Tech of the Week | JBKnowledge | BlackBerry With Wrap Around Screen

Practical or not - the designs inspired by the competition between smartphone developers are pretty fantastic. It's not often you see a BlackBerry design concept, more often the iPhone or Android take the stage. But designer John Anastasiadis took a pretty good stab at a BlackBerry revamp with a wrap around screen you've probably never seen the likes of before. Before you mention it, he even says the phone can tell the difference between a touch command and someone simplying holding the phone. 

"John explains, 'The front and back cameras are positioned underneath the screens. When needed the area around the camera lens becomes transparent. The wrap around screen can allow for separate workspaces and/or a more three-dimensional interaction with the device. Obvious benefits apply to business, entertainment and navigation applications.'”

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JBK Writes Guest Post for FSC|inter@ctive Blog: Chuck Norris Has a Zoo full of Google Pandas

Throughout 2011, Google implemented a number of bold updates, referred to collectively as the ‘Panda Updates,’ to its Page Rank algorithm that have caused much debate among marketers, designers, and developers. Some websites have seen numbers soar, some have seen concerning drops, but all have had to take a good look at their SEO strategy.

Google’s Page Rank algorithmdetermines the results someone gets every time they ask the search engine one of life’s essential questions, i.e. ‘What is a Twihard?’ As any service provider should, Google is constantly working to improve their solution and make this algorithm produce more and more useful results to the web searcher every time. As Google has discussed in many an interview, the challenge lies in determining an objective formula that produces seemingly subjective results. Inevitably, the formula isn’t perfect, so it’s important for website managers and marketers to know how and where their site (and their competitors’) are plugged into the equation and what comes out on the other side of the ‘Search’ button. Let’s take a look at the 2011 updates to Page Rank and why your SEO strategy needs to adjust accordingly...

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