Internet and Technology

If you are not up-to-date with scientific developments, you probably have not have heard of the process of converting gas to liquids. It might not sound like it could apply to many people, but in fact it should appeal to everyone. This newer method of using our natural resources to our advantage could be the key to less reliance on foreign energy sources, resulting in lower gas prices. The gas to liquids process is the first step to having an alternative to oil, so some understanding of it among the public is helpful.

In the gas to liquids process, natural gas is converted to liquid fuel, which can result in both regular gasoline and diesel fuel. The main goal in gas to liquids is to turn natural gas into longer-chain hydrocarbons, which create gasoline.

The most common production method is called the Fischer-Tropsch process, which begins by partially oxidizing methane, found in natural gas, to form a combination of carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide.

Catalysts must be present for any change to occur, as they create a chemical reaction without being consumed by it. In the Fischer-Tropsch process, the catalyst is cobalt, which will react to create a long hydrocarbon chain. Once the liquid fuel is created, it must be refined, with any impurities removed, so that it can be classified as a clean fuel.

The environment in which the Fischer-Tropsch process takes place must be correct in order to garner the desired result. For this reason, it is usually pressurized and at a high temperature, though too high of a temperature can lead to methane instead in this delicate process. Therefore, having the proper environment is of utmost importance when it comes to obtaining the best results in the gas to liquids procedure.

The Fischer-Tropsch method has been around since the early 20th century, and researchers have been perfecting it since its inception. It is a complex technology, and now it can definitely be of use to us as soon as everyone understands its benefits.

One of the main advantages of the gas to liquids process that many consumers might not know is that its result is nontoxic and biodegradable. It lacks harmful substances like sulfur and nitrogen, and it can be made from any hydrocarbon available. That could include coal, gas, or even trash, which means there is no danger of running out of this type of energy. The United States has plenty of building materials for this product, which means we could stop relying on other countries for the majority of our fuel. Gas to liquids could singlehandedly help the US take the first step toward being more self-sufficient than ever before.

The gas to liquids process can also make diesel fuel, not just regular fuel. The diesel fuel is also nontoxic, with no smell since it is made simply of carbon and hydrogen. This product can also ensure that newer engines that use diesel will pass emission tests, as it is much better for the atmosphere than typical diesel fuel. In fact, its natural base makes it better for the environment and for engines. A product like this probably sounds like it would be expensive, but it is cheaper than current fuel because it is less expensive to obtain. Finally our country has a chance to use its natural resources rather than buying energy for our cars from another nation.

The gas to liquids process can save everyone money due to the abundance of its building blocks, such as coal and cobalt, to name a few. Not only can we use our own naturally occurring substances with the gas to liquids process, but we can also transport the product easier than oil. Natural gas is far less expensive to move than barrels of oil, which alone could save plenty of money since we will not have to rely on heavy-duty transportation methods to get it to its destination. The savings obtained by the companies that make the fuel will be passed down to the consumer at the pump, which is a benefit that anyone can get behind these days.

Article by Gregory Frost

The makeup of the human body is quite unique. It is a blend of the tangible and the intangible, the physical and the meta physical, working in tandem, everyday to produce a machine of efficient proportions that cannot be emulated by science and technology. While science wondered at the brilliance of the human body, we soon realised that besides disease and the natural progression of old age (inevitable to perfection), there are other cogs and bad bolts in the great machine of the human body that we were not aware of.

And these imperfections lay within the human mind. All these discoveries preceded the excavation of the human mind and the discovery of the pre conscious. Now more popularly called the ‘inner mind’ or the subconscious, science discovered that it was the controlling entity that decided on the spirit and the soul of an individual. How we behave, how we spoke, we acted, our reactions to situation, our addictions, our phobias and how we utilised our brain power – all were decided in the subconscious mind and these instructions were built up over years of sensory exposure during the developmental years as a child. Let me give you an example of how you can use subliminal technology to combat this and how the mind works. Let us take the topic of phobias first.

The prime example is a man, 27 years old, physically fit but deathly afraid of the water. Hydrophobophobia. This man cannot look at a swimming pool or be near the ocean without breaking into a sweat, feeling nervous or have the irresistible feeling of fear. Why is this? His social life is stunted, he is unable to enjoy the simple pleasures of life and he is left with a debilitating feat that can be a major factor in stunting the success in his life. Go back a few years when he was a child and trace an incident that he had with water that caused great trauma. The sub conscious mind is like a great sponge of emotions and associations. As a child, the subconscious mind immediately grabs onto the great fear and trauma associated with the incident and makes a mental association of water with these events.

It gets stuck in a cyclic existence in the sub conscious and triggers whenever he comes near to an open body of water. Because as a child, we are not blessed with the faculties of critical thinking and rationale thought, and we take things as they come, and interpret them as realities of the world. This is why parenting is so important, but trauma is one of those dynamic and unpredictable factors of childhood no one can predict. This man can empower himself to rid his mind of these associations and fears with subliminal technology – technology that can reach down into his mind, remove these fears and associations and plant new messages and thoughts. This is called the reprogramming of the pre conscious and it is a reality today with subliminal technology.

The first generation (1G) began in the early 80’s with commercial deployment of Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) cellular networks. Early AMPS networks used Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (FDMA) to carry analog voice over channels in the 800 MHz frequency band. The second generation (2G) emerged in the 90’s when mobile operators deployed two competing digital voice standards. Across the world, many operators adopted the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) standard, which used Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) to multiplex up to 8 calls per channel in the 900 and 1800 MHz bands.

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) defined the third generation (3G) of mobile telephony standards IMT-2000 to facilitate growth, increase bandwidth, and support more diverse applications. For example, GSM could deliver not only voice, but also circuit-switched data at speeds up to 14.4 Kbps. But to support mobile multimedia applications, 3G had to deliver packet-switched data with better spectral efficiency, at far greater speeds.

However, to get from 2G to 3G, mobile operators had make “evolutionary” upgrades to existing networks while simultaneously planning their “revolutionary” new mobile broadband networks. This lead to the establishment of two distinct 3G families: 3GPP and 3GPP2.

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) was formed in 1998 to foster deployment of 3G networks that descended from GSM. 3GPP technologies evolved as follows.

• General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offered speeds up to 114 Kbps.
• Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) reached up to 384 Kbps.
• UMTS Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) offered downlink speeds up to 1.92 Mbps.
• High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) boosted the downlink to 14Mbps.
• LTE Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) is aiming for 100 Mbps.

GPRS deployments began in 2000, followed by EDGE in 2003. While these technologies are defined by IMT-2000, they are sometimes called “2.5G” because they did not offer multi-megabit data rates. EDGE has now been superceded by HSDPA (and its uplink partner HSUPA).
3G networks offer greater security than their 2G predecessors. By allowing the UE (User Equipment) to authenticate the network it is attaching to, the user can be sure the network is the intended one and not an impersonator. 3G networks use the KASUMI block crypto instead of the older A5/1 stream cipher.
 However, a number of serious weaknesses in the KASUMI cipher have been identified. In addition to the 3G network infrastructure security, end-to-end security is offered when application frameworks such as IMS are accessed, although this is not strictly a 3G property.
 
Simply 3G cellular technology is can be defined as the provision of wireless broadband data and information services right to a person’s mobile unit. Compared to the previous technologies, 3G promises speeds ranging from 144 Kbps, which is 3 times faster compared to the traditional 56K dial-up modem connection up to 2.4 Mbps, which is very near cable-modem speed. The networks of 3G allows you to browse quickly through web pages, watch on-demand video programs, download and play music, videos and 3D games, watch streaming videos and music videos and have a video conference with others located on the other side of the plant.

With the new way of doing telecommunication, many mobile phone manufacturing companies tried to make some profit from it and launched 3G enabled phones but till now no one is as successful as Apple iphone 3G .

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Article by Ian Fleming

self promotions and self marketing plays an significant role in today’s business world. A word self promotion define as that to promote your self without looking self promotional. Self promotion is an art to deliberately getting yourself in front of others. It is a trick offering valuable and connecting that with the right people and see what you are offering is valuable to them at the moment.

As you all know that internet is biggest source of communication and it plays an important role to promote your business without looking self promotional. With the increasing popularity of the of the internet it seems a best source of self promotions it provide the better option to promote yourself without looking self promotional. Increasing the popularity of the internet everyone wants to publicized themselves on the internet that includes too many ways in which one of the ways is named email.

The best option for the self promotions is through email. First let us know about the importance of email. Email is such a facility that has become one of the essential online communication tools in the age of technology. Communicating with friends and colleagues, sending messages or any other online transaction can be done through email. In the field of business it has a great importance. In any business communication is an essential factor for its growth and email provides them the easy and the fastest way of communication with their employees, customers and clients. Almost all the business transaction is done and recorded through email. Thus it plays a vital role in the field of businessIt is important for the growth of any organization that they should make a unique mail for business. Most of the leading organization works on their business email id. There many sites which offer a customized business email address and domain name. By making the own business email address, the self promotions of the organization can done. Most of the websites ask for your email id during online registration to use their services, and if you submit your business email, it can provide an additional marketing of your company. Thus mail for business is not only used for its day to day work but also used for self promotions that will help in their proper growth.

Many people think that self promotions and personal branding are only for celebrities but it is quite wrong Self promotion is one of the most important factors to grow your business successfully because if you advertise yourself properly in which you are expertise and you know you can handle any problem regarding that so why not advertise or self promote yourself. So promoting yourself is the best way to achieve the desired in business.

The popularity of different search engines among Polish internauts

The popularity of search engines in Poland is frequently measured. Recent information can be found on different web sites such as ranking.pl or Megapanel PBI/Gemius. The analysis confirms that Polish people use not only global but also local search tools. The very recent research (from May 2007) shows distinctly that the most popular search engine is Google.

The popularity of search engines in Poland according to domain compares (http://www.ranking.pl/index.php?page=Ranks:RanksPage&stat=212|OW) the domains which drive the most visits on Polish websites. The comparison of search engines according to most popular search engines (http://www.ranking.pl/index.php?page=Ranks:RanksPage&stat=213|OW) that are used, show very similar results. In Poland there is a local version of Google which improves in ranking of popularity since it appeared (e.g. in 2004 the popularity was estimated at 42%, a year after more than 69%, while now it is more than 86%).

The second place (receded from the first one) belongs to Onet Szukaj (Onet Search), very similar to WP which occupies the third place (it uses the technology of Netsprint.pl) and gained its popularity through long time of being present at the market. These search engines are parts of important portals (www.onet.pl and www.wp.pl accordingly) from which Polish Internet began, and which offer to their visitors, through many years of their development, several services (email, chat rooms, instant messaging, news etc.). Among the internauts who use these search engines are both very loyal users and those who are just real beginners. The fourth in the ranking is Interia.pl – the search engine which is the part of well a known Polish portal which uses Google technology. These are followed by MSN, Szukacz.pl, Yahoo, Gooru, Altavista and others… but because of a rudimentary market share, are showed here only to present a complete data. Summing this up, when planning SEO / SEM activities in search engines used by Polish internauts, there are three which are worth to pay attention to:

- Google.pl,

- Onet Szukaj,

- WP / Netsprint.pl.The way of using search engines by Polish internauts

The tendencies observed in the way search engines are used in Poland overlap with those of international users. The Polish use search engines much more often, more effectively and frequently. They not only make more accurate and detailed queries but also perceive the listings as a reliable information not just random combination of links. They are able to notice the differences between organic listings and sponsored links, which they are (surprisingly?) willing to click since it is one out of two (beside button) most popular (and well tolerated) ways of online advertising. According to Gemius (2006) 82% of search engines’ users click on paid links. Polish internauts, as well as international ones, concentrate on the first three pages of searching results and usually they click on top three links. The research of Visual attention to Online Search Engine Results (http://www.checkit.nl/pdf/eyetracking_research.pdf) illustrates these observations in details.

How long a statistical Polish internaut spends on searching on Internet? According to the research of Gemius (held in December 2006) the average user uses Google (since it is the most popular search engine) about 5 hours, 5 minutes and 39 seconds monthly. However, this time is not only spent on searching but also on using mailbox on gmail.com, Google Maps, or services such as blogger.com. On average the internauts spend 3 hours 2 minutes and 29 seconds on the search engine’s website. In comparison, Onet search engine is used 32 minutes and 47 seconds monthly, WP search engine 21 minutes and 58 seconds, while Szukacz.pl is used only 5 minutes and 26 seconds a month. Taking into consideration the average duration of page view internauts use Google similarly to other search engines, however the number of page views per user is different. Google search engine has here predominance. On average there are 101.18 page views monthly, while for the second Onet and fourth Interia it is just 18.27 and 17.83 accordingly. The most popular keywords in Poland

It is well known what Polish internauts use to search through the Internet and how they do it, the only question is what they generally look for. The most popular keywords in search engines are regularly updated – e.g. in case of Onet (http://boksy.onet.pl/ranking.html) on a weekly basis. The most popular subjects searched for in polish search engines are erotica, entertainment (for example, surnames of popular stars, music files, funny videos, etc.), season entries – connected with current events in the country, or information such as weather, train timetable, loans, work and… search engines! Car related phrases and tourism are very popular as well. The use of search engine optimization and search engine marketing in Poland

More than 75% of Polish companies (a poll made by Bluerank) use search engine optimization (web positioning and optimization) to improve the visibility of company website at the search engine ranking pages. In addition, half of the examined companies have executed advertising campaigns (PPC) with the use of sponsored links on Polish and international search engines. Polish experts claim that the budget use for this kind of advertising reaches 20% since SEM is the leader of e-marketing. It is because of low costs and efficiency but first of all, perceived by common internauts as practical and useful (according to Gemius actually 29% of all users like paid links and click on them).

The most competitive branches in Poland when talking about SEM activity are finance, tourism, car industry, IT, entertainment, healthcare, real estate and e-commerce. Because of this competitiveness the costs of advertising are much higher than in the less popular areas. The cost of promotion is changing also because of the time period. During festive time, such as the second half of December, the costs increase because of huge popularity of sponsored links, especially in the retail area. Tourism has its ‘raise and fall’ depending on season. The holiday time is very crucial (June-August), New Years Eve, as well as winter holidays (February). Finances are in good condition through the whole year (there is always competition) but taking into consideration IT there is minor stagnation between II and III term, so it means the sponsored links might be cheaper at that time. There is a great dependence not only according to the branch but also country, habits of a certain community and calendar of events. Advertising opportunities in Polish search engines

The most diverted offer of search engine advertising in Polish Internet has Netsprint.pl/WP, which offers to advertisers not only PPC campaigns and banners but also very recent “phone link” (pay-per-call solution) and many others – unusual ways of advertising on the search engine results pages with the content modified according to requirements of the campaign. A very good example is the action called “AIDS search engine protection”. Netsprint is a quite flexible partner in this kind of negotiation, in contrast to Google.pl which is constrained to follow strict rules of the corporation and not to come forth obligatory limitation in the field of SEM.

The great advantage of Polish Google (in comparison with the other already mentioned here search engines) is large simplicity of usage – not only for internauts searching through the Internet but also for advertisers who conduct PPC campaigns. The administration panel is comprehensible, intuitive in use and useful. It gives a wide range of possibilities in setting up the advertising campaign – especially while targeting. Netsprint’s panel is the least useful but there is a possibility to get free pieces of advice from search engine’s consultants.

Google does not offer all of the ways of advertising which is used for example in USA. Polish SEM activity with the use of this search engine is mainly focused on AdWords. AdSense is not so popular – mainly because there is not enough websites and unsatisfactory quality of them in the Google network. In Poland, there are not only popular and worth reading newspapers, magazines or professional bulletins, but also different private, “hobby like” websites with low popularity and high risk of fraud clicks, which expose advertisers on incidental expenses.

The advantage of search engine of Onet (in comparison with WP) is an advanced possibility to target ads and well described user profile. According to the data from a search engine – among the total of 11 million of Polish internauts, 650.000 use exclusively Onet (Megapanel PBI/Gemius research from 2006/2007). A very unique feature of this portal is a section called Onet.eu, which is intended to visit by Polish people who live in the United Kingdom. In case this is an interesting target group, it is worth to take into consideration contextual advertising there through OnetKontekst. Search engines and SEM in Poland – predictions for the future

For a few years now Polish search engines have been trying to follow the example of American companies and developed markets of Western Europe. When improving local search engines and ways of SEM advertising, Polish people follow the best practices of Google in the range of searching and advertising products. This trend should remain and hopefully soon in Poland there will be a lot of high budget campaigns in search engines. However, even today we can observe constant, increasing need for Polish SEM agencies’ services among foreign companies. Those SEM agencies are familiar with the specific character of Polish market, they are relatively cheap and have all the competencies needed to promote foreign brands, products and services in search engines in Poland.

“As far as the international cooperation is concerned, our company takes part in projects which integrate actions of search engine marketing for one brand in different European countries. We are adapting the campaign of sponsored links to Polish reality in the Internet as well as planning the marketing activity of international companies from the scratch on the Polish market” – says Maciej Gałecki, CEO of Bluerank, SEM agency in Poland. “We are open to all different forms of cooperation in the field of promotion by using search engines in Central and Western Europe”.