Category: Business

Oct 31 2008

Mobile Advertising & Google in 2008-2009

Google is definitely looking forward to expand its course of action with mobile advertising after having Android in hand. Here Mashable talks about it like:

While there has been much talk that online advertising will decline in the current/coming recession, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, seems pretty bullish on what will happen with mobile advertising this year.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Google executive went against the predictions that mobile ads wouldn’t hit $1 billion in revenue until 2012. Reuters reported Schmidt as saying, “It’s the recreation of the Internet, it’s the recreation of the PC story, and it is before us — and it is very likely it will happen in the next year.”

He went on to say that he felt mobile advertising was nearing its tipping point because of features such as location-based advertising. By his theory, it will be situations such as people looking for a nearby restaurant because that will be “a very, very good business.”

Can such searches truly carry an entire industry past the magical $1 billion dollar mark? I’m doubtful, personally. Mobile advertising is going to be a very different beast from online advertising due to the very nature of the screen. On a full-sized computer monitor, I can train my eye to look around and through the ads to the point I hardly even register they exist any more. The problem on a mobile phone is its limited size. Everyone seems to think this supposed new ad boom is going to be some sort of wonderful new revenue stream. All I see it doing is annoying me thoroughly.

Oct 30 2008

Sci Fi Chair

After the development of gaming chairs that move according to the games action and computer beds designed so that you end up being a “computer potato” and never see anything else weather you’re awake or sleeping, now G-Tech Neber releases a chair that confirms the theory that sitting correctly on a chair is so overrated.

This new SciFi chair is at present on show in Korea. The design includes so much chrome, that it actually looks like one of those Matrix chairs - you don’t have to take the blue pill.

The company says that, giving so much support to the back, head, hands, wrists, back and feet, the chair is completely ergonomical. Also, having the curved back, the chair gives you the opportunity to seat in any position you want. Just look at the picture, it looks so cool!

Aug 30 2008

Samsung claims lightweight crown for new laptop

Samsung has unveiled a new thin-and-light laptop aimed at mobile professionals, claimed by the vendor to be the lightest system available with a 13.3in screen.

Available from September, the Samsung X360 weighs 1.27kg, but is fully featured without any compromise, according to Samsung. It is based on Intel’s Centrino 2 mobile platform with 1GB to 4GB of memory and a choice of 120GB hard drive or Flash SSD storage up to 128GB. Prices have yet to be announced.

Samsung claimed a battery life of up to 10 hours continuous use from the X360’s 6-cell battery pack, while the 13.3in screen supports a resolution of 1280×800 and an LED backlight that delivers about 33 per cent extra brightness over other designs.

Read more from source: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2225007/samsung-claims-lightweight

Aug 27 2008

Google AdSense Stops Displaying on Google Cache Results?

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that many publishers have started to notice that their Google AdSense ads are not showing up when someone accesses their pages via the Google cache.

For example, a recent Google cache copy of my personal blog does not show the AdSense ad at the top right of my blog. It simply does not render on the page. Typically, it would show to the right of the linkedin logo.

Some theories are that it is related to the Allowed Sites AdSense feature, but I don’t use that for my personal blog. Others just think it is a temporary Google bug. Time will tell.

Source: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/018100.html
More at: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3731841.htm

Aug 17 2008

Desktop Chips For Business By AMD

The new chips include the 2.4-GHz Phenom X4 9750B Quad-Core; the 2.4-GHz Phenom X3 8750B Triple-Core; the 2.9-GHz Athlon X2 5600B Dual-Core and the 2.5-GHz Athlon X2 4850B Dual-Core processors.

Recently, AMD has its sights decidedly set on the expanding and lucrative laptop market. In June, for example, the chip maker ramped up its competition with Intel by unveiling its first processor system designed specifically for laptops. AMD has long been a wannabe in the laptop arena by modifying desktop processors for mobile systems.

Read more from source

Apr 28 2008

Conference Calling: The Need Of Today!

The sped up business and social life today has lead to many revolutions but still there are things that have old origin and they exist. For instance telephone, though having cheapest and convenient other ways, people still use it, and even we can’t think of leaving our cell phone for a moment. In same context though the businesses have grown much on internet, the telephonic talk is still of utmost importance, especially conference calling.

Call conferencing and phone conference are considered to be the best ways of communication in business concerns, especially in the offshore outsourcing. Though Skype and some other web services provide with similar facilities, but the clear and most professional way is phone conferencing. This is majorly because of the fact that, the sound quality and the available number of participants it has, cannot be afforded in web services. And so, modern businesses really need it!