Almost all manufacturers of control code problem affected in Android
From the initially attributed Samsung Android tax code vulnerability seem potentially most smartphones and tablets are concerned UMTS, which runs on Ice Cream Sandwich (version 4.0.x) or an older version of Android. Google has the code in the dialing program in July, updated with version 4.1.1, so that control codes can not be done automatically.
Most dialers that are based on the original Android should, therefore, also contain the flaw. The comments show the readers to yesterday's report showing that almost every manufacturer is vulnerable devices in the program. Sony devices (formerly Sony Ericsson) are currently available information, only affected if it an alternative firmware like Cyanogen mod is installed. Otherwise start the Sony proprietary dialer from the tax code.
The current version of Android Jelly Bean (4.1.x) is installed on only 1.2 percent of all Android smartphones - which should primarily be that for most devices is no update on Jelly Bean and will not give.
The problem with the tax code is that it immediately executes the dialer - regardless of whether they are the users of hand typing on the keypad or by tel: URL has been passed from one Web page to the dialer. While the combination * # 06 # is not harmless and merely displays the 15-digit IMEI number of your smartphone, other tax codes mean that the SIM card will be permanently blocked. Samsung smartphones also know a code that will reset the device to factory settings, so all the user data in the phone memory clears. According to reports, other manufacturers like HTC have incorporated similar commands.
Since the dialer can be addressed in many ways, the tax codes are everywhere: on websites, in HTML emails in WAP push messages and even QR codes. It remains to be seen how the manufacturers are responding to the problem. Especially the users of older devices should not make much hope that there will be for their devices a security patch.
Since the exploit the vulnerability is trivial and the details can be long in the network are circulating, users should not wait for the manufacturer reaction. heise Security advises to install one of the many now offer apps that block the execution of the tax code. Besides TelStop and NoTelURL there recently, the USSD filter of G Data.
The installation of an alternative browser, however, can indeed ensure that tel: URLs are not on websites run longer without being asked, does not protect against control commands in QR codes and Co.
Now It is also on air that Sony (Ericsson) devices with original firmware are affected.
Linux distribution Slackware 14.0 is ready
17 months after the 13:37 Slackware developers have now released version 14 of Linux distributions officially. Compared to its predecessor, the new version of the oldest among the still maintained Linux distributions much fresher ingredients, including including a recent long-term kernel based on Linux 3.2, GCC 4.7, glibc 2.15, the X Server 1.12.1 of X. org, Perl 5.16.0 and Xfce desktop interfaces 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5.
Other updated packages include Firefox and Thunderbird, which is now version 15.0.1 currently. The Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 had on the basis of license agreements of Oracle on the other hand are removed, so now the distribution does not ship Java environment more. All changes can be found in the changelog. Compared to the recently published Voarbversion the developers still have numerous errors ironed out.
The Slackware distribution includes six CDs (32-bit only) or a double-sided DVD, at the 32 - and 64-bit versions are included. The images can be downloaded here.
Apple is working on music streaming service - and is held back by Sony
The Internet radio music from Apple is delayed due to difficult negotiations with the music publishing rights Sony / ATV. Whose boss Martin Bandier told the New York Times over the weekend that he would achieve better royalties for artists. "We want the service. We just want to be paid fairly." The statements by the influential music manager are also the first confirmation that Apple is working at all on such a streaming service.
Sony / ATV managing the rights for current stars such as Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, but also songs by old masters such as the Beatles and Beach Boys. The company is owned by the Japanese electronics giant Sony and the estate of Michael Jackson. In summer, they swallowed the publishing division of the battered British music company EMI.
The Wall Street Journal had a few weeks ago for the first time reported on Apple's plans for an internet radio and also limited, because of the rights that negotiations for months could pass before a start. Apple with its iTunes online platform of the world's largest music seller. However, now more and more streaming music on the rise. There are, on the one subscription services like Spotify or Rdio, which can fully for a monthly fee to listen to music. Such a service have Apple also considered, but rejected the idea, wrote the Wall Street Journal. Another model is free Internet radio stations like Pandora (only available in the U.S.) or last.fm, in which the user must follow a playlist generated by the transmitter, and the individual songs and their order can not pick and choose. The services create playlists instead to music genres and preferences of individual users.
The Apple service advertising should be displayed to the music, it said. He should run on Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads, and possibly on Windows PCs. According to the New York Post, Apple aims at a more flexible license with more uses than about at Pandora. Even the first report in the Wall Street Journal had let the share price collapse of Pandora.
Acer: sales boost from Windows 8
Acer is hoping for a sales jump at the start of the next Microsoft operating system, Windows 8 "Acer will quickly introduce a number of Windows 8 devices on the market. Which we expect this fall again a powerful boost to the sales figures," said Acer Europe head Oliver Ahrens of the Berliner Zeitung.
Acer takes on the German PC market with a share of 14.5 percent last. The Computer Group from Taiwan could rely to buck the general trend of its business: During the market, according to market researcher Gartner shrank by 6.5 percent, Acer put out a paragraph jump of nearly 27 percent. Total business with notebook and desktop computers suffers greatly from the enthusiasm of the customers for smartphones and tablet computers.
Microsoft plans to offer Windows 8, which appears in late October, a single operating system for PCs and mobile devices. This as well as the user interface for desktop and notebook was closely based on the mobile design, which is criticized by many industry observers. Also, a first glance of the EU stated already a malaise that should feel particularly experienced users due to the many changes at the surface and the operation. The Gartner estimated the approach of Microsoft with Windows 8 already risky. However, Microsoft had to take the risk if the company is in a world of advanced mobile devices would continue to play a relevant role.
Ahrens was now confident: "The control via touch-screen and a new design of Windows 8 requires the users but from some - that hurdle is overcome only once, it works very well." Ahrens was also confident that some pundits were in the swan songs tune up to the death of the PC too fast to explain given tablets and increasingly powerful smart phones the end of the PC era is premature: "The classic, powerful, secure and easily operated computer stays with us for long. course more and more people will take advantage of the Tablet PC in addition. Who efficiently create content and wants to manage and want optimal communication, which is also not pass continue on a laptop or desktop PC. And these are the most households and businesses. "
Windows Azure: unofficial Supports for iOS and Android
Officially support the Windows Azure Mobile Services are not the app development for iOS and Android. However Bruno Terkaly, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft shows in his blog in five steps, as can be exploited to the fledgling cloud service for the two mobile operating systems. Read in the five articles, which deal with basic facts, the database integration, the Fiddler Web Debugger, Apple's Xcode IDE and create an app.
The Windows Azure Mobile Services, Microsoft had announced at the end of August. The preconfigured services in Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform will enable app developers to deliver mobile client applications backend functions in the cloud, without having to write your own server code. Officially, they can be used initially with apps for Windows 8.
Dell Completes Quest acquisition
Computer manufacturer Dell has announced the completion of the acquisition of the software manufacturer Quest known. The announcement came three days after the Quest shareholders approved the purchase. Dell had been the beginning of July 2012 around 2.4 billion U.S. dollars (1.9 billion euros) on the table, and thus after a long bidding race outdone the competition, including the investment firm Insight Venture Partners.
Quest makes administration tools especially. These include various tools for databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase, as well as performance management and Windows Server. With the acquisition, Dell wants to position in a large and fast-growing sector of the software industry. The Quest portfolio should occupy a central position within Dell founded only this year Software Group.
According to the computer manufacturer Quest bring more than 100,000 customers, 5000 partners, 1500 sales and marketing employees sowie1300 software developers in the new Dell Software Group.
Motorola's success dispute against Microsoft still blocked
Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility must continue to implement not be against Microsoft sales ban in Germany for the Xbox game console and the Windows software. A U.S. appeals court rejected on Friday from Motorola's appeal against a corresponding verdict of a judge from Seattle. This is Motorola had to use a patent judgment of the Mannheim Regional Court for sales bans.
The dispute is about patents for the H.264 video standard, which is used in many devices and programs used. The Mannheim Regional Court had determined in May the infringement of two patents by Motorola-Microsoft. Although it is about a process in Germany, the order of the court from Seattle in this particular case was lawful, decided the appeal judges, because a still ongoing U.S. method for same dispute complex started earlier and it came to two American companies, it said to justify. The case had caused quite a stir - especially since Microsoft in anticipation of the Mannheim Court moved its European logistics center in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Netherlands.
AMD launches Android app store for Windows PCs
The chip maker AMD has launched a website and an app store for apps and games to run on Windows machines with AMD hardware. On the AMD AppZone there is software that was developed for the Radeon graphics chips and APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) written by the manufacturer, or adjusted. AMD advertises thousands of Android apps that have been found to be partnering with the Android system virtualizer Bluestack inclusion in the AppZone. The bulk of the software, however, lies not in the store prior to download, and most programs are only indirectly related to links to their product pages.
With BlueStacks, it is possible to run Android apps to run on Windows and control touchpad, mouse and keyboard of the host computer. Also, the Android system to access the files on the Windows PC, including Windows applications been started running in the background. AMD has stated that the use of the chip manufacturer version of the BlueStacks player was adapted to the OpenGL hardware acceleration for AMD chips.
Also, users can synchronize their data AppZone of Android apps with BlueStacks' Cloud Connect, a cloud service that allows a Windows PC can be used to extend for an Android device, and vice versa. The apps can be directly related to the website or through the integrated App Store. Also, there are apparently some discussions with OEMs to pre-configure the AppZone player in AMD devices.
Device-ID replacement in iOS 6 faulty
The AAI allowed to follow on user behavior across applications in order to present them can be personalized advertising - report if several or even many devices the same AAI is all zeroes, it does not work of course. The new technology replaces the previously used UDID, an instrument identification, as opposed to the AAI is always clear and not erasable. Apple forbids the UDID-use ever since iOS 6, the identification numbers are as protected under data protection and data leaks were already in place under a big issue.
Apple has said nothing on the problems with the AAI so far. The second UDID replacement, called the Vendor Identifier, which is not advertisers, but developers available to prepare, so far apparently no problems.
LG and Samsung argue over OLED patents
While LG insists that Samsung had stolen intellectual property, Samsung aim to have significantly more patents in the field of OLEDs as the South Korean competitors and thus a process left to look forward to.
In early September, Samsung had in turn sued LG for damages for alleged industrial espionage in the spring. This allegation was confirmed in July by a South Korean court and some former Samsung employees who were switched to LG, sentenced to prison. LG had the technology theft but still rejected by himself, which is why Samsung first demanded an official apology and now - because they stayed away - a compensation of 1 billion won (700,000 euros) demands.
The amounts mentioned are in the face of billions OLED market is not particularly high. It is especially well here is to consolidate its market position. Both companies are currently working on large screen televisions with organic, but so far with different techniques: while Samsung uses in its 55-inch OLED TV to RGB pixel, LG wants to wants to use white pixels with RGB color filters. Problems still prepare both versions, so this year is not expected to have any significant production quantities.
The organic displays are primarily distinguished by their strong image contrast and color and perspective completely independent representation. In many higher quality smartphones OLEDs are now standard practice in larger diagonals around for monitors or TVs are they currently do not, however (almost).
Groupware Sogo 2.0 with native Outlook support
The Sogo developers have completed version 2.0 of their free groupware. The most important innovation is the native support for MS-Outlook: Due to the integration of the Open Change libraries, a free MAPI implementation, the Outlook versions 2003, 2007 and 2010, with no additional plug-ins to access Sogo 2.0 as an Exchange Server . Sogo also speaks the standard in the Apple world CalDAV and CardDAV protocols to access calendar and contact data, and brings with a web frontend. For Thunderbird, there is a special extension.
An overview of the other new features are the announcement. Sogo 2.0 is licensed under the GPLv2 for download as source code and as a binary package for various Linux distributions.
Microsoft patches critical Internet Explorer vulnerability
Microsoft has a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is already being actively exploited to attack, closed yesterday Friday night with an emergency update. The gap is in the IE versions 6 to 9 and causes an attacker to infect your system when you visit a specially crafted Web page with malicious code. The weakness has been known since last Monday since Tuesday circulated a suitable Metasploit module.
On this occasion, Microsoft has also closed four other gaps similar nature reported to the company claims to be confidential by security experts and have not been used to attack. According to the CVE numbers, the four vulnerabilities were reported well before the announcement of the gap from Monday.
When the gaps are so-called use-after-free error, so the access to a previously shared space. The result is that the IE shellcode executes the attacker has been placed in the memory.
According to Microsoft, the patch is distributed now through Windows Update. Who has enabled the automatic update feature of Windows has, so do nothing. All others can download the appropriate patch to the operating system manually.
In addition, the company has done something for the early adopters of Windows 8, the record in bringing integrated into the IE 10 Flash player to the latest version. The update fixes a bug that allowed files by manipulating fonts software into. Microsoft is the new IE gone over to the Flash plug-in tightly integrated into the browser. Updates should theoretically reach users faster and more reliable, because the browser. Themselves automatically downloads and installs.
Optical chip-to-chip connection with polymer fibers
Optoelectronics is yet in mass production have not yet arrived at the chip level. Although fiber connections in telecommunications over long distances or even within data centers or buildings have been established; in modular computing systems sometimes optical interconnects are used. But at the chip level is still lacking appropriate, so affordable and suitable for mass production and assembly process.
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) by Professor Christian Koos have developed a method to produce semiconductor chips directly to visually bind. Similar to electrical bonding wires her looks Photonic wire bonding, but instead of a metal wire is a polymer fiber used. It is exactly adapted to the required form, thus also be due to the optical waveguide in the chip, in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) layer. On the surface of the chip is a polymer which KIT researchers work with a 3D laser lithography system from Nanoscribe. In experiments on the optical connection was more than five terabits of data per second.
A particular advantage of their procedure emphasize the KIT scientists that no more precise positioning of the two chips is necessary to each other. Rather, the light-conducting polymer structure become adapted to the position and the surface of the respective chips.
NRW pirates make proposal on copyright
A contemporary Copyright has always been a key demand of the Pirate Party. What "timely" to mean it was, but so far in the dark. A concrete proposal of the party for such copyright was missing - certainly a reason that many observers the impression that the pirates want to abolish copyright completely.
The North Rhine-Westphalian pirates led by the State Executive Committee member and copyright experts Daniel Neumann have now worked out a concrete proposal for a comprehensive reform of copyright. According to the authors show on the proposal, "as contemporary arrangements are possible without the historically grown in Germany and - at least partially - to break even proven Copyright completely".
The bill is intended to strengthen the rights of authors, for example, by the right to use plants can be transferred to a maximum of 20 years to recyclers. After that, the authors obtain the ability to separate from its publisher again, or re-negotiate the fee and his work, for example, to be published under a free license. These regulations will also prevent orphaned works.
All public educational institutions such as kindergartens, schools, universities, libraries and research-based institutions should be exempt from copyright levies, official works are published copyright-free. Controversial debate certainly is the newly proposed Section 53 Copyright Act, which grants everyone a private copy of digital content, regardless of whether a source "lawful" is.
The Pirate Party justifies this paragraph so that it is not empirically prove that file sharing had a negative effect on the sale of plants. Users, who may be willing to pay for a work acted afterwards, regardless of the file-sharing usage. Greater legal certainty for consumer 'will also create the proposal to sell digital content in the future. Rent remixes and mashups to be legal according to the proposal.
The complete design, has been involved in the apparently well regarded in the power circles pirate Udo Vetter, a lecturer in media law at the University of Applied Sciences Dusseldorf, is on the server of the NRW pirates.
Modularization in Java 8 is finally on the sidelines
The envisaged under the project name "Jigsaw" modularization of Java, originally planned for Java 7 and recently developed in Java 8 will now finally moved to Java 9th As Mark Reinhold, the Oracle engineer responsible for major Java development, tells in his blog, were most of the members of the expert group for Java SE 8 (JSR 337). Excited for him shift Only the final and formal resolution to stand now pending.
Even so, in Java but the first steps are taken towards modularisation, about the proposed by Reinhold profiles for compact configurations in the Java SE platform, EXIST in the JEP 161 (Java Enhancement Proposal) as a specific proposal. Even in the JEP 162 (Prepare for Modularization) submitted proposals for changes in Java 8 could prepare the way for the modularization and lead to tools that developers can prepare their applications on it. Accordingly, the future could be leaking APIs identified as such and remove in Java 9 final.
As Reinhold writes that he regretted the postponement of Jigsaw, but see them as the best current option and now the path to take.
Iran blocked Google and Gmail because Islam hostile Video
Iran has announced to block in response to the anti-Islamic video "Innocence of the Muslims," the search engine Google and the mail service Gmail. The Guardian reported, citing a government censor. From the announcement, the blockade will apply until further notice, however, was not the result, whether it is temporary or not. Reason for this move is Google's refusal to take the heavily criticized Trailer from Youtube. Google and Gmail will now be blocked because they are viewing the links to the movie. In other countries, the video portal Youtube itself had been locked.
Now announced the blockade of two popular services but fits with Iranian plans to decouple the country from the Internet and set up a national network. In recent days, in a first step, all government offices were connected to the new Iranian power. By March 2013, the process to be completed, according to the Economic Times, which is still not clear whether it actually a complete decoupling of the country will be accompanied by the Internet. It could also simply the connection of important institutions of the country are cut off from the global network.
Foxconn factory closed after unrest among workers
After violent unrest among its workers the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer Foxconn to close on Monday of his great works in China. Were in the factory in Taiyuan in Shanxi province on Sunday evening palpable conflicts erupted among workers, police reported.
In the conflict, more than 2,000 workers have been involved, was triggered by hitherto unconfirmed reports that security guards beat a worker. More than ten people were injured. Police forces had disengaged to bring the situation under control. Meanwhile, the order was restored. The cause of the dispute was being investigated, police said further.
Foxconn manufactures for large computer companies such as Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sony and others, the Group employed in the plant in Taiyuan, which is also part of the production chain for the new iPhone 5, 79,000 people. Foxconn has recently been repeatedly advised because of the working conditions in its factories under fire, especially the conditions of production of the iPhone have been put under the microscope. Recently it was said, in east China's Jiangsu Province, students would be forced to interrupt their studies and in a local Foxconn manufacturing plant to assemble the iPhone 5.
An initial report of the Fair Labor Association (FLA) in August but had found at least first major improvements in working conditions at Foxconn, at least in a business, the Group also had to raise wages because he had trouble finding enough workers.
In contrast to previous reports from China about clashes between security personnel and workers Foxconn itself speaks of it, the riots in Taiyuan had begun with a "personal dispute" between workers in a privately run hostel outside the factory. "Seems to have had nothing to do with the work" of this dispute, it said in a statement in Taipei.
A guardhouse was upset. In a bus windows were smashed. Cars were overturned, including a police car. Hundreds of police officers secured the roads around the plant. In a video cheering workers and security forces are seen.
Ethanol from simple reactors
So far put alternative methods of producing biofuels by sluggish. The young company Joule Unlimited in the U.S. state of Massachusetts wants to prove with multiple partners that genetically modified microorganisms can produce quite inexpensive "green" fuel. The procedure does require the microbes themselves only sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce ethanol, Technology Review reported in its online edition. Interest is already the car manufacturer Audi, who will help Joule, to test and develop the biofuel. But even without the involvement of Deutsche Joule has already collected 110 million U.S. dollars of investment funds.
In smaller systems, the start-up test has shown that the approach can work. The specially bred microorganisms live in a transparent container and will produce up to 12,000 liters of ethanol per hectare per year. This is a multiple of what other companies can afford to alternative biofuel process. Joule has changed his approach, however, has often: Instead of complex reactors now comparatively simple plastic tubes are used, which makes the process much cheaper.
Particularly important in the process, the transparent container, which is called Joule "solar converter". They grow the microorganisms. Originally, they were similar photovoltaic modules - they were flat, thin, rectangular, and a few meters wide. A canal system distributed water and carbon dioxide and collected the ethanol, the charges, the microorganisms. "We saw quickly that this design was not competitive," said David Berry from the Joule-investor and co-founder of Flagship Ventures. The solution was the removal of the concrete foundation, the metal frame and the module structure. Instead, now plastic tubes are used. They are a few meters wide and up to 50 meters long. "The new design is much bigger and we can install it directly on the floor. This reduces the costs tremendously," said Joule chief William Sims.
Space Shuttle Endeavour has his last flight behind
The Space Shuttle Endeavour has completed its last flight. The space shuttle had been taken with the special transport aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, from Cape Canaveral in Florida over Houston / Texas and the Edwards Air Force Base in California after Los Angeles. From here, the Endeavour by land to California Science Center is transferred. There, the space shuttle will be made available as an exhibit visitors.
The 30-year era of space shuttle space flights had been going about a year ago with the last launch of Atlantis to an end.
Torque 3D game engine available as Open Source
As announced GarageGames Torque 3D has its development environment released in version 1.2 under the MIT license as open source in the GitHub repository. Developers can purchase the engine for free and have their programmed with Torque games pay any licensing fees. Users find the package a comprehensive toolset for the programming of 3D games. An overview of the key features of entry-level tutorial provides an example of a first person shooter.
The Torque Game Engine is more than ten years in development. First commercially they came in 2001 in the play "Tribes 2" is used. Torque 3D can be used for different genres on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The games run on different platforms, even in the browser, as the example of Zworldo 2010 shows.
GarageGames provides franchisees which the first engine after Bought September 2012, a refund of the costs have to. In the future, the company intends to expand its service department, the Torque developers with support and training offering fee-based support.
New Pirate novel without DRM
The former political director of the Pirate Party, Marina Weis band wants to bring their planned book as an e-book without copy protection on the market, reported the news magazine "Der Spiegel" in its place tomorrow, Monday showing a number. Every buyer should have the right to be allowed to distribute it in the network indefinitely. In order to enforce at her publisher Klett-Cotta, renounced Weisband a part of their advance. "I am convinced that the book will sell anyway. For good content is paid," said Weisband the mirror. The plant is scheduled to appear in March. Weisband had in April because of work overload is no longer running for the office of the political director of the party and was replaced after just one year of John Ponader.
In contrast, the Berlin Pirate Julia Schramm had with her book "Click Me: Confessions of an Internet exhibitionist" excite the minds in their own ranks. Her publisher Random House had made lock free copies of the book available on the Internet. After the blocking of copies of the author in numerous remarks on Twitter were accused of credibility. Many pirates come to the idea of "intellectual property" one that forms the basis for the current copyright law. Schramm himself had defended the actions of their publishing house's prints in an interview with the online magazine Telepolis. "" We warn users who are caught once. Specifically, this means that it is a first warning, which are not charged. But if it is someone daring enough and provokes the publisher, then publisher reserves the right steps. "
To be denied on its own website, Marina Weis band however, exploited against their party colleague. Thus, it was extremely difficult to find a publisher who wanted to dispense with the e-book edition of copy protection mechanisms. Is "Neither my book nor Julia's book are free And the pirates demand not There should not be anything for free, but the author should be strengthened and the consumer: but the DRM-freedom not to be equated with a free offer.. be decriminalized, "she writes in her blog.
Microsoft warns Google
The current display is likely to be understood as a continuation of Bingiton campaign in the beginning of the month Microsoft users had requested, the results of both machines compare with any search terms directly with each other. Covering that www.bingiton.com website is not readily achievable from Germany because the country and mucking speech recognition by Bing. Those who still want to catch a glimpse of it is, ironically, in the Google Web cache find. Even the accompanying video is also available.
Online storage on your own
With the private cloud software Tonido cloud can offer itself (own) online storage. According to the manufacturer Codelathe is suitable for use as corporate, educational institutions, Internet service providers and hosters. To access the private cloud storage, you need a web browser, a WebDAV client or mobile devices running iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone 7 The synchronization of the online store and then works with Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, which can also integrate the online storage as a drive.
Tonido cloud data stored on hard drives and network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN). It also can use Amazon S3 and OpenStack for it. Tonido Cloud versioned data stored once, has no file size limits and retrieves user data and directory services such as Active Directory, LDAP, respectively.
Tonido Cloud is a Linux Server with Apache (mod_rewrite) ahead, PHP 5.3 and the NoSQL database MongoDB - according to the manufacturer to Tonido Cloud will be set up in half an hour. Codelathe required for Tonido cloud that can serve 20 users, $ 500 a year. Each additional user hits with 25 U.S. dollars on the bill, but the manufacturer only offer licensing packages for ten users. There are volume discounts as well as a time-limited introductory discount of 25 percent for the first year.
Google is infringing Skyhook patents for position determination
The company Skyhook Wireless Inc. sued Google because the search engine and Android manufacturers allegedly nine patented technologies of the provider of wireless location data illegally exploited. It is the second time that Skyhook Google pulls into court, because two years ago, there were patent disputes around the positioning using wireless information. Eight of the patents at issue Skyhook now since the last court transitional get issued as patent observer Florian Mueller wrote in his blog, Engadget has published the 28-sided application.
Among the disputed patents for geolocation are several methods to detect based on GPS position information changes of wireless access points. Two others deal with the estimation of the position based on the Wi-Fi signal quality.
Apple wants more money from Samsung
During the 1-billion-dollar judgment against Samsung in U.S. patent dispute with Apple is still discussed hot and will probably be re-examined in parts must raise Apple's lawyers new demands: How the Patent Blog Fosspatents reported like Apple's rivals to payment of additional 706 million U.S. dollars, will see a total $ 1,756,121,384 committed. The new claims are made up of very different items:
135 million U.S. dollars Apple is appropriate as punishment for the intentional injuring of patents. U.S. law provides that for this fact, the resulting loss amount is tripled. For the affected five smartphones and two tablets Apple chooses a loss of 67,880,583 U.S. dollars as the basis.
400 million U.S. dollars Apple also calls related to intent and with reference to the "Lanham Act". If you add both items to come together as a $ 535 million penalty. The date fixed by the jury measures the total damages, and not the punishment.
121 million U.S. dollars Apple case for the period from 30 June, the jury its decision based on cut-off date and a hypothetical end of the process on 31.12.2012.
Another 50 million dollars to fall in interest ("prejudgement interest").
But also so that the end has not been reached: In the event that the court grant the request by Samsung to re-examine the amount of loss, Apple would have tested a few new items. The outcome will be another 155 million U.S. dollars. Then, the bottom line could even 1.9 billion stand.
According to rumors, meanwhile Samsung, which just yesterday in Germany has come onto the market iPhone 5 plans as "accused product" with in the process. Before a German court yesterday Samsung could get a partial success.
Record at the DE-CIX: 2 terabits per second
The German internet exchange DE-CIX in Frankfurt transported to the tips now more than 2 terabits per second (Tbit / s). At the beginning of 2009, the traffic at DE-CIX in the tips, only half of this value. On average it took that 600 Gb / s, which ran across the Internet nodes. Today, the DE-CIX transported an average of about 1200 Gb / s
According to DE-CIX CEO Harald A. Summa mark the 2 Tbit / s while a new peak, the traffic will however continue to grow: "We believe that the Internet traffic will continue to grow by about 80 percent per year. "Technically, the DE-CIX can currently cope with a maximum of 40 Tbit / s. In addition, the star-designed infrastructure with 12 data centers in Frankfurt area was distributed in the center working a to redundant core switch cluster that uses his hand for another 14 switches connected to the ISP.
Google News: New Metatag for news
Sometimes make the headlines of news stories the algorithms of Google News is not easy. That with the message "NRW pirates make proposal on copyright" is about the pirate party, they should still can infer from the context of copyright, but what is at stake in "Attack of the sex cam"?
Thus, even with such headlines an assignment is possible, Google has now introduced a new metatag news_keywords intended to help Google News on better assign content. The words contained therein must occur anywhere in the headline or the article, but should describe the content. An article in Google's Help Center describes its use in detail.
Nvidia will release documentation to Tegra graphics core
The next version of the TRM (Technical Reference Manual) for Nvidia's Tegra should be freely available and contain information such as drive, the 2D engine in the system-on-chip (SOC) makes, this programming information applies obviously for a new Tegra-generation, but should also match the currently available generation Tegra 2 and 3. This is evident from a report focused on the Linux hardware site Phoronix, relying on an interview with Nvidia employee Andy Ritger, who had received this information from his colleagues.
The conversation took place on this week, held in Nuremberg X.Org Developer Conference 2012, on a programmer of the open source, developed by reverse engineering Linux driver Nouveau expressed in a lecture hopes, Nvidia could also documentation required to access the 3D Units of Tegra publish. Ritger have it "officially" heard nothing; Ritger should also have not said anything to documentation for the built-in PC graphics cores, the GeForce and Quadro series, as Phoronix writes.
This seems a release programming information for the graphics core which is equipped with ARM core Tergra SOCs to get closer, to which there was previously Notes. It is uncertain whether this step has a greater impact on Nvidia's information policy to PC graphics chips, which the company engaged for a long time almost no details out - this was an aspect that has led to Wutrede of Linus Torvalds, this in on camera "Nvidia, fuck you!" has said. For other components, however, is much more open and Nvidia has long been active in the open source development because Nvidia employees serve customers not only in the Linux kernel contains code to support Tegra SOCs, but also participate in the development of improvements ARM code on the Linux kernel, which also benefit other companies. As Nvidia has produced motherboard chipsets for PCs and notebooks, the company also recently worked with the development of the Linux kernel contains drivers for the chipset contained network, audio, or ATA controller. Only the information in making chipsets graphics cores, there was at best scant information, for example via a simple open source drivers, but its further development, the company has set the 2010th.
Firefox and Thunderbird 17 long-term maintenance
The temporary parallel maintenance of two ESR lines can be a buffer to switch to the new ESR models, which allows air to adapt if necessary extensions, server software and web interface of the recent versions of the browser and mail client from the Mozilla project, before taking care of the present current ESR series ends. Firefox users who have not until mid-February to switch to a 17er-ESR version is, Firefox will offer to upgrade to version 19, which is revealed in a report by InternetNews.com, the Alex to a statement from the Mozilla Developer Keybl convenes.
Firefox and Thunderbird 10 were the earliest versions, the Mozilla project, under the term "ESR" maintained over a longer period. The Mozilla project was started, the EPR model earlier this year, which was a response to criticism from the institutional environment after Mozilla had switched in mid-2011 on a rolling-release model, where from the main development line every six weeks a new version showing how it was already in Chrome longer the case.
New versions of the ESR branch appear parallel to new versions of the main development line. Firefox 17 is approximately parallel to be released a new version of Firefox ESR 10, which should have a version number like 10.0.9esr (currently Firefox 15 and 10.0.7esr current), and six weeks later, Firefox should be 18, and 10.0 17.0.1esr appear .10 esr; latter ends with then six weeks later the care of the 10 series, if the Mozilla project not seen other versions in between shifts or nachlegt to stuff emerged during this period vulnerabilities quickly.
One for Mozilla project contributing developer has informed that the project had rejected the plan, Firefox 10 ESR leave from mid-February recommend updating to Firefox 19, instead it will offer users an upgrade to the then current version of Firefox 17 ESR. The corresponding e-mail from Alex Keybl was however only ran through a distributor, of which there would be no public archive.
Create banners for blogs
I want to present two options to create banners for your blog, are two sites that definitely get you out of trouble in many situations, and also work very professional, besides being free, and very easy to use.
2 sites to create banners for blogs:
BannerSnack:
It's my favorite. We can choose the measures of the banners, background colors, change the text, give effects, etc.. We can also add images in the banners, buttons, clipart, rotate objects, give effects, animations, add videos, slide switch, etc.. The banners are designed in flash, so we can give you a URL to each object, along with other actions, etc.
It is certainly a very complete tool that certainly many bails out when creating flash banners of all kinds.
Banner Maker:
This is the alternative to create free online banners. No tool is as complete as the previous one, but we can say it has its very useful, allowing us to select different banner sizes, choose background colors, change various texts, images, etc.. The bad thing about this tool is that it adds a watermark to each banner that says "Made with MyBannerMaker.com".
But it is also a great application to create online banners, which will also help us when we need it much.
Do you know any other site to create banners for blogs?
If you know any other tool to create banners online, you can leave a comment below this article to work with the next users who reach this site. And if you liked this article, please share it in the various markers and social networks, and you'll be helping to pass these tools to find thousands more.
3 Ways to keep your assets Twitter followers, Facebook and Feed
When creating a blog, promotion in social networks is essential. Even one of the things that are recommended when promoting a website. The social media marketing is a must, but after finishing our campaigns and already have thousands of followers on Twitter, thousands of fans on Facebook, and thousands of subscribers in the Feed the site, you need to keep these users and attract them to the site . It is logical that the main way is updating social networking profiles and updating the website content, but in reality there is much more behind that.
Maintain active followers of the blog:
Then we will collect some of the main ways to keep some activity among the followers of the social networks of a blog.
1 - Update the content of the site:
The main thing is to keep the blog updated. I'm not saying that every day you have to update the site, even depending on the site, this may invite followers to sever ties with the site, but at least once or twice a week is necessary to update a blog .
Similarly, items created must be quality, and should be what users were looking for when they decided to follow the blog. They must be content to leave the desired points very clear, and have good information, speak no more, but neither are too short.
2 - Create surveys related to the site:
By creating surveys, users take an interest in participating in the site. Surveys created should have some relation to the subject and content of the site. And should also invite users to participate, therefore, must be attractive and innovative.
3 - Make contests or give away something:
The idea of competitions has been considering for a long time. Many sites run contests in return for a comment, or for a recommendation, they are all simple things that drive is to keep the site activity. But most important is that the prize is attractive for fans of the website, so the site will remain outstanding and updates.
After a competition, promising an upcoming event is a great idea, since users will be even more interested in the site.
Give something can also be good. Give a discount coupon, a picture, or things like shirts, stickers, etc., Although the latter seems to be a bit more expensive. It makes sense that if you give away something, many users shall be asking, since all free bad it is for people interested.
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Share this on your Facebook, Twitter, or other social network can be interesting, as your followers will notice you are interested in them, or you want to create something new in your website, and definitely get great benefits. So do not miss the opportunity to share the article
10 SEO tips for 2012
After experiencing the almost whole of the year 2012 we must begin to make new SEO techniques to our blogs and websites. That's why in today's article some tips on SEO publish this 2012. The idea is to collect ideas, which can be supplemented by any of you with a comment.
10 SEO tips for this 2012:
1. Compose good content to readers:
With the new changes in Google's algorithm, we try to make it a priority to quality content. A few years ago, articles were created thinking about the SEO, where stood a certain percentage of keywords, bolding, among other things. But that changed, now the important thing is to create quality content, particularly original, with a good portion of text with descriptive titles and well with good images.
Put the keyword in the article is still very important, but the main thing now is to write a good article that can be correctly read by a visit. I recommend more articles of 250-300 words, and are consistent, plus original and innovative.
It's not right note every time the keyword in bold, that's taken as abuse by Google. The main thing now is to highlight the most important points of the text, whether simple sentences or words, and highlight one or two keywords, it does not hurt.
Another important issue is that of spelling and grammar, be careful that, because Google is taking it as a big factor. We must also take into account the spelling of comments, moderate them so it's convenient.
2. Maintain a site structure neat and clean:
A site with a good structure is more likely to appear on the first results that each HTML errors and a little code clean and tidy. It is important not to overload the site design and maintain a clean code.
It is also vital that there are more articles in the text below. A tidy site is best taken by Google.
3. Boost your social networking site:
Social networks have made a great influence on Internet users, and Google begins to adapt to the recent. Now it is very important to try to our website or blog to be shared on the major social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Google Plus, which I would say that we should worry more, because that is a social network Google can lead to an improvement in the optimization. Recently speaking social network Pinterest, which apparently have a big rage on the Internet, therefore also recommend its use.
Another important thing is to include various social buttons on our website, because if a user shares our items, it will become more popular, and that is well taken by Google. Buttons such as the Google Plus +1, Facebook Likes, Tweet it on Twitter, etc.., We can really help our items are shared.
But it is also important to create social networking profiles and get good amounts of followers interested, as it will facilitate the task of promoting our content on these websites.
4. Improved loading speed of the site:
As mentioned earlier, Google begins to give more importance to the satisfaction of its users on a website when performing searches, and faster sites are more likely to succeed. If a site takes too long not only be bad for SEO, but the user will not have to enter a lot of patience and will choose another search result.
So we must try to improve the speed of a website, so we take Google as a quality site, and every visitor has a better experience.
5. Try to get quality inbound links:
If you're thinking about getting some links for a good SEO, you should try to be quality links. Best links for today is publishing guest posts on other sites, placing a link in your signature or something.
Keep in mind that it is not appropriate to use the same anchor when obtaining inbound links, but there you go changing, to try to get these links are as natural as possible. Google is starting to take getting massive backlinks as negative, so we must take good care of this aspect as well.
Remember that the best links are those obtained organically, and must take into account the relationship of subjects, and good positioning elsewhere.
6. Post items with descriptive titles and attractions:
A very important thing to consider when creating an article is that the titles should be very descriptive, it no longer serves only to create titles with the keyword you want to position. It is important to add the keyword itself, but we must also take into account that users have the priority right now, so you have to be careful to publish something that invites visitors to enter the site.
For example, if you position the keyword 'best phones 2012 ", a good title might be: The 20 best phones for 2012. In this case the title contains the keyword (not exactly the same), and is quite attractive for a user who is performing a search. Furthermore it has been shown that the results they get more visitors begin to gain positions, so if a title is attractive, may receive more clicks, and therefore move up.
7. Writes only quality items and covering more than one possibility:
If you are planning to write an article, it better be long and covering more than one subject, which is divided into several pages with little content. A costs more money Google will process more pages, so it is better to create only quality and original articles.
Nor is it advisable to publish an article which has been spoken a million times on Google. You have to have good innovative capabilities, and know what they would be missing people know, or what he might like that has not yet been created.
8. Fill well site meta tags:
This factor is very important and is what will be displayed on Google when someone finds your site or one of your articles.
As mentioned earlier, the titles should express well the site content hence the title of the page should contain not only the name, but must be rather descriptive, for example: All Cars - Information about cars and more. The description of the title is also very important, is what appears under the title in search results, and include keywords and good information can be very beneficial to share your content.
Recently talking about that meta-keywords have resurrected their importance, therefore recommend populating them with about 10-15 keywords. Moreover, while Google does not take into account, there are search engines like Bing that do give importance.
9. Try to place good internal links:
Internal links can greatly benefit a website. If an article is talking about a certain topic, but at one point referred to another is a good opportunity to add an internal link. Google to enter an item fails to detect that link, and immediately come to the other input, thereby creating a large chain is that we can provide many fruits.
10. Create a version of your blog for mobile phones:
In this new era, many visitors come to a website using their mobile phones. Google also takes into account that sites are properly visible through a mobile phone, and not only benefit the websites in its position, but also give visitors a better experience.
There are many ways to create versions for mobile phones blog on Blogger can be achieved in a simple way, while WordPress is just a matter of looking at the gallery plugins.
Extra tip:
It takes patience to achieve good search engine optimization, especially for the constant changes taking place in Google and searches. It is best to try and test with good content, and achieve boost a site correctly on social networks. With that and a little patience can accomplish much.
If you have any other tips that can supplement this list, you can post it in a comment and help us much
7 ways to promote a blog or website
What good is having a website if you do not have visitors?
Many times we come across this problem, I sometime also received visitors on my sites, and I know how it feels. It's a little sad, as one tries to create good articles and content for the blog, and do not get visits, comments, or profits.
Today we'll go over some ways to promote a blog, and thus increase visits, which is one of the main things that a blog should have.
7 methods to promote a website:
1. Add your site to social networks:
Social networking is one of the main sources of views on modern websites, therefore we must promote our networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to get more traffic. There are many methods, but among those most used we find the creation of fan pages, Twitter accounts, Google Plus, Linkedin, and even the purchase of advertising and Sponsored Tweets.
Social networks have a very simple operation, creating original and engaging content can cause great anger and get thousands of fans and followers. Taking popularity in social networking is very easy to drive traffic to a website, but the problem is getting to be popular.
2. SEO work done on your blog:
Website Optimization is one of the key factors for a website visitors. When you have good positions in search engines, you get good numbers of visitors discover the contents of the blog. The problem is that SEO is not for everyone, and requires a lot of work, but with patience and effort you can get a good SEO.
More information: 10 SEO tips for 2012
3. Comment on other sites related to yours:
If you make comments on sites with similar themes to yours, you'll get good views interested in your blog. The commentary should include a link to our site, obviously, and thus may get visitors, depending on the popularity of the other site.
One must be careful when we leave our link in the comment. We must try not to spam, so if we can read it on the site, you can have the link, and how we can stop.
4. Buy advertising AdWord:
AdWord Google is an advertising system that allows us to place our site on Google Adsense ads, like the ones on this site. This type of advertising is quite effective, but is aimed mostly at sites where it provides a product and make a profit, otherwise it would not make sense to spend money to advertise our sites.
More Info: Help AdWorks
5. Share your content in forums:
If there is a forum of a similar theme to your site, it is a good opportunity to participate in it and go leaving the link from our site. As in section 3, it is important to take care not to violate any rules of the forum and not spamming.
6. Spread your content via email:
One of the methods that have been used in more recent times, is to send an email to our contacts with our blog address, and a description of it. It is a practice that is declining with the advent of social networks, but it can still be effective.
Avoid being too aggressive in sending the emails, and we are very insistent that if we damage our image and the image of the blog or website.
7. Add your blog to the best web directories:
The web directories can be a great way to promote our blog or website. There are thousands of different directories in which we can include our site for free, so it's just a matter of search and add our site.
Can you think of any way to promote a blog?
If you have some method of promoting your own blog, or you have any advice that you think that others may be helped, you're welcome to leave a comment and help us improve this article
Solutions Google algorithm change Penguin
Supposedly, these new algorithm changes to which he gave the name of Google Pinguin (Penguin), reward those websites that have quality content, organic backlinks, good activity in social networks (naturally) , and especially the creation of a website aimed at users and not intended for search engines.
How did the update of Google Penguin affect blogs?
Taking the experience of many bloggers trusted, known on the Internet, and other large sites, this new update of Google destroyed many sites, including sites that received a huge amount of visitors daily. Several bloggers have released their statistics relating to the arrival of Google sites and observed penguin who lost more than 80% of visits received daily.
For this site, I can tell you that many positions were lost in keywords quite worked, and total lost more than 75% of the daily visits. Something debastador, something that left the site very badly, but obviously will continue working to return to what it was before.
Also, I know some cases of sites that have increased their visits so powerful, though more complicated learning of those sites that improve because otherwise many would come to "evaluate techniques" used on them. As the saying goes, "it is often better to be silent."
Possible solutions for Google Penguin:
As you can see below, the proposed solutions are not very innovative techniques that we say, but a renewal of what we were doing. Always has repeated the same thing, and yet many have done other things, he even said it was not good, and I include myself and my sites at all.
Quality items:
Create quality items focused only site users. They do not matter seekers no longer have to think about them. There are totally distracted and let Google positions in different keywords obtained from completely natural. Articles must be an appropriate extension, having a good portion of text, but neither have thousands of other words.
Quality links:
Getting links from quality sites related only, if possible, and leaving aside the anchor text. It should be as if it never existed SEO, and try to aim directly the URL of the site, changing the title on each link, and that sort of thing.
Social Networks:
Spreading the social networking site, but in a more natural way. There is a key method for success in social networks, and you can not identify what is notable natural and what is artificial, but it's best to leave it up to users to publicize the site, and for that you should try to include social buttons and create profiles on the major social networks.
10 tips for writing a good blog That will make you different from others
Ten tips for a better blog (Rebecca Blood)
1. Choose an update tool that is easy to use. Test various services. Some are free, some cost a little money, but do not compromise with a tool until you've had the chance to try. Choose the one that works best.
2. Determine your goal. The logs can be used to filter information, organize business, share family news, establish professional reputations, promote social change and reflect on the meaning of life. If you know what you want to achieve with your blog, you can start a more focused way.
3. Meet your potential audience. You act differently when they are with your friends, with your partners, strangers or your grandmother. Know who you're writing to let you adopt an appropriate tone.
4. Be real. Even a professional blog can be attractive. Avoid marketing style. Talk to real voice about real things.
5. Write about what you love. A blog is the place for strong opinions, whether about politics, music, social issues, gardening or your profession. The more involved you are in the subjects, the more interesting your writing.
6. Updated frequently. Interested readers will return to your site if you are likely to find something new. No need to update daily, but try to post several times a week.
7. Build your credibility. Strive to be sincere. Respect your audience and your fellow bloggers. Understand that the Internet, your words can last forever, so if you have posted as if they have been filed elsewhere. The Weblog Handbook proposed a set of ethical standards for blogs. Reflect on your own standards and be consistent with them.
8. Link to your sources. The Web allows a transparency that no other medium can match. When you link to a story, an essay, an official document, a speech or an article by another blogger, you give your readers access to your primary sources, enabling them to make judgments documented.
9. Link to other blogs. Your readers can thank those present they most enjoy reading blogs. The Web is a democratic and bloggers amplify the voices of each when they link together. If you link generously to other blogs, extend the basis of the information network and social contacts that are creating together on the Web.
10. Be patient. Most of the audiences of blogs is small, but with time and regular updates your audience will grow. You may never get to have more than a few hundred readers, but the people who return to your site regularly will because it is interested in what you have to say.
Extra tip: Have fun!. Whether your blog is a hobby as a professional tool, will give greater pleasure if you allow yourself to experiment a little. Even better with a blog topic a little fantasy now and then.
10 Tips for Successful Affiliate Marketing
"Half of the advertising budget is still spent in vain. We only know unfortunately that. "This famous quote still applies to all traditional advertising channels, but not on the affiliate marketing, for the performance principle ensures that no euro will fail invested. Under affiliate marketing is understood in principle online sales. The advertisement is specifically placed and paid for the measure after the performance (per click, lead or sale).
What many people also do not know that affiliate marketing is more than online marketing. Because it offers advertisers (advertisers) not only the targeted placement of advertisements in the appropriate Internet environment, but also the possibility of direct online sales over the target group affinity websites of its partners. Since the operators of those websites (publishers) already have a customer base in the thematic network, the providers use with the help of affiliate marketing their websites as marketing channels. In this way, advertisers can quickly and easily set up a virtual distribution network in which their products are presented in the target group. For advertisers, the publisher pages are therefore an interesting and promising advertising space to promote their offers targeted to a wide audience.
The following ten tips for successful affiliate marketing show, the conditions for the construction, maintenance and management of an effective affiliate program is needed. They make clear what really matters and what mistakes should be avoided.
First Plan a necessary resource, bring expertise and plan long-term
Successful affiliate marketing requires a comprehensive online marketing knowledge as well as a good technical understanding. Do you have experience in affiliate marketing? You familiar with the business model and are you aware that expertise in online marketing to bring to the management of an affiliate program? If not, you might prefer to work with a company specializing in affiliate marketing agency that can offer you a professional affiliate management with appropriate expertise. In addition to the necessary know-how, you should also take into account the necessary personnel and time capacity for the continuous care of a partner program in your planning. In order to operate an affiliate program independently, to offer ongoing and optimize you need sufficient time and adequate human resources budget. An affiliate program is always long-term. Finally, the success of an advertiser in affiliate marketing is not reachable by a single set-up. You must be clear that the potential of affiliate marketing is far higher than the unique circuit of a banner.
Second Provide a clear program offer
To design its own program offerings include the availability of the products, the right pricing, the optimal landing page and convert the maximum buying process (the basket). Always remember that the publisher on the other side also optimizes its profit. For him, in addition to the commission rate or the type of tracking is crucial as well to convert the offer of the advertiser. Because only then he gets a commission.
It is also important that all products are tracked in your shop and paid for, and not only certain products. For if the publisher advertises your shop or various products and the customer clicks on the ad, but then buys a product that will not be paid, the publisher has "nothing" worked and it can quickly lead to demotivation the publisher.
Equally important is a clear description of the participation requirements for the partner program. Advertisers should clearly define what is the purpose of their program and what you offer your publishers.
Third Secure the proper distribution of your products
As a foundation for a successful program operation, it is essential to ensure a smooth online sales of its products. The process by clicking on the ad to the execution of the transaction, therefore, both technically and logistically from the beginning to be well designed and integrated into the business processes. An action plan with accompanying measures to seasonal highlights, special promotions will help shape the program to continuously attractive and successful.
Before you decide, however, affiliate marketing, you should consider carefully whether your products are suitable even for the online distribution. If the product is suitable for mass production or find an attractive niche product that sold well in the target group? Even a good online store and optimal sales processes are useless if the product can not be sold on the Internet.
4th Provide a good Publisher Management
No publisher is working for a program without the advertiser has it previously enabled. Advertisers here should examine exactly which publishers they want to work and they should then take swift and activate the program.
So do not underestimate the importance of good, personal and regular communication with your publishers for your program success. Your publisher will be motivated and informed about news such as additional income opportunities, wider range of products or changes in the commission structure. This includes personal meetings at industry events or specially organized events for your top publishers.
The close contact with the publishers is a key element for the success of an advertiser. Regular e-mail communication and partner newsletter are good ways to provide the Publisher with information about the program, promotions or other offers. Special features such as interactive advertising or entry forms that publishers provide additional support. It is also feasible to introduce the affiliate program on your website. Satisfied customers are finally often the best distributors.
5th Insert appropriate fee structures and promotions
Very important for the success of an affiliate program is an attractive commission structure for compensation of your publisher. Ask your network, which are common commission models in your industry, your competitors and how much reward structure which recommends the network. It is very important that you do not offer your commission or not significantly lower than the competition's lie, otherwise the offer is not attractive to potential publishers. To start the program itself offers a very lucrative offer introduction to quickly build your publisher pool.
Guests can also use the opportunity to introduce different high commissions. This allows you to pay both for the distribution of various products in different ways. Secondly, you have the option to fix the remuneration of your publisher, according to their sales success.
Also special promotions on seasonal events such as Easter, Christmas, Mother's Day or for a new product launch are highly motivating for the Publisher and help expand your publisher pool. Active advertisers, the affiliate marketing have recognized as a powerful sales tool, offer their publishers bonus payments for special services or implement any special requests.
6th Look for current advertising and product data
To advertise your own products, you should ask your publishers regularly new and current advertising and product data, and give the affiliate this way of life. Only then will the Publisher will place the ads on their site as possible and feel the Internet users are particularly addressed.
In Performance Marketing Banner must be designed sales-oriented. Banner no "call to action" with a pure brand messages in their effect on sales significantly worse. Offer not only standard banner formats but also various logos and text links and innovative advertising formats, so that publishers can always choose a suitable format to their side. If you have the option to automatically upgrade offer data (image, price, description, coordinates, etc.) to offer, do it. Many publishers can thus inputting of your offers very deep in their own side and purposefully provide for individual offers their sales performance.
7th Take advantage of all the relevant publisher models
Affiliate Marketing covers a wide range of publisher business models. For the publishers, it is not just the typical operator of themed sites that turn our banners. Among the successful business models include price comparison, voucher providers, search engine marketing experts, email publishers, portals and communities, to name a few.
Depending on your product or services, there are publishers models that are more or less well suited to the distribution of your offer. Your network will advise you in this regard and make a recommendation, which business models you should use.
8th Cover with your complete affiliate marketing online marketing
Advertisers can work together on affiliate marketing with publishers who are in any online marketing discipline experts. Sun now go through numerous advertisers to handling increasing budgets on affiliate marketing and publisher specialized segments. You need not necessarily different departments or agencies that specialize in various online marketing strategies, affiliate marketing but can use the full online marketing mix. For that you should work with an affiliate network in which the publishers are specialists in their respective sales channels and has a correspondingly high range. For direct marketing campaigns to offer publishers who specialize in e-mail marketing. You can reach large distribution, such as newsletters, many potential leads. SEM publishers can supplement by booking additional keywords or niche keywords own measures of search engine marketing effectively. Even display marketing campaigns can be handled via performance based affiliate network. You will achieve a high reach, reach your target audience on premium advertising space and still pay only for completed performance.
9th Choose the right service
Very important for the successful implementation of an affiliate program is also the choice of the right partner. These usually include the affiliate network and possibly even a specialized affiliate or performance marketing agency.
The network provides the platform for your affiliate program. It has a Publisher pool from which you can recruit your publisher. It also assumes the entire tracking and handling the payment Publisher gives you all the tools and services for your program management including reporting, advertising management, order management, publisher acceptance and communication.
For the selection of your network, you should set the following criteria:
* Experience in Affiliate and Performance Marketing
* Size of the publisher pool and diversity of business models
* Quality of the publisher and the traffic
* Number of Programs
* Industrial diversity and experience
* Transparency and consulting expertise
That agencies should select according to similar criteria as above. Helpful in the selection is mainly to check for certifications by the networks.
10th How do you successfully launch your affiliate program at the strategic base?
When you start an affiliate program, you should consider the following approach:
* Consider first exactly what you want to run your program and how you see the development of your program in the long term
* Ensure that your store runs smoothly
* Select the appropriate service providers
* Put together with your network laid an attractive commission scheme
* Set to current and attractive advertising on a network, and possibly product data, so create the publisher, individual and tailor-made merchandise
* Expand your quick Publisher pool by allowing publishers and successful publisher business models quickly
* Consult with your network early on optimization and the development potential of your program
Social Media Transforms the workplace of the future?
With the transition from an industrial to a knowledge economy, our jobs and working methods have changed. Also, information and communication technologies have a major role in this change.
One of the key questions is: How can succeed in these changing conditions, the "knowledge work" to improve communication and collaboration across the value chain? It seems as if there were no optimal way to yet. Social media could be the solution?
What is with "knowledge work" mean? The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) refers to it as "often complex, less determined and therefore difficult to standardize in predetermined sequences. [...] Knowledge work constantly creating new knowledge and builds on the experience of others. [...]
In addition, knowledge work demands on the working process organization, operational control systems [... and] the creation of jobs. "
Support of technology
In readable Fraunhofer study "Information Work 2009" The potential of information and communication technologies for the knowledge and office work were studied. The fact that no one explicitly of "social media" talking is presumably along with the data collection period.
Yet already have many tools to support collaboration such as groupware, document sharing and instant messaging included in the study. And those are functions that are now performed by Web 2.0 and social media.
Knowledge work is described with reference to the following basic dimensions:
Complexity (ie many difficult tasks, high degree of coordination, high requirements for communication and cooperation),
Autonomy (local and geographical mobility, flexibility of working hours, independent work design)
Novelty (changing tasks, knowing it must be continuously extended, frequent changes in the work environment)
All these aspects are now also shown in connection with the use of social media in business, because the use of social media from the perspective of the practitioner acts as a catalyst for collaboration, productivity and innovation. Social Media is the solution?
On practical events, such as the Enterprise 2.0 Summit, we will discuss how social media could support knowledge work in the company.
Social media on the intranet?
But poor social media consultant sighs loudly, because not all makers he initiated, social media evangelists and early adopters willing to listen - and even less on extensive budgets.
Because unfortunately combine Manager "Social Media Intranet" and the privacy issues on Facebook, they think of private Facebook phenomena and quickly lose their enthusiasm - or they do not even win.
Interviews with decision-makers are often terminated quickly when the wrong word is chosen. So it is not that far to talk about the potential of social media for internal communication, collaboration and knowledge work.
In contrast, numerous discussions showed that decision the question of the "workplace of the future" give a whole lot more important than the hard for them tangible concepts Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media.
Because of the influence of the developments "2.0" and "social *" shows in all divisions, consultants will be happy to concepts such as Social Collaboration, Social Intranet, Social Business and Social Workplace. So they try to avoid the dilemma of detachment from social media. But the allumfassendere and perhaps less critical concept in practice is probably "workplace of the future."
Digital and the Competence Centre - - Against this background, Joanneum Research Virtual Vehicle have carried out an extensive study that was recently published as a book and ebook.
In "Future Workplace - A study of socio-technical influences on the workplace of the future" among other 16 experts from academia and industry have been consulted on trends, drivers and technologies in the workplace of the future. Below are some results from the study will be presented.
The study shows, for example, that most experts surveyed believe that the physical work is not completely disappear in the future. People always need a place to maintain their social contacts with colleagues.
Nevertheless, social media will help shape the workplace of the future significantly.
The work of the future ...
requires a new design of the workplace, so that employees and thus their companies can bring more creativity and innovation.
will have to allow more variations, from the furniture used, the technology to organizational conditions.
Still a long way
There is still a long way from the solid work and rigid labor requirements and towards more flexible forms of organization. Today, meet the essential enabler for the workplace of the future: increasing popularity of mobile devices, increasing awareness of social media and its usefulness in the home environment, changing mindset of people for mobile working and the increasing availability of cloud services in the private sector.
Workplace of the future, access to information and knowledge will be very much more open than it is today. However, there will also be a much greater range of information, which it is mastered.
Employees move in information streams (social activity streams) and generate their personal information offering self-organized and self-responsible. They build their system environment from a variety of tools and information sources together themselves.
Since the workplace of the future will be characterized by different communication patterns, overall Communicated needs a social transparency. The result is a comprehensive digital and digitized information service that is accessed through powerful in-house search engine.
In the company's transparency and knowledge rather than knowledge providers will increase. Because it is for companies on social mechanisms important in the future to identify the correct knowledge holders, as the explicated knowledge itself -. An aspect that has long held in Knowledge Management
Today it is: On the way to the workplace of the future give technology companies and digital natives the pace. Information technologies make digital natives by their use.
Therefore, young people in the company are more accepted as a driving force for the use of new technologies and used. Because they carry into modern, network-based thinking in the work force and the necessary cultural change.
Things to Avoid after jumping in Google AdSense
They work hard creating good and quality content for your Google AdSense site. You carefully plan a good link building strategy for your Google AdSense site. Distribute your articles through article distribution channels regularly. Send your Google AdSense website to web directories and you have performed basic SEO on all your Adsense sites. They work extremely hard to get as much traffic as possible to your Google AdSense site.
One day you will receive an email from a webmaster who informed a huge mailing list that your website will be seen possesses in his newsletter. They are happy that someone like Google AdSense website, and it will promote your website free of charge. To start receiving huge amount of traffic transfer from his newsletter. Instead of 2000 hits a day, you are always buying 200,000 hits per day. This sudden increase in traffic increases the number of clicks on your Google Adsense ads. You earn Google AdSense is a few more wrinkles.
Before you know it, you will receive an email from Google saying that your account is closed for "invalid clicks". You did not click on your Google Adsense ads intentionally or accidentally. Everything you've done so far is not against the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions. She could not understand what went wrong and why your Google Adsense account is suspended.
Sudden jump in Google results trigger Red Flag
The sudden jump in your Google results has alerted the Google AdSense team, and the result is the suspension of your Google AdSense account. In fact, this happens to a dozen internet marketers. However, they manage to get their Google AdSense account fully restored with the right strategy.
If your AdSense account is suspended because of the sudden jump from your Google AdSense earning, you should stay calm and plan the right strategy before you talk to Google. You should patients in dealing with Google. You should be polite when communicating with them and take the initiative to them. With all the documents that they may require You should not argue with them why they have disabled your account wrong. After all, your main goal to get your Google AdSense account again.
Finally, to avoid interference on your Google AdSense business, it may be a good idea to alert Google AdSense team about the possible increase in traffic that your Google AdSense site may.
4 sure-fire tips to increase your Google Adsense Profits
In reality it is not easy to increase your Google Adsense profits. A common mistake that people do is to multiply that they only sign up for this, waiting for their profit. Here are some practical tips to increase your Google Adsense Profits:
Tips # 1: Maximize Your Web Traffic by:
Make your website popular
Update your content often. A quality website will help you get your Google Adsense profits. Make sure that you get to a certain category of targeted visitors. The changing nature of the topic is your website appealing.
With the right set of keywords
When we want to search for something, we use keywords correctly? Well, if you want people to see your website, you should match your keywords, that most people are looking for. As an example, most people are not in the words "How to Shed the pounds", but they will type "Lose Weight Fast". Now, using the right keywords, search engines list your website first (longer relevant first), and this is not only your visitors will also help clean AdSense serves relevant ads for you.
Tip # 2 Proper Ad Position
Keep your ads at the top of the page, so they remarked. This will not only keep your site properly, it will also help to blend your ads to your web design.
Tip # 3 block your Rivals
As the role of Google is to publish relevant ads on your website, probably the most important of these ads would display your rivals. Often your visitors will see the ads with other attractive offers and enticing topics, and certainly they will click on it. Well, that AdSense has already thought of that, just use the Competitive Ad Filter.
Tip # 4 Make notes about your progress
Make notes of your marketing strategies and improve your sites. Take advantage of the free programs to do to this like Google Analytics or URL channels.
Four tips that every investor should keep in mind
The media and the people on the street do not stop mentioning the words "economic crisis". Two words that undoubtedly scare any investor. But do not rush out to listen, but find out and learn from people in the know. Read this note could be a good start. Here, Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch, has some advice to give:
Learn and understand their enemies
Most people do not understand how to manage investment risk, so try to avoid them rather than trying to understand them. Thus, when the economy is not doing well, investors are abandoning the stock market.
It is a fact, when harsh times ahead, investors do not buy stocks. This is done to avoid market risk, ie the possibility of losing money during a downturn in the market. But what I do not consider these investors is that when you stop investing your money and puts it to work, it is likely to lose value and lower purchasing power since it is likely that your tickets not keep pace with the inflation.
Thus, the most knowledgeable advise that when an investor feels that tough times ahead, think about how to mitigate the dangers, not completely change the investment strategy. That, as we always say from InversorGlobal, read and learn about the financial world.
Know that your knowledge does not guarantee success
But even reading and informing, as an investor should be aware that even if your main strategy is designed and studied, provided the financial world has a share of unpredictability that makes things more thought having an undesirable outcome.
So it is important that you are always aware and thinking about how to complement and add basic tactics to have more weapons in times of danger.
Know your weaknesses, but not subject
Most investors simply ignore what they do not know or are not comfortable with. That's why their portfolios tend to have similar assets or certain categories with which they are comfortable. They followed to the letter the advice that it is not advisable to invest in assets that one does not understand.
Nobody refutes this idea, what we do say is that if you do not know about certain subjects, you should try to investigate and learn more, if you still find it difficult, that's another topic. But you have to try to overcome their difficulties as an investor.
Hence the importance of knowing your weaknesses well, not to fear them and huirles, but to investigate, learn and be able to overcome them.
Put together a plan B
Expect the unexpected. An investor who builds a bear emergency plan advantage over those who do not have a plan B. Always better anticipate dangers and market cycles leg ahead of these we find the best possible way.
Having read the above, if you are an investor ambitious and determined to make their savings will gain purchasing power, will not remain idle and start seeing what you have to do to perfect his plan
Learn how to negotiate your next salary
Agree regarding your monthly payment is complicated, especially when you are in a tough job market. This is compounded when the deals are few and the people who are looking for a job are many, you might be tempted to take any job that is offered. For this, you must know how to negotiate your next salary.
Regardless of the state of the job opportunities that exist, you should always negotiate what you will win, says an article in Harvard Business Review.
Getting a new job is an opportunity to increase their compensation. John Lees, strategist and author of "How to get a job you'll love," says that people rarely have to re-negotiate the terms until after two years in their occupation.
So get ready for your next salary talk following the following principles:
1. Know your options. It is always advisable to take the offer from your second-best option, in your pocket, you will always negotiate first.
Of course it's more complicated in a difficult work environment. But when you have no alternative, whether any other offer or a work in progress, has much less power to do so.
This is why it is necessary to explain why you are the ideal person for the position, specific skills and experience, and to emphasize that not only is a solid candidate.
"In a time of full employment, employers are looking for someone who can do the job. In a time of unemployment, are seeking more favorable to the person to do the job," says Danny Ertel, a member of a consulting firm negotiation in Boston.
2. Do your research. Employers set wages based on what people actually pay to fill a similar role, and what they believe that competitors are paying.
Research on this topic and reasonable and honest with yourself and the human resources director, about the salary you are willing to accept.
3. When the offer is too low. It offers solutions that meet your needs and those of the company.
Don'ts
4. Negotiate the salary alone. Most people make the mistake of negotiating compensation instead of a job. Therefore, the right thing is to negotiate new roles or job position you attractive. Think not only in the quantity of money.
5. Accept the initial offer made to you, even if you have no other alternatives. Feel free to disagree but always in a respectful and seeking other alternatives that you can benefit.
6. Go to the negotiation with a list of demands and complaints. Show that you are trying to find solutions that meet their needs and those of the employer. Use positive language. Show that you are open to other suggestions other than yours.
11 Ideas to Open own business with little investment
11 ideas to open their own business with little investment. - With Internet and not be afraid to open your own business, and not about to risk an investment to start because you just have to invest time, persistence and talent.
Most people believe that without a major capital can not start a business, worst of all, to think that you can not even consider a business idea desatollar What business do you think you can do or that you are considering?
Here are some ideas to make business with little investment:
1. - Learning to use a communication tool. - One tool gives you the ability to reach beyond their possibilities. For example a telescope lets you explore space, lets slip a ski in the snow, etc.. For businesses also have thousands of tools. A factory, for example, is a major tool to large volume production.
And the Internet also have thousands of tools, in fact programmers say they can do whatever that is needed ideas. But we have to do business blogs, forums, websites, social networks, etc.. You as a business entrepreneur needs to learn and master any of these tools.
For many people, a blog is a great business that allows them to make some money with advertising. And open one is not complicated and requires more investment.
2. - His talent as a business. - Do you like to sing, dance, something you love? There are many examples of success when someone is dedicated to those things that man do, their talent, for example Ryan Higa doing what you like is starring a great success story videos.
3. - Business to their profession, experience or knowledge. - The business does not necessarily bring anything new, but using a new tool to do what you already know, and you have mastered a hearing. For example you can franchise a small business you have.
It is common to see business professionals trying to do that have nothing to do with their careers, do not you give up your profession?, In this case the problem is not a profession, but the person who can not find alternative progress. Tools such as a blog and developing a social personality in social networks can make a big difference.
4. - Products or custom services. - Investing little money does not necessarily mean poor clientele. It is important to understand the power of the media to ask essentially investment of time and talent.
When consumers find good products can say "seems to be cast for my taste," meaning quality can give a feeling of customized product, so what can you do that means meeting the needs of a specific audience? How could customize their products? Personalization means you are able to deal and meet the specific needs of its customers.
5. - Find online business ideas. - With more than 10 years that people share content on the Internet, so you can find thousands of ideas that can inspire us to do some business. It is important to learn how to use search engines, such as Google's advanced search.
Social networks are also a great source of business ideas, also gives you the ability to search audience interested for what you can do. A great tool to see if you are able to develop a business idea is to do surveys.
6. - Find nearby troubleshooting. - The best source of information for business ideas is to have experience with people. What are needing those close to you? For example my son practice for a while-cross bike, and how strong the sport has many faults on the bike, such as a flat tire, broken brake, etc.. , Moreover, always needing other accessories.
You have to care about what makes someone to see the many business opportunities presented.
7. - Plan and execute a business to find an original idea. - If you are looking for ideas on the Internet find business ideas that are already well known. How could I have an original idea?
More information does not make a difference, but instead experiences can provide brilliant ideas and original. So a good start would be to make a business plan ordinary and be alert to news How's the competition? How do to get and keep hearing customers admirers?
If you are alert and let their curiosity run, will certainly very original business ideas to implement immediately
8. - Sell without having a local. - It's wonderful to have to communicate with people and find information, but the fact that millions of people are online and interacting with other people looking for information can mean big business. What to do to have an online business?
Your office or online business will allow you to visit their clients and serve them where they are.
You can use your car as access to your virtual office
You can attend your business meetings with your business.
You can do business with your phone.
9. - Reduce personnel or contract specialists. - A good business is based on managing people, managing their talent. It is like getting an orchestra to produce music. Need an experience with an orchestra so you see that annoying noise and good melody are separated by a thin line.
Now you may have too many people in your business, and reduce staff can be an extra low investment business. Just as a new specialist can mean better production, better quality, innovation, etc..
10. - Search for strategic partners. - The success of a business is due to people who want to support their use, disclosure, sympathy, etc.. These people will always be a potential partner.
A business idea always requires more investment and better ideas to innovate and make a difference against competitors. If you have a good idea and good profitability has also let others benefit in return for an investment or ideas that will enable significant improvements.
11. - Start with what you have and can. - There is no greater frustration than to think that you can open your own business that you do not have the necessary resources.
Any trader who dream of changing their lives, to make a fortune starts with what you have and can. What do you want to accomplish? make a budget: you have a lot of money that you think not enough for anything, but you also have potential and if you allow yourself to be more curious really you can do many things as a business.
Understand that business is not goods, is relationships, and what you are friends, family and a talent to relate to them. Are not you trained? Internet offers many forms of training: videos, articles, social networks, etc.., Requiring very low investment.
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