Technology advances but..........

Hi friends,
Recently somebody by mistake diverted his calls in to my mobile phone. I started receiving lots of unknown calls in my mobile. The mobile notified me of diverted calls and the people who called were also dialing an other number. But I couldn't contact the owner of the number because my calls to that number ended up in my mobile itself. In vain, I contacted my telecom provider and that was "Du". A customer care representative attended the call. I conveyed my frustration to him. But I was surprised to hear that there was nothing to be done from their side to stop it.

They couldn't even trace the number from which the call was diverted. The representative asked me to ask the number dialed by the people ending up in my mobile phone.

UAE telecom body raises issue of BlackBerry misuse

Certain BlackBerry applications allow people to misuse the service, causing serious social, judicial and national security repercussions, the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority said.


The Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) has said BlackBerry operates beyond the jurisdiction of national legislation, as it is the only device operating in the UAE that immediately exports its data off-shore and is managed by a foreign, commercial organisation.

A statement from the TRA said the introduction of BlackBerry in the UAE in 2006 pre-dates the 2007 introduction of the UAE’s Safety, Emergency and National Security legislation, which regulates BlackBerry applications in the UAE.

India Creating History Again:: Laptop @ $35

How cheap? $35 cheap! And it's likely to get even cheaper.

The “laptop”-- which is a touch screen gadget that looks somewhat similar to the iPad--was unveiled this week by India's human resource development minister, Kapil Sibal. The Guardian reports that it has been designed for students and will likely be rolled out in 2011.

Sibal says that for the $35 price tag they've been able to develop “the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity… including memory, display, everything...

Are you facing high Bounce Rates in your blog?

Hi friends,
Most of you maybe blogging for a long period of time and might have achieved a good traffic rank and enough genuine visitors...but your blog maybe having very high rate of bounces which may adversely affect your overall ranking......

This bounce rate is only because that you display the whole post in your home page so that people dont need to visit any other pages on your blog to gain information. To get rid of this problem:

Torrents can harm your computer!

Hi friends,
Most of us are familiar with the Peer to Peer file sharing technology, which is now commonly used to share large files through the internet. Now a days this service is being misused at a high rate. You can find anything and everything as torrents. Latest movies, games, softwares, books, songs and much more...

India's Official Portal- Not to the Point

Hi friends,

Hope you all know that www.india.gov.in is India's official web portal. I was really surprised to see that this site was not appropriately updated, to be one of the official portals. The latest update shown was about the cricket scores. I am not against showing this in the portal but they should also deal with other issues, news and related informations. The permanent pages are all well set-up and easily accessible, which I loved about this site.

My Interview with WeBlog

Hi friends,
Today I am very happy to inform you all that WeBlog has interviewed me......It was a new experience for me. Still it went fine. I was really happy to know that people are recognizing me...

Here is the link to the interview:
http://www.weblognow.co.cc/2010/07/interview-with-mohammed-ibrahim.html

UAE blocks internet access to descrambling codes for pay TV

Telecommunications Regulatory Authority imposes new measures to protect pay TV channels from internet users who download illegal descrambling codes!


The UAE federal authorities have unplugged television viewers who descramble pay TV channels by downloading illegal pay TV encryption codes from the internet.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority ITRA) claims it is now the first country in the world to block websites that provide black market pay TV encryption data to viewers who use the information to bypass scrambled satellite and cable signals.

On Monday, the TRA said it will "protect pay channels' rights on the internet".

Orkut safer than Facebook, I presume!

Hi friends,
I am amazed at the speed at which Facebook is catching up in India, pushing Orkut to the background. Well, I am generalizing based on my personal experience and not based on any research. I see many of my friends becoming more active on Facebook and less active on Orkut. I see bloggers in an eternal struggle to add more friends so that they can share their links with as many people as possible. I see Indian Companies coming up with Fan Pages on a daily basis. You are right, we do that because Facebook has a lot many more Social Networking options than Orkut. The other part which attacks Orkut is that it is blocked in many countries like UAE. 

Untill I read Dennis Yu and his how to spam Facebook like a pro.According to him, many of  the games, the quizes and the other applications that keep popping up while you are on Facebook are aimed at doing three things:


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Etisalat e-Support Application - A real mess

(This post is mainly meant for the users from U.A.E)

Hi friends,
This is not a criticism but just my personal opinion. Most of you in U.A.E may be familiar with etisalat e-support application (self resolution software) for Internet users. But this software is of no use to the customers in my point of view.

This application cannot identify connection problems even if it is due to failure of payment of bill, which is the basic. This application cannot also identify problems such as network problems, low-bandwidth, connection errors based on areas, etc.

So you may now ask, What does this software do?
For an advanced user the answer is NOTHING. Advanced in the sense anybody familiar with internet and computers. This application just clears Internet cache, cookies, etc in case of connection issues. This points towards a real mess in this software.

This software, after many steps for identification, shows that the problem could not be resolved and also shows their customer care number (101) which is familiar to most of us.

So I look forward for the updates of this software without such limitations because it is from a company like Etisalat which has given us an appreciable service for the last many years.

Internet Marketing- A must in today's world!

Hi friends,
Today the topic is Internet Marketing. What is it? How is it? How much does it cost? How much does it influence? And much more...............

I. What is Internet Marketing?
Internet marketing, also referred to as i-marketing, web-marketing, online-marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) or e-Marketing, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet

The Internet has brought media to a global audience. The interactive nature of Internet marketing in terms of providing instant response and eliciting responses, is a unique quality of the medium. Internet marketing is sometimes considered to have a broader scope because it not only refers to the Internet, e-mail, and wireless media, but it includes management of digital customer data and electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) systems.. Internet marketing ties together creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including: design, development, advertising, and sales.

II. How much does it cost?
Internet marketing is relatively inexpensive when compared to the ratio of cost against the reach of the target audience. Companies can reach a wide audience for a small fraction of traditional advertising budgets. The nature of the medium allows consumers to research and purchase products and services at their own convenience. Therefore, businesses have the advantage of appealing to consumers in a medium that can bring results quickly. The strategy and overall effectiveness of marketing campaigns depend on business goals and cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis.

Mostly the ads are charged per clicks. So that you dont pay off simply. You pay for what you get, which is an advantage. There are different levels of advertising. High level, Average and Low Level. Advertising with Yahoo is an example of a high level advertising. Yahoo charges approx. $12 for each click on our ad, which is comparitively very high.

Google Ad Sense is a wonderful service offered by Google to small and large businesses. The charge is comparatively affordable and reliable. Most of the users around the world prefer this service.

III. How much does it influence?
The influence is more than what we imagine. In this century Internet plays a very major role in everyone's life. So advertising in this media is really worth it.

Limitations:
Internet marketing requires customers to use newer technologies rather than traditional media. Low-speed Internet connections are another barrier. If companies build large or overly-complicated websites, individuals connected to the Internet via dial-up connections or mobile devices experience significant delays in content delivery.

From the buyer's perspective, the inability of shoppers to touch, smell, taste or "try on" tangible goods before making an online purchase can be limiting. However, there is an industry standard for e-commerce vendors to reassure customers by having liberal return policies as well as providing in-store pick-up services.

A survey of 410 marketing executives listed the following barriers to entry for large companies looking to market online: insufficient ability to measure impact, lack of internal capability, and difficulty convincing senior management.

Hope you got an outline of this most common marketing strategy!

Bon Voyage!

Apple's iPhone 4 selling like hotcakes in online stores

Iconic gadget among top three fast-moving items on souq.com
Apple's iconic tele-com device iPhone hits the market via more and more online shopping platforms in the UAE, with web retailer Souq.com being the latest addition after other online stores such as Alshop.com and Aido.com.

"Currently we have a growing number of merchants and resellers listing around 250 iPhone 4s on our platform," Ronaldo Mouchawar, chief executive officer of Souq.com, told Gulf News. "The effect is that the price has come down very fast."

From an initial asking price of around Dh6,000 for the "factory unlocked" 32GB version of the iPhone 4 prices have now reached a range of Dh3,300 to Dh3,900 at Souq.com.

"The demand is huge, people are buying the phone continuously," Mouchawar said. It is currently under the top three best selling item on Souq.com, he said.

Trading platform
Souq.com does not sell by itself but provides a trading platform, bringing sellers and buyers together and handling the ordering and payment process. Resellers act either on a private or commercial level.
Customers are coming mostly from Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and a few from Saudi Arabia.
The iPhone stock offered by them originates mostly in the US, Mouchawar said. He hasn't experienced any issues with Apple, he added. "We work closely with the copyright owner as we did with the iPhone 3G and the iPad."
But the grey market channel can also have its traps.

The iPhones are sold on an "as is" basis, Mouchawar said, which means they do not carry the manufacturer's official warranty and will not be serviced by Apple's authorised dealers and shops.
"But resellers offer their own warranties on the phone," Mouchawar said.

Souq.com yesterday forecast triple digit growth for its business by the end of 2010. The online retailer reported strong growth in 2009 and plans to offer new services in the future, Mouchawar said.
The company has increased its presence since its launch in 2005 and now serves more than 500,000 active buyers and sellers in the region. It says it records 1.5 million unique visitors and 25 million page views every month.

Reception problems
Apple Inc came clean on Friday about an embarrassing software glitch that overstates network signal strength in its hot-selling iPhone, as complaints mounted about the phone's wraparound antenna.

Apple admitted its signal strength miscalculation dates back to its original 2007 iPhone. It promised to fix the glitch in a few weeks, but did not directly address concerns that its antenna design causes reception problems for iPhone 4, its newest phone.

Apple's apology — a relative rarity from the company known for its marketing savvy — marked the third time in less than three weeks it had to apologise to customers of iPhone 4. "Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong," Apple said in an open letter to customers. Since the iPhone 4 hit stores on June 24, consumers have complained about cellphone reception problems when they hold the phone in a certain way. Even while just standing in one place, a rapid decline in the number of signal bars can be observed depending on how the phone is gripped.

Apple has already been sued by iPhone customers in at least three complaints related to antenna problems on the iPhone 4.

Credits: gulfnews.com

Money rules even the web!

Hi friends,
It is a sad fact that money is ruling the web. I have come across many search engine optimization sites but not one which is like the one i'm gonna show you.

The site guarantees Top 10 ranking in Yahoo and Google searches, if it is not working, the entire money will be given back. The site or company is iBusinessProvider. This is really unfair, when there are many people having quality sites but lack traffic while the ones who have money can easily get traffic. Google and Yahoo are one of the most popular search engines. Top 10 in these searches can drive away 1000s of clicks easily. Is this fair or not?

The cost of this service ranges from US$249.95 to US$499.95! This is really surprising that other companies earn from the services offered by Google and Yahoo. Search engine optimization services are good and fair but to this extend, it is really unfair. Cash back facility attracts lots of people into it. This is a kick for the hard work of other website owners.

As you people know, this is not a very popular blog and this post is not going to make any change but atleast my readers should be aware of this kind of unfair practices in the internet world.

LET US TOGETHER MAKE A CHANGE!