The rumors are true: iPhone 4 is real and it’s coming on June 24.

Steve Jobs has just wrapped up his announcement of the 4th generation of the wildly popular iPhone on stage at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, along with countless other surprises.

The iPhone 4 features a new design relative to previous models and is identical to the model obtained by Gizmodo earlier this year.

For more information, visit apple.com

The new iPhone OS 4.0 software will be released in June during WWDC, along with the new iPhone 4G.

The photo you see above is probably the iPhone 4G phone. Apple has kept extremely quiet about the iPhone 4G (no surprise there), but that hasn’t stopped people from finding out more about it. Gizmodo purportedly has pictures of a prototype of the iPhone 4G.

They claim that the iPhone 4G was found in a bar, and the person who found it sold it to them. We don’t know what price Gizmodo had to pay, but some blogs are saying that they had to pay $10,000 USD. Whatever they paid, it’s a small amount compared to the traffic they’re getting. With the almost 3 million pageviews their post has gotten, they have already earned a huge amount of money through ad revenue.

hum… I smell link baiting. lol~~~ sorry, can’t help it. I’m a SEO

The following new features are added in iPhone 4G smartphone:

• Front-facing camera – Used for Video Chat
• Back camera – They’re saying it’s improved
• Micro-SIM – , as opposed to the standard SIM in the current iPhone
• Improved display
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are metallic

You can see a video and gallery of pictures of it on Gizmodo here.

For those of you did not catch the latest post by Matt Cutts, Google is calling for link spam reports from webmasters that would like to report spammy links.

You can report paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers and etc from webmaster tool.

Here’s a shortcut link for it:

http://goo.gl/linkspam

Although Matt Cutts states Google works really hard from Competitor A hurting Competitor B from this “bad mouthing” action. It doesn’t guarantee Google won’t penalize a site because a bogus report from your competitor.

So be careful when you go out bad mouthing someone, because it might back fire you.

You can find Matt Cutts original post at: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/calling-for-link-spam-reports

At SES London 2009 event, the question above was asked of those in attendance.

“What should we do with Black Hats?”

50 SEOs, 50 different answers.

My favorite one is “Don’t blame the players, blame the game.”

Enjoy watching. It’s quite entertaining.

The real Bill Gates is on twitter. In the first hour he received 79,387 followers.

Go become his friend on Twitter right now! Show off to your friends and stay ahead of the game.

Also visit Bill Gates at his Gates Notes

Thanks for the original post from Chris Lang, a social marketing and social bookmarking consultant and email delivery specialist.  http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=309

hum… now Bill Gates is hip, I wonder where is Steve Jobs??

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Stanford News (02/08/10) Schechter, Ruth

In Malaysia, women make up between 50 and 60 percent of the computer industry’s employees and many of them hold management positions. Computing and programming are considered “women-friendly” professions because men do not see indoor work as masculine and much of Malaysian society stigmatizes women who work outdoors as lower class. “In the U.S., technology and masculinity are very connected, which is not the case in Malaysia,” says Lulea University of Technology professor Ulf Mellstrom. Women initially left their villages to seek jobs in the electronics industry. Those jobs were replaced with technological jobs, which enabled newly educated women to assume positions of authority. Mellstrom says the transition was facilitated for women in computer science by role models from the electronics industry. He says the critical mass of women in the computer sciences has created “a symbolic space” that continues to provide new role models for other women.

View Full Article at http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/cgi-bin/wordpressblog/2010/02/malaysian-women-redefine-gender-roles-in-technology/

Thanks to the contribution of this article from Dr. Netiva Caftori. A very inspiring Computer Science professor and woman IT pioneer for more then 20 years.

1. Explicit Phrase:
Lets say you are looking for content about internet marketing. Instead of just typing internet marketing into the Google search box, you will likely be better off searching explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes.

Example: “internet marketing”

2. Exclude Words:
Lets say you want to search for content about internet marketing, but you want to exclude any results that contain the term advertising. To do this, simply use the “-” sign in front of the word you want to exclude.

Example Search: internet marketing -advertising

3. Site Specific Search:
Often, you want to search a specific website for content that matches a certain phrase. Even if the site doesn’t support a built-in search feature, you can use Google to search the site for your term. Simply use the “site:somesite.com” modifier.

Example: “internet marketing” site:www.smallbusinesshub.com

4. Similar Words and Synonyms:
Let’s say you are want to include a word in your search, but want to include results that contain similar words or synonyms. To do this, use the “~” in front of the word.

Example: “internet marketing” ~professional

5. Specific Document Types:
If you’re looking to find results that are of a specific type, you can use the modifier “filetype:”. For example, you might want to find only PowerPoint presentations related to internet marketing.

Example: “internet marketing” filetype:ppt

6. This OR That:
By default, when you do a search, Google will include all the terms specified in the search. If you are looking for any one of one or more terms to match, then you can use the OR operator. (Note: The OR has to be capitalized).

Example: internet marketing OR advertising

7. Phone Listing:
Let’s say someone calls you on your mobile number and you don’t know how it is. If all you have is a phone number, you can look it up on Google using the phonebook feature.

Example: phonebook:617-555-1212 (note: the provided number does not work – you’ll have to use a real number to get any results).

8. Area Code Lookup:
If all you need to do is to look-up the area code for a phone number, just enter the 3-digit area code and Google will tell you where it’s from.

Example: 617

9. Numeric Ranges:
This is a rarely used, but highly useful tip. Let’s say you want to find results that contain any of a range of numbers. You can do this by using the X..Y modifier (in case this is hard to read, what’s between the X and Y are two periods. This type of search is useful for years (as shown below), prices or anywhere where you want to provide a series of numbers.

Example: president 1940..1950

10. Stock (Ticker Symbol):
Just enter a valid ticker symbol as your search term and Google will give you the current financials and a quick thumb-nail chart for the stock.

Example: GOOG

11. Calculator:
The next time you need to do a quick calculation, instead of bringing up the Calculator applet, you can just type your expression in to Google.

Example: 48512 * 1.02

12. Word Definitions:
If you need to quickly look up the definition of a word or phrase, simply use the “define:” command.

Example: define:plethora

Hope this list of Google search tips will improve your search experience with Google in the future. If there are any of your favorite Google expert power tips that I did not mention here, please feel free to share them in the comments.

I still have a lot of people asking me how to jailbreak and unlock their iPhones. In case you did not catch me in the elevator or could not get a hold of me on the phone, here’s a step by step guide on how to jailbreak and unlock iPhone 3.1.2 (latest firmware) using one touch of a button. Thanks to blackra1n

Jailbreak/Unlock iPhone 3.1.2 with blackra1n

1. First, Download blackra1n (Windows) to your computer.

Mac fans please click here

2. Open the program and Click the make it ra1n button, while connecting your iPhone.

3. You will see bunch of  codes popping up on your iPhone during the process, (Do NOT Panic!) It should only last for few seconds. Your iPhone will reboot once blackra1n has done it’s job and you should see the blackra1n icon on your phone.

4. Now, your phone has already been UNLOCKED!!! (thanks to the lasted update from geohot.) Open the blackra1n app and install your preferred application from the blackra1n app. You have the option of choosing Cydia or Rock.

For people that don’t know what Cydia is, it simply is a 3rd party app you use when you jailbreak your phone. (do a little Google search, it’ll tell you all about it.) Rock is very similar to Cydia, but in a lighter and faster version. You can choose to install either one, they pretty much work the same.

5. Last but not the least, Enjoy your “new born” iPhone, and use it with any Sim card you wish.  No more AT&T. woohoo~~~

After months of speculation and rumors, it’s official: The Apple iPad is real. The device, announced earlier today by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, is designed to fill the perceived gap between the smartphone and the laptop.

With literally thousands of articles and blog posts being written about Apple’s new device, it’s easy to experience information overload. That’s why the guys over at Mashable created this comprehensive Apple iPad guide. It is the most complete, constantly updated article on iPad since its today’s launch.

Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about the Apple iPad, its specs, features, pricing, availability and much more.:

Apple iPad: The Overview

On multiple occasions, Steve Jobs spoke about creating a new category of devices that would fill the gap between the smartphone and the laptop markets. He slammed netbooks for “not being better than anything.” He wanted something that would be better than a laptop at browsing the web and that could play games, movies, YouTube videos and more.

The answer to that gap, at least for Apple, is the iPad. It’s essentially a giant iPod touch/iPhone with a 9.7-inch screen, 16 to 64 GB of memory, and the ability to run almost every iPhone app in the App Store. It can connect via USB to sync with your PC or Mac, play HD video, act an ebook reader and a lot more.

While there are a lot of functions, all of which we describe below, its killer feature is by far the price. While many predicted it would cost $1,000, the starting price of the iPad is just $499. For comparison, the Kindle DX, which also has a 9.7-inch screen, costs $489, only $10 less than the iPad.

I am sure you’ve seen enough about the iPad by now, what were your thoughts of this new Apple device? Share your comments here.

Now the iPad is real…Are you in for one? Share your thoughts here