New site Makes Logo Design Easy

Nexus Broadband — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:21:35 +0100

A company logo makes all the difference in today’s competitive online marketplace. Making the design one of the most important jobs a business owner will ever entrust to someone. One website has decided that crowdsourcing will yield the best results, and has introduced an intriguing new concept to logo design for business.

LogoDesignGuru.com invites business owners, marketers, and entrepreneurs to visit the site and fill out a form with theRead More...

Grandma goes Social

Nexus Broadband — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:38:41 +0100

Use of social media networks has been increasing dramatically across all age demographics, but it is the older users that are adopting social networking tools particularly faster. Pew Internet released new research that indicates social networking in the 50yrs. and older market has nearly doubled in the last 12 months. In April 2009 they represented 22% to May 2010 representing 42% of the market.

Key findings in their research included:

Google Files for Speedbook Trademark, New Tablet??

Nexus Broadband — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:31:29 +0100

It’s not a mystery that Google has been hard at work developing their ChromeOS tablet in an attempt to bring it to market soon. It has been rumored for a while that Google is pushing for a Black Friday release for the holidays. A recently discovered trademark filing might clue all of us in on what they are going to call it, or are at least considering calling it. Keep your ears open for talk of a Google ‘Speedbook’ come the holiday season. Having the woRead More...

AARP: How the 50+ Crowd Sees Geo-location and Social Media

Nexus Broadband — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:25:55 +0100

The AARP – one of the largest membership organizations in the United States with 40 million members – has been ratcheting up its social media efforts over the last six months, and is even evaluating geo-location services for its members, all of which are over 50 years of age.

In an interview lastweek, the AARP’s Tammy Gordon, a senior advisor to the AARP’s Chief Communications Officer told us that about a quarter of the orRead More...

Social to Go!

Nexus Broadband — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:11:20 +0100

New data from comScore shows that mobile usage of social networking applications is exploding — to the tune of a 240 percent increase from April of this year, compared to April, 2009. Mobile visitors to social networking sites via browsers grew 90 percent, to 30 million users. This data points to the importance of a social and mobile strategy for businesses, including apps. The same study found that mobile application usage overall increased 28 percent, including nRead More...

Admob is Banned From the Premises

Nexus Broadband — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:54:36 +0100

Apple’s proposed new developer terms would prohibit any apps that include AdMob mobile ads from all of Apple’s mobile devices, including iPhone and iPad. Instead, Apple will use iAd, its own advertising platform. Omar Hamoui, founder of AdMob, had this to say on his blog: “This change is not in the best interests of users or developers. In the history of technology and innovation, it’s clear that competition delivers the best outcome. Artificial bRead More...

YouTube and you....

Nexus Broadband — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:18:40 +0100

Creating videos to market your products and services became much simpler thanks to the introduction of a new set of cloudbased video editing tools from YouTube. Web marketers and content publishers can now build a library of online videos and increase opportunities for brand exposure at the same destination. YouTube users have the capability to cut from videos, create montages of different clips and add or change accompanying music using YouTube’s commercial librarRead More...

Google Gets a Caffeine Boost

Nexus Broadband — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:13:06 +0100

Google’s new Web indexing system, Caffeine, is giving consumers a much different encounter when viewing search results. The impact on Internet businesses will be substantial as it moves forward. According to Google, Web search listings are 50% fresher now, as Caffeine enables index updates on a continuous basis, instead of refreshing every few weeks. This is an environment where universally acceptable content such as video, images, audio, and reviews are avaiRead More...

Details of 100 million Facebook users details published online

Nexus Broadband — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:25:21 +0100

The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will now be unable to make their publicly available information private. However, Facebook downplayed the issue, saying that no private data had been compromised.

The information was posted by Ron Bowes, an online security consultant, on the Internet site Pirate Bay.

Bowes used code toRead More...

Firefox 4 Beta 2 arrives; open source browser use grows

Nexus Broadband — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:28:27 +0100

Mozilla’s Firefox 4 (beta 2) released on Tuesday, a fulfillment of the developers’ plans to offer increased releases during the developmental process. Which demonstrates the project’s intent to compete against both Google and Microsoft in the browser war.

Beta 2, after all, is coming just three weeks after beta 1 of Firefox 4 makes its debut. And it is still only 5 days after the promised release date.

While browsing the various “green” tech sites and catching up on my reading, I came across this item from TreeHugger (courtesy of another site, Mother Nature Network) listing the 10 best cities where graduates might find green-tech or clean-tech jobs.

To no one’s surprise, San Francisco is #1, but it might shock you to hear that automaker-friendly region Detroit and oil-industry haven Houston also make the list. The hyRead More...

Apple: Give iPhone 4 customers a complete recall

Nexus Broadband — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:43:07 +0100

Hey Apple, The way we see it you have one of two choices. In less than a day, you can tarnish Apple’s brand or lock your fan base in for life. And you can probably do it in 15 minutes or less on Friday during your media circus.

Is it a strange feeling for you to be the brunt of so much non-flattering hubbub over your new flagship iPhone 4, which looked like a dream device just a few weeks ago. The iPhone 4 was your best product launch ever&Read More...

Top Twitter Apps and Services

Nexus Broadband — Sun, 02 May 2010 21:48:59 +0100

With Twitter becoming more popular than ever. We thought that we would share some of the most popular Tweet applications and services. These are in no particular order, but are all great at what they do. Let's get started;

1. TweetMeMe: Adds a retweet button to any story on your blog or website, which allows users to share it. The more tweets, the more value the article is perceived to contain, potentially generating massive reader pass-along.

2. oneforty: A one stop shop Read More...

iTag: What You Thought Was Lost Has Been Found

Nexus Broadband — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Are you tired of being jealous of iPhone users with their ability to locate and kill their phones remotely? Are you sick of the lack of offerings in the Android Market such as Where’s My Droid, which does not get the job done? There is an app that solves that problem! OK, so it is not earth shattering news, but it’s good news to me and is definitely worth a mention. iTag is a new-ish app/web-based solution for locating, backing up, and locking out your Read More...

MHCA Annual Conference, Golf Tournament & Community Managers Workshop May 12 - 14, 2010

Nexus Broadband — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:26:16 +0100

It is that time of year again! The annual MHCA conference is rapidly approaching, are you ready? We are! This we are going to be speaking not once, but two different times! We are very proud to be a member of the MHCA and look forward to meeting all of you there this year.

For those of you who do not know, we recently redesigned and freshened up the look of the new MHCA website. You can see it at http://azmhca.com

In fact all of the information Read More...

Cox preparing an Android phone with TV/DVR Capabilities?

Nexus Broadband — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:59:26 +0100

The latest on the rumor mill is that Cox Cable company is the latest company to have an entrant into not only the Android Market (not the one for Applications) but to the 4G mobile phones as well. Cox is working with phone maker Kyocera to develop the phone. The anonymous tip that sparked the rumor stated:

"Worked on a quick, short term, sub-sub-sub-contract, where I worked on an app for Android, to be run at a Trade Show. The hardware I installed on was a Kyocera, but even more intereRead More...

Marketing through Social Networking

Nexus Broadband — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:12:10 +0100

Nexus Club and other social networks are a great place to network with people and to generate work leads. There is, however, one major problem with using Nexus Clubto promote your work: utilizing it properly. Even though you can’t put a price-tag on your design work in Nexus Club, there is no reason why you can’t utilize the massive social networking and community aspect of Nexus Club to connect with potential clients and other design professionals.

If you haven’t already, here is a gRead More...

Social Networking: How Young Is Too Young?

Nexus Broadband — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:09:18 +0100

Technology is changing, and with it, the ages of the users who are using it.Status updates, photo tagging, and programs like Farmville are not just for the teenagers, and adults anymore. Researchers are claiming that a growing number of young kids are flouting the age requirements on sites like Facebook and MySpace, and even using social networks designed just for them. Facebook and MySpace have even lowered their age restriction down to 13 years old as the minimum age. However, there is no rRead More...

WiFi For A Beginner

Nexus Broadband — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:32:50 +0100

Have a laptop and want to connect to a WiFi Hotspot when your on the road?

Wi-Fi hotspots are a good way to stay connected when you are traveling.Typically they are high speed, easy to access, and there are locations now than ever before. But not every hotspot is a good one. Here at Nexus Broadband, we work hard to ensure a strong signal for every person in the park/community. However, there are many variables involved in providing a solid WiFi network.

How can you find Wi-Fi hotspots?

Google Apps: UPGRADES Coming! Please read the following info from Google!

Nexus Broadband — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:38:25 +0100

I received this message from Google in my inbox today. It pertains to the free services that they offer as part of the cloud computing platform that they offer through Gmail and Google Apps. Please read carefully. If you are in one of our communities that have WiFi please call us if you need assistance with making your computer compatible with these new standards or use our contact form listed on our site.

Message from Google:

In order to continue to improve our products andRead More...

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