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S&P downgrades Cyprus deeper into junk
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WebmasterWorld Online Forums Acquired By Internet Marketing ...
Austin, Texas-based WebmasterWorld Inc., one of the Web?s oldest and most authoritative Web
WebmasterWorld Inc.
technology message forum communities, with roots dating back to the mid-1980s computer bulletin board systems, has been acquired by Clifton Park, New York-based Internet Marketing Ninjas, a full service Internet marketing firm with a stellar reputation dating back to 1999.?
?Internet Marketing Ninjas, led by company founder Jim Boykin, is the ideal match for WebmasterWorld,? said Pubcon and WebmasterWorld founder and chief executive Brett Tabke. ?I couldn?t have asked for a better situation than a long-time member acquiring
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?Jim and Internet Marketing Ninjas are the perfect crew to give WebmasterWorld the resources and commitment to keep the community strong for many years to come,? Tabke said.
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Boykin, a long-time member and supporter of WebmasterWorld, was also happy with the acquisition.
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?I feel like I grew up on WebmasterWorld,? Boykin said. ?I?ve learned so much from so many of the members there over the years, that it gives me the uttermost pride to be able to work with the community to move WebmasterWorld into the future,? Boykin added.
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Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Internet Marketing Ninjas offers link-building, social media marketing, content creation, SEO analysis, widget creation, Web design, SEO speaking and consulting, along with local search marketing and reputation management services.
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Pubcon Inc., which runs the popular series of social media and optimization conferences, will continue operating as a separate entity from Internet Marketing Ninjas? WebmasterWorld.
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The acquisition will see WebmasterWorld director of forum operations Neil Marshall continuing his key role in the success of the online message forums under new owner Internet Marketing Ninjas.
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About Internet Marketing Ninjas
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Internet Marketing Ninjas is a full service Internet marketing company operating out of upstate NY since 1999. Founder and CEO Jim Boykin has built a team of specially trained ninjas with expertise in
Internet Marketing Ninjas Founder Jim Boykin
link-building, SEO analysis, social media, content development and local marketing. Internet Marketing Ninjas is a results-driven company focused on search engine visibility, engagement and driving relevant traffic.?
More information about Internet Marketing Ninjas is available on its website.
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About Pubcon?
Pubcon is a multi-track educational conference hosted by Pubcon Inc.. Pubcon, supported by the industry?s leading businesses, speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors involved in social media, Internet marketing, search engines, and online advertising, offers an in-depth look at the future of technology presented by the world?s top speakers in provocative cutting-edge sessions?
For more information about the conference, contact Brett Tabke at 512-231-8107 or brett at pubcon.comFor more details about sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, contact Strategic Marketing Director Joseph Morin at 512-231-8107 ext 104 or joe at pubcon.com
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Source: http://www.pubcon.com/webmasterworld-online-forums-acquired-by-internet-marketing-ninjas
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LiquidPiston's Hyper-Efficient Engine: Turning the Rotary Inside Out
As automakers augment the reciprocating piston engine with hybrid systems and improved accessories, independent inventors are busily working to make huge improvements to the basic efficiency of the internal combustion engine. Novel designs are popping up at engineering expos everywhere, and the newest comes from?Bloomfield, Conn.-based LiquidPiston. Its X1 engine is a simple machine with just three moving parts and thirteen major components, but it aims to raise thermal efficiency from the 20 percent of a normal gas engine to more than 50 percent, with drastic reductions in weight and size. How? By wasting much less energy during the course of an combustion cycle.?
Up to 80 percent of the energy in fossil fuels is thrown away normal engines through the heat and pressure of exhaust, or dumped to the atmosphere through the radiator. LiquidPiston's design attempt to capture all of that waste within a tiny package.?"We stretched the performance curves in every direction to get much higher efficiency," said?Alec Shkolnik,?President and CEO of LiquidPiston, "We took the best parts of many different thermal cycles and combined them." The design is theoretically capable of 75 percent thermal efficiency, but the group is targeting 57 percent in real world applications, still a huge jump.
The basic idea is similar to a Wankel rotary, but turned on its head. Where the rotor holds the seals in a normal Wankel, the crankcase does that job in the X1 engine. This allows significant reduction in oil consumption over a regular rotary motor. Other enhancements include direct injection, a high compression ratio at 18:1, and a dramatic change to the geometry of the combustion chamber, which maintains a constant volume during ignition. This change means the air-fuel mixture auto-ignites like a diesel, and can be burned much longer than normal. The result is a more complete combustion ending in low emissions and very high chamber pressures. This high pressure is allowed to act on the rotor until it reaches nearly atmospheric pressures, so almost all the available energy is extracted before the exhaust is physically pushed out. Again, this is different than a normal internal combustion engine, which releases very energetic, high-pressure exhaust gas.
Some other slick features: Since the engine is designed to convert so much more heat energy into mechanical force, less heat has to be removed from the block, so there's actually no water cooling system. In cases where the engine is under load and needs to cool down, it can skip an fuel injection event and just suck in cool air, which is then heated by the block and gets exhausted. Another option is to inject water into the combustion chamber. This has three effects: cooling the engine, reducing NOx emissions, and converting some of the water to steam, which increases power.
The compact design of LiquidPiston's lab engine currently tips the scales at 80 lbs for the 40-hp model. It would weigh less than 50 lbs in production, the company claims, far?less than a comparable 40-hp diesel that would tip the scale at around 400 lbs. LiquidPiston's current aim is to continue developing the engine with an eye on the sub-100 hp market?compressors, hybrid range-extenders, military applications, boat engines?and license the intellectual property to manufacturing customers. We love seeing plucky inventors like these to completely rethinking the gasoline engine.
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Sunday, September 2, 2012
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South Carolina voter ID law trial winds down
WASHINGTON (AP) ? How South Carolina election officials accommodate voters unable to get required photo identification before going to the polls is playing a key role in the legal fight over whether the state's strict voter ID law discriminates against minorities.
A week of testimony in the federal trial of South Carolina's lawsuit against the Obama administration wrapped up Friday with the state's attorney general, Alan Wilson, saying people without cars, birth certificates, not enough time or other "reasonable impediments" to getting photo identification would "absolutely" be allowed to vote under the law.
Wilson gave the explanation to the panel of three federal judges after they asked for clarification on the law's "reasonable impediment" provision, which allows voters to submit signed and notarized affidavits at the poll saying they were unable to get the required ID and naming the reason.
"We have balanced the interest of ensuring the integrity of the electoral system with the fundamental right of the individual to vote," Wilson said outside the courtroom.
Attorneys for the government and opponents of the law disagreed. Richard Dellheim, a Justice Department lawyer, said the state has provided completely different explanations of the provision at other times. He said the law has evolved and changed throughout the Voting Rights Act review and trial process.
"Here we are at the end of the trial, and the facts are still changing," Dellheim said.
Closing arguments are scheduled for Sept. 24, six weeks before the Nov. 6 election. Wilson said the law, if approved by the panel, would go into effect immediately. If it's struck down, the state could appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
In the past two weeks, courts in three states have ruled on voting laws. A federal judge in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday granted a request from President Barack Obama's campaign to give all voters in the swing state the option of casting their ballot in person during the three days before Election Day. The law makes an exception for military personnel and Ohio voters living overseas. The judge concluded that the law was unconstitutional in changing the in-person early voting deadline and that the state was wrongly valuing certain votes above others. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine plans to appeal the decision, likely on Tuesday.
A separate three-judge panel struck down Texas' voter ID law on Thursday. The states' laws are subject to Justice Department approval under the Voting Rights Act because of their history of discrimination against minorities. The Obama administration decision that South Carolina's law violated the act's protections for minority voters prompted South Carolina's suit.
In Pennsylvania, a voter ID law passed by Republicans without Democratic support and signed by GOP Gov. Tom Corbett was upheld by a state appeals court two weeks ago. That ruling will be the subject of a Sept. 13 state Supreme Court hearing in Philadelphia. The Justice Department is also looking at the Pennsylvania law, although the state is not subject to the pre-approval provisions of the Voting Rights Act as Texas and South Carolina are.
During the week, South Carolina sought to show the law was intended to detect fraud and build the public's confidence in the integrity of the election system. State lawmakers who testified denied they intended to discriminate.
State Rep. Alan Clemmons, the law's House sponsor, said the law "doesn't disenfranchise anyone."
But lawyers for the Justice Department and groups opposed to the law have raised doubts about the state's intent by introducing an email exchange with Clemmons and by showing that earlier voter ID legislation allowed for more types of identification to vote and provided early voting periods. They also portrayed the reasonable impediment provision as vague and open to interpretation by hundreds of poll workers and election officials.
"The purpose of (the South Carolina law) was to burden minority voters to a greater extent than white voters and therefore to depress their turnout," Ted Arrington, political science professor at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and expert in voting behavior and voting systems who testified on behalf of the government, said Friday.
The South Carolina law allows people to vote if they can show a driver's license or other photo ID issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, a passport, military ID with photo, or a voter registration card that includes a photo.
In the end, the court must decide whether South Carolina's law creates such a burden on minorities that it causes them not to exercise their right to vote.
South Carolina's population is 64 percent white, 28 percent African American and 5 percent Hispanic. State election data produced in the trial showed 30 percent of registered white voters lacked photo IDs, compared to 36 percent of minority voters.
The trial unfolded during the same week Republicans met in Tampa for their convention, and Mitt Romney officially accepted the GOP nomination for president.
Republicans are dealing with a party membership that is increasingly white as the nation's minority populations have increased.
A wave of states with Republican-controlled legislatures and governor's offices, including South Carolina, passed voter ID laws starting last year, in time for some to take effect before the Nov. 6 elections. Critics say they are a direct response to minority turnout in 2008 that helped put Barack Obama in the White House. South Carolina was among seven states considered to have the strictest laws.
A highlight of the trial came when opponents' attorneys questioned Clemmons about an email exchange with a constituent identified as Ed Koziol. Koziol said in an email that a poor, black or elderly person would get the required ID if the South Carolina legislature announced it was giving away $100 bills.
"It would be like a swarm of bees going after a watermelon," Koziol wrote.
Clemmons replied: "Amen, Ed. Thank you for your support of voter ID."
Clemmons acknowledged at the trial that the watermelon reference had "a shade of racism."
The judges on the panel hearing the South Carolina case are Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-carolina-voter-id-law-trial-winds-down-175501824--election.html
Saturday, September 1, 2012
One in four has smartphones, one in three of them are iPhones
Demographics
Between April and June of 2012 4,000 mobile phone or smartphone users aged 13 or above completed a survey, but information on how the sample was generated, more detailed demographics, etc was omitted. Furthermore, the data has been post-processed, I think, to reflect the overall demographics of Japan, so the numbers below can be treated as statistics rather than survey results.
Note that in Japan around 102,700,000 people aged 13 or above have mobile devices.
If we further note that 23.5% of the population own smartphones and Apple is 32.3% of that, in S1 that would put Apple at 7.6%, just behind Sony. Unfortunately, we cannot do a similar simple calculation to estimate Samsung?s market share in Japan.
Research results
Read more on:S1: Mobile device share by manufacturer.
Sharp 22.6% Panasonic 13.6% Fujitsu 11.8% NEC 8.9% Sony 7.9% Other 35.2% S2: Smartphone operating system share.
Google Android 64.1% Apple iOS 32.3% Microsoft Windows Mobile 3.2% Other 0.4%
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