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The most straightforward way to stop nuisance marketing calls is to simply opt out of receiving marketing calls when you use a product or service – so imagine if a company had a policy that suggested customers would have to accept automated cold calling, emails and even text messages?
Well PayPal has done just that!
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PayPal US updated the terms and conditions to include a clause that indicated customers would have to accepts automated marketing calls, emails and text messages.
Not only that, customers’ numbers would also be used and shared by ‘affiliate partners’.
Any customers who didn’t agree to the new T&Cs were told they would have to close their account.
The new terms were due to come into effect on July 1 and although there was no opt-out clause, the online payment service did promise one would be forthcoming.
And then the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stepped in and pointed out the terms could be in breach of US law.
PayPal’s robocall U-turn
Unsurprisingly, PayPal then backtracked on the decision, outlining how it hadn’t properly communicated the information and clarify how the automated calls and texts would mainly be used to provide account information, collect debts and detect and investigate fraud.
It then drafted a new user agreement that said: “We will not use autodialed or pre-recorded calls or texts to contact our customers for marketing purposes without prior express written consent.”
Adding: “Customers can continue to enjoy our products and services without needing to consent to receive autodialed or pre-recorded calls or texts.”
So PayPal customers can rest easy in the knowledge they won’t be harassed by cold calls and marketing texts and emails. For the time being anyway…

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A fire outbreak has destroyed 19 shops and a mosque in the popular Rimi Market in the Kano Municipal Local Government of the state metropolis.
This is coming barely few days after another fire outbreak destroyed 80 shops in the Kurma market, which is few distance away from the Rimi market.
Speaking to Daily Trust, chairman of the market Alhaji Musa Tijjani Sarkin Kasuwa Rimi said the incident is suspected to be from an electrical fault and that the fire started around 2:00am.
He added that some of the items burnt in the shops include furniture, farm produce, spices and other items.
“We thank God that no life is lost in the incident. But people have lost a lot of their wealth because the shops were well alight. We want the government to support us as many of us have lost their capitals,” he said.
Confirming the incident, the spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, PFS Saminu Yusuf Abdullahi said after receiving a call, they sent their personnel to the scene on time and that they have succeeded in quenching the fire from spreading to other places.
“After the arrival at the scene of incident, they found that, about 14 permanent shops, 1 Mosque and 5 temporary Shops engulfed by fire. The area of blaze is about 75 X 50 feet use as Rimi Market shops. All permanent, temporary shops and mosque well alight.
“With good effort of our men we successfully saved several shops within the market premises. No injury, no live loss,” he said.
According to him, while the cause of the incident is under investigation, he draw the attention of the general public to switch off all electrical appliances and disconnected from the source when not in use.


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Designed by Nature’s milk powder formulas look like they’re designed to be baby formulas, but that’s exactly why the company recalled its Base Milk Powder, Cow’s Milk Powder and Goat’s Milk Powder.
The California company isn’t changing the labeling to eliminate any confusion just out of aesthetics or consumer convenience, according to the company-written, FDA-posted recall notice.
Parents of infants under a year old are warned the recalled formulas, “are deficient in multiple nutrients required for infant formula, and the products have not been tested for the presence of Cronobacter, a pathogen that can be particularly dangerous to infants and is required testing for powdered infant formula.”
This covers the above formulas with an expiration date between May 1, 2021 and June 11, 2022.
For a refund, recall instructions or to get any questions answered, consumers should email email@example.com.


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Former Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe insisted the EU would be desperate to trade with the UK on favourable terms. During an interview with Express.co.uk, Ms Widdecombe said the EU would come back to the negotiating table even after the UK cut ties with the bloc under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. She insisted her confidence was because the EU wants to export many products to the UK.
Not only do they want to export to the UK, but they would also like to do so on terms more economically favourable than WTO rules.
Ms Widdecombe remarked how a no deal Brexit situation could impact the EU.
She said: “How will the EU react if we go to WTO terms? Well, first of all I wish we did that in June.
“I wish in June we had said that is enough we are not getting anywhere because that would have given the EU six months to move and get a reaction together.
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“We are currently cutting it very fine and the EU is hoping that may deter us from doing it.
“If businesses have reacted as they should then they should have already been preparing for WTO.
“It would simply mean trading with the EU on a different set of terms for, what I suspect, a very limited amount of time.
“I think the EU will come around very quickly.”
Mr Widdecombe insisted the EU was desperate to export to the UK despite their firm stance in the Brexit trade talks.
She added: “The EU wants to export to us and sell us German cars, French wine and Italian spaghetti.
“They want to keep exporting to us and they want to do so on favourable terms, not WTO.
“I suspect that if the EU realises that we are serious they are going to make a pretty strong effort to get something together quickly.”
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Despite her confidence the EU would sort a deal at the last minute, she explained why the UK would still get a deal if we left under WTO rules.
She said: “We could be going on WTO terms and I would welcome it for this reason.
“We would be a completely sovereign state and we would be able to negotiate with the EU from scratch as a sovereign state.
“If we are completely sovereign, which the EU still has difficulty recognising then I think we would come to an agreement pretty quickly.”
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Google’s new platform Navlekha will allow publishers bring offline content online
Five key announcements made by Google at its 4th annual event ‘Google for India’
At the fourth edition of Google’s annual event ‘Google for India’, the tech giant made some key announcements furthering efforts to localise their ecosystem for the Indian market. Google announced plans to bring more access to technology and more relevant product experiences in more languages to users in India. Reiterating their focus towards India, Google centered the major announcements around content publishers, Google search, Google Tez, Google Assistant, vernacular languages and Google Maps Go.
Opening the event, Rajan Anandan, VP, India & Southeast Asia, focused on the role of technology in creating more locally relevant experiences in India. He said that voice, video & vernacular were the three big themes that would define the future of internet in India.
“While voice has been emerging as the preferred mode among new internet users, video now accounts for 75% of all mobile traffic. Also, majority of internet users today are Indian language users, with 95% of video consumption being in vernacular languages,” said Anandan.
Among its key announcements, Google unveiled Navlekha, a new platform to empower offline publishers to digitise their print publications. The platform needs just a few clicks to work and can be handled even without any knowledge of web publishing.
Navlekha will not just allow publishers in India to go online even with content in Indian languages, but will also help over 1 lakh offline publishers to have a presence on the interwebs.
Listen to webpages in Google Go
Google Go, which was introduced last year, will now allow a user to pull a web page and read it loud, highlighting the text word by word in real time. Besides English, it will also be available in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam & Tamil. With this new readability feature, consuming long-form text will become as easy as watching TV or listening to the radio.
The new feature is inspired by a user research in India. It is especially meant for those coming online for the first time. What’s best is that it even works with a 2G connection and uses minimal data. Its AI capabilities will help modulate what’s being said to offer a more ‘natural-sounding’ experience, claims Google.
Google Tez rebranded into Google Pay
In a bid to increase its market share in India’s payment market, Google renamed its digital payment app Tez as Google Pay and introduced some new features that would soon help its Indian users get instant pre-approved loans from some banks.
Caesar Sengupta, who heads Payments & Next Billion Users team at Google, said that customers will soon be able to take customised loan from their banks with minimal paperwork. Once they accept the bank’s terms, the money will be deposited securely & instantly by their bank in their accounts. Google said it will unify all its payment offerings globally.
Google seems to be committed to localising its Assistant for India by building an Assistant that speaks local languages. Google Assistant, which supported Hindi on Google Home speakers, now adds Marathi to its list and will soon get several other Indian languages as well. It will now automatically understand transition from Hindi to English as we speak. Besides this, Google has partnered with third parties such as Airtel, Where is My Train & Hello English for the service.
Google has announced that the GO edition of the map app now gets turn-by-turn navigation and a completely new home-screen experience. The new experience will also include pointers for public transport, which brings it to relative parity with the full version of the app.
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Scarce components have pushed the manufacturing costs for Sony's next PlayStation to around $450 per unit, forcing a difficult price-setting decision in its battle with Microsoft, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing sources. From the report: The Japanese conglomerate is preparing to gradually replace the six-year-old PS4 console, releasing its PlayStation 5 the same holiday season its archrival debuts the upcoming Xbox Series X. Sony typically finalizes a console's price in February of the release year, followed by mass production in the spring. With the PS5, the company is taking a wait-and-see approach, said the people, asking not to be named because the details are private. The PS4, released in 2013 at a retail price of $399, was estimated by IHS Markit to cost $381 to manufacture. With the $450 unit cost and a similar gross margin, the PlayStation 5's retail price would have to be at least $470. That would be a hard sell to consumers, considering Sony's most expensive machine now is the $399.99 PS4 Pro and is often discounted, according to Macquarie Capital analyst Damian Thong.


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Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh told the on-going APEC CEO Summit 2017, which will be rounded off later today, that all global CEOs should come to Vietnam to invest and do business.
“I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of you, the APEC CEOs, for your strong partnership and commitment to your business in Vietnam, and to our shared economic and strategic goals. When you invest in Vietnam, everyone wins,” Minh told thousands of CEOs at the summit.
The Asia-Pacific business community has been playing a pivotal role in Vietnam’s economic development. APEC CEOs represent Vietnam’s largest foreign investors and trading partners and are considered as credible policy advisors to country officials. “We appreciate your strong support, sharing, and cooperation in the last 30 years of our economic reform,” Minh said.
During the past few days, APEC CEOs listened to the remarks of Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang at the opening of the APEC CEO Summit and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the Vietnam Business Summit.
“I am here to once again reaffirm the strong commitment of the Vietnamese government to ensure an open, transparent, and fair environment for your businesses in Vietnam, and we wish you continued success,” Minh stressed.
The APEC CEO Summit is taking place at a significant moment for APEC economies and the Asia-Pacific region alike, when the regional and global landscape is undergoing rapid and dramatic changes. The APEC, more than ever, continues to uphold its leading role in creating new drivers for economic growth and integration.
“I am very glad to see that the APEC CEO Summit this year has one of the largest turn-outs and is overflowing with interest. Your presence here shows that the APEC CEO Summit has become a landmark event of the business community across the Asia-Pacific, the most dynamic region in the world,” the deputy prime minister stated. “It is such a meaningful and unique platform that brings together the top regional CEOs to share diverse thoughts and perspectives.”
At this very summit, many useful suggestions, ideas, and solutions for growth, co-operation, and connectivity from the business community have been submitted, making direct contributions to the region’s connectivity, freer flows of goods and services, and, above all, to the sustainable development and prosperity of the region, Minh added.


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Getting fired can be traumatic, but it doesn’t have to ruin your dreams. Melissa Ben-Ishay was canned from her assistant media planning job in advertising in 2008. At the time, she didn’t realize it would be the opportunity of a lifetime.
“I wasn’t good at it or passionate about the work I was doing,” she told FOX Business’ Stuart Varney. “But I loved tie-dye cupcakes and I was baking them for anyone and everyone.”
Ben-Ishay not only invented the tie-dye cupcake, but she turned a bite-size business into a cupcake empire, with her New York City-based brand Baked By Melissa. In just over 10 years, Ben-Ishay has sold 100 million cupcakes.
Each cupcake is handmade in one big bakery, to ensure a fresh high-quality product, and sold in smaller locations around “The Big Apple” and online.
From Cookies & Cream to Peanut Butter & Jelly, each treat is about a bite and stuffed, iced and packed proudly by some of their 250 employees. Not to mention — they are only about 50 calories each.
“You come to our bakery — it’s a labor of love and everything is there for a reason because it’s part of the flavor experience,” Ben-Ishay said.
There are a plethora of bite-size options to choose from online, from “The Cookie Lover” to “the O.G.” ranging in price between $28 for 25 cupcakes to $135 for a 100-pack with a gift box.
Baked by Melissa recently had its biggest e-commerce day in company history, according to Ben-Ishay.


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EU clears acquisition of VOO and Brutélé by Orange, subject to conditions
Mar 20, 2023 – The European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of VOO and Brutélé by Orange. The approval is conditional on full compliance with a commitments package offered by Orange.
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Liberty Global Belgium to launch takeover bid for Telenet Group Holding
Mar 21, 2023 – Liberty Global Belgium has announced that it is intending to launch a takeover bid for all the shares of Telenet Group Holding that it does not already own or that are not held by Telenet.
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Proximus extends partnership with ThinkAnalytics
Mar 21, 2023 – Proximus is now using ThinkAnalytics' Think360 to power its Pickx service on all platforms. Think360 uses AI and ML to analyze Pickx subscribers' viewing behaviour to help them find new content.
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Red Bee Media and Dotscreen power RTBF's revamped AUVIO platform
Mar 6, 2023 – Red Bee Media has signed an agreement with RTBF to power its re-launched Auvio platform through Red Bee Media's managed OTT services. Red Bee Media partnered with Dotscreen to improve the Auvio user experience.
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Proximus TV subscribers down 9,000 in 4Q 2022
Feb 17, 2023 – Proximus Group has released financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2022. Proximus managed to contain the net decrease in TV subscriptions to 9,000 in the fourth quarter.
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Proximus adds personalized suggestions from Netflix to Pickx
Feb 7, 2023 – Proximus continues to enrich its Pickx platform. From February 13, Pickx customers with the latest TV Box will be able to find personalized suggestions from Netflix through the Pickx homepage on their TV screen.
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New TV apps for TF1 and RTBF powered by Dotscreen
Nov 24, 2022 – Dotscreen has provided upgrades for two of its European multiscreen UI clients. TF1's MYTF1 Max App has launched on Samsung and LG Smart TVs in France, and RTBF has relaunched its Auvio App in Belgium.
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Vaseline has come out with new the Vaseline® Sheer Infusion™ with Stratys-3™ body lotion. Apparently this is a breakthrough in moisturizing technology that delivers moisture across all skin’s layers. Supposedly, Stratys-3™ is the most powerful, patented moisturizing complex available that combines three ingredients that infuse moisture across the skin’s top, core and deep down layers. The website goes on to say that it will create an unprecedented silky feeling beyond the extreme hydration.
I may not know much about the lotion's technology and the chemicals behind it that may or may not be the healthiest, but I must say my skin feels incredibly silky. I am one of those people that hate that feeling lotion leaves behind and this one doesn't do it at all. I get the moisture without the stickiness. Consider me a major fan.


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South Forest Hill Residences. Canadian real estate and Canadian prices are both rising. As early as the end of last year, major media in Toronto interviewed organizations about soaring prices, and spending on basic foods for low-income families, including baked goods, dairy products and meat, rose faster than the consumer price index.Please Visit: South Forest Hill Residences to Get Your VVIP Registration Today!
It has even been pointed out that global food prices have risen by the highest rate in nearly two decades. A big reason is that oil prices have soared in the face of war in the Middle East, raising global food freight prices and eventually raising prices. AbdolrezaAbbassian, a senior economist at the United Nations Food Organization, said oil prices affected the food market in many ways, from production to transportation costs. Especially when the price of oil is high, operators have more incentive to produce alternative fuels, such as corn to produce ethanol.
The growing demand for alternative fuels has also spurred rising food prices. From this point of view, the rise in prices is a long-term trend.
The reporter analyzed RBC’s questionnaire on this issue and interviewed some commercial stores in Toronto about their views on this issue.
The Royal Bank of Canada recently released its latest consumer survey for the first quarter, which surveyed 3000 people nationwide in an attempt to measure their feelings about the current state of the economy and their personal spending plans. The results of the July 20, 2011 report showed that Canadians were very worried about soaring prices. Canadians are tightening their belts in the face of rising food and gasoline prices, according to the survey. Based on the bank’s quarterly consumer survey, the bank said that more than half of Canadians start to compare prices when choosing food, that is, people tend to buy comparative food; in addition, nearly half of the people are consciously controlling their aimless shopping, such as buying items that they are not in urgent need. At the same time, nearly 30% of people will reduce the number of car trips and mileage, or choose to take public transport and walk instead of private cars, in order to reduce the cost of gasoline. The Royal Bank of Canada Consumer Outlook Index questionnaire is the second in a series of surveys by the bank to determine rising gasoline and food prices in order to change consumers’ buying behaviour.
How do people in the Chinese community feel about the rapid rise in prices? With this question, the reporter interviewed several small business people in Toronto and asked them about the impact of soaring prices on them.
Pacific place [the latest news price Huxing comment] the owner of Love Spicy Hot Pot told reporters that prices are really astonishingly high. According to them, the price of Spicy Hot Pot raw materials sold in their stores is almost the same as the purchase price after removing the unusable materials. They sigh that after the rapid rise in prices, their business is becoming more and more difficult, and now they can only maintain the break-even line. Another interviewee expressed the same sentiment. People from Shark’s Fin City said that they also clearly felt that prices were rising and seemed to feel that the prices of raw materials were rising every time they went to restock.
In addition to asking businessmen, the reporter also called Datong Hua and Fengtai supermarket. The reporter thought that as the last pass to sell goods to consumers, the supermarket was the most qualified place to evaluate the food price trend, but the interview was not very smooth. The former marketing department’s phone has been in the state of leaving a message, the reporter left a message but no one replied, and the latter said there was no time for an interview on the grounds that dutymanager was in a meeting. The reporter also called the local Chinese restaurant, and the staff of the Chinese cattle and Sheep Restaurant left the reporter’s phone number, but did not reply to the question. The staff of Chuanwei Hall and O.M.G refused the interview on the spot on the grounds that the boss was absent and there was no time for an interview.


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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Three South Florida salespeople face up to 20 years in prison for conning elderly people into buying unnecessary septic products.
Christopher Lincoln, Mary Moore and Joseph Nouerand pleaded guilty in federal court this past week to conspiring to commit wire fraud, The Miami Herald reported Saturday.
Authorities said the three worked for FBK Products of West Palm Beach and told their victims they needed to buy the company's special products to avoid ruining their septic tanks.
During phone sales, salespeople for the FBK Products claimed the company was affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, federal prosecutors said. Victims were also told they needed to buy special soap, detergent and toilet paper or their septic tanks would not pass federal inspections.
Prosecutors said the company made about $1 million from more than a dozen victims nationwide.
Lincoln, Moore and Nouerand will be sentenced in February. Three other suspects are awaiting trial.


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While online travel agencies (OTAs) and supplier websites are increasingly growing their share of overall travel bookings, traditional travel agents maintain a significant share of cruise and tour bookings, and that share will increase over the next three years.
Traditional travel agent tour and package sales increased 4 percent in 2017 to nearly $9 billion and now represents 68 percent of total sales, according to Phocuswright's recently released U.S. Cruise and Packaged Travel report.
Travel agency share drops when Phocuswright adds in OTA dynamic packaging (e.g., Expedia bundles), but even then, agent market share still registers “a respectable” 46 percent of all packages sold in the U.S. (both online and offline).
When combining traditional vacation package and cruise sales, agency’s own 67 percent of the market, and Phocuswright expects that share to grow to 69 percent in 2021. “That's good news for a business that's constantly under threat from the growing forces of tech, and was once deemed obsolete,” Phocuswright said.
Travel agent cruise sales increased 5 percent in 2017, according to Phocuswright, “outpacing the overall travel market to reach $11.5 billion. Despite OTAs' earlier attempts at selling cruise, two thirds of cruise sales still go through traditional travel agents – and that's not expected to change much through 2021,” Phocuswright said in its report.
In comparison, traditional travel agencies and travel management companies own a 27 percent share of all U.S. travel sales, where 52 percent of all U.S. travel was still booked offline. “While this percentage is waning year after year, in some segments, offline isn't just the majority – it's dominant,” Phocuswright said.
Phocuswright said “travel agencies are thriving in two sectors that are leisure-only and more complex to sell. This indicates that consumers aren't making their purchasing decisions based just on channel, but on personal service and advice as well.”


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L'Oreal Invests In DSG Consumer Partners IV Fund: Report According to the report, this move will help L'Oréal back early-stage entrepreneurs in the beauty sector as they build next-generation consumer businesses
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L'Oréal, a French personal care company, has reportedly invested in Singapore-based venture capital firm DSG Consumer Partners IV. It is said that this move will help L'Oréal back early-stage entrepreneurs in the beauty sector as they build next-generation consumer businesses.
According to a Mint report, this marks the company's second investment in a fund targeting consumer trends in the region, following a 2019 investment in Fireside Fund II, a fund managed by Fireside Ventures to support innovative Indian consumer brand startups. The investment was made through L'Oréal's corporate venture capital fund BOLD (Business Opportunities for L'Oréal Development), which takes minority stakes in high-growth companies and brands.
"The Southeast Asia and India region has many of the fastest growing, most populous and young demographic markets of the world. The future of consumer brands will largely be shaped in these markets, so it's important to build a strong connection to its dynamic ecosystem of disruptors and invest in promising consumer brand startups," said Vismay Sharma, president of L'Oréal South Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, in a statement.
As per available data, L'Oréal currently markets over 500 brands and thousands of individual products in all sectors of the beauty business, and the company owns 36 brands and as of October 4, 2021, the company registered 497 patents. The company had also announced that its Annual General Meeting to be held on Friday 21 April 2023. Earlier this month, the brand has signed an agreement with Natura &Co to acquire Aēsop, the Australian luxury beauty brand. The proposed transaction values Aēsop at an enterprise value of $2.525 billion, as per the brand's website.
"We are excited to welcome L'Oréal as an investor in our ecosystem, and partner in our mission to invigorate the region's industry disruptors and most promising startups. Through this fund, we aim to catalyze emerging market consumer innovation by working with entrepreneurs who are addressing new consumer aspirations and needs," said Deepak Shahdadpuri, managing director (Singapore) of DSG Consumer Partners, said in the statement.


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B Ocean Resort is gearing up for Halloween weekend with eerie-sistible events. Beginning October 28th, locals and travelers can venture to the world-famous Wreck Bar and be transported into a spooktacular space to experience one-of-a-kind, Halloween-themed Aqua Mermaid Burlesque shows.
The mermaids will be dressed in Halloween-themed outfits and surrounded by Halloween decor, adding spooky and spicy delights for the most memorable Halloween nights. Attendees can look forward to a night full of dinner and drinks while listening to a live DJ on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night.
The Wreck Bar doors open at 6:30 and the show begins at 8:30. Adults 21 years of age and over can attend these shows and can purchase tickets for $60 with a $35 credit toward food and beverage during the show.


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Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft are butting heads with regulators over laws that they claim are outdated and hurt their companies.» Read More
Passengers using one of the taxi disruptor companies may not be covered by insurance if the driver gets in a wreck, some states advise.
As travel rebounds, second-tier U.S. cities, looking to grow arrivals and receipts, are wooing both developers and travelers—even overseas.
A new Virginia-based airline will charge for overhead bin space, as well as all on-board beverages.
LONDON, June 4- Odyssey Airlines will not be the first new airline to have attempted to break into the lucrative London- New York business travel market, one of the most profitable routes in the world, but this time it will be different, says its founder.
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Reviving the name of an old low-cost airline, PEOPLExpress aims to offer service on routes that have disappeared amid consolidation.
The prototype for the Empire State Building will turn into a hotel and luxury apartments next year.
The oceanfront resort made famous in "Some Like it Hot" has sold in a deal that values its rooms in excess of $1 million each.
A disagreement with US Airways over where to stow delicate violins on a plane forced two musicians to take a later flight, TODAY reports.
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For those with a private jet at their beck and call, some destinations are more popular than others.
When it comes to vacation nightmares, renting a home or apartment from a scammer has to be near the top of the list.
A lawsuit seeks to find the person who posted a negative review including the claim "the owner smokes weed," The Oregonian reports.
Dorchester Collection hotels in California face more protests over their owner's ties to severe Islamic law penalties in Brunei.
After a court battle, the peer-to-peer home rental company has agreed to comply with a subpoena but, at least initially, in an anonymous way.
Rideshare drivers in Seattle are seeking to start an App-Based Drivers' Association.
The DOT proposed new consumer protections for travelers that would require airlines to disclose fees for services.
A new luxury hotel has opened in the California desert with 244 guest rooms and suites.
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Parking management and enforcement reintroduced
24 June 2020
Neath Port Talbot Council has announced a return to parking management and enforcement with the focus initially being on its three town centres at Neath, Port Talbot and Pontardawe.
Civil Enforcement Officers (CEOs) will now be operating in the town centres and the council’s CCTV camera van will also be deployed around schools towards the end of June when they partially reopen for three weeks on a “check in, catch up and prepare” basis.
All parking enforcement activity was suspended at short notice in April to comply with the Welsh Government’s COVID 19 lockdown.
Guidance has now been produced jointly by the British Parking Association and the Welsh Local Government Association to help councils develop and implement local plans for lifting temporary traffic and parking arrangements put in place in April 2020.
Neath Port Talbot Council’s Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Streetscene and Engineering, Cllr Ted Latham, explained: “With the phased increase in commercial activity, it has become increasingly important for the freight sector to be able to deliver goods and services to our shops and businesses.
“We now need to ensure loading and unloading can take place safely and legally and that the highways and loading bays are not obstructed. This is especially true now as our town centres reopen for business.
“A carefully phased reintroduction of previously relaxed traffic/parking management and enforcement is therefore now necessary to help manage our safe and controlled recovery and to ensure priority for parking space for those who need it most and to ensure access for essential deliveries and services.”
Cllr Latham added: “Parking and traffic management are important public services which provide benefits for pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and the wider community.
“Those benefits include maintaining road safety and access to jobs, goods and services. This has perhaps never been more important than now as we have had to respond together to unprecedented changing demands and priorities.”
People are reminded the Council’s car parks continue to be free to help retail and business recovery.


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LOBELS Holdings has hiked the price of bread by 100% from $1,10 per loaf to $2,20 with effect from today, citing the constant rise in the cost of inputs as the reason for the hike.
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The announcement was made in a letter from Lobels’ regional sales manager Zenzo Mhlanga to OK Zimbabwe’s operations manager and bakeries dated October 26. The wholesale price for the standard prime loaf, standard hi-fibre, standard whole wheat and standard whole meal has been pegged at $2, with a recommended retail price of $2,20.
“Please, be advised that the price of Lobels bread is going up with effect from October 27, 2018,” the letter read.
“This has been necessitated by the constant rise in the cost of inputs. May you please effect the necessary adjustments within your stores.”
Reports say some stakeholders in the baking industry have been holding consultations with a view to hike the price of bread to match the parallel market value of the United States dollars which is now between $2.80 and $3.20. The price of bread rose from $0,90 to $1,10 last month when prices of commodities started skyrocketing.
A Transitional Stabilisation Programme by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, that was released concurrently with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe mid-term monetary statement, triggered price hikes due to a shortage of foreign currency. National Bakers’ Association of Zimbabwe president Ngoni Mazango yesterday refused to comment on the price hike.
“I know what you want to ask, I will not comment. I don’t have a comment,” Mazango said.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday blamed the price hikes on panic and speculative buying triggered by social media and threatened to clamp down on what he described as economic saboteurs.


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Hisense announces its entry into the smartphone segment at GITEX, as the company intend to leverage its strengths in developing smart technology and innovative products and believes the smartphone is an extension of Hisenses’ highly competitive product offerings.
Software AG has recently awarded the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) for ‘Excellence in Business Process in the Government’ for DHA’s outstanding and innovative use of the process management platform.
Tony Anscombe, Chief Security Evangelist at ESET highlights that if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it’s probably a duck. Now, how do you apply the duck test to defend against phishing?
Mobily has announced an agreement with Ericsson to recycle expired and discarded electronic devices in ways that contribute to preserving the environment. The partnership forms part of Mobily’s wider pledge to act towards successfully achieving the Saudi Vision 2030 sustainability goals to safeguard the environment for future generations.
Software AG announces the region’s first of its kind IoT academy aimed at providing learners with the knowledge and skills to build and lead IoT-based transformations, boost the tech industry and stimulate IoT adoption.
Acer announced the ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs edition laptop (CN715-73G), bringing eye-popping, glasses-free stereoscopic 3D to designers and developers. The mobile workstation supports creators with Acer SpatialLabs, a suite of optical, display and sensory technologies
Secureworks has appointed Gopan Sivasankaran as General Manager, META as it continues to expand across the region. The global security solutions provider offers Taegis XDR, a cloud-native solution that combines Secureworks’ SecOps expertise and threat intelligence capabilities
Dubai’s first and only E-Waste Processing Facility Enviroserve celebrated International E-waste Day on October 14 by carrying out various activities to raise awareness on this occasion and by joining hands with Dubai Diamond Lions Club’s drive.
At this year, BlackBerry has partnered with AmiViz, the Middle East region’s first enterprise B2B marketplace for the weeklong show, GITEX to showcase BlackBerry Cyber Suite solutions powered by advanced AI, ML, and automation technologies that can enable regional organisations to adopt a prevention-first security posture.
Satyen Vyas, Chief Executive Officer at Symphony SummitAI in conversation with Channel Post MEA elaborates their plan to showcase its wide suite of SummitAI solutions that can help companies to accelerate their digital transformation journey.
McLaren Strategic Ventures, a global digital accelerator, and Redington Value, announced a strategic partnership to support SMBs in the MENAT regions in the transition to a digital economy.


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Twitter spats between companies are not uncommon these days. Earlier today Huawei took a swipe at Apple.
This is the first time we hear about the Exynos 9710.
The selfie camera is a massive improvement over the P20 Pro and Mate 20 Pro cameras, though not the best ever.
Features a new tilting LCD, 4K internal recording and new image stabilization options.
The main shooter is 40 MP, while the display now has a fingerprint scanner underneath.
They also have memory metal flexible cable.
The position of the selfie camera remains a mystery.
It was launched in February 2018 with Android Nougat-based MIUI 9.
The selfie shooter will be 32 MP, RAM will go as high as 8 GB.
Rugged AirPods for the gym in a black colorway.
It is rumored to come with Snapdragon 855 SoC, 48MP primary rear camera, and a 16MP pop-up selfie camera.
The Motorola One is priced at INR13,999 ($203) whereas the Moto G7 costs INR16,999 ($247).
The Irish Mobile division tweeted “Thanks for the warm up Tim” right ahead of the P30 launch in Paris.
We'll finally see what the Hyper Vision camera is all about.
This will be the first Nokia to feature a punch hole selfie camera.
The phone has been officially unveiled for the Ukrainian market, priced at around $174.


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Best Carpet and Flooring Store: Carpet Dimensions
"Pretty much anything that you can put on a floor, we carry," says Mike Leonard, co-owner of Carpet Dimensions in Willingboro.
And he's not lying. Leonard, who owns Carpet Dimensions along with Rob Trott, offers a wide variety of carpets, hardwood floors, ceramic tile, cork, porcelain, laminate tile, turf, and like he said, anything someone would want to put on their floor.
"I would say there are literally a thousand of different carpets to choose from, if not more," Leonard said. "Hundreds and hundreds of hardwoods, various species, widths, styles, whether it be oak or hand-scraped oak, engineered oak, solid oak. Each species has a variety of different products that goes along with it."
Carpet Dimensions, located on U.S. 130 in Willingboro, has been at its current location for nearly five years and has been in business for more than 20 years. Leonard says the reasons for the store's success have been because it's owner-operated, doesn't have high-commission sales people on the floor, and the installation crews are hand-selected and only work for Carpet Dimensions.
"I think what separates us from most of the stores out there is service," Leonard said.
Leonard started as a carpet installer himself at the original Carpet Dimensions in Collingswood and Marlton. He eventually purchased that business and moved it to Willingboro.
"This is a service business," Leonard said. "Anyone can compete price-wise. The bottom line is can you service the customer? And there's not a box store in the area that can offer the kind of service that we can."


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Video syndicator AlphaBird has announced a deal with Warner Bros. Television Group's Studio 2.0 to bring four original digital series to video hub Dailymotion. The shows include comedy "Downers Grove," unscripted "High Drama 2: Against All Oz," thriller "Exposed," and action-horror-adventure "Chadam."
Dailymotion, Warner Bros. and AlphaBird will split ad revenues from the deal.
"Dailymotion is committed to bringing our audience the best in premium, original Web content," said Joy Marcus, General Manager of Dailymotion, U.S. "We are delighted to work with leading web video syndicators like AlphaBird to enhance the depth and breadth of programming on DailyMotion.com."
AlphaBird packages and distributes online video content for studios, agencies, and brand clients, and gives media companies distribution solutions for video content over 30 seconds long across multiple syndication outlets, including web, social, mobile and digital out of home.
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KUALA LUMPUR (March 31): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is alleged to have spent US$15 million (about RM59 million) on clothes, jewelry and a car in Malaysia and abroad, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, quoting 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) probe documents.
WSJ, quoting Malaysian investigation documents on bank-transfers involving 1MDB and Najib's accounts, alleged he had spent the money in countries, including Malaysia, the U.S. and Italy.
"The Malaysian investigation documents, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, contains bank-transfer information that provides the most complete picture to date of the money that flowed through the prime minister's accounts over a five-year period; the majority of it, investigators say, originating from 1MDB.
"They show for the first time [as to] how some of the money in Mr. Najib's accounts allegedly was used for personal expenses. That included US$15 million in spending on clothes, jewelry and a car, according to the bank-transfer information, involving stores in the U.S., Malaysia, Italy and elsewhere," WSJ reported.
WSJ reported that the Malaysian investigation documents showed Najib's credit card was charged US$130,625 to Chanel in Honolulu, Hawaii, two days before Christmas Eve in 2014.
It was reported that on Christmas Eve that year, Najib was at Hawaii's 18-hole Kaneohe Klipper course, for a round of golf diplomacy with US President Barack Obama.


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BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Drug stocks wandered into negative territory Wednesday afternoon, as the broader market slid on concerns about the global energy market.
The NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical Index
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
Many of the large pharmaceutical issues followed suit, with Dow components Merck & Co.
Johnson & Johnson
Israeli drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries
Among the smaller-cap stocks, shares of Allos Therapeutics Inc. ALTH tumbled 13%, a day after the company issued a weaker-than-expected sales report for its drug Folotyn. The product was approved for the U.S. market in 2009 for the treatment of a blood cancer known as PTCL.
“Folotyn sales were $10.9 million for the first quarter 2011, below consensus ($12.4 million) and our estimate ($13.2 million). The company provided guidance for the first time for 2011, with expected Folotyn sales of $48 million to $55 million, well below consensus ($63 million) and our estimate ($65 million),” analysts at Needham & Co. wrote Wednesday, adding they downgraded the stock to hold from buy.
“Allos management has repeatedly stated a Folotyn market potential of $400 million for PTCL in the U.S. alone, yet we do not foresee a substantial increase in sales in the near term. We expect Allos will execute on its plan to optimize Folotyn use in 2011 in the U.S., as it prepares for 2012 growth in the U.S. and potential entry into new territories,” the Needham analysts added.
Also Tuesday, Allos announced it entered a partnership with Mundipharma International in which Folotyn would be marketed by Allos in the U.S. and Canada and by Mundipharma in all other countries. Under the deal, Allos will receive $50 million up front, up to $311 million in milestone payments and tiered double-digit royalties on foreign sales.
Meanwhile, BioMimetic Therapeutics Inc.’s BMTI shares appeared to stabilize a bit, down marginally at $8.62 after plunging 35% Tuesday.
On Thursday, an advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide whether to recommend the company’s bone-grafting product Augment for approval. While the FDA is not bound to the recommendations of its panels, it generally follows them.
Investors’ fears about Augment’s commercial potential were fanned by Tuesday’s release of agency briefing documents that showed FDA reviewers were concerned that Augment’s benefits might not outweigh its risks.
In particular, FDA reviewers were worried that the product might trigger the growth of cancer cells, according to a report by Dow Jones Newswires.


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Vancouver is holding its first Indigenous Fashion Week (VIFW), spotlighting designs by Canada’s aboriginal peoples.
Almost 60 First Nations designers and models have joined forces for the four-day event, which opened on 26 July.
Many of those on the catwalk are current or former foster children.
The event’s organiser, former model Joleen Mitton, said she hoped it would give young indigenous people “a sense of their own culture”.
Ms Mitton, 33, has been working with First Nations children in foster care for almost a decade. It was their interest in her fashion past that inspired her to launch the show.
“You wear who you are, and if you’re wearing something from your territory, it brings you a sense of self-awareness,” CBC quoted her as saying.
“It helps them know who they are, so they don’t fall through the cracks of society.
“I’m hoping these girls walk away with a sense of pride in themselves, and in their culture.”
Indigenous symbols are frequently borrowed by high-fashion labels – and not always sensitively.
In 2012, underwear brand Victoria’s Secret apologised for sending supermodel Karlie Kloss down the runway in high-heeled moccasins and a feathered headdress – an item sacred to plains people.
Ms Mitton hopes the VIFW will send a message that people who appreciate indigenous style can get the look respectfully, by buying from First Nations designers.
“This is totally reclaiming what is ours,” she said. “[The event] is activism in itself.”


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The EyeLock device scans your iris to confirm your identity, potentially eliminating the need to use old-fashioned passwords to log in to secure Web sites.
The chipmaker's investment arm expects to invest about $355 million altogether this year.
The new flagship smartphone may have an iris scanner and will sport a very different look and feel from its predecessor.
The Galaxy S5 will launch in March or April and bring with it a sleeker, better Galaxy Gear watch, Samsung's mobile boss has promised.
The Korean company's next-generation flagship Android phone will be more distinctive than predecessors. Also coming: a smaller, more powerful Gear successor.
A future iPhone might be able to read your fingerprints through the screen.
The budget iPhone we've heard so much about could come in two versions, the latest rumour says.
Eyeprint security app takes a picture of the veins in your eye, locking out those who don't have a matching "eye-dentity."
Apple could be bringing fingerprint- and iris-recognition to the next iPhone.
Your brain can't cope with all the passwords spilling out of your head, but your heart can, as heartbeat recognition becomes a reality.


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New scheme to boost town centre economy
WESTON could be put on the map as an invigorated shopping destination with a flourishing economy if town centre businesses back a new scheme.
Traders are being asked to support Weston Town Centre Partnership’s bid to become a Business Improvement District (BID).
The organisation is hoping to follow in the footsteps of more than 80 other towns and cities across the country, including Taunton and Broadmead in Bristol.
Business owners are collectively making a difference to shopping locations by injecting cash into the scheme and, in turn, boosting footfall.
Weston town centre businesses, which have a rateable value (RV) of more than �5,000, will be asked to pay 1.5 per cent of this amount annually during the five-year BID scheme.
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This annual figure of �273,000 could be used in whatever way business owners feel would benefit the town centre and improve its shopping vitality – from introducing a calendar of major events, paying for marketing to improving street cleaning, safety and security.
North Somerset Council and Weston Town Council have already shown support for the scheme by giving �20,000 and �10,000 respectively to the partnership to fund BID consultants.
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Town centre manager Steve Townsend, who is spearheading the campaign, told the Mercury: “Weston could become a sad place and a dirty town if we don’t do something soon.
“We have significantly less funding coming from central government and the local authority has little or no funding to do extra street cleaning, extra marketing and organising events.
“Now the pier is open and the sea front works are all but finished I think this is the time to think about the future.”
Steve is recruiting a team of ambassadors who will join him in raising awareness of the scheme, and he is hoping to arrange a meeting with traders before Easter.
They will be consulted over the summer about ways to use the money to improve the economy and a working party, made up of trading representatives from different areas within the town centre, will be set up to produce a business plan.
Businesses will then go to ballot in 2012.
Weston’s BID will only go ahead if more than half of the 570 eligible traders vote in favour of it and this is made up of at least 51 per cent of the businesses’ combined rateable value.
If approved, any traders which voted against the scheme will still have to pay into it.
Businesses in the area which have an RV below �5,000 can make annual voluntary donations of �75, and, along with traders which pay a mandatory sum, will benefit from extra specialist business and financial advice funded through the scheme.


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The NES Classic Mini console certainly proved itself to be a far more popular hit than expected. While I am quite sure that the folks over at Nintendo were quietly confident that the NES Classic Mini would have performed well in the market, they certainly did not see the kind of hype that it registered, taking into consideration the console shortage that we have seen right up to Christmas Day. Well, it looks like the NES Classic Mini has set a precedent for Nintendo, and we could be looking at a SNES Classic Mini in the pipeline. After all, Trademark Bot tweeted that Nintendo has just filed a trademark for an SNES controller. Knowing how the SNES hails from the 16-bit era, it would not make sense to roll out such an old console in this day and age, not when there is the Nintendo Switch being prepared for a March 2017 release. The possibility of a SNES Classic Mini is certainly plausible now, trademark filing and all.
The SNES (as it is known in the US -- across the Pacific, it is called the Super Famicom) was the 16-bit successor to the huge 8-bit hit that everyone knows and love, the NES. This was where we were first introduced to the wonders of Mode 7 graphics, where the likes of Street Fighter II, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario Kart and Super Mario World helped our imaginations run riot. Of course, at the end of the day, the trademark filing might not amount to anything at all, other than Nintendo doing their bit to protect its design.
Super Mario Run’s performance: Is it good or bad?
Super Mario Run might be Nintendo’s latest game to hit the market, and it is one with a difference. It was released on the iOS platform, allowing iPhone and iPad owners to enjoy the game. However, the difference is, Super Mario Run comes with a $10 price tag, which is certainly more expensive than many other mobile platform games. Despite the price tag, it still managed to rack up more than 50 million downloads, and the ratings have been far from impressive. Not only that, it has also dropped out from being the highest grossing game after just five days of its release, which goes to show that Nintendo ought to revise their pricing strategy down the road.
Nintendo’s 2017 plans: 2 to 3 new mobile games
While Super Mario Run on the iOS platform has not exactly broken sales records, this does not mean that Nintendo is going to give up on the smartphone platform. We have heard from Nintendo's president, Tatsumi Kimishima, that there is a very real possibility of Nintendo rolling out more of their well loved characters onto smartphone and tablet platforms next year.
Greenbot did mention that in a Japanese interview with Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima, this move is meant to ensure that Nintendo establishes a kind of momentum going ahead into the year ahead. Of course, we would also be surprised if Nintendo continues with a similar pricing strategy, taking into consideration how Super Mario Run’s $10 price tag affected its sales figures. No idea on whether upcoming mobile game releases will be made available on both iOS and Android platforms simultaneously. Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing were cited to be two of the possible titles that will hit the smartphone platform next year.


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Tesla emerged as the fastest growing car brand among car buyers searching online for used cars in August, according to analysis by Honcho.
Internet searches using ‘Tesla’ as a search term, rather than a specific model, increased by 98% to 30,280 in August, followed by MG up 74% and Porsche up 17%.
Honcho’s analysis of Google searches for used cars by car brand revealed a total of five million for the month, up 1.05% year-on-year.
General searches for used cars, excluding brand names and models, but including the terms ‘used car’, ‘used cars for sale’ and ‘part-exchange’, increased by 9% to 2.4 million.
Honcho recently announced Volkswagen remained the top car brand in the UK for converting online searches into purchases, retaining the position it held for the same period in 2019.
Telson Thomas, SEO analyst at Honcho, said: “Our research shows the relative strength of car brand names as the starting point for Google searches where buyers begin with the marque rather than specific models.
“With Tesla still an emergent carmaker, the results show the strength of its brand equity among buyers considering purchasing a used electric car and using the carmaker’s name as their starting point.”
Last month Jato Dynamics reported that Tesla had posted a 76% decline to 1,050 registrations across Europe during July, following production challenges in Fremont, California.
Market analyst Felipe Munoz said: “In contrast to the general trend of increasing demand for electric cars, Tesla is losing ground this year in Europe.
“Some of this can be explain by issues relating to the production continuity in California, but also by high competition from brands that play as locals in Europe.”
Honcho's online search data analysis revealed that German premium marques dominated the top five used car searches in August led by BMW with 276,170 searches, followed by Audi (261,480).
Ford was the third most viewed brand (255,030), followed by Mercedes-Benz (199,770) and Nissan (155,960).
With the rise in used buyers searching by brand, Honcho has urged franchised dealers to review their paid search activity to increase the online visibility of the marques they represent.
Thomas said: “Since coming out of lockdown online activity has increased, so now is a good time for dealers to review and refresh their search activity.”
“While SEO remains a long-term strategy, there are opportunities within paid media which will unlock immediate performance benefits.
"We’ve seen less competition in paid search with dealerships generally being slow to react to the changing landscape, making it an easy win for those that do.”
Kia has seen web traffic increase by 30% year-on-year after continuing to invest in digital marketing during the lockdown.


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ShipRush’s technology helps small and midsize e-commerce companies deliver packages. It’s being acquired by Waterloo, Ontario-based Descartes Systems Group.
Canadian logistics technology company Descartes Systems Group has bought Seattle shipping software company ShipRush for $14 million.
The deal, announced last week, means ShipRush will become part of the global logistics network division of Waterloo, Ontario-based Descartes, which develops software to manage logistics and supply chains.
ShipRush’s technology helps small and midsize e-commerce companies deliver packages. It prints shipping labels and provides tracking for customers, and its technology integrates with e-commerce websites like eBay and Amazon.
ShipRush, formed in 1992, could receive an additional $3 million as part of the deal if it meets preset performance targets.
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Dr Reddy’s launch new generic in the US
Dr Reddy’s announces the launch of Esomeprazole Magnesium Delayed-Release Capsules USP, 20 mg and 40 mg
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Cazenove buys off staff cash revolt
Blue-blooded stockbroker Cazenove has acted to quell the revolt in its ranks over how the cake will be cut ahead of its planned float. In a series of meetings in recent days, the partners offered packages to the discontented employees, who included the UK equity sales team and senior staff left out when 42 new partnerships were handed out last month.
Insiders say the packages could be worth twice salary - but stretched over a period of three years. This is designed to keep staff loyal. For an employee earning £100,000 a year, the loyalty incentive could come to £150,000 to £200,000 over the three year period.
That is not a fortune in City terms. But the icing on the cake is that it is based on the price of £6 a share that Cazenove has assumed for the float. If the firm is taken over, as many expect, the price is likely to be a good deal higher, and so is the value of the bonus package.
Cazenove partners, led by chairman-in-waiting David Mayhew, based the new scheme on a present bonus system, in which entitlements are built up quarterly.
One senior Cazenove executive said: 'No one is likely to leave now unless an outside employer compensates him or her for the loss of the new package.
'Some people are still unhappy and a few may leave, but the management has gone a fair distance, perhaps halfway, to meet the grievances. At least they have tried to address the issues.'
Outsiders' views that the firm will be taken over are shared by many of the staff - making a share-based loyalty package more enticing.
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How to get rid of biting pests / Solutions range from pricey gadgets to fish that will gobble them
Once upon a time, few weapons were available to battle summer's inevitable mosquito swarms. Drag out the spray repellent, swing a fly swatter, or just suffer.
But today's backyard warrior has more ammunition than ever, and some of it is decidedly high tech.
A Rhode Island company sells a barbecue-size machine that converts propane into a plume of carbon dioxide, heat, moisture and octanol to lure mosquitoes and suck them into a deadly vacuum. The "Mosquito Magnet" -- so far, vastly more popular in the East than California -- clears a whole acre and sells online for $1,295.
A hefty price, but it has its cheerleaders. The U.S. Coast Guard has used six machines to control mosquitoes at its station in the Bahamas, and liked the results enough to buy more. "They're able to pretty well trap-out small islands," said John Rusmisel, district manager for Alameda County's Mosquito Abatement District.
But while the technology does seem to work -- mosquitoes perceive carbon dioxide to be the mark of a blood-bearing mammal -- ecologist Ron Keith tells everyone who calls the Marin-Sonoma Mosquito and Vector Control District asking about the "Mosquito Magnet" to skip it.
Hardware stores sell a small propane-powered fogger for about $80, Keith said, and it is enough to clear the mosquitoes off a deck in the Mendocino woods, he said.
Other gizmos on the market include plastic wristbands that emit the smell of citronella and the Sharper Image's $69.95 "Insector, the Bug Collector" machine that lures bugs to a blue light and then traps them with a down- drafting fan.
Experts are sure of one thing. Bug zappers -- those dangling machines that use brilliant light to lure bugs to a loud, crispy death -- may be psychologically satisfying, but they don't work.
Not only do they attract vastly more insects to a yard than they ever kill, they eliminate more of the "good" bugs than pests. Mosquitoes are so small, they usually pass through the electric grid unharmed.
Rusmisel advises consumers that the most effective insect repellents contain DEET. And, he adds, pass on any high-tech gizmo that claims to drive away mosquitoes by sounding like dragonflies or bats.
"Anything that generates noise? Junk," he said.
Some of the best solutions cost nothing.
Mosquitoes breed in still water wherever it lies -- in rain gutters, tree holes, flowerpots, bird baths, overturned trash-can lids and even tires. Get rid of the water and the breeding grounds disappear.
Jim Crabtree, a 53-year-old Concord resident, put a shallow pond into his backyard five years ago. It quickly turned into a mosquito breeding ground, leaving his granddaughter with horrible itchy welts.
Then he discovered a free perk from his county's Mosquito and Vector Control District.
Contra Costa residents can get mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) free of charge to put in their ponds or horse troughs. The gray-brown freshwater minnows can eat as many as 500 mosquito larvae a day.
"It wasn't perfect overnight, but within two months, you could tell the difference," Crabtree said. "And I didn't have to spray."
Contra Costa raises a million mosquitofish a year in a Concord greenhouse, said spokeswoman Deborah Bass. It is also the only district in the country that breeds albino mosquitofish, whose white color is prized because it compliments goldfish.
"They're pretty," Bass said. "They look like an ornamental fish swimming around."
And a final trick to making a backyard bearable? Prevent mosquitoes from hatching in the first place.
Anything less, said Keith, "is like trying to put out a fire with a water pistol."


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Man accused of identity theft for using former roommate's debit card
A Mitchell man is accused of identify theft after using his former roommate's debit card without her knowledge to make purchases at two local businesses.
Shane Sokolosky, 21, was arrested in late January for making nearly $200 in charges to the debit card in November and December. According to court documents, Sokolosky admitted to law enforcement he made the purchases, and that his former roommate had not given him permission to use her card.
Identity theft carries a maximum penalty upon conviction of two years in prison and a $4,000 fine.


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The $55 billion U.S. cigarette industry, facing a serious threat from a proliferation of city, county and state anti-smoking laws, is fighting back with a richly financed nationwide campaign to organize opposition to the legislation.
The cigarette companies' aggressive use of economic clout to defeat legislation even in small cities is more widespread and intense than ever before, people friendly and hostile to the industry say.The industry's efforts range from large statewide media campaigns - $20 million was spent in California this fall in a failed attempt to defeat a 25-cent-per-pack increase in the cigarette tax - to flying Washington lobbyists into small towns to help defeat anti-smoking ordinances, as happened in September in St. Charles, Mo.
"The cigarette companies have mounted guerrilla warfare against every city council, every mayor, every county commission that's trying to provide a smoke-free place for people in public places," said Joseph A. Califano Jr., a frequent critic of the tobacco industry and the secretary of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter administration.
Industry spokesmen say they win their battles against anti-smoking laws 90 percent of the time at the state level and around 75 percent of the time at the local level.
What is more, the lobbying campaign comes at a time of concern among health agencies, anti-smoking groups and some members of Congress that the corporate parents of cigarette manufacturers will capitalize on the growing influence derived from recent mergers with food companies.
In 1985, the nation's top two cigarette companies, Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, bought General Foods and Nabisco Brands, respectively. In October, Philip Morris bought Kraft Inc. for $13.1 billion, and the company now spends $2.5 billion a year on advertising, highest in U.S.
The concern is that the tobacco food giants will discourage media coverage of the hazards of smoking. The main threat is the withdrawal of their accounts from advertising agencies and their ads from magazines, newspapers and radio.
Last April, RJR Nabisco Inc. carried out just such a threat when it dropped Saatchi & Saatchi DFS Compton, its advertising agency for several food products, after the agency created a television commercial announcing Northwest Airlines' new smoking ban.
Industry spokesmen deny that such practices are widespread, and public examples of them are rare. But in the case of the campaign against anti-smoking laws, the cigarette industry has openly proclaimed its heightened commitment to defeating any such legislation.
That commitment takes many forms. In Rancho Mirage, Calif., last year, RJR Nabisco, which manufactures roughly 60 brands of cigarettes worldwide, including Camel and Winston, threatened to move a professional golf tournament it had sponsored for six years to another town if the City Council passed a tough anti-smoking ordinance.
After intense campaigning by a local restaurant association, assisted by an industry-financed lobbyist and someone brought in to give expert testimony on indoor air quality, the City Council made the ordinance less restrictive, and the tournament stayed in town.
The effort is being waged primarily by the Tobacco Institute, the lobbying arm of the industry, and by the Philip Morris Cos. and RJR Nabisco, the nation's two biggest cigarette manufacturers. Philip Morris makes Marlboro and Benson & Hedges, among others.
The Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., an American subsidiary of the British-owned BAT Industries, and American Brands Inc. are the third and fourth largest.
Cigarette manufacturing is among the world's most profitable businesses. The four top American companies generated $52 billion of the $55 billion in retail sales of cigarettes in the United States in 1988, according to Roy Burry, a tobacco industry analyst with Kidder, Peabody in New York.


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Gloucestershire Bike Project in Gloucester has announced it will donate its newly-refurbished bikes to key workers in the county, who need them to travel to and from their jobs.
The bikes are available to NHS staff members, teachers, supermarket staff and other key workers who are keeping the country going during this Coronavirus crisis, and who may struggle to afford one at the moment.
Not only is it donating its bikes, Gloucestershire Bike Project is also exclusively open for emergency repairs for key workers’ bikes.
In its Facebook post, Gloucestershire Bike Project said: ‘We are in this together. And together we will beat the corona virus.’
To apply for a bike, email email@example.com.
As part of SoGlos’s #InThisTogetherGlos campaign, to spread good news and positivity at this challenging time, we will share some of the fun, joyful photos taken by readers in Gloucestershire on our Coronavirus lockdown diary.
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As Hyundai’s “lose your income and we’ll buy your car back” Assurance program comes to an end, the automaker is about to roll out a new plan, Assurance Trade-in Value Guarantee, for keeping customers loyal: guaranteeing trade-in values for up to four years after you purchase the car. Of course, this deal does not come sans conditions.
There have been a lot of theories about why consumers abruptly stopped buying cars — and not just American cars but all kinds of cars. Fingers have been pointed at poor fuel economy, lack of available financing, and if Hyundai is to be believed — concern about losing your job. But a new survey found that the most popular reason for not buying a new car — is that there’s nothing wrong with the old one.


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Instagram recently private likes as an additional way to interact with Stories. And it looks like the company could add soon add yet another way to respond to ephemeral clips and images from your friends. According to developer , who’s known for reverse engineering apps to find evidence of new features, Instagram is working on allowing people to send voice messages in response to Stories. On Saturday, Paluzzi shared a screenshot of the new interface feature.
We’ve reached out to Instagram for comment. We’ll note here not every feature the company works on behind the scenes ends up in a public release. When Instagram introduced private Story likes, it said its motivation was to reduce inbox clutter. Adding the option to send voice messages would run counter to that philosophy, but it would make it easier to do something you can already do within the app.
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tv Business - News Deutsche Welle June 23, 2018 3:02am-3:15am CEST
trump's twitter trade's tirade sent stocks sinking the u.s. president threatens to snap tariffs on car imports from the e.u. but will his plans cause more harm than good for the average american and we talk turkey the lira is at historic lows and inflation and unemployment are in the double digits as the country heads to the polls on sunday because the economy enough to sway voters away from president. and daniel winter and this is your business update donald trump has launched another salvo in the trade dispute between the u.s. and the european union after tariffs took effect on friday targeting american consumer goods by whiskey and motorcycles the u.s. president threatened a twenty percent tariff on european cars he used twitter of course to say that the u.s. should build them here instead the u.s. imported cars and light trucks worth forty two billion dollars from the e.u. last year shares and top european carmakers most of them german dropped sharply
following the news. and hence quarter is on wall street for a c.n.c. what kind of trade impact can we expect of this proposal does go ahead. if you only look at the car industry and also include auto parts the united states is running a trade deficit deal with the european union in the amount of forty four billion dollars so as far as we know no exec measures are under way yet it is a threat from the u.s. president so we really have to wait and see if auto parts for example will be included in those tariffs as well and if there actually will really be coming but it well there is a lot of money on the table in the financial press commenting on this that there could be potential for the plan to backfire on u.s. consumers and workers what are you hearing. that's always the case when we talk
about tariffs that doesn't mean it doesn't matter if it's on a limb in yemen if it's on products from canada or and all possibly from cars from europe and at the end u.s. consumers probably will end up paying more but on the other side the u.s. is hoping that with those tariffs some of those companies will decide to produce more within the united states and that could be or could have a positive impact on the employment situation in the united states especially late in the ninety's early two thousand we had hundreds of thousands of jobs being lost in the u.s. car industry some of those jobs have been recovered but they had been quite an impact if you look maybe about twenty years back again is trump has he picked the right target here is the e.u. car industry really harmful to the u.s. economy or is it just hitting the e.u. where it hurts. well if you if you look. at cars getting
imported to the united states the european union is a distant fourth or far behind countries like mexico for example or all saw canada a good seven percent of imported cars here into the united states to come from a europe so that is a certain number but by far not the biggest one but he certainly would hit. you of we had heard most of them and if you look at the car market the global car market the u.s. behind china has the biggest the second biggest car market in the world so it is. quite important area for the european companies to be in yes that would hurt you rob where it hurts and it wouldn't have such a huge impact probably on the u.s. car market overall well perhaps he's less in the driving seat the motors driving
the e.u. crazy thank you very much. as we heard trump was reacting to the e.u.'s counter-terror such came into effect on friday they in turn were an answer to trump's tariffs on steel alimony and levies the e.u. is charging on u.s. imports as of now include some iconic american products such as whiskey and holly davidson bikes. perhaps it's fishing that in this new era of unfree trade it is the harley davidson the symbol of personal freedom that's going to be hard hit the e.u. has introduced a twenty five percent employed g.e. on american made motorcycles. customers who ordered their haul before the new tariffs will still pay the old price for everyone else an extra twenty five percent means thousands of euros more the dealership would prefer not to say if and when the extra cost will be passed on to consumers but over time it is almost certain that these much loved motorcycles will be more expensive neither the dealers nor
the make is a willing to absorb the new tax but a true holly fan would be easily deterred as this is how it looks but it's also the sound and the feeling of what is going through. this sort of feeling is a feeling of freedom i have many friends who ride one it's definitely had an effect on me. to make as we'll be counting on the brand's popularity to keep up demand holly davidson comes from the state of wisconsin which voted for donald trump at the last election last year the president was predicting that the company would flourish thanks to tax cuts instead it could be looking at a drop in revenue. to turkey where severe economic troubles are weighing heavily on voters' minds as they head to the polls on sunday for general and presidential elections the country's currency is losing fast driving up prices this week than they were hit a new historic low against the u.s. dollar but even that doesn't look likely to knock president of course for
reelection they only harm reports from istanbul. machines are still rattling away in this istanbul printing house takin bhalo has been in charge for over thirty years but he says business hasn't been this bad in a long time. i. think. most of the raw materials we have to be imported. because the lira is getting weaker against the euro and. our costs have increased a lot. to. struggle to survive so. many turkish people share. prices are rising because the lira is worth less and less. on employment stands at
over ten percent just ahead of the election the economy is casting a shadow over the country's mood. my pension just isn't enough we can barely make it to the end of the month. even young university graduates are unemployed. everything is expensive especially the rents the government needs to act as soon as possible. economist most of us and mez is convinced that president calderon brought the vote forward to get it in ahead of a potential economic crash out policies have failed says because he made bad decisions in prosperous times. rather than sectors like farming industry or exports some money was invested in construction projects and domestic consumption it. was a mistake it was economic growth through doping it brought nothing but high
inflation and didn't help reduce unemployment. it's a ticking bolos printing house everyone is well aware of the difficult situation facing the country until now he's managed to award letting go of any workers but that could change if the turkish economy doesn't improve. britain will do much better economically outside of the e.u. that's what backs up proponents claims but two years to the debt since the country voted to leave uncertainty reigns and it's just too much for many multinational companies b.m.w. makers of the iconic british car the many are demanding clarity by the end of the summer otherwise it'll engage its breck's at contingency plans the announcement comes as another big firm airbus warned that it could leave the u.k. if the uncertainty continues putting thousands of jobs at risk.
airbus has threatened to leave the u.k. if britain leaves the single market and customs union without a transition deal is the european every asian group strongest warning yet of the impact of a no deal that basically catastrophic for this country and catastrophic for us and our supply tank this is not just a u.k. supply chain it's the most important thing is that we have frictionless trade which is why with putting the facts on the table today if air bus were to leave britain economic consequences would be tough the pan-european airplane builder currently employs fourteen thousand brits in the u.k. building airplane wings for planes that are put together in germany and france airbus is perhaps the most significant company yet urging the u.k. government to reconsider its policy but not the only one if the brakes it we end up having provide significant friction provides significant cost of course that will
be an argument against making investments here in the u.k. and no deal scenario is just a little bit too high in terms of the amount of friction that it will create. it's unclear if the british government is hearing the pleas from the business community although all they are sounding ever more serious closer we get to that march deadline that the more last minute summits we start seeing organized in order to to get some kind of deal done the greater the chance of an accident throwing things out at the last minute we really worry about that we don't have that long to go. but just how at this point there is no deal in sight british prime minister theresa may has ruled out staying in the customs union but you officials have regularly put a damper on any hopes for free trade agreement outside the union. and the wraps of your business update don't forget there's more on social media from me and the d.w.
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Case Study: Illuminations
Higher Productivity with One Third the Staff
Illuminations was picking orders onto pallets one store at a time. Things have changed dramatically since then. The company is now processing more orders, more efficiently with only one third of the staff. The difference: a new distribution center with a streamlined and efficient conveyor system.
Illuminations is a success story of the new economy. The company is a producer and retailer of candles, glassware, and brass items. Based in Petaluma CA, Illuminations operates a network of company-owned retail stores across America. It also has a successful wholesale distribution and a catalog business.
Order processing at the old warehouse had been entirely manual -- an approach not particularly supportive of business growth. "When I started here over two years ago, we were picking orders onto pallets," recalls Walt Blum, the company's vice president of logistics. "We had no conveyor capabilities whatsoever. We were picking one store at a time, one SKU at a time."
The new installation has had an immediate and positive impact on the company's distribution operations. Whereas in the past, orders were picked one store at a time, Illuminations now can do a much more efficient bulk distribution pick. "We can pick orders in bulk for a dozen stores at a time," Blum explains, "and then sort to the appropriate stores. This is a direct result of the new conveyor system."
There were other benefits as well. "The system was implemented on time, on budget without one hitch," says the logistics V.P. "A lot of credit goes to John Fisher of FloStor who helped us design and implement the system."
While everything has worked out well to date, management at Petaluma is looking forward to the upcoming peak shipping months of November and December. "We expect fabulous results in the busy season," says Blum, noting that order volume can increase by a factor of four during this period. "We'll be able to get as much done in a 12-hour shift as what used to take us 36 to 48 hours."


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Swiss bathroom manufacturer Laufen and Brasilea present the third edition of the Impressões 2018 – a project that combines design innovation with the production of Saphirkeramik. In collaboration with the artists Maria-Carmen Perlingeiro, Alex Flemming, Zezão, Christina Oiticica, SHN (Marcelo Fazolin, Haroldo Paranhos, Eduardo Saretta), works of art have been created to honour Brazil and its culture, while offering a new and different medium for the artists.
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of its founder Walter Wüthrich, the first exhibition of Impressões 2018: 19 – from Basel to Brasil takes place in the Brasilea. During Art Basel / Design Miami in June 2019, the sculptures will be presented at Laufen’s “Architecture during Art Event” in Basel.
- Impressões 2018: 19 – from Basel to Brasil, Image Courtesy to Brasilea.


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Country’s 7th mobile assembling plant to be launched with FDI
Published: 19:24 16 July 2019 Updated: 19:54 16 July 2019
The country’s economy is undergoing a rapid development, as a part of its international recognition, many international companies flock to the country to make the best use of favorable business opportunity in Bangladesh. Chinese mobile phone manufacturer, Vivo is to set an assembly plant in the Bangladesh which will be the country’s seventh mobile assembly unit. Of them, six are already assembling handsets.
Sources informed, in Bangladesh, local brand Walton became the first company to set up a mobile phone assembly plant in October 2017. It has been assembling all of its handsets locally since the middle of 2018.
Meanwhile, another international mobile phone brand, Oppo is setting up a plant in Gazipur under a joint venture with a local company. The Chinese handset maker has not applied to the BTRC yet. A BRTA senior official of the commission said. “Oppo has informed us verbally that it is setting up a plant,” informed the BRTA source.
Currently, six assemblers are meeting more than 40 percent handset demand in the country and it will reach 55 percent after Vivo’s products hit the market, said Ruhul Alam Al Mahbub, president of the Bangladesh Mobile Phone Manufacturing Association (BMPMA).
Mahbub is the chairman of Fair Group that is assembling more than 1.5 lakh pieces of Samsung smartphones in its plant in Narsingdi. Currently, 8 lakh units of smartphones are sold in Bangladesh every month and more than 3.5 lakh pieces are supplied by the local players.
According to the BMPMA, Symphony is assembling more than one lakh units of smartphones and several thousands of feature phones.
Walton assembles 40,000-50,000 units of smartphones and Transsion Bangladesh Ltd 70,000-80,000 units.
Two other companies -- Al Amin Brothers and Anira International Limited -- are currently assembling different kinds of mobile phones.
Grameen Distributors Ltd and OK Mobile Ltd have received initial approval from the BTRC to set up assembly plants. Three more companies are also seeking approval. When all the companies start making mobile handsets locally, the industry will meet the domestic demand entirely and move for exports, Mahbub said.
Currently, there is 57 percent tax on smartphone import and 32 percent on basic and feature phones. The tax for locally assembled and manufactured handsets is 18 percent and 13 percent respectively.
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Nintendo closes in on Sony in market value
Nintendo shares closed up 1.4 percent at 44,500 yen, increasing its market capitalisation to 6.30 trillion yen ($51 billion).
That compares with Matsushita's 6.23 trillion yen and 6.64 trillion yen for Sony -- the world's largest and second-largest consumer electronics makers, each having sales more than eight times as big as Nintendo.
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I knew Nintendo does well, but that surprises me.
Nintendo is practically worth as much as Sony, although they only make games and no computers and other electronics...
I should have bought Nintendo stock 5 years ago.


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Steve Myers posted some updates about the upcoming changes to the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series cars and bringing those changes to the iRacing.com simulation.
I have seen a lot of folks asking about when we will make the 2016 Cup changes so here is an update on that.
We are working on the physics side of the rules changes for March build.
The digital dashboard we are holding off on for now until we see if they are going to make an additional change to make it more visible to the drivers.
The 3D car model portion is a licensing issue that needs to be worked out with the manufacturers and we will hold off on making that change until we can do all at the same time. We have Ford worked out but need to work out GM and Toyota still.


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Icom Announced ID-4100 DStar Mobile Radio
Icom Japan announced yesterday, 17th February 2017, the ID-4100 Mobile DStar VHF/UHF mobile radio. The radio will come with the new terminal and access point modes that are found in the latest handheld from the company, the ID-51A PLUS2. The terminal mode allows the radio to be connected to the worldwide DStar repeater network through the internet. The access point will allow the radio to function as a hotspot, which will basically replace the DStar hotspot USB dongle functionality.
Other than that, the radio will also include:
Built-in GPS module in the control head
MicroSD card slot
Detachable control head
Bluetooth hands-free operation with optional Bluetooth module. No info yet whether this Bluetooth module is going to be a new one, or if Icom’s UT-133 Bluetooth module for the ID-5100 is going to be compatible.
Here is a screenshot from Icom’s brochure:
One cannot help noticing that the ID-4100 resembles the ID-880H, which is no longer in production:
Apart from the not-so-original design, I am guessing this compact form factor of the control head will suit many. Of course, there is no mention of its screen being touch-sensitive. At this size, this would have been a bug, not a feature.
The radio will come in 50W and 20W versions, the latter most likely being targeted for Japan domestic market. Suggested retail price is going to be ¥59,800 (~$530) for the 50W version and ¥56,800 (~$500) for the 20W version. Both prices before tax.
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U.S. unlocked Galaxy Note 10 picks up another October security update with camera & keyboard improvements
U.S. unlocked Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ are the only Note devices allowed into the One UI 2.0 beta program for folks in America. This is unlike the Galaxy S10 series where carrier variants are also participating in testing the Android 10-based update ahead of official availability.
It’s unclear what inspired this decision, but what is obvious is that many are looking forward to the release of the stable One UI 2.0 update for these devices and others.
It took Samsung less than two months to test Android Pie and begin the official rollout. Granted, we are looking at a similar window for the One UI 2.0 update. Until then, though, non-beta testers can make do with updates that bring bug fixes, performance improvements, and/or new security patches.
The Exynos variants of the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ have already been updated to the latest November security patch.
Given that the U.S. unlocked Galaxy Note 10 got the October security update sometime back, one would expect that any new update at this point bundles the latest November security patch.
But no, the incoming update on these models doesn’t bump up the security patch level, but it tags along some improvements to the camera picture quality and stability of the keyboard sound while sticking to the same October patch level.
Camera picture quality has been improved.
The stability of the Keyboard sound has been improved.
The security of your device has been improved.
The OTA update weighs in at 322.59MB on the Note 10+ and comes carrying software version N975U1UEU1ASJ3 while the standard Note 10 has software version N970U1UEU1ASJ3. The update is available on all U.S. unlocked models regardless of the SIM inside.
We will keep an eye on the Note 10 developments in the U.S. and let you know when the latest software updates are available to download and what they bring.
Stay tuned to our Samsung section for more related coverage.
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