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A Small State With A Big Problem

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:56:00 +0000

Those words, from mother-of-two Mary Hallam, sum up the plight of many people in the town of Cranston, Rhode Island.

This tiny state has the highest unemployment rate in the US after Michigan. One in ten of the workforce here is without a job.

Mary lost her job as a cashier in a seafood restaurant last October. She and the children get by on $465 (£314) a month in food stamps.

She can't afford her own place, so they have to live with her parents, both of whom are also unemployed.

"My Dad worked at the same company for 25 years", she says, "He paid his taxes. Now he can't even get help from the state to pay for medical care. It's very sad."

Major shut downs

Rhode Island, known as the Ocean State, is a mixed bag. Parts of it are very prosperous. The town of Newport is famous for its jazz festival and the mansions built by 19th century barons of industry.

But away from the tourist centres on the coast the story is very different. Rhode Island has been losing manufacturing jobs for years.

Now the financial crisis has caused major shut downs in many other areas of the local economy, from construction to financial services to retailing.

Despite the thick snow on the sidewalks, the labour and training centre in West Warwick, just a few miles from Cranston, is packed with job seekers - at computer screens, in one-on-one interviews, in big groups doing tests.

There used to be pages of job adverts in the local newspaper. Now they're down to a single page, if that. There are four vacancies at a firm which needs jewellery polishers, but not much else.

Claims avalanche

Marissa Stewart-White is a single mother with a nine-year-old daughter. She lost her job working for a government contractor just before Christmas.

"I have a degree in economics and computer science. I've been working since I was fifteen. However, these are really hard times right now."

The Labour Department here can't cope with the avalanche of new claims for unemployment benefit. In a bitter irony, it's bringing back retired workers and advertising for forty new call centre staff to deal with the backlog.

"We absolutely have a backlog of claims" says Labour Department manager Laura Hart. "We have about 10,000 internet claims and they go back to the beginning of January. We hope to make a dent in it this week".

So, on top of the shock of losing their jobs, many of the people here are having to wait more than a month before they receive their first benefit payment. The system is struggling to cope with the human tide of unemployment.

Facebook Growing Fast In Germany, Italy

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:08:00 +0000

Central Europe loves Facebook. Or parts of it do, anyway. Although the social network didn't really start releasing versions in different languages until March of this year, new reports put Facebook's growth in two countries in the triple digits.

Germany stands as the less remarkable example. Sahana Mysore notes that Facebook's user base in this nation is about 18.5 percent of the one Xing's attracted, and only about 9.2 percent of leading social network StudiVZ's audience. Still, Alexa marks Facebook as Germany's 13th most popular site, and Mysore writes, "During 2008, the number of Facebook users in Germany grew 144% from just under 500,000 to nearly 1.2 million." Not bad.

Then, with Italy, the stats get almost jaw-dropping. She continues, "In the past five months alone, Facebook has grown an incredible 763% from 572k users in July to 4.9 million today!"

Mysore says that 8.5% of the Italian population is on Facebook, and according to Alexa, it's the country's third most trafficked site. Since only Google and Windows Live are ahead of Facebook, this pretty much counts as a complete win in the social networking arena.

Onlookers may criticize Mark Zuckerberg's choice to worry about growth instead of revenue, but he at least seems to be succeeding in this respect.

Blogging To Build Buzz About Your Business

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:32:00 +0000

While blogs are now considered mainstream with more businesses using them to get their message out, just how are they building buzz online? The SES session "Blogging For Business" has the answers.

(Coverage of SES Chicago continues at WebProNews Videos. Keep an eye on WebProNews for more notes and videos from the event this week.)

Jennifer Evans Laycock, Editor-in Chief, Search Engine Guide, said everyone is blogging. "The recession we are in make blogs essential." Blogs are cost efficient especially if you have a tight marketing budget.

Reasons for blogs:

Showcase your personality

Create a feedback cycle

Build a loyal community

Create an emotional investment

Increase your credibility

Laycock said," The value of your blog is the conversation that takes place in your comments."

Leave it open-ended and integrate media into your blog. Engage with your readers-comment back.

People don't trust ads but there is trust online with friends and strangers who have credibility.

Blogging is as effective as word-of-mouth.

Easy blog marketing:

Comment early (gets attention of other readers)

Frequent comments

Spread comments

Comment late (to get attention of the blogger)

Pitching a blogger

Use real language

Respect their time
Develop a friendship

"Whatever industry you're in, start building relationships now in the community because you may need to pitch something in the future," Laycock said.

Before pitching a blogger:

Address them by name

Make sure you have the correct personal email address

Spell check

Send individual emails

Be transparent

Familiarize yourself with their readers

Make sure your pitch is relevant to their readers

Proofread

Bill Balderaz, President and Founder of Webbed Marketing, said blogging is good for businesses that are fast, flexible, can be experimental, and are working with limited budgets.

Engage in customer conversations and respond to negative comments.

"Blogging is less expensive per impression and has measurement capability," Balderaz said.

Obama Looks To Give Digital Economy A Shot In The Arm

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:38:00 +0000

Pledging to "renew our information superhighway," President-elect Barack Obama this month offered a broad outline of an economic stimulus plan that will likely include increased spending on broadband access and other IT initiatives.

The stimulus plan, which Obama detailed in bare-bones fashion during his weekly video address on Dec. 6, could lead to wider availability of broadband services, particularly in rural areas. It also may fund new computers for schools and technologies that can help reduce medical costs.

The plan's overall cost is expected to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars, so the amount of money that will be made available for IT-related investments could be quite large.

James Gabberty, a professor at Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems in New York, said it's hard to measure the impact of tech spending on productivity. There's no way to quantify, for instance, that "the growth of a nation's goods and services will be x if you spend y number of dollars on hardware, software and communications gear," he said.

But Robert Atkinson, who heads the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) in Washington, thinks tech investments will help stimulate the economy. While many traditional economists focus on projects such as building roads and bridges, "we need to expand our vision" to include IT, said Atkinson, who is working with federal agencies as a member of Obama's transition team.

In a paper published in October, the ITIF argued that IT investments produce outsized productivity gains. And in discussing a possible stimulus plan, the nonpartisan think thank said that the U.S. can't afford to focus only on a "consumption-based [effort] that leaves the nation with little to show after consumers spend the money and the economy gets back on track."

One step that the ITIF recommended to spur corporate technology buying is to allow companies to write off all such purchases for tax purposes during 2009.

Broadband expansion is likely to be a priority for Obama's administration. Although the U.S. currently has about 75 million broadband users, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ranks it only 15th out of 30 industrialized countries on broadband adoption. In his speech, Obama called the level of access in the U.S. "unacceptable."

Even now, only about two-thirds of Americans have a computer at home, according to the ITIF. Atkinson said the federal government could increase PC ownership through a program that subsidizes the cost of computers and Internet access. For less than $1 billion, the U.S. could help about 1.5 million households get online, he claimed.

Obama also said he wants to ensure that every hospital and doctor in the U.S. "is using cutting-edge technology and electronic medical records, so that we can cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes and help save billions of dollars each year."

The Arizona Telemedicine Program is employing technology to do just that. For instance, the program, which is funded by the state government and based at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, created a teletrauma service that enables trauma specialists to assist medical facilities in remote areas. Using cameras, videoconferencing equipment and remote sensors, the specialists can examine a patient's injuries and view X-rays.

Dr. Ronald Weinstein, the program's director, said the telemedicine initiative has helped save lives and reduce costs -- in some cases by eliminating the need to fly patients to hospitals for specialized treatment.

Weinstein said he hopes Obama will continue to fund a telemonitoring program at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. As part of that program, cell phones are used to prompt patients to take medications or to deliver messages related to their individual medical needs. Cell phones, Weinstein said, are becoming "central to the delivery" of health care services.

Nokia Readies HSDPA Dongle For Laptops

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:14:00 +0000

Nokia will ship a USB HSDPA 3G dongle early next year in a bid to grab a share of the growing laptop-oriented mobile broadband business.

To date, Nokia has left the modem market to others, allowing Chinese connectivity specialist Huawei to grab the lion's share of the business, which it's battling the likes of Sierra Wireless and Novatel Wireless for.

All three sell their products primarily to carriers for rebranding - Huawei is behind dongles offered by 3, BT and Vodafone, for instance; Sierra makes O2's USB Business Modem - and, according to Nokia hardware VP Tapio Markki, quoted by Reuters, that's what the Finnish phone giant hopes to do too.

Huawei deserves special mention for its Linux support. While all the main modem makers provide Linux drivers - or at least instructions on how to get their products working under the open source OS - Huawei has been the only vendor to fully engage with the emerging netbook market, and provide software for these machines' often idiosyncratic Linux distros.

A couple of years ago, Nokia attempted to get into the market for internal 3G modems, in a partnership with Intel. But the relationship was short-lived, and the two canned the project a year later.

YouTube Grabs 100 Million Video Viewers

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:03:00 +0000

U.S. Internet users watched 13.5 billion online videos during October, marking a 45 percent increase compared to a year ago, according to comScore Video Metrix.

In October, Google sites once again dominated, ranking as the top U.S. video property with 5.3 billion videos viewed (representing a 40 percent share of all video viewed) with YouTube accounting for more than 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property.

Fox Interactive Media ranked a distant second with 520 million videos (3.8%), followed by Yahoo sites with 363 million (2.7%), and Viacom Digital with 305 million (2.3 %).

Microsoft sites rounded out the top five with 286 million videos viewed (2.1%) Hulu, the joint venture between NBC and Fox featuring full-length broadcast TV programs, took the sixth spot with 235 million videos viewed (1.7%).

More than 147 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 92 videos per viewer in October. Google sites attracted a record 100 million online video viewers, or more than two out of every three Internet users who watched video during the month.

Fox Interactive took the second spot with 60.8 million viewers, followed by Yahoo sites (45.2 million), Microsoft sites (30.7 million) and Viacom Digital with 25.6 million

More than three quarters (77%) of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video. The average online video viewer watched 274 minutes of video.

There were 99.5 million viewers that watched 5.3 billion videos on YouTube (53.2 videos per viewer) and 51.2 million who watched 520 million videos on MySpace (8 videos per viewer).

The length of the average online video was 3 minutes. The duration of the average online video viewed at Hulu was 11.6 minutes, higher than any other video property in the top ten.

Champions League Review

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:07:00 +0000

Group E
Manchester United were held to a 2-2 draw by Aalborg but still topped their Champions League group as Villarreal were beaten 2-0 by Celtic.

Carlos Tevez gave United the lead after three minutes but Aalborg equalised when Michael Jakobsen headed home.

Jeppe Curth's header on the stroke of half-time gave Aalborg a shock lead but United salvaged a draw when Wayne Rooney finished powerfully.

Villarreal had been hoping United would slip up, so they could leapfrog them at the top of the group but they became Celtic's only scalp of the campaign.

Shaun Maloney put the Scottish side ahead and Villarreal's task became even harder when they had Guille Franco sent off. Aiden McGeady got bottom-placed Celtic's second as they ended a disappointing campaign on a high note.

Group F
Bayern Munich finished top of the group after a 3-2 win at Lyon, who have to be content with the runners-up spot.

Germany forward Miroslav Klose put Bayern ahead before Luca Toni set up Franck Ribery for the second goal, and Ribery turned provider for Klose as Lyon fell apart.

Sidney Govou pulled a goal back for the French side and Karim Benzema added a second, but Bayern hung on.

Alberto Gilardino headed in the only goal to give Fiorentina victory over Steaua Bucharest and with it a place in the Uefa Cup.

Gilardino headed into the far right side of the net after a corner from Juan Manuel Vargas before Steaua were reduced to 10 men when Pawel Golanski was sent off in the 72nd minute for a second yellow card.

Group G
Arsenal failed to take the point they needed to finish top of the group as their young side were outplayed by Porto, who claimed a 2-0 victory and their place at the summit.

Bruno Alves headed Porto in front and Lisandro Lopez doubled the lead with a cool finish as the Portuguese champions faced little resistance from a poor Gunners side.

Roman Eremenko scored a first-half goal to give Dynamo Kiev a 1-0 win over Fenerbahce and a spot in the Uefa Cup.

The midfielder collected Artem Milevskiy's reverse pass from the left and struck a precise left-footed shot that went between the legs of Volkan Demirel.

Group H
Juventus were held to a 0-0 draw by BATE Borisov, but the point was all the Italians needed to finish top of the group.

Juve midfielder Marco Marchionni hit the post with a header two minutes before his team-mate Sebastiano Giovinco missed a penalty in the 53rd minute, blazing his shot over the bar.

Raul Gonzalez became the all-time leading scorer in Uefa competitions as he notched twice in Real Madrid's 3-0 win over Zenit St Petersburg.

The Spanish forward broke the deadlock when Zenit goalkeeper Vyacheslav Malafeev failed to hold a cross and Arjen Robben doubled the lead.

Raul then scored his 66th European goal - an exquisite chip - to complete a comfortable victory and give new coach Juande Ramos the perfect start to his tenure.

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The eight group winners going into the last 16 draw are: Roma, Panathinaikos, Barcelona, Liverpool, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Porto and Juventus.

The eight runners-up are: Chelsea, Inter Milan, Sporting Lisbon, Atletico Madrid, Villarreal, Lyon, Arsenal and Madrid.

The eight third-place teams which drop into the Uefa Cup are: Bordeaux, Werder Bremen, Shakhtar Donetsk, Marseille, Aalborg, Fiorentina, Dynamo Kiev and defending champions Zenit St Petersburg.

20 Ways To Increase Your Alexa Rank

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:47:00 +0000

Here is a collection of methods you can use to boost your Alexa Rank. Most of these tips are derived from several fellow webmasters I know who claimed to have derived positive results through their experiments with the Alexa Rankings.

Some of the other tips were derived articles and sources, which I have duly referenced at the end of this post.

Do these tips work? According to some, yes they definitely do work. But do note that most of them require active effort of some sort and hence, they will work as long as long as you are consistently performing specific actions.

To increase your Alexa rank in the long run, I would highly recommended that one focus on developing quality content which attracts and maintains a large audience instead of purely focusing on artificially increasing your Alexa Rank.

Great link-worthy content will leads to an natural increase in site traffic and is an excellent way to passively increase your Alexa rank.

It is important to emphasize that you should devote most of your efforts in growing your site audience alongside integrated implementation of any of the following tips below.

Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.
Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.
Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers. Be sure to link to Alexa’s full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.
Work in an Office or own a company? Get the Alexa toolbar or SS Firefox extension installed on all computers and set your website as the homepage for all browsers. Perhaps it will be useful to note that this may work only when dynamic or different IPs are used.
Get friends to review and rate your Alexa website profile. Not entirely sure of its impact on rankings but it might help in some way.
Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.
Flaunt your URL in webmaster forums. Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed. You’ll get webmasters to visit your website and offer useful feedback. It’s also a good way to give back to the community if you have useful articles to share with others.
Write content that is related to webmasters. This can fall in the category of domaining and SEO, two fields in which most webmasters will have the Alexa toolbar installed. Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums.
Use Alexa redirects on your website URL. Try this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.doshdosh.com . Replace doshdosh.com with the URL for your website. Leave this redirected URL in blog comments as well as forum signatures. This redirect will count a unique IP address once a day so clicking it multiple times won’t help. There is no official proof that redirects positively benefit your Alexa Rank, so use with caution.
Post in Asian social networking websites or forums. Some webmasters have suggested that East Asian web users are big Alexa toolbar fans, judging by the presence of several Asia-based websites in the Alexa Top 500. I suggest trying this only if you have the time or capacity to do so.
Create a webmaster tools section on your website. This is a magnet for webmasters who will often revisit your website to gain access to the tools. Aaron Wall’s webpage on SEOTools is a very good example.
Get Dugg or Stumbled. This usually brings massive numbers of visitors to your website and the sheer amount will have a positive impact on your Alexa Rank. Naturally, you’ll need to develop link worthy material.
Use PayperClick Campaigns. Buying advertisements on search engines such as Google or Exact Seek will help bring in Traffic. Doubly useful when your ad is highly relevant to webmasters.
Create an Alexa category on your blog and use it to include any articles or news about Alexa. This acts as an easily accessible resource for webmasters or casual search visitors while helping you rank in the search engines.
Optimize your popular posts. Got a popular post that consistently receives traffic from the search engines? Include a widget/graph at the bottom of the post, link to your Alexa post or use Alexa redirection on your internal URLs.
Buy banners and links for traffic from webmaster forums and websites. A prominent and well displayed ad will drive lots of webmaster traffic to your website, which can significantly boost your rank.
Hire forum posters to pimp your website. Either buy signatures in webmaster forums or promote specific articles or material in your website on a regular basis. You can easily find posters for hire in Digital Point and other webmaster forums.
Pay Cybercafe owners to install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as the homepage for all their computers. This might be difficult to arrange and isn’t really a viable solution for most. I’m keeping this one in because some have suggested that it does work.
Use MySpace . This is a little shady so I don’t recommended it unless you’re really interested in artificially inflating your Alexa Rank. Use visually attractive pictures or banners and link them to your redirected Alexa URL. This will be most effective if your website has content that is actually relevant to the MySpace Crowd.
Try Alexa auto-surfs. Do they work? Maybe for brand new sites. I think they are mostly suitable for new websites with a very poor Alexa rank. Note that there be problems when you try to use auto surfs alongside contextual ads like Adsense. They aren’t also long term solutions to improving your Alexa Rank so I suggest using with caution.

Source

Champions League Review

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:32:00 +0000

Group A
Roma claimed top spot after a 2-0 win over Bordeaux, a result which ended the French side's hopes of progress.

Matteo Brighi slotted in a low Simone Perrotta cross to break the deadlock just after the hour mark before Francesco Totti fired in from the edge of the box.

Chelsea took second place with a nervous 2-1 win over Cluj, who had already been condemned to bottom place.

The Blues, needing a win to guarantee a place in the last 16, went ahead when Salomon Kalou deftly controlled and finished Deco's free-kick, but Yssouf Kone equalised with a superb header.

Substitute Didier Drogba sealed victory for Luiz Felipe Scolari's side with a sharp finish after a slick move.

Progress for Chelsea means England and Spain will both provide four teams in the last 16, the first time two nations have achieved the feat.

Group B
Inter Milan had to settle for second place behind Panathinaikos after a 2-1 defeat at Werder Bremen.

Following a drab first half, Claudio Pizarro put the hosts ahead after Mesut Ozil's shot had been saved and Markus Rosenberg made it 2-0.

Substitute Zlatan Ibrahimovic curled in a stunning 25-yard consolation, but Werder held on to seal a place in the Uefa Cup.

Cypriot side Anorthosis Famagusta came into their match against Panathinaikos with a chance of progress to the last 16 in their debut season - but ultimately went out of European competition altogether.

Midfielder Giorgos Karagounis won it for the Greeks with the only goal of the game, collecting a cross from Dimitris Salpingidis and firing in a shot that squirmed over the body of substitute goalkeeper Zoltan Nagy.

Group C
The Group C placings had already been decided before the final round of games.

First-placed Barcelona fielded a weakened side at the Nou Camp and saw their 20-match unbeaten run ended by Uefa Cup-bound Shakhtar Donetsk.

A brace from Oleksandr Gladkyy put the Ukrainians in control before Silvinho pulled one back.

Fernandinho finished a cross at the far post to restore the Ukrainians' two-goal advantage before Sergio Busquets notched a consolation eight minutes from time.

Basle ended their campaign on a solitary point after a 1-0 defeat at Sporting Lisbon.

Sporting, who won thanks to Yannick Djalo's first-half goal, finished second in the group on 12 points.

Group D
Liverpool claimed top spot in Group D with an impressive 3-1 win at PSV, who missed out on the Uefa Cup.

Rafael Benitez's side went behind to an early Danko Lazovic goal, but Ryan Babel headed in an equaliser before half-time.

Albert Riera's superb 25-yard strike put the visitors ahead and David Ngog's first goal for the club wrapped up the win.

Atletico Madrid had to match Liverpool's result to finish top but could only manage a 0-0 draw away to Marseille, a result which was enough for the French side to clinch a Uefa Cup place.

Alexa The Web Information

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:24:00 +0000

About Alexa Internet
Founded in April 1996, Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and constantly improving with the participation of its users. Along the way Alexa has developed an installed based of millions of toolbars, one of the largest Web crawls and an infrastructure to process and serve massive amounts of data.

For users of Alexa's Toolbar and web site this has resulted in products that have revolutionized Web navigation and intelligence. For developers this has resulted in a set of tools unprecedented in scope allowing whole new services to be created on the Alexa data and platform.

Alexa Products and Services
Alexa Toolbar
Alexa could not exist without the participation of the Alexa Toolbar community. Each member of the community, in addition to getting a useful tool, is giving back. Simply by using the toolbar each member contributes valuable information about the web, how it is used, what is important and what is not. This information is returned to the community as Related Links, Traffic Rankings and more.

Want to help? Install the Alexa Toolbar, and tell your friends. The more people use Alexa, the more useful it will be.

Alexa.com
Alexa's Web site is built on the notion that timely and relevant information is essential to a vital web experience.

Alexa Search and Browse - Alexa has taken search and browse to the next level and made it more complete, more relevant and more useful. Some key features include thumbnail images of sites and traffic information both of which help you to make quick decisions about which results are useful to you and which are not. Try Search and Browse.

Alexa Site Information - Alexa has built an unparalleled database of information about sites that includes statistics, related links and more. All of this information can be found on Alexa's Site Overview pages, Traffic Detail pages and Related Links pages. To access these pages, simply type the URL of any site into the Alexa Search box.

Alexa Top Sites - Alexa has lists of Top Sites available by country, language or in a category. You can download a CSV file of up to 100,000 global top sites that includes estimates of monthly visitors and pageviews.

Webmaster Services
Alexa has created a series of tools specifically for web site owners. These tools can help to drive traffic, make money, find broken links and more!

Alexa Web Services
In November 2005, Alexa released Alexa Web Information Service V 1.0 on the Amazon.com Web Services platform. Gain access to Alexa's processed information about the Web, including traffic details, related links and more.

Suggestions And Criticism

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:27:00 +0000

Have any suggestions? criticism? Ideas? Or anythink about this blog.

Please, Post a Comment here. I’ll consider it. And, you know, I’ll even give credit if I use it

Thanks for all.

AMD Rolls Out First Phenom IIs

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:16:00 +0000

AMD doesn't appear to have said as much itself, but one report claims the chip maker has today formally announced its Phenom II processor.

The claim comes from US site EE Times. Since North American journalists are only now climbing out of bed, we imagine the story comes from a pre-briefing given to the title and presumably scheduled to go live today.

Early or not, the cat's out of the sack, and - as expected - AMD's latest quad-core desktop offering is a 3GHz chip fabbed at 45nm with a Socket AM3 interconnect and a memory controller capable of connecting to DDR2 and DDR 3 memory, the latter clocked at up to 1333MHz.

AMD is also launching a 65nm version that's limited to DDR 2 and use the Socket AM2+ interconnect.

The 3GHz Phenom II X4 is priced at $275 - a cheaper, $235 version runs at 2.8GHz. EE Times didn't provide the model numbers, but World+Dog knows them to be the 940 and the 920, with the AM3 versions numbered 945 and 925.

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noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:51:00 +0000

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Charge Handphone

noreply@blogger.com (Rahman Sidik) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:55:00 +0000

Don't charge your cellular the whole night and put it close to your ear when you are charging it.

Never answer the phone when it is charged.

Few days ago, there was a guy who is charging his cellular at his house

At the same time, there is a phone call and he answered the phone without unplug the electricity,

A few second later the electricity shocked him unexpectedly and that young guy was thrown to the floor hardly.

The parents came to the room and found out that he was collapse. His heart beat was so weak and his fingers were burned.

They took him to the close hospital, unfortunately he passed away as soon as he arrived at the hospital.

Handphone is a functional new technology that can help people for faster communication.

But, we have to be careful because HP can cause death.