Car bomb attempt on Northern Irish policeman foiled

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Army bomb disposal officers prepare to carry out a controlled explosion on a bomb discovered under a police officer's car in Belfast on Sunday.

By NBC News and wire services

BELFAST ? An attempt by militant nationalists to kill a Northern Irish policeman was foiled when a booby-trap bomb "clearly intended to kill" was found under his car, police said on Sunday.?

The attack was the latest by splinter groups of Irish republicans opposed to British rule of the province and a 1998 peace agreement that ended 30 years of sectarian conflict.?

It came two months after the first murder of a prison officer in almost 20 years and followed two weeks of rioting by pro-British loyalists protesting against restrictions on the flying of Britain's union flag from Belfast City Hall.?

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The bomb, which the officials said was "clearly intended to kill the police officer,"?was discovered under the officer's car near the Northern Irish parliament in east Belfast, according to BBC?News. ?The officer found the device just before he was going out to lunch along with his family, the BBC added.

The officer's home and those of his neighbors were evacuated while army bomb disposal experts defused the device.?

"Obviously there are people out there who are still intent on causing murder and mayhem. Attacks on police officers are attacks on the entire community and cannot be allowed to continue," Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton said in a statement.?

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"Our belief is that this attempted murder was carried out by those opposed to peace from within dissident republicanism. They don't care who they attack, they don't care who they kill."?

More than 3,600 people were killed in Northern Ireland when Catholic nationalists seeking union with Ireland fought British security forces and mainly Protestant loyalists determined to remain part of the United Kingdom.?

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Militant nationalists have stepped up attacks in recent years. As well as last month's killing of the prison officer, two soldiers and a policeman were shot dead in March 2009 and another policeman was killed by a car bomb in April 2010.?

Reuters contributed to this report.?

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Could 2013 be the year you monetise your online brand?

I cannot believe that 2013 will mark my 15^th year of being committed to providing Digital Skills to business.? The journey has been fast, exhilarating and has taught me the power of tenacity, choice and how to work with open minds.? I have chosen not to work with closed ones!? That is another story.

In 1998 I created a community online for business people to connect.? Ecademy was often referred to as ?the place people did their Apprenticeship in blogging and connecting?.? I ran training courses, set up a Digital Coaching organisation and had many hundreds of 121s with people who were adapting to the connected, transparent world of the Internet.? Now, I am spending my time helping young Born Digital Youths to get meaningful employment in businesses like yours, where they can manage and run your digital activity and ensure you are set-up and engaging and growing your business online.

A quote I love to use to create a light bulb moment for business owners about the importance of the Internet to business, is one I heard used by Sean Parker, the Founder of Napster: ?We used to live on farms and we manufactured food, we then moved to the cities and manufactured products, now we increasingly live on the Internet and we need to manufacture data?.

The last 15 years of being a ?digital entrepreneur? have taught me many things:

1. The power of social capital
2. The mindset for this new connected world
3. The power of being nomadic and having all my data in the ?cloud?

I have also seen the six stages that people go through around the subject of ?going social? with their business

1. I don?t care
2. I do care but I fear it
3. I no longer fear it as I am doing it a little bit
4. I am enjoying the progress I am making.? I just need to find time to do more.
5. I am all set up and creating content and connecting, I have others working with me.
6. I have embedded habits and no longer think about it, it just happens and I can now see business being won thanks to the brand and connections I have online.

I wonder what stage you are at?

I would like you to consider that you have an asset in your business that is called Social Capital.? As networkers within BNI you know that the more people you engage with and support, the more people engage with and support you.? Your business has a social reputation based on your values and likability.? The new connected world demands that we invest in relationships and are more open, random and supportive.? After all, the ?social world? that is inspiring so many start-ups and growing so many businesses across the world is based on friendship.? Friendship in business is a mindset, not a task.? It requires us to act differently in the way we embrace and run our business.? We have to inspire, share and lead not only our staff but also our ?followers?.

I heard an excellent quote the other day, ?Give away your knowledge but share your expertise?.? This sums up the conflict that many people have about open blogging and ?giving away? their thoughts and skills.? When you are a friend, you trust and create, trust through sharing information, contacts and thoughts.? This is a hard thing to do when you share openly with strangers online.? How do you measure that you get a financial return?

In the Spring next year I am launching a Thought Leader programme to help 10 people become Industry Thought Leaders.? I am fascinated by the affect that writing my Manifesto for Digital Business Britain and lifting myself above an industry and commentating had on me as a business owner.? Since doing that I have created four companies and gained some great investors.? My social capital is paying off now and in my own way I am making a difference within the digital skills gap.

So, as you close door on 2012 and plan next year, can I suggest you consider your mindset for ?being social??? Try to move from an online ?unsociable? attitude if that is what you have and become a friend online.

For fun you can answer 15 questions, a bit like Myers Briggs and find out if you are Closed, Selective and Controlling, or whether you have the mindset for this online culture of being Open, Random and Supportive.? Take the questions here www.leadors.co.

Wishing you a very successful 2013 and I hope to cross paths with you online or face-to-face.

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Is Your Website Mobile Compatible? - Web Design Company

With the ever-increasing use of smart-phones and tablets, it has become essential for businesses to ensure their website mobile-compatible. Without a mobile compatible website, your businesses will not be available to consumers that use their mobiles to access websites.

One of the first things a business can do to capitalise on the mobile marketing boom is to check how their current website appears on popular mobile devices including tablets and smart-phones. There are a number of free mobile testing tools and emulators that businesses take advantage of.

In this article, we have identified the top free web-based tools that allow you to test if your website is mobile compatible. The list includes simulators that show you how your website appears on popular mobile devices as well as tools that offer more in-depth testing of your code and other aspects of mobile usability.

Here are the 10 most useful mobile testing tools for your website:

1. Opera Mini Simulator

Opera Mini is one of? the most popular mobile web browsers and is used by over 200 million users. Opera Mini Simulator is a live demo of Opera?s mobile phone browser that functions as it would when installed on a handset.. You can use the web-based tool from any Java-enabled Web browser, or downloaded the desktop version of the software to install and run from your PC.

What Can You Test?

Rather than simulating different mobile phone makes and models, this offers general testing on simulated mobile version of Opera browser which is used on many mobile phones.

2. Pixmobi?s Mobile Phone Emulator

This emulator allows you to view your designs on 6 different phones and several mobile browsers including Safari, Opera, Android.

The website enables you to test the display of your website in a cell phone terminal. It offers several customisation and settings options including dimensions, resolutions, user agent, behaviour, and more. Choose a cell phone terminal in the listbox, then type the website

What You Can Test?

• iPhone 3, 4 and 5
• HTC HD and HTC Touch Diamond
• LG U970
• RIM Blackberry
• Samsung Glaxy Spica & S2

3. Ipad Geek

This is a very simple tool for testing how site appears on mobile devices. It is very easy to use and does not offer many customisation parameters. You can use it to test landscape and portrait versions on iPad, iPhone 3.4 and iPhone 5.

What You Can Test?

You can test how your website looks on the landscape and portrait screens of the following devices:

4. The Responsinator

The Responsinator helps website makers quickly get an indication of how their responsive website will look on the most popular devices. For those who test sites regularly, there is also a handy bookmarklet that you can drag to your browser?s toolbar to click test sites as you browse the Internet.

What Can You Test?

You can use it to test any website on portrait as well as landscape screens of the following mobile devices:

• iPad? Kindle
• Android (Samsung Galaxy)
• Android 3
• iPhone 3, 4, 5

5. Gomez?s Cross-Device Website Compatibility Test

Gomez?s cross-device website compatibility testing tool helps to identify browser problems that impact your end-users. It helps businesses to ensure device compatibility issues do not result in loss in revenue and brand equity for your business. With this single tool you can see how your website renders across the following four real mobile devices:

What Can You Test?

• iPhone 3GS
• iPad
• BlackBerry
• Nexus One (Android)

6. W3C mobileOK Checker

This checker performs various tests on a Web Page to determine its level of mobile-friendliness.

Unlike other tools on this list, this does not show how your website appears on different mobile devices. Instead is runs an in-depth validation of your code and provide a details report outlining what issues affect the mobile friendliness of your website code.The tests are checked against the W3C mobileOK Basic Tests specification developed by W3C, the worldwide consortium for web standards.

What Can You Test?

7. Tablet Emulator

This is a free tool by SFusion, the US based business development and marketing solutions provider.? It is a collection of 5 individual tools for testing android-emulator, iphone-emulator, ipad-emulator, blackberry-emulator and tablet-emulator for testing your website on other non Apple tablets.

8.?? Mobile Meter by Google?s ?Get Mobile? Initisative

Get Mobile is an initiative by Google that aims to help businesses create mobile-friendly sites. It acts as a useful starting point where companies can see how their current site looks to mobile users, learn best practices and find resources. It offers suggestions on how your business can build a more mobile-friendly experience and includes ?Mobile Meter? testing tool.

What Can You Test?

• It shows you your current site on a generic smart-phone.
• Also provides a free report with personalised recommendations

9. MobiReady

MobiReady is another online testing site that allows you to enter a URL so that it can perform a set of evaluations, including Page Test, Markup Test and Site Test of the web page.

What Can You Test?

You can test various aspects concerning the mobile-accessibility of your website including:

• In-depth Site wide testing or single page test
• Mark-Up test
• W3C Validation
• dotMobi compliance
• Enhanced Device emulators
• Detailed error reports

10. Perfecto Mobile

This is different to testing using emulators.an emulator is a simulation of how the device should behave and as such can have minor discrepancies from the real device. The only way to prove your site or application works correctly on a range of devices is to physically test it on real devices. But this can be an expensive affair. This is where cloud based enterprise level testing systems such as Perfectomobile can help. It allows to access and control real mobile handsets located around the world. You actually get to test on the latest handsets and tablets that are controlled online, providing 100% accuracy.

The tool is not free but you can take advantage of the free trial version.

What Can You Test?

You can test dozens of real physical mobile phone models and makes by connecting and controlling them remotely.

Conclusion:

It has never been more important for businesses to ensure their website is mobile compatible. You can take advantage of the free mobile testing tools above to check how your current website appears on popular mobile devices such as smart-phones, tablets and Kindle. Based on the results, you can decide if you need to create a mobile version of your website.

What About You?

Do you know if your website is mobile compatible? Do you use any of the tools above? Perhaps you would like to suggest another mobile testing tool for this list. Please add your response by leaving a comment below.

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