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Facebook testing paid post promotions

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:21:00 +0200

“Make sure my friends find this” by Paying Money

Is Facebook trying to cheat us or drawing us into a way of paying for our post to our friends. One thing I couldn’t understand was when I saw the introduction of “paid post promotions” by Facebook. This means that you can pay for your posts so that it can reach many of your friends or even can sometimes becomes spam by sending messages to some friend that are not interested in that topic you wrote about.

Most of us Log onto or create accounts with Facebook just to have fun and find friends or pals, and say some a few words to them by posting them what you have in mind. Now the picture by facebook looks that for you to do that you have to pay them so that you can reach many friends what they say is a little amount by facebook Spokesman about US$2 dollars, to highlight posts to “Make sure friends see this.”

There could be restrictions on none paying post or maybe dropping them to the bottom of your page where your friends can’t see them sooner or later. This paid post promotions tests are being carried out in New Zealand.

This could be the looming and near Failure much anticipated IPO that prompted the giant Social Networking Company the raised so many eyebrows.

Good Contact Information Means Good Traffic for your Blog or Site

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:14:00 +0200

Imagine you driving to work a little late, somewhere down the road you found one of the bikes you wanted to buy for your son and couldn’t afford the first time you went to the shop and tried to buy because it was too expensive and it was one of those difficult months you had a budget strain and today the same bike is on “Sale” half the original price. You instantly pulled over to buy it and make a surprise gift to your son latter in the afternoon and you find there is no one there, “NO CONTACT INFORMATION”, whatsoever, the people around there told you the seller just parked it and left without leaving any information. You look around imagining he here but nothing and you had to drive off.

It’s no wonder you will feel let down by the seller and both of you lost a great deal of opportunity. The same is your blog or site. It’s just the same putting Good Contact Information either Email or Contact Form at a clear and visible section of your site of which finding them shouldn’t be a problem is the answer. This will allow your prospective visitors and customers the chance to entrant with you and ask you questions they may have about your products or services or any other related questions. These will as well increase their confidence and helps them come back once you respond well and answer them. Others might even want to purchase ad space. It’s also a good way of getting traffic to your site as I found it, it take the spread of words or sharing of your blog by visitors.

As for me, I personally believe Bloggers are there to share the information and knowledge they have with prospective visitors and customers and help them out in any way they can, and build a good relationship with them, sharing good knowledge information’s makes good community. Why not build a good one with the little you know.

RIM hits mute button on outage

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:36:00 +0200

As BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) remains tight-lipped about the cause of yesterday's widespread BlackBerry Internet Services (BIS) outage, there is burgeoning frustration and speculation among users surrounding the popular smartphone.
In response to a series of questions this morning, RIM replied: “Yesterday, some BlackBerry subscribers in the EMEA region experienced delays with BlackBerry services. The issue was resolved and services are operating normally. We apologise to those customers who were impacted for any inconvenience.”
Despite repeated attempts by ITWeb to garner further facts and clarity on the issue, RIM refused to provide any further details about the problem.
Yesterday, BIS collapsed and was inoperative for much of the day, from about 11am local time. In a generic statement issued by RIM confirming the outage, the company apologised for any inconvenience caused and stated it was “working to resolve an issue currently impacting some BlackBerry subscribers in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)”.
Social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, were flooded with complaints about the BIS failure, as many were unable to browse the Web, use their instant messaging or access Internet services, such as e-mail.
One smartphone user tweeted: “Who wants a centralised service... where if it dies, so does your Internet?” A BlackBerry user stated: “[To my BlackBerry]... your days are numbered.” Another wrote: “Well BlackBerry, today you've not only let me down, you let most of Europe down, but most of all you've let yourself down. No BBM hug for you!”

Left in the dark

World Wide Worx MD Arthur Goldstuck says RIM's apathetic treatment of its customers is “nothing short of objectionable”. The company could learn a thing or two from Seacom, which similarly had an outage on its hands yesterday, he comments.
“While RIM kept millions of users across Africa, Europe and the Middle East in the dark about why their BlackBerry services were not working, Seacom immediately posted a statement on its Web site and informed media and analysts exactly what the problem was with their undersea cable.”

Goldstuck adds that the statement issued by RIM, five hours after “social networks were inundated with complaints, queries and even anguish”, may as well have come from outer space.
“More than five hours after the outage began there was no indication of what had happened, why it happened, how it happened, or when the crisis would be resolved. Their biggest customer crisis in the history of their service to Europe, Middle East and Africa is waved aside as a service issue.
“That such a major outage, affecting an estimated 10 million users, could be addressed so late, with so little information and with so little concern, is not only astonishing, it is an insult to the intelligence of customers.”
He concludes that, when current customers are faced with their next smartphone purchase decision, the events of 10 October and RIM's consequent response, or lack thereof, will “weigh heavily” on their decisions.

Black prospects

With the boom of the smartphone market and the introduction of more recent contenders for market share, the BlackBerry line, introduced in 1999, faces mounting competition and pressure. Reuters reports that the “troubled company” is “fighting to regain market share it is losing to competitors using Google's Android and Apple's iPhone”.
Media reports revealed the company's share price fell 0.56%, to $23.23, yesterday after the outage news, and was down 60% from the beginning of the year.
Goldstuck says the apparent lack of engagement with its customers on the part of RIM is telling of the company's attitude and repute, and does not bode well for its positioning in the market.
“That RIM could issue such statements in the week after Apple had redoubled their challenge to RIM's continued leadership of the corporate smartphone market, is a dereliction of duty by its senior management.”
He adds that the EMEA market is where RIM has experienced its strongest recent growth and has the greatest customer loyalty. “That RIM should be so unconcerned about the EMEA market... is a signal that its top management has lost sight of what makes a company great.”

SOURCE: http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48072:rim-hits-mute-button-on-outage&catid=190

SEACOM downtime may last for days

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:55:00 +0200

SEACOM is experiencing downtime again. The cable system went down on Saturday 8 October 2011, and initial feedback suggests that the downtime may last for a few days.
SEACOM said that their Mediterranean backhaul service provider is experiencing a service affecting outage between Abu Talat and Marseilles. This is affecting all SEACOM traffic to Europe.
“SEACOM is working at restoring our customers on alternative routes and will continue to monitor the situation closely,” the SEACOM website states.
MWEB informed their subscribers on Sunday 9 October MWEB said that they were still waiting for an expected time when the problem will be resolved.
“At present we are running at just over 60% of our full international requirement. Seacom is arranging additional capacity for us on alternative routes and we expect to be back up to full capacity by the end of today,” said MWEB ISP CEO Derek Hershaw.
Openweb also informed their subscribers that the SEACOM cable is down again. “Faithfully known as the phantom cable, the SA internet will be suffering dearly again this week due to its failure,” Openweb founder Keoma Wright told subscribers.

TENET Weekly Graph

TENET CTO Andrew Alston said that they have had confirmation that SEACOM is offline and is unlikely to come back online for a few days.
The SEACOM downtime seems to be related to a failure on the Telecom Egypt North (TE North) submarine telecommunications cable linking France and Egypt.
Early indications suggest that it may take around a week to repair the problem. SEACOM may however be down for 10 days or longer.
SEACOM could not immediately be reached for comment.

SOURCE: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/35656-seacom-downtime-may-last-for-days.html

Bell-tech: Qaranfone For your Call-shop!!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:10:00 +0200

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:07:00 +0200

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How Businesses Can “Go Undercover” Using Social Media

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:41:00 +0200

I was flipping through the channels early today and landed on a show I had never heard of before called Undercover Boss. The concept is simple – someone high up in management at a large corporation goes undercover, posing as a new worker in an entry-level position. At the end, their co-workers are surprised with the truth and hard-working employees are given awesome rewards. The company gets the added benefit of learning a little something about about how their business workers at the basic level.

The episode that was airing had Don Fertman from Subway posing as a “sandwich artist” (aka, the person behind the counter who makes your sub) at four different locations. It was comical to see others get frustrated with him as a new employee and heartwarming to see him surprise four deserving people with awesome prizes, like scholarships and vacations, after revealing who he really was.

As a small business owner, or even a mid- to large-sized business owner, you might not have the ability to go undercover and learn about your business from the trenches, but you can “go undercover” in a sense – with social media!

One of the things I simultaneously love and hate about the Internet is that people are brutally honest. Most will speak their mind without a second thought because there’s the protection of the computer screen, which makes things seem more anonymous even though your name and picture could be right beside your comment. Brazen commenters can be a bit annoying, but as a business owner, you can also learn from them. Here are a few steps I recommend you take to go undercover online and find out what people really think about your company:

Read the tips on FourSquare and other location-based services.

Oh, the problems that could be solved if only the management would read the tips people give about their companies online! The other day, I checked into a small family restaurant and the top tip was that people should “get there early for dinner because the wait is really long.” Obviously, the person who left that comment still thinks the restaurant is worth visiting, and even getting there early…but that doesn’t mean you should consider it a victory if you’re the restaurant owner. If the top thing people have to say about your restaurant is that the wait is long, think about ways you could solve that. Could you add more tables? Hire more staff to handle the dinner rush? Offer a happy hour at the bar that people can enjoy while waiting? Even if people aren’t complaining doesn’t mean that you can’t improve.

Follow your employees on Twitter.

Some people lock their Twitter accounts, but most keep them public so others can see what they’re saying. Find your employees on there and follow them – under an anonymous name. If your employees see you following them, it may make them think twice before saying anything about their job or co-workers, so keep it on the down low and just see what they are saying. Do they think their boss is an idiot? Hopefully that isn’t you! Invite them into your office to talk about what they would do differently if in change. Do they promote your company even on their off hours? Reward them with an extra Christmas bonus. Do they tweet while at work? FIRE THEM! Just kidding – actually, take this as a criticism of how your workday is structured. Tons of tweets even though all the work is getting done might mean that your employee is bored working at a job below his ability level, for example.

Use search functions to see what your customers are saying.

You should definitely be doing this if you aren’t already. Monitor the conversation about your company and answer as many people as possible whenever you’re mentioned. It’s easiest to do this on Twitter, in my opinion, but you should also be responsive on Facebook and other sites that make sense for your niche. You can’t solve every problem, but you can show that you’re listening. And – this is important – actually listen. If a customer complains that the t-shirt your company sent was too small, the answer isn’t just to send him or her a refund. The answer is to send the refund and take a look at the sizing information on your website to see if it is accurate or post more information about your clothing running a little small in size. The point is not only to fix problems, but to avoid the same problems in the future.

Source: http://www.blogworld.com/2011/09/06/how-businesses-can-go-undercover-using-social-media/

How can I make my blog load faster

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:35:00 +0200

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How to Submit your Blog or Website Sitemap to Google

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:50:00 +0200

1. First open one of your browsers

2. Type Google.com

3. Then on Google type Webmaster Tools

4. Log onto your Google Account. This will take you to the home page

5. Click on the Blog you want to create Sitemap For

6. Under the Dashboard, look for Site configuration

7. The Click Sitemap

8. Then Click Summit Sitemap

9. Type “Atom.xml or RSS.xml

10. Now you have submitted your sitemap and wait for Google to crawl it

HP TouchPad screen can now support Android

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:41:00 +0200

The HP TouchPad is now capable of running Android with full use of the touch screen, thanks to the technical team at TouchDroid.

Hard at work porting Android over to HP's discontinued but much-in-demand tablet, the TouchDroid techs were able to create the necessary drivers to coax Android 2.3.5 to run on the TouchPad and let people tap into the touch screen.

Unveiling a video (also seen below) showing off the team's progress, a TouchDroid developer demonstrated how he could fluidly and smoothly tap and move his finger around a TouchPad running Android with no delays or skips. He even demoed Android's multitouch feature, moving five fingers and then ten fingers across the screen.

Though TouchDroid is currently using Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread on its demo tablet, its ultimate goal is to support the current flavor of Honeycomb or even the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich on a TouchPad. The team seems to be making quick progress as a little more than two weeks ago, its developers were still trying to drum up a TouchPad that they could use for testing.

The latest development also follows a conflict among some of TouchDroid's members over soliciting money to buy TouchPads, an issue that actually split the group into two teams now working separately.

In addition to TouchDroid, another group called CyanogenMod is striving to port Android to the HP tablet. As of late August, the CyanogenMod team had succeeded in running Android on the TouchPad but had yet to build support for the touch-screen drivers.

HP's TouchPad has been a hot commodity since the company announced a few weeks ago that it was pulling the plug on the tablet. To sell off existing inventory, HP lowered the price to $99 for the 16GB version and $149 for the 32GB model, from $499 and $599, respectively. That fire sale ignited a flurry of buyers, causing HP and other retailers to quickly run out of available stock.

Source: cnet.com

No timeline for DSL speed upgrades

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:31:00 +0200

Telkom is continuing to invest in building fibre infrastructure closer to its customers as well as in new broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, but it hasn’t yet decided what sort of line upgrades it will offer to end users.
The company recently began upgrading users of its 4Mbit/s DSL lines to 10Mbit/s in areas that can support it, but Bashier Sallie, MD for wholesale and networks, downplays recent speculation about imminent plans to upgrade some customers to 20Mbit/s.
“None of that is firmed up,” he tells TechCentral in an exclusive interview. “We are looking at what the market has an appetite for.”
In recent years, Telkom has been pouring money into shortening the lengths of the copper in its access network by extending fibre along streets and installing digital broadband equipment — known as DSL access multiplexers — in the distribution cabinets in suburban streets.
The speeds consumers can get from DSL services are directly related to the quality of the copper in the ground and the length of the copper lines to Telkom’s multiplexers.
By shortening that distance of customers to fibre, the company is able to offer higher speeds to its customers. This is important to ensure fixed-line broadband remains competitive as the access speeds on cellular networks continue to increase.
“Our average [copper] loop length is 1,8km and the idea is to reduce that to enable higher broadband access speeds,” Sallie says. The company is introducing a technology called ADSL2+ into its network to support this.
Telkom is replacing legacy equipment in its network — exchanging first-generation access multiplexers and replacing its legacy backhaul network, which uses old Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology, with faster Metro Ethernet.
“We will offer higher broadband access speeds, but what those finally are will be a function of consumer appetite,” says Sallie. He says current upgrades to the network will take around three years and customers should not expect line speed upgrades immediately. – Duncan McLeod, TechCentral

Source:
TechCentral

Sony unveils ‘world’s first’ 3D ‘visor’

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 1 Sep 2011 13:36:00 +0200

TOKYO, Wednesday

Sony on Wednesday unveiled what it calls the world’s first three-dimensional head mounted display, a device that enables its wearer to experience cinema-like virtual screen viewing.

The “Personal 3D Viewer (HMZ-T1)”, is a visor-like gadget weighing only 420 grammes (14.7 ounces) that wraps around the head and enables its wearer to view high definition 3D images using two panels mounted in front of each eye.

The device is tethered to a processor unit and boasts surround-sound via earphones, giving the viewer “a very realistic feeling of actually being there,” Sony said in a statement.

It said the display offered the experience of watching on a 750-inch virtual big screen 20 metres (65 feet) away.

Sony said children aged 15 and younger should refrain from using the display, while warning it could trigger travel sickness when used in unstable environment such as a vehicle.

The electronics giant, maker of Bravia flat screen televisions and PlayStation game consoles, has tried to incorporate 3D functions to a wide range of its products.

Sony plans to release the device in Japan on November 11, with initial pricing expected to be around 60,000 yen ($783).

Source: Daily Nation

Happ id Murak

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:50:00 +0200

Bell-tech and Qaranphone wishes all ours esteemed customers a Happy Eid Mubarak, May Allah give all that fasted their rewards hereafter and give them bright future. Once again we thank you for working with us and we will keep improving our services

Apology to August Customers

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:37:00 +0200

We appologise for the interruption of QaranPhone Services due to some errors made by us and not for seeing the demand of the day that hit higher heights than our previous limits sets, hence disrupting the services temporarily. We recognized the effect to your business and will try to cushion that from you next time.

Please report any problem to 078-608-8212

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Winter Specials Calls Rats for Asian Countries

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 6 May 2011 11:17:00 +0200

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 1 May 2011 20:25:00 +0200

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