Latest GOP Polling Results

May 31, 2011

A recently released set of Gallup Polls, the first on GOP potential and announced Presidential candidates show’s Sarah Palin within 2 points of Mitt Romney, out of a field of 14, included “other”. Romney leads with 17%, Palin 15%, Ron Paul 10%, Newt Gingrich 9%, Herman Cain 8%, Pawlenty 6%, Bachman 5%, and the following under 5 points: Huntsman, Johnson, Santorum, Huckabee (no longer in the race) and Chris Christie. The biggest percentage went to none/no opinion at 22% with 2% choosing other. Both Palin, Romney and Gingrich have yet to officially announce, while Paul, Cain, Pawlenty are all in the race. (Gallup)

In a second poll, based on major GOP issues (which in any wise should be national issues): Palin and Romney take the lead: in most cases Palin ties or leads Romney on all major issues: one exception: Government Spending and Power: Romney takes that category in a margin of 17% to Palin’s 11%, Herman Cain, trumps Newt Gingrich at 13 % and Gingrich...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Politics 

Korea Turns to South Africa for Corn as U.S. Prices Double on Ethanol Use

May 31, 2011

South Korea, the biggest corn importer in Asia after Japan, is buying more from South Africa after U.S. prices doubled in the past year.

The country imported 401,070 metric tons of South African corn for livestock feed in the first four months, data on the website of the Korea International Trade Association show. That compares with the 208,866 tons shipped in all of 2010.

Corn in Chicago climbed in April to the highest level since the global food crisis in 2008 as demand for feed and ethanol outpaced production. That helped push world food costs to a record in February, the United Nations estimates, spurring conflict and riots in North Africa and Middle East and driving 44 million people into poverty. Rabobank International says U.S. predictions for the corn harvest this year are optimistic because of poor weather and planting conditions.

“Importers purchased South African corn because it was more competitive than U.S. grain...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Finance 

What Internet Marketing Is All About

May 31, 2011

By deciding to have a business presence online, you have done something that can be very beneficial for your business and help promote its growth. In today’s world, most businesses have a website that they use to showcase their products or services, attract new customers, and give updates to existing ones. However, unless you are a large corporation that already has a large recognition and customer base, simply putting up a site on the internet will not get you many visitors. You need to take steps in order to promote your site and let web surfers know that it is out there. This is what Internet Marketing is all about: using various methods in order to promote products or services in the online marketplace.One of the most popular and efficient ways of getting visitors to your site is by using Search Engine Marketing. When customers are searching for something online, they don’t simply type ran...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Marketing 

How to Search for the Most Romantic Erotic Books Online

May 27, 2011

The emerging technology has changed the way in which people behave. Gone are the days when people used to purchase books from stores. It increases the convenience because people as they can now purchase Erotic eBooks online or can read stories online as well. It is true that there are so many websites available these days and people from all over the world can access these books in an easy manner. In the past, people often felt embarrassed purchasing erotic novels but with the advent of internet, it is now possible to complete your desire and to do so without anyone knowing. There are advantages to purchasing books online and in the near future the, online industry is only going to increase its momentum. Now, it is very easy for people to download Erotic Books as there are so many websites available which provide the facility to download unlimited content.

How to search for the best ero...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Entertainment, General 

G8 taking over the Internet

May 27, 2011

For the first time and on the occasion of the Summit of Heads of State and Government or as known for Group of Eight (G8) (a “ritual” created by France in 1975 for the governments of 8 major economies (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, Canada and Russia) –that will be held in Deauville, France on 26th -27th May 2011; an internet summit or referred to “e-G8 Forum” is wrapping up today in Paris. At least 600 people attended.

The e-G8 taking place 24th -25th May brought together CEOs and the leaders of the Internet’s most leading companies and organizations whom over these two days, worked together before sharing their proposals with the Heads of State and Government in Deauville.

It’s reported that Eric Schmidt of Google, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia are among the key speakers today.

Surprisingly, until today I came by very little press coverage for an ev...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Politics 

Mark Zuckerberg Wants Kids Under 13 to Join Facebook, Uses Bogus Excuse to Explain Why They Can’t

May 27, 2011

There’s a lot of confusion about the 3 main laws — COPPA, CIPA, and FERPA — that govern children’s and students’ online privacy. Confusion about FERPA makes schools reluctant to share information about students’ progress or problems. Confusion about CIPA leads schools to utilize unnecessary Internet filters. And confusion about COPPA lets people like Mark Zuckerberg get away with making inaccurate statements about why Facebook doesn’t allow those under 13 from joining the site.

At the NewSchools Venture Summit this week, Zuckerberg purportedly said that he would like to see those under 13 join Facebook. I wasn’t there, so let me just quote Forbes‘ take on the CEO’s talk:

“Zuckerberg said he wants younger kids to be allowed on social networking sites like Facebook. Currently, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) mandates that websites that collect information about users (like Facebook does) aren’t allowed to sign on anyone under...

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What’s Holding Back the Korean Reunification?

May 26, 2011

Is a US Withdrawal in Korea Possible by 2012?

In June of the year 2000, South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung traveled to Pyongyang in North Korea for a three day summit with DPRK leader Kim Jong-Il, the first top level meeting between the two countries since the Korean War in the 1950’s. Symbolic and inspiring hope across both countries, the meeting produced a thaw in relations between the two governments that many saw as a turning point, portending better relations and progress towards the reunification of the two countries. At the summit, Kim Jong-Il promised to repay the favor of the South by visiting Seoul in the same manner that Kim Dae-Jung had traveled to the North. Over 8 years later, the reclusive North Korean leader has still not fulfilled his promise, and few additional steps have been taken towards reunification. The DPRK successfully detonated a nuclear weapon in 2006, and has been involved in a long term negotiation process with the US, China, Japan, and the Sou...

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Windows Phone 7.1 “Mango” Comes With Several New Features

May 26, 2011

Mango,which is known as Windows Phone 7.1, is offered – along with 500 innovative features including multitasking facility.The phone is coming with much superior social networking integration, along with improved message handling and more.

The WP 7.1 update will be arriving on new handsets this fall and the updates will be made available to current Windows Phone 7 users free of charge at the same time. Moreover, we are expecting new devices to be released – apart from the broadly publicized deal with Nokia, Acer, Fujitsu and ZTE is on the verge of making Windows Phone 7.1 devices as well. Nokia has confirmed their first Windows Phone handsets will arrive with this edition of WP7, so the features mentioned below will be present on those devices as well.

As per the sources Nokia’s WP7 phones will feature ST-Ericsson’s dual-core CPUs, though Microsoft just confirmed that they are continuing with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon CPUs for the new se...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Gadgets 

Gingerbread Update for Motorola Devices Will Fix Up Exchange Activesync Issues

May 25, 2011

According to the grapevine, some Droid Pro and Droid 2 Global users are facing trouble with corporate sync and have posted their queries in the Motorola Support forums for help. In one of such forums a Motorola employee to deal with the current issues with Exchange Activesync, commented that the trouble will be solved with the impending Gingerbread update for both these handsets. He also confirmed that the Droid X will be integrated as well.

Considering how the Droid X software testing program was made accessible for some users, they might be the first to get the 2.3 update sometime by the end of the second quarter. This will be applicable for the Droid 2/Global and Pro devices as well. According to Droid-Life, they have said that Motorola has all but accomplished their Gingerbread builds for all these devices and is just waiting on confirmation from Verizon to approve and set them free....

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Gadgets 

Grocery Tips for Consumers

May 25, 2011

You know those instances when you head to the grocery store to buy a specific number of things but instead end up spending a lot more than you expected on things that you had no plans of getting?

It happens to everybody. We go to the supermarket, believing that we will only be spending amount of dollars and then, before you know, we are picking up all sorts of small items from the shelves. The things we need to buy are clear in our heads, but we end up stuffing our carts with all sorts of things that we did not intend to buy or sometimes do not even need.

The next thing you know, we are at the check-out counter and we are absolutely aghast at how much we have to pay. At that time, of course, there nothing more we can do about it but pay the cashier. Then we think to ourselves, that is the last time I am going to spend more than what I planned at the grocery story. But the next time we are back there, we do the same thing all over again. Its like we have no control of ours...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Social 

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