Just when you thought the Apple iPhone 3G S couldn’t get any hotter, the popular smartphone has been plagued with overheating issues, and, in some cases, is getting so toasty that the device itself turns brown.

It appears the ill-fated Hottest Girls application isn’t the only thing making new iPhone users sweat.

Apple has yet to respond to the claims.

French site Le Journal du Geek featured a photo of what appears to be a scorched Apple iPhone 3G S, which the site says overheated and turned the white casing pink, or light brown from the heat.

Another French site, Nowhere Else also posted images of Apple iPhone 3G S devices discolored by overheating.

Domestic users are also feeling the heat. One of the forums on Apple’s Apple Discussion site indicates that a host of users’ iPhones are overheating. One user said a friend’s Apple iPhone 3G S “got extremely hot. He almost put it into the fridge.”

The early blame seems to fall on games and GPS, resource-intensive applications that are pumping up the battery until it gets too hot to handle and eventually overheats.

Even over on PC World, Melissa J. Perenson wrote that her Apple iPhone 3G S “became very hot. Very, very hot — not just on the back, but the entire length of the front face, too.” At the time, she was using a game and then the Web browser over a Wi-Fi connection with the device plugged in. “Toasty doesn’t even describe how surprisingly hot it got. It was too hot to even put the phone against my face.”

One commenter shared this tale: “I had my iPhone under my pillow playing music through the head phones for a nap; I awoke with a sharp pain on my left arm under the pillow. I had been burned decently from the iPhone getting so hot. The phone seems to function fine though.”

While another offered this advice to users of overheating iPhone 3G S smartphones: “Throw out your microwave — simply drop your iPhone on the plate instead.”

Source: www.crn.com

The iRobot Roomba 530 Robotic Vacuum with Virtual Wall is once again on sale. Woot featured this item online last April 23, 2009. Provided below is a price comparison among some online stores and a list of iRobot Roomba 530 Robotic Vacuum with Virtual Wall features.

On Amazon, iRobot Roomba 530 portable robotic vacuum cleaner with virtual wall ranges at a price of $275 – $300 for brand new models and $160 – $178 for the refurbished ones. On eBay, a brand new one costs $199.99 and refurbished costs $171.50. While on Woot, a refurbished iRobot Roomba 530 Robotic Vacuum with Virtual Wall and Self-Charging Home Base is sold for $129.99 only. Compared to the iRobot Roomba 535, the 530 model of this vacuum cleaner is still cheaper.

Here are some of iRobot Roomba 530 Robotic Vacuum with Virtual Wall features for customer’s perusal:

• owerful vacuum sucks large and small debris into the large, bag-less bin
• Counter rotating Bristle Brush and Beater Brush work together like a dustpan and broom
• Efficiently vacuums dirt, debris, pet hair, dust, allergens and more from carpets and hard floors
• Sturdy Bristle Brush digs deep into carpet fibers to grab dirt, debris, pet hair and more
• Cleans the whole floor, under and around furniture, into corners and along wall edges
• Fine filter traps dust, pollen and tiny particulate inside the bin
• Spot Clean provides quick clean-up of spills and concentrated messes
• Detects dirtier areas and spends more time cleaning them
• Automatically senses and avoids stairs and other drop-offs
• Automatically returns to its self-charging Home Base® to dock and recharge between cleanings
• Simple operation—just press the Clean button and Roomba does the rest
• Faster counter-rotating brushes with improved design pick up more hair and debris and are easier to remove and clean
• Improved anti-tangle technology keeps Roomba from getting stuck on cords, carpet fringe and tassels
• Improved filter captures more dust and allergens while a larger bin holds more debris
• Improved sidebrush makes Roomba even more efficient at cleaning edges and corners

Source: Kokeytechnology.com

Want To Make a Living on Google Money?

AdAge has a good post about how Google’s promotion of fraudulent advertising is undermining their brand…

In a world of double-digit unemployment and old-line industries in mid-collapse, here’s a sales pitch tailor-made for the times: “Get Paid by Google.”

It’s a pitch that’s compelling millions of people to visit sites such as Kevinlifeblog.com, Scottsmoneyblog.com, Maryslifeblog.com and Googlemoneytree.com, all promising some variation on one theme: Just buy our guide and we’ll teach you how to make thousands from Google, right in the privacy of your own home!

Google’s 5-Step Easy Money Process

1. Find a high paying affiliate program which sells a product about how easy it is to make money on Google.
2. Ideally the program will just charge for shipping to get the credit card details, and make most of the money through back end reverse billing fraud.
3. Create a fake blog (or fake news site) complete with fake comments about how you lost your job, this program took you from zero to here. And it makes you 6 figures a year.
4. Do keyword research to find freshly desperate and unemployed people.
5. Create ads targeting those people and market them through Google AdWords

Drug Dealers ***ARE*** Affiliated With Their Drugs

The surprising thing about this process is that Google claims no affiliation to these ads. From the above AdAge article

“As Google is not affiliated with these sites, we can’t comment on individual claims,” a [Google] spokesman said.

Nice try, but Google ***is*** affiliated with such offers, since they create the distribution channel. Just as a guy who just happens to have a boat load of cocaine he is distributing to clients ***is*** affiliated with the drugs if he is caught in possession.

Businesses Are Responsible for Their Own Business Strategy

Google gives webmasters this guideline “Your site’s reputation can be affected by who you link to.” Why shouldn’t it apply to Google as well?

As long as Google has 30%+ profit margins they are making a BUSINESS DECISION to run these fraudulent ads. They could spend 1% of revenue on cleaning up this issue (if they wanted to), but they are making a choice not to. Hal Varian has probably done the math, and the offers stay after repeated media exposure of the issue.

Google keeps running the ads because they want the revenue. And they know exactly how much revenue comes from scamming consumers with these ads:

Amoral Ad Networks Constantly Promote Fraud

Is risked mis-priced? Is an asset class overvalued due to fraud? Are consumers unaware of a new type of fraud?

It does not matter where there is a bubble in the economy – amoral ad networks will find it. As Jay Weintraub put it:

The truly complex part of the problem comes from the size of the un-branded continuity program market and just how much it is helping certain companies hit their numbers, along with what happens were it to go away. In so many respects, the current fakevertising trend is the 2008-9 equivalent of the mortgage advertising boom from 2002-2006.

Not surprising that yield based ad systems promote the biggest scams in the marketplace. Mortgage fraud was a multi-trillion dollar industry, and even as the market heads south, there is still yet another way to exploit the public with ads by targeting their dire situation and desperation.

Please Help Google Fix This Issue

Since Google has not put up consumer warnings and lots of consumers are getting ripped off, I believe it is our job as marketers to help warn consumers about this brazen looting and fraud. If you have a blog or website could you please write about this topic? Bonus points if you reference this post using keywords like “Google money” and “make money” as the anchor text such that we can try to rank a warning high up in the Google search results.

And if you write about this topic to help consumers and your site does not carry AdSense ads on it, please list it in the comments below such that anyone who comes to this page can see how big of an issue this has become.

Source: Seobook.com

The iPhone availability widget is back — new and improved — and it’s showing spot shortages of selected iPhones at Apple (AAPL) stores across the United States.

The availability tool, which appears on Apple’s website in times of scarcity, was last seen in the summer of 2008, when demand for the iPhone 3G was heavy and supplies short.

When it reappeared on Friday, only 29 of Apple’s 257 stores were displaying shortages of any iPhones, according to IFOAppleStore, a website that keeps close tabs of Apple’s retail business.

By Sunday morning, however, there were red “sold out” lights for selected 3GS models in all but six states.

Kentucky’s only store, in Louisville, was completely out of stock.

This year’s model of the widget is considerably more accurate than the original. Last year, availability numbers were updated at the end of each business day. This year, according to IFOAppleStore, the page is linked directly to Apple’s internal point-of-sale computers, allowing hourly updates for each store.

The shortages are all over the lot, but Apple seems to be having a particularly hard time meeting demand for the entry-level white iPhone 3GS. In Texas, the 16GB model is sold out in all but three of the state’s 15 Apple Stores. It’s not clear whether demand for that model is unusually high or if Apple just isn’t making enough of them.

To check availability in the Apple Store nearest you, click here.

AT&T (T) has had 3GS supply problems from Day 1, but the widget doesn’t cover their stores.

According to Apple, the older 8GB iPhone 3G is available in all its stores.

Source: Apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com

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Just so people know what I have done above is I’ve done a search on Google Trends for popular searches and I have written about them even though they doesn’t exactly relate to the content on my blog.  The idea behind this is that if my site gets indexed by Google in a good position on the key terms above in bold then I will get a lot of traffic because people are searching for that term.  If I get a lot of traffic I have the potential to make money off of my ads.  Therefore by writing about the above content I am creating income online.  So this right now is a test to see how well my blog post works.  If it is a success I have found a great new way to make money online through search engines and if not I have only wasted a few minutes of my time making this post in the first place.  I will let you guys know how it goes.

Thanks for reading my posts and let me know if any of you have tried this technique before and if it has worked for you.

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3

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Advertising Banners

4

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Pay Per Click

5

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Affiliate Sales

6
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Pay Per Click

7
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$60,000
Advertising Banners

8
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Advertising Banners

9
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Advertising Banners

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