The AMA 2010, who won the awards ?

The 38th annual American Music Awards (AMA) was held in Nokia Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, USA on Sunday night November 21, 2010 and also broadcasted live on ABC. Attended by many popular singers and musicians, Justin Bieber, a young talented pop star crowned as the Artist of the Year in AMA 2010. Won four nomination all together including Favorite Breakthrough Artist, Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Album for My World 2.0, Justin beat Eminem, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga.

Regardless the appearance of Rihanna, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and many more today famous artists, the performance of two 90’s boybands, New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys with their hits such as ‘Backstreet’s Back, ‘My Way’, Step By Step’ and ‘The Right Stuff’ really jazz up the AMA 2010 extravaganza.

Here is the list of the 2010 American Music Awards winners :

• Favorite Soul/R&B Album : Usher, Raymond v. Raymond
• Favorite Pop Rock Band/Duo/Group : The Black Eyed Peas
• Favorite Country Female Artist : Taylor Swift
• Favorite Latin Music Artist : Shakira
• Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist : Rihanna
• Favorite Country Male Artist : Brad Paisley
• Favorite Breakthrough Artist : Justin Bieber
• Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist : Justin Bieber
• Favorite Country Band/Duo/Group : Lady Antebellum
• Favorite Alternative Rock Music Artist : Muse
• Favorite Adult Contemporary Music Artist : Michael Buble
• Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist : Usher
• Favorite Artist of the Year : Justin Bieber
• Favorite Country Album : Carrie Underwood, Play On
• Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist : Eminem
• Favorite Pop/Rock Album : Justin Bieber, My World 2.0
• Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist : Lady Gaga
• Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist : MercyMe
• Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album : Eminem, Recovery
• Favorite soundtrack Album : Glee : The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers

See the gallery of who won a 2010 American Music Award from : ABC.com

Why it is important to upgrade your TweetDeck Desktop to v0.36 or higher before 26th November ?

Before, on November 3, 2010 the TweetDeck team announced in its blog the urgency for TweetDeck Desktop users to upgrade their software to v0.36 or higher before 24th November 2010.

Here is the quote from the blog :

The result of all this techno-jiggery-pokery is that you *must* update to at least v0.36 urgently. If you have not upgraded before 24th November then your TweetDeck will start going very wrong.

Later, on November 19, 2010 it was announced again in the TweetDeck Support page with the title “IMPORTANT : Upgrade to Desktop v0.36 or higher BEFORE 26th November.”

Any Desktop version of TweetDeck prior to v0.36 will begin to break on 26th November, it said further in the post.

What is exactly happening with TweetDeck Desktop ? Read further

The New Google Adsense Interface, gives more control over your ads

As announced in The Official Google Blog on November 10, 2010, Google Adsense has launched its new interface. As mentioned in the blog, this new interface is available to all Google Adsense publishers, globally, in more than 30 languages and in each of the 200+ countries where Adsense is available.

Within this new improved interface, which still in beta version, it will be easier for you as the publisher to monitor your site’s revenue, and as promised by the Google Adsense team, the new interface will give you more control over the ads you show. It’s full of new features, including the ability to view graphical reports in your account, compare performance over time and also in finding the most relevant features quickly and easily.

While trying this new interface, after logging in into my adsense account, it really bring the all brand new appearance of the content. Within the ‘Home"’ menu, you’ll find the information of your Earning Estimates and also the summary of your ads performance. I think the information of earning estimates which placed in the ‘Home’ menu quite helpful. Using the old version, you need to make several clicks to get such information. It also gives you the new way to create and edit your ad units.

In my opinion, the new beta interface of Google Adsense is quite impressive and better than the old one.

Read further about what’s new in this version : The New Adsense Interface

Hu Jintao, the World’s Most Powerful People based on Forbes Magazine

Who is currently the World’s Most Powerful People ? Forbes Magazine in its publication on November 3, 2010 listed 68 figures as the World’s Most Powerful People.

Hu Jintao, President of the People’s Republic of China leads at the top, following by Barack Obama, President of the United States of America at the second place. And Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, the current king of Saudi Arabia and head of the House of Saud ranked at the third place.

Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister of Russia landed at the fourth place. While Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th and current Pope  of Roman Catholic Church and Angela Merkel, the Germany chancellor spotted at #5 and #6 respectively.

The prime minister of United Kingdom, David Cameron ranked at #7, following by Ben Bernanke, the chairman of Federal Reserve at #8.

The second latest of the top ten was Sonia Gandhi, President of the Indian National Congress Party. And William Henry “Bill” Gates III (Bill Gates), the founder and chairman of Microsoft who already crowned as the most richest man in the U.S by Forbes Magazine closed the top ten ranked of the World’s Most Powerful People based on Forbes Magazine.

Read further from Forbes.com : The World's Most Powerful People

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Doing Business 2011, Singapore ranked on top of ease of doing business

The Doing Business 2011 report released on November 4, 2010 as a co-publication of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. As expressed in the preface of the report, Doing Business 2011 is the eighth in a series of annual reports benchmarking the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. The report presents quantitative indicators on business regulation and the protection of property rights for 183 economies – from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The data are current as of June 2010.

Further, it said that a fundamental premise of Doing Business is that economic activity requires good rules – rules that establish and clarify property rights and reduce the cost of resolving disputes; rules that increase the predictability of economic interactions and provide contractual partners with certainty and protection against abuse. The objective is regulations designed to be efficient, accessible to all and simple in their implementation. Doing Business gives higher scores in some areas for stronger property rights and investor protections, such as stricter disclosure requirements in related-party transactions.

In conducting the survey, economies were ranked on the basis of 9 areas of regulation : (1) for starting a business, (2) dealing with construction permits, (3) registering property, (4) getting credit, (5) protecting investors, (6) paying taxes, (7) trading across borders, (8) enforcing contracts, and (9) closing a business.

The survey was limited in scope. It does not consider the costs and benefits of regulation from the perspective of society as a whole. Nor does it measure all aspects of the business environment that matter to firms and investors or affect the competitiveness of an economy.

The Doing Business 2011 report was done successfully in favor of more than 8,200 local experts, including lawyers, business consultants, accountants, freight forwarders, government officials and other professionals routinely administering or advising on the relevant legal and regulatory requirements in the 183 economies covered.

Within the report, rankings on the Ease of Doing Business, Singapore ranked at the top, following by Hong Kong SAR, China at the second place, New Zealand at the third place, United Kingdom spotted at #4 and United States at #5.

Where is the position of Indonesia ? It was ranked at #121 in the category of Ease of Doing Business, #155 in Starting a Business, #60 in Dealing with Construction Permits, #98 in Registering Property, #116 in Getting Credit, #44 in  Protecting Investors, #130 in Paying Taxes, #47 in Trading Across Borders, #154 in Enforcing Contracts and #142 in Closing a Business.

Explore the complete list of the rankings from the official website : Doing Business - Economy Rankings

As reported by Jakarta Globe on November 05, 2010, Sofyan Wanandi, Chairman of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) said the drop in overall ranking was inevitable because other countries kept making big improvements while Indonesia still had a lot of “homework” to do. Read further

Download the report from here :  Doing Business 2011 - Making a difference for entrepreneurs

The WSJ Asia’s 200 most-admired companies

The Wall Street Journal has announced its Asia's annual review of Asia's 200 most-admired companies. The project was conducted through the survey of a total of 2,742 executives and professionals participated in the online survey, polling through newspaper and online subscribers as well as other businesspeople in the 12 Asian-Pacific markets.

The Asia 2010's Rankings covering the region of Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and also Thailand.

Wollworths Ltd was named Australia's most-admired company within the list of Australia's Top 10, following by Coca-Cola Amatil at the second place and Westfield at the third place.

While for China's Top 10, the e-commerce leader Alibaba.com Ltd came out on top with high scores in the innovation and vision categories. Following, at the second place was China Merchants Bank and Tencent Holdings at the third place.

Amongst the Indonesia's Top 10, Astra International named the most-admired company in Indonesia. Unilever Indonesia and Bank Central Asia spotted at the second and third places respectively.

Read further : The Wall Street Journal Asia 200

The new improved version of Yahoo! Mail Beta

Several times ago, Yahoo! Mail has announced its new version of Yahoo! Mail Beta.

In this new improved version, it promises a faster, safer and easier to use of your webmail based Yahoo! Mail. Faster in speed which will make your tasks done quickly and easily, better in spam protection using the latest technology which will delivers only the emails you want and blocks the spam you don't want, free unlimited storage (I think this is already included in the previous version of Yahoo! Mail) and also more mobile in any internet-enabled device, including iPhone, iPad and Android.

Yahoo! Mail Beta also promises a better performance in social networking. It will give you more power while linking to your Facebook connection or while chatting to friends using an instant messenger such as via IM or through SMS.

With its new improved design, now you may do multimedia tasks more easily and in more convenience way. You may  view photo slideshows, watch inline videos and many more right from within your mail.

This latest new version of Yahoo! Mail Beta works best with Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3 and newer, Safari 4 and newer, and also Chrome 5.

If you want to know more the new improved features within this Yahoo! Mail Beta, go from here to its original website (HRD).