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Over the course of 2009, a consistent theme that Google has been involved with is that of speed. In announcement after announcement, Google has talked about the importance of speed on the web, and how the company wants to do everything it can to make the web a faster place. Has it occurred to you that how fast your page loads may have a direct effect on how your site ranks in Google?  Don't worry, it hasn't had an impact...yet. In an interview with WebProNews , Google's Matt Cutts told us that speed may soon be a ranking factor.  "Historically, we haven't had to use it in our search rankings, but a lot of people within Google think that the web should be fast," says Cutts. "It should be a good experience, and so it's sort of fair to say that if you're a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users don't want that as much." "I think a lot of people in 2010 are g

Almost 11 million children die before their fifth birthday each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of these deaths. A young boy named Agiskhan in Myanmar was at risk of becoming part of this statistic, often crying to his mother, Hasina: "Mother, I am very hungry now and my younger sisters are crying — we haven't eaten anything since last night." Children like Agiskhan should never have to wonder where their next meal is coming from. We need your help today to fight hunger. CARE's response to hunger is more than providing emergency food. We combine immediate aid to those in dire need — as we did for survivors of three natural disasters in September — with long-term strategies that help communities create lasting solutions to the challenges they face. In the case of Agiskhan, CARE helped his mother gain access to tools and training that she used to cultivate a thriving garden. She is able to provide for her family's well-being

You are invited to meet with our Melbourne Business School representatives during the QS World MBA Tour in Bangkok .  Details of the event are included below.  For over 40 years, Melbourne Business School has been inspiring students to achieve business and academic excellence. Our programs foster the highest levels of leadership, provides students with the skills required to shape the future, and address the critical issues faced by managers in workplaces today. The Financial Times and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) acknowledges MBS for our outstanding quality, international student body and superier career placement program, consistently ranking our program amongst the best in the world.  The recent release of The EIU's rankings of MBA programs placed the MBS MBA as number 1 in Australia and 26 in the world! If you are interested in exploring more about our prestigious postgraduate programs, and talking with Rocio Karibian

by Bob Gilbreath "Four years ago I grew frustrated with the lack of brand investment in digital marketing and set out to understand the fundamental reasons why this promising new space was still only attracting a small sliver of marketers' multi-million -dollar budgets. [...] I set out to discover an alternative path, starting with the handful of our clients that had put digital in the forefront of their strategy , and then broadening my vision to companies that seemed to be enjoying success with a completely different course [...] This manifesto brings my search full circle, providing a supplement to The Next Evolution of Marketing that specifically focuses on how brand managers must reset their digital strategy to win customers in this new space."

R. Emory Lundberg lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife, Elizabeth, and a chubby calico cat named Echo(1). By day, he applies ninja tactics to errant packets for VeriSign's excellent Managed Security Services team, and by night, he writes about mobile technology and tinkers with gadgets. He will one day be survived by his motor scooters and an exquisite collection of mobile phones.

Jason Lam is a wireless and open source developer enthusiast who enjoys creating synergy and sharing knowledge in the software development world. As senior wireless developer at QuoteMedia Inc ( http://www.quotemedia.com ) he leads the development of Quotestream Wireless, a financial wireless streaming application. In his spare time, he contributes to open source projects and online tutorials/articles. One of his significant contributions is his open source book J2ME & Gaming , ( http://j2megamingbook.sourceforge.net ). To learn more about him, visit his personal site at http://www.jasonlam604.com .

Shari Kornberg is a software engineer at AT&T, responsible for engineering and support of the Exchange email (50,000 users) and Black-Berry platforms. She designed, architected, and implemented AT&T's BlackBerry infrastructure. Shari was also the technical lead for the recent migration effort to Exchange 2003. Shari began her IT career at AT&T over 25 years ago and has a BA in computer science from Queens College, City University of New York. In her spare time, she enjoys music, theater, travel, and spending time with her three sons, Jeffrey, Alex, and David.

Brian Jepson is an O'Reilly editor, programmer, and coauthor of Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks and Linux Unwired . He's also a volunteer systems administrator and all-around geek for AS220 ( http://www.as220.org ), a nonprofit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. AS220 gives Rhode Island artists uncensored and unjuried forums for their work. These forums include galleries, performance space, and publications. Brian sees to it that technology, especially free software, supports that mission.

Jeff Greenhut is founder and president of somedevelopers inc. ( http://www.somedevelopers.com ), a provider of mobile applications for the BlackBerry. After graduating from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a National Merit Scholarship, Jeff has built flight simulators, storage solutions, and accounting software. When not working with computers, Jeff can typically be found working with computers, playing ice hockey, or floating on the lake with BlackBerry in hand. Jeff is married, has two young girls, and lives in the Atlanta, Georgia area.

Paul Dumais is currently vice president of product development at Idokorro Mobile, the leader in mobile network administration software. Paul is the creative and technical force behind Idokorro's products, Mobile Admin and Mobile SSH. Prior to Idokorro, Paul created a world-class bug tracking software that was acquired by MKS Inc and branded Change Integrity. Paul has also held positions as a Java developer at Sun and Corel.

By day, Phil Bogle is cofounder and chief technology officer of Jobster ( http://www.jobster.com ), a web service that helps companies target and connect with passive jobseekers, while enabling the best candidates to stand out from the pack and get noticed. By night, Phil is a gentleman coder and author of several free BlackBerry applications, including Berry 411 local search. He has a weblog at http://www.thebogles.com .

Dave Mabe ( http://dave.runningland.com ) is an accomplished and largely self-taught engineer and now a writer who strives to create a simple, elegant solution to a complex problem. Dave has worked at AT&T in the communications industry for eight years and has worked with BlackBerry devices for almost five. Always looking to save a few keystrokes and mouse clicks, Dave has automated countless business processes for Fortune 500 companies. He is the kind of person who would rather spend several hours inventing an automated solution than spend a few monotonous moments each day performing a menial task. He fancies himself a proficient Perl programmer and would love to see Perl running on a BlackBerry one day. Dave enjoys tinkering with the latest gadgets and software, both closed and open source. He has authored and contributed to several technology-related publications. When not working on computer-oriented stuff, you're likely to see Dave running on the roads and trails (mostly

By Daniel Silva Agence France-Presse Campaigners are stepping up efforts to curb online tracking of Internet use by firms that deliver adverts tailored to the specific interests of consumers, as polls reveal widespread unease with the practice. Corporations have always collected personal data on the people who buy their products but in the past this information came from sources such as magazine subscriptions and warranty cards, experts at a three-day privacy conference that wrapped up Friday in Madrid said. Now it is flowing at breakneck speed into databases from multiple online sources , from dating services to newspaper websites, giving companies the unprecedented power to create detailed profiles of their customers, in many cases without their being aware of it, they added. "There are so many grey areas in advertising that if the end user knew about it all, it would make their hair grey," said Jorg Polakiewicz, the head of the law reform department at the Council of