Tier 1 wireless companies are banding together to create a nationwide database of stolen smartphones. Within 18 months the carrier databases will be merged to form a national database that will also be used to block stolen devices from being altered to run on another carrier’s network.
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Google has announced a search engine optimization penalty to “level the playing ground.” Google’s goal for the penalty is to give sites that have produced great content a better chance to rank and drive organic search traffic and conversions.
According to a recent Harvard Business Review article, 25%-50% of people report that they feel overwhelmed or burned out at work. The biggest cost it to your productivity. Read the full article below for some great suggestions on the best way to help focus and get things done more efficiently.
Major trends in client computing have shifted the market away from a focus on personal computers to a broader device perspective that includes smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices,” Steve Kleynhans, research vice president at Gartner, said in a statement on Monday. “Emerging cloud services will become the glue that connects the web of devices that users choose to access during the different aspects of their daily life.”
Check out the full article below. It’s an interesting quick read!
Personal Cloud’ to Replace PC by 2014, Says Gartner
Wow, what a crazy storm for a Monday afternoon…guess that’s what happens when you have 80 degree temps in mid-March! Yep, that’s hail in the picture…
The town of Athens is just a bit fired up over the OU Bobcat Basketball Team’s trip to the Sweet Sixteen and we’ve had our fair share of partying over the weekend it seems…So much so that we had to call and report a city parking meter resting along side our building this morning. You know you are in a college town when you call to report it and the person on the other end of the phone is not surprised at all! Who knows what we may find if the team moves on to the Elite Eight! GO BOBCATS!!!
Keep your eyes posted for our Bracket Buster Sale starting next week! 8 of our most popular items will be posted for sale at 10% off for round one. Based on sales and facebook likes, we will offer the winners of these brackets at an additional discount. The overall winning item will be offered at 50% off for a limited time! Stay tuned for details…it’s madness I tell you!! March Madness!!!
Many X-cart sites that have been around a while start to get slower and slower. This is especially true if you have the Advanced Statistics module on. This module is required to be on for the bestsellers module to work. The good news is, there’s usually a really easy quick fix for speeding up your X-cart site! We have a free module that you can upload and either run manually or set it up as a cron (ask your host how to do this if you don’t know how). We’ve been using this free module for years for all of our hosted customers that need extra speed. Check out our FREE Clean Stats mod for X-cart!
The module simply cleans out the xcart_stats tables that you don’t need for bestsellers to work. Many people do not use the data in these because they have better analytics when using Google Analytics or something similar. For larger or order sites, these tables just keep getting bigger and bigger, eventually getting millions of rows of data in them. When a user browses the site, a new row is entered. In simple terms, if you have too many rows then this will slow down the site to insert a new row.
Some sites need more work to speed them up than this but many times this is all that is needed! Contact Us if you need more X-cart Speed help!
Brandon & Stacy had the opportunity to attend the Athens Chamber of Commerce Biz Fair today. Had a great time mingling with the other great businesses in Athens County. Here’s a pic of our table…we love our personalized letter openers that we handed out to attendees. Thanks Dave at ZONEZ for helping us order these and getting them here on-time for the event!!
We just released today an update to our ever popular Point of Sale system. The Authorize.net DPM solution is now available in the Point of Sale system if you have the DPM module installed!
If you already have the Point of Sale system and would like to update your software to include the DPM support, drop us an email and we’ll see if you qualify for a free upgrade.
The Authorize.net DPM module is a very popular payment gateway choice that runs on top of your existing Authorize.net AIM solution. It helps get you closer to PCI compliance than using regular Authorize.net. It has been the choice of many X-cart clients with the new PCI standards that came out in July of 2010.
