Amazon just announced it will spend $270 million on at least four new distribution centers in 2012. It will then hire more than 2,600 people to work in them.
Two of the new distribution centers will be in Virginia and two will be Tennessee, and all are slated to be open in the fall right on time for the holiday season. That breaks down to $135 million spent in each state and about 1,300 jobs in each state as well.
The lighting effects in Photoshop are a powerful way of enhancing the visual appeal of a design. They are a way to make your creation stand out among others. Whether it is a fascinating sun peeping from behind the clouds, an angel emanating radiation, a glaring fire effect or some gaudy visuals created solely for the aesthetic pleasure, all can be made to look fantastically beautiful by using editing tools of the software. The effects can also make an existing photograph more eye-catchy.
Twenty-five games will be available to buyers of the PlayStation Vita come February when the system launches in the US and Canada. The games can be bought a week before the launch of Sony's new gaming device, which the company hopes will help beat off competition from iOS and Android devices, as well as the Nintendo 3DS.
Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we're going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Busan, South Korea.
The top 200 grossing apps in iPhone's app store generated four times as much revenue as the top 200 grossing apps in the Android app market, says mobile analytics company Distimo.
It also says the top apps in the iPad app store are generating double the revenue of the Android app market.
Both Netflix’s brand and shares have been battered this year after price hikes last summer and the botched attempt to spin off the DVD rental business. Netflix was roundly criticized for its miscommunication with customers, but what’s been the actual effect? Citi analysts Mark Mahaney surveyed almost 10,000 former and current Netflix customers to find out.
I continue to be asked to participate in customer satisfaction surveys by phone, e-mail and even via “snail mail.” Each time I get such a request, I wonder who’s spending their money just to be misled.
Most surveys ask you to rate your level of satisfaction on multiple scales: numerically from 1-10; by how satisfied or dissatisfied you were—usually at least a 5-level rating, from very satisfied to very dissatisfied, and so on. Then the people (or consultancy who is administering the surveys) “slice and dice” the responses to provide bar charts, line graphs and pie charts. In the end, giving people a lot of answers to choose from yields lots of different answers—in all “shades of gray.”
