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B12K : Google and Fibre Optic Internet
Mar 1st
Google has announced its intention to deploy a 1 Gbps high-speed Internet network , which will be tested among a sample of U.S. citizens. The idea is to encourage the emergence of a new kind of applications .
After electricity, Google is trying a new incursion into an unprecedented area with becoming a supplier of broadband network.
the company announced it will deploy a network high-speed fiber optic service (Fiber To The Home FTTH) to 1 Gbit / s – 100 times faster than current Internet access.
In the U.S. the first operator in terms of optic fiber is Verizon: it offers the 50 Mbit / s (download) for $ 140 per month.
The experiment will take place in several regions of the United States to reach a minimum of 50 000 people , and can be extended to 500 000 users.
The leader in search engines refers to “competitive prices” without saying more. But the goal is primarily to test new uses. Google hopes to see developers including work on a new generation of applications.
The idea is also to test new technology of deployment and knowledge share with partners.
More than just a search engine
This new projects shows clearly that Google has decided to expand its activities beyond its initial business, which searching on the internet.
The group, among the most prosperous in the world, is trying every mean to facilitate theaccess to the Internet since its revenues are directly related to its use.
It has also invested in the segment of mobile phones with its Android operating system and with an entirely new mobile phone .the Nexus One.
B12K : The Google Nexus One
Jan 21st
Google has decided to launch its own Smartphone. Called Nexus One, presented by the Californian giant of the Internet. This “smartphone” features a high resolution screen of 3.7 inches (9.4 centimeters), a processor running at 1 GHz and a camera of 5 megapixels.
Manufactured by The Taiwanese HTC, it can be purchased directly on the U.S. site of Google (no subscription with an operator) for 529 dollars or 179 dollars with a two-year contract with T-Mobile USA.
Until now, Google had limited itself to providing a free operating system for mobile phones manufacturers, commonly known as Android. A year after its launch it has achieved a great breakthrough, with approximately 3.5% market share. The Google executives had repeatedly that they didn’t want to sell a phone directly .so why have they crossed this boundaries today?
The dazzling success of the iPhone is for something . Two and a half years after its launch, the multimedia phone from Apple has already sold over 30 million copies and is almost one quarter of the total revenues of the brand. Apple has also succeeded with the iPhone, to finally take off the use of mobile Internet, these online services which are accessed from a phone even while moving. Thanks to the “AppStore”, a virtual store accessible by a click, which offers more than 100 000 online services, free or paid, developed by third party publishers (games, news, etc..).
However, the Apple platform owns everything : the computer group controls everything, from the design of the device to its operating system, through the payment system and the contents of the AppStore.
For Google, the main goal this is not to let Apple continue to gain ground in mobile Internet because, if as analysts predict, in few years there will be more connections to the Internet via a mobile than via a computer the stakes are enormous.
The Nexus One should help Google to better promote its Internet services on mobile. The search engine, of course, which ensures its dominance in the world of Internet (over 65% market share), its email service (Gmail), Mapping (Maps), its digital library, etc. . Without that the access to these services is controlled by Apple.
Will The Nexus One be the next “iPhone killer”? Not at that stage, according to experts, who hail its technical performance (the speed of its processor, the quality of the screen) but didn’t find anything revolutionary.
B12K : What Companies students dream to work for ?
Dec 24th
According to the ranking of most preferred employers by international students, Google is in the top followed by the financial sector.
What are the young people studying in business and engineering schools dreaming about ? of Google of course ,The 120,000 international students who have been involved in a survey replied in chorus the same answer , putting Google in the first rank of their fifty favorite employers.
Conducted in eleven countries, the study shows that, in general, computer sciences keep a place in the heart of future graduates. Microsoft close behind the Internet giant , in the second place for managers and first for the engineers.
Other big winners of the rankings: the financial companies. Despite the crisis and their bad image the last year, they comprise over one third of employers cited.
The two major global investment banks, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, respectivel arrive at the 4th and 7th place of students in business school choices . And the “Big Four” or the largest international audit firms (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Pricewaterhouse) are also in the top 10.
The secret of these companies :
What’s The secret of companies to make young people dream about them ? Adopt a strategy “employer brand”,experts affirms . The similarities between the aspirations of future managers and engineers show that employers in the top 50 are those who manage to impose “a brand that transcends sectors.
In an increasingly international environment , multinational companies are particularly popular among students .these companies are well known , as they do provide job opportunities abroad and business trips, contacts with customers and colleagues in several countries and, because of their size are perceived as safe.
These criteria are good references for professional students in their choice of their future employer, they mainly focus on the possibility of an international career and employment security.
B12K Debate : Bloggers , How go you make money?
Dec 22nd
To have some traffic on its blog is a good thing, but to monetize, remains a big challenge , Inevitably, this is a question that tickles all bloggers. Hundreds of new blogs are created each day but success stories remain rare and turning  your blog into a money making machine is not as easy as it seems .
In essence, ad services are targeting websites with a high traffic. Even if some Blogs can make thousands of unique visitors per month but they are rarely a source of interest to them. However, despite with a traffic of less than 10 000 unique visitors per month, Bloggers are considering ad services as their main source of income, but not all blogs make such a huge number of visitors, which means that other solutions exist .
Once bloggers start looking for a way to monetize their blogs, their first reaction is to think about Google AdSense, which offers a very known and trusted pay per click advertising service that nearly any blogger can make benefice from. The automated registration and the easy management of sponsored links is also one of the main reasons why bloggers chose adscence . in terms of performances, the contextualization of keywords can increase the click rate (1 to 5%) compared to a traditional campaign (banners , ..).
As you may surely have noticed Content is the king of the Net and it’s also the case for blogs. This leads to the emergence of new Display Network always proposing new ways to monetize your traffic
But let’s say it high and loud, AdSense is not everything, there are also a lot of ways of making money (CPM network, CPA Network ,affiliation network,Lead Generation networks,…)
So my question is , how do you monetize your blog , and what are your main sources of income ,let’s discuss them,the debate is opened and your comments are welcome.
B12K Stories : A Special Gift
Nov 21st
You know when it comes to making gifts , no one can claim to know what’s the best gift to give , maybe when the person to whom you want to give your gift is a girl , the choice may be easy , but when it’s a guy , it’s not as easy as it seem .
So it’s my brothers birthday , and I’m thing about offering him the new blackberry storm 2 , but hold on a second, not any blackberry storm 2 , I’m thinking about giving him one with all the Blackberry Storm 2 Accessories available on the market.
I know you will ask me why , the answer is simply to show him that I’ve not just ordered it from the first shop I found online , but the I’ve also spent a long time searching for all the Storm 2 Accessories that will make its phone unique .
Okay I have to admit that it wasn’t that much difficult to do as I found it in one second by searching BlackBerry Accessories on google :p but anyway yes it took me some time and a lot of typing efforts as I had to type 22 letters on my keyboard :p loool .
B12K Stories : The day i lost my Charger !
Nov 1st
Samsung recently introduced the HD Instinct, a unique smartphone , that really caught my attention as I heard a lot of nice things  about it , a thing that pushed me to by one and see what it really looks like .
This Smartphone is really awesome , equipped With an OLED touch screen of 3.2 inches, the Samsung Instinct HD features a 5 MP APN that makes the pics look incredibly beautiful .
But what happened is that too days after I bought it , I lost its Charger , a thing that simply meant that if I don’t find one in less than 8 hours, my battery will be dead forever , and my new beloved smartphone will be good to be thrown in the trash.
Fortunately that I had the smart idea to look for it on internet, because I had already heard from a friend that Samsung Accessories could be found easily on internet .
So as I started searching for Samsung Instinct HD Accessories on google , I discovered a website where I found some very interesting featured items to let my samsung HD instinct be all but a normal samsung HD instinct , a full range of items to let it be more unique that it was originally .
But this is actually not what I was looking for , what I needed now was a charger , and I found it 2 seconds later by searching Samsung Instinct HD Chargers on the search toolbar .
B12K : Bing Growing … Google Trembling.
Sep 18th
You have for sure all been able to discover the new search engine Bing , observers had initially predicted that it will for sure create a lot of trouble to the google, but none of them had predicted that it will have this huge success .
Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, has just surpassed the threshold of 10.7% of market share in the United States. According to the analyst firm Nielsen, bing is also the most dynamic search engine, with an increase of 22.1% compared to last month. Something like 1 156 415 requests have been made in the United States on the search engine Bing.
Of course the ultimate leader remains Google with a market share of 64.6% for 7 billion queries. The number two , Yahoo! Shows a downturn result of (-4.2%) and holds 16% of market share. If the partnership between Bing and Yahoo! eventually came to be accepted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, we could estimate, from these figures that Bing would collect more than a quarter of the market.
Bing was launched with much fanfare by Microsoft as a decision engine accompanying people in its various applications. Lately the Redmond company introduced a new feature called Visual Search. Microsoft also revealed that engineers will soon unveil the version 2.0 of Bing. Some rumors were advancing a rapprochement between Bing and Wolfram Alpha, the semantic search engine developed by the British professor Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica.
Google is trembling 
I can feel it.
B12K Stories : An Event Not Like The Others !!
Sep 17th
Next week , My Boss’s son jack is going to celebrate his Twelfth birthday  , and guess who is in charge of setting everything , I know you already have the answer , It’s me .
But let’s see the good side of the thing , having this task is a unique opportunity to show to my boss that I’m the man he can count on 
So as you may imagine, the Birthday Party of my boss’s son , is not  like any ordinary Birthday Party ,I mean a cake , balloons ,juice , mom and dad, and everyone is happy and having a good time . A boss’s son Birthday Party is simply a day where something like 300 people of different ages come together to a huge picnic to eat a lot of food, have fun with some unique and never seen before animations, and of course a lot of Music ,and all this in one of the most beautiful places in the world,  Orange County Los Angeles .
And for that special event I didn’t have to do any mistake, things had to be perfect.
After I did a little search for Orange County Company Picnic on Google, and I can’t deny that I found what I was looking for and maybe more.
The company I contacted is one of the biggest Los Angeles Event Planning companies and they really do deserve the appellation of an event planning company: D . They have planned everything from the flyers to the DJ , food was succulent  and everyone was just having one of the greatest moment of his life .
All this to tell you what?? to tell you that instead of taking the risk of messing up the Birthday Party of your boss’s son by planning the thing yourself , if you want to plan a picnic , just search for Los Angeles Company Picnic on Google, and be sure  that your event is going to be a success .
B12K Stories : India , Next target of HTC
Aug 24th
If you from india and have used HTC’s first generation G1 model of smart phone then it is likely that you are keeping your fingers crossed for the launch of HTC magic in India. HTC the Taiwanese company has come up with its latest second generation model, G2 and has launched it in India on Tuesday, which is India first smart phone and it runs on Android operating system. This doesn’t have a Google branding and has a lot of up gradations done to it s previous model. Let’s have a quick check on the best and worst features of the upgraded G2 model.
Having been launched, the G2 the first thing which goes in your mind would be the price. And you guessed it as it comes to Rs.29900. Bharthi Airtel has made an agreement with HTC for unlocking the HTC magic G2 phone. Thus you can buy it from all the relationship centers of Airtel across India or from the HTC resellers which are spread across 17 cities including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune and Patna. The Airtel customers are offered with 100 MB monthly download for a span of 6 months.Though both Airtel and Vodafone were well in the race, Airtel has managed to claim it and to your surprise Vodafone is the major carrier of both G1 and G2 in most of countries particularly in Europe. Though it has been tied up with Airtel it doesn’t mean that it can’t be used with any other carrier.
There is a limit on the agreement as it is restricted to the offers given by Airtel to its customers. By the statement of the company it seems that the Airtel customers would be able to take advantage of many utility applications like in-mobile search, hello tunes, weather news, portfolio manager and so on. Giving a thought to the price of G2, it would be really difficult to say how many catchers are there to buy it!!! But it is expected around 1 million HTC Magics would be shipped by August.
Coming to the internals of the smart phone G2, most Linux users would be benefited as this uses Android which is an open source platform based on Linux operating system. It is a very robust operating system and it provides better Outlook synchronization. The device also includes new features like Smart Dialler and has a soft QWERTY keypad. Compared to G1 this seems to be sleeker and a lighter model but with an onscreen keyboard and everything is touch screen. G2 offers a better battery life when compared to G1.
Are you just curious to know specifications of the simply attractive G2 phone? No more wait. It has a wide screen display of 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with a resolution of 320×480. It has an auto focus color camera of 3.2 megapixels. it supports a wide range of audio and video formats and it weighs about 118.5 grams which is lighter when compared to G1 weighing 158 grams. On the whole it is really attractive but only for the price. Let’s wait and watch.
B12K : What’s Sidewiki ??
Sep 24th
Posted by admin in IT
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Google has found a new way to improve the interaction between a website and Internet users: a new tool called Sidewiki allow users to leave comments on a web page directly from their browser. To do this, Sidewiki appears as a small tab directly integrated to Google toolbar on the browser.
Strangely This new tool is currently only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox. However, the Mountain View company said on its official blog that Sidewiki should soon be available on Google Chrome …
Once on a Web page, users can choose to leave a comment by clicking on the tab Sidewiki of its browser, which will open a window on the left of the browser and the visitor will be able to directly enter their comment and validate it by clicking the “Publish” button. The message left becomes visible to other users who visit the website.
Users can also share comments on his Facebook profile, Twitter, Google profile or from an e-mail.
To encourage users to leave many comments through Sidewiki, Google ensures that the messages that are the most interesting and relevant and not necessarily the most recent will be highlighted. To this end, the Internet giant affirms to have developed a special algorithm to determine the ranking of reviews: it takes into account the feedback from other users through a voting system, based on the already published comments by the author.
This algorithm would also have the ability to detect spam and abusive or slanderous comments, and block them.
Presented as a tool created to facilitate the inclusion of comments on web pages, Sidewiki might be frowned by publishers, webmasters of websites or bloggers who, if users begin to use massively Sidewiki could lose the control over the comments left on their site.
nt alors géré par Google.