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Amazon Strategy to Compete with Ipad and Nook

WEBMASTER — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:02:31 +0000

We have to give credit to Amazon as the pioneer in dominating the ebook market, but core competency is about to change in the face of the NOOK and IPAD. With the fierce competitors rising, the company made incremental technological upgrades to its Kindle. Screen resolutions, model thickness, text-to-speech features, and new navigation options are among the many features that have kept Amazon Kindle followers intrigued. Small feature changes, however, were only going to keep people interested so long. A big change needed to happen. The small but power features are the things that consumers are looking for nowaday.

Amazon recently acquired Touchco, a small company that specializes in touch screens may be the big change that the Amazon Kindle needed. The Amazon Kindle, with its current model, has positioned itself as the low-end e-reader. For the technology offered, Amazon had a choice: continue down the path of bargain shoppers looking for a cheap grayscale e-reader or upgrade to compete with the likes of Apple, who just introduced their full color, touch screen iPad.

Amazon Kindle was a head of the race, but the race is not over yet. Considering the launch of the Kindle application store last month, it is no surprise that Amazon has once again chosen to make a move at the Nook and iPad. All along, Amazon has aimed at getting ahead of the market with the Amazon Kindle. Although it was not the first e-reader, it brought the marketing tools and resources necessary to get the paper-saving technology off the ground.

Ebook is an industry that will continue to grow and product features, maintaining market shares, and customer loyalties is what Amazon should be focusing on in the upcoming years.

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Cyber Monday and Black Friday Reviews

WEBMASTER — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:13:05 +0000

So what exactly is Cyber Monday? It is the Monday that takes place after the black Friday. The one thing that is unique about this shopping event is that it occurs online instead of waiting in lines at stores. Cyber Monday is a marketing term that refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday being the busiest day of the year for retail electronic commerce in the United States. The term was created by the National Retail Federation and announced in conjunction with the deployment of their own website CyberMonday.com designed to serve as a portal for Cyber Monday deals and offers.

Why people are looking forward to Cyber Monday?
This sale day is perfect for shoppers that have missed out on the black Friday specials. Regardless of how these shoppers passed over Black Friday, this event will provide them the opportunity to snatch up a good deal online. Some people shy away from Black Friday because they don’t want to deal with the amount of time being wasted only.

How Retailers are reacting to Cyber Monday?
Big company such as JC Penny are taking full advantage of this event to catch the second wave of shoppers that are tech savy, some items on JC Penny’s website are being offer at 50% off. Other companies offer free shipping and packaged bundles that are irresistible for the lay-back shoppers. The drawback of Cyber Monday is that you can not get the items right away, you have to wait a couple of days before the items will be shipped to your door steps. If being patient is not your pet peeve, then Cyber Monday might be the next thing that you will be looking forward to in the upcoming years.

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HTC Hero Pros and Cons Features Review

WEBMASTER — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:27:46 +0000

TechTree reports that HTC Hero will run Android 2.0. According to their statement,
“Yes, we are working on an Eclair update for the HTC Hero. Because Eclair is a significantly enhanced release, it will require some time to update Sense for this new version of the Android OS. Please be patient while we work to provide you with a tightly integrated experience like the one you are already enjoying on your Hero.”

This makes HTC Hero the second device running Android 2.0. The first one t is the Motorola DROID, which launches next week, on November 6. HTC Heros will be delighted to hear this wonderful news.

Processor	Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz
Operating System	Android™
Memory	ROM: 512 MB RAM: 288 MB
Dimensions (LxWxT)	112 x 56.2 x 14.35 mm ( 4.41 x 2.21 x 0.57 inches)
Weight	135 grams ( 4.76 ounces) with battery
Display	3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320×480 HVGA resolution
Network	HSPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz (Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.)

How Facebook Collects Cash From a Crook

WEBMASTER — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:17:33 +0000

In recent news, Facebook is the winner from a lawsuit against a spammer. The person who is doing the damages to Facebook is no one other than Sanford Wallace. This spammer and crook deliberately sending millions of unsolicited emails to registered Facebook users, tricking many of them into divulging their login information or redirecting them to sites that paid him for each visit. A judge yesterday said that the spammer had acted with blatant disregard for Facebook users. Social networking giant Facebook was today awarded $711 million in damages from Sanford Wallace.

According to L.A Times, “Wallace willfully violated the statutes in question with blatant disregard for the rights of Facebook users whose accounts were compromised by his conduct.” We are not sure if this poor crook has any money, but $711 million is a lot of money.It seems Facebook is fully prepared to wait for the cash.”While we don’t expect to quickly collect the full amount, we’ll work hard to get everything we can,” Simon Axten, a privacy and public policy associate at Facebook, said in a statement. This case is a good example of how spammers are getting punish for their annoying tricks and gimmicks.

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Google Voice Cool Features – Free unlike Skype

WEBMASTER — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:21:53 +0000

Google Voice will provide talking power for free. With the commitment to attract more users, and their declarationto provide all the necessary Internet and mobile features in one software, Google unmasked two new features for their Voice. The first is that you can now forward SMS messages to your email, and the second is that you can now play your voicemail straight from your Gmail account. Pretty neat eh? So now all your text and audio recordings can be viewed using your computer or laptop.

Here are the details on how to set up these new features:

For forwarding SMS to your email:

- Login to your Google Voice account and click on the Settings link in the upper right hand corner. Once there, go to Voicemail & SMS, then check the box next to SMS Forwarding.

For playing voicemail in your Gmail accounts:

- Login to your Gmail account and go to Settings. Once there look for Labs. Go ahead and click on that and then scroll down the list of available lab features until you see Google Voice player in mail. From there, go ahead and click Enable, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save Changes button. Hopefully, users will be able to appreciate what technology now has to offer. For all of you who are always in front of their laptops (and refuses to text while browsing the net), then this is the perfect way for you to combine mobile communication and Internet usage.