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New research on cell phones that compares models and how do the iPhones measuring up against one another?

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Apple has released a total of eight iPhone handsets since 2007 and each one has been released with the promise of faster speeds and improved performance.  But how different is the original model to the current 5S? Fan site EverythingApplePro has created a video test of all eight handsets, from the original to the new model, plus the 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5 and 5C. Each of the handsets were 'freshly restored and not jailbroken' meaning they each had the same default settings and all applications were force closed beforehand.   In the first test, all the phones were powered off simultaneously and the 3GS shut down fastest, followed by 3G, then the 4, then the original model. The newer handsets all took noticeably longer than the older models, but took exactly the same amount of time as each other, to the second.  The voiceover explained during the video that iOS 6 had a much faster shut down time than iOS 7 and this was highlighted in the test. Each of the phones...

SEO: building your presence in search engines - the easy way

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Knowing what you have to have is the easy part of throwing your web site into the world.  The trick is to get the search engines to connect people looking for your stuff to your pages. From the SEO - search engines optimization -  work I have done over the last 9+ years, this involves a three phase process.  1.  Get lift in the search engines Getting this lift means that you understand the importance what I put forth in Six Essential SEO Statistics . Having lift means that when you google a key phrase you have implemented, you are seeing your web page(s) in the seven search results. This takes time, give yourself six months before you start pulling your hair out.  2. Maximize your blog strategy.  You should be bloggin' regularly by now. This is one of the most VALUABLE exercises you can do to create some presence on the web.  I'm going to devote a section to this.  Hey, it doesn't have to be all you. Have some guest bloggers. Put...

The NSA has been creating maps of American citizens' social networks similar to how the FBI links organized crime families together

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The NSA has been graphing American’s social networks and plotting them as they do organized crime since at least 2010, according to the latest published Edward Snowden leak. The highly secretive intelligence agency has been mapping out American citizens’ social connections – identifying associates, determining locations, and logging who they talk to – by taking advantage of loosened rules previously meant to restrict surveillance actions. As far back as November, 2010, the agency authorized spies to conduct ‘large-scale graph analysis on very large sets of communications metadata without having to check foreignness,’ the New York Times revealed Saturday. The agency augmented that information with bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls, property records and tax data, the Times further divulged. There does not appear to be any restriction on the types of data culled, or who it is gather on, the Times noted. First ...

Nine Points: Search Optimize Optimize (SEO) Your Web Page or Blog Post - Do it Yourself (DIY)

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This is an article about search engine optimization (SEO). As of this today, there are OVER EIGHT BILLION web pages. To get some attention to your page I have put together this list below to assist you with how to write content with  search engine optimization (SEO)  methods. This is a web site showing a live chart of the number of web pages  http://www.worldwidewebsize.com . How to write Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in your web page or blog post 1. Make a list of your keyword(s) that you want to use in this material. Hopefully, you have also made a mental note or written down related words that reinforce your keywords. 2. Create your title that grabs the readers interest and use a keyword or two in it. Statistics show that  search engine optimization (SEO)  does gain you visibility in search engine results. 3. Write one or two subheadings that you will use throughout your article. Make sure they  contain your target keyword and your rel...

SEO & SEM: Six statistics every online business needs written on the marketing room wall in CAPITALS

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Well, I am doing my best to help you get your arms and mind around the fact that social media, SEO - search engine optimization, and SEM - search engine marketing -  can help you grow your business. I have the " web marketing system " I have used over and over again with clients and it works. Wanna know why? Because people, at home and at work, around the world use the internet and social media. If you plug into those streams, doing it correctly, you will increase your sphere of influence. I guarantee that to my clients. Below are my statements, the statistics are in quotation marks. I didn't make up these stats either, they come from the sources where links are provided. 1. There is a lota connectivity to the internet. "There are more devices connected to the Internet than there are people on Earth.  AllTwitter " 2. The best way to create a buzz about your products and services is using a blog or social network. " 80% of active internet users ...

Social media spreads the good and the hoax - are people being dumbed down or just bored?

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Fake Apple ads touting the new operating system’s ability to make iPhones waterproof have made the social media rounds and gullible consumers are buying it. The ads are designed to look uncannily like actual advertisements for the new iOS 7 that came out along with the new iPhone 5s and 5c. The new update does many things, improved multitasking and camera function among them, but waterproofing your new $200 phone is definitely not one of them. Though, if the response on Twitter the new fake feature is any indication, Apple stores may soon be inundated by waterlogged handsets. One key to the deception, which the Daily Dot reports originated on 4Chan and spread to other social media, is in its deception. ‘With the new features and groundbreaking innovation of iOS 7,’ reads one of the nine ads, this one titled Additional Protection, ‘your iPhone is able to instantly detect changes in thermo-distribution with the touch sensitive screen and home button.’ Water splashes on and ...

Study finds 15 per cent of Americans STILL don't use the internet

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Despite some people feeling like they’re drowning in a sea of status updates, tweets and emails, one in seven American adults don’t use the internet. A recent study found that 15 per cent of American adults say they don’t surf the internet. Among those who don’t go online, only eight per cent want to - the rest have no desire, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. Another nine per cent of respondents said they only use the internet outside of their homes – mostly lower income and less-educated minorities, according to Pew. Among those avoiding internet use, 34 per cent feel ‘the internet is just not relevant to them, and a further 32 per cent feel going online is too difficult, Pew said. A further 19 per cent said they could not afford the expense of owning a computer or paying for an internet connection, while the remaining seven per cent cited a physical lack of availability or access to the internet, according to Pew. Read more: ...

Social Media - control the message of your brand on Bloomberg (video)

Tom Carroll, president & CEO at TBWA\\Worldwide, discusses the value of advertising on social media and the challenges companies face in controlling their message. He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Surveillance.” http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-challenges-of-social-media-advertising-tSvpm8JrSUyQS9Xs3rNO1w.html

Online Privacy Concerns Feed Increase In Facebook Identity Suicides

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Concerns over online privacy are leading Facebook users to commit "virtual identity suicide" by deleting their Facebook accounts, according to new scientific research. A survey of around 300 Facebook users and 300 quitters of the social networking site by Austrian psychologists at the University of Vienna assessing what motivated them to use or abandon Facebook revealed an emerging counter-movement against social networking. Among those saying they were quitting Facebook, almost half were leaving because of privacy concerns. Others said that the shallow nature of online relationships and feelings that they were becoming addicted to Facebook were reasons for abandoning their virtual social lives, according to the research on users and quitters from 47 countries. see article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/20/facebook-privacy-concerns-prompt-virtual-identity-suicides.html

SEO: a Google guide to doing your own SEO

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Some of you are Do It Yourself (DIY) and this is a post for you. Google has a well done starter guide for building SEO into your content and therefore getting some lift in Goggle  search results.  Check out the link below to this very handy manual. It takes some time to digest it and apply it - but definitely worth your while.  I guarantee that by the time you read this and apply it, you will be immersed in your web site design and building. So, if you are up to that level of immersion in your web site design this Google created SEO started guide is a DIY dream come true. Here is the link.... http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en/us/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf Steu  541.210.4375

Search Engine Presence: if your SEO program is on auto pilot you are shrinking your online presence

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Search Engine Presence: if your SEO program is on auto pilot you are shrinking your online presence Let’s be clear, to qualify your site as having an existing online marketing program or internet marketing plan there must be - at a bare minimum - these characteristics: A key word phrase implemented on individual web pages You have an active blogging presence You are regularly posting in social media networks Your pages offer at least one connection opportunity to visitors You provide visitors opportunities to satisfy that “impulse buy” factor with your online store There are plenty of SEO tools and software programs out there that can help automate some of the aspects of your SEO program, freeing up your valuable time so you can focus more on other SEO-related tasks like content creation and blogger outreach that can’t (and shouldn’t) be automated. I’m all for finding new ways to be more efficient and maximize the return for my time, but site owners need to be careful ...

Video: Five studies prove why you need it to improve your online presence

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Video: Five studies prove why you need it to improve your online presence We live in a digital age where people are more accustomed to viewing than reading.  Put that to your advantage with a video that highlights your produces or services.   The positive influence of a 90 second video is proven to be a lasting and  powerful impact to connecting with new potential customers. 1. A recent study found that 52% of consumers said that watching product videos made them more confident in their online purchase decisions. ( study ) 2. In a recent survey 60% of people said they prefer watching video over reading text. ( study ) 3. Visitors to your blog or web site will stay longer watching video that text. That translated into a lower bounce rate because your viewers are engaged longer in your content. ( study ) 4. You want people to remember you. A recent report informs us that people are more apt to recall a video than text. ( study ) 5. Placing your video in...

Blogging: the number one free tool to improve, enhance, and increase your online presence: 5 free resources

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1. Consumers are saying that blogs are more influential in shaping opinion than Twitter, and when it comes to affecting purchase decisions, more important than Facebook. ( link to study ) 2.  Blogs are the third most important influence that affect consumer spending. ( link to study ) 3.  Eleven case studies in new marketing ideas that use blog to create businesses and gain online exposure. ( link to studies ) 4. Seve reason to help you formulate your blogging strategy. ( link to report ) 5. Ten tips to get your blog going, blogging 101, or enhance your existing blogging ( link to report )

Automation: A new worker's revolution is rising in China and it doesn't involve humans.

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A new worker's revolution is rising in China and it doesn't involve humans. With soaring wages and an aging population, electronics factory managers say the day is approaching when robotic workers will replace people on the Chinese factory floor. A new wave of industrial robots is in development, ranging from high-end humanoid machines with vision, touch and even learning capabilities, to low-cost robots vying to undercut China's minimum wage. Over the next five years these technologies will transform China's factories, executives say, and also fill a growing labor shortage as the country's youth become increasingly unwilling to perform manual labor. How the transformation plays out will also go a long way in deciding how much of the electronics supply chain remains in China. Read full article:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303759604579093122607195610.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth

Online Privacy: Apple cell phone 5S owners are now using their NIPPLES .......

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Apple 5S owners are now using their NIPPLES to unlock the device's fingerprint scanner First it was the paw of a cat, then it was a man's toe. Now, the latest body part being used to unlock Apple's iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner is a nipple.  A number of videos have appeared online that appear to show male and female nipples being pressed onto the phone's TouchID sensor.  The capacitive sensor can be used with any skin part, as long as a heartbeat and body temperature can be detected, to unlock the device.  One owner of the new iPhone 5S said: 'I'm glad Apple's scanner recognises nipples - it just goes to show how ridiculous the premise is in the first place. 'Now if anyone tries to mug me, they'll have to cut one of my nipples off if they want to use my phone, and I'm not telling them which one.' The latest Apple handset comes with technology which means they can be accessed by placing the owner's finger on the c...

Social Media: Barack Obama is political king of the fake Twitter followers

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Barack Obama is political king of the fake Twitter followers, with more than 19.5 MILLION online fans who don't really exist Among influential U.S. political tweeters, President Barack Obama is the undisputed king of the fake followers. A MailOnline analysis ranks his sizable Twitter following as the most deceptive total among the 21 most influential accounts run by American politicians: More than 19.5 million of his 36.9 million Twitter followers are accounts that don't correspond to real people. The four phoniest accounts in the sample, which included Democratic and Republican Party leaders in Washington, D.C., were those belonging to President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, first lady Michelle Obama and the White House communications shop. Of the president's 36.9 million Twitter followers, an astonishing 53 per cent – or 19.5 million – are fake accounts, according to a search engine at the Internet research vendor  StatusPeople.com . Just 20 per cent of Oba...