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Corvette enthusiasts are smiling to beat the band about Chevrolet’s decision to keep the price of the exciting new 2014 Stingray basically the same as the C6 it’s replacing.
But some experts believe buyers won’t be as happy when they get ready to buy from some of the exclusive group of just 900 dealers chosen to sell the Stingray.
Steve Hurley, who had the lucky foresight to call his dealership Stingray Chevrolet in Plant City, Fla., predicts some dealers may try to get $5,000 to $10,000 more than the sticker price since the vehicle is expected to be red-hot when it goes on sale later this year.
Hurley won’t be one of those dealers. He says his dealership will sell its Corvettes at MSRP.
Another prominent Chevy dealer, Harry Criswell of Criswell Corvette in Gaithersburg, Md., agrees with Hurley, saying that he’s already accepted $5,000 deposits on about 150 Stingrays that will go out his door at sticker.
Criswell says he has given in to the temptation and priced above MSRP on popular vehicles in the past, but he says it’s just not worth the ill will it creates with customers, especially Corvette buyers who usually have another car for daily use and are more likely to return for service.
Price gouging just “creates too much controversy,” Criswell told Mike Colias, who covers GM for Automotive News. “And consumers are so smart today, they’ll be blogging and tweeting about what a jerk you are before they even drive off the lot.”


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The Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center is holding a Vegan Valentine’s Day Date Night Cooking Class for pairs. It will be two hours long, and attendees will cook four dishes.
“(Throughout the evening) we will be talking about nutrition,” said Amanda Boostrom, research associate at the Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center and the dietician leading the class.
In addition to having a fun and entertaining evening, it is also an opportunity to learn about cooking and how to make vegan meals.
Boostrom said she wants to teach others how to prepare vegan food using tofu.
“Tofu is such a good source of protein and many people shy away from it,” Boostrom said.
This event takes place three times throughout the semester in addition to the other events put on by the center.
“We try and choose a different theme for each event,” Boostrom said.
This is the first vegan-themed event the center is putting on. Boostrom said she had a personal interest in exploring this theme because she grew up as a vegetarian.
The group will cook barbecue tofu kebabs with vegetables, Italian stuffed zucchini boats, a dairy-free avocado potato salad and a chocolate peanut butter pie. These meals will be cooked during the class to be enjoyed at the end, so pairs are encouraged to come hungry. Additionally, according to the nutrition center’s website, all meals are “tested for taste, ease and maximum nutrition” prior to the class.
The meals can be recreated and each participant at the end of the event will receive a recipe packet of the meals cooked, as well as tips on how to effectively cook the dishes.
While it is advertised as a “date night” cooking class, it does not have to be. Friends and colleagues are welcome to cook and dine; your partner for the evening does not have to be your romantic partner. The pairs will start with a beer tasting, making this an event for those who are 21 or older, that will segue into a class where they will cook four different vegan plates.
This class will take place on Feb. 10 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center.

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Posted Tue Dec 30, 2008 at 01:00 PM PST by Peter Bracke
Announcing an early save-the-date for retailers, Sony will bring the acclaimed indie drama 'Rachel Getting Married' to Blu-ray in mid-March.
Earning strong Oscar buzz for star Anne Hathaway, 'Rachel Getting Married' has currently earned $15 million at the domestic box office and will hit Blu-ray March 17 (day-and-date with the standard DVD).
There are no tech or supplement specs as of yet, but watch for the full press announcement in the coming days.
Suggested retail price for the Blu-ray has been set at $38.95.
You'll find preliminary specs for 'Rachel Getting Married' linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where it's indexed under March 17.
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Composting China next big eco-friendly trend?
The future of green cuisine is planting your plates. That’s the vision of eco-entrepreneur Alex Casewa, who believes composting china is the next big trend.
The 25-year-old Victoria resident is the creator of Earthen eco-friendly dinnerware, made from dried palm leaves from India’s areca or betel nut tree. Each plate, bowl and tray has a unique patina, but they’re cheap and meant to be chucked.
Just not into landfills. They’re designed to be mulched in back-yard gardens and have met with the Victoria Compost Education Centre’s seal of approval. No chemicals are used, so leaves compost naturally and add to soil quality.
“You don’t have to send it for recycling, it’s compostable, it’s natural. Plastic is made from petroleum, which is non-renewable; we’re really using a renewable resource,” Casewa said yesterday.
His business model is also a model of international development: He turns waste from betel-nut cash crops into income for farmers and employs 70 villagers making plates.
The New Delhi native moved to Canada in 2004 to pursue a business degree from Vancouver Island University. The Earthen plates were a sustainable development thesis project. He launched the products six months ago. They’re now available in a dozen Victoria stores.
Casewa is among dozens of exhibitors showcasing new ideas at the Grocery Showcase West in Vancouver, where green is high on the grocery list.
Other innovative cookware coming to a table near you: Richmond’s FST Packaging’s biodegradable bamboo containers and U.S. company Solo’s line of plates and cups made from sugarcane stalks.
In previous recessions, consumers tended to abandon pricey eco-products, said Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers president John Scott. But as green products have become more integral to our lifestyles and environmental education has increased, they are seen as less of a luxury.
“Despite the downturn in the economy, the consumer is still embracing health and wellness. In previous recessions, it was, ‘Well, eco-friendly is nice, but we’re going to go in another direction.’
Now, they understand the environment and want to do their part.” Scott said grocers are doing better than other sectors because “people are moving away from restaurants and learning to cook again.” The Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers’ 20th Annual Grocery Showcase West ends today at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre.


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The smartphone is available for purchase in two colour options- phantom black and glacier blue on Vivo India E-store, Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm, Tatacliq, and across all partner retail stores.
Facing intense criticism over its upcoming policy on February 8 as users leave the platform for rivals Telegram and Signal, WhatsApp on Tuesday issued a clarification, saying that individual chats...
Chinese smartphone maker OPPO on Tuesday announced that it will launch Enco X true wireless noise-cancelling earphones along with Reno5 Pro 5G smartphone in India on January 18.
BBK Group's smartphone brand iQOO has launched its new flagship smartphone iQOO 7 with Snapdragon 888 processor and triple rear cameras in China.
This educational app is a paradigm shift from traditional teaching practices and is targeted towards children from ages of three to eight years to teach them about colours, numbers, shapes, phonics,...
WhatsApp noted that users can choose to set their messages to disappear from chats for additional privacy .
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Not many details have emerged from Airpeak but Sony is already using the drone to film landscape and city shots.
Sony has partnered with some key players, including automotive contract manufacturer Magna Steyr, on this project.
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A study carried out by Edinburgh-based recruitment company Core-Asset Consulting has revealed the highest-paid jobs in the finance sector in Scotland. The study showed a surge in the number of people employed in the finance sector in the country, with recruiters predicting further growth in 2016.
Marketing-related roles and asset managers were found to have experienced the biggest surge. Core-Asset Consulting also reported a “recognisable shift in companies being prepared and willing to pay above the market rate, especially for difficult-to-fill roles.”Read more >>
Amazon is to create new jobs by opening a fulfilment centre in North-West England. The centre, which is set to open later this year, will be located in Manchester and will create 1,000 jobs in the area over the next three years.
Amazon is planning to expand this year, creating 2,500 jobs across the UK. The online retailer’s new centre will join the company’s ten other fulfilment centres, which are located throughout the UK.Read more >>
Britons are turning their hobbies into successful businesses, according to a study by Weebly. The company found that over 35 per cent of entrepreneurs have turned a hobby or passion into a successful business.
The study also explored the current thoughts and trends amongst the entrepreneurial community and found that nearly 90 per cent of entrepreneurs believe that Britain is an ideal place to start a business.Read more >>
The job market in the South West is thriving, with more employers looking to hire in the region than in other areas of the country, according to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
The study, which surveyed 2,100 employers in the UK, was compiled to find out whether employers are planning to recruit additional employees or reduce the size of their workforce in the first quarter of the year.Read more >>
An accountancy company based in Aberdeen is launching a finance training academy for small businesses. Acumen Accountants & Advisors will be offering Sage One software for new clients, as well as training sessions at its premises on Riverside Drive.
According to recent statistics, over 1,300 start-ups have launched in Aberdeen over the past year. Acumen is now aiming to provide these businesses with the software and skills that they need in order to meet the financial demands of starting up a new small business.Read more >>
The number of young female entrepreneurs in the UK is rising, according to a report from HSBC. The report, which was released on International Women’s Day, showed that the proportion of female entrepreneurs has almost doubled with each generation.
The findings were backed up by new research from Crunch Accounting, which showed that the number of females choosing to start their own business has increased by 42 per cent since 2010, with nearly a third of start-ups now being founded by women.Read more >>
Barclays is to offer hi-tech equipment in labs for businesses and entrepreneurs. The labs will provide 3D printers, laser cutters and “incubators” for high-growth companies.
Businesses and entrepreneurs will also be able to receive mentoring and have access to meeting rooms, cybercrime awareness events and workshops. There will also be computer coding classes for local schoolchildren.
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A social entrepreneur has launched a pioneering scheme to enable homeless people in London to have access to the internet.
Peter Paduh is providing homeless people in the capital with refurbished laptops to enable them to get online, apply for jobs and learn web skills. The scheme, which is called the Laptops for Homeless Initiative, has been launched in Camden Town by Socialbox.biz, Paduh’s enterprise.Read more >>
The North of England’s fastest growing technology start-ups have been revealed by technology investment bank, GP Bullhound.
Manchester was found to have the highest number of companies on the list at 28 per cent, followed by 16 per cent in Yorkshire, 14 per cent in Newcastle, and the rest of the businesses located in areas such as Blackpool, Sunderland and Glasgow.Read more >>
A growth hub based in Birmingham has secured a £1 million funding package to enable it to provide more support for local businesses to help them to grow.
The Greater Birmingham Growth Hub received funding from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) to expand its programme and offer “greater levels of expert knowledge” to businesses.Read more >>
A start-up scheme launched by the Government will help to drive the economy, according to officials.
The Start Up Loans Company, which was established by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills in 2012, has so far helped to create 50,000 jobs.Read more >>
Women-led businesses are the driving force of the UK economy, according to data compiled by Founders4Schools, a company that focuses on inspiring young people to set up their own business.
Figures from the open-government and LinkedIn data sets showed that the average annual turnover for businesses led by women is £11,719,080, more than the average business annual turnover of £11,284,634.Read more >>
A new business hub is expected to benefit small and medium-sized businesses in Gloucester and create new jobs in the area.
The hub would consist of 22 units, which would be used for general industrial use and to provide office space for businesses.Read more >>
A company based in Leighton Buzzard is to create 150 apprenticeships to help young people develop a wide range of skills. Property firm Connells Group will be creating the apprenticeships as part of this year’s National Apprenticeship Week, from 14th to 18th March.
The company first launched the Connells Group Apprenticeship Scheme in 2013 to provide young people aged 16 to 23 with the opportunity to develop the skills required to work in the residential property industry, such as business administration, HR, customer services and residential sales.Read more >>
NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have scrapped lending fees for small businesses. RBS announced last week that small businesses will no longer have to pay arrangement fees and repayment fees on loans.
Businesses will now be able to borrow up to £500,000 and make repayments at any time without having to worry about any penalties.Read more >>
Dr Steve Priddy, LSBF's Director of Research, has interviewed Dutch entrepreneur and author Marga Hoek about her recent best-selling book.Read more >>
Serial entrepreneurs are the central to the success of the UK economy, according to a report from Coutts and the Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE).
The report, titled “Beyond the first business: the myths, risks and rewards of being a serial entrepreneur”, showed the differences between one-time entrepreneurs and serial entrepreneurs.Read more >>
Accenture has secured a £1.85 million grant from Let’s Grow North East to enable it to expand and create over 100 jobs in the region.
The professional services company has already increased its number of employees from 200 to 600 at its Newcastle Delivery centre over the past five years. Now, the company is planning to expand to a second office in Cobalt Business Park in North Tyneside and increase its number of employees to over 700.Read more >>
The Co-operative Bank has launched a programme nationwide in partnership with Co-operatives UK to support people who are looking to start or grow community enterprises.
The programme, which is called The Hive, will provide a wide range of opportunities, including peer mentoring, training sessions, advice, and one-to-one support.Read more >>
Software company SAP has launched a new front-office solution to enable small UK businesses in the digital economy to run customer interactions more easily.
SAP Anywhere will provide businesses with a wide range of digital tools for customer engagement, e-commerce, marketing, inventory management and business analytics. Businesses will be able to have access to the tools on computers and mobile devices.Read more >>
Female entrepreneurs in Tunbridge Wells are the highest paid in the region, according to a report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
Figures showed that women in Tunbridge Wells are paid more than their counterparts in other areas of Kent, earning an average of £377.30 per week (£19,619 per annum) in 2015. This was higher than the average weekly earnings in Kent and in other areas in the south east.Read more >>
Graduates with work experience bring more value to a company, according to research from the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR).
AGR’s first annual development report surveyed 191 companies and found that graduates who started out as interns stayed with a company for six months longer than those who did not.
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Salaries for part-qualified accountants are expected to rise in Milton Keynes, which could indicate a high demand for accountancy skills according to recruitment company Robert Walters.
A survey by the company showed that salaries are expected to increase by seven per cent for part-qualified accountants compared to four per cent for all accountants, whilst CIMA-qualified accountants will see an increase of ten per cent.Read more >>
The number of job vacancies in the finance sector increased in January by 12 per cent more than in the same month last year, according to the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (Apsco).
Research showed that average salaries in banking jobs have increased by 4.9 per cent, whilst the average salary across all professional sectors in the UK increased by 4.2 per cent. Pay growth in the professional sector was found to be higher than the UK average recorded by the Office for National Statistics in the latter half of 2015.
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A technology hub based in Birmingham has opened applications for a smart cities incubator programme to help technology startups.
The programme, which is being set up by Innovation Birmingham, will enable tech start-ups to receive support and mentoring. The Serendip Smart Cities Incubator will be located in the new £8 million iCentrum building.Read more >>


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With a few days to spare, the drama around TikTok’s destiny in the US has unexpectedly gotten extreme again. They have banned TikTok from the US Tuesday had it now not located a customer of the famous short-video social platform and that consumer was once predicted to be Microsoft. In an nearly extraordinary twist of events, Microsoft has introduced that TikTok proprietor ByteDance would now not be promoting it to the software program massive and sources declare it was once because Oracle had a higher offer.
Discussions about TikTok’s destiny in the US flared up once more in the previous few days when China virtually threw negotiations underneath a bus. Its personal new export policies would hinder the sale of algorithms and synthetic brain technology, the likes of which have been used by using TikTok to decide which movies have been introduced to users. That technological know-how used to be supposedly a section of any acquisition deal till China solid doubt over that possibility.
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That can also have made the deal less fascinating to Microsoft however it looks that it used to be ByteDance itself that pulled out of negotiations. Microsoft’s reputable assertion didn’t point out the purpose however an insider furnished what ought to be the largest clue. The supply claimed that Oracle received the bid however it may precisely because it provided extra money upfront.
The deal would allegedly exist Oracle as a “trusted tech partner” in the US, portray it as something that isn’t an outright buy. Whether inside transactions make it an acquisition anyway is some thing solely the two corporations might know. It should structure public understanding for or towards the move, especially thinking about Oracle has zero journeys coping with any social media platform, without possibly on the backend.
The large query proper now is whether or not such a reframing of the acquisition will fly through US President Donald Trump who can also aim for a higher exhibit of power. He might, however, be extra blissful if the deal comprises even larger cash for the US Treasury than Microsoft and ByteDance may additionally have been inclined to supply concede.


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PUNE: Pune Jewellers have announced to observe an indefinite strike from June 7 onward to protest against the decision of the Pune Municipal Corporation to increase the octroi on gold from 0.35% to 3% from April 1st onward.
The Pune Saraf Association has informed through a press release. "The hike in octroi is coercive. The octroi adds to the gold and silver prices by Rs 660/10 grams and Rs 600/kg respectively," said Pune Saraf Association president FN Ranka. The Association has claimed that the hike in octroi has affected sales at all the jewellery shops.


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If you’ve been eyeing the gorgeous Space Black Link Bracelet for Apple Watch, it is now available for standalone purchase, for just $749 CAD ($549 USD). As you can see, our exchange rate is really impacting the cost of Apple products.
The silver Link Bracelet ($599) has always been available but now Space Black has been added to the mix, as noticed by Apple engineer Patrick Burleson on Twitter (via iMore). It has an ‘Available to ship’ estimate of one business day.
At the cost of $749 CAD for the Space Black Link Bracelet on its own, that’s nearly the cost of a 42mm Apple Watch ($779) and more than a 38mm or 42mm Apple Watch Sport ($449/$519). For $150 more, you could nab yourself a 16GB iPhone 6s. Choices must be made!
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BitSight, a cybersecurity ratings company based in Boston, said Monday it has raised $250 million in a new partnership with credit ratings giant Moody’s, as the tech company seeks to evaluate the cyber risks facing America’s largest corporations.
The deal, which values BitSight at $2.4 billion, comes amid a sharp rise in cyber attacks against corporate America that has laid bare hundreds of billions of dollars at risk from cyber breaches and ransomware gangs. It also follows renewed efforts by Biden administration officials to urge companies to be more transparent about the cyber risks they face.
As part of the transaction, BitSight will acquire VisibleRisk, a firm that quantifies cyber risk and has offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
“As organizations invest in cyber defense and resilience, another critical need has emerged,” Rob Fauber, chief executive of Moody’s, said in a statement. “The ability to accurately measure and quantify cyber risk and exposure.”
BitSight was founded in 2011 by MIT graduates Nagarjuna Venna and Stephen Boyer. The company’s platform uses algorithms to assess a company’s chances of being breached. It also provides customers with cybersecurity ratings, risk metrics, and security benchmarks to better assess and combat cyber threats.
As cyber breaches and ransomware attacks have increased, BitSight has grown its customer base to roughly 2,300 clients, including 20 percent of Fortune 500 companies, company figures show. Prior to this funding round, BitSight raised more than $165 million, according to PitchBook data, so the latest deal brings total investment in the company to at least $415 million.
The new money will be used to enhance BitSight’s product offerings, the company said.
Steve Harvey, president of BitSight, said in a statement that “cybersecurity is one of the biggest threats to global commerce in the 21st century” and that the company’s new cash and acquisition of VisibleRisk will help the market better manage and assess cyber risks facing corporations.
As a result of the deal, Moody’s will become BitSight’s largest shareholder, with a minority stake in the company, officials said.


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FCC Expands Consumer Protection Against New Wave of Cell Phone Telemarketing
Technology is constantly changing. And so too is the way businesses use it to reach us and sell us their services. Before it used to be an annoying phone call to our land line. Now that virtually everyone has a cell phone, consumers are receiving phone call and texts on their mobile too. These days, the callers are not just telemarketers and debt collectors, but more “reputable” companies such as Twitter or Best Buy.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) prohibits certain fax and automated-dialing practices and authorizes recovery from $500 to $1,500 per call, text message, or fax sent in violation of the Act. Businesses and industries, faced with a flurry of class action suits and concerned about their liability under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, have filed numerous petitions with the FCC requesting clarity on some of the TCPA provisions.
In response to the barrage of petitions, and presumably contrary the petitioners’ intent, the FCC released a ruling in June clarifying certain provisions of the TCPA. In effect, the FCC expanded the scope and penalties of the rules. Indeed, the FCC’s ruling not only gives more control to consumers over the solicitations they receive, but it also increases the liability of businesses for violations of the TCPA. The FCC made it clear in this ruling that it is a business’s responsibility to ensure it had consent from the consumer. Some of the new rules state:
- Reassigned Numbers: Callers must stop calling reassigned wireless and wired telephone numbers after a single call.
- Definition of Automatic Telephone Dialing System (ATDS): If a phone can be programmed to dial numbers generated or stored by a random or sequential number generator, it will be considered an ATDS. This includes cell phones, tablets etc.
- Revocation of Consent: Consumers now have the right to revoke their consent to receive calls and text messages sent from auto-dialers in “any reasonable way at any time” and companies cannot limit these means.
- Text Messages Subject to Same Restrictions as Voice Calls: Text messages are now considered phone calls.
- Call Blocking Technology Allowed: Telephone providers may offer robocall-blocking technologies to consumers. Providers had previously thought the FCC prohibited this.
- Consumer Remedies: Consumers will still have a private right of action for violations of the TCPA along with statutory penalties.
In short, the FCC’s June ruling favors consumers and gives them more control over these unwanted nuisances. And businesses must meet these clarified TCPA requirements before texting or calling with any solicitations—or else they face hefty fines.
1 SeeNunes v. Twitter, Inc., No. 14-02843 (N.D. Cal.).
2 SeeChesbro v. Best Buy Co., No. 2:10-cv-00774 (W.D. Wash.).


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The SSL VPN market is in its maturity phase, and is expected to grow at rate of 7.5% during the forecast period. Organizations are more focused towards data privacy and security while providing remote access to the employees, business partners, and customers. The North American SSL VPN market was the highest shareholder, in terms of revenue, while Asia-Pacific is expected to witness the highest growth during the forecast period.
The Global SSL VPN Market was valued at $3,077 million in 2016, and is projected to reach $5,328 million by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 7.5% from 2017 to 2023, according to the latest report published by Allied Market Research. The thin-client mode of remote access segment is anticipated to grow at the highest growth rate during the forecast period.
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This year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has much in store in the exotic auto auction arena. There are 25 cars on the block that are all expected to net over a million each. One in particular, a 1953 Ferrari 375 MM spider, is expected to go for over $9 million USD. Depending on the number of bidders, this number could go up even higher.
The sale will be held by upscale auction house RM Auctions during the Pebble Beach festivities in August. The rare Ferrari has an interesting racing history and a few extra perks.
The 1953 Ferrari 375 MM spider at a glance:
- It was commissioned by Jim Kimberly, heir to the Kimberly-Clark industrial fortune. Kimberly was a gentlemen racer.
- The car featured pontoon fenders for optimum brake cooling.
- Kimberly did not want the standard Ferrari red. Instead, he custom blended his own red so that his car would stand out among other Ferrari cars on the track and road. The color was named Kimberly red, fittingly.
- The 375 MM spider participated in dozens of races and was victorious in many of them.
- The new owner of this rare gem will get ownership records dating back to its birth, which increases the value of a collector car of this nature.
The reason this car is expected to sell for so many millions is because Ferrari prices have been steadily inflating for over a decade. These types of classic collector cars are meticulously preserved and will never be made again. The opportunity to purchase cars like this does not happen often, as collectors tend to store them and pass them down through generations. For these reasons, it can be decades before the public sees vehicles like this, and the spectators at Pebble Beach will certainly be in awe!
The rare Ferrari can be seen in the video above, along with some history from the family who has owned it for 45 years. The custom red paint job is called Kimberly red, a color Enzo Ferrari liked so much that he painted several of his own cars in the hue.
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This Wednesday, October 5, Sandy Niddam, the director of the brand Plouf, answered questions from Alexandre Lichan.
She explains that Plouf manufactures floating swimsuits for children that combine safety and aestheticism. The brand, originating from Nice, has existed since 2000 and creates collections renewed each year with the aim ofimproving comfort during swimming.
This floating swimsuit is a real anti-drowning device. It is certified according to the European safety standard 13-138-1 which defines the buoyancy aids for learning to swim. Plouf has become this year official supplier of the French Swimming Federation.
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Fallen Order’ sequel could possibly be revealed on ‘Star Wars’ day
The Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order sequel will reportedly be revealed on Might 4, the annual day which celebrates Star Wars.
Again in January, Respawn Leisure introduced that it might be creating a brand new Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order sport in addition to a brand new first-person shooter and a method sport.
Virtually two months later, in line with video games business insider Jeff Grubb, the sequel can be revealed in the course of the Star Wars Celebration conference on Might 4 (through The Gamer).
On the most recent Gamesbeat Decides, Grubb stated: “We’re gonna hear about that in Might at [the] Star Wars Celebration, [that’s] when that’s coming. So, preserve a watch out for that, as a result of that’s the place it’s occurring.”
Grubb is best-known for sharing behind-the-scenes particulars about upcoming and unreleased video games and has beforehand revealed dependable info. EA and Respawn have but to reveal any info on the sport, so followers must wait and see till Star Wars Day.
Right now, it’s unclear if the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order sport can be a direct sequel or a very new story that includes new characters within the universe. The sport will seemingly proceed the story of the Jedi Cal Kestis, whereas followers theorise that the sequel might place aspect characters in the primary function, similar to Nightsister, Merrin and former Jedi Grasp, Cere.
Nonetheless, we do know that sport director Stig Asmussen, who additionally directed Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, can be in control of the sport’s sequel.
Elsewhere, following the announcement of Quantic Dream‘s Star Wars: Eclipse, the developer has hit again at reviews that it’s struggling to draw expertise. The sport is in very early improvement and can happen in the course of the Excessive Republic period of the universe, which takes place roughly 200 years earlier than The Phantom Menace in The Skywalker Saga canon.
In different information, Paradox has introduced the subsequent Stellaris enlargement, Overlord.


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According to Deloittle’s Duncan Stewart, 2015 will mark the tipping point for near-field communication (NFC)-enabled smartphone in-store payments.
Today Stewart and his team released Deloitte’s 2015 Canadian Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions in Toronto and it provided an outlook on the 10 most important trends for Canada in the technology, media and telecommunications industry over the next 12 to 18 months.
According to the report, now in its 14th year, in 2015 about five percent of the 600 million NFC-equipped smartphones worldwide will be used to make an in-store NFC payment at least once a month, more than a 1,000 percent increase from 2014. And Stewart believes this trend will make its way to Canada at the end of 2015.
“Canadian smartphones are already being used to check balances, transfer funds and transact online, which indicates that consumers are comfortable with using their phones to handle money. But almost no one used their phones for contactless in-store payments at the register,” said Duncan Stewart, Director of TMT Research at Deloitte in Canada.
“2015 will be the first year in which all of the requirements for mainstream mobile payments – satisfying financial institutions, merchants, consumers and device vendors – have been sufficiently addressed.”
Check out all 10 TMT Predictions below:
1) In-store mobile payments will (finally) gain momentum – The end of 2015 will mark the tipping point for the use of mobile phones for NFC-enabled in-store payments in Canada. It will be the first year in which the multiple prerequisites for mainstream adoption – satisfying financial institutions, merchants, consumers and device vendors – have been sufficiently addressed. In 2015, about five percent of the base of 600 million NFC equipped smartphones worldwide will be used to make an in-store NFC payment at least once a month, compared to less than half a percent of about 450 million NFC phones in mid-2014. In-store mobile payments in the Canadian market are likely to be slower than the US, depending on when various payment services are introduced, but 56 percent of Canadians are not interested in paying with a smartphone[i]. It remains to be seen if they will change their minds.
2) For the first time, the smartphone upgrade market will exceed one billion. 1.4 billion smartphones will sell worldwide in 2015, but over a billion of them will be upgrades – new phones for those who already have one. The refresh cycle may be lengthening, but screen size, speed, storage, software and design will drive growth for smartphone refreshes. In Canada, more than 5 million smartphone sold will likely be upgrades
3) Print is not dead, at least for print books – Sales from print books will be at least four times the sales of eBooks globally. eBooks have not substituted print books in the same way that sales of CDs, print newspapers and magazines have declined. Young people (age 18-34) are as attached to print books as their elders and read at about the same rate than older demographics, and they are willing to pay for them.
4) The ‘generation that won’t spend’ is spending on TMT – Millennials who are 18-34 years old in Canada will spend an average of $750 for content, both traditional and digital. With 9 million millennials, that’s nearly $7 billion in sales for the Canadian media industry. What are millennials spending on? Pay TV, music, computer games, books, live sports, streaming video, and even print newspapers. In an Ipsos survey, commissioned by Deloitte, more Canadians aged 18-32 increased or spent the same amount of money this year than last on books (84 percent), live music (83 percent) or live sports (92 percent) relative to GenX-ers (78 percent, 76 percent, 82 percent respectively) or Boomers (78 percent, 73 percent, 76 percent respectively).
5) Click and collect booms: a boon for the consumer, a challenge for retailers. The number of click and collect locations in Europe will reach half a million in 2015, a 20 percent increase on the previous year. Click and collect provides shoppers with the option to pick up items purchased online from locations such as a special section in a store, or a secure locker located in a transit station or a shopping mall. It is prevalent in Europe, but just starting to be trialed in Canada, even though the concept was pioneered by a Canadian company back in the Dotcom era.
6) The connectivity chasm deepens as gigabit Internet adoption rockets – Globally, the number of homes with broadband Internet will grow by about two percent to 715 million, and average broadband speeds in most countries will increase by 20 percent. But variations in broadband speed in homes will be significant. The top decile of homes in some markets will have five times the average speed of those in the bottom decile. Factors unique to each home from the thickness of walls, age of a router, time of day and browsing habits of neighbours will determine the actual speeds attained at each broadband-connected device. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians get broadband speeds of more than 50 Mbps, but even more have realized ‘broadband’ speeds of less than 5 Mbps.
7) The end of the consumerization of IT? In 2015, the pendulum of technology adoption will begin to swing back to the enterprise market, reversing a decade long trend that went the other way – when mass adoption of technologies like large screen smartphones and tablets started with consumer adoption first.
8) The Internet of things really is things, not people – In 2015, over 60 percent of the one billion global wireless IoT devices will be bought, paid for and used by enterprises – despite media focus on consumers controlling their thermostats, lights, and appliances (ranging from washing machines to tea kettles). The IoT-specific hardware will be worth $10 billion, but the services enabled by the devices will be worth about $70 billion.
9) 3D printing is a revolution: Just not the revolution you think – In 2015 nearly 220,000 3D printers will be sold worldwide, with a dollar value of $1.6 billion, but it is unlikely that there will be a “factory in every home.” Deloitte estimates about 80 percent of the value of all 3D printers will be for companies instead of consumers, meaning the real revolution will be in the enterprise market.
10) Short form video: a future, but not the future, of television – The total time spent watching online short-form video clips and programming of less than 20 minutes in length will represent less than three percent of all video seen in the year, both in Canada and globally. However, viewers of short form video may be more engaged and less passive than viewers of traditional long form video, meaning that ads for short form video may generate higher sales with a more-engaged audience.
Deloitte’s TMT Predictions are based on worldwide research supported by in-depth interviews with clients, industry analysts, global leaders and more than 8,000 Deloitte member firm TMT practitioners. Over the last five years, Deloitte was more than 79 percent accurate with its TMT predictions.
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Kirklees Council is looking to bring its markets into the 21st century – and £18 million is to be spent on a new Huddersfield market.
Last year Kirklees Council revealed that Huddersfield’s indoor and outdoor markets were going to be amalgamated under the £250 million Huddersfield Blueprint regeneration.
The grade II-listed Queensgate Market will be “re-purposed” and the two markets will come together on the Huddersfield Open Market site.
Speaking at a meeting of the council’s Cabinet, Clr Paul Davies said the local authority had been working on a new vision for its markets for the last two years.
Clr Davies, Cabinet Member for Environment, said: “We what we looking to do across Kirklees to develop family-friendly social spaces.
“Markets will be about more than just popping in. Hopefully it will be a personal, unique and ethical shopping experience where we can test new business ideas and create places to eat and be entertained.”
Clr Davies said the plan for Huddersfield was to merge the two markets into one under an £18 million investment. He said council officers were now evaluating tenders for the scheme.
He added: “Part of our recovery from Covid is clearly to ensure that we have vibrant, successful markets going forward and build on the heritage we have.”
Pop-up markets could move around Kirklees town and village centres which could be linked to specific events and would also give the opportunity for young entrepreneurs to try out new ideas without the commitment of a regular stall, said Clr Davies.


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As Africa slowly inches towards widespread adoption of digital assets, it has become imperative that exchanges provide more cost-effective ways for buying, selling, receiving, and sending other digital assets. Among these assets, stablecoins have emerged as the preferred option for people seeking to invest, send remittances, and make cross-border payments. The preference hinges on the fact that stablecoins are tied to the value of the dollar, which protects against inflation and eliminates the fear of volatility that is seen with other digital assets.
On this premise, Yellow Card, the largest and only licensed stablecoin on/off ramp on the African continent, is set to introduce USDC, a digital stablecoin on the Stellar network, an open-source decentralised blockchain network, revolutionising cross-border payments, remittances, and treasury management globally.
Yellow Card, known for its user-friendly platform and expansive presence across 20 African countries, is set to elevate user experience by integrating USDC on the Stellar network. This integration combines the robust features of the Stellar network, such as low transaction fees and lightning-fast transactions with the rapid growth of one of the world's fastest-growing digital currencies, USDC, offering users a seamless, near-instant, and cost-effective solution for various financial transactions. With this integration, users on the Yellow Card app can now send USDC on the Stellar network.
With USDC on Stellar, Yellow Card users gain access to expedited transactions, enhancing the convenience and utility of their digital currency dealings. This partnership marks a significant milestone in the digital assets and blockchain industry, with the potential to reshape global payments and drive widespread digital currency adoption.
We are thrilled to bring USDC on Stellar to our users. This is a giant leap forward for global payments, making it easier, faster, and more affordable for people around the world to access and utilise digital dollars.
Chris Maurice | Yellow Card CEO
The Stellar blockchain, tailored for everyday financial products and services, boasts speed, scalability, and sustainability. The emphasis on optimising payments ensures low fees and transaction speeds that scale with increased adoption. Having processed billions of operations with millions of accounts since its launch, Stellar is a trusted choice for financial institutions and innovators worldwide.
A key feature of the Yellow Card-Stellar integration is the ability for consumers to instantly send and receive digital dollars globally. This convenience extends to users without a traditional bank account, as the Yellow Card App facilitates these transactions seamlessly.
One of the major challenges people in Africa face with making cross-border payments is hidden charges. There are several cases where people try to send money to loved ones in a different country but end up losing a significant part of the money to fees and hidden charges. Yellow Card understands this, so their users stand to gain significantly from this collaboration as transferring USDC to other USDC-supported exchanges on the Stellar network is much cheaper compared to other blockchain networks. This is in addition to its already existent cross-border payment feature Yellow Pay, a stablecoin-powered transfer feature.
The app will now serve as a crucial access point for companies and users seeking to leverage the efficiency and speed of the Stellar network. USDC on Stellar enables near-zero transaction costs, swift settlement, and transactions finalised in as little as 3 seconds. This positions Yellow Card as a facilitator for fintechs, and exchanges to harness the speed and low costs of USDC on Stellar for various use cases, from remittances to real-time payments.
To further empower its users, Yellow Card is set to award $5 USDC to customers who send at least $3 USDC using the Stellar network on the App. This will help introduce this new technology to users where they can experience -fast transaction speeds of the network. It’s a win-win for users.
About Yellow Card
Yellow Card is a pan-African Fintech company operating across 20 countries. We are the largest and only licensed Stablecoin on/off ramp on the African continent. We provide people and businesses of all sizes with secure and cost-effective methods to buy and sell USDC, USDT, and PYUSD via their local currency directly and through our Payments API.
Yellow Card has facilitated over $2B USD in transactions across Africa and raised over $50M USD from leading global investors, including Polychain Capital, Valar Ventures, Third Prime Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and Block (Square / Cash App).


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Wow this has been a big day for announcements, Google first then MSN.
First Google has announced a new bidding strategy that you can now use instead of max CPC, it is called Preferred Cost per Click. With this new bidding strategy instead of telling Google AdWords what is the maximum you would be willing to pay, now you tell them the average price that you would like to pay or your preferred cost per click. Over the next week or so, this option will be turned on in Google AdWords accounts. I am not sure as to how this will impact performance, but I will certainly be testing it out.
Preferred cost per click bidding will be set at the campaign level so just be aware of that.
Second, Microsoft adCenter has just announced that it is spidering landing pages and assigning a quality score to programs much in the same manner that Google AdWords and Yahoo Sponsored Search Marketing already do. This will help to increase profits for them and improve the ad quality for readers.
So two big changes in the pay for performance arena have happened today!


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Huawei took the wraps off the Honor 8, on Monday to unveil its new Honor 8 smartphone during an event in China.
The new smartphone which will be available in China effective of July 19th, 2016 will come in three versions, 299 USD (roughly 1 million ugx) for the 3GB of RAM, 344 USD (roughly 1.1 million ugx ) for the 4GB of RAM and 374 USD (roughly 1.2 million ugx ) for the 4GB of RAM models.
As rumored for weeks, the biggest highlight of the Honor 8 is its dual-rear camera setup. It sports 12-megapixel dual-rear cameras with dual-tone LED flash and also features laser auto-focus.
There is an 8-megapixel front-facing camera on board as well, a USB Type-C port and also supports fast charging, fingerprint scanner at the back of the handset, 7.45mm slim build which comes with a metal frame and a glass back.
Among other specs include; a 5.2-inch full-HD LTPS LCD display, octa-core Kirin 950 processor clocked at 1.8GHz, supports expandable storage via microSD card of up to 128GB, runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS, hybrid dual-SIM slot and weighs 153 grams.
The Honor 8 is currently up for pre-orders in China, however, the availability of the smartphone outside China hasn’t been confirmed yet.


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The OnePlus 6T launch is just a few days away after the sudden change of plans to move the date to avoid a clash with the Apple event on October 30th.
The OnePlus 6T has had its fair share of ups and downs because of multiple leaks throughout. Here’s what we know so far about the upcoming phone.
According to OnePlus staffers, the phone will be the company’s first to feature an in-display fingerprint scanner. It was also confirmed to be optical rather than ultrasonic.
Credit of the other leaks goes to a German retailer Otto, who posted a listing for the OnePlus 6T which was that was then immediately clocked by GSMArena. The leak confirmed that the phone will come with a bigger 3,700mAh battery. The standard OnePlus 6T came with a 3,300mAh battery.
However much to user’s chagrin, OnePlus founder Carl Pei confirmed in an interview that the ‘next OnePlus handset’ will do away with the 3.5mm jack in favor of USB-C.’
“We found 59 per cent of our community already owned wireless headphones earlier this year – and that was before we launched our Bullets Wireless headphones,” he said.
“It [removing the headphone jack] was a very controversial decision. We’re not doing it for the sake of doing it and because everyone else is. We believe now is the right time, as it’ll benefit the majority of our users while keeping the downside low.” He further justified the company’s decision.
Another blow came when CEO Pete Lau revealed some bad news regarding the OnePlus 6T, confirming that the 6T will not feature wireless charging. He said: “When we get to the day that the wireless charging can get up to speed without the implication of heat that we expect, then I believe we can integrate the technology.”
The OnePlus 6T will boast a 6.4in AMOLED screen, 2.8GHz Snapdragon 845 processor with 6GB or 8GB RAM, a dual-lens camera system and a choice of 128GB and 256GB storage. It will be running Google’s Android 9.0 Pie operating system.
About the camera, OnePlus teased, “We’ve put a lot of work into improving the camera behind the scenes, so you can expect to take even better pictures,”
Thus debunking speculation that the OnePlus 6T will follow in the footsteps of Samsung’s Galaxy A7 with a triple-lens rear camera setup, instead it will be sporting only dual rear cameras.
The OnePlus 6 dual camera system is made up of a 16-megapixel primary sensor with a 20-megapixel secondary sensor. They both have a f/1.7 aperture and both are optically stabilized.
So based on that we can expect a 12 and 20 megapixel snapper for the OnePlus 6T.
The company has yet to comment on how much the OnePlus 6T will cost. However, according to a listing by Chinese e-commerce site GizTop, the phone should retail with a $569 price-tag. CEO Pete Lau has already confirmed that the OnePlus 6T will be significantly more expensive than its predecessor
Following the launch event on 29th October, the OnePlus 6T will go on sale on 6 November.


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Mumbai, 22nd June 2023 - Lamborghini India is celebrating the delivery of the 150th Huracán in India as the super sports car continues to set new records for the brand in the local market. The first Huracán made its world debut in 2014 with the coupé version, followed by the Spyder and the rear-wheel-drive versions: the Performante in 2016 and the Performante Spyder in 2018 proved their performance capabilities, holding several lap records. In 2019 the new Huracán EVO (coupé and Spyder) was introduced, featuring the next generation V10 engine with enhanced driving dynamics and aerodynamics. The Huracán STO (Super Trofeo Omologata) was launched in 2021, delivering Lamborghini’s motorsport experience and know-how in a homologated road car. Shortly after, the new Huracán Tecnica was launched in 2022 and then followed by Huracán Sterrato, the first all-terrain super sports car with V10 engine and all-wheel drive.
Sharad Agarwal, Head of Lamborghini India, commented: “From daily driving to thrilling performance on track, the Huracán was designed as a car to provide super sports emotion in every environment. Every iteration of the Huracán has stayed true to that Lamborghini philosophy and has delivered an evolution of design, technological know-how, driving adventures, track records and sales records since its launch. The delivery of the 150th Huracán in India is a testament to its appeal to customers in the super sports car segment who are looking for an emotionally charging experience of a race car’s powerful technology in everyday driving on the roads.”
The Huracán success that continued for nine years was contributed by exciting new additions to the family with an offer of 12 road and three racing versions. Lamborghini Huracán has become a symbol of the brand's excellence in design, engineering, and performance. The super sports car's striking appearance and exceptional driving experience have made it a popular choice among car enthusiasts in India.
With the delivery of 150th Huracán in India, Lamborghini has once again reiterated its position as one of the most admired super sports car brands in the country. The brand's continued success in India is a reflection of its commitment to innovation, design, and performance, and its unwavering dedication to providing its customers with the ultimate driving experience.


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An Indian-based Bollywood-Hollywood online entertainment start-up called “Binged” is predicting that the new James Bond movie ‘No Time to Die’ may go directly to streaming much like the Tom Hanks Film “Greyhound” on Apple TV+.
View the original article here: Apple and Netflix are Reportedly Bidding to Acquire the new James Film 'No Time to Die' from MGM Studios
The article was originally posted on Patently Apple.
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Flickr used to be the largest photosharing website on the internet. Then Facebook happened. If you’ve taken photos you’re proud of (and want to sell) there’s still plenty of niche sites for photographers to leverage and in terms of storage there’s Google Photos and OneDrive, but for sharing, Facebook is the giant of the industry by some margin.
Yahoo never really knew what to do with Flickr and redesigns often alienated the biggest fans of the service. The biggest impact they made on the service was to the payment model, after being firmly beaten, they offered virtually unlimited storage for free with a paid tier for select features (don’t know anyone who used this).
Today they’ve finally given up and have announced Flickr is now owned by Smugmug. The typical announcement of independence is supposed to reassure any remaining fans of the service, but to be honest, it needs an overhaul and it certainly needs better sign in options because who remembers their Yahoo account at this point?
Smugmug have committed to transition Flickr to their technology stack over time.
The two companies aren’t disclosing the value of the deal, probably because its a fraction of what Yahoo paid for them back in 2005. It’s a sad fall from grace and as a Flickr user who established a solid workflow of Lightroom to Flickr to embedded gallery on techAU, I stopped using the service some time ago, actually right around the time they removed 3rd party authentication.


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Black Friday online sales top $1B
Online spending on Black Friday topped $1 billion for the first time ever, and holiday shopping online is up 16 percent from last year so far.
Reston, Va.-based Internet tracking firm comScore Inc. says e-commerce sales Friday reached $1.04 billion, up 26 percent from last year. Online sales on a traditionally slow Thanksgiving Day surged 32 percent from last year to $633 million.
So far this holiday shopping season, defined as Nov. 1 through Nov. 23, have totaled $13.73 billion, a 16 percent increase over the same timeframe in 2011.
"Despite the frenzy of media coverage surrounding the importance of Black Friday in the brick-and-mortar world, we continue to see this shopping day become more and more prominent in the e-commerce channel, particularly among those who prefer to avoid crowds at the stores," comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni said.
Cyber Monday, traditionally the strongest day for e-commerce sales, should be a record-setter, too. ComScore says it could hit $1.5 billion or higher, likely benefiting a retailer like Menomonee Falls-based Kohl's Corp., which has invested heavily in its e-commerce infrastructure and distribution in recent years.
Jeff Clabaugh covers general assignment and provides business coverage for WTOP.
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Publishers have increasingly embraced products that provide more insight into their inventory and help them manage their ad operations. Yesterday at a panel discussion moderated by Yieldex CRO Andrew Rutledge at ad:tech New York, executives from Fox News Digital, Viacom, Washington Post Digital and Turner Broadcasting discussed the tools they’re using to better leverage ad opportunities as well as the issues they face in trying to drive more revenue.
Viewability—and the lack of standards for determining whether consumers actually saw an ad—continues to be a headache for publishers. With the Media Ratings Council expected to lift its warning against transacting on viewable impressions by the end of the year, publishers are even more wary about advertisers’ demands for viewability metrics.
“Viewability is the lowest common denominator, or soon will be…and major players will be asking us to use CPV [cost per view],” said Joey Trotz, vice president of advertising tech strategy at Turner Broadcasting. “Those systems typically push inventory down by 20% to 40%, which will be a major change for publishers.”
Deravanh Campbell, director of ad operations at Fox News Digital, described viewability as “the new buzzword” but noted that it has provided greater insight into their inventory. “We did some tests and found that ads below the fold actually have some good engagement since people are scrolling down to read the articles. This dispels the belief that above-the-fold has the most viewability,” she said.
Jeff Burkett, senior director at Washington Post Digital, agreed. “Viewability,” he noted, “has taught us to focus on why particular ads in particular places perform better.” In moving the discussion to whether publishers can leverage ad technology to drive revenue, Rutledge commented that demand-side platforms (DSPs) are “the new ad networks” and asked the panelists if they were working with DSPs to make smarter decisions.
Burkett commented that while companies previously worked with ad networks, DSPs give users greater control over their own inventory and data. With a DSP, you “know how much you paid for every impression,” commented Burkett, “versus before when it was a black box network and you had flat rates for all your campaigns.”
Rutledge pointed to a potential downfall behind DSPs and claimed that he was not “convinced there’s not an opportunity for aribitrage for the DSP.” If a DSP, he continued, were to “ask Pepsi [for example], ‘what’s your budget?’ And Pepsi says ‘I’ve got a $50 CPM and I want to run this highly targeted audience.’ Who’s to say the DSP doesn’t put it in there as $30 and pocket the difference?”
While none of the panelists had an answer to Rutledge’s question, Turner’s Trotz pointed to data management platforms (DMPs) as another example of an ad-driven technology that publishers can leverage to provide insight into client campaigns. “We’re using DMPs to say, ‘okay Coca-Cola, you have this index of shoppers, or this many homes with this many kids,” Trotz said. “It’s taking that third-party data and our DMP and providing custom analytics that tell a story that proves the value of what a premium environment is like to support sponsorship sales and not just the direct response stuff that clients are used to.”


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John Murray Press has appointed Pan Macmillan’s Sarah Arratoon as its new marketing director.
Arratoon starts this month and reports to Rosie Gailer, John Murray Press' director of communications and trade publishing.
She will be leading the marketing strategy for John Murray Press’s major autumn titles including Billy Connolly’s Windswept and Interesting and recruiting a new marketing team to further support JMP’s trade publishing hub as it continues to grow. Recently added imprints include Basic Books, led by Sarah Caro which launches its list this autumn, and a new crime and thriller imprint, Baskerville, led by Jade Chandler.
JMP's previous marketing director Jess Kim joined Faber in May as deputy marketing director.
Arratoon has spent the past six years at Pan Macmillan where she was head of marketing, devising marketing campaigns for brand authors including Ken Follett, Kate Mosse, David Baldacci and Peter James as well as leading the Pan marketing team. She recently won Marketing Campaign of the Year at the FutureBook Awards for Ken Follett’s The Evening and the Morning and a Book Marketing Society Award for her campaign for Louis Theroux’s Gotta Get Theroux This.
Gailer said: “We’re delighted to welcome Sarah to John Murray Press and are thrilled she’ll be bringing her award-winning skills and creative energy to bear on both titles and divisional growth as we further develop our dynamic, talented communications team. This is an exciting time to be at John Murray Press and the potential feels even greater with Sarah as part of the Trade hub.”
Arratoon said: “I’ve had a brilliant time at Pan Macmillan working with wonderful authors and hugely talented colleagues and I feel very proud to have been part of the team there. I’m now delighted to be joining John Murray Press at such an exciting time for the company. I’ve admired the teams fantastic work for many years, and I can’t wait to help contribute to introducing even more readers to JMP’s impressive and inspiring list.”


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Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at a massive scale. Amazon Kinesis can continuously capture and store terabytes of data per hour from hundreds of thousands of sources.
The Amazon Kinesis team has announced PUT pricing change and two new capabilities.
Effective June 1, 2015, Amazon Kinesis replaces the “PUT Record” pricing dimension with “PUT Payload Unit”. After the change, records smaller than 25KB receive a 50% reduction on the PUT price. For more information, please visit Amazon Kinesis Pricing.
Amazon Kinesis raises the record size limit from 50KB to 1MB. For more information, please visit Amazon Kinesis Limits.
Amazon Kinesis also releases the Kinesis Producer Library (KPL), an easy-to-use and highly configurable library that helps send data to Amazon Kinesis streams. For more information, please visit please visit Kinesis Producer Library.


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Black Shark is one of many companies that will release a Snapdragon 888 smartphone in the first half of this year. Yesterday, the company’s CEO, Luo Yuzhou, announced that the Black Shark 4 gaming phone is coming soon. He also revealed that this device will come with a 4500 mAh battery that supports 120W fast charging. According to the company, this device will get a full charge in less than 15 minutes. The latest information from Luo Yuzhou is the AnTuTu running score of the Black Shark 4. According to him, this device scores 788,505 points.
Luo Yuzhou said: “In order to have a more powerful performance for the new function, the engineers of Black Shark have been forced by me to be a bit miserable recently. Today I ran a point in the laboratory and it was less than 800,000. I have to work hard.”
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Apparently, Luo Yuzhou is targetting 800,000 and the final device may as well hit this value. The current AnTuTu king is Xiaomi Mi 11 (SD888) with 708,425 points. However, smartphones like Oppo Find X3 (unreleased) and iQOO 7 score 771,491 and 752,935 respectively. These scores are way higher than the 735,439 benchmarks for Snapdragon 888 for AnTuTu. It appears that the Black Shark 4 will be the new AnTuTu king at launch
According to @DigitalChatStation, the Black Shark 4 uses an ultra-high-brush OLED screen with a resolution of 2400 × 1080. The development codename of this device is “kaiser”.
More phones with SD 888 are on their way
At the Snapdragon Technology Summit held in Hawaii in December last year, Qualcomm officially released a new generation of flagship chip Snapdragon 888. At the technology summit, the American chipmaker also announced that almost all major OEMs will release a corresponding phone in the first half of 2021. Those companies include Asus, Black Shark, Lenovo, LG, Meizu, Motorola, Nubia, Realme, OnePlus, OPPO, Sharp, VIVO, Xiaomi, and ZTE. We recall this because this year Black Shark hasn’t launched a smartphone yet. So there is every reason to think the forthcoming Black Shark 4 will come with the Snapdragon 888.
Anyways, you all should agree that the selling point of the Black Shark 4 will be the Snapdragon 888. It uses 1 x 2.84GHz (ARM’s latest Cortex X1 core) + 3 x 2.4GHz (Cortex A78) + 4 x 1.8GHz (Cortex A55) architecture. Also, it integrates an Adreno 660 GPU and an X60 5G modem baseband. This SoC supports WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, etc.


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RETAIL sales fell year on year for the 10th month in November, weighed down by big-ticket items like cars and furniture, according to Department of Statistics (SingStat) data out on Friday.
Consumer bonanzas such as Singles’ Day and Black Friday supported online shopping growth, but could not turn the retail industry around into positive territory.
The 4 per cent decline in year-on-year sales was largely in line with the expectations from private-sector economists polled by Bloomberg. That’s even as the previous month’s decrease in sales was revised downwards by a smidgen, from 4.3 per cent to 4.4 per cent.
Still, when the double-digit drop in vehicle sales was left out, sales figures held steady - improving to a dip of 0.6 per cent, from 0.7 per cent in October.
SingStat noted that e-commerce sales made up about 8 per cent of the S$3.6 billion in sales value, compared with 6.1 per cent of all sales in October.
It attributed the increase in Web purchases to “major online shopping events such as Singles’ Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday” during the month.
Demand for bags and shoes propelled the clothing and footwear industry, which was the top performer with year-on-year sales growth of 4.3 per cent.
Mini-marts and convenience stores clocked 3 per cent growth, followed by watch and jewellery retailers at 1.6 per cent, and computer and telecom equipment vendors at 1.5 per cent.
Yet these segments could not offset larger falls in categories such as furniture and household goods (-10.9 per cent), department stores (-8.4 per cent) and recreational goods (-4.5 per cent).
Vehicle sales fell by 22.4 per cent, which SingStat linked to the lower Certificate of Entitlement (COE) quota for the November-to-January window.
On a seasonally adjusted, monthly basis, retail sales inched higher by 0.2 per cent in November. Sales figures rose by 1 per cent when vehicles were excluded from the tally.
Meanwhile, food and beverage services receipts grew by 5.5 per cent year on year to about S$898 million, on improvements in all four categories: restaurants, caterers, fast food joints and other eateries. The seasonally adjusted, monthly increase in takings was 2.3 per cent.
“November’s retail sales numbers are evidence of the growing disruption of e-commerce on brick-and-mortar stores in Singapore,” Maybank Kim Eng economist Lee Ju Ye told The Business Times, citing the gap between the drop in department store sales and the surge in online transactions, which she estimated to be 16 per cent higher year on year.
Similarly, United Overseas Bank economist Barnabas Gan said in a note that, “rather than concluding that consumer demand softened in November, we opine that much of the demand had been concentrated in the online shopping environment” - with revenues largely flowing to cross-border vendors like China’s Alibaba Group instead.
“Moreover, the contraction in departmental sales may have been affected by the high base back in November 2018, where sales spiked 8.8 per cent,” he added.
While Ms Lee expected December sales data to remain slugging “as indicated by the persistently low COE prices”, her team has tipped headline retail sales to recover to “low single-digit growth in 2020” as the Singapore economy regains ground.


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AMD CEO Lisa Su recently had a conversation with CNBC, where she revealed how a latest chip will push PlayStation 5(PS5) ahead of its competitors.
“What we have done with Sony is really architect something for their application, for their special sauce. It’s a great honor for us. We’re really excited about what the next generation PlayStation will do.”
AMD Is Working With Microsoft Too!
AMD is evidently busy as now Lisa Su has reminded all gamers that they are also working on the Google’s Stadia service. She also talked about how AMD is working on an unknown project with Microsoft, which will likely be on Xbox consoles AMD has been working on. Either way, gamers may expect some really exciting announcements soon.
The latest first details for PlayStation5 were only recently revealed by Cerny who stated it to be backwards compatible. The AMD chip shall boast a CPU based on 3rd gen Ryzen tech which also includes about eight cores of Zen 2 microchip. The first presentations by Cerny has demonstrated how capable PlayStation 5 using 4K resolution. Gamers were also informed that it will now support 8k resolution which will run via Radeon’s Navi graphics chip.
PlayStation 5 May Have AN ADVANTAGE over its competitors!
Cerny has also given out details of 3D audio which will give players a much better experience as NPC will be able to detect the sounds and footsteps coming from other directions. Add this to a super fast SSD which will be able to load games 18 times faster than earlier. Now Su’s comments hint that PlayStation 5 will be something to look out for.
Reports even state that the Next-Gen Xbox will outshine the competition in the market. Earlier, Xbox head, Phil Spencer also claimed that Microsoft will be setting the benchmark of home gaming, the special sauce and AMDs addition will give PlayStation 5 an advantage over its rivals. The console wars will continue as what follows Xbox One and PlayStation 5 is inching closer. Stay tuned for more updates.


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The new variants of the KrØØk attack vulnerability discovered by ESET researchers Robert Lipovský and Štefan Svorenčík had impacted Qualcomm and MediaTek Wi-Fi chips.
KrØØk, a security vulnerability disclosed by ESET in February 2020 and reported as CVE-2019-15126, could be used by attackers to decrypt some WPA2-encrypted wireless network packets transmitted by compromised devices after effective exploitation, requiring them to use all-zero encryption keys to encrypt part of the exchanged traffic.
On this page you can find a list of advisories describing security patches targeting KrØØk that holds a list of software fixes issued by vendors to fix the vulnerability.
Exploiting KrØØk allows adversaries to intercept and decrypt (potentially sensitive) data of interest and, when compared to other techniques commonly used against Wi-Fi, exploiting KrØØk has a significant advantage: while they need to be in the range of the Wi-Fi signal, the attackers do not need to be authenticated and associated to the WLAN. In other words, they don’t need to know the Wi-Fi password.
“Our tests confirmed that prior to patching, some client devices by Amazon (Echo, Kindle), Apple (iPhone, iPad, MacBook), Google (Nexus), Samsung (Galaxy), Raspberry (Pi 3), Xiaomi (RedMi), as well as some access points by Asus and Huawei, were vulnerable to KrØØk,” ESET said at the time.
In all, according to a conservative estimate provided by ESET, the number of Wi-Fi – enabled devices exposed to KrØØk attacks exceeded one billion.
Qualcomm and MediaTek Wi-Fi-enabled devices prove vulnerable
While ESET initially said that only devices with Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips were affected, Lipovský and Svorenčík discovered new KrØØk variants which also affected the Qualcomm and MediaTek radios used in cars, navigation systems, watches, laptops , smartphones, routers and other devices.
“The vulnerability we discovered (which was assigned CVE-2020-3702) was also triggerable by a disassociation and led to undesirable disclosure of data by transmitting unencrypted data in the place of encrypted data frames – much like with KrØØk.”
“We also observed the manifestation of a similar vulnerability (i.e. lack of encryption) on some Wi-Fi chips by MediaTek,” including the ASUS RT-AC52U route and the Microsoft Azure Sphere development kit that utilizes the MT3620 microcontroller also used in smart home, commercial, and industrial solutions.
New KrØØk variants are already being patched
Qualcomm released a fix for the proprietary driver affected in July by the newly discovered KrØØk attack, and during March and April 2020, MediaTek fixed the flaw.
A security update was released later , in July, with Azure Sphere OS version 20.07, which fixed the bug impacting the MT3620 microcontroller.
When left unpatched, these new results dramatically increase the number of susceptible devices to attacks from KrØØk and their variants.
Lipovský and Svorenčík have released a proof-of-concept testing script for triggering and detecting the KrØØk vulnerability on unpatched devices.


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Telltale promised that episode three of their hugely successful “The Walking Dead” game would hit in August. It looked like they weren’t going to be able to fulfill that promise at first, but they pulled through right at the very end.
Telltale Games announced today that episode three of “The Walking Dead” will be available on the PlayStation Network today for $5. Episode three will be available on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow for 400 MS points. The PC/Mac release will also be available tomorrow for those who bought the season pass via the Telltale Store or any one of their numerous digital download partners like Steam or Origin.
Fans of the iOS version will be able to get their hands on episode two starting tomorrow for $4.99. Telltale is also offering episodes two through five of the iOS version for $14.99.
Episode three is titled “Long Road Ahead” and Telltale promises that it will be “the most emotionally harrowing episode to date.” I bet that means people are going to die… again. The game will see the group that you ended up with at the end of episode two making their way out of the motel as they try to deal with the drama that ensued at the end of the last episode.
While you wait for episode three to release on the PSN today, check out the latest episode of Playing Dead. The team at Telltale goes over the many choices that players could make in episode two and how it could affect the story. I don’t think I need to tell you, but spoilers are to be expected. Watch at your own risk.


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CFDA and Swarovski Foundation launch award for innovation in sustainability
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and the charitable foundation run by Austrian crystal maker Swarovski have partnered up to launch an annual scholarship for fashion students innovating with sustainable systems.
Entitled the Re: Generation Innovation Scholar Award, the three-year partnership between the CFDA and the Swarovski Foundation will see one annually selected student receive $30,000, as well as mentoring designed to help them develop their ingenuity.
Scholars will be selected by a CFDA–Swarovski Foundation committee based on their portfolio and a virtual presentation, which should demonstrate their talent, financial need, professional potential and interest or experience in sustainable systems. Candidates are expected to integrate the Swarovski Foundation’s key focuses of culture, creative innovation, care for the environment and human rights in their applications.
The scholarship is open to full-time undergraduate students on BFA or BA courses.
“Students are the future of American fashion and will be leading the charge in transforming today’s challenges into tomorrow’s solutions,” said CFDA CEO Steven Kolb in a release. “Through the Re: Generation Innovation Scholar Award, we look to students to imagine a new global and conscious fashion industry. We look forward to again be working with Nadja Swarovski as well as the Swarovski Foundation and thank them for the support.”
Swarovski and the CFDA have worked together for close to 20 years, with the crystal maker having sponsored the American fashion organization’s Emerging Talent and Positive Change Awards until 2019.
“Building on almost two decades of collaboration, I am proud to partner with the CFDA in a new capacity via the Swarovski Foundation,” commented Nadja Swarovski, who serves as both a member of the Swarovski executive board and the chair of the Swarovski Foundation. “The Re: Generation Innovation Scholar Award reflects our shared vision to identify, empower and accelerate the next generation of leading fashion talent in the sustainability realm.”
Since first launching a named Perry Ellis scholarship at Parsons School of Design in 1996, the CFDA has awarded over $2.2 million through 302 scholarships awarded to design students at 22 American colleges and universities. According to the organization, between 2015 and 2020, 76% of its scholarships were awarded to women and 72% to students from “ethnic/diverse backgrounds.”
With the launch of the Re: Generation Innovation Scholar Award, the CFDA will grant students a total of $280,000 through its 2021 Design Scholar Awards, which also include the Suntchi Image Maker Award, the Liz Claiborne Design for Impactful Futures Award, and the Geoffrey Beene Designer Masters Scholar Award.
As part of their ongoing collaboration, the CFDA and the Swarovski Foundation also said that they are developing programming, professional development tools, learning opportunities and information resources focused on “creativity for problem-solving and sustainable innovation” for design students, as well as the wider fashion industry.
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Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation has appointed Ivy Au-Yeung as chief executive of Hong Kong-based subsidiary OCBC Wing Hang Bank, effective May 20. She will report to group CEO Helen Wong.
Au-Yeung is taking over from Na Wu Beng, who is retiring on May 19. He will remain with OCBC Wing Hang Bank as adviser to the board until the end of the year.
Au-Yeung joined OCBC Wing Hang Bank as deputy chief executive in December 2019, overseeing its retail banking group in Hong Kong, Banco OCBC Weng Hang in Macau and OCBC Wing Hang Credit.
She has more than 30 years of experience in corporate and commercial banking in global banks, covering relationship management, product management as well as credit and sales. Prior to joining OCBC Wing Hang, she was the CEO of the Hong Kong branch of an Australian bank.


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The cash strapped Zimbabwean government has blown US$485 000 to pay airfare tickets for the 224 international buyers and 24 international media organisations who are set to attend the 10th edition of the Sanganai/Hlanganani- World Tourism Expo, 263Chat has learnt.
This comes on the backdrop of a cash crunch that has resulted in disappearance of basic goods in retail shops including cooking oil as the central bank struggle to settle foreign payments.
Addressing the media in Harare on Monday ahead of tourism fete set for Bulawayo later this month, Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) Chief Executive Officer, Karikoga Kaseke revealed that government had made an undertaking to fully fund visiting buyers and international media.
“We thank the government, through the Treasury and Honourable (Patrick) Chinamasa for availing funds worth US$485 000 for the tickets of our international buyers and media.
“There is nothing amiss about this trend as all countries do the same. There are however, some Asian buyers who will cater for themselves but those from the United States and Europe will have to be catered by us.
“The buyers said either they do not come or we will foot their bill, so we chose to pay for their air tickets and we are only waiting for their arrival,” said Kaseke.
The first batch of the international buyers and some foreign exhibitors are expected to arrive in Bulawayo on Friday the 22 of September.
340 exhibitors have already registered compared to 236 who attended the 2016 edition which is a 44% growth in exhibitor numbers.
Kaseke said there is a significant growth in first time participants from 54 in 2016 to 85 exhibitors who will be participating for the first time at the 2017 edition.
“This year’s edition has received an increase in international representation. To date 11 countries represented by 22 foreign exhibitors will be exhibiting compared to 8 countries who participated in 2016 represented by 30 individual companies,” added Kaseke.
Deputy Minister of Tourism and Hospitality, Anastacia Ndlovu said the significant growth was a result of the peace and security the country enjoys.
The Expo will include sessions where buyers will be taken through the offerings of the destinations by local, various players from key tourism destinations.


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Without fail, the day I crave Chick fil A the most is on Sunday – which of course is the day they are not open.
It’s been like that since I was a teenager – Chick fil A had long enjoyed the well deserved reputation of being a Christian fast food restaurant and ran their business according to their religious values.
In keeping with their religious values, it has been disclosed that several millions of dollars of Chick fil A corporate profits have gone to funding religious groups fighting against marriage equality.
What has ensued since this has become public is fascinating to watch – again highlighting the polarization of America.
Pro-marriage equality groups and individuals have mounted a public relations campaign/boycott against Chick fil A.
Shortly thereafter, pro-Chick fil A groups, not all of them religious in nature, have pushed back saying that it is unfair to discriminate against Chick fil A based on the company’s religious beliefs. I’m literally stunned by the logic being used.
Somehow, people are up in arms that some should dare withdraw their patronage of a restaurant because they do not act the way we want them to. From a message board I read yesterday:
“Chick-Fil-A and BSA are being unfairly bullied. Chick-fil-A is a private company run by a strict Baptist family I don’t understand why people would be shocked by their stance. I am pretty sure they they treat every customer the same gay or straight. If you don’t like their politics too bad don’t eat there, they have a right to have an opinion.”
Or this gem from my Facebook Wall overnight:
“Pretty soon, we are going to have to start checking everyone’s donation, voting, and some day “thinking” card before we can do business or even converse with them… oh no, don’t do business with those people because they don’t think the same I do ! Thought police here we come.”
In a free-market society, the law of business is supply and demand. Chick fil A has the supply, except on Sunday, and the consumer has the demand, maybe even more so on a Sunday. Now as a consumer, if I find that the supplier of the product I want to purchase is doing something that I do not support, do I not have the right to take my appetite and patronage elsewhere?
Chick fil A retains the right to continue to fund church groups and organizations that are anti-same sex marriage, but they do so at the risk of alienating a portion of their customer base and profits. For a company that has long operated by losing sales and market share by closing on Sunday, I seriously doubt an individual-based boycott of their product will change their behavior.
That said, just because I don’t think Chick fil A will join the now-majority of Americans that support marriage equality, regardless of whether I buy or do not buy a Spicy Chicken sandwich, doesn’t mean I can’t make an educated choice as a consumer to not put my money towards funding that which I do not support.
That is how free markets work. The backlash against an individual-based boycott makes no sense whatsoever, other than as a show of support for Chick fil A’s values.
Boycotts have long been effective in changing behavior – from transit authorities, to businesses, to nations. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, started when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, lasted for over a year. Apartheid in South Africa had existed since 1948, but Americans paid little to no attention to it until the 1980’s. Despite Ronald Reagan’s veto , the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act in 1986 — overrode in the Senate (78-21), led to effective disinvestment (boycott) of South Africa which ultimately helped end apartheid six years later.
Boycotts are powerful tools, tried and true for ushering in social change. For me, every day is now Sunday.


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Endologix Inc. said Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its expanded collection of stent graft products.
The medical device company said the approval covers 31 new sizes of its "Powerlink" stent graft products, which should expand the number of patients they can be used in by 5 percent to 10 percent.
Stent grafts reinforce a ruptured or a ballooning section of an artery.
The Powerlink line treats abdominal aortic aneurysms, or weakening in the wall of the aorta, the largest artery in the body, which extends from the chest to the abdomen.
Endologix said it will move ahead with a limited release this month and a full market release in the fourth quarter.
The company's stock rose 3 cents to $4.29 in afternoon trading.


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Microsoft has created a $43 billion business, a potential Apple-and-OEM-esque company-within-a-company, that could be used to take up the slack if some of its computer-making partners falter.
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The iPhone 6s release date seems to be beyond doubt now. Apple is confidently believed to be releasing the new models on September 18 in tier-one countries. This will follow a launch date thought to be September 9...
Despite rumors that Microsoft is about to kill Windows Phone, some industry observers say that's unlikely for several reasons, especially the expected gains from the rollout of Windows 10, which will run on smartphones and other devices.
Apple is cooking up such an iPhone upgrade path, with a wave of rumors warning the next iteration will be faster, thinner, and possibly even curvier than before.
This week the G4 smartphone from LG Electronics starts shipping outside its home country, with arrivals in the U.S. and Europe expected in a couple of weeks. While the smartphone has a great screen and camera, it doesn't get everything right.
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