15 Best Jobs for the Future

Even in a tough economy, some professions have a bright outlook for 2010 and beyond. According to O*Net, an online tool for career exploration and job search, we may see strong hiring in a number of professions. O*Net groups professions into one of five job “zones” based on levels of education, experience, and training necessary to perform the occupation. Here’s a sampling of professions trending upward in each of the five categories.

Zone 1: Little or no preparation

1. Food Preparation Workers

Job description: Perform a variety of food preparation duties other than cooking, such as preparing cold foods and shellfish, slicing meat, and brewing coffee or tea.

Sample job titles: dietary aide, prep cook, food service worker, food service aide, dietary assistant, nutrition aide, food preparer, pantry cook, slicer

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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2. Landscaping and Grounds-keeping Workers

Job description: Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units.

Sample of job titles: groundskeeper, outside maintenance worker, gardener, greens keeper, grounds worker, grounds/maintenance specialist, utility worker, grounds supervisor

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

See all Jobs in Landscaping (710)

3. Construction Laborers

Job description: Perform tasks involving physical labor at building, highway, and heavy construction projects, tunnel and shaft excavations, and demolition sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support the sides of excavations, erect scaffolding, clean up rubble and debris, and remove asbestos, lead, and other hazardous waste materials. May assist other craft workers.

Sample of job titles: laborer, construction laborer, cement finisher, construction worker, helper, post framer, curb and gutter laborer, drain layer, drop crew laborer, punch out crew member

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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Zone 2: Some preparation needed

4. Animal Trainers

Job description: Train animals for riding, harness, security, performance, or obedience, or assisting persons with disabilities. Accustom animals to human voice and contact; and condition animals to respond to commands. Train animals according to prescribed standards for show or competition. May train animals to carry pack loads or work as part of pack team.

Sample of job titles: trainer, dog trainer, horse trainer, guide dog instructor, agility instructor, dog and cat behavior specialist, guide dog mobility instructor, licensed guide dog instructor

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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5. Bill and Account Collectors

Job description: Locate and notify customers of delinquent accounts by mail, telephone, or personal visit to solicit payment. Duties include receiving payment and posting amount to customer’s account; preparing statements to credit department if customer fails to respond; initiating repossession proceedings or service disconnection; keeping records of collection and status of accounts.

Sample of job titles: collector, patient account representative, debt collector, account representative, collections manager, credit clerk, patient access specialist, telephone collector, accounts receivable specialist, biller

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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6. Customer Service Representatives

Job description: Interact with customers to provide information in response to inquiries about products and services and to handle and resolve complaints.

Sample of job titles: customer service representative, account manager, client services representative, account representative, customer service specialist, member services representative, hub associate, account service representative, call center representative

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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Zone 3: Medium preparation needed

7. Acute Care Nurses

Job description: Provide advanced nursing care for patients with acute conditions such as heart attacks, respiratory distress syndrome, or shock. May care for pre- and post-operative patients or perform advanced, invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.

Sample of job titles: nurse manager, nursing director, progressive care unit registered nurse

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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8. Correctional Officers and Jailers

Job description: Guard inmates in penal or rehabilitative institution in accordance with established regulations and procedures. May guard prisoners in transit between jail, courtroom, prison, or other point. Includes deputy sheriffs and police who spend the majority of their time guarding prisoners in correctional institutions.

Sample of job titles: correctional officer, corrections officer, jailer, detention deputy, detention officer, correctional sergeant, deputy jailer, booking officer, public safety officer

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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9. Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

Job description: Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, handling information requests, and performing clerical functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.

Sample of job titles: administrative assistant, executive assistant, executive secretary, administrative secretary, office manager, administrative coordinator, administrative aide, administrative associate, secretary

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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Zone 4: Considerable preparation needed

10. Accountants

Job description: Analyze financial information and prepare financial reports to determine or maintain record of assets, liabilities, profit and loss, tax liability, or other financial activities within an organization.

Sample of job titles: accountant, certified public accountant, staff accountant, accounting manager, cost accountant, business analyst, financial reporting accountant

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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11. Supply Chain Managers

Job description: Direct, or coordinate production, purchasing, warehousing, distribution, or financial forecasting services and activities to limit costs and improve accuracy, customer service and safety. Examine existing procedures and opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs. Direct the movement, storage, and processing of inventory.

Sample of job titles: supply chain manager, supply chain director, supply chain vice president

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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12. Software Quality Engineers and Testers

Job description: Develop and execute software test plans in order to identify software problems and their causes.

Sample of job titles: quality assurance analyst, quality assurance director, software quality assurance engineer, software quality engineer, product assurance engineer, software test engineer

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed

13. Mental Health Counselors

Job description: Counsel with emphasis on prevention. Work with individuals and groups to promote optimum mental health. May help individuals deal with addictions and substance abuse; family, parenting, and marital problems; suicide; stress management; problems with self-esteem; and issues associated with aging and mental and emotional health.

Sample of job titles: therapist, counselor, correctional counselor, mental health therapist, case manager, mental health specialist, behavior support specialist, mental health program specialist, child care counselor

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

See all Jobs in Mental Health Counseling (238)

14. Physical Therapists

Job description: Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and decrease or prevent deformity of patients suffering from disease or injury.

Sample of job titles: physical therapist, home care physical therapist, pediatric physical therapist, registered physical therapist, rehabilitation services director

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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15. Treasurers and Controllers

Job description: Direct financial activities, such as planning, procurement, and investments for all or part of an organization.

Sample of job titles: controller, treasurer, business manager, finance director, chief financial officer, school treasurer, comptroller, business administrator

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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7 Tips for Baby Boomers Turning 65 in 2011

The oldest baby boomers accept amorphous to about-face 65 this year. High on their calendar should be signing up for Medicare. Boomers as well accept important Social Security and career choices to make. Actuality are seven tips for authoritative retirement decisions at age 65:

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Sign up for Medicare on time. You can aboriginal assurance up for Medicare during a seven-month window alpha three months afore the ages you about-face 65. Assurance up during the months arch up to your 65th altogether if you wish your advantage to activate the ages you about-face 65. (If your altogether is on the aboriginal day of the month, your advantage can alpha as aboriginal as the aboriginal day of the above-mentioned month.) If you don't assurance up for Medicare Part B during this antecedent acceptance period, your premiums may access by 10 percent for anniversary 12-month aeon that you adjournment enrollment. If you are still alive and covered by a accumulation bloom allowance plan at work, assurance up aural eight months of abrogation the allowance plan to abstain the penalty.

Schedule your chargeless physical. Alpha this year, Medicare provides a ancient chargeless concrete assay aural the aboriginal 12 months you accept Part B advantage by a doctor who agrees to be paid anon by Medicare. The appointment may cover a analysis of your health, eyes and claret burden screenings, apprenticeship and counseling about antitoxin affliction casework covered by Medicare, and referrals for analysis you may need. Other bactericide casework you may be able to get at no abroad bulk cover cardiovascular and breast blight screenings, cartilage accumulation measurements, and flu shots.

Delay Social Security until next year. While Medicare accommodation for 1946-born babyish boomers begins this year, they still will not authorize for the abounding bulk of Social Security allowances they are advantaged to. Boomers will accept to adjournment addition year, until age 66, if they do not wish their alms checks to be reduced. Retirees who affirmation Social Security this year if they about-face age 65 will get about 93.3 percent of their abounding account benefit, because they will be accepting payments for an added 12 months. Social Security payouts added access for anniversary year boomers adjournment claiming up until age 70.

Develop a retirement spending strategy. Afore you attempt into retirement, advance a plan for how you will absorb down your assets. Recognize that you will charge to pay assets tax on withdrawals from acceptable 401(k)s and IRAs and withdrawals from those accounts become appropriate after wards age 70ВЅ. Retirees who don't abjure the actual bulk will face a 50 percent tax amends on the appropriate abandonment amount. Also, accede abacus some inflation-fighting investments to your portfolio, such as Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), or some acknowledgment to the banal market, commodities, or absolute estate. "You are apparently bigger off aggravating to plan a little bit longer, balance some of the losses in your retirement plan, and let the bazaar do a little bit of the work," says Robert Baxter, CEO of Dryden Mutual Allowance Company in Dryden, N.Y., and a 1946-born babyish boomer who will about-face 65 in August 2011. "If you anticipate about retirement at 65, you may end up alive 20 or 25 added years and could abide your income."

Keep your job abilities sharp. Babyish boomers who haven't adored abundant to retire may charge to absorb several added years in the workforce. Accomplish abiding you breach on top of training and computer abilities and abide to accompany new projects and opportunities at work. You don't wish to get pushed out of the workforce afore you are a accessible to retire. Aswell accede alms to coach adolescent advisers and canyon forth your abilities to accessible workers aural your organization. "We accept all of this abundant acquaintance and ability in a lot of altered industries and anybody is traveling to retire and we're not casual it on to anyone," says Andrew Seybold, a 1946-born babyish boomer in Santa Barbara, Calif., who runs his own adaptable wireless industry consulting business. "I anticipate we owe it to humans afterward us to try to canyon some of that advice on to them."

Negotiate a new plan schedule. Instead of backward completely, abounding babyish boomers are absorbed in alive a added adjustable and beneath ambitious schedule. If asked about the activity changes they accept planned for the next few years, added than bisected (55 percent) of alive babyish boomers axis 65 this year say they are absorbed in acid aback on their plan hours, according to a contempo AARP analysis of 801 adults built-in in 1946. And about 15 percent of the retired babyish boomers plan to go aback to work. "People are traveling to use the guise of retirement to get a break, blow up, and about get accessible for a new appearance of life," says Marc Freedman, architect and CEO of Civic Ventures and columnist of the accessible book The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage amid Midlife and Old Age. "Retirement is acceptable a transition, rather than a destination. True retirement is traveling to get deferred to abundant after wards in life."

Plan your new life. Advance a plan for the activities you would like to try next. Babyish boomers axis 65 this year say their top priorities for the next few years are advancement their concrete bloom (84 percent) and spending time with ancestors (81 percent), AARP found. Other accepted planned retirement activities cover interests and hobbies (76 percent), accomplishing things you accept consistently capital to do (74 percent), and biking (61 percent). Although you may charge a blow after wards decades in the workforce, eventually you will wish to approach your energies and abilities into a new project.

Since backward in 1998, Doug Stanard, above CEO of bowling alleyway alternation AMF Bowling, stays alive visiting his grandchildren and alive a amusement acreage in Columbia, S.C., area he hunts and has a pond abounding with fish. "Most humans who breach alive don't see themselves as growing old," says Stanard, who will about-face 65 in November 2011. "It's alone if you get out of the battery and you attending in the mirror that you see yourself as 65."

LINKEDIN CREASH ( BIG NEWS)

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Toshiba Libretto W100 Is a Dual-Screen Challenge to the iPad

As a part of the 25th anniversary of Toshiba’s laptop business, the company unveiled a dual-screen laptop concept named the Libretto W100.

Although Toshiba calls it a concept PC, it looks very finished and ready for market release. Toshiba claims it will be later this summer, albeit in a limited capacity (the price is reported to be $1,099). As far as specifications go, one thing definitely stands out: dual 7.0-inch multi-touch displays with 1024×600 pixel resolution, together with a virtual keyboard with haptic response.

It’s powered by an Intel Pentium U5400 CPU operating at 1.2 GHz, 2 GB of DDR3 memory and a 64 GB SSD, which makes it a fairly powerful machine. Other specs include a 1-megapixel webcam, BluetoothBluetooth, MicroSD card, Wi-Fi, one USB port, an 8-cell battery and a WindowsWindows 7 operating system.

It’s also a very portable device, measuring merely 4.84 inches by 7.95 inches when closed, and weighing 1.8 lbs.

Check out some more images and Scobleizer’s “first look” video of the Libretto W100 below.

Firefox 3.6.4 Released: Flash No Longer Crashes Your Browser

After some delays, Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.4, the newest version of the popular web browser. It comes with one big addition: protection against crashing due to third-party plugins, most notably Adobe Flash.

The updated browser, which you can download here, comes with dozens of bug fixes and stability upgrades. What the average user will care about most though is Firefox () crash protection, something that is a prominent feature of Google Chrome ().

Crash protection utilizes out-of-process plugins technology to run third-party plugins (specifically Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight) in a separate process. In the past, a plugin crash would take down your entire Firefox browser. With crash protection however, “the browser will stay running while the portions of websites controlled by the plugin will be disabled.” It only takes a refresh to restart the plugin.

There is a catch, though: only Windows () and Linux () users have access to crash protection. According to Mozilla, making crash protection available to Mac OS X users would require major changes to Firefox’s infrastructure. However, the non-profit promises that it will become available for Mac users in Firefox 4, which should ship by the end of the year.

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Apple iOS 4 Wonderful OS.

Apple has just released the iOS 4 update for iPhone and iPod touch owners. The iPhone 4 might not be in stores until Thursday, but existing owners can take advantage of the new software features coming to the new device starting now.

iOS 4 is a free update and is compatible with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS models, as well as second- and third-generation iPod touches. Multitasking will only work with the iPhone 3GS and third-generation iPod touch, however.

On the backend, iOS 4 has more than 1,500 changes or additions to the API, which will enable developers to build even better apps on these devices. We’ll be posting a more complete video overview of what is new in iOS 4 later this afternoon, but check out some of the highlights first:

• Multitasking — A combination of persistent-state applications and backgrounding functions for certain services. The end result means better battery performance when doing things like listening to Pandora () while browsing the web.
• Folders — Organizing your iPhone Home Screen is easier now that you can use folders to store groups of apps in one icon. This is a huge time-saver and makes finding and keeping more apps on your device much easier.
• iBooks — First appearing on the iPad, iBooks is now available for iPhone users. Just like the Kindle app, your purchases and page marks are synchronized across devices.
• Tap to Focus Video — iPhone 3GS owners can now tap to focus their videos just like you can when taking still shots. The new software also includes a 5x digital zoom for the built-in camera.
• Bluetooth Keyboard Support – You can now pair your iPhone with a Bluetooth () keyboard, which will make typing long documents much easier.
• Better Spell Check – The spell check utility now works across Mail, Notes, Safari () and other apps.

There are tons of other new features in iOS 4 and we’ll be showing them off over the next few days, as well as highlighting some apps that take advantage of the new features.

When will you upgrade to iOS 4? What feature are you most excited about?

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Google Capitulates To Demands for Street View Data

Under fire, Google has agreed to release the private data collected by its Street View vehicles that it had previously withheld. CEO Eric Schmidt said a rogue engineer is under investigation. Google admitted the private network data was collected in violation of its policies. Google will also arrange an audit of its data-collection operation.

With class-action lawsuits and government investigations gaining steam, Google agreed Thursday to hand over private information Relevant Products/Services collected by its Street View vehicles to European investigators. Google had historicallyin the past resisted such demands, saying it was in conversation with government authorities about destroying the information.
In addition, company CEO Eric Schmidt told the Financial Times this week that an engineer who inserted program in to the Street View vehicles' programs -- code that captured the unauthorized information -- is now the subject of an internal company inquiry.
Two Class-Action Suits
At least two class-action lawsuits have been filed or are being planned in the U.S. in which the plaintiffs contend Google violated federal wiretapping laws. There's also criminal and other government investigations in France, Ireland, France, Germany, Germany and others, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been asked by members of Congress to see if laws were broken.
The Street View controversy stems from the collection of private wireless Relevant Products/Services information from Google vehicles, which have ridden down streets worldwide to collect pics for use in the company's Street View application within Google Maps. Google said about 600GB of information was mistakenly collected in 30 countries.
According to Senior Vice President of Engineering and Research Alan Eustace, the company has acknowledged it collected SSID information from wireless routers. That information contains Wi-Fi network Relevant Products/Services names and MAC addresses, which are the matchless numbers given to Wi-Fi routers. At first, Google said it didn't collect "payload information," or the private information sent over networks.
But Eustace later noted that "we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload information from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks." The payload information includes fragments of sites, e-mails and possibly personal banking information. Eustace added that the information has never been used in Google products, and only fragments were collected because the vehicles were moving and the in-car Wi-Fi equipment automatically changes channels about four times each second. No information was collected from password-protected networks, he said.
'Promiscuous with Data'
The reason payload information was collected at all, he said, is that code to do so was left in the program used to collect the SSID and MAC addresses, although the project leaders didn't require or need the information. This is the program that Schmidt said was inserted "in clear violation" of Google's policies. The company has said it will employ an independent third party to conduct an audit of its data-collection operation.
Peter Firstbrook, an analyst with Gartner, said these kinds of privacy issues, including Google's earlier privacy controversy from its Buzz application, are part of a "structural" development that could go on for 20 years or more. In this back-and-forth seesaw, he said, companies push their expertise and product advances that occasionally conflict with users' sense of their privacy rights, and the users push back.
He said that, while "governments are acting appropriately," the solution will must come from consumer and business users who reply negatively to privacy violations. One possibility, Firstbrook said, would be a usually accepted standard that users must take steps to specifically opt in for anything that could violate their privacy.
Firstbrook also noted a growing sense among enterprise users that the search giant is, at heart, "a information mining company," and that it basically "can't help" its aggressiveness that leads to these kinds of privacy issues. As a result, he said, this is directly impacting Google's bottom line, since some enterprise users are hesitant about using the company's cloud Relevant Products/Services-based apps and Gmail at least in part because of Google's tendency to be "promiscuous with information."

Will iPhone 4G Match Rivals' Bigger Touchscreens?

With Apple likely to launch its new iPhone 4G at next week's Worldwide Developer's Conference, as the company has done for the past three summers, speculation is rampant about what new features might emerge that haven't been seen in three leaked prototypes.
One query is whether CEO Steve Jobs may wow iPhone fans with a bigger screen size, said IDC wireless Relevant Products/Services analyst Ramon Llamas. "With 4.0, a lot is predicated on the touchscreen, & so the next query is how sizable is that screen?" Llamas asked.

Rivals' Screens Growing

The iPhone 4G prototype that turned up on a know-how site after being sold for $5,000 had better screen resolution, 960 by 640 pixels, up from the iPhone 3GS's 480 by 320. But the screen was described as slightly smaller than the 3.5-inch screen on the iPhone 3GS.
With competing devices mimicking the iPhone's touchscreen with bigger screens, Llamas wonders if Apple will raise, call or pass.
"The HTC HD2 has a 4.3-inch screen," he said of the smartphone currently selling in Europe & Asia & expected on the U.S. market in November. "Other players in the market are testing larger screen size. The query is, does Apple require to go there?"
One reason why Apple may not, he said, is that developers may then must produce versions of their apps that work on the larger & smaller screens, an issue faced by some Android developers whose products work on multiple devices.
The HTC EVO 4G launched by Dash on Friday also has a 4.3-inch screen. Dell Relevant Products/Services's Streak tablet/smartphone hybrid, also released Friday in the United Kingdom, has a five-inch screen.

Hope for CDMA?

Among the other questions to be answered if Jobs, as expected, releases the iPhone 4G at Apple's WWDC Monday in San Francisco is, if it is different from the prototypes seen by the world, will it have a wired than touchscreen keyboard -- a feature that text-happy iPhone users have pined for? Jobs could also make some sizable news by announcing a CDMA-compatible version of the iPhone -- unlikely since Apple has been openly loyal to AT&T as its exclusive U.S. carrier, despite reported network Relevant Products/Services issues.
Analyst Ken Dulaney of Gartner Research believes the next iPhone will probably be more or less identical to the $5,000 prototype.
"I suspect it is the one in the leaks, but there is always the likelihood there will be other models," he said. "They require over one."

Improvements to look for?

"I suspect they will have video Relevant Products/Services chat, but most of the other features were talked about at the [iPhone OS] 4.0 announcement [in March], such as an integrated e-mail client," Dulaney said. "We could also see some move toward Net TV, & they will see the iPad processor likely in the gizmo."
A reverse-engineered iPhone 4G prototype that appeared on a Vietnamese tech site used an Apple-branded one-gigahertz A4 processor, which powers the iPad.
"Beyond that," said Dulaney, expect "some enterprise improvements."

HOW TO FIND THE BEST DIGITAL CAMERA

It seems that every month, if not every week, different manufacturers are coming up with the latest digital cameras to entice potential clients. & it is not working for us!
After spending sizeable amount of time at the mall figuring out which is the best digital camera for us, they finally have money to buy for that eye-popping, 7 mega pixel, 10x digital zoom, potable, sweet colored, up to 512MB expandable memory of tremendous hi-speed SD memory card & not to mention transportable, (that will be the envy of everyone they know). They march to the mall armed with our life savings & lotsa pride in ourselves, when they pass by a new display - an three mega pixel, up to 1G expandable memory, with built it mic & stereo surround, video playback capable, with 22 scenic modes kind-of-camera. & they sigh because the producer of this wonderful gadget claims that this is the best digital camera yet out in the market. & so as they always require to have the best, armed with our life savings & a few credit cards, they buy the "best digital camera." But then again, that doesn't last long, after three months or so, there is another "best digital camera."
& so it confuses us. What makes a digital camera, the best digital camera?
Well, there's sure factors to think about when looking for the "best digital camera" for us.

MEGAPIXELS.
One of the most important features of digital camera to make it in to the best digital camera section is its mega pixel property. The higher the mega pixels the better the actual photograph will come out. A mega pixel is equivalent to a million pixels. The resolution of your picture is based on the mega pixel property of your camera. This means that as you enlarge the picture, you would get more detail & less blurry colors.

LCD SIZE.
The best digital camera will always have a large LCD to help you frame your subject without having to squint to the viewfinder. This is also helpful when reviewing your images, some cameras enable touch up & editing features with its LCD. A 1.5-inch display is average, a 2-inch LCD display is lovely, but the best LCD size would be 2.5 inches or higher.

ZOOM.
Most digital cameras have both digital & optical zoom. A higher optical zoom is always better than a higher digital zoom. Digital cameras are usually furnished with optical of between 3x to 10x. The better the optical zoom, the higher it climbs up to the best digital camera section.

MEMORY CARD.
Always make sure that your memory card is the right one for your digital camera. There's different types of memory card like the xD, SD, Flash card & the likes. & these types of memory cards go with sure types of digital cameras. of coursework memory storage is also up there in choosing the best digital cameras. Select the size of memory that you require, if you are a picture junkie, you might require over 32MB. Memory cards can go up to 1G.

The key point to find the best digital camera is to find one that will best fit you & your lifestyle. Don't buy the latest or the one that claims they are the best digital cameras out in the market. You would not require to buy a DSLR & use it along with your home activities or relatives outing & must lug it around?! Or you don't require to buy the latest point & shoot camera when you are serious about being a professional photographer. (Of coursework, you can use this for starters, but if you are not a novice photographer anymore, you would not require to get this type of camera.)

Actually, the best digital camera is the one that you will enjoy & use. Not the type that you'll leave rotting in its box or after a few weeks of usage or so, up there in the attic.

WiMAX and the Olympics

It’s great being back from my summer vacation and meeting up with everyone again.

As some of our Comsys employees will recall, when returning from my last summer vacation I shared my views on the benefits of the Mobile Internet and the “always connected” service (Subject: “receiving e-mail while hiking in the Tirol Mountains or boating on the Danube river..…”). My major complaints were the insufficient bandwidth and the high cost of service - 2 drawbacks that WiMAX should solve. However as I don’t have a Comsys-enabled WiMAX cellphone yet, this year we decided to save the international roaming cost and travel locally.

My family are real fighters and they love being around nature: hiking, biking, rafting, diving, camping - you name it. They don’t mind the heat, dust, early wake-up, basic food and even the crowds. They only had one basic request: “Dad, you know, the Olympic Games are happening now and we would like to watch the major events… live!!!”. As my older kids are basketball players, I appreciated their request and replied: “Don’t worry about it: I’m in the cellular business, I’m carrying 2 HSDPA devices (data card and PDA), I have 2 EDGE phones as backup, and I assure you that you won’t miss any Michael Phelps lap, Usain Bolt step or any Kobi Bryant dunk. You can trust me”. And they did.

But…while travelling in a beautiful country area, one of the swimming finals was about to start. We excitedly turned the HSDPA modem on, however couldn’t get more than 100KB/sec. The video obviously stuttered, the gang lost some patience, I turned red, but, luckily the kids showed maturity and forgave me as swimming isn’t their favorite sport anyway.

3 days later, and the 100m final run was about to start. We were by then in the Judeah Dessert. I turned on the HSDPA modem again but….. could only receive GPRS signal. What a shame… At this pace, poor Bolt is still running this race….unlike my kids‘ trust which I lost in world record time. Still, as basketball is their favorite sport, they forgave me once again, on condition to my swearing that the semi-final basketball game would be watched seamlessly.

When the big day arrived, I made sure we were in a reputable city (Eilat) with high quality HSDPA coverage. I prepared cold drinks for them, set us chairs under a palm tree and we were ready for the big moment. And indeed, the game started and the WebTV worked perfectly. I felt my pride returning and a big smile spread all over my face. However it didn't last for long. 2 minutes later I received an SMS from Orange: “Your 100MB allocation has been fully utilized. Cost of each additional 10KB is 0.2 NIS“. A quick calculation showed that watching the full game over HSDPA would cost me more than 6 flight tickets to China and back, and I had to turn the session off!! By this stage I was considered dead (in my kids eyes). Some of them have even given up their share of my will…....

Bottom-line – with growing demand for Web-TV services (72M video clips were downloaded from Yahoo Mobile during the games, similar numbers from NBC Mobile site) we must have WiMAX ASAP. This is the first technology that will allow the necessary bandwidth at an affordable price.

I’m sure that by next summer I’ll have a Comsys-enabled WiMAX phone and WiMAX service, otherwise I’ll have to bring the gang and an inflatable swimming pool and set up camp in the Comsys offices so that we can be connected (by wire) to the LAN, …… ;-)

FCC to Report Next Month on Broadband Wireless White Space Devices

The FCC report is expected to give feedback on testing of smart radio devices and their potential interference in white spaces.

An article in The Wall Street Journal reports on efforts by backers to convince the FCC to allow free unlicensed band access to the so called white space spectrum available in unused TV channels.

Firms such as Microsoft and Google are big supporters of the free option, believing it could spur the use of innovative new wireless gadgets. Microsoft, in particular, has been heavily involved in submitting units for testing to determine their potential to interfere with adjacent bands. Earlier tests did not pan out. There are also major foes to the move, most notably Verizon which has not been very supportive of the plan. Many groups believe the spectrum should be licensed.

This next report from the FCC will answer many questions with its feedback on the most recent round of device testing. Don't look for a final ruling however, before about the end of the year.

Both camps make strong arguments for and against. Broadcasters are clearly against the move, citing the potential for interference. The uncertainty generated by early testing doesn't help broadcaster's confidence. On the other side of the equation, many groups including Intel believe that using these bands, which offer great penetration capability could lead to an explosion of new Internet enabled devices and services.

Latest PC OEMs support WiMAX - Intel Development Forum, San Francisco

The Intel Developer Forum is in full-swing this week in San Fransciso, demonstrating new quad-core processors for mobile devices and WiMAX support for laptops PCs.

During his keynote speech, Dadi Perlmutter, VP and GM of Intel's Mobility Group also announced that Dell and Sony are now public in their plans to add WiMAX (including Intel’s upcoming wifi-wimax module) in some future laptop models.

These two PC makers join Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Panasonic, and Toshiba as being public on their plans, and show the variety of industries involved in the network – telecom, PC and consumer electronics with of course companies like Comcast, Google and Time Warner being part of the proposed new Clearwire venture.

Intel and Move Networks Ready WiMAX Video Devices for Prime Time

Move Networks is developing a WiMAX enabled video device designed to operate on new Intel chipsets.

Move Networks has a media player, designed to receive wireless video signals, even in High Definition. And in partnership with Intel, Move Networks is busily updating the unit to operate on Intel's new Atom Z5 processor series. Clearly the thinking is that Internet delivered video content will be highly desired by the public.

This news comes out of the Intel Developer's Forum this past week. And while it was perhaps not as remarked upon as some, it does offer insight into the possibilities for exploiting new services and devices that the new WiMAX-based Clearwire network could offer.

Intel has been demonstrating the new technology at its Developer's Forum this past week. The advent of Mobile Internet Devices (MID) like this application is a hotbed of interest in some quarters. For WiMAX or LTE to reach their full potential these kinds of creative devices must become a mainstay of the marketplace to lure consumers.

Sprint Leads Telecom into the Age of Location-based Services

Sprint inks a number of partner agreements that will leverage the quantity and quality of location-based services that customers will be able to use in future.

Recognizing that a large portion of customers future use of broadband services in its Xohm broadband wireless division will come from the need to search for services locally, Sprint has aggressively expanded its ecosystem agreements with numerous third party partners.

The vision for the future of location-based search includes numerous devices such as laptops, mobile handheld devices, cameras, car navigation systems and much more. The notion of being able to perform quick searches and have software prioritize results based on where you are physically located is a powerful concept.

Searching for movie tickets would, for example, bring up results for the closest theatres---as would finding a gas station or a list of restaurants. And all of these results could include mapping, driving directions and even video showing the actual route.

Sprint's new partners, which one presumes will also carryover to the new Clearwire when that deal is concluded include Yelp, Inc., a site featuring reviews of businesses including restaurants.

Another partner uLocate Communications, Inc. is building the underlying primary platform for much of this partnering. And its platform will facilitate connections to business, places and favorite people.

Eventful Inc. ties events to local mapping to help people find things to do---whereas Topix LLC parses summaries of local news. And Navteq provides traffic and commuter updates.

Other partners such as Autodesk Inc., Openwave Systems, Inc. AccuWeather and even Google all offer numerous useful and potentially very lucrative capabilities to the next generation of mobile broadband.

I don't know about you, but I think this will be a very interesting time.

Intel Capital Funds Multimedia Messaging Company's WiMAX Initiative

ntel Capital invests $3 million into Aicent to help speed the development of roaming multimedia messaging over WiMAX networks.
In a bit of a surprising move, Intel Capital has chosen to invest $3 million into Aicent, a company focused on delivering multimedia messaging services to cellular companies. What is special about Aicent is that its network enables customers to retrieve messages effectively while roaming.

Clearly, roaming functionality is a hallmark of what Intel wants to promote about WiMAX. And this move clearly is seen as a plan to make sure this technology works well with WiMAX.

Intel has previously invested in several companies focused upon producing WiMAX systems, including vendors Motorola, Nokia-Siemens as well as carriers such as Unwired Australia and of course, Clearwire Corporation.

Moves like this could help ensure that the technology hits the ground running in terms of functionality when truly mobile WiMAX technology starts showing up at scale.

It won't be much longer.

Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola

Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola lead in mobile WiMAX, says Infonetics report

Double-digit quarterly growth forecasted for the balance of 2008 and 110 million users predicted by 2011.

Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola lead in mobile WiMAX, according to a new market report from Infonetics Research. The study found that the pair increased market share of equipment revenues from 50% to 66% over the past ninety days. For stationary and fixed WiMAX equipment, the report gave the top pick to Alvarion with 25% of the worldwide equipment revenue market.

While the combined worldwide equipment revenues were up only 3% from Q1'2008 to $402 million, Infonetics predicts that the balance of 2008 will see double-digit sequential growth. By 2011, 110 million users of WiMAX technologies are forecasted.

Infonetics attributes the Alcatel-Lucent growth to a significant shipment of ASN Gateways in the quarter. The gateways manage mobility functions of 802.16e-2005 networks, enabling base stations to communicate with each other. Gateways can be vendor-agnostic, just like base stations and subscriber devices interoperate between multiple vendors. Alcatel-Lucent has had success with selling gateways to both its base station customers as well as competitors. WiMAX Forum specifies the interfaces used by ASN Gateways.

A few more statistics from the report:

- More than 200 networks are now being deployed and more than 100 other trials are in progress; the market will be increasingly driven by more Tier 1 operators entering the market

- Developing countries are the engine for WiMAX market growth, with Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Central and Latin America, and parts of the Asia Pacific being hot-beds of activity

- In particular, India, Russia and Brazil are fast-moving markets with numerous active WiMAX operators and large populations and market conditions to give potential for strong growth

- The number of fixed and mobile WiMAX subscribers topped 2 million worldwide in 2007 and is expected to triple by the end of 2008

The Infonetics report tracks the equipment shipments from thirteen equipment manufacturers along with Wi-Fi mesh network equipment providers.

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