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Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam have unveiled their new away kit for the 2010-11 season.
AEGON are the sponsors of the Ajax away jersey, which has been made by sportswear giants Adidas.
This blue Ajax away shirt also has bright yellow hues, as you can see in the picture below. Ajax Amsterdam will wear this shirt for the first time on May 6, 2010 against rivals Feyenoord Rotterdam.
On the back of the Ajax strip, you can see the words ‘Heldhaftig, Vastberaden en Barmhartig’, which in English mean, heroic, determined and merciful. Continue reading
The Socceroos Home Kit for the 2010-11 football season has been released by Nike. This is the strip that the Australian football team will wear at select World Cup 2010 matches too.
The new Australian football shirt, made from recyclable material, has green and yellow as its primary colours. There is also one horizontal white strip on the shirt.
This light yellow and green Australian soccer kit will be worn with dark yellow and green socks.
One Call Insurance have inked a three year kit sponsorship deal with Doncaster Rovers. The One Call Insurance Logo will be seen on the home and away shirts and training wear of the Vikings from the beginning of the 2010-11 season to the end of the 2012-13 season.
One Call Insurance is based in Doncaster and employs more than 150 people locally.
John Radford, the company’s Managing Director had this to say, ” We are delighted to be sponsoring our local team.
“Doncaster Rovers place a huge emphasis on building community links and keeping local roots.”
This is not the first time One Call Insurance are sponsoring Doncaster’s kits. They were the shorts sponsors of the Vikings when they won promotion to the Championship in 2008.
Online company Betclic have signed a two year jersey sponsorship deal with Italian giants Juventus. The deal begins on 1st July 2010 and will continue till the end of the 2011-12 season. Betclic will pay 8 million euros per season ( a total of 16 million euros for two seasons) + a variable fee that depends on the club’s performance.
However Betclic will only sponsor Juventus’ home shirts. The Bianconeri are still on the lookout for an away shirt sponsor for the next two seasons.
Sunderland AFC have signed a new two year sponsorship deal with online gaming company Tombola. The deal, which starts from June 1, 2010, is for a period of two years.
Financial details of the deal were not revealed. However the Black Cats are expected to get a significantly higher sum than the £3m a year deal inked with Boylesports in 2007.
Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn said: “We are thrilled to be joining forces with tombola at what is a really exciting time in our football club’s journey.
Click to see the 10/11 Tombola sponsored Sunderland away strip.
“The company’s headquarters are in Sunderland so they know exactly what the club and the city are all about and we are excited by the possibilities this partnership offers to us both.”
Tombola are the UK’s biggest online bingo website.
Sunderland’s new Tombola sponsored strip, manufactured by Umbro, will be officially revealed to the public on June 25, 2010. The Away Days campaign ( starting from June 21) will see the kit being slowly unveiled.
Chelsea’s Goalkeeper Jersey for the 2010-11 season will be yellow in colour. This Chelsea 2010-11 Home GK Kit will be worn by Blues stopper Petr Cech in the club’s home games at Stamford Bridge.
Cech’s new home goalkeeper strip contains Adidas’ Techfit technology. The yellow shirt will be worn with black shorts.
The socks for Chelsea’s GK kit will be yellow in colour. Continue reading
Premier League giants Chelsea FC have released their new home kit for the 2010-11 football season.
Kit makers :- Adidas
Kit sponsors :- Samsung
The new Chelsea strip will be worn for the first time in a Premier League match against Wigan Athletic on May 9.
The shirt features a red v-neck, reminding us about the club’s fond association with the Pensioners. Adidas’ Techfit technology will be used in the shirt. The replica Chelsea shirt for fans will not have the Techfit technology but will have ClimaCool. Continue reading
This is the new LFC Home Shirt for the 2010-11 and 2011-2012 football seasons. Liverpool are the first of the big four to official unveil a kit for the upcoming season. The new Liverpool home strip has been manufactured by Adidas and boasts of a new sponsor in the form of banking giants Standard Chartered.
This Liverpool home jersey is a throwback to the strip worn by the 1989- 1990 trophy winning squad. It is an all red strip, with red shirts, red shorts and red socks. It uses Adidas’ Techfit technology and features a laser cut woven crest.
Defender Jamie Carragher, captain Steven Gerrard and Dutch forward Dirk Kuyt are seen modelling the new LFC home kit in this picture. Continue reading


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An influx of freight and higher rates is boosting third-quarter profitability at YRC Worldwide, the company said Tuesday.
China’s top port operator and an engineering group will invest $601 million in a container terminal at Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port, as China seeks to deepen its ties with the strategically placed Indian Ocean island.
With the odds growing that a global ballast water treaty will come into force next year, concern is building among shipowners, including container carriers, that its implementation will be chaotic, expensive and ineffective.
The state of Hawaii plans to build a new $266 million container terminal in Honolulu to cater to anticipated higher levels of cargo volumes in coming decades, according to West Hawaii Today.
The number of ships quarantined in Los Angeles by Asian Gypsy Moth infestations has risen to 15 as inspectors battle to keep the invasive species from making its way into North America.
CMA CGM has upgraded its Amerigo service between the U.S. and the Mediterranean with the addition of a new call in Miami.
Robert Ward, a shipping and transportation journalist with more than 20 years of experience, has recently begun reporting for JOC Group Inc.’s print and online products.
The newly appointed head of international trade at U.S. Customs and Border Protection said she wants to streamline regulation, make better use of data and improve employees’ analytical skills to improve cargo trade facilitation. As a result, the agency will be able to better focus its attention on high-risk cargo, giving safe shipments faster clearance.
The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority is seeking “expressions of interest” from potential developers of Southport, a 200-acre Delaware River waterfront site where a container terminal had been planned.
India plans nearly a 50 percent increase in port fees including stevedoring and pilotage at Chennai to improve the port's financial performance
The cost of shipping a 40-foot container from Hong Kong to Los Angeles declined this week, with rates losing all gains brought on by a Sept. 1 general rate increase.
Low prices invariably generate increased demand, so exports of corn, soybeans and energy products derived from those commodities will do quite well in the coming year and beyond, said David Hightower, principal at Hightower Associates in Chicago and publisher of the Hightower Report on commodities.
The northern Chile port of Iquique plans an $80 million expansion.

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Hawaii officials order Haleiwa Farmers Market to shut down
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The Haleiwa Farmers Market has received a cease and desist order from the Hawaii Department of Transportation, ordering it to vacate a 2.5-acre piece of state land where the weekly outdoor event has been doing business for more than three years.
Hawaii News Now reports the state says the land at the intersection of of Kamehameha Highway and J.P. Leong Highway is technically a highway right of way that is zoned for agricultural use, which makes the state liable for any accidents at the market. Hawaii News Now reports the state discovered the legal problem while working on a formal annual agreement with the market, which has been using the property on a month-to-month, rent-free, basis since first opening in 2009.
Hawaii News Now reports the market owners, who will meet with state officials on Thursday to try and get an extension, say the shutdown will affect farmers on the North Shore who won't have a place to sell their products.
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Instagram is reportedly working on the ability to reply to a user’s bio. The test was uncovered by reliable leaker and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi in a Twitter post on Monday.
Not a particularly big feature, but one that will be useful in terms of engagement and keeping users engaged in the app. It also means Instagram users will have to give it all it takes in terms of making their bio attractive and more engaging.
Perhaps, I should also add that it is going to serve as a faster way of starting up a conversation. That said, the feature remains a test, and even more unconfirmed by Instagram.
In other stories, Meta recently announced a new broadcast chat feature called “Channels” on Instagram. Channels lets creators share public, one-to-many messages directly to their followers which keeps them engaged. The new feature supports text, images, polls, reactions and more. The feature was announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg using his own broadcast channel.
Channels is being tested with select creators in the US, but Instagram plans to expand the feature in the next couple of months. With Channels, creators can keep their followers updated and see behind-the-scenes moments. While creators can post on Channels, followers are only limited to reacting to content and participating in polls.
Instagram plans to add a couple of more feature to Channels in the coming months. Some of the channels being planned include the ability to bring another creator into the channel to chat on upcoming collabs and collect questions for an AMA via question prompts.
Channels offers creators new way to keep their followers updated within the Instagram app. Previously, creators have had to keep their followers updated by sharing stories. The new feature, however, now allows them to engage with their followers directly, and get feedback on certain things and promote their content.
Upon gaining access to channels, you can start one from your Instagram inbox. After sending your first message, your followers will receive a one-time notification to join the channel. When your channel goes live, you can also encourage your followers to join using the “join channel” sticker in Stories. Soon, creators on Instagram will be able to pin their channel to their profile to make it easily accessible.


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Stocks ended near session highs again Friday as the Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 hit new highs.
The Dow led with a 0.5% gain. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% and the Nasdaq added 0.3%. Volume was mixed despite the expiration of options contracts, a monthly event that tends to boost volume. NYSE volume rose but Nasdaq volume fell, according to preliminary data.
In the stock market today, Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI) climbed 2% to a new high after the owner of the Pollo Tropical and Taco Cabana restaurant chains priced an offering of 2.7 million shares at 46 each.
The stock is 23% above a 38.94 buy point. Investors should consider taking profits in stocks that rise 20% above their buy points.
Biotech stocks were among the best performers. Biogen Idec (BIIB) rose 3% in above-average trade, retaking its 50-day line. The stock is 4% past a 234.84 handle entry, putting it just within buying range.
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) also rose 3%. The stock on Thursday regained its 118.39 buy point after getting support at its 10-week line. It's now 4% above the buy point.
Biogen and Alexion both have 97 Composite Ratings, putting them sixth out of 271 stocks in the highly ranked Medical-Biomedical/Biotech industry group.
Herbalife (HLF) jumped 5% in strong turnover, retaking its 50-day line. It's crept up for four straight sessions, nearing a 70.77 buy point in a double-bottom base.
WuXi PharmaTech (WX) suffered the biggest loss among IBD 50 stocks. It hit a new high early in the session but then reversed lower and ended down 4%. However, China's biggest contract research firm for the pharmaceuticals industry is still 8% past a 29.52 buy point from a three-weeks-tight pattern.
Weaker-than-expected industrial production and New York-area manufacturing data on Friday boosted sentiment that the Federal Reserve will stick to its easy-money policies.
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We don’t really need coffee anymore
By now, you’re probably aware that, as we enter a new decade, we’ll soon be heading into a new phase of our modern lives.
In a way, the shift towards “decarbonizing” our energy-intensive lives is already under way.
The number of people in the world who are working out at least 40 minutes per day, and who also exercise regularly, has increased by 60% since 2000, according to the United Nations.
We’re also spending more time in front of screens and in digital environments, with many more people watching television than ever before.
But if you’re a coffee connoisseur, you may not know that the global trade in coffee is growing at a record rate.
That is, unless you’re one of those people who enjoys a cup of joe every morning.
According to a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States (FAO), in 2014, coffee accounted for 20% of global coffee exports, up from 10% in 1999.
By 2020, the coffee trade could exceed $3.2 trillion, according the report.
In terms of how coffee is consumed, it seems that the United Kingdom is in the lead with its most popular brew, according a report from the UK-based coffee consultancy Caffè Nero.
It’s the same with Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Brazil.
The U.K. has been the largest coffee importer in the EU since 2011, with exports of €1.2 billion in 2015.
But the country is currently in the process of relocating to Europe, and a deal with the European Union to keep its export tariffs on coffee will be finalized in 2019.
In the meantime, coffee drinkers in the U.S. and Europe have to rely on coffee from the rest of the world.
In an interview with the Economist, Caffé Nero’s president, Alex Mather, said that while coffee may be the “most-sold product in the coffee industry,” it is also the most important one for the industry.
“It’s a global industry, and we can’t do this without the support of the international community,” he said.
While many consumers will continue to purchase coffee from their local coffeehouses, a growing number of multinational companies are opening new coffee markets.
These include the likes of Starbucks, Unilever, Uniqlo and the Coffee Company of the Americas (CCA), among others.
CCA has said that its new locations in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Sweden will help the coffee company increase its presence in the European market.
A major shift toward sustainable farming practicesThe rise of coffee is also one of the reasons why, in 2015, the World Trade Organization (WTO) voted to ban the export of coffee beans to more than 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
The decision was a result of the fact that coffee grown in countries that don’t have an effective system for preserving and processing the beans is not considered a sustainable food source for the entire global population.
This means that the world’s largest coffee producer, which employs over 3 million people worldwide, must stop producing its product, and its customers will be left out.
The WTO also banned the import of coffee seeds, as well as other crop residues.
In fact, some farmers say that the ban on the export is not enough.
“The trade ban is really a big deal,” says Andrew Waugh, executive director of the CCA in Australia.
“We have to be conscious of how we’re going to use the crop.
And we’re not going to do that by exporting.”
Waugh also says that the Caffée Nero team will continue its coffee sourcing efforts.
“They’ve got their eyes on the future and are very committed to the sustainability of the coffee we produce in Australia and around the world,” he says.
A shift away from coffeeIn the past, coffee was the mainstay of our lives, but now, more and more people are looking for ways to save money.
Many people are opting for healthier alternatives such as fruit and vegetable milks, which are high in calcium, vitamin D and vitamin E. While many coffee drinkers are not interested in spending money on a pricey coffee, many people have come to embrace the health benefits of a diet high in fruits and vegetables.
While the global coffee industry is growing, there are many challenges facing the coffee sector.
One of them is the rapid shift towards green farming practices, which rely heavily on green crops.
As the coffee economy shifts from being primarily a coffee company to one that relies on sustainable farming, a number of issues arise.
For example, many farmers have to change their practices in order to produce higher yields of beans, which will in turn benefit the environment.
According to the World Resources Institute, the world produces approximately one million tons of coffee per year, and one third of that comes from Africa.
For most coffee-growing countries, this amount of coffee goes towards the production of foodstuffs, including coffee beans,


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AOL shelled out $315 million for the web start-up yesterday and it means they now control the biggest voices in online journalism – Techcrunch and Engadget which dominate tech world and now liberal online paper the Huffington Post.
It makes AOL one of the biggest content providers on the web – not only has it got its own portal of celeb news etc, but with the addition of HuffPo it gets one of the strongest online voices in politics etc.
Key rivals include Gawker and their portfolio of blogs like Gizmodo, Jezebel and Deadspin and then of course, the mainstream media – portals like the Guardian, the New York Times and the BBC.
HuffPo’s model of aggregation and comment rather than creation of content has become popularised and become the norm for web businesses, though its model of providing general news (rather than the more specific subject focussed stuff) hasn’t caught on so much.
Perhaps because the big traditional media outlets sharpened up their act and got online with their general news stuff. Perhaps because it’s easier to sell advertising if you’re in a niche.
However HuffPo did retain the traditional bloggy feature of a unified voice “a liberal prism” as the New York Times puts it. Something that separated the HuffPo apart from everything else out there.
When the New York Times’ paywall goes up – expected soon.. AOL’s manoeuvring for online dominance could be shown to pay off…


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Analyst says a third of all MacBook users will upgrade to M1X MacBook Pro
15th October, 2021 at 6:10 pm by Divi
- Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives says a third of MacBook users will upgrade to new MacBooks Pros this year.
- Apple is expected to release the M1X MacBook Pros next week.
With Apple set to unveil new MacBook Pros with upgraded M1X chips next week, an analyst is estimating that almost a third of all MacBook users will upgrade to one of the new models.
Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives says this.
The proprietary M1X processor is the foundational part of this MacBook and ultimately we believe will be a game changer that will convert 30%+ of current MacBook users to upgrade over the next year catalyzing growth on this hardware segment.
The M1X is essentially a new heavy duty engine being put in this new MacBook, and will be music to the ears of core Mac loyalists awaiting this release for the past six months as Cupertino continues to be in the midst of its biggest hardware refresh cycle in roughly a decade.
The new MacBook Pros are expected to include many enhancements including new M1X chips. They may also feature upgrades such as more ports, an enhanced camera, and possibly 120hz displays. It is unclear whether they will feature an updated design.


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A company that supplies audio-visual and building control equipment to the US Army, the White House, and other security-conscious organizations built a deliberately concealed backdoor into dozens of its products that could possibly be used to hack or spy on users, security researchers said.
Members of Austria-based security firm SEC Consult said they discovered the backdoor after analyzing the AMX NX-1200, a programmable device used to control AV and building systems. The researchers first became suspicious after encountering a function called "setUpSubtleUserAccount" that added an highly privileged account with a hard-coded password to the list of users authorized to log in. Unlike most other accounts, this one had the ability to capture data packets flowing between the device and the network it's connected to.
"Someone with knowledge of the backdoor could completely reconfigure and take over the device and due to the highest privileges also start sniffing attacks within the network segment," SEC Consult researcher Johannes Greil told Ars. "We did not see any personal data on the device itself, besides other user accounts which could be cracked for further attacks."


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The Samsung galaxy note 7 is one of the Samsung’s flagship models in the smartphone market and the worst debut by any smartphone in recent times.
The Samsung Galaxy note 7 follows Galaxy note 5, one of the most popular android devices of 2016. It was launched with much fanfare in August 2016, a move which can be considered to cover ground before Apple showcased the iPhone 7 on September 7. It was expected to start a fresh war between the two dominating smartphone companies as it was feature packed and seemed to get a great start with pre-order records smashing in South-Korea. They had to delay the product release in other countries to meet the high demand.
With images of charred phones flooding social media, the unprecedented recall has been a humiliation for Samsung and could cost the firm $3 billion (roughly Rs. 19,939 crores) in the long run, analysts say.
The problem with the phone:
It didn’t take long for the early reports to quickly turn sour when multiple reports were received of the phone overheating and then exploding. People quickly turned to the social media to post the photos and reports of the exploded devices showing burnt, charred and melted phones. Issue of safety prompted Samsung to hold sales and issue a worldwide recall in early September with an official statement of the 3,500 mAh lithium-ion battery problem and they recalled about 2.5 million Note 7 devices from US, South Korea, and other markets
How will this affect the smartphone market:
Just few days after Samsung offered a full product recall, Apple officially released their iPhone 7/ Samsung now stands a serious challenge against its long-standing rival especially as Apple had received criticism on its own for its hurried security update for the iOS 9.3.5 and the lack of headphone jacks were soon dropped by the press in favour of Samsung safety issues. Apple is hence expected to benefit a lot from their chief competitor’s troubles as analysts expect trust in Samsung to waiver at least.
What effect will the recall have on the customer and the company:
While Samsung assured customers that the recall procedures will be carried out as quickly as possible and the exchange procedure will be completely hassle free, however, the US exchange program promised that customers can expect their new devices no later than September 21st, 2016. The inconvenience was clear and many felt that the 25$ gift card given as compensation is not enough. Taking safety as the priority the US Federal Aviation Authority called on passengers to avoid using galaxy note 7 devices on their flights. India’s aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Friday asked passengers not to charge or switch on the device on board the aircraft. The advisory issued to airlines and passenger says: “In light of recent incidents involving battery issue with Samsung about its Galaxy Note 7 devices globally, travelling public and airlines are advised not to turn on or charge the mobile phone on board the aircraft.”
It also prohibited carrying it in checked-in baggage. A passenger can, however, carry it in hand luggage in switched off mode.
Developments such as these on the news adversely affected the Samsung’s good brand image and were reflected by falls of the stock market during the period between the launch and recall in September 2016. Samsung’s market value took a hit up to 22 billion dollars as a result of the initial recall while the prediction says the problems with the note 7 could cause up to 1 billion dollars.
What does it mean for the long-term brand image for Samsung:
While the short-term economic impact of the recall should be manageable for a firm as large and influential as Samsung, however longer lasting damage to the company’s reputation could prove more difficult to fix as more reports have emerged of phones overheating causing serious burns and causing even house and car fires being blamed on the note 7. Potential customers of the Samsung device are expected to think twice before buying other models from the same company.
What about other Note devices?
There are also reports of other Samsung devices exploding including a Note 2 catching fire in an Indigo flight in India.
Are the replaced phone safe enough?
As per the fresh reports a Chinese user of the replaced ‘Safe’ Samsung Galaxy Note 7 said his device exploded while charging, raising fears of fresh battery issues hitting the South Korean company’s phones after a massive recall. The whole affair could cause considerable doubt in a customer’s mind next time they shop for a smartphone which obviously helps the likes of Apple.
It’s down to the electronics giant to put things right as soon as possible and to regain the attention and trust of its customers for the future.
The Galaxy Note 7 is powered by a 3,500mAh battery made by Samsung SDI and sports a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 1,440×2,560 pixels (518 ppi pixel density). It has an Exynos 8890 processor, an Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow operating system, a 64GB internal memory expandable up to 256GB via microSD card, and a 4GB RAM. The handset also mounts a 12MP main camera with f/1.7 aperture, 26mm lens, phase detection autofocus, OIS, LED flash, 1/2.5″ sensor size and 1.4 µm pixel size, and a 5MP front snapper with f/1.7 aperture and 22mm lens.


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Changes are coming to Redmond's Bella Bottega shopping center as its property owners continue negotiating leases and seeking tenants for a number of vacant spaces.
One deal that has been finalized is with Potbelly Sandwich Works, a popular Chicago-based chain that recently began opening stores in the Seattle area. The Bella Bottega location will occupy the empty corner space near QFC and could open as soon as the end of March, according to Bella Bottega property manager Brad Merlino.
Potbelly is known for its custom-made sandwiches and old-fashioned milkshakes, along with a retro atmosphere featuring antique signs and live music. The Redmond location will be the fourth Potbelly in Washington state, joining locations in downtown Seattle and Bellevue.
Several vacant spaces at the other end of the shopping center will also eventually be occupied by new dining spots, Merlino said. Three Thai restaurants that are already "established in the Puget Sound region" have made offers for the , Merlino said, and a frozen yogurt shop will likely take over another empty space near .
“(Frozen yogurt) seems to be something that’s a pretty hot trend right now, and it would be a great fit,” he said, citing the proximity to .
Merlino said two other vacant shops between and will likely also be occupied by some sort of restaurant, ideally offering a cuisine that's not already represented in the shopping center, such as Italian and Mexican.
“The thing is to have diversity but also create synergy,” he said.
The Bella Bottega shopping center opened in 1985 and is owned by Merlino's father and uncle, who also operate a family construction business together.
Many of the vacancies were caused by the economic downturn, Merlino said, but he sees promise in the amount of interest businesses are currently showing toward the shopping center. Plenty of offers have been rejected, and the property owners are being "very picky" about who moves in, Merlino said.
“We don’t want to take the first people that come around,” he said.


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Former Lamborghini Design Exec to Lead Genesis Brand
Manfred Fitzgerald has a history of reinventing brands.
As Senior Vice President, Fitzgerald will shape strategies for Genesis in the areas of branding, marketing, and other business operations. He will join the team at Hyundai's global headquarters in Seoul, Korea.
Prior to leading Genesis, Fitzgerald spent 12 years at Lamborghini. Under his direction as brand and design chief, Lamborghini was able to increase its sales tenfold. According to Automotive News, Fitzgerald left Lamborghini in 2011 to join German TV maker Loewe and then started his own brand consultancy firm in 2013.
The new appointment comes a little more than a month after Hyundai announced it would remake Genesis into a full-fledged global luxury brand. The company is moving quickly and plans to introduce six new vehicles in the U.S. by 2021. First up is the 2017 G90 sedan, which launches in 2016 and serves as a replacement to the Hyundai Equus sedan. Genesis will also bring out the G80 as a successor to the Hyundai Genesis sedan as well as a G70, an entry-level sports sedan. The remaining vehicles have yet to be announced, but all will include the same alphanumeric naming convention based on the letter "G" and a two-digit numeral.
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Edwardsville native keeps high-risk citizens safe with the help of Amazon
EDWARDSVILLE — Lifelong resident and native of Edwardsville, Jennifer Kilcrease, has been working to keep people safe and well supplied.
Kilcrease is a process assistant at STL4, an Amazon Distribution Center in Edwardsville. Her job is to ensure that working environments are cleaned and sanitized as well as making sure all of her employees and colleagues have access to tools to help them remain healthy while on the job.
A single mother of three with high-risk family members, Kilcrease finds satisfaction in safety for customers.
“The fact I do have family members that can’t leave or rarely leave their home and that we have the ability to ship out those things [essential items] it feels great knowing we’re helping,” she said.
Kilcrease also manages quality control for inventory, making sure products remain clean and arrive on time to the correct addresses. Though there are always non-essential orders, Kilcrease said she has noticed orders are primarily comprised of essential items such as diapers, dog food, baby wipes and cleaning supplies.
Due to the pandemic, Kilcrease takes extra precautions, which means new responsibilities.
Some of the measures include providing proper personal protective equipment to employees, checking their temperatures daily, making sure people get the care they seek and working with Amazon in allowing employees to stay home from work if needed.
“I feel safe coming to work and everything I do is to make sure they feel safe too,” she said. “I make sure that anything they need, I provide.”
To date, the department has not had to make any staffing cuts during the pandemic. Kilcrease said that during the pandemic, Amazon has been “so understanding, it’s amazing.”
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While she has been devoted to serving customers and employees, Kilcrease has not lost sight of what keeps her pushing.
“I come into work to make sure that my family is taken care of, that my kids have a roof over their heads,” Kilcrease said.
To help job seekers displaced during the pandemic, Amazon has launched a hiring initiative. Amazon recently hired 6,500 people statewide and 175,000 across the country. No numbers were available for Edwardsville as of Tuesday afternoon, but Amazon said many positions are still available.


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Marking the introduction of the newest four-door Coupé, the 2014 CLA, Mercedes-Benz is launching a promotional campaign under the slogan “Untamed. The new CLA”. In addition to classic advertising mediums like print ads and TV spots, the Mercedes CLA campaign will feature an online special aimed at stimulating the creativity of participants. Marketing activities will concentrate first and foremost on the unconventional, self-assured and sporty image of the vehicle. The Mercedes-Benz CLA will be available from authorised dealers beginning April 13, 2013.
We’ve included photos of the latest and very unique CLA onling campaign that utilizes social media to spread their message as well as the latest video ads below. So, keep an eye out for the new CLA Campaign and let us know what you think..
“The CLA will be in a vehicle class of its own. As the little brother of the CLS, it will appeal to target groups who bring a certain non-conformist approach to life. The campaign therefore puts the car in situations that can be summed up as ‘Anything but ordinary'”, according to Anders-Sundt Jensen, Head of Brand Communications Mercedes-Benz Cars.
With the new CLA, Mercedes-Benz is introducing a four-door coupé whose sporty design and dynamic handling characteristics make it stand out from the competitive crowd. Using some surprising images, the TV spot asks how it is possible to stand out from the crowd, when so many others are also striving for individuality – the answer is provided by the new CLA. The promotional film will be showed until mid-March on all major German TV channels.
The print materials show the ‘style rebel’ from a range of perspectives. These will be appearing until mid-April in high-circulation news and business magazines, specialist motoring publications and special interest media under headings such as “Form: non-conformist” or “Untamed”.
The classic advertising measures will be complemented by an unconventional online and event format. Launching in February is #Untamed, a digital photo installation inspired by the new Mercedes-Benz CLA, for which Mercedes-Benz will be exploiting the power of the popular social media photo platform Instagram. Users will be able to go to www.untamed-installation.com and upload the most unusual images from their personal Instagram photo stream to the multivdevice-compatible CLA campaign website. On the homepage, participants will be able to see how individual their photos are, and the extent to which they stand out from the images captured by other participants. In accordance with the central theme of “The natural enemy of the ordinary”, participants will be encouraged to break free from the constraints of convention and demonstrate their creativity. A poster of the personal pictures can then be downloaded, sent by email or shared with friends via Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. This April these personal photos will then be digitally reworked and, together with the CLA, incorporated into an actual photo installation, to be presented to an international audience in Paris.


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Next 9.7 inch iPad expected to be considerably thinner and lighter than before
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Apple has been attracting even more excessive attention from the rumor mill this time around, with regard to its plans for its next generation of devices. The popular narrative is that Apple has stagnated in its comfort zone, in terms of both design and software, and the next set of iOS devices will be revolutionary in more ways than one. Hence, there are widespread expectations of a low cost iPhone coming soon (although it seems completely contradictory to Apple’s business model), a high resolution iPad Mini (given that the current first gen one has a rather abysmal display), an iOS powered smart watch (which despite being just a rumor has apparently compelled the likes of Samsung and LG to start working on their own smart watch prototypes), and lastly, the full size 9.7 inch iPad. According to the well known analyst Ming Chi Kuo from KGI Securities, the next gen 9.7” iPad will be 25% lighter, and 15% thinner, and will be released in the third quarter of 2013.
There have been rumors going on for a while now that the upcoming 9.7” iPad would adopt many of the design principles of the iPad Mini – especially its thin profile, and almost nonexistent bezel. The claims made by Mr. Kuo seem to fall in line with that – Apple does seem to be trying to make the full size iPad a bit more portable, hard as that may be. Given that sales figures indicate the iPad Mini cannibalizing on the sales of the full size iPad, Apple would certainly like the difference between them to be based only on price, and not on external factors such as design form and portability.
With an A7X SoC expected, there could be a lot of power under the hood in the new iPad (though that could be tempered by the fact that the battery size will need to be compromised in order to make it thinner), and that could possibly further its cause of being a true PC replacement.


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Uber introduced an SOS button to its app in February so you could connect with your local law enforcement in the case of an emergency during your ride.
The service was beta-tested in Kolkata and today, Uber announced that it has been updated and that the company is working with local authorities across India to implement the feature in various cities.
When you hit the SOS button on the new version, it will immediately connect you to the authorities through a call and at the same time, it will generate an SOS alert that goes directly to the local Police station on a dedicated Uber alert screen.
The alert will give your local Police station an exact location of the car using GPS.
Safety in Uber cars is something that has come under scrutiny in India in particular. Last year, following an alleged rape case, the Delhi state government banned the car service from operating in New Delhi.
Uber has said will be rolling the new feature out across the rest of India in the coming weeks.
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Nike has today unveiled its newest tennis shoe, dubbed the NikeCourt Air Zoom Ultrafly. Drawing inspiration from several previous high-ankle silhouettes, the NikeCourt Ultrafly will be the first shoe to debut several new Nike technologies – such as Pebax propulsion plates, hexagonal Zoom Air units, a Flyknit ankle cuff and herringbone outsole – for the tennis court.
“If you were to ask someone what a tennis shoe looks like, they would say that it’s usually made out of leather and pretty wide and boxy on the toe,”. “[The NikeCourt Air Zoom Ultrafly] really shatters a lot of those myths.” says Michael Hui, Nike Senior Designer of Tennis Footwear.
The NikeCourt Zoom Ultrafly tennis shoe will launch in “White/Volt” and “All-Black” via nike.com/ultrafly and select Nike store on 9th March 2016.


text: Ever since Google bought Motrola, there are considerations that the interaction between the companies became more. In a recent interview on this subject many interesting said the Director of Motorola Dennis Woodside. He explained that the two companies actually continue to exist separately. But now Motorola gets Google's financial support. Despite the absorption of the iron giant search, the merits for the release of the acclaimed Moto X smartphone is fully owned by Motorola.


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Dean Phillips is the successful CEO of Phillips Distilling Co., the vodka and spirits company that is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2012.
But the 43-year-old Phillips is stepping down from the CEO job so he can use his experience building high-end consumer brands to launch a new food company in Minneapolis.
That story and others, delivered to Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal subscribers a few weeks ago, are now available for anyone to read.
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text: Two of Britain's princial tour firms warned the Balearics yesterday that they were now facing stiff opposition from holiday destinations in the Eastern Mediterranean. Thomson, Britain's biggest tour firm, and JMC, the third biggest operator, both said that they were committed to the Balearics but warned prices must remain competitive otherwise the islands' could loose market share. Simon Vincent of JMC said that they were opposed to the tourist tax or eco-tax which the Balearic government plan to introduce for summer 2002. He said that it could have a marked affect on holiday bookings to the Balearics and called on the local government to shelve the idea. Shaun Powell, Managing Director of Thomson, was more guarded and said that they were not against the tax in principle but warned that any increase in cost may hit bookings. Despite being up-beat on the Balearics both companies warned that the Eastern Mediterranean was now an extremely attractive alternative for British holidaymakers as a number of new quality hotels have been built. Thomson estimated that an average British family could make a saving of 250 pounds on an equivalent holiday in the eastern Mediterranean.


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The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the selection of five new partners to support the development of its digital euro prototype.
Each company has a different role in building the prototype. Among them is Amazon, a technology giant responsible for developing e-commerce payments within the project.
Spanish bank CaixaBank is developing online peer-to-peer payments for mobile applications, while French multinational payment service Worldline is responsible for the offline version.
POS payments for payers and payees are in the hands of his ECB-backed European Payment Initiative and Italian paytech firm Nexi, respectively.
The ECB launched a call for proposals for partners in late April and received five responses from national banks and multinational technology companies.
5 selected service providers were chosen based on meeting the necessary basic criteria plus beneficial “specific skills”. Prototype Exercise is scheduled to begin in September and end in late December.
The ECB began investigating a digital euro in July 2021 but made no promises to eventually issue a digital currency.
The purpose of this prototyping exercise is to test how well the technology behind the digital euro integrates into prototypes developed by companies. Simulated transactions are initiated using front-end prototypes developed by five companies and processed through the Eurosystem’s interface and back-end infrastructure. There are no plans to reuse the prototype in the next phase of the Digital European Project. Working with the ECB team, each of the selected companies will focus on a specific digital euro use case.
- Payer Initiated POS Payments—EPI;
- Payee Initiated POS Payments—Nexi;
- Ecommerce Payments—Amazon.
- peer-to-peer online payments – CaixaBank;
- peer-to-peer offline payments – Worldline;
All five companies fulfilled the set of “must have capabilities” outlined in the tender, but the five vendors selected were the best fit for the “specific capabilities” required for their assigned use cases. The ECB welcomes broad interest in prototyping work.
The prototyping exercise is a key component of his two-year research phase during the ongoing Digital Euro project. It is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2023, when the ECB will also announce its results.


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Surprised to See Boomers on Skype? Don't Be
|Craig Daitch also writes the blog Thought Industry.|
I have to give credit to my parents: What started out as a relatively laborious process -- figuring out how to get their webcam to work properly 600 miles away -- has turned into an easy way for Grandma and Papa to keep tabs on their growing granddaughter.
Their willingness to adopt new technology isn't that surprising when you look at the research, however. According to a 2009 Pew internet study, boomers in 2008 look nothing like they did in 2000. More than half of all boomers are online on an average day, and more than a third go online several times a day. And 41% of boomers go online just to have fun. Imagine that!
Furthermore, according to a great article I found on Marketing Charts, an online report by the NPD Group showed that 61% of baby-boomer internet users in the U.S. have visited sites that offer streaming or downloadable video, and 41% have visited online social networks.
Another seismic shift in boomer behavior is their adoption of social networks. In fact, women over 55 are their fastest-growing demographic.
Surprised? Shocked? I'm actually neither, nor are the majority of my friends.
As David Armano put it so eloquently four months ago, our concepts of neighborhoods have changed. And with our perception of neighborhoods changing, Gen X and Y have begun to branch out more to digitally extend our lives from the real world to online. Family members who yearn to stay in touch will adapt. In the case of my parents, both of them use e-mail, instant messaging and mobile regularly to stay connected with my brothers, our wives and our children. No, they aren't on Facebook yet, but many of my cousins, both young and old, are. I suspect yours are too.
While the occasional family get-together is more difficult to attend than in years past, the economy has forced a change in consumer behavior that shouldn't be discredited. For us to stay on top of family information, we had to figure out a way to solve for our proximity issues. For my parents to stay involved in my daughter's life, they had to do the same.
We left Michigan three years ago with heavy hearts, afraid we'd lose the intimacy we had with our family, since moving meant being considered "out of the loop." The reality is that I probably learn more about my family's current events quicker than my brother who lives 10 miles away from my parents does.
Technology can be an intimidating subject for all ages, but when put in the context of connecting with loved ones, it's a bit easier to grasp. As a result, our generational gap is closing, and the stigma of an older age group's inability to use the internet as a communication channel is falling away.


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Luxury holidays are fast gaining popularity in Britain, even if the nation is still in an economic downturn.
The luxury and budget holiday markets have experienced the highest growth in the UK holiday market recently. Families are reportedly saving all year around to take luxury breaks in international destinations.
Thomas Cook Group, a UK-based travel company, has reported an increase in luxury holidays, including all-inclusive trips, adventure holidays and stays in exotic locales.
Holidays to Cuba and luxury Mexico breaks are gaining ground with British vacationers, who are keen to travel halfway across the world for the perfect holiday.
Earlier, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA), a UK-based association of travel agents, estimated that around 13 million UK holidaymakers will be taking a long distance vacation in July and August, 2012, with 90% heading to countries around the Mediterranean Sea, such as Spain.
Victoria Bacon, the head of communication at ABTA, said, ‘The UK is a beautiful country with exceptional holiday appeal but the weather this year has been setting records for all the wrong reasons and it is no surprise that millions of us are looking to head off overseas for more reliable weather and high temperatures.
British holidaymakers will also get a pleasant surprise in their favourite Eurozone destinations with the pound 10% stronger than last year. It’s important that people book sooner rather than later as late offers are proving popular.’


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Weekly Market Update, November 28, 2022
After the Federal Reserve (Fed)’s fourth consecutive rate increase of 75 basis points (bps), the recently released minutes from the early-November meeting indicate that most Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members could support dropping to a smaller rate hike when they reconvene in December. Last week’s data was lighter than usual due to the holiday, but the release of durable goods orders and the November FOMC minutes helped provide insight into economic conditions and policy. Equities moved higher as earnings and Fed speak about potentially slower rate increases moving forward helped lift markets.
Weekly Market Update, November 21, 2022
Despite seeing some recent data that potentially points to a slowing pace of inflation, there is still tightening to be done. Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for October increased 0.3 percent
month-over-month, but Federal Reserve (Fed) officials have indicated that this better-than-expected result should not be seen as a sign that the inflation fight is over. Equity market performance was mixed last weekas we saw varied commentary from Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members.
Weekly Market Update, November 14, 2022
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) surprised markets last week with headline—which rose 0.4 percent month-over-month against an expected 0.6 percent gain—and core— which rose 0.3 percent month-over-month (excluding food and energy) against an expected 0.5 percent gain—numbers. Equity markets also rallied on the lower-than-expected inflation data as Thursday saw the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index up more than 5 and 7 percent, respectively.
Weekly Market Update, November 7, 2022
Last Wednesday brought the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)’s latest rate decision where it hiked the policy rate by 75 basis points (bps) for the fourth consecutive time. This brought the upper target of the central bank’s rate up to 4 percent for the first time since January of 2008 during the global financial crisis. Equity markets struggled last week amid discussion of a higher end target rate for the Fed. The result was a swift sell-off in riskier equities such as technology and consumer discretionary.


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In lieu of a traditional runway show this season, designer Telfar Clemens—who is never one to follow the pack—decided to host an old-school press conference, where VIP guests and journalists alike were seated and lined up in front of a long, mic’d up table. Taking questions were Clemens and a few of his friends, including the rapper A$AP Ferg, artist Kandis Williams, and choreographer and dancer Jonte’ Moaning.
Kicking off the press conference with frenetic energy, the Telfar crew emerged one by one in the style of a retro game show, while a booming voice announced them as they walked a short “runway” to their seats at the podium; some of them even strutted while wearing new clothing by Telfar (think: sports jerseys elongated to be dresses). Once seated, the group proceeded to make their headline-worthy announcements together: that the brand will be launching two TV channels, Telfar TV and FTV, both of which can be streamed by downloading them at the App Store.


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Facebook to Allow Users to Delete Searches
In a post on its newsroom yesterday, Facebook announced that it will let users delete searches they’ve made on the social network.
In a post on its newsroom, Facebook announced that it will let users delete searches they’ve made on the social network.
The Activity Log, which you can access via a button on the top right side of your profile, is the place where you can “censor” any activity you may have had done on the network.
The only difference is that your Activity Log will also feature your Facebook search activity in the coming weeks. The update is being rolled out over the coming days and weeks. It hasn’t hit my account yet, but I’m sure it will be soon enough.
What’s interesting is that Facebook says nobody can see said search activity but you. Still, in case you’ve been searching for your ex and your current partner has your Facebook password, this could prove quite useful.
On a different note, did you know that you can pin a post to the top of your Facebook page?


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Sparkling wine production conference to take place July 16-19
The 37th annual American Society for Enology and Viticulture/Eastern Section conference and symposium July 16-19 in Traverse City will feature the International Symposium on Sparkling Wine Production.
The conference will start July 16 with an all-day tour of northwestern Michigan's grape and wine industry to introduce participants to this growing industry in the state.
Paolo Sabbatini, MSU assistant professor of viticulture, has invited national and international viticulture experts in sparkling grape production to be part of the conference’s symposium. Their discussion will focus on vineyard management practices that affect the quality of grapes, focusing on the main enological parameters — including the phenolic, volatile and nitrogen compounds and sensory quality.
In addition to the tour and sparkling wine symposium, the conference will offer educational sessions, a grazing dinner and entertainment.
The conference and symposium are open to anyone in the grape and wine industry. For more information, go here.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. — A popular restaurant in downtown Greensboro is closing its doors.
Crafted The Art of Street Food is closing on December 28, 2019. The owners said they’re having to close the restaurant because of personal reasons and sickness in the family. They also said much of the staff will be moved to their other downtown restaurant, Crafted The Art of The Taco on Elm Street.
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Spain's international hotel chain Melia joins shark fin ban
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MADRID (AFP) - Spain’s biggest hotel chain Melia Hotels International said Monday it has removed shark fins from the menu of all of its restaurants around the world, joining a growing global campaign against the popular delicacy in Asia.
“With the removal of shark fin as an ingredient, Melia contributes to the protection of the important role sharks have in maintaining balance in marine ecosystems,” the company said in a statement.
“As predators, sharks are a key species in the food chain and also indicators of the health of our oceans. They eliminate the weakest prey, maintain balance with competitors, and guarantee the diversity of species,” it added.
Melia, which runs more than 350 hotels in 40 countries, making it one of the world’s largest hotel companies, said the ban on shark fins would also apply to all events held in its facilities.
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According to a Q3 investor document from ASUS, they have listed their new Transformer Prime as coming November 9. Unfortunately we don’t know if that’s a release date or when it will be officially announced, but I am expecting the latter. We have already seen the keyboard dock leak so we are definitely close.
You will also notice that they have confirmed Ice Cream Sandwich and a Quad-core processor which is the Tegra 3. They also mention two other devices scheduled for Q1 2012. Could that be the Padfone and a followup to the Slider?
Another day, another announcement of a device getting a major software update. Verizon has announced the i800.E104 software update for the original Samsung Galaxy Tab. In addition to Gingerbread 2.3.5, the software update will include improved Word Selection and Copy Functionality and a new Download Manager App among the noteworthy features. There’s no word on when exactly the update will be available, but it should arrive very soon.
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We now have some further proof to yesterday’s post about Barnes & Noble releasing a new color Nook eBook. B & N has sent out press invites requesting attendance for a “very special announcement” that includes breakfast as well. I sure hope they have a huge venue!
Most likely the announcement will be the Nook 2 and its proposed November 7th launch. Oh, and don’t forget that B & N is adding a new “Nook Boutique” within stores to help bolster the in-store hands-on Nook experience.
All this and just a week before the Kindle Fire starts shipping to people’s doorstep. What do you think, does Amazon have some stiff competition heading their way?
Barnes & Noble’s Nook line of eBook’s have been fairly popular with consumers, not only as a digital book but as an affordable tablet capable of running the Android OS. Sources say that the newest version of the device, the Nook 2, will beat Amazon’s Kindle Fire to market and will arrive in stores on November 7th. Along with the new unit, Barnes & Noble is said to revamp their stores adding a new “Nook Boutique” equipped with the latest technology and updated marketing materials. Leaks suggest that the new Nook section will be laden with LED TV’s and numerous working Nook display models giving the customer the opportunity to try out the device and make a purchase right on the spot.
Sources close to The Digital Reader say they have confirmed all but price and specs on the new unit, the store re-model and device landing are scheduled for November 7th. With no confirmed hardware details you can expect the Nook 2 to be relatively un-upgraded in order to keep price low and compete with the Kindle Fire. While it could have a slightly improved display or moderately improved processor, I wouldn’t expect any earth shattering specs here. The competition eBook’s would reflect that being lighter, thinner and a lower price point is the way to a customers heart. The possibility for root and Android goodness doesn’t hurt either!
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Bummer news for those who were hoping to pick up a new HP TouchPad at fire sale prices only so you could port some Android goodness onto it. It looks as though the future is grim for the TouchPad and it has reached the end of it’s production.
With the majorly successful fire sale that HP had, all TouchPads at the discounted rate disappeared almost instantly. Although you can still find them places at full retail price, there was always the hope that HP would magically replenish stock and continue to sell the TouchPad at the discounted rates. HP even had a sign up page on their website leading consumers to believe that the TouchPad may eventually be resurrected.
Even a full-fledged Android novice could tell you about Gorilla Glass, the high strength glass used as a protective cover for touch screens that offer superior scratch resistance and unbelievable durability. Corning Incorporated, the developer responsible for its technology (and as a side effect, countless YouTube videos featuring people wielding household items like keys and screwdrivers against their GG-clad devices) has now announced the launch of a new display material called Lotus Glass.
Corning released a statement this week saying that the new material provides more “thermal and dimensional stability”, which is greatly needed in order to endure the harsh conditions of repeated heating and cooling cycles required as part of the process of attaching high-res displays. Aimed for use with LCD and OLED screens, Corning says Lotus Glass will enable them to create screens with “higher resolution and faster response times.”
As this particular technology continues to evolve, I can’t help but to look forward to a brand new slew of viral videos showing confident consumers displaying their LG-clad devices holding up against sharp household objects in much, much higher resolution.
The Samsung Galaxy Note, that device that has been lurking in the back of every tech junky’s mind since it was first announced, has finally been touted as available by Samsung starting with European markets. The hybrid tablet phone offers a Super AMOLED HD 5.3-inch display with a 1.4 GHz dual-core CPU under the hood for optimal use with its “many core on-the-go benefits“. Expect the availability of the device on October 29th in which it can be found on sale with various carriers in the European market. Furthermore, the device will sport Android 2.3 Gingerbread and a massive 2500 mAh battery to juice this bad boy up.
The 5.3-inch display will sport a 1280 x 800 res and there will be support for HSPA+ data speeds. Add an 8 mp rear facing camera and 2 mp front-facer and the device is unstoppable. And don’t forget the fact that Sammy is taking us back to the stylus days with the “S Pen” which will come standard on the device in a hidden storage compartment on the lower portion of the handset. There’s also functionality for taking screen shots and annotating nearly anything on any screen using S Pen shortcuts. I don’t care who you are and what you think about this massive device, this here is one sexy and functional piece of hardware. Here’s to hoping and praying with the slightest bit of faith that the device will make its way into the US without having to pay an arm and leg before unlocking it. What’s you’re take on the device? Is it too big or just right? Check out the videos of the device in action as well as some more drooling snapshots after the break.
Pic courtesy of Droid Life
Leaks regarding the new Motorola Xoom 2 tabs continue to come to light at a rapid pace which is sort of an indication that the devices are nearing an announcement. That, or there are some night fine ninjas who are doing a hell of a job sneaking this info out to the masses. Either or, we’ll take it. To add to the leak we’re now seeing the devices rear their faces in another system screaming with 4G LTE and large amounts of storage capacities. The Mz617 could boast of a 10.1-inch display while the other, a “media edition” MZ609 will come in at a slightly smaller size. According to the info in the leaked photo above, the MZ617 device will sport a storage capacity of 64 GB’s. No word yet as to whether or not Motorola will offer a WiFi only version for any of the models, but if it surfaces you’ll be the first to know. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below.
[via Droid Life]
Raise your hands if you’re interested in seeing the HTC Flyer’s software in action. Of course you all raised your hands, so you’re in luck. The gang at Pocketnow has provided a video of the tablet running with Sense 1.0 for tablets slapped on top of Gingerbread 2.3.4. Overall it looks incredibly fluid and smooth especially with Honeycomb (and eventually Ice Cream Sandwich) out there. Among the noteworthy features are the HTC Scribe functionality to make and create notes, Press Reader, and Dock Mode. Take a gander at the video of the smooth-running Flyer after the break and let us know of what you think in the comments section.
Rogers in Canada is going to have a big 4th quarter this year with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE, Motorola RAZR, HTC Raider, formerly the HTC Holiday, and the Samsung Galaxy Slide. The Galaxy S II LTE and the RAZR are expected to be available on November 4th and priced $199.99 and $149.99 respectively (with a 3-year contract).
The HTC Raider is the second LTE device to hit Rogers and will also be priced at $149.99 with a 3-year contract. We have already seen it hit the FCC with AT&T radios, so we are hoping to see it here in the states especially since it was seen downloading at 29Mbps with AT&T LTE.
As a reminder the Raider features a 4.5-inch qHD (960 x 540) display, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, 8MP camera that shoots 1080p HD video, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
We also got word on the Samsung Galaxy Glide (pictured below), which should launch in November as well for $149.99 with a 3-year contract. This one will sport a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 8MP rear camera, 1.2 front camera, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
To top is all off, Rogers will have a little incentive to sign away on that 3-year contract. They are giving away a free Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for those who activate a family plan (2 lines with voice and data). If you are only able to add one new line while converting to a family plan, you can still grab it for $150.00.


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Daring Burglary, Thieves Steal Guns
Photo: Video by nbc26.com
Town of Green Bay-- An unknown number of thieves broke into "Virlee Gun Works," early Tuesday Morning. A total of 19 handguns we nabbed and now the Brown County Sheriff's Department is investigating.
The owners believe several people were involved, it was planned and at least one thief is,"skinny." Deputies say at least one person entered the store by breaking through a door and squeezing between horizontal security bars.
No other kind of gun was taken. The store has dozens of rifles, shotguns and several AR-15's but burglars focused on the handgun case, even passing over, "used" sidearms.
The owners say they have surveillance on the property and hoping somebody's face or car ended up on camera.


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When Liza Aldis and Julie Guy booked a girly weekend away to Greece in 2019, no one had even heard of the coronavirus crisis.
But fast forward almost two years, and the pair have not only seen their holiday cancelled three times - they haven’t received a penny back from budget airline Ryanair.
The friends spent around £550 on their original booking to Rhodes, which they booked in October 2019 for a trip due to take place in May 2020.
By this point, the Covid-19 pandemic had shut down airports and ground holidays as we know them to a halt, and Liza and Julie, both aged 47 and living in Rochdale, unsurprisingly found their trip cancelled.
Deciding to try their luck for later in the year, the pair accepted a voucher from Ryanair and rebooked - with a price difference of £40 - to go in August 2020 instead.
This second trip was cancelled too, and again the pals took a voucher so they could rebook once more - this time for May 2021.
But when this third trip was pulled in February this year, Liza and Julie decided they’d rather have a refund than reschedule again - but they’re still waiting for their money back.
Liza said: “I just wanted to go on a girly weekend that we booked back in October 2019 but we’re now down almost £600.
“The first got cancelled, then the second one… at first, we thought rather than get a refund, it would be easier to get a voucher - but then you have to keep doing it.
“I’ve heard nothing from Ryanair since February. I’ve tried ringing and contacting them on Facebook.
“I haven’t been able to get through to anyone on the phone - the phone just cuts off. We’re stuck in limbo and don’t know what to do.
“It’s been a nightmare since day one and ultimately dragging on since 2019. I cant even see the booking on my account anymore.”
Mum-of-one Karissa Bradshaw, 22, has also found herself battling to get a refund from the airline for a girls' trip to Ibiza that was due to take place this month.
Together with her friend, the pair are down £600 from Ryanair - and claim they've been told it'll cost them £379 to move the flights to June 2022, despite Spain and Ibiza being an "amber" country on the new traffic light list.
Karissa booked her trip through Love Holidays and spent £1,465 in total for the flights, hotel and transfers.
She put in a request on Love Holidays to get back the £774 used to book the hotels last week - minus a £75 admin fee - but has to wait 14 days for the money to be returned.
As for the flights, Karissa, who lives in Huddersfield, says she has been unable to get hold of anyone at Ryanair to discuss her options.
She said: "It has been awful from start to finish. I wasn't expecting Covid to go on for so long.
"I've never been away with friends before so it has been quite upsetting. It wouldn't be too bad if I could get my money back."
If an airline cancels a flight, you are generally entitled to your money back - and this should happen within seven days of your trip being pulled. If it's a package holiday, you should get your money back within 14 days.
But the rules are more complicated if you choose not to fly despite the flight going ahead, leaving some holidaymakers out of pocket following the rapidly changing travel rules.
Ryanair and British Airways are both being investigated over whether they broke competition laws by not offering refunds to customers who could not legally take flights due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
For example, people who chose not to fly due to local lockdowns or new travel restrictions brought into place.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on Wednesday it had opened "enforcement cases" and was probing the airlines - but a final decision has not yet been made.
Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA, said: "While we understand that airlines have had a tough time during the pandemic, people should not be left unfairly out of pocket for following the law.
Should the government take further action against airlines that break the rules? Let us know in the comments below
"Customers booked these flights in good faith and were legally unable to take them due to circumstances entirely outside of their control.
"We believe these people should have been offered their money back."
The CMA has received a whopping 148,000 complaints during the Covid-19 pandemic, with many thousands of those being about holiday refunds.
Five big package holiday firms including Tui, Lastminute.com and Virgin Holidays have so far refunded a total of £200million.
The CMA has also threatened legal action against firms offering vouchers instead of refunds for accommodation.
When The Mirror contacted Ryanair, a spokesperson initially said there was no record of Liza's refund request.
After we sent them screengrabs forwarded to this paper by Liza, she was instructed to resubmit her claim and has now been told the money should be paid within seven days.
A spokesperson for Love Holidays said of Karissa's booking: "We offer fee-free amendments or a full refund on all hotel and transfer costs, as we did for Karissa.
"We pay flight costs to the airline at the time of booking and so any flight refund in this situation will be reliant upon the airline’s policy.
"Many airlines, including Ryanair, have chosen to continue to operate flights and in accordance with their terms and conditions, refuse to provide customers with a cash refund if a flight is still going ahead, even if a customer quite understandably chooses to cancel their holiday."


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Costa Rica exports down 15 percent in 2015
The total value of export goods from Costa Rica last year fell by nearly 15 percent compared to 2014. However, trade officials attributed the decline to the closure in 2014 of Intel’s microchip assembly plant, something that’s come to be known as the “Intel effect.”
When excluding sales abroad of electronic components, the decline in exports was just 0.1 percent.
Source: Tico Times


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GUWAHATI, Sept 24 – Assam Tourism will be holding a brand summit on tourism coinciding with World Tourism Day at Hotel Brahmaputra Ashok on September 27.
A host of dignitaries who are to address the daylong seminar on the occasion include Gev Patel, vice president, Taj Hotels, Rupam Borah, CEO, Virus, New Delhi, Sudhir John Horo, co-founder, The Idea Creative, Dr Mrinmoy Sarma, Dean of Management Sciences, Tezpur University, and HS Das, Principal Secretary, Tourism, Assam, among others.
The seminar will be followed by a brainstorming session amongst the key speakers, opinion makers, bureaucrats, stakeholders, intellectuals, journalists and professionals.
The summit, said to be the first ever of its kind in the State, is primarily aimed at arriving at a strategic roadmap that Assam Tourism could adopt towards making the State a sough-after destination over a period of time, an official statement said.
The speakers are expected to delve deep into the various tenets of branding, branding activities, multiplier effects of tourism brands on other sectors of an economy, etc.
The department is also holding a quiz competition for school students in association with the Tour Operators’ Association of Assam. It would be conducted at the Vivekananda Kendra, Uzanbazar on September 26. The prizes will be distributed at the summit venue the next day.


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Spigit, a startup whose social networking application helps enterprise employees work together on specific goals, is moving downstream.
The company Jan. 19 launched WE by Spigit for SMBs of 500 employees or less to work on specific projects within the Spigit construct, which ranks contributors’ reputations. Spigit users create a community and begin contributing ideas, which are hosted on Spigit’s servers and delivered via the Web as a SAAS (software as a service) solution.
The technology is part of an industry shift by businesses to use Web-based software that helps employees not only connect but more efficiently work with one another on important tasks. Such software helps knowledge workers save the time and resources it would take to find like-minded individuals to achieve goals.
Spigit employs algorithms to track ideas and assign users’ value scores based on their reputation as judged by participants in an idea community. The software also assigns points and currency to individuals based on their reputations.
Contributors can take their currency and dump it into prediction markets, or buy goods in real stores. Spigit customer AT&T funds projects forged on Spigit to help move them forward, Spigit CEO and Co-founder Paul Pluschkell told eWEEK.
“The idea is that by getting people to collaborate around these topics, you’re getting more meaningful data, which is then recalculated by a million metrics,” Pluschkell said. “We moving from real-time decision making based on historical data to more predictive analysis with using new fields of input.”
Spigit currently sells the enterprise version of its idea management platform to 3.5 million users at Pfizer, Southwest Airlines and nearly 100 other companies. Employees use it as an alternative to sharing ideas and content through e-mail, spreadsheets and other collaboration software.
While these technologies form the crux of multi-billion-dollar businesses for Microsoft, IBM, Google and a legion of smaller businesses, they can become unwieldy when so many people are trying to work together on a knowledge-based project.
Spigit rivals include Salesforce.com’s IdeaExchange, as well as other startups such as BrightIdea and SuccessFactors.
Pluschkell said he realized he needed to create an SMB offering when he saw that thousands of employees at Spigit’s enterprise customers were using it to form several communities of 500 contributors or less.
However, while many companies take enterprise-grade products and pare the feature functionality to sell them to customers at lower price points, Pluschkell said WE employs the same features and analytics the company offers in its enterprise version.
Pricing for WE by Spigit starts at $500 per company, per month for 50 users, scaling to $2,500 for 500 users. That amounts to $6,000 to $30,000 per year
Spigit launched in 2007 and has banked $14 million in funding and employs 40 people.


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PT Bakrie & Brothers Tbk
Through the Eyes of the Press
Background and Key Developments
Bakrie & Brothers is owned by the family of Aburizal Bakrie, the minister of people's welfare and one of the country's most influential politicians. He was appointed to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s cabinet in 2004.
Developed from a small regional trading firm by Aburizal's father, Achmad Bakrie, the company initially benefited from a government program in the 1950s to develop indigenous businesses.
The big break came as it gained access to the country's steel industry, which was nationalised from Dutch ownership after independence in 1945. Years later, when Aburizal took over from his father in 1988, the business grew from strength to strength on the back of government contracts and monopolies in the oil, electricity and media sectors.
During the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, Bakrie’s Bank Nusa Nasional became the sixth-largest recipient of emergency government funds, amounting to just over 3 trillion rupiah ($240 million at current rate).
Forbes magazine ranked the Bakries as the richest family in Indonesia. Net worth of Aburizal Bakrie's family jumped to $5.4 billion in 2007, from $1.2 billion in 2006 during his time in government, first as economics minister and then as people's welfare minister.
As Indonesia begins to feel the impact of global financial turmoil, there Bakrie & Brothers come into the media spotlight, jumping out of the business section to the frontpage, and the focus is on it possible disintegration.
Saddled with more than $2 billion in debt, Bakrie companies have suffered drastic falls in their share prices, losing billions of dollars off their market values, intensifying in the past few weeks.
With around 1.2 billion dollars in debt due next year, Bakrie is scrambling to sell assets to the highest bidder despite their plummeting prices.
Among them is coal giant Bumi Resources, the world's largest exporter of thermal coal and a key money-spinner in the Bakrie family empire.
The problem is Bumi's share price has fallen more than 80 percent since the sales talks began months ago. Bumi’s market cap has fallen from a peak of $18.8 billion in June to $1.3billion. An 824.67-million-dollar buyback plan slowed but did not arrest the decline in Bumi shares.
Now the deal is in the balance. Possible alternative deals include an agreement with creditors that would see the Bakrie family remain in control of Bumi, and include a possible debt restructuring and equity injection.
Tata Motors (Thailand) Ltd
Background and Key Developments
Tata Motors was seen looking at investment options in Thailand in 2003 and found the country a very vibrant market, the economy healthy and the industrial base good. Tata was looking at “across the spectrum” option for its planned Thai production base.
Late 2003, Dr Venkataramani Sumantran, Tata’s executive director, revealed that Tata would enter the Thai and Chinese markets as part of its strategy to expand globally.
After its bid to enter a deal with Thailand's Thai Rung Union Car, the country’s largest largest pickup truck modifier, which fell through, Tata in 2006 finally found a joint-venture partner in Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant Co. Ltd (TAAP).
Tata Motors (Thailand) Ltd, owned 70 percent by the Indian company, planned to invest 1.3 billion baht ($39 million) in the project to produce up to 35,000 1-tonne trucks a year, according to a statement released by Thailand’s Board of Investment.
In March 2008, the company launched an entire range of pick-up trucks including single, stretch and double cab versions, equipped with a second generation common rail technology that would save fuel while delivering high performance.
“The introduction of Tata Motors' pickup vehicles and a manufacturing facility in Thailand provide a unique opportunity for the company. We believe the joint venture will make meaningful impact in this most competitive market for pickup vehicles,” Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Motors, said in a statement.
(Apart from the Xenon pickup, Tata has brought into the Thai market its subcompact model – the Indigo. In October, Tata launched three new fully loaded variants of the Indigo CS range.)
The car maker started with as many as 25 outlets in Thailand, a springboard for Tata to address other markets in Southeast Asia.
“We've been looking at Asean for the past five years because, apart from India and China, it's the only region that shows growth and is one-and-a-half times the size of the Indian market,” said Ajit Venkataraman, Tata Motors (Thailand)’s Chief Executive Officer.
Speeding up its expansion drive, Tata announced it would join Thailand’s eco-car programme, a natural progression after producing a fuel-efficient one-ton pickup.
In April 2008, the Board of Investment (BOI) approved Tata Motors’ 7.3 billion baht ($229 million) proposal to begin manufacturing eco-cars here in Thailand.
Tata already has a version of an eco car in India - the 4-seater Nano, with an engine around 625cc, which carries a dealer price tag of 100,000 rupees ($2,500).
Meanwhile, the company’s plan to purchase an eco-car factory site in the Hemaraj Industrial Estate on the Eastern Seaboard was suspended due apparently to the global economic slowdown.
In November, amidst the domestic political turmoil and looming impact of global crisis, Tata Motors (Thailand) held an annual meeting of Thai dealerships to discuss the business plans going forward. The dealer number has grown to 33, and Tata plans to increase its nationwide dealerships to 45 by the end of this financial year.


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Anthony Albanese MP has called for the government to take a good look at what is wrong with Australian tourism.
Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Albanese took up some issues on tourism, including the new backpacker tax and the recently axed Survey of Tourist Accommodation.
The newly established backpacker tax will mean that some 134,000 working holiday visa holders will lose the tax-free threshold of $18,200 which will then increase from July 1, according to Albanese.
“They stay some eight months on average and they earn on average $5,000, but the point is they spend $13,000 while they are here—a net gain of $1.3 billion to the economy,” he said.
“I am wondering what modelling the government did, prior to this change, on the economic impact, particularly on regional areas. In many regional areas, the tourism sector relies upon this workforce.
“The point is: not only do they contribute indirectly by making sure that those tourism hotels and facilities are able to operate where there is a shortage of what is often seasonal labour but they also spend the wages that they earn in the local economy while they are there.”
Albanese also raised the issue of the survey of tourism accommodation, which he said is imperative to learning more about how to enhance the tourism industry.
“I believe very strongly that the sector is right in asking for this survey to be reinstated,” he stated.
Quoting Victoria Tourism Industry Council’s ceo Dianne Smith, Albanese said, “This will severely hamper the industry’s ability to learn, grow and realise its potential.”
“One of the roles of government is to provide that evidence that forms the basis of good policy. It seems to me that this is a very short-sighted approach.”
And the loss of funding for Tourism Australia in the budget was high on the priority list of issues to address.
“Our most important marketing body generates some $16 returned to the economy for every dollar spent,” Albanese said.
“The government has cut funding in real terms each year since being elected. The Parliamentary Library, in a paper that has been produced, described the cuts as significant. With the tourism grants cut for round 2 of the Tourism Industry Regional Development Fund, some 450 applications were submitted. They lost, therefore, $10 million of matching private investment in the process.
“Also, will the government reconsider its views toward the axing of all domestic marketing of tourism here in Australia?”
“It is pretty clear that tourism is a super growth sector for the Australian economy,” Albanese added.
“It contributes $107 billion to the national economy. Every dollar spent in tourism generates another 92c in other parts of the economy. I feel very strongly that the government needs to take tourism seriously and not just have it as an afterthought.”


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