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Microsoft’s goal of merging endpoint security with systems management is one step closer to reality – at least for folks already working with System Center. But with a focus on the enterprise, the release is unlikely to make much of a splash with small businesses or those not already using Microsoft tools for desktop management.
The release candidate for Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010, the follow-up to Microsoft’s Forefront Client Security product, was announced at TechEd Europe this week. The product is built on System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to create a unified infrastructure for Windows endpoint management and security.
Adwait Joshi, Microsoft senior technical product manager, said the intent is to simplify endpoint management while at the same time reducing costs.
“The idea was that if we build [FEP] on SCCM, the day-to-day operations for security can be done by the same person that’s doing your desktop management -- patching, pushing client deployments and those kinds of things,” he said. “That will then enable the security guys to focus on end-to-end security issues.”
Joshi added that combining FEP with System Center should also alleviate the costs associated with maintaining separate infrastructures for endpoint security and desktop management.
A shorter learning curve with SCCM
The release could be ideal for organizations already running SCCM in their environments, as administrators can access the FEP dashboard directly from the Configuration Manager console. The dashboard can then be used to monitor malware and even manage client firewalls using familiar SCCM processes.
While there is an “unmanaged option” for running FEP separate from SCCM, Microsoft stresses that the two are designed to work together. “That’s our first recommendation. That’s the way we intend that product to be used,” said Joshi.
For this reason, FEP 2010 might not be a fit for organizations not using some form of SCCM. Johan Blom, a Microsoft MVP and Forefront blogger, said that such companies would most likely stick with competitor endpoint protection products from Symantec, McAfee or Trend Micro.
Blom added, however, that strictly from a feature standpoint, Microsoft’s Forefront security product stacks up well with competitors. “They are up there with the top vendors,” he said, adding that many of the environments he’s worked in have shown improvement when switching over to Forefront for client security.
“There had been malware on these systems, which the other products -- and I’ve pretty much migrated from all of them -- did not detect. So the [FEP] detection is really top notch,” he said.
For companies that currently run third-party endpoint protection with SCCM, the switch to FEP 2010 should be relatively painless. Microsoft designed the product to automatically uninstall existing anti-malware software when FEP is deployed, allowing organizations to upgrade client security in one step. Blom said the migration process should be a major improvement over Forefront Client Security (FCS).
“On the client side, [FEP 2010] will automatically uninstall FCS and just move on to the next version. So that should be easy,” he said, noting that the built-in deployment functionality of SCCM should help. “With FCS we didn’t have that; you had to have your own deployment solution.”
Forefront Endpoint Protection also includes a revamped antivirus core engine, which is the same engine used with the company’s anti-malware consumer offering, Microsoft Security Essentials. New features include anti-rootkit enhancements and dynamic emulation for testing potential malware in a workshop setting before it reaches the client.
What about SMBs?
Blom said he’s still waiting for Microsoft to come out with a similar new release for small businesses. “Microsoft is targeting enterprises and customers that have SCCM, but for customers that don’t have SCCM and are small businesses, I’d like to see a solution,” he said.
Blom added that while Microsoft’s enterprise segment starts at around 1,000 computers, any organization running Configuration Manager can take advantage of FEP 2010, no matter how big or small the company is. He noted, however, that smaller companies are unlikely to put something like SCCM into production.
“[Configuration Manager 2007] is a complex product, so if you have 50 machines, you’re not going to install SCCM just to run something like FEP,” he said.
The release candidate for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 is currently available for download at the Microsoft website. Though no date has been announced, an official release to manufacturing (RTM) is expected before the end of the year.
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Sugar price has hit a 28-year high on the international market (ICE). One of the reasons is India’s deficient monsoon. Production in India is projected to fall to 15-17 million tonnes in 2009-10 from the initial forecast of 20 million tonnes. Paradoxially, what has made things worse is excess rainfall in Brazil which is the world’s largest sugar producer. Indian prices have also risen in anticipation of a surge in demand during the coming festive season and fears that the government will impose import restrictions to curb prices.
Platinum is the new attraction for traders in the commodity market in India. The daily average volume of the white metal on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) has risen five times in July, albeit from a small base. As volumes have picked up, the spreads have narrowed. Globally, platinum is traded by sophisticated commodity traders. Recently, Goldman Sachs & Co has painted a bullish outlook for the metal. It has advised investors to buy platinum futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex). The cause of bullishness is reduced supply from the world’s largest producer, South Africa, due to mine blackouts.
The metal, used mostly for pollution-control devices in cars, might again expose South African supply problems, in the second half of 2009. Platinum had slipped to $863 an ounce in January when the economic outlook turned bleak. Car-makers consume 60% of the production. With the economic outlook reversing, platinum is back in demand.
Black pepper exports, a major contributor to the Indian spices export, have fallen sharply in the first quarter of the current financial year. Exports crashed 46% during April-June 2009. Indian market has been taken over by cheaper exports from Indonesia and Vietnam. For the past 12-15 months, Indian prices were higher by $200-$300/tonne, on an average, than prices in Vietnam, Indonesia and Brazil. Indeed, import of pepper has increased sharply to 5,451 tonnes against 3,971 tonnes during the same period of 2008-09, the spice coming mainly from Vietnam and Indonesia.
· Lack of selling and ample buying pushed ICE Futures US cotton to a nine-month high, amid rallying commodities and a falling US dollar. One of the key reasons is late monsoon rains, in the world’s second largest cotton producer, India.

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Ordinary scarecrows cower in fear at the Super Monster Wolf, an animatronic beast invented to protect rice and chestnut crops from wild boar. The Super Monster Wolf has proven its value during trails near Kisarazu City in Japan. When an animal approaches, sensors on the Monster Wolf trigger its creepy eyes and hellish howl. From BBC News:
The Japan Agricultural Cooperatives say that crop losses have noticeably decreased in areas where the Super Monster Wolf has been present. Beforehand, farmers around Kisarazu were resigned to giving up at least part of their crops to wild boar every year.
Speaking to the Chiba Nippo news website, Chihiko Umezawa of the agricultural cooperative says that the device has an effective radius of about one kilometre, suggesting it is more effective than an electric fence.
Now, the robot wolf is going into mass production, with units costing about 514,000 yen ($4,840; £3,480) each, but there are options for farmers to pay a far cheaper monthly lease on a wolf instead.
I-Wei Huang (aka Crabfu) makes all sorts of cool steam-powered mini-robots. In this video, he explains how he made a walking robot.
Several years ago, I wrote a feature for Bloomberg Businessweek about soft robotics, “in which steel skeletons and power-hungry motors make way for textiles.” The idea is that soft robots, often powered by compressed air in pneumatic “muscles,” are more flexible, lighter weight, and much safer for their human workmates. Above is video of automation […]
The United States Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Thursday about the use of surgical robots in breast cancer surgery. FDA says that use of the robotic medical devices in mastectomy, lumpectomy, and related surgery because of “preliminary” evidence that it may be linked to lower long-term survival. .
Seems like drones are doing a lot of jobs these days, from reconnaissance to delivery. Now, we can add “keeping the Death Star safe” to that list. Whether you’re a drone enthusiast or a Star Wars fan, these Star Wars Propel Drones are undeniably the coolest toy around. Yes, that’s a fully functional drone replica […]
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The Shoprite store in Athlone has closed until further notice after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.
“After one of our colleagues at Shoprite Athlone tested positive for Covid-19, we closed this store,” Shoprite Group said in a statement, “We have informed The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) and the Department of Health.”
According to Radio 786, the Shoprite Group confirmed the case and said that the store was closed immediately. Those who were in contact with the infected person were places on 14-day self-quarantine.
A decontamination company has been brought in to sanitise and deep clean the store. It will re-open once determined safe by the Western Cape Health Department.
This is the second store Shoprite has had to close with a store in Bothasig closing after an employee tested positive earlier this month.


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President Trump renewed his attack on Amazon.com Wednesday, tweeting that the e-commerce giant is "doing great damage to tax-paying retailers" and removing jobs in cities. Trump's blistering tweet was issued hours after The Washington Post — the newspaper owned by Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos — ran an editorial with the headline, "Mr. Trump gives comfort to racists."
Total Retail's Take: The feud between Trump and Bezos seems to be intensifying. Bezos has been an outspoken critic of Trump's political views, while Trump has gone after Bezos for Amazon's tax collection practices. It's true that Amazon is disrupting the retail industry, but the assertion that it's not paying taxes is not. Amazon paid $879 million in income taxes in the 12 months that ended in June, according to its latest quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In that filing, Amazon also indicated that it expected its future taxes to increase. As for removing jobs, Trump would appear to be partially correct. There are a number of retailers that have shuttered stores this year (The Limited, Wet Seal, Payless, hhgregg), but overall the industry gained 8,100 jobs according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.


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In an update to our previous story, a new resolution in Barangay Salawag in Dasmariñas, Cavite added more games to join DotA on its no-play list.
UPDATE 12:08AM January 27: According to a facebook post coming from Salawag Barangay Chairman Eric Paredes, the said resolution is fabricated, and is not an official edict from their office.
We’ll be taking it down so as to not cause any confusion.
According to the Resolution No. 009-S-2015 approved by the Barangay council last January 19, both offline and online First-Person Shooter (FPS) games such as Cross Fire and Point Blank have been added to the list of games not allowed to be played in computer cafes in the said area.
Salawag’s Barangay Council sees these games as roots of discord in peace and harmony not only in computer shops but also among families and the community as well. The games, according to the council, also inculcate bad virtues in children who play them such as swearing and cursing — even to the point where the youth steal and kill just to play them.
Computer shops that will be violating this ordinance shall be penalized with an initial one month suspension of operations, and a permanent closure with license forfeiture awaits those who have incurred repeated offenses.
Cross Fire is a highly popular free-to-play FPS game offering premium items as addons. The game is available worldwide, with players from over six continents and 11 distribution channels and revenues amounting to $1 Billion in 2013. Gameclub is the listed local publisher for the game.
Point Blank, on the other hand, is a fast paced online first-person shooter, which is very similar in terms of gameplay to Counter-Strike. It is developed by South Korean company Zepetto, and its Philippine operations are managed by Garena.


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Economists Expect Slower Growth in Second Half
Two steps forward, one step back.
That describes the current thinking about a year into the putative economic recovery.
On Friday, the government will release its report on the nation’s output for the second quarter, showing how much, if at all, the economy downshifted as the summer began.
Many economists — concerned about the sluggish pace of job creation, dwindling housing activity and decelerating retail sales — say that slowdown is continuing this summer and have recently downgraded their expectations for the second half of the year.
“Practically every Street economist took a knife to Q2 and Q3 G.D.P. growth,” David A. Rosenberg, chief economist for Gluskin Sheff, wrote last week in a note to clients, referring to Wall Street forecasts for gross domestic product. For the second-quarter results to be released Friday, economists project a modest annualized gain of 2.6 percent, down from 2.7 percent in the first quarter and 5.6 percent in the final quarter of last year.
Though some people started the year hoping for stronger results, economists say that the slow pace of growth should have been expected.
“So far, the recovery is remarkably normal for a postfinancial-crisis recovery,” said Kenneth S. Rogoff, a professor at Harvard and co-author, with Carmen M. Reinhart, of “This Time Is Different,” an economic history of financial crises.
“It doesn’t mean that we should cheer that it’s been so grim,” added Mr. Rogoff, who is a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. “But on the other hand, it’s not necessarily a reason to panic.”
Even shares in companies that are more ebullient, like Delta Air Lines and Amazon.com, have been driven down by nervous investors when executives announced plans to increase capacity or hire aggressively.
Perhaps Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, put it best this month when he described the outlook for the United States economy as “unusually uncertain.”
The news in recent weeks has been rather bleak. A crucial index of consumer confidence, which was rising strongly earlier this year, dropped for the second month in a row in July, while sales of existing homes have fallen for two consecutive months. Employers are adding fewer jobs than they were just a few months ago, and banks are lending less to companies than they were a year earlier, even after relatively good second quarter-corporate profits.
Earlier this year, expectations were much higher. The National Association of Home Builders, for example, forecast that buyers would sign contracts for 467,000 new homes this year; now it is projecting that they will buy just 375,000 homes — down almost 20 percent.
“We just thought that overall, the economy would have been doing better than it’s been doing,” said Bernard Markstein, senior economist with the home builders.
At the start of the year, manufacturing seemed to be staging a comeback as companies replenished inventories that fell very low during the recession. Many economists assumed that once products were back on shelves, consumers would start buying enough to deplete warehouse inventories. Now, consumer demand appears not quite strong enough.
Many companies that have reported impressive results this earnings season, including bellwethers like United Parcel Service and 3M, indicated that their sales swelled mostly outside the United States.
As a result, companies are still not hiring nearly as many people in the United States as policy makers — and the unemployed — want. The unemployment rate, at 9.5 percent, is not far off the peak of 10.1 percent, and 6.75 million people have been out of work for more than six months.
Part of the slowdown stems from the expiration of stimulus measures like the home buyer tax credit and the cash for clunkers program to bolster auto sales. But it is also perhaps the inevitable aftermath of a protracted era of credit-driven excess, buoyed by inflated housing prices.
Earlier this year, some economists projected stronger growth rates in part because they were looking at recessions in the early 1990s and the early 1980s. The problem with such analogies is that the latest recession was precipitated by a financial crash rather than more cyclical boom-and-bust factors.
Many Wall Street economists and investors have “been too willing to see this as a normal cyclical event distorted by some crazy things going on in housing,” said Ian Shepherdson, chief United States economist at High Frequency Economics, “whereas this was almost entirely driven by what was going on in the financial markets and houses.”
Consumers who used their skyrocketing home values to borrow ever larger sums of money to feed further spending are now paying off that debt, which hampers their spending. That process is “very slow and painful,” said Joshua Shapiro, chief United States economist at MFR Inc. “There is not that much that can be done about it, as much as politicians would love to find some silver bullet.”
In fact, politicians are debating quite ferociously whether more needs to be done to usher the economy along. The fiercest arguments are over whether to inject further stimulus spending into the economy and whether to let the tax cuts for the wealthy enacted under President George W. Bush expire at the end of the year.
There are those who argue that the current slowdown is just a hiccup, caused in part by tremors in Europe and concerns about a hard landing in China.
“We were hit by these shocks,” said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group. “But as we get additional evidence that the European economies are able to withstand the debt crisis and as banks are showing they have stronger capital and Chinese policy makers are successfully able to avoid any sharp downturn, that will be reflected in higher confidence among U.S. businesses and consumers.”
On the ground, slow growth has spawned a cautious mood that is feeding — you have it — slow growth.
“A lot of people are looking at things with the glass half empty,” said Douglas C. Yearley Jr., chief executive of Toll Brothers, the home builder. “And they’re temporarily on the sidelines.”
Companies, meanwhile, are not yet ready to capitalize on good news. Although 3M, which makes things as diverse as Post-it Notes and screen coatings for iPads, announced strong earnings growth in the second quarter, its chief executive, George W. Buckley, told analysts that he expected a slowdown in the second half and that “hiring will likely be low.”
At U.P.S., the company’s familiar brown trucks delivered an average of 153,000 more packages a day in the United States during the second quarter than in the comparable period a year earlier.
But the company, which has about 18,000 fewer people in package sorting centers and on driving routes in the United States than at its peak two years ago, said it was not yet hiring in great numbers. “The bottom line is that the growth in the U.S. just isn’t quite there in terms of generating jobs right now,” said Norman Black, a U.P.S. spokesman.
Industrial companies may wait to hire until early next year, after they have maximized productivity gains among current workers. “Traditionally, when you come out of a down cycle, there’s normally a fairly high reluctance to hire,” said Scott R. Davis of Morgan Stanley. “Investors and boards of directors don’t want to see them hire people until business is 100 percent back.”
Some businesses are desperate to hire but just do not see the demand to justify it. Dan Cutillo, the owner of a string of pizza delivery shops near Toledo, said penny-pinching customers are not ordering as much. At one of his stores, he said, the staff is now half the size it was a year ago.
“I should be doing larger sales,” Mr. Cutillo added. “I should be hiring more people.”


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Postalytics® introduces the first free direct mail automation marketing software in Canada
- Canada Post welcomes innovation in the Canadian market and says it will benefit business
- The leading American company Postalytics® is expanding into Canada due to strong customer demand
- New Marketing Tools Bringing Direct Mail into the Digital Age in Canada
- Businesses can now automate the creation, sending, and tracking of direct mail with innovative software that has just been launched in Canada.
Postalytics®, the leading American software company for the automation of direct mail, today announced its launch in the Canadian market. The innovative software is intended to bring “direct mail into the digital age”.
Dennis Kelly, CEO of Postalytics, believes it will be a game changer for Canadian companies how to engage customers and increase response rates.
“We are excited to introduce the first free automation tool to the Canadian market. We have seen customers increase their email and digital marketing campaign response rates by up to 500%, and we hope our Canadian customers will see similar results. “
The breakthrough direct mail automation software tool is fully integrated with Canada Post Personalized Mail ™ and includes integrations with HubSpot®, Salesforce® and Zapier®.
It integrates free direct mail personalization and response tracking tools like variable data, dynamic content, personalized QR codes and URLs, another first in Canada.
Janet Brearton, General Manager – Business Products and Experiences at Canada Post, welcomed the news and the opportunity to partner with Postalytics®.
“Canada Post is always interested in working with innovative companies, and we believe the Postalytics tool will give companies across Canada more options. The integration with Canada Post Personalized Mail ™ is seamless and will greatly benefit marketers. “
Canada is the first market for Postalytics® outside of the United States, and Kelly said the move is based on increasing demand.
“Postalytics has seen a significant increase in companies looking to offer our services in Canada. Canadian companies have invested heavily in CRM, marketing automation and other marketing technologies, which makes it natural for them to use a fully automated direct mail marketing system like Postalytics.
Canada Post was a great partner for our start in Canada and we are excited to be able to present our innovative technology to Canadian companies for the first time. ”
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To learn more about the Postalytics® Canada launch, read the full Postalytics Canada software release summary at: https://www.postalytics.com/blog/canada-direct-mail-automation-release/


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Alliance Looks to Make Financial Inclusion Goal a RealityBy Tory Jackson | Fri, 07/15/2022 - 11:00
Galileo Financial Technologies and Mastercard come together to change the lives of consumers and SMBs in Latin America through the digitization of financial services at all levels.
While cash is still king in Latin America, there’s little doubt that digital payments are rapidly taking hold as the digital payment ecosystem matures and grows. It’s estimated that at least 50 million people in Latin America made digital payments for the first time in 2020. The trend continues in 2021, according to the most recent New Payments Index 2022, which shows that 86 percent of consumers in the region used at least one new form of payment last year. Fostering the evolution of payments and the reduction of dependence on cash is at the heart of a powerful alliance between Mastercard and Galileo.
The New Payments Index, a yearly Mastercard survey, reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic produced a great step forward for digital payments and formal banking among Latin Americans but without continued support for the evolution of the ecosystem there’s a danger of losing the progress gained to date. An integrated effort focused on providing physical and digital payment methods for consumers must be complemented with the expansion of terminals in SMBs. Put quite simply, if consumers can’t use their cards to pay for goods and services, they will naturally continue to depend on cash transactions.
The importance of SMBs, which represent more than 99 percent of Latin American companies, and 25 percent of the region’s GDP, cannot be understated. That’s why the Galileo Financial Technologies and Mastercard alliance is so significant in its potential to transform the concept of financial inclusion into practical, convenient and accessible solutions for consumers and businesses.
The combination of Mastercard's developer approach with Galileo's scalable platform provides traditional players and innovators with the infrastructure and technology to create solutions that fit with the realities of everyday life in the Latin America region.
This alliance, which was initially implemented in Mexico but quickly expanded to Colombia, has significant growth and penetration potential not only for these two countries but, shortly, for the entire region.
Latin America is one of the most dynamic regions in financial innovation largely because of the phenomenon of leapfrogging, which is so common in emerging markets. The “latecomer advantage” puts emerging markets in a privileged position as they are not locked into the existing systems and can leap directly to more modern and efficient payment systems.
Given that access to the internet and mobile telephony in the region reached almost 70 percent in 2021, according to GSMA, the gateway for providing innovative financial services for Latin Americans is already operational and ready to serve consumers and businesses at all levels of the pyramid.
The Galileo-Mastercard alliance is the bridge that connects Latin American consumers and businesses with everyday solutions that authentically offer an alternative to carrying, storing and transporting cash.
With more than 20 years of experience in the international market, Galileo provides the backbone for innovative solutions for more than 100 million users throughout the payment chain and makes financial inclusion a reality in Latin America. Mastercard, for its part, is the preferential partner of fintechs in the region to lead the 200 million Latin Americans still unbanked toward the digital economy.
Galileo is a member of the Mastercard Partners Network for Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the components of the Mastercard Developers Program, which provides fintechs in the region with the services and tools they need to grow. Through Mastercard Developers, innovators gain access to applications, platforms and partnerships that enable them to bring their ideas to life and accelerate the digitization of payments.
An alliance is successful when it works for the whole ecosystem, Galileo’s and Mastercard’s brand recognition drive confidence among consumers and businesses. Our alliance allows financial inclusion to move from a lofty goal to an everyday reality.
(In collaboration with Thiago Dias, Vice President of Fintech & Enablers at Mastercard)


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Part of the Fossil Group, there's a new Wear OS smartwatch coming sporting the branding of Armani Exchange, with similar tech inside to the Fossil Q Explorist HR.
This new watch, called the Armani Exchange Connected, comes in a 48mm case with a steel linked bracelet where you've got the choice of gold-tone, black, silver and coal stainless steel options. There's a rotating crown on the right of the watch with two other buttons on top and below.
There aren't any other types of official straps, but we think you may be able to swap these out for other straps, as the watch has standard 22mm lugs.
All of the new Fossil tech including a heart rate tracker, Google Pay compatibility and GPS are available on the new watch.
You can also take this swimming as it's waterproof up to 50 meters. We're not sure how comfortable this will feel on your wrist if you're exercising with a stainless steel bracelet on though.
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Battery life is estimated to last around a day or two on the new watch, and there's a 300mAh cell inside to power it. We won't know exactly how long that will last until our upcoming full review.
We've yet to learn the exact specs for the screen, but it's a full color display and looks to be large enough to comfortably navigate around the latest Wear OS software that comes on board.
Pricing-wise we know the Armani Exchange Connected is set to cost $295 / £279 (about AU$400) but we've yet to get a clear price for the UK or Australia. We know you can buy it from today (September 24) in the US, but we don't know any more on the release date around the rest of the world.


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NEW YORK, NY, March 29, 2010 – If you think you have what it takes to sell a common, ordinary brick, then OgilvyOne Worldwide has a once in a lifetime opportunity for you – complete with an all expenses paid trip to the south of France for the spectacular Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival and a job with OgilvyOne. (This is not your everyday sales pitch – so act now.)
Using all the tools of the sales trade, OgilvyOne is on a mission to reinvigorate the noble art of salesmanship and the credo of its founder David Ogilvy who said, “We sell, or else.” To that end, OgilvyOne is launching a global search to find the world’s greatest salesperson through an online video competition on YouTube. Three finalists will be selected from entries received March 30 through May 16. The finalists will be flown to the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival for a chance to compete for a fellowship with the agency at a special session on June 21st where they will show their sales prowess in action.
“Our business is all about selling, and how we sell is changing fast,” explained Mat Zucker, Executive Creative Director of OgilvyOne in New York and the originator of the contest. “We thought it was time to reassert the importance of sales, honor the timeless craft of persuasion, glean wisdom from the best, and highlight the new tools and platforms which are re-shaping it for customers.”
To help contestants see great salesmanship at its best, OgilvyOne has seeded its YouTube channel with examples of great salespeople using proven sales techniques to close the deal. The humorous videos will be posted on Yahoo!, and other sites to fuel entries.
"In marketing, the noble craft of salesmanship sometimes gets lost in the pursuit of art or the dazzle of technology," says Brian Fetherstonhaugh, Chairman and CEO of OgilvyOne Worldwide. "At OgilvyOne, our whole mission is to help our clients win more customers and make them more valuable. This contest celebrates selling and creativity, and Cannes is the perfect place for this search to culminate."
The winner of the “Search for the World’s Greatest Salesperson” contest will receive a three-month fellowship with OgilvyOne. Their job will be to rearticulate the lessons of sales espoused by David Ogilvy with a 21st century approach.


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Usually, when thumb-down ratings appear and Steam's chart-based review bomb detection alarms start ringing, that means a developer did something to win the wrath of users on a grand scale. Assassin's Creed Unity, however, is experiencing the opposite: positive check the pump.
Earlier this week, Ubisoft contributed € 500,000, or about $ 785,000, to the restoration effort of Notre-Dame, following a fire that seriously damaged the historic cathedral. The publisher also Assassin's Creed Unity, which features a recreation of Notre-Dame, free to download on the PC for a week.
As a result, Steam users have posted in the game reviews section positive reviews containing messages of support for Notre-Dame. Since 17 April, unity received almost 800 new revisions, most of them positive.
"Thanks to Ubisoft & Assassin's Creed Unity for giving us a chance to appreciate what Notre Dame used to be," says one comment. "God bless France."
"I hope this game can help repair the Notre-Dame de Paris," says another.
"THANK THE UPDATE FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROTECTION OF NOTRE-DAME IN ANOTHER", says a third in capital letters, because Steam reviews. "And it's also a strike for people we might need to keep digital data from some historical sites. AFTER DISAPPEARING A DAY.
Some people are even joking about the possibility of Notre-Dame being restored using unityDigital recreation.
"Builder A: Are we really going to build a tomb under the pool?" Said a Steam reviewer. "Builder B: Yes, I think so. That's what the Ubi cartoon says anyway.
At this point, Notre-Dame's reconstruction effort has already attracted more than $ 1.4 billion, many of which came from wealthy donors.
Despite the broad appreciation of the international solidarity show, the unprecedented influx of contributions has also raised questions about why companies and wealthy billionaires have not participated in this scale to help with humanitarian crises and other major incidents – especially those like Flint water. crisis where the victims are people instead of, well, old buildings.
Still, there is something to be said about preserving monuments and beloved spaces, even if it is digital. If nothing else, Assassin's Creed Unity – A game of 2014 that few people spoke more before this week – made that very clear.
Theoretically, some reviews that are just messages of support for Notre-Dame may be considered "out of topic" by Valve's new anti-revision pump standards, but I have a hunch that they will receive a pass in this case.


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As tinkerers and DIY freaks have moved into the 21st Century, advertising agencies and makers have become unlikely bedfellows, the audience of A Crash Course in Maker Movement Marketing at the 2015 SXSW Interactive Festival has been told.
“My best piece of advice that I can give you is to go into pitches with a prototype,” said TBWA Toronto’s head of digital Lucia Mancuso. “I can say from experience that when we go into pitches with prototypes we definitely sell…pretty much every time, and I know from talking to other agencies they pretty much sell every pitch they’ve done a prototype for too.”
Jonathan Moneta, the founder of MakeLab, Toronto’s largest hands-on 3D printing playground and studio, described the adoption of the maker movement by advertising agencies as “this weird sort of thing”.
“No-one on our team has had any advertising experience, but advertising agencies represent pretty much our entire client base,” he said.
“We were surprised that agencies would spend so much time and effort on pitching, in preparation and rehearsals, but it was a foreign concept, particularly for pitches that were on creative or interactive installations, to build a prototype of the concept. Even if it was ugly or only worked in a small way, putting it in front of the client had a really amazing effect.”
He said that the difference in complexity between the end product and the prototype can be light years apart, but it seems to make no difference in getting the client on board.
“Makers tend to be jaded, by the lack of capability of their tools, but marketers are just beside themselves with what they see,” he said.
So what exactly is the maker movement? Here’s Adweek’s definition:
“The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers. A convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans, the niche is established enough to have its own magazine, Make, as well as hands-on Maker Faires that are catnip for DIYers who used to toil in solitude. Makers tap into an American admiration for self-reliance and combine that with open-source learning, contemporary design and powerful personal technology like 3D printers. The creations, born in cluttered local workshops and bedroom offices, stir the imaginations of consumers numbed by generic, mass-produced, made-in–China merchandise.”
Moneta said that the key difference between the DIY movement and the maker movement was that because maker products were produced with computers, it wasn’t about making a version of something, such as a deck or a garage, but about making exactly the same thing with the aid of 3D printers and so forth.
The maker movement is philosophical in background, deeply geeky and highly values driven. So partnering up with uber cool advertising executives willing to sell their mother for a piece of business would definitely seem to jar.
However, money it appears, has its advantages.
For example, Moneta said that makers, who made art, were generally not able to access grants or funding for their work. To overcome this, Absolut Vodka made high-end art shows to exhibit makers work and get them some nice brand alignment at the same time.
Here’s some work that Suntori whiskey did a little while ago straight out of a maker lab.
And, the maker movement isn’t all just about 3D printing, it’s about simple single board computers as well. For example, using one such single board computer known as a Makey Makey, it’s straight forward enough to make a banana piano. “Marketers tend to totally lose their shit when you show them a banana piano,” said Moneta.
Warning! The below is possibly the worst YouTube video of all time from a quality perspective, but also potentially the funniest from the typical maker profile the guy who stars in it exhibits. Or is he actually Kermit the Frog?
Verizon Media’s talent program has come to an end for the third year, closing with a hybrid pitch-off event for Musicians Making A Difference (MMAD). The Verizon Media Academy class of 2021, made up of 44 emerging leaders from across Australia and New Zealand media, advertising and marketing industry, were given just one hour to […]
Social purpose organisation UnLtd’s Big Games competition has raised a combined $85,000 for children and young people at risk. Running over five weeks, the competition involved 32 teams from across the advertising, marketing and media industries battling it out virtually for a chance to qualify for the Rocket League final. The tournament culminated in a […]
Stan has announced that the Stan Original Film Transfusion commenced filming in Sydney earlier this week and will premiere on Stan in 2022. Transfusion is a taut, muscular thriller starring Sam Worthington (Avatar) as Ryan Logan, a former Special Forces operative, who is battling to cope with life after the loss of his wife and is thrust […]
According to a decade of data collected by iStock, Australian brands turned to imagery depicting outdated gender stereotypes during the pandemic. Tracking the keyword ‘women’, iStock by Getty Images found that in 2020, ANZ brands and businesses reverted to gender stereotypes. Images of mothers home-schooling were used at almost twice the rate of images of […]
Schwartz Media is congratulating Maddison Connaughton on her three years as editor of The Saturday Paper. Connaughton has decided to finish up her editorship this month. “It’s been an honour to edit the paper,” Connaughton said. “The Saturday Paper is one of the brightest voices in Australian media and I have been happy to see […]
Research from EdBbirdie using Spotify data has identified the most popular songs to study to. After analysing thousands of studying and homework playlists on Spotify, American singer Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘drivers license’ came out as top song to study to. It featured on 48 study playlists, while other top songs included ‘Ophelia’ by The Lumineers, ‘Falling’ […]
Dayna Stewart is the Business Director – Digital Marketing, Media & Creative Services at The Nudge Group. Here, she discusses the challenges that come with building a successful marketing team when working remotely. Before COVID-19 changed the way businesses work, most marketing teams spent their days together in a meeting room collaborating on the next […]
The line-up for the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Festival has been announced as the legendary event returns live in Las Vegas in September. This year, the epic two-day lineup for the iHeartRadio Music Festival main stage will feature performances by Billie Eilish, Cheap Trick, Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Florida Georgia Line, Journey, Khalid, Lil Baby, Maroon 5, Nelly, […]
Shop! ANZ is calling on shopper and retail marketing professionals from all retail related disciplines to participate in the first ANZ Shopper and Retail Marketing Industry Survey in four years. This important research provides a guide of where the retail marketing industry in Australia and New Zealand has come from and what is anticipated to […]


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The 13th Phuket International Boat Show, a four-day show of marine and luxury brands, welcomed 5,500 attendees in 2016 — 45 percent of attendees were international, primarily European. The show also saw robust growth in the number of Thai nationals attending.
“There is always an interesting mix of different nationalities in the audience,” said Northrop & Johnson Asia Director and Sales Broker Bart Kimman. “Many Hong Kong natives and Singaporeans, as well as European expats live in Phuket part of the year. Thai nationals are now working up a nice appetite for boating, too. Moreover, there are many Russians and Mainland Chinese patrons who love exchanging their winter climates for sunny Phuket this time of year. We exhibited an attractively priced Bering 65 and are now busy following up leads.”


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California-based Kena Kai is launching a new line of wallets specifically designed to protect contactless cards from data theft.
The secret of the new DataSafe wallets is the multiple layers of radio-frequency (RF) shielding embedded in the material, which the company says can block unwanted “skimming” of personal information.
According to Kena Kai, there are more than 50 million contactless credit cards in circulation in the US that could be vulnerable to skimming attacks.
“Without even removing their cards from wallets or pockets, consumers can potentially see their privacy and security compromised,” says Ari Juels, a researcher at RSA Labs. “A scanner in a crowded subway station might surreptitiously harvest credit card data from passersby.”
The wallets, which are made of faux patent-leather and come in 5 different colors, are now available on Kena Kai’s website for $70.


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UK publishers are locked in discussions with librarians over ground rules for e-book lending, with librarians continuing to press publishers to allow institutions to loan e-books under the one e-book, one loan, model pioneered by the US digital content provider Overdrive.
Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Faber and Quercus are among those declining to allow single e-books to be lent in libraries. Discussions have taken place between the Publishers Association, aggregators and the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) over how to manage e-lending in a way that suits the interests of both parties after both sides clashed over the PA's baseline position. Earlier this year, the SCL said the baseline had been "set at a level that may have very limited practical use for library customers".
Richard Mollet, chief executive at the PA, declined to comment on a likely timescale for agreement between publishers and librarians, but said: "We are having almost constant interaction with the librarian community and it is ongoing. The meetings are being held in a very constructive atmosphere—all parties fully appreciate the other parties' constraints and desires. We are exchanging perspectives on what's possible."
Penguin and Lonely Planet are among those permitting it; HarperCollins is permitting e-lending but has said it is "not ruling out" imposing a 26-loan limit per purchase on its e-books, as HarperCollins US has done. A Random House spokesperson said the publisher "does participate in e-book library lending for the majority of our catalogue".
Amazon and Overdrive last week announced the launch of a scheme that will enable readers in the US to check out a Kindle book from their local library, to read on their own Kindles or via a Kindle app. An Overdrive spokesperson declined to comment on any future roll-out to the UK, but Stephen Edwards, stock manager for Hampshire libraries, said it was "absolutely essential" for the development to come to Britain. "The Kindle is taking over the market and because it's a proprietary device that means that at least 60% to 70% of e-book readers can't use libraries," he said. Martin Palmer, strategic manager for Essex libraries, said a lot of people had already been asking about Kindle lending, and the media coverage sparked by the US announcement would boost that demand.
Edwards said that getting more UK content was the key issue for Hampshire's e-lending programme. "There are more UK publishers that don't sell e-books to libraries than do at present. The key thing is to get a partnership going. We are keen to behave responsibly and grow the market for everyone," he said.
A Random House Group spokesperson said the publisher was "in active discussions with interested parties—such as the Society of Chief Librarians—to find mutually acceptable systems which take into account market factors as well as reflecting appropriate copyright and rights restrictions."
Issues such as the appropriate number of loans-per-purchase are understood to be among those being thrashed out in the UK, with librarians arguing that a print hardback can be lent at least 100 times.
- Publishing 'sleepwalking into oblivion' over library e-book lending barriers, says librarian
- PA moves to calm unease over e-book lending
- BA tackles Hodge over free library e-book lending
- Library bodies warn publishers off 'retrenchment' over e-book lending
- Hachette Livre's Nourry discusses Amazon and e-books


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by Amy L. Hatch
One of the biggest jewels in Urbana’s crown is, without question, the Market at the Square.
This year, the market opens on Saturday, May 7. We chatted with Lisa Bralts, director of Market at the Square, and she gave us the skinny on what’s new for the 2011 season:
No animals. Perhaps the biggest change patrons will notice this season is the lack of four-legged creatures in the market aisles. Bralts tells us that pets are no longer allowed to visit the market. “We’ll still allow service animals, and we’ll allow animals that are part of a registered community group (rescue groups, for example), but other than that, we’re asking our patrons to please leave their animals at home,” Bralts says. “The main concern here is safety – not just for patrons, but also for the animals. I realize that for some people, bringing their pet to the market has been a Saturday morning ritual, but in the end we had to do what was safest for all our patrons.”
New locations for community groups. For the last several years, groups and organizations have been located at the north end of the market. “This year, the groups have been moved to Walnut Street, which is the blocked-off street to the immediate west of the main market site,” Bralts explains. “This will differentiate the groups a bit from the vendors, will give them increased exposure, will enable animal rescue groups to bring their animals (they will only be permitted in this area), and will hopefully help with some of the congestion in the market at that north end. The spaces will now house several food vendors.”
New vendors. The market loses some venders every year to health concerns or other issues, but Bralts says several new sellers will be joining the market in 2011. “The new produce folks will be trying some new vegetable varieties, I’m hearing, and we might have fresh, Illinois-grown nuts at the market this season,” Bralts tells us “For those with allergies, don’t worry – they’ll have plenty of signage alerting people to their products, and I’ll do my best to let everyone know where their booth is located in the market). I’m still trying to track down some other items that patrons ask for, like bison, cow’s milk dairy products, fish, etc. We have a few other irons in the fire that I hope we can get going this season, too.”
As for what products and produce will be available at the market on May 7, Bralts says that food can be tricky thanks to the fickle Illinois spring weather. However, she anticipates plenty of greens, including kale, asparagus, lettuces, spinach and green onions. Shoppers may also expect some rhubarb, and strawberries should show up at the end of the month.
“We’ll also have frozen meats, eggs, and honey on hand, and I expect a few different kinds of goat cheese, as well,” Bralts says. “Several of the ‘street food’ folks won’t be around until toward the end of (May). Veggie Trails comes in on the 14th, and CraveTruck (waffles) and the Moo Mobile (ice cream) will be in place by the 28th.”
Events will begin to gear up later this month, also, she adds: “The Urbana Free Library will be in residence on May 7, our opening day. U-Cycle comes to visit on the 14th. Our first Sprouts event with the Master Gardeners is on the 21st, and there’s a bike rodeo in the parking lot just south of the market site that same day. Finally, on May 28, we have our first Art at the Market workshop of the season.”
Look for chambanamoms at the market during the Sprouts events this year, and if you look closely, you’ll see us there in the crowds, shopping for delicious local foods, almost every weekend.


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Social listening is of heightened importance for brands at a time of profound disruption to consumer habits during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the example of #savefnbsg shows.
“You can’t rely on focus groups any more. You can’t use in-store feedback. Physical interactions, usually a big part of retail, are all gone,” Weldon Fung, head of social for Meltwater in Southeast Asia, told a recent webinar hosted by the media monitoring solutions provider.
“People are now going online to exchange a lot more information and share opinions” – and if marketers aren’t listening they may miss out on vital information. “It’s going to be risky, [and could mean] getting blindsided by movements that are online,” he said.
One such is the #savefnbsg campaign, which originated as a ground-up movement for Singapore’s consumers to support local food and beverage businesses, including restaurants. The initiative has gained momentum as out-of-home dining in Singapore came to a halt in line with social-distancing measures.
Meltwater’s analysis of social media conversations around the campaign threw up some interesting findings. For one, “commission fees” was a top keyword – and this phrase was often used together with mentions of delivery platforms.
“When we dug a little bit deeper into that, we realised there was a gripe in the industry about high commission fees imposed by delivery partners,” said Fung.
“Eventually, this movement was pushing for consumers to bypass using food delivery platforms altogether, and order from restaurants where they had freelance delivery people. They were essentially boycotting players like Grab and Deliveroo.”
This has major implications for delivery platforms and their partners alike. “What’s particularly challenging was the image that’s presented of these companies, who were seen as being opportunistic in a challenging environment,” Fung said.
“That may or may not be the case,” he added, but the perception opened the possibility of such delivery businesses taking some kind of positive action to support local businesses beyond simply saying ‘Hey, get on our platform’.
Deliveroo Singapore, for example, announced a new function for customers to support local restaurants via voluntary tipping – and pledged to match the first 10,000 customer tips, with 100% of tips going to the restaurant directly.
For more on this topic, read WARC’s report: Five examples of how social listening impacted brand strategies in COVID-19.
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Four video games created by Laramie High School students placed in the top-10 of a multinational competition. The Stem Fuse Got Game competition allows students throughout the United States and India to compete and show off their game designing skills.
The four games designed by LHS students Eric Van Wig, Kain Randall, Cathryn Lang and Erin Hummel-Abraham are called “The Robot Rumpus,” “Adventure Forest,” “MemoryBee” and “The Lost Fairy.”
LHS technology teacher Billie Vanlandingham said it is impressive to have multiple entries from the same school place in the top-10 of the competition.
“Students grades 5-12 are eligible to put entries into the competition,” Vanlandingham said. “I just leave it open to my students as to whether or not they want to put the entry in, but it is not required. I do let them know it is a lot more work to have a game ready for competition then just sending it in for their final project.”
She said her students have worked hard to learn how to code and create their games from scratch, especially given some of the students never coded a game before taking Vanlandingham’s video game design class.
“I have watched them work so hard for this,” she said. “They are very creative and worked really hard to have original characters. They couldn’t have anything plagiarized and the game had to be original artwork.”
Because making the games required more time than was available in class, the students found time on their own to get the games ready for the competition, Vanlandingham said.
“They start the program from the ground-up and they learn all the concepts and in the last three weeks of the class they are designing their game using all the concepts we learned in class,” she said.
“Those that have placed their games in the competition and placed spend a lot of extra time working, they have been here during their lunch hours, sometimes during my planning period and working at home so they definitely worked hard to earn this.”
Van Wig said he designed his game, “The Robot Rumpus,” after thinking about different aspects of games and decided to have his game learn how the player plays.
“You control a fighter and you are against an opponent robot who learns as you play and progressively gets better,” Van Wig said. “I just thought about what goes into a game, what makes it interesting and I came to the conclusion that we enjoy something that we have to progress as a player and I just wanted to emulate that in my game.”
Randall’s game, “MemoryBee,” was based on another game he made in a different coding program. He wanted to recreate it in the video game coding program the class uses to see how it could add to the game, Randall said.
“It is a memory match game but when you match cards, you shoot bullets that hit enemy bees you are trying to beat,” Randall said. “I made a game similar to this on a simpler coding engine and it was a lot of fun so I figured putting it into construct would give it more options and it turned out to be really good.”
Contest winners are scheduled to be announced Wednesday and until then people can vote for which game they like the best for the People’s Choice Award. Each of the students games are available at www.arcade.stemfuse.com/got-game-entries, Van Wig said.
“Right now I am just trying to get everyone I can to vote, (especially since) I am only a couple of votes from the lead,” he said.


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MyBucks Banking Corporation has announced the expansion of its bancassurance offering to include home insurance, motor insurance and electronic insurance, dubbed CellSure.
MyBucks Marketing and Customer Experience Manager Linda Nkosi said in a statement the move is aimed at enhancing customers’ financial freedom.
“The expansion of our bancassurance products is in line with one of our goals of making people’s lives better.
“In addition to the existing funeral and credit life insurance that we have always offered, we felt it is important to bring to the market, the home, motor and CellSure insurance” she said.
Nkosi highlighted that the home insurance covers one’s house and belongings against life’s unexpected events such as theft, damage by extreme weather, fire and other losses.
“We have also introduced a motor vehicle insurance package which comes with free installation of telematics gadget for car tracking, enabling customers to get rewarded with fuel cash-backs for good driving,” she stated.
Nkosi said the CellSure offering is designated for customers wishing to insure their electronic gadgets such as mobile phone and laptops against loss, theft, accidental damage, liquid damage and electrical damage.
She said customers should expect to benefit from this offering as the bank will either repair their mobile phone and laptop, where possible, or will simply replace it with a mobile phone and laptop of the same make or model, subject to fulfilment of prescribed conditions.
MyBucks already offers funeral insurance through its Linga savings account and credit life through its loan products, which the bank said has for the past years eased the stress on many families’ in the event of an unfortunate circumstance.


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With the launch of a "cloud in a box" appliance dubbed CloudBurst, IBM has added another product to its cloud computing arsenal this week.
Available beginning June 19, CloudBurst is a preconfigured IBM BladeCenter --IBM's blade server architecture -- running Tivoli management software and VMware's ESXi 3.5 embedded hypervisor on each blade inside a standard 42 U rack. Users roll it into a data center, plug it in and fire up a self-service portal for access. CloudBurst starts at a cool $200,000.
Later this year, companies will be able to buy IBM software to run new Smart Business services, including the Smart Business Test Cloud, a suite of application management software for test and development, and Smart Business Desktop Cloud, a virtual desktop environment. These offerings can be run in-house or directly from IBM as a service. Even later, IBM plans to sell compute resources directly from its own public cloud, akin to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
"IBM intends to be a player in public cloud, but it wants a foothold in the wide-open new private-cloud market," said Frank Gens, a cloud analyst at IDC. He said this will give IBM a future leg up as enterprises slowly move into public cloud computing over the next five to 10 years. "They're putting resources in near-term returns" and counting on that to open the door for future sales into IBM's public cloud, Gens said.
Built-in features enough to justify cost?
By offering products with management and governance already built-in, IBM hopes to justify the steep price tag. "Business process optimized systems are a heck of a lot easier for CIOs to sell to their bosses," said Gens.
IBM faces stiff competition from rapidly maturing open source offerings and private companies. AWS and other cloud providers have a long head start on public cloud.
A large enterprise can theoretically roll out its own private cloud for free, if it has the expertise on staff, as many do. For instance, open source Eucalyptus boasts customers that include Eli Lilly and Co. and claims thousands of active private-cloud users. Proprietary vendors also offer cloud services that will run on a customer's existing servers. VMware offers vCloud, and 3Tera has AppLogic - both products are already in the marketplace.
Netherlands-based iTricity CEO Robert Rosier said the new offerings are IBM's attempt to slide into a market that's more talk than walk. ITricity provides EU-centric public cloud resources with a focus on compliance.
"Everyone's talking about virtualization … but only 17% of the enterprise [market] is virtualized," according to Rosier. That leaves 83% of enterprises that do not run virtualized servers and might be tempted by IBM's offerings. He said that many companies need bare-metal servers, and IBM's mix of real and virtual servers in a box will be attractive.
Dennis Quan, the director of development for IBM's autonomic computing division, said it is trying to leverage the gap between old and new. He said IBM's already tied into "decades' worth of infrastructure" that's grown resistant to change but that the need for capacity is exploding. "By 2011 there's going to be 10 times the amount of data there is now," he said. He added that in order to keep up, "standardization is going to be key," and IBM's pre-rolled, standards-compliant cloud packages will ease customers into cloud computing gently.
Quan cites the work IBM has put into service-oriented architecture compliance and monitoring and management so that customers can plug into existing governance models without extra work. "The economics behind these new service models are very, very real." he said.
IBM's existing cloud products under its Smart Business marquee include the following:
- IBM Smart Market, a portal service to compare and manage different business applications that run in IBM's cloud environment.
- IBM Smart Cube, an all-in-one appliance that has networking, storage, and office software built in.
- IBM Smart Desk, a dashboard software package that lets users manage applications and services from the aforementioned Market and Cube.
Carl Brooks is a Technology Writer for SearchCloudComputing.com. Write to him at email@example.com. And check out our Troposphere blog.


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YouTube won’t negotiate with the YouTubers Union. The Verge reports that although YouTube agreed to meet with the YouTubers Union, it has no plans to negotiate with them. The union, which is pushing YouTube to address the concerns of smaller creators on the platform, was formed about a year ago. It joined IG Metall, the largest industrial union in Europe, earlier this month, which prompted YouTube to invite its representatives to YouTube headquarters.
What do they want? The YouTubers Union is seeking monetization for smaller channels. It’s also pushing YouTube to end demonetization and give creators more transparency into moderation decisions.
[Bijan Stephen / The Verge]
The US and France have reached a deal over a French law that will require US tech companies to pay more in taxes. The law, passed by France’s Senate in July, would put a 3 percent tax on US tech companies and was expected to affect tech giants like Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Google. And a spokesperson for Google said the tax was “a sharp departure from long-established tax rules.” The law caused a stir in Washington, and President Trump hinted that French wine could be subject to a new tariff in retaliation. However, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that US tech companies will be able to deduct the tax.
Who this impacts: The law covers tech companies that make at least €750 million in revenue worldwide (that’s about $844 million) as well as €25 million in digital sales in France.
[Corinne Reichert / CNET]
Chinese autonomous-driving company Pony.ai and Toyota are teaming up. Bloomberg reports that Toyota, in its attempt to take on rivals such as Alphabet’s Waymo autonomous car operation, will start a pilot program in September “on public roads in Beijing and Shanghai, using Lexus RX vehicles and Pony.ai’s autonomous driving system.” Toyota wants to become “a mobility company firmly rooted in China,” and partnering with the startup is a move in that direction, according to Bloomberg.
What’s Pony.ai? The company was founded in 2016 and is a frontrunner on China’s self-driving scene, which has gotten a late start compared with the US.
[Chunying Zhang and Jie Ma / Bloomberg]
Australia is blocking domains that host extremist content during crisis events. The country will even “consider legislation to force digital platforms to improve the safety of their services,” according to Reuters. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, “We are doing everything we can to deny terrorists the opportunity to glorify their crimes.” Tech giants including Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, and Twitter will need to tell Australia’s government by the end of September how they will carry out the recommendations.
The background: In the wake of the Christchurch, New Zealand, mass shooting in March, Australia and New Zealand have both increased scrutiny of social media platforms.
[Alison Bevege / Reuters]
It’s Tuesday, time for a podcast (or two)
- On the latest episode of Land of the Giants, we ask sellers, ‘Is Amazon too big?” Small businesses and major brands alike rely on Amazon but are increasingly ambivalent about selling on the platform’s Marketplace because of its fierce competition and declining profit margins. From a societal standpoint, is this a good thing? Host Jason Del Rey talks to Samsonite Global Chief E-Commerce Officer Charlie Cole and Birkenstock CEO David Kahan to try to answer this question. Listen here.
- And catch up on Recode Decode: This week Kara Swisher talked to Huawei’s chief security officer in the US, Andy Purdy. Listen here.
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Bernie Sanders takes on Facebook and Google for destroying local media. It’s a unique step for a Democrat who has been particularly outspoken in his criticism of the media.


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Growing cybersecurity threats to electric grids, telecommunications networks and medical devices already attracted customers and investors to Finite State Inc. — and then its business got a boost from the White House.
Founder and CEO Matt Wyckhouse didn’t have to board a plane or knock on doors for the Columbus startup’s $30 million Series B venture round announced this week. French energy and sustainability company Schneider Electric, a customer for 18 months, introduced Finite State to a firm that specializes in technology for the energy sector and heavy industry.
“They know the customers we want to work with; they understand the problem we are solving,” Wyckhouse said of Chicago-based Energize Ventures. “They were able to explain my business to me before I had to explain it to them.”


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Qualcomm slams Apple in scathing new statement
The Apple vs. Qualcomm patent fight is probably the second most important new legal confrontation between tech companies this year, with the Google vs. Uber trial being far more interesting and dramatic. But you had still better be ready for the incoming spectacle. Case in point: Qualcomm on Friday issued a press release to tell everyone in the world that Apple has been a bad, bad company.
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A new Rice University technique grabs images of chemical processes that happen faster than most laboratory cameras are able to capture them.
Low cost and complexity real-time THz imaging may be within reach as work in the US combines commercially available digital light processing technology and compressed sensing to enhance coded aperture imaging.
Toshiba Corporation today announced the development of "Bright Mode", a CMOS image sensor technology that allows smartphones and tablets to record Full HD video at 240 frames per second (fps), the industry's highest frame ...
Toshiba Corp. today announced the launch of "T4K37", a 1.12µm, 13 Megapixel BSI CMOS image sensor with color noise reduction (CNR). Mass production starts today.
Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Toshitaka Ohta, NRI, have developed 3CCD full high-definition (HD), infrared color night-vision imaging technology.
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will launch a new 20-megapixel (MP) CMOS image sensor, the TCM5115CL, as the latest addition to its sensor line-up for digital still cameras. TCM5115CL offers the industry's highest ...
Sony today announced the development of a single lens 3D camera technology capable of recording natural and smooth 3D images of even fast-moving subject matter such as sports, at 240fps (frames per second).


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Above: The general guidelines for introducing food to babies that could cause allergies may have been responsible for a rise in food allergies. Christina Stevens reports.
Two medical groups say babies who are at high risk of developing a food allergy can be exposed to potential allergens as early as six months of age.
Dr. Edmond Chan, co-author of the statement, says delaying dietary exposure to peanuts, fish or eggs will not reduce a child’s risk of developing a food allergy.
He says that once a new food is introduced it’s important to continue to offer it regularly to maintain the child’s tolerance.
The statement says that while these foods can be introduced to high-risk babies, the decision when to do so should be based on the parents’ comfort level.
Babies are considered at high risk of developing a food allergy if they have a parent or sibling with an allergic condition, such as atopic dermatitis, a food allergy, asthma or allergic rhinitis.
Food allergies affect about seven per cent of Canadians and some research suggests food allergies among babies are increasing, affecting over 10 per cent of one-year-olds.
The statement was endorsed by Dietitians of Canada.


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PARIS — Givaudan unveiled its financial ambitions through 2020, aiming at a slightly lower growth than the mid-term guidance ending in 2015.
The Swiss flavors and fragrance supplier said it targets an average organic sales growth of 4 to 5 percent for the next five years and average free cash flow of 12 to 17 percent of sales, unveiling the targets in tandem with an investors’ meeting on Thursday.
In the 2010 to 2015 period, the growth target was between 4.5 and 5.5 percent, while the cash flow range was from 14 to 16 percent of sales.
“We intend to create further shareholder value through profitable growth and acquisitions,” Givaudan chief executive officer Gilles Andrier said.
“Givaudan is taking into reality that emerging markets, which account for around 45 percent of the company’s business today, are growing at a slightly lower pace,” explained Andreas von Arx, analyst at Baader Helvea, who adds that the company’s growth target for 2015 remains unchanged at 15 percent. “In fact, it was reiterated today.
Givaudan said it plans on further expanding its position within “high growth markets” such as China and India.
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It also eyes acquisitions “in the areas of integrated solutions for food and beverages, as well as health and well-being, which also includes active cosmetic ingredients.”
Shares of Givaudan S.A. dipped 1 percent in midday trading Thursday.


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The winter blues are no joke. Lately, I’ve noticed an overall feeling of flatness in my life. I’m not sure if it’s the constant medical testing, appointments or lack of physical exercise, but I just don’t feel like my spunky self. If I could, I’d curl up in a “man cave” and hibernate until the trees and grass bloom again. That’s sounds ridiculous, but I think everyone can agree on one thing: sunshine makes you feel alive.
I’m not advocating that you go bake under the sun, but research has shown that sunshine – or the production of vitamin D from the sun – is very important when it comes to our emotional and physical well-being. For one, it can help the body modulate serotonin, which affects many important psychological and bodily functions such as sexual desire and function, appetite, sleep, memory, and most importantly, moods. Secondly, evidence has shown that low vitamin D levels can contribute to cognitive decline, an increased risk of heart disease, and even cancer.
Because of the dangers associated with skin cancer and prolonged periods under the sun, sitting out in the sun or not slapping on a pound of SPF has become a sin. Our lifestyles have also contributed to lower levels of vitamin D. “Most of us sit at a computer all day, then walk to and from our cars when the sun is too low to produce UV,” says Robert Heaney, an endocrinologist at Creighton University. It doesn’t matter where you live either; Heaney and his team have found that hospital workers in Alaska and even Hawaii are low on vitamin D, too.
Without wearing suncreen, it takes (on average) between 10 to 30 minutes of midday UV exposure to produce 10,000 and 20,000 IU of vitamin D.
Dieting and aging can contribute to a low vitamin D status, as well. As we begin to age, our bodies synthesize vitamin D less efficiently. A report from the Berkeley School of Medicine reported that, “a 70-year-old man synthesizes only about a quarter as much vitamin D as a 20-year-old who gets the same sun exposure.”
If you think you’re covered because you consume a lot of vitamin D-rich foods, think again. “Even vitamin D–fortified eggs and milk are basically useless,” Cannell says. “You would have to drink 50 glasses of milk per day to get enough.”
How much do we need: First of all, because vitamin D is fat soluble, it is important to pair your supplement with food. ConsumerLab reports that by doing so, your body may be able to absorb 50% more vitamin D. Dr. Robert Heaney says, “As a rule of thumb, get 30 to 35 IU per pound of body weight per day.” If you’re 165 lbs, that would equal 5,000 IU.
Research recommends that you supplement with Vitamin D3 (not D2), which is the same version made from the sun, because vitamin D2, takes longer for your body to convert to a usable form. The experts caution against chugging back megadoses of vitamins – like I used to. JoAnn Manson, an epidemiology professor at the Harvard School of Public Health explains that too much vitamin D will can cause excess calcium to build up in the blood vessels.


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World-leading powder paint supplier AkzoNobel has launched a new website to showcase several projects protected by Interpon Powder Coatings .
Interpon Buildings, the new website displays the company’s proven track record in architectural powder coatings by featuring over 300 architectural projects protected by Interpon powder coatings. Background information, product details and a comprehensive collection of photographs including close-ups have been provided for each building listed on the website.
According to Barry Tomlinson, Global Marketing Director - AkzoNobel Powder Coatings, the new website is the latest milestone in their online strategy. All the buildings featured on the website include a link where available, to Google Maps Street View, allowing architects and visitors to access street-level imagery by zooming into the lowest level on Google Maps, and viewing the building in situ.
Tomlinson adds that the website will enable architects to view projects that have different coatings and colours applied in their actual environments such as hot and dry, cold and wet, residential or commercial among others.
The launch of the new website is part of the organisation’s ongoing efforts to enhance the quality and availability of information to its customers.


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IBNA- Secretary of Iran's Book of the Year World Award said that negotiations are underway to designate China as the host of the 3rd Book of the Year Regional Award.
IBNA- Secretary of the Grant Plan of Iran's Culture Ministry which is aimed to promote the translation and publication of the Iranian books into other languages said 400 literary works are annually backed by the plan.
IBNA- Two Iranian books, 'The Father's Teachings' and 'Red Snow' were published in Italy and Lebanon through the Grant Plan of Iran's Culture Ministry.
IBNA- An Iranian translator who has rendered four books by the late Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi (1936-1985) into Turkish said that people of Turkey of have welcomed the works of the leading Iranian writer.
IBNA- Six workshops and specialized meetings on digital technology and digital marketing in printing industry will be held on the sidelines of the 26th Tehran’s International Printing, Packaging and the Related Machinery Exhibition scheduled for November 29 to December 2.
IBNA- At a ceremony to be attended by Turkish Ambassador to Iran, 14 Iranian books which have been translated into Turkish will be unveiled in Tehran on Wednesday.
IBNA- 650 domestic and foreign companies have been registered to participate at the 26th Tehran’s International Printing, Packaging and the Related Machinery Exhibition scheduled for December 13-16 in Tehran International Permanent Fairground.
IBNA- At the upcoming 71st Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF), 14 Iranian books which have been translated into Turkish through the Grant Plan will be unveiled.
IBNA- A Persian Studies Professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Akhlaq Ahan has authored the book ‘Khayyam Studies’ featuring key researches on the legendary Iranian poet in India and Urdu language.
IBNA- Concurrent with the the 3rd Iran’s Printing and Packaging Industry Exhibition (IPAP) which is currently underway in Tehran’s Shahr-e-Aftab Complex, four training workshops will be held at the event on Thursday and Friday.
IBNA- Iranian Cultural Association of Children and Young Adults Publishers has held correspondences with 125 foreign publishers over exchanging book copyrights at Frankfurt Book Fair 2019 (FBF).
IBNA- Describing the plan of establishing the Association of Written Heritage Supporters, Director of Iran’s National Library and Archives announced that a statue by the leading Iranian sculpture Parviz Tanavoli will be installed in the library.
IBNA- Director of the Grant Plan of Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance announced that 50 books supported by this plan will be displayed in the 71st Frankfurt Book Fair.
IBNA- The 3rd Iran’s Printing and Packaging Industry Exhibition (IPAP) will be held in Tehran’s Shahr-e-Aftab on October 2-5, 2019 as 150 domestic and foreign companies will participate in the event.
IBNA- Paul Timmerman, a Belgian musician says that he was interested to work on Iranian music but that was difficult without knowing Persian language which prompted him to learn it.
IBNA- The 26th Tehran’s International Printing, Packaging and the Related Machinery Exhibition is scheduled for December 13-16 in Tehran International Permanent Fairground.
IBNA- The Second National Festival of Shams and Mewlana (Rumi), and art festival in three fields of poetry, music and typography will kickoff.
IBNA- Head of the Persian translation team working ‘Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine’ (2018) Dr. Mehrdad Salahi announced the release of some more volumes of this medical reference by late September.
IBNA- Cultural Association of Iranian Academic Books Publishers will participate at the 71st Frankfurt International Book Fair (FBF) to introduce Iranian scientific and research books at the event.
IBNA- The 2nd International Exhibition of Paper, Cardboard, Cellulose Products and Related Machinery will be held in Tehran International Permanent Fairground on August 6-9 as 70 foreign companies will attend the event.


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(William Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Nio ( left), and Qin Lihong, Nio president (right), talks to media in Shanghai. Source: CnEVPost)
Chinese electric vehicle company Nio officially announced Thursday that it will enter Norway, its first stop to test the overseas market. Before the launch, William Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Nio, said in an exchange with media that the company expects to enter five European countries next year.
Li did not disclose which five countries. When asked if Nio will enter France, he said that Nio will eventually go to France, but the countries where Nio's products will enter in the future will be announced in new launch events.
Nio will enter more markets, but will advance step by step and do long-term planning, Li said.
At the end of last year, Nio started to build a Norwegian team and formally formed Nio Norway in March, Li said, adding that Nio's entry into the global market was planned, but last year's Covid-19 and some of Nio's own events caused the progress to be a bit later than expected.
Nio's entry into Norway was more than a year later than originally planned, and now it's time, so Nio has been speeding up the matter since the second half of last year, Li said.
According to Li, it is more difficult for Nio to develop the European market than the Chinese market, and Chinese brands generally face more difficulties in their internationalization efforts compared to previous years.
Although globalization is currently facing challenges, Nio has a simple idea that good products and services will be recognized globally, Li said.
Nio's overall globalization strategy is well-prepared, and the company has planned for the long term while remaining patient and not holding out for a one-hit wonder, according to Li.
Overall, Nio's entry into overseas markets will certainly be challenging, but not as much as one might expect, Li believes.
Nio's vehicles have been designed with overseas markets in mind, and some details and software will be adjusted to suit local conditions, according to Li.
Nio is already thinking five years down the road, and entering the global market requires even more of a long-term perspective, he said.
As for why Europe was chosen as Nio's first stop in overseas markets, Li said he had learned that many fans in Japan and South Korea wanted Nio to enter the regions, but the company had no team there before, and the team previously established in Europe and the United States made it easier to enter those markets.
Nio will not build smaller cars specifically for Europe, and in the future Nio may build smaller models in China and will consider entering local markets at that time, he mentioned.


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It is likely that surging material prices will have an increasingly detrimental effect on company profit margins. Prices of hot-rolled coil in the US and Europe have ranged from $1,100 to $1,200 per metric ton, and are anticipated to reach $1,500 by the end of 2008. Similarly, the price of steel has increased in India and Korea; even in China, where production is heavily subsidised, prices are creeping upwards. The state-owned Aluminium Corporation of China has recently teamed with Alcoa to purchase 12 per cent of Rio Tinto, reportedly to halt any move by BHP Billiton to buy the company outright and take a major stake in global iron ore production. (That a state-owned enterprise is attempting to preserve the integrity of the wider market should not be overlooked).
This follows the approval of a 65 per cent price increase for ore supplied to China’s Boasteel from Brazilian producer Vale, while the Chinese government has levied a 25 per cent tariff on raw steel exports.
In India, the price of steel has risen by 33 per cent in the first quarter of 2008, this despite national steel producers having captive ore mines and coke producers. To counter the Chinese tariff, the Association of Indian Forging Industry is seeking to have a similar tariff imposed on Indian steel, while increasing the incentive benefit for exported finished forged goods to a China-matching 17 per cent, up from the current seven per cent.
That carmakers are complaining at all about the rise in the steel price comes as a surprise to some analysts. Michelle Applebaum, a Chicago-based industry expert, recently noted that, since 1981, the price of steel had yet to double from the then price of $800 per ton – this while the average price of a US-built car has increased six-fold over the same period. Much like today’s fuel prices, the increase in steel prices should have been predicted by carmakers. If such increases were in fact suspected, companies have now missed the chance to take a pre-emptive look at steel alternatives, but the fact is that there is still a generous amount of headroom left before the price of steel rises to such an extent that alternatives become viable replacements for mass car production.
GM and Hyundai have announced plans to increase prices on some 2009 models to reflect the higher cost of materials; GM is looking at an average increase of 3.5 per cent while Hyundai has pinpointed $200 to $300 per unit. Other manufacturers are likely to watch these plans with interest (whether handing one of the fundamental costs of vehicle manufacturing over to the consumer is a viable choice) but caution must be the watchword of the day. The scales are finely balanced and until steel reaches a critical price point, it may well be prudent to absorb extra costs in a market that is undergoing fundamental change.


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Fiverr International (NYSE:FVRR) Now Covered by Analysts at CIBC
CIBC assumed coverage on shares of Fiverr International (NYSE:FVRR) in a report released on Monday morning, FirstToMarketsRatingsTable reports. The firm issued an outperform rating on the stock.
Several other brokerages also recently commented on FVRR. Citigroup set a $12.00 price objective on Avaya and gave the company a hold rating in a research report on Monday. JMP Securities assumed coverage on Fiverr International in a research report on Monday. They issued an outperform rating and a $33.00 price objective on the stock. Oppenheimer set a $176.00 price objective on Jazz Pharmaceuticals and gave the company a buy rating in a research report on Monday. Needham & Company LLC assumed coverage on Fiverr International in a research report on Monday. They issued a buy rating and a $31.00 price objective on the stock. Finally, UBS Group boosted their price objective on T. Rowe Price Group from $109.00 to $111.00 and gave the company a neutral rating in a research report on Monday. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. The company has a consensus rating of Buy and an average price target of $31.00.
Shares of Fiverr International stock opened at $23.15 on Monday. Fiverr International has a 52 week low of $23.08 and a 52 week high of $44.25.
Fiverr International Ltd. operates an online marketplace worldwide. Its platform enables sellers to sell their services and buyers to buy them. The company's platform includes approximately 200 categories in 8 verticals, including graphic and design, digital marketing, writing and translation, video and animation, music and audio, programming and technology, business, and lifestyle.
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Yerevan City supermarket chain Public Affairs Officer Davit Martirosyan today refuted that expired porridge was being sold as originally reported by Hetq a few days ago.
“Expired food producrts are not sold by our chain of stores as a rule. It’s out of the question,” Martirosyan said.
In fact, two individuals purchased expired oatmeal at a Yerevan City store – a Hetq reporter and Tatevik Gharibyan, an average consumer. We have the sales receipts and the expired packages to prove it.


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Director Ivo van Hove will reteam with actress Marvel — who starred in his 2004 NYTW production of Hedda Gabler — for the Hellman play, which is scheduled to begin previews Sept. 10 prior to an official opening Sept. 30. Performances will continue through Oct. 31.
The cast, according to the NYTW website, will also feature Tina Benko, Marton Csokas, Lynda Gravatt, Elizabeth Marvel, Cristin Milioti, Thomas Jay Ryan, Greig Sargeant, Sanjit De Silva, Christopher Evan Welch and Nick Westrate.
"Van Hove's fresh vision of this iconic play will be a study of how women of different races and classes contend with male aggression, power, and domination," according to NYTW. "Elizabeth Marvel . . . will take on the role of Regina Giddens, the strong and determined woman at the center of Hellman's web of deceit."
The creative team also includes dramaturg Thibaud Delpeut, scenic designer Jan Versweyveld, costume designer Kevin Guyer, lighting designer Jan Versweyveld, sound designer Jamie McElhinney and video designer Tal Yarden.
Tickets to shows at NYTW, 79 East Fourth Street, are available by calling (212) 460-5475. For more information visit nytw.org.
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According to the Digest`s Editorial office opinion, the main events of the February 2021 in Russian pharmaceutical industry are:
- staff changes in the Russian Ministry of Industry pharmaceutical department;
- Russian pharmaceutical manufacturers will be checked for compliance with GMP remotely;
- Russian manufacturer «R-PHARM» has completed the purchase of the TEVA plant;
- the Russian deputy suggested to withdraw the equipment for production of non-marked medicines;
- the regulator warned about the fraudsters attempts to sale of "medicines" against COVID-19.
These, as well all other industry month news, are in the February 2021 issue (Russian edition) of the Digest.
Natalia Egorova, Editor-in-Chief