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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. Editors' note:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1217362&ctx=share Fewer irrelevant ads Gmail’s importance ranking applied to ads Offers and coupons for your local area With Gmail, we try to do as good a job with ads as we do with email. We use Gmail ourselves, and want its ads to be as relevant and useful as possible. If you've been using Gmail for a while, you may have noticed a time or two where we've missed. Bad ads tend to annoy people. We're trying to cut down on these ads, and make the ones you do see much more useful.

Image by jmtosses via Flickr 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.

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

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

The Active Studio development suite is designed specially for mobile development . It is the simplest way to develop mobile applications, the best part is you don't need to be a programmer to use it.  Why not join the many people the world who have already found Active Studio, and start creating your applications today. The ActiveStudio developer is a completely free tool allowing any number of your team to develop custom mobile applications.  You only have to pay for the client licenses. Active Studio gives you the ability to design your application on a PC , with features like the built in simulator which can be operated and viewed in the same way as the hand held device  you have chosen to run the application on. Applications can be created in hours or days, not weeks or months, which saves time and money. Now there is a suite of tools available that will take away the frustration of  not getting the most out of your investment, Active Studio is the answer to al

Image via Wikipedia 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 .

Image by Getty Images via @daylife What’s it like to be a chief marketing officer in 2011? “There is no comfort zone anymore,” said Krishnan Chatterjee, CMO for $3.1 billion Indian IT service provider HCL Technologies . What’s hot can turn cold. What’s up may come down. And it all happens at warp speed. There’s increased audience segmentation, a growing choice of marketing vehicles, the necessary integration of more third-party providers, and the seemingly endless touch points for any given brand that necessitates new relationships from HR and sales to IT and customer service. “The CMO today has really got to use the maximum amount of peripheral vision both internally and externally,” said Lynne Seid, partner in the global marketing officers practice of executive recruiter Heidrick & Struggles. The key is to build a corporate marketing team for tomorrow. “It’s very difficult to think you’re going to be able to construct the perfect message with the perfect executi

Image via Wikipedia Broadband Internet service truly is the most used form of Internet access because of its high access speeds; it is offered in four different forms, DSL (or Digital Subscriber Line ), also fiber-optic, cable, and satellite. The old dial-up connection is the only non-broadband internet service available, and even though it is cheaper, most Internet users are moving towards the faster broadband Internet connection. DSL The DSL (or Digital Subscriber Line) internet service makes its connection by utilizing unused telephone wires that cause no interruption to your telephone service. The speed you experience with a DSL connection varies with your distance from the switching station. Your speed will be slower the further away you are and faster the closer you are to the switching station and this may be a deciding factor when you attempt to select between a DSL line and a cable connection. Cable

Six ways you're spending more than you think on food | Yahoo! Green : "Food and Drink, Shopping, Veggies, Saving Money (Photo: Jupiterimages) This year, my husband and I resolved to spend way less money than we've been spending. But to be fair

Firefox 4 hits 1 million downloads in less than 3 hours following the official launch! At the time of writing Mozilla are seeing some 6,500 downloads of the new browser per minute. Mozilla are now moving on to working on Firefox 5 … current release date is scheduled for June 22nd, 2011.

SEO-News: March 24, 2011 Feature Article Article printed from SEO-News: http://www.seo-news.com HTML version available at: http://www.seo-news.com/archives.html The Truth About Search Engines and Flash By Jill Whalen (c) 2011 It seems that once a year for the past five years or so, a search engine representative will stand up at a conference and announce that they are now indexing Flash. Website designers jump with glee, and SEOs lament that all the work they did educating their clients on why they need to curb their use of Flash will be for naught.