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The Basic Points to Keep in Mind When Advertising Your Website

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You have built the perfect website and it clearly offers all the services you provide. It is user friendly, has a great look and feel to it, beautiful colors, great pictures, everything anybody could want from it. All that is left to do now is have it advertised. There are an estimated 312 million websites on the web today and this number is forever growing. So how can you make sure yours is different? How do you make sure yours is the one people want to visit?

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Save Money with VoIP For Business

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The rapidly increasing availability of high speed internet services has done wonders for the quality and reliability of VoIP. UK businesses are now about to obtain carrier-quality VoIP based business telephone systems without having to worry about a large up-front investment.

Thanks to the wonders of VoIP, UK businesses can now enjoy low cost international calls, and free VoIP-to-VoIP calls, along with conference calling and remote collaboration tools, all in one suite of easy to use business telephone systems.

Internet Today

Best of the Blogs: The Top 5 Food Blogs

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What makes a food blog stand out? Is it the clean layout, cool graphics or frequent updates? While all those elements are crucial for any food blog, they are not enough to sustain and maintain interest in the long run among readers.

The top 5 food blogs we are featuring today have all those things and a lot more. A steady supply of easy recipes with easy to find ingredients, beautifully photographed pictures, and well written descriptions of the foods are sure to entice readers from coming back, aside from the elements mentioned above.

Intimacy, also very crucial aspect, which is quite frankly, often overlooked in most food blogs today. You must always make the reader feel as if you are talking to him in person to build a sense of connection and rapport with your target readers.  Lastly, you must have passion for what you are doing and when in doubt, always keep it simple.

Internet Today

College, SEO, or Both?

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I am not a very big fan of PayPal. I mean, it provides an absolutely necessary service, but for goodness sakes it takes 3% of anything you receive! That being said I am a very big fan of what the co-founder is doing these days. He's paying people not to go to college!

That's right, $100,000 grants not to go to college, but to start a business. He says that college costs too much these days (in fact the class of 2011 is coming out with the highest debt of all time) and he is probably right. Even Harvard students are taking him up on his offer.

A lot of SEO's believe that SEO should not be taught in high school or in college. They believe the market will get flooded very quickly and that they will have tons of 17 and 18 year old kids getting a huge jump start in the SEO world. Although I do not believe that this is a valid reason for them to not teach it in school (everyone deserves to know how the information that comes up when they search for it gets there, and what agendas are at hand) I still do not think they should teach it in school because no one knows exactly how long SEO will actually be around and it is always constantly undergoing changes. That being said, Google’s web spam leader, Matt Cutts, has stated that white hat SEO tactics are actually a good thing and will be around for at least another 5 years to come.

Hardware Innovations

Three New and Cool Gadgets

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Whether you talk about kitchen gadgets or gadgets that you use to keep yourself connected and entertained, there is no denying that technology has made life very easy for us. Considering the demand of different gadgets, several big brands are now coming forward to offer more innovatively designed items that may make living easier for people.

Here is a list of some recently introduced tech gadgets that you might want to check out:

Hardware Innovations

Rugged Phones For Hard Tech Life

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Virtually everyone who has ever owned a cell phone has also experienced the pain of breaking a cell phone. Phones meet untimely demises every day, from falling to hard floors and shattering to accidentally running through the laundry. Whether you work in a physically demanding job, spend a lot of time in the great outdoors, or are simply a klutz who's hard on your cell phones, investing in one of these three rugged phones could save you a fortune in insurance claims or early upgrade fees. They may not have all the fancy features of an IPhone but have solid phonebook, GPS, and Internet so are great for outdoors.

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Red Bee Media and Cisco Join Forces in Video Cyberspace

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Red Bee Media and Cisco systems are moving forward with a partnership to deliver online video services and multi-media to consumers , as was announced in their press release this week. They bring together a combination of advanced technological experience from Cisco and the collaborative corporate media skill set from Red Bee Media, the two companies are coming together to advance connectivity of the best digital content to viewers everywhere. The announcement comes as good news for many interested parties from the broadcasting industry, because the collaboration will focus upon online streaming for video players and content media portals for VoD ( video-on-demand).

Crime and Justice

FBI Nab Racketeers in Biggest Cyber Corruption Trend

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Known as being one of the largest criminal trends yet, the FBI has captured the gang defrauding its victims of well over a million dollars. This scheme was targeting 60 different countries in its plan to sway internet users into thinking they have been infected and persuading them to buy “fake software” to fix it.

Thought at this time to be somewhere overseas, master-minds and con-artists Shaileshkumar P. Jain and Bkorn Daniel Sundin were amongst the miscreants who created Innovative Marketing Inc. which is a registered company in Belize. This online business claims to distribute anti-virus software as well as do repairs online. The company has been closed down because the FBI has alleged them as being involved in practices of fraud.

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Will Apple's New iCloud Service Lead To A Consumer-ISP Showdown?

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We've been told that "the cloud" is the future of modern computer and data storage, and services such as Apple's iCloud are certainly making a strong case for using the inexpensive resources offered by networked computer systems as a way to securely host personal and business information and applications. Unfortunately, cloud-based services also threaten to expose one of the uglier sides of the Internet service provider industry: bandwidth charges.

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