In a blog post today, Google announced the availability of its Google+ Pages where business can add their own content and build a fan base.
Facebook and Twitter has had business accounts for a very long time now, so Google is definitely behind in terms of market share.
Google+ Pages will also intertwine in Google Search results providing additional exposure to your Google+ Business Page.
"For businesses and brands, Google+ pages help you connect with the customers and fans who love you. Not only can they recommend you with a +1, or add you to a circle to listen long-term. They can actually spend time with your team, face-to-face-to-face. All you need to do is start sharing, and you'll soon find the super fans and loyal customers that want to say hello." the blog post stated.
"People search on Google billions of times a day, and very often, they're looking for businesses and brands. Today's launch of Google+ Pages can help people transform their queries into meaningful connections, so we're rolling out two ways to add pages to circles from Google search. The first is by including Google+ pages in search results, and the second is a new feature called Direct Connect."
"Maybe you're watching a movie trailer, or you just heard that your favorite band is coming to town. In both cases you want to connect with them right now, and Direct Connect makes it easyeven automatic. Just go to Google and search for [+], followed by the page you're interested in (like +Angry Birds). We'll take you to their Google+ page, and if you want, well add them to your circles."
Google+ Pages aren't available for all yet, but soon you will be able to create page for your business.
Facebook and Twitter has had business accounts for a very long time now, so Google is definitely behind in terms of market share.
Google+ Pages will also intertwine in Google Search results providing additional exposure to your Google+ Business Page.
"For businesses and brands, Google+ pages help you connect with the customers and fans who love you. Not only can they recommend you with a +1, or add you to a circle to listen long-term. They can actually spend time with your team, face-to-face-to-face. All you need to do is start sharing, and you'll soon find the super fans and loyal customers that want to say hello." the blog post stated.
"People search on Google billions of times a day, and very often, they're looking for businesses and brands. Today's launch of Google+ Pages can help people transform their queries into meaningful connections, so we're rolling out two ways to add pages to circles from Google search. The first is by including Google+ pages in search results, and the second is a new feature called Direct Connect."
"Maybe you're watching a movie trailer, or you just heard that your favorite band is coming to town. In both cases you want to connect with them right now, and Direct Connect makes it easyeven automatic. Just go to Google and search for [+], followed by the page you're interested in (like +Angry Birds). We'll take you to their Google+ page, and if you want, well add them to your circles."
Google+ Pages aren't available for all yet, but soon you will be able to create page for your business.
Netflix announced today of its plans to separate its dvd-by-mail service from its online movie streaming service. Qwikster, will soon service dvd-by-mail subscribers and Netflix will continue its name for online movie streaming services.
Customers will have to login to separate web sites to access the two services in addition to being billed separately.
Whether or not if customers will like logging into separate sites, is yet to be seen but Netflix believes by separating the two services will help Netflix better grow both of the services.
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Customers will have to login to separate web sites to access the two services in addition to being billed separately.
Whether or not if customers will like logging into separate sites, is yet to be seen but Netflix believes by separating the two services will help Netflix better grow both of the services.
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Team AMD FX, a specialized group of AMD technologists and an elite overclocking team, clocked a Bulldozer-core eight-core FX processor to 8.429GHZ beating the previous world record of 8.308GHz.
The fastest CPU in the world record was performed just a block away and on the opening day of the Intel Developer Forum in San Fransisco.
The yet to be released FX processor code-named Zambezi are set to hit stores later this year. Like the rest of the FX line of processors these new processors will come unlocked, allowing computer enthusiasts to easily overclock to speed well above the manufactured specification but probably not close to the 8.429GHz AMD was able to achieve with highly specialized cooling methods.
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The fastest CPU in the world record was performed just a block away and on the opening day of the Intel Developer Forum in San Fransisco.
The yet to be released FX processor code-named Zambezi are set to hit stores later this year. Like the rest of the FX line of processors these new processors will come unlocked, allowing computer enthusiasts to easily overclock to speed well above the manufactured specification but probably not close to the 8.429GHz AMD was able to achieve with highly specialized cooling methods.
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NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity spent three years driving many miles across the martian surface to reach the western rim of the Endeavor Crater. This crater is 14 miles across and scientist believe it may hold clay-like materials.
After taking many images of its surroundings, the rover will now begin searching for ancient rocks and looking for the elusive clay minerals. The rover has already spent some time using its robotic arm to examine a boulder to see what its made of.
Rover Spirit lost communications last year but Opportunity is still going strong after being on the red planet since 2004, well beyond the three-month expected life span.
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After taking many images of its surroundings, the rover will now begin searching for ancient rocks and looking for the elusive clay minerals. The rover has already spent some time using its robotic arm to examine a boulder to see what its made of.
Rover Spirit lost communications last year but Opportunity is still going strong after being on the red planet since 2004, well beyond the three-month expected life span.
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Another new iPhone and another new iPhone prototype missing/stolen. Oddly enough the new iPhone 5 prototype was lost in California - again, by an Apple employee - again, and it was lost in a bar - again.
Perhaps Apple has some sort of marketing trick up their sleeve since this same thing happened with their iPhone 4 prototype and now again with the iPhone 5. Once the iPhone 6 prototype is here, geeks around the world will begin converging on bars in California with hopes to randomly pick up the top secret prototype.
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Perhaps Apple has some sort of marketing trick up their sleeve since this same thing happened with their iPhone 4 prototype and now again with the iPhone 5. Once the iPhone 6 prototype is here, geeks around the world will begin converging on bars in California with hopes to randomly pick up the top secret prototype.
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Microsoft says to be on the lookout for a new Windows worm which spreads by Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and looks for weak passwords. The worm, dubbed Win32/Morto, has already wormed its way into many networks and is becoming a growing problem.
Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) requires a username and a password to login to a computer and Morto simply scans for any systems with RDC enabled and uses commonly used password to break-in. Once in, Morto will disable antivirus, load additional malware and ready your computer to attack others. A trojan could also be planted into your computer to allow the attacker to control your computer for a Botnet style attack.
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Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) requires a username and a password to login to a computer and Morto simply scans for any systems with RDC enabled and uses commonly used password to break-in. Once in, Morto will disable antivirus, load additional malware and ready your computer to attack others. A trojan could also be planted into your computer to allow the attacker to control your computer for a Botnet style attack.
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Facebook is currently working on a new music streaming service which is supposedly launching on September 22nd, 2011 according to sources familiar with new plans.
Like how most Facebook gaming apps work, Facebook would not actually be hosting the music content but instead it would be hosted by third party developers and partners.
It has also come to our attention that Spotify along with Rdio and MOG made be some of the services offered at the launch later in September.
It's not known how these services will integrate directly with Facebook but it could be something similar to Google Music.
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Like how most Facebook gaming apps work, Facebook would not actually be hosting the music content but instead it would be hosted by third party developers and partners.
It has also come to our attention that Spotify along with Rdio and MOG made be some of the services offered at the launch later in September.
It's not known how these services will integrate directly with Facebook but it could be something similar to Google Music.
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In the last day if you have noticed the Internet a bit speedier you can thank a "Global Internet Speedup" initiative being fronted by Google, OpenDNS, and several content delivery networks (CDNs). The global internet speedup initiative will speed up your downloads and also domain name resolution from names like techtribune.com to IP.
Previously, most content delivery networks serve content to you based on the location of your DNS servers but those DNS servers are not always close to your location. For example, if you live in NYC but use DNS servers from D.C. then when you hit Amazon.com all of the images and other things served by a CDN could get downloaded from a server in D.C.
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Previously, most content delivery networks serve content to you based on the location of your DNS servers but those DNS servers are not always close to your location. For example, if you live in NYC but use DNS servers from D.C. then when you hit Amazon.com all of the images and other things served by a CDN could get downloaded from a server in D.C.
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If you weren't one of the lucky (or unlucky ones depending on how you look at it) to get an HP TouchPad for the low price of $99, you may still have a chance. HP announced today that it would be manufacturing more TouchPads in response to the high demand for their tablet computer since dropping the price to $99.
The price drop to $99 for the 16GB tablet and $149 for the 32GB tablet came after HP announced that they would be discontinuing the TouchPads and no longer support WebOS. The drastic price cuts enabled consumers to buy the devices at unheard of pricing.
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The price drop to $99 for the 16GB tablet and $149 for the 32GB tablet came after HP announced that they would be discontinuing the TouchPads and no longer support WebOS. The drastic price cuts enabled consumers to buy the devices at unheard of pricing.
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The Inkling pen is a "digital sketch pen" that can take your creative masterpieces from paper to a digital copy automatically. As you draw and sketch all of the content you create gets captured into the pen and by connecting the pen to your computer you can have a digital copy at the ready.
After your artwork is imported into the computer you can then use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or any other software to manipulate your drawing.
One of the best features about the Wacom Inkling digital drawing pen is that no special paper is required. This is because there is a receiver which clips on your notebook or page which interprets what you write. The receiver must have an uninterrupted line of sight however.
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After your artwork is imported into the computer you can then use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or any other software to manipulate your drawing.
One of the best features about the Wacom Inkling digital drawing pen is that no special paper is required. This is because there is a receiver which clips on your notebook or page which interprets what you write. The receiver must have an uninterrupted line of sight however.
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Facebook started a bounty program 21 days ago that is aimed at encouraging security researches, hackers, and crackers a like to provide security bugs to Facebook and not make them publicly available. The minimum that you can receive for providing a bug is $500 USD but Facebook will pay up to $5,000 for the most serious bugs found. This $5,000 limit has actually already been paid once to a security researcher.
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Hackers have gained access to and made publicly available a digital SSL certificate for any Google website.
This means that anyone with this certificate could perform a "man-in-the-middle" attack to target Gmail users, Google Plus users, or any other users using Google's online services.
If a hacker is going to steal a certificate, this is definitely the one to get since its considered a wildcard certificate - good for any .Google.com domain. All a hacker has to do is present a fake web site which looks like Google, by poising of DNS or other means, and then present the stolen certificate. Because the certificate is legitimate for any .Google.com domain the users would have no warning at all that anything is amiss. Then the attacker could easily steal your login credentials gaining access to all of your Google services.
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This means that anyone with this certificate could perform a "man-in-the-middle" attack to target Gmail users, Google Plus users, or any other users using Google's online services.
If a hacker is going to steal a certificate, this is definitely the one to get since its considered a wildcard certificate - good for any .Google.com domain. All a hacker has to do is present a fake web site which looks like Google, by poising of DNS or other means, and then present the stolen certificate. Because the certificate is legitimate for any .Google.com domain the users would have no warning at all that anything is amiss. Then the attacker could easily steal your login credentials gaining access to all of your Google services.
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While we reported earlier this month that Microsoft had reached Milestone 3 8063 Build of Windows 8 but it has never leaked. With the latest leaked Milestone 2 Build 7927 becoming leaked, we have a bit more information about the next generation operating system from Microsoft.
This new build has some new user interfaces, new wallpapers, and a new boot screen. The video below shows some of the features off of the newly leaked build.
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This new build has some new user interfaces, new wallpapers, and a new boot screen. The video below shows some of the features off of the newly leaked build.
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Nintendo will be releasing a classic video game from the adventure series "The Legend of Zelda" for its 25th year anniversary of the franchise.
The special launch bundle of the game; The Legends of Zelda: Skyward Sword will feature a gold Wii remote control in addition to the game. The game will also feature a CD with the orchestral arrangements that will be performed at the 25th anniversary symphony concert in October.
Nintendo Legend of Zelda Golden bundle will cost $69.99 and will launch on November 20th, 2011 just in time for the holiday shopping season!
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The special launch bundle of the game; The Legends of Zelda: Skyward Sword will feature a gold Wii remote control in addition to the game. The game will also feature a CD with the orchestral arrangements that will be performed at the 25th anniversary symphony concert in October.
Nintendo Legend of Zelda Golden bundle will cost $69.99 and will launch on November 20th, 2011 just in time for the holiday shopping season!
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New research shows that Amazon's new tablet computer could sell up to 5 million units this year alone, and it's not even for sale yet. The launch is expected to take place in October so this would only give Amazon the 4th quarter to hit such a high number of units to be sold.
At the $250 - $350 price point for the new tablet, Amazon could very well hit 5 million by end of year. The price tag is the primary factor in how fast Amazon could sell the tablets. I would be surprised if they hit 3 million units but 5 million? Seems a bit high and unrealistic.
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At the $250 - $350 price point for the new tablet, Amazon could very well hit 5 million by end of year. The price tag is the primary factor in how fast Amazon could sell the tablets. I would be surprised if they hit 3 million units but 5 million? Seems a bit high and unrealistic.
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