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Business Development Manager – M4 Corridor	14 November 2007
Business Development Manager – M4 Corridor 30-40k Base, 50-60k OTE & bens Media Solutions For the past 50+ years, our client has been delivering media and information based solutions around the globe. With a presence in over 135 countries spanning some 40 different languages, our client truly is a multi national company that provides electronic distribution, targeting, measurement, translation and broadcast services to tens of thousands of corporate, government and other customers worldwide. Due to continued growth and the launch of a new initiative they now have an exciting opening for a Business Development Manager to work the M4 corridor. As a Business Development Manager you will be responsible for the generation of business revenue with a focus on selling our clients advanced media targeting solution. Through targeting new and existing territory based companies and PR agencies you will develop a solid pipeline of business inline with territory objectives. This role will also allow you access to our clients full portfolio of media/information solutions. Applicants will have a minimum of 2 years sales experience, specifically within a client facing capacity and ideally experience of selling into the PR / media relations / marketing / creative arena. Information sales or media sales experience would also be advantageous but not essential. Selling largely at management or board level you will be able to relate to professionals working within these functions and be able to quickly identify specific buying criteria and related influencing factors. You will have first class communication and presentation skills along with the desire to carve out a professional career within this niche market. You will be highly motivated and a self-starter with the ability to manage your own diary to ensure the business pipeline remains sufficient to achieve and exceed targets. The successful candidate will be offered a package including base salary of 30-40k [dependent upon experience] with a realistic and uncapped first year OTE of 50-60k rising in year 2. Additionally, there is a full benefits package. Certus Sales Limited is a specialist sales recruitment consultancy with an impressive client portfolio covering opportunities in the following areas: Telecommunication, Business Information, Media, I.T and many more. Vacancy levels recruited include Sales Director, Sales Manager, Account Manager, Sales Executive, New Business Development, Field, Territory and Telesales opportunities. To find out more about us please visit certussales.com
Key Account Manager – Media Monitoring	14 November 2007
Key Account Manager – Media Monitoring 35-45k Base, 55-65k OTE & bens London For the past 50+ years, our client has been delivering media and information based solutions around the globe. With a presence in over 135 countries spanning some 40 different languages, our client truly is a multi national company that provides electronic distribution, targeting, measurement, translation and broadcast services to tens of thousands of corporate, government and other customers worldwide. Due to continued growth and their ongoing commitment to existing accounts they now have an exciting opening for a Key Account Manager. As a Key Account Manager you will be targeted to preserve and grow the available revenue form a pre-defined list of FTSE 350 accounts and their associated PR Agencies. With access to our client's full portfolio of media/information based solutions at your disposal you seek further product penetration with the view to becoming the supplier of choice across your account base. Applicants will have a minimum of 3-4 years sales experience, specifically within a client facing capacity and ideally experienced in complex, consultative or solutions based sales. Information sales or media sales experience would also be advantageous but not essential. Selling largely at management or board level you will be able to relate to professionals working within FTSE 350 companies and be able to quickly identify specific buying criteria and related influencing factors. You will have first class communication and presentation skills, be highly motivated and a self-starter with the ability to manage, achieve and exceed targets. The successful candidate will be offered a package including base salary of 35-45k [dependent upon experience] with a realistic and uncapped first year OTE of 55-65k. Additionally, there is a full benefits package. Certus Sales Limited is a specialist sales recruitment consultancy with an impressive client portfolio covering opportunities in the following areas: Telecommunication, Business Information, Media, I.T and many more. Vacancy levels recruited include Sales Director, Sales Manager, Account Manager, Sales Executive, New Business Development, Field, Territory and Telesales opportunities. To find out more about us please visit certussales.com
Lost without translation: The tourist's initiation to Istanbul	01 January 0001
Stepping off the Havas bus that brought me from Atatürk airport, I was greeted with an array of overwhelming storefronts, mostly fast food joints and travel agencies. If I had been looking for
Stella acquires leading UK independent travel group	28 November 2007
adding 1,100 agencies to the Stella network, including 650 travel agencies in the global network.
Programming less	28 November 2007
A programming lesson I keep relearning. The design of the central data structure of an app determines the quality of the app, in every way. Any extra thought that goes into this, will pay off in: 1. Maintainability of the code. 2. Size of the code (you'll write less code with a well thought-out central data structure). 3. Simplicity of the user interface (the structure inevitably shows through in the UI). 4. Ability to respond to feature requests. 5. Adapt to new hardware, OS changes, other apps. 6. More "it just works" experiences. This is why it's sometimes the right thing to start over from scratch. Programmers often want to start over because they look at the code and it looks complicated, and they think they can make it simpler if they start over. They're right, of course, it will be simpler when they start over, because it won't do nearly as much as the mature product does. Once they finish building out the feature set, it may well be just as complicated. It's a judgement call. I remember looking at the source of Unix kernel for the first time as a grad student in Wisconsin, and being amazed at the simplicity and obviousness of the code. I couldn't believe something so simple actually worked. Your code at its kernel level must have this simplicity. But at the edges, where you're accomdating the minds of users, inevitably it gets a little messy. The key thing to look for is how hard is it to add a completely new feature. It should be easy to do that. If it's not, it's likely because of a poorly organized (and therefore not well-understood) central data structure. I've rewritten apps many times, over many years, because when I wrote the first or second versions, I didn't understand the problem well enough, and the code had turned into a morass of patches and workarounds. Right now I'm recoding the internals of a special-purpose aggregator. I've written many of these, over the years, always quickly, trying to get something running fast, and then lived with data structures that resulted. This time I'm going slowly and carefully, with an installed base of one (me) and ripping up the pavement whenever I find even a slightly better way of doing something. I have other users who are waiting, but that's life. 5/7/97: "When a programmer catches fire it's because he or she groks the system, its underlying truth has been revealed."
Google: Jolly green giant?	28 November 2007
The search and advertising company is a force to be reckoned with across the Web. Now it's looking to do the same in alternative energy (along with many others, large and small).
Google service uses cell towers to locate users	28 November 2007
Google launched a location service for mobile users on Wednesday that doesn't rely on GPS.Google Maps with My Location, currently in beta, locates users who don't have GPS-enabled phones based on their location to nearby cell towers. The result isn't as accurate as GPS but works for people who lack the positioning technology in their phones."It helps users speed up search by showing the general neighborhood they're in," said Steve Lee, product manager at Google for the service. Without the location service, users must type in their address or neighborhood in order to find nearby businesses using Google Maps.Google Maps with My Location will use GPS data to locate the user if the phone has the capability. But even for users of GPS-enabled phones, the cell location service might be useful, Lee said. That's because the cell tower feature works better indoors than GPS, it doesn't drain the phone battery as quickly and can bring up a result quicker, he said.The service could be useful to a person who might be traveling in an unfamiliar city and looking for restaurants or other businesses. A user pulls up Google Maps and hits the zero key on the phone. A blue dot will appear on the map in the user's location. If the service used GPS in the phone, the blue dot will be solid. If the service used cell towers to determine the location, the blue dot will have a halo around it, indicating that the location isn't precise. The user can then search for nearby businesses.Google says the cell tower technique will locate the user within about 1000 meters. It doesn't use triangulation, which calculates a user location based on the user's distance to three nearby towers. Instead, it essentially shows the range of the tower that the user's phone is connecting to.But the accuracy should improve as more people use the service, Lee said. That's because Google is keeping a database of location queries, minus any personal information like individual phone numbers or names. That will allow Google to learn more precise information about the range of each tower so that it can deliver a more accurate location area to users. The coverage area of cell towers can vary from about a quarter of a mile to several miles based on whether the tower is in an urban or rural area.For now, Google Maps with My Location doesn't feature any advertising, but it could in the future. "This product makes a lot of sense for advertising," Lee said.In order to use the service, phone owners must download a free application from Google. The application will work on BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian phones as well as many phones that support Java. A few notable exceptions include the Samsung Blackjack, Moto Q, and Palm Treo 700W, which don't support the APIs Google requires to find cell towers, Lee said.
OLPC sued for patent infringement	28 November 2007
A Massachusetts company has sued the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association for patent infringement, charging the project with stealing its designs for a multilingual keyboard.Lagos Analysis Corp., or Lancor, filed the lawsuit Thursday in the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division in Nigeria, where the company owns a patent for a four shift-key keyboard, said Adé Oyegbola, Lancor's CEO.OLPC illegally reverse-engineered the company's patented keyboard, which, with its four-shift keys, allows computers to better handle multiple languages, Oyegbola said. Lancor wants the Nigerian court to award "substantial" damages and issue a permanent injunction to prevent OLPC from manufacturing and selling its XO laptop.Oyegbola said he hopes Lancor can reach a settlement with OLPC before the Nigerian court issues an injunction. OLPC could have "sought a license and gotten it for a minimal fee," he said. "We're hoping ... they can come to their senses, and we sit down and come to a reasonable settlement."Lancor, based in Natick, Massachusetts, has tried to reach a settlement with OLPC but did not get a "reasonable response" from the project, Oyegbola said.OLPC released a statement, saying it has not yet seen the legal filings in the case. "OLPC has the utmost respect for the rights of intellectual property owners," Robert Fadel, OLPC director of finance and operations, said in the statement. "To OLPC's knowledge, all of the intellectual property used in the XO Laptop is either owned by OLPC or properly licensed. Until we have a copy of the claim and have had time to review it, we will not be commenting further on the matter."The goal of the nonprofit OLPC, founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte, is to donate laptops to children in developing nations. Through Dec. 31, residents of the U.S. and Canada can donate $400 and get one laptop for themselves, while sending a second to a child overseas.In addition to the Nigerian lawsuit, Lancor is looking at filing a patent lawsuit in U.S. court within three weeks, if the case is not settled by then, Oyegbola said.Lancor's Shift2 technology has been used to create region-specific keyboards called Konyin Multilingual Keyboards, according to the company. Lancor's lawsuit alleges that OLPC purchased two Konyin keyboards and used them to reverse-engineer the source codes for use in OLPC's XO Laptops.Asked about the goals of OLPC, Nigerian citizen Oyegbola said he didn't have a strong opinion. Laptops can be useful to children in Africa, but many of them have more basic needs, he said."Children might not need a laptop," he said. "Maybe instead they need a classroom."
'Cleantech' Investing Gets Its Day in the Sun	26 November 2007
Everybody seems to be looking for ways to make money on technologies that are said to reduce fossil-fuel emissions, wean the country from foreign oil and, generally, save the world. Venture capitalists have invested $3.64 billion nationally this year in search of promising ideas in what they call...
Romney and Giuliani Turn Negative in N.H.	26 November 2007
CONCORD, N.H., Nov. 25 -- With Rudolph W. Giuliani looking to spring a surprise against Mitt Romney in the state hosting the nation's first primary, the race for the Republican presidential nomination took a sharply negative turn here Sunday as the two candidates traded accusations about taxes, c...