According to a report released by iResearch last week, China search engine market Q2 sales increased to 2.64 billion yuan (US$389m). Baidu’s market share increased by 3% to 70.8%. Search queries on Baidu also increased by 2.1% to 78.2% while search queries on Google dropped by 2.3% to 14.4%
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Baidu is way ahead in Search in China in the 2nd quarter of 2010
I attended this event Transatlantic Climate Bridge Conference on Renewable Energy & Emission Trading organized by the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest. The presentations are posted here & here’s what they said in addition to what was contained on the Powerpoint. Dr. Martin Schoepe, Head of Division, International und European Affairs of
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transatlantic climate bridge conference
Wow, I didn’t know a game could cause such a buzz. I admit, Starcraft is one of the first real time strategy games I got hooked to. I played similar games such as Warcraft but I don’t know, there’s something about Starcraft’s charm maybe that’s why after 12 years, it’s still one of the most popular real time strategy games. Anyways, when I heard that Starcraft II wings of liberty will be coming
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Starcraft II Reviews on Amazon: Not very promising
Developing an email retention policy is an important step in every company’s email management process. And as always every organization’s retention policy will differ depending on the needs of the company, the industry they belong to and the resources available to them. The purpose of having an email retention policy is to help employees determine what information should be retained and for how long based on what emails – or even instant messages – are sent or received by the employees.
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Six Email Retention Best Practices
The Nokia C6, which was supposed to go live for sale at the end of July is now available for sale on Nokia Europe website for 289 Euros. Nokia is giving the phone unlocked so you can use it with any SIM card. The C6, which looks like the 5800 is full touch screen and also has a physical QWERTY keyboard which slides out.
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Nokia C6 Goes on Sale on Nokia Europe
The video below shows the demo of Nokia Messaging running on the upcoming Nokia N8. Nokia N8 is the first Symbian^3 based smart phone from Nokia, which the company says can prove to be a game changer. Its also the first phone from Nokia which has a 12MP snapper and the battery is like the iPhone i.e
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Nokia Messaging Demo on Nokia N8
Citigroup’s banking application for iPhone improperly stored some users’ sensitive data in hidden files for God know’s what devious plan, but the bank said it has fixed the glitch. Citi spokeswoman Natalie Riper said its US Citi Mobile iPhone banking program may have also saved account information on personal computers that customers hooked up to their phones.
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iPhone banking app is not safe
Vision Helpdesk V2.7.2 stable release includes the long awaited Advance Billing Module — the feature allows you to offer Paid Support to your customers – that is you can bill your customers ticket with various options — a) Per Ticket b) Per Minute c) Per hour etc. The feature also allows you to configure Pre Paid Billing or Post Paid Billing. Additionally, you can integrate with various billing softwares example WHMCS | Blesta to generate invoice. Auto and Manual billing time tracking for ticket — This will auto calculate billing time for a ticket based on the amount of time staff has worked on that ticket.
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Advance Billing Module | Pay Per Ticket | Pre Paid Billing | Paid Support | Auto Billing Time Tracker
At these times, online Games are the in things that our beloved internet surfers love to play with such as the Sports Games that we’ve unearthed on the web just a little while back. We also have a yen for exciting Puzzle Games on the net for the reason that all of these games are free of charge for everyone like the Asterisk, Waterfalls 2, Roly-Poly Cannon 3, Yin Finds Yang and Darkness 2 just to mention a few of them. In this regard, if you are not pleased with your current online games it follows that you have to press on to funny-games.biz because you can track down there all the action-packed, stirring and fun games on the web.
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Good to know Exciting Online Games
Acer has a new Android smartphone that will use Android 2.1 heading to the UK early in August. The UK launch date was tipped by Expansys and will be the exclusive seller of the handset. The device has some nice specs with a 3.7-inch screen, 1GHz CPU, and a 5MP camera. The handset will launch on August 9 at the equivalent of $615.
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Acer Stream packs Android 2.1 and heads to UK on August 9
Most of us the internet users have the misconception that the internet has a limited uses that comprises the use only of social networking site that enable us to keep in touch with our loved ones around the globe without using the primitive and slow snail mail to communicate with them from time to time. The internet has evolve into a multi-dimensional tool that make our lives easier and faster on account of we can get the information that we want in a click of a mouse without having to drive to a brick and mortar library that cost us expensive fossil fuel that harms our ozone layer in the long run. In effect, using the internet largely benefited the people who are conscious of the state of our environment because of the elimination of dangerous chemicals that our cars produce during its operation
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Fun Online Games, it’s as simple as that!
Email administrators of Exchange Server have at some time or another implemented a Public Folder for their organization as a means to store messages, files (as message attachments), calendars or contacts. Some of these folders never really get used very much but other organization’s public folders are heavily used. Those folders that are heavily used must be planned for very well in order to be managed for their database size and expected growth rate.
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Ten Best Practices for Exchange Server Public Folders
Three have made available their MiFi unit since 2nd of July 2010 and I’ve have had the pleasure of testing it out for the last 2 weeks. The 2nd revision of the device brings many improvements from user feedback and a new sleeker design and interface. New Features The most striking improvements are the new black and silver finish. It’s looks more sophisticated than the older silver model
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Three MiFi v2 – Better In Everyway
According to InsideFacebook , Facebook has begun to have a negative growth in the key demographic of 18-35 year-olds. And though the site continues to have significant positive growth overall, should they be worried about losing this key demographic? InsideFacebook Has Facebook lost its appeal to you? Do you use it as much as before?
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Facebook Losing 18-25 Audience?
Here’s a look at the Acer beTouch E110 Android smartphone that was put together by James Tromans for our sister site, AndroidAuthority.com. The E110 is a low cost Android smartphone that offers lower end smartphone capabilities at a good price point. Read the full story here.
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Acer beTouch E110 entry level Android smartphone review
I attended this event America’s Fiscal Future: Making Difficult Choices sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation & Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago featuring Dr.’s John Palmer & Rudolph Penner. You should be able to see/listen to the panel discussion here @ Chicago Amplified on the local outlet for National Public Radio. The event was put together
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MacArthur Foundation on American fiscal policy
Interesting. We can’t really put our finger on it, but if we had to try and guess, we would say that while Apple is making a bunch of money this year (so far), and they’re selling out of pretty much everything they’re manufacturing (like the iPhone 4), it just seems like things aren’t working as well as normal
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iPhone 4 in White Not Coming This Summer, Delayed Until Later This Year
Every year, around this time, pretty much every major company out there starts prattling off how much money they made (or lost), versus previous quarters, and last year’s results. It’s a great way to see where your company stands amongst the crowd, and obviously it’s good for the executives of those companies to see if their current strategy is working, or if things need to get switched around. When it comes to Verizon (which was still known as Verizon Wireless during the second quarter period), they’re having a good second quarter. Up first, is Verizon’s overall revenue. It’s up, year-over-year by 3.4%, and brings their total for the second quarter 2010 to $16 billion.
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Verizon Announces Second Quarter Earnings
When’s the last time you saw an “old-school,” traditional clamshell flip-phone? Yeah, it probably really has been that long. Apparently Samsung wanted to get back into the game, because they’ve just announced the availability of the Haven, a traditional flip-phone that, for all intents and purposes, looks like it was ripped straight out of the past. Features wise, here’s what you’re looking at: a 2.2-inch display, adjustable font sizes, dedicated keys for the loudspeaker and ICE (In Case of Emergency). The ICE dedicated key is one that was pretty popular on Verizon’s device catalog, and it gives the owner the ability to add up to three contacts for emergency contact
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Samsung Haven for Verizon Announced
The premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry — HostinCon 2010 exhibition remains happening for DAY 2. Day2 & Day3 Pictures HostingCon 2010 Vision Helpdesk Booth #128 For more pictures check this — http://www.flickr.com/photos/visionhelpdesk/
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Hostingcon 2010 Day2 and Day3 Pictures
If you have a smartphone on the AT&T network that features WiFi, you have probably used one of the AT&T hotspots at one point to fix a poor signal or for faster downloads. AT&T has announced that during Q2 2010 it served more than 68 million WiFi connections
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AT&T WiFi connections over 68M in Q2