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There are benefits to having a travel phone especially if you are a frequent traveler abroad -regardless of whether your travel is for business or for pleasure. The truth is that if you need to stay connected with your colleagues, loved ones, family, and friends, you can continue using your old number but it might cause you to spend much, much more.

While some people might not be so concerned with their roof-high cost, there are others who are more than happy to opt for a world SIM card offered by some companies.  These SIM cards are very different from the ones you used in the United States.

The said companies can provide you with information about the countries that you will be visiting, thus, they will be able to give you the best offers when it comes to not only enjoying seamless service in almost 200 countries but also in spending a pittance by using these international prepaid SIM cards.

So where do you find these offers then?

One place where you can find companies that are more than willing to offer you the best communication services on your travel and that will help you stay connected the best way possible is over the Internet.

With the hype that surrounds social media these days, and with the various strategies that are used by several companies with great success, the question still remains: How does one measure the success of so complex a task to which the response can vary from person to person?

Of course, since the bottom line of most clients being return-on-investment (ROI), almost every marketer must ask themselves this question as sooner or later, their clients will.

And for this to be able to happen, one must not only be able to recognize but also plan out the social media success metrics based pertaining to the unique strategy that they are using for a particular project.

Let’s say that you are setting up a Twitter account for one of your clients, a quantitative approach would demand that you track the traffic that you generate and that will inevitably generate leads for your client. Along with this, one can also factor in the savings that the company has made in the areas of customer relationship management, recruitment of new staff and call center costs that might have been otherwise needed.

If one wants to measure success qualitatively, one can also track the kind of communication that this approach has had with potential customers, the quality of these Twitter followers and how this has translated into engaging with customers. Of course, these metrics can also provide feedback as well as vital market information as well.

Several years ago, as it became clear that there would be a shakeout in the PC manufacturing industry, Microsoft, Intel, and Dell sat down in a series of talks billed as the Yalta of our time. 

Determining the future of the market, they shut out other manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard from their discussion. Today, Hewlett-Packard is the largest PC maker in the world; with its strategy that brought it out from underneath Dell, the stuff of legends. 
In the mobile platform market, it was starting to become apparent that Microsoft and current smartphone market leader Nokia were the ones starting out behind as mobile software platforms began to shift toward Iphone and Google Android-like feature sets.
The recent announcement, therefore, that Nokia is jettisoning its longtime labor of love, Symbian, and embracing Windows as a smartphone platform, took many people by surprise. 

Even Nokia employees were shocked to hear about the scope of the changes, with Linked In and other social networking sites seeing a sudden flurry of activity as software engineers started to update their external connections.
For Nokia, a company that started out selling tires and moved on to making cellular phones, the challenge will now be to avoid becoming just another commodity equipment manufacturer. For Microsoft, the idea is that by combining their efforts, Microsoft and Nokia can do the same thing that Hewlett Packard was able to do in the PC market; combine with another maker- and then win in the marketplace. 

With critics’ reviews of Windows Mobile 7 trending towards the positive, they may have already taken an important step in that direction.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab has officially sold a million units globally in a span of merely two months since the product was introduced outside the United States plus with the four largest wireless US carriers introducing the product in their sales inventories in the middle of November. The Apple iPad , meanwhile, was able to sell a million units merely a month since its introduction into the market back in April. Still, the 7-inch touchscreen Galaxy Tab with Android platform proves that it is indeed almost as popular as its bigger-screened rival by Apple.

Most of the sales occurred during Thanksgiving, albeit Samsung is reluctant to share details on Galaxy Tab purchases. A spokesperson for the company meanwhile confirmed that worldwide sales had indeed reached a million units sold. Individual carriers say that sales of the Galaxy Tab proved a great deal of positivism, but likewise refused to divulge on detailed sales figures for the product. Still, the 9.7-inch touchscreened iPad is dominating much of the tablet market, having sold at least 4 million by the end of Apple’s fourth quarter which was fell on the last day of October.

Business analysts suggest that over 8 million Apple iPads have been sold to date since its introduction into the tablet market, which is quite impressive despite most of that period falling way before the holiday season. Meanwhile, the partnership between Samsung and Google’s Android mobile is proving to be the biggest winner with such an unexpected success with the Galaxy Tab. Meanwhile, individual carriers are also selling Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphones as part of Samsung’s campaign to enlarge its clout in the US.

As the world rushes to get connected through online avenues, there is an ever-growing trend of gadget and device innovations that enable people to connect faster. And as the world grows smaller, more and more of people’s time are devoted to endless hours of looking at monitors, whether small or large, and thus put a huge strain on their eyes. Optical health is an essential part overall well-being, for without proper eye care, a person’s virtual profile may soon be cut short or made into a nightmare.

To prevent eye ailments, online users have to take note of several guidelines to help take care of their eyes. Number one on the list of care tips is knowing how to customize a person’s immediate environment. It is highly recommended that a person use larger monitors or screen magnifiers to put as little strain on the eyes as possible. A person should also sit closer to the computer on a chair that has ample back support to minimize neck strain. When in doubt, comfort should be the main goal of environment customization.

Lighting is the second most important factor. There has to be a balance on brightness. Too much brightness will cause eyes to be overexposed, while inadequate brightness will cause the eye to be strained just to be able to see what’s in front. Desk lamps should not be aimed directly at a person’s eyes, and should instead be aimed at the desk. Windows should be located to a person’s sides, instead of front or back to likewise prevent over or underexposure. Finally, the monitor must be positioned to prevent reflections from occurring.