Accessible Design Using CSS

CSS improves a websites accessibility dramatically, improving user experience. A website should be built for everyone to use and not solely for the majority. Search Engine Optimisation specialists have agreed and now the majority of companies that provide Internet Marketing Services advise their clients to re-structure their sites using CSS as this improves reach to users and improves general performance.
A user that requires a screenreader of some sort needs to be able to understand what is being read to them. Using tables that are not correctly set up or coded can result in the user not understanding what is being read out. Using CSS improves this dramatically, a site that uses CSS can create user agent specific styling for screen readers, thus improving the users experience.
Accessibility and SEO are known to work pretty much hand in hand. A website that conforms to standards using valid XHTML & CSS is known to perform better than overbloated table coding, at the same time it improves general user experience.

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TV Sales Rise 15% After Samsung, Sony Cut Prices on New Models

Television sales increased by 15 percent worldwide in the fourth quarter as manufacturers led by Samsung Electronics Co. slashed prices on new technologies to draw holiday shoppers.

Samsung, based in Suwon, South Korea, led with 21 percent of the market, researcher DisplaySearch said today in a statement. Tokyo-based Sony Corp. was second and LG Electronics Inc., based in Seoul, was third.

Brands and retailers did a better job of anticipating demand, DisplaySearch said. Energy-efficient light-emitting diode sets accounted for 30 percent of shipments after prices fell. 3-D capable sets, which have struggled to attract buyers, made up about 9 percent of industry revenue.

For all of 2010, Samsung captured 22 percent of TV sales, followed by LG with 14 percent, Sony with 12 percent, Panasonic with 8.2 percent and Sharp with 7.1 percent.

In North America, where manufacturers said a price war crimped profits, Samsung captured 28 percent of revenue, versus Sony’s 14 percent and Irvine, California-based Vizio Inc.’s 13 percent.

To contact the reporter on this story: Cliff Edwards in San Francisco at cedwards28@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Anthony Palazzo at apalazzo@bloomberg.net

source. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-22/tv-sales-rise-15-after-samsung-sony-cut-prices-on-new-models.html

Mobile payments: Beyond Google and Apple

February 21, 2011, 04:13 PM —

With the recent announcements last week that Apple and Google each are launching content subscription services, it's easy to forget that there are other players in the mobile payments arena.

One of them is an alliance of almost 800 carriers working to develop a standardized mobile-payments system based on Near Field Communications Technology, which allows customer data to be transferred by swiping a smartphone at an NFC payment terminal.

(Also see: Google outmaneuvers Apple in content subscription play)

Mobiledia reports that the GSM Association (GSMA), founded in the mid-'90s, hopes to launch NFC services in "select markets" next year.

GSMA said it will develop mobile payment standards to ensure worldwide interoperability, so users can use their phone to buy goods around the world, regardless of operator network or device type.

The mobile payments market could hit $1.1 trillion by 2014, IE Market Research says, with a third of that total being comprised of NFC transactions. While IE says only 8 percent of Americans have paid for an item with their smartphone, mobile payments are much more common in at least 15 other countries, including Taiwan, where 32 percent of that nation's consumers have paid for something using their cell phones, followed by South Korea (29 percent) and Singapore (21 percent).

Members of the GSMA include Deutsche Telekom, Europe's largest phone company, Vodafone, France Telekom and China Unicom.

U.S.-based carriers also are racing to roll out NFC services. Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile USA in November announced a joint project called ISIS, with hopes of offering an NFC service next year.

Chris Nerney writes about the business side of technology market strategies and trends, legal issues, leadership changes, mergers, venture capital, IPOs and technology stocks. Follow him on Twitter @ChrisNerney.

source. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/137754/mobile-payments-beyond-google-and-apple

These days most modern browsers have solved

These days most modern browsers have solved most of these quirks in CSS rendering and this has made many different CSS layouts possible. However, some people continue to use old browsers, and designers need to keep this in mind, and allow for graceful degrading of pages in older browsers. Most notable among these old browsers is Internet Explorer 6, which is viewed in the web design community as becoming the new Netscape Navigator 4 — a block that holds the World Wide Web back from converting to CSS design. However, the W3 Consortium has made CSS in combination with XHTML the standard for web design.

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