History of Android

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The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the release of the Android beta in November 2007.

The first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released in September 2008. Android is under ongoing development by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, and has seen a number of updates to its base operating system since its original release. These updates typically fix bugs and add new features.

Since April 2009, Android versions have been developed under a codename and released in alphabetical order: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), and Jelly Bean. As of 2012, over 400 million active devices use the Android OS worldwide.[1] The most recent major Android update was Jelly Bean 4.2, which was announced in October 2012, and was released on commercial devices in November.

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A chart showing global Android version distribution from November 2009 to December 2012

WordPress update !!!!

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Yeah WordPress update

Welcome to WordPress 3.5

Thank you for updating to the latest version! WordPress 3.5 is more polished and enjoyable than ever before. We hope you like it.
Version 3.5

What’s NewCreditsFreedoms

New Media Manager

Beautiful Interface

Adding media has been streamlined with an all-new experience, making it a breeze to upload files and place them into your posts.

Picturesque Galleries

Creating image galleries is faster with drag and drop reordering, inline caption editing, and simplified controls for layout.

New Default Theme

Introducing Twenty Twelve

The newest default theme for WordPress is simple, flexible, and elegant.
What makes it really shine are the design details, like the gorgeous Open Sans typeface and a fully responsive design that looks great on any device.
Naturally, Twenty Twelve supports all the theme features you’ve come to know and love, but it is also designed to be as great for a website as it is for a blog.

Retina Ready

So Sharp You Can’t See the Pixels

The WordPress dashboard now looks beautiful on high-resolution screens like those found on the iPad, Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 10, and MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Icons and other visual elements are crystal clear and full of detail.

Smoother Experience

Better Accessibility

WordPress supports more usage modes than ever before. Screenreaders, touch devices, and mouseless workflows all have improved ease of use and accessibility.

More Polish

A number of screens and controls have been refined. For example, a new color picker makes it easier for you to choose that perfect shade of blue.

Under the Hood

Meta Query Additions

The WP_Comment_Query and WP_User_Queryclasses now support meta queries just likeWP_Query. Meta queries now support querying for objects without a particular meta key.

Post Objects

Post objects are now instances of a WP_Postclass, which improves performance by loading selected properties on demand.

Image Editing API

The WP_Image_Editor class abstracts image editing functionality such as cropping and scaling, and uses ImageMagick when available.

Multisite Improvements

switch_to_blog() is now significantly faster and more reliable.

XML-RPC API

The WordPress API is now always enabled, and supports fetching users, editing profiles, managing post revisions, and searching posts.

External Libraries

WordPress now includes the Underscoreand Backbone JavaScript libraries. TinyMCE, jQuery, jQuery UI, and SimplePie have all been updated to the latest versions.
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How Google’s Page Redesign Could Affect Your Business

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How Google’s Page Redesign Could Affect Your Business

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the search giant tweaked its search result pages. Here’s what you need to know.

Google Headquarters

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Google Headquarters

If you rely on search engines to drive traffic to your website and engage potential customers (and who doesn’t?) Google’s recent changes to its Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) could make a real–and potentially negative–impact.
The design change itself isn’t major: The search toolbar has been shifted from the left side to the top of the screen.
According to Google, “With the new design, there’s a bit more breathing room, and more focus on the answers you’re looking for, whether from web results or from a feature like the Knowledge Graph… we’ve been working on ways to create a consistent search experience across the wide variety of devices and screen sizes people use today.”
Sounds good–but here’s what it could mean to your business.
How the New Layout Impacts Organic Search
The new search results page layout means Knowledge Graph listings–those are the boxes of info Google generates on the right side of a search page–are more prominent.
“That could be a problem if you rely on organic search traffic,” says Larry Kim, founder and CTO of WordStream, a PPC technology and search engine marketing software company.  “The knowledge graph cannibalizes organic search clicks (which were already on the decline) on informational queries because user queries are often answered directly [on the search results page]–a user doesn’t even have to click on an organic listing to get basic information about their query.”
How the New Layout Impacts Paid Search
In a similar way, the new layout makes paid search ads more much more prominent.
“By moving the utility bar to the top there is more room for new, larger ad formats like Google Shopping ads,” Kim says. Those ads now appear more prominently and closer to the left side of the page where the average user tends to look first.
Plus, “In order to do query filtering or other search refinement, the new search toolbar placement makes the user go back to the top of the page… which is where the ads are located,” Kim says.
The Net Impact
Google’s stated goal is to improve usability. Creating a consistent search experience across platforms and devices certainly should help accomplish that goal.
But why is Google making changes to the search engine result page layout now? According to Kim, other factors may also be at play.
“I believe the decision to make Product Listing Ads even more prominent right before the holiday shopping season is no coincidence,” he says, “particularly after a disappointing Q3 2012 earnings report. If you’re an online retailer I believe the new SERP changes make paid search results, and especially the Product Listing Ads, even harder to ignore.”

SOCIAL MEDIA CLASS

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Would you like to learn how to integrate all your social media?

IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE THEN THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU!

During this session you will:
• Improve Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google + for your business
• Learn how to save time and money on marketing by integrating your social media so that you can simply send your marketing messages once and its goes to all your social media platforms
• Learn how to boost sales by reaching new customers and engaging more with existing customers


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5 Reasons to Google+ and Socialize for PPC

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5 Reasons to Google+ and Socialize for PPC

Does anyone love your brand? Does anyone “like” it? If you can imagine more than a handful of customers and suppliers being willing to tell Google that they like you (with a plus), then you should not only enable the Google+ functionality for your own site but create a Google+ page.
Why? Right now, Google is practically bribing you to take advantage of Google+ as a business and as an advertiser with Social Extension(s). (As an aside, it’s interesting that in the AdWords interface the Social Extension is listed as plural and not singular, but perhaps that’s just to keep the naming aligned with the other extensions.) Anyway, back to the killer power of the Social Extension used alone or in conjunction with the Google+ platform to amplify your campaign.
Google+ Is Now Focused on Business
Google+ started as a personal social network, but Google is now clearly focusing on businesses as the catalyst for successful adoption and continued use of Google+ by consumers. Individuals – particularly those who author content or are active in sharing content – should have a Google+ profile in order to push their personal profiles into the organic search results. For business Plus pages, Google has made it clear that it behooves you to invest the time and effort into using your Google+ page as one of the touch points with your customers and prospects.
There are lots of great reasons to build a robust Google+ page and then to link that page to your AdWords account, in addition to having Google+ implemented on your site. Before we list these, perhaps it’s worth clarifying a few things about how the Social Extension works by itself and how it works in conjunction with Google+ pages for business.
You can use the Google AdWords Social Extension in several scenarios:
  • Consumers decide to +1 you from your site because you’ve given them a button or link.
  • Consumers +1 you from their Google Toolbar or an external site link.
  • Consumers +1 your site from the ad within a SERP.
  • Consumers +1 your Google+ page or within Google+ in general.
For this reason you’ll often notice different manifestations of the Social Extension under the AdWords ad text. For example, you might find messages such as the following displayed:
  1. 117 people in New York, NY +1’d this
  2. 496,804 people +1’d or followed [insert brand name here] with a link on that [brand name] to the Plus page of that brand
  3. 560 people +1’d this page
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As you can see, the Social Extensions along with the brand Plus page pop a bit more. Any ad running with the Social Extension will beat an ad that has no extension at all. This brings us to our five reasons to turn on Social Extensions and link your Google+ page to your AdWords account.
Five Reasons to Google+ and Socialize for PPC
  1. It’s a free click to your Plus page, and a great additional touch point. Clicks from your AdWords ads to your Plus page don’t cost you a penny. Google is giving these clicks away (for now) to drive adoption.
  2. Click-through rate (CTR) for ads that include any Social Extension are higher than those that don’t have it turned on. This means you can squeeze more clicks out of your most profitable keyword/ad combinations since these are typically the ads where you can afford top positions.
  3. Quality Score advantage. While Google often attempts to normalize the Quality Score advantage that ads get as a result of their extensions (all of those that deliver better visibility), I believe that there is a Quality Score advantage derived from the additional (higher CTR) clicks that your ad will get. Better Quality Score means higher positions at the same CPC or a lower CPC for the same position.
  4. The consumer touch points you accumulate as a result of having your fans +1 your brand will provide you a platform to communicate with those consumers again. No one knows exactly how the Google+ for business pages will evolve, but every indication is that much of the functionality that existed within Google Places, such as couponing, will be included along with some new functionality, perhaps including its evolving deals platform.
  5. Your Google+ pluses or “likes” show up in some organic results enhancing those listings. Your investment in pluses yields fruit in both the organic and paid ecosystems.
Fascinatingly, some of Google’s largest advertisers (at least according to SpyFu) seem not to have taken advantage of the power of the Social Extension even when they have a Google+ page. Take a look when you do some brand searches and other searches where you can expect to see those advertisers in top positions. Don’t let the power of Google+, combined with the Social Extensions, fall into the hands of your competition without taking advantage yourself.