Google revamps its mobile strategy with new phone
Google Inc took the wraps off a new smartphone that it will sell directly to consumers, aiming to boost its position in the emerging mobile Internet market by exerting greater control over the new generation of Web-surfing devices.
The sleek touchscreen phone, dubbed the Nexus One, is Google's boldest foray outside its traditional Internet home turf and represents the first time the 11-year-old company will sell a consumer electronics device bearing its well-known brand.
But analysts say the phone is not as revolutionary in design as Apple Inc's iPhone was. Tech websites and forums gave Google favorable reviews but also noted the new phone was not that different from others in the market that run Google's Android software, such as Motorola's Droid.
The Nexus One ships immediately and exclusively from Google's online store for $179 with a two-year contract from Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA, or $529 without a service plan.
The more expensive unlocked phone, analysts say, is priced too high to dramatically alter the relationship between carriers and hardware vendors in which wireless service providers have traditionally controlled handset distribution in the U.S.
It "wasn't the game-changer people thought it could be," Canaccord Adams analyst Jeff Rath said. Google could have shaken up the industry by offering the device for free, but instead chose more traditional pricing, he said.
(For Reuters Insider coverage, click http://link.reuters.com/wek89g)
Executives said the phone could be profitable for Google, though analysts are not forecasting a revenue windfall in the short term.
But the move, which Google announced at a press event at its Mountain View, California headquarters on Tuesday, raises the stakes in the fast-growing smartphone business which it entered two years ago by developing the free Android software for smartphones made by other companies.
The highly anticipated Nexus One, which Google designed in close collaboration with hardware maker HTC, could provide Google with a viable challenge to the iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry.
Google's decision to sell its own Google-branded phones is "a sea change in terms of Google now owning the customer, making the carrier a little bit less relevant to the conversation and maintaining more control over the hardware and software experience because they realize they're competing with players like Apple and the iPhone," said Michael Gartenberg, vice president of strategy and analysis at market research firm Interpret.
The Nexus One is the first of a variety of smartphones that Google said were in the pipeline as the company seeks to expand its reach from the PC to the mobile world and ensure its online products and ads get prominent placement on a new breed of wireless Internet devices.
Executives said that in the spring Google will sell phones that use Verizon Wireless's network in the United States and Vodafone's in Europe. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone.
WAIT AND SEE
According to Forrester research, 17 percent of U.S. mobile phone users had smartphones at the end of 2009, up from 11 percent a year earlier.
Investors are taking a wait-and-see view on Google's first effort to sell a hardware product directly to consumers.
Google's stock has risen about 7 percent since the start of December, setting a 52-week high of $629.51 on Monday. But analysts say that was driven by improvements in its core business of Internet search advertising, rather than the prospect of tapping a new pool of revenue selling smartphones.
Its shares closed 0.44 percent down at $623.99.
Google executives declined to provide financial targets for the new phone, though Vice President of Engineering Andy Rubin said the company would not lose money by selling the phone.
By selling the phone directly to consumers, Rubin said that Google would be able to cut out extra retailing costs and ultimately deliver phones with lower price tags.
"There's a lot of people in the value chain who don't need to be there," said Rubin. "And then prices can go down, iteration can happen quicker, distribution can be wider."
Some analysts were positive on Google's effort to continue to establish the Android as a popular operating system for smartphones and wireless devices.
"It will help them keep consistency for Android platform," said Jim McGregor, Chief Technology Strategist for In-Stat.
The new phone helps Google "get their partners all on developing a single platform that applications can be developed on."
The Nexus One is 11.5 millimeters (0.5 inch) thick and weighs 130 grams (4.6 ounces) -- which executives said was lighter than a Swiss Army knife and no thicker than a No. 2 pencil.
The phone will feature a 3.7-inch (9.4 centimeter) touchscreen display. It will run the 2.1 version of the Android operating system and feature OLED display technology, a trackball for user interface control, an accelerometer chip, and a 5 megapixel camera.
Forrester analyst Charles Golvin said the Nexus One was an impressive looking device, even if it doesn't represent the kind of "quantum leap" forward in terms of technology as the iPhone did when it was first released in 2007.
Google worked closely with HTC to develop its phone, which uses a 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm Inc.
Motorola, which is banking on the Android system to power a new generation of smartphones to revitalize a flagging business, said it welcomed the competition. Co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha told Google's audience he did not see the Nexus One as a threat, but as an expansion of the market.
(Additional reporting by Gabriel Madway and Ian Sherr; Editing by Edwin Chan, Phil Berlowitz and Tiffany Wu)
Alexei Oreskovic
Source: Yahoo NEWS
The sleek touchscreen phone, dubbed the Nexus One, is Google's boldest foray outside its traditional Internet home turf and represents the first time the 11-year-old company will sell a consumer electronics device bearing its well-known brand.
But analysts say the phone is not as revolutionary in design as Apple Inc's iPhone was. Tech websites and forums gave Google favorable reviews but also noted the new phone was not that different from others in the market that run Google's Android software, such as Motorola's Droid.
The Nexus One ships immediately and exclusively from Google's online store for $179 with a two-year contract from Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA, or $529 without a service plan.
The more expensive unlocked phone, analysts say, is priced too high to dramatically alter the relationship between carriers and hardware vendors in which wireless service providers have traditionally controlled handset distribution in the U.S.
It "wasn't the game-changer people thought it could be," Canaccord Adams analyst Jeff Rath said. Google could have shaken up the industry by offering the device for free, but instead chose more traditional pricing, he said.
(For Reuters Insider coverage, click http://link.reuters.com/wek89g)
Executives said the phone could be profitable for Google, though analysts are not forecasting a revenue windfall in the short term.
But the move, which Google announced at a press event at its Mountain View, California headquarters on Tuesday, raises the stakes in the fast-growing smartphone business which it entered two years ago by developing the free Android software for smartphones made by other companies.
The highly anticipated Nexus One, which Google designed in close collaboration with hardware maker HTC, could provide Google with a viable challenge to the iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry.
Google's decision to sell its own Google-branded phones is "a sea change in terms of Google now owning the customer, making the carrier a little bit less relevant to the conversation and maintaining more control over the hardware and software experience because they realize they're competing with players like Apple and the iPhone," said Michael Gartenberg, vice president of strategy and analysis at market research firm Interpret.
The Nexus One is the first of a variety of smartphones that Google said were in the pipeline as the company seeks to expand its reach from the PC to the mobile world and ensure its online products and ads get prominent placement on a new breed of wireless Internet devices.
Executives said that in the spring Google will sell phones that use Verizon Wireless's network in the United States and Vodafone's in Europe. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone.
WAIT AND SEE
According to Forrester research, 17 percent of U.S. mobile phone users had smartphones at the end of 2009, up from 11 percent a year earlier.
Investors are taking a wait-and-see view on Google's first effort to sell a hardware product directly to consumers.
Google's stock has risen about 7 percent since the start of December, setting a 52-week high of $629.51 on Monday. But analysts say that was driven by improvements in its core business of Internet search advertising, rather than the prospect of tapping a new pool of revenue selling smartphones.
Its shares closed 0.44 percent down at $623.99.
Google executives declined to provide financial targets for the new phone, though Vice President of Engineering Andy Rubin said the company would not lose money by selling the phone.
By selling the phone directly to consumers, Rubin said that Google would be able to cut out extra retailing costs and ultimately deliver phones with lower price tags.
"There's a lot of people in the value chain who don't need to be there," said Rubin. "And then prices can go down, iteration can happen quicker, distribution can be wider."
Some analysts were positive on Google's effort to continue to establish the Android as a popular operating system for smartphones and wireless devices.
"It will help them keep consistency for Android platform," said Jim McGregor, Chief Technology Strategist for In-Stat.
The new phone helps Google "get their partners all on developing a single platform that applications can be developed on."
The Nexus One is 11.5 millimeters (0.5 inch) thick and weighs 130 grams (4.6 ounces) -- which executives said was lighter than a Swiss Army knife and no thicker than a No. 2 pencil.
The phone will feature a 3.7-inch (9.4 centimeter) touchscreen display. It will run the 2.1 version of the Android operating system and feature OLED display technology, a trackball for user interface control, an accelerometer chip, and a 5 megapixel camera.
Forrester analyst Charles Golvin said the Nexus One was an impressive looking device, even if it doesn't represent the kind of "quantum leap" forward in terms of technology as the iPhone did when it was first released in 2007.
Google worked closely with HTC to develop its phone, which uses a 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm Inc.
Motorola, which is banking on the Android system to power a new generation of smartphones to revitalize a flagging business, said it welcomed the competition. Co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha told Google's audience he did not see the Nexus One as a threat, but as an expansion of the market.
(Additional reporting by Gabriel Madway and Ian Sherr; Editing by Edwin Chan, Phil Berlowitz and Tiffany Wu)
Alexei Oreskovic
Source: Yahoo NEWS
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Software Development | .NET Software Development & Programming Services
.NET software development / programming / coding India
Microsoft .NET is a technology that connects information, people, systems and devices. .NET connects a broad range of personal and business technologies, enabling the access and use of important information, whenever and wherever it is needed. Built on XML Web service standards, .NET enables both new and existing applications to connect with software and web application to the services across platforms, applications and programming languages.
.NET Development India helps our clients' to design, develop and integrate business solutions based on the .NET platform. .NET Development India’s Microsoft .NET team develops and delivers comprehensive solutions utilizing the full capability of .NET functionality. Our experienced Microsoft certified software architects develop and consult work with you to understand your requirements and demonstrate the capabilities of .NET framework and develop the system to the requirements.
Microsoft .NET was built for integration through XML Web services using protocols and file formats such as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration). Our developers have done extensive work in ASP.NET, VB.NET, and C # by creating truly entire application integrating with in-depth implementation of MVC (Model View Controller).
Source: software-webdevelopment-dotnet.blogspot.com
Microsoft .NET is a technology that connects information, people, systems and devices. .NET connects a broad range of personal and business technologies, enabling the access and use of important information, whenever and wherever it is needed. Built on XML Web service standards, .NET enables both new and existing applications to connect with software and web application to the services across platforms, applications and programming languages.
.NET Development India helps our clients' to design, develop and integrate business solutions based on the .NET platform. .NET Development India’s Microsoft .NET team develops and delivers comprehensive solutions utilizing the full capability of .NET functionality. Our experienced Microsoft certified software architects develop and consult work with you to understand your requirements and demonstrate the capabilities of .NET framework and develop the system to the requirements.Microsoft .NET was built for integration through XML Web services using protocols and file formats such as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration). Our developers have done extensive work in ASP.NET, VB.NET, and C # by creating truly entire application integrating with in-depth implementation of MVC (Model View Controller).
Source: software-webdevelopment-dotnet.blogspot.com
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Google schedules Android event for Jan. 5
Apparently, Google CEO Eric Schmidt took some pages from the Apple playbook when he departed the company's board earlier this year. On Tuesday, the search giant sent out invitations to members of the press for an event at Google's Mountain View, CA campus on January 5th; All Things D has posted a copy of the invitation.
The event, which is focused around Google's Android mobile platform, is invitation-only and will be comprised of a press conference and presentation, Q&A session, and demonstrations. (Plus, the lucky attendees get to snag themselves a delicious Google lunch.)
Of course, had Apple not pulled out of this year's Macworld Expo, January 5th likely would have been the day of the company's traditional keynote. However, in part spurred by Apple's departure, Macworld Expo takes place this year in February.
As it is, Google's event also falls just prior to this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which beings on January 7th. As All Things D's John Paczkowski points out, CES was famously upstaged by Jobs's Macworld keynote in 2007, which saw the unveiling of the iPhone. (Believe me, as someone who was at CES 2007, it was the only thing anybody was talking about.) Google has a chance to preempt the entire consumer electronics industry in one fell swoop.
What exactly Google will announce at its event is already the subject of much discussion. The leading contender is an Android phone under the Google brand, dubbed the Nexus One. The question remains, however, exactly how the Nexus One will be differentiated from its predecessors, like the G1 and Motorola Droid--especially since reports and FCC filings seem to say that phone manufacturer HTC will be actually building the device.
Speculation mainly revolves, then, around the Nexus One's business model, with rumors claiming it will be an unlocked phone sold directly to consumers, with the tacit support of T-Mobile. Such a move could conceivably open up the Nexus One to users not looking for a two-year contract, potentially even providing an Android-flavored answer to the iPod touch.
At least the Nexus One will provide a worthy distraction to divert pundits and professional speculators from their current incessant noise-making about the Apple tablet.
Source: http://www.itnews.com/personal-electronics/12387/google-schedules-android-event-jan-5
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The event, which is focused around Google's Android mobile platform, is invitation-only and will be comprised of a press conference and presentation, Q&A session, and demonstrations. (Plus, the lucky attendees get to snag themselves a delicious Google lunch.)
Of course, had Apple not pulled out of this year's Macworld Expo, January 5th likely would have been the day of the company's traditional keynote. However, in part spurred by Apple's departure, Macworld Expo takes place this year in February.
As it is, Google's event also falls just prior to this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which beings on January 7th. As All Things D's John Paczkowski points out, CES was famously upstaged by Jobs's Macworld keynote in 2007, which saw the unveiling of the iPhone. (Believe me, as someone who was at CES 2007, it was the only thing anybody was talking about.) Google has a chance to preempt the entire consumer electronics industry in one fell swoop.
What exactly Google will announce at its event is already the subject of much discussion. The leading contender is an Android phone under the Google brand, dubbed the Nexus One. The question remains, however, exactly how the Nexus One will be differentiated from its predecessors, like the G1 and Motorola Droid--especially since reports and FCC filings seem to say that phone manufacturer HTC will be actually building the device.
Speculation mainly revolves, then, around the Nexus One's business model, with rumors claiming it will be an unlocked phone sold directly to consumers, with the tacit support of T-Mobile. Such a move could conceivably open up the Nexus One to users not looking for a two-year contract, potentially even providing an Android-flavored answer to the iPod touch.
At least the Nexus One will provide a worthy distraction to divert pundits and professional speculators from their current incessant noise-making about the Apple tablet.
Source: http://www.itnews.com/personal-electronics/12387/google-schedules-android-event-jan-5
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Submit your blog to Bing search engine
It is not enough to submit your blog to Google search engine alone. You should look for other renewed search engine as well, like Bing. Today I am going to discuss how to add your blog in Bing search engine to attract more traffic to your blog.
Carefully follow these steps to submit your blog to Bing search engine
Click here to go to URL submission page of Bing(you must need live or hotmail id to log in. So, if you don't have one then create now).
If you successfully log in then you will see the following page. Provide 'Web address' and 'Sitemap address'. You can also provide Webmaster e-mail,but this is optional. And then click on Submit button.
At this step you have to make sure you are the owner of the blog. For authentication purpose they provide two option, XML file(which you have to upload) or Meta tag. As we are talking about blogger blog, means you have to opt second option.
Upload meta tag -
Copy the meta tag
Next go to Blogger.com dashboard -> Layout -> Edit HTML then check Expand Widget Templates
Now, paste the code in between <> and < /head >
You are done
Bing Information Credit Goes to: takeme2yourheart.com
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Carefully follow these steps to submit your blog to Bing search engine
step-1
Click here to go to URL submission page of Bing(you must need live or hotmail id to log in. So, if you don't have one then create now).
step-2
If you successfully log in then you will see the following page. Provide 'Web address' and 'Sitemap address'. You can also provide Webmaster e-mail,but this is optional. And then click on Submit button.
step-3
At this step you have to make sure you are the owner of the blog. For authentication purpose they provide two option, XML file(which you have to upload) or Meta tag. As we are talking about blogger blog, means you have to opt second option.
Upload meta tag -
Copy the meta tag
Next go to Blogger.com dashboard -> Layout -> Edit HTML then check Expand Widget Templates
Now, paste the code in between <> and < /head >
You are done
Bing Information Credit Goes to: takeme2yourheart.com
Monday, January 4, 2010
Benefits of ERP Software
Impact ERP is among one of the best ERP selling companies established in the market for past seven years and hence catering to the versatile market requirements of the industry.
Impact ERP helps manufacturers or traders from small businesses to mid-size enterprises see more clearly. Integration of data across the enterprise ensures that you have greater visibility in all areas of your business, from daily operations to a strategic decision level. Insight into production, inventory and financial data makes it easy to identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements. A high-level view of key business indicators facilitates faster and more accurate management decisions and an “Impact” interface puts all of this at your fingertips when and where you want it.
Benefits of ERP Software
- Eliminate costs and inefficiencies
- Improve operational efficiency
- Enhance productivity, customer satisfaction, flexibility and control
- Enable new business and growth strategies
- Low cost ownership
- Extend your business using the internet
- Gain better control of processes
- Expand your knowledge of key business data
- Improve communication and collaboration
- Embrace superior technology
- Leverage IT infrastructure and information assets
Inventory Module of Impact ERP Software helps you handle various sections of the organization. The module helps you manage detailed inventory records, maintain optimal inventory levels, simplify inventory transactions, track material location/lot information and many more… The inventory also provides dedicated modules ensuring relevant security and utility benefits. Impact ERP is very easy to use and implement.
Manufacturing Resource Planning is a professionally designed tool in Impact ERP. The module is one-stop-tool to swiftly plan and schedule production, enter and track work orders, control the shop floor, monitor production status, manage material and equipment capacity, promise deliveries, and track time and attendance, manage product data, inspect incoming (purchased) and outgoing (manufactured) materials.
Impact helps in comparing the quotations and thereby placing orders with the most appropriate business associate. Impact helps in tracking the status of the orders and assimilates procurement detail. Impact organizes and maintains detailed vendor information, maintains bid matrix, request quote and compare the same, create purchase orders or generate POs from planned orders, manage requisitions and RFQS, and receive and inspect vendor shipments. Impact also cherishes a module called Sub-Contract enabling to track even the minutest details of any order. Impact successfully unleashes details to import the orders too.
Impact provides quotes and estimates to customers and automatically convert them into sales orders. It easily create new items (and associated bills of material and routings), copy and modify existing items, or quickly configure them on-the-fly. Impact also manages opportunities by managing complete sales cycle from prospect to customer. Track sales opportunities and provide complete history of activities, tasks, documents, e-mails, etc. Report on sales funnel and opportunity progress. Impact enters and maintains complex sales orders or create sales order directly from quote and create new items, bills of material and routings on-the-fly, maintain price matrices, and ship finished product. Manage Export document and transactions.
Under manufacturing suite, Impact offers modules that plan and schedule production, enter and track work orders, control shop floor, monitor production status, manage material and equipment capacity, promise deliveries, and track time and attendance. Impact’s efficiency can also be seen in areas viz., generate MRP, CTP and ATP plans on demand, analyze material requirements, control production costs and scheduling, and manage resource efficiency.
Impact pioneers in providing comprehensive solution to the HR departments of the businesses. It manages every aspect of employee information, including salary and job histories and employee benefits. Process payroll quickly and efficiently and print payroll checks. Ensure full tax compliance and completely manage government reporting. Maintain real-time workflow communication by automating customized messages to vendors and customers as well as employees for specific system events, via e-mail, on-screen messaging, or SMS. With Impact, tracking, assessing and arriving at decisions over matters related to work force is a ballgame.
Impact's CRM manages every aspect of relation with the customers. Understanding the business needs, Impact CRM introduces an innovative Contact Book, which not only stores the complete data of the Customer Base but also helps one to assess the ongoing projects with the client. Impact tracks, stores and presents status report of the marketing campaigns. It also comes handy in maintaining and providing services. Impact manages the mail mode of communication with the customers thereby assuring no data loss. It also provides customer support reflecting a better CRM solution.
Impacts' SCM establishes projects and master projects. It provides associate project IDs with all facets of the system. Impact enhances bill works completed for a project using progress billing, and report on revenues, expenses and profit/loss for any project. Impacts’ SCM also reflects around the management of staff and resources to different projects at a time. It tracks, stores and delivers also the execution status of every project.
Source From: bukisa.com
Saturday, January 2, 2010
What is the idea behind getting the keywords searched?
"What is the idea behind getting the keywords searched? The importance of Keyword and Keyword Phrases in Search Engine Optimization can be described as follows:
Keyword and Keyword phrases is most important feature of any Search Engine Optimization scheme. You may have put much of your hard work on tuning fine your web pages for a greater ranking in the major search engines like Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Mere keywords are not just enough if the right keyword phrases are not targeted. It is just like not getting able to reach to correct destination after all our best efforts just because of selecting a wrong path. Even if you attain high search engine rankings, you may not get appropriate traffic if you select the wrong keywords. It is required to focus on exact location, exact region or exact country; the specification could be business, trade, service or product, since we are talking specific audience.
The keyword search tools help you to get hold on target audience. We have to start doing Keyword Research going by the facts and the keyword Research process involves the following four important steps as follows:
1. Discovering Keywords.
2. Analyzing Keywords.
3. Selecting Keywords.
4. Deploying Keywords
Keyword and Keyword phrases is most important feature of any Search Engine Optimization scheme. You may have put much of your hard work on tuning fine your web pages for a greater ranking in the major search engines like Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Mere keywords are not just enough if the right keyword phrases are not targeted. It is just like not getting able to reach to correct destination after all our best efforts just because of selecting a wrong path. Even if you attain high search engine rankings, you may not get appropriate traffic if you select the wrong keywords. It is required to focus on exact location, exact region or exact country; the specification could be business, trade, service or product, since we are talking specific audience.
The keyword search tools help you to get hold on target audience. We have to start doing Keyword Research going by the facts and the keyword Research process involves the following four important steps as follows:
1. Discovering Keywords.
2. Analyzing Keywords.
3. Selecting Keywords.
4. Deploying Keywords
Google executive running for Vermont governor post
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. – Internet search giant Google is based in Silicon Valley, yet it runs its community affairs operation out of a former bread factory in an old New England railroad town, hard by the confluence of the White and Connecticut rivers.
Matt Dunne, 40, the man in charge of Google's efforts to burnish its image in the places where it has offices, keeps up with corporate headquarters through a broadband link from two video screens in the bakery's former walk-in cooler.
Dunne's use of that technology — and the broadband Internet connection supporting it — is an example of what he touts as the key to Vermont's economic future as he campaigns for the 2010 Democratic nomination for governor.
"We need to, and I believe have an opportunity to, go from one of the lowest broadband penetration states in the country to the first state that brings fiber-optic high-speed Internet to every home in the state," Dunne said in an interview. "And that's an incredible opportunity for us to move from a state that's not thought of as being a technological center to being a technological center."
Dunne, who is married and the father of two young children, faces a crowded field of four other Democrats and the incumbent Republican lieutenant governor, Brian Dubie, all vying to replace the retiring Gov. Jim Douglas. Dunne said he hopes his combination of experiences in the public and private sectors will distinguish him. Dunne won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 2006, but lost to Dubie.
Eric Davis, a retired Middlebury College political science professor, said he did not see Dunne's Google pedigree being a big factor in the campaign unless the candidate can use his Google contacts to help him build a Web site with new and innovative tools that make it stand out against other campaign Web sites.
A rival was less than impressed.
"I don't seem terribly fazed one way or another by it," said Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sen. Susan Bartlett, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. She noted another candidate, Sen. Peter Shumlin, runs a student travel company.
"I guess you could say Shumlin's a travel executive. What's that got to do with it?" Bartlett asked.
Dunne grew up in nearby Hartland, attended Brown University and won election to the Vermont House at 22. He served four two-year terms there and two in the Senate, where he gained a reputation as a champion of economic development legislation. When Dunne was 29, President Bill Clinton appointed him to head up the AmeriCorps-VISTA program, in which he oversaw the work of 6,000 full-time volunteers. He was reappointed by President George W. Bush and held the job until 2002.
In the private sector, Dunne is the former marketing director for Vermont-based software startup and has worked for Google since 2007.
Deploying broadband and improving cell phone service statewide are keys to other issues on which Dunne is focusing his campaign. He wants to streamline and improve education through greater use of distance learning. Vermont's shrinking school-age population is making it less economical for schools to offer a full range of languages, for example. Dunne envisions a teacher traveling between schools, supplementing face-to-face student interaction with video-based classes.
On energy, Dunne thinks "smart metering," which can tell electric customers moment-to-moment how much power they're using, combined with Vermonters' famed frugality, will enable the state to shave megawatts off its power demand.
But if Dunne's campaign has an overriding issue it is to reverse the demographic trend in which Vermont has the second-fastest aging population in the country and make the state more attractive to young people. And a key to doing that is technology, he said.
"I've heard from business people in the state of Vermont that they have difficulty recruiting engineers, because when they recruit engineers even from the University of Vermont, that engineer finds out that the home they could afford as a first home as a young engineer doesn't have broadband, they go someplace else. When they find out they don't have cell (phone) reception, even at their place of work, they choose to go someplace else."
Davis did say Dunne might be able to make a pitch about using technology to make government operate more efficiently — a goal much talked about recently given that Vermont, like many other states, faces serious budget troubles.
"Many other states allow people to do more things online and present things (on state Web sites) in a more citizen-friendly way than does Vermont," Davis said.
Dunne said he wants to move Vermont's state government to a leadership position in its use of technology. And he said he would try to import some of Google's culture as he does so.
"Google intentionally runs a flat, fast, innovative organization, where people with new ideas to solve problems are celebrated, not shut down," Dunne said. "And that's the kind of approach that we need to take in Vermont if we are going to transform the way that we do government."
Source: Yahoo NEWS
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Matt Dunne, 40, the man in charge of Google's efforts to burnish its image in the places where it has offices, keeps up with corporate headquarters through a broadband link from two video screens in the bakery's former walk-in cooler.
Dunne's use of that technology — and the broadband Internet connection supporting it — is an example of what he touts as the key to Vermont's economic future as he campaigns for the 2010 Democratic nomination for governor.
"We need to, and I believe have an opportunity to, go from one of the lowest broadband penetration states in the country to the first state that brings fiber-optic high-speed Internet to every home in the state," Dunne said in an interview. "And that's an incredible opportunity for us to move from a state that's not thought of as being a technological center to being a technological center."
Dunne, who is married and the father of two young children, faces a crowded field of four other Democrats and the incumbent Republican lieutenant governor, Brian Dubie, all vying to replace the retiring Gov. Jim Douglas. Dunne said he hopes his combination of experiences in the public and private sectors will distinguish him. Dunne won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 2006, but lost to Dubie.
Eric Davis, a retired Middlebury College political science professor, said he did not see Dunne's Google pedigree being a big factor in the campaign unless the candidate can use his Google contacts to help him build a Web site with new and innovative tools that make it stand out against other campaign Web sites.
A rival was less than impressed.
"I don't seem terribly fazed one way or another by it," said Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sen. Susan Bartlett, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. She noted another candidate, Sen. Peter Shumlin, runs a student travel company.
"I guess you could say Shumlin's a travel executive. What's that got to do with it?" Bartlett asked.
Dunne grew up in nearby Hartland, attended Brown University and won election to the Vermont House at 22. He served four two-year terms there and two in the Senate, where he gained a reputation as a champion of economic development legislation. When Dunne was 29, President Bill Clinton appointed him to head up the AmeriCorps-VISTA program, in which he oversaw the work of 6,000 full-time volunteers. He was reappointed by President George W. Bush and held the job until 2002.
In the private sector, Dunne is the former marketing director for Vermont-based software startup and has worked for Google since 2007.
Deploying broadband and improving cell phone service statewide are keys to other issues on which Dunne is focusing his campaign. He wants to streamline and improve education through greater use of distance learning. Vermont's shrinking school-age population is making it less economical for schools to offer a full range of languages, for example. Dunne envisions a teacher traveling between schools, supplementing face-to-face student interaction with video-based classes.
On energy, Dunne thinks "smart metering," which can tell electric customers moment-to-moment how much power they're using, combined with Vermonters' famed frugality, will enable the state to shave megawatts off its power demand.
But if Dunne's campaign has an overriding issue it is to reverse the demographic trend in which Vermont has the second-fastest aging population in the country and make the state more attractive to young people. And a key to doing that is technology, he said.
"I've heard from business people in the state of Vermont that they have difficulty recruiting engineers, because when they recruit engineers even from the University of Vermont, that engineer finds out that the home they could afford as a first home as a young engineer doesn't have broadband, they go someplace else. When they find out they don't have cell (phone) reception, even at their place of work, they choose to go someplace else."
Davis did say Dunne might be able to make a pitch about using technology to make government operate more efficiently — a goal much talked about recently given that Vermont, like many other states, faces serious budget troubles.
"Many other states allow people to do more things online and present things (on state Web sites) in a more citizen-friendly way than does Vermont," Davis said.
Dunne said he wants to move Vermont's state government to a leadership position in its use of technology. And he said he would try to import some of Google's culture as he does so.
"Google intentionally runs a flat, fast, innovative organization, where people with new ideas to solve problems are celebrated, not shut down," Dunne said. "And that's the kind of approach that we need to take in Vermont if we are going to transform the way that we do government."
Source: Yahoo NEWS
Japan PM starts tweeting, launches blog
TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has launched a blog and started using Twitter in a New Year bid to reach out to the public at a time when his ratings have tumbled.
Hatoyama began using the microblogging service Twitter and launched a fully fledged blog, both in Japanese, starting Friday.
"Happy New Year everyone," he said in his first tweet, stressing that he had written it himself. "My target is to send one tweet a day for now until I get used to it."
San Francisco-based Twitter, which has won tens of millions of users with the service that allows people to pepper one another with 140-character or less messages, launched its Japanese service last April.
In his blog, titled Hato cafe, Hatoyama said: "I started this blog as a first step to burying the gap between people and politics as well as changing this country together."
He also uploaded to the blog a picture of his office roof against a backdrop of blue winter sky, explaining that he took the picture with the camera on his mobile phone.
The Twitter account is http://twitter.com/hatoyamayukio, while his official blog is at http://hatocafe.kantei.go.jp/
Support for Hatoyama's cabinet has dipped below 50 percent for the first time according to major opinion polls released last month. Voters criticised his lack of leadership and a funding scandal.
In his blog he apologised for the political funding scandal that has embroiled a former aide, saying: "I gave a lot of trouble to many people last year. Listening to the people's voice, I want to do my best to fulfil my duty."
Prosecutors indicted Hatoyama's former aide, Keiji Katsuba, in late December for allegedly misreporting millions of dollars of donations, but did not indict the prime minister due to a lack of evidence.
The indictments came after a difficult first 100 days in office for the political blue-blood, whose August election victory ended more than half a century of almost unbroken conservative rule in the world's number two economy.
Source: Yahoo NEWS
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Hatoyama began using the microblogging service Twitter and launched a fully fledged blog, both in Japanese, starting Friday.
"Happy New Year everyone," he said in his first tweet, stressing that he had written it himself. "My target is to send one tweet a day for now until I get used to it."
San Francisco-based Twitter, which has won tens of millions of users with the service that allows people to pepper one another with 140-character or less messages, launched its Japanese service last April.
In his blog, titled Hato cafe, Hatoyama said: "I started this blog as a first step to burying the gap between people and politics as well as changing this country together."
He also uploaded to the blog a picture of his office roof against a backdrop of blue winter sky, explaining that he took the picture with the camera on his mobile phone.
The Twitter account is http://twitter.com/hatoyamayukio, while his official blog is at http://hatocafe.kantei.go.jp/
Support for Hatoyama's cabinet has dipped below 50 percent for the first time according to major opinion polls released last month. Voters criticised his lack of leadership and a funding scandal.
In his blog he apologised for the political funding scandal that has embroiled a former aide, saying: "I gave a lot of trouble to many people last year. Listening to the people's voice, I want to do my best to fulfil my duty."
Prosecutors indicted Hatoyama's former aide, Keiji Katsuba, in late December for allegedly misreporting millions of dollars of donations, but did not indict the prime minister due to a lack of evidence.
The indictments came after a difficult first 100 days in office for the political blue-blood, whose August election victory ended more than half a century of almost unbroken conservative rule in the world's number two economy.
Source: Yahoo NEWS
Mathworks buys up more of Apple Hill complex
By Mass High Tech staff
Software maker The Mathworks has extended its ownership position in Natick’s Apple Hill office complex, acquiring its third building in the campus and gaining approvals to construct yet a fourth building.
The Mathworks paid $30.8 million for One Apple Hill, a three-story office building with 170,000 square feet of space. The company also said it received approvals to build an additional 150,000 square feet of office space in the Route 9 complex. The Mathworks, which develops technical computing and model-based design software for engineers and scientists, already owns and occupies Two Apple Hill and Three Apple Hill, buildings that it acquired in 2004. The Mathworks has 1,500 employees worldwide.
Garry Holmes of R.W. Holmes Realty represented MathWorks and David Capobianco and Zoe Zink of Atlantic Management negotiated on behalf of the seller, Atlantic Philadelphia Realty.
The MathWorks, which develops technical computing and model-based design software for engineers and scientists, also occupies Two & Three Apple Hill, which they acquired in 2004.
Source: masshightech.com
Software maker The Mathworks has extended its ownership position in Natick’s Apple Hill office complex, acquiring its third building in the campus and gaining approvals to construct yet a fourth building.
The Mathworks paid $30.8 million for One Apple Hill, a three-story office building with 170,000 square feet of space. The company also said it received approvals to build an additional 150,000 square feet of office space in the Route 9 complex. The Mathworks, which develops technical computing and model-based design software for engineers and scientists, already owns and occupies Two Apple Hill and Three Apple Hill, buildings that it acquired in 2004. The Mathworks has 1,500 employees worldwide.
Garry Holmes of R.W. Holmes Realty represented MathWorks and David Capobianco and Zoe Zink of Atlantic Management negotiated on behalf of the seller, Atlantic Philadelphia Realty.
The MathWorks, which develops technical computing and model-based design software for engineers and scientists, also occupies Two & Three Apple Hill, which they acquired in 2004.
Source: masshightech.com
Friday, January 1, 2010
Why to choose Magento Commerce for ecommerce website?
Since new technologies arrives to the internet market, Online ecommerce store owner moving towards to change their ecommerce store with new look and functionalities. There are many open source are available to start ecommerce website. Among them Magento is one the top rated open source for ecommerce store setup. The reasons are its vast set of functionality and reach administrator control over the store. Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform offering complete flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of an online store
Here is the list of functionality that magento have
Analytics and Reporting
Catalog Browsing Reporting
Product Browsing
Customer Accounts
Customer Service
Catalog Management
Order Management
Shipping
Checkout
Payment
Search Engine Optimization
International Support
Source: creativeglance.com
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Here is the list of functionality that magento have
Analytics and Reporting
- Integrated with Google Analytics
- Admin Dashboard for Report Overview
- Sales Report
- Tax Report
- Best Viewed Products Report
- Best Purchased Products Report
- Low Stock Report
- Coupon Usage Report
- Total Sales Invoiced
- Total Sales Refunded
- Best Customers Report by Total and Number Orders
Catalog Browsing Reporting
- Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products
- Static Block tool to create category landing pages
- Configurable search with auto-suggested terms
- Recently viewed products
- Product comparisons
- Cross-sells, Up-sells and Related Items
- Popular Search Terms Cloud
- Filter by Product Tags
- Product Reviews
- Product listing in grid or list format
- Breadcrumbs
Product Browsing
- Multiple Images with Zoom
- Product Reviews
- Related Products
- Stock Availability
- Multi-Tier Pricing Up-sell
- Product Option Selection
- Grouped Products View
- Add to Wish list
- Send to a Friend with Email
Customer Accounts
- Order status and history
- Re-orders from account
- Recently ordered items
- Address Book with unlimited addresses
- Wishlist with ability to add comments
- Newsletter Subscription management
- Account Dashboard
Customer Service
- Contact Us form
- Feature-rich Customer Accounts
- Order History with Status Updates
- Order Tracking from Account
- Forgot Password Email from front-end and administration panel
- Order and Account Update Emails
- Customizable Order Emails
- Create and Edit Orders from the Admin Panel
Catalog Management
- Inventory Management with Backordered items
- Batch Import and Export of catalog
- Batch Updates to products in admin panel
- Simple, Configurable (e.g. size, color, etc.) and Grouped Products
- Tax Rates per location, customer group and Product type
- Attribute Sets for quick product creation of different item types
- Create Store-specific attributes on the fly
- Search Results rewrites and redirects
- Approve, Edit and Delete Product Tags
- Approve, Edit and Delete Product Reviews
- RSS feed for Low Inventory Alerts
Order Management
- View, edit, create and fulfill orders from admin panel.
- Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credi memos per order
- Print invoices and packing slips
- Call Center (phone) order creation
- Create re-orders for customers from administration panel.
- Email Notifications of Orders
- RSS feed of New Orders
Shipping
- Integrated for real-time shipping rates from: – UPS, FedEx, USPS and DHL
- Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
- On-site order tracking from customer accounts
- Multiple shipments per order
- Ability to specify allowed destination countries per method
- Flat rate shipping per order
- Flat rate shipping per item
- Free Shipping
- Table rates for weight and destination
- Table rates for product sub-totals and destination
- Table rates for number of items and destination
Checkout
- One-Page Checkout
- SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end
- Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
- Checkout without account/Guest Checkout
- Shopping Cart with tax and shipping estimates
- Checkout with account to use address book
- Option to create account at beginning of checkout
- Accept gift messages per order and per item
- Saved Shopping Carts with configurable expiration time
Payment
- Configurable to authorize and charge, or authorize only and charge on creation of invoices
- Integrated with multiple PayPal gateways
- Integrated with Authorize.net
- Integrated with Google Checkout (Level 2)
- Saved Credit Card method for offline payments
- Accept Checks/Money Orders
- Accept Purchase Orders
- Additional Payment Extensions Available through Magento Connect
Search Engine Optimization
- 100% Search Engine Friendly
- Google Site Map
- URL Rewrites give full control of URL’s
- Meta-information for products and categories
- Auto-generated Site Map for display on site
- Auto-Generated Popular Search Terms Page
International Support
- Multi-Lingual
- Support for Multiple Currencies
- Tax rate support
- Localization
Source: creativeglance.com
3 Qualities of a Good WordPress Theme - WordPress Design
I recommend a WordPress design for all my clients with established businesses. Once you've used HTML landing pages and one-page websites to find out if there's a market, the next step is to build out more optimized and targeted web pages to attract more attention and get more traffic. This is where WordPress comes in.
WordPress designs make website optimization easy. Google loves WordPress and most blogs do well in the search engines, but certain themes have components that can improve not only SEO. Now, SEO isn't the only reason to utilize WordPress. Other design components are important as well, and certain themes are better than others when you're thinking of customizing the look and feel of your site.
- Is it widget ready? Widgets are a critical part of customizing your theme. I religiously use the GLock Double Optin, ACE Recent Posts and Comments, Calendar, and Blogroll widgets with almost all of my clients.
- Is it easy to customize? Some themes make it very simple to choose what categories you want to display, the number of posts to show, and what size you want your thumbnail images. Others will even allow you to choose between using a custom image or dynamic text for your header logo area. These features make basic customization simple and quick, exactly the way it should be.
- How easy is it to integrate images into posts, home page content, and pages? If the theme integrates the TimThumb PHP script, you won't have problems. TimThumb dynamically resizes your images and makes them easy to manage. Many themes will require you to change code or deal with another image management website which can be a real pain at times.
Source: ezinearticles.com
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Flickr co-founder Presses Beta Button
Once you're lucky, twice you're good? So went the title of a recent book about Web 2.0 entrepreneurs. Pretty soon, we may have an idea whether it applies to Caterina Fake.
Fake, the co-founder of Flickr, announced on her blog Friday afternoon that her new start-up, Hunch, is sending out invitations to try the service, now in beta test.
What is it? I'll hand the reins over to Fake and let her explain:
Look. Decision-making is difficult, and decisions have to be made constantly. What should I be for Halloween? Do I need a Porsche? Does my hipster facial hair make me look stupid? Is Phoenix a good place to retire? Whom should I vote for? What toe ring should I buy?
It's dark and lonely work. Coin-flipping, I Ching consultation, closing your eyes and jumping, postponing the inevitable, Rock-Paper-Scissors, and asking your sister are all time-honored means of coming to a decision--and yet we think there's room for one more: Hunch.
Hunch is a decision-making site, customized for you. Which means Hunch gets to know you, then asks you 10 questions about a topic (usually fewer!), and provides a result--a hunch, if you will. It gives you results it wouldn't give other people.
Will it fly? Who knows, but in the midst of this miserable economic depression, there probably are lots of people out there who feel as if they don't have a clue anymore.
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10206217-2.html
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Fake, the co-founder of Flickr, announced on her blog Friday afternoon that her new start-up, Hunch, is sending out invitations to try the service, now in beta test.
What is it? I'll hand the reins over to Fake and let her explain:
Look. Decision-making is difficult, and decisions have to be made constantly. What should I be for Halloween? Do I need a Porsche? Does my hipster facial hair make me look stupid? Is Phoenix a good place to retire? Whom should I vote for? What toe ring should I buy?
It's dark and lonely work. Coin-flipping, I Ching consultation, closing your eyes and jumping, postponing the inevitable, Rock-Paper-Scissors, and asking your sister are all time-honored means of coming to a decision--and yet we think there's room for one more: Hunch.
Hunch is a decision-making site, customized for you. Which means Hunch gets to know you, then asks you 10 questions about a topic (usually fewer!), and provides a result--a hunch, if you will. It gives you results it wouldn't give other people.
Will it fly? Who knows, but in the midst of this miserable economic depression, there probably are lots of people out there who feel as if they don't have a clue anymore.
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10206217-2.html
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