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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 Battery Issues & Safety Concerns
Consumers that recently bought the new galaxy note 7 smartphone are definitely not the happiest lot. Samsung has had to recall the devices after reports of incidents of battery explosions. In some cases of these battery explosions, serious fire damages on properties have been reported. The rechargeable lithium batteries contained in the gadgets are said to be extremely overheating. When the temperatures exceed certain limits, the batteries explode and can easily cause fire accidents.
Although the Samsung smartphone isn’t actually the first gadget to suffer battery explosion issues, the manufacturer has made efforts to explain the issue leading to the recall. Nothing beyond the obvious overheating problem has been stated, like what specific manufacturing flaw is causing it in the first place, but Samsung says it’s a rare error.
Immediately after making the recall, Samsung didn’t immediately explain how customers where supposed to go about returning their phones. But all major carriers in the US have been giving customers instructions on how to return their phones. Upon returning their gadgets, customers are supposed to have them replaced with Samsung galaxy S7 phones and the price difference paid back. A $25 gift is also offered for the inconvenience caused to the smartphone users.
Some of the incidents reported so far leave no doubt that the battery overheating issue poses serious safety concerns. A family from ST. Pete has already lost their Jeep after a Galaxy Note 7 phone that was left charging inside the car exploded and caused fire. It’s easy to see how such explosions can potentially lead to fire disasters in different environments especially where the risk factors are significantly high enough.
Just days after Samsung recalled its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, a St. Petersburg man says he found out the hard way why the recall was issued in the first place.
Nathan Dornacher's wife, Lydia said the family went to a yard sale Labor Day morning. While unloading a desk they bought for their daughter, Nathan left his Note 7 charging in the center console of his Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Lydia said they sent their 8-year-old daughter, with the family's service dog, to get back in the vehicle because they were leaving to run more errands. But the dog knew something was wrong. Nathan looked out of the window and realized his Jeep was on fire.
Lydia said they sent their 8-year-old daughter, with the family's service dog, to get back in the vehicle because they were leaving to run more errands. But the dog knew something was wrong. Nathan looked out of the window and realized his Jeep was on fire.
U.S. aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step late Thursday of warning airline passengers not to turn on or charge a new-model Samsung smartphone during flights following numerous reports of the devices catching fire.
The Federal Aviation Administration also warned passengers not to put the Galaxy Note 7 phones in their checked bags, citing "recent incidents and concerns raised by Samsung" about the devices. It is extremely unusual for the FAA to warn passengers about a specific product
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
9 Proven Website Branding Techniques To Build Trust
Establishing
a strong online presence for your business is a process that will definitely
require meticulous planning and execution. You have to go every possible extra
mile if you want to win the trust of today’s customers because they are very
discerning. The feeling users will get on your website should give them
confidence in your brand’s ability to offer a satisfying solution. It is
therefore in your best interest to create the best website branding and keep
perfecting it over time. You don’t want any of your potential customers to
doubt your ability to deliver, so make sure your website has every little
element that can boost visitors’ confidence or provide any piece of evidence
that can build trust.
Now that
you have a good idea of what you will need to achieve, let’s look at the 9
techniques you can make use of to improve your website.
Build a strong corporate identity
Customers
will take your brand seriously if the website they find online has a
professional look. It is therefore absolutely important to build the right
corporate identity including a professional logo and a color scheme applied
consistently throughout the website. This should also be extended to other opportunities
of engaging with your audience, so even when sending out emails remember to
include the logo and other elements of your corporate identity. Such efforts
will definitely go a long way in creating the desired image for your brand. Whenever
web users search for your business name online, they should easily find and
recognize your logo. Including your professional photo in your website is also
a nice idea as it gives it a face that potential customers can easily recognize
and associate with your brand.
Provide useful content
You must
genuinely engage your online audience with useful content that helps them
understand the value you promise to provide. If you thought “salesy” content is
all you need to generate sales, forget it. Today’s discerning customers have
probably already done their research before visiting your website. They already
know what they are looking for, so you ought to have done your homework right
to provide facts and convince them how valuable your offering is. You will need
to provide tips on how their problems can be solved. Use text, images and
videos where necessary in order to create the most engaging content for your
website. That might make them keep coming back until they trust and buy your
product. Such high quality content should also be published on your blog. Make
your audience believe that you are truly a thought leader in your given field.
Create a great ‘About Us” page
Any
professional business website should have an “About Us” page answering the most
critical questions about its identity, core values, mission, vision and similar
things. The most serious visitors are likely to be interested in that section
of your website as it lets them quickly know about your business and what it
stands. Be creative and provide information that you know will matter to your
potential customers as they consider buying from you. A good idea is to include
professional photos of your team if any and providing the areas of their
expertise.
Display project portfolio
Think about
the impact of providing real evidence to your potential customers about what
you can do? Professional videos, photos and descriptions that can highlight
your work in past projects will significantly boost your conversion rates. The
professional work portfolio will certainly convince your website visitors to
trust in your brand and convert them to buyers.
Display client logos
If you have
worked for any serious clients before, make sure to show off their logos on
your website. Potential customers would definitely be impressed to see you have
already contributed to the success of other brands. They would also want to use
your product or service expecting to achieve success as well.
Showcase testimonials
Providing
the words your past or existing clients have used to positively describe your
product or service can be one of the most powerful sources of trust for your brand.
Potential customers are more likely to trust such words as they will consider
them not biased unlike your own words.
Badges or stickers
If you
truly believe in the value that your brand represents and wouldn’t hesitate to
stand by it, then why not display any badges or stickers that will precisely
make that point? If you provide a money back guarantee, don’t just say it but show
it prominently using a sticker. Such a sticker should of course be displayed
next to the “buy now” button as it will likely boost your potential buyers’
confidence. Similarly, if your business is Better Business Bureau (BBB)
Accredited, showing that on your website will definitely increase the trust
potential customers are likely to have in your brand.
Build Social media pages
Potential
customers are likely to believe that your brand is big enough if it commands sizeable
social media following. A discerning customer does a thorough research and will
want to find out if you have social media pages and if so how many followers
you have there. Your business profiles on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are
particularly very important for branding and engagement with targeted audience.
Social media integration into your website also significantly improves audience
reach. People may trust the information shared by their friends, family members
or colleagues in their social networks. If that’s about your brand, eventually
it may translate into sales.
Provide trusted payment options
Payments are
perhaps the most sensitive areas of online transactions. Customers do not want
to be victims of online fraud and therefore want to use payment options they
can easily recognize. Display recognized images for each payment option allowed
on your website. That will make things far much easier for the customers. You
do not want a customer to leave when they have already added their chosen items
in the shopping cart. Adding every bit of payment convenience possible will go
a long way in optimizing your conversion rates.
Conclusion
Website
branding is not a one-time activity, but rather a continuous process that
begins from the time your business idea is conceived. It is about every aspect
that has to do with the look and feel of your brand. This has even become more
important for the online presence of businesses in order to stand out from the
competition. Winning the trust of your potential customers online demands a lot
of efforts, so the 9 proven techniques discussed here should only help you get
started.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Zmartframe - Dual Functions Multi Touch Windows Android Overlay
Zmartframe is an innovation that aims to reincarnate old PC monitors into
main units of the new era. The device will help millions of users around the
world to enjoy multi touch technology on their old monitors instead of
disposing them. The technology is going to work with Windows operating systems
from Windows XP, Windows 7 to Windows 8, while at the same time allowing an
Android PC mode for users to enjoy the numerous Android apps available today.
The world's first dual functions multi touch Windows Android overlay
frame for PC monitor is an innovation is led by a group of young experts with a
wealth of experience in the areas of technology development and product
development. Touch is increasingly becoming an important basic input method
which makes computer system interactive. Many users have been throwing away
their old PC monitors because they could not enjoy the technology. Zmartframe is
the piece of technology that adds the multi touch capability to the old
monitors. With the Zmartframe innovation for old PC monitor reincarnation,
eWaste will significantly be reduced around the world and positively contribute
in saving our planet from numerous environmental challenges.
Zmartframe comes with an embedded Android system and that is why it works
with both Windows and Android. That enables users to benefit from multi touch
technology while using their PC with monitors that were once non-touchable. The
Android platform as a very powerful standalone main unit helps take over about
99% PC functions. Millions of andoid apps are available today and users can
enjoy them with Zmartframe and avoid unnecessarily replacing and throwing away
the old monitors.
The mass production of Zmartframe products to make them available
worldwide is set to start as soon the current phase target of $200,000 through
an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign is realized.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Responsive Web Design Benefits
There is no doubt that today responsive web design is the best way to go. If you want to optimize your audience reach, you should a responsive design so that your website can guarantee great accessibility, availability, reliability and performance across all the major technology platforms. There is no doubt that today web users demand great ease of use and convenience. Desktops and laptops are not the only devices used to access the web today as a plethora of web-enabled devices exist today from notebooks, netbooks, tablets and smartphones to TV sets and game consoles like X-box that come with browsers.
While
taking care of your business needs and targeted audience is critical to help
design a website that best represents your brand online, you must ensure that
your website is available and accessible to web users on all web-enabled
gadgets. This is achieved through responsive web design techniques and helps to
future-proof your website investments. Technology is changing fast while you
want to reduce the efforts of redesigning your website frequently. It allows
you not only to cut down cost over the long term but to focus more on your
business strategies. You free more time in order to focus on adding fresh
content on your website to attract more visitors and achieve more conversion
rates.
Page Numbers In Roman And Regular Numbers In MS Word Office 2007 Tips
Do you want to create a document with some pages numbered in Romans (i, ii, iii, etc) and the following pages numbered with regular numbers (1, 2, 3, etc)? You can easily do that in Microsoft Word from Office 2007 or even later versions. Do not rush in applying the page numbers as you do for simple documents that do not have sections. The secret in applying different formats of page numbers within the same document lies in the use of section breaks. If your document has a cover page, that is the first section, table of contents comes in the second section while the first chapter starts in the third section.
Cover Page Without Page Numbers
The
cover page will not require a page number. To make sure this does not happen,
follow these steps:
1.
Click on the cover page
2.
Go to ‘Page Layout’ menu and click on ‘Page
Setup’.
3.
In the ‘Page setup’ dialogue box click on
the ‘Layout’ tab
4.
Check the ‘Headers and footers’ section to
check the box against ‘Different first page’.
After
completing the above steps, you cover page will be excluded from any page
numbering that applies to other sections.
Create Section Break And Start Roman
Page Numbering
Now
go to the page where you want the section with roman page numbers to start and
complete the steps below:
1.
Go to ‘Page Layout’ menu
2.
Click on the ‘Insert Page and Section
Breaks’ icon as shown in the image below
3.
Click ‘Next Page’
4.
Go to the ‘Insert’ menu
5.
Click on ‘Page Number’ and then ‘format
Page Numbers’
6.
Choose the roman number format if that is
what you prefer
7.
Click on the ‘Start at’ radio button and
type in ‘i’ without the quotes then click ok.
After
the above steps, roman page numbers will apply from that section to the end of
your document. Do not worry about that but follow the steps given below.
Create Section Break And Start Regular
Page Numbering
Now
you must create another section break starting from the page where you want
regular numbers to start. Follow these steps:
1.
Follow the same steps given earlier to
create a section break.
2.
Follow the same procedure given earlier to
insert page numbers, but this time under ‘Number format’ choose regular numbers
(1, 2, 3, etc), and also check the ‘Start at’ radio button and type in ‘1’.
If
you have successfully done everything as instructed from the beginning of this
article, you should now have a document with the following three sections:
1.
Section 1 for cover page with no page
number
2.
Section 2 with roman page number format
3.
Section 3 with regular page number format
There
you have it, great tips on how to insert roman page numbers and regular page numbers
on the same document. This is useful when working on academic research papers,
dissertations and so on. If you were happy to do it after following the instructions,
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