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We are overloaded with commercials on a daily basis that have an overwhelming influence on the things we buy. Commercials are not necessarily evil, they do give beneficial information to potiential customers and encourage price competition between companies. Many times, however, commercial advertising influences us to buy products that may not be necessary at the time. Upgrading to a new camera cell phone woulD be a perfect example of advertising pressure. You should stop to reflect if it is really time to replace your older, but reliable cellular phone. With so many new models touting the latest or best technologically advanced features, it’s no wonder you might want one of these new gizmos yourself. Should you upgrade your camera cell phone? If you have a valid reason, then consider upgrading to a new cell phone.

There are a number of valid reasons for upgrading to a new mobile phone. If your camera phone doesn’t work anymore because has been damaged, then buying a new cell phone and upgrading the cell phone model might be a timely choice. If your mobile phone begins to malfunction, see if it can be fixed by a technician before you purchase a new cellular phone. People often throw away a good camera cell phone when the problem could have been easily repaired. However, if your camera phone is beyond repair, then upgrading to a new model is a good option.

If having the latest technological gadget the only reason for upgrading your camera cell phone, then you should seriously consider the financial implications of supporting your new luxury cell phone. Problems come about by purchasing a new mobile phone and not being able to meet the financial obligation that goes with owning an upgraded camera cell phone. Even though it would be possible to charge it to your credit card, why would you want to rack up the outrageous interest charges because you went over your budget limitations? If budget limitations are a concern, then it would be better to scrap the idea of upgrading your camera cell phone and keep using the one you already own as long as it is still servicable.

The most important aspect in considering should you upgrade your camera cell phone is whether you can make and receive all your necessary calls. The bells and whistles that come with the latest technological phone are really great, but keeping in touch and snapping those important photos should be your deciding factors should you upgrade your camera cell phone.

Carrie McGraw
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/should-you-upgrade-your-camera-cell-phone-134988.html

Sms advertising, or bulk text advertising for retailers, church groups, colleges etc. Anyone who wants to get opt in subscribers to send text messages to to advertise specials, or make announcements to.

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Overlay.tv is a new start-up that lets you grab any web video and start adding content on top of it. You can make any videos interactive, display ads, and include hyperlinks to other websites.
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If you think that YouTube’s web design is pretty lacking in many areas, you might like the new web site, BufferMe. Using YouTube’s API, BufferMe brings a faster, more intuitive user experience to YouTube.
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And of course a day doesn’t go buy without more news from Google’s Chrome. In a recent interview with Sergey Brin, it came out that Chrome will be available on Android, Google’s forthcoming mobile phone platform.
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Next, if you were impressed with the new online slideshow program, 280 Slides, and wondered how they built it, you’re in luck. They’ve released their own programming language environment called Cappuccino. It’s based on Apple’s Objective-C, and it’s a powerful, yet completely free programming environment.
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We’ve talked about Yahoo BOSS at the Free Line Report before. This programming toolkit is supposed to let you create cool mashups (and your own search engines) using Yahoo’s API. Until now, doing this required knowledge of different programming language and tools. Now Yahoo’s released BuildASearch.com, a website specifically created to overcome the learning curve required to use Yahoo BOSS.
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FBI can turn on the mic on your cell phone and eaves drop even with the phone is turned off. Our rights as AMERICANS are being torn away by this corrupt government. WE MUST ALL PROTEST AGAINST SUCH ACTIONS BEFORE WE ALL BECOME SLAVES OF THE RICH WHO ALREADY CONTROL THE U.S. DOLLAR.(see Federal Reserve Bank info)

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AsiaBSDCon 2009 Keynote Speech. Speaker:

Eric Allman is the original author of sendmail, and a long time contributor to Berkeley UNIX. He also wrote the -me macros, tset, trek, syslog, and vacation. Besides UNIX and sendmail, Eric has worked on database management, window systems, neural-net-based speech recognition, system administration, and networking.

Allman is Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Sendmail, Inc. Before joining Sendmail, Allman served as CTO for Sift, Inc., which is now part of 24/7 Media, Inc. He was lead developer and provided a large-scale research software infrastructure on the Mammoth project at U.C. Berkeley. Allman has contributed as a senior developer at the International Computer Science Institute to neural network systems design. Allman was also Chief Programmer on the INGRES Relational Database Management System.

Formerly, Allman co-authored the “C Advisor” column for UNIX Review magazine and was a member of the Board of Directors of USENIX Association. He is currently a Program Chair for the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam and a member of the ACM Queue Editorial Review Board and the Board of Trustees of Cal Performances.

Allman holds an Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Abstract:

Email existed before the Internet was invented, and grew with the Internet over six orders of magnitude. Email has gone from serving a small community of highly technical colleagues to being ubiquitous, even for people who are not technically adept. It has changed from a tiny, no-profit service to a billion dollar business.

But email has not gone without growing pains. Spam, viruses, and phishing are just two examples of malware that didn’t even exist when email was born. Email has changed both business and social lives in ways both good and bad. Some of those pressures have pushed users from email to Instant Messaging and Social Networking. Today the research and development of email has focused on control, either “on the wire” (anti-spam, data loss prevention, etc.) or directly for the user (such as mobile access or managing information overload).

This talk covers the history of email and reviews where we are today, including current technologies such as email authentication (DKIM and SenderID) and reputation. It concludes with some personal speculation about how email will continue to grow both short- and long-term.

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The popularity of mobile homes is increasing, and more people have been considering the idea of owning one for themselves. While the space may not be that wide like traditional homes, you can travel to other places with your mobile house. Think of it, where else can you visit other places while you bring your house along with you? You can assure yourself that your properties are safe-because you will be able to watch over them as you journey on the road.

Usually, mobile homes are bought by people who are just starting out, and they want to have their own home despite a small income. Over time, they may be able to save up on money and they may want to move out from their mobile home. When this happens, they sell it and look for another place to live in. If you are also thinking about putting up your mobile home for sale, you have to come up with marketing strategies to sell it effectively.

Stage Your Mobile Home

It is inevitable for a mobile home owner to move out and buy another home. While there are owners who give it to another family member, most owners sell it. If you want to sell your mobile home, you have to come up with strategies so that you can sell it right away. Your home is just like any other traditional home-it sells quickly if it appears desirable and tempting for buyers. But if they think that your home is not worth their money, then they will not bother transacting a deal with you. One way of making your mobile home desirable for potential buyers is to stage it. You may think that staging is not applicable for such a small home like your own. However, you also have to put into consideration that if you show your home to interested people without improving it first, they will lose their interest.

When you stage your mobile home, you enhance its appearance with beautifying methods. If you have a landscape surrounding your home, you can improve this by putting in flowers. If there are trees, check for dead branches and twigs and burn it if there are any. Make sure that the whole view of your home is not blocked by overhanging branches, cut those which hide some parts of your home, like your window.

Another thing which you have to put into consideration is the interior of your home. Make sure that it is not cluttered and messy. Keep away books and magazines, and clear the counter top from unnecessary things. If the lighting fixture of your home is dim, you have to change it with new ones. Most people like their homes to look cheerful and bright, and dim lights do not make this possible. You may also have to keep away extra furniture that make the space of your home very limited.

Advertise Your Home

Home staging will be a waste if you will not advertise it. Make sure that you will not forget posting it in newspaper ads or in fliers. This way, people will be able to know that you are selling your home. If you want, you can post it over the Internet also. A lot of people search for information here; there will be a great possibility that they will be able to chance upon your home.

Scott Krager
http://www.articlesbase.com/real-estate-articles/sell-your-mobile-home-effectively-150790.html

There is a lot of buzz about VoIP Internet phone service. On the consumer side everyone is getting a lot of exposure to Vonage commercials as well as triple play offers from Cable Companies. From a technology standpoint, VoIP is now much more mature than in its nascent days when Internet telephony meant a scratchy voice conversation over two computers. Whereas VoIP has been used by Telcos to carry voice traffic over long portions of their networks for years, it is now positioned to become the standard technology used to carry voice traffic over the last mile from every consumer’s home. Increased broadband penetration and advances in VoIP technology make this possible, and now there is a long line of VoIP providers out there looking for a piece of the action. They range from giants like Verizon and Comcast to relatively small unknowns. For the first time in the history of telecommunications it is possible to be a telephony provider without the huge barriers of capital needed for switches and network operation centers (NOCS).) nor the regulatory barrier of being a Local Exchange Carrier. So will the industry be marked by many small nimble players? What is the likelihood of survival for small consumer VoIP service providers?

The Cable TV companies have a strong position in the telephony market. They already have a large embedded base of customers. They also have a local presence, with field installers regularly driving around neighborhoods and customer service locations in every town in which they have a franchise. Having the field installers is a major advantage since they can install VoIP service and also hook up inside wiring so the service experience is no different than before. Therefore a person doesn’t have to be the least bit technically inclined to adopt the service, thereby opening the market to the masses. The pure-plays like Vonage just can’t reach the mass market like this.

Cable companies also have huge brand awareness in their markets. What is also potentially important is that they are perceived as a utility company and people are used to getting phone service from this type of entity. There is a familiarity and comfort level of going to a utility company for phone service.

They also have tremendous strength in both billing and customer service. While some may hate the cable company because they have lengthy time windows for showing up for an installation, may show up late, and may keep you on hold at the call center, the Cable companies are in actuality very good at managing the complexities of their operations. For example, RCN entered some markets years ago as an alternate cable provider thinking they could leverage people’s dislike of the cable companies’ service record and do it better; instead they ended up realizing how very complex it is and ended up doing it worse. If a company wants to scale as a major VoIP provider, they will have to manage the complexities of billing and customer service. The cable companies have been down this road already.

Here is what could be the biggest factor to why the Cable companies will be most successful at VoIP and ruin the chances of other smaller entrants – They provide a broadband connection. Since this is required for VoIP, the incumbent provider has the first dibs on providing voice service. Also, since broadband connections have high margins and VoIP has low margins, broadband providers could treat voice service as a loss leader to get and keep customers on their high-speed connections. NetZero, for instance, is giving away free telephone numbers and low priced VoIP service presumably with the hopes of signing on users for their ISP. Voice service could in fact become so commoditized that it will be given away with broadband service the same way email is today. If this becomes a reality, there would be very little market opportunity and a bleak survival outlook for smaller pure-play VoIP service providers unless they could offer a differentiated value proposition.

The Local Phone Company also shares many of the same advantages as Cable in that they have strong brands, ability to bill effectively, established customer service, and field technicians. They also should provide the greatest comfort level to people for providing a phone service. However, the Phone Companies have dismal showing compared to the Cable companies who have the greatest number of VoIP subscribers. Verizon VoiceWing and AT&T CallVantage each have only 5.5% of the 2.9 million pure-play VoIP subscribers (Telephia Q2 2006). Those 320k subs are dwarfed by the Cable Companies like Time Warner Cable who alone had 1.6 million VoIP customers as of October 2006. Why have the Phone Companies had such a dismal result? Internal confliction between POTS and VoIP is one reason. They can not put emphasis on a low margin VoIP product in their core offer and have struggled to create an effective bundled product strategy with advanced services. They are also expending more resources and internal focus on better broadband offerings than DSL and trying to break into video services. Nonetheless, they still hold second and third positions for share of pure-play VoIP subscribers and have deep pockets, which will allow them to far outspend a small VoIP provider to get mindshare.

Vonage, with 53.9% of the 2.9 million pure-play VoIP subscribers, is spending a ton of money to get mindshare and customers. This is good in that it raises awareness of the product category, which helps a smaller pure-play. However, it also presents a huge challenge for smaller providers to compete head to head for customers when a single provider has such a dominant voice.

There are a number of challenges facing a smaller VoIP provider. Small providers have to compete for share of voice against companies that are spending a lot of money. As far as the business case goes, VoIP has relatively small margins and the ROI for marketing campaigns and generating brand awareness is a challenge. Yet without spending money on marketing, it is difficult to capture customers.

Then there is the challenge of the market size. Pure-play providers don’t have local installers and technicians, which limit the market to those who have the technical savvy to set up the service or the willingness to do so. If the target market is defined as people who have the technical savvy to set up VoIP on a home network, then this market is comprised largely of younger people. This group is increasing mobile based and has little use for a landline phone. Also, consider how the overall telephony market will change over the years. People in college now that will be graduating over the next couple of years and getting apartments are 100% mobile based and have never had a landline phone. Thus the market for pure-play VoIP will be shrinking as fast as it grows.

However, there is still an opportunity for small VoIP providers in this challenging market. The opportunity is to focus on niche markets and leverage specific advantages of VoIP that are particularly important to specific customers segments. In such segments, word of mouth advertising is a viable strategy if the service can meet a strong need. This solves the dilemma of investing in media to build a strong brand and maintains better profitability.

ReVoS Internet phone service is an example of a small VoIP provider taking just this strategy. They are focusing on a niche segment of people who make a lot of international calls. ReVoS offers VoIP service, which includes unlimited international calling to over 40 countries including the standard VoIP product offering for $24.95 per month. They have also developed a VoIP product that works over a mobile phone that doesn’t require a broadband connection. This is geared to people of international origin who, by the way, have the greatest propensity to use cell phones of any demographic in the U.S. This niche makes sense since carrying long distance call traffic is an inherent strength of the VoIP networks. Also these customer groups are better reached through a niche strategy and would be missed by mass-market strategies. This market is comprised largely of people living in the U.S. who have moved here from other countries. These are tight communities where word of mouth can flourish and the value proposition is strong when saving people money on high cost international calls. This is an example of how a small VoIP provider can successfully compete against much more formidable competitors such as the Cable Companies and Vonage.

However, the future of the telephony industry and the role that VoIP takes still needs to be fully defined and there are many uncertainties. There is a long list of unknowns, which include such things as Google getting into Voice and whether Microsoft includes a softphone and VoIP service as a standard part of their operating systems. Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) is another technology wildcard that could change the shape of the competitive landscape. The overwhelming penetration of mobile phone service and mobile carriers’ ability to steal the show with a FMC offer is very real. This may be the competing technology that upsets the MSOs stronghold on VoIP. The question then becomes which bundled product offer is greater 1) Broadband and VoIP or 2) Mobile phone and VoIP. Another thing to consider is how Wireless VoIP (wVoIP) could change the competitive landscape and underlying telephony ecosystem if municipal hotspots and/or WiMax take off.

Whatever the future the holds, the economies of the telephony industry are likely to place a few large carriers in control of the majority of the market. People want simplicity in their lives and the winners will be those who provide the most seamless solutions to people’s basic communications needs. For smaller VoIP providers to survive and make profit, they will need to meet strong niche needs that get overlooked by the mass adoption strategy, have a well defined and differentiated value proposition (Recall ESPN Mobile’s problem), efficient operations to control cost and low margins, low churn in order to compensate for limited total average revenue per subscriber (ARPU) absent a larger bundled product strategy, and the ability to benefit from viral marketing within the target markets. With all of this in place, there is a chance of survival for small VoIP providers.

Scott White
http://www.articlesbase.com/communication-articles/how-can-a-small-consumer-voip-provider-survive-70894.html

1.Start a Community Blog. A community blog is just that, a community of like-minded people who contribute to a blog. One of the obvious advantages to this type of blog is that you don’t need to spend a lot of time posting yourself to be part of an active blog. If you have a community of three or more people and you each post at least twice a week then you will have a pretty active blog. Be sure to use an RSS feed and have all contributors post the feed on their sites to get the benefit of each sites visitors.

2.Hire a team of bloggers. Newspapers have contributors, blogs can too. If you’ve ever used writers to do articles and content for you , they can do the same type of thing with a blog. Many of the most successful blogs are already doing this. The combination of group promotion effort, regular updates and pinging can help bring in traffic quickly. One thing to note here is blogs are a somewhat social tool. Some very popular niche blogs are not all that visible in the search engines, yet they get a lot of traffic because people recommend them and they become a sort of buzz hub. Search engines do not always pick up on this but they do eventually. This is why group blogging can be very powerful because you’re leveraging the power of not one (your) influence group but several people’s influence group. If you do pay your bloggers, you can always offset this cost by displaying Adsense ads. Many popular blogs earn a good amount in Adsense, that they make a nice profit even after paying their bloggers team. After a while it becomes a passive income stream.

3.Recycle Content. By taking previously published articles, interviews or even audio and breaking it up into blog sized pieces you can recycle old content and make it new again! You can break up long pieces into a bunch of segments and have a series going for, say, a week or so. Then you won’t have to worry about coming up with new content for a week!

4.Include audio. For some of us, it’s much easier to speak than to write. So, mix up your blog. Carry a small portable MP3 recorder or blog by phone. What a convenient way for moms who are running around all day , busing the kids where they need to go , doing errands , and whatever else needs to be done. Maybe you’re stuck in traffic, or waiting for the kids to get out piano class or school. An idea or thought strikes and you think “Oh I need to share that on my blog” so, pick up your phone (assuming you have a cell phone – and many of us do), dial a number, say what’s on your mind, save it and you’re done. Your blog is published. If you’re using Blogger, you can do this for free through AudioBlog. It involves calling a long distance number, but most cell phone plans don’t charge extra for long distance anyway so you’re not incurring any extra cost.

If you’re using another blog publishing tool like WordPress, Movable Type or TypePad, then you’ll need a service like AudioBlogger.com. This one is a paid service but it’s only $4.95 a month and it gives you more options like a nice flash player, statistics and even video that make it worth while.

5.Automating Your Blog. One of the things I love about using Wordpress as a publishing tool is that it offers a forward blog entry option that saves me tons of time. By using this tool you can blog ahead of time and have your entries posted on the day and time you choose. So let’s say you have a week’s worth of posts ready to go. You don’t have to come back each day and post, instead you write everything up in one day and schedule a new post out 24 hrs after the next. This will save you time!

Let’s face it. There will be times we have a ton to say and times we have little or nothing to share. Instead of having multiple entries one day and nothing over the next few days, by using forward entry you can blog everyday of the week. Or rather you blog once and the blog publishing tool does the job automatically the rest of the week. You can even forward blog for weeks and months ahead of time.

Note: Blogger users unfortunately cannot do this because Blogger publishes all entries regardless what you date it immediately.

Lynette Chandler
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/if-you-have-a-blog-but-not-a-lot-of-time-here-are-5-tips-to-help-72264.html