tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28473313052013802162026-10-15T11:32:26.426-07:00The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-67255439248997537682011-01-22T18:16:00.000-08:002011-01-22T18:16:00.214-08:00<P>VIDEO of UNICEF, on thenewsmarket.com available: UNICEF: fighting child marriage in Niger</P><br /><P>PR Newswire - December 28, 2010</P><br /><P>NEW YORK, 28 January 2010/PRNewswire / – see video of UNICEF in: <A href="http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=3260c8b7-4d10-4710-bc91-1228ccb08b7d">http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=3260c8b7-4d10-4710-bc91-1228ccb08b7d</A></P><br /><P>Sahira is only fifteen, but your life will change forever. She just found it is forced to marry a man never made. And has no say in the matter. Sahira's future is being decided by her father and the community. Available content: narrated package and still image</P><br /><P>About thenewsmarket.com</P><br /><P>thenewsmarket.com provides free broadcast and streaming quality video and multimedia content directly to media around the world, 24 / 7. More than 25,000 media in 190 + countries use thenewsmarket.com including AP, BBC, CNBC, CNN, France 24, N24, nytimes.com, RAI, TVE, ZDF and much more.</P><br /><P>Registered journalists can view Preview and download video, audio, text, graphics and photos at <A href="http://www.thenewsmarket.com./">http://www.thenewsmarket.com.</A></P><br /><P>We look forward to your feedback, suggestions or requests get. Us an e-Mail at <A href="mailto:journalisthelp@thenewsmarket.com">journalisthelp@thenewsmarket.com</A></P><br /><P>Story ID: 21119</P><br /><P>SOURCE thenewsmarket.com</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indianweb2/~3/MnVDtvja91I/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-81837573152174791262011-01-22T11:35:00.000-08:002011-01-22T11:35:01.065-08:00<P><A href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/CartyStudios%20Corporation/WebMagnates%20-%20Auto%20Blogging%20Software/data/Web%202.0/profy/iphone-4-grass.jpg"></A>Apple is a strange company when it comes to Russia: while it a whole bunch of loyal fans here including <A href="http://profy.com/2010/05/18/apple-do-you-have-a-bigger-fan/">our own President has</A>, the biggest fan seems to be the company often acts, as ever care to the market and its potential. The company holds delayed launches of its ultra popular products and negotiates prices with local retailers, the Apple gadgets far from affordable for most of the population of the country.</P><br /><P>In this situation, it's really no wonder, that most people looking for a specific device from Apple, a way to get outside the official market which is not available. This <A href="http://profy.com/2009/08/05/iphone-3gs-sales-will-fail-in-russia/">trend completely spoiled sales</A> of the iPhone 3 g and 3GS back then people arrived on aircraft from the United States with their cases full of Apple gadgets and everyone who actually wanted to an iPhone have actually had one through time, began the official sale. I guess this can happen eventually to iPad where finally officially here (overpriced as usual) as Russian planes and airports are full of people, with you and no one even knows if the devices will be available here actually officially!</P><br /><P>But the latest iPhone model seems to be an exception here as it is definitely turn into a real scarcity and although to the high price is willing to pay, you will have little chance to do so or geraumer must time finding a place to get to spend the money. Mobile carriers to sell the smart phones in Russia agreed with Apple, have from reported a huge increase in sales and the devastating fact that the first batch the gadgets imports has sold after Russia within the first weekend of sales. But to be fair, we should mention here, that sources close claim to negotiations with Apple that this initial batch only is 14-20 thousand devices, let it no surprise that it so soon to an end.</P><br /><P>The interesting part is that the overall situation with the launch sales can be described by iPhone 4 in Russia definitely as a mess: while everyone was accepted to the 22. September to start decided to begin a retailer, two days before selling gadgets that (with Apple on a specific date agrees) - and other retailers followed obviously not to lose the most passionate first customers.</P><br /><P>The dealer who was responsible for the false start of sales only offered the gadgets in a shop in Moscow and a line of a few hundred people was quickly collected your hands on the shiny new devices to wait on the midnight and an opportunity. It's no wonder that quickly activated the line in a lot of squeezing opened the doors of the store - buy the first 50 people to iPhone 4 especially 50% discount in Exchange could get for your iPhone 3GS. And the discount is a nice, especially the 8 GB version price of about $1070 and 16 GB price is over $1,200.</P><br /><P>Generally cause iPhone not so much interested in Russia because it looked too much like a remake of the previous model and came up with a large delay of more than half a year after it was introduced in the United States so that not even a novelty considered it the most tech-savvy users when it was finally available. And iPhone 4 is a very different company so people are eagerly return to the "good" Soviet tradition of waiting in lines!</P><br /><P>Probably in Moscow it is more or less realistic, find it and buy it - least immediately after each new batch arrives and provided that you have arranged some retailers with for a pre-order. In fact, he was all mobile operators and retailers Russia devices you want to sell and not everywhere I, a reference to a specific store have found where the devices are available - everywhere I just invited to online bookings while writing I have checked the websites of the post. I don't know, it could be possible, that you expect that easy to go buyer from a store to a different hunting for your iPhone but this is definitely too much to do for an iPhone.</P><br /><P>In fact, even try to pre order it from one of the retailers did not work for me – no matter, how hard I tried, my contact details be notified when the device is available to leave I was immediately forwarded to your website without any chance of actually understanding, when the precious gadget is available. And I am afraid really Apple buyers again - but this time will lose could because people of waiting for get tired and find an alternative way, eBay will send the device or where no one will expect other online auctions that a buyer to be dammed for hours in a crowded place.</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/p_ODfQ_OyfE/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-53620855064038709952011-01-22T05:13:00.000-08:002011-01-22T05:13:00.790-08:00<P>TDS and US Cellular presented at Citi's 21st annual entertainment, media and Telecommunications Conference</P><br /><P>PR Newswire - December 28, 2010</P><br /><P>CHICAGO, 28 January 2010/PRNewswire / telephone and data systems, Inc. (NYSE: TDS;) (TDS.S) and United States Cellular Corporation (NYSE: USM) presented together on Citi's 21st annual entertainment, media and Telecommunications Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on Jan. 4, 2011, at 3: 45 P.m. Mountain time.</P><br /><P>Mary N. Dillon, U.S. cellular President and Chief Executive Officer and Kenneth R. Meyers, TDS executive Vice President and chief financial officer, presented. Jane W. McCahon, Vice President, corporate relations of TDS will also participate.</P><br /><P>The presentation will be both live and on-demand webcast. To the webcast on the net listen, visit the presentation page of <A href="http://www.teldta.com/">www.teldta.com</A> at least 15 minutes before the scheduled presentation to register, download and install any necessary multimedia streaming software.</P><br /><P>About TDS</P><br /><P>Telephone and data systems, Inc. (TDS), a Fortune 500? company offers wireless, local and long-distance telephone and broadband services to about 7.2 million customers in 36 States through its business units, U.S. cellular (wireless) and TDS Telecom (wireline). Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Chicago, workers TDS 12,300 employees September 30, 2010.</P><br /><P>Visit <A href="http://www.teldta.com/">www.teldta.com</A> for comprehensive financial information including earnings releases, quarterly and annual filings, information for shareholders and more.</P><br /><P>About US Cellular?</P><br /><P>U.S. cellular Corp., the nation sixth-largest wireless carrier, offers comprehensive wireless products and services, excellent customer support and a high quality network of about 6.1 million customers in 26 States. The Chicago-based company employs approximately 8800 full-time equivalent partners as of September 30, 2010. At the end of the quarter in the telephone and data systems, Inc. 83% U.S. cellular ownership.</P><br /><P>SOURCE telephone and data systems, Inc.; United States Cellular Corporation</P><br /><P>Company code: NYSE: TDS, NYSE: USM, TDSS, NYSE: TDS.S</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indianweb2/~3/DfKSxhl0nME/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-31271110371349045132011-01-21T22:55:00.000-08:002011-01-21T22:55:00.417-08:00<P>Brainware presented at 13th Annual Needham Growth Conference</P><br /><P>PR Newswire - December 28, 2010</P><br /><P>ASHBURN, VA., 28 January 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall / - Brainware, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent data capture and search company solutions, today announced that executives of the company on the 13th Annual Needham Growth Conference held in New York Palace Hotel in New York City from January 11-13 are present. Brainware's presentation is expected to start at 8: 40 pm EST on Thursday, January 13.</P><br /><P>While perhaps you are planning meetings of event for one-on-one meetings available and interested parties through their Needham representative Brainware management.</P><br /><P>On the 13th Annual Needham Growth Conference</P><br /><P>Needham & company, LLC's 13th annual growth Conference is a forum for institutional investors and venture capitalists, the latest updates from senior management teams of both public and private companies in the areas of clean technology, communications, consumer, enterprise infrastructure, to hear industrial and diversified growth, Internet - digital media, medical devices, semiconductors and semiconductor equipment and software & services. Needham Growth Conference ("NGC") has as the largest and best-known growth Conference in the industry. With over 1,500 institutional investors and venture capital professionals who probably it has become one of the most visited conferences on Wall Street. Over the course of three days, participants in moderated presentations including the Q & A with companies as well as thematic panels can participate with industry experts. The Conference hosts typically more than 325 growth companies and design meetings between investors and companies. About twenty percent of NGC's moderators are later private companies today to present our commitment for tomorrow's leaders and Government. Meetings will be available. Please contact your Needham seller for registration details because space is limited.</P><br /><P>About Brainware, Inc.</P><br /><P>Brainware, Inc. is an innovative provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions to eliminate costly manual data entry 2000, quickly enabling global process large amounts of documents and retrieve data from across the enterprise. Its solutions were built from the ground up to manage unstructured data without templates, exact definition, taxonomies, or indexing. With headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, Brainware has worldwide sales and operations to support its North America, UK and European offices. Brainware customers include Airbus, Alcon, Alltel (now Verizon Wireless), Amgen, Anadarko, BB & T, British American tobacco, Continental Airlines, CORT, Gardner Denver, Halliburton, her Majesty's prison service, Johns Manville, Kimberly-Clark, KPMG, NHS Steria, Newell Rubbermaid, Philip Morris International Service Center Europe, Reynolds and Reynolds, Rockwell Automation, shell, Southern Company, Sun chemical, the Bank of New York Mellon/SourceNet, TriZetto and many others. For more information please visit <A href="http://www.brainware.com./">www.brainware.com.</A></P><br /><P>Contact: Robert Zoch public relations specialist Brainware, Inc. 703-948-5831 <A href="mailto:Robert.Zoch@brainware.com">Robert.Zoch@brainware.com</A></P><br /><P>SOURCE Brainware, Inc.</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indianweb2/~3/wpcxwuxq7qU/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-63372622796392971872011-01-21T15:57:00.000-08:002011-01-21T15:57:00.312-08:00<P><A href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/CartyStudios%20Corporation/WebMagnates%20-%20Auto%20Blogging%20Software/data/Web%202.0/profy/cloudcontacts-logo.png"></A>When it comes to sales, I know one thing for sure: I am an absolute zero in sales. Fortunately, my work is not related to sales – I'm sure I would have starved if I had to sell something to help. I tried to sell a piece of software in the midst of the recent recession as a form to the diversification of income sources - and failed miserably so instead of diversification I just a lot of wasted hours have.</P><br /><P>And because people tend to admire the qualities you have not, I definitely admire to convince sales people and their mysterious talents other to buy something you sometimes don't even need.</P><br /><P>Because I admire you, I definitely think you deserve the best software, Web and mobile applications to increase your productivity. Now <A href="http://www.cloudcontacts.com/">CloudContacts</A> innovative business card scanning service that we simplify first <A href="http://profy.com/2008/10/19/cloudcontacts-will-help-you-use-your-business-contacts-efficiently/">reviewed here</A> one more step makes other things for seller by launching their integration with Salesforce.</P><br /><P>As CloudContacts users know this is the easiest way that get business cards online and use newly acquired contact information to people on the major social networks like LinkedIn or Twitter or in desktop software such as Outlook to quickly create innovative service. Now CloudContacts goes a step further and integrated service with Salesforce CRM.</P><br /><P>The integration works by quickly among the scanned business card already immediately in the user account in Salesforce - save valuable time for sales representatives. Of course, CloudContacts will not help in the whole process leading conversion but simplification is extremely helpful step because need you upload the contacts manually at all. The whole process takes way a few seconds, so networking at industry events and conferences is now more efficient!</P><br /><P>This new feature will start shortly before the <A href="http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF10/register/">Salesforce gives</A> Conference next week and is free for all users of CloudContacts. In other news CloudContacts is not only add new useful functions but also rapidly grow, how the number of cards processed you compared to the previous year more than doubled and report with customers from almost all over the world! If you manually scan your cards still, take a closer look at CloudContacts, this may be the right tool.</P><br /><P>Full disclosure: Allen, the owner of the CloudContacts is a friend.</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/TaHy30P5FJU/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-57472439781214946312011-01-21T09:22:00.000-08:002011-01-21T09:22:00.444-08:00 <body readability="0"><p>Site speed and comfortable shopping tools provide sears.com and kmart.com shopping destinations of choice this holiday season</p><p>Millions of products and new shopping features give customers, affordable product selections and easy shopping</p><p>PR Newswire - December 28, 2010</p><p>HOFFMAN ESTATES, ill., 28 January 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall / - Sears Holdings today announced that millions of customers sears.com and kmart.com make holiday shopping simple, fast and cost-effective chose this year. Customers preferred sears.com and kmart.com for the depth of product selection, great prices, and their many online features that make shopping easier to order.</p><p>"We appreciate that our customers are, this holiday season a success for sears.com, kmart.com and our family of Web sites made", said Imran Jooma, President of e-commerce at Sears Holdings. "We offer any online shopping function, buy from online, in - store and pick up mobile shopping to personal shopper, is available as we make easy and convenient for your busy life - especially during the holiday dedicated to customers online shopping experience."</p><p>Customers also used the hot deals sears.com and kmart.com offered selection of more than 16 million products of toys and clothing to tools, electronics and appliances. While making for incredible holiday gifts shop used shopper sears.com and kmart.com online shopping tools and practical services in greater numbers than ever before. Here are just some of the many ways customers speed and convenience when shopping on sears.com and kmart.com enjoyed:</p></body><br /><p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indianweb2/~3/Yoz41VP0wdQ/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-1039813568580598592011-01-21T02:30:00.000-08:002011-01-21T02:30:01.005-08:00<P><A href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/CartyStudios%20Corporation/WebMagnates%20-%20Auto%20Blogging%20Software/data/Web%202.0/profy/russia-world-cup-doodle.png"></A>Google is known for his passion to various doodles to celebrate tons of global and local events - quite often the company changes its logo on the pages of all local domains or only specific ones depending on the event of the day. As some of you know Russia decided yesterday over a significant reason to celebrate as FIFA, to keep the World Cup in 2018 in Russia - for the first time in Eastern Europe.</P><br /><P>Russian football fans and pretty much everyone else are of course very pleased with the opportunity and celebrate. The celebration to support, Google offered a new Doodle for the <A href="http://www.google.ru/">Russian domain</A> with the Russian flag and soccer balls.</P><br /><P>This special attention to our seemingly local celebration of the international Internet giant is certainly nice if not for a fact: someone in the Office Google made a mistake in the colours of the flag so it was white-blue red white red blue instead of the right.</P><br /><P>Russian users online discussing which were news, despite the late hour of the night (it was after 1: 00 in Moscow) quickly noticed the error, and someone must have it reported to Google. This led to the Doodle total closer until 2 am and then restore it with the correct flag show.</P><br /><P>Google's Russian Office was contacted for clarification and offered: you say someone made a mistake and used the wrong colors. Obviously, they offered an apology for the country and Internet users that are now apparently offended with the error.</P><br /><P>Not to complicate things further, here I only uploaded the correct version of the Doodle with the Russian flag (I know, it is to remember the simplest), but for those of you who demonstrate some evidence that the whole situation existed, here is the <A href="http://www.rian.ru/tech_internet/20101203/303963417.html">link to Russian</A> it happened, no matter how crazy it may sound.</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/tmnP6ITaqL4/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-28849663664768361382011-01-20T20:16:00.000-08:002011-01-20T20:16:00.444-08:00<P>Make a new year's resolution to learn a new language to mango Passport? mango languages</P><br /><P>PR Newswire - December 28, 2010</P><br /><P>FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan, 28 January 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall /-.</P><br /><P>WHO: Mango languages, a Farmington Hills-based provider of language learning programs.</P><br /><P>(Photo: <A href="http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101228/DE22469">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101228/DE22469</A>)</P><br /><P>What: Mango Passport?, Mango's latest language learning product for people who want to successfully learn and communicate in a new language. It helps the users to gain an understanding of culture of a country.</P><br /><P>Mango Passport? different from other language learning programs because it teaches users conversation skills, situations, not random words and phrases can be used together. Courses give the language that you user, need to successfully navigate a foreign country to find authentic cultural experiences and to engage without offending natives in polite conversation.</P><br /><P>After the purchase, mango Passport? is directly downloaded from Mango's site and from home or office computer or laptop of user accessed (Mango's programs were available only through libraries, schools and government organizations). Mango Passport on the go!, a MP3-audio version (with a PDF companion guide), which on iPhones, iPods and other MP3 devices can be used is also available.</P><br /><P>STATS: Aside from weight loss, improvement of the spirit Americans tops list of self-improvement new year's resolutions this year according to a survey by ISI translation services in November 2010. The nationwide survey asked 1000, from a list of five "self improvement" to choose new year's resolutions Americans make this year. 7.5% chose learning a foreign language. The survey also showed that the younger age groups learning chose at higher rates than their older counterparts. All beat the average - 8 percent, 9 per cent and 11 per cent (or) as personal improvement target age group 18-24, 25-34 and 35-44 select.</P><br /><P>Contact: a complete list of languages and more mango Passport? details on mango's-website at <A href="http://www.mangolanguages.com./">www.mangolanguages.com.</A></P><br /><P>SOURCE mango languages</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indianweb2/~3/JH2lvSNcz6Y/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-36504976377029991412011-01-20T13:53:00.000-08:002011-01-20T13:53:00.302-08:00<P><A href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/CartyStudios%20Corporation/WebMagnates%20-%20Auto%20Blogging%20Software/data/Web%202.0/profy/smscoin-logo.png"></A>Today I'm introducing <A href="http://smscoin.net/">SmsCoin</A>, a new monetization tool for all types of online publishers and our sponsor for the month. SmsCoin is a company that add a wide range of SMS-based tools to the an extra monetization data source (or at least an additional payment tool) offers to any online business which allows payments from more than 87 countries.</P><br /><P>Premium SMS services that the company offered currently support for companies from more than 40 thousand Web sites, including some of the largest social networking gaming and dating websites in Russia (so if you hear Russian DST is buy, participate in something like Twitter in your beautiful investment in Facebook remember, this is how you make a good portion of their money online here). The list of customers is really global as SmsCoin numerous online and real-life companies in Europe and the USA as well as building on your success in Russia, serves where originally started.</P><br /><P>The process is actually dead simple for those of you who don't know how such mobile payments work. A site owner is a payment gateway by using a script, sell or grant access to a particular content or service on the website provided. Visitors are with a link to view the prices and encouraged to send an SMS to a short number following specific instructions. If you choose to pay, send the text message and your account with mobile carrier pays a certain amount. A small part of the amount SmsCoin processing fee will be withheld as a carrier gets its share during the Publisher Gets the rest of the crowd.</P><br /><P><A href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/CartyStudios%20Corporation/WebMagnates%20-%20Auto%20Blogging%20Software/data/Web%202.0/profy/smscoin-process.png"></A></P><br /><P>The advantages are obvious: payments are instant and don't have anything other than a cell phone from a consumer - to everyone without even a PayPal account or credit card to pay. But it is of course obvious disadvantage: the simplicity of the service makes it a welcoming destination for all kinds of fraud that to make it as a quick option some bucks and run away show could never get back be found.</P><br /><P>But as with any other payment provider, shopper on the payment provider for security leave numbers - you should instead should attention to who you money and why - pay and the only way to security here is common sense. Another disadvantage of SMS payments usually the high commissions are calculated by mobile network operators (vary from 30% and by country) so you should carefully study the list of countries and of the amounts get your visitors how much prices in payouts to know world pay.</P><br /><P>The tool is definitely universal enough for almost all publishers to add it as an additional payment tool. If you want certain parts of your website contents to your block paying guests or look for donations for what increase in mind, the company has a ready-made solution for you. And these are actually the easiest tools you have: you can download user content in exchange for an SMS message, adding funds to accounts in online shops or games or even numbers for premium show to get a good ranking on your site.</P><br /><P>For each Publisher, it is important that each new service that you add to your Web pages is reliable and easy to integrate. And when it comes to money, it is even more important. This is why SmsCoin offers more than 150 ready-made scripts for the vast majority of the popular content management systems, including even WordPress (so if you decide to sell your eBook directly to your blog without any additional intermediaries, you will be able who know without a huge deal of coding to implement).</P><br /><P>Here in Russia mobile payments market is huge and SMS messages actually serve as the main payment gateway for many sites. It is definitely useful in a country where not everyone has a credit card (or you know how it other than use, withdraw money from ATM or not trusted banks enough, withdraw everything as soon as the funds) and competitors are local PayPal ponderous creatures, who take age will add resources and a huge fee, if you ever tried withdraw it. So it's no wonder that here can buy practically anything online with a text message.</P><br /><P>It is of course in the United States and in Europe the situation with micropayments in more friendly common way, users and publishers. But still given that there is no registration or setup fees, why not give it a try - who know your audience could appreciate the extra payment option. And because SmsCoin currently worldwide works with mobile operators in 87 countries, for some users it might just be the most attractive option, and you appreciate your efforts.</P><br /><P>In addition, there are some areas where such services have to offer something unique. In fact, where I see a huge potential for popular blogs with SmsCoin SMS is in: chat solution. A blogger just is a sidebar widget received the texts (and display links!) about SMS messages from the visitors for a fee - and adds an additional source of income for the blog linked not all efforts of a sales team is. Can you imagine how many want to be featured startups on all sides of the TechCrunch for a few minutes and a small fee?</P><br /><P>Full disclosure: SmsCoin is, as already mentioned, currently Profy sponsor.</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/QMhLCvBjNPw/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-27377706803479133952011-01-20T07:50:00.000-08:002011-01-20T07:50:00.137-08:00<P><A href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/CartyStudios%20Corporation/WebMagnates%20-%20Auto%20Blogging%20Software/data/Web%202.0/profy/torrentreactor.jpg"></A>I know that sounds ridiculous and even incredibly but the story has received attention in the Russian news sources and blogs - actually the story as it is really true. I've tested, the news is not no matter now discuss how fitting it for the day could be dated April 1st, but is the entire Russian blogosphere Russia supposedly has now a village named after a site - a site that often criticized in the box and discussed in courts of torrent tracking and p2p sharing works. The only problem is, the story was actually has to be a fake, designed probably specifically for PR purposes, but the idea definitely value that mention is.</P><br /><P>TorrentReactor.net, has a claimed the top 10 torrent indexers in the world that is hosted in Russia to about 150 thousand $ have paid, the right to a Russian village named gar is located in the region of Tomsk in Siberia rename to get. The idea was discussed with the population of the village (a total of 214 persons), and people are told to the idea of replacing your short and slightly strong name with a longer after the purchase site support. I believe that with each their small part of the donation such support immensely, especially given the poverty of the people in such small villages reach idea could have helped.</P><br /><P>The irony of that selected village is that it is near the nuclear reactor Seversk is interesting similarities in the name of the site and brings. In fact, the award-winning village is noticed instructed randomly after you have carefully selected a number of small villages close to various nuclear reactors around the world - and the number 377 happened be happy for the gar village. And because gar from the Russian can be translated as "burned", I think people should not completely unhappy to get rid of your pretty unpleasant name and something fresh and very contemporary. The only downside here is that until recently that had village only 3 PCs with only one of you with dial-up Internet access, so had no chance to know such website existed - let alone use it.</P><br /><P>The agreement was said be permanent so that the village allegedly to its unusual name to keep. And while it is quite obvious that the objectives here are especially PR-related site owners claim that actually support a slowly dying village (which are numerous in Russia) and pioneer one completely new movement with various Internet companies, the support of the other real life settlements with their inhabitants such donations wanted to bring significant PR</P><br /><P>The carefully crafted story was quickly tremendous attention among Russian Internet users and visitors actually TorrentReactor.net and many people believed the story true, (in fact, it has even by one of the most prestigious Internet news resources without any subsequent update as of this writing been reported and because this was where I first saw me the story, it was hard not to believe it was true) to be. But some of the local reporter decided to go as far as contact confirm the village authorities the story - in Tomsk and quickly found out that the story with reality had nothing to do. But in fact a representative of such authorities mentioned that while you have received no offers from someone, like it would have considered you if came as the State of the roads in the village is so poor, could really need such an investment.</P><br /><P>But even if this story never turned to be real comments demonstrated that the number of people who were ready to buy a House and move around the village was very significant, would like Internet users hoped that torrents somehow be legally miraculously in the village. Now I would definitely recommend renaming a small (or perhaps not so small) town somewhere it should in Europe in the Pirate Bay - definitely exist, and it could quickly turn into a crowded destination with the right promotion and a monument to a torrent (no idea how it should look like, but I think, an online competition could result in a good number of interesting projects) directly on the main square of the city as a place of pilgrimage for all active torrent users of the world. And a small note for Google from the Russian user: should definitely invest in buying Russian post and rename it to Gmail – was this a huge PR campaign and we would finally received a prospect actually receive our e-Mail messages.</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/PmJKnygOKzg/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-23466123656541972612011-01-20T01:05:00.000-08:002011-01-20T01:06:29.505-08:00<P>To snowy to travel work today? Regus offers more than 125 business lounges along the East Coast freely use geschneit-In workers</P><br /><P>PR Newswire - December 28, 2010</P><br /><P>NEW YORK, 28 January 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall / - the Blizzard sweep along the East Coast has left many today to reach the offices. A snow day can be a thrill for elementary schoolers and adults, but many employees despite still works not in the position, their offices need to travel. Working from home is an option for many, but with the children the to the until date, it may not all be the most productive working environment. Be essential for those who can be stranded with a professional workspace in another city.</P><br /><P>Regus, global leader in flexible workplace solutions has more than 125 locations in regions affected by the Blizzard. Each Regus Centre offers a business lounge with high-speed Internet access, use of administrative support and refreshments.</P><br /><P>What: Regus loads employees relating to free of charge to their offices using a Regus business lounge at the location closest to you by end of the day on Thursday, December 30th trips are. Simply present your card and enjoy uninterrupted productivity of a full day. This offer is open only to Regus centres during the snowstorm. The most up-to-date listings of the centres that open call in your area please 1-800-OFFICES.</P><br /><P>Who: Regus is the world's largest provider of fully furnished offices. The company offers its customers a complete range of cost-effective business ready work products including fully furnished, fully equipped private offices, meeting rooms with in-place business and administrative support services. Regus network of ready-to-use offices, meeting rooms and business lounges offers businesses and mobile professionals a flexible, high-performance alternative to hotels, copy shops and Kafes.</P><br /><P>When: Tuesday, December 28 to Thursday, December 30, 2010 during regular business hours.</P><br /><P>Where: the Regus find nearest go to <A href="http://www.regus.com/">www.regus.com</A> or call 1-800-OFFICES.</P><br /><P>Why: Regus' business lounges are designed to productivity, offers a professional place out of the Office work to increase. All Regus more than 1,100 business lounges across the globe offer high speed Internet access and refreshments. Business lounge use includes access to administrative support for document or presentation preparation and use of local business support staff for booking local venues, restaurants and travel arrangements.</P><br /><P>About Regus</P><br /><P>Regus, leading global provider of innovative workplace solutions with 1,100 locations in 500 cities and 85 countries, offers products and services of fully equipped offices to go to professional meeting rooms, business lounges and the world's largest network video communication Studios.</P><br /><P>Visit for more information <A href="http://www.regus.com./">www.regus.com.</A></P><br /><P>Journalists can also visit the Regus online press centre at <A href="http://www.regus.presscentre.com./">www.regus.presscentre.com.</A></P><br /><P>Contact: Julia Gaynor affect strategies (212) 398-9680 <A href="mailto:jgaynor@affectstrategies.com">jgaynor@affectstrategies.com</A></P><br /><P>SOURCE Regus</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indianweb2/~3/lwtxrGcmo0U/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-50753505748912319232010-11-29T11:33:00.000-08:002010-11-29T11:33:00.492-08:00<P><BR>Speech synthesis: Meet Acapela's various happy family of Arab vote we love, 8 members, male and female, from Acapela's Arabic family, all very different one from the other einzuführen.Sie combine the extensive range of varied, multilingual people who already have a part of the Acapela's voice portfolio. Meet Nizar (Arabic/English bilingual), Salma, Leila, Mehdi, Youssef, Fouad, Charifa and Jaouad, and choose the voice you prefer or questions Acapela experts to your own, unique synthesized voice talent to create.</P><br /><P>Acapela natural voices can give the power of speech to any application or a service with different Arab voices with a selection of female or male sounds.</P><br /><P>Acapela's Arab portfolio was developed by specialists with extensive expertise.The team has acquired over several years a cutting edge knowledge and grasp of the Arabic language and creates a process with a vocal transcription, Arabic rebuilt is that speech synthesis written Arabic enable content in natural language.</P><br /><P>Acapela Group offers high quality speech synthesis in 30 languages and more than 50 natural voices and tailor-made solutions for special needs erstellt.Acapela works continuously with new languages and one day welcome new voices in its growing, multilingual, extended family.</P><br /><P>Ibn Sina, the world's first Arabic talking Android, is back on the stage at GITEX after his successful performance in GITEX 2009, Ibn Sina, the world's first Arabic-speaking people like humanoid robot, robot created by the interactive and back and ready to you at the booth of Acapela's meet Media Lab (IRML) of the University which is United Arab Emirates, keen converse and chat.</P><br /><P>Ibn Sina is part of a new family of robots, see a step further towards interactive relations with people - by using novel facial recognition, vision, speech solutions and other advanced technologies, and by using and publishing online social information on FaceBook.Acapela speech solutions empower voice Ibn Sina allowed him voice interact and communicate with his Umwelt.Der robot is ASR and TTS technologies from Acapela use a natural Arabic voice add a full dialogue and Ibn Sina persona.</P><br /><P>Avatars in conversation</P><br /><P>Last but not least, enjoy our talking avatars on iPhone and Smartphones, cheerful friendly characters, providing your own words to your friends and contacts to liefern.mithilfe Acapela text to speech and living actor Avatar(TM)-Technologie of Cantoche, talking avatars, operators and advertisers with a powerful way, speak volumes.</P><br /><P>Natural Arabic voices for all platforms</P><br /><P>Arab voices are for each content, what the platform or service vocalize available: server, Mac and PC, mobile devices including iPhone or Web Services.Software Development toolkits and APIs are perfect for your vocalization needs.</P><br /><P>2010 Meet the Acapela team at GITEX, Hall 2 K 2-15 - 17-21 October 2010, Dubai, U.A.E. <A href="http://www.gitex.com/">http://www.gitex.com</A></P><br /><P>About Acapela Group, <A href="http://www.acapela-group.com/">http://www.acapela-group.com</A></P><br /><P>Acapela Group, which invents voice leading expert to your content in up to 30 languages give a voice text to speech solutions and offers a broad portfolio of Arab vote.</P><br /><P>Acapela text to speech solutions all turn written text into natural language files, use our 50 vote quality standard, or your own synthesized voice talent.</P><br /><P>Acapela's wide range of vocal solutions - both offline as online - aimed for a wider public, both professional developers create a vocal world accessible to anyone regardless of the size of your project in all Bereichen.Unsere solutions offer perfect vocalization for voice integration and development, online and on demand, production or personal accessibility using audio files.</P><br /><P>Tailor-made solutions give our customers a powerful voice, help you successfully on the ground to take already selected from over a thousand customers and Acapela accepted by millions of users around the world.</P><br /><P>Key players in the Middle East have already chosen Acapela speech, authorise their services and applications: use media log, Nattiq technologies, VoiceMpower, FDS, Acapela Arabic iPhoneislam vote, to speech enable your world.</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indianweb2/~3/FQVF_rKOaBQ/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-45718232513230713002010-11-29T04:57:00.000-08:002010-11-29T04:57:00.111-08:00 <p>I know these days all more or less tech-savvy Internet users will have at least a slight suspicion, probably a little too much about you know Google. And it is not surprising, since our dependence on different Google services and tools. Last time of my husband crashed computer, (when it is updating new computer using Lenovo upgrade program from Vista to Windows 7 on its) left him with an ideal impersonal hard drive without a single document or photo, he was not the least concern over - and it is not surprising: all his emails in Gmail and documents in Google Docs so why worry?</p><p> And since I'm more paranoid than most people I know about Google, I am kinda worried about how much Google want to use the knowledge one day actually know about me - and how the company.But conspiracy theory or not, it's quite another when users begin to suspect that Google actually - espionage is in the way, usually CIA and reserved similar ist.Und espionage against the country, even by many as a potential enemy in the United States, especially since it is obvious that Google has all reasons to support the United States in what problems of the country could be before international. </p><p>Today I read a <a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/infosecurity/106807/">post in the most popular Russian technology community</a> where the author claims that Google Maps service seems some voyeuristic thrill in the direction of strategic and military objects in Russia - borders and nuclear warhead to save demonstrieren.Und the author shares actually a whole bunch of screenshots, where such strategic objects with high resolution - turned and very recently updated.At the same time similar objects in the United States are either completely hidden or have not been updated for years.</p><p>The author quoted (and demonstrates) quite a number of cases where such strategic objects in detail displayed werden.Und the most curious thing is that nearby towns and villages of equal interest to the satellites that make the shots seem not instead you such strategic objects seem especially without attention aim to whats it close.</p><p>It is a known fact, Google does not actually using aerial photographs deal - buy instead of you photos for their services by Dritten.Und obviously more interested in the Russian border and rockets than in small villages in Siberia - could have such third parties, so Google is not the fault for the actual spying only for the choice of materials, to present the general public.</p><p>But of course while as a Russian citizen I feel happy to know that someone has access to information about Russian military system - whether foreign intelligence services or terrorists - I definitely understand that it not only Google or their vendors to blame we should understand ist.stattdessen, do not believe that the Russian authorities and respond properly - I should like Google asking hide these areas from public view that actually does Google for others on request kontaktieren.Und without such proper use of information technology, they still claim in this country we are sure.</p><br /><p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/ifjGBtqti2s/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-60468628447294338902010-11-28T22:54:00.000-08:002010-11-28T22:54:00.123-08:00<P><A href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/CartyStudios%20Corporation/WebMagnates%20-%20Auto%20Blogging%20Software/data/Web%202.0/profy/gosbook-logo.png"></A>It's pretty obvious that the social networking boom has led in in recent years abundance of social networks probably covering all the niches of the company. It's pretty obvious that in some countries (such as Russia where I live) this process takes longer than it have in the United States since all trends here happen with a significant delay. During the US social networks for everything already has in Russia yet another novelty - a social network, we specifically determined witness for State officials.</P><br /><P>The social network is immediately named <A href="http://www.gosbook.ru/">Gosbook</A> (being part of the Russian word "Gos", which stands for 'State'), has a proud 'beta'-tag in the logo, and has all the features we have come to expect from a social network – user profile, blogs, groups, and friends to keep colleagues here at a generally more official tone of the site. </P><br /><P>While typically all that is developed by request of a State or regional authorities in the country - overpriced will tend to corruption is a huge problem in Russia I did not expect that officials will really want to discuss online or offline. For some this project is not an expensive: it took only about $30 thousand in development and probably in marketing and PR, like all the Russian blogs and TV networks are just glad a story about the social network for civil servants - especially the official a mark, who said the President Medvedev must be supported. </P><br /><P>The target group for the project you want to be the bureaucrats to care deeply about the future of the country and want to participate in discussions on various topics that are available. Users of the social network can participate, different groups based on the specific agencies you belong to. You can also participate in discussions, but for now the discussions seem not at all active and have a maximum of 5 participants - for the absurd themes where the topic would like to add everyone probably your 2 cents on how absurd.</P><br /><P>The interesting part about the social network is not some invite it to in the website where you show some work for government agencies be able to sign up to.Can in fact in the discussions someone admits a request a bio with valid data enter and - if they approved by the Administration Web site - participate.True status on the site include new or experts and users will be able to participate in the site scope allowed by its specific Rechte.Aber as well always the project has a chance to criticize still another platform for ordinary citizens, the authorities and their opinions (some), provided that the bureaucrats do and actually want to hear public view, I am not sure I want to believe.</P><br /><P>But the most important question that now want to Internet users and TV reporters questions is exactly when officials to participate in this social network by your blogs or comments in the Gemeinden.Es is pretty obvious that you have a lot of other regular activities in their offices and given as Russia now living, I feel that not enough time for these direct responsibility haben.Und if you now start chat in the social network instead of the performance of their duties, people in the country you excited about this new initiative be no reasons.</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/gan9vHJ8EC8/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-45733110899022362632010-11-28T16:08:00.000-08:002010-11-28T16:08:01.009-08:00<P>ClinicYou clinicyou.com is a Web 2.0 based application for clinicians and medical assistance. A Web-based practice management software with nothing to install. Its design fits perfectly with the description of the "<A onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.vinfotech.com/index.html');" href="http://www.vinfotech.com/index.html" target="_blank">Web 2.0 Design</A>".</P><br /><P><STRONG>1. Artistic attraction</STRONG></P><br /><P>The biggest advantage of Web 2.0 design is that you have a chance in a very artistic way out your creativity captured the audience's attention vent.Es easy and helps you you at your location for a long time to halten.Sie see this clearly on the ClinicYou.com homepage;. </P><br /><P><STRONG>2. Content area</STRONG></P><br /><P>In Web 2.0 design, you can use larger fonts to decorate your Web page.Experimenting with new fonts is a fundamental change which come obsolete.you are focused on important key phrases with a larger font with Web 2.0. </P><br /><P><STRONG>3. Of effortless navigation</STRONG></P><br /><P>Website viewers expect proper navigation when you on your website kommen.Jede Web 2.0 site requires that you keep very easy navigation system for your users. </P><br /><P><STRONG>4. Design ability</STRONG></P><br /><P>The best feature of Web 2.0 design is above all the logo design ability.You can significantly large logos that very important design support for the brand.This can easily be eyes capture your audience.</P><br /><P><STRONG>5. Use of helpful icons</STRONG></P><br /><P>One can use stunning icons on the important areas of a website to your viewers attention.Design ability takes significant symbols set again zu.Die symbols are visitors to your desired area set automatically.</P><br /><P><STRONG>6. Number of columns that reduces</STRONG></P><br /><P>Less the number of columns that is more clarity a Website.Zu many columns infusion reduced the simplicity of Website.Im Web 2.0 style columns are kept minimal.</P><br /><P><STRONG>7. Simple search</STRONG></P><br /><P>The Web 2.0 concept has a lot of new features, so the design simple and users kept minimal running.make can reach your goal, only by the design easy to hold.</P><br /><P>The Web design world is to front with an array of features marschieren.Web 2.0 themes take a step ahead with updated features by capturing Viewer concentration.<BR><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bhopu/feed/~3/XEMNpBXTXa0/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-42800643637800058292010-11-28T09:36:00.000-08:002010-11-28T09:36:00.677-08:00<P><A href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/CartyStudios%20Corporation/WebMagnates%20-%20Auto%20Blogging%20Software/data/Web%202.0/profy/kremlinrussia.png"></A>A President of a country can be considered definitely open-minded and tech-aware progressive person when he or she has a Twitter account. Finally, it is the hottest way to connect online these days with citizens. But what if a President has actually as many as two Twitter accounts? I really don't know, but I have a feeling that the Russian President Medvedev its online activities sometimes exaggerate is.</P><br /><P>He is extremely active online with a video blog, a Twitter account and his regular communication with people online.Aber now is he thinks it is still not enough: his Twitter account is already too personally grown so he tightly official this time add a new - is! </P><br /><P>In fact, keeping all followers Medvedev is actually his account in a personal MedvedevRussia going rename and next you create a new one (still named <A href="http://twitter.com/#!/KremlinRussia">KremlinRussia</A>) serve as an official outlet for President messages. And the one that currently exists and has more than 120 thousand followers continue to be a place for personal comments and opinions of the President.</P><br /><P>This sounds sensible because current subscribers because accustomed to the unofficial voice of the President it are grown and new followers from scratch now always will.Obviously, the President does not actually deal will have to with multi account Twitter client: it is only reasonable that its official account is maintained by his administration, while it one updates itself only personal comments and photos will be.</P><br /><P>The entire project looks like a complicated multi-stage procedure to me: right, now I can see that both accounts exist on Twitter, but MedvedevRussia protected updates so before renaming KremlinRussia using this ID, it renamed first, the URL available to machen.Und I can not help, but if some sophisticated hackers are able to control over the URL to get me question before it is again claimed by the President?The second account is promised to start, update as soon as next week, so this procedure in the next days implemented are.</P><br /><P>The reason for moving is explained as follows: If the account was initially created, the potential for Twitter in Russia was not clear and it was impossible to predict, the extremely rapid growth and things are more or less clearly the popularity of the online service under the Russian Bürgern.Jetzt, and it is obvious that official source of information on activities of the President is required in addition to the informal communication.</P><br /><P>This will also make life easier for Medvedev as a real person after he comes back - he is still a personal Twitter account, he can use (or at least I think so) for what whatever role in life, which he then wählt.Und being a account with a huge amount of followers already!</P><br /><P><A href="http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/1149503/internetblog_medvedeva_stal_slishkom_lichnym">Via</A>(in Russian)</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/bYQeADT-24w/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-53944545997455611522010-11-28T03:14:00.000-08:002010-11-28T03:14:00.196-08:00<P>Do you believe in the power of social media? Of course you do if you are reading this post now because people who read this blog are mostly related to the online crowd in this way or another. But the truth is that the mainstream media still make more difference when it comes to promoting a product (even if it is an online service like Twitter) or turning an online celebrity into a world-famous personality that everyone talks about.</P><br /><P>Clever PR people do know about the power of social media and they do have bloggers on their distribution lists so that they could send the press releases to the relevant blogs to reach the online audience with the voices of respected bloggers that their readers frequently trust more than some TV anchor who is not even presenting their own opinion and instead often relies 100% on impersonal editors.</P><br /><P>But does that mean that these very PR people have removed journalists working in traditional media (both print and TV) from their distribution lists? Of course not: these contacts are still the most valuable and a PR agency that can get a product to a national TV show or New York Times will definitely enjoy a substantial success and appreciation from their customers. The reason is simple: traditional media is still way more powerful than social media in reaching mainstream audience and it is definitely the mainstream audience that represents a huge market while in social media you can usually only reach early adopters with your products.</P><br /><P>Of course it is obvious that many companies want to employ this power of traditional media for their purposes and build a strong demand for their products and services. Traditional media is also great in delivering news to the vast majority of the population: while some people do want to get their news faster than anyone else on Twitter, most are quite happy with getting to know what happens in the world from their traditional evening news without browsing any news sites on purpose. And given the close contact of traditional media with people, there’s one thing that I can hardly understand: why is it that the traditional media does nothing to solve some of the worst technical problems?</P><br /><P>Have you ever visited a friend or a family and happened to turn their pretty old desktop on to maybe check your email or show them how to use Flickr to upload their family photos for everyone to see immediately instead of having to arrange for special family gatherings with the single purpose of watching photos from their last vacation? If yes, I am quite certain you have frequently seen Internet Explorer 6 as a default browser on such computers – and could not help but advise an upgrade because this is hardly a secure browser any more.</P><br /><P>Of course if you went on to actually upgrade the browser yourself, I am quite certain your friends or family are now running a later version of IE or most probably the latest version of Firefox instead of that outdated browser. And this was a good thing to do because you have helped make the online world more secure. But what if you decided to simply offer your advice without actually implementing the update? Chances are the computer still runs the same outdated browser at least for two simple reasons: the owners hardly realize the dangers involved and probably don’t even know how to actually implement the update you suggested.</P><br /><P>I guess no one will doubt these days that the sixth version of Internet Explorer can hardly be recommended to use due to numerous security flaws that have been fixed in later versions of the Microsoft’s browser. And the topics of this or that flaw that can affect security in a certain manner are frequently visible on Twitter or on news sites like Digg – because people online do pay attention to the problem and try to educate those around us.</P><br /><P>And traditional media does not fully ignore the browsing problems: I am quite certain you frequently hear stories about Microsoft and their monopoly in browsers and European Union demanding the company to offer a user a choice of the browser to use. Yet I have never heard anything about how insecure Internet Explorer is though it could definitely be turned into a story quite easily: just discuss the latest malware taking advantage of some flaw, point out that the only way to a more secure online experience is using an up-to-date browser and explain how easy such an update can be executed (and probably demonstrate exactly how). What could be simpler than that? I know that this may not be as exciting as yet another report from a European court but is it not useful? I have a feeling that it definitely is so why not pay a little attention to it now and then to eventually ensure IE 6 market share drops to virtually nothing?</P><br /><P>Another problem I can see is that mainstream media does not really promote legal content consumption as opposed to piracy. Everyone knows that piracy is a huge problem for content producers but I have a feeling that TV and print editors do little to tell people exactly why it is a bad idea to simply download a movie for free and what legal alternatives exist. Instead, we keep listening to various stories about The Pirate Bay and its endless (and seemingly unfair) persecution and some individuals facing multi-million charges for a single song downloaded illegally. Do these stories really make people go and buy their digital music and movies? Unfortunately I have a feeling that they only teach people the names of the websites they should go to if they want some free content – all the while hating the crazy music labels for acting stupid like this.</P><br /><P>I know that these stories are news and people want to know about them but why not add something different, something that promotes understanding of why content cannot be free and where it can be consumed legally and at a reasonable price? I know that in the US there are household brands like iTunes or Hulu that most people are familiar with and when they realize that they are willing to pay for their content, they will head to these well-known destinations and make a payment. But for example here in Russia it is really way easier to download a movie, an album or a book for free from torrent (their names are also very frequently in the news due to the ever-lasting conflicts with copyright owners) than buy or rent it to consume legally. Believe me, it is quite a challenge to find a website where you would be able to pay for your content to own it legally while finding a torrent to download the same movie or book is way easier to do. So tell me why these websites are not promoted on TV additionally?</P><br /><P>And there are definitely other issues that deserve attention from the mainstream media and that could have really been improved if some TV networks or talk shows chose to participate and contribute to improving the situation. Of course one of such issues is parental control. It is no secret that the vast majority of parents of teenagers are not tech-aware enough to realize all the dangers posed by the internet – let alone to implement any solutions that could help them monitor their children’s activities online and protect them from the numerous risks.</P><br /><P>Obviously the first step that should be involved here is promoting understanding of importance of such control: just explaining the dangers and availability of the tools that will make the process actually work and point to some solutions available. If the problem is discussed again and again, more parents will realize that they actually need to do something and finally overcome their lack of technical skills and implement some sort of a solution in their family.</P><br /><P>All in all, I have a feeling that there are quite a number of technical problems that should not be discussed online only because the people who really need to hear about such problems go online to visit a limited number of websites or just to check email or make calls in Skype – and chances are they never ever happen to visit Techmeme or Digg. TV news sections or talk shows could really help increase awareness of the most important problems – those that deal with security – and I am certain that the editors should really pay attention to such issues simply because they make the online life more secure and given that more and more people get connected every day globally, this is one of the most important things to be taken care of.</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/_ptNHhzR1Yw/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-43737783801440832222010-11-27T20:17:00.000-08:002010-11-27T20:17:00.080-08:00<P><A title="Traveling Light #1" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.flickr.com/photos/8875143@N04/2594685837/');" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8875143@N04/2594685837/" target="_blank"></A>The whole idea of registering a business sounds more mandatory important? if your answer to the question is Yes, then its time to change your Outlook, and here is why: </P><br /><P>The process of registration forces you to think the fundamental problems that are included in your business plan.Not to be confused the registration process are a formal commitment and avoid noise hinein.Fragen as the trademark disputes, legal hook, costly name changes or tax problems can come later if not your start register ernst.Werden you curious, the work around him around and give your 100% when it comes to the registration of each company. </P><br /><P>To keep few points in mind;</P><br /><P>(1) Beware the brand questions - someone will sue for the use of this name?Check the availability of domain names, see register etc. to.</P><br /><P>2. Choose your structure - need to declare your business in the form of an entity (sole proprietorship, partnership, company or limited liability company)</P><br /><P>3.shout you tax ids</P><br /><P>4. File registry permissions - the Government is a trace of company and taxes with this halten.Sie pay to satisfy certain procedures responsible.</P><br /><P>5. Some companies have additional requirements such as planning, regulatory agencies or professional agencies.</P><br /><P>Try adding value to the venture buy research around the process.</P><br /><P>For more details on this matter we recommend to visit this <A onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/business/smallbusiness/01sbiz.html?pagewanted=2&sq&st=nyt&scp=2 ');" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/business/smallbusiness/01sbiz.html?pagewanted=2&sq&st=nyt&scp=2" target="_blank">post</A></P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bhopu/feed/~3/yEsb7gIsnZU/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-60891619626494197352010-11-27T14:14:00.000-08:002010-11-27T14:14:00.460-08:00<P><BR>CHENNAI, India, 16 October 2010/PRNewswire-FirstCall / - Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ Global markets: SIFY) announced today that it not audited financial statements for its fiscal year 31 March 2010 to this time because of incomplete audit results from MF Global Sify securities India private limited ("MF Global Sify securities") file. Sify has a 29.85% minority interest in MF Global Sify securities.MF Global Sify securities provides intermediary and also online and offline equity and derivatives matching principal Vermittlungsdienste.Es for retail customers as trade execution and clearing services for financial institutions. MF Global Holdings Ltd. holds interest the remaining 70,15% through a subsidiary, in the company.</P><br /><P>Sify certain recorded cross charges of corporate expenses made by MF Global Holdings Ltd. and its affiliated companies, to MF Global Sify securities has denied and believes the charges and various related actions, violated a shareholders agreement of the parties. As a result of the ongoing dispute has MF Global Sify securities Sify advised that your auditors not qualified report on his March 31, 2010 to issue financial statements.</P><br /><P>Sify's interest in MF Global Sify securities accounts for a pro-rata part for the international financial reporting standards equity method of accounting under which Sify in General as "Share of profit of equity accounted investee" reportable net profit after tax of such undertakings in their statement of Vorgänge.Sify's auditors audit no consolidated MF Global based Sify securities and its opinion as you relates to the amounts that in Sify's for MF Global financial statements contain Sify securities exclusively on the report of MF Global Sify securities can Rechnungsprüfer.Infolgedessen no Sify's auditors issue an unqualified report at this time.</P><br /><P>Sify is in discussions to resolve this issue searches Holdings Ltd, with MF Global and intends its annual report on form 20-F for fiscal year 31 March 2010, file, as soon as practicable. Sify reported unaudited financial results for the fiscal year 31 ended April March 2010 in a press release, 23, 2010 dated. </P><br /><P>About Sify technologies </P><br /><P>Sify is one of the largest managed enterprise and consumer Internet services company in India, end-to-end solutions with a comprehensive range of products, which on a joint Telecom data network infrastructure reach more than 600 cities and towns in India delivered.</P><br /><P>A significant portion of the company's revenues come from corporate services, corporate connectivity, network and communication, security, network management services, enterprise applications, and hosting. Sify is a recognized ISO 9001 certified service provider for network operations, data center operations and customer support, and for deploying VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP solutions and integrated security solutions and ISO / IEC 20000-1: 2005 certified Internet data center operations. Sify has licenses for the operation of NLD (national long distance) and ILD (international long distance) services and VoIP back haul to long distance telephony services subscribers.The company is India's first enterprise managed services provider, Sify's corporate services use a security operations center (SOC) to provide managed security services to starten.Eine variety of blue chip clients.</P><br /><P>Sify also suitable for global markets specialized eLearning services and remote infrastructure management services.The e-learning services designs, develops and delivers State-of-the-art digital learning solutions for non-profit, for profit organizations and government organizations in the areas of computer science, engineering, environment, health, education and finance.Remote infrastructure management services offers reliable and economic solutions for managed services, hosting and monitoring.</P><br /><P>Consumer services include home access and the ePort cyber café chain of more than 200 cities and towns in India.Sify.com, popular consumer portal has channels on news, entertainment, finance, sports, games and shop.Samachar.com is the popular portal aimed at non-resident Indians around the globe.The site is in 8 Indian languages including Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi and Gujarati in addition to English.</P><br /><P>Visit for more information about Sify <A href="http://www.sifycorp.com/">http://www.sifycorp.com</A>.</P><br /><P>Forward looking statements</P><br /><P>Sify: This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 forward-looking statements contained in the amended Fassung.Die herein are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements to reflect. Sify assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements.</P><br /><P>For a discussion of the risks associated with Sify's business discussion under the heading "Risk factors" in the society report on form 6 K for the quarter see please, the end of September 30, 2009, which has been filed with the U.s. Securities and Exchange Commission and managed by accessing the database is available from the SEC <A href="http://www.sec.gov/">at http://www.sec.gov</A>.</P>For more information please contact: Sify technologies limited Grayling investor relations Mr. Pijush the woman Truc Nguyen; Ext. 418 investor relations; Ext. 2703 <A href="mailto:truc.nguyen@grayling.com">truc.nguyen@grayling.com</A> <A href="mailto:pijush.das@sifycorp.com">pijush.das@sifycorp.com</A> Mr Praveen Krishna Mr Christopher Chu; Ext. 426 communications; Ext. 2055 <A href="mailto:christopher.chu@grayling.com">christopher.chu@grayling.com</A> <A href="mailto:praveen.krishna@sifycorp.com">praveen.krishna@sifycorp.com</A> + 1-646-284 9400 + 91 44 22540770 / 22540777 <br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indianweb2/~3/SRLErHAog6s/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-25344336866729660752010-11-27T07:21:00.000-08:002010-11-27T07:21:00.781-08:00<P>1. Communicate your leverage point</P><br /><P>Let people know what you can do, 'different'. entrepreneurs should have your capital efficiency will do some work cheaper than others or you have access to a group of customers to sprechen.Wahrscheinlich - think leverage at any point you have and to display it. </P><br /><P>2. Communicate a story</P><br /><P>People find interesting and exciting stories.  It was this problem and I thought this product would be perfect.Learn more about the idea and your product and have a good history with him.</P><br /><P>3. Accept that your startup error may</P><br /><P>Each time you start has a problem or others in the early days and accept these questions.You don't spend time, others why your startup as follows or similar is überzeugen.Verbringen you this energy to explain your startup when growing up what can.</P><br /><P>4. Plan, small and big dream</P><br /><P>In the early days can you be not extravagant and need to explain, they be properly financed.</P><br /><P>We suggest that you read <A onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http:// http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/1289/4-Quick-Tips-on-Raising-Startup-Funding-Without-A-Plan-Or-A-PowerPoint.aspx ');" href="http://%20http//onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/1289/4-Quick-Tips-on-Raising-Startup-Funding-Without-A-Plan-Or-A-PowerPoint.aspx" target="_blank">this post</A> to OnStartups for more insights into the topic</P><br /><BLOCKQUOTE readability="7"><br /><P>Even though I know is probably an idea more money than the entrepreneur things take, I prefer backing up people who think you can do it with little cash and try this said to tun.Wie Josh, you will learn cheaper fail<BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bhopu/feed/~3/UmWjAqihlyc/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-18082550527229128992010-11-27T00:23:00.000-08:002010-11-27T00:23:00.194-08:00<P>Option pool can be described as the amount of a startup's common shares reserved for employees, directors, consultants and advisers. The reserved stock is issued to the above actors.It is a written plan a start the amount of ordinary shares of the company's pre authorizes by the administrator (usually the startup's Board business and/or supervisory board or of a Committee by the Board of Directors selected) spent wird.Ein startup, can for example, have 5,000,000 shares of common stock but only selects 2,000,000 shares to authorize.</P><br /><P>A startup's original option pool not likely may be the last option pool at startup erstellt.Die pool size should be discussed at each round of funding and financing, because at that time the start more options to attract and motivate future setting might need.</P><br /><P>The confusing part is how the option pool non-issued an option pool or subscribed part is handled.</P><br /><P>We suggest that you read this <A onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://venturehacks.com/articles/option-pool-shuffle');" href="http://venturehacks.com/articles/option-pool-shuffle" target="_blank">post</A> for a closer look into the option pool mix</P><br /><BLOCKQUOTE readability="7"><br /><P>Summary: Do not leave your investors that the size of the option pool to bestimmen.Verwenden a setting plan to justify a small option pool your stock price and increase your effective evaluation.<A title="Attribution License" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" target="_blank"><BR></A></P></BLOCKQUOTE><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bhopu/feed/~3/eKEkaYsm7xY/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-23596826755762584212010-11-26T18:01:00.000-08:002010-11-26T18:01:00.729-08:00<P><A title="EXIT onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.flickr.com/photos/45541705@N00/140115572/');"" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45541705@N00/140115572/" target="_blank"></A>A heated debate to foursquare, taking into account a sale to Yahoo. It is believed that foursquare is the aggressive advertising on behalf of Yahoo which is payable to as much as $125 million-year-old startup ready.Some are freaking out asking "not for sale foursquare" and the gurus are speculate that foursquare trying to push your evaluation the higher than what Yahoo bietet.Was foursquare does tell only time with, but this definitely has a think about "exit strategies" for start-ups and the meaning made. </P><br /><P>When you start or how grow strategies and plans to your startup form, must have an exit strategy thinking. Create a lifestyle business generated the income without plans to sell it in the future, or create equity in a shop that will convert into cash?Depending on your destination the business you choose and you decide how it should grow with the end game objectives be scanned.the common exit strategies are aligned.Sales, mergers, IPO, buyout or liquidation of assets.</P><br /><P>Some find maybe set too much meaning of exit strategies as correct, argue that you never something to build by always a motif from the left to. but, if you move to your next business venture or whether you long to keep time to a business plan for one, it is important to have a sequence that plan in place for your startup.</P><br /><P>We suggest that you read this <A onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/04/got-an-exit-strategy-lessons-from-foursquare-and-yahoo.php');" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/04/got-an-exit-strategy-lessons-from-foursquare-and-yahoo.php" target="_blank">post</A> on ReadWriteWeb for more information.</P><br /><BLOCKQUOTE readability="7"><br /><P>While the idea of an exit strategy may sound negative, craft can plan a you how make the most of a good location not easy to escape a bad,<BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bhopu/feed/~3/ISm2s7AKoKA/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-15712402639504164242010-11-26T11:13:00.000-08:002010-11-26T11:13:00.639-08:00<P><A title="Collected Advice" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.flickr.com/photos/21546823@N02/2475149596/');" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21546823@N02/2475149596/" target="_blank"></A>These points can come across as basic, but these are the small points you should keep in mind when you start a startup; </P><br /><P>1. Start 1.by "thinking small" and expand your thinking from there. Small and simple thinking allows you to focus on what's important</P><br /><P>2. Increased good programmers, technical people in each Department 3.financial reward is good, but aspiring entrepreneurs should first look for opportunities where your lernen.Mitarbeiter taking on projects can also if you don't have the skills to enable. </P><br /><P>4. Manage not earnings and cash flow.Money and money should only two financial benchmarks, the important. </P><br /><P>5. Perfection is the enemy of success (single start-ups).Speed is better than perfection.</P><br /><P>6.Sell sale, Verkauf.Verkauf to everyone including business world, employees and Lieferanten.verkaufen you, your product to sell, a sales professional have on your team.</P><br /><P>7. Start 7.Jetzt.Warten you don't.<BR></P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bhopu/feed/~3/Xb-m35NeUbc/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-3230904478771819182010-11-26T04:21:00.000-08:002010-11-26T04:21:00.304-08:00<P><A href="http://profy.com/files/2010/08/SettingsDataRoaming.png"></A>Last week the blogosphere in Russia discussed yet another interesting topic on the famous Apple's device and a huge bill, to one of the participants about a local mobile operators for some international exuberance sent. And since the summer full of holidays abroad in full play is, the story got quickly a very hot, although there is nothing particularly special about it - nothing but the amount of concerned invoice: $17 thousand from a cell phone carrier for a vacation abroad.</P><br /><P>The story includes a woman who had a corporate iPhone paid by your employer that used as their only phone and don't think twice to the use if to Egypt for a holiday with her son geleitet.Dort you spent her son about 4 hours mobile play on the device (really, kids love, everyone knows) led for GPRS on arrival receive a huge bill. </P><br /><P>But because the phone was corporate and women was tried for a famous (and very wealthy) companies who manage, initiate a discussion with the institution trying to prove that the airline has enabled a service of the mobile roaming without knowledge of the Subscriber.It is a known fact that Russia mobile operators often their prices are abused and roaming is an example of what you also really do not worry, if abroad - buy, and wherever you may be a local SIM card.</P><br /><P>Therefore the Subscriber was there the enormous amount not really surprise for many users who often come home with as much as minus $300 on your accounts after using some mobile Internet in the Ausland.Aber in this case has really little chances to win anything at all that the carrier has reminded everyone that on the iPhone you data in roaming in (the feature is disabled by default) must explicitly to activate so that this might not be, an inadvertent use of an unwanted feature - child playing games or whatever it.</P><br /><P>So, now claims the carrier that the participants could probably not read the manuals for your iPhone and could simply do not know, that some applications could be on your iPhone connect to the Internet and Exchange data in the background mode - mobile without regard to how much traffic abroad kann.Und are we all once again reminded that read manuals and a habit - to really check the settings should be if you used a complex device such as an iPhone, BlackBerry, Android.</P><br /><P>So while my initial reaction was to support the poor Subscriber accidentally has managed to lose $17 k doing something I can do easily in other countries, without knowing it could be expensive, it's now quite obvious again each gadget is nothing but a tool and the user is the only one responsible for uses such as the gadget wird.Und at least this ridiculous story taught us all in Russia one thing: iOS a setting for the exchange of data in General and when in roaming disable also now our mobile carriers actually describe users exactly how you should set phones avoid your smart to additional fees in roaming - and this is has been actually definitely an improvement, total draconian prices.</P><br /><P><A href="http://lenta.ru/news/2010/08/11/answer/">Via</A>(in Russian)</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/qmrXgCWOjnM/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847331305201380216.post-47362142530926743152010-11-25T21:56:00.000-08:002010-11-25T21:56:00.089-08:00<P>These days it’s really hard to find a person who would not agree that internet has truly turned the world into a global and tightly connected place where everyone can easily talk to everyone without tons of efforts or financial investments. But I have frequently written here on Profy how different things can be about tons of tech aspects when one happens to live in Russia. Unfortunately I can’t say that these distinctions actually make Russia look any good at all – and recently I’ve had quite a number of personal experiences with internet usage here that I wanted to share, especially since I tend to suspect that the people who live in the countries that are better off (where the majority of my readers live) hardly have any idea of how things work in the countries that can’t be proud of any equal wellbeing and might find it interesting or at least feel better about what they already have if there’s something they are not totally happy about.</P><br /><P>Honestly, recently I have had enough experiences with the internet to want to live elsewhere – despite of the fact that throughout my life I’ve always thought that I should stay and live where I was born (idea supported by the fact that my husband runs a business here that can hardly – if ever – be run from abroad). And I actually live in a country where we don’t have any censorship (visible at least) so I can easily use Wikipedia or Google or whatever other source of information I may need. That is, provided that I have enough internet and the speed allowed by my ISP will ever let me in.</P><br /><P>The problem is that I spent at least 4 hours (!!!) over the last couple of weeks on the phone talking to support of my ISP about a peculiar issue I’m having – and still have not managed to fix it. I have changed 3 ISPs over the last year looking for a company that would actually allow me to access the World Wide Web at the speed they promise in their marketing materials – even if it will be more expensive than everything their competitors have to offer. As it’s probably clear to you already, my quest has not helped me find my perfect provider – hopefully yet.</P><br /><P>The most usual problem with the ISPs here is that they stubbornly don’t want to maintain the speed you pay for. Say, I pay about $30 for 10MBPS a month (an average price for where I live). And do you think I get the promised 10? No, I actually get 12 and even more – but only for the first two weeks after I plug the cable of this specific ISP into my router. Now I know that all the ISPs have some thresholds that are rarely spoken about but will cut your speed until the end of the month once you reach this limit – but I do pay attention to these details and I am no heavy torrent user to even dream of reaching any such limit. Yet my speed drops after a few weeks and is never restored in the next month – so it definitely has nothing to do with me overusing their services. And sometimes it is as slow as .01MBPS which is virtually nothing for someone who works out of one’s home office, has a habit of buying music and movies online and sometimes wants to voice chat on Skype!</P><br /><P>But I’m not exactly totally honest here: the speed can actually be restored. With some ISPs it takes a phone call to their support service and a few minutes explaining them you know how they have a habit of cutting channels and how you don’t pay for the best speed they can offer to never even get one tenth of what you pay for. The support agent will try to persuade you that they have nothing to do with the problem and the reason is most certainly your router (Wi-Fi arrangements at home are not very common here so they just love it when I mention that I have one because the router instantly turns into the only possible reason of the problem). And the very next day a real miracle happens and all of a sudden the promised speed returns – again for a few weeks when they think you won’t notice and cut your channel once again.</P><br /><P>At some point it just gets too tiresome to handle and you switch the ISP to a new one – and after a while the story repeats again with the new ISP. The company I am subscribed to now has a long history in communications from the state-owned soviet past – and their practices has not changed much despite of the fact that they now provide a whole new range of services. Like the crazy thing they call internet access. And with them it is really totally crazy!</P><br /><P>So after I got their cable into my router (it is to blame again, of course – or so their support agent is still trying to persuade me) I noticed an interesting thing: this time whenever I measure the speed, everything is absolutely fine and I get exactly what I pay for. So browsing is a real breeze and my emails arrive in no time and everything. With one huge exception: whenever I try to connect to some extremely busy server and grab a file of any significant size, my download will just freeze and never complete no matter how long I choose to wait for it to finish. And it happens to some things that I actually use quite a lot, like Windows Update (you know how Microsoft pushes out all those updates for Vista?) or Apple Store so buying a movie there is just out of question. In fact, I spent a whole day looking for an alternative source to download update to iOS4 from the previous version because the file just refused to be downloaded in iTunes.</P><br /><P>First I thought about some temporary glitch or a problem in my system so I tried it in an office – and everything worked fine so I have come to the conclusion it is the ISP after all. I spent hours with them on the phone explaining the problem to one specialist after another and always getting a promise that they would call me back and never getting the promised call. And then I talked to an engineer who works in my husband’s company (that happens to be dealing with local ISPs a lot as they develop some software for them) and he explained that this specific ISP has a very interesting approach to speed: whenever they see huge amounts of traffic to some specific server, they just cut the capacity not to overload the link – and the subscribers will have to deal with the same problem that I have. So no matter how much you may want to keep your Vista safer by downloading constant security updates, chances are the ISP will never even let you do so!</P><br /><P>Another situation that made me realize again that writing about internet from Russia and knowing exactly how it works in the US might be a little disappointing because you will hardly get what you expect here. We were spending a weekend at the countryside and had absolutely nothing to do so I decided to get some games from the App Store for my iPhone that we could play in pairs – like domino or monopoly or whatever.</P><br /><P>When it comes to countryside somewhere in California, I suspect things must be different but in our case we spent another two hours browsing the store for the available games and buying them only to find out that the download would take me hours upon hours on my connection. Now don’t get me wrong, we do know what 3G is and it is available in many districts of the city of Novosibirsk where I live – but it is not something one should expect to find if you drive some 40 minutes from the downtown. And the available connection made me spend hours downloading the app I wanted.</P><br /><P>Now this is hardly the worst thing to have – no one died because of my inability to download the apps any faster. But I quickly realized that for some countries it would have really been great if Apple added a simple feature to the App Store to indicate application size when you browse it from a mobile device so that users could realistically understand if they will be able to download it before they get to a Wi-Fi point. I know that Apple engineers in Cupertino simply don’t realize some users might need it but we actually do – because Internet is just not created equal in all the countries of the world!</P><br /><P><A href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/profy/~3/u6XTGS4Lm8M/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</A></P>rvfigohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10059002491203737226noreply@blogger.com0