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CARSON CITY – The Nevada DMV is now offering Nevadans a choice of specialty license plates when they get an original vehicle registration online.
Motorists who purchase their vehicle from a Nevada dealer have been able to register it online since 2009, but their only choice for new plates has been the standard Nevada plate style.
The DMV’s online registration service now offers 16 specialty plates that support a charitable cause such as Animal Appreciation, Las Vegas Commemorative, Organ Donation, Pyramid Lake, Raiders, Reno Air Races and United We Stand. More plates will be added each month until the DMV offers all 35 unrestricted specialty plates online.
“This is a win all the way around. The charities should see more revenue, the motorist has more choices and the DMV benefits from increased usage of online services,” said Department Director Julie Butler. “The DMV has seen record usage of the online registration due to the COVID pandemic. We want to make those gains permanent and move as many transactions online as possible.”
Historically, only about 30 percent of motorists eligible to use online registration have taken advantage of the service. The number one reason, according to customers and Nevada auto dealers, has been the lack of choice in license plates.
Since the COVID pandemic hit, however, online registration has increased to about 50% of those eligible. At the same time, Nevada dealer vehicle sales have rebounded and passed 2019 levels. In real numbers, 91,787 online registrations were completed in fiscal year 2019 out of 316,035 eligible vehicles. In fiscal year 2021, 165,141 registrations were completed online out of 323,353 eligible.
Butler noted that even with 51 percent usage, there were still about 158,000 motorists or 13,000 per month who were eligible but did not use the online registration.
“If you buy a car, truck or motorcycle from a Nevada dealer, you should register it online and avoid the trip to the DMV,” Butler said. “It’s fast, easy, and now you have a choice of plates.”
The DMV began offering some plate styles online in June and July. As of August 13, 2,423 motorists have ordered a specialty plate with an online registration.
For more information, visit the DMV website at dmvnv.com.


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The City of Williston in North Dakota may be smaller than many, but it could soon become the hub of crypto in the US with its exclusive installation of the first-ever “government-hosted” crypto kiosk at a US airport. The city’s government, in collaboration with Coin Cloud, has installed a Digital Currency Machine (DCM) at Williston Basin International Airport (XWA). Ticketed passengers, as well as non-travelers, will now be able to buy and sell over 40 cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Shiba Inu Coin, Cardano, and Ethereum with cash. Furthermore, the DCM will also function as a Crypto ATM to withdraw cash from digital wallets.
“This is an ambitious step in introducing and engaging the public towards cryptocurrency while proactively playing a role in building the digital ecosystem…Although we are a smaller rural community, we are making an impact. Taking this small step may pave the way for other government and commercial entities to follow suit”, said the Finance Director of the City, Hercules Cummings.
Bitcoin ATM does not require any intermediaries
The DCM is a rather unique technology as the investors do to require their bank accounts or debit cards, and can directly purchase and sell cryptocurrency using a digital wallet. This would further mean that the users will not have to pay additional charges. The core intent behind the installation of a DCM was to bridge the gap between “public curiosity to acceptance and portfolio adoption of a growing asset class”, noted the Finance Director.
“Traditionally, when you purchase crypto on an exchange, the transaction is directly tied to your bank via a checking account, debit card, or tied to your credit card…Converting cash to crypto through the DCM means there are no recognizable charges, bank account, or credit card. The deposit and withdrawal process happens between the DCM and your digital wallet, simply using cash.”, Cummings added.
This DCM installation came as a follow-up to the City’s former pledge towards becoming more crypto-positive. Earlier this year, in the month of May, the City of Williston began to accept cryptocurrency for utility payments, marking a landmark in crypto adoption in the US.

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You may already know by now about the ongoing Epic Games vs Apple trial that is currently in an appeal process. Fighting Apple is not the only thing going on with Epic Games though, and it has beef with Google as well. The search giant has now decided it will follow Apple’s strategy of accusing the game maker of breaching its contract with the Play Store and the game Fornite, reports CNET.
Google says Epic breached its Play Store contract with Fortnite
In a 43-page filing, Google has detailed how Epic had activated hidden code within the Fornite game on the Google Play Store last year, doing the same thing it did with Apple’s App Store, attempting to bypass the commission fee of purchases. Google stated that this broke the rules Epic had signed and led to the app’s removal. Additionally, the search giant stated that Epic Games has since begun a public relations campaign, “intended to harm Google while distracting from Epic’s breach”.
On top of that, A Google spokesperson stated that Epic had entered into a legal agreement with Google despite never intending to comply with the rules. The spokesman also added that this action has put Epic users at risk and harmed Google at the same time.
Epic has been having ongoing legal battles with both tech giants, Apple and Google. The game maker has also stated that both Apple and Google are too controlling of their respective app stores, while also stating both tech giants have put restrictions on what type of apps can be offered for sale and how they function. Epic also has also raised concerns about the fees collected from app developers for the in-app payments, and specifically criticizing the 30% commission both companies take on such payments.
In the legal filing, Google said that Epic Games has “schemed willfully to violate the terms” of the developer contract it had with the tech giant in order to “avoid paying Google anything at all”. The Epic vs Google lawsuit was put on hold after its lawsuit with Apple concluded.
The legal battles are still raging though
Quite understandably, Epic filed an appeal on the decision of the court, thus resulting in iPhone users not having the Fortnite game on the App Store for what could be a five-year-long appeal process. Recently, we reported on another curious situation that is going on with this lawsuit: apparently, Apple has filed an appeal as well. This comes after Cupertino initially took the judge’s decision as a “huge win” for Apple.
With the appeal Apple filed, the company is also asking for a stay on the injunction that forces Apple to allow developers to add links in-app to alternative payment websites. The injunction is scheduled to go into effect on December 9th, and if Apple wins to stay on the injunction, it will be able to keep the current situation until all of the appeals have been ruled on.
On the other hand, Epic has been calling out both companies on even more practices: for example, Epic’s CEO recently called out Apple for anti-competitiveness in advertising its own services on the Settings page of the iPhone; while the company accused Google of paying phone makers to pre-install only the Google Play Store on their Android phones.


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BMO has partnered with FISPAN to offer the bank’s business customers direct access to day-to-day banking transactions from their ERP or accounting system.
“By integrating payments, reporting and reconciliation with these systems, customers now have an easier and more efficient way to conduct and manage their business transactions,” the bank said in a press release Thursday (November 17).
According to the press release, the partnership will enable BMO business customers to view real-time account and balance information, send electronic payments and automatically reconcile transactions without leaving their ERP systems.
“We recognize that our customers have competing needs, and as their banking partner, we are focused on helping them progress by delivering seamless and simple solutions,” said Sean Ellery, Digital and Innovation Head at BMO Commercial Banking, in the announcement.
Earlier this year, BMP partnered with cloud-based accounting firm Xero to offer business customers more auto-banking options to streamline their financial operations.
BMO customers using the company’s Online Banking for Business service can send daily bank feeds to their Xero account, reducing data entry and reconciliation.
“Our customers have told us that the less time we can spend on manual tasks, the better,” said Hugh McKee, head of BMO Partners. “Our partnership enables automatic transaction synchronization between BMO and Xero, giving owners more time to focus on what matters most – making progress and growing their business.”
These partnerships come at a time when companies are looking to digitally manage as many aspects of their operations as possible, PYMNTS reported earlier this year.
A study by Bank of America found that 85% of their small business customers use digital channels, while digital engagement is up 15% over the last year, leading to a rising proportion of sales coming through online channels. The report found that small business digital sales are now up 300% from pre-2020 levels and account for almost half of total sales.
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(April 6, Mangoes Marketing Profile) Although mangoes from Mexico started earlier and stronger than normal this year, demand seems to be keeping up so far. Most shippers expect supplies to lighten up in April, then to pick up again by early May.
“Mexico’s season started much earlier than normal and with much more volume than normal,” said Chris Ciruli, chief operations officer for Rio Rico, Ariz.-based Ciruli Bros. LLC.
Ciruli Bros. ships exclusively from Mexico, usually starting in mid-March. The company started importing mangoes in February this year.
Ciruli said volumes were starting to come down in late March, and he expected them to pick up again at the end of April, when more areas in Mexico are producing.
“We got into the field so much earlier, so we’re already into the second harvest,” Ciruli said. “As well as you’ll generally see a labor shortage April 8-14. You typically see that during Holy Week.”
Ciruli said his company expects to be about 3 million boxes above last year.
“It’s a bumper crop year,” he said. “You’ll see it overall with imports out of Mexico.”
Princeton, Fla.-based New Limeco LLC also expects to ship more mangoes this year, possibly 100,000 boxes more than last year, said Eddie Caram, general manager. The company started importing from Mexico the last week of March, and is still importing from Guatemala.
The company ships mostly tommy atkins year-round, but does some kents and keitts when they become available. Caram said he expected to start with keitts in August. Quality of tommy atkins is very good right now, he said.
“Right now they’re very mature, have a lot of red blush,” Caram said.
Freska Produce International LLC had hoped for larger volumes than it has received, although supplies are up from last year.
“We were expecting a lot more volume coming into April, and things look like there’s not as much as we thought,” said Chuy Loza, managing member of the Ventura, Calif.-based company. “We thought we were going to get bombarded, but it hasn’t materialized.”
Loza said there could even be a small gap before the Nayarit region in Mexico starts producing.
“In May, we expect a gap,” Loza said on March 25. “We won’t have significant volumes again until June. On yellows, we’re experiencing a little gap as we speak that should last until Nayarit the first of May, so we’ll be tight in April.”
Loza said Freska Produce has been able to spread out the harvest well to avoid unwanted supplies.
“Shipments out of Mexico have been pretty projected,” he said. “We haven’t had a large peak one week to the next. That’s gotten us in trouble before.”
Shipments have crept up from 800,000 boxes the week ending Feb. 21 to 1.4 million boxes the week ending March 21, he said.
“Those are very, very manageable increases,” Loza said. “There have been increases, but no doubling from one week to the next. This year’s growing season allowed us to harvest with steady peaks.”
Nogales, Ariz.-based Farmer’s Best International LLC may be down a little bit in overall mango imports this year.
“It’s hard to say what to expect, but I do think with what we’re hearing as far as production, it may be lighter,” said Rick Burkett, salesman for Farmer’s Best. “The last I heard we’re going to be 5% down.”
Burkett said the decline may be due to a warmer winter, which plants weren’t accustomed to, so they may have tended to produce a little less.
Farmer’s Best had been shipping ataulfo, or “baby” mangoes, for five or six weeks by the end of March. The company started with tommy atkins and hadens March 30.
“It’s pretty much on time for us,” Burkett said. “We prefer to leave ours on the tree a little longer so it can mature and develop sugars.”
Farmer’s Best markets ataulfo mangoes under the Soliel label early in the season, but also uses its Farmer’s Best label for the same variety from different growing regions. The company should have ataulfos until the first of July, when it starts with kents, which are larger and green-skinned.
Burkett said should he have keitts by Aug. 1 through the end of September. Keitts are similar to kents, but have some red blush and grow farther north in Mexico, making them a later variety.
Loza agreed Mexico’s season started earlier than normal, with ataulfos from the country being imported by early February. Red mangoes from Mexico started later in February, right on time, Loza said. Freska Produce also imports from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Guatemala.
Central American Produce, Pompano Beach, Fla., is bringing in Nicaraguan and Guatemalan fruit, but waits for Mexico until May, said Sabine Henry, sales manager for tropical fruits. The company strictly imports tommy atkins from those two countries, but starts with hadens, kents and keitts when Mexico comes in.
Glassboro, N.J.-based Amazon Produce Network used to focus its year-round mango program on offshore imports, but has picked up a program from Mexico.
The company also imports from Nicaragua and Guatemala, said Greg Golden, sales manager and partner.
Ataulfos came in heavy and fast from Mexico, Golden said. The company brought in its first shipment of ataulfos and tommy atkins from Mexico the first week of March.
If market conditions allow, Amazon Produce Network could double its volume on Guatemalan mangoes this year. Guatemala’s production is up about 10%, said Gilmar Mello, grower relations manager and partner.
In the last few years, it has been very advantageous to have Guatemalan fruit because freight costs from Mexico were so high, Golden said. Last year, it was an extra $1.35 a box, but is down to 95 cents a box this year, he said.
“A big advantage has been lost,” Golden said.
Ciruli Bros. markets the Champagne, a trademarked name for the ataulfo variety. The company doesn’t ship tommy atkins or haden at all, but ships late season kents and keitts in July and August, after it wraps up with ataulfo. About 95% of the company’s production is ataulfo.
Mango sizes are lining up pretty normal this year, peaking in the middle, but still yielding both large and small sizes.
“Sizing has been running a little ahead, peaking on 18s and 16s this year, mid-sized fruit,” Ciruli said. “So the fruit has good size this year.”
Other years, crops have peaked on smaller sizes, which is not nearly as good, Loza said. This year is ideal for Freska Produce.


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The landmark Wawa location at Broad and Walnut streets will not reopen due to lasting impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Delaware County convenience store chain told the Philadelphia Business Journal on Monday.
In its pre-coronavirus prime the five-year-old store was popular among Center City office workers by day and people looking for late night quick eats after hitting up nearby bars and clubs by night.
On the heavily trafficked corner down the street from City Hall and just off the Walnut-Locust stop on the Broad Street Line, the store was among the most popular Wawa locations in the city, reported the business journal.
The 5,000-square-foot store will not be reopening “due to the unique circumstances that continue to impact our customers’ daily lives and our own store operations” amid the COVID-19 health crisis, Wawa said in an emailed statement via spokeswoman Lori Bruce.
“This decision was a difficult one,” the statement continues. “But due to the impact from the pandemic coupled with some operational uncertainties of today, our long-term plans for this store are no longer viable.”
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NEW YORK -- Opening of the sculptural centerpiece of the $3.9 billion World Trade Center transportation hub, a modern cathedral of mass transit meant to elevate the spirits of 250,000 daily PATH and subway riders, has been pushed back to sometime next year, according to a published report.
The Oculus, a transit hall designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, will open in the first half of 2016, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The same is true of a vast underground retail mall that occupies space ringing the base of the Oculus and four concourses that are also part of the transportation hub, the Times reported.
The reason for the mall's delayed opening, according to the Times? A water leak.
Water has been making its way into some of the underground shopping space through the plaza, which acts as a roof above the hub. Some water, the Times and officials said, was from workers hosing down the site to minimize construction-related dust, while some was rainwater making its way from the Tower 3 open construction site.
Water has not been coming through the ceiling of the Oculus, which is formed by glass panels framed by the huge sculpted concrete girders that spread out like white wings over the trade center site's above-ground plaza.
During a tour of the space in May, a Port Authority spokeswoman told NJ Advance Media that the Oculus would open "sometime this year," meaning 2015. In September, the Port Authority's World Trade Center construction director, Steve Plate, stuck to the 2015 time frame for the Oculus opening while touring the transportation hub with The Jersey Journal.
But in The Times story on Wednesday, Plate said the Oculus' opening would be delayed until sometime in the the first half 2016.
The Times story did not state that the opening of the Oculus had been delayed, and Port Authority officials did not respond to question seeking to reconcile the 2016 opening date quoted in teh Times story with the 2015 dates previously given.
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BY Jonathan Easton
Disney appears to be gearing up for the South East Asian launch of Disney+ if a number of job listings are to be believed.
As spotted by What’s On Disney Plus, a blog dedicated to the streamer, the company has posted a variety of local job listings on its career page. These jobs include an analytics manager for SEA based in Singapore, a growth and acquisition senior manager based in Bangkok, and an executive producer of original production and content acquisition in Kuala Lumpur.
The report notes that these listings are part of a trend, in which Disney has recruited for the streamer a few months away from the service going live in that country. This, it suggests, means that Disney+ is likely to go live in the region at some point in 2021.
The listings also come after Disney recently hired Ahmad Izham Omar as its executive director of content and creative for Disney+ of South East Asia. he is based in Singapore.
The company has already rolled Disney+ out in a handful of Asian countries including India in April, and Indonesia in September. The company also rolled out Indian streamer Hotstar in Singapore on November 1, with reports at the time suggesting that they would be launched as separate products.
Those reports appear to be coming true now, with Disney set to reveal its next year’s worth of plans for Disney+ at its investor day on December 10. At that event, Disney is also expected to reveal more details on the adult-oriented Star streamer which was announced in August.
Disney+ currently has a global total of 73 million subscribers, and a recent report from an analyst suggesting that it will almost reach 200 million subs by 2025.https://www.digitaltveurope.com


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Game U College Tour Visits Oklahoma
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The Game U Xbox 360 College Tour made a stop at the TCC Southeast Campus on Monday. Students got a chance to play Microsoftâ€™s newest video console, the Xbox 360, along with todayâ€™s most popular games, like Halo 2. TCC recruiters hope Mondayâ€™s tour stop sparked some interest in a few of their upcoming computer classes.
"Hoping to open some peoples eyes to know that there is a degree that they might be interested in when they might not otherwise think so," said Michelle Recoy with Tulsa Community College.
TCC offers an Intro to Game Development class for those interested in creating video games.
The goal of the Game U Xbox 360 College Tour is to educate people on the future of gaming and home entertainment. The tour is traveling to about two dozen college campuses nationwide; its next stop is on Tuesday at OSU in Stillwater.


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CPTPP benefits for Canada
- The agreement strengthens and diversifies Canada’s trade and investment in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region, leading to the creation of new jobs and increased prosperity for Canadians.
- It reinforces Canada’s presence in Asia by creating commercial opportunities with seven new FTA partners (Australia, Brunei, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam) and strengthens our ties with three existing FTA partners (Chile, Mexico and Peru).
- Through the elimination of tariffs and non-tariff barriers, Canadian exports will increase and expand across a wide range of sectors, including agriculture (beef, pork and vegetable oils), and non-agriculture (forestry, industrial machinery, heavy equipment and services).
- The CPTPP includes, for the first time for Canada, fully enforceable Labour and Environment chapters through its dispute settlement mechanism.
Why the CPTPP matters for Canadian businesses
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership:
- provides significant market access gains for Canadian exporters, especially in markets where Canada previously faced high tariffs, such as Japan and Vietnam
- eliminates tariffs on a wide range of Canadian exports and imports, making Canadian companies more competitive at home and in the international marketplace
- will save Canadian exporters a projected $428 million a year on tariffs alone
- allows Canadian exporters to do business on a level playing field with competitors in CPTPP markets that already enjoy preferential tariff treatment, while gaining an advantage over competitors without the same level of access
- facilitates the integration of Canadian goods and service providers into global value chains spanning the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region
- simplifies rules associated with trade, making trade fairer, more predictable and more efficient
- offers Canadian investors improved protection, predictability and transparency, as well as enhanced access to fast-growing markets across the CPTPP region
- strategically sets the terms of trade in the Asia-Pacific region with ambitious, forward-looking provisions that seek to keep trade inclusive and sustainable
- makes it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises in all sectors throughout Canada to do business in the dynamic Asia-Pacific region
- The CPTPP results in comprehensive tariff elimination across all sectors. Once fully implemented, 99% of tariff lines among CPTPP parties will be duty free.
- The first six CPTPP parties made their first tariff cut on December 30, 2018, eliminating duties on 89% of tariff lines between them, followed by a second tariff cut on January 1, 2019 (except for Japan, which makes its second tariff cut on April 1, 2019).
- On January 14, 2019, Vietnam brought the CPTPP into force and Canadian exporters were immediately benefiting from Vietnam’s first two tariff cuts.
- Once the agreement is fully implemented:
- 94% of Canada’s exports of agriculture and agri-food products to CPTPP countries will be duty-free, representing an average of $7.8 billion in exports from 2015 to 2017.
- 99% of Canada’s exports of industrial products to CPTPP countries are duty-free, representing an average of $21 billion in exports from 2015 to 2017.
- 100% of Canada’s exports of fish and seafood products to CPTPP countries are duty-free, representing an average of $732 million in exports 2015 to 2017.
- 100% of Canada’s forest product exports to CPTPP countries are duty-free, representing an average of $2.5 billion in exports from 2015 to 2017.
- addresses costly and time-consuming “non-tariff” barriers
- seeks to eliminate unnecessary technical barriers to trade to enhance transparency and promote regulatory cooperation
- helps ensure that market access gains for Canadian agriculture and agri-food, fish and seafood, and forestry exports are not undermined by unnecessary or unjustified sanitary and phytosanitary-related trade restrictions
- The CPTPP makes Canada the only G7 nation with free trade agreements with all other G7 members, and free trade access across the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
- It presents an opportunity to position Canada as a hub for global commerce with preferential access throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- The CPTPP is designed to expand to include new members to increase benefits for both investors and Canadian businesses.
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Israel's Health Ministry recently released new directives easing restrictions on the possession and use of medical marijuana by authorized users.
The stereotype of the cannabis consumer is a young guy with long hair and for extra points a tie-dye shirt. The reality is that a majority of cannabis consumers are professionals and steady customers for the dispensaries.
Yuma, Ariz. - Arizona could possibly become a Hemp producing state. On Monday, the house gave approval to SB 13-37 which governs the state of Arizona's Department of Agriculture to start growing Hemp.
If your mom is a “cool” mom, cannabis companies want you to think outside the box for this year's present. Several cannabis companies aren't shying away from Mother's Day like last year, just the opposite they are embracing it.
DOVER, Del. -- A bill legalizing the recreational use of marijuana in Delaware has cleared its first legislative hurdle. The legislation, which was released Wednesday by a House committee and now goes to the full House for a vote, regulates and taxes marijuana in the same manner as alcohol.
THE New South Wales Government will be expanding the medicinal cannabis trial for chemotherapy patients to seven more hospitals across NSW – including to Port Macquarie Base and Coffs Harbour health campuses.
Use of hemp as a construction material is part of the revival of the crop in America, thanks to entrepreneurs who are thinking big — and small, including a Colorado firm that hosts workshops on hempcrete and builds tiny hemp houses.
There are an increasing number of places around the world where it’s legal to smoke it, vape it, and eat it in a cookie, but have you ever considered using cannabis-derived beauty products?
It’s been nearly a century in the making, but this May will bring with it the first legal planting of the versatile, valuable industrial hemp oilseed and fiber crop in Washington State in approximately 90 years.


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Remember how outlandish the first Samsung Galaxy Note looked when it was unveiled in 2011? It was huge - a smartphone with a 5.3in (13cm) screen and a stylus.
I remember standing on a Barcelona street with an early version, embarrassed to put it to my ear and make a call because I'd look like something out of a Dom Joly sketch.
But it quickly won a sizeable fan base including the kind of people who had owned Psion Organisers or the Nokia Communicator.
They wanted a device that could do almost everything a laptop could do.
Over the years, many smartphones have acquired those kinds of capabilities and just about all of them have grown much bigger.
For Samsung, that presents a challenge - how can it make each new model stand out from the crowd?
At its swish new exhibition space in London's Kings Cross this week, Samsung invited technology journalists to come and try out the latest Galaxy Note.
Set out on pine tables, the Note 10 and the Note 10+ looked... well, like any other smartphones - shiny slabs of glass.
They were, of course, huge, quite a bit bigger than the original humungous Note. The new Note 10 has a 6.3in screen and the 6.8in Note 10+ is virtually the size of a tablet.
But then again, Samsung's latest flagship Galaxy S10+ has a 6.4in screen and the 5G version has a 6.7in screen.
The South Korean company's two most important phone ranges - once easily distinguishable - now overlap.
But Mark Holloway, Samsung Europe's senior product manager, says there is one key difference.
"The S-Pen is the key reason most European users choose the Note," he says.
Over the years, the stylus has become ever more sophisticated. In the Note 10, you can use it to scribble a message and have your terrible handwriting converted to text. It also works as a remote control for the camera.
Once, the idea of using something the size of a Note to take photos or shoot video was almost as laughable as doing such a thing with an iPad.
But now it has become commonplace and, as with any new phone, Samsung has a lot to say about its new camera features.
You can use augmented reality emojis to give yourself a dinosaur's head. And there's a feature called Live Focus Video that lets you focus on a subject and blur the background in real-time.
It also has a "zoom microphone" that gives enhanced audio from whatever is in the center of the frame, even from across a room.
And then there's Super Steady video stabilization, which Mr. Holloway suggested might be used for extreme sports. Although, to me, the idea of a skydiver or downhill skier strapping on a Note 10 seems optimistic to say the least.
But it seems Samsung has concluded the Note now has to be all things to all people - the business users who will take advantage of the ability to transfer content seamlessly between the phone and their laptop, the Instagrammers using all the camera's bells and whistles to make their Stories more creative, even gamers wanting to play Call of Duty on the move without draining the battery.
And make no mistake, Samsung is in need of a hit. The Galaxy S10 won great reviews but less than stellar sales.
Last week, the South Korean giant reported plunging profits. Much of the blame was put on its core chip business but the lackluster performance of the mobile phone division did not help.
The global smartphone market has stuttered, with the research company Gartner predicting a 2.5% decline in worldwide sales this year compared with 2019. And despite Huawei's problems, Chinese rivals offering very capable phones at lower prices threaten to eat into Samsung's market share.
The radical new folding phone was meant to signal the next phase of innovation but the new dawn has been delayed by production problems. The Samsung Fold is now due to go on sale in September.
Even then, expensive folding phones are likely to appeal to a small niche of early adopters at first.
Samsung will have to hope the rather larger crowd that has been drawn to the Galaxy Note over the years stays loyal to this latest version.


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By Nathan Smith
If you had to eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? A tough question for foodies, but mine would be a greasy cheeseburger. I am a huge fan and apparently, the First Lady and I share a common love.
Recently, ABC News reported that Michelle Obama went to a popular Washington, D.C., burger joint and ate a 1700-calorie meal. Slow news day? Whether or not you think the nation’s leading health advocate chowing down once and awhile is news, it made me think about one thing we seem to lack here in the U.S. and Texas – moderation.
Texas ranks 12, up one from last year, on the fattest states list, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A report from the Huffington Post put the U.S. at number eight in the world for obese adults.
I was recently talking with a friend who is visiting Florence, Italy. She mentioned the portion sizes are much smaller than what we are used to. After all, everything is bigger in Texas.
There are plenty of critics who single out one type of food or product. Some point at fast food restaurants, some shake their fists at high-fructose corn syrup. Others say our food is not safe or “toxic” – all of them miss the point. The fact is too much of anything can be toxic.
Do we really care that Michelle Obama ate a cheeseburger, fries and a shake? I doubt it. She has a healthy lifestyle, meaning, a healthy way of life. The occasional burger here and there is nothing to throw a fit over.
We live in a world of instant gratification, where the consumer drives demand and we demand food – and lots of it. It’s hard to blame restaurants for making what people like to eat. We know that within 10 minutes of becoming “hungry” we can find anything and have it in hand and on its way to digestion in record speed. Convenience is a diet killer but I would argue that it’s our own fault. When was the last time someone forced you to make the trip to the McDonald’s drive through?
Pick up any health magazine or talk to a trainer and the first thing they will say is a balanced diet with regular exercise is the key to staying healthy.
The American Heart Association also stands behind balancing greens and goodies. Heart disease is the number one killer in the U.S. and the major culprit is obesity caused by poor diet.
Texans love food and I would venture to say we have some of the best food in the country, produced by hard-working people who care about you and your family. Choices abound here in the land of plenty so look for some healthy ones.


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Mixed reports have been coming in over the past few weeks about exactly why local Sarasotians aren’t happy with the new University Town Center invading their city. Small business owners have been the loudest with their anger at the commercialism aspects and the killing of mom & pop style stores with corporate competition.
But a recent poll performed by SRQ News revealed the overwhelming majority of locals are primarily upset at the lack of a food court, specifically, five fast food style Chinese restaurants.
“Where’s my Asian BBQ? Where’s my Shanghai Express? Why don’t they have that Japanese place that serves the bourbon and sesame chicken? I want my three meat, one veggie combo, dammit!” wrote one anonymous pollster.
We send our investigative journalists to ten malls between Tampa and Naples, every one of them had at least 5 Asian style food court restaurants. What we found most peculiar was how these five restaurants, all next to each other, served nearly identical dishes but claimed to be from different regions and countries of Asia. At this time, we do not have an answer as to why.


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Cygnus and Kallisto are the new OGame servers that have recently been opened. Ogame itself is the biggest browser based SciFi game out there and this is the reason for the frequent creation of new servers. Lately there hasn't passed a month without a brand new server. All this so new players would have the chance to reach the top rankings.
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All this so new players would have the chance to reach the top rankings.
=> all this is for gameforge gaigning money not for the players reaching the top rankings rofl


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// The final measures of easing England out of lockdown has been delayed until July 19
// The fourth and final stage of taking England out of lockdown was initially set for June 21
// The lockdown extension is set to be reviewed in two weeks
Calls for business rates relief and the furlough scheme to be extended have been rejected as Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed last night that the date for easing England out of lockdown will be delayed to July 19.
The fourth and final stage of taking England out of lockdown was originally set for June 21, but the rapid spread in cases of the Delta variant has led to a 50 per cent rise in hospitalisations across England week-on-week.
The lockdown extension is set to be reviewed in two weeks and the PM remains “confident” that the delay would not need to be longer than four weeks.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has rejected the call to extend furlough and business rates relief, both of which are set to begin to wind down from the start of next month.
The furlough scheme will wind down from paying 80 per cent of people’s wages to 70 per cent from July 1, with support set to be withdrawn altogether by September.
Business rate relief is set to fall from 100 per cent to 66 per cent from July 1, although it will remain in place until March next year.


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Carcassone, Pandemic, Munchkin, and Other Classic Tabletop Games are Coming to Nintendo Switch
During today's Nintendo Direct, Asmodee Digital is bringing several tabletop gaming classics to the Switch starting this holiday season.
Given that the system is so well-suited to being played portably or at home, it’s a natural fit for board game-style experiences to come to the Nintendo Switch, with several classics now coming to the system over the next year.
During today’s Nintendo Direct, one of the more surprising announcements from Nintendo was that several tabletop game adaptations will be coming to the Nintendo Switch over the next year from Asmodee Games.
Specifically, the titles revealed during the Direct included Carcassone, which is expected sometime in holiday 2018 and brings over the classic tabletop game where players have to build medieval worlds using various tiles.
The rest of the games announced from Asmodee include Pandemic, Munchkin, The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game, and Catan Universe, which will all be expected in 2019.
Each of the announced games will feature the ability to play either solo or with friends, while several of the announced games, such as Pandemic and Catan, will feature downloadable expansions and DLC that will allow players to try out different variants and play styles for each game.
As someone that has played many of these titles, seeing many of these tabletop classics coming to the Switch is certainly a no-brainer and should be perfect fits for the social experience that the Switch invites.


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Murdoch eyes satellite broadcaster
Rupert Murdoch may be poised to make one of the boldest moves of his career by bidding $55bn (£38bn) for US satellite broadcasting giant DirecTV, according to the word on Wall Street.
The 69-year-old media baron is reported to be ready to pay the sum, in cash and News Corporation shares, for DirecTV's parent Hughes Electronics, a division of General Motors. Hughes shares rose 3%.
DirecTV is the world's biggest satellite broadcaster with 9 million customers and the third largest pay-TV company. It would fit naturally with Murdoch's US TV network Fox and satellite operations elsewhere, including BSkyB here.
The reported price tag for DirecTV is more than the $36bn market value of GM, the world's largest car maker. Last night a News Corporation spokeswoman said : 'We are not going to comment on market rumours.'
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Seattle-based Jones Soda is reviving its Turkey & Gravy Soda for the first time in over a decade.
The limited-edition 35,000-bottle run is set to coincide with Thanksgiving, and to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary.
The return of the Turkey & Gravy offering is part of the company’s Special Release program.
The program features a rotating series of new and retired flavors and has included flavors such as Birthday Cake and Pineapple Cream.
“Our Turkey & Gravy Soda instantly differentiated the company when we introduced it nearly two decades ago,” said Mark Murray, president and CEO of Jones Soda.
The company markets and distributes beverages under the Jones Soda and Lemoncocco brands.
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Friday, November 29, 2013
Black Friday Survival
Black Friday is coming....And only the strong survive! Stop by Town Center at The Waterfront for a Black Friday Survival Celebration to fuel up on complimentary snacks and coffee as you shop for the best deals of the season. Volunteers from the Western PA Humane Society will also be on site to help you wrap all of those new purchases from 8-11am. You scored some amazing Black Friday rewards, so why not reward yourself for being an awesome shopper? 'Tis the season! The first 100 Waterfront shoppers to join the Black Friday Survival Celebration will receive special Survival Kits, complete with the all of essentials for surviving Black Friday. Some lucky guests will receive surprise Survival gift cards in their bags to shops and restaurants at The Waterfront ranging from $5-$50!
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and County Executive Rich Fitzgerald have petitioned the administrative judge of Allegheny County Courts to remove the receiver appointed by the court to oversee the August Wilson Center bankruptcy. The mayor and the county executive charge that receiver Judith Fitzgerald has "not maintained the public interest of preserving the center as a public asset" and favor a bid to make the center a commercial enterprise.
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On March 7, a delegation led by LG Chem President Hong Young-joon visited Huayou Quzhou Industry Park. Chen Xuehua, Chairman of Huayou warmly received the delegation.
Hong visited the employees dispatched by LG Chemical for Huajin Project, thanked them for their diligent efforts and listened to a work report delivered by a head of Huajin New Energy Materials Co., Ltd.
Accompanied by Huayou’s top officers, including Chen Yaozhong, Vice President of Huayou and Vice President of Huayou New Energy Industry Group, the delegation visited Quzhou Huayou’s production control center, testing center, Huahai project and other production sites, inquired about Huayou’s R&D, product application and resource development, and found out the situation of Quzhou Huayou Industry Park.
After visiting Quzhou Huayou, the delegation visited the construction site of Huajin New Energy Materials (Quzhou) Co., Ltd., a cooperative facility of Huayou and LG Chem, and listened to a report of General Manager Yan Hewen on the progress and future development of the facility. Hong recognized their early efforts, expressed heartfelt thanks to all the employees of Huajin for their diligent efforts and wisdom in project construction, and further expected that they would keep going to make the facility finish and reach its designed capacity as soon as possible.
Hong showed full confidence in the ternary precursor project and other projects, and was optimistic about the prospect of the lithium battery materials market. He expected that the two sides would continue to strengthen mutual strategic cooperation, further strengthen new energy cooperation, integrate the technology and market channel advantages of the two sides in fields such as ternary precursor, anode materials, power battery and other fields, learn from each other and join hands to build a globally competitive lithium battery new energy materials industry chain and create a bright future.


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(Yicai Global) June 2 -- 360 Security Technology has started hiring for auto industry specialists, particularly in the smart driving field, after the Chinese internet security firm announced last month that it was moving into electric vehicles.
360 Security is looking for a director of quality assurance, software architects and cybersecurity engineers, the Beijing-based company said via its Weibo account yesterday. The post did not specify how many positions are available.
Founder Zhou Hongyi announced on May 11 that 360 Security was partnering with Hozon Auto, an EV startup that plans to go public in Shanghai this year, to develop affordable smart cars priced at about CNY100,000 (USD15,670) each.
360 Security participated in Hozon’s Series D fundraiser, investing CNY3 billion (USD470.1 million), to become its second-biggest shareholder last month. The pair said they will initially cooperate mainly on capital and smart car cybersecurity. The tie-up will not involve manufacturing.
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Now that the dust has settled on the holiday shopping season, is seems Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) scored a huge victory with its Echo home smart speaker. Smart speakers and connected homes are popular themes in technology at the moment, and GBH Insights head of technology research Daniel Ives says Amazon now dominates the market.
According to Ives, Amazon Echo now makes up about 75 percent of the smart speaker market. With more than 25 percent of searches now being done via voice-enabled devices, Ives says Amazon, Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and Apple (AAPL) all recognize the incredible growth opportunity connected homes represent.
Ives says device sales are just the tip of the iceberg.
“The trifecta of Alexa, Echo, and Prime should enable Amazon to further penetrate the consumer, expand Prime membership and retail spending patterns, while widening the company’s consumer competitive moat, in our opinion, for 2018 and beyond,” Ives says.
But just because Amazon has jumped out to a commanding lead in the early smart speaker market doesn’t mean investors should expect smooth sailing ahead. Ives says Google Home will likely be one of the top marketing priorities for Google. In addition, Apple is expected to launch its HomePod device sometime in the first half of the year.
Ives says artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, 5G wireless technology and digital health all represent growth opportunities for Amazon and other tech leaders in coming years. However, connected homes may be the largest opportunity of all.
“While all these areas represent major tech trends for 2018 and beyond, the ‘star of CES’ in our opinion will be Amazon/Echo and its white-hot Alexa smart home ecosystem, as we believe this represents a $20 billion market opportunity for Bezos & Co. over the next three years,” Ives says.
Ives isn’t the only one bullish on Amazon in the long term. Citi analyst Mark May says Amazon remains one of the best opportunities in the market.
“If taking a long-term perspective (e.g., 3-plus years), then AMZN should arguably be the top-ranked company and stock in the internet sector,” May says.
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Inspired by Yogi's simplicity, Lucknow hotel serves 'saffron' dishes!
The colours worn by 44-year-old Yogi found a place in the menu of Hotel SSJ International in Charbagh.
"Some of the signature dishes on the new menu are paneer tikka, tandoori aloo, tandoori Momos, pineapple tarts, tomato soup, tandoori achari chaap and tandoori stuffed malai chaap", Surendra Kumar Jaiswal, the founder of the hotel told a news agency.
Jaiswal added that the "new menu reflects the combination of different flavours, yet these bear the hallmark of simplicity just like the Chief Minister."
He also expressed confidence that all the dishes on offer would be "a unique culinary experience for our guests and these will be well received by the food connoisseurs coming to dine here".


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By James Fudge
| May 3, 2004
Registration for upcoming beta test of MMOG opened now!
Warner Bros. Interactive
Entertainment today opened up sign-ups for the upcoming The Matrix Online
game. The company also relaunched the game's official site. Developed by Monolith productions, The Matrix Online
is a persistent world online PC game that is based on the continuation of the storyline of The Matrix
movie trilogy. Would-be testers can signup for the beta test by registering on www.thematrixonline.com
. Beyond the beta sign-up page, the freshly relaunched site now offers news, artwork and information about that game. Soon the community will have a brand new message board system where they can post questions to the developers and talk about the game.


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Chargeback-to-transaction ratios have decreased 31 percent since 2017 and just over 20 percent from 2018 to 2019, according to a report from Midigator.
The firm’s The Year in Chargebacks report finds high chargeback-to-transaction ratios for Peru, India, and Dominican Republic remained steady from 2017 to 2019. Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, and Switzerland had consistently low ratios. Risk in other countries fluctuated significantly year-over-year.
“The chargeback-to-transaction ratio shows that payment disputes are still a major concern for merchants—especially for card-not-present transactions,” said researchers in the report. “A 2.59 percent ratio is well above the card networks’ 1 percent threshold. However, the year-over-year decrease is encouraging.”
Researchers also said that the cost of each chargeback varies and is impacted by other expenses: lost processing fees, chargeback fines, labor costs for management, and much more. However, since the largest and most easily defined loss is the transaction amount, monitoring the percent of revenue lost to chargebacks is likely the most accurate gauge of financial impact.
Digging Into Transaction Disputes
Transaction dispute reasons vary too, according to the report. The report looked at four different categories to classify chargebacks. The categories vary slightly based on the card brand but can generally be thought of as fraud, cardholder disputes, authorization issues, and processing errors, said researchers. The cardholder’s bank reviews each case and picks the category that seems to be the best fit for the dispute.
For the third year in a row, fraud-related disputes accounted for the vast majority of chargebacks. Also for the third straight year, the percent of disputes categorized as fraud increased. Visa fraud disputes increased by 5.4 percent and Mastercard showed a 9 percent increase. The second most common category was cardholder disputes. Processing errors and authorization issues combined accounted for less than 1 percent of chargebacks.


text: On June 10th, Adidas filed a lawsuit for patent infringement against sportswear powerhouse Nike. The lawsuit claims that Nike has infringed on nine of Adidas patents including Nike’s Run Club and SNKRS mobile app. The Adidas “Confirmed” App debuted in February 2015 while SNKRS launched in May 2015 and according to the complaint “Adidas has long been a leader in mobile technology, including technology related to mobile fitness and mobile purchases. Adidas was the first in the industry to comprehensively bring data analytics to athletes.” Adidas is also asking the court for monetary damages “in an amount sufficient to compensate Adidas for (Nike’s) infringement” as well as an injunction. Stay tuned for more information soon.


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- Phoenix Motor ventures into electric bus market by acquiring Proterra Transit
- Proterra’s difficulties don’t overshadow the electric bus industry’s potential.
- Phoenix Motor’s CEO, Denton Peng, sees growth opportunities in electric buses.
In a strategic move aimed at accelerating its presence in the electric transit industry, Phoenix Motor has successfully gained approval from the US bankruptcy court for the integration of Proterra Transit’s heavy-duty electric bus into its product portfolio. This development comes in the wake of Proterra’s recent challenges and bankruptcy filing, which were attributed to supply chain complications and funding issues rather than industry viability concerns. Phoenix Motor’s CEO, Denton Peng, expressed enthusiasm for the acquisition, highlighting the potential for growth as the company expands its offerings to include electric transit buses.
The company has expressed that its next step is integrating the Proterra Transit team and assets into its operations. Phoenix has been operating two primary brands: Phoenix Motorcars, which emphasizes commercial medium-duty EVs such as electric shuttle buses, school buses, municipal transit vehicles, and delivery trucks, including EV chargers and electric forklifts, and the light-duty EV line EdisonFuture.
“Phoenix is very pleased to have completed its acquisition of the Proterra Transit business and thanks all parties for their tireless efforts over the past several months to make this possible. Proterra has a strong position in the full-size, zero-emission transit bus market, just as Phoenix has in the medium-duty market. Having spent countless hours meeting with Proterra Transit team members and learning more about their business, we are more excited than ever about this acquisition opportunity,” said Denton Peng, CEO of Phoenix. “We have already identified attractive growth opportunities as we add transit buses to our product offering, and we look forward to servicing Proterra Transit’s existing customers and developing long-term relationships with them.”
In August 2023, Proterra consolidated its battery and bus production at its South Carolina facility. The company made job cuts as a cost-saving measure. However, Proterra filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company said complications in the supply chain, funding issues, and the necessary capital required for scaling caused the failure. Subsequently, in November, Volvo Group emerged victorious in an auction for Proterra’s battery business with a bid of $210 million.
Critics of transportation electrification viewed Proterra’s bankruptcy as a sign that the heavy-duty electric transportation business is not viable. This was not the case. Proterra went bankrupt because of funding issues and supply chain problems. Experts anticipate that Phoenix will succeed with its acquired Proterra heavy-duty electric bus assets.
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Two recent relevant news in smart devices.
Saint Louis University is placing 2300 Echo dots in student living spaces.
Saint Louis University has announced that it will be placing Amazon Echo Dot devices, powered by Alexa for Business, in every student residence hall room or student apartment on campus. While other colleges, like Arizona State University, have put Echo Dots in student housing before, SLU says this is the first time a college will equip every student living space with an Amazon Alexa-enabled device.
The smart speaker race is heating up
The Statista website published an infographic with an analysis of the second quarter of 2018 smart speaker market.
The smart speaker market continues to grow, with global shipments tripling from 3.9 million units in the second quarter of last year to 11.7 million units in this year’s June quarter. Competitors slowly are eating away at Amazon’s once dominant lead. Google has gained some ground growing its market share from 16.1 percent in the second quarter of 2017 to 27.6 percent in Q2 2018. Chinese’s Alibaba is commanding Asia’s smart speaker market with a global 7 % in shipments.
And Baidu DuerOS is available in 100 million devices.
Will Facebook release another device before the year ends? The race is hot!
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Realogy Holdings Corp. vs. Paramount Group, Inc. Which Should ...
Realogy Holdings Corp. and Paramount Group, Inc. are both Financial companies that recently hit new highs. Zacks Investment Research Upgrades Realogy Holdings Corp. to Buy - StockNewsTimes Reviewing Forest City Enterprises and Realogy Holdings Corp. - Week Herald
|This media report from economicsandmoney.com distributed on September 29, 2017 was a factor to the next trading day price appreciation.The trading delta at closing time against the next closing price was 1.34% . The trading delta at closing time when the story was published against the current closing price is 37.33% .|
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The promise of world-class, high-speed broadband is here, and businesses are finding innovative ways to take advantage
When Kleinpeter Dairy makes one of its routine delivery stops at Wal-Mart, the process is much the same as it's always been. The driver-salesperson goes in the store to check inventory and see what size order is needed, before hauling the milk out the back of the truck.
When Kleinpeter Dairy makes one of its routine delivery stops at Wal-Mart, the process is much the same as it's always been. The driver-salesperson goes in the store to check inventory and see what size order is needed, before hauling the milk out the back of the truck. But now, when he hands the store manager an invoice, he presents his handheld computer, rather than a piece of paper. And in the case of Wal-Mart, the invoice processes immediately with the Fortune 500 company's headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.. Kleinpeter gets paid for that order the same day. No paper receipts or billing statements necessary. That entire process used to take an average of 50 days.
"Within two minutes we've already invoiced Bentonville," says Kleinpeter Farms Dairy President Jeff Kleinpeter, "and they pay us daily, so can you see what a difference it makes with cash flow? It's huge."
Wal-Mart isn't the only store operating that way. Kleinpeter says Albertsons and many of the larger grocery chains also prefer the new immediate and totally paperless billing system. So does Kleinpeter Dairy. Since instituting the system just under a year ago, Kleinpeter estimates the company is now saving almost $5,000 a month on paper costs alone, and another $5,000 a month in accounting and data entry costs.
Kleinpeter says that his IT department worked directly with AT&T to come up with the solution. "It was a really big thing when we did this," he says. "No one else had it that we were aware of, not in the dairy industry. It's pretty neat stuff. You know you would think some huge conglomerate out there would have done it before us, but here's little old Kleinpeter Dairy in Baton Rouge doing innovative things working with a partner like AT&T. That's huge. I mean, even AT&T was kind of taken aback by our approach to doing this."
Kleinpeter Dairy worked with AT&T on a paperless billing solution.
With the ever-expanding broadband capabilities available today, companies like Kleinpeter Dairy are finding creative ways to take advantage. In Lafayette, businesses have a healthy array of competing Internet service providers to choose from, including Cox Communications, AT&T and now LUS Fiber, along with other smaller and more specialized providers.
Each ISP offers custom solutions for businesses and touts its unique advantages. AT&T boasts the largest wireless network of the three companies. "The trend is having all these services integrated and to be un-tethered," says AT&T Louisiana spokeswoman Sue Sperry. "Being able to have services that tie into your business network with a mobile device and applications that go with it is another way of making it more efficient, and small- to medium-size businesses really benefit from this." AT&T also offers DSL Internet and phone service. It recently launched an Internet protocol cable service, U-verse - available in Baton Rouge, Houma and St. Tammany Parish - which boasts unique features such as allowing customers to remotely program their DVRs from a computer or smart phone. Sperry says U-verse will be coming to Lafayette, but she is not certain when.
Jon Fitzgerald of Forward Link,
a startup tech company in Travis Technology Center.
At Cox Communications, Vice President of Business Services Leigh King notes the company is currently serving some 6,500 business clients in Lafayette and more than 10,000 throughout Acadiana. King says Cox counts among its clients some of the largest hospitals and data centers in the state, all of which want to tap into Cox's extensive high-speed network.
"Really it's about accessibility," King says. "Accessibility to a broadband connection, and we've got such an accessible network to all of our business customers, not only from a distribution standpoint, but also the speed requirements that we currently offer to our customers are the highest speeds available in the industry today."
King notes that because Cox's footprint extends throughout south Louisiana and beyond, the company has been able to provide a variety of solutions, like Metro Ethernet, to help businesses like regional hospitals and banks get a secure, low-cost connection to all their locations or branches.
Cox offers up to 15 megabits per second download speed and 3 megabits per second upload speed in its standard business packages. It also can offer greater speeds to clients in need of greater, dedicated bandwidth. "If a customer needs dedicated transport services between two hospitals for digital imaging," King says, "we're already providing that."
He continues, "The applications have just started to develop, where you can utilize the capacity that's out there at this point. So we've really seen the application side of it increase over the last couple years, and that's good news for us because we do have the infrastructure in place. We've already got relationships with many of these businesses that require this high-speed connectivity because we're already there and are available to deliver what they need today."
Cox also is getting into the wireless game. The company recently began testing its own wireless cellular phone and data service in two markets outside Louisiana. King says Cox Wireless should be coming to Acadiana in the next two to three years.
Both Cox and AT&T also offer businesses secure data storage services.
Cox's VP of Business Services, Leigh King says
his company has 6,500 clients in Lafayette alone.
LUS Fiber is the much-hyped newcomer in the game. The business, which services customers with a 100 percent fiber optic network, launched to some city residents in February 2009. LUS Fiber just recently began serving business clients. Its citywide network build-out is ahead of schedule and should be completed in July.
The nascent business is now only offering limited video service to its business clients, due to different terms required by network providers for businesses, but LUS Director Terry Huval says those cable offerings will be expanding in the next few months.
LUS Fiber's main selling point has always been its Internet speeds. Standard business packages include symmetrical download and upload speeds of up to 100 megabits per second.
From the beginning, LUS Fiber has been about more than just low-cost cable; its mission has included such ideals as bridging the digital divide, spurring the competition to make Lafayette a priority and fostering economic development. "The LUS fiber network puts Lafayette in a unique league as far as its broadband capability," Huval contends. "We're confident it will be one of the things that help make Lafayette a more attractive place for businesses to locate and grow."
In 2005, the old Atlantic Richfield Co. building in the Oil Center had been collecting dust, abandoned for seven years. The combined forces of Hurricane Katrina and Lafayette's expanding broadband capabilities changed all that. Katrina brought native daughter Ruth Ann Menutis back to town from New Orleans. A prolific entrepreneur, Menutis bought the ARCO building and began exploring different possibilities. Soon, she had teamed up with Abigail Ransonet of Abacus Data Exchange with the idea of creating the Travis Technology Center. Wired entirely with fiber, the center began recruiting businesses with newly renovated offices along with deals on cost-effective broadband and phone service from Abacus.
"Within 12 months we had the building 100 percent occupied," Ransonet says, "and we've had a waiting list ever since."
Today, the building, constructed specifically for ARCO with the 1950s development of the Oil Center, hardly resembles its old self.
Twenty-eight tenants - ranging from the likes of the Women's Business Center to Forward Link commercial wireless integration to McMoRan Exploration Co. to The Acadiana Regional Development District - rent offices in the 40,000 square foot space.
Jo Burgoon, Executive Concierge of the
Travis Technology Center, with Abigail Ransonet of Abacus.
A central multimedia studio, replete with touch screen monitors and a video green screen, is also a gathering spot of sorts for young programmers, software developers and engineers, hosting meetings for IT networking groups like Adobe User's Group, Lafayette Dev Net and Lafayette Net Squared.
Visitors to Abacus' suite enter a dimly lit front room, where a leather massage chair and an array of lava lamps provide a respite from the work day. Inside the main office, which has maintained the bright retro orange carpeting of previous tenants, monitors display the broadband use of all Abacus clients.
Cox, AT&T and LUS Fiber, through Abacus, are all wired into the building, offering broadband telecommunications to different tenants. Abacus Data Exchange is one of 11 wholesale buyers of LUS Fiber that first began selling direct fiber connectivity to businesses of the LUS network, along with other IT services. Ransonet is quick to give credit for her success back to LUS' visionary fiber project. When LUS completes its build-out of a citywide fiber network , Lafayette homes and businesses will have some of the highest broadband speeds and capabilities in the nation. (Ransonet worked as a consultant for LUS Fiber prior to starting Abacus in 2005).
"This is all a direct outgrowth," Ransonet says. "It's a business development project that has proved successful. We rent space. We pay for utilities. We pay for broadband. We hire developers and programmers and engineers, and we spend our money here. None of this would exist if not for the LUS broadband project."
The Travis Technology Center has managed to attract a broad range of tenants, including young entrepreneurs Ransonet and Menutis hope will continue to build Lafayette's IT community. For Ransonet, both Abacus Data Exchange and the Travis Technology Center are a testament to how expanding broadband capabilities are creating new opportunities and optimum environments for businesses.
"I just wanted to be ready for what was possible," Ransonet says. "And if I had that, then I could be ready for whatever's coming. And for me it's all about economic development; part of me wanted to just prove to other business people that you can build a business on true broadband, you can build a solution. I mean mine's just one of many that's going to be up and coming. I just happened to be ahead of the curve and could do it."
The LUS Fiber network and Lafayette's blooming broadband infrastructure are generating much excitement among local public officials and those in the tech industry. At his annual State of the Parish Address in February, City-Parish President Joey Durel hit on the benefits of fiber early and often. "Lafayette is setting out to be nothing less than ground zero for the development of the next generation of the Internet," Durel exclaimed. "We're now getting hooked up to the fastest broadband network in the country. I'm committed to seeing Lafayette build on what's already great about our city and our parish, by us becoming a leader in driving fiber-powered 21st century innovation."
Twenty-eight businesses lease space in the
Travis Technology Center; more are on the waiting list
Industry leaders are taking notice. This month, Durel was one of the panelists at America's Digital Inclusion Summit in Washington, D.C., put on by the Federal Communications Commission and James L. Knight Foundation. He was invited back to the nation's capital last week, along with LUS Director Terry Huval, to participate in a series of discussions on national broadband developments at Google's D.C. office.
Lafayette's world-class broadband infrastructure also is becoming a common refrain at the Lafayette Economic Development Authority. LEDA recently created two new positions that will focus on pursuing companies in digital media fields. LEDA also is partnering with Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise for a technology business accelerator program to incubate new companies and help recruit existing businesses to the area.
Bryan Fuselier, Senior Systems Administrator at Abacus.
LEDA President Gregg Gothreaux says how far these initiatives go will be largely influenced by the local community. "When we built LITE," he says, "when the state built the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, when the community decided to build fiber to the premises, a challenge was issued. These were steps taken by the community in a unified challenge to the entrepreneurs and the business people of this community to take advantage of these resources. It is no different than the development of the Oil Center, the starting of our university, and the original founding of LUS in our community over 100 years ago in that it will only be as great as the entrepreneurial ability of our community."
LEDA also has been involved with planning a series of CampFiber events that will seek to engage the community on ways Lafayette can build on its fiber infrastructure, as well as a FiberFete conference at the end of April that is drawing in public officials and business leaders from around the globe.
David Isenberg, a nationally respected telecom consultant who has been working with LUS Fiber, is one of the organizers of FiberFête who sees big potential in Lafayette. "Having the LUS Fiber network is going to make Lafayette one of the most wired cities in the world," he says. "There's no disputing that. When it's fully built out and it passes every home in town and it makes affordable broadband available to just about everyone, that will put Lafayette in an extremely favored position."
Mike Bass, IT Supervisor for the Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court
Isenberg likens fiber to the home to the advent of electricity a century ago. "Because electricity could come to every home in a city," he says, "new, amazing things could happen. We believe the same is true for broadband."
Mike Bass, the IT supervisor for the Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court, is one of the co-organizers of Lafayette Net Squared, a networking organization formed to foster Lafayette's tech community. Bass also believes Lafayette's digital media and IT industries stand poised to make great leaps forward because of citywide fiber.
"What makes it exciting now," he says, "is we're one of the few, so we can kind of get out there and say, Hey, look at us, look what we're doing. Right now, there's that excitement that we could kind of be a trendsetter."
With the infrastructure in place, Bass hopes to soon see a few entrepreneurial success stories to help light the way to further innovation.
"If everybody in Lafayette has this broadband straight to the house," he says, "what sort of businesses could you create? What kind of services could you create? Right now we're just thinking of all those sorts of things. Nobody's building them yet. If just a couple of people would start building these companies and these services, I think it would snowball."


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While the game was actually developed by Big Huge Games, their parent company 38 Studios is going down in flames and it's gonna cost Rhode Island taxpayers a lot.
- 38 borrows 75 million dollars from the state
- can't pay back, already defaulted on May 1st
- Curt Schilling asks for more money
- CEO is in maternity leave
- both the company and the state officials refuse to comment
- if 38 is closed, all its IPs and assets will be owned by the state who will auction them
The curse of Big Huge Games strikes again!
Related: Schilling said that KoA received two DLCs but no patch because EA forced them to do so. They weren't going to partner with EA for the MMO.
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Sales of fake baby lotion lands company director in hot water
12:00pm Saturday 9th June 2012 in News
A GRAYS business has been fined for selling fake Johnson’s baby lotion.
Akhtar Shabarz, the director of Pound City Ltd stores in Grays and London, admitted selling the counterfeit product in his shops in court on Thursday, June 7.
Magistrates in Basildon heard the makers of the real lotion, Johnson & Johnson, had contacted Thurrock Council’s trading standards team after receiving a complaint.
The team went to the Pound City in Grays High Street in December 2010, and seized 59 bottles of the fake lotion.
On the same day, officers from Newham Trading Standards seized nine bottles from Pound City in East Ham.
Tests carried out by Johnson &Johnson showed the lotion was counterfeit, and contained certain preservatives which the company does not use.
Shabarz, from South London, admitted he bought the lotion from someone who came into his store because it was cheap, he made no attempt to check it was genuine.
He and the firms were charged with selling, offering or exposing for sale goods which bear a sign identical to a registered trademark without the consent of the proprietor of the trademark.
The stores were further charged with offering or exposing for supply goods prohibited under safety regulations because the product did not display the details of the manufacturer or person responsible for marketing the product.
Shabarz and both firms were each fined £1,150 and ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge.
The director was also ordered to pay £3,585 in costs to Thurrock Council and £750 costs to Newham Council.
Kevin Donovan, vice president of global security at Johnson & Johnson, said: “We are grateful for the diligent efforts of law enforcement and government agencies in supporting the fight against counterfeiting.
“We must do everything we can to ensure the integrity of our global supply chains to protect the consumers and patients who use our products all over the world.”
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Besides being an ace fashion designer, Masaba Gupta is also a doting wife! Known for creating quirky designs, Masaba will be attending Cannes Film Festival this year to be by her husband Madhu Mantena’s side, as his upcoming thriller, Raman Raghav 2.0, directed by Anurag Kashyap will be premiered at the coveted film festival.
Anurag is returning to the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at Cannes this year with his latest thriller, in which Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays the infamous serial killer.
Interestingly, Masaba is considered as the first Indian designer making a solo appearance at Cannes. Earlier, Rohit Bal attended the film festival with Deepika Padukone.
Though Masaba may not be walking the prestigious red carpet, her presence will definitely be a major source of encouragement for Madhu, who is anxiously awaiting the film’s release.
Masaba is inundated with offers from several international brands to sport their accessories at the festival scheduled next week. While Masaba will be seen sporting her own creation, her shoes will be sponsored by Christian Louboutin.
Masaba says, “I am excited about attending the Cannes Film Festival for the first time. I will be cheering for the film’s team, and my husband, Madhu.”


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Aurivo milk supplies up 111% since 2010
Aurivo Co-operative has increased its milk supply by 111% since 2010, according to group CEO Aaron Forde.
Speaking to AgriLand following the publication of the north-west dairy giant’s financial results for 2018, the chief executive looked back on what has been a volatile year in the dairy world.
“As we look back, over a number of years, our milk supply is up by 111% since 2010; or if you exclude the Donegal business, 150% – but, on a like-for-like basis, 111% growth in our region.”
Turning to the current market and reflecting on a challenging year, he described Aurivo’s financial performance as robust.
Forde underlined the volatility present due to global conditions, driven by the well-documented weather conditions in the spring, and then into the summer.
“You’ll see our turnover is up 4%, just under 444 million. Group operating profit came in at €3 million, down from €3.9 million.
The marts division had a tough year for two reasons, it was noted: the marts closed for just over a week due to Storm Emma in March 2018; and subsequently closed again for just over a week following a workplace incident in Mohill Mart.
“We took steps then to make our marts safer from a customer and a staff point of view.”
In addition, 2018 saw the largest investment made in the history of the co-op, Forde said, with €22 million spent by Aurivo, predominantly on a new dryer, in what is the start of a €48 million, five-year investment programme.
“So, overall, we’d characterise a reasonable year, a robust year, reflecting the strength of Aurivo’s underlined business and our operational strength,” Forde said.
In terms of Aurivo’s business divisions, the cooperative’s had a “good, steady performance” in the year, processing 115 million litres of milk, with sales of just under €98.8 million across butter, milk and sports nutrition.
Volatility in butter impacted at retail level, but there was modest continued growth in branded milk and customer-brand milk products.
“Our Dairy Ingredients business had a strong year; sales increased by €10 million – again that’s mostly milk volume driven,” Forde continued, noting a milk volume growth of almost 8%.
The Dairy Ingredients business had sales of €153.4 million, with product distributed to over 50 markets worldwide.
“We continue to expand that number and our customer base, particularly in the middle east and Africa.
Our agri-business, including our Homeland retail stores, 35 of those if you include online, had a very strong year; some of that weather-driven, some of it a good growth in customer numbers.
Sales came in at just under €121 million for the year, up 18%. However, the livestock marts business saw a €10 million reduction in sales, jotting up €71 million over the year.
“With all the challenges, Brexit etc., we believe we have the right strategy, efficiencies in the business and plans to ensure that we deliver a positive and sustainable outcome for members and owners over the coming years,” Forde concluded.


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An employee of Normal, a headphone making company, takes picture of a man's ear to build customized headphone to be printed by 3D printers during a event in New York on October 30, 2014. 3D printing has sometimes been called the future of manufacturing, but proponents of the technology say it is also a bit of a throwback. At Normal, consumers can use a mobile app to photograph their ear, transmit the shots to the New York startup's 3D printing facility and then receive invidualized earphones within 48 hours. After three decades in relative obscurity, 3D printing, which employs lasers to "print" objects from metals or plastics according to a digital design, has suddenly become one of the hottest areas of technology. AFP PHOTO/Jewel SamadJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images
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India has put in place a game plan for electric vehicles, components to reduce imports, says NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant
Amitabh Kant said the country's EV focus should mainly be on two-wheeler and three-wheeler vehicles and public transport
Amitabh Kant said domestic battery manufacturing for electric vehicles provides a
Kant said the country's EV focus should mainly be on two-wheeler and three-wheeler vehicles and public transport
New mobility solutions will reduce oil import costs, lower India's trade deficit and limit our vulnerability to oil supply disruptions, Kant said
Ahmedabad: India has put in place a game plan for electric vehicles (EV) and its components like batteries to ensure clean cities, reduce imports and utilise solar power, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said here on 27 July.
He said domestic battery manufacturing for electric vehicles provides a "massive market opportunity", and also quickens the transition to such environment-friendly transport, which is vital for the country to help combat pollution, congestion, strengthen energy security and create jobs.
Addressing a conference on sustainable mobility through video link, Kant said the country's EV focus should mainly be on two-wheeler and three-wheeler vehicles and public transport.
"We have a game plan to drive electric vehicles, particularly two and three-wheelers, public transport and manufacturing of batteries in India. Our objective is that we should first work on about 80 percent of components of two and three-wheelers and buses and also push manufacturing of batteries in India. Our objective is to clean up cities, reduce imports, and utilise the sun and its energy for driving electric vehicles," Kant said.
"From the perspective of energy security and competitive advantage, new mobility solutions will reduce oil import costs, lower India's trade deficit and limit our vulnerability to oil supply disruptions," Kant said.
With low per capita car ownership, which currently is 20 vehicles per 1000 people, India has an opportunity to leapfrog ahead of the legacy model of individually-owned internal combustion Indian vehicles that are utilised by only 5 percent of the people, he said.
"India's low per capita car ownership affords the chance to pursue a different model from the western world. Our emphasis must be shared, connected electric transportation," he said.
He said to create a unique eco-system to enable 'Make in India', and drive the movement for manufacturing in India, the country will require a phased programme across the entire value chain, an efficient fiscal impact structure, and size and scale aligned to the country's ambition to produce world- class vehicles for domestic and international markets.
"With batteries accounting for almost 40 percent of total cost of EVs today, domestic battery manufacturing is a massive market opportunity for India to rapidly enable the transition to EVs," Kant said.
"New battery technologies like solid state lithium ion battery, sodium ion battery, and silicon based batteries are underdeveloped. India needs to vigorously pursue research and development and have a clear road map for manufacturing on a mega scale," he said.
To facilitate charging infrastructure, Kant said newer models should be explored and startups must be facilitated in this area.
He said new cities like Dholera (coming up near Ahmedabad) should allow maximum number of EVs.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the conference, Chief Secretary J N Singh said Gujarat is poised to lead in the field of e-mobility.
"Dholera is emerging as a very important township for this. A big company will announce investment in Dholera in lithium-ion battery manufacturing for EVs....We plan to develop a 5,000-MW solar power plant, and 250 MW plant will be ready soon," Singh said.
"We are in the last stage of discussion with Tata Chemicals for lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant. The battery is vital for e-vehicles and comprises 40 percent of car cost," he said.
IAF's Project Cheetah: Indian defence manufacturers to arm the Israeli Heron drones with strike capabilities
Under the ambitious Project Cheetah, the Indian Air Force wants to upgrade its existing fleet of Israeli-origin Heron unmanned aerial vehicles with better communication facilities and missiles which can target enemy positions from long range
In recent years, the Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has either curtailed or canceled several major import deals in order to take forward the 'Make in India' campaign in the defence sector
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⚖ Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty
The Sam Bankman-Fried trial came to a conclusion on November 3rd. After only a few hours of deliberation, the federal jury found SBF guilty on 7 counts of fraud and conspiracy. While SBF’s sentence has not yet been determined, these charges carry a maximum sentence of 110 years total. Following the conviction, SBF and his lawyers continued to declare his innocence.
🇬🇧 ShareRing Trusted Digital Service Provider in UK
ShareRing, a digital identity blockchain company, has been certified in the UK under the “Digital Identities and Attributes Trust Framework” (DIATF). In its announcement, the company expressed enthusiasm over the news, stating that it “marks a significant advancement in ShareRing’s technology and reaffirms the company’s commitment to reusable digital identity authentication in a secure and private environment”. The accreditation allows ShareRing to offer digital ID authentication and ID verification for land registration processes in the UK.
🌙 SEC charges SafeMoon Executives with Fraud
On November 1st, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed multiple charges levelled at SafeMoon and three executives linked to the SafeMoon token. Founded in 2021, SafeMoon is a cryptocurrency and blockchain company that promotes the web3 movement for “everyone.” SafeMoon responded to the accusations on X (formerly Twitter), saying that they take the news “extremely seriously” and that they will address concerns.
🤝 Renegade and Cointelegraph Collaboration
Cointelegraph Accelerator, a program that provides marketing advice, media products and mentorship to Web3 startups, has taken on the decentralized exchange, Renegade. Renegade bridges TradFi and DeFi by offering an easy-to-use interface with a visa on-ramps, payment solutions, account and personal finance management and Web3 functions. Renegade announced the collaboration on X, adding “Get ready for groundbreaking innovations”.
💸 Monero Funds Lost
Monero experienced a security breach that resulted in the loss of 2,675 XMR (almost $460,000 USD) from their community crowdfunding wallet. The loss reportedly occurred on September 1st but was not revealed until November 2nd. A Monero developer, who goes by Luigi, announced on Github that the source has not yet been identified. Meanwhile, Riccardo Spagni, another developer, commented that it may be linked to ongoing attacks that they’ve seen since April. Monero launched in 2014 and is one of the original privacy coins.
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Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the country’s largest oil firm, is eyeing to offer around 32,300 petrol pumps to a joint venture company with Malaysian government-owned Petronas to monetize its extensive network for fuel marketing, as stated by its company’s Finance Director, S K Gupta.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed the launch of its Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) second mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Notably, the novel OFT-2 is the second uncrewed flight mission developed for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft under NASA’s
Desalination projects in San Diego can get large funding under a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Mike Levin. According to Mr. Levin, the Desalination Development Act would fund $260 million over five years for desalination projects around the country, including the Mission Basin Groundwater Purification Facility in Ocea
According to the International Journal of Climatologys annual "State of the UK Climate" report, 2020 was the fifth wettest and third hottest year on record, courting back to the 19th century. Prominent meteorologists have sounded alarms that climate change has made Britain’s weather wetter and warmer,
American aerospace company- Boeing has reportedly announced that a considerable part of its engineering center operations in Bengaluru, India will transition to certain IT services companies.
Sources cite that the US aircraft manufacturer is outsourcing its infrastructure solution
California-headquartered research and development company, SRI International has announced that its insurance technology spinout- Wingsure is expanding its AR (augmented reality) and AI (artificial intelligence) offerings to provide instant access to customized insurance products for small farmers and communities acr
Lenovo has recently launched the Legion 5 Pro gaming laptops in India. The gaming focused laptop houses up to 140W TDP rated Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 dedicated graphic processing unit, alongside AMD Ryzen 5000 H-series processors.
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Deloitte, a multinational professional services company, has recently acquired TransientX and Sentek Global with plans to enhance its secure networking and cyber remediation product offerings. According to Deloitte, the deals, whose terms were not announced, would add Sentek and TransientX staff and technologies to i
LG Electronics has reportedly launched its 2021 LG TONE Free FP8 and FP9 earbuds with features like 3D Sound Stage, innovative sound-tuned Meridian, Whispering Mode, and more. The new LG TONE Free-range comes with an Arc Design, has a 4.4-millimeter shorter stem than prior models and is IPX4 rated. The improved drive


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ARM Holdings acquired two small companies focused on power-efficient Bluetooth technologies, Wicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices, as part of a broader effort to push into the Internet of Things (IoT) market. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Globalstar says that demonstrations performed at the FCC's Technology Experience Center confirm that terrestrial low power service is a good neighbor to Wi-Fi operations and Bluetooth. Bluetooth Special Interest Group disputes that, but Globalstar continues to urge the commission to expeditiously approve its TLPS proposal. What gives?
Some long-term investors in Globalstar are asking the FCC to make a decision on its proceeding based on the facts before it and not the filings of short-sellers, like Gerst Capital and Kerrisdale Capital, that would profit from an FCC rejection of the Globalstar petition.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is forming the Bluetooth Smart Mesh Working Group to look at standardizing mesh networking for Bluetooth Smart technology and explore various use case scenarios to benefit from mesh, from the smart home to other Internet of Things (IoT) verticals.
Even though the Wi-Fi router space has seen its fair share of newcomers who claim they know how to build a better mousetrap, a new slick Wi-Fi router from Eero is turning heads.
The UK's Ofcom is seeking comments on a proposal to change regulations around license-exempt ultra-wideband (UWB) devices intended to reduce the regulatory burden on stakeholders and allow them to consult on one set of regulations rather than three.
The Chicago Transit Authority is launching a pilot project that involves the use of beacon technology for transit authorities, consumers and brands, including the potential for coupon offers for travelers within range of a store, Mobile Marketer reports.
Pro-democracy protests are making FireChat a household name among dissidents in Hong Kong, many of whom have been downloading and using the network-free communications app from San Francisco-based Open Garden.
Sprint is providing transitional technology to people who want to cut the cord and use their mobile phone number as their only personal number but still like the convenience of having a call ring in on their landline phones.
Recognizing the rapidly growing interest in wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT), CEVA has agreed to pay some $19 million to acquire privately held RivieraWaves, a four-year-old company specializing in silicon and software intellectual property (IP) related to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.


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Statement Regarding Telegram Comment on 25.08.2019
Within spot9’s Telegram community, Johannes Gorski, CEO of spot9 GmbH, provided the following statement: “We push BaFin and our legal department to remove all crypto in Germany they are not working in a legal and compliant way.”
spot9 is not an opponent of innovation; however, we value the importance of compliance with legal foundations. Mr. Gorski’s comment was part of a heated debate with a direct competitor within the channel. We have not taken any legal action so far and we have no plans to do so.
Johannes Gorski and spot9 regret to have agitated the crypto community. We are convinced cryptocurrencies will change the world and we want to bring cryptocurrencies and digital assets to the public by providing easy, legal and secure access to Crypto-ATMs.
To give other established and also young companies in Europe the opportunity to roll out legally compliant Crypto ATMs in Germany, spot9 will offer a whitelabel solution (in partnership with Sutor Bank).
In addition to Crypto ATMs, spot9 is working on a unique and innovative mobile banking application. We are developing products and services that will make daily banking, payments and the handling of digital currencies simpler to use.
For interviews and background information on spot9, our CMO would be delighted to speak to you.
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