Have you ever heard this statement “thinking outside the box”. What does it mean anyway? The most person who always comes up with this statement are the innovators. What they mean is when you having a problem try to solve the problem with creative ways, or find a new way when solving the problem, not usually way that everyone do. How the hell they can do it? Is you can do it? Yes everyone can do it. First we have to ask what is the box is. Then we can see and get inside the box.
Let say the box is the normal way of doing things and seeing at things. This box is that everyone involved is making. Now that we already inside the box, we can thinking out of the box then, the best way to do is to identify and challenge all the assumptions that make up thinking inside the box. As for example, one of major company wanna boost their sales but it seems they couldn’t. Promotions, getting better shelf placement, lowering the price is not enough to increase their sales. You can see they try to solve the problem with inside the box solution. Until someone challenged the assumptions, he said,”stop the promotion and raised the price”.
And the price was raised to test the market, and sales soon doubled. As my experience we have to know what buyers need. Buyers do not want to buy the most expensive ones, but this is the interesting part, they also do not want to buy something that seem cheap, it is mean that they won’t buy something that do not cost enough. And the next thing happens is the profit margins raised up when you raised up the price and double the sales. This is the power of thinking outside the box. read more →
Boxee the cross-platform, open-source media center include social networking features will released a public Alpha version to Windows this summer. As Boxee team said earlier that until the date for Beta launch the team will looking forward to receive feedback from PC users. And the day is 7th of Decembers. Boxee Beta will be revealed at a special event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in New York City.
In the event they will demo the new Beta Boxee, and launch new applications from partners and 4-weeks early access for users to testing the Boxee beta before launch it to the public at CES on January 7th 2011. And it is entirely different from the Alpha.
Here are the highlight of the Boxee beta version:
1. New User Interface (UI)
2. Improvement Navigation
3. Allow users to find TV shows and movies on the internet and local network (LAN)
4. User controlled Queque
5. Shortcuts to movies, programs and applications,etc
If you interesting on Boxxe beta releases, but you cannot go to NYC, I’ll suggest you watch it from internet cause the event will be streamed. It’s available on the Boxee blog and directly through the Boxee software. See the video overview below:
The Christmas holidays are just matter of time. People around the world will focus on spreading the holiday cheer, by finding the Christmas gift and sending a Christmas card and so on. But you have to be careful and aware that there are some people with malicious intent will take a chance to scam you.
As McAfee report that they already highlighted 12 scams that you should be aware this time of year. There many of people that will scam you for money or they would like infected your computer. You do not want these happening do you? The fact is more money will comes up when it is Christmas holiday, people are spending more time online, they’re paying more bills, so the bad guys see it as a chance to get money from these people.
These are the highlights of The 12 scams of Christmas that you should avoid this time of the year:
1. Charity Scams
You will get an email that looks like originate from a legit charity. In here you’ll be asked to visit the charity
and make donation. And the next things is the bad guys will make a move and steal your credit card information and your identity. If you want really to donate your many just visit the charity’s website and do not click a link if you received a spam message.
2. Fake Invoice Scams
The bad guys will send out fake invoices and delivery notifications that seem originally from UPS or FEDEX or the postal service. The notification says that the UPS or FEDEX or whatever tried to send a package to your address but failed. Once again you will be ask to confirm your address and provide your credit card info, cause someone has to pay for it.
3. Friend Request On Social Networking Sites Scams
You will get an email that looks like a usual friend request from Facebook for example. If you receive and click the link than you will be taken to a malware spreading site. Or you will be taken to the site that looks like Facebook, but on the other hand is a phishing that try to steal your login credentials. read more →
Box office this week is still held by The Twilight Saga : New Moon although as expected before that in the second week will be collapsed, after fan frenzy in the first week.But still narrowly led thanksgiving weekend with estimated $42,9 million for a whooping $230.9 million in ten days. The Blind Side trailing in the second and the doomsday movie 2012 sit in third place.This the highest-grossing Thanksgiving weekend on record at around $186 million, although in the total estimated attendance is not so special, it is placed in nine position.
New Moon make great debut in first week with $200 million at eight days release and in the process. New moon had a final haul of $192.8 million, that claimed to be the biggest vampire movie in the history.New Moon did fall 70 percent in the second week of Thanksgiving and surpassing the first Twilight that down 62 percent in the second week. But still the Saga are holding up well for movie with such genre.
In the second Blind Side held up well, narrowing the gap between New Moon, the drama about football advanced 18 percent to $40.1 million with total estimated reach $100.2 million in ten days release. That makes the fastest sports movie on history to surpass the $100 million mark. read more →
The technology has grown so fast years after years, nowadays the biggest thing the has created is the internet. People all around the worlds using this technology more than ever before. It’s become primary needed and become part of people lifestyle.
When we talking about internet then is all about speed of the connectivity, well most people choose to use cable or DSL (digital subscriber line). However there is a problem if we still relies on this, Cable and DSL need wires and cable an infrastructure that maybe not established in many parts of the country. Cable and DSL are only available in cities, towns, urban center, suburbs and the like. So if you’re going to small village maybe you will not able to access the internet.
The solution to dial up is to use satellite internet. Satellite internet will have clear connection cause this technology directly connect to satellite. All you have to do is to set up and started is a satellite receiver, a modem and a few coaxial cable. The different is very significant you can compare the speed of your internet in the last 30 days with the satellite internet it is fifty times faster than dial up. Imagine you can access the internet wherever you are. There is no wonder that satellite internet nowadays are more popular than DSL and Cable. There are no peak times and the connection will reach you no matter atmosphere conditions may interfere. read more →
