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Create a VAT Class in Magento

Dec212010
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Tax settings in Magento may seem confusing and with a lack of documentation it can take a couple of trial and error attempts to get it right. In this article we will explain how to set up a VAT rate of 20% (new rate from 04/01/2011) Create the VAT Tax Class Open up Sales > [...]

Facebook Updates Profile Pages

Dec062010
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Features of the new Facebook profile page redesign include the ability to group your friends into specific groups, such as family members, classmates or team mates. You can also choose to ‘feature’ your friends to help you select those who are closest and most important to you. Also found in the update is a new [...]

Facebook anticipated to launch email service

Nov152010
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Facebook are expected to reveal the @facebook.com e-mail address this Monday in a move that analysts believe will pose a serious threat to Gmail’s present e-mail systems crown. In fact, the belief in this new vehicle as a genuine competitor to Google has led some quarters to dub the new initiative “the Gmail killer”. The [...]

MySpace revamp: Social Networking off the agenda

Nov082010
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MySpace may have been off of most people’s online radars for a number of years now given the meteoric rise of facebook, Twitter and even recent advents such as Apple’s Ping application, but bosses of the ailing site are hoping a new revamp will return the them to the top of the tree. It seems [...]

Twitter Predicts the Stock Market

Oct282010
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Emotional Twitter users may be inadvertently predicting stock market swings according to new research. The research carried out at Indiana University examined more than nine million Tweets which began with the phrase “I feel” for 11 months in 2008. It found the data found in such posts which expressed emotion increase the accuracy of market [...]

244,237 Germans request to have their homes blurred on Streetview

Oct252010
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A quarter of a million Germans have requested that Google Street View blur any images of their houses. The German government allowed its citizens a window of opportunity to make any such requests as part of the conditions for allowing the search engine giants access to the nation’s streets for their eye-level mapping service. Google [...]