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LISTA Chairman and Microech President & CEO, Tony Jimenez has been Named to the 2011 Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America.

October 17th, 2011

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Leading Publication Recognizes Jimenez’ Impact on Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, Government Tech Field

Vienna, VA – October 14, 2011 – MicroTech President & CEO Tony Jimenez has been named to the 2011 Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America. The list is made up of prominent Hispanic movers and shakers in the areas of business, diversity, arts & entertainment, academic, and government. Jimenez is making his first appearance in this elite group, highlighting his impact in the corporate field. He is one of only two privately-held company CEOs on the entire list. The exclusive feature is published in the October 2011 edition of Hispanic Business Magazine.

Jimenez is at the helm of award-winning MicroTech, the Fastest-Growing Hispanic-Owned Business in the U.S. for the last three years. MicroTech provides Technology Services, Systems Integration, Product Solutions, Unified Communications & Collaboration, Cloud Computing, and Innovation & Integration to the public sector and Fortune 500 enterprises. A prime contractor on more than 100 Federal projects and 28 procurement vehicles, MicroTech offers access to over 2500 vendors and over a million tech products and services across the government.

“This is a real honor to make such a prestigious list of notable Hispanics in America,” said Tony Jimenez, President & CEO of MicroTech. “My business goals have always included helping others, including Hispanics, become successful entrepreneurs. America is truly the land of opportunity and I share my influence with the Hispanic community by mentoring and teaching others, and by setting a good example of how to overcome obstacles and achieve business success.”

The individuals that make up the annual most influential list are drawn from several sources, mainly submissions from readers and visitors to HispanicBusiness.com, and from the publication’s editorial and research staff. In addition to Tony Jimenez, this year’s notable recipients include the NBA Atlanta Hawks owner Alex Meruelo, Jack In the Box Inc. Chairwoman, CEO and President Linda A. Lang, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

Since launching MicroTech at his kitchen table in 2004, Jimenez has grown his business into a profitable quarter-of-a-billion-dollar company. A passionate advocate for the Hispanic community, organizations like Deloitte, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Small Business Administration, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and NASDAQ have all acknowledged his extraordinary success.

“Tony Jimenez is a special individual who leads with a can do attitude and his actions speak louder than words, ”said Jose A Marquez-Leon, President and CEO of Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association. “LISTA is blessed to work with Tony, as chairman his contributions have been outstanding and he has made our organization stronger.”

Recognized numerous times by government agencies and watch groups honoring individuals who have played pivotal roles in the government tech community, Jimenez has advised the last two U.S. Presidents on economic matters. Recently, he met one-on-one with former President Clinton, and traveled to Puerto Rico for a historic meeting with President Obama. He serves as an advisor to the White House on the U.S. Department of Commerce National Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise.

Jimenez is a recipient of the U.S. Hispanic Advocacy Association “Bravo Award” for a commitment to diversity and has received numerous awards for his efforts including Veteran Champion of the Year; the LISTA CEO of the Year; Executive of the Year; National Corporate Advocate of the Year; and Minority Business Leader of the Year. He is a published author and has been featured on several top television news networks and in a number of nationally recognized newspapers and magazines. He serves on a number of boards including the U.S. – Mexico Chamber of Commerce and Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. His charity efforts have led to recognition as the “Top CEO Philanthropist” in the Washington DC region.

Earlier this year, Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology Magazine named Jimenez as one of the “Most Influential Hispanics in Technology.”

About Latino in Information Sciences and Technology Association (LISTA)

LISTA ( www.a-lista.org) promotes the utilization of the technology sectors for the empowerment of the Latino community. We are an organization that is committed to bringing various elements of Technology under one central hub to facilitate our partners, members and the community with the leverage and education they need to succeed in a highly advanced technologically driven society. LISTA Mission is to educate, motivate and encourage the use of technology in the Latino community and empowering them to bridge the digital divide.

About MicroTech

MicroTech is a certified and verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and a certified 8(a) Small Business, and delivers robust process-driven performance for mission success. MicroTech applies its regimented process, enterprise IT experience, and state-of-the-art engineering solutions to integrate different technologies and create proven results that can respond to your strategic needs. MicroTech is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, EMC Velocity Partner, Cisco Gold Partner, HP Elite Partner, Dell Certified Partner, Symantec Managed Services Partner, VMware Enterprise Partner, Autonomy Value Added Partner, Adobe Solutions Partner, Citrix Silver Solution Advisor, Oracle Silver Partner, IBM Business Partner. MicroTech is the Hispanic Business Magazine No. 1 Fastest-Growing Hispanic-Owned Business (2009-2011); CRN Magazine No. 1 Fastest Growing Solutions Provider in the U.S., and the National “Public Sector Integrator of the Year,” and on the Deloitte 2010 Tech Fast 500, the No. 1 Fastest Growing Private Company in the Washington DC Metro area. ISO 20000 and ISO 9001:2008 certified, CMMI Maturity Level 3 rated, and ITIL management qualified, MicroTech is headquartered just outside the Nation’s Capital in Vienna, Virginia, with key offices in Richmond, Virginia; Greensboro, North Carolina; Huntsville, Alabama; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association announced today that Jose A. Marquez National CEO, will join the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Advisory Committee for Diversity in the Digital Age.

October 12th, 2011

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The mission of the Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age is to make recommendations to the FCC regarding policies and practices that will further enhance the ability of minorities and women to participate in telecommunications and related industries. Specifically, the Committee will focus on lowering barriers to entry to communications and related industries for historically disadvantaged men and women, exploring ways in which to ensure universal access to and adoption of broadband in historically disadvantaged communities, and creating an environment that enables employment of a diverse workforce within the communications and related industries.

This announcement builds on Jose Marquez-Leon’s long standing dedication to enhance diversity within the technology community. Founder of Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association, Mr. Marquez-Leon has focus on the development of the Latino Technology Professional and business owner. A technology industry pioneer he was the first to identify a need for technology and saw technology disparities throughout the Latino community. Mr Marquez-Leon took action in order to assure that our community was educated, motivated and empowered in the use of technology.

“For me it is a great honor and privilege to serve in this capacity,” said Jose A. Marquez-Leon, “It is important that our community has someone to represent them at the table and assure that we continue to grow in this techno-economical society.”

By joining this illustrious group of technology thought leaders Mr. Marquez will continue to develop the next generation of technology professionals while advising on policy which will affect the future of all Americans in the years to come.

About Latino in Information Sciences and Technology Association (LISTA)

LISTA (www.a-lista.org ) promotes the utilization of the technology sectors for the empowerment of the Latino community. We are an organization that is committed to bringing various elements of Technology under one central hub to facilitate our partners, members and the community with the leverage and education they need to succeed in a highly advanced technologically driven society. LISTA Mission is to educate, motivate and encourage the use of technology in the Latino community and empowering them to bridge the digital divide.

About the National Latino Alliance on Health Information Technology (LatinoHIT)

In 2009 the National Latino Alliance on Health Information Technology (www.latinohit.org) was established with the purpose of sustaining the Latino community with a group of concerned Primary care physicians and Health Information technologist to assist in the paradigm shift to Health Information Technology and Electronic Health Records. LatinoHIT is committed to ensuring that primary care physicians, technology professionals and our community have the resources, information and tools to effectively understand the changes in the medical industry and that now community gets left behind.

· Committee is Chaired by former FCC Commissioner Henry Rivera.

The committee’s first meeting will be Dec. 6.

Other members of the committee are:

· Joaquin Alvarado of American Public Media,

· Philip Alvelda of MobiTV,

· Karla Ballard of One Economy,

· William Branham of 21st Century Telecom,

· Eric Broyles of Megree,

· Bridgette Daniel of Wilco Electronic Systems,

· Erin Dozier of National Association of Broadcasters,

· Donna Epps of Verizon,

· Derrick Frost of Invision TV,

· Anita Stephens Graham of Opportunity Capital Partners,

· Jessica Gonzales of The National Hispanic Media Coalition,

· Anton Guitano of CBS,

· Chanelle Hardy National Urban League,

· Charles Harrell of The IT Architect,

· Maxie Jackson of National Federation of Community broadcasters

· Ron Johnson Solutions4Change,

· Sherman Kizart of Kizart Media Partners,

· Faye Kuo of Communication Services for the Deaf,

· Nicol Turner-Lee of Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies,

· Robert Mendez of Disney,

· Karen Narasaki of Asian American Justice Center,

· Celia Nogales of AT&T,

· Javier Palomarez of United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce,

· Susan Patrick of Patrick Communications,

· Tony Perez of National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors,

· Steve Roberts of The Roberts Companies,

· Sylvia Strobel of the Alliance for Women in Media,

· Dr. Jorge Schement of Rutgers University, Virgil Smith of Gannett Co.,

· Dr. Cindy Shao of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce,

· Loris Ann Taylor of Native Public Media,

· Walter Ulloa of Entravision, Mark Wallace of Cipher Communications

· Jim Winston of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters.

· Rudi Brioche of Comcast–NBCU,

· David Honig of MMTC,

· Andy Schwartzman of Media Access Project,

· Maria Brennan of Women in Cable Telecommunications,

· Diane Sutter of Shooting Star Broadcasting,

· Corrie Wright of Free Press.

FCC says 6,500 cell sites down in four states in wake of Irene

August 30th, 2011

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Hurricane Irene knocked out 6,500 cellular communications sites in four states from Virginia to Vermont, where 44 percent of the sites remained down Monday afternoon, the Federal Communications Commission reported.

Neil Grace, an FCC spokesman, said 35 percent of the cell sites in Connecticut, 31 percent in Rhode Island and 25 percent in Virginia were down in the wake of the storm. Wired phone lines serving 210,700 customers were out, along with cable TV service for 1 million subscribers, Grace added.

Army coordination officers continued to work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the Northeast, as Vermont faced the worst floods in 75 years due to rains spawned by Hurricane Irene and outages in the power grid that could take weeks to fix.

Army North, the San Antonio-based command charged with response to civil disasters, last week dispatched defense coordinating officer teams to North Carolina, Washington, New York and Massachusetts, with the teams in New York and Massachusetts still actively engaged in support to FEMA, according to Maj. Stephen Short, a command spokesman.

Each of these teams deployed with a Chevrolet Suburban Emergency Response Vehicle packed with communications gear that can operate independently from the power grid, which is still knocked out in Vermont and the Catskills region of New York State, just more than 100 miles north of New York City.

Each of these vehicles, Short said, packs its own satellite communication system that can access unclassified and secret Defense Department networks, VoIP telephones, and radio systems to communicate with state and local public safety agencies.

The coordination teams also are equipped with satellite “fly-away kits” packed in cases that include videoconferencing systems, iridium satellite phones and secure cellular phones, he said.

The teams on the ground in Albany and Boston are working with FEMA today to help coordinate use of Defense helicopters and fixed wing aircraft in the northeast, according to Short.

FCC tracks communications systems outages through its Web-based Disaster Information Reporting System, which also serves as a clearing house for critical assistance. Carriers, for example, can use the commission’s disaster website to find fuel for generators.

In addition, FCC has deployed four vans equipped with spectrum analyzers on the East Coast to check on the status of wireless systems before and after the hurricane. These vans, fielded by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau under an initiative dubbed Project Roll Call, provide first responders and carrier repair teams with information about which wireless communications are up or down in their area, Grace said.

In the wake of a storm, Roll Call units analyze the areas hardest hit, communicating

LISTA Congratulates GNAX CIO for His Work with GNAX Health and for being Named by VMware as First vCloud® Powered Service Provider in Healthcare IT.

August 29th, 2011

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Announcement certifies GNAX Health’s ability to bring new cloud computing technology to healthcare providers and IT vendors along with healthcare-specific layer of HIPAA security.

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — GNAX Health, a healthcare technology infrastructure service provider located in Atlanta, Georgia, proudly announces certification as the first and only healthcare IT company to meet VMware’s criteria as a “vCloud Powered” services provider. The announcement was made by Mariano Maluf, CTO, GNAX Health, and President, Global VMUG, today at VMworld2011, the U.S. conference for VMware technology professionals, partners and users. Maluf is also a speaker at this week’s VMworld2011 conference. This announcement follows an earlier VMware certification as an official Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) for healthcare technology.

“We’re thrilled to be certified as the first healthcare IT company to deliver VCloud Powered services,” mentions Maluf. The partnership gives GNAX Health customers access to the newest technological developments in private, public and hybrid cloud applications. GNAX Health is a division of GNAX, Global Net Access.

“Balancing cost effectiveness and high performance in healthcare IT is top of mind for healthcare CIOs and CFOs,” mentions Jeff Hinkle, COO, GNAX. This partnership brings to fruition a cloud-based environment coupled with applications that markedly drive costs down with major increases in system performance: faster computing power at even more cost effective prices.

As a healthcare information technology company, GNAX is keenly aware of HIPAA requirements for bullet-proof privacy and security. GNAX incorporates several layers of HIPAA technical safeguards into their VMware solutions. Additional benefits for healthcare vendors and providers include:

Healthcare IT as a Service (HaaS) by GNAX brings just in time computing and access with HIPAA compliance to the cloud

VMware layered on the GNAX HIT ecosystem enables the company to provide a private cloud, public cloud and/or hybrid cloud environment to healthcare customers

GNAX cloud computing enables the off-loading of 2nd tier applications which can lower hospital IT costs by approximately 30%

About GNAX and GNAX Health

GNAX Health is the healthcare division of GNAX, a leading technology infrastructure service provider offering hospitals, pharmacies, labs and many other healthcare organizations mission-critical datacenter colocation, managed application delivery, storage and backup, medical image vendor neutral archive (VNA), health information exchange (HIE), as well as enterprise level VMware based cloud computing services. GNAX’s cloud solutions deliver secure, scalable and self-service public and private clouds that reduce expenses, improve application performance and increase organization agility. GNAX’s 70,000 square feet mission-critical datacenter in Atlanta is SSAE 16 Type II compliant with Tier-4 power and serves as its home base with an additional strategic facility located in Dallas, Texas. Learn more at www.gnax.net .

Beth Friedman, PresidentThe Friedman Marketing Group770.335.8570beth@tfmgcom.com.com

SOURCE GNAX Health

White House Names New Federal CIO – Steven VanRoekel

August 7th, 2011

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Steven VanRoekel, a former Microsoft executive, will become the next chief information officer for the federal government — a bigger, more policy-oriented technology job than any he held at the software giant.

Steven VanRoekel, a former Microsoft executive, was managing director of the F.C.C.

Mr. VanRoekel, 41, who joined the Obama administration from Microsoft in 2009 as managing director of the Federal Communications Commission, will succeed Vivek Kundra, the White House plans to announce on Thursday.

The federal government spends about $80 billion a year on information technology, more than any corporation. But the government, analysts agree, has not achieved the kind of productivity gains from its technology investment that is evident in the private sector.

The long-term trend of productivity growth in the private sector, said Jeffrey D. Zients, a deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, has been about 1.5 percent a year. Yet productivity growth in the federal government, he noted, has been less than a third that level.

Senior administration officials came into office convinced that computing technology could be bought and used more intelligently to save money, reduce waste and make government work better. “We believe that the use of information technology is the single biggest reason for the gap between the public and private sector,” Mr. Zients said in an interview on Wednesday.

Mr. Kundra, 36, led the effort to overhaul the government’s approach to technology for more than two years. He is going to Harvard to take a joint appointment at the Kennedy School of Government and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the law school.

Mr. Kundra, analysts say, came in with an ambitious agenda and made some progress. When he arrived at the White House, Mr. Kundra recalled, he was handed a thick pile of papers, documenting $27 billion in technology projects that were running well over budget and well behind schedule.

To address the problem, the administration built IT Dashboard, a Web site accessible to the public that tracks the spending and progress federal technology projects. Mr. Kundra and his team have used the project-tracking data to conduct TechStat sessions, reviews of the government’s largest, most troubled technology initiatives. As a result, projects have been pared back or eliminated, saving $3 billion, the government estimates.

Under Mr. Kundra, analysts say, the government agencies have moved to adopt new technologies that can improve efficiency. The government is shifting to cloud computing, in which people access applications like e-mail over the Internet rather than in desktop software. Another tool is software that shares computing tasks across several machines in a data center, reducing the number of computers — and data centers — needed.

The government has begun a program intended to close 800 of its 2,000 data centers over the next four years. That effort is on track to close 195 computer centers this year.

The pace of technology projects has accelerated as well. The government estimates that the average time needed to deliver a software application or component has been trimmed to eight months, from 24 months.

In its drive to make its technology less costly and more nimble, the government has, said Shawn P. McCarthy, an analyst at IDC, “definitely made progress down that path, though probably not as much as Vivek Kundra had wanted.”

The administration has also put all kinds of government data on the Web, mostly on the Web site Data.gov, including economic, health care, environmental and other information. There are now more than 389,000 data sets online, and citizen programmers have created more than 230 applications using the data.

Mr. VanRoekel worked for Microsoft for 15 years, including a stint as an assistant to Bill Gates, the co-founder. Mr. VanRoekel was a supporter of President Obama, attended the inauguration, and after a conversation with Julius Genachowski, the new chairman of the F.C.C., went to work for him.

As the government’s chief information officer, Mr. VanRoekel said he planned to move ahead with the work Mr. Kundra began.

“We’re trying to make sure that the pace of innovation in the private sector can be applied to the model that is government,” Mr. VanRoekel said.

A version of this article appeared in print on August 4, 2011, on page B4 of the New York edition with the headline: White House Names a New Chief of Information Technology.

LISTA Applauds Comcast’s Internet Essentials Initiative

July 19th, 2011

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Washington D.C.- Comcast has announced the Internet Essentials Initiative, a bi-lingual program designed to bring low-cost internet, affordable computers and internet training to low-income families. Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association agrees with the Hispanic institute that this initiative’s design addresses several fundamental causes for the persistent digital divide and concludes that it is good for Hispanic families.

While recent research has found that Hispanic consumers are the most aggressive adopters of wireless phones, a persistent gap remains between white and Hispanic America in the use of home computers. Foreign-born Hispanics lag much further; only 51% of them under the age of sixteen go online, while 85% of native-born young Hispanics do. Language barriers are often cited as the biggest factor keeping the foreign-born off line, but economic factors also place many Hispanics, especially Hispanic children, at a disadvantage in the burgeoning digital society.

“For years now, LISTA has been asking companies to step up and think creatively about closing the digital divide I applaud Comcast for their visionary stance on closing the digital divide,” said Jose A Marquez Leon, National CEO of Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association, through this program Comcast and the organizations who join in this effort will make great strides in leveling the playing field for many Latino students and family.

Internet Essentials makes low-cost computers and service available to any family with children in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). Hispanics comprise 34’% of the children in NSLP, therefore large numbers of working-class Hispanic families will gain access to home internet. Moreover, the programs’ bi-lingual and on-line training features aim to overcome the language barriers keeping so many Hispanics young and old off-line.

We applaud the Internet Essentials initiative – www.internetessentials.com and hope that more major internet providers will adopt its key features, to further decrease the Hispanic digital divide.

Let’s Give Latinos Tools to Succeed By HENRY CISNEROS

July 15th, 2011

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Merger will provide better digital access

Much has been written about the high school dropout rate among teenagers in communities of color. Among Latinos it is a disheartening 50 percent. If we don’t fix this problem, this trend can quickly become an indicator of where this great country is headed in terms of our global competitiveness. Just last week, Allstate and National Journal released the ninth Heartland Monitor Poll — this one focused on communities of color. It not only underscores the census numbers that indicate historic Latino growth in many states, but importantly, it underscored the optimism for the future that Latinos feel here and now.

The poll found that minorities are considerably more likely than whites to believe they have more opportunity than their parents did. And looking into the future, Hispanics and African-Americans believe in a greater opportunity for the next generation than do whites and Asians. Interestingly as well, given the higher unemployment rates, the poll found that people of color are also more optimistic about the state of the American economy over the next 12 months.

Where does this leave us? We need to invest in that optimism to continue building a 21st century economy. But if half of our Hispanic students drop out, we will be ceding our global leadership on every single level in the next generation. Clearly this is not an option.

So yes, we obviously need to invest in our schools, but we also need to invest in what will help make our students better now and our businesses more competitive in the short term. Increasingly, it is as simple as high-speed Internet access and digital literacy. We need to provide the tools and instructions to use them. In this environment, Latinos and other minorities unfortunately tend to lag behind in digital adoption, access and literacy. How do we change that as quickly as we need to? One way is to look at the potential immediate gains in all three areas that Latinos are poised to make from the proposed ATT/T-Mobile merger.

Today’s mobile technology allows teachers to teach their children about the Seven Wonders of the World in a way never before experienced by kids who came before. Learning comes to life with the Internet; it allows kids to experience almost firsthand what the teacher is teaching. This added dimension in the classroom backed up by access at home or on a teenager’s smartphone will add to the sentiment that nothing is out of reach for this child.

The importance of high-speed Internet service can be seen everywhere these days. Not just in classrooms as mentioned, but also in the entrepreneurial world as small businesses continue to fuel the engine of growth and job creation. Any new business today needs instant access to customers and suppliers. President Obama has been a leader on this, calling for all Americans to have high-speed Internet access and setting a goal of covering 98 percent of Americans by 2016. The proposed ATT/T-Mobile transaction is purported to cover 97.3 percent of Americans, giving them the ability to access 4G LTE mobile technology. This is the fastest wireless Internet access available, and it’s the kind you need to take full advantage of new online opportunities in areas such as business and education. In pure numbers, the merger has the potential to bring high-speed service to an additional 55 million Americans.

That is why I urge federal officials to approve the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger. The company has committed to spend an additional $8 billion to expand next-generation wireless Internet service if the deal is approved. Wireless service offers the best, fastest hope to reach President Obama’s dream of universal Internet access. This is quite literally an investment in our future competitiveness. It means more students will graduate prepared for college. It means more businessmen and women will open more businesses in their communities which will in turn create jobs. And so forth.

From my experience as a mayor of a great American city, the best returns on investment are the ones we make in our children’s future now as well as the chances we take on the innovative spirit that exists in all communities across the country. This is simply the best way to build our country’s economy and importantly, to maintain our global competitiveness for the long haul.

By improving digital access, adoption and literacy through the proposed merger, we will help bring vital new education opportunities, job and economic growth to Hispanic communities and indeed to all Americans across the country.

Cisneros, the former mayor of San Antonio and U.S. secretary of housing and urban development, is executive chairman of CityView, which funds urban renewal and investment.

Top 10 Free Online QR Code Generators

July 6th, 2011

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The image in the left of this post is called QR (Quick Response) Code, which is generated with the URL of this blog.

When decoding the image with some QR code readers (such as this), you will see the URL. Which is fun, right?

Besides URLs, you can also turn text, phone numbers, maps and many other information types into QR codes, which can be easily shared with others who can decode with their camera phones. So, how to create a QR code? You can check out the following top 10 free online QR code generators:

1. ZXing Project

The QR Code Generator from the ZXing Project is workable for the following information types:

Calendar event,
Contact information,
Email address,
Geo location,
Phone number,
SMS,
Text,
URL,
WiFi network.

To add a Geo location, you can enter the latitude and the longitude, paste a Google Maps link, or find one in the map.

2. BeQRious

With BeQRious, you can generate many types of QR codes:

URL,
Email address,
Phone number,
Text,
Contact information,
SMS,
YouTube,
Services,
Graphical (to put an image into your QR code for a URL),
Google Maps.

The Graphical is the most cool feature of the BeQRious QR Code Generator.

3. Delivr

The Delivr QR Code Generator is workable for the following information types:

URL,
Services (such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.),
Google Maps,
Contact information,
Email address,
Phone number,
SMS to phone number,
SMS to short code,
Text,
RSS feed.

So, the special features of Delivr are services, SMS to short code and RSS feed.

You can shorten the URL with the delivr.com domain, choose the QR code size (Small, medium or Large), or download the QR code as PNG or EPS file.

4. Azonmedia

The Azonmedia QR code generator supports the following code types:

Text,
URL,
Phone number,
SMS,
Email address,
Email message,
Contact details (vCard & meCard),
Google Maps( location search is available),
Social networks (such as Facebook, Twitter, Delicious and some other services).

For the QR code, you can change its error correction quality, point size and color, download the image, or embed it into your website or blog.

5. Maestro

Maestro is a free online QR code generator which is available for you to convert the following information types:

Phone number,
SMS,
Google Maps （location search is available）,
URL,
Contact information (MeCard, BlackBerry Pin and BlackBerry vCard),
Text (RAW),
App Store (for Apple, BlackBerry, Android or customized),
Calendar event (vCal).

The QR Code will be generated instantly after you enter the information.

6. goQR.me

The goQR.me website is available for you to generate QR codes from the following information types:

Text,
URL,
Phone number,
SMS,
vCard.

You can select the size from 60 x 60 to 1000 x 1000, change the color, margin, encoding and some other output, or enter “http://goqr.me/[text-or-URL]” into the browser address bar, then the QR code will be generated instantly.

7. Online Qr Lab

The Online Qr Lab website is available for you to generate QR codes from the following information types:

Text,
SMS,
Email,
Call,
Contact,
Location.

You can change the QR code size and the encoding type.

8. Mobile-Barcodes

Mobile-Barcodes can generate the following types of QR codes:

URL,
vCard,
Text,
Phone number,
SMS,
Email address

You can embed the QR code into your website or blog with the HTML code.

9. KAYWA

KAYWA is a simple website for you to generate 4 different QR code types:

URL,
Text,
Phone number,
SMS.

You can choose a size (S, M, L or XL) for the QR code.

10. BeeTagg

The BeeTagg QR Generator supports the following information types:

URL,
RSS feed,
Contacts,
YouTube,
eBay.

You can shorten your long URL with the BeeTagg Optimize Size option, and you can also create BeeTagg code and Datamatrix code besides QR Code.

Among the above 10 websites, ZXing Project is my favorite, which one is yours? Or do you have any other QR code generators? Share with us by adding your comment below.

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Hispanics Rank High on Digital Divide

June 17th, 2011

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When Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, stood before the Cupertino City Council earlier this month to pitch his plans for building an enormous spaceship-shaped corporate headquarters, Councilwoman Kris Wang smiled wide and asked, “Do we get free Wi-Fi or something like that?”

Mr. Jobs brushed off the remark with a joke, but when asked again, he said, abruptly, “I think we bring a lot more than free Wi-Fi.”

Perhaps Mr. Jobs should not have been so dismissive.

Though it rarely makes headlines these days, the digital divide — the gap between the computer haves and have-nots — remains reality for thousands in the Bay Area, a remarkable situation considering this is home to Google, Apple, Facebook and many other titans of technology.

An estimated one in five adults in California do not use the Internet, and 30 percent do not have broadband access at home — about the same as the national average. Those left behind are increasingly isolated and disadvantaged as more of life’s basic information, like vital community news or transit schedules or job listings, has moved online.

The divide is most severe in California’s Latino community, where 35 percent of adults do not use the Internet at all, and only 50 percent have broadband access at home. Other groups fare better, according to a 2010 study by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group: whites (90 percent use the Internet, 82 percent have broadband access at home), Asians (87 percent Internet, 77 percent broadband) and blacks (82 percent Internet, 70 percent broadband).

Grandiose plans announced by some cities (like San Francisco in 2004) to help close the gap with citywide free wireless Internet access have mostly fizzled due to political disputes and financing.

But where governments have failed, others have stepped in.

MonkeyBrains.net is a small Internet service provider in the Mission district with funky offices that are a cramped imaginarium of spare parts and artwork. But unlike Apple, the company has made universal Internet access one of its core tenets, at its own expense.

Rudy Rucker, a MonkeyBrains.net co-founder, excitedly showed off electric-toothbrush-sized antennas the company has placed throughout the city, adjacent to paying customers’ equipment, providing free Wi-Fi to all in range

“This is the digital divide device,” Mr. Rucker said.

“It’s our social contract,” he added, explaining why the company donates its resources. “If you want to do anything, you need to be online.”

Ada Fuentes, 28, who immigrated to San Francisco from Honduras six years ago, recently entered the digital age thanks to Caminos, a nonprofit organization in the Mission that teaches computer skills to low-income Latina immigrants.

In the past 18 months Ms. Fuentes has learned Web browsing, word processing and spreadsheets — skills she used to start a fledgling company selling cleaning products online.

“I’ve been getting more and more business,” she said in Spanish, also marveling at how Skype has enabled her to video chat with relatives in New York and Los Angeles.

But Ms. Fuentes said her learning was initially stymied because her only online access was at public libraries, where demand for computers was so great that she was limited to 30 minutes a visit. She has since bought a laptop and set up a wireless Internet connection in her home.

Graciela Tiscareño-Sato, a former telecommunications executive and author of the new book “Latinnovating: Green American Jobs and the Latinos Creating Them,” said people like Ms. Fuentes are becoming increasingly common as Latinos see the value of connecting to the digital world.

“They see that without communication a lot of nothing happens, but with it anything is possible,” Ms. Tiscareño-Sato said.

She said there had been a recent increase in “leapfrogging” among Latinos — accessing the Internet via smartphones, which cost less than computers and Wi-Fi.

Lydia Chávez, managing editor of Mission Loc@l, a news organization associated with the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism that provides daily online news coverage of the Mission, said of the digital divide, “You can’t report in this community and not be aware of it.”

Ms. Chávez said at a recent neighborhood event for sixth to eighth graders, “30 percent didn’t have e-mail addresses.” Nationally, 93 percent of teenagers are online.

She said the digital void is even more profound among older Latinos who are uncomfortable with computers. As a result, Mission Loc@l is using a well-tested method to reach those offline: print. The most recent printing of 10,000 bilingual newspapers hit the streets last week.

“Some Latinos think we’re only a print edition,” Ms. Chávez said.

Scott James is an Emmy-winning television journalist and novelist who lives in San Francisco. sjames@baycitizen.org

Census Data And The Future of Hispanic Advertising

June 2nd, 2011

JAM

The recent release of the full 2010 Census population figures has been driving the headlines in the world of Hispanic marketing the last few months. As anticipated by many, the full 2010 Census figures for the U.S. Hispanic population topped the 50 million mark. (50.5 million to be exact!) Fifty million is a big number, representing 16.3% of the total U.S. population, and accounting for more than half of the total U.S. population growth from 2000 to 2010. By sheer magnitude of growth, the attention is well deserved.

While everyone has been focused on the implications of a larger Hispanic population (was anyone surprised?), I think all the attention is being focused on the wrong number. The big news with big implications for Hispanic marketing involves a different number — 62 — published by the Pew Hispanic Center using Census American Community Survey data.

According to the 2010 Pew Hispanic Center data, 62% of all Hispanics in the United States in 2009 were born in the U.S.

That is huge, and I anticipate that number going up when the Census publishes updated figures in the coming month. This figure represents a seismic shift in the way most people — particularly marketers — think about Hispanics.

Why is 62 more important than 50 million? It definitively changes how we view Hispanics in this country from a large and growing population of immigrants to a large and growing ethnic group. Think about all the implications of a population that is U.S.-born vs. one that is foreign born — language, acculturation, education, income. That is every demographic variable we in the marketing industry depend on to define the Hispanic market.

Sometimes it’s easy to get lost in the numbers and that’s when a real life example helps bring a point home. During the most recent Memorial Day weekend, I took my family to the Los Angeles Zoo. I think it’s safe to say that the Saturday during Memorial Day weekend is probably one of the busiest single days at the L.A. Zoo, and probably one of the best bargains in town for a young family. The long lines (it took an hour just to buy a ticket) and large number of families that packed the zoo definitely support this thesis. As a marketing professional and obsessive people-watcher, I couldn’t help but evaluate the hundreds of people I saw during my five-hour visit.

First off, about seven out of 10 families were Hispanic. Interestingly, no more than two out of 10 were speaking Spanish. I heard lots of Spanish accents, but most of the conversations, especially among the kids (easily 50% of the crowd), were in English. Ironically, my kids were the few speaking Spanish.

Now why the zoo observations? I know it’s anecdotal, and not a statistically significant sample of the population of Los Angeles. However, you would be hard-pressed to find a better cross-section of Angelinos on a given day in a given location. I think my experience at the L.A. Zoo supports what the 2010 Census and Pew Hispanic figures are really telling us — the U.S. Hispanic population is in for some significant changes in the next 10 years. The same Pew Hispanic Center report provides support for my anecdotal observations:

The majority, or “bulge,” of young Hispanics (14 or younger) are native-born. In 10 years, just in time for the 2020 Census figures, most of the Hispanic children I observed at the zoo and represented at the bottom of the right-hand distribution graph will be in the coveted 18-24 demographic that drives most advertising. Think about that a second.

So what will happen to Hispanic advertising in 10 years? Will it still be primarily Spanish-language ads running on Spanish-language media? If so, will it be relegated to a smaller niche than today, focused on a shrinking 30-something percent of foreign-born Hispanics? Or will it evolve with the Hispanic population and look like the more acculturated, nuanced market that will encapsulate the entire Hispanic market in 10 years?

Conversely, how will the Hispanic market change mainstream marketing? In 10 years, when Hispanics make up 26% or more of 18-24 year olds — based on 2009 Census Population Projections — what will beer commercials on the Super Bowl look like and who will be creating them?