Connect with your Emails in the magical land of Guatemala!

Guatemala is a mysterious place. This place has its epic El Petén’s secluded archaeological sites which are just so irresistible; the intriguing town of Chichicastenango with its pre-Hispanic beliefs and rituals even now. Wow! a place worth visiting, right? Yes! But being a professional, you can’t disregard those business mails that are waiting there for your replies, right? But not to worry! Hosted Exchange 2010 and BlackBerry Exchange server will help you be in touch with your mails!

However, as you are a non-native of Guatemala, if you want to configure the MS Exchange, first verify with your home country’s service providers regarding their roaming arrangements with Guatemala’s wireless carriers. Also, find out with Guatemala’s mobile service providers about the offers that they provide. In Guatemala, Claro is the biggest wireless providers.

Guatemala has 13+ million population and the official language of the country is Spanish. Apart from Spanish, there are 22 indigenous languages spoken in this country. However, for people using Microsoft Exchange Server, language is never a barrier. Exchange 2010 Hosting is available in an assortment language pack. Thus, it allows its Spanish users to access the hosted Exchange service features hassle-free that too in their own language!

Four things you need to know about your audience

Knowing your audience is vital if running an online business. It can help you to target potential customers effectively and help you to ensure your business has the best chance of achieving success. The more you know about your target audience, the better you will be at developing your business for them and letting them know this too.

Even if you have been working in a certain market for a number of years, it is important to carry out regular research. Online consumer behavior, attitudes, wants and needs change over time and you must have up to date information if it is going to be useful.

You have to know what your target audience want. You must be aware of their wants and needs which are relevant to your business so you can provide them with this. If your business is not offering what others want then it will have very little chance of success. You have to know what products those within your target audience want and the services they expect. Read the rest of this entry »

Four areas for consideration when writing SEO content

A search engine optimisation campaign requires the continuous creation of content. Content for your website, blog, articles, social networking updates and many other areas all needs to be regularly written and must be of a high standard if going to work effectively for your business. A lot of hard work, effort and consideration needs to go into the development of this content if it is going to work successfully as part of an SEO campaign. There are four main areas of particular significance which must be considered when writing SEO content if hoping it will be effective.

The layout of a piece of content is highly important. Information must be clearly displayed so those reading it can find and understand the information being given quickly and easily. Internet searchers want information fast and will lose interest if details within content are hard to find because the content is cluttered and badly organised. You need to help others find relevant information as quickly and easily as possible and thoughtful layout can help with this. Read the rest of this entry »

WWW Trivia

Did you know that “www” (pronounced as “double you double you double you”) is the longest possible three-letter acronym to pronounce in English. With nine syllables, it would not be impossible to imagine that some Web users might find the acronym a bit tricky to pronounce when used in everyday conversations. Fortunately, there are shorter pronunciations for such people like “triple double you”, “dub dub dub”, or “wuh wuh wuh”. Also, the World Wide Web has its own Mandarin Chinese version and is translated to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网). It literally means “ten-thousand dimensional net” and is quite a fitting definition for something as vast and powerful as the Web.

Making Web Content Accessible

In an effort to make web content accessible for everyone who wishes to access the Web, including disabled users and user agents like the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) used for mobile phones, the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative had released Web accessibility guidelines called the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The guidelines have 3 priority levels:

Priority 1: Web developers must satisfy these requirements, otherwise it will be impossible for one or more groups to access the Web content. Conformance to this level is described as “A”.
Priority 2: Web developers should satisfy these requirements, otherwise some groups will find it difficult to access the Web content. Conformance to this level is described as “AA” or “double A”.
Priority 3: Web developers may satisfy these requirements, in order to make it easier for some groups to access the Web content. Conformance to this level is described as “AAA” or “triple A”.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines

Mobile Internet and Clouds

The introduction of the many mobiles and smart-phones that are capable of accessing the internet have grown as fast as the number of users the net gains day by day and with that, the rest of the internet has evolved, following suit. Most web sites that have growing mobile users have stripped down versions of their pages to allow people using them to gain access as if they were using their desktops. Social bookmarking has allowed us to surf the web and keep tabs on all the sites we are interested in for further review later. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Net – Censored Net ?!?!?

The internet has indeed become one of the most sociable technological wonders the world over yet it has been also subject to controversy time and time again. in countries where the government seeks to control the influx and outflow on information, it is censored and filtered, maybe using keywords or user name databases to block and deny access to them. The upcoming anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Events is sure to get some attention from the Chinese authorities and in the past, Iran has done some filtering of their own when elections and other events of international significance tends to be cut-off from the rest of the internet. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Sites – Fast Becoming Favorites

Of hackers as they try to find ways of spreading their wares, stealing the identities of unsuspecting people and cashing in on other people’s hard earned cash. The many budding social sites that are popping out all over the place, deemed as revolutionary startups are falling one by one to hackers who are after their sites, or their members who are running into the millions ripe fruits for the picking of their wrongdoing. Read the rest of this entry »

The Continuing Conficker Menace

Security centers around the world have found that the famed conficker worm has again sprung back to life at the expected time and date April 1, April Fools Day. This was marked by updates sent to the sleeping code that told it to revise it’s strategy allowing it to circumvent many of the measures put in place to battle the long running malware that is estimated to have infected 9 million computers according to the latest estimates.
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What if, Tim?

The World Wide Web or the web as we know it, is a medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. It is often used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is only a service that operates on the Internet just like e-mail does. If Tim Berners-Lee had decided to patent his idea in 1989, the Internet would be so much different now. The Internet has many creators namely,Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn. They came up with a system to let different computer networks interconnect and communicate. Ray Tomlinson, is the creator of e-mail and the “@” symbol while Ted Nelson, coined the term hypertext and many others. But only one person conceptualized the World Wide Web. In fact, Berners-Lee first called it a “mesh”, before changing it to a “web”. Because he and Robert Cailliau, insisted on a license-free technology, today a Gateway computer operating on a Linux and a browser made by Netscape can see the same Web page as any other personal computers would. If his employer CERN sought royalties, the world would have 16 different “Webs” on the Internet today.

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