Smartphone Lower Productivity

One of the advantages of smartphones, is the ability that can make mobile work done wherever and whenever. However, a study says the device that constantly deliver mail outside office hours do not make someone more productive, that's just wasting one's spare time Research conducted by Ian Price compile data from more than 500 workers with their work experience managing emails, both with and without a BlackBerry. The result is users who are used to connect with email, outside the office just is not productive.

"This is the first study that focuses on technologies such as BlackBerry, where the user is always connected to the internet. The consequences that want to get is, a balanced life, durability and productivity. But it is hard to find," said Ian. "BlackBerry users an average of 2.5 times to see the email every hour. In fact, when they were in office, they are not or less see their email. Because usually workers who worked in the office, only has 13 percent of the total existing email," he said. Though not all the email they see associated with the job. For this reason, sometimes see the email that is not necessary, into something redundant.

Innovation Worst in a Decade

Although the most popular social media today, Facebook and Twitter rated as the worst innovation during the last decade. Thus the results of polls the British consulting firm of The Foundation of 2,200 consumers. The Foundation, the consultancy for the retail, banking and other consumer companies making the list of innovations that contribute the most and least to British society over the last 10 years.

Surprisingly social networking site Facebook is ranked second in the category of innovation that contributes at least in the UK. While micro-blogging site Twitter was ranked fourth. Reality TV program called the most useful innovation. Most respondents argued, the program was 'annoying' and 'wasting time'. Respondents expressed the same reason against Facebook and Twitter. Internet network online shopping home and occupy the two top most useful innovation in the UK. The search engine Google was in the top three, while GPS is ranked 10.

Here's a list of innovations that contribute most in the UK for the last 10 years:

1. Home broadband .
2. Online shopping .
3. Google .
4. Chip and Pin .
5. Digital camera / photography .
6. Online comparison sites .
7. Movement of community recycling .
8. Health labels on food packaging .
9. Cheap flights .
10. GPS / Sat-Nav .

While the information with a low contribution in the UK are:

1. Reality TV .
2. Up and so forth .
3. Pop-up ads .
4. Twitter .
5. IVR / Interactive voice response on telephones .
6. Congestion charging .
7. Paid plastic bags .
8. DVD subscription scheme .
9. Tracker mortgage.
10. Public bicycle schemes.

Ancient Skull Found in Lake Hoyo Negro

Scientists found ancient human skull in the bottom of the lake region of Mexico. This finding was possible to support the hypothesis Solutrean theory. Solutrean hypothesis which states that the first humans who lived in the North American continent migrated from Europe and not from the Bering Canal.

National Geographics reported that the invention is located on a site with a depth of 610 meters below sea level, called Hoyo Negro in Spanish which means 'black hole', located within the cave system Aktun Hu, the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Diver Alex Alvarez, Alberto Franco Attolini and Nava are the ones who do the research.

The team also found a big star and mastodon bones at the bottom of the lake with a depth of 60 meters, which certainly requires further research. "Area of Hoyo Negro size is difficult to understand. As soon as you enter the place, you can not see the bottom," said Franco. Then, at a depth of 43 meters, the team found a human skull.

"This study is great because it could find some animals from the Pleistocene. But by finding a human skull is very unusual for us," said Alex, who called the findings as the 'Holy Grail of cave exploration. Guillermo de you, an archaeologist from the University of Yucatan, says that the skull looks like from the era of  pre-virtual. However, You do not say whether the skeletal structure has a characteristic of Europe or the Bering. The researchers believe that the area was once a dry area, which has been submerged in water, when the ice age ended.

IBM Wins Jeopardy Quiz

IBM computing machine named 'Watson' has competed in a quiz show popular in the United States, Jeopardy! against the two most popular contestants, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. The match is the first man versus machine has been aired in mid-February at a local television station. Watson computing machine, named after the founder of IBM, Thomas J. Watson, built by a team of IBM scientists who are determined to achieve something extraordinary, to build a computing system that can emulate the human ability to answer questions posed in natural language with a fast, precise and convincing.

The format of Jeopardy! offer a real challenge because the instructions in this game requires participants to interpret what is implied, of irony, riddles and other complicated instructions. All this is a man advantage when compared to traditional computers.  Who has competed against Watson are two players Jeopardy! the most famous. Ken Jennings' record-breaking Jeopardy! by following the most consecutive games and won 74 consecutive games during the period 2004-2005. During compete in Jeopardy! he had pocketed the prize more than USD 2.5 million. While Brad Rutter broke the record number of prizes obtained by a player Jeopardy!, With total prizes of USD 3,255 million. This amount is the prize won by Rutter in 2000, plus prizes in three other tournaments.

The main prize in this game is USD 1 million for winning the first, second USD 300,000, and USD 200,000 for the third winner. Rutter and Jennings will donate 50 percent of the prize that they won to charity and IBM will donate the entire prize is won to charity. At the end of this match, Watson emerged as the main winner and won USD 77,147, Ken Jennings came second with USD 24,000, while Brad Rutter as the third winner to reach USD 21,600.

"For four years, our scientific team to develop Watson to be ready to face this challenge with its ability to quickly understand the instructions given in the Jeopardy!, Analyze the information to be accessible, to find the right answer, and answer questions with confidence," said Dr David Ferrucci, the scientist who led the team that created IBM Watson Research.  "Our team is very motivated by the possibilities that can be realized by the computing capability of this incomparable Watson to build a planet that is smarter and help mankind solve employment and improve their quality of life," he said. This spring, Watson played more than 50 training match against the participants Jeopardy Tournament of Champions! as preparation for his first appearance on TV.

In addition, Watson has attended and passed the test potential participants Jeopardy! which is usually followed prospective human participants. This gives confidence to producers Jeopardy! that this match would be attractive and competitive.  In addition to the Jeopardy!, Technology that supports Watson can be adapted to solve various problems and encourage progress in many areas. This computer can find the right information from mountains of data available and answer questions with confidence. This technology can be applied in such fields as health care, by helping to accurately diagnose the patient, improving help desk services online, provide specific information about a city for the tourists and the general public, serving customers via telephone, and others.

Watson is a new breakthrough in science in the ability to Question and Answer, or often called 'Q & A'. Software Power7 Watson uses IBM servers that are optimized to handle various jobs at the same time that Watson should be done at high speed in order to analyze the complicated language and give the right answer on Jeopardy clues!. This system consists of various technologies is closed (proprietary) which handles the command and data processing jobs simultaneously, in addition to analyze information in real-time.

Jeopardy!, Winner of 28 Emmy awards since in 1984, entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for record number of awards won by a TV game show. This event also ranked first in the category of syndicated quiz show with 9 million viewers each day. Jeopardy! produced by Sony Pictures Television, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company. The event was distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution and internationally by CBS Television International, both units of CBS Corp.

Some Browsers are Vulnerable to Hacker Attack

As many as 8 out of 10 web browsers were vulnerable to criminals burglarized because rarely updated. Thus the findings of researchers who successfully obtained. Most users claimed to have never committed a basic precautions by installing the patch to find security holes found in the browser. This will indirectly make the browser is vulnerable to attack.

This research was conducted by the Qualys, U.S. security company. This finding is made after the government estimates losses from crime to reach 3.1 billion euros per year.  If not included Plug-ins, security in browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari, not less vulnerable. Only 25 percent of the browser successfully tested in January and then claimed to have weaknesses that are not patched. This is because the browser is always updated automatically.

But the feature plug-ins, software add-ons that are owned by almost all web browsers for additional features such as video and interactive, was allegedly not very often updated automatically so that makes the user at risk. Plug-in with the target of cyber crime is Oracle's highest, with the percentage of approximately 40 percent of potential hacking. While the Adobe Reader plug-in, which lets users view documents in PDF format in the browser Windows, was second with 32 percent of the potential safety and need to be updated most frequently.

Apple's Quicktime media player plug-ins are third on the level of network security vulnerabilities approximately 25 percent.  In January, the giant networking company Cisco claims that security vulnerabilities occur in the Java software, and it is very profitable for a hacker who can control the browser from the remote prison and allows cyber criminals to steal sensitive data such as bank account information of users.

Cisco also said that Java will remain a potential target of hackers because the users are not too much attention to the importance of patching the Java. Java update itself last patched last October with about 29 issues of vulnerability, called Oracle very critical. Security experts expect the latest generation of browser and website to help solve this problem since the introduction of HTML5 can be interpreted, many of the functions provided by plug-in will work on browsers automatically updated.

They Manipulate Following

Testing a program that offers a number of twitter followers are proven, but whether Following and followers according to the amount of credit that we have to? Twiends program I've tested, the amount of credit they have provided is not the same as the number of followers that they provide, and there are quite a distance difference between Following and followers. I have seen that the system seems indeed act twiends cheat by manipulating the amount Following without my knowing it, and now I decided to stop to join twiends to get a follower.

The Price of Gold has Increased its Greatest

The price of gold had its biggest rise in 8 weeks, sparked riots in Egypt. Instability in Egypt who feared spread to other countries and make investors choose a safe place for investment.  The riots in Egypt so that casualties in the tens of people that make the stock market plummeted, the level of bond yields soaring. While crude oil prices soared to 4%.

The price of gold in the spot market surged to record 2 percent to U.S. $ 1,338.39. It is a spike in price of gold the biggest since December, when the gold price had jumped to 2.6% due to economic data which triggered fears of interest rate hikes. In early trading sessions, the price of gold was at its lowest point in U.S. $ 1,308 per ounce.

Confusion occurred in all investments except the gold. Obviously, the money flowing into gold as the safest investment. Because no one knows how this situation will be completed by itself.  The riots in Egypt will not be completed in the near future and gold price is believed to benefit further from the possibility of widespread unrest to other countries in the region.

Prices of gold futures contract for February recorded rises to a level of 22.3 dollars per ounce to U.S. $ 1,340.70 with total volume reached 300,000 lots, the highest since November. There are many factors that determine the gold spots, just like any other commodity. The price of gold is influenced by demand and supply. Total gold demand generally comes from those who produce and sell jewelry, electronics, dentistry, and for other monetary reasons as a store of value.

Gold is a highly efficient electrical conductors, so that electronics manufacturers also have a great need of gold. Golden opportunity for very little rusty, so it is also widely used in dentistry. It can be used to make dental appliances, with other metal alloys.

The Discovery of Dinosaur Fossils Single Fingered

A fossil dinosaur with a single finger and big claws on each hand are found in China. The scientists claim, the fossil is a species Linhenykus monodactylus. Linhenykus monodactylus including alvarezsuroids group, which is a branch of the theropod family who ate meat. Higher animals only reach two feet and weigh as well as a large parrot.

Different from other theropod family, such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Velocireptor, Linhenykus only have one finger on each hand, has large paws. Scientists from University College London, Michael Pittman, explains, "theropod that do not have the character of birds originally had five fingers, but then evolved into just three fingers."

"Tyrannosaurus was also quite strange because it only has two fingers but Linhenykus that have only one finger to show how the complexity of the modification of the theropod hand,"said Michael Pittman. Some Linhenykus framework, the estimated age of 75 to 84 million years old, found near the town of Linhe, Mongolia.

According to Dr Jonah Choiniere of the American Museum of National History, "Degeneration of the structure, such as legs on whales and snakes, can appear and disappear randomly in the process of evolution." Linhenykus coexist with other theropod families who have similar size, as well as small mammals and lizards.

The Smallest Portable Scanner in the World

Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 brings the smallest portable in the world, equipped with connection capabilities to a variety of popular cloud computing-based services like Google Docs, Evernote and Salesforce CRM that allow users to save the image data. S1100 has a feature for easy use, with one-touch scanning and reinforced with various capabilities to enhance productivity and durability. Model S1100 is equipped with a continuous function Document Feeding (CDF) manual for easy scanning dokuman much non-stop.

"Fujitsu ScanSnap new S1100 is the right choice for business professionals who are busy and need the speed, efficiency and toughness when it came to do a scan on his way," said Janet Tan, Regional Director of the Fujitsu Imaging Products. "Through service feature Cloud, Fujitsu offers the convenience and comfort in the scanning and distributing the results," he added.

Another advantage obtained in this device is, the presence of ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap software increases user productivity by quickly changing the document into Word and Excel, simply through a single touch. In addition, S1100 able to automatically detect the words or parts of the specially marked in the document, then convert them into key words that can be searched, using the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to facilitate and accelerate the search for PDF documents. ScanSnap S1100 has a speed of 7.5 seconds/page or about 8 ppm) A4 sized documents, using the same automation functionality with other ScanSnap model.

Google will do the Mobile Revolution

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the Mountain View, headquarters of Google, is preparing to spearhead a mobile revolution that will help redefine the role of the smartphone. According to Eric Schmidt, the handset will soon be able to provide streaming of personal information ranging from "where you are and what you can do over there" in real time.

But the CEO admits that Google's first phase need to do some endorsement that requires serious preparation, such as developing advanced LTE network to carry the burden of data which is of course inevitable. "What is needed is approximately 10 times what we have today, which will lead to new applications and creative, most fun and social,"wrote Eric Schmidt in an article in a recent Harvard Business Review.

Eric Schmidt also stressed that Google is interested in promoting the use of mobile devices as a financial tool that serious and safe. "The phone, as we know, under-utilized countries. But we want for the transaction can be done through a handheld device, so that consumers can go far," he added. Finally, Eric Schmidt noted that Google wanted to increase the availability of low-cost smartphone on the whole of the world. "Can you imagine how this would change their consciousness about local and global information," said Eric.

Printing the Document using the Cloud

Google provides printing solutions to long-distance or remote by relying on the cloud, for Android and iPhone smartphones. Google has launched a service that allows users to print documents from any printer without having to install the printer driver to the computer. Now Google is expanding its services by attending the Google Cloud Print.

Cloud Google Print can be operated to print any document on your phone, even email attachments or contained in Gmail. The service is still in beta format. To use this service, users send documents remotely to a printer destination. Users must open the document to be printed, in a file or in the Gmail inbox, via a browser. Then select 'print' from the menu located in the upper right corner. Thus, your document will be printed remotely.

Users of this service may be possible to print a variety of email attachments, either pdf or doc. Unfortunately this new feature will be found at short notice in the U.S. and can only be used on phones that support HTML5, such as mobile phones running on Android operating system 2.1 and above, as well as iOS 3 and above it. To start using these services, users must connect the printer to them first to the Google Cloud Print.

Firefox 4 will be Launched in February

Damon Sicore, Senior Director of Platform Engineering from Mozilla, predicts that Firefox 4 will be officially launched in February. "We have worked hard for Firefox 4, and it's now time to release it. I see the expectation and excitement at every release us. Firefox 4 going great. You must be proud with the latest Firefox." said Damon.

Another beta version will also be present launched before the release of Firefox 4, which will be launched in late February. "We want everyone to help the process of testing this browser. Do not turn off Flash, Silverlight or any other plug-ins, as we want as many people as possible to test it. For Windows users, we need to know if you are affected by the influence of hardware acceleration, which can cause crashes or other problems," explained Damon. Firefox is now the most popular browser in Europe, and the latest version later, clearly can help to maintain these positions.

Improve Marketing by Utilizing the Competitors

Are you marketing target in the year 2010 has been achieved? Congratulations! If you have achieved, and if not there's still time to pursue a more optimal increase in marketing in 2011. Many things are usually done when a target can be achieved, among others, by having a party together, vacation together, or have fun together. It is fine to do, insofar as not excessive. But more important than that all is to ensure also that we always make a deeper study of our target.

Does our target for this can be achieved because it is a small target, or even too small? Or, honestly, whether it is optimal that the target we set for this.?  Will it be bigger? Or, do we feel unable to reach a much larger target again? The study is important, because if we more open wider horizons opened again, it turns out we could find the fact that some competitors we can achieve goals far greater than our target for this.

Can 50 percent greater, or could even be 500 percent greater than the target which we have stakes and achieve. In fact, the actual capital and the ability of our competitors are also not much different from what we have.  Worse yet, if competitors were not widely known among the general public, while your company or your brand is already much longer and been more widely known.

Why did it happen that kind of company, with capital and resources are almost equal, but achievement of the target is very much different? One reason is the lack of openness will be the competition that exists.  In any business, we should continually breaking, and willing to learn, as well as from our competitors. If indeed our competitors have a great many advantages, why do not we learn or imitate their practices to become better. Because, basically competitors, we also can help improve our marketing. Why, how come?

In my opinion, if we really want to grow our business faster and more powerful, in fact we can also learn from competitors who have achieved extraordinary success. In addition to learning from competitors, we actually can work with them.  As I have described, that to increase the variety of businesses that I have, not infrequently, I also work with existing competitors.

In an existing business competition, of course there is a chance for us to work together or complement each other. For example, as a speaker often I have a very solid schedule.  And if there are clients from large corporations who asked me to fill in the seminar in his company, while my own schedule is not possible, then I give the opportunity to attract other speakers as well as my competitors.

Because in running any business, I always make a win-win principle. Where other people win I can win. Thus, I also get the same opportunity if there is another speaker who was unable to schedule, or perhaps in the form of opportunities or employment opportunities to each other.  Then we actually can change the angle of view that exist, from competitors become partners. Why competitors can also be a source of inspiration to help us improve your marketing?

For example, there are companies that set the annual target of 5 billion, there were competing firms with capital and resources that are similar could set a target of 25 billion, and targets are actually achievable. Why with capital and resources are almost the same attainment target can be much different? As taught by Anthony Robbins-successful coach number one in the world, always implement the concept of CANI: Constant and Neverending Improvement.

To be able to achieve something more powerful, we must always continue to take an improvement, monitoring progress and of course better.  Guide to, among others by answering and practicing some of these questions: Why did I make this target?, Are made already optimal target or not? If not, is it still could be improved? Up to how much? Resources and what tools are required and can be further optimized so that it can achieve extraordinary goals?

Value-added, time factor, and offers what can be improved so that we can be more optimal marketing?  If until now you have the target to be achieved, and you want to continue to improve and achieve even more powerful target, the answer to these questions, and immediately take action.

Tung Desem Waringin - Success Coach.

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Facebook Shutting Down on March 15 ?

PALO ALTO, CA –Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March. Managing the site has become too stressful. “Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts. “After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. “So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business.”

Zuckerberg said that the decision to shut down Facebook was difficult, but that he does not think people will be upset. “I personally don’t think it’s a big deal,” he said in a private phone interview. “And to be honest, I think it’s for the better. Without Facebook, people will have to go outside and make real friends. That’s always a good thing.”

Some Facebook users were furious upon hearing the shocking news. “What am I going to do without Facebook?” said Denise Bradshaw, a high school student from Indiana. “My life revolves around it. I’m on Facebook at least 10 hours a day. Now what am I going to do with all that free time?”

However, parents across the country have been experiencing a long anticipated sense of relief. “I’m glad the Facebook nightmare is over,” said Jon Guttari, a single parent from Detroit. “Now my teenager’s face won’t be glued to a computer screen all day. Maybe I can even have a conversation with her.”

Those in the financial circuit are criticizing Zuckerberg for walking away from a multibillion dollar franchise. Facebook is currently ranked as one of the wealthiest businesses in the world, with economists estimating its value at around 7.9 billion. But Zuckerberg remains unruffled by these accusations. He says he will stand by his decision to give Facebook the axe.

“I don’t care about the money,” said Zuckerberg. “I just want my old life back.” The Facebook Corporation suggests that users remove all of their personal information from the website before March 15th. After that date, all photos, notes, links, and videos will be permanently erased.

Source: weeklyworldnews
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Several sites stated that Facebook will be shut down is a false rumor. This rumor I got from some sites, but whether the rumors were true?. So far in My Facebook account there was no warning about it as reported from several websites.

It seems we must wait for an official statement of Mark Zuckerberg through the Facebook site if it is deemed necessary, and if it were true then surely we will see alerts on our Facebook account. So we just wait what will happen some time in the future on Facebook.