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Last login: 2 hours agoDevbasu: Dev Basu is a guy from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.; Likes 5,384 pages, 85 videos, 124 photos • 248 fans • Received 47 reviews; Member since Jan 27, 2007

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http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Peace---Unknown-Magnet-C11750644.jpeg: Jun 21, 11:40pm 49 reviews self-improvement
http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Peace---Unknown-Magnet-C11750644.jpeg; Very few have it.

Wirelessnorth.ca & Blog Archive & Rogers iPhone pricing plans revealed: 3year…: Jun 19, 10:45am 1 review mac-os, canada, rogers, iphone
http://wirelessnorth.ca/2008/06/18/rogers-iphone-pricing-plans-revealed-3year...; From the page: "of AT&T.

The iPhone will cost you a data plan of $30 a month for ā€oeunlimitedā€¯ (email, web) [ed - what about 3rd party apps?] or $45 a month for the enterprise email version. This is on top of a regular Rogers voice plan, system access fee etc. Basically this gibes with recent comments by Rogers CEO (and our own predictions) that the iPhone will cost the average customer about $90 a month. Thatā€s not super cheap but itā€s reasonable compared to the price of any blackberry plan.

As previously reported the iPhone will cost $199 up front (currency parity!) for the 8 GB version and $299 for the 16GB and extra color option(white). Thereā€s also option for existing Rogers contract customers to upgrade to the iPhone. Thatā€s the good news.

The bad news. Astonishingly, Rogers is only offering the phone on a 3-year contract. Thatā€s 50% longer than AT&T (and anywhere else in the world) and twice as long as the 18 month contracts offered by O2 in the UK. For some reason, 3year contracts are legal in this country.

$199 + 36months x $90 = $3440 and thatā€s if you buy the cheap one. Donā€t forget the GST/PST.

However, youā€ll probably realize you are likely to spend at least that much on cellphone service in the next three years, no matter what your plan.

Thereā€s no doubt the exclusive iPhone 3G is a coup for Rogers, and we can be sure theyā€ll be taking share from Bell and Telus not to mention locking-in a lot of Canadians just before more new competition arrives. Bell and Telus cannot offer the iPhone because their networks are not GSM. As far as we can tell the current iPhone 3G also does not support the AWS bands currently being auctioned in Canada. So the new entrants wonā€t get it either. Thatā€s not to say though that future iPhone versions, and many other compelling handsets, wonā€t be hitting the AWS bands at least in the next 3 years.

Thereā€s actually a whole bunch of really neat devices on a whole bunch of platforms already coming out in the next 3 to 9 months. But thatā€s a story for another postā€¦"

The Hindu Business Line : Speak French? You can quote your price: Jun 18, 6:22am 1 review business, it, india, french
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2004/03/20/stories/2004032002050700.htm; Speaking french can get you a better job? No way!

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Duplicate content due to scrapers: Jun 9, 8:07am 3 reviews search, google, seo
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/duplicate-content-due-to-s...; In most cases a webmaster has no influence on third parties that scrape and redistribute content without the webmaster's consent. We realize that this is not the fault of the affected webmaster, which in turn means that identical content showing up on several sites in itself is not inherently regarded as a violation of our webmaster guidelines. This simply leads to further processes with the intent of determining the original source of the content--something Google is quite good at, as in most cases the original content can be correctly identified, resulting in no negative effects for the site that originated the content.

Faith, Trust and Respect | creative briefing: Jun 6, 11:00am 1 review business, creative, agency, client-management
http://creativebriefing.com/faith-trust-and-respect/; Metrics, past work, and written contracts are fair game. Beyond that, I'm inclined to say that, as the client, you must take a leap of faith. It's the same leap of faith you take when you drop off your clothes to the dry cleaners, trusting that they will still be open for business the next day. And for the same reason you don't question your dry cleaner on whether they'll ditch their cleaning business tomorrow to pursue their real dream job of touring with Cirque du Soleil, you don't question the commitment of your creative agency to delivering creative - especially when they've demonstrated a strong track record of happy clients that already implicitly serve as evidence of the commitment in question.

WordPress &8250; Redirection & WordPress Plugins: May 23, 12:38pm 1 review search, blogs, seo, blogging, wordpress
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/; Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

Detecting Online Commercial Intention: adCenter Labs: May 23, 8:07am 5 reviews internet, ecommerce, ppc
http://adlab.msn.com/Online-Commercial-Intention/OCI.aspx; A very neat tool!!

Google Gadgets:&FXTrade Ticker: May 22, 8:47am 1 review internet, google, forex, google-gadgets
http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/fxtradeticker_2426.html; Shows foreign exchange rates, with live updates if you're an FXGame or FXTrade account holder

Guard Your Affiliate Data | NickyCakes.com: May 17, 11:11pm 1 review search, affiliate-marketing
http://www.nickycakes.com/guard-your-affiliate-data/; This topic comes up time and time again on affiliate forums and blogs. Good affiliate marketing data is extremely valuable. If you find a good set of keywords, a good traffic source, a good unsaturated offer, or something similar, you stand to make a good deal of money if you can keep your competition from finding out exactly what you're doing.