on in Africa and the general public does not even know about it.

I have seen little to almost no coverage given by American TV news organizations on the devastating hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa. I have only learned of this crisis through RSS feeds on the Internet. Television news organizations such as CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC are thus far not reporting on this crisis. Hopefully this will change.

It is evident that the American TV news organizations do not really provide total and complete news, rather they screen the events and only provide what they feel may be interesting to their audience. News organizations should present the news and concomitantly maintain high journalistic standards. Maybe these news organizations need to incorporate a higher level of moral obligation into their decision making process, when deciding which stories to cover. In any case, people can not donate if they do not know the problem exists.

We have addressed some key questions in order to characterize the current status of the world hunger situation. We have examined where hunger is the most prevalent in the world today, and we have identified some of the causative factors which contribute to malnutrition, hunger, and starvation. We have concluded that most morally conscious individuals would contribute to the elimination of hunger, if they knew about the crisis. Finally, we have observed that the degree of world hunger coverage by TV news organizations is very much lacking.

Even though TV news organizations have not been covering the current world hunger crisis, by reading this article, you have developed an understanding of the degree to which starvation is prevalent in the world today. If you are reading this in a developed country, which is highly likely since you are reading it on a computer which has Internet access, you have a moral obligation to donate either time or money to help in the elimination of unseen suffering. Winston Churchill once said "we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." We must all do our part to eliminate world hunger.





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2012年9月11日 星期二

The Current Status of World Hunger

Where does starvation exist in the world today? What are some of the causes of world hunger? Are citizens of developed countries donating monetarily to the ongoing relief efforts? In this article I will address these questions with the hope that by creating an understanding of the current world hunger situation, morally conscious individuals will do their part in contributing to the eradication of this unseen suffering.

It is a well known fact that there is enough food in the world to feed every human being on earth. Sadly, malnutrition and hunger still afflict one out of every seven people in the world today. Or, from a slightly different statistical perspective, the current world population is 4,712,200,000. The number of malnourished is 797,900,000. Therefore 17% of the world population is currently malnourished or starving. No matter how you examine the issue, a current crisis is at hand. Why is this so?

The causes of starvation are complex, but there are some common threads that seem to be associated with this problem. First and foremost, starvation is caused by poverty. To address the problem of world hunger then the problem of global poverty must be addressed. Therefore, the question that we should examine is what are the causes of poverty. A thorough discussion on the causes of global poverty is outside the purview of this article. Entire textbooks have been written on the subject. For our discussion, it is suffice to say that one of the major causes of poverty is governments pursuing policies that inhibit self sufficiency.

Areas of starvation are also characterized by persistent problems in cultivating food from lack of seed, arable land, and tools. Those that can grow food, must deal with insects, drought, floods, and war, which can result in complete destruction of crops. Historically, areas of Africa have experienced periodic locusts infestations, which can completely destroy crops.

Other causes of world hunger are related to the globalize system of food production. The globalize system of food production and trade favors a reliance on export crops while discriminating against small-scale farmers and subsistence crops. Many third world countries export out to much food while concomitantly not keeping enough food to sustain their own people.

AIDS is a significant cause of hunger. In societies affected by AIDS, famine is more deadly and difficult to combat. Why is this so? AIDS attacks the most productive individuals within society. Fewer productive people within society means fewer individuals to work the jobs that involve food production. This is one contributor to the starvation currently taking place in Africa.

Weather plays a major role in terms of the prevalence of starvation. Areas of drought leads to non-useable land with subsequent famine. This is well known. But less well known is that floods can also lead to starvation. Crops can be flooded and therefore destroyed, which in essence produces the same result as drought. In both cases, weather can produce a complete lack of self sufficiency.

Military conflicts, both internal and between neighboring countries, can lead to starvation. These conflicts can result in destruction of crops. Government money is directed at funding the conflict at the expense of the starving people. Funds are diverted from social and economic development. Military conflicts can also result in the displacement of large groups of people, removing them from their farms and their way of life. People can end up in refugee camps, completely dependent on relief aid.

The causative factors of world hunger are numerous, and certain factors change from year to year, therefore at any given time, some areas may be more prone then others. The extent of drought, flood, internal conflicts, and war with neighboring countries can vary over time. Therefore, these factors incorporate a variable affect on the degree to which inhabitants of susceptible countries suffer from starvation.

A combination of these causative factors in a particular region is a formula for disaster. When this occurs, large scale starvation can take place. A case in point. The Horn of Africa has seen severe drought coupled with internal conflicts. This is leading to the development of a tragedy. In this region currently 11 million people are on the brink of starvation.

Historically, certain areas of the world have had a high prevalence of hunger and starvation. These areas are the central region of South America, large areas of East, Central, and Southern Africa, and regions of South Asia. As of 2006, the current hot spots, those areas which are suffering the greatest degree of starvation, are as follows:

Niger:

This area in central Africa has been struggling to cope with the devastating impact of drought and locusts infestations.

Haiti:

In this region extreme poverty has been further exacerbated by a political crisis, floods, tropical storms, and hurricanes.

Horn of Africa:

An estimated 11 million people in the Horn of Africa "are on the brink of starvation" because of severe drought and war. Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia need food aid, water, new livestock and seeds. This is a major hunger crisis in development.

Afghanistan:

Poverty in Afghanistan, made worse by drought, has contributed greatly to their hunger problem.

Pakistan:

The recent earthquake coupled with a severe winter have produced starvation conditions. Recently, mud slides have hampered relief efforts.

North Korea:

Food insecurity caused by the countries economic problems, is compounded by unpredictable and severe weather conditions. To date, the North Korean government has failed in its duty to provide for its starving people. The North Korean government has actually refused foreign aid.

Columbia:

A 40 year civil conflict and the illegal drug trade have caused mass displacement and poverty.

Democratic Republic of Congo:

3.4 million people have been internally displaced as a result of a continuing internal conflict.

Mali:

They are struggling to cope with the devastating impact of a recent drought.

Southern Africa:

Erratic weather, lack of seed and fertilizer, chronic poverty, and AIDS have been contributing factors to starvation.

These are the areas of the world which are currently suffering the highest levels of malnutrition and hunger. With this understanding of where relief efforts are needed, we must address the question of individual response. Are individuals of developed countries donating to relief efforts? Most morally conscious individuals donate to relief efforts when the problem is presented to them.

A major problem in the relief effort is the general population of developed countries not knowing about the current hunger crisis. News organizations, more specifically television news, are not giving enough attention to the global hunger situation. While an in depth discussion as to the reasons for this is outside the purview of this article, a few points can be made.

Evidently, the American TV news organizations, do not think world hunger is much of a story since starvation is a daily occurrence. I suspect, from the perspective of these news organizations, that 24,000 people per day dying from hunger is not a big enough news story. When 1,386 people died from hurricane Katrina, the news coverage was enormous. Five months after hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, TV news organizations were still squeezing all they could out of this story. Granted this was an obvious tragedy, but an even bigger tragedy, much bigger, is going on in Africa and the general public does not even know about it.

I have seen little to almost no coverage given by American TV news organizations on the devastating hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa. I have only learned of this crisis through RSS feeds on the Internet. Television news organizations such as CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC are thus far not reporting on this crisis. Hopefully this will change.

It is evident that the American TV news organizations do not really provide total and complete news, rather they screen the events and only provide what they feel may be interesting to their audience. News organizations should present the news and concomitantly maintain high journalistic standards. Maybe these news organizations need to incorporate a higher level of moral obligation into their decision making process, when deciding which stories to cover. In any case, people can not donate if they do not know the problem exists.

We have addressed some key questions in order to characterize the current status of the world hunger situation. We have examined where hunger is the most prevalent in the world today, and we have identified some of the causative factors which contribute to malnutrition, hunger, and starvation. We have concluded that most morally conscious individuals would contribute to the elimination of hunger, if they knew about the crisis. Finally, we have observed that the degree of world hunger coverage by TV news organizations is very much lacking.

Even though TV news organizations have not been covering the current world hunger crisis, by reading this article, you have developed an understanding of the degree to which starvation is prevalent in the world today. If you are reading this in a developed country, which is highly likely since you are reading it on a computer which has Internet access, you have a moral obligation to donate either time or money to help in the elimination of unseen suffering. Winston Churchill once said "we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." We must all do our part to eliminate world hunger.





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