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Autor Internet Marketing & SEO | 21.09.2008 | Category Other

Their History

Sinkle has a unique & Effective way of developing websites. The web design comes from years of experience. Every website we build is based on your needs, not a generic template, Sinkle Developers started out designing websites more than 6 years ago. With this type of experience, we can surely develop what you are looking for in a website. As much as web hosting, we want your website to have a professional, yet unique feel, which will help lead to your success.

Background: Sinkle Developers was established in February 2003 by the in name of Amty Designers. The concept is to build and establish a very informative website while also providing services to make it a one-stop shop for company and personal needs.

Their Testomonials

Great communication with designer… incorporated all of my desires and changes without any hassles… was also very quick with the design and implementation of the site…

David

If there were a category above Excellent, like Outstanding, I would select it on all responses. Thanks for helping us move our company forward, and I would like to say, “Simply Professional”

Ali Khan

Their work is always very good with affordable web design

I,ll also recommend you to try them.

Porn on a plane: Flight attendants want filters

Autor Internet Marketing & SEO | 13.09.2008 | Category Internet News

Coffee, tea or porn? “I don’t think so,” say American Airline flight attendants.

Leaders of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents some 19,000 workers including American Airlines flight attendants, asked American Airline’s management this week to consider adding filters to its in-flight Wi-Fi access to prevent passengers from viewing porn and other inappropriate Web sites while in-flight.

A union representative told Bloomberg News that attendants and passengers have raised “a lot of complaints” over the issue.

American Airlines is one of several airlines testing in-flight Internet access as a way to lure more passengers. American has been offering the service on a limited basis since August 20th on some flights between New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and between New York and Miami. The cost of the service on cross-country flights is $12.95, and it’s $9.95 on the New York to Miami route.

The current program is in a 3- to 6-month trial period, and the airline plans to review usage and feedback on the service at the end of that period, an American Airlines spokesman told Bloomberg.

The controversy has stirred up an ongoing debate about whether Internet access in public places should be restricted. Earlier this year, the Denver International Airport took a lot flack for blocking access on its free Wi-Fi network to Web sites that officials deemed offensive.

The argument was made by Denver airport officials that users must abide by their rules because they are providing the service for free. But that case is harder to make for in-flight passengers, who are paying for Internet access.

Given that people are packed onto planes literally elbow to elbow, it’s often hard not to at least glance at the laptop screen of the person sitting next to you. But airlines have not banned people from reading pornographic magazines or watching their own DVDs on flights. And it’s just as easy for someone to view a DVD of an adult video on a laptop or flip through Hustler as it is to surf porn Web sites.

The truth is that it hasn’t been a major problem on flights thus far. In fact, American Airline’s spokesman Tim Smith told Bloomberg that the “vast majority” of customers already use good judgment in what’s appropriate to look at while flying versus what’s not.

And he added, “Customers viewing inappropriate material on board a flight is not a new scenario for our crews, who have always managed this issue with great success.”

What do you think? Should airlines filter Internet access at 20,000 feet? Or should they just stay out of the censoring debate?

Software Piracy falls in Pakistan & Top 12 Countries

Autor Internet Marketing & SEO | 19.05.2008 | Category Internet News

The software piracy rate has slightly dropped in Pakistan from 86 per cent to 84 per cent, after remaining unchanged over the past two years, which would benefit the country in many ways, a latest international study states.

The software piracy rate in Pakistan has come down at a time when globally it recorded a three per cent increase to 38 per cent in 2007, which has increased piracy-related losses to nearly $48 billion against $40 billion in 2006.

The Fifth Annual Global Software Piracy Study, released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) here on Friday, noted that piracy-related losses had gone down to $125 million in Pakistan against $143 million in 2006.

With 84 per cent piracy, Pakistan now ranks 13th among top 25 countries with the highest piracy rates against No 7 last year.

It followed

1. Armenia (93pc)
2. Bangladesh (92pc)
3. Azerbaijan (92pc)
4. Moldova (92pc)
5. Zimbabwe (91pc)
6. Sri Lanka (90pc)
7. Yemen (89pc)
8. Libya (88pc)
9. Venezuela (87pc)
10. Vietnam (85pc)
11. Iraq (85pc)
12. Indonesia (84pc)

Source: Ahmad’s Blog

“Atom” as name for Intel’s new chip family

Autor Internet Marketing & SEO | 04.03.2008 | Category Internet News, Other

Intel Corp has picked “Atom” as the new brand name for its latest microprocessor, the world’s largest semiconductor company said.

The Intel Atom processor is the name for the new family of low-power processors, the brains of digital devices, that will power mobile Internet devices and ultra low-cost and small notebook and desktop personal computers.

Intel sees a big market for the Internet-connected devices that can fit in one’s pocket and for what it is calling the netbook, a low-cost PC costing around $250.

The Intel Atom processor is based on a new microarchitecture designed for small devices and low power consumption, Intel said. The chip is less than 25 square millimeters, and 11 of the chip’s dies — the slivers of silicon with 47 million transistors each — would fit in an area the size of a U.S. penny.

The new chips, previously code-named Silverthorne and Diamondville, are made on Intel’s 45 nanometer chipmaking technology and slated for introduction toward the middle of this year.

“Diamondville and Silverthorne both represent an attempt by Intel to sell chips profitably for a whole lot less,” said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at market research firm Insight 64. “This is the first new processor design coming out of Intel since the Pentium Pro in 1995.”

China to Overcome USA in Internet usage

Autor Internet Marketing & SEO | 21.01.2008 | Category Internet News

Chinese Internet Users Up to 210 Million

NEW YORK (AP) — The Chinese government said Friday its Internet population has soared to 210 million people, putting it on track to surpass the U.S. online community this year to become the world’s largest.

The official China Internet Network Information Center, also known as CNNIC, said the online population grew 53 percent, from 137 million reported at the same time last year. According to the government’s Xinhua News Agency, China is only 5 million behind the United States online, a figure consistent with some American estimates.

China still lags the United States in many respects, however.

Xinhua placed China’s online penetration rate at 16 percent — the point Americans were at in the mid-1990s. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 75 percent of American adults are now online; penetration is even higher when teens are included. (China’s stats cover Chinese 6 and older.)

“We’re two countries at very different points along the adoption curve,” said John Horrigan, Pew’s associate director. “China is approximately 15 years behind.”

Several other differences between the two markets mean Internet penetration has different meaning in China and the United States.

First, cybercafes serve as the main entry to the Internet for many Chinese unable to afford a computer at home. One-third of Chinese Internet users surf through cybercafes, according to Xinhua, while Pew found that 93 percent of U.S. Internet users have access at home.

Also, China is notorious for censorship. Although the government promotes Internet use for education and business, it tries to block the public from seeing material it deems pornographic or critical of communist rule, including new rules promulgated this month covering online videos.

And China’s government imprisons people who mail, post online, or access politically sensitive content from within China. Reporters Without Borders says 50 Chinese “cyberdissidents” are currently in prison.

Nonetheless, China’s online growth is significant.

“Users do a lot to shape the Internet and not only by directly posting content but (by) their behavior,” Horrigan said. “It tells other people what the demand is. As you get more Chinese, that increases demand for Internet content in Mandarin and other Chinese languages.”

Horrigan also said many Chinese users are accessing the Internet through mobile devices, offering China “a distinct opportunity to shape the Internet” with usage everywhere.

Quotation
“God help the world when China awakes”
- Napoleon
Some Facts
China has about a 90% literacy rate.
Standard Chinese or Mandarin is the most prevalent but there are plenty of dialects.
SEO in China is at a fairly low standard. Competition is sparse so its a good time to get into the market.

Update Your Copyright Year on your Websites

Autor Internet Marketing & SEO | 05.01.2008 | Category Other

Its Just a reminder
“Before you forget you may want to update the copyright year on your websites.”
From 2007 to 2008

Microsoft aims to be one of “top two” in Web advertising

Autor Internet Marketing & SEO | 16.11.2007 | Category Other

Microsoft Corp. aims to be one of the top two players in the online advertising market in three to five years, a company executive in charge of the business said on Thursday.

Speaking at a UBS investor conference, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division, laid out the company’s strategy to become a leader in the growing online advertising industry with a “10, 20, 30, 40″ plan.

The plan, which represents Microsoft’s aspirations over the next three to five years, calls on Microsoft to increase the company’s share in Web search, page views, percentage of time on the Internet and percentage of advertising dollars.

The world’s largest software maker currently trails Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in the $40 billion global online advertising market dominated by selling advertising alongside Web search links.

Microsoft conveyed its seriousness about the business with a $6 billion acquisition of digital advertising firm aQuantive in August. It was the company’s biggest-ever acquisition and the company paid a 85 percent premium to land aQuantive.

“If you look at the landscape of other competitors or other companies in this area, not only do we have the technology, research and development capability to deploy, but (we have) our willingness to invest for the long term,” said Johnson in a question-and-answer session with UBS analyst Heather Bellini.

Under the “10, 20, 30, 40″ plan, Microsoft wants its Web sites like MSN.com and Windows Live e-mail to comprise 10 percent of all Internet page views from about 6 percent now, Johnson said.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft also wants to boost the percentage of minutes spent at company Web sites, out of total time spent on the Internet, to 20 percent from about 17 percent.

Another element of Microsoft’s plan is to raise its share in online search to 30 percent. Research firm comScore said Microsoft’s search market share was about 10 percent in September.

Johnson said Microsoft has worked to improve the relevance of its Web search results and how it presents that information, but the company has failed to close the gap on Google and Yahoo.

Finally, Microsoft aims to capture 40 percent of all dollars coming through digital advertising platforms compared with around 6 percent now.

In addition to investments in aQuantive, Microsoft said it will have to continue to invest in data centers and servers to power much of its Web services business. Johnson said the company’s investments in data centers and servers will range between $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion this year.

W3C Pushing for Better Web on Mobile Devices

Autor Internet Marketing & SEO | 16.11.2007 | Category Internet News

Launches new website testing tool for presentation on mobile devices

Berners-Lee said that the W3C is working on defining a set of standards that developers can use to build websites that work with mobile devices, as well as with desktop computers, so that the mobile Web doesn’t break apart from the World Wide Web.

This week, the W3C also launched a new tool that developers can use to test their websites for compatibility with mobile devices.

The W3C’s new tool, called the mobileOK checker, will look over code to see how well it follows the W3C’s guidelines.

Today, W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) provides new means for people to create and find mobile friendly content. W3C invites Web authors to run the alpha release of the W3C mobileOK checker and make their content work on a broad range of mobile devices. The checker runs the tests defined in the W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Candidate Recommendation.

http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item244

W3C mobileOK checker

German official says ‘no’ to Google-DoubleClick deal

Autor Internet Marketing & SEO | 02.10.2007 | Category Contextual Advertising, Google Adsense & Adwords, Internet Marketing, Internet News

The data protection commissioner of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has come out against Google’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick.

Such a merger would “lead to a massive violation of data privacy rights” for consumers in the European Union if the databases of the two companies were combined, says Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner for Germany’s northernmost state.

In a letter to the European Commissioner for Competition, Weichert writes that search engines in general already violate consumer rights to “informational self-determination” by retaining data for so long, among other things.

A Google spokesman provided this statement: “We believe that this acquisition will increase competition and benefit both consumers and advertisers, and that it will ultimately be approved by government regulators.”

In response to concerns that the companies will combine their databases, Google and DoubleClick have pointed out that DoubleClick does not own, and has limitations on its use of, the data it processes for its publisher and advertiser clients.

In addition, the European Consumers’ Organization has lodged a complaint with the European Competition Commissioner, arguing that the merger would lead to a monopoly in the online advertising market, and Yahoo is challenging it there as well.

Some privacy groups in the U.S. oppose the Google-DoubleClick merger, and Microsoft testified at a U.S. Senate hearing last week that a Google-DoubleClick merger would be anticompetitive.

Yahoo opens up social networking site MASH

Autor Internet Marketing & SEO | 18.09.2007 | Category Internet News, Yahoo

San Francisco (CA) - Yahoo has launched a beta version of Mash, its latest attempt at social networking.

According to the site’s official blog, the service allows users to create their own profile using a variety of custom design tools, and they are able to interact with their friends’ profiles as well. These are the same basic features that outline Myspace and Facebook. Yahoo Mash also lets users create “starter profiles” for their friends to make it easier for them to get started with the service.

“Of course, there are extensive privacy controls in Mash and you set the boundaries that you’re comfortable with,” said Yahoo Mash developer Will Aldrich.

Currently Mash is in a beta stage and it is open only to people who have received an invitation. Those enrolled in Mash can also send invites to any other Yahoo user, much in the same fashion as when Google’s Gmail service first launched.

This is not the first entry into social networking for the online company. Yahoo 360 in the early part of 2005, but it failed to capture much of the fire that spread into Myspace and Facebook. Yahoo has not announced any plans to shut down Yahoo 360, so for now both it and Mash are actively supported.

MASH

Mash is currently an invitation-only beta service.The odds are good that one of your friends is in here already. Hit them up for an invite!

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You need invitation to use it in Beta