DoAttend

Doattend is an Event Registration Service built for Event Managers. It is an online event registration service that allows you to create, publish and promote your event for free. Set it up on your personalized event page with an easy to use registration system and have your event visible to the world at http://yourevent.doattend.com, within a matter of minutes. Provide your attendees with eTickets for that professional touch, even if it is a free event.

From a corporate conference to a weekend cycling event: No event too small or too large. Tap into a wider, easy-to-reach online audience and promote your event successfully.

Setup an event page in minutes with our one page form and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. Save it as a draft, preview it or publish it right away. To find out more about this unique business idea do attend their website: http://www.doattend.com/

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Create Events

Setup an event page in minutes with our one page form and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. Save it as a draft, preview it or publish it right away.

Customize your event page with your own unique URL. Add your own banner image and leverage the WYSIWYG editor to make your event page look exactly the way you want.

With a one page setup and great tools to help you customize, you can edit your event page, preview it and publish or unpublish it whenever you want. Its never been easier or faster!

Publish Events

Publish your customized event page and share the unique URL. Its that easy to create a presence for your event thats visible worldwide 24/7.

DoAttend event pages integrate seamlessly with googles maps, calendars and social media networks.

Attendees can register by selecting the ticket type and quantity. If you shared discount coupon codes, they would be able to apply the same while registering.

Design Tickets

Customize your ticket design with your own images and logos. You can also choose which information to show on each of your tickets.

Give the true professional touch to your tickets by adding your event logo to the design.

Want to show your sponsors or have banners on your tickets? No problem! Just add header and/or footer images.

Manage Ticketing

Create as many tickets as you need. Tickets can be free or paid.

Set the sales period, the maximum quantity on sale and even what you want to see on each of your tickets. You can even preview your tickets to see what your registrants will receive.

Setup discount codes for your tickets. Define which tickets they apply to, maximum usage limits and validity periods.

Get the latest stats on ticket sales and usage of discount codes.

Track Registrations

Track the registrations for your event with up to the minute data.

Use the 'Incomplete Registrations' list to follow up on registrants who have not completed the process for whatever reason.

Export all the registration data in CSV format anytime you want.

Follow the trend of registrations with our graphs throughout your ticket sales period.

Customize Registrations

Customize the information you want to collect from your registrants.

Choose from a set of predetermined fields created by us for your convenience or create your own custom field.

Choose which fields you want to make mandatory and export all the data collected at any point from the 'Registrations' tab.

Monitor your Event

The Event Overview page is the one stop shop to get quick information about how your event is doing at the moment.

Get handy information about recent and total registrations. See where sales stand for your tickets and how many of your discount codes have been used.

With access to all event related information and controls along with tasty short eats like number of page views, this page has been built to act as the command station for managing your event.

Hope this information was useful for all event managers. people please start using this as it seems to be very user friendly and awesome!!!!

Complore

Here is a new business idea in the education space. Complore.com was created with a simple vision - To help students prepare for various MBA and aptitude exams in India by bringing ease, effectiveness and affordability in online exam preparation. The site features daily aptitude tests, daily question, word, and tip, puzzle of the day apart from free study material and discussion forums.

Complore (comp:exam & lore:knowledge) provides a platform to the mba aspirants to prepare and enhance their aptitude. Some features that will help you are:

1. Daily sectional tests: We provide daily sectional tests prepared by our experts which are bound to give you a lot of practice before the D-day.

2. Detailed feedback: Facing the issue of having only the answer key and not the solutions. Well, this is not the case here. We see that you are not left to guess the solution.

3. Instant national percentile: We provide instant national percentile based on the test given by our users all over India. We also help you in tracking your daily performance so that you can assess your weak areas and strengthen them.

To find out more visit: http://www.complore.com/

Yahoo and Microsoft come together for search alliance

Completion of U.S., European Review Clears Way for Agreement to Move Forward

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & REDMOND, Wash., Feb 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) announced today that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and will now turn their attention to beginning the process of implementing the deal.

Implementation of the deal is expected to begin in the coming days and will involve transitioning Yahoo!'s algorithmic and paid search platforms to Microsoft, with Yahoo! becoming the exclusive relationship sales force for both companies' premium search advertisers globally. Once the transition is completed, the companies' unified search marketplace will deliver improved innovation for consumers, better volume and efficiency for advertisers and better monetization opportunities for web publishers through a platform that contains a larger pool of search queries.

"This breakthrough search alliance means Yahoo! can focus even more on our own innovative search experience," said Yahoo! Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz. "Yahoo! gets to do what we do best: combine our science and technology with compelling content to build personally relevant online experiences for our users and customers."

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer concurred with Bartz's assessment. "Although we are just at the beginning of this process, we have reached an exciting milestone," Ballmer said. "I believe that together, Microsoft and Yahoo! will promote more choice, better value and greater innovation to our customers as well as to advertisers and publishers."

Consumer Search Experience

Under terms of the agreement, which was announced in late July 2009, Microsoft will provide Yahoo! with the same search result listings available through Bing, and Yahoo! will innovate around those listings by integrating rich Yahoo! content, enhanced listings with conveniently organized information about key topics, and tools to tailor the experience for Yahoo! users.

Yahoo! will focus on providing a compelling and innovative search experience that allows people to find and explore the things, people and sites that matter most to them. While Microsoft will provide the underlying platform, both companies will continue to create different, compelling and evolving experiences, competing for audience, engagement and clicks.

Transition Timeline

Yahoo! and Microsoft will work with advertisers, publishers and developers on a customized plan designed to make the transition as efficient and seamless as possible. Both companies will begin working closely with most partners well in advance of their planned transition to the Microsoft platform and will communicate important information to partners about the transition periodically via phone, email, webinars and a newly created website at www.searchalliance.com

The companies will begin the transition of algorithmic search and have set a goal of completing that effort in at least the United States by the end of 2010. The companies also hope to make significant progress transitioning U.S. advertisers and publishers prior to the 2010 holiday season, but may wait until 2011 if they determine that the transition will be more effective after the holiday season. All global customers and partners are expected to be transitioned by early 2012.

Customer Relationships

Once the transition is in place, Yahoo! and Microsoft will each represent and provide customer support to different advertiser segments. Yahoo!'s sales team will exclusively represent and support high volume advertisers, SEO and SEM agencies, and resellers and their clients. Microsoft will represent and support self-service advertisers.

Regulatory Summary

Although the transaction previously was cleared by regulators in Australia, Brazil and Canada, the terms of the agreement required clearance by U.S. and European regulators before it could commence. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Yahoo! continue to work with regulators in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan to ensure that they have all relevant information necessary to evaluate the transaction before the deal commences in those specific jurisdictions.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most trafficked Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com).

SOURCE: Yahoo! and Microsoft

About Meego : Offspring of Nokia and Intel

MeeGo is an open source, Linux project which brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity.

MeeGo integrates the experience and skills of two significant development ecosystems, versed in communications and computing technologies. The MeeGo project believes these two pillars form the technical foundations for next generation platforms and usages in the mobile and device platforms space.

MeeGo includes:

• Performance optimizations and features which enable rich computational and graphically oriented applications and connected services development
• No-compromise internet standards support delivering the best web experiences
• Easy to use, flexible and powerful UI/app development environment based on Qt
• Open source project organization managed by the Linux Foundation
• State of the Art Linux stack optimized for the size and capabilities of small footprint platforms and mobile devices, but delivering broad linux software application compatibility

MeeGo currently targets platforms such as netbooks/entry-level desktops, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, connected TVs, and media phones. All of these platforms have common user requirements in communications, application, and internet services in a portable or small form factor. The MeeGo project will continue to expand platform support as new features are incorporated and new form factors emerge in the market.

To find out more, join the mailing list visit http://meego.com

source: yourstory.in

DAKSH 2010, NIRMAAN - Purificador de agua

Greetings!

Daksh, the technical extravaganza brought to you by SASTRA University is back with a bang!!!

Daksh aims at providing a podium for students from all over the world to compete and also to whet their technical skills. It is a package deal of workshops, guest lectures, entertainment shows and numerous events spread over all branches of engineering and management, which is bound to leave you enthralled. We invite you to make the best of this deal, to experience engineering and to Come, Learn, Get Dakshified!!!

This year around, the Nirmaan cluster of Daksh is up with newer and more exciting prospects. Construction, has been merged with fun, knowledge and experience to bring you
"PURIFICADOR DE AGUA", an event related to the making of a working model of a Water Treatment Plant. It is out here to test your basic construction skills along with your creativity and ability to work with different materials.But that is not all!!! It tests your Marketing skills as well. Wondering how??? Check out the following link for all your answers.
http://www.daksh.sastra.edu/events.php#nir-3-puri-5

So all those out there who think you can work this out, and be on the trail for the cash prize of Rs.25000, register now!!!!!

Send your queries to nirmaan@daksh.sastra.edu
For further details visit www.daksh.sastra.edu
contact : 9840700236

Come. Learn. Get Dakshified!

See you soon,
Team DAKSH.

Windows 7 Launch Sends Microsoft Profits Skyward

Windows 7 Launch Sends Microsoft Profits Skyward

The release of Windows 7 last October brought Microsoft a hefty net income for the company's fiscal Q2, on which Redmond recently released figures. Revenue in the Windows division leaped up 70 percent. However, certain other divisions remained flat or down, and while Microsoft called consumer demand "healthy," it noted that enterprise demand continues to lag.

PC users purchased record numbers of Windows licenses in the last three months of 2009, driving big gains for Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) over the company's second fiscal quarter, the first quarter in which the company's Windows 7 OS was on retail shelves.

For its quarter ended Dec. 31, Microsoft reported net income of US$6.66 billion, or 74 cents per share, from $4.17 billion, or 47 cents a share, a year ago. Revenue rose to $19.02 billion from $16.63 billion the same quarter a year ago.

Microsoft's performance for the quarter beat Wall Street estimates by 15 cents. Analysts had been expecting Microsoft to register $17.4 billion in revenue.

Microsoft's non-Windows divisions reported stagnant or otherwise disappointing performance: Sales of Office software were flat, for example, and revenue for online services declined 5 percent to $581 million from the same period the year before.

However, its Windows division saw revenue jump an eye-popping 70 percent to $6.9 billion -- results that included $1.71 billion in deferred revenue from pre-sales of Windows 7 that occurred before the operating system was released. The company sold 60 million Windows licenses in the second quarter, making it the fastest-selling operating system in history, Microsoft said.
Ups and Downs

After Microsoft first reported its earnings, its shared moved higher toward $30 per share, according to Fred Ruffy, senior trading analyst with WhatsTrading.com. Since then, however, the stock slid below $29 -- the second biggest loser in the Dow behind Boeing (NYSE: BA), he told the E-Commerce Times.

"While second quarter result easily beat Street estimates, some investors might have been disappointed by the lack of positive forward-looking statements," he said. "Instead, Microsoft's CFO Peter Klein said in a post-earnings conference call that there has been no return in enterprise spending growth to date. In addition, third-quarter and 2010 Windows division growth will be in line with overall PC growth. Further, he expects business refresh cycle to begin in 2010 and gradually increase."

Some investors might have expected more upbeat comments, especially as it relates to business IT spending, Ruffy concluded.

Indeed, Klein took pains to point out the differences between consumer and enterprise spending in his comments during the conference call. "While consumer demand remains healthy, we have not seen a return of enterprise spending growth," he told analysts on an earnings conference call Thursday.
Windows 7 Demand

Eventually businesses are going to follow suit in their purchases of Windows 7, if only for the same reasons that have propelled consumers: pent up demand, a full forward press on marketing Download Free eBook - The Edge of Success: 9 Building Blocks to Double Your Sales and support by Microsoft and a robust product.

"The satisfaction rate with Windows 7 has been very high -- both in the September-October time frame and the latest research data from December-January," said Laura DiDio, principle with ITIC, referring to survey data her firm has collected.

"Clearly there was a lot of pent-up demand -- people can't stay on XP forever, because the applications keep progressing beyond the point that XP can support."

Survey data suggests that Windows 7 will continue to uplift Microsoft earnings at least for one more quarter.

In the ITIC survey, 60 percent of respondents said they would deploy Windows 7 within the first year of its release. Within the first six months of its release, 30 percent said they would migrate to the new OS. "We are in that window right now, with another wave expected," she said.

Microsoft worked hard to deliver a product that would be well-received by the public, she continued -- especially after Vista's disastrous rollout. "You can never have all the kinks worked out of a product, but they got the big ones nailed."

Courtesy:www.technewsworld.com

Windows 7 Launch Sends Microsoft Profits Skyward

Windows 7 Launch Sends Microsoft Profits Skyward

The release of Windows 7 last October brought Microsoft a hefty net income for the company's fiscal Q2, on which Redmond recently released figures. Revenue in the Windows division leaped up 70 percent. However, certain other divisions remained flat or down, and while Microsoft called consumer demand "healthy," it noted that enterprise demand continues to lag.

PC users purchased record numbers of Windows licenses in the last three months of 2009, driving big gains for Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) over the company's second fiscal quarter, the first quarter in which the company's Windows 7 OS was on retail shelves.

For its quarter ended Dec. 31, Microsoft reported net income of US$6.66 billion, or 74 cents per share, from $4.17 billion, or 47 cents a share, a year ago. Revenue rose to $19.02 billion from $16.63 billion the same quarter a year ago.

Microsoft's performance for the quarter beat Wall Street estimates by 15 cents. Analysts had been expecting Microsoft to register $17.4 billion in revenue.

Microsoft's non-Windows divisions reported stagnant or otherwise disappointing performance: Sales of Office software were flat, for example, and revenue for online services declined 5 percent to $581 million from the same period the year before.

However, its Windows division saw revenue jump an eye-popping 70 percent to $6.9 billion -- results that included $1.71 billion in deferred revenue from pre-sales of Windows 7 that occurred before the operating system was released. The company sold 60 million Windows licenses in the second quarter, making it the fastest-selling operating system in history, Microsoft said.
Ups and Downs

After Microsoft first reported its earnings, its shared moved higher toward $30 per share, according to Fred Ruffy, senior trading analyst with WhatsTrading.com. Since then, however, the stock slid below $29 -- the second biggest loser in the Dow behind Boeing (NYSE: BA), he told the E-Commerce Times.

"While second quarter result easily beat Street estimates, some investors might have been disappointed by the lack of positive forward-looking statements," he said. "Instead, Microsoft's CFO Peter Klein said in a post-earnings conference call that there has been no return in enterprise spending growth to date. In addition, third-quarter and 2010 Windows division growth will be in line with overall PC growth. Further, he expects business refresh cycle to begin in 2010 and gradually increase."

Some investors might have expected more upbeat comments, especially as it relates to business IT spending, Ruffy concluded.

Indeed, Klein took pains to point out the differences between consumer and enterprise spending in his comments during the conference call. "While consumer demand remains healthy, we have not seen a return of enterprise spending growth," he told analysts on an earnings conference call Thursday.
Windows 7 Demand

Eventually businesses are going to follow suit in their purchases of Windows 7, if only for the same reasons that have propelled consumers: pent up demand, a full forward press on marketing Download Free eBook - The Edge of Success: 9 Building Blocks to Double Your Sales and support by Microsoft and a robust product.

"The satisfaction rate with Windows 7 has been very high -- both in the September-October time frame and the latest research data from December-January," said Laura DiDio, principle with ITIC, referring to survey data her firm has collected.

"Clearly there was a lot of pent-up demand -- people can't stay on XP forever, because the applications keep progressing beyond the point that XP can support."

Survey data suggests that Windows 7 will continue to uplift Microsoft earnings at least for one more quarter.

In the ITIC survey, 60 percent of respondents said they would deploy Windows 7 within the first year of its release. Within the first six months of its release, 30 percent said they would migrate to the new OS. "We are in that window right now, with another wave expected," she said.

Microsoft worked hard to deliver a product that would be well-received by the public, she continued -- especially after Vista's disastrous rollout. "You can never have all the kinks worked out of a product, but they got the big ones nailed."

Courtesy:www.technewsworld.com