Samsung develops app to map user location

A new app from Samsung uses magnetism to map its location, so that it can launch different apps depending on where the phone is placed. Photo credit: Samsung/CNET UK

The app uses magnetism to glean an accurate outline of its location, which is too precise to use GPS. Instead, the app maps the geomagnetic fields distorted by indoor magnetic objects. By charting the pattern of the Earth's magnetic field as it warps around household gadgets, such as TVs or fridges, the app can tell the difference between a person's desk at home and a desk at work.

Once the app has identified the different zones of a house, for example, the user can programme it to launch specific apps when it is placed in that location. Users could could programme their Samsung Galaxy S II to start streaming video automatically on their TV when it is placed on the TV stand. Similarly, they could set up their back-up to run when the phone is placed on a bedside table for the night.

For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Samsung Galaxy S 2 and Tab get in the Zone with magnetic map of your house on CNET UK.

source. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/mobile-apps/2011/02/23/samsung-develops-app-to-map-user-location-40091908/

Steve Jobs Video Surfaces Online Raising Concern Over Apple

Steve Jobs video footage shot in secret and published at RadarOnline allegedly shows the Apple CEO walking unsteadily from a nearby café to the door of his vehicle. The camera shots appear to be taken on February 8, according to online sources, roughly around the same time Jobs had reportedly gone to visit the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto.

According to reports, in the video Jobs appears feeble and his movements appear unstable as he walked, “he slows down and looks down as his feet criss-cross each other. Jobs then regains balance and slowly gets into the car."

These images have only raised more questions and greater concern for the Apple founder’s seemingly failing health.

Apple has not yet released any information regarding Jobs’ current health condition, and has not offered any comment about when they expect the Apple CEO to return from his medical leave of absence.

source. http://www.thirdage.com/news/steve-jobs-video-surfaces-online-raising-concern-over-apple-founder%E2%80%99s-health_2-21-2011

A content management system

 A content management system (CMS) is the collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based. The procedures are designed to do the following:

    * Allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data
    * Control access to data, based on user roles (defining which information users or user groups can view, edit, publish, etc.)
    * Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data
    * Reduce repetitive duplicate input
    * Improve the ease of report writing
    * Improve communication between users

In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything: documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation. Serving as a central repository, the CMS increases the version level of new updates to an already existing file. Version control is one of the primary advantages of a CMS.

Search Engine Optimization

website design pricing

Pricing involves asking questions like:

    * How much to charge for a product or service? This question is that a typical starting point for discussions about pricing, however, a better question for a vendor to ask is - How much do customers value the products, services, and other intangibles that the vendor provides.
    * What are the pricing objectives?
    * Do we use profit maximization pricing?
    * How to set the price?: (cost-plus pricing, demand based or value-based pricing, rate of return pricing, or competitor indexing)
    * Should there be a single price or multiple pricing?
    * Should prices change in various geographical areas, referred to as zone pricing?
    * Should there be quantity discounts?
    * What prices are competitors charging?
    * Do you use a price skimming strategy or a penetration pricing strategy?
    * What image do you want the price to convey?
    * Do you use psychological pricing?
    * How important are customer price sensitivity (e.g. "sticker shock") and elasticity issues?
    * Can real-time pricing be used?
    * Is price discrimination or yield management appropriate?
    * Are there legal restrictions on retail price maintenance, price collusion, or price discrimination?
    * Do price points already exist for the product category?
    * How flexible can we be in pricing? : The more competitive the industry, the less flexibility we have.
          o The price floor is determined by production factors like costs (often only variable costs are taken into account), economies of scale, marginal cost, and degree of operating leverage
          o The price ceiling is determined by demand factors like price elasticity and price points
    * Are there transfer pricing considerations?
    * What is the chance of getting involved in a price war?
    * How visible should the price be? - Should the price be neutral? (ie.: not an important differentiating factor), should it be highly visible? (to help promote a low priced economy product, or to reinforce the prestige image of a quality product), or should it be hidden? (so as to allow marketers to generate interest in the product unhindered by price considerations).
    * Are there joint product pricing considerations?
    * What are the non-price costs of purchasing the product? (eg.: travel time to the store, wait time in the store, disagreeable elements associated with the product purchase - dentist -> pain, fishmarket -> smells)
    * What sort of payments should be accepted? (cash, check, credit card, barter) Pricing