Slim and sexy HDTVs

Slim and sexy HDTVs - Televisions - CNET Asia: "Slim and sexy HDTVs These days, skinny 30mm-thin HDTVs are all the rage with all major TV manufacturers competing to deliver sexier-looking panels. Some emerging design trends include brushed-metal finishes commonly seen on premium Bang & Olufsen displays, ultra-narrow TV bezels and even thinner panels such as the 7.9mm-thin Samsung C9000. Among the various brands, Samsung is probably one of the leaders in TV aesthetics, together with LG, Sony and Philips, while Toshiba has partnered an external design house to beef up its panels' styling. Here's a roundup of some of the latest HDTVs we'd consider sexy.

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Your Website Has Just 8 Seconds

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SEO-News: April 14, 2011 Feature Article

By Neil Holley Williams (c) 2011

Researchers have found that when people arrive at a website, at least 50% of them will leave that website

within 8 seconds.

We know this because it's worth a lot of money to huge corporations to know how people use the internet. They want to know what people like and dislike, and what they do and don't do. These huge corporations have spent millions on research so that they can figure all this out.

Are 95% of Federal Websites Really Better than Facebook?

FACT: In a report issued last August, the ACSI gave Facebook a customer satisfaction score of 64 (on a 100-point scale).

FACT: In a report issued yesterday, 95% of federal websites rated using the same scale and the same methodology score better than Facebook.
Now, I don't know what happens at your office, but at my office, people spend their downtime on Facebook, not on irs.gov. So how can it be that 95% of federal websites outperform Facebook in terms of customer satisfaction? Is that even possible?
Yes, it's totally possible. And the Feds vs, Facebook isn't the only comparison that can be made. The best

Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space

April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. Scientific cooperation with the Soviet Union dates back to the very beginnings of space flight. The

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OPEC has surplus capacity to make up for shortfall: UAE

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Dubai, Apr 7 (PTI) Oil producing countries that have surplus production capacity provided international oil companies with additional quantities of crude, UAE Energy Minister Mohammed bin Dha''en Al Hameli has said.

Addressing the 12th International Oil Summit in Paris on Wednesday, Al Hameli said that OPEC members are not the only producers that are providing additional supplies, noting that non-OPEC supplies were expected to reach 500,000 barrels a day this year.

The conference is debating the recent developments on the energy and in particular the outlook for the oil industry.