Google + Pages: A Revolution

Google+ Pages have been introduced by Google which offers a new way to connect with business and brands. Google + Pages not only allow you to connect with business but also with various people that are linked with these businesses.

What are Google + Pages???

Now you can search for your favorite clothing brand, locate the best coffee shop, or listen to the newest music album of your favorite artist by adding the Google + Pages to your Google Circle.

How they connect with Business and Brands?

If you are running a business or a brand then, Google+ Pages connect you with your customers and fans. Customers can make your business page their most favorite one by giving you a +1 or adding your page to their circle. Up till now following pages have been added to Google + Pages, but any community, organization, business or brand can join it via plus.google.com/pages/create.

• All American Rejects
• Anderson Cooper 360
• Angry Birds
• Barcelona Football Club
• Burberry
• Dallas Cowboys
• Good Morning America
• H&M
• Macy’s
• Modelland
• The Muppets
• Pepsi
• Phoenix Suns
• Save the Children
• Special Report with Bret Baier
• Toyota
• Train
• WWE
• X Games
• Zen Bikes

How to connect with Google+ Pages??

Google + Pages have enhanced the way of connectivity and you can enjoy it by adding these pages to your circle via Google search. There are two ways to add them. The first way to add Google+ Pages is by using search results and the second way is by a unique feature called Direct Connect.

What is Direct Connect??

Direct Connect is a new feature which keeps you updated about all the new things going  around you whether its is a new movie release or the latest music concert in your city. All you have to do is

• Go to Google
• Search for [+]
• Then for your favorite Page like + The Muppets
• And you can enjoy your favorite page
• You can also add it to your circle.

At present Direct Connect works for some pages like +Google, +Pepsi, and +Toyota but soon it will be able to connect with other pages also.
Google + Pages have decreased the distances by offering widest connectivity to businesses and brands. More features are expected to add to Google + Pages soon. Lets’ see what has Google planned more for us in coming future.

Infiniti

For the 2010 fiscal year up until March 31st, Infiniti has sold 4,500 cars in Western Europe. “One of the big barriers we face is a lack of awareness”, “So we hope that Formula One, at least for our business in Western Europe, will turbo charge our levels of awareness,” Infiniti Europe Vice President, Jim Wright, said on the floor of the Geneva Motor Show. He also stated that in 2011, Western Europe will be somewhere between 7,000 and 8000. Despite the increase, Infiniti is still far off the pace set by its closest competitors like Mercedes, Lexus, BMW and Audi in the segment. BMW, for instance, sold 10 times that amount in February alone.

Nissan Motor Co.’s luxury brand Infiniti now signed a marketing deal with Red Bull F1 team. Through this deal, Infiniti can advertise its name on nose cones, sides and the rear wings of the Red Bull racecars. The Infiniti logo will also be appear on the helmets and jumpsuits worn by Red Bull’s drivers. The Red Bull’s champion’s team for the year 2010 is led by Sebastian Vettel, who became the first ever youngest driver to won F1 title.

Specs:

• Quad band GSM support
• 369 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 128 MB of SDRAM
  Credit: cellphones.ca

• 113 x 59 x 13 mm, 87 cc
• 126 g
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• 3G support, 384 kbps
• Symbian 9.2 OS, S60 UI with FP1
• GPRS class 32, 100 kbps
• EDGE class 32, 296 kbps
• HSCSD
• WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
• Landscape 320 x 240 pixels 2.36″ TFT 16M-color display of QVGA resolution
• 2 mega pixel, 1600×1200 pixels,  fixed focus camera with LED flash
• 120 MB of internal memory, micro SD expansion up to 8GB
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP support
• MicroUSB v2.0
• Infrared
• FM radio
• MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
• Comfortable full QWERTY keypad
• Provider-independent VoIP support
• Convenient shortcut keys
• Nokia Maps
• Office document editor
• Li-Po 1500 mAh (BP-4L), Great battery life
• User-friendly Mode Switch for swapping two home screen setups
• Remote Lock and Wipe feature
• One-year free subscription for Files on Ovi
• Available in Black, Ultramarine Blue and Ruby Red
• Price: $149.99 – $279.99 (subject to variation according to time and location)

Features:

This candy bar phone set is all clad in plastic. It is a thicker plastic version of E71. Apart from the love of metal finish, plastic is prone to much lesser smudges and fingerprints. Even the dimensions are almost same. It will obviously fit into one’s pocket quite snugly. The backside is finished in non-slippery material. The display is 2.36-inch QVGA (320×240 pixels), and is vivid and bright. Brightness is automatically adjusted according to the surroundings.

There are two modes available, Business and Personal. Business mode gives direct access to work tools like e-mail, the Web, and the file manager; whereas the other mode leads to personal data like multimedia library, the Web, and messages.

The full QWERTY keyboard is nice to type with, and adds a key in the bottom row that results in a shortened spacebar. The flashlight can very well be used as a torch. Long battery life, spacious keyboard, and touch sensitive Navi-Wheel is all that make this pretty phone adorable.

Product’s Unique Selling Points:

• Integrated Wi-Fi
• Full QWERTY keyboard
• Full email capabilities
• 3G support

Limitations:

• No GPS
• No side mounted volume rocker
• Call and Camera quality is not great

Final Words:

Much affordable than the metallic E71; E63 offers full functionality and alluring design to the consumers. This is a good pick if you care about the looks and colors with important packed features.

To improve efficiency in business people, the two companies are considering designing new software that can be very handy for business users while on the go and help them perform various tasks amazingly quickly.

One example of this new venture is Hewlett Packard’s CloudPrint for RIM’s BlackBerry cell phone.  With the help of this web-based service, BlackBerry users will be able to print their various stuff like documents, web pages, emails, photos and other such stuff as long as they are online.

Another software named as HP Operations Manager will also be launched that will offer better control to IT with Enterprise Server of BlackBerry.

This server software and Web service from HB will be demonstrated at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium that will start from 5th May in Orlando.

No word about the availability of the new software, but according to the statement issues by the companies, it seems that the two companies the services will be workable with BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.

When a search is made at Google, it provides with all the links associated with the key words present with Google servers. Even then, there is no conformity whether the provided documents will be of any help?

Search methodology of Wolfram Alpha is a bit different. It doesn’t provide the links that might include required answer; rather it “computes the answers.” It understands one’s question, and figures out the perfect answer to that query. Through Natural Language Interface, Wolfram Alpha identifies with human language (plain language and abbreviated forms too), and gives the required reply.

In fact, there is more to Wolfram Alpha than a search Engine. It contains massive information regarding Science, Technology, Geography, Weather, Cooking, Business, People, Travel, Music etc.

As it computes answers to factual questions; how would it become capable of answering to career counseling or bias issues? Answer to these reservations will remain unsatisfied until May, 2009, when the long-awaited system finally launches.

eBay was started in 1995, by a software programmer Pierre Omidyar, who ran a website for auctioning items from his home. Touted by Business Week as a self-regulating economy, eBay has extended its operations over 39 markets, with approximately $60 billion worth of products being traded.

eBay made the acquisition of PayPal in 2002, which handles the financial transactions of all items traded over the site. PayPal is the paragon for online transactions, it allows for the user to conduct the purchase or sale in a very quick and transparent manner. eBay also acquired Skype in 2005, an internet communication organization, which allows users to make free calls over VOIP.

eBay launched the Business and Industry category where even multinational corporations like IBM sell their product releases. Items that people might consider a no-sale item will have many online bidders. Auctions are conducted for these items in either a listing format or a fixed price auction.

The former auction method allows for the user to place an item or more on sale for a couple of day and mark a price for it. In the fixed price method the user places the item at a fixed price and the buyer willing to pay it will procure the item. Another auctioning method is the Dutch Auction, where the seller places two or more similar items on the same bid, the bidder can opt for a single item to the entire number of items on offer.

eBay started using seller ratings which is essentially a feedback from the buyer. The buyer rates the seller in four different categories on a five point scale. Sellers are requires to have a score of 4+ in order to ensure that they come up more often on search listings.

eBay also deals with unscrupulous trades being conducted over the site, organ trade for instance which is illegal. It does away with such auctions as stipulated by its Terms of Service policy.

A curious buyer or a passionate collector is never left in the lurch while searching for a product on eBay. A site on which even celebrity junk find their way into an auction will surely meet any odd requirement of yours.