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Apple iPad-What Can I Do With It?

January 31st, 2010

Now browse websites, write emails, flick through photos, watch movie or use 140,000 applications all just through the touch of fingers. iPad by Apple is the newest buzz in the market. And it deserves to catch all your attention. This new sleekest gadget has a 9.7 -inch, LED-backlit IPS with a remarkably precise multi touch screen. And yet, at just 1.5 pounds and o.5 inches thin. It’s easy to carry and use anywhere. You can bring this home by paying just $499.

Just have a glance of all you can do with the latest gadget in market by Apple.

Use iPad for Emails

Compose mails using the large screen keyboard. iPad works with all the most popular email providers including Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL. The split screen feature provides you to see both your opened mails and emails in the inbox at the same time. If you have received photos in your inbox, you can save it directly to the in-built photo Apps. Deleting messages is as easier as a tap and flick.

Use iPad as Digital Photo frame

With its excellent picture quality and unique software features, you can flip through photos, zoom or watch it as slide show. iPad provides you with the option of downloading photos from your email, upload it from your computer or import them from your camera by using optional Camera Connection kit.

Watch Movies on iPad

Very high resolution screen makes it perfect for watching your favourite movies or any kind of videos. Its large screen with no distracting keyboards or buttons makes you completely immersed in whatever you are watching.

Play Games or Do Business on iPad

From business to games iPad has almost 140,000 apps. Just tap the App Store icon on the screen to browse, buy, and download apps wirelessly, right to the iPad.

Find Your Ways Through iPad

Mapping you ways is a completely new experience on the IPad. iPad is using Google services and showing you both street and terrain view.

Take Notes on Your new iPad

Take all your notes and save them. In landscape view you see the note taking page as well as list of all other notes in your gallery. iPad encircles the current note in red.

Calendars and Contacts

Just tap and schedule your meetings. It shows you overview of your schedules in a month and details of each day. Finding names and numbers and organizing them could never be so exciting and intuitive.

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Twitter Really Gone HIGHER this time!

January 24th, 2010

Finally astronauts in space have access to internet now. Timothy Creamer, the space station resident had been working to establish internet access from orbital post ever since he moved in the last month.

On Friday, he got success and tweeted truly from space “

Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s . 10:13 PM Jan 21st from web

Before, the orbiting astronauts had to send such Twitter updates by email to Mission Control in Houston. Then controllers posted the tweets. But now they can have access to internet right on their laptop by connecting it through remote access to a desktop ay Mission Control.

The astronauts will be subject to the same Internet access guidelines as other on-the-job government employees, namely no interfering with work. Though the same regulations will be applied to astronauts for accessing internet during work as that of any other Govt. employee sitting in office- no interfering with work.

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Google Q4 Net Income Increases 5-Fold to $1.9 Billion

January 23rd, 2010

Google posted a net income of $6.67 billion for the year 2009 compared to $4.22 billion last year in 2008. 47% of this revenue has come from the U.S market while its revenue from outside of U.S is 3.52 billion. Google had a strong Q4 with net income of $197 billion in October-December

Google’s revenue from paid clicks on ads served on its website went up 13% from last year. Google owned site generated revenues of $4.42 billion or 66% of total revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared to $3.81 billion in year ago period.

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The Real Time Web Is Easy To Use For All Users

January 19th, 2010

The great thing about the real time web is that it is free and accessible for all. You don’t have to be a user of any social network to learn from and benefit from social network and the real time web. Below, we have highlighted 3 types of things you can learn right now.

Search

By performing a real time web search, you can instantly see what people are saying right now. Here is a search tips page outlining the types of real time searches that you can benefit from. Anyone can go to Twitter’s homepage and perform a real time search to instantly see what is on people’s minds this instant. And, the great thing about a real time search, the results are always changing, so you can get new information every time you search.

Trends

The real time web is all about the public letting the public know what is going on. By doing this, the public is notifying the real time web of hot trends because any time a keyword or topic continues to show up – you can then assume its important. What The Trend is a very interesting site which both can show you the current trends and also – will show you why a topic is trending through the input of its users.

Links

A lot of people go to the real time web to send out links to others. Since so many links are being shared on the web – we are able to see which links are the most popular. And, many real time engines have been able to identify the most popular links as a result of this. If you visit Sency and perform a search, you can click on the Today’s Most Popular links tab in the top right hand corner. This tab will show you today’s hottest links for any particular keyword search.

So, if you take advantage of these resources, you will equip yourself to learn how to use the real time web today.

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Top 5 Online Marketing Trends in 2010

January 17th, 2010

The overall marketing strategy in 2009 was slightly gloomy with slashed budget and reworked strategies to fight back recession and survive in market.
The predictions of online marketing trends for 2010 are quite positive and here are the 5 top key points online marketers and companies should take note of.

1) Mobile web marketing would see an increased share in marketing budget

With the reduction of mobile communication costs, it is expected to see inclusion of elements such as mobi SEO for mobi sites, greater attention by developers and designers to create mobile friendly websites and definitely mobile PPC advertising.
The acquisition of AdMob- a leading player in the mobile advertising by Google is one of the significant indicators of the rising trend of mobi advertising.

2) Better Customer Service will be the winner

In the era of information overload and over burdened with “me too” products and services, the key differentiator for businesses will be the quality of support, customer care service and ‘what’s extra for me’. The level of ease of use and comfort a customer gets using your products and services can make you a winner in 2010.

3) You can’t win without social media marketing

This is going to be critical for making your brands go viral, a real time PR, an important customer feedback channel a great CRM platform. Facebook and Twitter will be a clear winner.

India will be shining:

Forrester Research reports IT spending will be over $1.6 trillion, Global & $568 billion alone in the US. The major part of this investment will be found surfacing in India and Asia pacific region.

5) More Interactive and Cross Media Campaigns

The increasing popularity and success of online games and the way it is being shared, we can see more successful interactive and cross-media advertising campaigns appearing in 2010.

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