Sunday, July 31, 2011
Holiday home insurance
http://www.insuranceforholidayhomes.co.uk/ The trend of holiday homes is really catching up because it not only provides an option to the family to spend their weekends and vacations without any problems, but it also acts as a buffer for those who need some financial stability.]]>
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Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day
Flush with $100 million in new funding, Square is continuing to grow like a weed in the mobile payments space. After passing the $3 million mark at the end of May, Square is now processing $4 million in mobile payments daily, and is on track to reach over $100 million in transactions in July. And COO Keith Rabois tells us that he expects the company to double this volume by October.
In late June, Square raised a massive round of funding, which valued the company above $1 billion. At the time of the announcement, it was revealed that Square was processing nearly $4 million in payments per day, but the company has surpassed that mark a month later. Rabois tells us international expansion is part of the next phase of growth. He expects to initial launch payments capabilities outside of the U.S. in 2012.
Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
Android Honeycomb’s Going Gets Tough
Of late, Android developers are in a fix. It has been six months since the launch of the Android Honeycomb Tablet in the Market and it has not garnered a potential user base. The problem clearly lies in the dearth in apps optimized for the Android Tablets and analysts are of the view that an evident lack of these Honeycomb aka Android 3.0 Applications is what makes it a less chosen Tablet as opposed to the Apple’s iPad. But any new technology faces such non-acceptance in the beginning; the Honeycomb tablet also had its share of tough criticism and rejection from the global consumers with Apple being the dominant competitor today in the market. Android developers are trying their best to convince their consumers that the Android optimized apps will see a rise by the end of 2011 despite its sluggish start.
Android Honeycomb’s Going Gets Tough
Backlink: http://brajeshwar.com/2011/android-honeycombs-going-gets-tough/
Friday, July 29, 2011
Tips to Make Your Google Image Search Even Better
Today, we are share few tips to help make your image search experience better. The tips are simple enough, but if you haven't seen this kind of trick before, it's well worth knowing.
Tips to Make Your Google Image Search Even Better
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What’s New In Google+: A New “Feature Update” Center Launches
Google+ just added a "Feature Update", the new section in added is called "What's new in Google+" and acts as a release notes for any new features or tweaks that Google makes to the service. An interesting feature of the "What's new in Google+" page is that most of the posts include a video post [...]
What’s New In Google+: A New “Feature Update” Center Launches
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Comment on The sweet spot for mobile apps by Technology Gadgets
I did not even know there was a survey to actually let us know what time are apps being used the most.. Very interesting information
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The sweet spot for mobile apps
It's often said that the rise of mobile devices means that people are now "always on." But it turns out there are still times when people are more "plugged in" than others. A new study about how -- and when -- people really use mobile apps.
The sweet spot for mobile apps
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Apple Has More Cash On Hand Than The U.S. Government (AAPL)
Here's something to keep in mind as you follow this evening's congressional debate over the debt ceiling.
According to the latest daily statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance of $73.8 billion in at the end of the day yesterday.
Apple's last earnings report (PDF here) showed that the company had $76.2 billion in cash and marketable securities at the end of June.
In other words, the world's largest tech company has more cash than the world's largest sovereign government.
That's because Apple collects more money than it spends, while the U.S. government does not.
(The Atlantic and CNBC both pointed this out earlier.)
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The Risks Of Using Google (Or Any Single Service Provider) For Everything (GOOG)
New York artist Dylan Marcheschi uses Google services for just about everything -- e-mail, blogging, photos, calendar entries, and even reading news stories.
So when Google mysteriously terminated his account on July 15, he was put in a tough spot.
As Infoworld reports, it turns out that a robot detected an image that it thought was child pornography on his Picasa Web account, so it terminated his account.
But Marcheschi wasn't able to reach a real human until he wrote a long nastygram on TwitLonger and promoted it through his Twitter account, @ThomasHollywood.
Once he actually talked to a real Google employee, the company turned his account back on -- minus the supposedly offensive image.
All's well that ends well, right?
Except the story shows how risky it is trusting your online life with one provider.
It's one thing if Facebook suspends your account -- at least you'll still be able to send email and use your mobile phone.
But Google is almost unique because it offers so many services under the umbrella of a single account. If you use Android and your account is suspended, you can lose all the contacts and stored data on your phone as well.
With the addition of Google+, rules for profiles have gotten more confusing -- the company has suspended some celebrity profiles that it thought were fake, and has also cut some business profiles from the service.
The one bright spot in all this is that Google has a service called Takeout that makes it easy for you to take your data out of its services and create a backup -- or switch to another provider completely. That's more than Microsoft, Yahoo, and other big providers offer.
The lesson: use it before you need it. Or better yet, spread your online life among multiple providers.
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- Feds Are Taking A Long Look At Google's AdMeld Buy
- THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Could The Google+ Honeymoon Be Already Over?
The Risks Of Using Google (Or Any Single Service Provider) For Everything (GOOG)
Amazon's First Tablet Will Attack The Nook, Not The iPad (AMZN, AAPL)
Anyone expecting Amazon to release a tablet computer that will compete with the iPad might want to dial back expectations.
A source close to the company tells us that Amazon is launching at least one tablet later this year, but it will be an advanced e-reader with a color screen and some apps -- more akin to the Nook Color from Barnes & Noble than the iPad.
This matches what a developer told CNET earlier this month: Amazon is set to announce a 7-inch tablet "any day now," but it will likely have a low-powered chip and no camera.
It's focused on the Nook Color because that's where the Kindle is most vulnerable.
Now, this doesn't mean Amazon won't develop a full fledged tablet down the road. But for now, it's going to focus on controlling the e-reader space it has defined for the last three years.
See also: Here's Everything We Know About Amazon's Secret Tablet So Far.
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