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Should You Take the Computer Engineering PE Exam or the Electrical and Electronics Engineering PE Exam? Should You Take the Computer Engineering PE Exam or the Electrical and Electronics Engineering PE Exam? By Aaron Collins and Mitch Thornton Electrical and computer engineers who practice outside the area of electric power have choices when it comes to the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam. They can either take the computer engineering or the electrical and electronics engineering exam.

But which one should you take? Well, that depends. Read on to find out which exam might be most appropriate for you. Computer Engineering Exam The computer engineering professional licensing exam is specifically designed for practicing computer engineers. Computer engineers employ a variety of knowledges and skills that are generally a blend of traditional electrical engineering and computer science topics. When a computer is embedded in an automobile, airplane, nuclear plant, or even a toy, there are several safety issues to consider. Electrical and Electronics Engineering Exam Mitchell A.

Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! What’s in a Name? Naming a product is difficult. Branding legend Marty Neumeier says that good product names have 7 characteristics. They should be distinctive, short, appropriate, easy to spell and pronounce, likable, extendable, and protectable. Looking through this list of Android names, it’s clear that many marketing teams disagree with Marty. Here’s a simple rule: if your product isn’t a condom then don’t name it like one. What am I talking about? Which will run out first: the list of “sexy sounding product names”, or the list of meaningfully different ways to differentiate Android phones?

I know where my money lies. Read more To Sustain or Disrupt – What’s happening with Microsoft & AppleThe Fallacy of Funnels – How not to think about your usersWe’re hiring – Intercom is hiring a lead visual designer. Smashwords.com. Capturing The Value Of Social Media Using Google Analytics. Measuring the value of social media has been a challenge for marketers. And with good reason: it’s hard to understand exactly what is happening in an environment where activity occurs both on and off your website. Since social media is often an upper funnel player in a shopper’s journey, it's not always easy to determine which social channels actually drive value for your business and which tactics are most effective. But as the social industry matures, marketers and web analysts need true outcome-oriented reports. After all, although social is growing in popularity, brand websites - not social networks - remain the place where people most often purchase or convert.

That’s why we’re releasing a new set of Social reports within Google Analytics. The Social reports allow you to analyze all of this information together and see a more complete picture of social impact than often used today. Overview Report: see social performance at a glance and its impact on conversions. How New York City's Busiest CEO Strikes a Balance. In just 2 weeks, serial entrepreneur Nihal Mehta flew to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress and then to Cannes, France before flying home to New York City. Just days later, he was out again to Cincinnati for MobileX. At MobileX, he gave a keynote speech at lunchtime to 400 people about how new trends in social media can help targeting capabilities in mobile advertising. He landed in New York City at 2:30 in the morning, and was at a roundtable meeting by 8am.

Then just half a week later, he was back on a plane to Austin, TX for SXSW. “The past 2 weeks have been insane, I’m not usually this crazy,” he says over a phone call. 34-year old, Nihal Mehta is an entrepreneur, investor, professor and philanthropist but he’s best known as the founder and CEO of LocalResponse, a new social advertising platform that’s generated quite a lot of attention in the New York City startup space.

This is what his calendar looks like on a typical week: LocalResponse is startup #5 for Mehta. GSMArena.com - GSM phone reviews, news, opinions, votes, manuals and more...