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Billions lost each year due to spam
February 02, 2004 12:24 IST
Is your in-box full of unwanted mail? Well, you are not the only one; the entire world and its brother-in-law are facing the same menace.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has sounded alarm bells on the how spam is wreaking havoc and threatening the confidence of Internet users.
The globe pays a very heavy price due to spam: it spreads viruses, steals information, jams computer networks, wastes time and costs Internet users huge hidden sums, says an OECD report prepared for an OECD-European Union.
The report, says The Age, provides some alarming facts and figures on the spam menace:
A study conducted by the European Union that every year spam costs almost $12.5 billion to Internet subscribers. And the costs are rising exponentially.
Another survey, says a report in The Age quoting AAP, suggests that 65 per cent of Internet users spend as much as 10 minutes every day just killing spam, while 24 per cent devote 20 minutes of their time per day to this hated activity.
The Age, quoting yet another study, reports that "almost 10 per cent of corporate e-mail is spam and even if each employee spends 30 seconds per day killing it, the annual cost to a company with 10,000 staff would be $675,000."
Another report from Radicati Group said in June 2003 that e-mail spam would cost companies $25.5 billion in 2003 and $198 billion annually by 2007.
One research suggests that spam adds 10 per cent to costs for Internet service providers, said The Age.
"A US Federal Trade Commission report in April 2003 found that 66 per cent of spam messages were fraudulent in some way. The US Secret Service has designated the so-called 'Nigerian scam,' in which the sender offers to pass on windfall sums of money if a percentage payment is made in advance, as an 'epidemic,' defrauding people of hundreds of millions of dollars per year," said The Age.
The report says there is no simple solution to spam, countering Microsoft founder Bill Gates' assertion at Davos in late January that his company would solve the problem within two years, reports The Age.
While many nations, software firms, Internet service providers, direct marketing trade associations, are trying to find ways to tackle the problem through tougher laws, new codes of practice, strong defences and intelligent filters, the problem continues to rise.
The OECD report, says The Age, warns about:
'Spyware' that travels with an unwanted message to feed off information in distant computers, steals credit card numbers, passwords, and spies and reports on the user's computer connections.
Spam gangs: organised groups of spammers.
Identity theft, a crime whereby spammers clothe their messages with the identities of companies or individuals and misuse accounts.
Dictionary attacks that go fishing randomly for names and e-mail addresses associated with a business or organisation, eliciting or extracting any real addresses thus encountered.
Fraudulent or deceptive spam: Most spam messages are deceptive in some way and many are a vehicle for illegal activities ranging from financial fraud to the peddling of illicit products, 'bogus no-risk' investment schemes, 'miracle diets,' and 'prostitution, illegal online gambling services, drugs or weapons.'
Spam pornography messages flash indiscriminately around the web, reaching children.
Viruses concealed in messages that can multiply through recipients' address books, paralysing computers or obstructing vital services, and thereby 'endanger public safety'.
Junk mail brings with it many hidden costs for ISPs, their customers, and for businesses and individuals. It reduces productivity. For example, spam attacks can 'paralyse or shut down' a company's networks. Staff time and company money is consumed in killing unwanted messages and devising counter measures.
Spam attacks on company computers and mailing lists pose security and legal risks.
The Age, quoting AAP, reported that the International Data Corporation estimates that there are about 700 million electronic mailboxes in the world, and the total will be 1.2 billion in 2005. Trade data suggests that about 31 billion e-mail messages were sent on Internet in 2002 and that the traffic will exceed 60 billion in 2006.
Research suggests, said The Age, that 90 per cent of viruses are sent via e-mail. In May last year U.S. Internet service provider AOL was blocking 2.37 billion spam messages per day.
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Unilever's Dove and PalTalk have signed on as sponsors for a video blog starring Amanda Congdon.
Prominent video blogger Amanda Congdon has landed another gig, this time as the star of a new Web-based television show backed by a pair of big-name advertisers.
Congdon, the former Rocketboom host who now works as a video blogger for ABCnews.com, is launching the new show is partnership with New York-based video sharing start-up blip.tv.
Dove Cream Oil Body Wash, a new Unilever product available in February 2007, and Paltalk, a video chat community on the Internet, have signed on as advertisers for the new show, dubbed "Starring Amanda Congdon."
In the new show, which debuts on December 22, Congdon plans to provide a behind-the-scenes look at her life in Los Angeles as she juggles new projects in traditional and new media. It will also be distributed to iTunes and MySpace.
Congdon has emerged as an Internet celebrity since leaving Rocketboom under controversial circumstances earlier this year. In addition to her ABCNews.com gig, she has signed with HBO to help develop a new cross-platform comedy show and recently partnered with Ford on "Amanda Congdon's Trip Across America," a video blog project aimed at raising awareness of environmental issues.
The participation of Dove and Paltalk is further confirmation that video blogging is beginning to attract the attention of mainstream Web advertisers.
The Congdon partnership is not Dove's first foray into user-generated content. The company is running an online contest that invites users to create 30-second video ads for the Dove Cream Oil Body Wash.
"Advertisers that have wanted to tap into the growth of online video but have been concerned about random and unpredictable viral videos have now found an outlet in independently produced shows like Amanda's," says blip.tv chief operating officer Dina Kaplan.
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The value of beef exports has overtaken sheep meat returns for the first time in 20 years, according to figures from Beef and Lamb New Zealand
The 2014/15 meat export season finished on 30 September.
The figures for the season show beef and veal export returns reached a record high of $3.2 billion, up almost 40 percent compared with the previous season.
That was driven by high beef prices and strong demand from the United States, and also low dairy prices.
The two largest export markets for beef were the United States and China.
Beef and Lamb New Zealand said sheepmeat returns were constrained by supply.
It said, while exports dropped, returns were up by 1.3 percent to $2.6 billion.
Half of that was from the European Union while North Asia, the second largest export market, accounted for 21 percent of returns.
Mutton exports dropped 8.8 percent and export returns fell 9 percent to $445 million in the past season.


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Apple’s Third Quarter Results Surge – Desktops & iPods Sales Spark Record Growth
Apple announced excellent third quarter financial results revealing the concern sold over 11 million iPods during the quarter, a record. The volume marks a 12% increase in units and a 7% revenue growth compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, it sold 717,000 iPhones (first generation models) in the quarter despite limited stock, compared to 270,000 in Q3 2007. The company posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share, compared with revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly profit of $818 million, or $.92 per diluted share in Q3 2007.
Apple said it shipped more Macs in its fiscal third quarter than ever before — 2.5 million, up 41% from a year ago, with desktop shipments actually growing faster than laptops. The numbers reflect a much steeper growth rate than the overall global PC market. Total computer shipments rose about 15 percent in the three months ended June 30, according to reports.
“We’re proud to report the best June quarter for both revenue and earnings in Apple’s history, said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We set a new record for Mac sales, we think we have a real winner with our new iPhone 3G, and we’re busy finishing several more wonderful new products to launch in the coming months.”


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Ingredients suppliers Henley Bridge and R&W Scott are among several companies making significant announcements on the personnel front in recent weeks.
Here’s a round-up of some of the latest appointments:
R&W Scott announces board changes
Bakery and confectionery ingredients supplier R&W Scott has restructured its board to build on its management buyout at the end of 2018.
John Easton, who led the buyout along with finance director Michael Hewitt, will take up a new role as executive chairman of parent company Scotts Holdco to focus on business strategy and potential mergers and acquisitions, as well as steering environmental and sustainability initiatives.
Stephen Currie, meanwhile, will step up from the role of commercial director to become managing director with immediate effect, while Clare McNeil, will now join the board as commercial director, having led the sales and development teams since joining the business in 2017.
Over the last month the directors and broader management team acquired the full shareholding of the company’s major independent investor, meaning over 96% of the firm’s ownership is in the hands of directors and employees of the business.
R&W Scott said it plans to continue its strategy of focusing on added-value chocolate coatings, bespoke soft fillings and premium soft icings.
New MD for Too Good To Go
Food saving app firm Too Good To Go has today announced the appointment of Sophie Trueman as managing director for UK and Ireland.
Meanwhile, Paschalis Loucaides, the company’s previous UK managing director, will be taking on the role of vice president of operations.
Having first joined Too Good To Go in 2019, Trueman previously held roles as head of key accounts and more recently head of business development for the UK and Ireland. In her time at the company, Trueman has overseen new brand partnerships with the likes of Greggs, Morrisons, Pret A Manger, Starbucks and Greene King.
“I’m thrilled to take on this next challenge at Too Good to Go,” said Trueman, who has more than 10 years of experience in the FMCG sector including roles at L’Oréal and Amadeus. “We’re on an incredible journey as a company and I am determined to continue this trajectory as we help even more companies save food from going to waste,” she added.
Dodds joins Henley Bridge as sales director
Bakery ingredients supplier Henley Bridge has appointed Adrian Dodds as sales director as part of the company’s drive for growth.
Dodds’ experience in the industry includes 14 years as head of UK sales at Lantmännen Unibake.
“Henley Bridge is a very well-respected business with a fantastic product offer, unrivalled service and a broad and loyal customer base,” said Dodds. “The company has major growth ambitions, with a bigger group, Kent Foods, behind it for financial muscle, but there remains the autonomy and scope to be part of taking the business forward.
“My immediate priorities in the role will include capitalising on business growth opportunities, as well as developing the existing sales structure and longer-term strategy, all of which will support our continued development as a leading ingredient supplier.”
Tracey Hughes, managing director of Henley Bridge, said the company was “very excited” to welcome Dodds to the team. “As a business, we’re in very good shape and we have extremely ambitious sales targets for 2022. We’re confident Adrian will play a key role in achieving them,” she added.


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The number of vehicles plying on the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Expressway has fallen sharply, soon after the expressway began charging toll fees on Saturday.
|A staff guides a driver to press a button to take card from automatic machine at Dem Market toll station on the HCMC-Trung Luong Expressway on February 26 (Photo: SGGP)|
On Sunday, most of the vehicles travelling on the expressway were only cars and buses, and there were fewer heavy lorries and container trucks to be seen at the Than Cuu Nghia toll station in Tien Giang Province.
Meanwhile, the number of vehicles on Highway 1A increased in comparison to other days.
According to Nguyen Van Phong, deputy director of the Cuu Long Corporation for Management, Investment and Development of Traffic Infrastructure (CIPM), the number of vehicles travelling on the expressway over the last two days decreased to about 18,000 a day, most of which were cars, buses and light trucks. The corporation believes that numbers will fall further.
Before the toll fee charge, the expressway received 32,000-35,000 vehicles a day.
Several truck drivers said that although it takes more time to travel on Highway 1A, they still chose this route to save costs amidst difficult economic times.
Luong Hoang Trung, deputy chairman of the HCMC Cargo Transport Association said that the toll fee is too high, hiking the freight rates by 20 per cent, to transport goods from HCMC to the Mekong Delta and vice versa.
The Expressway has set a minimum fee of VND40,000 and maximum of VND320,000.
Besides, a separate toll rate for different kinds of vehicles was also not fair, he said. For instance, trucks with capacity of 10-18 tonnes pay only VND4,000 a kilometre while over 18 tonnes must pay up to VND8,000 a kilometre.
Transport businesses are about to lift freight rates up, which might lead to increase on prices of commodities, according to the association.
Meanwhile, CIPM is planning to set up a toll post on Highway 1A to prevent trucks from continuing to avoid the expressway. However, the company has yet to determine when they will start construction.
Several drivers said the corporation’s plan is irrational and the company should adjust the freight rates to encourage vehicles to ply on the expressway.


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Mix: AAPL Q1, LG, Arcade Bowling, Chipotle
Apple plans to release its first quarter financial results on Wednesday, January 21. As it has done in the past, the company also plans to conduct a conference call to discuss its first quarter results; the call will begin at 2:00 p.m. PST and will be available as an audio webcast.
LG Display has signed a deal to supply Apple with LCD panels for the next five years. The company did not disclose the total size of the deal, but said in a filing to the Korea Exchange that it would receive a $500 million advance from Apple this month. “Although LG Display already had a relationship with Apple, the deal’s duration and the size of the advance show that the two companies are involved in a long-term, strategic alliance,” said Son Young-jun, a spokesman for LG Display. It is unknown whether any of the displays are planned for use in Apple’s portable media devices.
Skyworks has released Arcade Bowling, its latest game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Based on the popular arcade game Skeeball, users flick to send “laser” balls down the alley and up the ramp toward the scoring holes. Once in the air, users can also influence the ball’s flight in midair using the accelerometer. The game also features two sound tracks, 3D graphics, and two game modes—Classic and Progressive. Arcade Bowling is available now from the App Store and sells for $2.
National burrito restaurant chain Chipotle has released Chipotle Mobile Ordering, its new application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The app allows users to order food directly from these devices, offering access to the full menu of options, including sauces and extras, saving favorite orders for later, and paying with a credit card from the application. It also offers a Chipotle location finder. Chipotle Mobile Ordering is available now as a free download from the App Store.
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It was a big week for hip-hop releases, with acts like ASAP Mob, XXXTentacion, and Lil Uzi Vert each delivering their highly anticipated projects. Though there’s still several days left until first-week numbers are tallied, the crew at HITS Daily Double have presented some early sales projections, giving us a better idea of which album will lead on the charts.
Uzi Vert’s Love Is Rage 2 is expected to fare the best with an estimated 110,000-120,000 copies moved within its first week. Out of that figure, 25,000-28,000 are projected to be in traditional album sales, which can easily put him at the top spot on the upcoming Billboard 200 chart. HDD reports Uzi Vert’s debut studio album reached the No. 1 spot on iTunes on the day of its release, and has gone back and forth from No. 1 and No. 2 on Apple Music. Not too bad considering the Philadelphia rapper didn’t announce the release until a day prior.
XXXTentacion is expected to trail Uzi Vert with his debut album 17, which is projected to move 65,000-70,000 copies including 15,000-18,000 in album sales. That’s a pretty impressive number that could be attributed to his controversial publicity stunt—you know, when he pretended to hang himself on a tree—or, perhaps, it’s due to Kendrick Lamar’s generous co-sign.
ASAP Mob’s long-awaited Cozy Tapes Vol. 2: Too Cozy is set to come in third out of these releases, as it’s on track to move only 30,000-35,000 copies with 7,000-9,000 in physical copies sales. Disappointing numbers, for sure, but it’s important to note that Cozy Tapes Vol. 2 marked the Mob’s third project release this month. It's possible fans weren’t so hungry for the album considering they just received ASAP Ferg’s Still Striving and ASAP Twelvyy’s 12.


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By Steven Hill, San Jose Mercury News, March 7, 2019
Plan won’t benefit consumers or give them the privacy protections they deserve
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proposed that consumers should “share in the wealth” generated from our data by companies like Facebook and Google. But his plan for a “data dividend” is the wrong approach. Not only would it hardly benefit consumers, it would reinforce an overly-commodified philosophy for our digital future.
While Newsom has yet to release details, others like Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes have proposed that consumers would be paid for their data by the companies monetizing it. But the money each individual would receive amounts to peanuts. For example, Facebook’s 2 billion monthly users would each receive only about $7.35 if the company proportionally distributed its revenue. Each of Twitter’s 321 million users would receive about $2.83; a Reddit user about 30 cents.
And paying those amounts to users would leave these companies with zero revenue or profits. So in reality, users would receive far less. Online discount coupons for McDonald’s would be more lucrative.
Other associated proposals, such as economist Glen Weyl’s concept of “data-labor unions,” which would negotiate on behalf of individuals with the companies holding our personal data, would be similarly impotent.
But all of these approaches dodge the real question: should these companies continue to be allowed to collect and control the personal data of their billions of users? Silicon Valley’s business model, in which many companies give away their products for free in exchange for monetizing our private information, is a devil’s bargain that seems increasingly unworkable in any scenario.
That’s because in this emerging Digital Age, our personal data is not merely a form of individual property. It is a core part of our personhood, following us throughout our professional and personal lives. Control over our own data ought to be regarded as a human right that cannot be taken, sold or given away.
Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, says “Selling our data for a few bucks isn’t the answer and will make the problem worse.”
So what to do? In a sense, we have been here before. Previous governments had to step in to regulate new technologies that were over-exploiting our personal information. In 2003, the National Do Not Call Registry was created to offer consumers a choice whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Congress also enacted a law to curb unwanted email spam. In 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Junk Fax Prevention Act, permitting opting-out of spam faxes.
So what would be the right kind of policy for internet-based companies?
European competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, a key global regulator, proposes a Facebook “in which I pay a fee each month. But I would have no tracking and advertising and the full benefits of privacy.”
A more farsighted approach would protect our private information as part of a “data commons” overseen by an independent watchdog agency and guided by sensible rules regarding privacy. This “Data Oversight Agency” also could play a crucial role in the emerging competition to develop artificial intelligence (AI).
AI development requires massive amounts of data, which “machine-learning” algorithms are trained to plow through to identify patterns and images. An independent agency could ensure the regulated availability of open-source datasets which would allow smaller companies and university labs to have as much data access as large Silicon Valley and Chinese companies.
That would end Google, Amazon and Facebook’s data-opoly, which is narrowly focused on maximizing advertising profits, and spur competition. It would result in more AI research conducted on behalf of the public interest to solve the big challenges of the 21st century.
This would be an innovative alternative to the Frankenstein future that Facebook and Google are pushing. Newsom should be bold and resist turning our data – and our personhoods — into commodities that can be bought and sold.
Steven Hill is a Silicon Valley-based journalist and the author of “Raw Deal: How the Uber Economy and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers.”


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Ahlstrom Corporation PRESS RELEASE December 1, 2011 at 16.00
Ahlstrom Corporation, a global high-performance materials company, concludes its profit improvement program with measures affecting a total of 57 people in different locations.
Ahlstrom has decided to reduce 35 employees at its Jacarei plant in Brazil, part of the Label and Processing business area, due to the weakened market conditions in coated papers in South America. In addition, streamlining measures at other plants affect a total of 22 people.
The measures announced today are the final steps in the profit improvement program, announced on October 18, 2011. Under the program, the company announced profit improvement measures impacting a total of 362 employees in various plants worldwide. The program is expected to improve annual operating profit by approximately EUR 15 million starting from the year 2012. The overall impact of the non-recurring items of the program is cash neutral.
Ahlstrom will book non-recurring costs of about EUR 1.4 million primarily for the measures at Jacarei in its fourth-quarter 2011 financial results. For the entire profit improvement program, the company incurred a non-recurring cost totaling EUR 33.4 million, of which EUR 25 million was booked in the third-quarter and EUR 8.4 million will be booked in the fourth-quarter 2011 results.
Ahlstrom will make every effort in supporting employees affected by the change.
For more information, please contact:
Liisa NyyssönenVice President, CommunicationsTel. +358 10 888 4757
Ahlstrom in brief
Ahlstrom is a high performance materials company, partnering with leading businesses around the world to help them stay ahead. Our products are used in a large variety of everyday applications, such as filters, wallcovers, flooring, labels and food packaging. We have a leading market position in the businesses in which we operate. Our 5,700 employees serve customers in 26 countries on six continents. In 2010, Ahlstrom's net sales amounted to EUR 1.9 billion. The company's share is quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. More information available at www.ahlstrom.com.


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*14:32JST exchange rates weekly Outlook: dollar・yen also contact the U.S. economy of significant deterioration, to incorporate the expansion
■Rice of the employment situation significantly worse, such as anaerobic as selling dollars to strengthen
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After its recent pivot to 10-minute deliveries, unicorn Grofers is ready for another major overhaul with the company rebranding itself to Blinkit on Monday in a bid to capture the fast-growing and highly-competitive quick-commerce space. The brand change signals Grofers’ diversification into non-grocery deliveries under the 10-minute umbrella as it looks to take on heavyweights in the horizontal commerce segment. In an interaction, company founder and chief executive, Albinder Dhindsa, spoke about the reason for the rebranding exercise and Blinkit’s ambition to capture 100 cities in the next three months. Edited excerpts:
Why did Grofers rebrand itself as Blinkit?
We wanted to build a 10-minute delivery (model), but demand was not just for a 10-minute grocery delivery. Rather, it was for a 10-minute delivery for everything. So, with a focus on how we bring more and more products to the customers in under 10 minutes, we opted for a rebranding. This says we are not just for groceries anymore; we are essentially about instant quick commerce.
In line with your aspirations to diversify from e-grocery, what are the steps Blinkit is taking? Do we see significant GMV now being driven by non-grocery items?
Right now, we have about 250 odd-stores and we are working with different (store) partners to bring stock units which are relevant to their communities or localities. For instance, in the North, it's the wedding season and people require certain things right at the last moment. So, we have a wedding store that is live. We also sold gold coins and silver coins using our platform. We are figuring out how to gather all the data to give the right products to customers. And ours being a tech platform, we are trying to harness the process of making relevant products available to customers when they need them. It goes way beyond groceries. (The wedding store went live on Blinkit’s platform by the third week of November, as it further pivots to non-grocery items.)
How are you seeing expansion of your 10-minute grocery model amidst competition?
The 10-minute (delivery) proposition is fully operational in the top 8 cities, but we are looking to expand fairly rapidly. The roll out in cities is on. We are launching today in Ludhiana, and Mohali; Chandigarh is in the pipeline. Our plan is to expand to at least 100 cities with the 10-minute delivery model by March 2022. By January-end next year, we will have close to 550 stores on our platform (supporting 10-minute deliveries). We have close to 14000 -15000 delivery partners and are hiring 1000 riders a week. Our partners' pay is also higher and this will be ramped up in the future. We are very heavily investing in improving our technology. So we have added about 100 odd people in the tech team in the last 4 months and we will continue to expand the technology feature because I believe that underlines everything that we do.
(Blinkit claims to be powering more than 4 million deliveries under 10-minutes on a monthly basis.)
With stiff competition, and grocery being a low-margin business, do you see profitability taking a hit?
We haven't felt the heat of the competition yet. We are already operational profitable, and we think we know the general concept of the business, partly because we have been doing this for a while. We have taken a lot of those learnings to make sure that from Day 1 we were building a sustainable business. How this plays out, I am also uncertain, but if you ask me whether I am confident? Then the answer is yes! We are ‘contribution positive’ in some of our cities. The objective will continue to be that our partners should have a viable business. Currently we have about 14000-15,000 riders, which is still smaller compared to other delivery peers, but our efficiency is much higher.
There is also general skepticism towards 10-minute deliveries on whether it is really needed. What is your take on that?
Customers are overwhelmingly voting that this (10-minute deliveries) is something that we need. Outside of that what happens, really doesn't matter, it's the customer's needs that matter.


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Were you one of the unlucky mobile users who lost touch with WhatsApp!
WhatsApp stopped working on millions of Android and iOS devices running older operating systems, as the company moved to protect its users, Forbes reported.
Since 1 February, the app was reported to be no longer accessible on phones running Android version 2.3.7 and older, along with iPhones operating iOS 8 or earlier.
Like many other mobile users the warning was probably ignored!
The media outlet stated millions of smartphones were affected by the update, which was announced in 2017.
“Because we no longer actively develop for these operating systems, some features might stop functioning at any time. For the best experience, we recommend you use the latest version of iOS or Android available for your phone”, WhatsApp wrote in a blog.
In 2016, Facebook’s subsidiary announced its withdrawal from several mobile platforms, including BlackBerry 10, followed by a move to end support for smartphones using Windows from the end of 2019, BBC News reported.
The messaging service was the third most-downloaded app in the past decade, data from analyst company App Annie showed.


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AliveCor launched its new third generation smartphone-connected EKG device, a model that is both slimmed down and considerably cheaper than its predecessors. The device will sell for $74.99, compared to the previous model's $199 price tag, and is 50 percent thinner and 40 percent lighter.
"The new AliveCor third generation device is a lower-profile consumer design," Cindy Donohoe, vice president...
January 15, 2013
Innovation almost by rule drives cost down in other industries, but not so much in healthcare. "Healthcare is unique in that every added feature increases the cost," Dr. Diego Miralles, head of Janssen Healthcare Innovation, part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, said last week during a live TEDMED webcast.
One exception to that rule, however, is generic drugs,...
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Winston Wang, Director of Strategic Innovation of the T-Mobile Creation Center, told the standing room only crowd at Stanford University's Mobile Health 2010 that he joined T-Mobile to bring a "Silicon Valley" mentality to the carrier. Within the carrier's creation center, which is developed alongside design firm IDEO four years ago, Winston and his team aim to push T-Mobile to develop and offer...
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By Karen Katz, Esq. Director of Business Development, Health, Medtech and e-Health at Mintz Levin
"So to stop the computer, I click on "start?" This question from my retired, 76 year old Dad as we go through how to shut down Microsoft Windows for the hundredth time. Yup. It's counter-intuitive.
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Neon ‘Artificial Human’ to smarter TVs, key things to follow at CES 2020
CES 2020 is scheduled to begin on January 7. Just like the last year, the conference will focus on 5G, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, smarter and better TVs, and robotics among others.
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the biggest technology conferences in the world. Hosted in Las Vegas, technology firms around the world preview their latest innovations and services which set the trend for the rest of the year. The CES 2020 edition is going to be no different.
This year we're expecting a bigger focus on Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, smarter and better TVs, robotics and lots more. Here are some of the key things to follow at the CES 2020, scheduled to start on January 7.
The likes of Google and Microsoft have been at the forefront of implementing Artificial Intelligence in their key products and services. Samsung is finally catching up with a new "Neon" project. Led by Samsung Star Lab's Pranav Mistry, the company has been teasing a "NEON Artificial Human."
Neon is said to be an advanced version of AI-human interaction. Ahead of the official demonstration at CES 2020, Mistry revealed the AI can "autonomously create new expressions, new movements, new dialog (even in Hindi), completely different from the original captured data."
Flying to CES tomorrow, and the code is finally working :) Ready to demo CORE R3. It can now autonomously create new expressions, new movements, new dialog (even in Hindi), completely different from the original captured data. pic.twitter.com/EPAJJrLyjd— Pranav Mistry (@pranavmistry) January 5, 2020
Apple will make a comeback to the CES after a gap of 28 years. The company, however, will not launch a new product but will discuss privacy. Apple's senior executive Jane Horvath is scheduled to participate in a consumer privacy panel on January 7. Apple's return to the CES will come at a time when the technology firms around the world are facing criticism over how they handle users' personal data.
5G was one of the biggest attractions of the last year's CES. Since then, we've seen a rapid adoption of 5G around the world, at least at infrastructure-level. The US and China are already leading the race while technology companies have introduced a wider-range of 5G-capable devices including smartphones. At the CES 2020, we're likely to see what's next for 5G.
Also, more and new players are expected to introduce 5G-compatible devices. According to reports, MediaTek will showcase 5G chipsets. Qualcomm is likely to shed more light on its new Qualcomm Snapdragon 5G compatible processors.
TVs have been a consistent category in the past CES editions. Over the years, we've seen firms introducing TVs with much higher resolution. Ahead of the CES 2020, Samsung has already unveiled an 8K QLED TV with ultra slim bezels. LG has also introduced Real 8K OLED and LCD TVs. This year, we're also expecting an improvement in the microLED technology.
Ivanka Trump's keynote
Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the US President Donald Trump, will participate in a discussion titled "The Path to the Future of Work." The discussion will focus on "employer-led strategies to reskill workers, create apprenticeships and develop K-12 STEM education programs."
She will be joined by CES keynote speakers including Samsung President and CEO of Consumer Electronics Division Mr. Hyun-Suk Kim and Salesforce Chairman and co-CEO Marc Benioff among others.
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IKEA is known for its showrooms. But now, the home furnishing giant hopes it will also become known for its roof.
The Sweden-based company recently flipped the switch on a solar energy system installed on the roof of its southwestern U.S. distribution center in Tejon, Calif.
The 370,000-square-foot solar array consists of a 1.8 MW system designed and installed by California-based REC Solar, and built with 7,980 REC Group panels. According to REC Solar, the system is the second largest rooftop installation in California and the sixth largest in the United States, and is expected to produce 2.88 million kWh of power annually.
The 1.8 million-square-foot Tejon Distribution Center opened in 2000 on 60 acres along Interstate 5 in Kern County just north of the “grapevine” route through California’s Tehachapi Mountain Range.
In the United States, IKEA already has solar energy systems operational in four stores with systems currently being installed at nine other locations, including a Denver-area store also opening this year in Centennial with a geothermal system.


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According to the popular saying, what goes up must come down. While presumably it is talking about gravity, we suppose it does have its place even in sales where nothing can last forever. Apple has enjoyed the longest streak ever for its iPhones where quarter after quarter, sales have continued to increase.
However in recent times, Apple has seen sales starting to decline, and unfortunately things don’t appear to be changing. Based on Apple’s latest financials, it seems that iPhone sales are continuing to decline. Apple is reporting that they have sold 50.8 million iPhones in the last quarter, which is down by a smidge from the 51.2 million iPhones that they sold a year ago.
Now clearly 50.8 million iPhones isn’t a number you would sneeze at, and Apple is far from being in trouble, but it is a sign that perhaps interest in the iPhone is starting to diminish. However despite the decline in sales, revenue is up, presumably due to the slightly higher price tag where Apple managed to make $52.9 billion, which is up by 5% year-over-year. Many are expecting Apple to experience a supercycle later this year with the launch of the iPhone 8, a handset which some analysts believe could dwarf the sales of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus which were apparently peak Apple.


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Google’s recently received permission to test their self-driving cars in Nevada, but until today in California, where the cars were conceived and tested, it remained illegal. Today at Google HQ, California Governor Jerry Brown signed SB1298, which creates a legal framework and safety standards for the testing and operation of computer-driven cars on California state roads. Take a look at the live-streaming press conference here.
- MIT Researchers Claim To Have Discovered Toughest Tongue Twister Of All Time
- Samsung To Introduce Smartphone With Fingerprint Sensor In 2014 [Rumor]
- OCZ Formalizes Toshiba's $35 Million Buyout Offer
- Journey Through Middle-Earth Is Another Chrome Experiment
- Xbox One's Kinect Voice And Gesture Cheat Sheet Released
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New Delhi: Staging a comeback in the global smartphone market, Research in Motion (RIM), known for its BlackBerry brand of mobile devices, Wednesday re-christened itself as 'BlackBerry' and launched its much-awaited operating system.
While it was time for RIM CEO Thorsten Heins to unveil the much anticipated BlackBerry 10, for Indians, the Canadian company’s head of software portfolio Vivek Bhardwaj was at the focus.
Bhardwaj, who describes himself as a "British guy in Canada" talked about his Indian connection to an Indian newspaper in an email interview. His parents are of Indian origin though he was born in UK. Bharadwaj’s father was born in Punjab and later migrated to UK while his mother, also an Indian, grew up in Kenya.
BlackBerry unveiled its new identity and the new operating system across multiple cities -- New Delhi, London, Paris, Johannesburg, Toronto, Jakarta and Dubai.
The company also announced the launch of two devices -- Z10 and Q10 -- powered by the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, which will compete with Apple's iPhone and those based on Google's Android operating system.
Once a leader in the smartphone category, RIM steadily lost market share as iPhones and Android-powered devices gained popularity across the world.
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The dregs that remain are strewn along the few short aisles that are still intact. A smattering of cosmetics, a motley assortment of hardware and auto parts. Toys and cleaning solvents. Some of the merchandise is opened and damaged, elsewhere husks of empty packaging recall other goods that presumably have been pilfered. Where a staff of 75 employees once saw to customers' needs, today a few workers drag dollies loaded with salvaged inventory destined for a storage facility in Opa-locka and an uncertain future. A few doubtful shoppers who've wandered in sift through heaps of half-price odds and ends, looking for nothing. A lone cashier absently sucks at a soda; the other eight checkout counters are empty, their shiny cash registers like so many third-stringers sitting dejectedly in unsoiled uniforms.
Surely no one who attended the store's August 17, 1991, grand opening foresaw such a fate for this enterprise, which had sprung from the ambitions of three former department store managers, all of whom were black, all of whom had staked their life savings and reputations on Miami's only black-owned department store. The trio had pulled together a diverse team of private financial institutions to invest in a depressed area that long had been shunned by most big retailers and financial lenders.
Z Mart was to be an unprecedented community-oriented enterprise, one that would keep Liberty City dollars in Liberty City by employing residents, buying merchandise from local distributors, and gearing inventory toward black consumers. It was going to provide a needed boost to the ailing community and set an example for the development of black-run businesses throughout Dade.
What actually came to pass, however, was three years of lagging sales that led to major cutbacks in retail space and staff, and, finally, Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors. Charles Howze, the only founder still involved in the company, has been forced to vacate the massive retail space. Now, under the supervision of a U.S. bankruptcy court judge, he hopes to reconstitute his store elsewhere, in a significantly smaller form.
Z Mart's failures have provoked considerable self-reflection in the business community and accelerated an ongoing reassessment of the way minority businesses, specifically black-owned enterprises, are nurtured and financed in Miami. "This was the Super Bowl," says Bill Wynn, a long-time Liberty City business leader. "It's a travesty, because it had in its dream the potential to really establish in Miami a visible, high-profile model for the black merchant class, which is what we really need."
Indeed, some now wonder whether Miami will ever have a healthy black entrepreneurial class. Even John Hall, an executive vice president of the Beacon Council, a quasi-governmental organization whose purpose is to promote local businesses, is far from confident. "Think about it: How long have we had to go to get to 1995 and not have one?" Hall asks, shaking his head. "Are we going to go another ten years and still not have one?"
Visit z mart on its inaugural day was to understand the sense of hope wrapped up in the enterprise. It's not every day, after all, that mayors, commissioners, civic leaders, and business big shots -- not to mention reporters and cameramen and thousands of community residents -- turn out for the opening of a store.
Amid all the celebrants, the balloons, and the streamers, Z Mart had its biggest day of business ever, recalls 45-year-old Charles Howze, a man of medium build and a soft-spoken yet direct demeanor. In a rare sedentary moment, Howze is sitting in a small, windowless room in the rafters of the Z Mart building, recounting the laborious birth of the store he now must close. These days he has been in constant motion, hammering out the final details of his reorganization plan, meeting with creditors, attempting to sell them on his strategies for saving the corporation while dismantling the existing store. He's so busy he's had to cancel two scheduled interviews and finally, reluctantly, he has set aside a couple of hours on a Sunday, his "rest day" as he calls it. But even then, as he charts Z Mart's troubled history and unrealized promise, business phone calls interrupt constantly.


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Google held its Google Stadia Connect on August 21 where they shared a lot more on the kind of games that will be making their way to their upcoming game streaming platform. This includes one of the most anticipated games by CD Projekt Red, Cyberpunk 2077.
Here are all the games that will be making their way to the Google Stadia:
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Orcs Must Die 3
- Windjammers 2
- Destroy All Humans
- Mortal Kombat 11
- Super Hot
- Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle
- Borderlands 3
- Watch Dogs Legion
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- Samurai Shodown
Aside from these new additions to Google Stadia’s game catalogue, IGN also got a chance to talk to the VP of product for Google Stadia, John Justice, during Gamescom 2019 and according to Justice, a future with “1000-player servers and crazy battle royale games” will be possible with the Google Stadia. Games that run on the Stadia will also be able to have bigger, more open worlds and more intelligent AI thanks to Google’s ability to add AI chips to the NPCs in-game.
Players will also no longer have to worry about or wait for downloads and updates for the games they are playing as it will all be streamed using Google’s very own servers. Like other gaming platforms currently available, Google Stadia will also allow players to immediately jump into any game as soon as it launches, without any delay.
Price also shared how when Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was playable through Project Stream, Google had to use 25mbps to give players a 1080p experience. Google is now able to stream the game at 1080p with just a 10mbps to 15mbps connection.
The team at Google Stadia will also not only be working hard to bring as many games as possible to the Stadia, but also exclusive games, such as Orcs Must Die 3. According to Price, “thousands of developers” have already applied to bring their games to Google Stadia, with “hundreds” already working on games to be released on the cloud streaming platform.
As Google strongly believes in cross-play and cross-progression, Price mentions that Google will want all games to support both of these features, as it is their belief that both are a “core piece of next-gen” gaming.
With regards to the Google Stadia controller, Google went through “hundreds of prototypes” before deciding on the final design that features grips that accommodates to the various kind of grips players tend to gravitate to, such as the claw-style grips, and the standard grips. The controller is meant to be for hands of all sizes.
During their Google Stadia Connect, Google also announced its Google Stadia’s Founder’s Edition which will be released in November 2019 and will retail for US$129.99. It will include a limited-edition Night Blue Controller, a Chromecast Ultra, a three-month subscription to Stadia Pro, and a three-month Buddy Pass to give Stadia Pro to a friend.


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The survey, from industry watcher Telephia, found that a relatively low number--25 percent--of the 1,500 corporate executives surveyed said they expect to use push to talk. The study also found that just 7 percent plan to make the technology available within the next 18 months. The feature instantly connects phones rather than taking the time to find a network connection and dial out.
The high initial cost for handsets capable of the feature plus less-than-adequate security to guard calls from interception are major reasons for businesses' reluctance, according to Telephia.
The survey comes just a few weeks before Verizon Wireless is expected to launch the first ofthat are similar to Nextel's DirectConnect and aimed at business clientele. Nextel so far is the only carrier to offer such a service.
Sprint PCS, however, plans to offer a more friendly version for consumers later this year, and the company expects that teenagers especially will go for the service. AT&T Wireless said it will test a service next year.
Nextel has exclusively offered its walkie-talkie option in North America for more than a decade. But its range has never been more than a few hundred miles at a time. Nextel said thateach of its DirectConnect subscribers will be able to reach anyone in the continental United States.


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Huawei Honor 9 Lite with 4 cameras heading towards China
- Author: Israel Montgomery Dec 16, 2017,
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In terms of the software, the Enjoy 7s will run on Android 8.0 Oreo with EMUI 8.0. Under the hood is a Kirin 659 SoC paired with 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage, which can be expanded up to 256GB via microSD card.
The company launched to variants of the smartphone - 32GB and 64GB priced at Rs 12,999 and Rs 15,999 respectively.
Arrest made in connection to missing Onslow County girl
Mariah Woods is described as a white female with brown hair and blue eyes, about 2-foot-9 weighing about 30 pounds. They were sent straight to the FBI's base in Quantico, Virginia, for testing on Wednesday afternoon.
The Honor 9 Youth is expected to have a 2,900 mAh battery inside it alongside a probable dual-SIM support, according to the report. Further, the formal invite highlights the presence of a full-screen display and four camera sensors - two on the front and the other two on the back - on the Honor 9 Lite. Apart from that, the live images of Huawei Enjoy 7s were evidently apparent to shed lights on what the rear and front panel will consist of. The Huawei Enjoy 7S is the next device in Huawei's China-centric mid-range series, and the device is billed for a December 18 launch at an event in Xi An, China. The phone is also said to still have the standard audio jack.
Going by the specifications revealed by the TENAA listing of the phone, it is expected to feature a 5.65-inch IPS LCD display with an 18:9 aspect ratio. It is tipped to have a 13MP + 20MP dual rear camera setup.
Ukrainian Police Recapture Former Georgian Leader Saakashvili
Saakashvili then re-entered the country illegally and staged multiple rallies in the capital demanding the president be impeached. Mr Saakashvili is suspected of receiving financing from a criminal group linked to ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
This time round, Huawei's sub brand Honor will be launching a mid ranger - the Honor 9 Lite, and it will happen this 21st of December before 2017 draws to a close. In its front lies an 8-megapixel camera for selfies and video calls. Thanks to the narrow bezels, the fingerprint scanner has been located on the back of the phone, making it a more accessible and adds a premium touch. Now, this pre-Christmas launch might be Honor's treat to the fans and we expect it to come with the festive pre-launch offers too.
After the successful launch and sale of the Honor 9i, the company may soon unveil the Honor 9 Lite.
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The Washington Post has a long piece about how much about the dietary supplement business is unknown and/or unregulated, which has the potential of putting consumers at significant risk.
The basic problem, regulators say, is that "the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, or DSHEA, was created with heavy input from the supplements industry and consumers who use their products. As a result, the measure is widely seen as tilting the scales in favor of providing consumer access to supplements rather that ensuring safety. It limits government interference in the huge and growing market."
That can be a problem. Earlier this year, Pieter Cohen, a physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, "published his 14th paper concerning dietary supplements that contained either prohibited or unlisted ingredients. This time, he and his colleagues analyzed 17 brands of sports and weight-loss supplements sold in the United States, and they detected nine prohibited stimulants in them. Almost half of the brands tested included more than one prohibited stimulant."
The core issue, the Post suggests, is that regulators do not know what is on the market, does not known what is in those products, and does not have the agency to be able to regulate much of the industry. The dietary supplement business has grown by more than 10 times in the past three decades, but the budget of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not, even if it has the ability to crack down on the supplements industry.
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Rick’s Cabaret Reports Gains
Recession? What recession? Rick’s Cabaret International’s announcement on Tuesday of a 21.9 percent increase in net income for the quarter ending March 31 had investors and industry insiders all abuzz. Or maybe that was just the continued buzz of the Due Diligence Ball held Tuesday evening at the company’s Manhattan location… Either way, net revenue of $2.94 million (unaudited) on gross sales of $22.4 million for the first three months of 2010 is worth noting, especially these days. The operator of upscale gentlemen’s clubs reported alcohol sales of $9.0 million and service revenues of $10.2 million, up from $7.0 and $8.8 from the same period in 2009. Rick’s Cabaret International operates clubs under four concept names — Rick’s Cabaret, XTC, Club Onyx and Tootsie’s Cabaret — in a dozen markets.
Nightclub sales in April hit $6.65 million. While the company overall is performing well, the Vegas location is proving a bit of a drag on its financials. Financial performance for the Vegas location, which definitely felt the impact of the recession last year, was bolstered by a reduction in the club’s taxi marketing spend. President and CEO Eric Langan cited a decrease from $1.4 million in taxi-related marketing to just more than $91,000 in April. That said, Langan stated that if Vegas was removed from the equation, Rick’s systemwide same-club sales trend for the month of April would be off just 1.4 percent, compared to the 18.7 percent decline when Vegas is factored into the mix. Ouch!


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JioAirFiber recently announced a home internet package for the 5G network. With its help, you no longer need to run a cable through your home. Airtel would bring Airtel Xstream AirFiber 5G. Even though we write about it, there is no official announcement about it.
The only source from which it has been deduced that Airtel would bring such a device is just from the coming of the Android app that is posted early on Google Playstore.
You will get a Wi-Fi (ax) 6.0 router which will be the primary device for Xstream Airtel 5G.
There is a way to set it up and the steps involved in the process are;
- Get to a perfect spot within your house where you can get a good signal strength.
- At the bottom of the device, insert a SIM card, and next power the device up.
- Using the app’s AR function, you can choose the best spot where you can get an optimum signal strength.
- The router will operate on 4G but will function better for 5G. It is said the app will have a lower latency and a higher bandwidth.
- The device comes with several Ethernet ports that run at the back of the device. Use all of the ports together to wire that many devices if you like.
Most people were trying to assess how they can set up the 5G connection. Using this particular device, you can comfortably set it up.
The price scheme is already revealed and it shows that anyone with a 6-month subscription will need to pay ₹2,994 for 100 Mbps speed. It will amount to Rs.499 per month. The 5G router price will be ₹6,000.
But this is not the only deal Airtel might have to offer. There might be many other deals that you might be able to trace out. All are right now waiting for the official announcement to come out. The app is right now not available and has been pulled down.
They also have an Airtel Xstream Fiber or wired connection will cost Rs.499 a month for a 40 Mbps speed. These will come with a free Wi-Fi router. They also have internet and TV deals. The Airfiber however, will provide people with higher speeds at the same prices and far less hassle-free installation processes.
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Red Hat: Channel Will Account For 70 Percent Of Revenue In Two Years
Open-source software vendor Red Hat expects the channel to account for between 70 percent and 75 percent of its sales within two years as the company continues to expand beyond its core Linux product into middleware and cloud computing software.
Red Hat recently restructured its direct-sales force to focus on a smaller number of named-account customers and is leaving more sales to its 6,000-plus partners, said Alex Pinchev, Red Hat executive vice president and president of global sales, services and field marketing, in an interview at Red Hat's Summit conference in Boston this week.
Red Hat also plans to expand its Channel Acceleration program, initially geared toward resellers of the company's virtualization software, to all partners. And a new partner training and certification program is in the wings.
"Our business is very-well positioned to scale up sales through our partners," Pinchev said in a Summit press conference earlier this week. "We see growing demand from our partners all across our product lines."
Red Hat traditionally focused on direct and OEM sales when its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system software accounted for most of its business. That began to change in June 2006 when the company acquired JBoss, the developer of the open-source application server with the same name that became the core of a growing line of middleware products.
Since then the company has continued to expand its software offerings to include virtualization, systems management and identity management products. Last year the company broke into the cloud computing arena with its Red Hat Cloud Foundations software. This week the company added to its cloud offerings with the new CloudForms Infrastructure-as-a-Service and OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service software.
NEXT: Red Hat's Plans To Boost Channel Sales
Today the channel accounts for between 60 percent and 65 percent of Red Hat's sales, according to Pinchev. That includes OEM sales and sales through VARs, ISVs, systems integrators and other partners by way of distributors under a two-tier distribution model. For Red Hat's fiscal 2011 ended Feb. 28, partner sales worldwide grew 34 percent.
Pinchev said that as recently as three or four years ago Red Hat was still working to get its channel act together and partners complained that the company was hard to work with. "It takes time to build a partnership culture in the company," he said. "I think we're there."
While he declined to provide specific numbers, Pinchev said that since the beginning of the fiscal year in March Red Hat reduced the number of accounts it sells to directly, leaving more to be serviced by channel partners. A number of sales representatives were transferred to channel sales support. The company continues to sell directly to what Pinchev described as a small number of large named accounts, including several major financial services companies.
Virtualization software is the most popular Red Hat product with channel partners. Last November Red Hat launched the Channel Acceleration program for partners who resell the company's virtualization software, providing special discounts, technical support and training. That program will be expanded to all partners over time, Pinchev said.
Also on tap is the Red Hat Ambassador training and certification program that will roll out to partners over the next two to three months, according to Pinchev. And Red Hat Pathways, a set of new service offerings the company is building for customers, will be made available through the channel.
Red Hat continues to recruit new partners, but Pinchev said the focus is on getting current partners to carry a broader range of the company's products and to add services around those products. He said partners generate between $4 and $10 in services revenue for every $1 of middleware sales.
While virtualization software will continue to be Red Hat's biggest channel seller, Pinchev said the new CloudForms product "is a fantastic platform for partners to build services on."


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I was interested to read your article about Vodafone’s refusal to repay £420 of unused credit when a customer cancelled their pay-as-you-go account. My mother-in-law has a similar issue.
Before switching to another provider she asked Vodafone for a refund of the £51.89 credit on her account. She was told this could not be issued and it was instead suggested she make use of the money by ordering games on Google Play.
When I contacted Vodafone (and after 75 minutes on hold), it said she should, in fact, have been offered a credit refund.
However, like your other readers, because her number had, by now, been transferred she would have to cancel the new account and return to Vodafone to enable it to reimburse the money. SL, Hexham, Northumberland
Vodafone says that it does not routinely repay unused top-ups when an account is closed. It points to its terms and conditions which do, indeed, state that, once they’ve parted with their money, customers are not entitled to refunds.
Moreover, it says, Ofcom is aware of this industry-wide policy and publicises it in the “use it or lose it” section of its consumer advice. In fact, that refers to the fact that you face losing your service – and your top-ups – if you don’t use a PAYG phone for a certain length of time. The regulator does not oblige companies to refund outstanding credit, although it’s proposing that providers should tell customers about the money they might lose when they apply to cancel their service.
As a “gesture of goodwill” Vodafone has agreed to a refund.
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Yvonne Fovargue argues the current product recall system is not fit for purpose. It relies too heavily on consumer action rather than that of the manufacturer. Reform is needed; it’s time for total recall.
When we buy expensive electrical items, such as washing machines and tumble dryers, we often give little thought to safety issues. We might worry about them breaking down or not doing a good job or being expensive to run, but we don’t tend to think of them as being dangerous to our health.
But a series of scandals involving – mostly – white goods have forced us to rethink. Hardly a week goes by without a story in the press about a machine suddenly catching fire, destroying property and putting the lives of whole families at risk.
If this was not bad enough, the typical response of manufacturers has been somewhat relaxed – to say the least. Whirlpool’s advice to those with one of its five million defective dryers, for example, is to carry on as normal, but not to leave the dryer unattended while it’s on. Meanwhile, customers must wait many months – perhaps even years – for a ‘modification’ to correct the fault.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t think this is good enough. The correct response would have been immediate ‘total recall’. But what we have is a clear case of putting profits before safety, where wrong – and potentially catastrophic – advice is given in order to save the company the costs of speedy repair.
What is clear is that our laws on product recall are simply not working. The Government knows this, of course, but so far it won’t do much about it. Two years’ ago they commissioned the consumer champion Lynn Faulds Wood to undertake a review, which she duly did, and then they largely ignored the findings and recommendations.
Her report was balanced and modest. She sensibly asked for the setting up of a national product safety agency and a trusted website on which all recalls can be mapped. But, in response, all ministers offered was a steering group to consider the implications, which to most of us looks like a kick into the long grass.
But the current recall system is not fit for purpose and we all know this, including – I suspect – the Government itself. It depends far too much on the consumer rather than the manufacturer taking action, particularly with regard to registering the product and updating details when, for example, the buyer moves house. We all know from experience how easy it is to forget or simply not get around to registering our new product.
I would also like to see an enhanced role for Trading Standards, particularly in bringing consumers and manufacturers together in a more ‘joined-up’ approach and in undertaking more product safety research. Unfortunately Trading Standards has suffered from chronic underfunding in recent years, but we will not make headway unless they are placed at the centre of any solution.
I am not suggesting that there are no good recall systems out there. Clearly some manufacturers take the recall process more seriously, perhaps realising that it does make good sense to look after customers a little. Nor am I suggesting that the problem is confined to ‘white’ or household appliances; the recent Volkswagen emissions scandal demonstrates that it not only the makers of tumble dryers who are tardy when it comes to writing their wrongs.
The Government needs to act now. The steering group, which has not produced one report yet and is due to disband in early November, should be followed by a clear commitment to implement the recommendations of Lynn Faulds Wood’s report, properly backed and resourced. The time has come to out the needs – and lives – of consumers first.


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Cold homes, EV cost perceptions surprise in Pulse survey
By Felicity Wolfe - Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Pulse Energy says a surprising number of people claim not to heat their homes - pointing to a wider energy poverty issue.
Chief executive Gary Holden says the 15 per cent of respondents in the firm's Great New Zealand Energy Survey who claimed not to use any form of home heating was a "surprisingly large number".
“The discussion about energy poverty in New Zealand is a troubling one for the industry and the strongest illustrations of this are reflected in consumer behaviour. Demand elasticity can be quite strong in lower income houses and New Zealand consumers can choose to be uncomfortable as a means to save money on their power bills.”
Nearly half of the respondents in the survey said they do not heat their bedrooms at all and 24 per cent cut down their energy consumption by using more blankets.
Just over two thirds of participants heat their homes with electricity and 16 per cent use gas. The rest either use wood burners, or nothing.
But only 39 per cent of respondents considered themselves to be ‘very active’ in reducing their energy consumption. Holden says that is low compared with Australian research showing that 80 per cent of consumers there were consistently seeking ways to reduce energy consumption.
Electric vehicle perceptions
Another surprising result in the survey was that two-thirds of respondents thought it would be more expensive to run an electric car than a petrol one.
Pulse says New Zealanders seem unaware that electricity for transportation is cheaper than petrol. Sixty-four percent of those surveyed believed electricity would cost the same or more than petrol.
In fact, electric vehicles cost much less than conventional vehicles to run. The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority's Energywise website says charging an EV is equivalent to buying petrol at about 26 cents per litre.
If all costs were equal, 84 per cent of respondents thought they would be likely to choose an EV over a conventionally-fuelled car in the future, but only 5 per cent said they would buy one to save energy.
By comparison, 26 per cent singled out energy efficient light bulbs as energy reduction investments they would make. Fifteen per cent of respondents said the same for solar PV.
Holden says that after a decade of rising power prices it is unsurprising that electricity price perceptions are “very poor”.
He says there is an almost “universal expectation” of continued price rises - 95 per cent of respondents think their bills will continue to increase over the next three years.
With the majority of people - 85 per cent - believing there is an advantage to solar relative to the retail day-time electricity price, he expects more consumers will choose to generate their own power.
More than 10,000 people completed Pulse Energy’s online survey between April and the end of October. The online survey covered a wide range of energy related topics including energy efficiency, competition, pricing and the future of electricity.
Survey participants were asked about the size of their home, the make-up of their household and how they use energy. There were also questions about respondents’ perceptions of energy retailers, how they view the industry’s competitiveness and what their view of the future is.
Pulse says 80 per cent of respondents valued being able to see all components of their electricity bills.
The survey asked respondents to rank what they valued most in a retailer – transparency, customer service, reputation, ownership, low prices, environmental responsibility, community support, trustworthiness and being vertically integrated.
Billing transparency was ranked second behind low prices at 95 per cent, and ahead of customer service at 77 per cent, as a factor to consider when choosing a retailer.
Only 14 per cent said government ownership was a consideration and 15 per cent said they valued their retailer having their own generation.
The survey also showed that more than 43 per cent of people thought increases in their electricity bills in April were due to retailers increasing their billing and administration costs – despite most firms pointing out in letters and the media that much of the increase was due to costs passed through from lines companies.
The results also show that there is a low public recognition of lines companies around the country – with only 45 per cent of lower North Island participants able to identify their distributor.
Awareness was higher in other areas of the country – reaching 61 per cent among lower South Island consumers.
Improving service, offerings
Pulse says the survey results will help it develop new offers by improving its understanding of what product features different customers are looking for.
It says the people who took part in the survey were broadly representative of New Zealand residential electricity consumers. While there was an over-representation of Pulse, Grey Power and Powershop customers, the number of Genesis Energy, TrustPower and Contact Energy customers taking part correlates to those brands’ customer numbers. There was an under-representation of Mercury Energy and Meridian Energy consumers.
The demographic results also show a cross-section of society – 50 per cent had children and there was a normal distribution of small, medium and large homes.
The average electricity spend was in-line with national averages of $2,000 per year at about $150 per month in summer and $250 during winter.
The firm offered respondents a chance to win a ‘lifetime’s supply’ of energy valued at up to $5,000 per year for 35 years. The winner – a woman on the Electra network – was contacted on Friday.


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One of the reasons for the decline in commodity trading volumes is the lack of a transparent marketplace. By moving transactions to a digital platform, which is blockchain technology, there will be a clear record of who owns, and who has sold a commodity, and amounts exchanged. It’s a way to make a low-cost trade finance platform, and transform the raw materials into fungible assets that can be transferred from one ledger account to another. A growing number of physical assets are being tokenized and traded on crypto exchanges, facilitated by blockchain technology. A natural starting point is commodities. There are over 100 trillion dollars’ worth of commodity transactions every year, creating a massive trading opportunity for crypto investors.
The blockchain is an immutable distributed ledger keeping records of all transactions in the network. By using self-executing “smart contracts” on the blockchain protocol, physical commodities can be tokenized and traded over the internet, enabling commodity market participants to transact more efficiently, with increased trust and reduced costs.
Imagine a future when, instead of people buying and selling cotton bales in physical cotton markets around the world, contracts are signed digitally on the blockchain, making it transparent to all counterparties, and specifying precisely when and where the cotton is to be delivered.
There is a profusion of blockchain technology start-ups aiming to make commodity trading more efficient and transparent. Almost every commodity trading app is adapting to blockchain technology. Blockchain has been called “the biggest invention since the internet”. Trading firms that have been accepting this new technology have started to witness a dramatic difference in their procedures. Atomyze is one such digital ecosystem focused on creating a more efficient financial system through the tokenization and digitization of assets and commodity trading, and the first asset class to be tokenized by them will be metals in particular.
Blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin, is about to shake up commodity trading in a big way. Banks have shown interest in Bitcoin, but it is commodities that are the next key area in which blockchain can be used. The potential to connect traders directly with each other is hailed by many as the next stage in the development of trade with blockchain technology heralding the start of a new era.
Major commodities firms are already investing in blockchain, an innovation that is expected to transform the way that business is done. Digital assets like Bitcoin or Ethereum are based on blockchain, which is essentially a distributed database for recording transactions and trading assets. There are many opportunities to apply this technology to business, but first it must overcome major hurdles including scalability, privacy and security. This session will be relevant to any business considering adopting blockchain on a larger scale.
While technology might seem too complex for this industry, there are already some interesting applications, which are currently being developed by software companies. They are working specifically with commodity traders to install these applications in their systems, making it easier for miners, ship owners, and manufacturers to track every single part of the process.


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BEACH LAKE— On a whim in mid-June, soon to be Founder and CEO of Grain to Glory Flag Co. Ryan Thumann noticed a discarded box spring slated for disposal and had an idea.
He decided to repurpose the salvaged wood into an American flag.
There wasn't much rhyme or reason to the design, Thumann explained, it just felt right to shape it as such.
Unbeknownst to him at the time, the powerful patriotic symbol, combined with his quality craftsmanship would resonate with people across the country, metamorphosing his artistic experiment into full-fledged business within the span of a few months.
Shortly after he posted the first flag on Facebook as nothing more than a showcase of his work, he began receiving requests from numerous friends and followers, said Thumann.
The more flags he made in the garage, the more visible he became to guests of his employer, the Central House Resort. They began ordering flags of their own from the hardworking handyman.
With some help from a friend, Thumann established his business and its corresponding website.
Thumann stated that “Grain to Glory” signifies each flag's individual story, coming not from cloth, but rather wood and transforming into the nation's symbol.
Sales only grew from there.
In the three months since he started, Thumann estimates he's crafted over 250 lumber flags, some of which have shipped as far as Florida, Texas, California and Arizona.
Thumann said he hopes to eventually have a flag in each of the 50 states.
“It's an honor to have something that I make with my hands hanging in someone's house,” he said.
Due to such influx of demand quickly exceeded the reliability of discarded box springs for lumber.
As such, Thumann began getting raw materials from Callicoon Supply or Estemerwalt Lumber.
“I try to keep it local,” said Thumann, attesting to the importance he finds in promoting family-run businesses.
From the time an order comes in, Thumann says it takes him roughly a week to produce a finished product while still working full-time at the Central House.
He cuts and shapes lumber for several flags at once, then paints them in an assembly-line fashion for efficiency.
At present, Thumann has several color variations available in three sizes.
This includes 2'x4', 3'x5' and 4'x8' sizes of standard flags called “Old Glory”, service flags honoring police and firefighters, a rustic, wood-burned only design he dubbed “The 1910,” and a red-hued flag he calls “The Antietam.”
Each flag is hand-crafted – from its formation to its painting – and sealed with Marine Polyurethane to ensure weatherproofing for exterior display.
Thumann has had several bulk orders for sale in larger retail stores. As this grows, he plans to install a “flag locator” on his website which will direct consumers to the nearest retail store should they wish to purchase one in person.
Thumann is confident demand will remain high and hopes to keep expanding into new areas.
“It's fun to do,” he explained.
One of Thumann's favorite aspects of running Grain to Glory Flag Co. is the face-to-face encounters with his customers.
“Just the joy of shaking their hand and them seeing the flag … is nice,” he said.
In summarizing his company's goals, Thumann stated, “I'm not just selling a ... flag, it's a lifestyle.”
Grain to Glory Flag Co. is active on Facebook and Twitter, as well as its own website, www.graintoglory.com.
Pricing is available online and orders are taken through the website.
Recently, Grain to Glory Flag Co. partnered with the United Way to donate ten percent of every flag purchased in September to relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey.


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Recruitment of its first refrigeration technician marks the start of full operation at the British arm of Norway’s Perfect Temperature Group (PTG), which is initially intended to serve as a sales and service hub in Scotland.
Brendan Lloyd will be working from the new PTG UK facilities adjacent to the harbour in Peterhead – Europe’s premier whitefish port. The facilities were acquired in late October 2022 and ready for occupation just before Christmas.
“With more than 23 years of refrigeration experience in a variety of industry sectors, including marine, industrial and commercial, we’re very confident that Brendan has the skills and experience required to serve all our customers,” says general manager Julian Ramsey at PTG UK.
PTG is renowned for manufacturing products like Frionordica heat pumps and refrigerated seawater (RSW) systems, Finsam ice machines, SeaCool RSW systems, and SuperFreeze freezing plants based on the natural refrigerants NH3 (ammonia) and CO2.
The group’s main markets in Scotland are the marine and industrial sectors, with such solutions as RSW systems for cooling seawater on ships, heat pumps, and freezing and ice production systems.
“I can assure the marketplace that we’re committed to recruiting further technicians and apprentices to meet expected demand, and we are currently in discussions with local colleges,” says Ramsey. “We see apprentices as key to the future success of the company.”
After meeting and consulting with several leading skippers on Scottish fishing vessels to assess demand and spare parts requirements, PTG UK has already invested in service vehicles, specialist tooling, refrigerants and inventory.
“That’s in order to be able to serve our customers fully,” explains Ramsey. “We firmly believe that service and spare parts availability go hand in hand.”
The company will be represented at the Scottish Skipper Expo in May, where its establishment was announced last year.
In addition to Ramsey, Johnny Valle and Morten Stenkjaer, sales director and manager respectively at PTG Marine & Industry, will be present on stand 03 to discuss any and all refrigeration requirements which present and potential customers might have.