“Mango” Coming to Windows Phones

September 30, 2011

With the arrival of “Mango” the Windows smartphones are going to be hotcakes in the coming days.  Mango is going to bring in as many as in excess of 500 new changes & updates reason which Microsoft is now terming it as Windows Phone 7.5 rather than Windows Phone 7.

Some of the exclusive features added to Mango are as follows:

  1. Messaging Threads: Under one single messaging thread you can switch and jump to multiple messaging platform such as Facebook, SMS messaging or any other instant messaging services like Yahoo!, GTalk, Live Messenger etc.
  1. Group Contacts: Contact groups can be created with the help of “Mango”. You can send e-mail or text messages to all the contacts under a particular group in one touch.
  2. Multitasking: Like iOS “Mango” is also going to bring multitasking to the Windows Phone 7.5.
Source: techgadgetsweb.com
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Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Technology 

Spotify Facebook Integration Demands Facebook Connect ID

September 30, 2011

In the ongoing of saga of the love triangle that involvesSpotify, Facebook and you comes the news that any new users to Spotify will have to use Facebook Connect to sign on to Spotify. If you’re a brand new Spotify Premium subscriber, you’ll still have to do a Facebook login to use Spotify. Premium subscribers from before this week can still use Spotify without Facebook.

Can I suggest the inevitable term SpotiFacebook? OrSpotispy?

“You need a Facebook account to register for Spotify. If you have an account, just log in below to register. If you don’t have a Facebook account, get one by clicking the ‘create an account’ link below,” is what Spotify users see when they start using Spotify. The Spotify login is now redundant.

This either forces you into signing up for a Facebook account, or having your entire listening experience transmitted to the new Facebook Timeline. Think about it … every guilty pleasure in any of your Spotify playli...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Social 

Fannie Mae’s Latest Housing Survey Shows Many Have No Idea What’s Happening

September 30, 2011

Fannie Mae has just released it’s Quarterly National Housing Survey and the results are… well, in some cases predictable… and in others just bizarre.  I’m not entirely sure, but I’m think some of the problem comes from the methodology, and it’s not at all hard for me to believe that at least some of  the questions are phrased poorly.  But, overall… it is a real survey and the results are something I track each quarter or two.

Here’s what Fannie Mae has to say about the survey and its purpose:

“Our purpose was to gauge the public’s current attitudes toward housing, especially in light of the current housing crisis. This comprehensive research project asked more than 3,000 consumers about their confidence in homeownership as an investment, the current state of their household finances, their views on the U.S. housing finance system and their overall confidence in the economy.”

One of the things that I’ve been watchi...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Real Estate 

Remote technology helps businesses during Hurricane Irene

September 29, 2011

There is not much a company can do to prevent physical damage to its assets during unexpected disasters, but using simple Remote Access software can help save valuable data and thus millions of dollars. Throughout history, nature’s wrath have ended careers and destroyed entire businesses. The most recent of these deadly beasts, Hurricane Irene is already a center topic for news and media and although it might not be as devastating as that of Hurricane Katrina, it definitely has caused huge losses for business, big or small.

Of course Irene certainly isn’t the last and the US isn’t the only place suffering from Hurricanes. Other forms of disasters; man-made or natural can dealt similar damage. Majority of small business and even corporations are not prepared to face a natural disaster. The worst affected are those who suffer a total data loss. To avoid such calamities, being prepar...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under General, Technology 

GOP Candidates: What is the Truth?

September 29, 2011

There is no candor in the GOP candidates.

Once again, the GOP candidates demonstrate their loose affiliation with the truth. First out of the gate is Rick Perry, who declared in the latest debate he had never advocated turning Social Security over to the states. But, last year, he said Let the states do it.

 

Michele Bachmann misread presidential approval polls, then denied making a statement she made week before regarding HPV vaccinations. And Mitt Romney denied supporting an Obama administration education program that he formerly praised.

Some consider the most consequential moment of the debate was GOP front runner Perry’s flip-flip on Social Security.

The Texas governor’s position on Social Security changes with the audience. In this debate, he said believes that states should be allowed to exempt certain state or local government employees from the program in favor of a state-approved alternative. That’s a reality in some states...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Politics 

Pandurate Internet Marketing Strategies For A Productive Sector

September 29, 2011

Nearly all businesses these life module get a website and whatsoever configuration of net marketing since it is the quickest and easiest way to travel language around what it is you do. People all over the humankind use the net to buy products and services so if you break to marketplace your enterprise online you may regain that your performing is nonexistent a marketing possibleness.

Nearly all businesses these life instrument hold a website and some word of net marketing since it is the quickest and easiest way to disparity promise roughly what it is you do. Grouping all over the humans use the internet to buy products and services so if you disappoint to mart your performing online you may conclude that your mercantilism is missing a marketing chance.

As a finish of this, rivalry in cyberspace marketing is intoxicated and you testament status to prepare a regularised eye on how healthy it is performing and making sure you position healed in explore engines.

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Marketing 

We (USA) Need Leadership that will Clean Up!

September 29, 2011

Perhaps this following article will explain just how we’ve become indignant with the Democrat Party and especially their “Chosen One” President Barack Obama for ever mentioning hiking income taxes. Please don’t misunderstand there are plenty of guilty, lassies-faire Republican Party types who’d just as soon let a vote get passed in the House rather than have the due-diligence to read it.

Another reason, we hope, will start bringing positive kudos to the National Tea Party than to allow those involved to be at the ass-end of every ad nauseaum joke told by late night talk show pundits or every other Hollyweird person who wouldn’t know the parameters of debate – isn’t that correct Mr. Baldwin?

In all reality there is enough information on this page of The Thinkerto keep those who insist they are of the elitist or intelligentsia mental Mensa’s to read and understand where America is going wrong.

The two top recommendations from the Treasury to ...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Immigration, Politics 

E-Mail Marketing Campaigns Need to be More Engaging to Users

September 28, 2011

There are a lot of business owners that get advice from a Boston Marketing company regarding running e-mail marketing campaigns. Indeed, e-mail marketing is seen as a low cost, high quality method of generating needed results. According to a recent report from a web marketing analysis firm, e-mail marketing campaigns need to be engaging to users in order to have a chance of success. Now what does “engaging” mean? Essentially, this would mean that you would be connecting with your users on their terms and providing them with content that they would like to read. So there are a few things that you should do if you want your email marketing campaigns to be successful:

Listen to your audience

This involves considering the feedback from your users as to what they want to know and what they want to see in your e-mail messages. So if you run a Boston Search Engine Marketing Co...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Marketing 

The iTree, The Largest And Costliest iPhone Dock Ever

September 28, 2011

With the iPhone becoming an ubiquitous gadget, the demand for the iPhone docks have also escalated. They come in a host of colors, shapes and sizes. The iTree dock, by KMKG studio is unique due to the fact that it is meant provides your iPhone with a natural abode. The price tag of $15,000 also makes it special.

Customers can go all the way to the forest with the carpenter to choose the wood of the iTree. The carpenter gives it the shape as per the design selected by the customer after which other workers fix the wiring and speakers. If the customer desires, the wiring and other hardware can be concealed, making it look like a piece out wood.

The iTree can be carved out of any wood but generally cherry or spruce are used. It can work with the iPad as well. While tt may not be the most practical iPhone dock, it certainly is amongst the coolest ones....

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Gadgets 

21 Signs That Something Big Is About To Happen In The Financial World

September 28, 2011

Will global financial markets reach a breaking point during the month of October?  Right now there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to experience a nervous breakdown.  Massive amounts of investor money is being pulled out of the stock market and mammoth bets are being made against the S&P 500 in October.  The European debt crisis continues to grow even worse and weird financial moves are being made all over the globe.  Does all of this unusual activity indicate that something big is about to happen?  Let’s hope not.  But historically, the biggest stock market crashes have tended to happen in the fall.  So are we on the verge of a “Black October”?

The following are 21 signs that something big is about to happen in the financial world and that global financial markets are on the verge of a nervous breakdown….

#1 We are seeing an amazing number of bets against the S&P 500 right now.  According to CNN, the number of bets agains...

Written by Jo & Ray · Filed Under Finance 

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