Comment Re:NaS batteries beat flywheels hands down. (Score 1) 325
The flywheel unit seems to hold 250 kW.h (TFA: "1 megawatt for as much as 15 minutes")
Submission + - Worlds first open-source OpenRISC processor ASIC (opencores.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Help OpenCores "revolutionize" the electronic hardware industry and to make the semiconductor giants tremble, by making a donation to design/manufacture an ASIC-component based on the world's only "true" open-source 32-bit RISC processor supporting Linux (the OpenRISC processor from OpenCores.org). The goal is to create a "super-low-cost" SoC ASIC component that will then be offered for sale to the community to use freely in any products, especially for the donors.
Submission + - EC2 failure Post-Mortem (amazon.com)
CPE1704TKS writes: Amazon has provided a post-mortem on why EC2 failed.
Submission + - Free Google apps to be limited to 10 users (google.com)
ableal writes: Google has sent email warning that: "As of May 10, any organization that signs up for a new account will be required to use the paid Google Apps for Business product in order to create more than 10 users. We honor our commitment to all existing customers and will allow you to add more than 10 users to your account for [...] at no additional charge, based on the limit in place when you joined us."
Submission + - Instapage When you're Producing Web page landing p (instapagewhenyoureproducingwebpagelandingpages)
stanleybaile717 writes: Landing page will be the page that appears in response to clicking on an advertisement, banner or a link. In other sense landing page is really a logical extension of the advertisement or link. The apparent aim of landing page is converting site guests to customers. Consequently, it should have all needed tools to facilitate sales lead. You'll find couple of factors that need to be deemed even though creating landing pages.
Target Audience
Whenever you are going to make landing page you ought to think about target audience 1st. We website designer, developers, marketers say this thing but hardly implement it. You have to do thorough marketplace analysis to understand motivation, desires, fears and issues your target audience have once they encounter along with your items or solutions. That is the only way that you simply is going to be able to create landing pages that concentrate on converting your visitors for your buyers.
You need to prepare a question sheet to collect the desired information for the target audience. There are numerous parameters about your target audience for instant age, gender, education, location, their revenue, etc. which impact the conversion optimization.
Loading Time
Loading time of one's landing page is a quite important aspect. If your customer is clicking banner or link and has to wait for extended to appear the page, then positive they are going to visit your competitors’ pages and consequently you'll loose the enterprise. To prevent such embarrassment you will need to optimize the pictures and make them light weight to load quickly. Most probably you need to stay away from the excessive use of Flash.
Theme
When your guests click the advertisement or banner or link and arrive at your landing page they should not really feel drastic alterations in layout, color, graphic style, fonts, material, and so on. from the pages they arrive. This means you should retain same theme for banner and landing page. Not merely visual theme but content material must be relevant towards the previous page.
On-line Reputation
Show your online reputation in type of the testimonials. This really is strong medium to impress your customers. You must have strong and credible testimonials presented concise and on the point. Testimonial inform the story that how you had been behaved together with your previous clients. You are able to consist of complete name, place, photos of your consumer and if achievable place the video, this all efficiently convert visitors in to your customer.
Headlines and White space
Your headlines need to be catchy so they're able to attract a lot more visitors. Your headlines should also be direct and simple so they tell visitors what will need to become accomplished. Exact same the way use of ample white area bring beauty and let your users to concentrate on their wants. Use of white space leads visitors to scan and recognize the crucial message you deliver.
instapage trial
Target Audience
Whenever you are going to make landing page you ought to think about target audience 1st. We website designer, developers, marketers say this thing but hardly implement it. You have to do thorough marketplace analysis to understand motivation, desires, fears and issues your target audience have once they encounter along with your items or solutions. That is the only way that you simply is going to be able to create landing pages that concentrate on converting your visitors for your buyers.
You need to prepare a question sheet to collect the desired information for the target audience. There are numerous parameters about your target audience for instant age, gender, education, location, their revenue, etc. which impact the conversion optimization.
Loading Time
Loading time of one's landing page is a quite important aspect. If your customer is clicking banner or link and has to wait for extended to appear the page, then positive they are going to visit your competitors’ pages and consequently you'll loose the enterprise. To prevent such embarrassment you will need to optimize the pictures and make them light weight to load quickly. Most probably you need to stay away from the excessive use of Flash.
Theme
When your guests click the advertisement or banner or link and arrive at your landing page they should not really feel drastic alterations in layout, color, graphic style, fonts, material, and so on. from the pages they arrive. This means you should retain same theme for banner and landing page. Not merely visual theme but content material must be relevant towards the previous page.
On-line Reputation
Show your online reputation in type of the testimonials. This really is strong medium to impress your customers. You must have strong and credible testimonials presented concise and on the point. Testimonial inform the story that how you had been behaved together with your previous clients. You are able to consist of complete name, place, photos of your consumer and if achievable place the video, this all efficiently convert visitors in to your customer.
Headlines and White space
Your headlines need to be catchy so they're able to attract a lot more visitors. Your headlines should also be direct and simple so they tell visitors what will need to become accomplished. Exact same the way use of ample white area bring beauty and let your users to concentrate on their wants. Use of white space leads visitors to scan and recognize the crucial message you deliver.
instapage trial
Submission + - Knuth prize goes to Microsoft researcher (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Ravi Kannan has been named as the winner of of the 2011 Knuth Prize, awarded annually by the Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory of the ACM "developing influential algorithmic techniques aimed at solving long-standing computational problems."
Much of the work that is cited as the reason for awarding the prize might seem very abstract but there are also some very practical areas of research.
Much of the work that is cited as the reason for awarding the prize might seem very abstract but there are also some very practical areas of research.
Comment Re:Hackers=christians?? (Score 2) 375
"The truth will set you free", and all the historical universities the Church founded, would not convince you otherwise, I suppose.
Oh, well. Can't have mere facts shaking beliefs. Carry on.
Submission + - 1 in 3 EU Internet Users Infected by Malware (net-security.org)
Orome1 writes: The report reveals that computers of one-third of the Internet users were affected with some or other form of virus. Fifty eight percent of Internet users in Bulgaria reported computer virus infection followed by Malta and Slovakia. On the other hand, lowest instances of computer virus were reported in Austria, Ireland and Finland. 3% of the Internet users in the 27 member states of the EU suffered monetary losses due to phishing, pharming and misuse of payment cards such as credit and debit cards. 8% of the Internet users in Latvia reported monetary loss, followed by United Kingdom (U.K), Austria and Malta.
Submission + - Googles New Change Slapped My Blog and You Could B (johnpaulaguiar.com)
JohnPaul1 writes: Google Slapped My Blog
Today I wanted to give you all a heads up to something that happened to my blog this past week, since the new Google change took effect.
Today I wanted to give you all a heads up to something that happened to my blog this past week, since the new Google change took effect.
Comment Google ... (Score 1) 510
... or any equivalent web service will render those "Office" files for you in a modern browser.
"Installing software" is becoming increasingly quaint, except for a very few heavy duty applications.
Comment Telecoms should go to regulators, really (Score 1) 449
Telcos bill their customers for data, and want to go to the regulators to also charge Google/etc. Fine.
But, while the regulators are looking into it, perhaps they could also look into things like the "4 euro/week" subscriptions to wallpapers and ringtones, plus the premium SMS charges for 1-in-30 drawings of movie tickets, etc. The telcos' cut of those interesting money-transfer operations may not be big enough.
Comment This has already happened (Score 1) 979
Already happened, and we have proof:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php#comments
Submission + - Symbian soon to be Free Open Source Software (infoworld.com)
xlotlu writes: InfoWorld reports that Symbian is to become Free Open Source Software in a matter of hours.
108 packages will be available at Symbian's website, mostly under the Eclipse Public License, in what is probably the largest open source migration project in history: more than 40 millions line of code representing 10 years of development, currently in use on 330 million devices.
In the Wired coverage of the story, Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation, picks on the Android platform, saying that "About a third of the Android code base is open and nothing more. And what is open is a collection of middleware. Everything else is closed or proprietary."
108 packages will be available at Symbian's website, mostly under the Eclipse Public License, in what is probably the largest open source migration project in history: more than 40 millions line of code representing 10 years of development, currently in use on 330 million devices.
In the Wired coverage of the story, Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation, picks on the Android platform, saying that "About a third of the Android code base is open and nothing more. And what is open is a collection of middleware. Everything else is closed or proprietary."
Submission + - Why you need TRIM for your SSD (bit-tech.net)
mr_sifter writes: SSDs promise blazing fast access times and data transfer speeds — but many SSDs suffer from horrendous performance degradation over time. The answer, according to drive manufacturers and Microsoft, is TRIM: but does it really make a difference? And how bad is the performance drop without TRIM? Our extensive testing shows that efficient implementation of TRIM is actually crucial for maintaining SSD performance.
App Store Piracy Losses Estimated At $459 Million 202
An anonymous reader passes along this quote from a report at 24/7 Wall St.:
"There have been over 3 billion downloads since the inception of the App Store. Assuming the proportion of those that are paid apps falls in the middle of the Bernstein estimate, 17% or 510 million of these were paid applications. Based on our review of current information, paid applications have a piracy rate of around 75%. That supports the figure that for every paid download, there have been 3 pirated downloads. That puts the number of pirate downloads at 1.53 billion. If the average price of a paid application is $3, that is $4.59 billion dollars in losses split between Apple and the application developers. That is, of course, assuming that all of those pirates would have made purchases had the application not been available to them for free. This is almost certainly not the case. A fair estimate of the proportion of people who would have used the App Store if they did not use pirated applications is about 10%. This estimate yields about $459 million in lost revenue for Apple and application developers."
A response posted at Mashable takes issue with some of the figures, particularly the 75% piracy rate. While such rates have been seen with game apps, it's unclear whether non-game apps suffer the same fate.
