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A doctor from San Diego has made headlines this week among the Apple community as he recently discovered that the camera of the tech giant’s new iPhone 13 Pro model had a new macro mode, and it was proving to be extremely useful in helping him monitor and treat his patients’ eye conditions.
Dr. Tommy Korn, an ophthalmologist and digital health innovation specialist at Sharp Healthcare in San Diego, said via a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that he had been using an iPhone 13 Pro Max to take macro images of his patient’s eyes.
Impressed with the camera’s performance, the eye specialist added that the iPhone 13 Pro Max could “innovate patient eye care & telemedicine”, and he said he is looking forward to seeing where it goes.
He also shared a few images showing the iPhone 13 Pro Max being used during an examination of one of his patients who is on the road to recovery from a resolving abrasion in a cornea transplant. He uses the iPhone’s macro camera to take images that would aid in monitoring the patient’s recovery.Dr. Korn even joked, “P.S. this Pro camera includes a telephone app too!”
The macro photography mode integrated on the Apple iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max models has been called the lineup’s “strongest advancement in the camera system. Instead of using an extra lens or other components, the phones have an upgraded ultra-wide lens with a bigger f/1.8 aperture and 120-degree field of view that uses computational photography to achieve its extreme close-up shots.
This isn’t really the first time that an Apple item has been used in health or medical settings. Earlier this month of September, for instance, the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission’s crew used an iPhone and an Apple Watch to conduct research investigating the impact of spaceflight on the human body.


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100 Thieves COO John Robinson and 100 Thieves CEO Matt "Nadeshot" Haag100 Thieves
Sponsorship remains the overwhelming majority of esports industry revenue in 2021. While some analysts have envisioned a world where esports adopts a media rights-focused model like traditional franchised sports, the reality is that exclusive broadcast deals have been largely phased out and linear television deals are still few and far between. According to Newzoo’s 2021 Global Esports and Live-Streaming Market Report, sponsorships will account for $641 million of the industry’s $1.08 billion in revenue. The next largest category will be media rights at less than $200 million.
With so much of the esports industry’s success relying on sponsorships, organizations are evolving their partnership strategies while monitoring current trends, staying mindful of the challenges esports teams face in securing high-value partners.
The state of esports sponsorships
Looking across the esports industry, there is one core tenet of nearly every sponsorship deal: content. Nearly every relevant esports organization has signed multiple content creators and Twitch streamers in addition to its competitive teams in order to produce video and livestreamed content that can be leveraged for sponsorship activations. For example, 100 Thieves has integrated its partner Cash App into a number of its YouTube videos, including making the brand its official sponsor for the podcast hosted by its CEO Matt “Nadeshot” Haag.
While content creation has been the norm in esports sponsorships for some time, organizations have recently developed additional assets to activate against. One such asset that has grown in popularity amid the COVID-19 pandemic is organization-run esports tournaments. The loss of in-person events affected Call of Duty League teams particularly harshly as they had positioned many of their brand deals around their home venue host weekends. Without these in-person assets, the Wilf family-backed Minnesota Rokkr began hosting online tournaments for Call of Duty Warzone, signing a deal with Crocs as a sponsor for these events. Similarly, Team Liquid provided new value to its long-term partner Jersey Mike’s by making the brand the presenting partner of its official North American qualifier tournament for Teamfight Tactics.
“There’s an enormous number of sponsorable assets, they generate a ton of impressions, there’s multiple hits over the course of those events. Especially for brands that are new to esports, they’re relatively easy to do a test case with,” said Version1 and Minnesota Rokkr COO Brett Diamond. “In a lot of ways, it’s almost a hybrid of an event sponsorship and an influencer sponsorship.”
Team Liquid was also at the forefront of another sponsorship trend, facility naming rights. Last year, the organization opened a 10,000-square-foot European headquarters in Utrecht, Amsterdam, and used the opportunity to expand the naming-rights deal it had with Alienware for its Los Angeles facility to include the new location.
When 100 Thieves established its new headquarters in Los Angeles in January 2020, the organization also expanded its deal with Cash App by naming the 15,000-square-foot facility the Cash App Compound. The headquarters houses all of 100 Thieves’ day-to-day operations including apparel design, esports training, streaming pods, editing bays, a retail space, and more.
The aim of the Cash App Compound differs somewhat from other facilities deals in esports. Where most are positioned as training facilities aiming to equip their players with the resources to perform at their peak, 100 Thieves aimed to build the “cultural center of gaming.” The facility provides training resources to its teams, but it also serves as a central hub for all of the organization’s various content efforts and activations.
“We had intentionally scoped this as this virtuous loop,” said 100 Thieves CRO Matty Lee. “We have the compound entitlement, and now we need to program the compound. … Cash App’s other investments all funnel through the shell and the engine that we’ve built that is the Cash App Compound.”
Texas-based Complexity Gaming has found success in leveraging its facility, not only selling naming rights for the building to GameStop, but also making office chair partner Herman Miller the title partner of a segment of the facility, the Herman Miller Innovation Lab. The organization’s recent deal with Miller Lite also brought along the Miller Lite Player Lounge last October.
The competition side of esports has also seen an uptick in sponsor integration. Riot Games’ first in-person Valorant tournament — the VCT Stage 2 Masters in Reykjavík, Iceland, from May 24-30 — saw nearly every broadcast segment presented by a brand partner. Regional tournaments are also seeing renewed sponsor interest such as BMW’s recent sponsorship of Brazilian Fortnite event Flakes Power Cup. Perhaps the most significant advancement in regional competition partnerships was the sale of the naming rights of Australia’s League of Legends Circuit Oceania to meal delivery app DoorDash.
Esports companies are finding new ways to integrate sponsors into their facilities, events and content. More non-endemic brands are engaging with the esports space than ever before. The industry has moved beyond logo placement and rotating logo carousels to create deeper connections between organizations and their partners with a focus on providing additional value to their audience. — T.M.
Riot Games’ rules kept cryptocurrentcy exchange FTX branding off of TSM jerseys during League of Legends’ LCS Summer Split in July. Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games via ESPAT
The challenges of new categories
For both esports competition organizers and organizations, sponsorships make up the majority of revenue as Newzoo forecasts sponsorships to contribute more than 60% of total esports revenue in 2021. The importance of sponsorship revenue is underlined by its high-margin nature.
However, esports organizations and league/tournament organizers face obstacles in activating sponsorships due to the global yet fragmented nature of esports. Most major esports tournaments are designed to cater to a global audience; consequently, their organizers aim to create a live experience and broadcast suitable for all major cultures, demographics and political beliefs. Most game developers and publishers make a point of not associating their games with political, religious or general societal issues. Therefore, the majority of competition organizers and game developers have created sponsorship regulations and issued prohibited sponsor and advertiser lists. Additionally, local laws and regulations, and guidelines issued by broadcasting stations, limit which sponsors can be activated.
Longtime Team Liquid sponsor Jersey Mike’s saw new value by presenting the organization’s Teamfight Tactics Liquid Galaxy qualifier tournament in 2020.Twitter @TeamLiquid
A glance into the rulebooks of two of the major franchised esports leagues in the United States, the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) and the Call of Duty League (CDL), reveal that primarily brands attached to products and services that could be deemed morally questionable and non-youth appropriate are banned from appearing as team sponsors. Additionally, first-party league and tournament organizers — an organizer that is also the developer/publisher of the game played — prohibited their competitors from sponsoring any participants.
The prohibited sponsor and advertiser list of the LCS includes:
» Riot Games’ competitors
» Gambling, sportsbooks and casinos
» Prescription drugs and non-over-the-counter medication
» Fantasy esports operators
» Firearms, pornography, and tobacco and alcohol products
» Political campaigns, and charities endorsing religious or political positions
The 15,000-square-foot Cash App Compound is home to 100 Thieves in Los Angeles, including operations for esports training, apparel design, and streaming content.100 Thieves
As a result, the $210 million, 10-year naming rights deal between cryptocurrency exchange FTX and esports organization TSM (see story, Page 20), while approved by Riot Games, cannot be activated in North American League of Legends or Valorant competitions. Accordingly, in its competitions the sponsor won’t be represented on TSM’s jersey, nor will the new TSM FTX name be used.
A similar list is provided by Activision Blizzard for its Call of Duty esports series, which prohibits teams being sponsored by brands that are Activision competitors; game distribution service account selling, sharing or trading websites; drugs (legal and illegal); tobacco and vaping products; pornography, sexual or adult-oriented products or services; gambling; firearms/weapons; and political candidates. Activision Blizzard also outlined “reserved” categories of sponsors that must be approved by the company such as video game platforms; energy drinks, soft drinks and water; payment services; military; casinos; beer, wine, cider and other malt beverages; and computer monitors and CPUs.
Although those rules are child safety conscious, it should be noted that more than 70% of the U.S. audience of esports enthusiasts is 21 years or older, while more than a third is older than 36, according to Newzoo’s latest yearly syndicated Games & Esports survey. To directly address the interests of those demographics, several third-party esports competition organizers — especially ones organizing competitions around mature-rated games such as Counter-Strike — are more lenient with their rules regarding adult-themed sponsors such as casinos, gambling and betting services, and alcohol brands.
Just like in traditional sports, tobacco advertising, promotion or sponsorship is generally prohibited in esports under the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Activision Blizzard and Riot Games did not respond to multiple requests for comments on possible future changes to its rules related to new and emerging sponsorship categories. — T.S.

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- Following other direct-to-consumer brands expanding internationally, Bombas is launching in the U.K., the brand said in details emailed to Retail Dive.
- The company will offer its socks, slippers and underwear in singles and packs in various styles for men and women. It's also offering holiday styles just in time for Christmas gift-giving, according to the email.
- Bombas recently expanded into footwear and now offers gripper slippers and slipper socks for men and women. That comes on top of a move into the underwear space in January.
Bombas aims to replicate its success in the U.S. across the pond. Continuing its charitable work overseas, the company plans to kick off its U.K. launch by collaborating with St. Mungo's, a U.K. nonprofit that helps people without housing.
"The U.K. brings a unique aspect that makes sense for Bombas as a brand — they can build something foundational there, like they did in the U.S.," the company wrote in its announcement. "They've created a movement that is transferable — and they think based on the climate of the U.K., the customers and the community will appreciate it."
While Bombas originally became known as a sock brand, the DTC brand has since expanded into several new categories, and now offers socks, underwear, T-shirts and slippers. The decision to bring its business to the U.K. follows two category launches this year: slippers and underwear.
As Bombas moves into the U.K., other direct-to-consumer brands are also deepening their presence in the U.S. and abroad. After opening 34 stores and 27 shop-in-shops since the beginning of 2021, lifestyle fashion brand Scotch & Soda announced plans to open 22 new brick-and-mortar stores internationally by the end of 2021. Meanwhile, Fabletics, an activewear brand backed by actress Kate Hudson, opened its first European store in Berlin. Rihanna's intimates brand, Savage X Fenty, is reportedly opening physical stores in 2022 in the U.S. and is also considering opening locations in Europe.


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Pete and Kate's best friend Irina Lazareanu steals New York Fashion Week, says Gaby Wood.
New York fashion week is now mostly about celebrity. But beyond the red-carpet gowns for Hollywood skinnies, there are clothes that would suit most women - mainly by British designers, reports Hadley Freeman.
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With plans to de-risk its diesel centric business model utility major Mahindra & Mahindra has started work on developing a 1-litre engine which would be its smallest till date.
With plans to de-risk its diesel centric business model, utility major Mahindra & Mahindra has started work on developing a 1-litre engine which would be its smallest till date. The proposed small engine would have petrol and diesel option and could see hitting the markets by 2014. However, the company is not quite calling it a small car, reports CNBC-TV18's Ronojoy Banerjee quoting sources.
For sure it is not going to be a small car but unlikely to be a full blown sport utility vehicle (SUV) owing to the smallest of the engine.
The indication from senior company executives is that it could be a crossover vehicle somewhere between a hatch and an SUV. The company is keeping details of the new product under very close wraps and has sparingly shared with only a select list of vendors.
Company executives say that the company had to fastrack this project owing to the overall anti-diesel environment. In fact as part of the strategy along with the SsangYong the South Korean SUV company that Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) acquired abut two years ago, it is going to work on eight engines. Out of the total, four will be petrol, the rest is likely to diesel that would range anywhere from 1 to 2 litres.
In fact about a fortnight ago president of the company Pawan Goenka also mentioned that as a company it had taken cognizance of the anti-diesel and it was ready with alternate products. Whatever M&M calls it will compete with Ford’s EcoSport which is also going to be launched by end of 2013. So, it will be an interesting clash between two big companies.


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Offered at a price of about $0.9 per download on the Apple App Store.
Game featuring one of the founders of Apple, Steve Wozniak, entitled “Danny Trejo’s Vengeance : Woz with a Coz ‘officially began circulating on the Apple App Store [...]
Temperature profile shows the dark and unstable material – which is a suitable climate for organic life
Institute antraiksa United States (NASA) managed to find evidence of water on Mercury, planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
Astounding number ready achieved by Apple. In the near future, the number of applications that have been downloaded from the App Store will touch the figure of 50 billion.
Quoted from Techradar, Saturday (4/5), Apple has already provided a gift for those [...]
The good news for you smartphone users had Windows Phone OS. Angry Birds can now be downloaded for free.
Quoted from Ubergizmo, Thursday (2/5), Angry Birds has changed the status of being free is the original version, that is Angry Birds first.
Good news for all you lovers of the game The Sims. Electronic Arts officially announced that The Sims 4 ready to be released in 2014.
Quoted from Ubergizmo, Tuesday (7/5), EA sure about human life simulation game is being developed for PC and Mac.
BlackBerry, the big names who are drowning and trying to get up. Research In Motion (RIM) is ready with a new platform that can be trusted to restore the glory of the BlackBerry.
BlackBerry 10 to be slid January 30, 2013 could be the answer. Just how [...]
Everyone wants to prepare for Cisco certification exams the right way because the right way is what is going to earn a passing score. But what is this elusive right way? Hold on to your exam registration. You’re about to find out exactly what you [...]
The workings of the technology they have is to change the content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the air and make it as synthesis gas.
A genius engineer from England middle pioneered a new technology that can produce fuel (gasoline) made of [...]
Samsung finally sealed on March 14, 2013 as the beginning of the emergence of new smartphone, Galaxy S4.
Excerpted from The Verge, Monday (2/25), is the boss of Samsung, JK Shin, which ensures that date when he was commenting on the 2013 MWC Barcelona.
To promote Windows Phone 8, Microsoft took the actress Jessica Alba and singer Gwen Stefani as their commercials. The two celebrities have been selected for the top stars, their status was also a homemaker.
Ads featuring Windows Phone 8 is a busy celebrity [...]
Apple has recently released iOS 6 operating system update to the new version, the iOS 6.1.4.
Quoted from Ubergizmo, Friday (3/5), strangely this update is only intended for those users of the iPhone 5.
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A condom factory in Malaysia that has supplied the National Health Service and major brands Tesco, Boots, and Superdrug is coming under fire for subjecting workers to ‘shameful’ treatment.
An investigation by The Telegraph found that migrant workers at Karex, the world’s largest condom-making company in Malaysia, are living in cramped dormitories, with up to 12 workers in damp and unhygienic rooms. Workers also reported major security concerns, with migrants being targeted by local gangs near the factory.
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“Sometimes poisonous snakes come in,” said one Karex worker. “The hostel is not ok. We cannot survive like this.”
Migrant workers at Karex said they were weighed down by exploitative recruitment fees back in their home countries and struggled to survive without daily overtime. While their basic monthly salary of 1,000-1,100 Ringgit [£190] meets Malaysia’s legal minimum wage, it is not a living wage.
On top of this, the Malaysian government is tabling a proposal for employers to withhold 20% of migrant workers’ salaries as a means to prevent them from running away — a clear attempt to control their movement and a move that would make it even more difficult for workers to meet basic needs or send remittances home.
The Telegraph reports:
According to Forbes, Karex produces five billion condoms a year, accounting for roughly 15 per cent of the world market.
Karex owns the Sussex company Pasante Healthcare Ltd, through which distributes its products in the UK. Pasante’s website says its condoms are the “brand of choice” for many in the NHS. Its clients include Tesco, Boots, Superdrug and Costco.
Globally Karex boasts a “clientele of governments, NGOs, brand owners and retailers in over 130 countries”. These have included Marie Stopes International, Reckitt Benkiser, the owner of Durex, and Global Protection Corp, which distributes the ONE condom brand.
Karex said on Wednesday that it “does not believe that forced labour or modern slavery is currently occurring at our factories”.
However, Goh Miah Kiat, the Karex CEO, said the company recognised it was “critical to shed light on unfair labour practices” and took the allegations “extremely seriously”.
In response to the allegations, Karex said it would hire “an independent firm specialising in ethical trade, human rights, labour standards” to carry out a “full social analysis” within 45 days.
An NHS Supply Chain spokesperson said: “We take all allegations concerning labour standard abuses very seriously and have contacted the supplier about this matter.”
Superdrug said that it had conducted an audit of its supply chain just last week, finding no issues. Still, it has temporarily suspended orders from Karex based on the Telegraph report.
Tesco also visited Karex last week, but identified “a number of serious concerns.” It has now suspended Tesco production at the site pending further investigation, adding that “Everyone who works for, or with Tesco, has a right to be fairly treated.”
Durex is also in conversation with Karex, which it says only makes 1% of its condoms, to take corrective action. Marie Stopes International last ordered from Karex in 2017, but based on the new allegations said “we can confirm that we will not place orders with Karex in the future.”
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It’s no different here in fascists North America. Most are tied to their shit job through our broken economic system. And debt.
Mindless slaves consuming our planet into oblivion. Do they have it worse. No doubt. Less creature comforts
“And they shall have films beer football and above all. Gambling to fill the horizons of their minds. Controlling them was easy “
George Orwell 1984.
And written in 1946 no less.
Humans are SO predictable
Sad situation! no one should jhavbe their wage witheld just to keep them bound to that job!
Improving working conditions in factories is important to generate a positive trend for workers in even more vulnerable sectors such as construction industry. It is easier to target export-oriented productions to achieve an improvement for all the workers in the country.
Looxury! They get an actual hostel to live in! Building workers from Southern Philippines in Sabah live in plywood sheds they have to buildthemselves and the minimum wage is only 900 ringgit. The number of workers and their families is reputedly higher than the local population but their numbers arent counted.
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They had better include a giant wall for the City Market poster sign maker to continue their impressive body of work.
Early filings with the City of Seattle show plans are in motion for a “Olive + Bellevue” project, a planned seven-story “multi-family building with ground floor commercial space” to rise along E Olive Way above the property currently home to City Market and its laundromat sibling.
Developer Barrientos Ryan and architect Caron have begun the process of planning the new project. Charlie Bauman of Barrientos Ryan tells CHS his firm is “very early in this process.”
“We will be starting a community outreach process in the coming weeks and will have a good amount more information at that time, in addition to holding a public meeting to get feedback on the project,” Bauman said.
UPDATE 10/9/2019 9:25 AM: Developer says return of City Market in the plans for seven-story E Olive Way development
The property remains held by the Gietzen family who operated the grocery prior to its current ownership. Now it appears the family is ready to move forward on a sale and redevelopment plan.
Kurt Vold, owner of the market and Crystal Clean Laundry, also one of the last of its kind on the Hill, has not responded to our inquiries about the planned project. An employee at City Market tells CHS the store will be open for the foreseeable future — probably for years as the long development process plays out. We’re not sure how long Vold has owned the market. The company he formed to manage the business was registered in 2005.
The Daily Journal of Commerce has also reported on the early permit paperwork for the project.
City Market is operated as an independent market and deli with a mix of groceries including a selection of produce, daily necessities, plenty of beer and wine, and random must-haves like vape products, Halloween candy, snow shovels, and corn dogs. The 5,073-square-foot building dates to 1919, according to King County, and was originally built for the Ajax Rubber Company. “They gave it a couple of display windows for retail and a garage door to pull the cars in for new tires,” CHS wrote about this particular curve of auto row history. “Cantilevered windows provided ventilation as well as plenty of sunlight to work on the cars.”
While Capitol Hill’s small groceries and corner markets are mostly becoming things of the past, the grocery industry remains a major driver of new commercial development. Korean grocery chain H Mart’s 16,000-square-foot store will be at the center of new development around Capitol Hill Station set to open in 2020. Meanwhile, the industry might drive some new housing development, too. Safeway is eyeing its property home to its 15th and John store and large surface parking lot for possible redevelopment.
Uncle Ike’s coming “Capitol Hill West” marijuana shop, meanwhile, is currently under construction on the next block.
As for City Market’s future, we’ve asked the developer if there are any plans to preserve any of the auto row structure and about any plans that might make it more likely City Market or another similar grocery to return to the address after construction. We’ll update if we hear back.
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Axie Infinity’s SLP increased by 40% in 24 hours following the Season 20 update.
The reward token SLP (short for smooth love potion) in Axie Infinity SLP has increased by 40% in the last 24 hours since the release of the “Season 20” update.
According to Axie Infinity, the update reduces daily new supply to 45 million SLPs, slowing the rate of SLP issuance.
Bitcoin’s supply has grown at an exponential rate, while the price has dropped by 99 percent in the last seven months.
According to a Delphi Digital newsletter, SLP hyperinflation has had an impact on the game due to the high minting rate and low burning rate of SLPs. As a result of the selling pressure, prices fell below $0.01.
The SLP rally, according to Axie Infinity co-founder Aleksander Larsen, is a direct reaction to the game’s reduction in SLP issuance.
The majority of the speculation, according to Larsen, is driven by speculation, but we expect SLP to stabilise in the coming weeks as fundamentals come into play.
According to Messari data, SLP has quadrupled in price in the last week in anticipation of Season 20, but it remains below its July high of $2.41. A flurry of headlines have extolled the virtues of coin-operated video games.
According to an Axie Infinity SLP blog post, all SLP rewards have been removed from the “adventure mode” and will be capped to increase token scarcity.
According to a blog post about adventure mode, axes have outlived their usefulness in earning game tokens. Originally, it was meant to assist the community in learning how to use their Axies.
According to the blog post, the $7 million prize pool created by the Season 20 update is intended to “supercharge the competitive Axie scene.”
The value of the governance token AXS has risen by 40% in the last week, reaching around $67.
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Mohu AirWave is first-ever wireless antenna bringing OTA broadcasts to an app
Mohu AirWave, a new wireless over-the-air (OTA) antenna, will soon allow you to channel surf local, live TV channels from a Roku and other top streaming devices.
UPDATE: The Mohu Airwave is now being sold exclusively at Best Buy for $149.
The Mohu AirWave functions as a wireless indoor antenna that captures over-the-air (OTA) high-def broadcasts and transmits across your wireless network.
By pushing OTA signals over your Wi-Fi connection, you can watch local live TV channels through the Mohu TV app.
AirWave wirelessly connects to the Mohu TV application. You will be able to channel surf up and down through live broadcast content and free streaming content in a cable-like TV guide.
The app will be available on nearly all streaming devices. Mohu AirWave will roll out with app support for Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, Chromecast, iOS and Android. OTA content captured by the AirWave can also be streamed to a PC.
“At Mohu, our mission is to continue evolving and improving the cord cutting viewing process for consumers,” Mark Buff, founder and CEO of Mohu said in a released statement. “Watching TV should be a personalized experience for every viewer, and we know consumers have a lot of options and preferences about how they view TV without cable. In order to simplify the viewing process for consumers, we’ve created a product that not only gives open access to OTA content, but also integrates and organizes OTT streaming video through a seamless, all-in-one interface.”
AirWave specs and features
The AirWave looks a bit like a futuristic shield — or maybe like a wave? Mohu expects to launch AirWave by Labor Day 2017.
The company said that AirWave was built to give cord cutters wireless access to the live TV and streaming content, all in one place and with no monthly fees.
Mohu describes itself as “the cord cutting company”, and is best known for its TV antennas. It created the world’s first paper-thin Leaf HDTV Indoor Antenna in 2011.
The new cable-style program guide on AirWave will give program descriptions, the ability to select favorite channels, and view up to 14 days of upcoming content.
Users can set up AirWave anywhere in a home where there is an Internet connection. In order to stream OTA content, users will have to remain within their Wi-Fi network. The AirWave system uses ClearPixTM Technology, a proprietary, first-of-its-kind dynamic pixelation reduction technology. ClearPix is designed to automatically improve image reception of over-the-air broadcasts.
“We are at the crest of the cord cutting revolution,” said Buff. “Pay TV is broken. AirWave is our attempt to reinvent the TV viewing experience by offering consumers flexibility, convenience and choice. With Free TV Everywhere, you can watch what you want, how you want and with no monthly fees.”
Antennas Direct just released its competing product, the ClearStream TV.
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Many of the millions of cars we see on the highway today are built right here in the USA but many are shipped in from ports abroad. Have you ever been to a port and seen the massive container ships? What does it take to make sure your car ships safely?
The ports in Louisiana Texas, California and Florida are like small cities. It’s hard to fathom the amount of shipping containers that move in and out of these ports.
Some of these vessels are specialized to carry automobiles across the thousands of miles between here and Europe and the Far East. Some of these behemoths can carry up to 8,500 vehicles at a time!
Car Shipping Around the World!
This article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette goes into exactly what is involved in getting your shiny new Toyota into your driveway.
“AN ocean voyage of thousands of miles may separate the factory where an import car is assembled from the garage of its new owner, but the weeks spent at sea are hardly an endless buffet punctuated by evenings of Las Vegas-caliber entertainment.
The trip is no Disney cruise either: the vehicle makes its crossing lashed snugly to the steel floor of a cargo deck, just inches from its neighbor, inside a vessel that looks both impossibly clunky and imposingly grand. When loaded, these decks look like a traffic nightmare on the Long Island Expressway; cleared in the hours after docking, they are as spotless and cavernous as a newly opened warehouse.
Car carrier ships are nautical workhorses of the industrialized world. Hauling up to 8,500 vehicles in a layer cake of 13 decks packed as tight as the Tokyo subway at rush hour, these ships do one basic task very well — delivering vehicles, from tiny compacts to enormous excavators, unscathed to destinations like the port here.
The Andromeda Leader, operated by NYK Line, the Japanese shipping giant, with Panamanian registry, is typical of modern car carriers. Launched in 2004 when global auto sales were booming and shippers raced to keep up with demand from carmakers, the ship is two football fields long and has a cargo capacity of 21,443 tons, greater than some of today’s largest cruise ships.
More relevant to its mission, perhaps, is the ship’s width of 32 meters, or 105 feet — one of measurements in the requirements known as Panamax because they are the largest dimension that will fit through the locks of the Panama Canal.
For eight years, the Andromeda Leader has brought Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles across the Pacific to the United States in all seasons without incident, maintaining an accident-free record. Its captains have detoured to avoid rough seas, keeping a day’s cushion in reserve to maintain their promised arrival times.
In part, the ship’s packing-crate profile is a result of only about 15 percent of the hull being submerged. Looking like a floating shoe box, it seems, to the untrained eye, on the verge of tipping.
“We call it a floating coconut because so much of the ship is above water,” Capt. Vineet Kapoor, who was in command when the ship sailed to Newark from Japan late last year, said with a chuckle. Turning serious, he added: “It’s part of our profession to deliver the cargo safely. Over the centuries, it is ingrained that cargo is sacrosanct.”
In recent months, that cargo has been arriving with urgency. Toyota said it expected imports through Newark to increase by nearly 20 percent this year compared with 2011, as the company rebounds from last year’s natural disasters in Japan and Thailand.
Captain Kapoor said he saw his job as an extension of the production process, which relies on precision as well as speed. Indeed, automakers depend on shippers to comply with their just-in-time production policies; for that reason, NYK has seven of its 120 car carriers dedicated to Toyota for North American service, and the carmaker has similar agreements with two other Japanese shippers, K-Line and Mitsui O.S.K.
To meet the tight deadlines, the Andromeda Leader sails at 17 to 19 knots during its 28-day journey from the port of Tahara, near Nagoya, to Jacksonville, Fla., where cars destined for the southeastern United States are unloaded, and then to Newark. On its return trip, the ship stops in Puerto Rico to drop off its few hundred remaining cars before continuing empty to Japan, a plan designed to avoid delays and keep the ship moving.
With its ready access to major United States markets, Newark is the ship’s main port of call, where more than half of the Andromeda Leader’s 5,500 vehicles are offloaded and parked in a 12,000-place lot at the pier. In the following days, the cars will be driven a few hundred yards to the Toyota Logistics Services facility, where electronics, roof racks and other options are installed before delivery to dealerships from Maine to Virginia.
On occasion, cars are damaged in transit, but just 0.04 percent of the vehicles that NYK delivers to Toyota in Newark need repairs, and most of those are for small scratches.
“We walk a fine line,” said Matthew Martyn, operations manager for NYK Line North America at Port Newark. “We want zero damage, but as much production as we can. Even a little damage affects our presentation to Toyota.””
So the next time you see that Lexus driving next to you down the freeway, you may just think a moment longer about what was involved in getting it there.
This vessel is not exactly like the ones we use to ship your vehicle internationally but the same level of care and attention to detail is practiced.
Drive safe everyone!


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AMD has found significant performance increases through its Mantle tech, which gives games more-direct access to the GPU, rather than going through APIs like OpenGL and DirectX, which can be bottlenecked by CPUs. The approach is being adapted for DirectX 12, which promises to be a low-level "console-like" API that also enables devs to "fully exploit the GPU."
Of course, DX12 won't be fully deployed until next year. That isn't stopping NVIDIA from trying to offer its own solution to compete with Mantle.
The new GeForce 337.50 Beta Performance Drivers promise optimizations of up to 71%, according to NVIDIA's own benchmarks. The performance gains come from being "laser-focused" on DirectX efficiency. Specifically, the new driver aims at reducing CPU overhead and increasing GPU utilization--much like Mantle.
Perhaps the most significant difference between NVIDIA and AMD's approach is that developers won't need to use a different API and all games that support DX11 will benefit on all DX11-capable cards from NVIDIA. "Unlike our competitor's API solution, the DirectX 11 enhancements in 337.50 Beta benefit all GeForce GTX DirectX 11 GPUs, not just the latest and greatest graphics cards," the company says, taking an obvious jab at AMD.
Gains will vary depending on your CPU, GPU, OS, and system configuration, but everyone should experience "some degree of enhancement." For NVIDIA card owners, perhaps now is a good time to do some benchmarking of your own.


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DISCOUNT supermarket Lidl plans to create 500 jobs in Scotland over the next 12 months.
They will come as part of a major expansion which includes at least three new stores and a series of store revamps.
The German firm also wants to relocate its depot from Livingston to a larger site in Armadale in 2016 and has asked West Lothian Council to back the move.
Lidl already employ around 1,800 people in Scotland.
Lidl offer Scots the chance to wear a kilt for less than £20
Managing director in Scotland, Ross Millar, said: “We’re focused on one single goal - ensuring our customers receive the freshest, highest quality products possible at the best value.
“This latest phase in our growth is a testament to the continuing success of Lidl in Scotland.”
The plans up the ante in the supermarket store wars with discounters such as Lidl and Aldi trying to take shoppers from the supermarket giants like Tesco and Asda.
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Kolide by 1Password ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps.
Speaking of Joe Wilcox, in the midst of a 1,500 word piece last week accusing yours truly of “not being a man” because there aren’t comments on Daring Fireball, Wilcox wrote the following in response to my “Google started this” entry on the Apple / Google / Android / AdMob imbroglio:
If Daring Fireball accepted comments, I would have responded to John’s fantasy land assertions about Apple and Google there. John mimics Steve Jobs, who in March told employees: “We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business.” Steve has since made similar assertion [sic] — that somehow Google encroached on Apple’s phone business. That’s simply not true.
Google bought Android in August 2005, about 18 months before Apple announced iPhone and nearly two years before the device shipped. Google effectively announced its intention to go into the mobile phone business when buying Android. Maybe Google’s intentions spoiled secret Apple plans, but there was nothing unclear about them.
There are two points worth examining here. Dan Lyons as Fake Steve tried to make a similar one here. One point being that it’s delusional to argue that Google wasn’t in the mobile phone business pre-iPhone. But no one is arguing that. Google bought Android in 2005 and the iPhone wasn’t unveiled until January 2007. No one disputes that. (Note that the quote Wilcox attributes to Jobs is paraphrased.)
It’s not that Google changed course and got into the phone business, period. It’s that they got into the iPhone’s segment of the phone business. This is what Android looked like in 2007. Here’s an actual hardware prototype from then. It didn’t look anything like an iPhone, nor like anything Apple would ever be interested in making. It looked like a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile phone — hardware keyboards and non-touch screens.
Look at those 2007 Android designs compared to the original 2007 iPhone. Now compare a 2010 Android design to a current iPhone. Don’t tell me Google’s mobile strategy hasn’t changed.
Which brings us to Lyons’s point, which is that it’s precious to believe that Google has done anything to affront Apple — that there’s a “How dare Google compete with Apple?” sentiment. But no one is arguing that, either — or at least I’m certainly not. It wasn’t unfair for Google to decide to compete directly against and copy ideas from the iPhone. That’s competition. It may be angering to Apple, but it’s not out of bounds.
What’s goofy is the idea that Google would do this — to aggressively change Android from a BlackBerry/Windows Mobile competitor into an iPhone competitor — and that anyone would expect Apple not to retaliate, to instead just sit there and take it and allow all other aspects of their previous buddy-buddy corporate relationship with Google to continue as though nothing had changed. (And to continue allowing their biggest mobile OS rival to accumulate copious amounts of iPhone application analytics.)
Google’s apparent idea was to set up a “heads we win, tails we still win” scenario, where if Android wins they’d own the world’s leading mobile ad platform and if instead iOS wins they’d still have the world’s leading mobile ad platform with their presence selling ads for iOS apps. What other company, given Apple’s position, would sit back and let that happen? What’s interesting is that it didn’t have to be this way. If Google had kept Android targeted at BlackBerry, I don’t believe Apple would have unveiled iAds. Maybe I’m wrong, and Apple would have done it anyway, because it always comes down to money, and there’s soon going to be an awful lot of money in mobile advertising. But we’ll never know, because Google started shooting first.1
None of this is nice. Competition isn’t supposed to be nice. (Some companies, though, are less nice, or at least less trustworthy, than others.) But Google and Apple weren’t really competing in any important way until Google turned Android against the iPhone.
No company wins in this racket without being ruthless. You gain control and then you use it. The difference with Apple isn’t that they’re the nice guys who won. (I would argue that they’re an honest company, at least relative to other companies of similar size — but nice? No way.) The difference with Apple is that they’re the first winners with taste.
As for Wilcox’s arguments regarding user-submitted comments:
It’s easy for John to revise history when there is no easy place to respond to him. Daring Fireball is his blog. It’s his voice. He is under no compulsion to offer anyone an easy mechanism for dialog or response. But his no-comments approach is out of place in an era when so many Websites or services provide discussion tools and encourage readers/viewers to use them.
I don’t care what’s out of place. I care about what’s best.
But there’s something about the no-commenting approach that irks me. John has whacked me and my writing a few times at Daring Fireball, but I couldn’t respond there. It was a one-sided argument with his supporter minons [sic] adding to the noise.
You write on your site; I write on mine. That’s a response. I don’t use comments on Wilcox’s site to respond publicly to his pieces, but somehow it’s unfair that he can’t use comments on my site to respond to mine? What kind of sense is that even supposed to make? And if there aren’t any comments on DF, how are DF readers “adding to the noise”? (I realize, alas, that DF readers do sometimes leave noisy comments on sites to which I link. But how is that an argument for allowing comments on DF itself?)
What makes DF an efficient and effective soapbox is exactly that it is not noisy. My goal is for not a single wasted word to appear anywhere on any page of the site.
Is my soapbox bigger than Joe Wilcox’s? Yes it is. But that’s fair, because I built this soapbox myself. It’s my firm belief that all websites eventually attract the attention and respect that they deserve. The hard work is in the “eventually” part.
Used to be, back in the early days of DF, that those complaining about the lack of comments simply were under the impression that a site without comments was not truly a “weblog”. (My stock answer at the time: “OK, then it’s not a weblog.”) Typically these weren’t even complaints, per se, but rather simply queries: Why not?
Now that DF has achieved a modicum of popularity, however, what I tend to get instead aren’t queries or complaints about the lack of comments, but rather demands that I add them — demands from entitled people who see that I’ve built something very nice that draws much attention, and who believe they have a right to share in it.
In July 2009, Missouri School of Journalism’s Doreen Marchionni wrote about the importance of “conversational journalism.” She offers good advice for John or anyone else writing professionally on the Web.
I happen to know Doreen personally, and agree that her advice is sage and her research insightful. But perhaps if Wilcox had read more than just the title of this brief piece of hers that he linked to, he’d have realized that the word “comment” does not appear anywhere in it, and that much of her advice describes what I in fact already do — e.g., her recommendation to “actively engage audiences via Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Facebook and/or other social-networking tools”.
In fact, I’d argue that Daring Fireball is, in a way, a deeply “conversational” site. When I write, I try to write well, and the incoming attention is mine. When I link, though, I try to send my readers away. I share every bit of my traffic that I can. Do I tend to link more frequently to pieces with which I agree, or which I think are correct? Of course, because those are the ones I tend to consider most worth my readers’ time. But it’s certainly not true that I never link to pieces with which I disagree — or which are written by people who disagree with me.
Comments, at least on popular websites, aren’t conversations. They’re cacophonous shouting matches. DF is a curated conversation, to be sure, but that’s the whole premise.
Think of it this way: if you agree that Apple might not have ever created iAds and/or moved to block Google from collecting iOS app analytics if Google had not repositioned Android against the iPhone, and if the iPhone winds up the dominant platform for mobile advertising expenditures in the long run, then Google may well wind up with less revenue than if they’d never gotten into the phone business in the first place. They’re an advertising company that has deliberately chosen to make enemies of a former ally in possession (and tight control) of a rich, fast-growing advertising platform. Mark this footnote — Android may wind up a long-term mistake for Google, financially. ↩


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A popular town centre restaurant has been busy getting an outdoor dining renovation complete in time for reopening on July 4.
Einstein’s Chesterfield, which boasts a variety of German and worldwide ales, has been working flat out over the last few weeks getting everything ready in time for when the leisure industry is allowed to reopen.
Pictures show artificial grass being laid out, as well as new wood work going up next to new furniture.
A statement on their Facebook page reads: “It’s been all hands on deck this week in preparation for welcoming good friends back from next Saturday.
“We’ve been preparing the new table tops ready to house pints of ice cold beer and plates of hearty burgers and chips.
“We can’t wait to be back up and running and serving up cocktails in the sun. In the meantime we’ve been offering a weekend collection and delivery service.
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“We’ve spruced things up with a huge outdoor sun and beer terrace. It’ll be looking ship shape and snazzy in time for your return."
The leisure industry has been forced to adapt after closing its doors during lockdown.
It is scheduled to reopen from July 4. Recommendations are to book as demand is expected to be very high across all places.


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Travelex, the world's largest foreign exchange specialist, today announces the opening of a new enlarged trading floor in Singapore to respond to an increased demand for foreign exchange services from corporate customers in Asia.
This mirrors the appetite for international payment services which we have witnessed around the world.
Travelex has conducted business in Asia since 1989 and presently offers services ranging from foreign exchange dealing, payments and currency risk solutions as well as consumer services such as personal transfers, student fee remissions, retail foreign exchange and prepaid cards.
David Chan, Managing Director, Asia, Travelex commented: "The opening of our newly expanded facility is a reflection of our commitment to grow our business in Asia. We will continue to expand our superior services for our customers in the region. We are confident that riding on the growth momentum, our presence will expand in Asia and more new products and services will be available to meet the needs of our partners and customers."
Yogesh Shetty, Commercial Foreign Exchange Director, Travelex, said: "The new expanded trading floor will assist Travelex in delivering its foreign exchange
services beyond the 1,200 corporate customers it already serves in Singapore. We have experienced a fantastic growth since 2002. Our turnover is up by 600% and we anticipate a 40% year-on-year increase in transactions in 2006."
Travelex currently operates five other foreign exchange trading floors worldwide including New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, and Hong Kong and will open another one in San Francisco later on this year.


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Washington sweet cherry farmers reported a good crop this year thanks to a moderate spring with warm temperatures. The state’s sweet cherry production is forecast at 255,000 tons of sweet cherries this year, compared to 195,000 tons last year, or a 31 percent increase, according to recent data released by National Agricultural Statistics Service. In […]Read More
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Juan Murillo said business was slow at American Wheel Specialist on a recent Wednesday. But within the span of five minutes, two men in an old Army truck pulled up to the front door of the plant at 1010 East Bruneau Ave. in Kennewick looking for help on a wheel for the truck. While Murillo […]Read More
By Robin Wojtanik The Tri-Cities has seen the creation of thousands of new jobs in manufacturing, despite a loss of manufacturing jobs across the state. Jobs in food processing led the way for the region, with gains in non-durable manufacturing up 2.9 percent between March 2016 and March 2017, which translates to about 2,400 new […]Read More
Kennewick’s Columbia Basin Ice anticipates $7M in sales for 2017 Tri-Citians reaching into big store coolers to grab a bag of ice on their way to a picnic, party or boat this summer most likely will be chilling their food and drinks with ice manufactured by a growing Kennewick company. Columbia Basin Ice’s 15,000-square-foot manufacturing […]Read More
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By Laura Kostad Miramac Metals Inc. opened a new manufacturing facility a year ago in Pasco and is already considering a future expansion. The Mead-based company supplies a diverse offering of customized steel products, including corrugated, ribbed and snap-lock panel profiles, to commercial and residential customers in the rapidly growing Tri-City region. Miramac signed a […]Read More


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The number was revealed by Achim Berg, vice president of business and marketing for Windows Phones, in a Q&A posted to Microsoft’s website. Berg says the number is, “in line with our expectations – especially when compared to other new platform introductions.”
While that’s a fraction of the sales being reported by Google and Apple (there are currently around 300,000 Android devices being activated daily and 3 million iPhone’s were sold in the device’s first three weeks on the market), it is perhaps better than some were projecting given Microsoft’s unwillingness to talk numbers in recent public appearances by executives.
Earlier this month at All Things Digital’s D: Dive Into Mobile conference, Microsoft Corporate VP for Windows Phone Joe Belfiore acknowledged it would likely be years before Windows Phone 7 comes close to rivaling the market share of its competitors. At least we now have a starting point by which to draw comparisons.
While Apple is pre-announcing sales numbers, Microsoft has come forward with some sales figures of their own — for Windows Phone 7. The first handsets went on sale on October 21 in Europe and November 8 in the US and according to Achim Berg, Microsoft’s vice president of business and marketing for Windows Phones, the sales have meet expectations thus far.
But more important than that, what about the numbers — 1.5 million smartphones were sold since launch, which is just about six weeks time. All in all, the company seems positive about the milestone and it looks like things are going well for Windows Phone 7, though going well in a fairly quite way.
“We believe that to succeed in mobile you need, first of all, a great product, and we think we have that. What we’re hearing from our customers is that they’re thinking the same way. Additionally, early customer survey data on the overall software experience is very positive and the willingness to recommend our phone is very high. That’s really good for us.”
Interestingly enough, he also went on to state how they (Microsoft) are in this for the long haul, commenting that they are “comfortable” where they are and “are here for the long run.” But more important, they still feel that once a potential customer gets the phone in their hands they will be happy.
“Our opportunity is to make sure people get to play with a Windows Phone. Once they do, they love it. This is very important for us.”
Furthermore, there are now 18,000 registered developers and at present there are more than 4,000 apps available in the Marketplace. Lastly, as for what to look forward to seeing from Windows Phone 7 in the coming year, the promised update as well as “several more mobile operators around the world” and “a broader portfolio of devices from phone manufacturers at different price points.” Sounds like there will be something for everyone.
What do you think of this phone compared to the iPhone?


text: For those of you who didn’t catch tonight’s game, the NFL has a new toy on NFL.com. The NFL has a new feature streaming live game coverage. The NFL will now allowed us Internet types to watch games over the net for free. The new feature is really cool. It allows you to watch five different camera angles, by clicking on the one you want to watch and that will be superimposed as the main screen.


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Tonight, we are thrilled to present our Collection Memento n°1 at the KENZO Paris headquarters. By introducing this new series, we will tell the history of the House with a collection where each chapter celebrates KENZO’s rich archives. Inspired by this iconic campaign shot by photographer Hans Feurer back in 1975, La Collection Memento n°1 is rooted in pieces that were created during Kenzo Takada’s journey and welcomes back to life pieces that are truly KENZO #kenzo #collectionmemento1
Bottega Veneta Names Daniel Lee As Its New Creative Director
Update: Just two days after announcing the departure of creative director Tomas Maier, Italian luxury brand Bottega Veneta has found a replacement.


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Ministry making efforts to provide quality products at affordable rates
The National Textiles Corporation has drawn up aggressive plans to expand its footprint across the country with launch of 300 stores retail chain under the brand Indian Republic in two phases.
It has decided to open over 100 exclusive stores before the end of the current fiscal and the balance before the next year-end. The stores, to be launched initially in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai, will offer ‘value for money’ men’s wear garments priced between Rs. 399 and Rs. 1,499 and the initiative will be expanded to women wear in the coming months.
Union Textiles Minister K. Sambasiva Rao, who unveiled the brand logo along with Minister of State for Tourism K. Chiranjeevi, said the initiative was aimed at creating own brand in domestic market with focus on bringing down prices. Branded products were being sold at 200 per cent their manufacturing cost and the NTC initiative would bring down the costs by 40 per cent.
The Ministry was working on doubling the number of National Institutes of Fashion Design under its purview giving more opportunity to women and skilled workforce. “We have to compete globally keeping in mind the increase in the current account deficit on account of imports. Our exports are around US $ 300 billion while the imports have crossed US $ 500 billion. Can we afford such a huge current account deficit?” he asked.
He said the Union Ministry was firm on bringing in Rs.4,000 crore investments in textiles sector in the State of which NTC’s contribution was likely to be around Rs. 500 crore and the rest by opening up of textile parks. “We have a highly competent workforce which we cannot afford to lose,” he said.
NTC Chairman and Managing Director R.C. Sinha said the corporation planned to enhance capacity with the launch of a textile park in the State and was on the look out for 25 acre land. “It could be Guntur, Eluru or another location in the two districts. We have not pin-pointed the location yet,” he said.


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Speaking to Casinobeats.com, our CEO Mikael Hansson highlighted how online casinos can beat the challenge of rising acquisition costs and instead reactivate churned players in order to help them grow their business.
Reactivating a casino’s churned audience is not only a cost-effective solution but also a means to get those previously profitable players back into an operator’s ecosystem.
Mikael also points out how Enteractive’s solution, which sees trained agents interview individuals on a personal basis over the phone, can also double up as a socially responsible tool in flagging problem gamblers.
“The saturated online casino market means cutting through the noise to attract new players is becoming increasingly difficult, not just for new entrants but also for those well-established brands hoping to grow their business.
“Rising acquisition costs are becoming an issue for the sector, especially when budgets are being monitored closely and return on investment is under the microscope whenever a new marketing strategy is devised.”
Reactivating a casino’s ‘churned’ audience is a cost-effective solution to get those previously profitable players back into an operator’s gaming ecosystem.
Trying to get those lost players back into the online casino is not that easy though. Emails only work up to a point. Dangling a carrot of free spins and bonuses might work for some but not many – customers have seen it all before.
You need to re-engage in a way that resonates with the individual on a personal level for reactivation to truly be effective.
Reactivation can take many forms; email, push notification etc but what about the old-fashioned telephone conversation. In the rush to modernise and automate we have forgotten the art of connection.
A personalised direct calling approach can reactivate more than 50 per cent of an operator’s (reachable) inactive player database. This strategy alongside your regular acquisition and re-engagement campaigns will boost P&L, and profits, because the expenses incurred are small compared to the return gained.
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On April 14, 2021, the European Central Bank published the results of the public consultation on the digital euro. More than 8,000 participants from multiple nations answered the ECB's online questionnaire from October 12, 2020 to January 12, 2021, thus defining their expectations of a digital euro.
With a share of 47 percent, the German participants are particularly well represented in this completely open survey. In relation to the number of inhabitants, Austria was in fourth place out of all participating nations. The majority of the participants were citizens who expressed their opinion on the digital euro as private individuals. 460 participants - including the SBS - can be assigned to a company in a professional environment using the digital euro.
The analysis of the survey shows that the protection of privacy and a high level of security are among the greatest requirements for a digital euro. Over half of the participating citizens want a digital euro that can be used offline. This means that no online connection to a central point should be necessary to carry out payment transactions. Professionals prefer a mixture of online and offline options when using the digital euro.
The majority of participants see a chip card as a technical carrier medium for the digital euro, as it is already used for payment on a card or via mobile phone. In principle, it is proposed that the digital euro should continue to use as many components of the existing technical infrastructure as possible in order to keep the additional infrastructure costs as low as possible.
The ECB would like to decide as early as mid-2021 whether and under what detailed conditions the implementation of the digital euro should take place. According to Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, the digital euro should then be available to citizens in the euro area within five years.
The full report of the ECB can be downloaded here: Report on the public consultation on a digital euro
Wolfgang Braunwieser, SBS Managing Director
"SBS has been serving the cash supply for three decades and should the ECB decide to introduce the digital euro, as the electronic form of cash, we want to support this in our platforms at an early stage and thus make our contribution to the optimal introduction of the digital euro."
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In 2018 the insurance sector spent nearly $79 million in New Zealand on advertising to reach potential insurance buyers. Whether it is car, contents, house, life, medical, travel or other insurance, 2,861,000 New Zealanders aged 20+ hold at least one insurance policy.
While the 2018 census data isn’t due for release until 2019, marketers should be prepared to answer two key questions - “are we adjusting to the changing needs of our target market? and how do we acquire new customers that are gaining relevance in NZ?”
Consumer trust is crucial for e-commerce growth. Trust includes many aspects for shoppers to feel comfortable in selecting the crucial “add to basket” button. For example, shoppers need to be sure they are purchasing genuine products, that what they purchased will arrive safely on time and in good condition, and that the payment is secure.
Today, the 'value' of a sport is primarily based on TV viewership and attendance. For women’s sport, it is widely assumed that ‘the attendance and viewing is just not there.’ While these traditional yardsticks are an important trading currency, our research shows that women's sport has broader engagement, influence and value.
The speed of technological advancement has forced Baby Boomers to update their attitudes as well as their operating systems. Media owners, publishers and the technology industry as a whole can sometimes overlook a key demographic that deserves more attention: Baby Boomers.
It’s well known across the media landscape that consumers in the U.S. are connecting with more content across more devices than ever before. But as an industry, we have not tapped into the truly unique opportunities presented by this increased consumption at the same pace as consumers.
In the 2018 financial year (July 2017-June 2018), 50% of total Australian advertising spend was made up by the top five industries. The travel sector, ranked third, recorded the biggest boost in ad spending - up 21% on the previous financial year.
Last year more than $290 million was spent on advertising the automotive industry in New Zealand, with 77% of this spend going to the promotion of vehicles. That’s approximately $223M being spent to target potential car buyers.
With the growth of streaming apps available through the TV glass come new opportunities for advertisers to connect with consumers in the living room. In the past year alone, we've seen an almost 10% increase in the number of people who have access to a connected TV device.
The latest figures from the Australian Video Viewing Report from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen show the average Australian home now has 6.6 screens in which to consume video content. These screens include multiple devices such as internet-capable TVs, tablets, smartphones, and high definition (HD) TV sets.
The “input button,” an often misunderstood piece of remote control real estate, unlocks a wide range of content for consumers with an array of devices, and it’s no longer invisible to audience measurement.
The Q2 (April-June) 2017 Australian Video Viewing Report – from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen – reveals that people are continuing to take advantage of the nearly infinite choice in video content and the means of accessing it.
Kiwis are sticking to their television viewing habits despite the growth in popularity of other devices and screens. Nielsen’s New Zealand Multi-Screen Report shows that consumers are continuing to watch broadcast TV and 90% of this viewing is spent watching live content.
In the lead up to Father’s Day this year, partners and children across the country will no doubt be racking their brains to pick the perfect gift for dad. Nielsen research reveals that millennial dads (aged 18-34) are a particularly different breed of dad compared to their older counterparts, with lifestyle and aspirations of this age group having evolved notably over the past few years.
Advertising campaigns that resonate in the minds of consumers are hard to find. Encouragingly, understanding frequency - the number of times consumers see a campaign - has a demonstrated impact on resonance, and can ensure brands maximise their digital spend.
Nine million Australians say they have travelled domestically in the past six months or internationally in the past 12 months. But are all travellers the same? Using Nielsen research, we identified six distinct types of Australian travellers and looked at how best to reach and engage each group.
Australians are voracious consumers of broadcast TV and other video, and they have a growing array of options by which to access content. However, while viewing patterns continue to change as consumers embrace connected devices – most viewing still goes to broadcast TV channel content watched in the home.
A publisher’s website frames the conversation between brands and consumers. This context is powerful and can have a meaningful impact on a brand’s campaign performance. A study conducted by Nielsen revealed that the context of the carsales website, positively shifted brand metrics for automotive brands, to increase active recommendation by 50%.
Australian homes have more screens, channel and platform choices than ever before. These choices deliver greater opportunities to watch television and other video, and together affect the time consumers spend with various devices.
Where growth is being driven (or declining) from can vary considerably by retailer and understanding the differences can help improve your category’s performance. Taking the craft beer boom as an example, we see how different market dynamics can be between banners.
Many inroads have been made in recent years into the use of big data sources. And with the imminent arrival of supermarket customer card data to New Zealand there will even more available. So what data is best placed to help you?
Nielsen Sports' latest report examines not only the rising interest in para-sports and the Paralympics, its growing status as a media product and how the Games already works for partners, but also notes the opportunity it provides to change attitudes – and, critically, what that might mean for current and future para-sports sponsors.
In addition to representing their countries and competing for medals, para-sports athletes participating in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games this month will be challenging stereotypes, increasing inclusion and breaking down social barriers—something these competitors have been doing since the first Paralympic Games in Rome, Italy in 1960.
Consumers are engaging with media across a spectrum of devices. As a result, consumers' time and attention around media is in flux. Find out how New Zealanders are navigating the changing media landscape.
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report – from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen, and covering the first quarter of calendar 2016 – looks at how audience behaviour is influenced by greater content and platform choice, and access to new consumer technologies.
As the ubiquity, utility and ease of use of smartphones continues to increase in the U.S., it comes as no surprise that app development and usage is following suit. And while the number of apps we use per month remains relatively constant, the time we spend with them continues to rise.
VOD services are undoubtedly transforming the way audiences consume video, so it’s important to tune in to what’s driving engagement around the world. Our recent online global survey found that while several strong motivating factors will support continued growth, there are a few barriers to be mindful of, too.
Not long ago, “watching TV” meant sitting in front of the screen in your living room, waiting for a favorite program to come on at a set time. Today, VOD programming options put the viewer in control of what they watch, when they watch and how they watch.
VOD programming allows consumers to watch what they watch, when they watch and how they watch. And today, nearly two-thirds of global respondents (65%) in a Nielsen online survey in 61 countries say they watch some form of VOD programming, which includes long- and short-form content.
Online shopping is growing around the world, but is this affecting how people are shopping in physical stores? Consumers aren’t simply “showrooming”—browsing in store and then going online in search of the lowest-cost option. They’re also “webrooming”—researching online and buying in stores.
Three factors form the foundation of a successful ad campaign: Reach, resonance and reaction. Reach the right audience, and ensure your advertising resonates positively so you can generate the desired reaction. Simple–right? Wrong.
Wall Street is concerned that increasing numbers of cable subscribers are cord-cutting and investors are worried that media companies aren’t earning enough from SVOD platforms to compensate. So do the worries have merit?
We’re living in a world of 24/7 connectivity, accessing our content on our own terms, and we like it that way. Around the globe, 76% of respondents in a Nielsen online survey say they enjoy the freedom of being connected anywhere, anytime. While consumers love this flexibility, it represents a huge challenge for brands and content providers vying for our attention in a fragmented viewing arena.
We’re living in a world of 24/7 connectivity. We access content on our own terms, and we like it that way. But while this flexibility can be a benefit to us, it represents a huge challenge for brands and content providers vying for our attention.
Advertising, although inherently a creative process, offers many opportunities for greater efficiency. Advertising Process Control highlights the many non-creative areas that advertisers, publishers and agencies could and should work to control better to consistently improve their performance across advertising campaigns.
Advertising Process Control is an advanced state to achieve. Before you can start managing your advertising production process, you need to accurately assess where your organization is on the Advertising Process Control continuum.
Reliable genius is what you really want from your advertising. Why aren't you getting it? Probably because you don't take your advertising production process as seriously as you take many of the other processes in your company.
Digital audience measurement is getting better: measurers are on the lookout for “fraudulent” views, are working to include only “viewable” impressions, and are measuring what percentage of people reached by a campaign actually belong to the group the advertiser was paying for. So what’s next?
For over 50 years, there was only a single "app" for TV viewers. The sole function of that app—the cable or satellite company—was to stream premium video content. The facts of yesterday’s TV viewing no longer hold. There are now many TV viewing apps available. Enter "the appification of TV."
The ad industry has always been consumed with the latest trends. This should be no surprise, given that marketers and their agencies spend the better part of their days trying to create them. But nothing in advertising has generated more buzz in recent months than programmatic buying. Buying ad inventory more efficiently by applying rules to technology-enabled, automated purchases has marketers salivating.
Kiwis are expanding their engagement across different sized screens and media platforms; for marketers it's all about keeping up with - and in many cases, staying ahead of - these consumers. Ad spend remains one of the biggest and most strategic resource allocation decisions that the management of any leading consumer marketing company has to make however, the speed of change in the world of media and advertising is creating new uncertainties.


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IG Masonry Support has been awarded certification from the British Board of Agrément (BBA) for its Brick On Soffit System (B.O.S.S.).
Polypipe, manufacturer of sustainable drainage and water management solutions, has recently provided protection for a new medical centre from flash floods.
The past 15 years has seen C&A Building Plastics partner successfully with Freefoam, choosing them for its extensive range of innovative, high performance products and outstanding service.
Durapipe UK’s investment in bettering its value added services will guarantee it carries on putting customers at the heart of its business.
A £12.4 million extension to a library in Scotland is designed and built to comply with Scottish Building Regulations, with assistance from both Kingspan Insulation products.
A £20m project that is expanding research activities at the University of Melbourne has seen Durapipe’s Vulcathene Chemical Drainage features extensively in the building’s new laboratories.
Freefoam have highlighted updates and additions to its whole product range which have occurred over the last six months.
Delta Membranes has announced the launch of its new Basement Pump & Drainage Brochure, which covers the many advantages of their Basement Protection Systems.
Freefoam have launched a new version of its rainwater brand Freeflow® brochure, with Autumn seen as a time for consumers to get home improvement jobs done before winter.
Freefoam Building Products have launched another new video, covering all aspects of the production process of its fascia, soffit and guttering products.


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A Recent study by WalkerSands , well-known digital marketing agency reveals few of interesting trends based on the online shoppers in the USA. As per this study, More than 80% of the polled shoppers prefer to shop online because of the lure of Free Shipping.
Apart from this, the One-day Shipping and Free returns/ exchange top the list with more than 60% each.
Another interesting aspect this study has covered was the integration of online and Offline store.
The study reveals few important facts about Online – offline business model and as per this,
Consumers still prefer in-store experience when it comes to food and groceries. Also, they prefer to make purchases in physical stores for all product categories except for books (68 percent prefer online), consumer electronics (67 percent) and office supplies (51 percent).
The study also covers the payment option and this shows that people are still uncomfortable paying money using the mobile phone due to privacy and security reasons .Therefore, the mobile payment option is not as success as it was expected to be earlier.
Let’s take some time to compare this to our Indian Market….
Does Free Shipping Model Work in India?
Why not? It should work since everybody loves anything and everything associated with “Free”
Back in India, the situation is no different. While the big e-commerce players like Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal have a free shipping option for many of the products but there is a minimum purchase requirement for avail this facility. I wonder if they ever do away with this minimum purchase requirement to make this happen.
How About the Omi-Present Business Model?
In India, few of the online stores like Firstcry and Lenskart have already begun to experiment the omnipresent business model, we are yet to ascertain the outcome. However, it is worth mentioning that this model has worked pretty well for the baby product stores like Firstcry and Babyoye as the customers feel more safe buying products for their kids. They have grown from strength to strength by slowly increasing the number of offline stores across the country.
The Mobile Banking Method
While the players like Paytm are betting big on this, the market is still in nascent stage and therefore needs much more time to succeed. Paytm’s payment service is expected to launch in August this year.
That said there are few other big players like Reliance who have shown interest in this.
Let’s wait and watch for more on this.


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Getting tired of that damned voicemail icon showing up when you know full well that you don’t have one? And has Netflix been bugging you after the upgrade to Android 2.3? Get ready for an OTA update because Sprint and HTC are fixin’ to, well, fix that. June 20th is the supposed landing date for this much-desired update, so sit tight for five days and we’ll see if those issues can’t fix themselves right up. Good job, Sprint. Let us know if you folks do see this upgrade come next Monday, will ya? [Android Police]
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An analytics firm has released a report that shows growth of the Pixel was astounding over the Black Friday weekend, with 112% more activations in this period than the four weeks before it.
A YouTuber by the name of Adam Jakowenko decided to hook up an Amazon Echo (the Dot variant, specifically) and a Google Home next to each other to see if they could talk to each other. Hilarity ensues.
Check Point, the security research team who has uncovered a lot of this stuff as of late, has discovered a new form of malware that they’re calling Gooligan. Everything you need to know is inside.
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We typically view acquisitions for small startups as great news, but for Pebble and their supposed buyout from Fitbit it might not be that happy of an ending. The original Kickstarter sensation is being bought out by Fitbit for anywhere between $34 to $40 million.
At $40, the Google Pixel Live Case is asking a lot from those looking to protect their smartphone in style. We’ve been using ours for a few weeks now and finally have a verdict.
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Want a new phone for the holidays? Verizon is offering several new flagships at $0 down if you bring in your current phone for trade. Check the list for exceptions.
Huawei is planning on launching the Mate 9 in the US, but it will have to deal with lack of brand recognition and accusations of cyber espionage before it becomes a major player in the US market.
The holidays are here! If you aren’t in a position to grab yourself a dedicated camera to snap photos and video of your family gatherings and happenings, then you’re likely relying on a smartphone to get the job done. Let’s help you find the right one!


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The global electronics brand Kuvings’ Juicer (B6000) was acknowledged as the best juicer brand in the Middle East marke.
In December, Kuvings was ranked ‘2017 Best Juicer’ on ‘Citurss TV,’ the biggest home shopping channel in Dubai in the Middle East. ‘Best Juicer’ is awarded to the best-selling juicer in 2017 on Citurss TV.
Established in 2005 in the United Arab Emirates, the news network is the biggest home shopping channel in Dubai in the Middle East and North Africa.
The Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer has gained popularity among customers in the Middle East, and secured a strong foothold in the Middle East market.
With a mouth wide enough for an entire ingredient, Kuvings juicer shortens the time required for preparing ingredients and makes extraction easier. The 76mm mouth can help avoid the inconvenience of existing juicers that cut ingredients into pieces.
“As juice recipes using ginger, beet and coriander are favored in the Middle East, more customers are choosing Kuvings juicers,” said an official from Kuvings. “Starting from this opportunity, we will expand into the global market more aggressively,” he added.
Kuvings has been present in Middle East markets, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and 6 GCC nations such as Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Turkey.


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As reported by Kotaku on Sunday, August 31, a surprise announcement following the award ceremony of Japan’s Gamer’s Live event has revealed that another addition to the Dead of Alive series, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, will be making its way to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in Japan, in spring of 2015.
For those who don’t know, the Gamer’s Live event was an occasion that was dedicated to arcade games, and it was hosted by SEGA at the Tokyo Big Sight on Saturday, August 30 through to Sunday, August 31.
The announcement was made by Tecmo Koei producer Yosuke Hayashi, and--according to Kotaku--no information regarding a Western release of the game was detailed. Aside from the announcement itself, not much information about Dead or Alive 5: Last Round was actually touched on.
The only other tidbit of information that was provided at the event was the game’s teaser trailer, which can be viewed via the embedded video below. We’ll bring you more on Dead or Alive 5: Last Round should further information reach our ears.
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SapientNitro Launching in Browser VR Easter Game Tomorrow
Following their SpeakEmoji app for Christmas, SapientNitro are releasing a fun Easter game that demonstrates VR in a browser, for mobile and desktop. It’s an interactive virtual reality game that re-interprets the traditional Easter egg hunt - http://www.snegghunt.com/
In the game, players look around a virtual 360 environment, set inside SapientNitro’s London office at Eden House, and tilt their phones to catch silver eggs. Comprised of six levels, as players move through each level they move up a floor in SapientNitro’s offices. For each silver egg collected, the player wins more time to complete the level, however catching a red egg means game over.
In addition to this, SapientNitro are launching a competition - post a screen shot of your score page to Twitter for a chance to win an Easter surprise, using the hashtag #SNEggHunt. A winner will be randomly selected on Tuesday March 29th.
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You can celebrate Legoland’s 10th birthday this month without loading up the family and driving to Carlsbad, Calif.
The Arizona Science Center is hosting a model building competition July 15 and showing off what they’re calling the world’s largest Lego birthday cake. It’s nearly 10 feet tall, made of more than 100,000 bricks and features miniature replicas of some of Legoland California’s most popular attractions.
The competition is judged in three age categories: 9 and younger, 10 to 15 and 16 and older. Guests of Arizona Science Center are welcome to build their birthday-themed model anytime between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., with a winner from each category to be announced at 4 p.m.
Winners will reportedly receive a prize package valued at more than $300 that includes Lego play materials, a two-day family four-pack of Park Hopper tickets to both Legoland California and Sea Life Aquarium and one-night accommodations.
The science center is at 600 E. Washington St. in downtown Phoenix.
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The National Retail Federation world’s largest retail trade association, seeking all the retailers to adopt a nationwide mask policy that requires customers to wear a face mask with a view to protecting the health and well-being of the customers, associates, and employees.
“Workers serving customers should not have to make a critical decision as to whether they should risk exposure to infection or lose their jobs because a minority of people refuse to wear masks in order to help stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus,” the statement added.
The health and safety of associates and customers is retailers’ number one priority and wearing a face covering or mask is scientifically proven to reduce the spread of COVID-19, NRF said applauding the leadership of companies like Walmart, Starbucks, Best Buy, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Apple, Qurate Retail Group, Costco and others that have implemented nationwide mask mandates.
Last week, the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) too requested the US administration to institute federal face mask guidelines to assist retail stores as the country continues efforts to safely reopen. AAFA suggested that usage standards, while based on medical guidance and promulgated nationally to avoid confusion, must be enforced locally.


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Biodata is becoming increasingly entwined with fitness, and CrossFit is now combining those two threads in a unique way.
Last week, the gym and workout program chain launched CrossFit Precision Care, which incorporates genetic analysis, blood tests, wearable data, and consultations with CrossFit-trained primary health doctors into its health and fitness program.
The move opens a new line of business as the company seeks to distance itself from significant turmoil last year.
- In June 2020, then-CEO and owner Greg Glassman caused a stir when he appeared to mock the response to George Floyd’s murder, while also supporting conspiracy theories around COVID-19.
- In response, over 100 gyms ended their affiliation with CrossFit, as did Reebok, Rogue Fitness, and FitAid. Glassman, who was also accused of sexual harassment, resigned as CEO shortly after, then sold the company to former Oracle Data Cloud exec Eric Roza for an undisclosed amount.
- The company is estimated to bring in $4 billion in annual revenue.
The new health program will initially be available in eight states, including the four most populous — California, Texas, Florida, New York — with plans to expand in 2022.
The company said that around 12 doctors would be part of the program at its launch, and each will be able to serve 400 patients.


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Strong pound threatens to slow down economic recovery as exports suffer
The recovery is gaining ground, official figures are set to show this week. The economy was 3.2 per cent bigger in the first quarter of 2014 than in the same period last year.
The first estimate of gross domestic product, due on Friday, is also expected to show growth close to 1 per cent in the last quarter of 2014, say City economists.
The figures are likely to be hailed by the Treasury as a further sign that the recovery is sustainable.
Rising value: The pound has performed strongly over the past year
But while headline economic growth is improving, figures on company profits released today point to fresh challenges for industry.
A regular survey by accountancy group EY shows the number of listed companies warning of lower-than-expected profits has edged up in the three months to March.
In total, 74 issued profits warnings, one more than in the previous quarter, but it is also the highest level since 2011.
‘UK earnings expectations ran too far ahead last year, dropping back at the end of 2013 and falling dramatically again in the first quarter of 2014,’ EY said.
The biggest cause of warnings was the rising value of the pound, which has performed strongly over the past year. But the higher value pound makes it more difficult to export.
At the same time, companies warned of a slowdown in emerging markets, which have been the powerhouse of their higher profit hopes.
EY’s Keith McGregor said: The UK recovery remains in full swing, with vital global markets also growing. But profit forecasts are still falling in response to growing pains in developing markets, the stronger pound and pricing pressures closer to home.’
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Samsung is going to launch the next GALAXY smartphone, popularly assumed as the Samsung GALAXY S3, today at the Unpacked 2012 event. The event will start at 7pm UK time. You will get the details of the upcoming Samsung GALAXY Smartphone as soon as it is launched. And if you want, you can also watch the Samsung GALAXY S3 Unpacked launching event online by live streaming.
Few days back, Samsung launched the Samsung Unpacked App which gives you the ability to watch the Samsung GALAXY S3 launching event live stream on your mobile devices and tablets. This is the same app on which Samsung used the keywords "Samsung GALAXY S3" and then removed it when people started talking about the confirmation of the name of the next GALAXY smartphone. You can download the Samsung Unpacked App from the link given below.
Samsung will also stream the Samsung GALAXY S3 launching event live on few of Samsung official web presence. The link of those pages are given below.
Watch Samsung GALAXY S3 Unpacked Launch Event Live Streaming
The Next Galaxy - Official Samsung Website
Samsung Mobile UNPACKED 2012 Facebook Page
If you know any other source where people can watch the Samsung GALAXY S3 Unpacked 2012 event live then, feel free to share it in the comments section with all of us.


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HTC are a falling company and it isn’t hard to see why. Disappointing flagships paired with high price tags go a long way in getting people to shy away from them. In an attempt to bounce back, HTC pulled back the covers of their new midrange smartphone, the One A9.
While the One A9’s specs are nothing to shout about, there are some reasons why you would want to get your hands on this shiny new device. Since it just got its official launch here in Malaysia, we thought we’d take a look at what some of those reasons are.
Turnarounds for the Taiwanese company has mainly been negative, from being a powerhouse in the smartphone world back in 2011, to most recently plummeting off the main stock exchange in Taiwan. Has their team finally smartened up by listening to its consumers? Nigel Newby-House, their head of product, talks about how the company intends to scale back on their custom UI, HTC Sense; bases that have been covered by Samsung on their TouchWiz skin, which now is a lot lighter than before.


text: Lifestyle Food Dairy Queen Drops Their Valentine's Day Treats Including a New Triple Truffle Blizzard The ice cream chain is also introducing a "cupid cake" By Sam Burros Sam Burros Instagram Twitter Sam Burros is a writer, producer, and cook working with the Food and Lifestyle team at PEOPLE. Prior to working with PEOPLE, he was an editorial fellow for Food Network, a reporter for Heritage Radio Network, and a recipe tester for Alison Roman's third cookbook Sweet Enough. Before making the pivot to food media, Burros studied theatre at NYU Tisch School of the Arts where he met artistic collaborators in theatre, film, and television with whom he created Miss Jordan's Spring 2020 Production, available to stream on Broadstream. People Editorial Guidelines Published on January 30, 2023 09:00 AM Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Dairy Queen Love is in the air at Dairy Queen! On Monday, the ice cream chain dropped two new menu items, including a new Blizzard, inspired by the romanticism of Valentine's day. Joining Dairy Queen's regular lineup are the triple truffle Blizzard treat and the triple truffle Blizzard cupid cake. Both confections are inspired by some of the best flavors found inside a Valentine's day box of chocolate. The triple truffle Blizzard features a blend of truffles filled with peanut butter, fudge and caramel. The chocolatey treat is blended with Dairy Queen's soft serve and the company's chocolate topping for a cold, decadent confection. In addition to a new Blizzard, Dairy Queen is also launching a cake for Valentine's day. The triple truffle Blizzard cupid cake is a heart-shaped ice cream cake to help spread a little love during the cheery season. The frozen treat is made with a base of Dairy Queen's soft serve and features a layer of the new triple truffle Blizzard with an extra layer of the peanut butter, fudge and caramel-filled truffles. All the New Menu Items at Your Favorite Fast Food Restaurants Dairy Queen Dairy Queen Drops Their Holiday Blizzard Menu Including a New Frosted Sugar Cookie Blizzard Dairy Queen has launched a variety of new flavors over the past year, all inspired by a different season. Last summer, the ice cream chain released two new flavors to join a nostalgic lineup of Blizzards. Alongside flavors like cotton candy or one using actual Girls Scout Thin Mint cookies, came the caramel fudge cheesecake Blizzard and the Oreo dirt pie Blizzard, inspired by childhood playground fun. For fall 2022, Dairy Queen embraced the warming flavors of cinnamon with a cinnamon roll Blizzard. It joined two other new candy-inspired flavors, as well as a variety of returning seasonal flavors like pumpkin pie. Most recently in December, the brand revealed a winter menu that launched a new frosted sugar cookie Blizzard. It joined products like the candy cane chill Blizzard to help bring the spirit of the holiday season to Dairy Queen.