INFOGRAPHIC: Internet In China Is Getting Faster

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China reportedly has larger online population than the general population in the U.S.
It was said that, Broadband speed in China (the rate at which devices can access data from the Internet) appears to be behind the country’s rapid growth in online population South Korea has the fastest average broadband in the world at 15.7-Mbps; the U.S. is currently 12th at 6.7-Mbps. 

Akamai State of the Internet reports that, the global average broadband speed is 2.6-Mbps. China is slightly below average at 2.07-Mbps, according to ChinaCache - a leading content delivery provider.

Recently, ChinaCache used the information compiled to create the following graphic, which offers insight and perspective on the largest Internet landscape in the world.



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Business: A Startup Marketplace that Connects Fashion Brands With Boutiques

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Some pals asked me if I can fish out the best online store for them to buy in retail, as a Marketplace..  So here we go folks.
In March 2010, Bijoor launched Joor, an online wholesale marketplace that connects retail buyers with designers and brands. Brands can upload their collections to Joor, reach out to store buyers that might want to carry their merchandise (rather than cold calling over the phone) and process orders. Buyers, in turn, can discover new designers and submit orders.

Joor makes money by charging brands a $3,500 setup fee and a 3% cut of every sale. Competitors includeBalluun, Brandboom and Boutique Fashion Brokers.

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More About Joor
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 Name: Joor
Description: An online marketplace that connects fashion buyers with brands.
 Idea: Joor makes wholesale buying more like shopping at your favorite online store.


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How To Get SMS Alerts Anytime your Site Goes Down

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I have been thinking of a trick or way to get notified with my local blog and website anytime there are down, but I couldn't find any until yesterday.. Or don't you think it's a nice and more easier stuff for you to use a text messages set up, that will let you know anytime your website is down.This is a best tutorial for developers and site owners.. I know you'll love it because i do!

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Register your mobile phone with Google Calendar

 You have to first set up your phone number in Google Calendar in order to receive texts, and that's after you've already signed up. Follow this step to do this;

Sign into Google Calendar, and click on the cog icon at the top. Click "Calendar Settings".
Then click on "Mobile Setup", and then choose your country.
Enter your phone number, then you will be sent a verification code with that same number on your mobile. After the code sent received then,enter the code in the Verification Code field, and click Finish Setup. 
That means your number (mobile) has now been set up... Now 
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How to monitor your site with email and sms:

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You need nothing than to create a copy of a spreadsheet document in your Google Docs. 
You will have to click on the link, and click on Yes when you saw any notification, then make a copy. After this you will see a spreadsheet document open up, it look like this picture below or similar to it.

Spreadsheet

Just fill in your website URL and your email address. It accepts multiple URLs, but you have to separate them with commas (as shown on the sheet). 
Next is to put an email that you will get notified of any changes in your website's/websites' up-time status. So if you will like to also get an mobile phone notification, then set SMS notifications to Yes.
After that, Click on the Website Monitor button from your menu and click Initialize, and the script will run.
To grant the access to your Google Calendar data will be required, so just grant permission, and Once this is done, return to the Website Monitoring option in your menu, and click on Start Monitoring.

Folks, you've finished the settings and congrats!!!

Note: Sometimes, you may want to enable/disable SMS alerts or even disable the script. And to disable the script, just simply erase the email field and that's all.

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About Google Calender
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Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. It became available on April 13, 2006, and exited the beta stage in July 2009. Users are required to have a Google Account in order to use the software.

Google integrated Google Calendar with Gmail (its e-mail service). When sending a message to someone, you can choose to attach an event invitation. Clicking on the option brings up a form. Once you fill out the form, Google Calendar puts the event on your calendar. If the recipient has a compatible calendar program (like Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook), accepting the invitation results in a new scheduled event on his or her own calendar.

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BlackBerry 10: How RIM might reel you in. Really

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I posted an article few days ago about the new BlackBerry (read article here), and thanks to readers.. But now its about how the BlackBerry company known has RIM might surprise there fans, and how the company might REEL their lovers in the big time. 

Now, with the company having a new leadership team, the company is hoping to bounce back with BlackBerry 10. The phones that will be approaching the market as a hungry and unproven challenger. And to make this happen, the company needs to scramble to build some buzz and make up for lost time over the next few months leading up to its launch early next year.


 RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said on Tuesday that the company has a "clear shot" at being the No. 3 smartphone player behind Google's Android and Apple's iPhone. 
"RIM's BlackBerry 10 mobile platform is a make-or-break event for the company," said Cowen analyst Matthew Hoffman.

But for the new BlackBerry to be on top of the smartphone market; there are many advice, reviews and speculation. But I am going to give the summary of a Cnet article, (you can read the full here).

Spend 'til you drop 
With so many smartphones angling for prime position in the mindset of consumers, marketing can make all the difference.

How much is enough to spend? The campaign for the original Droid from Motorola, which was largely backed by Verizon Wireless, is said to have been over $100 million. Samsung has almost certainly spent as much, if not more, on its Galaxy S campaign over the past few years.
Nokia in its push for the Lumia 900, with AT&T took over all of the billboards of Times Square and held a quick concert with Nikki Minaj in an attempt to drum up attention for the phone. 


 Nicki Minaj performed a quick concert amid
 the flashing banners promoting the Lumia 900.

The telecommunications industry is second to the automakers when it comes to spending on advertising, according to Roger Entner, a consultant at Recon Analytics.
"It's a game for the big boys," he said.

A company like Apple has enough built-in buzz that it doesn't have to be too proactive with marketing (check the Apple's iphone commercial here), but that's different for the likes of RIM. It needs to be more aggressive than ever if it wants to make dent in the public's awareness of its new phones. Samsung already has a proven hit with the Galaxy S III, but that hasn't stopped it from bombarding the airwaves with non-stop commercial.

"RIM will have to spend a fortune in market education across all channels," Lopez said. "Fortunately they get this and have a plan for it."
Boulben said he is working with carriers to train the in-store staff and call centers, as well as working together on promotional materials.
"We are going to have a high level of cooperation and partnership," he said.

 Be specific 
RIM needs to avoid going the clever route and create commercials and ads that effectively communicate the advantages of BlackBerry 10. The company talked about the new navigation scheme, "Flow," and a way to access apps seamlessly, "Peak." It needs to demonstrate why a consumer would care, and how they help improve one's daily life.

It seems RIM understand that. "Our marketing approach will be very much about showing, not telling," Boulben said, adding that the focus will be on specific examples of each feature.

Apple and Samsung's ads are effective because they specifically show how their signature features allow their phones to stand out from the pack. Check the Apple's iphone commercial here.

RIM will likely get more exposure thanks to the carriers. With few other phones launching in the first quarter, and the company's promises of wide carrier support, BlackBerry 10 could benefit from a solo run.
"They've seen BB10 and they love it," Boulben said. "We will have strong backing from carriers."

 RIM can't just rely on the carriers, it needs to have its own voice.
That's a voice, by the way, that shouldn't include a creepy woman and lots of ambiguous circular imagery.

CNET writer Casey Newton rightly compares the challenges to the ones that Windows Phone has faced over the past year.

Don't be petty 
The smartphone world has seen a lot of sniping between companies. For a company struggling to get back on top, going after more popular rivals is a bad idea.

Take Nokia's campaign for the Lumia 900. The company announced to the world that the "smartphone beta test was over," calling all past phones a trial run leading up to the supposedly perfect Lumia 900.




"Nokia's campaign was atrocious," said Roger Entner, a consultant with Recon Analytics. "To launch your phone as the first real smartphone...you're just asking for it."

"You want to talk positively about your products," Entner said. "If you talk about your competitors, you look petty and give them airtime.

RIM's BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha unit is a hint of what next year's products will look like.
(Credit: Lynn La/CNET )

"Consumers want to have a better product and better experience. Show me that better experience in the form of a funny story in 30 seconds. That wins."
The sad truth is even after all of this, there's a chance RIM can fail. There's only so much room for multiple mobile operating systems, and the carriers aren't going to go out of their way to back a struggling No. 4 player.
The next few months will show how big of bang RIM wants to make as it launches what is poised to be its last, best shot at a comeback.

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Google Adds YouTube Support To Google Takeout, Now Lets You Download Your Original Video Files

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Google just added a new feature to Google Takeout, the company’s “data liberation” service for downloading your personal data from Google’s various services. Starting today, you will also be able to easily download the videos you previously uploaded to YouTube.

The files you download from Takeout are exactly the same files you previously uploaded. These files will not feature the transcoding or transformations that YouTube generally applies to your videos before they go live on YouTube.  YouTube engineer Brian Hawkins describes this process in the announcement today as “Your videos in. Your videos out.”

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Pic: The making of an iPhone

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Foxconn making iPHONE
Apple hires Foxconn to make most of its iPhones. And Foxconn in return, hires very large amount of Chinese to do the labor. The Apple jobs are in such high demand that workers line up at recruiters outside Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory.
 

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The Top five portable drives

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Following are the top five external hard drives on the market now that collectively offer all the goodies of the external storage world: speed, storage space, data safety, portability, and, of course, sexiness. They are sorted in the order Cnet reviewed with the most recently reviewed on top.


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LaCie Rugged USB 3.0 Thunderbolt
The LaCie Rugged USB 3.0 Thunderbolt is the third Thunderbolt portable on the market that's bus-powered, meaning you don't need a separate power adapter for it. It supports both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0, and comes in both solid-state drive (SSD) and hard-drive versions. 


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WD My Passport Edge
The new WD My Passport Edge is the latest in WD's My Passport family of portable drives. The new drive is now much more compact and light, while still offering very good USB 3.0 performance. The drive is designed for Windows PCs (though can easily be reformatted for Macs) and comes with very useful backup software. With a single capacity of 500GB.



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Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt
The Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt portable drive,  was the first Thunderbolt storage device on the market to also support USB 3.0. And it was the first to come with a Thunderbolt cable included, setting a new precedent that has been followed by other drives, such as the LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt above. Available in 500GB and 1TB capacities, the hard-drive-based Buffalo performed well in my testing. It also looks great. It comes formatted for Macs but can be easily reformatted to work with Windows.

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Seagate Backup Plus
The Backup Plus (available in 500GB, 650GB, and 1TB capacities) is the latest portable hard drive from Seagate, replacing the company's popular GoFlex line, which was first introduced back in 2001 and is known for being extremely flexible.
 Read the full review of the Seagate Backup Plus.





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WD My Passport
Western Digital's new My Passport is the first portable drive that offers up to 2TB of storage space.The new My Passport comes in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities and will make a great companion for those who want to carry a lot of data on the go. 



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Digsby, Owned By Social Network Tagged, Is Now Open Source And Living On GitHub

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The social/instant messaging client bought by social network Tagged in April 2011 and effectively put into an idle state soon after: it has now been taken open source, with its code now living on GitHub.

“They have expertise and technology in real-time communications which we want to use to push into instant messaging, group chat, video chat, etc. IM is our most requested feature on Tagged,” said Tagged’s CEO Greg Tseng at the time.

“The Disgby product has remained its own entity since its acquisition and is not integrated into Tagged,” a spokesperson confirms. However, the team’s expertise did make it in. “The Digsby team was deployed into various areas within Tagged, including mobile offerings, internal tools development and other site features. “ Digsby’s founder, Steve Shapiro, is now Tagged’s director of product management.

When Digsby was acquired by Tagged, it had some 3 million users of its messaging client, and this is a number that the company says is now higher and “definitely growing.” 

“As a team of passionate open source users, we felt that Digsby’s bright future should be driven both by Tagged and the development community that has so often sung its praises,” says Tseng. Indeed, it was some frustrated parts of that community that had been requesting an open source Digby for some time now.

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Study: Faces Too Close In Photo Perceived As Less Attractive, Trustworthy, And Competent

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New findings and research have concluded that Too close headshot may ignore an important factor in how people judge trustworthiness, attractiveness, and competence...

 What? Yes!

 Roonie Bryan, who published the findings and soon to be quoted in every campaign and cosmetic shop in the USA in this week’s issue of open-access journal, PLoS ONE says;
“It turns out that faces photographed quite close-up are geometrically warped, compared to photos taken at a larger distance.” 


Before you readers voice out your suprise, all I'm saying here is that, if you spend some time planning a picture, you should also put distance into consideration, according to this interesting piece of research.
[Source: ScienceDaily]

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Most European Languages Unlikely to Survive Online

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Languages are often automatically translated by comparing each new sentence against thousands of sentences previously translated  by people and stored in a database. The better the match, the more accurate the result. But statistical methods are doomed to fail in the case of languages with smaller pools of sample data, the study said.

The study, “Europe’s Languages in the Digital Age,” was carried out by META-NET, a European nonprofit that aims to future-proof at least 30 of the 80 languages spoken in Europe. META-NET has designated Sept. 26 as The European Day of Languages.
META-NET says the gaps in technology across European languages must be overcome to establish a single digital market, one where language does not hamper the flow of information. But the barriers are huge, they say. The deep-rooted English-language focus of most research and development is one big hurdle. In addition, Europe’s oldest languages are imperiled by the inherent difficulties, little interest and insufficient funds on the part of tech companies.

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