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Dubai has become a world leader in business, trading, tourism and development structures. These global distinctions have given success to Dubai and made it vibrant and business friendly city with a successful record of its construction development projects. The vice president and the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Makhtoum is making every effort to make Dubai a place for enterprise, vacations and leisure worldwide through major construction developments because he wants to lessen the dependency of Dubai’s economy on natural reserves as they are running out and may not give their major share in the growing and booming economy of Dubai in future.

After such a huge development work, the business of real estate Dubai is growing rapidly. Investors are heavily investing in the sector of property in Dubai as they are earning more than 30% on their investment that is really a significant figure as compared to any other business in Dubai. Dubai is a state where outsiders feel attraction as its cultural, political and economical environments are very open and one can easily adjust in Dubai without any problem and it is considered a ...

A cancer-causing cadmium discharge from a mining company has polluted a long stretch of two rivers in southern China, and officials warned some 3.7 million people of Liuzhou in the Guangxi region to avoid drinking water from the river, state media reported on Friday, January 27.

Pollution of waterways by toxic run-offs from factories and farms is a pressing issue in China, prompting authorities to call for policy tightening, though the problem shows no sign of going away.

Officials opened sluices at four upstream hydrological stations on the Longjiang River, a tributary to the Liujiang that runs through Liuzhou, hoping to dilute the pollutants after the toxic metal cadmium was first detected nearly two weeks ago in Hechi, Xinhua state news agency said.

Many fish died despite efforts by local fire officials to dissolve the cadmium by pouring hundreds of tonnes of neutralizers into the river, and authorities reported panic buying of bottled water by local residents.

Xinhua said officials blamed the Guangxi Jinhe Mining Co. for the January 15 spill, but it was not clear how long the company had been discharging the chemical into the river or how much had been released, Reuters reported.

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Google has revised its decision for unifying as much as 60 services under a single privacy policy. This is the way Google’s account holders configures their privacy settings. Google’s new policy includes a data integration component that governs mostly the contents you usually share with your other. The data sharing can’t be configured for every single service. On the contrary, Google users are capable to take decision on sharing contents with the company via individual accounts.

Google offers some options that trigger the information contained within any Google account. By accessing the Dashboard on the main page of your Google account, you can have an overview of the info contained by your account. A lot of info are there on the main page of your Google account, for instance, Android devices, calendar info, contact info, Gmail history & records of the activities on Google Music, Google Reader, Google Talk, Google Voice.

Source: http://www.techgadgetsweb.com

Queensland's premier Anna Bligh has announced the state is to hold it's elections on Saturday, March 24; however, in an unusual move, she did not advise the governor to issue the writs for the election.

"I intend to call the 2012 State election for Saturday the 24th of March," said Bligh, Leader of the incumbent Australian Labor Party.

Local government elections, originally scheduled for March 31, will now be scheduled for late April.

"Why are 73 local government elections around Queensland being pushed back? That adds more months of uncertainty when she has had a year to separate out the two elections," said Leader of the Liberal National Party, Campbell Newman. Newman will have to win the seat of Ashgrove if he is to become premier.

The two major parties are expected to face some strong competition in a number of seats from the Greens, the recently formedKatter's Australian Party, and independent candidates.

"There is undeniably a strong mood to change the government, but voters should not feel forced into giving up on their progressive views or their desire for some long-term vision and a more principled approach to politics," said Greens lead candidate Adam Stone who is contesting the ...

Every business house needs a good advertising agency to be a success in the market. A good Advertising is a key element for a successful business. For quality advertisement, taking services of a well known advertising agency is very important. You can say that advertisements are one of the most important marketing tools in the market nowadays. Because of rising demand of advertisements for developing business, there has been a significant growth in the number of media advertising Agencies. There are many advertising agencies in the market today and each of them promises to give you quality services. You should select an advertising agency for your business very carefully because advertising means a lot for successful running of your business. If you plan to get great results, then it's always advisable to go in for a reputed and experienced advertising agency that is in business for quite some time. Because of their experience in the world of advertising, they will give you good services when it comes to creating eye catching and interesting advertisements for your business house. There are many ways to choose a good advertising agency. Word of mouth is one of the best options to gather information about advertising agencies. Ask your friends ...

A police spokesman says authorities have found 10 unexploded car bombs in a northern Nigeria city where an attack by a radical Islamist sect killed more than 150 people, The Associated Press reported.

Kano state police spokesman Magaji Musa Majiya said Monday, Jan 23, that officers found one near a police station in the state capital of Kano, which was attacked by the sect known as Boko Haram. Majiya said officers have disarmed the explosive.

Majiya also said officers have found other locally made explosives.

The Nigerian Red Cross estimates more than 150 people died in Friday's attack in Kano after at least two Boko Haram suicide bombers detonated explosive-laden cars. The attack hit police stations, immigration offices and the local headquarters of Nigeria's secret police, leaving corpses in the streets across the city.

Source: http://www.panarmenian.net

With Amazon Kindle fire tablet was launched last year on November, it was considered as the first ever tablet to challenge Apple’s iPad seriously. Being available at $200, the Kindle tablet seriously undercut Apple’s iPad pricing. Besides, the Amazon’s tablet incorporated to an excellent digital ecosystem that includes books, music, video & other downloadable contents.

Consequently, a war for tablet market dominance was established in the title “Amazon versus Apple”.

When BGR revealed that the Kindle tablet may cost Apple Inc. $1 billion or even more in Holiday iPad Sales. At that instant, Amazon was supposed to be on the top. Contrarily, when AppleInsider published that Amazon were thinking about reducing their Kindle tablet orders to half focusing at the new iPad looms, it appeared as if the previously war was switching its direction.

Under these circumstances, the situations become so sophisticated to judge which one is threatening whom. Consequently, the comparison between kindle Fire & iPad is analogous to the comparison between orange & apple.

Source: http://www.techgadgetsweb.com

Environment Secretary Robert Summers told Eastern Shore lawmakers the Bay Restoration Fund needs an additional $385 million to upgrade 67 sewage treatment plants in Maryland and echoed Gov. Martin O’Malley’s call to double the flush tax to $60 a year.

Del. Michael Smigiel, R-Caroline, challenged Summers on the fairness of the tax to rural Marylanders.

“It seems there’s a disproportionate amount of requirements being placed on the rural counties, as opposed to areas like Baltimore City that have spilled 100 million gallons of raw sewage into the Bay,” Smigiel told Summers at a meeting of Eastern Shore lawmakers Friday morning. “And your agency seems to refer to these spills as an insignificant event.”

“I certainly never said sewage spills were an insignificant problem,” Summers replied. “They are a very significant problem, and it is something we are putting a lot of effort into.”

Summers said residents in counties on the Western Shore and Baltimore City pay significantly higher water and sewer fees than rural areas.

“Their fees have been going up 10% a year for the last several years.”

He also said the amount of spillage in Baltimore City is minor compared to the 700 million ...

Book:                   Call Me Irresistible

Author:                Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Publisher:           William Morrow

ISBN/ASIN:         9783361351525

Rating:                  4.5 Stars

Release Date:    January 18, 2011

Be sure to check out Susan's page.

Will Ted Beaudine actually lose his head over Meg Koranda? Will she really, really make him pop like a volcano and explode? Just wondering about it is half the fun of reading Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s newest contemporary romance Call Me Irresistible. It is her fault entirely that I got no sleep last night! 

SEP takes us back to it all, to the root of her amazing stories: Glitter Baby, Lady Be Good,Fancy Pants and First Lady whose characters infiltrate and bolster Call Me Irresistible…it was like hanging out with old friends again with a martini in my hand, alot of mischief, some tongue wagging, brisk dialogue, and hilarious banter…snappy set-downs….and Wynette….a crazy town with crazy politics and once again two great characters who can’t stand one another.

This time the story is about steely calm Ted Beaudine, the son of Dallas and Francesca Beaudine-her “Teddy” the golden boy who can do no wrong. Ted is the over achiever, plays a mean round of ...

Koushik Dutta, the co-founder of the popular CyanogenMod project has been contemplating the idea of an App Store which will sell apps for rooted devices. Usually many of these apps can't be on the official Android Market due to restrains from either the carriers or the OEMs.

Koushik posted on his idea of the App Store  Google page his idea behind the App Store:

"We need an App Store for root apps. We also need an app store for apps that are getting shut down for no good reason, other than carrier, or some random corporation doesn't like it."

Koushik also talked to Amazon about bundling the CyanogenMod App Store:

"I've actually approached Amazon about bundling their AppStore in CM if they gave CM a cut of the sales. But they brushed me off, saying that was something they could talk about in a few months.The CyanogenMod App Store will become a haven for apps removed from the App Store. The interesting point is how with Nintendo and Sony deal with game emulators published on CyanogenMod App Store? Also, how is the small team of CyanogenMod going to manage the quality and sanctity of rogue apps."

Source: http://www.muktware.com/

What does the word “partnership” mean to you?

 In plain English, a partnership means a collectively beneficial agreement to all parties involved. Because of its win/win nature, partnerships are generally easy to form if the best interest of everyone involved was taken into account.

Today, I will focus on the different levels of social media partnerships. I brainstormed the possible types of partnership that can result from social media and will be presenting them in an orderly fashion from shallowest to deepest levels.

1. Implicit Visibility Partnerships

I assume that anyone who takes the time to share your content via social media is your implicit visibility partner. This person is your implicit partner because there is no partnership agreement between the two of you.

The first question that comes to mind here is:  If partnership is about mutually beneficial relationships and another person voluntarily shares your content, what’s in it for them?

Well, if your content was relevant to their target audience, then your implicit visibility partners will enjoy visibility and credibility rewards.

In other words, you can think of social sharing as a win/win unsigned deal for both parties involved.

2. Explicit Visibility Partnerships

In this case there’s an explicit agreement between ...

According to many real estate experts, selling a home in the dead of summer is difficult. Statistically, spring is the most popular season for selling homes, with autumn coming in second and summer at third. Despite this general consensus, many sellers aren't able to sell during the peak seasons. A sudden job transfer or an unexpected growth in family won't allow sellers to wait. If you're selling your home and are going to have to list it during the summer, not to worry. There are some benefits for listing your home for sale during this traditionally "slow" season.

1. Less Competition - There's a lot more inventory on the market during the spring and fall months, which means a lot more competition for sellers. During the summer, house listings drop. That's because the assumption is that no one buys during the summer. People do buy during the summer, but there aren't as many people looking, so your home may not get the same amount of traffic as it would during the peak seasons. Remember though, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The people who do come to look at your house are likely to be ...

Intel Social Media Guidelines

These are the official guidelines for social media at Intel. If you're an Intel employee or contractor creating or contributing to blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds, or any other kind of social media both on and off intel.com—these guidelines are for you. We expect all who participate in social media on behalf of Intel to be trained, to understand and to follow these guidelines. Failure to do so could put your future participation at risk. These guidelines will continually evolve as new technologies and social networking tools emerge—so check back once in awhile to make sure you're up to date.

When You Engage

Emerging platforms for online collaboration are fundamentally changing the way we work, offering new ways to engage with customers, colleagues, and the world at large. It's a new model for interaction and we believe social computing can help you to build stronger, more successful business relationships. And it's a way for you to take part in global conversations related to the work we are doing at Intel and the things we care about.

If you participate in social media, please follow these guiding principles:

Stick to ...

This commentary was written by Spiegel journalist and author Charles Hawley, writing under the German news magazine's column "The World From Berlin", which includes editorial comments by various German news organizations. Mr. Hawley's column, and the commentaries, which were posted on Spiegel Online's edition for Monday, January 23, 2012, follow: 

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich scored a surprising victory over Mitt Romney in South Carolina on Saturday. But that is bad news for the Republican Party, say German editorialists. Gingrich, they argue, is deeply flawed, and he is exposing Romney's problems as well. 

For U.S. Republicans, it all comes down to who has the best chance of beating President Barack Obama in a general election contest. And until Saturday, it seemed that most had resigned themselves to the belief that Mitt Romney, the decidedly uninspiring multimillionaire former head of private equity firm Bain Capital, would win out over the decidedly immodest, once-disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

But in South Carolina, the playing field tilted in Gingrich's favor after Republican voters there handed him a decisive victory in the state's primary. Gingrich ended up with 40 percent of the vote to ...

British Columbia has an immigration program split into two categories. The Strategic Occupations Stream, requires all applicants to have a valid job offer that conforms to certain requirements from an employer in British Columbia. British Columbia'sBusiness Immigration Stream requires that the applicant invest in or purchase a business in British Columbia.
Strategic Occupations Stream
In order to qualify under this stream the applicant requires a valid job offer from a BC employer that falls into one of the following categories:

• Skilled Worker: the job offer may be in any skilled level position in British Columbia, in accordance with the Canadian National Occupational Classification Matrix (NOC)
• Designated Health Care Professionals: the applicant must be a registered nurse, psychiatric nurse, midwife or a physician in British Columbia 
• International Graduate: the applicant must have completed a degree/program in an accredited Canadian post-secondary institution within the last two years  Semi-Skilled Worker: the job offer must be in the tourism/hospitality, food processing or long-haul trucking industries and the applicant must have already worked for the employer for nine consecutive months
• International Post-Graduate Pilot Project: this program is for students who obtained a Master’s ...

The question I have the most problems to answer (usually asked by someone in the audience after a talk about Social Media) is to tell what my predictions are for the future of Social Media. The difficulty to answer has to do with several factors, the most important being the unpredictable character of people (who are the main factor behind the social media phenomenon) and the ever changing technological context (including the developments of innovative Social Media apps). If you want to give a sound answer to this question you need to make some concrete assumptions and develop different scenarios. This is something that I do not dare to attempt in a 3 minute answer and mostly I disappoint my audience saying just this. 

The truth is that most people have no problem with this question at all. This morning I googled "predictions" AND "Social" AND "Media" AND "2012" and received 147 mil results!!! It seems that by now almost everyone has become an expert in Social Media and many of these experts have also developed the charisma of prognosticator! 
Looking randomly to some of these predictions you can find ...

Microsoft Corp. announced quarterly revenue of $20.89 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2011, a 5% increase from the prior year period.

Operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $7.99 billion, $6.62 billion, and $0.78 per share, compared with $8.17 billion, $6.63 billion and $0.77 per share, respectively, in the prior year period. Prior year results include recognition of $224 million of deferred revenue related to the Office 2010 technology guarantee program.

The Microsoft Business Division reported $6.28 billion in second quarter revenue, a 3% increase from the prior year period, and a 7% increase excluding the prior year recognition of deferred revenue for the Office 2010 technology guarantee program. Nearly 200 million licenses of Office 2010 have been sold in the 18 months since launch. Revenue from Exchange and SharePoint grew by 10% or more over the prior year period, and revenue from Lync and Dynamics CRM grew by more than 30%.

The Server & Tools business posted $4.77 billion in second quarter revenue, an 11% increase from the prior year period, reflecting double-digit revenue growth in Windows Server and SQL Server premium editions and more ...

Properties all over the country are experiencing a booming stage and one of the best cities to invest in is Gurgaon. The region offers affordable property options for potential buyers. Gurgaon is well connected to Delhi and holds one of the best real estate options to invest in. Whether looking for a residential plot, flat or a commercial space, one can get every possible solution to their property in Gurgaon itself. With the increasing demand in thereal estate sector, there is an equal supply of the same and thus there is a necessity to equalize both of these in a good manner and thus there is a need for real estate agents in Gurgaon. 

Real estate agents in Gurgaon offers all kinds of deals related to property like residential, housing , industrial, societies, commercial, IT parks, flats, SEZ’s, malls, warehouses and many more. With this kind of business opportunity, there is a huge demand of real estate agents in the city. There is no denying from the fact that a real estate agent in Gurgaon not only helps in simplifying the buying and selling procedure of property but also acts as a platform for the buyers and ...

An iPad can be used to read a wide variety of books. A number of apps are available to allow users to view their libraries, take notes, highlight or search for specific text, share passages, and zoom in on pictures or tables. Some books available for the iPad include sound so that users can listen to the text instead of reading it. Here are some tips on how to buy books for the iPad.

Steps

1. Choose an app to use. There are numerous free apps available, depending on where you want to buy books. You can download as many different apps as you need in order to cover all of the places you want to buy books since different e-bookstores offer different selections of books.

2. Tap the "App Store" icon on your iPad.

3. Tap the search box in the upper-right corner. Type the name of the app you want to purchase, and tap the "Search" key on the virtual keyboard.

4. Find the app you're looking for. You may need to tap the "See All" link to do this.

5. Tap the "Install" button. Type in your Apple ID password, then tap the ...

The legal team of Red Hat, the world's most successful open source company has released astatement on SOPA and PIPA.

" Two bills pending in the US Congress – the "Stop Online Piracy Act" or SOPA in the House, and the "PROTECT IP Act" or PIPA in the Senate – raise enormous concerns for North Carolina home grown technology companies like Red Hat.

At a time when we are working to rebuild confidence in our economy, their potential effect on jobs and innovation is a matter of serious concern.

As America's – and the world's – largest and most successful provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, Red Hat is proud to be headquartered in Raleigh. Our high-quality, affordable technology solutions are found throughout the mission-critical IT architecture of the financial, defense, transportation, telecommunications and most other industry sectors.

Our success and, increasingly, the economic success of our state is the product of the encouragement of open innovation and collaboration. A vital ingredient of this success involves leveraging the tremendous gains that the Internet has brought through online collaboration, software development and sharing of ideas.

In a ...