Sure, you’ve got a website that serves your firm, and you’re pretty proud of it. It has the crisp, collected look that says “this business is a force to be reckoned with”. If you’re looking for weaknesses in your façade, you’d better go look elsewhere. Your website is the public face of your company, and like anyone else, you want to take good care of your face. Many people will judge the veracity of your business after glancing at your website for a mere few seconds. This will tell them all they have to know about whether or not your business is a solid one that has survived through any number of market plunges and surges.

People visiting your site will notice whether or not your site has convincing, professionally crafted graphics. Readers might not have the remotest idea of what constitutes “professional” graphics. It’s merely a sense that they will get. Depending on whether or not your website impresses those viewers, they will make a split-second decision whether or not they feel confident doing business with you. A good-looking, professionally organized site will make readers want to stick around. A hackneyed, amateurish website will make them look elsewhere for better prospects.

If your website is slow to respond to the readers’ calls for pages and links, you can pretty much write yourself out of the picture. A sluggishly performing website with links that take forever to open and slow streaming media spells “amateurs” to most who surf websites. One way you can help ensure that your website performs robustly is to employ CloudTest load testing tools. That will tell you whether or not your website is firing on all cylinders, and chances are if there is a data bottleneck somewhere in your computer network, it can cause some of your Web applications to run more slowly than they should.

It may be hard to imagine that a simple slowdown in your website’s performance will drive away customers, but remember that there are likely plenty of your competitors out there with a Web presence. And if your website is performing slowly, the user will tend to lose patience and look for alternative sites that provide the same offering that you’re providing.

CloudTest mobile app testing and SOASTA performance testing for websites will help you to assess your website’s strengths and weaknesses, and will show areas where improvements can be made. Certain difficulties, such as data bottlenecks, can prevent your website from performing at its full capacity. With a little bit of proactive testing and assessment, you’ll be able to keep your site running without hindrances that can make customers see your business in a dim light. You owe it to yourself to make sure that you test and then make improvements based on the results that you find.

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If you’re the proud owner of an iPod or an iPhone, you’re undoubtedly enjoying the advantages that these devices can offer. You can listen to music on both kinds of handhelds, so that’s an advantage for those who like to take their tunes with them wherever they go. It’s so easy and convenient to buy and download music from iTunes that many people who purchase one or both of these devices end up feeling a little spoiled at first. After all, you can find and download copies of just about any music that you desire, and you can do it instantly. There’s no more waiting for your local CD shop to stock the disc that you’re interested in, and then making a trip to the store to pick it up. No matter what musical impulse catches your interest from moment to moment, you can probably what you’re looking for online and be listening to your own copy of the music within seconds.

Both the iPhone and the iPod are sleek, attractive devices, as well, and they are built to last a long time. But you will likely want to help ensure that your device will stay in excellent shape for a good amount of time by getting a case for it. Not only do cases protect your phone or music player, they also are often quite decorative and can give your device a cool new look. You just might want to march into a local store and ask for Shades Touch 4G cases, say, if that’s the kind of device that you own. You’ll ask for the cases that fit your particular model, since designs vary from one model of device to another; you’ll want to get a case that’s an excellent fit.

If your iPhone or iPod looks like it could use a colorful makeover, you could ask local merchants for an iPod nano 3rd generation case, if that’s what will best fit your iPod. You’ve undoubtedly paid a goodly sum for your iPhone, so you want to keep it in the best shape possible, and a protective case will help shield it from cracks and scratches should you accidentally drop it on a hard surface such as the sidewalk. A sharp impact could also cause your phone to malfunction, so it’s an excellent idea to protect it from accidents that could knock the device out of commission for a while.

You’ll be amazed at the number of case styles, colors, and patterns that you can readily purchase in local stores or from online sources. Just about every taste and preference can be satisfied with the great variety of offerings available these days.

So if you want to keep your handheld device in perfect shape, and you want a new, colorful look for it, you should look into the cases that you can purchase. You might be surprised at what you’ll find.

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Clouds provide a service rather than a product. For companies it provides convenience, efficiency and cost savings. Even though the concept was initially talked about as early as 1960s, widespread use of cloud started in early 2008.

Corporations are increasingly unloading their data centers and IT operations to service providers who are performing more efficiently. This cloud computing phenomenon is threatening servers, storage and networking products marketed by conventional behemoths such as Hewlett-Packard (HP).

Increasingly, cloud computing facilities are looking for parts that they can assemble and operate on their software. Cloud service providers are also looking for bundles that can be put into service immediately. This has been a problem for HP. HP needs to grab the trend in order to become a super power in this arena. HP currently generates $22 billion from selling servers, storage and networking products. It has a giant share of the server market.

HP also needs to get into the production of data-center switches used by cloud computing services. Cisco is the leader in this area. HP attempted to enter into this market by buying 10% of 3Com in 2010. However, they are in a struggle with Cisco for control of the new acquisition.

If you are looking for the best way to track a fleet of vehicles, consider products from GPSTrackit.com. It can be difficult to find the best possible fleet management options, but GPSTrackit provides a wide variety of products that can be combined in the most advantageous way to help your business. GPSTrackit’s fleet management products include perishable asset protection and trailer and heavy equipment tracking, as well as vehicle and fleet tracking systems. GPSTrackit’s systems use global positioning system technology to track the locations of your vehicles so you always know where they are.

GPSTrackit’s most popular technologies include promiles, which is available as an easy upgrade to traditional technology. This product allows business owners to track the miles that their drivers accrue, making mileage tracking for taxes simple and easy. The ProMiles system does not require business owners to replace hardware or install specialized equipment, but it allows them to have complete records in case of a state or federal tax audit while still reducing the amount of paperwork involved.

Business owners looking for the most efficient and technologically advanced fleet management tools should consider a gps tracking system from GPSTrackit.com. GPS tracking systems can help with management of commercial fleets of all sizes. GPSTrackit also assists business owners with handy tools like dashboard monitoring, ready reports, and real-time tracking and communications, allowing them to reduce fuel, maintenance, and labor costs. Consider a GPS tracking system when you need to reduce your fleet costs.

3D glasses work on the same motivation as that of a motion picture. Exploiting the weaknesses of the human sight. While motion makes use of the property of persistence of vision of the human eye, 3D glasses make use of the shortcomings of our binocular vision system.

The Binocular Vision System is the ability to judge how far an object is away from us. However, if we close one of our eyes, we find a marked decrease in the accuracy with which we perceive how far the objects are from us.

You may experiment this for yourself by asking your friend to throw some object at you from some distance while you attempt to catch it with one eye closed. You will find that you are faultering sometimes with your eye closed as compared to when both your eyes are open.

The main reason why this Binocular Vision System exists is because the human eyes are spaced two inches apart and thus will experience two different visions, though the differences will be very slight. This forces the brain to correlate the images by calculating the differences between the images and giving us a final information through which we perceive our world.

Now you can imagine that it is the differences in the visions of the two eyes that makes us perceive whether things are close or far away. 3D glasses do exactly this! They manipulate the images going into each eye and produce a feeling of objects being much closer than they really are.

How do they do this? The 3D movie that you watch is actually being projected by two different projectors. Thus, you are watching two different views of the same movie. What 3D glasses do is convey only one of these views to each eye. So if the movie is being projected by two projectors named A and B, your 3D glasses may allow your left eye to see only view A and your right eye to see view B.

This is possible through a phenomenon called polarisation and thus 3D glasses are made out of polarised glass which only allow certain frequencies of light to pass through while obstructing the others.

This creates an illusion of some objects in the images being closer than the others and thus the 3D effect is obtained.

The Waterloo, Ontario based BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) announced that they are replacing their co-Chief Executive Officers, Jim Balsille and Mike Lazaridis with COO, Thorsten Heins (a former Siemens executive) on January 22, 2012. The RIM is under lot of shareholder pressure lately due to its poor performance and slower growth.

The current plan as explained by the new CEO is to continue investing in hardware and software, and replace Black Berry operating system with new BlackBerry 10 (BB10) software from a company they acquired recently. They also hope to generate new revenue from BB10 licensing.

The BlackBerry dominates emerging markets such as Mexico and South Africa. They have 75 million subscribers worldwide.

However, they are faced with an intense competition. Microsoft is focusing on its partnership with Nokia and building an operating system. Samsung is thriving on Google’s Android operating system and Google bought Motorola Mobility. Competition from Apple iPhone is a major blow to BlackBerry. Apple’s last quarter profits ($13.1 billion) is twice the revenue of RIM ($5.2 billion).

Can RIMs BB10 exceed the quality of Apple’s iPhone and Android devices? Consensus is that they may not succeed. Corporate buyers who are hooked on to BlackBerry may have to support.

Christmas is the perfect time to buy your loved ones a present they will love. Video games are a gift that will excite anyone from kids to your friends and maybe you can treat yourself to one as well. Here is a look at the hottest games out this season.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

This is a must for fans of role playing game fans. It involves having to kill a Nordic dragon god who is said to destroy the world.

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

The game will feature single and multi-player modes and will be the last of the game set in the series set in the renaissance the last to feature Altair and Ezio Auditore. It is set to be released on November 29.

Battlefield 3

EA’s take on Activision’s first- person shooter, Call of Duty. The Battlefield franchise is not particularly famous for it’s single-player campaign, which is decent. They are famous however for their multi-player mode, which also features co-operative play.

Be warned though that this games works only on Windows Vista and up, and requires a DirectX 10 compatible graphics card.

Batman: Arkham City

Released by Warner Brothers Interactive it revolves plot resolves about Batman being imprisoned in Arkham City.

If you have ever watched a police drama on television, you have probably heard of a lojack. A lojack is a device that is installed in cars so their location can be monitored from a distance. The original lojacks required a special hand held device to be used in close proximity to actually locate the vehicle. The lojack was one of the first anti-theft devices. If your car was stolen, police could find your car because the lojack constantly sends a wireless signal out that can be detected with a few miles.

They were used until gps tracking was developed. Once gps tracking was developed, it was much easier to find a stolen car. The car did not just send out a signal for several miles, but sent its gps coordinates to a satellite in space. Every single parcel of land on the planet has unique gps coordinates. Once the gps coordinates are sent to the satellite, it is a simple process to find where those coordinates are on the planet. Once this is known, the police can retrieve the car in a timely fashion. Sometimes, vehicle tracking gps are coupled with more advanced measures. If they car is reported as stolen, the satellite can communicate with the car and instruct it to shut off.

Although vehicle tracking gps has been around for awhile now, more advanced functions are on the way. Some companies are using these coordinates to automatically drive the vehicle down any road without any human intervention. In other words, the car can drive itself

A lo jack was a device that was the forerunner to gps in cars. Although a lo jack only broadcast a signal for a few miles, gps changed all of that. With a lo jack, the signal could only be picked up with a special hand held device that was within several miles of the care.

Since gps broadcast its signal all the way into low orbit satellites, the information can easily obtained by anyone who needs the information. If your car is stolen, gps can be used to track it anywhere in the world. It can effectively tell the authorities where it is located. In effect, it tells on itself and says it is stolen and someone needs to pick it up.

Once this technology started being used in cars, it was not long until it was used for truck tracking. When semi trucks were dispatched from headquarters, they did not know the location of the truck until the driver called back into dispatch. This often caused shipping delays because if a truck was late for one delivery, they were definitely going to be late for the next pick-up.

One way to eliminate the shipping delays and to utilize the entire fleet to its fullest, gps fleet tracking was implemented. This allows dispatch to know the location and speed of all their trucks at all times. If one truck was falling behind schedule and would be unable to pick up the next load on time, a new truck could be re-routed so the load was picked up on time.

Mobile technology has seen a technological advancement over the last decade from being used to make a phone call to being able to use it as your personal assistant capable of doing many tasks by following your voice commands.

The major mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Apple and Samsung are continuously striving to come up with features better than the newest feature introduced by its competitor.

The modern mobile market is shifting towards the use of Smartphones which allows users to access the internet, Wi-Fi, stream videos, access social networking sites, send mails and do so much more. In order to cater to this rapidly growing market, mobile device platform developers have developed new operating systems such as Google’s Android, iOS by Apple, Symbian V3 by Nokia and Microsoft’s Wndows 7 for mobile devices.

Apple revolutionized the mobile computing market with the introduction of the iPad. The device saw sales of over 7 million units in the first 6 months. Competitors coming in to to the market has seen the reduction in the price of smart phones.

The decrease in the price of data plans by GSM providers also increased the popularity of the smart phones with many using the smart phones as photo editors and chatting machines.