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How Does a Touch Screen Phone Work? [Infographic]
Intel Releases the 3rd Generation Core Processors
Select the Better Option for Link Building – Forum Posts vs Blog Comments

How Does a Touch Screen Phone Work? [Infographic]

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 10:00 AM PDT

What makes a touch screen touchable? And why are some touch screen phones more expensive than others? If you’re in the market for a new phone, getting a touch screen seems like all the rage.

But how do you decide which touch screen phone is right for you? And – more importantly – how do you determine if a ‘fancier’ phone will really live up to its price? In this infographic, we’ll give you the facts you need to find the touch screen you want.

Touch screen technology is as simple as 1-2-3. Okay, not really, but we’ll make it easy for you. There are three main types of touch screens: resistive, capacitive, and infrared.

Some of the main differences you’ll notice between these technologies are cost, screen material, outdoor visibility, and tool for input. Phones like the Samsung Messager have resistive touch screens that include a layer of flexible material over glass and respond bare fingers, gloved fingers, or a stylus.

Phone likes the Huawei Ascend have more expensive capacitive screens that respond only to bare fingers but offer better outdoor visibility.

Check out the infographic for the full story on today’s touch screens!

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Intel Releases the 3rd Generation Core Processors

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 06:30 AM PDT

Intel has announced the release of their 3rd generation Core processors. These processors, like previous generations, will be quad-core processors, and will be available in desktops, and boxed versions starting this month.

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Core Improvements

The new 3rd generation Core processors are reported to see a great 20% processor performance gain over previous processors, along with new technologies that help to speed the data flow to and from the chips.

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These performance gains are attributed to the new three-dimensional structure of the new Intel transistors. Current computers, servers, and other electronic devices have used two-dimensional transistors, but with the additional third dimension, Intel has increased the transistor density. The increase in density has allow more capability to be added to each millimeter within the new processors.

New HD Graphics Processing

Intel has also reworked the graphics architecture of their new 3rd generation Core processors, which may help improve the performance and visuals.

With the release of the 3rd generation Core processors, Intel has also updated the included graphics processing engine with the release of the Intel HD Graphics 4000. This graphics core is reported to produce 2x better 3D graphics performance compared to previous generation processors. The new Intel HD Graphics 4000 supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.1, and OpenCL 1.1.

Those that will use the included HD Graphics 4000 may be able to convert videos 2x faster than last years processors, and 23X faster than processors 3 years old. While these numbers come from Intel, I’m sure independent benchmarks can verify these claims.

Availability

New systems that include the new quad-core Intel Core processors will begin shipping this month. For those that like to build their own desktop systems, boxed versions of the processors will also begin shipping this month.

As for server, specialty systems, ultrabooks and laptops, the processors for these systems will become available later this year. So far, no date for these processors is available.

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Select the Better Option for Link Building – Forum Posts vs Blog Comments

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Link Building is the base key behind any marketing campaign. Therefore link building is the best way to promote your websites, services and products to get the best web visibility and quick traffic.

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There are two most common and effective ways of doing link building – one is "Blog Comments", and the other is "Forums". Both can provide you the "do-follow" as well as "no-follow" links. Let us take that both are providing you "do-follow" links then which one will you choose better for doing your link building campaign. To get out of this selection, let's find out the result.

Direct traffic: If you are thinking for initial direct traffic and that too at skyscraping rate, then definitely blog comment will not be the great choice. Forums offer you to get backlinks with the liberty to drive huge amount of traffic with every new post you made and the threads will take you to the first page of that discussion you can increase your traffic count by posting.
Discussions: Discussion keeps the topic live and creates a friendly and communicative environment. Most of the people join forums to share their views and get information from various different people. Discussions are good for both personal as well as professional levels as one can make friends of same interest and also able to get backlink of desirable keyword and URL to help to increase website's rankings and attract huge traffic. While the blog discussions are bit full of complications of approval and one can get only one link if the moderator likes that.
Desirable Customized keywords tag: In forums, one can create a huge list of desirable keywords which are useful for your site. One can tag that keyword lists with their forum posts. This keywords tag helps in fetching links while searching on Google which results in contributing to search engine result pages (SERPs). Like forums, blog comments don't have this option available.
SEO: When it comes to SEO, blog comments are more effective then forums. The reason is that the blogs can easily get high rankings and the commented links on that blog will get a huge benefit from the high page rank of that blog. High rankings are yet not so common in case of forums.
Approval: Most of the blog comments need the administrator's approval to show that comment live on the blog. But in forums, there is such condition of approval. The forums thread posts are live as soon as it is posted. So it is not sure that you will definitely get a link if you comment on any blog. But it is sure in case of forums.
Timely Updates: Forums are updated more often than blogs. The requirement of this updation is that if you want to get your rankings improved then you must publish fresh, unique and updated content regularly to attract visitors and search engines for your own site's benefit. Users click those sites which have useful and fresh information which they easily get from forums. As there are lots of users registered in the forums and everyone put some content after every few minutes, so forums get more often updations. Blogs are generally updated twice a week but it should be better if one can update his blog regularly.

So it is now fair to conclude that forums are the right choice to get instant traffic and rankings than blog comments. Forums posts are easy, quick and cogent way of getting higher number of clicks to your site. A forum having high daily traffic and has content matching with your site's theme will be more suitable for the marketing purpose.

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