Category Archives: Internet & Online

Your choice of browser can ruin your Internet browsing experience

Bellevue, Washington –  The internet is evolving fast, you need to pick a browser that can keep up with the growing needs of the latest and greatest websites.  At the same time, online threats such as attack sites, identity theft, viruses, malware, and spyware are also evolving at a rapid rate.  IxDownload, a leading authority website on Internet software and security issues, has compiled a resource page located at http://www.ixdownload.com/forums/browsers/882-ixdownload-com-web-browser-resource-essential-information.html that reviews the four core needs of today’s Internet user and the challenges posed by the Internet’s evolution.

“As the sad experience of Internet Explorer 6 has shown us—evolution is key!”, says Oliver Thompson, IxDownload’s Communications Consultant. “IE6 was rendering pages wrong when design standards have moved on. This experience is the most dramatic example of how a user’s choice of browser can ruin their browsing experience.”  Not just ruin it but, given the explosive growth rate of virus, spyware, malware, and phishing attacks on the Internet, also cause serious financial damage or lost productivity.  Internet Explorer, after its stunning defeat of Netscape OWNED the browser space for many years but due IE’s ease of infection and bad page rendering, Firefox grew in market share.  In essence, IE’s success made it complacent and it lose marketshare to competitors who eagerly listened to their customers.  Firefox, open source and stocked with a huge array of safe browsing and extended functionalities helped IE’s marketshare shrink to close to 60%.  “Sadly, as our report indicates,” says Thompson, “Firefox has its own shortcomings as well.”

“The biggest trend right now is social media, social collaboration”, says Thompson.  This trend has given rise to Flock and related browsers.  “We see niche browsing as one of the biggest trends in the future.”  Regardless, online browsing really boils down to four issues:  security, speed, adaptability to current and future web design trends/standards, and add-on support.  “These four core concerns should drive every Internet user’s choice in browsers—they really make the difference between an enjoyable experience and a costly one.” IxDownload’s resource critiques the major browser brands using these criteria to help users quickly and efficiently identify their own needs and find the solution that best meets those needs.

About ixDownload

ixDownload.Com is the Internet’s leading software information and resource site focusing on a wide range of security, productivity, and multimedia applications.

Contact name:  Oliver Thompson

Location:  Bellevue Washington

Aol To Acquire Techcrunch Network Of Sites

San Francisco, CA, September 28, 2010 – AOL Inc. [NYSE: AOL] today announced that it has agreed to acquire TechCrunch, Inc., the company that owns and operates TechCrunch and its network of websites dedicated to technology news, information and analysis. TechCrunch and its associated properties and conferences will join the AOL Technology Network while retaining their editorial independence, further bolstering AOL’s position as one of the world’s leading providers of high-quality, tech-oriented content. The announcement will be made on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, CA.

Founded by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch operates a global network of dedicated properties from Europe to Japan, as well as vertically-oriented websites, including MobileCrunch, CrunchGear, TechCrunchIT, GreenTech, TechCrunchTV and CrunchBase. The TechMeme Leaderboard ranks TechCrunch as the No. 1 source of breaking tech news online, followed by AOL’s Engadget.*

“Michael and his colleagues have made the TechCrunch network a byword for breaking tech news and insight into the innovative world of start-ups, and their reputation for top-class journalism precisely matches AOL’s commitment to delivering the expert content critical to this audience,” said Tim Armstrong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL. “TechCrunch and its team will be an outstanding addition to the high-quality content on the AOL Technology Network, which is now a must-buy for advertisers seeking to associate their brands with leading technology content and its audience.”

Heather Harde, Chief Executive Officer of TechCrunch, said: “TechCrunch and AOL share a motivating passion for quality technology news and information, and we’re delighted about becoming part of the AOL family. This represents a compelling opportunity to extend the TechCrunch brand while complementing the great work of sites like Engadget and Switched. Our contributors, and our audiences, can look to the future with excitement about what we can build when we have the significant resources of AOL behind us.”

Michael Arrington, Founder and Co-Editor of TechCrunch, said: “Tim Armstrong and his team have an exciting vision for the future of AOL as a global leader in creating and delivering world-class content to consumers, be it through original content creation, partnerships or acquisitions. I look forward to working with everyone at AOL as we build on our reputation for independent tech journalism and continue to set the agenda for insight, reviews and collaborative discussion about the future of the technology industry.”

TechCrunch also hosts industry-leading conferences and events, including The Disrupt series, The Crunchies Awards and various meet-ups worldwide. These conferences bring together industry innovators, entrepreneurs and financing sources to exchange ideas, forge new relationships and discuss the current and future industry trends.

“Engagement with thought leaders is as important to AOL as our engagement with our contributors, audiences, publishers and advertisers, and TechCrunch’s conferences and websites will give us a promising, additional springboard to join and amplify these conversations. We’re committed to quality in everything we do at AOL, and look forward to working with Heather, Michael and the TechCrunch team to extend the brand,” said David Eun, President of AOL Media and Studios.

The AOL Technology Network consists of AOL’s tech-oriented properties including Engadget, the Web magazine about everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics; Switched, which covers the intersection of the digital world with entertainment, sports, art, fashion and lifestyle; TUAW, the unofficial Apple weblog; and DownloadSquad, the weblog about downloadable software and other computer subjects. The AOL Technology Network ranks in the top five for tech news according to comScore Media Metrix, August 2010 data, and leads the top five in average time spent and average visits per user.

This acquisition will further AOL’s strategy to become the global leader in sourcing, creating, producing and delivering high-quality, trusted, original content to consumers. TechCrunch will remain headquartered in San Francisco, CA, as a wholly owned AOL unit. Deal terms were not disclosed.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding business strategies, market potential, future financial and operational performance and other matters. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the anticipated benefits of the transaction and other statements identified by words such as “may,” “will,” “intend,” “should,” “expect” or similar expressions. These statements are based on management’s current expectations and beliefs, and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances, including, but not limited to, the satisfaction of the closing conditions to the transaction and the parties’ performance of their obligations under the agreements; changes in our plans, strategies and intentions; the competitiveness and quality of our products and services; our ability to retain, hire and develop key employees; and the intensity of competition. Any forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance and actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by the statements herein, due to changes in economic, business, competitive, technological, strategic and/or regulatory factors, as well as factors affecting AOL’s operations and businesses. More detailed information about these factors as they relate to AOL may be found in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in AOL’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AOL is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or alter the forward-looking statements contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

About AOL
AOL Inc. (NYSE:AOL) is a leading global Web services company with an extensive suite of brands and offerings and a substantial worldwide audience. AOL’s business spans online content, products and services that the company offers to consumers, publishers and advertisers. AOL is focused on attracting and engaging consumers and providing valuable online advertising services on both AOL’s owned and operated properties and third-party websites. In addition, AOL operates one of the largest Internet subscription access services in the United States, which serves as a valuable distribution channel for AOL’s consumer offerings.

About TechCrunch
TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space. TechCrunch has now grown into a network of technology focused sites offering a wide range of content and new media.

*TechMeme Leaderboard, Sept. 28, 2010

Wondershare Releases Upgrade to Wondershare Media Library for Mac

Shenzhen, China, Sep 27th, 2010– Wondershare Software Co., Ltd. announces that they have just upgraded Wondershare Media Library for Mac by fixing some of its bugs and enhancing its searching function.
Wondershare Media Library for Mac is a powerful DVD organizer, which can avoid heavy DVD organizing task for users. This DVD managing tool for Mac can build up vivid DVD libraries with full DVD information, by which it also catalogs DVDs. It can also copy DVDs by 1:1 on Mac. Wondershare upgraded it by fixing some bugs and enhancing its searching function.

What’s new on Wondershare Media Library for Mac 1.1.2

1.      Supports local searching in Japanese, French and German.
2.      The crash problem caused by registration dialogue solved and some other minor bugs fixed.

System Requirement
OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 or above (including 10.6.3)
CPU: Intel processor, 1G Hz or above
Hard Disk: 100MB for the application and at least 10GB for DVD backup
RAM: 1GHz or above
DVD Driver: Required for DVD backing up
Player Requirements: DVD Player required for DVD playback

Price & Availability
Wondershare Media Library for Mac 1.1.2 is available at the price of $29.00 on http://www.applemacvideo.com/buy/mac-media-library-purchase.html.
About Wondershare
Wondershare Software Co., Ltd. is an innovative consumer software player dedicated to bringing users software products and services in terms of multimedia, business and other ranges. Due to its persistent innovation, Wondershare has been honored by ranking 41st in the Deloitte Technology 2009 Fast 500. For more details, please visit:
http://www.wondershare.com.

Press Contact
Eric Xiong
Wondershare Software Co. Ltd.
Tel: +86-755-8611-7717
Fax: +86-755-8611-7737
Email: catherine@wondershare.com.

Add:  A901, 9/F, Block A, TCL Building, Gaoxin Ave.1.S., Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China 518057

Wondershare iPod Converters Upgraded to Support iPod Touch 4

Shenzhen, China, Sep 27th, 2010- Wondershare Software Co. Ltd. announced that they had upgraded their iPod Converters.

Wondershare DVD to iPod Converter for Mac and Wondershare Video to iPod Converter for Mac are two of the most popular iPod converting programs. They can respectively convert DVDs and popular media formats like MPEG1, MPEG2, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, AVI and MPEG TS/TP (for HD Video) to iPod effectively on Mac. Simple video and audio editing functions are also provided.

What’s new?
Compared to their previous versions, Wondershare DVD to iPod Converter for Mac 1.9.7 and Wondershare Video to iPod Converter for Mac 1.9.7 both support iPod Touch 4.
Wondershare believes that this upgrade will bring Mac users great convenience as the popularity of iPod Touch 4 goes on.

System Requirement:
OS: MAC OS X 10.4 or above (including Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard);
CPU: Intel processor or PPC, 1G Hz or above;
Hard Disk: 512M or above RAM.Price & Availability:

About Wondershare
Wondershare Software Co., Ltd. is an innovative consumer software player dedicated to bringing users software products and services in terms of multimedia, business and other ranges. Due to its persistent innovation, Wondershare has been honored by ranking 41st in the Deloitte Technology 2009 Fast 500. For more details, please visit:
http://www.wondershare.com.

Press Contact
Eric Xiong
Wondershare Software Co. Ltd.
Tel: +86-755-8611-7717
Fax: +86-755-8611-7737
Email: catherine@wondershare.com.
Add:  A901, 9/F, Block A, TCL Building, Gaoxin Ave.1.S., Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China 518057

Jake Kamuonka CFO

Fortunecube.Com and its affiliate Cubefortune.Com announced today the re-launching of the Cube-3D Database, an expansion of the now popular object oriented databases. “The Cube-3D Database will be part of the increasingly popular Object Oriented Databases. There has been a huge debate about the benefits of adding objects into mainstream database management. The ability to pre-build real-world objects will allow the database and 3D designers to model the world as it exists, without having to re-create objects from their pieces each time that they are needed. These real-world objects also have ramifications for SQL programmers,” said Jake Kamuonka, CEO of FortuneCube and the project developer. Jake Kamuonka who is currently the CFO for Classic Group, a real estate development company in New York City.

Mr. Jake Kamuonka is an object oriented database expert, a Java, SQL, XML, C++, and PHP developer with solid background in all aspects of web applications. The high level Java and SQL code was mostly written by Mr. Kamuonka, whereas the generic XHTML, CSS, and XML code was written by programmers from Russian and India. This is a disruptive and creative database application and all the Relational Databases Management Systems Oracle should take notice.

User Community Driving Web Innovation with SiteJazzer

A little over a month after the launch of SiteJazzer, Harbinger Knowledge Products announced a series of enhancements to the online software service. SiteJazzer is an online software service that enables web marketers and ad agencies to quickly and inexpensively create exciting web elements to jazz up their websites. It includes a free online community for its users, marketers and online ad professionals at large.

“Ever since we launched SiteJazzer and its online community, we have seen a lot of activity inside the product as well as the community. The community provides a great platform for our users to discuss among themselves, yes, but these public forums also enable us to understand the real needs of our users.” said Vikas Joshi, chairman and managing director of the Harbinger Group. He cites as an example, SiteJazzer’s newly-added support for Apple’s Mac OS X operating system and the Safari browser; a direct result of its “users asking for Mac support”.

“It’s not just the features that are being driven by [the community], but also the language and semantics,” Joshi said. “The users are now creating ‘jazzers’, a word coined by them to describe the web elements they create using SiteJazzer. They have truly not seen anything like this before.” When one of them asked about how Jazzers can be added to their Facebook page, Harbinger led by example, adding a Jazzer into their web page and sharing the steps with the community.

Other feature enhancements that the company claims are a direct result of community feedback include the availability of horizontal and vertical banners in different sizes to suit different website layouts, ability to share Jazzers with colleagues and clients right from the publish window, and even a ‘blank template’ feature that enables one to start their jazzer creation over a clean slate.

About SiteJazzer

SiteJazzer is an online software service that enables web marketers and ad agencies to quickly and inexpensively create exciting web elements to jazz up their websites. It provides a wide range of interactive elements for webmasters to customize and use in their websites.

Businesses can show their customer testimonials and quotes as animated cards instead of just plain text, ad agencies can design page-peel banners and leader boards and drop them on their website in minutes, blogger-chefs can show their recipes as a flip-book, or e-tailers can show their offers and deals as a clock timer counting down on their websites.

SiteJazzer’s community of users can also share samples, ideas and tips with each other on the website. The community forums carry discussions amongst users and their shared trials and tribulations of cutting through the clutter and making their websites stick in the minds of their visitors.

SiteJazzer offers monthly or annual subscription, and includes hosting of the jazzed up content.  Users can also download SiteJazzers as Shockwave Flash files for use on web pages, emails and elsewhere.

SiteJazzer comes from Harbinger Knowledge Products, a recognized global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development.

For more information about SiteJazzer, visit http://www.sitejazzer.com.

Visit the SiteJazzer Community at http://www.sitejazzer.com/community/.

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development.

For two consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs.

Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 45 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), San Jose (CA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA), London (UK) and through its partner network worldwide.

Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity, innovative YawnBuster and cutting-edge TeemingPod. Red Herring has named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies.

For more information, visit www.harbingerknowledge.com.

Paris Clothing added Love Moschino to online boutique

Online boutique of the designer brands Paris Clothing has a brand base with stunning collections available from Armani Jeans, Paul Smith, Ted Baker, Noa Noa, Velvet and many more online. Recently Paris Clothing announced the arrival of “Love Moschino” to their online ladieswear boutique.

New to this season’s collections is the classic English heritage collection from Barbour, a must have for any fashion conscious lady. Another new and exiting addition to paris-clothing.co.uk is the collaboration of Melissa Shoes with the great fashion designer Jean Paul Gautier.

Director Stace Vasey says, “It is going to be a great AW10 season with the new collections. The website http://www.paris-clothing.co.uk has been live for nearly a year and is constantly growing and developing. I can’t wait to see the reaction to the new product, it is going to be a very exciting season for Paris Clothing.”

NVIDIA Announces Parallel Nsight Support for Visual Studio 2010 and Up to 300% Performance Increase in CUDA Toolkit Libraries

Santa Clara, CA – September 15, 2010 – Today NVIDIA extended its leadership in GPU computing with the announcement of new versions of its two industry-leading developer tools:  Parallel Nsight and the CUDA Toolkit.

Parallel Nsight is the only integrated development environment for creating GPU-accelerated applications for a range of desktop and supercomputing platforms.  Parallel Nsight version 1.5 includes support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Tesla Compute Cluster (TCC) debugging, the updated CUDA Toolkit version 3.2, full support for NVIDIA’s recently announced, high-performance Fermi GPU architecture, and other advanced debugging and analysis capabilities.  The new CUDA Toolkit 3.2 release includes two new math libraries, significant performance improvements and support for the new 6GB Tesla and Quadro products.

A short video overview of the new features in CUDA Toolkit 3.2 and Parallel Nsight 1.5 is available at:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/CUDA/…

Parallel Nsight 1.5 Standard edition will be available as a free update on September 22.  In addition, a release candidate of the Professional edition, which includes all Standard edition features plus additional capabilities, including the System Analysis functionality, will also be available.  For more information about Parallel Nsight 1.5, please visit: www.nvidia.com/ParallelNsight.

The CUDA Toolkit includes all the tools, libraries and documentation developers need to build CUDA C/C++ applications, and is the foundation for many other GPU computing language solutions.  In addition to delivering up to 300 percent faster FFT and BLAS performance compared with the previous release, the new CUDA Toolkit 3.2 release includes new libraries for sparse matrix multiplication, random number generation, H.264 encode/decode, and new cluster management features.

For more information on the free CUDA Toolkit please visit: www.nvidia.com/getcuda.

CUDA and Parallel Nsight at GTC

With more than 280 hours of GPU-focused sessions, six sessions on Parallel Nsight and more than 25 sessions on CUDA C/C++ development, NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) will provide a wealth of information on GPU computing news, developments and achievements.  In addition, experts from NVIDIA and Microsoft will be providing hands-on training and educational sessions on Parallel Nsight, Visual Studio 2010, Windows HPC Server 2008, and CUDA C/C++ development at the Parallel Nsight Lounge by Microsoft (Sept. 20-23, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.).  For more information about the Lounge and GTC please visit www.nvidia.com/gtc.

Press Contact:
George Millington
NVIDIA Corporation
(408) 562-7226

gmillington@nvidia.com

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from tablets and portable media players to notebooks and workstations. NVIDIA’s expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. The company holds more than 1,100 U.S. patents, including ones covering designs which are fundamental to modern computing. For more information, see www.nvidia.com.

Things To Do In Pulau Bintan

Singapore – 14/09/2010 – Bintan offers a perfect destination for anyone looking for a relaxed, calm and beauteous holiday. There are so many things to do in Bintan! First though, try checking into one of the many 3 star hotels in Bintan. Excitehotels.com can help you find one that is luxurious, well appointed, and has courteous staff, all within a reasonable budget.

Among the many activities at Bintan, we notice that water based adventure sports figure prominently. They play a prominent role in developing the tourism industry of the region. Firstly, there is windsurfing, which is a fun way to get acquainted with the ocean. There are many wind boards available for rent and moreover, it is possible to get lessons and become an expert with trainers who help. Sailing is a great activity to do in Pulau Bintan. It is a great thrill to experience navigating a boat with the help of wind energy. Experienced navigators can help you understand the intricate secrets of sailing, if you so desire. If you want a more hands on experience, try your hand at using a Catamaran. It is a fun group based activity that required tremendous rowing ability from multiple rowers.

If power water sports are what you want, jet skiing is a wonderful activity to try. Speed across the waters at breakneck speed, and change direction fast and rapidly for ultimate thrills. Of course, safety being paramount, expert riders will help you do this! Fishing is also an activity most people try at Bintan. Wakeboarding is a relatively new sport that is catching on in popularity in the region. Hang onto a rope while a boat pulls you across at high speeds! The weather in Bintan is always tropical, and is a blessing to those from warmer countries. All Terrain Vehicles are fun land based activities. Harness these powerful machines to climb over rough terrain and step slopes. Gunung Bintan Adventure Trek is an exciting way to scale new heights, quite literally. Climb the challenging 340m ascent to the top, with some spectacular views along the way. If you are on a tight budget, then Excitehotels.com can help you to find great 2 star hotels in Bintan. They are not only affordable, but also are located conveniently. So all in all, Bintan provides a wonderful colorful holiday destination.

About Excitehotels.com:

Excitehotels.com offers their guests the pleasure of a passionate holiday in exotic places in Asia Pacific. Excitehotels.com based in Singapore as a popular hotel agency in Asia provides the best rate guarantees with discount online bookings. With years of experience and expertise, the company has a vast database of hotel accommodations to suit all budgets and needs of tourists with exciting discount rates with online reservation. Providing their clients with hotel reservation services and cost-effective hotel rates, the company has infused the detail of reservations for hotels with secure online booking and deep discounts with luxurious accommodation rooms on their website: http://www.excitehotels.com/bintan_hotels.htm

For more information: www.excitehotels.com

Contact:

info@excitehotels.com

Phone: Tel: +65 6333 9335

Fax: + 65 6333 9980

2010 Christmas Tree Revolution by Easyplants.co.uk

Easyplants.co.uk the leading supplier of Artificial Christmas trees has given the reason why they believe artificial Christmas trees are revolutionizing the festive period.

With the boom of interior design and decoration it was a natural progression that the traditional Christmas tree would make way to a Luxury artificial Christmas tree when dressing your living room for the festive period. Contemporary living spaces need different styles and colours to compliment the room, something that a traditional Christmas tree finds hard to achieve. Space could be of a premium, so you require a slim line tree, colour could be the issue, you need white, black, gold, theses are just some of the reasons why Faux Christmas trees are revolutionizing the way we dress our homes or office for the Christmas period.

Peter Drinkell Managing Director explains, “I have been involved with many debates over the last 6 years on whether the artificial Christmas trees is better or inferior to a real Christmas tree in both environmental, ethical and now interior design views. You may think I show some bias towards the artificial Christmas tree, especially with http://www.easyplants.co.uk being a leading supplier of artificial Christmas which is credible, but I honestly believe that the new generation of Faux Xmas Trees are revolutionising the choice in festive decoration for the modern home, something that a traditional Christmas tree simply cannot achieve. The Christmas Spirit portrayed through a contemporary artificial Christmas tree, can be exasperating especially when it is tailored in the perfect surroundings.”

Peter continues, “Take our stunning black Christmas trees for example, they look simply amazing within a contemporary backdrop of a clean white living space dressed with silver baubles and ornaments, same goes for our contemporary White Xmas trees too.

Artificial Christmas trees offer a better choice of Christmas decoration than any real Christmas tree ever can, traditionalists may not agree, but take it from the 10’s of thousands of people across the country joining the Artificial Christmas tree revolution this year,” concludes Peter.