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Google grants -- Android which is Samsung lies and then -- does the first honeycomb tablet.
All that more on this week's edition of Android atlas weekly for February 3 and eleven I'm just like -- -- -- -- Goodwin was that everybody.
As a gone at country and its own good week for injury news -- -- -- -- -- -- renews its kind of funny AM let's jump into it here's a Google had an events. Yesterday Eric yet --
Groundhog Day that Google came out them they'll be the formal work out a few more weeks the new robot came -- I don't know what more weeks than. Few weeks of new millions of -- I don't know how ignorant -- of -- -- that -- -- area.
Yes and at -- event.
To basically tells a -- stuff there adding new.
I mean there's very little revolutionary stuff in here but it was great to see. Hands on what -- -- gonna look like.
And they were a couple little nuggets and here -- that are.
You know stuff that we didn't know or couldn't totally put together before -- rate.
-- -- --
Some detail of this to how things.
Working in and little bit it -- explaining. What is that action bar we know how do the contents dual.
What kind of thing noted committee -- work.
They did before showing things like how the notifications pop up in the bottom right hand corner and how there can text you'll.
And you can do things like respond to and I am straight out the notification.
For -- pretty cool so.
-- pause here for second did you watch this.
It's like an hour long elect the highlight okay. All I'm saying. Is cool your big company.
He should be able to hire experts. -- -- -- presentation sucks so bad that the deadly part with relief Bentley.
Ten minutes trying to get -- right.
-- like fed minutes led by the whole thing lady killer -- -- lady killer they -- -- so like.
He forgot to sign in and Google guy -- -- in it for -- -- and I'm sick like practice it a bunch.
Or just -- an actor as they like it we're gonna hire an actor ran a column of VP don't actually know -- cattle that are engineers go there are present that Steve Jobs --
Do what he does do exactly what unit he practices -- a month.
And that he does it I'm just saying it's you know.
It's embarrassing but I will applaud them for actually happening in an event because much the time.
You know these manufacturers. Are.
OS providers don't even have the event pages have put out the press and and that's about it at for for Google easily -- a blog post on their Google -- -- -- and get a new feature here -- --
And I think that's really paid off because they got tons of coverage. You know if there wasn't this thing called the daily -- yesterday you don't have owned the -- --
But I digress I'm just saying you know since Gould did answer one of my request.
In this announcement with the market hopefully they'll -- -- next request --
Do a better job -- president.
So -- mentioned in the market -- let's talk about what that is and -- August we've been complaining for awhile or just you know asking to rule.
Directly. To give us some sort of a way to.
You know manage our applications. Search replication. And even download applications using some sort of via.
Desktop or laptop based interface cleanup to do a lot poking around on the phone and -- and they've done that with the launch of market where they get the revamped.
Of the market that injury dot com site. And it basically is.
Kind of mirrors the entire catalog of available injury at thorough and break -- in the web based interface.
You can search for apps and then you can also have them push to your phone so when you find that -- -- like.
You just click on the install button and -- actually push it to your phone for download and installation which is actually in my opinion it's -- better.
-- -- download and synch.
Kind of paradigm that Apple uses where you'll actually aircraft to connect your phone physically and keep two copies of the application.
A with the Android everything is way over locally stored on the phone.
Right -- is a super cool mrs. sort of exactly what we asked them for and -- we had seen previously in app brain.
Which they mean -- discontinue and I think now it's pretty clear why they -- them -- -- that yet feature.
But he -- the market the web based market is a huge step I mean just for the -- and now you can link.
To an -- and whether you're on a phone or your browser you can see it.
No more of those weird market flash you know -- identifiers that you you know -- brought all kinds of errors when you -- to -- and anything except in -- phone.
-- one link. Per.
Though it whether you're tweeting about it or it you know -- -- text messaging alone you know linked to a friend whatever they open it on it'll take them to the appropriate place.
Then says thanks for doing that I mean I think he still have a lot of work to go in remark allies you know that it's nice to have web based -- and I still wanna.
See more sorting and filtering and everything we outline last week.
And you know -- there was all -- also rumors leading up to this event that you music.
Would be getting some sort of a revamp also during the event immediately the uniformed sort of adjustments to the music player -- sort of like a Google music service to -- in the union that well we did see the service -- the player in honeycomb is nicer and -- have kind of a Cover Flow type of interface.
I don't know -- it'll just they're not happy with music experience -- -- -- that a new happy you can be not happy but it's better in -- -- -- an -- they didn't fix they have my prediction of iTunes.
For Android hasn't come true or iTunes music -- but.
The player does look better now with that and you know including.
The -- -- widgets and -- have.
Background task switching stuff is better -- I think that affects music as well. Because you can have as little.
Seeing that they demo and at some point to new and it was like -- -- persist.
Notification and of worries that down in the notification bar in the corner. And you tap the icon it brings -- play pause skip controls. Races.
Yet again if there was one of my annoyances. And with with the current way is where it sector in another -- -- songs and you gotta leave the app.
To do it -- this -- yet again and it's also a little bit different from the way Apple does it where they make you pull up.
You know an overlay this doesn't in the way but.
Most of the time and immunity using environment of the -- mile personal use.
Probably gonna be using a Smartphone not a tablet that brings us into our next -- since we're talking about the future of Android in Smartphones and how things work.
And we've got a story on.
Computer world that's basically saying that Android Smartphone users shouldn't expect to get the full honeycomb experience.
Severance of their -- PC mag here who talk to someone.
At on me a Google spokesman as they re right.
-- may say fir their quotas for 902 point oh has been reserved exclusively for tablets according to Google spokesman. Features -- sucks at any common applied to enter it over time which implies -- OS has for some went into a tablet OS as well as a separate track for Smartphones.
I mean this still seems like -- asked me well and it certainly conflicts from -- we've been --
It's a little vague and how it's how it's how it breathe in and also the -- --
Features is and quotes were it at and that I think also my opinion. Or what I'm gonna suggest that they mean in a moment is kind of this seasoned with. -- something -- on the Internet earlier this week in it that someone figured out that.
If you're running the the honeycomb emulator on your computer and there's they're sitting that you can make on the back -- to change things would be emulated revolution. So -- is that resolution to a Smartphone friendly. You parameters.
Then all of the the honeycomb -- goodness the new interfaith even the lock screen goes back to something that looks more like.
The -- for it.
And so what I'm thinking this means is that.
The next generation of entry phones may still be enjoyed -- dot X.
But the interface that you'll -- won't reflect the tablet though there is -- -- to use a web metaphor they'll be -- style steep one for mobile want -- tablet.
And -- that way you wouldn't get the cool things like. Than the new action bar meteor or even the larger wages and an idea. But.
The horse power. Any sort of like general performance upgrades that they may.
Or even upgraded -- to the interface -- -- Smartphone exclusive. Can still be rolled into that same OS.
-- yeah I -- I think that.
Seems like more likely that had a really understand why they -- for that doesn't really make any sense and I think the other thing they could be implying here.
Is that I don't think they're -- -- specific.
Features. And move port them back to older versions. 800 but I think what they have done in the past -- -- tune the features continues to break out applications. You and release updates to those separate from the actual OS.
Release cycles -- -- program like YouTube and Google Maps -- continue to do that even more.
Maybe take some of the critical applications and released applications. Very old and grizzly bear that out yet know I'm -- says I want that that is very possible -- You know.
While -- -- see what happens.
I mean if they don't break it out then somebody over and in the mining communities -- -- -- out anyway has happened every time somebody releases.
With a custom skin with their own music player you gotta figure on the -- long enough you'll see some -- broken out any PK earth.
The music player that comes with HTC send.
You can install an uneven at that that getting that -- -- area and that really the mom friendly or download.
True -- of the hack -- hacked in exactly so we often presume. Was committed first honeycomb tablet.
But no it's not through Barnes & Noble book is. The first.
Official. That -- -- -- -- I don't know specifically that the Nook Color.
In murdered and basically would -- when it's done is they've taken that sort of safety cage you know the injury being open all the files are easily available in the port it to the Nook Color.
So -- from what I understand both the of the stuff doesn't work though -- on Wi-Fi Bluetooth and all that.
-- -- you know that actually does work solo works they say it's Eric.
Is graphics and accelerates and -- -- or wireless touch screen buttons sleep wake sound but doesn't work is the DSP.
-- -- DSP's digital signal -- seen. And really has a lot to do it hardware video decoding probably.
A lot of the graphic stuff. -- parent by the TSB.
It seems like -- from the post and actually on the XT eight developers form at all surprising amount of stuff does work.
But you know it's it's not production and just does.
In a person put this together.
Tom and it's probably time and you know you were even saying that the nook is really have turned into this sort of hacker's platforms so much that.
You're speculating and no one of the reasons.
That they're gonna stop selling at least for now.
Yet they pulled it off of they've they've they've put a stop fell on the McCurry I think today that thankfully the you know the last time I looked. The news was that -- stop filling it and people --
Speculating that you know the whole reason Barnes nobles are selling the things the -- -- they're selling and that is so that.
You can buy books. It's time for a long -- moneymaker for them and their I think they're a little free the people are gonna start by and in the -- -- -- the -- -- -- noble and Cassini of that.
The residual money from. -- it.
I get it I don't know as fit for interest in what would also what's also interesting is that you know would win honeycomb. Who was -- was still -- a rumor.
You know there was speculation that dual core processors of one you know -- -- gigahertz would be required.
The Nook Color is you know running an 800 megahertz processor I think that actually under clocked.
Some of it literally via though it's -- and not a powerful device -- human -- up and running and interest to --
Howell while with a performances like in and what that says about the honeycomb OS as far as its optimization because.
The thing at the very cool that you -- such.
Basic hardware right so if you have is that the run enlistment. If there's enough color or waiting for the -- is not the tablet for you.
Then you may be interested. In the LG.
G slate. We heard rumors about this at CS and no one can actually look you know we still haven't seen it.
-- at T-Mobile that's gonna be on T-Mobile sort of officially.
Announce this today. Him they had to respects.
But the biggest thing about this is it at 3-D tablet so not only can you view 3-D.
But you can take 3-D media's.
You have to where costs. Are looked deck you'd just maps and Alec hold on -- unprecedented in my class -- from my tablet.
And what if they're different classes and he's with -- TVs -- sitting down your couch will -- in -- that switching from one parent 3-D glasses to another.
I mean and on a small screen and I guess.
Think realistic we talked about now you know that the unit. Naked eyes the readers that were -- now.
Nick and I three devices penitent and if you Google cross site a little bit but unless both Korean I think -- yet.
Having to carry around glasses that are the you know distinctively going to be about.
25% -- of the device itself.
Can -- yeah I mean --
-- may be used tool -- tablet just not.
Muse for use has 3-D devised from its gonna have the you know the tegra two dual core processor -- that make its camera eight point nine inch display.
They run honeycomb.
Com it's gonna be.
You know on the T-Mobile four G network.
There's no Racine and those specific data other than this spring. You know really 3-D is the story with this Tyler --
You know and maybe maybe in two years. This -- come back to bite me in the but and then our great famous but I'm kind of victory.
I just feel like it's just a feature that they're just tacking on the stuff.
And I don't see the point in it. -- ten years -- -- -- years it'll be that they a minute I'm gonna look back on that thing go what was I thinking that.
I think about I hear the -- what what about that modern it was gonna be using this I don't know.
And directly over a month have had good.
They've been able at that.
The end I mean there will their rides read our call last week about all of that some naysayers of the I certainly was on the offense at best there.
I mean you know tablet I will say.
Still media haven't proven themselves --
But 3-D. I am firmly believer that. We'll think of 3-D the same -- we think of smell O vision.
You know ten years -- occupy.
I guess. But I mean it it seems like.
380 is one of those things where when it does work.
It's not because you just are casually interacting with --
And and in the tablet in this and a Smartphone -- platform.
Is kind of a casual technology and when you pull out your phone to you know make a quick reservation -- open table or something at them.
You don't really sit down with the intention of I'm going to now use my tablet.
Like you would with when you sit down to watch well being used you permanently handed down to watch a movie on your happens when you do.
Like who's like in their house sitting down to watch a movie on their tablet in rather TV people.
My son at this whole -- that it is that like you're watching something you want -- -- something else.
Yes and this -- India -- more -- project yet in our historic and arts and on the iPad you -- store.
Again that it but then I guess along the same lines of the whole if getting back to the youth and -- -- -- just ranting about half to three years.
-- hello I'm just. Okay can you can we bring.
We can keep 3-D if we can brings television to tablet.
Yeah I don't think there's anything lower on the television c'mon now who let that -- no movement -- so.
-- -- thing earlier that.
You were wondering who's buying tablets like the iPad and what nine apparently people who were buying the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Are returning them.
And in truth.
Snapped yesterday -- this story -- -- -- map from ITG investment saying that he Samsung galaxy.
Have was being returned to at 16% rate.
Which compared to a 2% return rate for that -- was huge and this is follow up story.
To what we sort of her last week about the tab sells not been anywhere near this -- -- will -- millions that.
Simpson was saying that they were quit India how many -- shipped to the store and not how much was actually sold.
Except there's some sort of late breaking news on this that Samsung access though that's not true thought actually.
Our return rate -- 2%.
That all that data is wrong and furthermore.
We were -- quoted by multiple news sources last week when we talked about Samsung -- sales.
Our policy and and it has since -- executive Leo and announced that. Sales were.
Quote quite smooth but everyone quoted him as saying quite small.
-- I don't know what to make of this weather you know whose -- the truth here. It seems like they're Samsung every week his.
You know embroiled in some kind of he said she said battle whether it's why they're not releasing an updated --
You know -- -- Li gang up on and on time.
Let me who think -- feel there -- some.
And it sounds great maybe he speaks Korean and it was miss translated very English isn't very I don't know either.
That yet so it's it's interesting now.
That that you know they did when I guess my initial thought when hearing the story is that like.
You know people seen the Motorola zoom and now they have buyer's remorse --
-- in a week for the next generation -- you know it's one week for the next generation telecommuting if pointed out in the in the story that we're gonna link to that.
You know throw it need to tap run for area.
Ray yeah I mean it's a great question why would you by the task at this point the -- in January but once you heard about presuming you heard about.
G whatever that was called.
He hadn't shot via just as careful not to -- that when -- slate. -- two minutes -- we very forgotten what it called that's how quickly.
Devices come in you know when you're talking about Android stuff and I mean if they if you're saying that while would you buy the tab now knowing if something better coming.
Something better is always coming I think if there -- -- just -- legal matters -- -- -- it's -- you're buying a tablet running an OS that does not intended to run on tablets.
So it's just that it's not even make just old technology was old you know two months before it came out to train its and a under -- compared to a data tablets and it just.
An experience that the room.
Was never intended to beat by cool.
And now that's on saying and given Samsung's upgrade history who knows if it's ever gonna run -- and never again -- all.
Those try to believe that Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Whenever they're gonna call it the new -- that takes on a next generation enough that we were perilously.
Right exactly -- after the break we're gonna talk about why don't actually need to buy a tablet because there's a whole new dimension in an injury.
-- platform since that is as tall girl gamers act.
Well come back our way so we talked about -- couple times first thirteen ads he asked them literally eat tricks forward -- from AT&T. And Motorola.
You know first of all it's just kind of a cool phone. It's dual core tegra two.
So on the forging that were. The HDMI out needs these have to repeat that make -- camera -- --
But soon as the coolest or most interest in heart rate is to the dock ability rate of this phone -- houses --
-- the idea being met the phone is so powerful apparently that.
What what what a Motorola want to do is sell you.
The sort of laptop dock which basically is a key border and day LCD monitor that kind of old flat like a laptop but -- new processor in there.
The -- idea -- that you would plug the a tricked into the back of this and it would serve as the -- all of the horse power. The of this sort of laptop -- -- -- -- get a custom interface that actually -- more optimize for using in sort of a laptop form factor.
On the day and also still get access to all of your data in contact and and all the other information that's -- be stored on the phone there.
Think it's kind of a cool idea but look at the price here.
Five -- box they love that it 500 bucks for the contract or gonna buy it separately not in the -- is a -- -- for the phone in the dock.
Looks like if you buy the phone with the contract -- 200 bucks for the phone -- by the phone in the contract with the dot.
It 500 bucks.
Decide later on that you went -- affecting -- -- if you do Grunin and got the phone up front now you wanna add to dock later 500 bucks for the dock by itself so.
It's a tinderbox is little it's a lot of money hearing I mean considering lake. I mean I don't we we don't really know how fast of the tegra two is and sort of.
Windows type of experience and you're just use it -- that.
Albeit running windows no I'm just saying they -- --
Yet no it definitely is that I'm the same if you're in easily to use windows you have full screen browser and -- -- watch full screen flash and I'm.
Do everything you do on your windows or Mac.
He -- -- is this CD -- gonna keep.
I don't think -- all of my point here is that for -- but you can get a pretty nice set net.
-- -- --
And if if tablet if tablets don't kill the netbook. And in the mean they cannot sit in the weird spot where.
For not much more you can just get a twelve inch laptop with a real processed -- it okay won't even that means of for a 500 bucks you can get a full on windows laptop per share rate and so at that point you really want one that's connected to your phone so when the phone rings yet -- stop using your computer's unique in -- on the phone.
-- -- -- -- -- that you can't use your computer -- -- on eighteen TC can do voice and data at the same time when you have connection.
So you give to continue using it also this thing is of out of thin as a MacBook Air so mean you're looking at like portability form factors. 500 bucks for that.
-- with 12100 bucks for a MacBook Air or -- the other ones from Samsung -- about 1213 hundred bucks.
So -- it -- all of the needs of a netbook.
I gets a little bit slimmer. And what is -- that.
If you buy it all together.
Net you decide you -- at this stuff after the factory and 700 dollars for phone and adopt. By and then in the bundle packages only the best deal.
It is I don't know I mean 500 -- don't -- a modern mean. This dock is really just sort of giving you -- sprayed bullets -- the laptop dock is just a keyboard. Has two -- and down in the LCD screen they're actually a second dot that you can buy the HD multimedia dock which is actually more along the lines of what we expect from a cell -- -- -- a slab of plastic pre -- on in the top.
The coming out of the back of this are gonna have and that's the -- underneath it at 189 bucks and it's -- and then and in 489 bucks you get the dot you get a Bluetooth keyboard and a mouth and a remote control that.
Still pretty decent deal and then coming out of the back -- the doctor gonna have connection for video and audio and power and I think three USB port.
Which you do with the USB port that nuclear.
-- -- --
I -- you have a couple of options here and I think it I think its price pretty well in my opinion.
I think that dock maybe is priced on par with others have laptop docs. The I don't know I mean.
Besides -- -- -- just think this is and lest there is sort of industry standard here.
I think this is kind of attack that in your radio in default and are well if their respective -- -- standards so that every phone you've got.
Could dock with.
You know there's the dock standard.
-- -- -- -- Colombo one of the things that we haven't -- could be the only when it does it right.
Is even a Motorola standard one of the first things that that when -- when -- -- -- phone coming out.
I always -- yes was -- thought -- man that's really cool.
I'd consider that from my next phone but I don't want equity AT&T. But didn't -- the dramatic is sitting right next to it the little expect that and that functionality.
-- so if there were some sort of a -- future for even more rule standards where I mean you would expect all of your -- hardware.
To work with other Motorola hardware and and there'd be a phone that you can dock on Verizon in them phone on AT&T and then maybe later on -- -- -- on sprint.
It is kind of specific and is I guess a lot of it's not really doesn't really having -- of four compatibility. That if you've been.
-- -- the next version of the Motorola a -- just is the exact same shape used in connection.
Yeah I mean -- right it it is cool that. You know it it's gonna be gone and you're never gonna hear this again at the month and and on the and an infinite it's an interesting. Form factor and I mean I really -- this the people pushing the envelope and at least trying something different mean if I really hope it works.
But I hope it -- look at honeycomb. I mean honeycomb supports. Now USB keyboards.
Hand most phones these days from the HDMI out so you really don't even need to dock right.
-- that you could get a Bluetooth keyword and plug it into your monitor and you've got like a Bluetooth keyboard and a owls and lake now you've gotta find a monitor like -- view I'd like what -- not at a coffee shop.
You could do that you can just pull out this one device open to doubt that your phone and it all the cards and a standards based one so belonging to make a dock that it.
Already has a built in Bluetooth keyboard or USB one. And -- steam high.
And then it works with.
You know most modern in -- phone.
But then again that they if the connection standard there's a -- you just snap -- you don't have to hear Bluetooth and then.
-- stew Mac and actually don't have a cable coming out of your phone into the back of something in in going to repairing process Justice Thomas -- and and that.
You know I mean it's not like they're locking you -- -- you know it's them.
It's not like.
And a tune in tomorrow for our special on the Motorola -- tricks will want.
RA. Tell you it will. Is. Google Android on the global -- market here.
This is very with a segment called.
If the -- analyst useful statistic of the week. -- -- so this is the same story.
You've heard it here before. -- -- this week became the best selling.
Inserts that here. This -- that is best selling Smartphone OS globally.
Which is I don't know -- seems to be sort of a status that so far rate with 32 point 9% of the global market 33 point three million phones shipped.
If this is in Q4. Rate. But basically they're knocking Nokia. From that top Nokia in their Symbian -- from -- top.
Slot -- again a lot of our. Worldwide listeners.
Wolf that he is recognized as something interest in a lot of -- north American and US listeners literally.
Nokia -- and even in the -- but they do have a large presence globally and significant to see. You know and bring up there.
Right so 32 point 9% -- -- thirty point 6% for Symbian in 16% for Apple.
And then -- in the Mac and through its multiple. US why -- comparison and -- -- Took 53% of the cells in the fourth quarter.
Compared to the iPhone nineteen person.
That's pretty -- them.
A -- sales. But then again. There are dozens of -- phones at different price points.
Evening get. Think they're even coming out with -- prepaid phones now.
So -- to -- that -- its interest being.
Really like you -- -- and the both of us who called Android -- to brag about stuff like this but then at the same time not apples Apple.
-- -- --
-- an extremely flexible as -- -- and can fit into a variety of form factors and and and then -- give -- classes of phones.
Or tablet or tablets. Or microwave or toasters.
-- -- so. Do you need a job anywhere in the if you do in -- -- injury developer. You should talk to Google.
They are higher -- apparently a lot of developers entity even.
Shifting some internal developers to work on -- draped with the really trying to put out.
Bunch of new Android apps themselves that reportedly will be free. Or -- support -- more likely.
Does that Google's deal.
You know to make -- even more compelling. Which you know I think is definitely a good thing probably wouldn't.
-- -- -- that this is not a new strategy obviously they've been doing this all along with Google Maps and Google Voice and Google.
Sky map in you know all sorts of different built in apps. Now they're just the unit the next level -- --
So that -- should have no app reason.
To discount -- platform again you know I kind of wonder. Sometimes if this is counterproductive.
To use the example of Google Maps.
Google Maps is really good and that's awesome and an and -- -- just the thought.
But the fact that Google -- -- also means that anybody else who wants to develop the navigation app and fill in navigation app and Google's.
Ecosystem now have to compete -- Google itself.
And so wonder if you know by creating -- like first party applications -- the kind of limiting. Limiting in a way of the the number of people who will come into the market right in -- and want to develop --
I mean you can't it really hard to settle a navigation app now because who apps pre -- The -- -- never gonna -- -- have a lot of.
Barriers to entry just get in the map data to start with the -- is huge.
But I think you're definitely right and -- our unit has been made for decades you know Microsoft at the same thing Apple did the same thing on there.
In a desktop OS's in.
I I think Google already has a pretty good set of apps.
You know what might be more productive is for them to go out and either invest in companies or go to existing companies where they wanna who have iPhone apps and -- -- will.
-- for development of the first version of fear into revert --
Right where they -- interesting here is is.
I guess the key word here being being ad supported and it. -- kind of indicative of what's different about.
And during birth and -- less.
-- -- Apple makes money by selling devices so though the more -- they have in their stores the better just make them look more appealing platform Google makes.
Money off of Ed.
And only and only an app sales to -- small to its that -- Olympic to a smaller you know but I mean.
Not that Apple makes let you know.
-- a lot of money from ads as well tolerated with they have I ads now they -- you know they have their own that network.
Saw you know I don't to discount that failure rate that schools certainly.
Makes far more currently on their ads or rather its -- its payments are only.
Revenue stream yet think they did they don't make -- X number of dollars for every.
Random main street phone developed by a you know small time developers you know -- built they'll make money forum.
The sheer number of phones out there except that it.
By having more phones out there they get more of the residuals from yet.
It's it does on that interest in -- it.
Worth exploring a little bit more.
Well let's explore some of the Google apps now. There -- an update to Google Maps on Tuesday. That.
Updated the latitude -- latitude service which is another.
Location based social network users -- the features in FCC call -- Google stalk me.
That scares me I know you're all into it but it.
We'll -- talk about what what it is we -- with the update brings. Bull.
Basically it adds sort of a check in service to Google Latitude. -- being it.
Allowing you to share -- -- -- GPS and location position.
With friends you can now whole if you're at a coffee shop check -- that coffee shop but you on the Google places page.
And -- they get exposed to be sort of a kind of -- square -- -- -- fifth kind of competitor. To play around with it all week.
-- -- -- -- --
-- mean it's a scary thing is to me is you can set up to automatically check yourself in right that's scary.
Let me that I guess you're doing that year.
Not not that scary for me who was overstepping here at the point of view but it.
-- I don't know I wouldn't do that not that and going -- -- automatically and then and there seems fine to me because if you're sharing your location you're sharing your location.
And latitude and one -- you use to check in when you want -- -- if the fault you check in when you want -- the default is don't hear anything.
You have to opt in to the entire service to begin with.
If fill out and that the automatic check in.
Actually seems great because I really hate it when they were then placed foursquare alive and from -- -- forget.
Check in place that I'm really trying to be the mayor.
A minute unity here on the train headed home -- like crap and checking in -- you can do that anymore.
Within their of course bring it to my problem with this and and -- what is the point require you checking in -- -- know.
There's no advantage -- you don't.
You don't get access to you don't winning patches. You don't become the mayor of anywhere there are you sort of deals.
I guess is it -- almost stepped that up a little bit and asked the broader question why -- -- -- the --
Well some places elected -- than being the mayor replaced sometime sometimes. Carried.
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A South Korean consumer goods and electronics manufacturer is betting that smaller households and cramped worktops are the future.
At the 38th annual Hong Kong Electronics Fair in October, Ina Inc, which is based in Gwangju – a city in the south-west of South Korea – was showing a multifunction oven/microwave, with complete oven functionality in the size of a 25-litre microwave with touch control system.
The demonstration team at the stall highlighted the micro-oven’s rapid defrosting technology, which allows “fast and uniform” thawing at minus –3°C in seven minutes without any damage to the contents in terms of loss of juice, shape change and bacterial defects.
It has just been launched and is commercially available at a suggested RRP of US $200. The Inacube IMD-F251A is advertised on the company’s brochure as “slim and perfect”, offering four functions in one, including grilling and drying.
“450mm high compact ovens are always overlooked in favour of the 600mm high models, but but how many clients know that a good compact oven will take a 4kg turkey (enough for eight people)?”
Toby Griffin, UK KBB consultant, calling for more practical kbb innovations
In Japan, drying fruit is popular, but you could also use it to make beef jerky or dry pet food.
The team say that it can make perfect toast and pizza and you could even roast a chicken, although a more traditional oven would be better for that.
At 483mm (W) by 281mm (H) by 400mm (D), it is smaller than its larger cousin, the 34-litre Inacube HaedongN, but the director of the research institute at Ina Inc, Lim Seung-kwan (pictured above), said one Japanese buyer asked if they could make one even smaller for the Japanese market. The expense of the mould meant that changing sizes would be unlikely at the current time.
“In urban areas all over the world, housing has become very expensive and people are living in smaller homes,” Lim said.
Also on display at the firm’s stand at the fair, was a compact tumble-dryer with size dimensions of 490mm for its width, 630mm height and 416mm depth. It can take a 3kg wash load and is more than three times smaller than a standard-sized model. It was launched in its domestic Korean market, under the Daewoo brand, and in China as a white label product in August.
More than 63,500 buyers from 139 countries, including the UK, visited the autumn Hong Kong Electronics Fair in October, which was organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and showcased a broad range of the latest consumer and industrial technologies and products.
Exhibitors included manufacturers of smart-home appliances and household devices, as well as internet-of-things platform providers that combine smart devices and consumer services into a single ecosystem.
- Look out for our feature next week on how companies in the east are using artificial intelligence to create innovations that will transform our homes and the way we use them.

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They have been denying that they were in financial trouble for much of 2009 but Ksubi have finally shown their cards and placed themselves into voluntary administration. According to reports Ksubi had been “struggling to achieve the margin necessary to fund the growth and development of the brand”. The move to place themselves into voluntary administration was “only way to ensure the future of Ksubi“, Ksubi founders Dan Single and George Gorrow said in a statement.
Like Sass & Bide, Ksubi was one of the Australian denim brands who managed to launch themselves into the international denim market with their edgy jeans in early 2000s. Rumours of Ksubi’s money troubles were put on the back burner when they signed a deal to create a lower priced range exclusively for Australian department store David Jones last October and powered on with a eye wear range and sunglasses collaborations with the likes of DJ TIGI and Kanye West’s Pastelle.


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Past winners of Cambridge News Business Excellence Awards describe how their success has helped them grow...
What winning the Cambridge News Business Excellence Awards could do for your firm
Cambridge News & Media writes:
With entries now open for our 2018 Business Excellence Awards, your company has an opportunity to join an illustrious list of past winners. Some of the biggest names in the region feature on the roll of honour from past years, and credit their award wins with helping them on their journey to success.
Last year saw the top award, the Price Bailey Award for Business of the Year, handed to internet TV firm Amino. CEO Donald McGarva said of his company's success: “Cambridge is amongst the most vibrant and innovative business communities in the world and to receive such a prestigious accolade from your peers is a real privilege and honour. It’s great recognition of the progress you have made as a company and reflects superbly on the whole team’s efforts to build a successful business. "I would urge any company considering entering to just do it. It’s great for your profile – and an additional and valuable recruitment tool in our highly competitive skills market. The awards evening itself is a real highlight in the calendar and something we look forward to every year.”
Marshall Group was named Large Business of the Year in 2016. Christopher Walkinshaw, group corporate communications director, said: “We were immensely proud to be the 2016 winners of the Large Business of the Year Award. The Cambridge News Business Excellence Awards are a hugely prestigious feature of the business calendar in Cambridge and to be recognised alongside so many outstanding local businesses means a great deal to Marshall, our employees and our customers. We wish all nominees for awards in the 2018 awards every success.” Another winner in 2016 was Horizon Discovery Group , which won the Business of the Year award, while founder and CEO Darrin Disley picked up Business Person of the Year in 2015. "Winning the business of the year and business person of the year awards provided a cross-sector endorsement of our business strategy, execution and contribution to the Cambridge business ecosystem," said Dr Disley. "The gala awards dinner provides a focal point for the business year and celebrating the successes of others provides encouragement for all to do even better in the year ahead."
In 2017 Harriet Kelsall was awarded the Independent Retailer of the Year award, Harriet Kelsall Founder of the company said: "We were absolutely thrilled to win the Independent Retailer of the Year award. In a trailblazing city like Cambridge, with wonderful entrepreneurs and innovators, there are many diverse, successful businesses on the cutting edge of all kinds of industries. Cambridge is full of brilliant independent retailers which are always in need of more support than the chains, so it’s great to have an award specifically for independent retail. I am overwhelmed that we won this amazing accolade - thank you judges and to the Cambridge BID for sponsoring this award."
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Ahmedabad: A jeweller on Monday filed a complaint with police stating that a man stole a gold chain worth Rs 71,500 after saying he was going outside the jewellery shop to spit out paan dregs, in the New Ranip area of Sabarmati.
Suresh Patel, 54, a resident of New Ranip, in his FIR said that the accused, accompanied by another person, came into his shop on Monday morning and said he wanted to buy a gold chain and a pendant.
Patel showed him a gold chain and a pendant, worth Rs 71,000, the accused put it on to see if it suited him.
The accused told Patel that he wanted to spit out paan-masala and went out while wearing the gold chain and pendant. When Patel tried to stop him, he said that his friend would stay there while he went out to spit.
After about 15 minutes, the accused person returned to the shop and resumed negotiating the price of the gold chain and pendant. After a couple of minutes, he told Patel he wanted to spit again.
This time, Patel did not stop him as the accused’s friend was sitting in the shop only.
But after this, the accused did not return even after an hour.
When Patel began asking the other man about the accused person, he expressed ignorance as to where he had gone. Patel locked the man inside his shop and called the police.
A Sabarmati police team reached the shop and nabbed the nother man, later identified as Mahaveer Prajapati, a resident of Odhav. Prajapati said he was tricked into accompanying Thakkar to the shop.
Prajapati told the cops that the accused stayed at the hotel in Odhav where he works as a cook for around a month.
The accused had identified himself as Radhe Thakkar at that hotel and his bill of Rs 90,000 was unpaid.
Sabarmati police inspector R S Thakar said the accused was charged with theft and is yet to be nabbed.


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Scenes from CES 2014 -- Day 3 (pictures)
Wednesday at CES 2014 brought us some nifty gadgets, gorgeous design, and a smart bed CNET staffers couldn't resist.
Devialet hopes to win 'most photogenic' at CES 2014
The Devialet 240 amp is the company's flagship amp, and has the looks -- and price tag -- to prove it. While the entire line is on display at CES 2014, the Devialet 240 is made from a single block of aluminum, and the black chrome mirror finish is drop-dead gorgeous.
Buzzy Mini aims to take the sting out of needles
The Buzzy Mini is a tool we tried out at CES 2014. Designed for the needle-phobic, the Buzzy Mini uses a combination of cold and vibration to reduce the pain -- and fear -- of shots and bloodwork.
Ivee Sleek may be the personal assistant you fall in love with
If you're still looking for a personal assistant who doesn't require vacation pay, the Ivee Sleek is a voice-activated assistant we spotted at CES 2014. Debuting last CES as a prototype, this year, the device is already on sale and has partnered with Lowe's Iris and Staples Connect to interact with a wide range of home automation devices.
Matias keyboard goes retro for ergonomics
Announced at CES 2014, the Matias Ergo Pro is a split keyboard with mechanical rather than membrane keys. Matias claims the retro function is worth the price, as this keyboard is designed to last longer than current keyboard designs. It will be available for Mac and Windows machines this August.
Nikon D3300 brings more features to lower-end DSLRs
We go hands-on with the Nikon D3300, a feature-rich, entry-level digital SLR camera the company is showing off at CES 2014.
Samsung Chef Collection refrigerator: so cool it's hot
If you've never given much thought to the appliance keeping your food cold, this one might change your mind. The Samsung Chef Collection RH9900 4-door refrigerator, which the company is showing off at CES 2014 with the rest of the appliance line, has an LED display, section for customized temperature control, and metal trays for meats that go from fridge to oven to dishwasher.
Zazzi is trying to beautify wearables
Fashionteq's Zazziline is trying to bring fashion to the huge wearables trend we're seeing at CES 2014.
Pleo RB fights extinction at CES 2014
Innvo Labs has brought the adorable robotic dinosaur back from extinction, showing up at CES 2014 with Pleo RB, a refreshed version complete with multiple color choices.


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City welcomes freeze on rates
BUSINESS leaders united in applauding the Bank of England for keeping interest rates on hold today and said the freeze should continue until there are clearer signs of economic recovery.
The decision by the Bank's monetary policy committee means the base rate has now been at a 38-year low of 4% for seven months. Ian McCafferty at the CBI said: 'This is the right decision. The heat in the consumer market is beginning to cool and interest rates need to stay stable to ensure the upturn takes hold.'
British Chambers of Commerce head of policy, Sally Low, said: 'We hope the MPC continues to hold rates for the coming months to give our manufacturers breathing space.'
Stephen Radley at the Engineering Employers' Federation said: 'The Bank has yet again confounded the inflation doomsayers when the risk to the target is far outweighed by the need to let economic recovery gather pace.'
The British Chambers of Commerce said shop prices in May were just 0.56% higher than a year ago. However, the booming housing market, rapid consumer spending and the recent fall in the pound are expected to trigger rate rises soon.
The European Central Bank kept eurozone interest rates steady at 3.25% today.
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Bringing the farm into the city.
Two sky blue shipping containers sit unassumingly outside the Katsiroubas Brothers Produce warehouse in Boston’s Newmarket Square industrial district. Yet unlike the trucks queued up at the front of the building, these containers are not for shipping food, but for growing it.
Katsiroubas Bros. is the inaugural commercial customer of Freight Farms, a Boston company that developed the shipping-container farm as a way to bring fresh, local food into the city.
Freight Farms co-owners Jon Friedman and Brad McNamara saw a demand for local food in Boston, but understood that access was a challenge. So they wanted to create a system that would fit a large square-footage of farming in a small space and be able to continue producing during winter, when New England is not so farming-friendly.
They also wanted Freight Farms to be accessible for novice growers, McNamara said.
“We didn’t have 10 years of greenhouse or growing experience,” he said. “And we didn’t want people to have to have that in order to operate [the farm].”
The company’s target customers are wholesale food distributors who need consistent supplies and often have to meet changing demands, as well as local farmers, who could use Freight Farms to extend their growing season.
Ted Katsiroubas, owner of Katsiroubas Bros., a Boston based produce distributor, said the opportunity to grow food in an urban setting attracted him to Freight Farms.
“It’s us once again putting skin into the game of being in Boston,” he said. “It’s something for us to reinforce being a Boston based produce company.”
The Katsiroubas Bros. farm is currently growing only conventional basil, but Katsiroubas said they plan on offering different varieties of the herb—which is notoriously difficult to grow in New England—in the future. Their basil will be hitting the market in early May under the Sweet Nily brand, Katsiroubas said. But right now the plants are just getting started.
“Keeping the expectation at bay has been the biggest challenge,” he said. “I’ve found myself going out on a daily basis and looking at the basil.”
Inside the Katsiroubas farm, basil plants sprout from four rows of hydroponic columns, awash in a soft purple glow that substitutes for sunlight.
The hydroponic system uses circulating water instead of soil to distribute nutrients. And the columns, which look like traditional horizontal trays suspended by one end, are a Freight Farm innovation that allows for increased number of plants without the need to increase lighting, McNamara said.
Currently Freight Farms is selling the “Leafy Green Machine” farm setup that includes everything a customer needs to get growing—from seeds to nutrients to the growing medium, McNamara said.
Next on the agenda is developing a mushroom growing unit and eventually a vine vegetable variety, Friedman said.
They’re currently focusing on the Boston market, which has a lot of local farmers around the city and people interested in local food, Friedman said.
“We really want to start here and then take that hub to New York, to L.A., to San Francisco, and start building there,” he said.
Changing the conventional food system by making local food the most economic option is a big part of the Freight Farms mission, Friedman said.
“It’s really all about creating access to food in places that we never thought was possible.”


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Two members of the PowerToFly team that are based in the greater Chicago area, Senior Account Executive Anastasia Rab and Talent Advocate Oriana Kachaochana, traveled to the Windy City to host an insightful evening with Braintree, a Chicago-based division of PayPal, that specializes in mobile and web payment systems for e-commerce companies including Uber and Airbnb.
The stacked (and impressive!) bill of Braintree speakers who were available to answer audience questions and make connections included:
PowerToFly was thrilled to present an event featuring three impressive companies on September 25th in New York. Hosted at Cushman & Wakefield's Basis, the event featured tech talks with women tech leaders and allies EDO, EY and OUTFRONT Media.
Moderated by PowerToFly's Milena Berry, our featured speakers also took questions from the audience, were available for networking, and gave away fun branded swag.
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PowerToFly is hosting our first event in Santa Monica! We're teaming up with the company revolutionizing the car buying process to present an invite-only evening of discussions and networking featuring Fair's women tech leaders. Can you join us?
The event will take place on Thursday, November 7th from 6pm to 8pm at 1540 2nd St, Suite 200, Santa Monica.
On September 19th, PowerToFly partnered with Wayfair to host a special evening where Wayfair's women tech leaders shared their favorite projects, dove into their career journeys, answered audience questions, and discussed how they use technology and innovation to transform the way we buy online.
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I was at a Massage-envy Expo in San Francisco when a woman named Monica approached me and said she was a massage therapist in the Bay Area.
“I’m soooo excited to meet you,” she said, standing in front of a large massage chair.
“The chair is amazing,” she told me.
Monica was referring to a Massaging Envy chair, which is designed to create a massage like experience in less than 30 seconds.
And this is just the beginning of a conversation that will continue for many years to come.
It’s an opportunity for a company like Massage Envy to connect with a segment of the public that might never otherwise connect with an American spa or massage therapist.
Massage envy has a long history in the United States, and for good reason: it’s a great place to get a great massage and experience.
But it’s also the perfect place to create the illusion that the spa is doing something more.
“If you’re going to create an illusion that MassageEnvy is doing more, it’s important to do it in a way that makes it feel like a scam,” says Michael Vadnais, a San Francisco massage therapist and founder of the popular site MassageBros.com.
“In the beginning, we were a little bit of a scam.
But then we realized we could make it seem as if we’re doing more than we are,” he says.
And that’s where Massagebros.net comes in.
The site lets users search for MassageExpos, or massage events that have happened in the last few months, to see if they qualify for the MassageWise program.
“We started looking for people who were looking for Massages and wanted to do them, and we found a lot of people who had the same thing,” Vadnas says.
In the past year, the site has become a popular place for people to see Massage Expos, which are usually held at the same location as massages.
The first Massagewise event was held at a popular San Francisco coffee shop in September, and the site quickly has attracted a lot more participants.
Massages can be done in public or private settings, but the majority of Massage wise events are held in private homes.
The majority of people that have done Massages at Massage Expo have had an experience that is more intimate, Vadanas says.
“It’s very intimate,” he adds.
“You get to feel their skin.”
And because of this, Massageexpos.com allows the user to see what MassageWorks, Massageschools, and Massagesessionals.com, which all have similar features, looks like.
And these are just some of the Massages that have been created and are now being shared.
It is a new concept for MassagingEnvy, which has no established presence in the U.S. “People have always been very into the idea of being able to connect to the people who they are actually interacting with and to feel connected to them in a really personal way,” Vadsanas says.
People are now asking Massageers to create their own personal Massages, but Massageworks has always offered something different to make the experience more personal.
The Massagexpress website has become something of a haven for people looking to create Massages from scratch, but they are mostly finding that Massages are often too similar to other Massages to create any real intimacy.
“They have no way to actually make a really great Massage,” Vadas says.
The concept of Massages as a private experience has always existed in the massage industry, but it’s only now that it has been embraced by the masses.
MassagingExpos.org has also attracted a certain amount of controversy.
“When MassageXpress was created, it was very much intended to be a private Massage and not a mass, so people were quite surprised that the company started to promote the idea that Massagers were really private and that Massexpos were private Massages,” Vidas says.
This controversy also has led to a lot, if not all, Massagers not wanting to create private Masses.
“Most Massagers don’t want to create massages at all,” Vaddanas says, but he acknowledges that Massxpress has the potential to be an extremely successful Massage business.
“There’s no question that MassXpress will become a very popular Massage brand, and I think that MassExpos has the chance to be the most successful Massages brand of all time.”
Massxexpos is currently in the midst of building out their website, which will include all of Massxarts massages, massage tutorials, and more.
The company hopes to release a Massxages massage videos app soon.
Massxaxpress is also in the process of expanding their


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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device
With three billion people actively playing games today, and fueled by a new generation steeped in the joys of interactive entertainment, gaming is now the largest and fastest-growing form of entertainment. Today, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced plans to acquire Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), a leader in game development and interactive entertainment content publisher. This acquisition will accelerate the growth in Microsoft’s gaming business across mobile, PC, console and cloud and will provide building blocks for the metaverse.
Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for $95.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at $68.7 billion, inclusive of Activision Blizzard’s net cash. When the transaction closes, Microsoft will become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony. The planned acquisition includes iconic franchises from the Activision, Blizzard and King studios like “Warcraft,” “Diablo,” “Overwatch,” “Call of Duty” and “Candy Crush,” in addition to global eSports activities through Major League Gaming. The company has studios around the world with nearly 10,000 employees.


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State received $467,000 in STEP funding
FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 11, 2017) — Funds are still available through the State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) for Kentucky small businesses looking to begin or grow their international sales.
STEP grants, administered by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development and awarded by the US Small Business Administration, reimburse up to $5,000 in expenses of small businesses as they seek foreign trade opportunities.
Kentucky received $467,000 in STEP funding for the program’s fifth year, which ends Sept. 29. Of that, $155,000 remains to support up to 31 eligible small businesses.
STEP grants are designed to provide companies with the resources, connections and knowledge necessary for exporting. STEP also works to increase the volume of exports for Kentucky companies already in the international marketplace. The creation and cultivation of international demand for Kentucky-made products and services leads to business growth, investment and job creation across the state.
Allowable STEP grant expenses include:
- Meals and lodging
- Parking, baggage and currency exchange fees
- Ground transportation
- Shipping fees for product samples to international prospects
- Trade show registration fees, booth space and mission fees
- The Gold Key Matching Service
- Export training
- Stipends for website translations into foreign languages
- Meeting space audio and visual
STEP is a component of the Kentucky Export Initiative (KEI). Through KEI, the cabinet partners with a coalition of agencies and organizations. KEI streamlines and elevates the state’s efforts to help Kentucky businesses reach global markets.
Following a record year for exports in 2016, the commonwealth’s export growth ranks it among the nation’s leaders. Last year, Kentucky businesses shipped $29.24 billion in products and services to nearly 200 countries. Kentucky exports rose while the nation’s exports as a whole decreased 3.2 percent from 2015.
STEP uses the SBA’s small business size standards to determine eligibility. Those can be found at http://bit.ly/SBAstandards. To learn more about STEP and to apply, visit http://bit.ly/STEPfaq. Find out more about Kentucky’s exporting efforts at www.KyExports.com.


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LSI Logic to buy Agere Systems for $4B
LSI Logic Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy Agere Systems Inc. for about $4 billion in stock.
Milpitas-based LSI (NYSE:LSI) is giving 2.16 shares of its stock for each share of Allentown, Pa.-based Agere's (NYSE:AGR) stock. That works out to a 28 percent premium on Friday's closing prices when LSI closed at $10.56 and Agere closed at $17.79.
The combined company will be 52 percent owned by LSI and 48 percent owned by Agere.
LSI's president and CEO, Abhi Talwalkar, will be president and chief executive of the new company, and its nonexecutive chairman, James Keyes, will keep that position in the new company. LSI will designate six board members and Agere will name three.
LSI said it will issue 379 million shares on a diluted basis upon the close of the deal and buy back $500 million in stock.
The companies expect about $125 million in cost savings by 2008 from increased efficiencies in manufacturing and operating expenses.
LSI chips are used in DVD recorders, data-storage gear, handheld music players and TV set-top boxes. Agere's chips are used in storage, mobile wireless communications and enterprise and telecommunications networks.
The companies had combined revenue of $3.5 billion for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2006.
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The old guard has begun to make way for the next generation of models as new research reveals that the modelling hierarchy is shifting.
Cara Delevinge, 24, has made £8 million over the last year, which works out at £22,000 a day, thanks to work with brands such as Chanel, Rimmel and Puma and a successful switch into blockbuster movies including her newest flick Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
In addition, Cara is more popular on Instagram than any other model in the world with a whopping 40.4 million followers.
Meanwhile, Kate Moss languishes way behind on just 631,000 followers having only joined Instagram in 2016 through an account linked to her agency.
New mum Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, 30, also beat Kate into second place on the list with £6.5 million annual earnings. She has 7.6 million followers on Instagram.
Among her many business interests, she also has the lucrative Rosie for Autograph make-up and underwear ranges with Marks & Spencer.
Rosie had her first baby, Jack Oscar, with her movie star fiance Jason Statham last month and his arrival is expected to impact positively on her future earnings.
Kate slumped to third place, but has still banked £5 million in the last year, thanks to contracts with Equipment and a new jewellery collection with Brazilian designer Ara Vartanian.
Cara, 19 years younger than Kate, can command far higher fees because she connects better with the Instagram generation.
She is keen to branch out from modelling and stars in the new sci-fi movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
The decline in Kate's status and earning power is also down to her decision last year to dump long-standing agency Storm and launch her own agency which is only just getting going.
The figures were compiled by the international lingerie brand Bluebella, based on the models catwalk day rates and commercial deals.
Fourth place on the list went to David Gandy, 37, the only man in the top ten.
He makes £4 million thanks a string of lucrative deals including being the face of Marks & Spencer men's underwear and loungewear as well as Dolce & Gabbana's Light Blue fragrance.
Fifth place went to 47-year-old Naomi Campbell who, like Kate, is still a big name in the industry after being at the top for 30 years.
Top ten highest earning British models
1 Cara Delevingne £8 million a year
2 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley £6.5 million
3 Kate Moss £5 million
4 David Gandy £4 million
5 Naomi Campbell £3million
6 Georgia May Jagger £2.5 million
7 Edie Campbell £2 million
8 Jourdan Dunn £1.75 million
9 Erin O'Connor £1.5 million
10 Lottie Moss £1 million


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In time for back to school, Fresh Cravings has added a new grab-and-go product to its line: Salsa and Tortilla Chips snack packs. The snack packs come in Fresh Cravings’ most popular recipe, Restaurant Style, in mild heat. They include a single serving of tortilla chips for consumers concerned about portion control.
“We continuously hear from our customers that they want healthier, more affordable snacking solutions for their families,” says Jay Whitney, president of FoodStory Brands, the company behind Fresh Cravings. “We developed this Fresh Cravings Salsa and Tortilla Chips combo to help parents find a fun and more nourishing snack for their kids and for themselves.”


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October 11, 2013, 8:30 am -- /EPR NETWORK/ -- On the occasion of the World Tourism Day, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism held a festive ceremony under the patronage of Minister Hesham Zaazou on the 30 th of September where outstanding performers in the various industry segments were awarded. The Travco Group companies were the honorees of prestigious awards in recognition of several of its tourism, hotel and cruise establishments.
Travco's relentless efforts to promote Egyptian Tourism have been culminated by the Ministry's No. 1 Travel Company award for the 17 th year in a row. Travco Travel has generated the highest tourism revenue to the country by attracting more than one million tourists for 2012. The award was received by Mrs. Amani El Torgoman, chief operating officer Travco Group - travel and transportation companies.
Additionally Touring International, another Travco Group subsidiary, received the award for occupying the 9 th position amongst the awarded travel companies and the award was presented to Ehab Wanas, Tourism Manager.
Another award of excellence was presented to Amgad El Gendy, General Manager Travco Transport and Limousine companies in recognition for the company's stringent safety measures and its consistently reliable service across its fleet.
On the floating hotels side, an award was presented to the 5-star deluxe Nile Cruise ship, Steigenberger Legacy, and was received by Amin Abdel Moneim, regional manager for Travcotels.
About Travco Group
The 17 year award winner Travco Group has permeated every facet of Egypt's tourism industry, with a unique fully integrated business model. Travco Group International Holding umbrella includes the following brands; Travco Travel the flagship destination management company (DMC) of the group handles close to one million tourists annually; their renowned hospitality brands are the luxury hotel brand Jaz, Iberotel, Sol Y Mar Hotels & Resorts and Travcotels Nile cruises. This in addition to its association with the leading German hotel chains, Steigenberger Hotels & Resorts and InterCity Hotel. Travco Properties is Travco's real estate development arm and features two mega developments namely Almaza Bay on Egypt's North Coast and Madinat Makadi on the Red Sea. Travco Transport and Prestige Cars oversee the transportation fleet.
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Microsoft has signed a nondisclosure agreement with Yahoo that allows it to take a look at Yahoo’s business, a source familiar with this matter told DealReporter.
Microsoft joins equity firms KKR and TPG Capital, who are also to scruitinising Yahoo’s books and operations, for striking a deal with the struggling internet company. The firms are looking at buying minority stakes in Yahoo of up to 20%, with an objective to eventually take over the whole company.
Yahoo is undergoing a "strategic review" since September after it sacked its CEO Carol Bartz.
Some private equity firms have refrained from entering into confidentiality agreements with Yahoo because of restrictions that would prevent them from forming consortiums, according to Reuters.
Both Microsoft and Yahoo have declined to comment.
Earlier in 2008, Microsoft unsuccessfully tried to buy out Yahoo at a price of $47.5bn before backing out. Yahoo’s stock is considered to be worth less than half of Microsoft’s last offer of $33 per share.


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Sep 20, 2016 Düsseldorf / Germany
Doing business sustainably for future generations – for 140 years now
By committing to the security and health of its employees, to protecting our environment and to improving people’s quality of life, Henkel wants to help make it possible for 9 billion people to live in harmony with our planet’s limited resources by 2050. We take you on a historic journey to show you why sustainability has already been a success factor for Henkel for a very long time…
Sustainability is a part of company culture
Society’s growing environmental consciousness in the early 1960s triggered a change in mindsets. As early as 1958, Henkel began systematically monitoring the Rhine River and its tributaries for detergent substances, so-called surfactants. Dr. Konrad Henkel, grandson of the company founder and Chairman of the Management Board from 1961 onwards, played a particularly great role in driving the topic of sustainability: As a scientist and manager, he made environmental and social responsibility a priority early on. This included the development of new, more sustainable production processes and products – such as phosphate-free laundry detergents – as well as a special responsibility for employees and local residents at Henkel sites.
On the occasion of the 1992 UN Environmental Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Henkel became one of the first companies in Germany to publish an environment report. The 25th sustainability report was released at the start of this year.
Fritz Henkel – a responsible entrepreneur
The tradition of socially responsible policies, however, dates back all the way to the company’s early history: Company founder Fritz Henkel started offering free meals to his employees in 1900. In 1915, the first canteen kitchen was opened, equipped with the most modern fittings of the time, because the workforce had grown to over 1,200 employees.
In 1912, Hugo Henkel, company founder Fritz Henkel’s son, had an infirmary set up. In this initial dispensary, nurses were on hand to take care of employees’ health. In July 1940, the company medical service opened for business with three part-time corporate medical officers. To improve occupational safety, Henkel had already hired a security engineer in 1927 – it was the first company in the German chemical industry to do so.
Together for a more sustainable value chain
In 2011, Henkel introduced its new Sustainability Strategy 2030. Its main goal of this strategy is to achieve more with less and to triple the company’s resource efficiency. This means creating more value for customers and consumers, for the communities Henkel operates in and for the company itself – at a reduced environmental footprint. To successfully implement this strategy and reach the targets Henkel relies on its products, cooperation with partners and the employees’ dedication.
The initial results achieved between 2011 and 2015 are something to be proud of: Henkel has reached all of the interim goals for the first five years of its sustainability strategy for 2030 and increased its efficiency by 38 percent. Henkel employees around the world have acted as sustainability ambassadors and visited about 63,000 schoolchildren to discuss the meaning of sustainability in daily life with them. More than 5 million people around the world have been supported over the past five years by Henkel’s social engagement activities.
You’ll find more historical milestones in our jubilee timeline.


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Digital Industrial Revolution
From a 2013 Gartner report with predictions for 2014:
"Gartner's top predictions for 2014 combine several disruptive topics. Those topics — the Digital Industrial Revolution, digital business, smart machines and the Internet of Things — can disrupt the IT function in ways both subtle and gross. More importantly, these topics have disruptive effects well beyond just the IT function. In 2014, IT leaders will have to plan what they do in a larger context that includes changes that are affecting the lives of people, businesses, entire industries and even global political realities.
Gartner's 2013 CEO survey suggests that CEOs feel that business uncertainties are declining. Yet CIOs awake each day to a world of technology uncertainty and change. Savvy CIOs will get their CEOs to recognize that the changes being brought about by disruptive shifts come at an accelerated pace and at a global level of impact. IT is no longer just about the IT function. Instead, IT has become the catalyst for the next phase of innovation in personal and competitive business ecosystems.
One place where this is evident is at the beginning of the Digital Industrial Revolution, which threatens to reshape how we create physical goods using 3D printing. 3D printing is even a technology worthy of mention by U.S. President Barack Obama in his 2013 State of the Union address: "A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the-art lab where new workers are mastering the 3D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything. There's no reason this can't happen in other towns." Innovations in this field cause changes that are worthy of mention by a president because 3D printing, 3D manufacturing and 3D production will change the very nature of business and/or even the structure of industries. 3D printing merges manufacturing with the supply chain by letting any business (or individual for that matter) become its own homegrown factory.
From descriptions of exciting current uses in medical, manufacturing and other industries to futuristic ideas, such as using 3D printers on asteroids and the moon to create parts for spacecraft and lunar bases, the hype leads many people to think the technology is some years away when it is actually available now and is affordable to most. More prosaic examples of current interest include Nokia allowing users to 3D print their own covers for the recently launched Lumia smartphone and consumers printing characters from games, their faces in chocolate and other novelties. And, more startling revelations can be found when considering that the political ramifications of a 3D-printed world can reshape the balance of power on a global scale.
In 2013, China continues to rise in power and position due to a large inexpensive labor force and a willingness to compete aggressively to become the "worlds' supplier" of almost anything. However, when 3D printing hits the masses, how much of China's manufacturing and distribution strength will be affected, reduced or eliminated in favor of locally printed supply? The answer is all of it. China's primary advantages, workforce and economies of scale in aggregated production, are minimized in a 3D-printed world. Those advantages cannot compete with elimination of the distribution costs associated with shipping, customization and speed of manufacturing changes — all of which are significantly more effective with 3D printing.
Our predictions on 3D printing examine the effects on intellectual property (a particularly vulnerable thing in a digital world), and on our health as bioprinting becomes more practical. Two key flags serve as indicators to look at in the next few years to validate that these predictions are on track. The global automotive aftermarket parts, toy, IT and consumer products industries will report intellectual property theft in 2016 due to 3D printing worth at least $15 billion. And, by 2015, at least one high-profile case of the use of bioprinted organs will become a global headline news story due to its success or failure. That case will most likely be centered on the Asia/Pacific region, with Western countries asking ethical questions related to the case based more on curiosity than fear.
So, that is the context in which IT leaders must plan the future of the IT function and the future of their businesses. It has long been said that IT must partner with the business or that IT is the business. Now, a more appropriate statement would be that "the business is IT." No business can afford to ignore or underplay the impact of technology-driven disruptions that are even transforming what it means to be a business in a digital world.
To that point, the "digital business" refers to business created using digital assets and/or capabilities, involving digital products, services and/or customer experiences, and/or conducted through digital channels and communities. This definition exposes a large number of challenges that await a traditional business, such as how to take advantage of digitalized assets. The term itself often poses a challenge as most people have a vision of what digital (1s and 0s) means, but not a good idea of how a business can become digital. The term digitalized might be more appropriate, because it really refers to the notion that we are accessorizing ourselves, our processes and our businesses with digital assets and capabilities. For example, digitalization has changed the book business through Web commerce, digitization of books, and delivery of books through mobile digital devices (Kindles and iPads) and audiobooks played anywhere. In this way, the book business has become a digital business.
With digital business, IT leaders must come to terms with what digital really means in the context of their work. It is bigger in scope than the typical company definition of IT, because it includes technology outside a company's control: smart mobile devices (in the hands of customers, citizens and employees), social media, technology embedded in products (such as cars), the integration of IT and operational technologies (such as telecom networks, factory networks and energy grids), and the Internet of Things (physical objects becoming electronically tractable). So, the creation of a digital business strategy may include references to how marketing is now done in a digital world. Our digital business predictions focus on four areas of interest. Particularly, they focus on the effect digital business will have on labor reductions, consumer goods revenue and use of personal data. While these do not cover the sum total of digital business, they do highlight critical areas of medium- to long-term impact.
The emergence of smart machines adds opportunity and fear as "cognizant and cognitive systems" can enhance our processes and decision making, but could also remove the need for humans in "process and decision" efforts. CIOs will see this as a means of delivering greater efficiency, but will have to balance between the active human workforce and the cold efficiency of machines that can learn.
However, as with other areas of disruption, the effect goes beyond just what the CIO might do. What happens when a business finds that smart machines make better decisions about infrastructure operations or begin to use cloud automation to create autonomic (self-healing) infrastructure? What happens when automated assistant technologies improve the safety of automotive fleets? What happens when smart decision systems shift the makeup of global workforces? The answer to all of these questions can be difficult, but a few short-term flags will indicate where we look for answers. Our predictions on smart machines address some of these probable futures.
Finally, there is the Internet of Things, which cements the connection between machines, people and business interactions in the modern era. With the advent of massively connected devices, businesses, governments and people now have access to more information about themselves and their surroundings than they can actually act on. So, the opportunity is growing to build applications and services that can use that information to create new engagement models for customers, employees and partners, as well as to foster a new set of business and marketing models that make the word "engagement" a truly valuable asset.
While all these disruptive topics might seem as if they do not have a direct impact on the IT function, we must embrace the notion that IT is now a part of everything. As the structure of businesses and industries changes, the IT systems that support it will change and so will the skills, processes and controls needed to keep them functioning. The day when a 3D-printed computer architecture exists is upon us, and the days when digital business, smart machines and the Internet of Things change what computers are may not be far off." (https://www.pleio.nl/file/download/23371392)


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Savings accounts and life insurance top the government’s wishlist of easy-to-understand and compare financial products
The government is urging financial services companies to offer a set of simple financial products to customers to encourage more people to save.
A report commissioned by the Treasury has outlined four accounts and policies that should be offered and standards they should meet before being put on the market. The products will be reviewed by the British Standards Institution and those that qualify will be given a kitemark showing they meet the standards on simplicity.
A steering committee led by Carol Sergeant, a former chief risk officer at Lloyds Banking Group, was asked to look at the implementation of simple products after concerns consumers were being deterred from saving by the complexity of products on offer.
It spoke to groups representing banks, building societies and insurers, and has outlined products which the industry has indicated it will be willing to offer. The Treasury will review the marketplace in 12 months to see whether providers are making the accounts available.
The first set of simple financial products will be an easy access savings account, a 30-day notice savings account, a regular savings account, and a fixed-term life insurance product, typically the type taken out with a mortgage.
Information on the products will be “straightforward and consistent” and the key terms and conditions will be the same for each product, making them easy to understand and compare.
The next product available should be a whole-of-life insurance policy, and the Association of British Insurers has been asked to look at how an income replacement policy could be added to the list.
Sergeant said: “We have known for a long time that being able to manage your finances effectively leads to increased well-being and a better quality of life, at every given level of income.
“I hope the simple financial products initiative will make it easier for people to understand and compare the key financial products they need and make good choices with confidence.”
The economic secretary to the Treasury, Sajid Javid, said: “The challenge now is to ensure that the work that has gone into the Sergeant review is transformed into tangible changes for consumers, and I look forward to discussing progress made with the industry and consumer groups next year.”
Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, welcomed the proposals. “Consumers should not have to tackle pages of terms and conditions and they should be told clearly what rates and charges apply, so they can shop around more easily and get a fair deal,” he said. “We now look to the financial services industry to deliver on these proposals.”
The head of the Building Societies Association, Adrian Coles, said his members had been pleased to take part in the review of the market but pointed out that there are other deterrents to saving.
“We understand that the current economic climate is challenging for savers and that squeezed household budgets coupled with lower interest rates are currently a disincentive to saving,” he said. “Nevertheless, the report makes some helpful proposals.”
Previous initiatives to simply financial products have fallen by the wayside. Sergeant said the lessons learned from past attempts had informed the report.
“It is clear that successful products need to be affordable for consumers as well as commercially viable; meet real consumer needs; be straightforward to understand, compare and manage ; and be supported by a wide group of key stakeholders,” she said. “Over 50 organisations have been involved in putting today’s recommendations forward, and we have the full support of consumer bodies for these products and the commitment of the banks and insurance companies to deliver them.”
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Three Chinese mainland subsidiaries of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd’s were ordered by the Quanzhou Intermediary Court in China’s Southern port city Quanzhou to pay RMB80 million (US$11.6 million) to Huawei Technologies Co. for patent infringement.
Samsung China Investment Co Ltd, as well as a unit in Huizhou, a unit in Tianjin and another two companies based in Fujian province, all producing smart phones for Samsung, were sued by Huawei for infringing its patent held by Huawei Device Co Ltd, a smart phone unit under Huawei, according to state media reports.
Last June, Huawei Device filed a law suit to the court accusing the five Samsung companies of making and selling over 20 kinds of tablets and smart phones that infringe its patent. The company sought compensation for a total of 31 million products that Samsung had sold for over US$12 billion.
It was the first ruling on lawsuits filed by Huawei against Samsung for patent infringement. Last May, Huawei sued Samsung in both the U.S. and Shenzhen over alleged patent violations, including 11 patents relating to 4G mobile technology and software used by Samsung’s mobiles.
However, Samsung countersued Huawei in Beijing later in July, accusing the company of infringe six patents and seeking a total of RMB161 million (US$24 million) in compensation.
Huawei, the world’s third largest smartphone maker behind Apple Inc and Samsung, released its 2016 annual report last week. It recorded revenues of RMB521 billion (US$75 billion), up 32% year-on-year, and an operating profit of RMB47 billion (US$6 billion), up 3.8% year-on-year.


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Even though the work on LineageOS 16 based on Android 9.0 Pie is in full swing, the makers of the popular custom ROM for Android devices aren’t refraining themselves from delivering the Lineage OS 15.1 ROM based on Andriod 8.1 Oreo to more devices and expanding their catalog of the devices supported.
The ROM is also helping the d3evices that are out of their service contract to get a taste of the greatest and the best that is to be offered on the Android ecosystem by getting OS updates to a new version of Android.
The new devices that have been granted the prestigious honor of running the LineageOS 15.1 are:
1. Nextbit Robin
Nextbit Robin vowed everyone with its first smartphone. The smartphone offered good specs on a budget. What was unique was the integration of the cloud storage and the on-device storage. It was something that was praised and was new to the Android ecosystem. However since Razer bought the company, the device has stopped receiving any official support in the form of software updates.m
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LineageOS for Nextbit Robin ( ether )
2. The Honor 4X
A mid-range device from Huawei that was released only in mainland China, in 2014 and featured specs like a Kirin 620 SoC, 2GB of RAM and a 5.5- inch HD screen. The device has already reached the end of its support lifetime, so an update to Android 8.0 Oreo is a welcome addition for its owners.
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3. Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1
The device was released earlier this year and is a member of Asus’ infamous Zenfone lineup of devices. The phone managed to sell in large quantities owing to its decent price and mid-range specifications. The device already comes with stock Android and may get an official update to Android 9.0 Pie fro the company either by the end of this year of the Q2’ 2019 at most. So the release of the Android 8.1 Oreo-based LineagOS 15.1 won’t be a welcome to many of its consumers. It would remain restricted to the niche users base of the device who prefer the LineageOS over the stock Android.
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(Radio Iowa) Iowa’s economy saw a slight gain during October, while the Midwestern economy dipped, according to the monthly survey of business leaders and supply managers across the nine-state region. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says the Business Conditions Index, a leading economic indicator for the Midwest, is measured on a zero-to-100 scale with 50 being growth neutral. The region’s economy slipped a full point, from 52-point-5 in September to 51-point-5 in October.
“I would say the manufacturing economy, according supply managers, is limping along with still in the positive direction. This is a second straight month it’s been above growth neutral,” Goss says. “Sixty percent of the manufacturing supply managers expect a downturn in economic activity over the next six months.” Iowa’s economy is just below growth neutral, meaning it’s shrinking, but did show a glimmer of growth, rising from 48-point-5 in September to 49-even in October. Goss says the survey quizzed supply managers on what they saw as the largest challenge facing the Midwestern economy in the months ahead.
“Inflation was number-one. Four of ten said inflation is the biggest threat going forward,” Goss says. “Supply chain disruptions, two of 10 indicated that was the biggest impediment to growth ahead, and then three was labor shortages.” The regional hiring gauge sank below growth neutral during October, as job losses outpaced new hires.
“Approximately 25% of the supply managers reported job losses for their company,” Goss says. “On top of that, we’re still seeing labor hoarding, meaning, keeping workers on, just in case there’s difficulty in finding and hiring qualified workers. So they’re still holding on some of those workers, even with the downturn and even with slow business growth.” According to U.S. Bureau of Statistics data, Goss says Iowa’s manufacturing sector boosted employment by 0.9% over the past year, with the average hourly wage rate expanding by 2.3%, well below the 3.7% increase in consumer prices.


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What really matters
One of the most highly anticipated events in the entire tech industry finally took place a couple of weeks ago in mid-June, WWDC 2012. Most of what has been discussed so far about the conference has centered around Apple’s new products, specs, and their forecast for the future, but I’d like to talk about something completely different.
During his introduction speech, Tim Cook invited the audience to watch a video that illustrated the role iOS apps play in our daily lives. Certainly it’s amazing to hear about the 30 billion app downloads and $5 billion that have been earned by the development community (not counting the 30% of each sale that Apple keeps for itself.) But as Tim said that is not what really matters in our lives.
As one of the co-founders of Twitter, Evan Williams, once said, “We are in business to do three things: make a profit, have fun and help people.” Cook’s video was about helping people, about how different iOS apps changed people’s lives for the better. Technology for the sake of technology doesn’t make any sense. What really matters is how apps and technology can help people resolve complex issues in their lives. How they can help heal and educate people. That is what really matters!
When we evaluate a new piece of hardware, people always pay too much attention to specs. No doubt phones that run Android or Windows Mobile OS can do similar things to the apps presented in Cook’s video. However, Guy Kawasaki often refers to the acronym DICEE, which stands for: deep, intelligent, complete, empowering and elegant. Apple is clearly following this principle with their iOS devices and iOS itself. And by following this principle it allows the whole idea of mobile apps to work for real and benefit all parties involved – the developers, Apple, and the millions of people who use those apps.
I believe this is a philosophy other tech companies should follow to the letter while blazing their own innovative trail in tech.
You can watch the video here: http://youtu.be/9Gn4sXgZbBM?hd=1&t=7m30s
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Sony’s PS5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X will run Destiny 2 at 4K 60 FPS. Bungie confirmed the news during its live stream today. Destiny 2 players will experience the best possible version of the game on next-generation consoles. Destiny 2 is the first game confirmed to be running at 4K 60FPS on next-generation consoles.
Bungie also confirmed support for cross-buy and smart delivery. Those who own Destiny 2 and its expansions on PS4 and Xbox One can transfer their progress and content to PS5 and Xbox Series X at no additional charge. Simply put, if you own Destiny 2 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One you don’t have to buy again on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
During the live stream, Bungie also confirmed a brand new expansion for Destiny 2, Beyond Light. The expansion comes to current and next-generation consoles on September 22, 2020. The new expansion will lay the foundation for the future of Destiny. According to Bungie, there will be no Destiny 3 instead they plan to keep building on Destiny 2. In fact, major content from Destiny 1 is coming to Destiny 2’s newly announced content vault where players will be able to play Destiny’s greatest hits.
The Beyond Light expansion will have players wield powers from the dark side. Developers are introducing something called Stasis, new elemental type damage with ice-based aesthetics. It is the first time Destiny is getting a new damage type. Moving into 2021, Destiny 2’s The Witch Queen expansion will hit PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Meanwhile, in 2022 we’ll get the Lightfall expansion.