Interacting with Lil and Laarg shows exactly what the capabilities of the Vita’s alternate control methods are, but unfortunately throws their limitations into sharp contrast as well.

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We’ve come up with 10 email marketing tips with which you can get the most value of every dollar you spend with online marketing. Email marketing provides you the opportunity to connect and build trust with your prospects and customers. It is a low-cost and cost-efficient method to advertise your business to prospective and existing customers.

Every well-created and designed email plays a major role in generating profit; thereby maximizing your return of investment. Therefore, you should definitely take these email marketing tips into consideration:

1. Decide on what you want to convey to your prospective and existing customers. All of your emails should have a unifying message that lets them know exactly what action you want them to take regarding your products and services.

2. In discussing the products and services you offer in your email message, it is much better to talk about the benefits instead of the features. Features merely talk about the product; while benefits tackle the exact advantage that your customers can get from availing your products.

3. Be customer-focused. Don’t use pronouns such as “I,” “me,” and “us.” Instead, use “you” because it makes the reader the main subject of the email.

4. Include a call-to-action message in your email such as Order Today, Sign Up Now, or Contact Us Today. Make it clear and convincing.

5. Make use of scarcity messages such as “limited edition,” “first 50 orders” or “available only today” to prompt them to take action immediately.

6. In creating the email content, make it short and simple, yet very convincing. Adhere to rules of organization and coherence while writing the introduction, the body and the conclusion. The offer should be visible both in the introduction and conclusion; and make the entire message immediately visible in the email; so the customer won’t have to scroll down to see the rest of the email.

7. The subject description of the email should be interesting enough to be opened by the reader. Stop using ordinary and common subject lines. Stand out by using attention-grabbing lines because they can make or break your business email. Make use of subjects such as: Disconnection Notice, Do a Spam Check and the like… You get the idea!

8. Check and review your emails before sending them! Make sure that all the information is correct and the links in the email are functional. Have them rechecked by 2 other people to improve accuracy and objectivity.

9. It is best to send emails between 11 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon; from Monday to Thursday, to ensure optimal response from customers; especially those working in the office. Always be prepared to answer inquiries and process orders quickly. If you can’t for some reason, make sure to at least acknowledge or confirm the order.

10. Evaluate the results after sending the emails. Measure the extent of response or the sales generated. Identify best practices as well as areas for improvement, so that you’ll know how to make the most of your next email marketing campaign.

With these tips, you should be able to generate more email marketing benefits than you can imagine. You can utilize email software such as Afmailer.co.za to assist you in the process. Afmailer.co.za provides you with the things you need to formulate, send and monitor your emails.

It’s time to go and try email marketing. Being the most effective online marketing strategy, it’s definitely worth the investment. You have absolutely nothing to lose and so many email marketing benefits to gain.

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We laid our hands on Fujitsu’s quad-core prototype at the start of the year, it now looks like the phone’s now ready to show itself outside the confines of a perspex box. Wielding a Tegra 3 chipset, there’s still no official name for the incoming handset, but we’re promised admirable battery life and those increasingly typical (for Japan, at least) water resistant credentials. We’ve also been told that this will be close to — if not the — final model of the handset, so we should get to test out that fingerprint sensor in person. Sure, it’s not the only quad-core device we’re expecting to see at MWC, but we’ll welcome it with open arms — if it does make the journey outside of Japan.

Fujitsu readies its ‘final model’ quad-core smartphone for reveal next week originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The LG Spectrum is a slightly larger device with a 4.5-inch display, while the HTC Rezound brings a 4.3-inch touchscreen to the smartphone party. In terms of storage, the LG Spectrum ships with 4GB of internal memory and a 16GB microSD card pre-installed, while the HTC Rezound ups the ante with 16GB of internal memory and a 16GB microSD card. Otherwise, these are fairly similar devices. Both sport 8MP rear-facing cameras along with 2MP (HTC Rezound) and 1.3MP (LG Spectrum) front-facing cameras.

It's also worth mentioning that, for a limited time, Verizon is doubling its data caps. Instead of 2GB of data for $ 30/month, 5GB for $ 50/month, and 10GB for $ 80/month, you now get 4GB, 10GB, and 20GB, respectively.

Protip: To save even more, Wirefly and Amazon both have the LG Spectrum and HTC Rezound listed for $ 80 each.

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“Oh, God. You’re killing me,” Remedy Entertainment’s Oskari Hakkinen groaned when I pressed him for details on PC plans for Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. “I’ve got nothing to announce at this point,” he moans softly into his headset. After a moment of silence I burst into laughter and he quickly joins me.

As Head of Franchise Development, Oskari — or Ozz, as he asks people to call him — he’d certainly know Remedy’s plan for Alan Wake’s XBLA title coming to PC. But American Nightmare wasn’t the basis for my call to the Finnish developer. It was Alan Wake’s original tale I wanted to discuss, a game many skimmed past due to what many in the industry infuringly refer to as an “embarassment of riches.”

On the same day Alan Wake‘s long development process met its ultimate ship goal, it was greeted by a host of quality competition. The adrenaline-fueled Split/Second landed on shelves. The Prince of Persia returned to his roots in The Forgotten Sands.

Red Dead Redemption happened.

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