Internet and Technology

Some American companies rock at taking care of working moms–and all their workers. In 2007, Working Mother gave these employers tip-top scores for their family-friendly policies and attitudes.

1. Baptist Health South
Florida, Floral Gables, FL
Almost half of all employees at this health-care organization flex their schedule, meaning they work full-time but vary their arrival and departure times to meet their own needs. Plus, the company offers a loan of up to $ 10K to first-time home buyers.

2. Booz Allen Hamilton,
McLean, VA
Workers at this consulting firm receive a 10 percent discount at a national child-care chain, plus have access to low-cost backup care. There’s also a career model for permanent part-timers.

3. Ernst & Young, New York City
A Working Moms Network at this accounting firm helps new moms transition back to work, and if a new dad is the primary caregiver, he gets six weeks of leave at full pay (if he’s not, he still gets two). Workers can also arrange for 12 full days per year of subsidized backup child or adult care (workers pay $ 4 to $ 15 per hour).

4. General Mills,
Minneapolis
Forty-four percent of staffers at this food corporation use flextime, and others telecommute and job-share. There’s an on-site child-care center in Minneapolis, and employees at other locations receive a 10 percent discount at two national child-care chains. Plus, the company pays 85 percent of sick child care for employees’ kids.

5. IBM, Armonk, NY
To encourage family time, this technology company offers a program that teaches employees about boosting productivity and cutting unnecessary work. And staff can send kids to the firm’s science/tech summer programs for free (last summer, 1,600 kids participated!).

6. KPMG, New York City
At this accounting firm, more than 65 percent of staffers flex their hours, telecommute, or compress their work weeks. The firm also assists with in-house and center-based backup care.

7. The McGraw-Hill Companies,
New York City
New mothers at this publishing company get 26 weeks of leave, including four weeks fully paid and six partially paid leave, which can be used during the new baby’s first six months.

8. PricewaterhouseCoopers,
New York City
Staffers at this accounting firm receive discounted child care, and when they’re away on business, the firm foots the child-care bill. In addition to 12 weeks of leave (nine paid), if new moms have twins or triplets, they get two extra weeks off.

9. UBS, New York City
At this financial-services firm, The Working Parents Group provides mentoring, and the Career Comeback program offers advice for women on reentering the workforce.

10. Wachovia, Charlotte, NC
Almost a third of employees at this financial-services firm telecommute, and the company hosts an annual work-life balance event to educate employees.

Article by Chris Cornell

Blogging oh blogging! What the blog has done to change the landscape of the internet is just indescribable. It has changed the lives of millions of people from all over the world. People communicate with one another through their blogs in a personal and informal way. In the process, relationships are built like never before. Blogging opens doors to many opportunities for business and friendship.The online marketer is given the golden opportunity to benefit from the intrinsic characteristics of blogging. The blog requires your personal voice. You will be able to command a larger following of like-minded readers if you are providing them with great and relevant content. One good thing will lead to another. You will be able to make money from blogging.Let us find out how and use these strategies to achieve our goal:(1) The blog is your digital diaryWhat is important here is that the blog is similar to a diary that you put online. It contains the important and relevant information that people from all over the world are searching for. What does this imply? Very clearly, you are able to make money blogging as you will be building up your social credibility in this process. Therefore, good content is the keyword in blogging. It acts as the magnet to traffic on the internet.(2) The blog helps to make your presence knownBlogging helps to create your web presence promptly. As you write original posts of your own, the blog brings out your personal voice to readers. With good content, the results will be tremendous. There will be an increase in visibility of your blog. More traffic will flow in, and through time, you will be experiencing a good volume of visitors returning to your blog for more information that they are searching for.(3) Blogging is oh so easyWhat can you say? Blogging is so easy in every way. It is really so easy for anybody to install and manage. With good content and personalized communication on your part with others, the blog enables you to blog and do your online business happily. You will be able to get a lot of support from the communities of bloggers out there, should you encounter any difficulties. If you are able to write well, you are in for the opportunity to make money from blogging.(4) The blog is so well-lovedBlogging is the hottest activity on the web right this instant. If you set up a great blog with good content, major search engines will love it. When your blog is well optimized too, you will find your blog ranking highly on the first page of Google. It is possible to hit Google No 1 spot! You will then experience a tremendous increase in traffic to your blog. Your bottom line will grow positively.(5) The blog gets you prompt attentionBlogging provides the best opportunity to get fast attention on the web. The routine process of blog and ping enables you to achieve this goal. Your blog will be noticed by search engines which will constantly look out for fresh and good quality content. You will be able to get repeat visitors if you are able to provide such content. In this way, you will be able to capitalize on the intrinsic monetizing capabilities of blogging.(6) The blog raises your credibilityWhat is credibility? This factor is vital to your name and your blog. It is simply about having integrity, a high level of honesty, and keeping promises made to customers. You must have it. You have just got to walk your talk, so to speak! With credibility, you will be able to gain the trust of your customers. It will be so much easier for your business!(7) Blogging connectsThe blog shrinks the world. With your voice, the other person listens and responds. In the process, a relationship is being fostered. Blogging brings to you a large range of audience. Ultimately, you will experience a huge growth in your relationships with your visitors and customers. You will be able to stay connected with your customers, creating trust that will lead to repeat customers. This means that your business will be experiencing increase in traffic, sales, and you will actually make money from blogging.In conclusion, blogging offers so many opportunities to make money that it would be sad not to do it. Don’t you agree that it is time to start blogging now? Yes or Yes? Happy Blogging!

There are thousands of social networking sites today. Some offer excellent services and a lively community while others could just waste your time. If you want to enjoy online dating and hangout with sexy adult women, then you have to choose an adult dating social networking site. However, to get full satisfaction and complete dating service, what you need to do is to join a video dating site that function as a video social networking online. One of the best video social networking online sites today is SocalGlamourGirls.Com. This is a highly recommended video dating site because it can offer complete virtual dating facilities. SocalGlamourGirls.Com also has very sexy models in its roster and all of them are of legal age. That is why if you are looking for the right video dating site which also functions as a video social networking online portal, then SocalGlamourGirls.Com would be the best dating site for you. Simply head on to the site and create your account in order to start socializing and hanging out with the sexiest girls online. Aside from choosing the best video dating site, you also need to prepare other things in order to fully enjoy the services of a virtual dating site. First, you have to know how to create a very attractive profile. A profile serves as your public persona on a video social networking online site. If you want the girls on the video dating site to like you, then you have to create a very compelling, witty, and highly attractive profile. This way, when the girls look at your public profile, they will know what to expect from you and what they can do to satisfy your needs and preferences. Creating a profile therefore is very important if you want to fully enjoy a video social networking online site. Next, you should ensure that your Internet connection, computer speed, and peripheral gadgets such as a webcam are functioning properly. Remember, you are joining a video dating website so you will stream videos and the dating site will also stream videos to you. If you have spotty connection, slow computer, and flickering webcam, you will not enjoy your time at the video dating site. That is because the images you will receive will flicker also and will have plenty of buffer time. So it is very critical to have reliable and stable connections and fast computer so you can enjoy the services of a video social networking online site. A video social networking online site provides great opportunities for you to know adventurous and sexy girls. Such social networking site will have excellent facilities so you can enjoy video dating with the woman of your dreams. In order to fully maximize the service and have a grand time in its dating room, make sure that your machine is up to the task. You also have to make a good profile of yourself so you can attract more sexy girls and date them virtually on the video social networking online site.

BT’s line rental increase in April this year has dealt rather a low blow to ADSL broadband users as they are now obliged to pay £15 a year more for their line rental, as well as more for calls.

This in effect means that the cost of line rental has risen to £11.75, unless you pay your bill by Direct Debit for which the charge has remained static at £10.50.

BT has introduced a paperless online billing service in their effort to contribute to the environment. Less carbon footprint and all that! It smacks a bit of cost cutting but this is to your advantage as checking your BT phone bill online prevents that £1.25 a month creeping from your pocket. However, there is no need for you to use BT’s line rental at all as there are other options.

Get a broadband package that includes line rental

There are several broadband providers offering you either totally free line rental or line rental at a lower rate.

Those broadband providers with packages offering free line rental are Tiscali broadband and Plusnet broadband, together with Orange broadband and the Post Office broadband.

The money you will save by switching to a broadband package which includes free line rental is not to be sneezed at, bearing in mind that line rental will soon cost as much as £141 a year. There are undoubtedly far more pleasurable ways of using that £141. Just think of an air ticket abroad somewhere for the same amount!

Virgin Media is a provider that has no need of line rental at all as it uses its own cable network. This could free up the £141 saving to be used towards purchasing a broadband, phone and TV bundle as an alternative.

There is unfortunately no such thing as a free lunch since all the broadband providers offering free line rental packages stipulate that you also have to take out a home phone call package with them.

An exception here is Virgin Media, though even they demand a monthly fee for a phone package if you are interested in signing up for one of their broadband, tv and phone deals.

Get a broadband package with a lower rate line rental

Packages with cheaper line rental offered by some broadband providers could put an extra £33 a year in your pocket. That’s certainly worth a good look.

There is the inevitable catch though, as with these reduced line rental offers you are obliged to also take out a home phone package with the provider. You can’t take up the line rental offer with broadband only.

The budget broadband provider TalkTalk offers cheaper line rental than BT, as does the often slated Toucan, whilst slightly less expensive line rentals are also offered by Plusnet and Madasafish.

One of the questions I see frequently asked on online discussion forums is, “Can You Really Make Money from Blogging?” People want to know if there’s some way to profit from the time they spend maintaining their web logs or personal online journals.My answer is an emphatic “YES,” because I do it… everyday!Today I’ll share with you how I do it.Let me begin by saying that I don’t make thousands per month from MOST of my blogs. However, I do have many making hundreds. Since I don’t put in a lot of time maintaining them, and I enjoy blogging, I consider the money a bonus. I blog while sitting in my yard with my laptop (on a wireless connection)… watching the clouds roll by. Another bonus I get from blogging is that it helps my regular websites that are set up as my “money machines.”The search engines visit my blogs more often than they visit my regular sites, and they follow the links from my blogs pointing to other sites. Some of these links point to my sites, and some point to sites of partners. This does help the search engine rankings of these sites MASSIVELY.How Do I Monetize My Blogs?I monetize my blogs by creating blogs on topics people are searching for… and that they are spending money on. I know which niches are hot to an extent based upon what my research proves pay-per-click advertisers are willing to spend their advertising dollars on. I run Google AdSense ads on my blogs. You can visit www.bloggers-guide-to-profit.com  I simply insert these ads in my menu bar and other strategic places on the webpage. I also experiment with other paid advertising on my blogs.I sell affiliate products from my blogs. I simply find affiliate products at places like PayDotCom.com and Commission Junction. I incorporate these into my blogs. I do things like product reviews, how-to articles, etc. You can also locate suitable affiliate products by typing your target keywords + “affiliate program” at any major search engine. This should point out numerous websites with suitable affiliate programs to you.How Do I Setup/Host My Blogs?I have blog hosted on some of my own domains using Moveable Type. This is just one of many great pieces of blogging software. You have other choices… my programmer recommended this one to me.I also have blogs hosted for free on Blogger.com. I have them on Blogger.com because they are incredibly easy to set up and maintain. A secondary reason I have them on Blogger.com is that Google OWNS Blogger.com and they index webpages hosted on their servers OFTEN and FAST!The secret to getting Google and Yahoo! to visit your blogs often is a technique called “blogging and pinging.” It’s a method of notifying all of the major search engines, and blog directories, each time that you update your blog. The search engines come to take a look and they follow links from your blog to spider other blogs/sites. It’s very powerful. I won’t go into too many details on blogging and pinging here. If you want more information on that topic I invite you to drop by my free, Internet marketing discussion board and ask any and all questions! It’s at: http://WillieCrawford.com/cgi-bin/index.cgiExamples of Profitable Blogs?I know, you want to see examples of profitable blogs To show you how simple it can be I’ll show you just ONE. It s less than 2 months old The problem is that as soon as I show a site to anyone as an example, it’s instantly ripped off. So, I’m going to “sacrifice” one making me about $60 per day from affiliate product sales and about $20 per day in AdSense revenue. That site is at: http://cure-nail-fungus.blogspot.comThe above site currently ranks Number 6 on Yahoo for the term “cure nail fungus.” It’s a small niche but one that makes me $2400 per month… just from that one blog.If you searched on the same term at Google, this site is not very highly ranked. However, THIS page is Num ber4:http://www.chitterlings.com/no-more-nail-fungus.htmlThat happens to be one of my pages too I won’t tell you what ALL I’m up to on that page… that’s another article. The technique involves using your own domains to promote affiliate products rather than advertising someone else’s domain… so it improves your link popularity.I’m not going to show more of my blogs because that just invites competition. Instead, I’m going to answer another question you have to be wondering…”How do I find time to maintain all of these blogs, even if they are profitable?” Well, first of all, I don’t really need a lot like the “sacrificial lamb” that I showed you above to keep me satisfied.I do have a number of secret weapons though. One is called Auto logger. You can check it out at:http://WillieCrawford.com/auto-blogger.htmlWhat Auto logger does is allow me to queue up a number of posts for my various blogs in advance. It lets you queue up “articles” which can really be anything you want. Then you tell the software at what frequency to make a post.My Auto logger account allows me to automatically post to an UNLIMITED number of blogs.WARNING: A program like Auto logger can get you in trouble if you misuse it! If you use it to spam or abuse the search engines, it’s just going to get you banned. If you use it to abuse the blog hosts, they’re just going to delete your blogs. Here’s how I use Auto logger:I have sites where I discuss Internet marketing… as just one example. On these sites I share many of my articles and tidbits. I simply queue up these articles/tidbits to post at a given frequency. This frequency can be a set number of hours, days, weeks, or months. So theoretically, I can set up a blog, pre-schedule 50 posts, and not touch it in months, while it is automatically posted to for the next 50 intervals.Auto logger even lets you set it to start rotating through the posts again when they run out, if you want to. I personally wouldn’t do this since you’d just be posting duplicate content.Auto logger allows you to insert RSS feeds right into your blog posts. So in addition to posting articles you can also auto-update by adding new RSS feeds at a set interval. Since I HATE sending my traffic to other sites (without reciprocation), these RSS feeds generally pull from MY sites. That way, my traffic is only sent to my other sites. If you don’t even feel like queuing up a lot of posts, you can go to a site like Elance.com and hire someone else to do it for you… or just hired your kids to do it for you. It can be as easy as you want to make it.OK, I’ve just proven to you that you can make money off of blogs. In-fact, you can make more money than many people make off of their REGULAR websites. It just takes a little thinking outside the box!It also takes not being too greedy. You can log on www.blog-link-generator.com What I just showed you works for me because I’m not doing anything that’s likely to get me banned from the search engines, Google AdSense, Blogger.com, or any affiliate program. It’s only when you get carried away, and do things that harm the search engines that you “shoot yourself in the foot.”Set up blogs providing useful content. Make regular posts to these blogs but not in a manner that seems unnatural. By that, I mean don’t auto-post twenty times in an hour, or post every hour for a month! No human can possible post to a blog at these rates for long, so the search engines detect something is “wrong.” They don’t generally prohibit you from using tools to make your job easier… just don’t get carried away!There are actually, thousands of people earning a living doing things similar to what I just shared… but with little twists. I’m meeting up with many of them in New Orleans in September. You’re invited to join us. We’ll basically be sharing how we make a fortune off of niche websites and programs such as Google AdSense.

Anybody regardless of there blogging experience can earn money blogging. If you can be aware of the basic principles of blogging you can start on to be paid money blogging in as little as a week. In the world of blogging for profits, blog content and blog traffic are the two reigning kings. If you put good content on your blog and search out people visiting it you’ll make money, guaranteed.So when you go in relation to making your blog, you should first think about what you’re going to rummage sale and what content you should put on your blog to entice people who might be interested in it to pay your blog a visit. For more results visit us at www.blogers-guide-to-profit.com. Without traffic you won’t make any money so it’s very important that you have high-quality content on your blog to bring people to it.After you’ve decided on the content of your blog, the next step is to start making blog post to fill your blog up with quality content. Some time ago a day, you should make a new-fangled post to your blog. And every time you submit a new-fangled blog post to your blog, submit that article to article directories with a link back to your blog.Submitting articles to article directories will improve your search engine ranking and give you steady traffic. The more articles you submit, the more traffic you will search out. Especially if another blog or website title-holder sees your article in an article directory and decides to make use of it for content on there site with a link back to your site.Blogs When I first started blogging on My Space on my not public profile, I gained quite a following because of a number of strategies that I implemented. Capture precious moments of life with resolution as high as 1600×1200 pixels or in high quality videos with the Nokia 7373 to be shared with friends via MMS, email or even picture blogging once you’ve transferred the images and video clips to your computer. The key to learning how to become a blogger is to start blogging.Perhaps you can’t write, and may be doing know how to make use of articles properly, or even where to get them. Well don’t worry. You can login to www.your-own-blog.com. Blogging is a great way to search out traffic to your website, and if you create a blog for no other reason than that, you are practically certain to search out positive results. Blogging and traffic are made for each other, and there are several ways of using blogs to promote products on your site.Blogger is very easy to use, and very easy to get started with, and is popular with those who don’t want to worry about templates, plugging and designing their own blogs.There is also another bonus book that comes packaged in the deal called the affiliate conspiracy; this book is a fantastic resource if you are selling affiliate products on your website. This book goes through and talks about how to set your website up so that it becomes an AMM (automatic money machine), and shows you how to pick the best products, and how to market these products to make a ton of money.There are also a few other traffic building, SEO, and blogging tips that have been bundled with this product, that will further help you with any questions you may have.For help visit: www.blogers-guide-to-profit.com Lastly Ben has included a bunch of free pre-made blogging materials from different niches that you can use to start a blog or use on an existing blog. These materials consist of graphics and pre-written articles.All in all this is a very decent product that provides a ton of great tips and information that is perfect for anybody wanting to learn how to monetize their blog(s). This product has been bundled with almost an absurd amount of bonus products and software.In my opinion Blogging to the Bank 3.0 alone is worth more than this, let alone the other 4 bonuses you receive bundled with it. I would definitely recommend this product to any beginner or intermediate affiliate marketer, or even anybody that wants to start making money with their blog. It is a great product at a remarkable price.

Do you have a new membership website or on-line business that you’ve been working onstarting? Do you notice that anytime you go to put the finishing touches on it, by some unknown powerful cyber force, you end up on Facebook instead? Or MySpace? Or Bebo?Wouldn’t it be great if there was some way you could earn using social networking?Well, if you have an up-and-coming membership website or online business then it’s possible.But how?It’s simple. By generating a large amount of targeted traffic to your membership site, you will be able to earn using social networking.We’ve all heard people trying to pitch a concept or idea door to door. From steak knives tomakeup to Girl Guide cookies, people have relied on socializing as a way to sell their goods.This is similar to online social networks. You earn using social networking; however, you don’thave to walk door to door; you don’t have to recite a speech; in fact, you don’t even have to getoff your office chair. You can promote your product and earn using social networking in thecomfort of your own home.If you already belong to a network like Friendster.com or MySpace.com, earn using socialnetworking with just a press of the button. Post your membership site on your profile page as a link with a quick explanation of what it is.Or send your friends a link with your new membership site in a private message. Ask them topass on the message to others who might be interested. Word of mouth is one of the best ways to promote your new business and, in this case, word of ‘mouse’ is an even easier way to earn using social networking.However, even if you don’t belong to a social network site, you can always join one and earnusing social networking. In fact, this is probably the best way to reach your target audience. Find social networks catered to your membership site or online business.For example, if you’ve created a website catered to new Moms and Dads, earn using socialnetworking by joining CafeMom.com or other parenting networks.Pretty soon you’ll have a group of members for your website and will be making a residualincome, just by socializing!So, while you’re sleeping in or relaxing in your pyjamas in front of the TV, someone could beclicking onto your profile, joining your membership site and making you an income, all throughthe process of social networking.

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http://www.myfortuneformula.com

PROBLOGGING: MAKING MONEY FROM BLOGS

A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that ‘publishes’ or features articles (which are called ‘blog posts’, ‘posts’, or ‘entries’), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:

· Straight texts

· Photographs or images (photoblog)

· Video (videoblog)

· Audio files (audioblog)

· Hyperlinks

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:

· Online journal or a web diary

· Content managament system

· Online publishing platform

A typical blog has the following components:

· Post date -the date and time of the blog entry

· Category – the category that the blog belongs to

· Title – the title of the blog

· Main body – the main content of the blog

· RSS and trackback – links the blog back from other sites

· Comments – commentaries that are added by readers

· Permalinks – the URL of the full article

· Other optional items – calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins

A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the ’stats’ (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).

There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following:

1. Political blog – on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).

2. Personal blog – also known as online diary that may include an individual’s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.

3. Topical blog – with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.

4. Health blog – on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.

5. Literary blog – also known as litblog.

6. Travel blog – with focus on a traveler’s stories on a particular journey.

7. Research blog – on academic issues such as research notes.

8. Legal blog – on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as ‘blawgs’.

9. Media blog – focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.

10. Religious blog – on religious topics

11. Educational blog – on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.

12. Collaborative or collective blog – a specific topic written by a group of people.

13. Directory blog – contains a collection of numerous web sites.

14. Business blog – used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.

15. Personification blog – focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).

16. Spam blogs – used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as ’splogs’.

Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term “blogging” refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term “blogger” refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.

Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:

· Personal bloggers – people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.

· Business bloggers – people who focus on promoting products and services.

· Organizational bloggers – people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.

· Professional bloggers – people who are hired or paid to do blogging.

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:

· Advertising programs

· RSS advertising

· Sponsorship

· Affiliate Programs

· Digital assets

· Blog network writing gigs

· Business blog writing gigs

· Non blogging writing gigs

· Donations

· Flipping blogs

· Merchandising

· Consulting and speaking

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:

1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.

2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.

3. Be an ‘expert’. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the “go-to” blogger on that topic.

4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).

5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.

Are you still suffering from a slow connection with your dial-up modem? Why not switch to broadband connection? If your dial-up connection today can provide you 56 kilobits per second, then a broadband connection can provide you up to 16 megabits per second of speed. That’s more than triple faster Internet connection you can get. There are also many broadband connection providers around your area you can choose from. One of these is the Sky Broadband. You can even have your high-speed Internet connection from Sky for free!The Company Offering the Sky BroadbandSky Broadband is one of UK’s trusted Internet connection providers. But their services and offers may only limited to Sky Digital customers only which the company claim to be more or less 1.5 million now. With these many customers, Sky Broadband claims to cover almost 70 percent of the United Kingdom’s Internet users. They also said to add a new customer every 40 seconds making their market one of the fastest growing in the field of Internet service providing.Free Fast Internet Access for Sky Broadband CustomersUp to 16 megabits per second can be enjoyed by many Sky Broadband customers using one of digital subscriber line (DSL) services which is the asymmetric DSL (ADSL). The company is not only offering the fast ADSL but also the ADSL2+. Aside from this fast Internet access, Sky Broadband also offers its services for free. That is only offered to Sky digital TV subscribers within a certain area covered. So, anyone with Sky Digital can not have and enjoy their broadband Internet connection without paying additional charges. The free Internet connection from Sky Broadband is only limited up to 2 megabits per second. Although not that fast as the company’s other offered services, it can still offer faster speed than a simple dial-up connection. There are also added services aside from free Internet access for Sky digital TV subscribers. One of these is the free online protection from McAfee for 12 months, which normally costs £19.99. The customer will also enjoy a free email client which has almost unlimited storage capacity of 10 gigabytes. There is also offered service for digital photo storage, sharing, as well as printing. The company’s technical support is also available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Other Sky Broadband Offered Products and ServicesThe free Internet service from Sky Broadband may be so limited for other prospect clients. So the company is also offering other products and services with better package deal at very reasonable prices. These are the MID, MAX, and CONNECT Sky Broadband services. MID product offers up to 3 megabits per second with monthly usage capacity of as big as 40 gigabytes. The home installation option in MID product is £50 with £5 monthly fee. Meanwhile, the MAX product can provide customers up to 16 megabits per second with unlimited monthly usage capacity. This costs £50 for home installation and £10 fee per month. Lastly, the CONNECT product can provide up to 8 megabits per second Internet speed with 40 gigabytes monthly usage capacity. The price is also £50 for home installation option but with £17 monthly fee.With these great options, users can surely have the kind of broadband connection they want from Sky Broadband. The deal is also reasonable for the fast Internet services they provide and other services too. So why suffer from a slow dial-up connection if you can just have high-speed Internet at almost the same price—or even for free?