• The most common name in the World is Mohammed [PBUH].
• Before the birth of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), this name was totally UNHEARD Worldwide.
• The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row! Of the keyboard.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
• You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. (more…)

(CNN) — The internet as we know it is reaching its limits.
Within 18 months it is estimated that the number of new devices able to connect to the world wide web will plummet as we run out of “IP addresses” — the unique codes that provide access to the internet for everything from PCs to smart phones.
“The internet as we know it will no longer be able to grow,” Daniel Karrenberg, chief scientist at RIPE NCC, the organization that issues IP addresses in Europe, told CNN.
“That doesn’t mean it will cease to function, but entry could be limited to new devices.”
Some estimate that by September 2011 the last large batches of addresses will be issued, meaning that months after that date there will be no new addresses available.
But while this sounds like a complete disaster — another Millennium Bug — it need not be, and there is a solution, if we all act quickly enough.
In 18 months time the internet as we know it will no longer be able to grow.
–Daniel Karrenberg, IP address expert

Currently the internet is built around the Internet Protocol Addressing Scheme version 4 (IPv4), which has around four billion addresses — and they’re fast running out.
Four billion no doubt seemed a huge amount when the system was designed in the 1970s, but few then could have predicted how the internet would take off, and how many billions more connections would be needed.
However, there is a replacement, IPv6, which has trillions more addresses available and ready to go. The problem is that businesses are proving slow to adapt their technology to IPv6, leaving experts fearful that we might be heading for a crunch within 18 months.

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SAN FRANCISCO —

WallStreet has called the end of an era and the beginning of the next one: The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in your hand.

The moment came Wednesday when Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, shot past Microsoft, the computer software giant, to become the world’s most valuable technology company.

This changing of the guard caps one of the most stunning turnarounds in business history for Apple, which had been given up for dead only a decade earlier, and its co-founder and visionary chief executive, Steven P. Jobs. The rapidly rising value attached to Apple by investors also heralds an important cultural shift: Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology. Microsoft, with its Windows and Office software franchises, has dominated the relationship most people had with their computers for almost two decades, and that was reflected in its stock market capitalization. (more…)

Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — AdSense for content and AdSense for search.

As you may already know, AdSense is comprised of several products. The most popular are AdSense for content, which allows publishers to generate revenue from ads placed alongside web content, and AdSense for search, which allows publishers to place a custom Google search engine on their site and generate revenue from ads shown next to search results. Since AdSense for content and AdSense for search offer publishers different services, the revenue shared with publishers differs for each of these products.

AdSense for content publishers, who make up the vast majority of our AdSense publishers, earn a 68% revenue share worldwide. This means we pay 68% of the revenue that we collect from advertisers for AdSense for content ads that appear on your sites. The remaining portion that we keep reflects Google’s costs for our continued investment in AdSense — including the development of new technologies, products and features that help maximize the earnings you generate from these ads. It also reflects the costs we incur in building products and features that enable our AdWords advertisers to serve ads on our AdSense partner sites. Since launching AdSense for content in 2003, this revenue share has never changed. (more…)

A Las Vegas man will be sentenced in federal court in San Jose in November for carrying out a crime known as “cookie stuffing” against the online auction site eBay.

Christopher Kennedy, 28, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge James Ware on Thursday to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud. He will be sentenced by Ware on Nov. 1.

U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello said Kennedy admitted in the plea that he created and sold a cookie-stuffing program on his website between January and November 2009.

The program was known as “saucekit” and Kennedy’s website was www.saucekit.com. (more…)

Every year has been the year of mobile since 2001 – every advertising publication, major speaker talks about what is the next big thing in mobile, year after year. I actually believe that 2010-2011 will see the biggest growth in the mobile industry, especially in revenue growth for third party companies. Affilaites, Advertising networks will see new mobile offers that expand the reach of advertising and production beyond the “normal” web and challenge advertisers and websites to think beyond the box. Mobile is no longer separate from the web, but now is an extension of the web, so the markets that have already engaged users online will be easily transferred to mobile. Here are a few thoughts on where this market needs to go:

1)      Mobile Offers: Expect that more and more products, offers and clients will be producing mobile pages. If you are looking to advertise to the mobile market, especially on the direct response side, you better create something that appeals to mobile users. No users wants to click on an advertisement, then go to a webpage they must resize, scroll side to side, or unable to read. If you are in the direct response field, this is more important – small pages, fast loading time and easy to fill out will be the focus. If you can collect a bit of information (first name, email) in a page, and then send out emails and collect more information over time, this will be a first level of engagement of any users. (more…)

Banks and governments in these five shaky economies owe each other many billions of euros — converted here to dollars — and have even larger debts to Britain, France and Germany. Arrow widths are proportional to debt amounts.