Archive for March, 2010



With the ongoing development of technology innovation, new-age mobile phones have become multi-functional. Talk about multimedia entertainment, your mobile phone can perform efficiently as a music player, camera, gaming console, or a business utility device.

Samsung Ultra series phones perfectly blend style with functionality. Slide open the ultra-sleek Samsung U700 to enjoy unlimited fun. It features an impressive 3 mega pixel camera with attractive imaging features including Auto focus and flash. The integrated picture and video settings allow you to capture, edit and organise your pictures and video clips. The handset also includes a secondary VGA camera which is used for making video calls. The TFT colour display of the handset is 2.2 inch wide which provides you with high resolution viewing of your media files.

Enjoy multimedia mobile experience by sharing your files with friends. Samsung U700 offers you simple yet useful messaging options. You can send your photos and videos to your loved ones through MMS and email. Stay in touch with friends through SMS and EMS. For high speed wireless connectivity and fast data transfer, the Samsung U700 includes a variety of wireless networks such as 3G, Bluetooth, EDGE, GPRS and USB. You can browse the net through WAP and get connected with your dear ones in an instant. Download Java and other fun-filled games directly to your device.

Experience music on the move whenever and wherever you go. Samsung U700 sports a digital music player with outstanding audio quality. It supports multiple music formats including MP3 files to suit your song types. You can search for your favourite tracks online in MP3 format directly from your device and make interesting ringtones. The memory capacity of the Samsung U700 supports a microSD TransFlash memory card slot which is further expandable. Now you can make your mobile handset an all-in-one device by storing your music, photos, videos, games and messages in it.

Go for Samsung U700 and get used to high-end technology.



Once the puppet theatre curtain opens, language, reading and comprehension skills converge as meaningful learning takes a front row seat! Puppet theaters promote literacy and a love for learning. From young children building pre-reading skills, to high school students developing higher level cognition, puppet theaters are a stage for hands-on-learning and practical skill application.

Real life application strengthens language cognition and reading comprehension. After receiving my certification as a Reading Specialist, I searched for a program that would help kids learn to speak, read, write and communicate. Then, I realized that I needed something to help my little learners engage, so I brought my first puppet theater into my classroom. I saw a sparks in the eyes of all those children, and I knew this was a way to help children connect what they were learning on a page to real life!

There are many places where children learn. Bedrooms, classrooms, playrooms, day care centers and youth centers are a few of the many places where we expect that learning is taking place. Young learners need adults to consider their literacy needs and create a space where these needs can be nourished. Puppet theaters are an excellent choice for filling any space that hopes to nourish language and reading development for young people. This development is crucial for future learning.

Children who have regular opportunities for dramatic play have a rich environment that stimulates and reinforces language development. Add a puppet theater to any space where children play. Watch kids teach each other how to communicate. Expect an enthusiasm for learning that text books and instructional programs can’t facilitate.

Before you set out to select a puppet stage, there are a few things to consider. Firstly, this is not likely to be a short term investment. You want to purchase a theater and hand puppets that will last. Children love to return to familiar characters and scenes and grow with them. Each rehearsal builds on the last and becomes the impetus for new creativity and learning. Select a puppet theater and puppets that will hold up under regular use.

Don’t be surprised if your favorite little thespian continues their puppet stage performances well into adulthood! Once a child loves literacy and learning, they often want to pass their enthusiasm on to others!



Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) such as AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo have a report as spam button. The number of times this function is used is collected by the ISP and used to score for filtering and potentially to block emails.

The number of spam complaints an ISP gets from users plays a major factor in the ISPs filtering of the email to junk or even not delivering the email at all. Too many people hitting the spam complaint button and your emails will be blocked.

Firstly you need to know how many spam complaints your emarketing efforts are getting. A good email service provider will be able to report for you on how many spam complaints were made.

It may be someone signed up for your emails and has simply forgotten then uses the spam button as an easy way of getting you out of their inbox. The legal definition of spam is not the same as the user’s definition of spam.

If you have a problem with too high spam complaint level what you can do?

There are actions you can take to reduce the number of users wrongly thinking your email is spam and potentially affecting future deliverability.

• Send an email to people who have neither opened nor clicked in the last year asking them to confirm they still want the email. If they don’t reconfirm, then remove them. Inactive people won’t be adding value to the list.

• Look at the profile of the people reporting email as spam. Are they recent subscribers? If so is a double opt-in needed might help (where you double check their opt-in with them before you start to send), or is the subscribe mechanism not clear enough as to what people are subscribing too. Did they subscribe through a common source? Did they subscribe a long time a go? This could help define a strategy to reduce spam complaints.

• Ensure the email branding is clear so that your company is identified. That the email branding is the same as the branding the user would have seen at time of sign up.

• Include a statement in the email to remind users they did ask for the email. EG ‘You are receiving this email as you subscribed to X on the Y. If you no longer wish to receive this email you may unsubscribe using the link at the bottom’

• Put your company name, address, registration number, contact details in the email footer. This is also a legal requirement in many countries, including all European countries