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Facebook announced it will allow their users to proactively block adverts on a specific topic including alcohol.
It has been claimed for a long time that social media are saturated by targeted promotions of products such as alcohol and junk food.
During the Facebook trial, participants will be able to block alcohol-related ads for six months, a year or permanently, by accessing their ad preferences. They will also be able to hide ads related to parenting.
The social network has asking people to suggest other topics they would like to be able to block.
This move by Facebook comes at nearly the same time as pledge by biggest alcohol producers to improve their online marketing standards.
The heads of 11 leading beer, wine and spirits companies said the standards will aim to ensure that alcohol advertising only targets those adults that can "lawfully buy our products". The pledge comes as the "explosion of digital channels... transforms the way in which people understand and interact with our brands", the CEO's added.
"By working with our marketers internally, agencies and social media companies we believe we can create these rigorous standards for our industry and potentially for others," the statement continued. "We know we can achieve more together than we can by working separately."
The joint-statement was signed by AB InBev's Carlos Brito, Diageo's Ivan Menezes, Beam Suntory's Matt Shattock, Heineken's Jean-Francois Van Boxmeer, Carlsberg's Ceet 't Hart, Pernod Ricard's Alex Ricard, Bacardi's Mike Dolan, Kirin Holdings' Yoshinori Isozaki, Asahi's Naoki Izumiya, Molson Coors' Mark Hunter and Brown-Forman's Paul Varga. It was organised by the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking.
Why does it matter?
Digital marketing for alcohol has proven to be more challenging than in other industries because of concerns that people under the legal drinking age may be able to view content.
Mesh that with targeted marketing and algorithms used for online marketing as a standard practice and a recipe for cocktails of PR disasters is ready.
Some producers worry that age-gating on social media sites is not yet strong enough to allow them to invest in wide-scale marketing programmes.
A massive legal loophole
In majority of the European countries advertising provisions on social media platforms are filled with loopholes. A vacuum happily filled by alcohol producers that created their own self-regulatory codes.
As the European Institutions are revising, the AVMSD file, companies are pressing ahead. Leaving regulators as usual few steps back. AVMSD is proposing wide spread promotion of self-regulation and co-regulation including the social media platforms. This is music to the ears of the marketers and alcohol producers who are already working on such self-regulatory codes, needing only a stamp of approval by the European Institutions.
Campaigners have been for years suggesting that there needs to be a robust review of the rules governing alcohol adverts online conducted by independent public bodies.


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The next iPhone will look identical to the current one — but will fix one of its biggest problems.
The phone will likely be known as the iPhone 6S, rather than the iPhone 7, and will accordingly have an identical case. But it will also have a much improved battery life, a pressure sensitive display, and will be faster.
The extra battery life won’t just be added by improving the battery capacity, according to leaked parts seen by 9to5mac. Instead, it will be brought by including a special new modem chip which could double internet speeds as well as making the phone run much more efficiently, the blog reported.
The new chips will be made by Qualcomm and could push the maximum speed on 4G LTE to 300Mbps — much faster than most home routers. But the extra speed probably won’t be seen, at least initially, since much of the speed of data connections is limited by phone networks, not the hardware itself.
But the company could also add extra battery capacity to the phone, according to the leaks. The new phone features a smaller motherboard in the identical case — meaning Apple could fill the extra space with battery.
The new phones — which are rumoured to come in the same sizes as the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus — will also have battery life improved by their software. Apple unveiled a range of new battery features as part of iOS 9 that will allow it to shut off intensive features if the battery is running low, among other things.
Battery life has long been a gripe of users of all smartphones. While Apple and its competitors have vastly improved battery capabilities, the actual life has tended to stay the same, since they use the extra capacity to power new features rather than letting phones live for longer.

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On Friday, The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) introduced a groundbreaking pilot program to launch the live issuance of a wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) denominated in Singaporean dollars.
This significant development, disclosed by MAS Managing Director Ravi Menon, marks a departure from previous simulations and aims to evaluate the practicality and efficiency of employing CBDCs for instantaneous settlements among commercial banks.
Until now, MAS had only simulated the issuance of CBDCs within controlled test environments. Menon expressed his contentment with this new initiative, stating, “I am pleased to announce that MAS will pilot the ‘live’ issuance of wholesale CBDCs to instantaneously settle payments across commercial banks.”
Under this test program, MAS will collaborate closely with local banks to investigate the use of CBDCs as a settlement asset for domestic payments. Menon clarified that participating banks would issue tokenized liabilities representing claims on their balance sheets.
Retail customers could then use these tokenized liabilities for transactions with merchants, and settlements would be executed through an automatic transfer of wholesale CBDCs.
Menon highlighted the efficiency of this process, emphasizing that “Clearing and settlement thus occur in a single step, on the same infrastructure, unlike the current system in which clearing and settlement take place on different systems, and settlement occurs with a lag.”
Wholesale CBDCs are primarily employed by central and commercial banks and other significant financial institutions for settling payments. Ravi Menon identified four contenders in the realm of digital money: privately issued cryptocurrencies, CBDCs, tokenized bank liabilities, and well-regulated stablecoins.
Regarding cryptocurrencies, Menon expressed reservations, stating that they have not performed well as a medium of exchange or store of value. He noted their price volatility and the significant losses suffered by many cryptocurrency investors due to speculative swings.


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Morocco has cast doubt on its North American rivals’ multi-billion dollar ticketing and revenue predictions on the eve of the decision as to who will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The US-led bid is predicting it will generate $1.8bn in ticketing revenue – almost three times more than Morocco’s projection. The United bid has received full marks from FIFA’s evaluation team for its ticketing plan ahead of the 2026 decision, with Morocco scoring 2.5 out of five.
Projected ticket prices for the World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico shot up last month, with bid organisers promising higher ticket revenue than initially submitted.
An original forecast of $1.3bn from ticket sales was submitted in its bid book to FIFA last March. That number jumped up to $1.8bn earlier this year, equating to an average ticket price of $321, including corporate hospitality seats.
That compares to the $169 average ticket price for bidding rivals Morocco — and $158 for the tournament in Brazil four years ago. Morocco’s ticketing revenue projection is $690m.
Morocco’s questioning of the US-Canada-Mexico projections came as leaders of the rival bids met representatives from five of FIFA’s six continental groups in Russia ahead of the vote.
“There is lots of uncertainty,” Morocco Football Federation president Fouzi Lekjaa said of the detail in North American pledges of $14.3bn revenue.
“That doesn’t correspond either to historical facts or future extrapolation, it’s an exercise that goes beyond that,” he added.
FIFA’s Evaluation Report found Morocco’s ticketing projections to be ‘medium’ risk, with United seen as ‘low’. The Evalation Report gives Morocco a score of 2.4 out of 5 for its ticketing plan, with United gaining full marks for all requirements being met.
According to the FIFA Evaluation Report, published ahead of the decision, Morocco expects to offer 3.8 million tickets, and projects to sell 90 per cent of those. Some tickets would be available for just $27. FIFA concludes that while ticket revenues would be around 10 per cent higher than Russia 2018, hospitality revenue would drop by around 22 per cent.
The United bid projects that five million tickets would be available, and believes 99.2 per cent of seats will be filled. The FIFA Evaluation Report suggests a US-led World Cup would see ticket revenues double compared to 2018, with hospitality up 150 per cent.
FIFA’s members are set to vote tomorrow on June 13.
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Mumbai based publishing website launches CueLinks — a content monetization tool
Two years ago, Mehul and Jimish Jobanputra launched a publishing website, DesiDime, an online shopping community. The website today generates 1.6 million visitors every month but like everyone they also had their run-ins with the well known beast of monetization. “CueLinks was born because we are ourselves a publisher and we realized the need to have a better link management and reporting solution,” informs Mehul.
CueLinks is a content monetization solution for bloggers, deal site owners, coupon sites, basically any website which sends outbound traffic. Affiliate or performance marketing is believed to be on the rise and Mehul claims that the increased momentum that online shopping has gained in India, will lead to a growth of four to five times over in the next couple of years in this sector. CueLinks will help publishers monetize their content in an effective manner with minimal efforts from their end.
Since their launch in September 2012, over 100 publishers have joined CueLinks. “The initial response has been quite encouraging to us. We can very confidently say that we currently work with the largest number of merchants in India as we have the advantage of working with all the networks and other direct merchants as well,” says Jimish. In terms of revenue, some big publishers like Sulekha have joined CueLinks. They now send 50% more traffic to their merchant and affiliate network partners compared to what they did two months back.Talking to Satya Prabhakar, founder of Sulekha, he mentions, "“Cuelinks is a great monetization product built ground-up by Mehul and Jimish – Sulekha.com has been testing Cuelinks in some parts of the website over the last 3 months and it is proving to be adept in generating good eCPC / eCPM values for our clicks. The product has several features that are world-class – and combined with some of the industry’s best affiliate commissions as of the end of 2012.”
The biggest challenge for Cuelinks remains in educating Indian bloggers and publishers about affiliate marketing and the role that marketing channel can play in monetization of their website. Cuelinks has a transparent revenue sharing model — 65% of the revenue which they get from merchants or affiliate networks is passed to the publishers. For top performing publishers, the revenue sharing can go as high as 75%. However, use of technology is free for content owners.
Besides the Jobanputras, Mark Friedgan is the advisor at CueLinks. Providing more technology solutions to publishers, like keywords insertion and inline price comparison are some future plans that CueLinks has. With plans to enter international markets this year, CueLinks is also on an aggressive hiring spree, says Mehul.


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Samsung launched the Galaxy A8 (2016) unit back in the October of last year and then, they made it exclusively available to the users in their home country of South Korea. However, they have started to expand the reach of this unit and you can now get it outside of this home zone.
To be specific, The Gulf and Taiwanese markets now have the units in stock, and we hope that Samsung continues to expand it till it reaches other regions. As for the price tag, the United Arab Emirates region have the unit listed for $490, which means that the Taiwanese pricing should be the equivalent of this also.
In the same month of October when the unit was first announced and launched, it showed up on Zauba – India’s export and import tracking website – and this indicated that they would launch it in that market also. However, we have not heard any new information on it since then, and we still await that launch too.


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Mathews announced their lineup of 2009 models which includes the single cam Reezen with an IBO rating of 340. They also will have available for the first time a Dual cam bow called the Monster that IBO's at 360! Check out the full lineup and details at Mathew's website. Make sure to stop by Archery Country and shoot the new Reezen. The Monster will be available in the next few weeks.
The 2009 Mathews Reezen, available in a 6 1/2" or 7" brace height.
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New Ford Mustang Cobra Jet | Ready in 2015
The sixth generation of the Ford Mustang will be unveiled to the public in 2014 only to arrive in American dealerships in early 2015. The new generation of the famous American muscle car produced since 1963 will be declined in the total special version Cobra Jet which is already in the development phase as confirmed by the words of Jesse Kershaw of Ford Racing. In an interview with the press, Kershaw has in fact revealed that: “Our goals remains the same as always to create a car that is highly competitive both in terms of the price and performance.” Kershaw has also confirmed that the launch of the new Cobra Jet could be set during 2015, probably towards the end of the year.
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Ford Cobra Jet Mustang
The current Mustang Cobra Jet presented at the beginning of 2011 and produced in a limited series of just 50 units sold at $ 104.000 each which is about 80 thousand Euros at current exchange rates, equipped with a powerful 5.4 liter V8 with Ford TVS compressor capable of unleashing a power of 430 hp which rises to a height of 475 hp if you opt for the Ford Racing Whipple supercharger.
Two Ford Cobra Jet Mustangs
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The tradition of the Cobra Jet dates back to 1968 when the first version of the Mustang was fitted by a huge 7.0 liter V8 engine equipped with a carburetor quadricorpo equally powerful and stronger than a power output of 335 hp.
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Under threat from spam laws, the list manager looks to put its clients' double opt-in lists to use for market research.
E-mail list provider NetCreations announced on Monday the launch of a new arm devoted to market research, as the company deals with potential fallout from California's new anti-spam bill.
The new unit, SurveyDirect, will use NetCreations' double opt-in email database, made up of lists it manages for publishers and others, to provide market-research services to companies. According to the company, it has 40 million names in its database. Out of the 40 million, 3 million have opted-in for surveys, with segmentation based on interests, gender, age, occupation and geographic region. The new division will roll out tools devoted exclusively to surveys, including a distinct sign-up form.
"One of the verticals that really embraced the promise of email marketing was market research," said Michael Mayor, NetCreations' chief executive. "They have their own needs separate from direct marketers."
NetCreations said it already provides market-research services for about 50 companies. The new arm complements its email advertising business, PostMasterDirect, which rents its clients' lists of email addresses to third parties.
That business was thrown for a loop earlier this month with the passage of anti-spam legislation in California. The law, which begins Jan. 1, forbids email marketing in situations where an advertiser does not have the "direct consent" of a consumer.
"I think it could be very serious," Mayor said. "The way it's written there's no third-party prospecting into or out of California."
Mayor said about a million of PostMasterDirect's email addresses are from the state, and another undetermined number do not include geographic information.
While the survey business may be immune from the new California law, NetCreations' lawyers were still trying to determine its legal stance under the new provisions.
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Leading financial institution, Access Bank Plc. has announced its partnership with Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-commerce platform to offer instalment payments to customers through Pay with QuickBucks.
The good thing about this innovation is that Access Bank’s customers would be enable to purchase products on Konga and make payments in flexible installment.
The partnership will reinforce Access Bank’s commitment to providing its customers with convenient and affordable financing solutions.
Through the collaboration with Konga, Access Bank is now able to extend its credit facilities to a wider audience.
However, speaking on the partnership, Senior Retail Advisory, Access Bank Plc., Robert Giles, said; “We are excited to partner with Konga to bring our innovative financing solutions to the Bank customers.”
“Our goal is to make it easier for people to access credit and purchase the products they need, and we believe that our partnership with Konga will help us achieve that.”
Also, the Chief Operating Officer, Konga, Dave Omoriege, who expressed his delight on the collaboration, said;
“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Access Bank to provide customers with a convenient and affordable way to pay for purchases. Customers will now have access to flexible payment options, making it easier for them to shop on Konga.”
It is interesting to know that with Pay with QuickBucks, customers who have their salary with The Bank, meet the bank’s risk acceptance criteria, and are eligible will be able to select the instalment payment option when checking out on Konga.
They will then be directed to a QuickBucks page, where they can complete the application process and receive an approval decision within minutes.
We can tell you for free that Access Bank and Konga are committed to delivering innovative financial solutions that will improve the lives of their customers and help them achieve their financial goals.


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Ankara: The Turkish owner of the Nusr-Et steakhouse, known by its founder chef’s meme Salt Bae, is in talks to sell a stake to Qatar’s $450 billion wealth fund, local media reported.
D.ream Group, owned by Turkish billionaire Ferit Sahenk’s Dogus Holding AS– the owner of the Salt Bae restaurant franchise: Nusr-Et steakhouse— is currently in talks to sell a 20 percent stake to the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) for about $300 million.
The price implies a company valuation of $1.5bn, Bloomberg reported.
Dogus confirmed that talks with QIA are underway, but did not provide details. QIA could not be reached in the first place.
The talks were reported by Turkey’s Sozcu newspaper earlier on Tuesday.
As per media reports, Dogus had previously signed similar sales agreements to fulfil the obligations of the refinancing agreement it signed with banks. The group made an agreement with the QIA for the sale of 30 percent of İstinye Park in 2020.
D.ream Group owns stakes in restaurants including Nusr-Et steakhouse, which was founded by Turkish butcher and salt sprinkler Nusret Gokce.
38-year-old Nusret Gokce, who became famous in 2017 after his technique for seasoning meat became an Internet meme.
Gokçe has a chain of luxury steak houses, with branches in Turkey, Greece, the United States, Britain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and possibly in Israel soon as well.


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Gamzee, a mobile and social game developer founded by gaming veteran Howard Marks, has raised $1 million in seed funding.
The Los Angeles company (pronounced game-zee) will make games based on the HTML5 format, which allows developers to create games capable of running on a variety of different devices. Marks, chief executive of the firm and a 25-year-veteran of games, said that the company raised the funding round in a short time. This shows that, despite years of funding for game companies, there are still openings in the market that are attracting veteran entrepreneurs.
Investors include Bristol Investment Fund; Jarl Mohn, former CEO of Liberty Digital; Heiko Hubertz, CEO of Bigpoint; and Paul Bricault, a partner at Greycroft Partners. Paul Kessler of Bristol Investment Fund joins Gamzee’s board. Marks is a co-founder of Activision and Acclaim Games and a former senior vice president at Disney Interactive Media Group. “We believe that we’re on the forefront of the next big explosion in games — one where you can play social games with your Facebook friends on any device with a Web connection. And apparently, we’re not alone in that belief,” Marks said.
The company’s first game hasn’t been announced yet, but development is underway on a title that has a “new twist on a classic social gaming genre.” The company plans to show off its concept and technology at Casual Connect in Seattle in mid July. Marks said the company is in discussions with more potential strategic investors.
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Over the course of 25 years, Marks helped revive an ailing Activision, which is now the biggest video game publisher. He bought the Acclaim name out of bankruptcy, started working on a number of online games, and sold the company to Playdom in 2010.
Marks thinks HTML5 is a big opportunity because it means programmers can create a game once and have it run on a wide variety of platforms, from the web to mobile devices. In an earlier interview, Marks said he expects the company to launch its first game by October. By that time, fingers crossed, he believes Facebook will shift to the HTML5 standard, eventually getting rid of Flash-based software.
And that means that a social game designed to run on Facebook should also run on all mobile devices and the web as well.
That’s a risky and bold move, in part because HTML5 is in its beginning stages. Some observers (such as the startup Sibblingz) say that HTML5 games, which run inside a web browser, run slow compared to native applications (those that take advantage of a specific device’s unique characteristics). But Marks believes that the universality of HTML5 will eventually overcome such objections and that HTML5 will get faster over time with the adoption of new standards such as WebGL.
With HTML5 games, there are advantages. Marks says that if you share a link for an HTML5 game with someone, the person you shared it with can simply click on the link to start playing the game, regardless of the device they are using. You can also pick up where you left off easily. You could start playing on a PC and resume playing on a tablet or on a connected TV.
At first, Marks said the company will focus on simpler games that don’t require extremely fast real-time graphics or lots of 3D. Most Facebook games don’t use such features and are still very successful. The team includes vice president of games Josh Levitan. The veteran staff comes from companies such as Playdom, Acclaim and Meteor Games.
The first title will be free-to-play, which means users can start playing for free and pay real money for virtual goods in micro-transactions. Gamzee also expects to derive a revenue stream from location-based features.
Marks started the company a few weeks ago. Rivals include Zynga, EA-Playfish, Disney-Playdom, Game Closure and CrowdStar.
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San Francisco, California voters passed a controversial soda tax on sugary soft drinks yesterday.
Similar measures in Oakland, California and Boulder, Colorado also passed after ballots were counted early Wednesday.
Albany, CA already has a soda tax.
The soda tax will add up to 2-cents per ounce of soda in bottles or cans.
An average can of carbonated soda holds 31 fluid ounces. An average bottle of soda holds 16 fluid ounces. A can of soda can cost up to 62 cents more based on the soda tax.
One soda can contains as much as 8 teaspoons of sugar (about 39 grams).
The measure was hotly contested by soft drink manufacturers Coca Cola and Pepsi whose $100 billion in profits is in jeopardy because sales of their products have fallen off over the years.
$50 million was spent to either pass or defeat the soda tax in California.
Opponents of the soda tax say it will hit low income families hardest.
But health advocates have warned for years that sugary beverages leads to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay, especially among the poor.


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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Bolts fans, it’s time to get geared up for the Stanley Cup Final!
The Tampa Bay Lightning, along with AdventHealth, will be hosting a 2021 Stanley Cup Final Bolts Drive-Thru Pep Rally Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon outside of Westshore Plaza.
Fans are asked not to arrive and start lining up before 8:30 a.m.
Members of the Bolts Nation can pick up playoff yard signs, as well as other promotional items and partner giveaways. AdventHealth will be giving fans free 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs T-shirts and Dunkin’ will be providing complimentary donuts and $5 promotional cards while supplies last. Pepsi will also be on-site providing free products while supplies last.
The Lightning will play the Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup Final starting at 8 p.m. Monday at AMALIE Arena.
For more on the drive-thru rally, visit the team’s website.


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Some thought Google CEO Eric Schmidt might announce Android 2.3 when he appeared at the Web 2.0 Summit last week but that didn't happen. Now Andy Rubin is scheduled to speak at D: Dive Into Mobile on December 6th and everyone is speculating that might be the day for the Android 2.3 announcement.
Androidandme and XDA have dug up some very cool features that Gingerbread is going to bring to the table.
For those of you wondering about an entirely different UI you may be disappointed. There will only be some small tweaks: notification bar at the top of the screen has gone from white to black, the launcher buttons are now green instead of translucent, and many of the native app icons have received a makeover.
Most of the existing native apps will also look slightly updated with tweaks to the styling of menus, check boxes, and radio buttons as leaked in the last Google Maps update. Other small tweaks, as reported by phandroid, include new animations when you swipe across the desktop and when you power off the display.
For the full list of 12 features check out Androidandme and post your comments here. Enjoy your Gingerbread!!


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Rockstar Games has announced that they will be adding a new feature to the GTA V Online creator called Capture Jobs Creator. This feature will let you create your own jobs across the four variants of capture jobs (Contend, GTA, Raid and Hold) available.
The created jobs will earn you twice the money and RP than any other jobs available in the multiplayer. There are six capture jobs that Rockstar wants you to check out before you create your own specific job.
- Contend: Salty Snatch
- GTA: All Abhorred
- GTA: Field of Screams
- Hold: Freight Fight
- Raid: High Road
- Raid: Wargames
The capture jobs in GTA V Online are just like capture the flag mode that players are accustomed to play in other games. Two teams will face off each other and will try to steal the merchandise from the opponents and bring it back to their own base.
There are different types of Capture jobs available throughout the world of GTA V Online, and each one provides a different perspective for the job.
Capture Jobs Creator will be available to everyone this Friday on 11th of April.
Moreover, Rockstar Games announced that they have released a new title update 1.12 of the game that fixes a lot of issues faced by the players.
The update will give you an option to call Lester so that cops will stay away from you. Furthermore, the money for completing any of the jobs available has increased.
What is your opinion on Capture Creator? Do you want to make your own jobs? Let us know in your comments!
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A leading human rights expert for the United Nations has sent a letter to Apple to ask why the company removed the majority of VPN providers from the country’s app store.
The iPhone and iPad maker said in a notice to several providers on July 30 that the company was “required to remove some VPN apps in China that do not meet the new regulations” in the country’s new cybersecurity law, which went into effect on Aug. 1.
It’s thought that the Chinese government is on the information offensive ahead of a leadership reshuffle, expected later this year. VPN providers are often used to bypass China’s strict online censorship — the so-called “Great Firewall.”
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InterDigital and Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited agree to worldwide patent license agreement for terminal units
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By the close of 2016 City leaders expect to have a zoning schema in hand that directs where retail marijuana businesses can and cannot be in Auburn.
Putting an end, in that often-talked-of best-case scenario, to many of the headaches I-502 has visited on Auburn, among them, a lawsuit brought against the City by the owners of Green Solutions Place, a controversial retail marijuana operation that opened on Auburn Way South earlier this year even while a City moratorium against additional pot stores was in place.
Indeed, the ordinance and moratorium the City Council passed Monday is about the lawsuit, and the City buying itself time to create zoning for marijuana operations. And until those designations are in place, the new regulations will have to do.
“The real solution to this is going to be found in zoning, which we’re working on right now,” City Councilman John Holman said before the unanimous vote.
Here’s what the ordinance does:
• Restricts the number of retail pot businesses, producers and processors in Auburn to two, provided that where more have been licensed or have received City permits, those may continue. But should any of those businesses leave or close, it’ll be back to two again.
• Requires the City to create an action plan for Planning Commission and City Council review of ongoing issues related to retail pot businesses. Other changes to the ordinance and other limitations or accommodations for marijuana-related businesses and activities consistent with the plan may come out of the review.
• Limits producers and processors in the City to 90,000 total square feet of space and minimum of 4,000 square feet. Businesses now operating or licensed to operate inside the City that fall under the 4,000-foot minimum can stay open at their initial location. Additional businesses, or business that change location, however, will have to meet the 4,000-square-foot minimum requirement.
•Includes specific reference to statutory and regulatory provisions related to organic solvents. When not used in conformity with required procedures and protocols, use of organic solvents may create hazards.
Green Solutions Place isn’t the only prospective pot shop watching what the City does.
Last October, when KF Industries’ owner Kirk Edwards learned that the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) planned to issue two more retail marijuana licenses in Auburn, in addition to the two allowed via the previous state lottery, he began in haste to remodel a long vacant store at 404 Auburn Way S. But earlier this month, despite having received his license from the WSLCB, he found his plans caught between a City moratorium and the board, which does not recognize moratoria.
“We are looking forward to the process after this passes to see what the planning commission can do,” said Philip Dawdy, one of several consultants working for KF Industries.
Deputy Mayor Largo Wales described all the work that went on behind the scenes to create the new rules.
“This has been an incredible effort on the part of Auburn’s legal department, working with our producers, manufacturers and retail people to address, at this time, some issues as they relate to producers and processors.”
State voters passed I-502 in November 2012, allowing recreational retail marijuana sales.


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Apple will announce on Monday that iTunes, the music app will disappear, Bloomberg writes in a preview of next week’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
According to Bloomberg, the company also plans to replace iTunes on MacOS with the Music, TV, and Podcasts apps, as that also happened on iPhones and iPads. Updates and other modifications to the device can be carried out via the Apple Music app.
Apple Plans To Kill Itunes
Apple introduced The music app iTunes in 2001 as a response to illegal music download services. For a long time, the program was the only way to update the software on Apple products.
Apple Music is Next
The range of the service was rapidly expanded in the early years to include games, films, books, podcasts and other media. Apple has been busy for some time, breaking up these components into its apps.
With the switch to Apple Music, the company hopes to respond to the shift in the market from music downloads to music streaming.
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Techland’s original Dying Light has received a PS5 and Xbox Series X|S rating following last week’s next-gen patch announcement.
Last month, Techland announced the arrival of Dying Light on the Nintendo Switch via the Dying Light: Platinum Edition. This edition, containing all of the game’s DLCs and skin bundles, is releasing globally tomorrow, and interestingly, the game has now also received a rating for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series.
Last week, developer Techland confirmed that it’s currently working on a next-gen update for the game with more details to follow shortly.
We're currently working on a next-gen patch for Dying Light 1 - more details coming in the future 🙂
— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) October 14, 2021
From the looks of it, however, a next-gen release of the game is also in the works as the ESRB has recently rated it for both PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. So aside from a next-gen patch for those who own the PS4 or Xbox One version of the game, it seems that we’re also looking at a re-release of the game on the next-gen consoles.
More news about this next-gen version of the original Dying Light will likely be released shortly. As always, we will keep you updated.
Published by Warner Bros., Dying Light was released globally for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One back in 2015. The game’s long-awaited sequel, Dying Light 2: Stay Human, is currently slated for release on February 4, 2022. Down below you’ll find a part of the press release of the original Dying Light.
A first-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open-world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam the city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected. Dying Light was published in 2015 and has been played by over twenty million people all over the world. From the creators of hit titles Dead Island and Call of Juarez. Winner of over 50 industry awards and nominations. The game whose uncompromising approach to gameplay set new standards for first-person zombie games. Still supported with new content and free community events years after the release.


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Visit Orlando announced a new all-time record for the destination. In 2015, 66.1 million people visited Orlando, growing 5.5 per cent from 2014 and solidifying Orlando’s position as the most visited destination in the nation. Visitation to Orlando has more than doubled over the past 20 years, growing from 32.4 million in 1995.
“Reaching more than 66 million visitors to Orlando is an amazing accomplishment for our tourism community. This new milestone and rapid growth over the past two decades is a result of having a tourism industry and community partners that are focused on growth and investment, dedication to the needs of our visitors and the global marketing and sales efforts of our Visit Orlando team and member companies,” said George Aguel, president and CEO, Visit Orlando.
A record 33 million room nights were sold in Orlando in 2015, resulting in record tourist development tax collections topping US$ 230 million in Orange County, Fla., home to the Central Florida tourism district.
“We’re proud to break another national record and again be named the top visitor destination for the US. With our convention centre and culture of hospitality, world-class theme parks, family-friendly entertainment, luxury dining and lodging amenities, it’s no surprise that Central Florida remains the top destination for business, family and leisure guests,” stated Teresa Jacobs, Orange County Mayor.
Visit Orlando announced the record-breaking achievement at its annual Travel & Tourism Luncheon, a celebration of Orlando’s tourism community, attended by over 800 tourism and community leaders. The event was held during the 33rd annual National Travel and Tourism Week, which unites communities each year to celebrate what travel means to American jobs, economic growth and personal well-being.
“Orlando has reached yet another historic milestone with more than 66 million visitors in 2015 – a significant achievement for Orlando and the US travel industry. The region’s commitment to travel and tourism – with special kudos to Visit Orlando, its tourism community members, and the leadership of local public officials – enabled it to hit yet another visitation record,” added Roger Dow, president and CEO, US Travel Association.
Since 1995, Orlando’s hotel inventory grew by more than 37 per cent, topping 117,000 rooms in 2015. Passengers at Orlando International Airport increased by more than 72 per cent, reaching 38,809,337 in 2015. In the past two decades, significant openings and expansions have continued to reinforce Orlando as the theme park capital of the world and a leading convention destination. Orlando also established a lineup of luxury offerings to meet the needs of travellers seeking five-star service and amenities and downtown Orlando experienced a renaissance with new arts and sports venues. The destination emerged as a culinary destination, garnering consistent James Beard Award nominations for local chefs while also attracting internationally-praised celebrity chefs with new culinary concepts.


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STA, 20 June 2022 - The prices of regular petrol and diesel will rise by nearly 20 cents a litre on Tuesday. Regular petrol will cost EUR 1.755 a litre, up from EUR 1.56, while diesel will cost EUR 1.848 a litre, compared to EUR 1.668 at the moment. The new prices will remain in place until 4 July, when they will be adjusted again.
Fuel prices in Slovenia have remained unchanged since May 11, when they were capped by the previous government amid rapidly growing energy prices.
Last week, the new government decided to reintroduce a system of margin regulation at service stations outside the motorway network, while completely liberalising the prices of fuel at pumps along motorways.
In response to the rising prices of fuel, the government also temporarily abolished several environmental taxes on fuel.
The expected price hike has resulted in a rush to petrol stations across the entire country, with many fuel retailers running out of fuel at the weekend and today.


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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has released the latest version of in-house Android-based skin MIUI 12 for the global markets.
The new version comes with several new features and improvements to existing features.
According to GSMArena, MIUI 12 gets massive upgrades in the privacy section.
The OS will now notify everytime an app is accessing a sensitive feature such as the cameras, microphone, contacts, location and more.
MIUI 12 also brings stock Android 10 navigation gestures, new quick reply feature, floating windows and a new universal casting feature that supports Miracast standard.
Xiaomi plans to start releasing the update to its phone by the end of June.


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CONNECTED: Purchasers scan an NFC tag embedded in the left sneaker to access digital content
Purchasers of a limited edition pair of RS-XL sneakers in sportswear brand Puma’s Evolution of the Mixtape collection will be able to access digital content including exclusive music and videos by scanning an NFC tag embedded in the shoe with their smartphone.
An NFC tag in the tongue of the left shoe will allow purchasers to access a mixtape of 14 previously unreleased tracks by Roc Nation artists, behind-the-scenes studio footage and a documentary about the history of hip-hop.
Legitimate — the technology provider that supplied the NFC tags — “was created with the belief that the future of blockchain means that we don’t need to mention blockchain at all,” says the company’s CEO Calvin Chan.
“That belief has been wholly manifested in this partnership with Puma and Roc Nation. The customers who purchase these sneakers will have access to exclusive, curated, and immersive digital content experiences without even thinking about what’s happening behind the scenes.”
In May Puma launched its Grailed Puma Slipstream sneakers that use NFC to let purchasers link to an NFT digital twin of the physical footwear.
Puma uses NFC to link physical sneakers with unique digital content was written by Tom Phillips and published by NFCW.


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Perhaps the processed cheese brand's most famous strap-line was 'Kids will do anything for the taste of Dairylea'. However, judging by recent Mintel sales figures for Dairylea, down 13% year on year in 2008, from £112m to £97m, their tastes are changing.
Dairylea's owner, Kraft, has undoubtedly been hit by the ban on advertising food that is high in fat, salt or sugar during children's programming, which was phased in in April 2007 and fully implemented this January.
However, even before this, Dairylea found itself out of favour with consumers as obesity and healthy eating became major concerns. A central focus has been children's eating habits, so inevitably Dairy-lea found itself among those brands in the unenviable position of becoming a scapegoat for the nation's ills.
Last summer the cheese brand rolled out a £6.5m TV campaign as part of a relaunch aimed at mothers, which introduced the strapline, 'It's never grown up.'
Its packaging and logos were also refreshed, and Dairylea Tribites rebranded to Dairylea Bites. However, its decision to slim down the pack size but leave the price unchanged,will not have won the brand more friends.
We asked Nick Fox, chief operating officer of ad agency DDB London, which works with Marmite, and Richard Tolley, a marketing consultant and former group marketing director for Dairy Crest, how Dairylea can reverse its downturn in fortunes.
Nick Fox chief operating officer, DDB London
The mere mention of Dairylea is guaranteed to transport me straight back to childhood. I'm grappling with an impenetrable foil triangle of indeterminate content, and in the process making a terrible mess. It's an experience that could serve as a metaphor for Dairylea's current market predicament.
Launched in 1950, Dairylea has long had the whiff of nostalgia about it. In an era when cigarettes were promoted as being 'good for the throat' and crops were sprayed liberally with DDT, the kind of ingredients that would send parents of the Jamie Oliver generation shrieking in panic were considered wholesome and harmless.
Fast-forward to August 2007, when the Dairylea Lunchables online ad was banned by the ASA for promoting it as a healthy snack, with the strapline 'Packed with good stuff', despite its high salt and saturated fat content.
So where has Dairylea gone wrong? It is a product condemned by its detractors as 'industrial food with good marketing', but mud sticks, and sales are down 13% from 2007.
- Ingredients matter. Dairylea has a fresh strapline, 'It's never grown up'. This could be the problem. As consumers, we have grown up. We're less suscept-ible to empty sloganeer-ing, and instead read the label.
- The cheese has been reformulated to make it healthier - but don't neglect the core market. Many people find the stuff irresistible. Think Marmite.
- Dairylea needs to understand exactly who it is and what it stands for, and create brand extensions that allow it to 'live' these values. Don't hide, you lovely, gooey triangle of joy, come out fighting - be proud of who you are.
Richard Tolley marketing consultant
My first job, in 1989, was on Flora Cheese. Cheese back then was simple - blocks of undifferentiated cheddar sold as an own-label commodity, or processed cheese, a category in which Dairylea was the biggest.
Dairylea's repositioning, like that of Lucozade, was part of brand management folklore, as Innocent is to today's generation. The brand removed the cheese's stabilisers, put it into the chilled cabinet, to give it a halo of health - a simple, brilliant move - and it grew. When Dunkables and Lunchables added con-venience in the 90s, it grew some more. It was unassailable, with a turnover of more than £120m, twice that of any other brand.
Rolling forward to today, Dairylea is in decline. The latest Nielsen figures show a fall of 8%, compared with market growth of 10%, and value sales of less than £100m, despite a relaunch last year. Cathedral City, which is twice as big, is close to £200m and has grown by 11%.
It has led a brand invasion into cheese.
Kraft's positioning is processed and convenient, yet the consumer is looking for something natural and healthy.
- Tap into nostalgia. The current trend is appropriate for a brand that meant so much to today's parents.
- Emphasise health. Dairylea's true advantage is that it has half the saturated fat of natural cheese, rather than its high calcium content. Mum is worried about little Johnny's waistline, not his teeth.
- Get a fresh focus with NPD. Kraft has been excellent at this, but recent efforts have been tweaking the current offering to make it less bad, more 'Jamie friendly'. Investigate the area of natural health.


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First it was high-fashion capes. Then it was drinkable color schemes. And now, a brand-new fashion trend has emerged at the 2021 Golden Globes.
Tonight, Hollywood’s biggest stars will virtually gather for the 78th annual ceremony. Ahead of the awards show, countless celebs are sharing photos of their at-home fashion looks. The biggest trend to emerge (so far) is dramatic sleeves—keep reading for three celebs who nailed it.


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TV and entertainment are leading the conversation in evolving images for diversity, says performer Lena Waithe.
She joined Getty Images' Pam Grossman, Refinery29's Piera Gelardi and photographers Braden Summers and Campbell Addy at Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity last week to discuss reframing concepts and battling stereotypes.
All shared insights into why imagery is so powerful.
Diversity is not a trend, and shouldn’t be seen as one. Plus-sized models are a "hot buzzword." Yet despite the fact 67% of women wear a size 14 or larger, only 2% of images reflect them. "This is the invisible majority," says Gelardi. Businesses are blatantly ignoring them. "When you aren't seen, you think you aren't valued by society."
Refinery29 was forced to conduct street casting — picking non-models from the street — since modeling agencies didn't have enough diverse models to reflect its consumer base. The online platform is also working with Getty and Lane Bryant to develop more images of larger-sized women.
"Brands have social responsibility, says Gelardi. "Consumers want to buy from brands that reflect their values. How they are doing that. It isn't just an altruistic thing."
Waithe doesn't get excited by merely seeing more people of color on screen.
"It is about substance," she says. Programs with black-helmed creators, like "Atlanta," "Chewing Gum" and "Insecure," all help to shift perceptions. "Moonlight" winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards helps move the needle more than a guest shot on a sitcom. However, we are still left out of the conference rooms, she says. "When they try to sell us something, that just feels false."
Waithe wants diverse creators to mentor others to help them tell their stories in the best way. She wants more people behind-the-scenes, not serving as visible props. "I want a lasting impact," she says. "I am looking at the long game." Otherwise, their culture is still being "left for others to profit."
Summers worked with Marriott to show a transgender activist in a recent advertising campaign. The photographer admits he was concerned the Mormon-based company might just be chasing the dollar by leveraging a popular movement. But "it came from their heart," he says, noting the hotel chain is consistently ranked among the best for treating its LGBTQ staff and guests. "They are walking the walk, not just talking the talk."
Brands can avoid tokenism by doing more than simply having someone sit at the table. They should have as loud a voice as the person running the company, say the panelists.
Above all, the panelists recommend those in the advertising industry at least try to expand their diversity vocabulary. Their consensus: People mean well, but they become paralyzed, thinking they will get it wrong. And then, they do nothing.


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Everyone’s talking about in-game advertising as a channel to reach the elusive young male audience, but editorial sites that cover video games can help advertisers achieve the same objective. That’s why a handful of such sites are readying to launch and compete for gamers, and ad dollars.
“What really helps pull advertisers in is that they want to reach the male 18 to 24 year old demo,” GameSpot.com SVP of Sales and Marketing, Suzie Reider, told ClickZ News. “Sites like IGN and GameSpot.com have enough traffic and users, 27 million unique users a month, to do really interesting things for marketers because what they really want is integrated contextual branded experiences for the people they’re going after.”
CNET-run GameSpot.com and and IGN.com (which includes GameSpy.com) are the front runners in the gaming space, but two new competitors — Future U.S.’s GamesRadar.com and Ziff Davis’ GameVideos.com — are expected to launch next month. A handful of others are expected to follow.
GamesRadar.com, which is expected to launch Wednesday, already exists in the U.K. Future U.S. plans to launch a redesign of the British property in America, then roll it out globally with localized content over the course of a year. The U.S. launch will leverage traffic from the company’s CheatPlanet.com site, which was acquired last May.
“In 2006 it’s a difficult proposition to launch a site and get traffic,” said Dave Cooper, Publisher of GamesRadar.com at Future U.S. “You can spend money on marketing or go through acquisitions.”
Future will also use its print publications to promote the Web site. Even with an existing audience, traffic remains a challenge.
“I think GamesRadar.com still has a lot to prove,” said Dave Martin, interactive media supervisor at Ignited Minds. “IGN and GameSpot.com have proven traffic and a successful format.” Though skeptical of the new site, Martin has already bought inventory on the Future property for one of his clients.
“We like it because it’s new and appeals to a slightly younger gamer,” he said.
In addition to an attractive demographic, GamesRadar will appeal to advertisers with the ability to carry out global campaigns. Each local office will have its own sales group, but they will work together depending on the demands of each particular initiative.
The site design is meant to have a “tabloid feel,” according to Cooper. It offers rich media units and IAB standard ads. Each unit is labeled with text that says, “Look at the Big Ad” to denote the difference between content and sponsored placements.
Following the launch of GamesRadar.com, another player, Ziff Davis, plans to launch GameVideos.com in late March or early April. The rich media site, which may also incorporate social networking, is designed as a companion to its 1UP.com property.
Rather than duplicating the editorial content on longstanding Ziff Davis print and online properties, GameVideos.com will become an archive of all things gaming but will focus on video. It will host video dating back to the early days of video games, and revive archives from video game publishers themselves. Ziff Davis also plans to open the site to user-submitted content after the initial launch.
“Our goal is to surround [gamers] with any content they happen to be looking for at any given time,” said Ira Becker, SVP and GM of the 1UP Network at Ziff Davis. “So much of that comes from the fact that as an audience, we really have attracted hard core gamers who have a really strong bond with [our] social network in 1UP.com.”
Though the new property is an extension of 1UP.com and Ziff’s print publications, traffic is not guaranteed.
“When [Ziff Davis] launched 1UP.com, it took them a while to move traffic,” said Ignited Minds’ Martin. “They thought they could use print to drive traffic.”
GameSpot’s Reider is confident the site can handle the onslaught of new competitors, given its longstanding relationships both with its audience and with advertisers.
“GameSpot.com has been around for ten years. Anything you want to know about any game you can find on Gamespot.com. It’s the most comprehensive database of game information in the world. We’re solid. Engaging our users, serving our audience, getting to know them is something we’re thinking about every day,” said Reider. “None of it is a reaction to competitors bringing to market [new sites]. I wish them the best, but it’s really hard to do what GameSpot.com does.”
A class action lawsuit against an internet-connected pleasure device highlights the potential pitfalls a growing number of companies will face as they embrace ... read more
Google sparked a small firestorm last week as reports surfaced that its intelligent assistant device Google Home delivered an unsolicited advertisement to unsuspecting owners.
According to Internet Retailer's newly released The Best Digital Marketers in E-Commerce report, Target is the most effective marketer in online retail. So why is it struggling overall?
The rise of YouTube and digital video generally has a lot to do with the rise of the internet and the abundance of digital video content. But YouTube's ascendency is also the result of Google's savvy use of algorithms.


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The Coronavirus pandemic has taught us new things—wearing masks at all times, maintaining basic personal hygiene, and ensuring a social distance between two people. However, not many people take the social distancing norm seriously, and they are being flouted openly. So, a tech company in Wichita, KA, has decided to take matters into its own hands and do something to improve the practice of social distancing among the people. Viaanix Inc has successfully developed an app that will alert you as soon as you break the 6 ft separation rule.
The company from Wichita has taken this setback on the chin and has decided on an alternative strategy. Instead of targeting smartphone users, they are now focussing on the workplace. Many manufacturing companies have shown reasonable interest in the product, and even pilots are showing encouraging results.
The app is now being tested in two companies. Viaanix has entered into a partnership with a smartwatch maker to be installed directly into the device. The latest version of the app has some additional features that make it more than just a social distancing tool. So, if a manufacturing facility has, for example, 6000 employees, then each one of them can maintain the social distancing rule with the facility. It will also make the work of the company easier in case someone does contract COVID. The CEO of the company, Jatin Talreja, is upbeat about the newer version of the app as it is fully ready to be rolled out to the companies.


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Jack Daniel’s is a household name in the whiskey world, and as such, the brand is paying homage to its long-lasting legacy. Next month, the spirit giant is releasing its first age-stated whiskey in over a century.
The 10-year-old whiskey will “pay tribute to the brand’s past” in the first bottle of its kind to be launched since Prohibition. For the distillery company that began in 1866, there is ample history to honor.
“This product has been hand-crafted by our distillery team in Lynchburg over the last 10 summers all while keeping up with the growing demand for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey around the world,” master distiller Chris Fletcher said in an emailed press release. “[It] celebrates our modern-day whiskey making, while also paying tribute to our founder and history. It is a special time for us all.”
For the past ten years, Fletcher and his team have been aging the classic Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey in oak barrels. The resulting whiskey is complex and oaky, with notes of fig and raisin. Fans of Jack Daniel’s will still get the brand’s signature notes of butterscotch and soft fruit, with a finish of sweet tobacco and spice.
Aside from the taste, each bottle design showcases a piece of the brand’s long history; the same cartouche featured on Jack Daniel’s aged bottle 100 years ago can be found hand-drawn on the 10-year-old bottle.
Coming in at 97 proof — the brand’s highest to date — each 750mL bottle will sell for $70 across the United States. But supplies are limited once they hit shelves in early September, so be sure to snag yourself a bottle sooner than later (or you may have to wait another century).


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The Galactica AI model was trained on scientific knowledge – but it spat out alarmingly plausible nonsense
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger gets unconditional approval in Serbia, concessions ‘likely’ to be offered to EU regulators
Samsung Galaxy S23 features: Satellite connectivity that supports text and image transfers is in development
UK regulator launches in-depth investigation on Apple and Google over ‘duopoly on mobile ecosystems’
iPhone 14 design: Two models will reportedly replace notch with hole-punch cutouts and could get 120Hz displays
The presence of the notch continues to be one of the most debated aspects of the latest iPhones. However, it appears that Apple will implement changes in the iPhone 14 series that would cater to customers that are in favor of and against keeping the notch.
Apple is expected to keep the iPhone 14 series a four-device lineup next year while also ditching the “mini” model altogether. The Elec is the latest to report that the 2022 iPhone line would offer a standard 6.06-inch iPhone, a 6.7-inch “iPhone 14 Max,” a 6.06-inch iPhone 14 Pro, and a 6.7-inch Pro Max.
This corresponds with analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s earlier predictions that the iPhone 14 will be introduced with two regular models with 6.1-inch and 6.-inch displays and two “Pro” variants with 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch screens as well. And The Elec now says that Apple would replace the notch with a hole-punch cutout for selfie cameras on both iPhone 14 Pro devices. The same report further claims that the notch will remain on the regular iPhone 14 and the non-Pro 6.7-inch iPhone 14.
The two iPhone 14 Pro models will reportedly feature low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistors (TFT) components for their OLED panels, which are the usual parts used for 120Hz phone screens. The company first added the ProMotion technology, which allows Apple devices to deliver variable refresh rates of up to 120Hz, to both iPhone 13 Pro models this year.
If Apple proceeds with removing the notch on the iPhone 14 Pro models, these devices will deliver a full-screen experience never seen before on any iPhone. Combining that with the 120Hz capability, both phones could easily be a top choice for smartphone users who like devices with screens that operate smoothly.
However, if there is one thing tech fans should have learned over the last year, it is that plans could very well change because of the ongoing supply chain issues. It is also worth noting that Apple still has roughly nine months before the launch of the iPhone 14, which is enough time to change plans for the upcoming smartphones’ designs and technical specifications.


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Panasonic Russia, the Russian branch of the Japanese developer, together with Merlion, Russian distributor, announced the beginning of manufacturing of "smart" self-learning IP-cameras Panasonic on capacities of the company iRU, owned by Merlion.
According to the company, the decision to launch a joint line was taken on the initiative of Panasonic in response to the wishes of Russian customers. Production of iRU has been certified for compliance with global technological standards of Panasonic Corporation.
At the initial stage, it is planned to produce three popular models of CCTV cameras, in the future the product range can be expanded. Partners do not announce the amount of investment in the project, but emphasize that the line will be able to provide prompt production for profile projects of almost any scale.
The number of IP-cameras, designed for the production in Russia, included the following models: WV-S2131LRF (internal dome), WV-X6531NRF (street PTZ) and WV-S1132RF (hull).
Today cameras of this type are in demand most of all and provide up to 30% of sales of all cameras of the Japanese company in Russia.
They’re popular thanks to the presence of unique functions of artificial intelligence iA (intelligent Auto) and ROI (self-learning coding technology), that detects automatically areas with moving people or vehicles.
Smart, self-learning devices allow to ensure the highest quality of image quickly, without operator intervention, even in poor visibility conditions.
Panasonic IP cameras are used today in many sectors of industry, energy, transport and the public sector. The mentioned camera models were successfully used during the 2018 FIFA world Cup, and previous models were installed on the eve of the 2014 Winter Olympics at infrastructure and sport facilities in Sochi.


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The South Australian Economic Development Board has revealed a new brand for the state of South Australia which will be used to market the state to the world.
The new red branding depicts a series of doors which show the location of South Australia.
Premier Jay Weatherill said the brand was a symbol that could be used by every South Australian company and institution at home and overseas to promote trade and investment in South Australia.
“The brand will be the trigger for a unique and compelling story that every South Australian product or service could use to set itself apart on the world stage.
“It is designed to bring to mind a place that is creative, industrious and innovative – the qualities South Australians themselves have said define our State.
“Our ambition is to grow the brand into a competitive advantage that will make our economy stronger.”
Development of a new brand for South Australia began last year, led by the Economic Development Board (EDB) and a project team of industry and marketing specialists.
The project has a cost of $1.34m from within existing state government budgets. More than 3500 South Australians were involved in a research and consultation phase.
Project leader Darren Thomas from the EDB said this consultation informed the brand’s development.
“We looked at how we see ourselves as well as how we want to be perceived beyond our borders and, at the heart of this, we value our creativity, innovation and industriousness.
“Through collectively showing the world what comes out of South Australia – our products, events, activities and people – we can start to positively influence what people think about our State.
“The visual image designed by internationally-renowned branding expert Ken Cato is a symbol to reflect these values and leave a lasting impression.”
South Australian companies and organizations including Coopers, Codan, Defence SA and the Adelaide City Council have already indicated their support.
The brand was launched with a light and sound show in Elder Park last night attended by business and community leaders from across the state.
The light projection was developed by Adelaide companies KWP, KOJO and Novatech


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TECNO Android N3 Smartphone Phone Hits Market
Ghana's leading Mobile phone manufacturing company, Tecno has launched its first dual SIM Android smartphone in Ghana.
Called the Tecno N3, the stylish and sophisticated device, which is nicknamed “the Smarter Smart Phone”, gives users a unique access to several applications including audio visual features. It also has an 8 gigabyte micro SD, which can store up to 32GB worth of data, as well as a touch screen.
Other features include 2G+ 3G network, WiFi/AP, google play, hotspot, google maps, whatsapp, facebook, a 3.0MP camera and 800 MHz processor among others.
At an impressive ceremony held at the Tecno store at Tiptoe Lane in Accra over the weekend, Derrick Nkrumah, General Manager, Operations, reiterated his outfit's resolve to roll out top of the range phones onto the Ghanaian market, adding that Tecno is positioned to craft this new phone to serve the needs of middle-income earners.
The N3 he said “is just a step into the smart phone world by Tecno”. Tecno he added will “within short intervals” produce new phones with “smarter features” beginning early next year.
The launch of the N3 comes few months before the introduction of another brand, which company officials say, will live up to the hype and give customers real value for money.
Arguably the leading phone manufacturing and retailer in Ghana, Tecno continues to prove why it remains a market leader, with the introduction of tailor-made products for both low and middle income earners.
The new Tecno N3 is the first dual SIM Android based smartphone by the local representatives of the Hong Kong-based telecom company.


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Starbucks & ban.do Just Dropped A Holiday Collection & You'll Want Every Piece
If you have a Starbucks lover in your life, you now have a bunch of new gift options for them this holiday season. Starbucks and ban.do collaborated on a holiday collection, including a notebook, a mug, an ornament, and more. It might only be the beginning of November, but for anyone who knows a Pumpkin Spice Latte or Peppermint Mocha enthusiast, shopping is easy this year.
The limited edition merch is available now in Starbucks Licensed Store Locations — both in standalone Starbucks stores, and locations within grocery stores and other retailers — in the U.S. and Canada (excluding Quebec), and the collab is not available online. There are six items in the collection, which features two design options. There's "floral", which is inspired by the patterns ban.do is known for using on their products, and "phrases", "which features popular holiday slogans made from ribbon-like typography — a nod to gift-giving during the season," according to Starbucks.
The ban.do collection isn't the only newly released holiday season offering from the coffee giant. Starbucks also added a new 12 oz. temperature-controlled mug from Ember. The mug works with the Ember app, which lets users control the temperature of their beverage to the exact degree of their choosing.
Starbucks also simultaneously announced new gift cards printed with holiday season-themed designs, such as a snowman, a chill dog with earmuffs, and the phrase "dashing through the snow". Co-workers and distant cousins, get ready. These are coming your way this December.
Here's a closer look at the ban.do collaboration, so you can know what to buy for your sister-in-law... or for yourself:
Ornament — $9.95
12 oz. Ceramic Mug — $12.95
Notebook Set — $11.95
Pencil (Or Whatever You Want) Pouch — $13.95
16. oz Cold Cup — $14.95
12 oz. Ceramic Double-Wall Travel Mug — $19.95
(It's the one that's second from the left.)
Starbucks' holiday goods aren't just limited to these newly released products, either. The brand has been rolling out holiday items for a while now. They're going to be selling a ton of different travel cups and mugs: a rose gold one, a black sequin one, a green ombre one, one that looks like that sand art kids used to (still do?) make. They also recently released their 2018 holiday cups, which this year come in "stargyle" (argyle with stars), houndstooth, stripe, and flora:
Finally (as if all that wasn't enough and, really, they certainly have even more products than this), Starbucks also continued to promote reusable cups by giving away free reusable red holiday cups on Friday, November 2. While the giveaway is over, it is now possible to purchase the cups for $2.50, where available. Using the cup in stores will get customers .50 cents off a grande holiday beverage order through January 7. In general, using a reusable cup (purchased at Starbucks or not) gets visitors .10 cents off of their purchase, regardless of the size of the drink.
So, yeah. If you want a holiday drink, a reusable cup, a gift for your aunt/best friend/Secret Santa person, or a Christmas ornament for your coffee-themed tree, Starbucks has you covered. And then some.


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The luxury giant LVMH With a restructured watch division and new, higher-priced models, the company is pushing for a share of the global luxury watch business.
According to market research firm IMARC Group, worldwide sales of luxury watches are estimated to be around $30 billion this year. They are expected to grow to more than $37 billion by 2032, as global wealth increases and Generation Z and millennials become more interested in high-end mechanical watches.
LVMH’s jewelry and watch division posted sales of $11.8 billion in 2023, representing 7% organic growth. The luxury giant now owns 10 watch brands, including TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith, as well as fashion and jewelery brands such as Louis Vuitton, Bulgari and Dior.
Last month, the company named Frédéric Arnault, the 29-year-old son of LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH Watches, which includes the TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith brands.
Analysts estimate that sales of these three brands reached nearly $2 billion last year.
A Zenith luxury watch at the 2024 Watch Week in Miami.
Frederic Arnault, who launched an array of highly popular new models at TAG Heuer, is expected to bring his focus on innovation, innovative materials and creative designs to the big brand group. Analysts say LVMH may also continue to acquire attractive brands if they become available.
In interviews with CNBC during LVMH’s Watch Week in Miami, the brands’ chief executives said 2024 is already shaping up to be stronger than 2023, when rising interest rates and recession fears dampen demand. is coming Executives say they are particularly encouraged by the resilience of American luxury consumers.
“It’s all about cycles, and the beauty of America is that the cycles are very short,” said Zenith CEO Benoit de Klerk. “We go through ups and downs and all that, but I can assure you that today Zenith is moving fast with good traction in the US markets.”
Zenith luxury watches at 2024 Watch Week in Miami.
Watch sales are following the same pattern as the broader luxury market, where the wealthiest consumers remain strong. Wealthy people are less affected by rising rates and economic uncertainty, executives say, so more and more brands are catering to “superspenders” and VIP collectors who demand the highest quality and craftsmanship. Keep spending.
“Prestige has really been one of the main drivers of our growth,” said Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin. “I think the wealthy are more willing to invest in authentic, well-known and timeless brands than ever before.”
Babin said he sees increased strength at the top level across all of Bulgari’s businesses, which now include hotels, fashion and fragrance.
“We sold more high-end jewelry, more high-end watches, more high-end bags,” said Babin, referring to one of Bulgari’s coveted yellow gold Serpenti Secret watches that sell for $350,000.
A Bulgari Serpenti secret watch at 2024 Watch Week in Miami.
LVMH is also targeting the fastest growing segment of luxury watches: women’s watches. While women’s watches account for only a third of total sales, women’s interest in luxury mechanical watches has been fueled by greater exposure on social media and an increasing number of models designed for women. A growing global population of wealthy women – both self-made and inherited – is also fueling sales growth.
“There is a trend toward more feminine and more unisex watches,” Babin said. “Women have increased power in terms of independence, autonomy and purchasing power. We think that will continue.”
In the highly competitive luxury watch world, brands have to constantly innovate with materials, complications and designs to gain share and keep collectors engaged.
Carrera Plasma Diamant d’Avant-Garde Chronograph Tourbillon at 2024 Watch Week in Miami.
TAG Heuer, with its roots in car racing, had great success using lab-grown diamonds with its Carrera Plasma. Its Carrera Plasma Diamant d’Avant-Garde Chronograph Tourbillon costs more than $500,000 — and has a waiting list of more than two years.
TAG Heuer unveiled a blue-green Carrera glass box chronograph with a teal green dial, referencing the shade of green used in auto racing in the 1920s and 1930s.
A TAG Heuer luxury watch at the 2024 Watch Week in Miami.
TAG Heuer CEO Julien Tournare said LVMH’s advantage over other watch brands and groups is its constant focus on reinvention and ambition.
He said that the Swiss watchmaking industry has been somewhat conservative. “But at LVMH, we’re pushed to try new things to move forward. I think if we still want to appeal to (a) new generation, it’s very important to show that we’re looking to the past. No, but will work for the future.”
Many of the LVMH brands are mining their storied past for new designs and models.
Zenith launches its Chronomaster Triple Calendar, featuring a triple calendar moon phase chronograph, inspired by its rare prototype El Primero watch from 1970.
A Zenith luxury watch at the 2024 Watch Week in Miami.
De Klerk said part of the Zenith’s appeal to younger watch buyers and collectors is its price. He said that although Zenith sells highly complicated watches, it tries to provide value, such as the Triple Calendar, which sells for around $14,000, but may be priced higher based on the level of craftsmanship and complications required. “There may be thousands more.”
“We have a very good value proposition compared to the competition,” he said. “You get a lot of watch for the money, and we want to keep that spirit.”
At the same time, many LVMH brands are moving up the price ladder, with more expensive, limited editions. Hublot, known for its bold, big watches, has just launched a $250,000 limited edition watch, called the MP-10 Tourbillon Weight Energy System. Only 50 of the futuristic watches will be produced, and are expected to sell out quickly.
“We call it the art of fusion in watchmaking,” said Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe. “We are combining over 400 years of watchmaking tradition with innovation. We do it through design, through materials, through new mechanics and new methods of movement.”


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‘Broken‘; it certainly wasn‘t the term that those invested in Target Australia wanted to hear when new managing director Stuart Machin walked through the door. But it was a description of the company he was prepared to agree with as sales plummeted down under.
With Australian companies like Smiggle (stationary), Taking Shape (plus-size clothing) and Colette (women‘s accessories) making the voyage to the UK, there seems little sign of Target, seller of clothing, toys, homeware and more, doing the same as they continue to struggle despite a major restructure.
Machin, who worked for Sainsburys, ASDA and Tesco in England before moving to Melbourne to take up a position with Coles Group, hadn‘t been in charge for long when he had the unenviable task of overseeing 216 redundancies in order to get costs under control.
In August 2013 Machin claimed the store would not regain meaningful earnings or performance improvement until 2015 or even 2016. An undeniable realist, Machin also admitted 2014 was set to be a ‘bumpy ride‘ – he was not wrong.
In February of this year, parent company Wesfarmers were pleased to announce an 11.2% rise in profit. But Target was a blotch on the balance sheet after it struggled with a backlog of winter stock and saw profit fall from the same time last year by a massive 52.7% to $70 million.
An influx of English recruits one year ago aimed to help Machin‘s attempt to ‘make Target great again‘. Richard Jones, formerly of Dunnes, Tesco and Sainsbury‘s, was appointed as trading director and Damian Walton, who previously worked at the Shop Direct Group, House of Fraser and Marks & Spencer, was drafted in as homewares general manager.
Target often look to link up with big-name designers following an incredibly successful collaboration with Stella McCartney in 2007 when some stores sold out of the range in just 10 minutes. They have worked with the likes of Dannii Minogue and Gok Wan and last month announced an impressive Australian-only exclusive deal with Italian brand Missioni.
But there has still been some bad press for Machin‘s reformed outfit. Last month the retailer was accused of being stuck in the past when it sent out a catalogue for a toy sale via e-mail which merely gave consumers product details with no purchase options. Many pointed the finger at this online ineptness as a big reason for the store‘s sorry state.
So far the British overhaul of personnel has not been enough to fix the ‘broken business‘ but, with Machin setting Target‘s recovery target for next year or perhaps beyond, it is still a little too early to judge.


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Volvo expects one-third of all its cars sold to be self-driving vehicles by 2025
On Thursday, Volvo Car Corporation’s President and CEO Hakan Samuelson said in a release that the automaker expects that one-third of all its cars sold will self-driving vehicles by year 2025. Volvo has been pushing ahead with impressive technologies in electric and self-driving segment.
Previously, Volvo had announced it is aiming for pure electric vehicles to account for one-half of its car sales by the middle of next decade. The automaker had also said in a 2017 announcement that it plans to electrify all its new vehicle models -- either as a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or full battery-electric -- from 2019 onwards.
In the Thursday release, Samuelson also said that Volvo is hopeful that 50% of all its cars will be available via its newly-launched subscription service called ‘Care by Volvo’ by 2025. The automaker expects the new subscription service to help it build more than 5 million direct consumer relationships by the mentioned timeline.
According to Volvo, the recently announced initiatives will pave the way for a significant transformation in terms of how the company connects to the customers. In addition, the initiatives will also enable Volvo to develop new connected services for consumers, as well as generate “premium level profitability” similar to some of the other luxury automakers.
Towards that end, Samuelson specifically said in the release: “These initiatives will help transform Volvo from being purely a car company to being a direct consumer services provider.”
After software as a service (SAAS), infrastructure as a service and many other similar business models, maybe it is time for mobility as a service.
According to reports, the new 2018 Nissan LEAF electric car apparently has a fast-charging problem.
On the sidelines of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Lexus CEO Yoshihiro Sawa said that “full electric vehicles” (EVs) are not yet ready for primetime because they presently require a long charging time and face battery degradation/replacement issu
During the course of an interview at the 2018 Beijing Auto Show, Detlev von Platen -- Porsche’s Chief of Sales Division -- informed that Porsche is projecting electric cars will account for as much as 50% of the automaker’s vehicle deliveries by t
In a Wednesday announcement, Chinese boutique luxury electric carmaker Gyon said that it will be unveiling its latest model -- the Gyon concept -- on August 8, 2018, in the US.
The forthcoming Auto China 2018 event in Beijing this week will unfold an important platform for China to showcase its ambitions to become an electric-vehicle (EV) market leader, along with giving EV manufacturers an opportunity to unveil their ne
According to an analysis by automotive data specialist HPI, the most affordable used electric vehicle (EV) to run in Britain is the Citroen C-Zero. The analysis included electric cars as well as hybrids currently available in Britain.


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Canada's privacy commissioner reported Thursday that to comply with Canadian privacy laws, Facebook has agreed to make changes to better protect users' personal information on the social networking site within oneone year.
12 million Canadians use Facebook, and Canadian officials had been negotiating with representatives of the site since an Office of the Privacy Commissioner report a month ago. It stated that Facebook's practices actively breached the Personal Information and Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). The office began investigating following a complaint from the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, which is based at the University of Ottawa. Courtesy of cbc.ca


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LinkedIn’s announcement this week that it is to introduce sponsored updates has once again put the issue of native advertising – where content created by brands appears directly alongside editorial – back on the media agenda.
It’s a format that is rapidly becoming central to the way we consume content online, whether that is via Twitter’s promoted tweets, Facebook’s sponsored stories or newspaper sites and online publishers placing paid advertorial articles within their headlines pages.
But alongside the excitement about new revenue streams and marketing opportunities, brands and publishers are increasingly recognising that this blend of editorial and advertising has the potential to create new types of risk.
Although the principle of brands funding content is nothing new (newspapers and magazines have been running advertorials for decades) the extent of native advertising and the level of integration the digital formats create with editorial is on a new scale. A recent report from the Pew Research Centre estimated that this type of sponsored content is now worth over $1.56bn (and is growing 39% a year) making it ever more central to the business of funding content.
For platforms and publishers the motivation to go down this route is pretty clear: with revenue models under pressure and the old certainties of advertising being tested, new sources of revenue have to be found, and ad funded content and paid promotion seem like they could be an important way of earning the money required to keep shareholders happy and pay for the costly business of high quality journalism.
And for brands, these formats offer a hugely attractive marketing opportunity, combining an ability to build a brand’s resonance with people’s interests with prominent display to a highly targeted audience. They are also effective: one recent IPG study estimated that native advertising was viewed 53% more frequently than banner ads.
A return to interruption?
But one of the strongest arguments in favour of any branded content is that it flips the model of marketing from interrupting people’s media consumption with adverts to one of enabling it through the creation of compelling entertainment and information. As native advertising increases the volume of paid for messages in content streams, there is a growing risk that irrelevant articles will start to appear, undermining this very strength. Marketers are starting to realise that careful management is required to ensure their content is highly relevant and to avoid their brand looking like they are spoiling the experience of social media or news sites by pumping people’s news feeds full of unwanted promotional messages.
Audiences also have an expectation of a certain editorial style and level of quality from the sites they visit. Too often it seems that native advertising falls short of these expectations, with articles that are poorly written, don’t match the editorial style of the site, or are clumsily stuffed with SEO keywords. Audiences tire of poor quality content pretty swiftly, but the damage to the brand and publisher of being associated with it could be long lasting. It is therefore hugely important for brands to work with high quality writers (and ideally with the publisher’s own journalists) to ensure credible results.
Most important of all is the issue of transparency. It is true that the modern social media literate web audience is used to receiving content feeds made up of articles from multiple sources, so the placement of paid articles next to unpaid feels natural to many. But as recent controversies such as this week’s Coronation Street Twitter allegations have shown, even the suggestion of a lack of transparency in sign-posting commercial relationships around content presents a very real risk for brands.
Getting the balance right
So how can publishers, platforms and brands work together to avoid these risks and ensure that native advertising evolves in a positive way? Anyone who has worked in journalism knows the importance of having a clear set of editorial values, so perhaps one approach is to recognise that branded content is no different. Perhaps it could be as simple as ensuring that both the brand and publisher consider three simple questions before creating any native advertising:
• Relevance: is the content really pertinent to the agenda of the site, or does it risk feeling like promotional spam?
• Quality: does the content match the editorial and production values of the rest of the site and is the subject matter something the brand can credibly talk about?
• Transparency: is it clearly sign-posted so that users know that the content is funded by a brand?
If properly handled it is clear that native advertising and brand funded content can bring huge benefits: audiences get high quality, relevant content that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to; brands get to connect with consumers on a deeper level; and publishers get a valuable new revenue stream that enables them to keep producing high quality journalism. But unless brands, publishers and platforms recognise the potential risks and work together to guarantee relevance, quality and transparency, it is equally clear that problems for the model are likely to lie ahead.
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THE MANAGING DIRECTOR of The Irish Times, Liam Kavanagh, is to take over as president of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce from today.
Kavanagh has been a council member of the business organisation, which represents over 1,300 companies in the capital, since 2007 and was, until today, its deputy vice president.
The managing director of HP Ireland, Martin Murphy, is set to be confirmed as vice president at today’s AGM.
One of the focuses of the chamber’s current initiative, Activate Dublin, is to transition Dublin businesses to online trading.
“Initially twenty companies will be equipped with the tools they need to make the transition to online trading,” Kavanagh said, with the end goal being that 40 per cent of SMEs will be selling online by the end of 2013.
“Activating Dublin has the ultimate ambition to transform Dublin from a good news story to a great news story,” said the new president.
Outgoing president, Patrick Coveney, said that it was vital that Ireland became more competitive “in terms of both attracting foreign direct investment and helping domestic businesses to prosper and grow.”


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Netstal, a division of the KraussMaffei Group, will offer details of its injection molding machines and systems for various packaging applications at Interplastica 2014.
The company presented three world premieres at drinktec 2013, the PET-LINE 2400, PET-LINE 4000, and the ELION 4200. According to its release, Netstal will be delivering the first ELION 4200 and PE-TLINE 2400 machines to customers in Russia this spring.
“It is especially in the beverage packaging, closure and thin-wall packaging sectors that Netstal is a forerunner on the Russian market when it comes to energy-efficient and cost-effective production,” said Zachar Antonovsky, Divisional Director of Injection Molding Machinery and Reaction Process Machinery in Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
With the new PET-LINE 2400 and PET-LINE 4000, Netstal said it makes cycle times even faster and massively increase output. The new ELION 4200 is based on the company’s hybrid drive, Eco Powerunit to realize energy-saving potential. Its double-valve technology is said to achieve an injection speeds of up to 2,200mm/s, which results in material savings, faster cycle times and reduced production costs.
“In order to serve our customers even better and more quickly, our stock of spare parts in Russia is being expanded and further positions created in the service sector,” added Zachar Antonovsky.
Interplastica 2014 will be held from January 28-31 in Moscow, Russia.


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Finepoint Broadcast Ltd has established a Professional Audio-Visual demonstration suite at the London premises of its business partner, Colebrook Bosson Saunders (CBS).
Finepoint has been supplying broadcasters with a wide range of production and OB equipment since its establishment in the 1970s. The new facility is located at 35 Union Street, SE1 1SD, within walking distance of Waterloo and London Bridge railway stations.
“CBS is an international designer, manufacturer and distributor of award-winning ergonomic products,” says Finepoint Broadcast’s Professional AV sales manager Paul MacKenzie. “It stocks a very wide range of office furniture including desks, lighting, monitor mounts and video display screen enclosures, many of its own design. The company shares our values and aims to be the first to create innovative solutions that solve its clients’ technical requirements. CBS developed and marketed the world’s first flatscreen monitor arm. It also offers the world’s first dynamic monitor arm which supports weights from 0 to 9 kg.”
He continued: “This agreement provides both parties with a city-centre demonstration facility that goes beyond short-duration trade exhibitions by being accessible whenever customers choose to call in. The new suite is configured to demonstrate products from leading AV suppliers.”
These include Barco’s ClickShare wireless presentation systems, IDK AV distribution and control devices, Polycom conferencing and content sharing equipment, Zoom video collaboration solutions and a range of remotely controllable 1080p high definition pan/tilt/zoom cameras. Also on show will be a large interactive commercial grade LED 4K flat-panel screen designed for interactive team collaboration demonstrations and presentations.”


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iPhone 7 Will Be A Terrific Smartphone, If Not For This Little Detail Missing
iPhone 7 is going to sport a ton of improvements over its predecessors, which obviously includes improved hardware. However, it is this one little detail that we feel should be present inside the upcoming flagship device.
Wireless Noise Cancelling Earpods Will Not Be A Part Of The Upcoming iPhone 7 – According To Two Analysts
According to two analysts, Blayne Curtis and Christopher Hemmelgarn, Apple will include a Lightning-equipped headphone with the iPhone 7, but will not purchase Cirrus' noise-cancelling technology for in-box headphones until the iPhone 7s, which is most likely going to take place during September 2017. In their findings, the analysts have stated the following:
“We still believe there is potential for AAPL to add ANC in the IP7S but believe AAPL is including just the digital headphone in the IP7 this year. We do believe there are aftermarket AAPL and Android opportunities this year, and we have included only 7.5M units in FY17 as those sales. Recent speculation surrounding the elimination of the headphone jack in the IP7 is consistent with this move as AAPL will need to provide a digital headset inbox but likely was not willing to spend the extra cost for the ANC functionality.”
We already know that iPhone 7 is going to be a cut above the rest, because according to our latest report, the upcoming handset and its larger screen brother, iPhone 7 Plus are going to sport 256GB, which is twice the amount that was present inside the tech giant’s current generation iPhones. In addition, it is also expected that iPhone 7 Plus will come with a 3,100mAh, meaning that iPhone 7 will come with a larger battery as opposed to iPhone 6s.
Additionally, it is expected that the handset is going to be incorporated with a dual-lens camera, along with the company’s own developed A10 SoC, which is going to be manufactured on the 10nm FinFET node, resulting in much better performance and efficiency. We will continue to keep you posted on details, but as far as things go, what do you think of the upcoming iPhone 7? Let us know your thoughts.