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Being online dating expert still we are doing 5 big mistakes

By Guest PostNovember 14, 2013Culture, Sex, Technologyamplify, big mistakes, brianne walter, man, online dating expert, personal questions, starting a relationship, successful online dating, woman, your profile

If you look at the lives of singles there are many who are seen busy planning for things like dating. With the advent of a number of online dating sites, the idea of dating has become simpler and accessible by all. Earlier people feared approaching a girl or a boy however, with anonymity over the web you do not hesitate in approaching women/men for dating. However, whether you happen to be an expert or a novice in online dating one thing is sure, you are bound to make mistakes. The experts might commit fewer mistakes while the newbie would do more. Before you consider yourself as an over confident fellow for being an online dating expert, make sure you check certain mistakes even the seasoned dating guys commit. The following are the big 5 mistakes which experts commit. Let’s check them out:

1). Posting old pictures and inaccurate details

When it comes to making a profile for online dating, many seasoned people are seen committing a mistake of putting inaccurate information on it along with posting older pictures or photos of their friends and other people. Make sure you list down the exact information as you never know you may lose a good person just for uttering a lie over your profile or for the picture you have posted. It is a big mistake, which even experts commit in online dating by starting a relationship with a lie. Never do this. (more…)

IBM Launches Talent Assessment to Help Aspiring Data Crunchers and Academia Gauge and Enhance Skills

By Guest PostNovember 12, 2013Technologyanalytics careers, analytics talent assessment, big data, capital management strategy, chief data officers, fordham university, george washington university, ibm, ibm academic initiative, ibm data scientists, logical reasoning, mike rhodin, ohio state university, social assuredness, verbal reasoning

WASHINGTON – 12 Nov 2013: IBM today unveiled the IBM Analytics Talent Assessment, a first-of-its-kind online platform that provides university students with data-driven insights that aim to help narrow the Big Data and Analytics skills gap and foster talent for the next-generation workforce.

UsingIBM Analytics Talent Assessment, university students can gauge their readiness for public and private sector Big Data and analytics careers and gain guidance on ways to further develop and position themselves for these in-demand jobsthrough a simple online questionnaire. In addition to benefitting students and universities, talent assessments help organizations identify and hire the right candidate for the right job. They can also enable them to more accurately predict performance, thereby adding greater efficiencies to an organization’s human capital management strategy. (more…)

New Research from Sociologists Finds the Racial and Educational Preferences of Internet Daters

By Guest PostNovember 12, 2013Culture, Technologyamherst, asian men, black dater, black women, college degree, cyberspace, demographic, educational preference, formation of relationships, internet dater, jennifer lundquist, ken hou lin, mate selection, new research, online dating, racial, sociologist, university of massachusetts, white dater

Study of nearly one million dating website users shows opportunities for white daters, hurdles for blacks

AMHERST, Mass. – New research from sociologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found specific racial patterns in the outreach and response habits of heterosexual men and women using online dating sites.

In a study published in the upcoming issue of the American Journal of Sociology, vol. 119, no. 1, UMass Amherst doctoral recipient Ken-Hou Lin and associate professor Jennifer Lundquist tracked the racial and educational characteristics of almost one million online daters searching for relationships from the 20 largest cities in the U.S. They then analyzed the inquiries sent and received by each dater, in order to gain an understanding of how members of each race interact with one another in an online dating setting. (more…)

IBM Opens Doors of First African Research Lab – Continent’s Grand Challenges in its Sights

By Guest PostNovember 8, 2013Technologyafrica for africa, african innovation, african research lab, airtel, cognitive systems, ibm opens doors, ibm research, kamal bhattacharya, kenyan ict authority, kuza biashara, nairobi, nik nesbitt, osamuyimen uyi stewart, president of kenya, robert morris, safaricom, twende twende, uhuru kenyatta

Develops solutions in Africa for Africa and the World

Yorktown Heights, N.Y. and Nairobi, Kenya – 08 Nov 2013: IBM and His Excellency, the President of Kenya, Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, officially opened the first commercial technology research facility in Africa at an inauguration ceremony in Nairobi today.

IBM’s 12^th global research lab – supported by the Kenyan ICT Authority – and located at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, will conduct applied and far-reaching exploratory research into the grand challenges of the African continent by delivering commercially-viable innovations that impact people’s lives. (more…)

Microsoft unveils game-changer for South Africa’s small businesses

By Guest PostNovember 5, 2013Technologyafrica, bcg, biz4afrika hub, boston consulting group, business leader, chief operating officer, crime line, kevin turner, Microsoft, mteto nyati, small business, sme, South Africa, Technology

Boston Consulting Group research highlights potential for technology to help drive significant revenue and job growth by SMEs.

JOHANNESBURG — Nov. 5, 2013 — Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner on Tuesday unveiled an online hub that will give South African small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) access to a range of free products and services from Microsoft and other partners.

The hub, at https://southafrica.biz4afrika.com, is specifically designed to aggregate all the best resources — both IT and non-IT — available to local SMEs. The baseline services offered are free and highly relevant for South African SMEs looking to bring their business online and improve their general competitiveness. The launch offer will provide SMEs with the opportunity to get their businesses online for free for the first year. This includes a free .co.za domain, a free website, as well as free email and collaboration tools.* (more…)

Newspaper web ads not to blame for print advertising decline

By Guest PostNovember 1, 2013Technologyad spending, adspender database, advertising technology, browsing history, kantar media, lost revenue, newspaper web ads, online ads, print advertising decline, s sriram, shrihari sridhar, university of michigan, user

ANN ARBOR — An open question as the newspaper industry struggles with declining revenues and profits is whether online ads cannibalize print advertising.

New research from S. Sriram, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, finds that’s not the case. Analyzing five years of data from a top newspaper showed less than 8 percent of the print advertising decline was due to a shift to online ads on the paper’s website. (more…)

New cybersecurity report from Microsoft details risks of running unsupported software

By Guest PostOctober 29, 2013Technologycybersecurity report, Microsoft, microsoft trustworthy computing, security benefits, security innovation, security intelligence report, service pack 2, statcounter, tim rains, windows xp, windows xp sp3

Findings highlight importance of using modern software to help protect against cybercriminals.

REDMOND, Wash. — On Tuesday, Microsoft Corp. released its Security Intelligence Report volume 15, which analyzes threat intelligence from more than 1 billion systems worldwide to provide in-depth perspectives on exploits, vulnerabilities and malware to help customers manage risk. Among other intelligence, the report examines the security risk that consumers and businesses face when using unsupported operating systems and software and looks at the implications of using Windows XP once support, including security updates, ends April 8, 2014. In addition, new telemetry compares the security of modern operating systems such as Windows 8 with older operating systems such as Windows XP that, according to StatCounter, make up approximately 21 percent of operating systems used today.

The report found these top three worldwide threats for those running Windows XP: (more…)

The 2014 Solar Decathlon Europe: Brown/RISD/Erfurt team designs Techstyle Haus

By Guest PostOctober 27, 2013Technologysolar decathlon, solar house, solar powered village, techstyle haus

Students at Brown, RISD, and the University of Erfurt are tackling a great challenge: Build a house that uses 90 percent less energy than a typical house, make it liveable, flexible, durable, and lightweight enough to be shipped from Providence to France — and design it better than 19 other top teams from around the world. That’s the Solar Decathlon. The Brown-RISD-Erfurt team calls its entry the “Techstyle Haus.” (more…)

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