http://www.qtcreative.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:28:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On a side note, if you're an iPhone user and wondering why photos you've uploaded to Flickr via e-mail are not showing up on Flickr's map (despite having geocodes in the EXIF data) it seems some of that geodata is being stripped out by Apple before it hits Flickr. To upload ... http://www.qtcreative.net/index.php/2010/09/geotagging-in-flickr-now-faster-simpler/ In its demonstrations at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters, Microsoft showed off something called "Air Wave," which allows advertisers to reach consumer on interactive multitouch screens in public places. Microsoft also is working on improvements to keyword and content analysis that would help companies put their ads next ... http://www.qtcreative.net/index.php/2010/08/microsoft-demos-next-gen-ad-technologies/ Call us traditionalists, but we like the first design the best. Maybe it's because the USB ports are higher up. Our hunch is that Maingear would love to hear your thoughts as well. (Credit: Maingear) This last idea is similar to the one above, but a little more space age. Based on ... http://www.qtcreative.net/index.php/2010/08/help-maingear-pick-a-new-desktop-design/ Magnify360, a company specializing in advertising conversion optimization, announced on Thursday that it has launched Google Cost Optimizer for those that want to maximize the performance of their Google AdWords campaigns. According to the company, Google Cost Optimizer synchronizes with its clients' AdWords accounts in real time and responds to bid, ... http://www.qtcreative.net/index.php/2010/08/magnify360-offers-google-adwords-cost-optimizer/ A federal court upheld Thursday an earlier ruling that EchoStar Communications infringed on a digital video recording software patent owned by TiVo. The Washington, D.C., court of appeals also agreed with the lower court's award of $89.6 million in damages to be paid to TiVo by EchoStar, which recently changed its ... http://www.qtcreative.net/index.php/2010/08/appeals-court-agrees-dish-dvr-infringed-on-tivo-pa/ Programmers behind the PostgreSQL project released the new version 8.3 of the open-source database software Monday, saying they've boosted improved performance 5 percent to 30 percent and added several useful features. One of the performance improvements comes from a technology called heap-optimized tables, which reduces the amount of effort a ... http://www.qtcreative.net/index.php/2010/08/postgresql-83-designed-for-better-speed/ eBay application on iPhone (Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com) On Monday, eBay announced and demonstrated its new Auctions app at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Users can log in to their accounts to buy and sell items wherever they are. The app integrates with Webkit, allowing people to write out full ... http://www.qtcreative.net/index.php/2010/08/ebay-gets-its-own-native-iphone-app-update/ • Mary Agnes Wilderotter, 7.8 percent, no change The shareholder approval ratings for Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock plunged Tuesday after Yahoo released new results that corrected a vote transmission error. • Vyomesh Joshi, 7.1 percent, no change Shareholders unhappy with board members withheld their votes in the Friday election. In Yahoo's ... http://www.qtcreative.net/index.php/2010/08/shareholder-approval-of-yahoo-board-plunges-on-vot/ Also, much of what I write is commentary and I've been wrong before. If you ask my wife, she'd probably say I'm occasionally right. First, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Bottom line: There are thousands of companies with cool technology, but only a small percentage ... http://www.qtcreative.net/index.php/2010/08/dont-be-a-sucker-when-it-comes-to-stocks/ According to Nathan Rosenberg, chief marketing officer at Virgin Mobile, the ad will run in two Toronto daily newspapers this week as part of the company's "You call the shots" campaign. "We weren't planning on an ad featuring Governor Spitzer, but he caught our attention this week," said Rosenberg. ... http://www.qtcreative.net/index.php/2010/08/virgin-mobile-turns-spitzer-woes-into-ad-copy/