Infolinks is Mad for Mad Men and Women

Online advertising reigns, since we spend so much of our lives on the net. We at Infolinks are absolute fanatics for AMC’s retro series Mad Men, which chronicles the lives of ad men in New York during the 1960s. In homage to Mad Me we created an Infographic featuring your favorite characters and our interpretation of how they would interact with the Modern Tech World. Check it out below – Post it, Tweet it, Share it and Pin it for a chance to win an iPad3!

Online advertising reigns, since we spend so much of our lives on the net. We at Infolinks are absolute fanatics for AMC’s retro series Mad Men, which chronicles the lives of ad men in New York during the 1960s. In homage to Mad Me we created an Infographic featuring your favorite characters and our interpretation of how they would interact with the Modern Tech World. Check it out below – Post it, Tweet it, Share it and Pin it for a chance to win an iPad3!
So Infolinkers, now it’s time for you to vie for a brand new iPad3! Pour yourself a Scotch Whiskey (neat) and go a bit Mad posting this sleek Infographic to your website, Tweet it to your followers, Pin it to your boards and Share it on your Timeline. After you post it, share a link in the comments section on our Facebook Page to be eligible. On April 16, we will choose one lucky winner who  just like Peter Campbell, will have the iPad3 before everyone else.
SOurce: http://blog.infolinks.com/2012/04/02/infolinks-is-mad-for-mad-men-and-women/

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Solar energy companies in crisis: Q-Cells insolvent - Problems with Phoenix Solar

Conergy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As an interim manager, the lawyer Henning Schorisch with offices in Halle and Dresden was used as a spokeswoman for the district court Dessau announced. The Q-Cells SE in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, at noon the request to open insolvency proceedings have made regular. The company should first be pursued.

Also, the Phoenix Solar Photovoltaic companies struggling in the face of the planned reduction in solar subsidies to its financing. For a loan from a syndicate of banks in the volume of the original 150 million euros had a moratorium be extended as the company announced in Sulzemoos near Munich. As a result, Phoenix shares fell on Tuesday temporarily a more than 30 percent. The shares of Q-Cells had crashed the previous day by more than 40 percent to only 0.126 € and won back some of its value on Tuesday.

As a corporate officer of Phoenix Solar, said the company had not fulfilled certain conditions in the third quarter for the maintenance of the loan. At that time, the company reduced its forecast significantly, inventory write-downs could expect heavy losses. Therefore, Phoenix Solar has with the banks agreed to submit a restructuring plan, on the basis of the financing would have reorganized the end of February should be. This had been delayed because of funding cuts announced for the solar energy now.

The German solar stocks decline wants to escape the Hamburg company Conergy. "Conergy is on the right track so far in 2012," chief executive Philip Comberg said on Tuesday. Conergy also was due to the crisis in the sector and a corporate restructuring last year, slipped deep into the red numbers, but wants to improve in the current year. While the Board expects a turnover on the previous year will, however, operating profit (EBITDA) after a loss last year, improving to a low positive value. Conergy is for the future, especially in the Asian and North American markets for the industry experts still see growth potential.

Q-Cells announced a trip to the bankruptcy judge on Monday. The company is deeply in debt and still employs about 2,200 people in Germany and Malaysia. From the name itself was initially an opinion to get. According to a union spokesperson, an information event for the staff by management was canceled.

It is unclear what effect the bankruptcy on the future of jobs at the manufacturer, in the Bitterfeld-Wolfen (District Anhalt-Bitterfeld) is established. "We poke powerful in the fog," said a spokeswoman for the trade union IG BCE. "A bankruptcy does not mean automatically that it is the end," she said.

Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff, Minister (CDU) declared that, pursuant to the bankruptcy are now working on a solution for the future. "Now, the trustee must provide the company with an inventory. On this basis, then set the policy and consider what steps they go, "said a spokesman, Haseloff. An assumption of 580 million euros of debt by the state was not responsible.
After Solar Hybrid, Solar Millennium and Solon, this is the fourth major defeat in the German solar industry. The companies are suffering from funding cuts and a sharp drop in prices. The low-cost competition from China has put the German manufacturers under enormous pressure.

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Google maps 8 bit on 1st April

google maps quest, android 4.0.4, google quest, den bosch, april fools Leave it to Google to get the April Fools' party started one day early. One of the company's fun little experiments for tomorrow's day of tech tomfoolery is the addition of a new "8-bit Quest Maps" feature to Google Maps.

But you might want to be careful before you load it up. Google (jokingly) warns that, "Your system may not meet the requirements for 8-bit computations."

Accessing 8-bit Quest Maps is easy: Just fire up your normal Google Maps web app and click on the "Try it now" button on the left-hand menu. Once you do, your default map will transform from the pretty, MapsGL-enhanced view of the world you're used to seeing into a map more akin to something you'd find in the game Dwarf Fortress, or perhaps even SimEarth.

But, in true Google tradition, the 8-bit map isn't just for show. You can still perform the same functions in your "oldschool" map view as you could in your normal Google Map. Driving directions are still available, for example, but it's probably going to be a lot more difficult to discern where the 8-bit roads actually are. Zooming all the way down within 8-bit Maps brings you to the default Google Street View – no pixelated buildings there, alas.

"In our pursuit of new digital frontiers, we realized that we may have left behind a large number of users who couldn't access Google Maps on their classic hardware. Surprisingly, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was unsupported, despite its tremendous popularity with over 60 million units sold worldwide," wrote Google software engineer Tatsuo Nomura on the Google's Lat Long blog.

"As the first NES cartridge to be released in nearly 18 years, we're working hard to make Google Maps 8-bit for NES available in the Google Store as soon as possible. A mobile version for Game Boy is also under development," Nomura added.

While nifty, the 8-Bit Maps "upgrade" isn't going to be as celebrated by Google Maps users as the company's most recent (official) update to the web app. Google finally slapped travel time estimates back into Maps just the other day, a feature missing from the browser-based version of the app since this past summer. Google had initially taken away its app's ability to guesstimate a user's travel time due to the fact that the calculation used less precise historical traffic data.

Now, however, Google Maps estimates users' travel times in real-time based on the current traffic conditions that exist for a particular area. So long as your location is one that Google tracks for traffic, the measurements of how long it'll take you to get from Point A to Point B should be much more accurate than before. Like Google Maps? Still have your dusty old Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the back of your closet or up in your attic? Then you’re in luck.

Google is finally adding support for the classic video game system with the launch of 8-bit maps, touting “low-res graphics, simple and intuitive controls, and a timeless soundtrack.” You can explore the world and find landmarks

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