Where would be the best place to test out an unhackable netbook? The NSW department of education in Australia thinks that college is perfect . They plan on distributing netbooks, preloaded with Windows 7,and iTunes. They also have bios level tracking and security, allowing them to be remotely shut down on command. With 20,000 of these in circulation, we would think that we’ll see someone proving the “unhackable” statement wrong. We can only hope.
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Unhackable Netbooks given to students
Business
Spoof shows turn tables on celebrity obsession
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Watch out Britney, Octomom and Paris! Shows spoofing your fame are piling up faster than celebrity magazines in a hair salon, and they include a stage musical and animated TV programs.”Popzilla,” the latest show to declare open season on Hollywood celebrities and their reality TV kissing cousins, will premiere on cable television’s MTV on Monday.The acerbic newcomers are putting a new twist on the public appetite for celebrity news. Nearly 55 million Americans visited an entertainment news site in May, digital tracking firm comScore said.”Popzilla” was conceived to match the fast-paced, often raunchy celebrity TV news…
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Google announces Project 10^100 themes
Google has finally whittled down the more than 150,000 ideas submitted as part of its Project 10^100 to 16 themes that will compete for $10 million in funding.It’s taken far longer than Google had originally anticipated, but the results of the company’s 10th anniversary project to solicit ideas that could change the world are ready for inspection. Google is asking the public to vote on the most worthy of the 16 “idea themes” that it has identified from the submissions it has received over the past year.Google had originally planned to choose individual ideas, but was “overwhelmed” by the number…
Tech Support
Enjoy Continuous IT Infrastructure Asset Support with RIM Services
Managing the IT infrastructure is a very critical activity for every organization. The issues and problems need immediate attention to prevent any major backlog in the operational efficiency. Able management of IT infrastructure can go a long way in enhancing throughput for all remotely handled systems and applications.
With IT infrastructure being a highly critical management activity, it is essential for every organization to setup a separate functional group to take care of its operations. There are many service providers of remote infrastructure management who can efficiently handle all activities related to IT infrastructure assets. There are four main services…
Facebook
New Reports Suggests Tuesday And Wednesday Are Best Days To Post On Facebook
A new report published yesterday suggests that Tuesday and Wednesday are the best days to post status updates on Facebook. The reason is that click through rates are dramatically higher on those two days. It’s not surprising considering that this is a trend found around the web in traditional publishing channels. If you do a press release, the best days have traditionally been Monday through Wednesday as those are the days that most people read the news.
What was somewhat surprising was the substantial drop off in click through starting on Thursday. Content published on Thursday receives half the clicks…
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Facebook Adding Stream Clicks To Page Insights
Want to track how many clicks you are getting on those news stories being posted to your Facebook Page? While Facebook hasn’t provided any tool to track clicks yet, there’s one in the works as buzzmarketing daily notes. For now, Facebook will only be providing page administrators with estimated click through rates. While not as useful as tracking every single stream post’s activity, many administrators will be happy to see the new feature.
Facebook describes the new service as follows:
Stream CTR / ETR: This graph is a measure of the Click Through Rate and Engagement Rate for your content…
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Homebrew carputer
Though not from scratch, [Avbrand] integrated a powerful set of tools into his Subaru station wagon. The system was compiled from off the shelf electronics, such as a Compaq notebook, 3G USB modem, touch screen, and an assortment of other peripherals. It is based around Windows XP, though most of the carputer-specific applications, such as backup camera integration, Google Maps – based car tracking, and automatic volume control had to be custom coded by [Avbrand] himself. Perhaps the single most impressive and useful feature of the system is synchronization with highway traffic cameras. The system streams video of segments of the highway before…
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Ubuntu developer week
Next week, August 31 through September 4, is Ubuntu Developer Week. If you’ve always wanted to help out with an open source project but didn’t know how to get into it, this is your chance. The week consists of 25 one-hour sessions held interactively through IRC and led by some of the best of the Ubuntu development team. Participate in as many or as few sessions as you want. Check out the Ubuntu Developer Week page or their fancy brochure (PDF) for more information.
Want to see what it’s all about before committing to a live session? You can…
Finance
4 Reasons Why Good Mortgage Lead Management Is Essential
Lead management is one of the most important and time-consuming activities for companies. Despite the issues many firms have in its implementation, good lead management can act as a significant competitive advantage. This has particular significance for lending companies where an experienced mortgage agent can make good use of mortgage lead management tools in the following ways:
1. Increased conversion rates: Mortgage branches obtain mortgage leads from various sources such as mortgage lead websites and marketing companies. These leads are pre-sorted to include prospects that possess the right credentials and are more likely to buy a home. Following up on…
Computer
Piwik : Open Source Web Analytics
Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more.
Piwik is a very good alternative to other website tracking and counter programs as it is self hosted and maintained. As well as the table and data is also collected in one’s own database.
Piwik requires PHP 5.0 and MySQL to function. The tables and graphs are created as Flash (.swf) files.
Piwik : Home | Download | Demo
Facebook
Facebook To Add Multi-Country Support For Advertisements
Want to target a single ad at both the United States and Iraq? While that may not be something you want to accomplish, it’s something you’ll soon be able to do. On Wednesday a revised version of my Facebook demographics tracking script started acting funny and after a little bit of poking around I realized that Facebook has revised their ad location field to let users manually enter countries rather than select them from a drop-down as previously was the case.
While the current iteration of the ad creation interface doesn’t allow for multi-country tracking, it appears that it will…
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Facebook Emphasizes Insights To Page Admins
Do you know how to track all of the visitors and new fans to your Facebook Page? If you didn’t you aren’t alone. Up until recently, Page insights were not obvious to Page admins and as a result many were finding it difficult to keep track of who was coming to their page. Enter the new insights box which emphasizes the quality of newly published items and how many people have engaged with your page.
The feature started showing up yesterday evening and while it doesn’t appear to work perfectly (I sometimes get 0 for “Post Quality” and 0 for…
