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Panasonic announces the Toughbook S9
Panasonic has launched their Toughbook S9 series of ultra-portable and impact resistant laptops. Touted as "the world's lightest 12.1" laptop with a DVD drive," the S9 weighs in at 3.0 pounds and boasts 11 hours of battery life.
With a magnesium alloy case and shock-mounted flex-connect hard drive, the S9 is rated to handle drops of up to 30 inches and the spill resisitant keyboard offers protection against liquid-based mishaps as well. A 2.4 GHz Core i5-520M CPU, 2 GB of RAM, a 320 GB hard drive, a DVD writer, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 round out the specs. The Panasonic Toughbook S9 retails for around $2,499 depending on final specs.
Sony Ericsson announces the little LiveView screen for their Android phones
You've got a remote control for all your other electronic gadgets; why not your smartphone? Sony Ericsson has released the LiveView Screen to work as a tiny "second screen" to keep up with calls, music control, and other apps all without having to take your phone out of your pocket.
The LiveView connects with compatible Android-powered Sony-Ericsson phone via Bluetooth to give access to your music player, Android apps, and look at incoming calls without breaking stride. It can be worn in a watch strap, clipped to your laptop, or on a keychain. No price has been released, but Sony Ericsson expects the LiveView to become available by the end of the year.
TechCrunch acquired by AOL
Remember when AOL was known for sending you thousands of free dial up internet CDs and "You've Got Mail?" AOL is now making their move to consume tech media outlets, and TechCrunch is the latest to join the fold.
AOL has acquired TechCrunch, a popular tech news outlet, and their related properties like MobileCrunch for a reported $40 million. The deal was officially announced and signed at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference today in San Francisco between AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and TechCrunch Founder and Co-editor Michael Arrington. TechCrunch joins Engadget, Switched, and Download Squad as major tech media players now flying under the AOL flag.
Intel's Larrabee is still alive, telling you to "come with me if you want to live"
Intel's Larrabee just won't die, will it?
Intel are adamant of entering into this market, and with the money they have - there's obviously no stopping them.
Intel are planning for a release in 2012, codename is "Knight's Corner", it's a 22nm HPC part and will hopefully compete with NVIDIA's Kepler and Maxwell GPGPU parts.
Intel has currently planned for it to have more than 50 cores, once they get down to 22nm. The TDP's will hopefully be good and "Knight's Corner" should at least come out before NVIDIA's Maxwell part. Intel plan to hit 22nm before the second half of 2011 while TMSC and GloFo won't be climbing the 22nm wall anytime before 2012.
Fermi mid-life kicker coming sooner than you think
All this talk of the 6xxx series from AMD, NVIDIA can get a little left out, not now.
NVIDIA have the new Fermi rumours at a nice sizzle - a mid-life kicker Fermi could be coming out. It would help bridge the gap between Fermi's half-baked 40nm release and 2011's Kepler, 28nm.
At the moment, "Fermi 1.5" looks to be the 6xxx competition - there are no firm details on it yet, all we know is that "it's coming". But, I'm sure, like me and the rest of the TT team, being a fan of technology is great right now, and if you're a fan of GPU's - then the next 6 months is going to be great times.
New 6k series from AMD, and a possible Fermi 1.5 from NVIDIA - a tonne of new games to play them on out over the next few months!
Again, as we hear things - we'll keep you informed.
Toshiba to tease with glasses-less 3D TV
Toshiba are set to show off a 3D TV on Monday that doesn't require 3D glasses.
3D TV's have been out for less than a year from the big manufacturers, all of them require the user/s to wear special glasses to see the 3D content. At the moment the technology involved in the glasses are presented with similar images, then rapidly change between each eye - this is how the 3D effect is shown to your eyes, but because it's going so fast - you don't notice the flicker, you just enjoy the 3D effect, albeit - with glasses on.
Toshiba's new technology throws the glasses away. Exact details of the technology won't be unveiled until Monday - but research by other companies has relied on a filter being placed on top of the TV screen - this filter sends a slightly different image to each eye.
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ORIGIN Unleashes $22,799 PC-Xbox 360 Hybrid Gaming System
Checked your piggy bank lately?? Been doing the paper run for your neighborhood? Good. You'll need it for this beast.
ORIGIN have revealed a $22, 799 PC-Xbox 360 hybrid gaming beast.
This thing is the absolute bees-knees of high end tech, kinda like Cold Rock ice-cream, it mashes together things that shouldn't be mashed together - but ultimately, it tastes awesome. Mixing a high end, overclocked, liquid-cooled PC with the popular Xbox 360 gaming platform is a pretty ingenius idea.
Just look at the specs!!
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Oracle are in the market for a major chipmaker
Oracle corporation is on a spending spree after this years acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a large system builder. Oracle wants to reinforce it's enterprise IT business with the acquisition of a major chip-maker.
At the moment, AMD, IBM (it's processor division) and NVIDIA are being named as potentials.
CEO Larry Ellison said, "You're going to see us buying chip companies,"
Ellison said he wants to copy the approach of Apple's CEO Steve Jobs by owning more of the IP that goes into computer chips.
While it makes sense to purchase chip-makers, an acquisition of a large GPU company like AMD or NVIDIA would be interesting to say the least. While NVIDIA is "down" (high end sales, when compared to 5k series sales) it looks very interesting - it would give NVIDIA more strength to start the obvious fight next year when AMD treads the APU territory, while NVIDIA are stuck with just a GPGPU and no integration of an x86 chip.
More interestingly, share prices of both AMD and NVIDIA rose slightly yesterday after this news hit.
Mobile App of the Day: MoodAgent
Our Mobile App of the Day today is Moodagent.
Are you angry at the world and feel like rocking to the heaviest stuff in your library? Or are you trying to get that special someone "in the mood" and need tunes that will help you get there? If you can't be bothered sitting down with your music library to come up with a playlist for every occasion, let Moodagent do it for you.
Moodagent is an app that will scan your music library and put together a five to fifty song playlist for you according to your mood. It syncs with your music library and uses the user's "sliders" to decide what songs to put in your playlist. The slider let you choose from Sensual, Tender, Happy, Angry, and Tempo selections and chooses tunes according to the height of the slider. If Moodagent doesn't recognize a song, you can manually adjust the song's Moodagent settings in their profiler for desktop computers. A free version is available, or you can purchase the Pro version that does not have ads for $5.00 USD. Check it out for iPhone or Android here.
Download of the Day: CPU-Z 1.55.2 Beta
Our Download of the Day today is CPU-Z 1.55.2 Beta.
CPU-Z is a freeware utility that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system. CPU-Z does not need to be installed, just unzip the files in a directory and run the .exe. In order to remove the program, just delete the files. The program does not copy any file in any Windows directory, nor write to the registry.
Name and number.
Core stepping and process.
Core voltage.
Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
Supported instructions sets.
All cache levels (location, size, speed, technology).
Vendor, model and revision.
BIOS model and date.
Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
Graphic interface.
Frequency and timings.
Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.
Windows and DirectX version.
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One Killed, Two Hurt in ATV Accident
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TROY, MO (KMOX)-An O'Fallon Mo. man is dead after an overnight ATV accident in Troy, Mo.
The Highway Patrol says 26-year-old Bradley Ballman was one of three men thrown from the vehicle when the driver lost control of it, and it overturned.
The 22-year-old driver, Ryan Ehlmann, suffered moderate injuries. A 25-year-old passenger, Thomas Loeffer, was seriously hurt and flown to a St. Louis hospital.
The accident happened just after midnight in the 500 block of Paris Branch Road.

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Interesting fact… Benrinnes 1974 - Connoisseurs Choice (Gordon and MacPhail) whisky spells its name whisky as it originates in Scotland. Had it been produced in America its name would be Benrinnes 1974 - Connoisseurs Choice (Gordon and MacPhail) whiskey, instead of whisky.
The nose is quite full-bodied and rich. There are notes of juicy fruits and boiled sweets. Chewy sultanas emerge with winter spice. Toasted oak reveals rum notes and pepper, there are notes of beeswax and leafy greenness with a well-balanced sweetness. The palate is quite rich and full with a good thickness to the mouth feel. There are notes of feinty leather and cigar box. Sherried sultanas and peels emerge with caramelised plums and smoke. The finish is sherried and rich.


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School Year Rolls To A CloseFriday, June 21, 2013
A cloudless afternoon greeted Newtown Middle School students after the last bell rang on Friday, June 21, signaling the close of the school year at NMS.
Across the district students completed the 2012-13 academic year with a half-day on the first official day of summer.
Buses were waiting outside NMS, some with festive streamers dangling while others had white hearts or sayings, like "Have a great summer," drawn on windows.
NMS Eighth Grade Moves Up And OnWednesday, June 19, 2013
Despite the steady rain and gray skies, there was a celebratory mood at the Newtown Middle School's Moving-Up Ceremony for graduating eighth grade students, which took place Tuesday, June 18, at Western Connecticut State University's O'Neil Center.
Despite an afternoon thunderstorm that brought inclement weather a couple hours before the scheduled 6 pm start, spirits remained high, as the 450 eighth-graders being honored took refuge from the wet weather.
NMS Releases Third Marking Period Honor RollsThursday, June 13, 2013
Newtown Middle School recently released its honor roll for the third quarter marking period of the 2012-13 school year. The following seventh and eighth grade students earned their place on the list.
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BOE Recognizes Top Students, Retiring EmployeesFriday, June 7, 2013
The Board of Education recognized Newtown High School's high-achieving students, Newtown's Math Olympiad participants, and retiring district employees at its Thursday, June 6, meeting.
"Ladies and gentlemen," NHS Assistant Principal Jason Hiruo said, "may I present to you the top five percent of Newtown High School."
The students who achieved grade point averages that rank them in the top five percent of the 2013 NHS graduating class were greeted with applause before the school board and members of the public present for the meeting.
NMS Releases Third Marking Period Honor RollsThursday, June 6, 2013
Newtown Middle School recently released its honor roll for the third quarter marking period of the 2012-13 school year. The following seventh and eighth grade students earned their place on the list.
Eighth Grade Honor Roll
School Board Hires NMS, Reed PrincipalsThursday, May 30, 2013
Following an executive session Wednesday, May 29, the Board of Education voted to hire Thomas Einhorn to be principal at Newtown Middle School and Anne Uberti to be principal at Reed Intermediate School for the 2013-14 school year.
According to a release from the school district, Mr Einhorn is currently the acting principal of Hall High School in West Hartford, and was a special education teacher at Sedgewick Middle School, also in West Hartford, before that.
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Hollywood Film Awards to Honor 'Anna Karenina's' Sarah Greenwood
8:28 PM PDT 9/28/2012 by Gregg Kilday
She will receive the production designer of the year award for her work on Joe Wright's adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy novel.
Sarah Greenwood will be honored as production designer of the year at the Hollywood Film Awards for her work on Focus' Anna Karenina. The awards ceremony will take place Oct. 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Greenwood received the same award four years ago when she was recognized for her contributions to both The Soloist and Sherlock Holmes.
She also has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for best art direction – for Holmes, 2007's Atonement and 2005's Pride & Prejudice. Additionally, she won the Art Directors Guild's Excellence in Production Design Award for Holmes.


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August 17th, 2010.
4 more ways to increase conversion rates
This article is aimed at people new to e-commerce. It covers some of the basics of ensuring that your website maximises conversion rates.
It should also be read alongside 12 quick ways to increase conversion rates.
For more experienced e-commerce managers please see this article on advanced techniques for increasing conversion rates.
1) Minimized Navigation on Shopping Cart/Basket Pages
There is nothing more frustrating for an online retailer than an abandoned basket. Why did the user go all that way and then lose interest??
It's fair to assume at the check out stage that a user does want to buy something. So our advice is to minimise the navigation available on your shopping cart pages. Keep wording short, simple, and to the point. Do not allow any distractions that could potentially pull your customer away or cause a delay.
By adding in lots of last minute deals and offers you risk diverting attention and losing the sale. Not everyone subscribes to this method, however at Datadial we believe it to be the best option.
An example: http://www.yapp.co.uk/pages/checkout_Login.aspx
2) Clear and Upfront Notification of Delivery Charges
Tacking on fees on to a final price without notification early in the buying process is the quickest way to lose a potential sale. Numerous surveys have revealed that hidden delivery costs are the number one reason for people to abandon a shopping cart. Notify your customers upfront if they will be required to pay any shipping or handling fees. This is a great way to increase conversion rates and build customer loyalty.
3) Clearly Display Trust Elements for Consumer Confidence
Remember, quite often users do not know who you are, where you are or really anything about you. Therefore it's crucial you do everything you can to gain, nurture and keep your customer confidence in order to increase conversion rates. Here are a few ways to do this:
Clearly display "trust elements" on your website. Trust elements can include:
a. Credit card logos. Use only approved, high-quality logos representing the types of credit cards you accept. This helps customers feel more secure in knowing you are a legitimate business. It also shows the user that they can buy from your site. It may not be obvious otherwise.
b. Contact information. Whenever possible clearly display your companies contact information. Customers need to know they will be able to contact you if they have a problem, questions, or need more product details.
c. Real employee names and a company director. When people shop online they like to know with whom they are dealing. Displaying real names and titles of key company employees will help consumers feel more secure in knowing there are real people running the show and not just computerised robots or answering machines.
d. Photos of faces and places. Include photographs of the people with whom your customer is dealing. If appropriate and applicable, include very short biographies about the smiling faces on your website. Consider using photographs of your business location if applicable. This helps people understand yours is a legitimate business with a real location and that you aren't likely to disappear in the night.
e. Visual verifications of claimed approvals, affiliations, and other credentials. If you have the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" for example, proudly display it in a prominent place. If you have earned awards for business-related, and sometimes personal accomplishments, tell your consumers with a quality image and link that leads to more information.
f. Push any special customer services you have to offer. If your customer service representatives are bi-lingual or speak multiple languages, find a way to let potential consumers know from the get go.
Multiple Payment options
Most of the time one payment option on your site is totally adequate. But in the interests of maximising conversions you might consider adding other payment vehicles to your site.
The most popular alternative is PayPal. Some users only ever use paypal as they are comfortable with it and trust it. PayPal offers your customers options. They can pay with major credit cards, or can pay directly from their own PayPal account. It also has the advantage (depending on how you look at it) that Paypal store your credit card so that you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit a site offering Paypal. Paypal is also great one for small and start-up businesses that have no established a financial history with their banks. It's fast and easy to register, display on your website, and capture funds that can be transferred right to your bank account.
So why not add it as an option?
Well it's expensive with commission rates around the 3% mark (and 20p per transaction). Paypal also have a knack of siding with the buyer in the event of dispute meaning that refunds are issued on request, leaving merchants frequently out of pocket.
It's an extra administrative thing to manage but if adding Paypal helps get an extra % sales conversion on your site then maybe it is worth it.
Google Checkout also offers easy solutions for start up merchants and small businesses. Google checkout claim to increase leads and create more conversions with a fast, easy, convenient checkout process.
You can also sign for basket abandonment alerts so you can recapture customers who wander away without buying!
The main advantage that Google Checkout has over Paypal is that its icon appears in Adwords results – so naturally drawing your eye to merchants using it, resulting in a 10% uplift in conversion rates according to Google.
However, Google Checkout has many drawbacks. Its interface and design are distinctly amateurish and this influencers trust building for users on their site. (Having said that Paypal's interface is not much better). Also it's only possible to link Google Check out to credit card accounts and not bank accounts.
Since its launch Google checkout has not taken off in anyway like Paypal before it and struggles for market penetration.
But, as above, if it means a small increase in sales conversions, and you can put up with the extra administrative hassle, then maybe it's worth having Google Checkout as well as Paypal as well as normal Credit Card payment facilities.
Like Paypal, Google Checkout is suitable for small and larger merchants alike, though brand aware and high end merchants are unlikely to be found using either as there is undoubtedly something "cheap" looking about both!
I recently went to a talk on the different forms that e-tailing is taking over and beyond the traditional e-commerce site.
Below is a distilled version of the talk with just the best bits. A lot of these examples are only availabe in the US at the moment but by reading this you are getting ahead of the curve!
(The talk was by the big cheese at Pod1 – Fadi – so credit to him for researching it all)
E-commerce via Apps
Start accepting cash and card payments with Square. No contracts, monthly fees, or hidden costs. Effortlessly manage the money you take with an easy and intuitive interface. US only at the moment and only for payments less than $60 but one to watch for sure.
See corporate video
And a review on how it works
Google shopper (Android only)
This APP allows you to scan barcodes, the co
vers of books and media, and even search by voice – the app will tell you where you can buy the same product and at what price. Pretty nifty if it works!
It took 12 months for the location-based social network to attract one million users and by stark contrast; the second million only took three months. Ever since February 2010, the site has been registering over one million 'check-ins' a week.
See how it works:
New e-commerce software
Vendr create POP-UP shops – They say that you can create your e-commerce site within 15 minutes. These are basic obviously sites now but I guess they will improve. In any event they will probably do for many home based businesses.
from their site: "Works with your current website: Add a "store" button to your blog or website, and your store will simply pop-up over your content — no more sending your customers elsewhere to make a purchase. Vendr functions as a part of your existing site. "
Alvenda software allows you to create e-commerce shops within sites such as Facebook – Alvenda's first customer, 1-800-Flowers.com, launched during the Mother's Day holiday in 2009 and recognized a 10.5x lift in shopping activity by making it easier for people to shop.
New E-Tailing concepts
Cutting out the middle man – Harnessing the power of social media to revolutionise product manufacture and pricing.
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April 22nd, 2010.
12 Quick ways to increase your conversion rate in 20 minutes
If one of your business goals for 2010 is to increase your conversion rate then here are some basic conversion tips, which amazingly so many website still fail to pay attention to.
1. Include calls to action. Make sure the home page makes visitors want to move deeper into the site and that the home page reflects exactly the kind of business you are.
2. Keep your site relevant In order to gain trust and loyalty from your visitors it's important to keep your site up to date. For example once an event is over it should be removed from your site straight away and then updated with all forthcoming events/news.
3. Know what's visible. Your most important information should go "Above the Fold": Anytime a customer has to scroll down a page, they're doing so to view content that lies "below the fold". I still recommend putting all your biggest selling and most profitable products above the fold so your customer doesn't have to scroll to find it.
4. Buy it now What happens when a visitor decides to buy a product? They add it to a shopping basket. How do they add it? They click a button or link (usually a button)and if they can't see the button they will go elsewhere. There are still plenty of sites out there with buttons that are too subtle, or don't say the right thing, or are hidden away at the bottom of a page. It is important to have clear buttons that also tell the customer what will happen next once they have clicked.
5. Importance of good images and design should always have visitor usability and appeal in mind. A beautiful, funky or attractive looking web site will not help your ranking but it will help secure client interest and entice sales.
6. Keep it short make sure the checkout process is not long – if your site has a lot of pages to complete before checkout you risk the visitor giving up half way through due to time. You only need to ask for the relevant fields to complete the purchase and follow-up with further details later.
7. Good product description should have a headline and an opening hook designed to get your reader to click on the item and find out more. The most important elements for product description pages are:
- Headline
- Opening hook
- Overview of benefits
- Closing the sale
8. Convenience is key Visitors to the site often say how tired they are of having to open another account and having to remember another username/password. A way around this is to offer a one page checkout process which captures customer details, but does not open an account.
9. Keep them informed When customer buys something online, they want to know when it's going to arrive at their door. People are impatient. Giving them an estimated delivery date during the checkout process is a good start. Emailing them when their product is dispatched is great. Giving them a tracking number if using a delivery service that supports online tracking is even better. Keep the customer informed at every step of the process, before and after sale, about as much as you can.
10. Points Of Contact Many visitors to your site dislike making contact online so it's helpful to have your phone number clearly on the contact page if that's one of the ways you can expect to convert visitors into customers.
11. Payment options? Customers these days need a few options in order to buy online. Not everyone has a Paypal account or a credit card. You need to offer your customers as many payment options as possible, or you could risk losing potential sales. Make the user's life easy and give them as many payment options as possible.
12. Highlighting offers and sales on your website will encourage an increase both visitors and revenue. In your headline one should feature different benefits as this will have a huge impact on your sales. This is often the first thing visitors to your site see so it must capture their attention and entice them to buy the product(s).
September 13th, 2009.
Avoid expensive rebuild costs and improve your existing site conversions
At business school I was taught the way to make money was to make our assets sweat. I think they meant to get the most out of everything you owned and to make sure it was being worked night and day to maximum effect. And so at Datadial we try to do the same for our clients' websites by making sure that they are focused on developing websites that maximise sales levels by being search engine friendly and that convert users in to buyers.
The usual reaction in squeezing more out of a website is to rush into a redevelopment exercise. Redeveloping a website is expensive that is often undertaken on a whim and without real research into what is working and what is not on the current website. Indeed it's often the case that the current site is perfectly capable of delivering many more sales and that it just needs refining to improve the user experience.
This doesn't need to be an expensive exercise. The key to successful marketing is to consistently test and measure everything that you do. Delivering fantastic conversion figures is within reach for us all, no matter how small the budget.
Here are four ways that we have carried out for some of our clients to help increase their onsite conversions at virtually no cost.
1) Online surveys
What better way to really understand your customers than to ask them for direct feedback? What is it that makes them want to buy from you rather than your competitors? How did they hear about you?
Carrying out market research will enable you to build on what you're doing well and make any necessary adjustments and help you to grow. You will be surprised by how many people are willing to take the time to reply to surveys.
We recently did a survey for one of our clients Design911.co.uk which gave vital insight into user behaviour. Coupled with Click Tracking report (see below) Design911 have been able to fine tune their website to respond to users' expectations and behaviour.
Below is a sample of the survey results that were produced.
2) Mouse tracking –
Why do other sites make it so difficult to buy anything from them? We've all experienced a confusing website at one point or another. But could your site also be suffering from usability issues? Find out where the sticking points are with Mouse tracking.
You may also find that users are trying to click on things on your site that are not designed to be clicked on. We found this with Design911:
With design 911 we found that that very few people clicked on the middle of the page and that lots of users tried clicking on ads on the right handside of the page which were not actually clickable. We found too that the search box was being under used as it was below the page fold and that users were taking at least 60 seconds to make a click on key navigation items.
3) Study your analytics
It's all too tempting to gloss over your analytics reports – these reports contain vital information which reveal where users are getting stuck, turned on or turned off. Seems obvious to say it but unless you take the time to check what is going on on your site you will never be able to intelligently amend your site and measure the effect of your changes.
There is a mass of information to look at but here are 3 basic things to do
Check Bounce Rates: Bounce rates tell you if a visitor who has been directed to your site via a search engine or Adwords likes what they have found. If they leave the site immediately this is called a bounce. If this happens you need to question if you are showing the right products for the keyword search and if you could provide better information, or if they had come via Adwords, are your Adwords set up correctly.
Funnels: You can set up funnels to determine where people are dropping off over a series of pages (typically the shopping cart process). Different funnels can be set up for different goals.
Compare to previous periods: There are a number of trends such as time on site, the number of keywords that you are being found for, the number of pages per visit that are good to compare from onen time period to another so that you detect trends.
4) A/B Testing
Having pawed over your analytics you can then start making intelligent changes to your site. How will you make more people fill in your enquiry form? How can you get them to add one more thing to their basket. Take a look at the forms below and guess which one had the higher conversion rate.
This company carried out A/B testing on their sign up form and increased their conversion rate by 10%.
This is called A/B testing or Multivariate testing which we use to determine which images, copy and design most appeal to your customers and which version increases conversion. You can have as many or as few variables as you like when creating your A/B testing. Ideally you would set it up to automatically serve different versions of the page to alternate users but to save money you can do it on a week on/week off basis.
We helped Conference Genie increase conversions on their site by altering the sign up process. Interestingly we did it by making their site more complicated.
Weirdly the problem on this site was that it was too easy to use. Users could not believe that they could just dial a default number, punch in a code and start a conference call. So we made the site appear to generate a specific telephone number and a unique code for them. Turning a one step process into a two step process actually increased conversions.
Making small changes instead of wholesale changes was also recently backed by Peter Fitzgerald, who leads Google UK's retail industry division. He said that the whole area of analytics – that's technical jargon for examining the ways that people navigate websites when they shop online – has taken on new importance to retailers.
Simple changes can make the world of difference, particularly since statistics show that 50.1% of online shoppers who place items in their shopping carts still do not buy them.
By subtly altering a website's layout based on how people use it, websites can increase sales significantly.
"There is often a lot of unimportant information on the top of a web page. If you move this information out of the way it can make a huge difference," said Mr Fitzgerald.
For example when Comet, the electricals retailer owned by Kesa, the listed stores group, removed two bits of text from the top of its web page (saying 'top checkout tips' and 'you're safe with us' respectively), its conversion rates increased by 6.7pc. "Online retailers are spending more time on analytics to see where things are going wrong," said Mr Fitzgerald.
Department store group Debenhams recently tested the message and positioning of an online sign-up form for its Beauty Club. Improvements to it increased the number of customers the chain signed up by over 89pc. Little such tweaks are being made by online retailers as a means of gaining incremental sales. Experts say that the results of the small changes can be seen almost immediately.
Google's Mr Brittin said: "By interpreting analytics data and continually testing their sites, retailers can really understand what consumers are looking for online. Often very small and seemingly obvious tweaks can boost sales significantly."
All of the above exercises can be implemented fairly quickly and inexpensively. However, don't underestimate the time you need to truly get to grips with your findings.
By constantly analysing the results and carrying out appropriate changes you will be able to squeeze every last conversion out of your site without incurring expensive redevelopment costs.
June 21st, 2009.
Boring but important – Changes to "place of supply" for VAT
From 1st January 2010 there will be a change to the basic rule regarding the place of supply of services. This is the rule which identifies the country where services are deemed to have been 'supplied'. Currently, if a supplier has established its business in the UK, then the place of supply will be deemed to be the UK and any services charged for will be subject to UK VAT. There are, however, numerous exceptions to this rule. Establishing whether a service falls under one of the exceptions – and if so, which one – constitutes a major headache for businesses.
The new basic rule states that if the recipient is a business customer then the place of supply is the country where the recipient belongs. Therefore, when the new rule applies, if a UK business supplies training services to a business customer in Spain and delivers the training in France then the place of supply will be Spain and the reverse charge will apply. The existing rules dictate that the place of supply is France, with the result that the UK business may need to register in France.
The new basic rule also states that if the recipient is not a business customer then the place of supply is the country where the supplier belongs.
As is now the case, there will be some exceptions, but these exceptions are in many cases different from those currently in force. It will be important to ascertain just how your business will be affected.
The changes may affect businesses which receive services from abroad. Such businesses may already account for VAT using the reverse charge mechanism, but may in future have to do this in situations where the reverse charge currently does not apply.
Another significant change, which is being introduced as an EU anti-fraud measure, relates to EC Sales Lists. Businesses supplying services to commercial customers in other EU countries will be affected. Currently, EC Sales Lists are required only for supplies of goods. Although this comes into force on 1st January 2010 you should be preparing now to collect the necessary data.
 The above was copied from an email sent to me by UK Training (Worldwide) Limited
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As ever Datadial are here to assist you in implementing your e-commerce sites to the specification you desire.
November 10th, 2008.
New E-commerce launch – www.Yapp.co.uk
We took a dogs dinner of an old website and transformed it into a work of art that converts users to buyers. As always the project was delivered on time and on budget.
Yapp Wine Merchants website now has a fresh, modern design, packed with tools to help you find the wine you need. It is unfrightening and designed to cater to Yapps broad user base. We've made searching for wine fun and easy whilst retaining Yapp's connoiseur edge.
Everyone has their own ways of looking for wine so we implemented 4 ways to navigate the site:
- The Easy Wine selector uses dynamic searching
Watch your search results change dynamically with easy to use search sliders. Have a play. The great advantage of this is that it all happens on one page with no hopping backwards and forwards to and from search results.
- The Food and Wine selector allows you to search for wine by Food Type by clicking on images of different food types. This is not rocket science but is dis-armingly useful.
- Advanced Search - for those who really know what they are after.
Search by Regional maps
- "You recently looked at"
Isn't it annoying when you look at lots of different items and then have to re-find them by re-doing the searches. Well we eliminated this problem with the "You recently looked at section" so you dont have to re-do previous searches.
- Tell a friend / Bookmark tools
Not strictly a navigation tool but so simple and effective. How else can you let your loved one know what you want for Christmas? Simply post your choices to your Facebook page and invite others to have a look.
Search engine friendly
As always with Datadial, the site is built to be search engine friendly
All pages from the old site have been redirected to the relevant new pages.
The site uses Friendly URLs so http://www.yapp.co.uk/Wine-List/Rhone-South/Chateauneuf-du-Pape/ instead of
Integrated stock control – the site is integrated to draw stock levels from Sage accounts.
The site is fully content managed, giving Yapp control over all aspects of the site including creating offers, mixed case offers and product information.
The site is also integrated with Datadial's email marketing system.
July 20th, 2008.
Design Patterns
Design Patterns are an essential tool for any object orientated programmer who wants to take his/her skills to the next level. Understanding the specifics of Design Pattern practices and methodologies will help developers uncover reoccurring patterns in software development and give them the tools to apply the correct solution.
For every difficulty encontered during application development, chances are this problem was encountered before (and solved). Design Patterns represent key programming practices that have been proven to get the job done in the most efficient, reusability and extensibility. This greatly increases efficiency of code and helps to break an application down into loosely compelled manageable chucks.
As a .Net developer you may have used some of these patterns without even knowing. A design patterns name captures the basic concepts that govern its use and a common practice is to include the pattern name in the name of the object that implements it.
You may have come across the following names while working with the .Net framework:
- Proxy
- Adapter
- Command
- Factory
The deeper your understanding of Design Patterns the more you'll be to understand the .Net framework and how it can leverage you applications.
Main Design Patterns Concepts
- Use interface inheritance over concrete base class inheritance
- Create loosely coupled objects to promote code reuse by keeping object small and specialised
- Defer / Delegate responsibility to specialised objects using composition
Choosing the correct pattern
The best way to decide which pattern is fit for the jobs it to break down your development specification into each requirement. If these requirement exhibit certain characteristics that relate to a design pattern then apply it. E.g. If you application is responsible for monitoring a file system and reporting changes back to a number of objects you are most-likely to implement the Observer pattern.
Once you have gained an understanding of object orientated concepts you should be ready to tackle Design Patterns. You will be surprised how many patterns that are already familiar to you and how much the put things into perspective. You'll also find that the more you learn, the more you'll see application development from a different perspective (almost like seeing the Matrix!!). To truly understand the benefits of Design Patterns you have to apply them to your application development. This will improve your object reuse and make future program changes less painful!
List of Design Patterns LINK:
- Adapter Pattern
- Command Pattern
- Composite Pattern
- Decorator Pattern
- Factory Pattern
- Flyweight Pattern
- Intepreter
- Model-View-Controller
- Null Pattern
- Observer-Observable
- Singleton
- State Pattern
- Strategy Pattern
- Template Pattern
- Union Pattern
- Visitor Pattern
July 20th, 2008.
Introduction to Developing .Net Mobile Applications
There are many tools on the market for creating application for mobile phones and portable devices. This blog post investigates the technologies necessary for creating Microsoft related ASP.Net mobile applications.
Window Mobile (OS)
Window mobile is a compact operating system for mobile devices. These devices include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, Portable Media Centres and on-board computers for cars. Windows Mobile has been designed to be similar aesthetic to Vista and is currently at version 6.1 with a new release scheduled for 2010.
.Net Compact Framework
The .Net compact framework is a scaled sown version of the .Net Framework and uses some of the same class libraries with a few additional libraries designed specifically for mobile devices. This can be integrated with Visuals Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008 to develop impressive mobile windows form based and web based applications.
ASP.Net Mobile Controls and the Microsoft Internet Toolkit
Developing applications for mobile devices can be a challenging as there are certain limitations, which include:
- Different mark-up languages for PDAs, Cell phones or Japanese phones.
- Devices have a varying number or display lines, horizontal/vertical orientation and screen colours.
- Different network connectivity
- Capabilities, display resolution and ability to make phone calls.
All these factors must be taken into consideration when developing applications for mobile devices.
This is where the Microsoft Internet toolkit comes in, as it addresses these issues so that developers can build one mobile web application that delivers the appropriate mark-up for a wide range of mobile devices.
The mobile toolkit contains:
- Mobile web form controls which are similar to ASP.Net controls as the generate mark-up code
- Mobile Internet Designer which integrates with Visual Studio .Net IDE to provide a web application design environment
- Browser Capabilities which makes it possible to run ASP.Net functionality on mobile devices
- Quick Start Tutorial with sample code
- Developer Documentation
- Device adapter code samples
Using a combination of the Windows Mobile operating system, .Net Compact Framework, and the Microsoft Internet Toolkit applications can be written to run on a wide range of mobile devices in a similar manor to that of regular browser base applications.
These are the three basic tools that are necessary to start building applications that target mobile devices.
Mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular as people continually want to stay connected when they are away from their desk. Microsoft has developed a cohesive little package of products that integrate well together and provide an infrastructure similar to their full blown application development environment. This will hopefully encourage developers to venture into the world of mobile application development.
July 20th, 2008.
Web Usability
Web usability is about designing your web site so that users can achieve their desired goal quickly and easily. Taking time out during development to make sure your site meets usability standards can have a huge benefit to your business.
"A web usability redesign can increase the sales/conversion rate by 100%â€
– Jakob Nielson
Designers and developers must make sure they spend adequate time planning the flow of information by firstly identifying the needs of their intended users, then creating a path for site visitors to follow, which firstly, addresses a users initial concerns, then gradually takes then towards achieving their goals. This is achieved by understanding the goal the goals of you target users and then identifying the information your site needs to provide.
There are millions of web sites all competing for the same space, so it is important that you get the right information across a quickly as possible. It has never been easier for users to find a competitors web site, which may do a better job than yours. It is important that you meet the immediate needs of your site visitors as this the fundamental principle behind good web design.
Web designer must realise that if a web site is hard to use or hard to read, users will leave the site. This is because most users simply do not want to spend a large amount of time trying to figure out how to use a site as there are plenty of other sites to choose from.
Definition of Usability
- Easy to learn
- Efficient to use
- Easy to recover from errors
- Easy to remember
Navigation (Breadcrumb Trail)
Site navigation is crucial as users must know where they are and where they are going at all times. The easiest way to achieve this is to follow certain site convention, layouts and phrases (i.e. company logo should be in the top left corner with a link back to the home page, 'about us' links should display organisational information, shopping cart or basket should refer to items a user wishes to purchase etc).
These conventions must not be adhered to whenever possible as users have become accustomed to them. Developers and designer must use this to their advantage because sticking to them can increase the usability of the site.
Download Speeds
How many times have you exited a web page because it has taken too long to download? As broadband speeds get faster users are becoming increasingly impatient when it comes to page download time. On average users are prepared to wait 8.6 seconds, so it is important that you pay attention to this. There is no use having a fancy web site with high resolution images if users aren't prepared to wait long enough to see them.
Faster page download speeds can be achieved by using CSS instead of images, placing CSS code in a separate file and using Unobtrusive JavaScript.
Usability Testing
Many web designers fail to complete adequate usability testing due to time and budget constraints. They fail to realise that a usable web site or CMS will eliminate a lot of time spent providing technical support. It is crucial that designers and developers know that the adoption of usability testing will eventually pay for itself many times over.
The key is to start usability testing early and to involve your target demographic. If possible, use five people to complete these tests as this has been known to uncover as much as 85% of usability issues.
Usability is a hugely neglected area of web development and is an issue that needs to be addressed. We must always remember that users always come first and that if you make the user your priority then they will reward you with their loyalty.
It is not good enough using programmers and designers to do the testing either, as IT professionals do not think like the average web user. The best way to complete thorough testing is use candidate that are similar to your target audience.
Usability is an incredibly valuable tool that can save an organisation a lot of money, improve their competitive position and customer loyalty. It's never too late, so start today.
July 19th, 2008.
Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5
The .Net framework 3.5 (released November 19th 2007) is the latest framework to be released by Microsoft. It has a host of new features and will be shipped as standard with the latest version of Visual Studio .Net 2008 IDE.
.Net framework 3.5 is an incremental build which means that instead of creating a completely new framework Microsoft has instead added new assemblies and fixed known bugs. This decision helped make the transition between .Net framework 2.0 and 3.0 as painless as possible. In essence .Net framework 3.5 contains the 3.0 framework which contains the 2.0 framework.
New assemblies include:
- System.Data.Linq.dll – The implementation for LINQ to SQL.
- System.Xml.Linq.dll – The implementation for LINQ to XML.
- System.AddIn.dll, System.AddIn.Contract.dll – New AddIn (plug-in) model.
- System.Net.dll – Peer to Peer APIs.
- System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.dll – Wrapper for Active Directory APIs.
- System.Management.Instrumentation.dll – WMI 2.0 managed provider (combined with
- System.Management namespace in System.Core.dll).
- System.WorkflowServices.dll and System.ServiceModel.Web.dll – WF and WCF enhancements (for more on WF + WCF in v3.5 follow links from here).
- System.Web.Extensions.dll – The implementation for ASP.NET AJAX
- System.Core.dll – In addition to the LINQ to Objects implementation, this assembly includes the following: HashSet, TimeZoneInfo, Pipes, ReaderWriteLockSlim, System.Security.,
- System.Diagnostics.Eventing. and System.Diagnostics.PerformanceData.
- System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll – The implementation of LINQ to Dataset.
- System.Windows.Presentation.dll –WPF support for the System.AddIn.
- System.VisualC.STLCLR.dll – STL development in the managed world.
AJAX support has been added to .Net 3.5 as standard so that server and client-centric AJAX functionality can be added to existing and future web applications.
Some additional data-controls have also been added, in the shape of 'ListView' control for displaying data and the 'LinqDataSource' data control that exposes LINQ data to web applications. The ListView control is highly customisable (using templates and styles) and supports edit, update and delete operations as well as paging and sorting functionality.
Support from Vista styled Windows application has been added, which will even allow developers to update the appearance of old applications written using previous frameworks. Common file dialog boxes will be automatically updated to the Vista version. (See. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926167)
Some of the biggest language orientated changes to.Net 3.5 are the inclusion of XAML, C# 3.0 and LINQ. Link and XAML are covered within my Silverlight and Visual Studio.Net posts.
One of the most important things to realise is that current web and windows application can be easily upgraded to .Net 3.5 as it is essentially built on the back of the previous two frameworks. Developers can make the switch safe in the knowledge that it won't break their existing applications (unless their application exploited a bug, in which case it will!).
These types of upgrades are extremely welcome as it lessen the learning curve and give .Net developers more faith in Microsoft frameworks core infrastructure.


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Here's a studio that popped back on the market at 360 Smith, the rental building in Carroll Gardens. If you recall, this building rented out very quickly so it wouldn't be a surprise if this goes fast. Even though the monthly rent comes in at a pricy $2,200. Like those new finishes?
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A studio for 2200 a month is very expensive if you ask me, especially because it is not going to be huge.
Nonetheless, I love the look of this building from the outside very much. It is fun at night to see everyone's windows open and see the lights on and how they are decorated.
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Agar Agar With Coconut Milk By Food Corner 12/12/12 05:21 Agar-agar is another form of gelatin.It is a great way to create easy & colourful desserts. However Agar Agar has a firm texture when compared with jelly. Interesting fact is, it is derived from seaweed & considered as vegetarian. Any fruit or any flavour...
China grass pudding/agar agar pudding recipe By Chitra's food book 09/16/14 12:39 Preparation: 15 min - Cooking: 30 min China grass well known as agar agar is a type of gelatin extracted from Sea weed.It is called as "Kadal paasi" in Tamil.It is available in the form of strands and powder.It is mainly used for making jellies,puddings and custard all over Asia.Once Sendhil... Add to my recipe book
Soya Milk Agar Agar Mooncakes 2014 By BeautyMe Love Recipes 09/07/14 12:43 Getting these Soya Milk Agar Agar Mooncakes for my Sis-In-Laws & Neighbour. Posted by BeautyMe at 3:43 AM Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: Mooncakes No comments: Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe... Add to my recipe book
Chendol Agar Agar With Mahjong Tiles Birthday Cake By Luxury Haven 08/31/14 14:30 #Cendol or #Chendol, is a popular tradition dessert in Asia. Basic ingredients include coconut milk, red beans, worm-like jelly noodles made from pandan rice flour, then topped with shaved ice and palm sugar ( gula melaka ). Today, I'm gonna make a Chendol... Add to my recipe book
Persimmon agar agar By Alessandra Zecchini 08/24/14 10:28 This dessert is perfect after a Japanese meal, maybe not a traditional Japanese dish (I invented it, after all, like most of the recipes in this blog) but it taste great and and it is made with only two ingredients: persimmons and agar agar (and a little... Add to my recipe book
Mahjong Agar Agar Cake For Potluck Party, Anyone Game By Luxury Haven 08/23/14 17:04 I'm really thrilled to share with you a dessert I've just made for a potluck party cum birthday celebration. What do you think of my Mahjong Agar Agar Cake? Read more » Add to my recipe book
Cubes de fromages frais à l'agar agar By Recettes eco 07/25/14 11:03 Voici une super recette pour un apéritif original ou une salade fraicheur : des cubes de fromages frais réalisés avec de l'agar agar. C'est vraiment bon, facile à faire, économique, on dirait des cubes de féta. On peut varier la composition, c'est selon... Add to my recipe book
Mango Agar Agar Pudding | Mango Jelly using Agar Agar | Eggless Mango Pudding | Mango Pudding Using China Grass By Youtoocancookindianfoodrecipes 07/23/14 02:03 Earlier this year, as a valentine's day special, I had posted rose agar-agar pudding recipe for which I received positive feedbacks and comments. Now here is a similar pudding prepared with king of fruits "the mangoes" that's gonna enlighten you similarly... Add to my recipe book
Longan Agar Agar By BeautyMe Love Recipes 07/20/14 18:00 As I had promised my colleagues, I made this Agar Agar with a can of Longan that I had in my cupboard. Ingredients1 pkt of Agar Agar (your preference of color) 1 litre water 100g sugar 1 can Longan Directions1. Pour the syrup in can Longan into a pot and... Add to my recipe book
Indian Flag - Plain Agar Agar By cookbookjaleela 07/03/14 20:10 Check My other Step by Step - Indian Flag Agar Agar Jelly ( china Grass) => Here (Tri Colour Fruits and Nuts Agar Agar Indian Flag Plain Agar Agar Ingredients Agar Agar - 10 gram Sugar – 50 gram Essence - Red and green Water – 300 ml Milk – 100 ml Method... Add to my recipe book
Vanilla Bean Pudding | Eggless Pudding | Agar agar condensed milk pudding By Cook like Priya 06/21/14 15:11 Condensed milk agar agar pudding Yipee finally its the weekend. How has your weekend started? good? bad? for me nothing interesting so ended up cooking a simple vegetarian lunch. After a week long of no desserts, sweets and such I was craving today for... Add to my recipe book
Vanilla Bean Pudding | Eggless Pudding | Agar agar condensed milk pudding By CooklikePriya 06/21/14 15:11 Condensed milk agar agar pudding Yipee finally its the weekend. How has your weekend started? good? bad? for me nothing interesting so ended up cooking a simple vegetarian lunch. After a week long of no desserts, sweets and such I was craving today for... Add to my recipe book
Rose Milk Pudding Recipe / Rose Milk Jelly / Agar Agar ( China Grass) Pudding Recipe / Mother's Day Special Recipe By Poornima's Cookbook 05/11/14 06:37 Wishing All Mom's a Happy Mother's Day! Here is a healthy and also easy to prepare dessert to celebrate this special occasion!. A small on Agar - agar / China grass: Agar agar (china grass) is a vegetarian substitute for gelatin which is flavorless and... Add to my recipe book
Fruity Agar Agar Jelly By Anncoo Journal 05/08/14 08:48 Mother's Day is just around the corner, have you planned your menu yet? As I'm quite tied up this week, I don't have the time to do any baking but decided to make this simple and refreshing agar agar jelly. There is nothing much to shout about on this recipe... Add to my recipe book
Chocolate Mousse ( no gelatin ,no agar-agar) | Easy Easter Dessert Recipe | Mousse Recipe By Babi's Recipes 04/19/14 04:57 Hallelujah The saviour has risen, lets all sing praise and glory to The Lord. Happy Easter to one and all.On this special day i share with you an easy mousse recipe which i tried from here.I halved... Add to my recipe book
Agar-agar By 196 Flavors 04/07/14 00:56 Agar-agar or agar is a red algae (Gelidium or Gracilaria) of Japanese origin. Discovered in 1658 by Minora Tarazaemon, it is mainly used as a gelling agent, like gelatin. Gelatin however is of animal origin (pork and beef usually). This natural gelling... Add to my recipe book
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Agar Agar Jelly | Rose Pudding | Agar Agar Rose Jelly | China Grass Rose Jelly | Eggless Rose Pudding | Valentine's Day Recipes By Youtoocancookindianfoodrecipes 02/13/14 17:34 Agar agar jelly is such a treat to dessert lovers and has been my most favorite. And for those who do not use gelatin an animal extract, agar agar is a blessing I'd say. Agar agar is extracted from sea-weed, a plant source suitable for vegans and vegetarians.... Add to my recipe book
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Tackling Nuclear Terrorism In South Asia AnalysisBy Feroz Hassan Khan and Emily Burke Since India and Pakistan conducted their nuclear tests in 1998, every danger associated with nuclear weapons proliferation, instability, and terrorism has been linked to the region. And despite nuclear ... Eurasia Review, 6 days ago
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Man held with gold (Siasat News): The custom officials at RGI airport, Shamshabad arrested a passenger and seized 2.3 kgs gold from his possession. As per the details, the passenger Abdullah Badruddin from Kerala had come from Dubai this ...Siasat Daily, 4 weeks ago
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2009 Langmuir Award Nominations
Guglielmo Fucci, Successfully defended his PhD thesis on April 3, 2009
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The Langmuir Award for Excellence in Research is given for an outstanding scientific research paper by any student or graduate of New Mexico Tech. The paper must have been submitted to or published by a recognized journal during the preceding year. The recipient is selected by the Faculty Senate's Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee. The award is named in honor of Irving Langmuir (Nobel Laureate, 1932) who conducted extensive research with Tech staff.
Nominations must be submitted to the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee by March 15. The research paper and supporting information will be placed in the library on reserve, and posted online on the Academic Affairs webpage by April 1st. The Committee will ask for nominations from the floor at the May Faculty Senate meeting, followed by a vote.
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The man threw shards of glass in his girlfriend's face, broke numerous glass objects, then pinned her down and slapped her in the face and pulled her hair in her apartment in the 8800 block of South Oak Park Drive about 4 a.m. May 3.
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Dez Bryant didn't take part in many national media interviews during his first three seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. But recently, Bryant has jumped on a few radio programs and TV shows on ESPN and the NFL Network. It appears that more of those won't be taking place in the future. According to a tweet posted Tuesday on Bryant's official Twitter account, the 24-year-old wide receiver is done with the national media. I'm never talking with the media outside of valley ranch all they do is twist your words.... Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) April 9, 2013 Last month, Bryant claimed that it was possible for him to become the first player to finish a season with 2,000 receiving yards. ESPN's Skip Bayless said Bryant was being selfish by putting his own goals above his team's success. However, Bayless missed the part where Bryant said individual stats don't matter if the Cowboys aren't in the playoffs. Bryant's words were apparently misunderstood, again. ...
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A lot of my readers are asking me, now that I've wrapped up two book series, what I'm working on now? Well…
About ten years ago, I started imagining a story with a male protagonist named Frank Lucky. I began writing it as a short story, and I ended up setting it aside, but Frank's character has always stayed in the back of my mind, as well as his love interest, Luna.
This summer, after finishing up two trilogies I had dedicated my writing energy to, Frank's voice immediately resurfaced and he started pestering me to write his story. Since film is probably my favorite form of story telling, I decided to try this out in a screenplay format. After discussing it with seven beta readers, and eight rewrites later, I feel like I have a strong script in my hands.
What I'm looking for now is a script agent to take a look at the screenplay. It is not a commercial script. It definitely has more of an indie feel (which are the types of movies I usually prefer). It's a romantic dramedy, aimed at audiences who enjoyed the quirky humor and relationships in 500 Days of Summer or Garden State.
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Software AG Showcases Product Portfolio at CeBIT
Mar 07, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Software AG announced that it demonstrated its full product portfolio at CeBIT, an IT exhibition which took place in Hanover, Germany, showing how the digital enterprise can fully exploit the four forces of Big Data, Cloud, Mobile and Social Collaboration.
The company announced multiple new products utilizing the four forces including Terracotta In-Genius - the industry's first scalable in-memory intelligence platform. In-Genius delivers actionable business intelligence from any Big Data or Industry 4.0 data stream to any information channel, including web, mobile and point-of-sale. The company also announced the release of ARIS 9.0 that uses Cloud based social collaboration technology to accelerate business process optimization by involving business-line managers in all project phases. Software AG highlighted the coming webMethods 9.0 integration platform with the markets first in-memory enabled Enterprise Service Bus, allowing customers to integrate time sensitive, Cloud and Mobile applications through its significantly increased performance. In addition, Software AG announced its new mobile suite to manage and integrate mobile applications providing secure access to real-time business information anywhere and anytime. The company is also demonstrating a prototype integration of its high performance transactional database Adabas with Terracotta technology and Hadoop giving customers analytic capabilities across their full data assets.
"The IT industry is going through a game changing revolution that will have an impact more profound than any we have yet seen," said Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich. "Every enterprise must have a unique digital strategy built around Big Data, Cloud, Mobile and Social technologies if they are to successfully compete in this new era. Future competitive advantage will be driven by real-time market information driving collaborative and rapid business decisions and the ability to respond through agile business processes." Big Data - Terracotta In-Genius Unveiled Software AG noted that it unveiled its new Big Data product - Terracotta In-Genius - which delivers real-time business insights from any "Big Data" source to any type of device for immediate action. In-Genius will enable a brand new class of applications that scale up and out and adapt to new dynamic data sets in ways that have not been achievable using traditional disk-based data management approaches.
The ability to act on insights derived from terabytes of data in real-time can transform entire industries: -Financial Services - Save billions annually on fraudulent transactions. Terracotta In-Genius will allow companies to stop such transactions using complex pattern detection before transaction authorization rather than after.
-Logistics Companies - Real-time supply management routings based not only on package location but also on historical data, traffic sensors, weather, calendar events and other patterns emerging from data.
-Retail stores - Instant and personalized recommendations not just on the web but at the point of sale across all stores, significantly enhancing revenues and personalizing the consumer's shopping experience for enhanced brand loyalty.
In-Genius will be powered by Terracotta's new BigMemory 4.0 in-memory data platform, also announced at CeBIT. In addition, Software AG's ARIS 9.0 and webMethods 9.0 product suites have both integrated BigMemory 4.0 technology putting Software AG at the forefront in enabling enterprises to derive maximum value from Big Data. Uniquely, with its in-memory agility layer, Software AG allows customers to operate their business with the speed and precision made possible by the convergence of the four forces.
Business Processes - ARIS 9.0 The company reported that, with the release of ARIS 9.0, combining new Cloud, Mobile, Social and Analytic technologies a wider set of stakeholders with a broader set of business skills and experiences can contribute to process design. The new ARIS Connect will support deployment in private and hybrid clouds with access through smart phones and tablet devices. With ARIS Connect, enterprises can unlock the power of social collaboration for business and IT improvement. Social collaboration changes the way people connect, communicate and collaborate and is impacting the way companies improve business processes.
Integration - webMethods 9.0 Available in Q2, webMethods 9.0 has the first in-memory enabled Enterprise Service Bus on the market, extending its fully independent integration layer to applications deployed in the cloud, on mobile devices and in-house. webMethods CloudStreams is a new product that allows customers to easily and efficiently integrate SaaS applications such as Salesforce.com with other on-premise and other SaaS applications, and govern their integration.
Software AG said that the new webMethods Mobile Suite provides a high level of security and covers the entire life cycle of enterprise, mobile applications. Organizations can quickly build and distribute mobile applications, allowing only authorized users and devices on their networks and preventing malicious threats. Employees, customers and trading partners can now interact with the enterprises' IT systems from anywhere in a secure distributed environment. Through a strategic partnership with metaquark, Software AG also provides a new mobile application and device administration platform.
The new webMethods Infostreams brings real-time information and event streams to the right stakeholders enabling collaborative actions and responses. This is done instantly, independent of location or preferred device.
Transactions - Adabas & BigMemory Software AG is demonstrating its first prototype of the integration of Adabas with Terracotta and Hadoop. By integrating data from Industry 4.0 data streams, Big Data sources and in-house transactional data, enterprises will have a 360 degree view of both their business and their markets in real-time.
Software AG is a provider of big data, integration and business process technologies, which enables customers to drive operational efficiency, modernize their systems and optimize processes for smarter decisions and better service.
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The nuts and bolts: Howell organized the Classified Information Sharing and Safeguarding Office at ODNI and coordinated its work with three other groups created by the same executive order. His efforts led to the first assessments of the security posture of 41 federal agencies.
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