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Ryan Gavin and Dean Hachamovitch, Marketing Guy and Engineer, respectively, for Internet Explorer, have announced that the final build and release of Internet Explorer 9 will indeed be at the party they’re throwing at South by Southwest in Texas on March 14th, 2011. They’ve decided to first announce this to their very favorite community at Channel9, a bunch of developers who are in love with the internet platform, and they’ve spoken here in a video at length what the browser will be able to do.

This browser has been in production for approximately a year, and now they’re going to release it, thanking profusely the community of developers who have stepped up to help them in making this a platform that has a chance at competing with the rest of the powerhouse browsers out in the market today. As you know, Internet Explorer

Hachamovitch will be doing a keynote at MIX 10 as well, showing off how the platform is rolling out, as a sort of “look what we did in a year” sort of thing. These two fellas sitting on the couch are super excited about this rollout and after saying what they came to say, they made sure to prompt Channel9 for what they call an “uncomfortable question.” What Channel9 decided to ask about was HTML5, to which they reply “WE’RE FOR IT!”

Of course the developer community knows this already, so the question is pressed, beyond what HTML5 can do for the everyday user, what does IE9 offer the fringe users who want features that not everyone will use? Hachamovitch replies with a sort of well, we DO do that, we’ve implemented things like Navigation Timing which “got 0% usage on the web,” he then going on to say that they’ve added items that don’t just come from developers who request things, they’ve essentially come up with elements that they and people at Yahoo, Google, and etc have spoken about behind the scenes, bringing these “fringe” features into IE9 at launch.

Essentially what they’re speaking about in this video and what will be coming with Internet Explorer 9 is depth as well as quality implementation of features. We’re hoping for the best!

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In February of 2007, 83.24 percent of users visiting TechCrunch did so from a Windows machine. One year later, in February 2008, the stranglehold remained firm at 80.44 percent. In February 2009, the number was at 74.04 percent. Last year, it was 61.59 percent. And this year? The number of people visiting our site from Windows machines dipped to 53.84 percent.

The writing is on the wall.

Look at those numbers again for a second. In four years, Windows share among TechCrunch readers has fallen 30 percentage points. That’s incredible.

The knee-jerk reaction in the comment section will likely be something like “it’s because you guys cover Apple so much”. But the fact of the matter is that Macintosh share, after rising for three of those four years, fell last year as well. It’s the mobile devices — specifically the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices — that are eating away at Windows.

In fact, if the trend over the past four years continues at about the same pace, in two years, devices made by Apple (Macs, iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads) will surpass devices that run Windows as the top visitors to TechCrunch. And depending on how popular the iPad 2, iPhone 5, and OS X Lion are, it could easily happen next year.

Here are the broken down numbers:

Feb 2007

• Windows: 83.24%


• Mac: 13.59%


• Linux: 2.51%

Feb 2008

• Windows: 80.44%


• Mac: 15.15%


• Linux: 2.97%


• iPhone: 0.77%


• iPod: 0.15%

Feb 2009

• Windows: 74.04%


• Mac: 20.48%


• Linux: 3.01%


• iPhone: 1.60%


• iPod: 0.28%


• Android: 0.09%

Feb 2010

• Windows: 61.59%


• Mac: 28.62%


• iPhone: 4.07%


• Linux: 3.49%


• Android: 0.87%


• iPod: 0.53%

Feb 2011

• Windows: 53.84%


• Mac: 27.64%


• iPhone: 6.72%


• iPad: 3.44%


• Linux: 3.28%


• Android: 3.06%


• iPod: 0.62%

While even the last batch of stats shows that Windows still has a nice cushion over number two, Mac, if you add the Apple products put together, it’s a different story.

• Feb 2007: 13.59% Apple products


• Feb 2008: 16.07% Apple products


• Feb 2009: 22.36% Apple products


• Feb 2010: 33.22% Apple products


• Feb 2011: 38.42% Apple products

In the four year span, Apple has added 25 percentage points to their share among TechCrunch readers. That nearly all of the 30 percentage points that Windows lost in that same span (Android’s growth pretty much fills in the rest).

So it currently stands at Microsoft’s 53.84 percent versus Apple’s 38.42 percent. Again, a big year for iPad, iPhone, and Mac could mean a changing of the guard as soon as next year. But unless something drastic changes, you can be sure that Apple will be dominant among TechCrunch readers in two years.

The latest rumors have Windows 8 showing up sometime in mid/late 2012. But the fact of the matter is that Windows 7, much more widely praised than the disaster that was Vista, hasn’t helped Microsoft buck this trend among our readers. Perhaps they’re only hope of gaining back share at this point is Windows Phone. So far, that hasn’t been going too well. Nokia should help that, but will it be enough to offset the Windows losses?

Humorously, Microsoft’s best hope for not falling to Apple may well be Android. If Google’s platform continues to make gains, it could prolong Apple passing Microsoft.

But again, Apple has iPhone 5, iPad 2, and OS X Lion on the immediate horizon — all within the next few months. And then there’s the very real possibility of another iPad in the fall.

The iPad 2 and iPhone 5 are likely to push the Apple share forward immediately. But don’t sleep on OS X Lion either. The early indications are that Apple has indeed made it much more iOS-like. That means millions of iPad/iPhone/iPod touch owners who have traditionally been PC users, are going to feel a lot more comfortable on a Mac than ever before.

And a new PC-to-Mac data migration system built in to Lion will only help that.

OS X Lion is going to feed off of iOS users, and vice versa. And the Mac ecosystem is going to continue to expand. Just as happened in the browser world with Chrome taking over, a transition is happening among TechCrunch readers in the ecosystem space. The numbers don’t lie. And Microsoft better pray that our readers aren’t leading indicators of overall trends in the space — which is exactly what you have been in the past.

With few surprises, techies were underwhelmed with Apple’s iPad 2 announcement, but I’m confident that consumers will be thrilled with the product. Apple already had a massive lead in the consumer tablet market it created, and these “underwhelming” upgrades should keep the company comfortably ahead. Apple has given competitors an opening by sticking to 3G, and it did not further pressure them with a lower entry price point or higher-resolution display. However, Apple has three critical advantages.

1. Brand: When consumers are thinking about tablets, they say they are buying an “iPad,” not a “tablet.” The iPad was already the category and volume leader, and the iPad 2 builds on that. In this respect, Apple actually benefits from the crowd of new tablets hitting the market. If there were only one or two strong competitors, consumers would be able to weigh the pros and cons of each offering, but with dozens and dozens of options hitting the market over the next few months, decision paralysis can set in and many consumers will throw up their hands and make the “safe” choice: the iPad.

2. iTunes: The iPad is still the only tablet on the market with a huge digital marketplace for movies, TV shows, and music. Some competitors are taking steps in this direction (e.g., Samsung’s Hub), but iTunes remains a significant competitive advantage.

3. App Store: If all you want to do is browse the Web and check e-mail, any tablet will probably suffice. However, Apple has an enormous lead in purpose-built apps. The Android ecosystem is strong and app availability should improve significantly over time, but the iPad 2 is considerably more versatile than any of its competitors right now, and it appears unlikely to lose its lead any time in the near future.

So if you are competing with Apple, what should you do? Rather than copying Apple’s products, copy its old advertising tag line and Think Different.

Apple’s brand is focused on creative types (or those who aspire to be), which is why it spends so much effort creating things like GarageBand. Competitors should target IT managers, knowledge workers, outdoorsy people, or some other group and build software and hardware combinations better suited to those use cases. Of course, this will take imagination and the ability to tie hardware, software, and services together to build unique experiences. There are some companies thinking outside the box (HTC and RIM have clearly differentiated products on their roadmaps), but for the vendors who are trying to out-Apple Apple… good luck. Here are some pointers, you’re going to need them:

• Based on Apple’s financials, it is clear that the iPad with WiFi is Apple’s volume product and 3G versions are merely gravy. Why is the competition only targeting the gravy?

• iTunes remains a significant competitive advantage for Apple – I cannot easily explain to novices how to get a movie onto the XOOM. Rivals need an “iTunes” of their own, but having one just achieves parity with Apple, so partnering is an acceptable approach. However, half measures are not enough; digital media stores must include movies (including rentals) and TV shows and music. If multiple partners are used, the tablet vendor still needs to provide a common interface and single account/billing relationship.

• Nintendo has a significant base of game developers targeting the 3DS; if you cannot muster equivalent resources (for gaming, media playback, or some other use), adding 3D to your tablet is just a gimmick.

• Apple’s rivals can compete on 4G, higher-resolution displays, or a lower price. Even speed is a potential differentiator from a technical perspective; NVIDIA has quad-core processors sampling this month, so rivals could build even faster tablets for this holiday season. However, I must still caution vendors that all of these factors are irrelevant if consumers do not want your product.

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In our second installment of The Business of Blogging, we speak to the uber-talented Tommy Ton, founder of Jak & Jil and streetstyle photographer for Style.com and GQ.com

PARIS, France — “It was the summer of 1997 and I was 13 years old,” recalls Tommy Ton, now 27, describing the moment when a self-professed comic book nerd from the suburbs of Toronto first became interested in fashion. “My sister asked me to record Fashion Television and all of a sudden Tom Ford comes on and talks about women, and his idea of sex. He was so eloquent in his choice of words. It was love at first sight.”

From that moment, Mr. Ton embarked on what has been described as a something of a fairytale, becoming the world’s most influential street style fashion photographer today. But achieving such success is rarely that simple — or easy.

More than just a skilled photographer with a good eye and encyclopedic knowledge of fashion, Ton has proven himself to be a savvy digital operator with a potent mixture of ambition, work ethic and strategic thinking that has enabled him to discover and hone in on his special talent. His humility throughout it all has endeared him not only to the stylish women he has made famous, but also to fellow fashion bloggers and his growing list of paying clients.

Yes, Tommy Ton is building a business, and he’s proud of it.

At first, Mr. Ton says he simply became infatuated with fashion. “I’d bike to the library, tear out ad campaigns, and make collages of Gucci and Versace,” he explains over dinner during Paris Fashion Week. At age 15, he interned with the Toronto designer Wayne Clark and then in the women’s accessories department of Holt Renfrew, Canada’s leading luxury department store.

From the beginning, Ton has been a fervent but charming networker, not afraid to approach and build relationships with the industry’s top players. “I made an effort so Barbara Atkin knew who I was,” he says, referring to the Holt Renfrew’s highly-respected fashion director. This ultimately landed him a gig in the store’s buying office, furthering his understanding of the fashion business, but still not quite sating his fashion appetite.

“I was there in the Summer of 2004 when web magazines first started popping up,” he says. Ton started taking classes in digital photography and met with friends who did graphic design, before deciding to start Jak & Jil, which was initially conceived in 2005 as a lifestyle website focused on the product and people in Toronto.

“Then my guardian angel came along,” says Ton, referring to Lynda Latner, proprietor of vintagecouture.com. “She hired me because she saw my site and thought I could help her.”

In 2007 when Latner offered to send Ton to Europe to attend the shows in London and Paris, he had his first opportunity to experiment with street photography during fashion week, a trend which was just beginning to take off due to the pioneering work of Scott Schuman and Garance Doré.

“My first show in Paris was Balmain. I had no idea what Balmain was at the time, or what it was going to be, but all the girls were in that that show, like Daria, Irina, and Anja, and they played the Cure on the soundtrack. As soon as that show was done, it was raining outside…and I was dancing in the rain. I just felt so uplifted. I could not believe what fashion could do for you,” recalls Ton nostalgically. “To have that moment in Paris, at your very first show…it was magical.”

Using his “Canadian connections,” Ton also managed to get into Chanel, YSL, Dries van Noten and Rick Owens that first season. But in all the excitement, Ton says he didn’t know who or what to shoot. “I just shot what I thought was visually amazing. I didn’t know who Emmanuelle Alt was, or Kate Lanphear or even Anna Dello Russo.”

Almost immediately after this first trip, the Canadian fashion media took note of Ton’s photography, beginning with Flare magazine editor Lisa Tant. “Because of that trip, I got a page in Flare which gave me a validated reason to go back,” he says.

By 2008 Ton was already seeking a way to stand out from the growing hordes of photographers outside the shows who were mostly aping Schuman’s photographic style. “I thought, ‘I’m so tired of taking head-to-toe shots. No one can touch Scott at those photos — he is the king.’ I wanted my photos to stand out. That’s when I stated taking the candid shots.”

Ton’s landscape-style images focused in on the little details that caught his well-trained fashion eye — a towering Louboutin stiletto here, a pop of colour there on his favourite subjects as they walked into the shows. He rarely asked them to pose. Ton was developing a photographic style that that has now become instantly recognisable as his own, capturing the raw energy and excitement of fashion week. Fellow blogger Tavi Gevinson later remarked, “You always know what a Tommy Ton photograph looks like.”

He re-purposed Jak and Jil into a blog, and started posting two or three of his new style of photographs each day. This caught the attention of influential bloggers like Susanna Lau of Style Bubble and Rumi Neely of Fashion Toast, who helped to spread the word.

Two and half months later, Ton received an email from the head of marketing at Lane Crawford in Hong Kong, asking him to shoot their Spring/Summer 2009 campaign.

“I said yes, but I didn’t even know what my worth was,” says Ton. “After talking to my business friends in the industry, I threw a figure at Lane Crawford. It was a bit too much, but we negotiated, and I was proud of myself because I was able to get an amount that I was satisfied with and which they were willing to pay.”

With his reputation spreading, Ton’s confidence began to grow. “During the Fall/Winter 2009 season, people started to know who I was. Scott [Schuman] actually knew my work. I was officially blogging and shooting for Lane Crawford at the same time. That was the season I knew what I was doing, and I knew what I wanted to shoot. It was the beginning of something.”

Another important shift came the following season in Milan, when Ton was seated in Dolce & Gabbana’s front row, alongside Doré, Schuman and Bryanboy, an image that was plastered in the fashion media around the world, signalling the arrival of fashion bloggers. “That was a huge moment. It was all due to Anna Dello Russo. She was the one who told Domenico and Stefano: ‘These are the people who are changing things.’”

From then on, the front row tickets came in fast and furious. Everyone wanted Ton to shoot at their shows, knowing his images would be seen by thousands of fashion enthusiasts and influencers around the world. The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and others came calling. “They were emailing to buy photos,” he says.

Ton went from ultimate fashion outsider to insider almost overnight.

But the real turning point came a few weeks earlier when Style.com’s editor-in-chief Dirk Standen asked Ton to step into the formidable shoes of Scott Schuman, whose own photography career had gone stratospheric, in no small part due to the platform given to him by Style.com. Schuman had decided to leave Style.com to focus on other projects, and Ton now had the most high-profile streetstyle photography gig in the business.

“Being associated with Style.com is a huge deal for me. It’s what everyone looks at every day. People go to Style.com like you brush your teeth in the morning. It’s something you just do,” enthuses Ton.

By now, the time had come for Ton to seek professional representation. An introduction to elite agency The Collective Shift—which also represents top fashion photographers Inez and Vinoodh and super-stylist Melanie Ward—instantly felt like the right fit. Ton also signed on Trunk Archive to act as his image licensing agency, removing the burden of negotiating image rights and contracts on his own and dramatically increasing what he could earn from selling his images to the likes of American Vogue, Elle UK, and Vogue Nippon.

“Before, I was underselling myself, getting about $50-100 per image.” Today, Ton reports that he can earn from as little as $100 up to $2000. “The the thing I’ve learned is that you have to really consider whether it’s a one page image or a ½ page image or ¼ page image. It’s a really big deal when it’s one image over two pages in Grazia for example, whereas if it’s ⅛ of a page in Vogue, it is much less. I’m lucky to have Trunk Archive to deal with all that now.”

But image licensing only makes up about 30 percent of the revenue he earns. The remaining 70 percent comes from a variety of projects, including his gigs for Style.com, GQ.com, but also for retailers and brands such as Topshop, Selfridges, Sergio Rossi and Saks 5th Avenue.

Ton says he has made an intentional decision not to have advertising on his site. “It’s an association with your brand. I didn’t want my blog to be associated with any type of branding,” he explains.

But would he ever take pay for editorial placement on Jak & Jil itself? “Yes,” he says matter-of-factly. “But that requires a discussion between my agent, my client and me. The thing about the development of the Tommy Ton brand and the Jak & Jil brand is that everything is strategically selected and carefully monitored. We have to see potential growth in it, and understand what’s in it for us.”

When pressed on the criteria he uses for this kind of paid content, so as not to alienate his audience, he pauses to think. “It’s definitely gut instinct. It just has to be of the moment and relevant for the time.” His readers shouldn’t be able to tell the difference, he says, because the images he creates would be the kind he would post anyway. The standards are the same, and the images are just as powerful.

All the same, Tommy Ton also realizes this is his moment and it may not last forever. “I don’t even know if I will be able to earn the money I do now in a few years. I don’t know if I will be relevant or not. I am just lucky that people want to associate with me and their brand right now.”

And what about all that competition from the hundreds of streetstyle bloggers outside the shows? “You always have to stay on top of your game, and the only way to do that now is to have exclusive content,” he asserts. Recently, Ton has been invited to shoot behind-the-scenes at the Proenza Schouler studio and the Victoria’s Secret fashion show.

“I’m not making any money from it, but it gives me access no one else would have. I take a lot of pride in that. I am so, so happy I am invited to do these things,” he says, recalling that 13 year old kid watching Tom Ford on TV back in Toronto. “In some ways I still feel like an outsider, even though I am acknowledged by these designers. I am still in awe of what is going on.”

Imran Amed is founder and editor of The Business of Fashion

The Business of Blogging is a new series on the rarely discussed business side of fashion blogging. Previous articles are listed below:

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When you start your own website there are lots of ways you'll have to market it and one the best way is by using SEO services Vancouver if you happen to maintain that area. The SEO or seo services will be the top way of getting more traffic to your website and for that reason making more sales.

 

Now, you should know that you won't use SEO service if you are no internet business - however, if you don't have an online presence if you are a offline business, then you'll not make it very far.

 

It is a popular proven fact that if you are going to really make it within the offline world you must have an online presence. This really is something which all people are learning hard way. Something that you should also know is that it's not as easy as just establishing the website and leaving it to complete its things.

 

This can be done in all sorts of ways, however these companies usually take advantage of multiple techniques to create the perfect marketing technique online. It is possible to hire them to write articles for you, post on forums and blogs, create meta data and meta descriptions, cleanup the code, add alt tags to the images and much more.

 

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By doing this the Search engine optimization company can not only improve your traffic, but additionally ensure that your website is fully optimized for that internet search engine spiders that will be introduced to it. These spiders are utilized to analyze your site and put it in a few positions determined on certain keywords.

 

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The Vancouver SEO company services are very good for business growth because they provide quality services. If you're planning to create a website for your online business, then you have arrived at right article when i will be explaining below how Search engine optimization Vancouver company services can increase your website ranking and make it popular.

Before that, you need to know what Search Engine Optimization is. It's not that complicated and i am sure you're going to get a grasp from it reading my article. The main goal of SEO is to get increased traffic to your website and audience. It is a good decision to select a Vancouver SEO company that specializes in this sort of work, so that your website could be listed in search engines.

There is no point in you having a website without any website ranking at all while you won't have any business and profits to survive. It is a very tough atmosphere out there as there are a lot of internet business people exactly like you, who want their share of pie. You have to be aware of the fact that nearly 85% of internet traffic could be got from web-sites.

Whenever a user types in a keyword or keywords for what he/she wants to know in various sites, these use crawlers to obtain web sites with the relevant content and index them according to algorithms. It's not necessary to worry about the algorithms which these websites use as that isn't important.

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What to Expect When Getting a Roofer

When it comes time to repair or even substitute your homes roof, it can be a daunting task to locate somebody that is actually qualified to do the job. There are lots of roofing contractors available, however the types who'll perform a great job for any reasonable price are not frequently simple to find. If you're in the market for a contractor, use the ideas below with regard to interviewing and hiring the correct one.

Job interview and Consultation

The majority of roofing contractors offer free consultation services. This is particularly essential, because it gives them an opportunity to evaluate exactly what your homes roof needs, also it provides you with a chance to evaluate them. As with all of companies, trust your instincts concerning the individuals you let upward onto your roof. No issue how great a contractor's status or even recommendation, he or she should begin by presenting a person with a company greeting card. If the service provider arrives looking as well as speaking within an unprofessional manner, chances are that the job he is going to perform may also be unprofessional. This is not to say that you ought to expect companies to reach in fits. They is going to be hiking on your roofing, therefore the majority of is going to be dressed up in jeans and work footwear or athletic shoes. If the actual contractor appears to be more interested in talking on his cell phone while on your homes roof than he is in analyzing your roof's needs, that may be an additional indication that he's not really the one to do the job. For the lawful safety, be certain that the contractor offers adequate liability insurance coverage.

Roofing Assessment

Anticipate that the contractor is going to be rising in your roof. In fact, any service provider who does not need to go up in your roofing to evaluate the issue should be instantly discounted. Those who're serious about their own work will either make a drawing of your roof's surface area as well as mark trouble spots on it as they undergo their own evaluation, or even they will take photos or even video clip of the surface while they're available online for. This is a very important action, since it enables you to see just what the problems are as well as understand how they'll be fixed.

Estimation

The next phase will be the created estimation. The contractor will take away his calculator and are available track of an itemized estimation. Some companies will go out to their vehicle or van and write down the actual proposal, while others will crisis the actual numbers for the job in front of you. Once you're given the proposal, make sure that you comprehend exactly which items is going to be utilized, how long the job will take and when you will find any additional or hidden expenses that may arise throughout the repair of the roof. The contractor should be able to answer many of these concerns with ease as well as forewarn you associated with a additional expenses that could be sustained if the roof's ethics end up being broken inside.

After you have received a few created estimates from roofing companies, assess exactly what every organization or even service provider would like to provide for the price. Do not always discount the greatest bid, simply because occasionally the greatest bid will actually function as the service provider who the task properly. Additionally, be skeptical associated with prices for bids that are not nearly as expensive other people. They might be utilizing substandard products or perhaps be untruthful about the possibility of hidden costs. Most importantly, trust your intuition as well as opt for the actual service provider who enables you to feel most comfortable regarding handing over your hard earned money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

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Critics of the sentences say China has politicized the robberies as acts of terrorism.

 

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A Uyghur man walks past armed Chinese security forces in Urumqi, July 17, 2009.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered the executions of seven ethnic minority Uyghur men convicted of "violent" crimes, official media said on Wednesday.

 

The death sentences were handed down by the Supreme People's Court in recent days, according to state media in the regional capital, Urumqi.

 

The men were accused in connection with three separate attacks late last year in the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to the news website Urumqi Online.

 

According to another website, the Xinjiang-based Tianshan news site, Aimaiti Tuheti, Yiming Dawuti, and unnamed "others" killed a security guard at a pedestrian mall as part of a failed Aug. 7 robbery attempt.

 

In a separate incident on Oct. 12, it said, Nuermaimaiti Aobulikasimu and 11 others broke into a house, bound and killed the couple living in it, and took their possessions.

 

It said the group also broke into the homes of two brothers, robbed them, and killed six people in a Nov. 11 attack in Kashgar.

 

The report gave no information about the victims or the schedule for the executions.

 

Three of the men were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, a sentence that is normally commuted to life imprisonment in China's judicial system.

 

They were convicted of deliberate homicide and armed robbery by the Kashgar Intermediate People's Court in the first instance.

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

A Han Chinese resident of Urumqi surnamed Yang said a reference to "terrorism" in official news reports on the case showed that it was being politicized by the authorities, who have launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns in Xinjiang following deadly ethnic violence in July 2009.

 

"There is an implied political meaning; that they were somehow engaged in separatist activities or ethnic divisions," said Yang.

 

Exile Uyghur groups said the trials had been conducted behind closed doors, with scant opportunity for public scrutiny.

 

"The entire process against these men, from the trial through to the judgment, was opaque," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

 

"There was also very little reasonable evidence to convict them on a legal basis, because all the evidence came from one side of the case," he said.

 

"We strongly condemn the Chinese government for continuing to pursue their policies of ethnic division," said Raxit.

 

"We are also strongly opposed to the death penalty in this case."

 

Earlier cases

 

Last month, the Supreme Court sentenced four Uyghurs to death for alleged involvement in an Aug. 19 bomb attack in Xinjiang’s western Aksu city.

 

The World Uyghur Congress pointed to concerns over lack of transparency in those cases too.

 

The Aksu blast left eight people dead, including two of the bombers, and 15 wounded after a man riding a three-wheeled vehicle threw explosives at a group of uniformed patrolmen. Four Uyghurs were arrested shortly after the attack.

 

State media characterized the cases as acts of terrorism and unrelated to longstanding ethnic tensions between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the region.

 

Exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer has warned that attacks like those in Aksu will continue to occur until Beijing addresses the underlying source of tension in the region.

 

Millions of Uyghurs—a distinct, Turkic minority who are predominantly Muslim—populate Central Asia and Xinjiang.

 

Uyghurs say they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness despite China's ambitious plans to develop its vast northwestern frontier.

 

Those frustrations erupted in July 2009 in deadly riots that left nearly 200 people dead, by the Chinese government's tally.

 

At least 26 people, mostly Uyghurs, were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the riots, many of whom have been executed, according to state media.

 

China is believed to execute more people each year than the rest of the world’s countries combined, although the government does not publish official figures.

 

Rights groups say Beijing may execute as many as several thousand prisoners annually.

 

Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for a series of deadly attacks in recent years and accuse one group in particular of maintaining ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

 

New training scheme

 

China on Wednesday also announced a training scheme which places ethnic minority graduates from Xinjiang in work elsewhere in China.

 

Governments of the destination cities will spend 450 million yuan (U.S.$ 69 million) for the program, while Xinjiang will spend 400 million yuan (U.S.$ 61 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported.

 

The program targets some 60,000 jobless college graduates in Xinjiang, around 80 percent of whom are from ethnic minorities, and 60 percent of whom are women.

 

However, some commentators see the move as an attempt to assimilate non-Han Chinese into mainstream Chinese culture.

 

"From the point of view of ethnic minorities, the graduate work scheme is really taking the cream of youth from the minorities and using them to 'further cultural development,'" wrote one ethnic minority user on a popular microblogging service.

 

"In fact, the culture that is being advanced is Han culture, and this group of young people will have been totally brainwashed," the microblog update said.

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

"They have run senior high school schemes like this before during the past few years," he said.

 

"Whether it's high-schoolers or graduate training programs, these are measures that are aimed at thought control and brainwashing, and the 'Partification' of their education," he said.

 

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA's Mandarin service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

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Wikileaks and also the Uyghur

through henry on December Twenty, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it had been actually in doubt, information acquired by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese language government fears over its ongoing charge of the location this calls Xinjiang, also is referred to as East Turkestan. The actual leaked out wires from Ough.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the actual degree that Chinese language authorities make an effort to persuade governments globally to adopt its position upon problems affecting Uyghurs. The actual wires also show the U . s . States' issues as well as views regarding the ongoing repressive measures in the region.

The majority of lighting associated with Chinese federal government pressure are the cables directed in order to Chinese frustration, or even the specter associated with Chinese language ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third nations. The December Twenty nine, 2008 cable television relates exactly how Chinese Helper Foreign Reverend Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the Ough.Utes. Ambassador in order to The far east in order to tone of voice Beijing's strong competitors associated with launch in order to any kind of nation apart from China, which if the Ough.S. do indeed accede to this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and also to co-operation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, a February 2009 cable television explains how the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable act towards us" and a "slap within the face". That the Ough.S. government stood company within not releasing the actual detainees in order to The far east illustrates the actual degree from the politicized nature of the Chinese language judicial program. Legitimate issues more than terrorism are easy to understand, but in the U.S. government's observe the detainees might most likely encounter torture and delivery when they returned to China

Chinese language government pressure in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just applied to the Ough.S. government, but also to Brand new Zealand along with a handful of European governments that were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia and Finland, as well as European Union fellow member states all appear to have borne the actual impact of Chinese government disappointment. Regarding Indonesia, that was at first prepared to think about 2 Uyghurs upon solely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been less better than additional detainees due to the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relationships along with The far east. The May 8, '09 cable television relates how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented that Indonesia had knowledgeable The far east from the Ough.S. ask for to accept some Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo and had been subsequently warned through China of ‘a large burden on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany had been to simply accept any detainees".

The diplomatic cables also talk about the actual unrest in Urumchi, the actual local funds, in July 2009. The This summer 13, '09 cable television talking about bulk occurrences in China says:

"Ethnic riots such as those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet in 03 associated with 08 vary substantially in source and nature from bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present severe problems for the Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, but the Celebration leadership wouldn't wait to spread out fireplace upon Uighurs or even Tibetans if they considered this essential to recover order. Bulk incidents present a different type of risk, he explained, since the management is ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters for anxiety about causing huge public outrage that will turn from the Party."

This is a relaxing viewpoint, especially when one considers the evidence presented by 50 percent reports released this year by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty Worldwide which detail eyewitness company accounts of the use of deadly reside fire against Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. Additionally, the actual declaration which fire would not be used towards Han Chinese protestors has resonances for that various strategy taken through Chinese language security causes in Urumchi in order to Han Chinese protests in September 2009. During individuals protests, then Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, that experienced demanded he inform them regarding government reactions to security concerns. A similar request to meet using the Celebration Secretary through Uyghur protesters within July was not met.

The broader repercussions from the unrest additionally saw a short discussion about the impact it might possess upon Iran-China relations, as well as on relations along with Sydney following Globe Uyghur Congress President, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke in the Nationwide Push Club in Canberra within July 2009. Within the latter case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian financial institution that sponsors the National Press Membership to use it's influence to bar the Kadeer speech there".

The U . s . States' issues concerning the situation in the Uyghur region also come through within the wires. Inside a discussion on plan path within Tibet, Ough.Utes. officials explain that it will be impossible for Chinese language frontrunners to consider a much softer collection "if they appear like doing this below international pressure". The cable television out dated April 16, 2008, one month following the outbreak of unrest in Tibetan regions, also relayed the observation "that household balance continues to be leadership's top priority most of all, which means there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest from the present difficult collection on Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable television additionally storage sheds gentle about the severe level of sensitivity with which china government views territorial integrity, and the possible spill more than of unrest from Tibet.

The prospect of solutions to tensions within Tibet as well as Xinjiang as a result of civil society tend to be discussed inside a February 24, 08 cable television. Whilst suggesting that China's financial achievement increases it's resistance to democratic reform, the actual cable additionally discusses how Chinese leaders see the effectiveness associated with "a restricted growth of civil culture, including enhancements in the guideline associated with law and a more powerful role for approved religions, NGOs, non profit organizations and other actors within areas which contribute to sociable stability and don't problem Communist Party guideline." This is a notable alternation in considering, that has observed U.S. officials market the idea which Chinese financial improvement, and economic relationships along with The far east brings in regards to a steadily democratic culture; nevertheless, more belief appears to be put into a grassroots movement than one which starts in the best quantity of a Chinese language government. Nonetheless, the actual cable concludes that "[i]n places such as Tibet as well as Xinjiang, driving a car of separatism results in tighter limitations about the growth of municipal society." This method can be regarded as counter-productive through the official, who suggests that the actual U.S. federal government "should continue to express...serious concerns more than Beijing's human privileges record and attract China's growing consciousness which higher respect with regard to individual rights, spiritual independence and the guideline of regulation will serve to promote the very development and sociable balance which The far east seeks as well as to enhance China's worldwide image." Such a strategy might take considerable diplomatic abilities thinking about "China's paranoid concern the Usa privately encourages regime alter and ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual wires offer understanding of the actual daily business associated with diplomacy that is rarely owned by the general public, which is fascinating to note the quantity of function carried out nowadays on Uyghur problems. The importance of the role of the us as a monitor associated with Uyghur individual rights conditions in personal discussions is created clear, and contrasts with its tactful open public position. The staff from the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is comfortable with the pressure the Chinese federal government puts upon Uyghur activists; still, the facts of Chinese language government pressure upon it's counterparts is illustrative of the degree which Chinese officials attempt to control contradictory narratives. With more facts in the future through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs might not grab the headlines, however the wires have get rid of new gentle on the paperwork associated with individual privileges problems within the Uyghur area.

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghurs

by holly upon December 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it were ever uncertain, information acquired through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese government fears more than it's continued control of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The actual leaked cables through Ough.Utes. diplomats show the degree to which Chinese government bodies make an effort to convince government authorities globally to adopt its position upon issues affecting Uyghurs. The wires also show the actual U . s . States' issues as well as views concerning the on going repressive measures in the area.

The majority of illuminating associated with Chinese government stress would be the wires pointing to Chinese language frustration, or the specter of Chinese ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. A Dec Twenty nine, 2008 cable television applies how Chinese Assistant Foreign Reverend Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the U.S. Ambassador in order to The far east to tone of voice Beijing's powerful opposition associated with launch to any nation apart from The far east, which when the U.Utes. do certainly accede for this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and also to co-operation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, a Feb 2009 cable describes the way the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly act towards us" along with a "slap within the face". That the Ough.Utes. government was firm within not really releasing the actual detainees to The far east demonstrates the extent of the politicized character of the Chinese language judicial program. Legitimate concerns more than terrorism tend to be easy to understand, but in the U.Utes. government's view the detainees might most likely face do-it-yourself torture and delivery when they returned in order to China

Chinese language federal government pressure in regard to the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just applied to the actual U.Utes. government, but also to Brand new Zealand along with a handful of European government authorities that were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, as well as Eu member says all appear to have borne the actual brunt of Chinese government disappointment. Regarding Germany, which was at first prepared to think about 2 Uyghurs upon purely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases were much less better than other detainees because of the negative effects taking Uyghurs might have on relations with The far east. A Might 8, 2009 cable television relates how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported which Indonesia had knowledgeable China from the Ough.Utes. request to accept a few Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo and had already been consequently warned through The far east of ‘a heavy burden upon bilateral relations' in the event that Germany had been to simply accept any detainees".

The diplomatic wires additionally discuss the unrest in Urumchi, the actual local capital, in July '09. The July Thirteen, '09 cable discussing bulk occurrences within The far east says:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet in 03 associated with 08 differ substantially within origin as well as nature through bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each existing serious problems for the Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, but the Party management wouldn't wait to spread out fireplace on Uighurs or even Tibetans if they considered this essential to restore purchase. Bulk incidents pose a different kind of threat, he explained, since the management is ‘afraid' to fireplace on Han rioters for fear of causing massive open public outrage that will turn against the Party."

This can be a relaxing viewpoint, especially when one views the evidence offered in two reports launched this season by the Uyghur Human Privileges Project (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide that fine detail eyewitness accounts of the use of deadly live fireplace towards Uyghur protestors in This summer 2009. Additionally, the actual declaration which fireplace would not be used towards Han Chinese protestors has resonances for the various approach taken by Chinese protection forces in Urumchi in order to Han Chinese protests in September '09. Throughout individuals direct orders, then Celebration Secretary, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, that had required that he let them know about government reactions in order to security issues. An identical ask for to satisfy using the Party Secretary by Uyghur demonstrators in This summer was not met.

The actual wider repercussions of the unrest also noticed a brief discussion about the effect it might have upon Iran-China relations, as well as on relations along with Sydney following Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the Nationwide Press Club in Canberra within August '09. In the second option case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian bank that sponsors the nation's Press Membership to make use of it's impact to block a Kadeer talk there".

The United States' concerns about the situation in the Uyghur area are available through within the wires. In a dialogue on policy direction in Tibet, Ough.Utes. officials clarify that it'll end up being impossible for Chinese leaders to consider a softer line "if they appear like doing this under worldwide pressure". The actual cable out dated April Sixteen, 08, one month after the episode associated with unrest in Tibetan areas, also relayed the actual observation "that domestic stability continues to be leadership's main concern most of all, which means there will ‘almost surely' end up being no relaxation from the present hard collection on Tibet or perhaps in locations such as Xinjiang." The information included in the cable television additionally storage sheds light about the severe level of sensitivity that the Chinese federal government views territorial integrity, and the feasible drip over associated with unrest through Tibet.

The prospect of solutions to tensions within Tibet as well as Xinjiang as a result of civil society are debated inside a February Twenty-four, 08 cable. While suggesting that China's economic success will increase its potential to deal with democratic change, the cable also talks about how Chinese leaders begin to see the effectiveness associated with "a limited expansion associated with civil society, such as improvements in the rule of regulation and a stronger role with regard to approved religions, NGOs, charities along with other stars in areas that bring about social stability and do not challenge Communist Party rule." This can be a significant alternation in thinking, that has seen U.Utes. officials market the notion which Chinese financial development, as well as financial relationships with China brings about a progressively democratic culture; however, more faith seems to be placed in a grassroots motion than one which begins from the best quantity of a Chinese language federal government. Nevertheless, the actual cable concludes which "[i]n places for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, the fear associated with separatism leads to tighter restrictions on the growth of civil society." This method is viewed as counter-productive by the official, that shows that the actual U.S. government "should still express...serious concerns more than Beijing's individual privileges report as well as attract China's growing awareness which greater respect with regard to human privileges, spiritual freedom and the rule of law assists to advertise the development and social stability that The far east looks for as well as to enhance China's international picture." Such a strategy would take considerable diplomatic abilities thinking about "China's weird concern that the United States privately encourages routine alter and ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual wires provide insight into the every day company associated with diplomacy that's rarely owned by the general public, and it is interesting to note the amount of work done nowadays on Uyghur problems. The importance of the actual role of the us as a keep track of of Uyghur human rights problems within personal discussions is created obvious, as well as contrasts using its tactful open public stance. The staff of the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is actually well aware of pressure the Chinese government puts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details associated with Chinese federal government pressure upon its alternatives is illustrative from the degree which Chinese language authorities attempt to control contrary stories. With increased revelations to come through Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs may not get the actual headlines, however the wires have shed new light on the documentation associated with human rights conditions in the Uyghur area.

 

Search Engine Optimization And Article Marketing Will Place Yourself The 1st Page

Search engine marketing and article promotion are a couple of the strongest strategies which you can use in promoting your website and get the revenue and success that you need for your web business. Both of these everything has been around for a really long time already nevertheless they still remain to be really effective. In reality, these have helped a lot of people free themselves in the traditional methods for money-generating options of society.

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In the past article marketing to various web sites was once so simple the effects that they produce for web sites really was powerful. However, things have changed a great deal today. Nowadays submitting the identical article to various websites has stopped being advisable because engines like google have now changed with a huge extent in how they rank pages. They no longer rank contents which can be identical like they utilized to in the past. This is among the best types of changes that occur in online marketing trends. This change has given birth to wide plethora of methods that web marketers are using today. Most of web marketers now produce articles and publish them in really popular article submission sites and await targeted traffic to make their pages. Perhaps that most reliable Search engine marketing strategy that can be used. Aside from being effective, this provides positive benefits regularly. One problem using this strategy is how the caliber of traffic you will get out of this will not be that good if you don't do proper keyphrase research beforehand and rehearse in-links. You first need for carrying on these two things before you decide to submit your articles so that you won't find yourself losing large amounts of targeted traffic. This means that you must practice good levels of diligence if you would like your advertising initiatives to be effective.

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Roofing Contractors Vancouver BC

There are numerous things to take into consideration when looking for a roofing contractor. Price, experience, along with referrals are a few of the things you will likely be concerned about. Read on for even more ideas.

• Finding a Roofers

Before hunting for a roofing contractor, ensure you have a general idea of the job that you need to have inked. By no means must you be an authority. If you have the Roof Certificate, read it extensively to find the information about your existing roof. Should you not have a Roof Certificate, reference documents authorized during shutting to locate your homes Inspection linen. These documents should provide everything you need to be familiar with your roof. Just before contacting any roofing contractor, you should have a list of requirements and features to help you determine exactly who works for your roof covering project. Make sure you write down each potential roof covering contractor's answers as well as check these against one another. If you'll find any inacucuracy, be sure to take note this and also take this into consideration when creating a final choice. There are no surefire ways to select a roofing contractor, however , if you take attention to the information provided, your chances of a successful roof covering project are generally greatly enhanced.

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Article marketing could be an extremely powerful kind of Search engine optimization for the company websites. Quality written articles manage to enhance your websites SERP and add quality to your company website. Writing informative keyword rich articles is important in gaining new backlinks in your business website. Articles can and will be written on topics which can be unique for your business or industry. The articles can discuss an array of issues and ideas inside your industry. Articles offering people which has a resource will always be one of the most popular and many likely varieties of articles which will result in backlinks to your site.

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There seems to be a lot of new Vancouver SEO companies starting, simply because the need is there. Finding a search engine optimization firm containing the client's welfare at heart may be tedious. The amount of keywords do they optimize for? Do you know the keywords as well as the corresponding amount of searches? Do they know how to optimize for Google places? And so on. Search engine optimization could be the business of landing at the pinnacle and Maxim Edge will get you there.

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Little about the Uyghurs

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-west part of China, the province of Xinjiang is a very least populated province whereas it covers close to a sixth of the nation's area. Getting resisted while in hundreds of years the chinese domination, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old Eastern Turkistan, fell within the Chinese Han control in 1949. From then, its population is primarily Uyghur People and Turkish - speaking System.

Islamic especially, the Uyghurs have a solid religious identification which usually, in specific, allowed them to keep a strong big difference towards the Chinese invader. Indeed, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a excellent civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their own historical past, the Uyghur People successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before finally changing to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., therefore starting the way to the Islamization of the entire Central Asia.

Under the influence of the beliefs which they taken, the Uyghurs used successively, and at times in a competing way, a great number of written forms (turco-runic, brahmi, tokharien, soghdien) before developing their own unique graphic system.

The entrance of Islam was a great change mainly because it was followed by the assimilation of the Uyghur areas in the enormous Turco-Mongolian and Islamic Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan progressively replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used presently.

If their writing, their language and their religion mark a real big difference with the culture of Chinese Han, Uyghur People also differ from their characteristic, so characteristic of Central Asia's people. A shiny skin, eyes representing a whole pallet of colors, from black to deep blue, features directing out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek roots of these men and these women.

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only nine million population - a little for this specific huge land. So, the Uyghurs are now part of the 56 ethnic minority groups having been well known in an official way by China.

This law allows them a few rights in a land exactly where their difference is very often repressed. Therefore, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is accepted as the second official language in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in the People's Republic of China, however, seems really illusory. The presence of natural resources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its closeness with countries well-known as sensitive, strongly motivated the government to speed up the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the higher responsibility work opportunities.

In reaction to this true will to assimilate the Uyghur people into the Chinese culture, an independent party like East Turkistan Islamic Movement(ETIM) was born in the early 1990.

Asserting more freedom, but mainly the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in place Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The situations of September 11, 2001, were the perfect occasion for the Chinese government to justify true reprisals: they declared the "Uyghur freedom fighters" as dangerous terrorists linked to Al Quaida because of their Muslim origins and their proximity with Pakistan and Afghanistan... However, the terrible repression which followed did not calm down the anger. The Uyghur peoples population continues today to proudly keep up their identity and their ethnic heritage , though they become a minority on their own land.

To get more information about the Uyghurs, you can visit a Uyghur website called Uyghur News at http://www.uyghurnews.com

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Of all the interesting new tech that seems poised to garner a lot of buzz in 2011, near field communication (NFC), is probably the most exciting. If it takes off, it will transform the ways we communicate, share, and make payments with digital devices. This will likely take years to happen, but the groundwork is being laid right now. And RFinity is one of those companies at the forefront.

While Google and Apple are responsible for generating much of the buzz about NFC at the moment, the technology goes far beyond simply having the right type of chip in your mobile device. For example, how do you handle different types of data transfers being made from one device to another? And how to you ensure that they happen as quickly as possible? And most importantly, how do you ensure that they happen securely? Those are the things that RFinity is thinking about.

The company has just raised $4 million from Horizons Ventures in Hong Kong. And the space has gotten so red hot, in fact, that we hear they’re already out raising another round.

And it’s an easy bet for investors to make not only because of the space, but because of where the project originated: The U.S. Department of Energy. Specifically, RFinity was born when a bunch of infrastructure security experts working for the government were assigned to find all the vulnerabilities in cell phones. Through software they came up with, they were able to quite easily eavesdrop, manipulate SMS messages, and even compromise LAN security. Then they set out to figure out a way to stop people from doing those very things. That work led directly to RFinity.

Work originally began in the person-to-person and person-to-vendor sales space by way of mobile applications that route transactions through RFinity’s own secure servers. But now that NFC appears ready, RFinity is making sure they’re ready for it. The idea is that their technology could cut out the middle man here: themselves.

Obviously, the company isn’t going to share all the details on how they secure NFC transfers. But the basic overview is that they verify an incoming NFC signal and ask for a user’s permission before taking any action. Further, if the action is a transaction, it requires a PIN, just as you might do an ATM withdrawal. That’s all pretty standard. But the key is one-time-use transaction codes that RFinity creates on the fly along with complex cryptographic signatures. These ensure that an transaction is secure since it means that every transaction can only happen once. Even if those numbers were intercepted by a hacker, they would be useless beyond the one-time payment.

And even if your phone is lost or stolen, a thief couldn’t do anything without your PIN. And you can remotely shut down your NFC capabilities via RFinity. It’s enough to make me wish I could throw out all my credit cards right now. “Today’s identification and transaction systems are based on what? A magnetic strip on the back of a card, based on a 1950’s technology that relies on a base station to read the information embedded as a series of simple magnetic markers in plastic tape,” writes Josh Jones-Dilworth, who is working with the company to bring them to market.

Again, NFC as a technology is great and potentially game-changing. But the software is still needed to make it actually work. And some of the big guys began realizing that early on as companies like PayPal, Bank of America, and even Subway have been testing out different things with RFinity for some time. In fact, RFinity has actually been doing field tests of the software end of their technology since 2009 in places like Idaho, well before most people in the U.S. had ever thought about NFC.

But now people are starting to care. And soon, they could be caring a lot more. NFC is already built-in to Google’s new Nexus S device — and the company has put out a call for developers to start using the tech. Rumors have the next iteration of the iPhone gaining the technology as well. In other words, I suspect we may be seeing acquisition rumors starting to fly around RFinity in about six months or so. Provided their technology proves up to the NFC challenge, of course.

Zecco iPhone app. Zecco recently released their free iPhone app, Zecco Mobile Lite, which is already among the highest rated investment apps in the iTunes store. The iPhone app also works on the iPod Touch and iPad. The good news is that anyone can use it for stock research, updates, tracking your portfolio, maintaining a watchlist, real time streaming quotes, and free push alerts. The downside to the app is that you can’t make trades from it at this time. And if you’re like me and have an Android based phone, then don’t worry – the Android app is currently in development, but the Zecco rep I recently spoke with wasn’t allowed to give me a launch date at this time.

Zap Trade. This is a truly unique feature which Zecco holds a patent to, so you won’t see it elsewhere. Zap Trade is a FireFox browser plugin which gives you the power to make trades from any web page once you are signed in. Zap Trade will automatically scan the website you are visiting and highlight any ticker symbols to give you easy access to more in-depth research on that stock, or the ability to trade that stock from that page. It’s a powerful tool for traders who know what they want.

Premium investing tools. If you are a day trader, you will want a tax planning tool to help you make the best decisions regarding which shares to sell for the highest tax efficiency. Zecco offers a free integrated cost basis tool for all shares purchased in 2011 and going forward. Zecco also offers Gainskeeper, which is an industry recognized tool for tracking cost basis. There is an associate fee with the latter tool.

Account records. Zecco keeps their costs down by automatically enrolling you in e-statements. You can receive paper statements for a fee.

Zecco Customer Service

Zecco offers e-mail, live chat, and telephone support through a free customer service number – 1.877.700.7862. Zecco’s FAQ section can take care of many questions, but if you need immediate assistance, you will need to call between the hours of 9am-6pm est, Mon-Fri.

Security and insurance

Your money is safe with Zecco. Zecco is a member of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which is the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. Zecco is covered by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which is an organization that acts as insurance against your broker filing for bankruptcy or otherwise going under. Funds are available to meet customer claims up to a maximum of $500,000 in cash and securities with a $100,000 cash maximum. Zecco has additional coverage from Lloyds of London insurance and is secured through a VeriSign SSL Certificate to assure your confidential information remains secure.

Trading Key. Before making a trade, Zecco members must enter a trading key – this is a separate step that occurs after logging in to their account. This prevents unauthorized users from causing some major damage to your account.

My overall opinion of Zecco

I think Zecco is a quality trading platform, which certainly can’t be beat for the price. Zecco is a flexible brokerage and will meet the needs of many different types of investors – from the investor who buys and holds ETFs (such as myself) to the day trader who makes dozens of trades in a month. The biggest complaint that some people have is the additional expense of certain premium tools. But in my opinion, if you are trading often enough to need those tools, you are most likely saving a lot more money based on the average trade commission with Zecco compared to the average trade at another brokerage. You can learn more about Zecco at: https://www.zecco.com/

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