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The maritime industry is heavily reliant on electronic commerce (“e-business”) in many of its daily business transactions, including recordkeeping, human resources data, the loading and discharging of cargo and the location of containers on the docks, on land transportation and on ships. About 50,000 ships are at sea or in ports at any one time. The industry is therefore exposed to cyberattack threats that can have severe repercussions. Companies are increasingly using cutting-edge techniques to stop cyber criminals from breaching their networks, but many are still not effectively protected. While governments have enacted legislation to counter such attacks, the implementation of legislation and international conventions does not, at present, appear to be entirely effective.


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Will Corvin spent a sleepless Monday night sucking down caffeinated energy drinks while sitting in a folding chair in front of the glass doors of his employer, Best Buy.
Happy and a tad strung out early Tuesday, he figured there are a lot more days ahead without much shut-eye. His new Xbox 360 will see to that.
"You can play with buddies, people all over the country," said the 21-year-old also known as Corv1no when he plays Xbox Live. "You can even play with people in Australia."
Welcome to Xbox frenzy, where even the employees have to line up at ungodly hours to get in on what has become the high-tech version of Tickle Me Elmo, Furby and the Cabbage Patch Kids. Only this hot gift goes for $400 retail and that doesn’t even include the games.
Corvin, of Scottsdale, plays video games nightly from the time he leaves work at 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. He was third in line Tuesday for Microsoft Corp.’s precious new console, a nirvana for gamers that features high-definition graphics and the ability to view photos and watch DVDs.
An employee at Best Buy’s store in the Scottsdale Pavilions shopping center, Corvin and a handful of fellow workers lined up at 7:30 p.m. Monday and waited for the doors to open nearly 14 hours later. Fueled by free coffee and cocoa from a nearby Denny’s, they lis- tened to music, did homework, fiddled with laptops and played with a dog named Bear.
"It’s going to be the big Christmas thing," said John Ausdemore, in line two spots back from Corvin. "You’re not going to be able to get it."
A spokesperson for Microsoft said Tuesday that it appears the new game consoles are sold out at stores across the country. Microsoft officials say they will be reassessing supplies and will make an announcement after Thanksgiving regarding when more Xbox 360s will be available.
Best Buy manager Xan LaPointe said the frenzy was the biggest she’s seen in her 15-year retail career. She didn’t know if the store will get additional boxes but there are rumors more may not be available until after Christmas.
"We all kind of feel like we’ll see another shipment but we have no word as to when or what the timing of those look like," she said.
Best Buy had 50 consoles on hand at the game’s launch Tuesday. They were snapped up in minutes once the store opened at 9 a.m. Most buyers spent between $500 and $800, depending on accessories and number of games purchased.
Overnight, a long line developed that snaked down the sidewalk to nearby stores. At 7 a.m. the first 50 in line received tickets to make their purchase. Those who didn’t spend the night or had number 51 or higher were left shaking their heads and looking for people such as Jeff Salter.
"I’m going to throw it up on eBay," he said. "I didn’t sleep 12 hours for nothing."
He planned to sell his Xbox and split the profits with a friend. He said he will buy one of the consoles for himself once the hype dies down.
Xbox 360 sellers were asking as much as $3,500 on eBay Tuesday. One seller wrote "Waited in line for 10hrs. Tested! Sold out in Stores!"
Microsoft expects to sell 3 million Xboxes within three months. Some of those in line accused the company of deliberately controlling distribution but Microsoft has said it is producing the games as fast as it can. A plan to sell the product worldwide within a few weeks could mean fewer in North America but retailers said they expected weekly shipments through the holidays.
Ausdemore ordered one of the consoles from a gaming store but was told he wouldn’t get it until after Christmas. He went to a nearby Wal-Mart at 3 a.m. Tuesday only to find the store’s 40 boxes were all gone after going on sale at midnight. He then got in line at Best Buy.
"Nobody knows what’s going on," he said. "If you want one before Christmas, this is what you have to do."
Those in line were mostly college students. "I knew you’d be here. You guys are geeks," said a man who pulled up in pickup truck.
"Thank you," responded 19-year-old Jared Brown.
Tricia Keyes grabbed up her dog, Bear, and spent the night on the concrete so she could buy her boyfriend a console for Christmas. "I don’t play video games," she said. "That’s love. Let it be known — that’s love."
Arizona State University law student Vincent Mazzotta said his Xbox will be purchased from proceeds he earned when he invested in 100 shares of Microsoft stock two months ago. The share price increased $3.50, he said.
"$3.50 a share times $100 pays for a Xbox," Mazzotta said.
The demand has led to lines even at stores not regularly frequented by technology buffs, including Target, Costco and Sam’s Club.
Microsoft said the new consoles will eventually tie in elements of the company’s new online initiative, called Windows Live, company chairman Bill Gates has said.
‘‘In the living room itself, Xbox 360 is our centerpiece and a product that redefines what goes on there,’’ Gates said.
Gates said Monday that he expects Xbox Live, Microsoft’s service that allows gamers worldwide to play one another, to eventually work with a Microsoft instant messenger that is scheduled to become part of Windows Live.
Windows Live is Microsoft’s newly launched effort to better compete with free, advertising-financed Web services such as e-mail and search technology from competitors led by Google and Yahoo!
Big competition is on the horizon for Microsoft. Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 is expected out next year.
"I’ll be back for PlayStation 3," Brown said, after spending $784 for his Xbox and accessories.
- The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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“It is clearly profit and profit only that is the motive for designating workers as self-employed,” Labour MP Mark Field said. “The companies get all the benefits, while workers take on all the risks and the state will be expected to pick up the tab.
It’s worth noting that Labour seems headed for a disaster in the upcoming British snap election. This sentiment may pass in the U.K., but it remains an active debate globally.
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“It went from clear skies to a hurricane in about 24 hours,” George said, declining to name the carmaker. “Functionally, Bridj is no more.”
Source: Bridj, local on-demand bus service, is shutting down – The Boston Globe
In a single, shortish sentence Mondelez has done something special. It has evoked not one, but 10 top business clichés, each of which is begging to be banned.
Source: Mondelez serves up 10 business clichés in one sentence
Not a bubble, but the decline of poorly conceived labor engagement.
Frequency of use: Winners will avoid the trap of episodic customer behavior by focusing on areas where the product actually needs to be used frequently.
Source: Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and the on-demand economy is a bubble—and it’s about to burst — Quartz
Here’s a tip for those of you thinking about your brand. Take a lesson from Travis Kalanick and Donald Trump: Don’t make absurd “biggest” and “best” claims about what you’ve done. They don’t buy you any good will and are easy to debunk.
In a 2014 Financial Times interview, Kalanick also claimed to be “number seven in the country in Angry Birds.” In all these profiles, the boast is supposed to reflect a wider drive to win at pursuits others treat less seriously. “If somebody gives me a casual game and says, ‘OK, here’s the world record,’ I’ll just go until I’m there,” Kalanick told the Financial Times. For more details on the “Wii Tennis” story, we need to rely on Chris Sacca…
“I have a confession to make, Mr. Sacca. I’ve played a fair amount of Wii Tennis before,” [Kalanick said]. While talking, he used his controller to navigate through the settings pages on the Wii to a list of high scores. “In fact,” he continued, “on the Wii Tennis global leaderboard, I am currently tied for second in the world.”
Reading this detailed explanation only set off more alarm bells in my head. Wii Sports doesn’t have any “global leaderboard,” as Sacca claims. There is no “settings pages” on the system or the game to let you compare your performance to anyone else online. I literally wrote an entire reference book about the Wii, in which Wii Sports filled an entire chapter, so I’m pretty confident on this point.
Source: Was Uber’s CEO really the second-best Wii Sports tennis player? | Ars Technica
Mr. Levandowski’s shift in role appears designed to shield Uber from any perception of impropriety during the litigation. But legal scholars question whether the change will be effective.
Source: Uber Executive Steps Back From Self-Driving Cars During Waymo Legal Fight – The New York Times
The round was said to have raised the four-year-old startup’s valuation to about $50 billion, up from a previous $34 billion after its acquisition of Uber’s China business. That price tag would surpass smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp.’s and make Didi the world’s most valuable startup after Uber. Didi amassed $10 billion in cash and equivalents last year, but the deal yields more ammunition as it prepares to challenge Uber and Alphabet Inc. in automated driving, and buys the company time to carve out new reven
Source: China’s Didi Raises Over $5.5 Billion in Record Tech Funding – Bloomberg
If it happens this time, the new Apple product would compete with offerings from big U.S. banks as well as PayPal, its millennial-popular subsidiary Venmo, as well as Square Cash in the increasingly competitive world of digital money-transfers. Chase’s QuickPay service processed $28 billion in transfers last year, while Venmo registered $17.6 billion in volume and is still doubling year over year.
Source: Apple is in talks to launch its own Venmo – Recode
The insurance policy announced Thursday will only be available to drivers in the U.K. Those who have completed more than 500 rides will be eligible to pay 2 pounds ($2.58) per week for benefits that covers sickness and injury, jury service, as well as a 50,000-pound payout if an accident results in death or disablement. Uber says it’s contributing to the benefits package, which it says is worth 8 pounds per week.
Source: Uber Gives U.K. Drivers Option to Buy Disability Benefits – Bloomberg
GrubHub reports a profit of $0.29-a-share.
The company recorded a 26 percent jump in active diners for the first quarter, to 8.75 million from 6.97 million a year ago.
Source: GrubHub shares spike 19% after company reports a surge in active diners


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Louis was once lauded for selling his stand-up specials directly to his fans for $5 each, with an estimated gain of $200,000 for the star. But even the everyman couldn’t resist the Netflix beast, and though his deal is not revealed, The Daily Beast reports that:
Chris Rock recently secured $40 million for two new specials with the company, Dave Chappelle got $60 million for three specials — two of which were already in the can — and Jerry Seinfeld reportedly took in $100 million total for a deal that includes two new specials as well as 24 new episodes of his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
The new Netflix model, while good for fans, can be tough for comedians. Their specials are taped too long before they air, which means the material can feel dated. Something tells me Netflix will figure this out, though. It’s an easy fix.


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Sunday brunch returns to Sturges-Young
Brunch returns Sunday at Sturges-Young Center for the Arts in Sturgis, available 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
The service had been put on hold due to the pandemic.
Those interested in “a good, hearty breakfast or lunch, bundle up and come on down,” officials said in an online statement.
Patrons may dine socially distanced in the center’s ballroom. Masks are required until patrons are seated. Takeout and delivery options also are available.
To place an order, call 269-651-8541. A delivery charge applies.
COVID-19 mandates that were put in place Nov. 15 prompted officials to close the center for the month of December. Continued indoor dining restrictions pushed the organization’s reopening until February,


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America’s state-level cannabis reform movement has put plenty of consideration into ensuring that individuals from marginalized communities are given a chance to participate in the billion-dollar industry. It’s no secret that the war on drugs, and cannabis policing to be more specific, had a disproportionately negative effect on members of Black and Brown communities.
Black people are much more likely to be arrested and receive harsher sentences for cannabis offenses compared to…
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Cash machine expansion marches on
PRE-TAX profits at Moneybox, which runs a network of fee-charging cash machines, are set to hit £3m for 2004. Shares in the Alternative Investment Market-listed company fell 1p to 36p in early trading.
In a trading statement, the company said profits would be in line with estimates made in its results from September, when the board said earnings would be £500,000 below the City's estimates of £3.4m
The number of machines run by Moneybox has increased 15% in the UK from 2,471 to 2,830 in 2004. In Germany, where the company sees 'particularly exciting prospects for expansion', the number of cash machines rose from 178 to more than 400.
Since 1999, banks and building societies have not charged customers for withdrawing money. However, smaller firms have spotted a niche by providing additional cash machines in 'convenient' locations. They typically charge £1.50.
Some 70% - around 1,500 - of all machines in Post Offices, most of which are operated by Alliance & Leicester, now impose a fee. The annual bill for taking cash out of such machines is currently running at £60m, but this is set to spiral.
The total number of machines which charge has rocketed by 40% in the last six months, to around 20,000 of the country's 50,000 ATMs.
The Treasury Select Committee is due to begin an investigation into ATM charges next week. 'We have made a detailed submission to the committee and are confident that we can demonstrate that independent ATM deployers provide choice and a service which is valued by consumers,' Moneybox said today.
'We have also pointed out that the transparency of our charges is in marked contrast to other card-based transactions.' It has also criticised the 'monopoly' position of Link, which operates the country's ATM network.
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Thousands of shoppers turned out for opening day for Charlotte Premium Outlets, the city’s first new mall in almost 10 years.
The 400,000-square-foot Steele Creek mall, at 5404 New Fashion Way, is a partnership between Greensboro-based Tanger Factory Outlet Centers and Simon Property Group, owner of SouthPark and Concord Mills.
“Get your credit cards ready,” Mark Silvestri of Simon Property Group told shoppers gathered for the ribbon-cutting. Also attending was Gov. Pat McCrory, who said: “What an incredible opportunity right here in Charlotte...More than anything else, it’s creating jobs.”
Saks 5th Avenue Off Fifth is the mall’s anchor tenant, and other retailers at the center will include Le Creuset, Kate Spade New York, Crocs and Sunglass Hut. The mall employs 900 people.
By late morning, Kelly Sanders, who lives in nearby Berewick, had been to Lane Bryant, NY&C, Gap, Banana Republic and Michael Kors. Sanders, an elementary school counselor in Fort Mill, planned on shopping for a few more hours, looking for “back to work clothes.”
She said lines in stores were moving quickly: “Every store has a ton of people to help you.” She said her fiance, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher, has a part-time job at the Nike store. “We’re planning a wedding, so all the extra income helps,” she said.
James Jones, a retired police officer, arrived at 6 a.m. to stand in line at Nike. Jones said he came for the giveaways. “I think that's why everyone’s here,” he said.
In the event that the mall’s 2,000 parking spots fill up this weekend, mall officials have arranged shuttle rides to overflow lots. People will be able to park their cars at Berewick Elementary School, Radiant Church and Shopton Square Shopping Center, with shuttles operating from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Elmer Branstetter, a retired software developer from Mint Hill, sat at the indoor food court at midday guarding the Coach purse that his wife, Tina, bought for 50 percent off. He was taking a break while his wife continued to shop.
He and his wife parked in a satellite lot, but instead of taking the shuttle they walked the 5 minutes to the mall. “When she's ready (to leave), I'm ready,” he said.
To accommodate traffic, officials have widened Dixie River Road by two lanes and have added a traffic light near Dixie River and Shopton roads. Officials also added a second traffic light at Shopton Road and New Fashion Way.
Charlotte Premium Outlets is the first new mall to be built in Charlotte since Northlake Mall opened in 2005.
The mall’s developers project it will bring in annual sales totaling $140 million, generating $10 million in annual sales tax.
The complex could grow in coming years. When Charlotte City Council approved the mall’s rezoning last year, it allowed up to 125,000 more square feet for growth at the mall and a future 120-room hotel on the Charlotte Premium Outlets site.
Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are helping with the construction costs. The city and county agreed to give the mall developers $5.1 million in tax rebates over the next 10 years to help offset the cost of building new infrastructure at the site.
Mall general manager Sharon Campbell was glad to see the big day come.
“I really want to take the time and walk around and see people’s faces and enjoy their excitement,” she said. “I hope that everybody walks away today saying ‘wow!’”
Jennifer Grubba, store manager of Loft Outlet, said business was brisk – and she was expecting the afternoon would be even busier.
“I’ve prepared for this afternoon being crazy insane,” said Grubba, who transferred from the store’s Concord Mills location. “I think a lot of people will take off work early to shop.”


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Organizers of the Baltimore Running Festival and Baltimore Marathon announced today that Under Armour has extended its title sponsorship of the event through 2012. Under Armour has been title sponsor since 2003.
As part of the agreement, Under Armour will provide state-of-the-art performance apparel to all participants.
"Our goal is to create a premium, international race for serious runners surrounded by a festival that celebrates the voice of our brand and the city of Baltimore," said Amy Larkin, Under Armour senior director of events, sponsorships and community. "We are proud to be part of such a fantastic event and we look forward to the future as we continue to grow the festival's global presence, enhance the experience for every competitor and their supporters, and build upon the great excitement in the city."


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Kolkata-based Orient Paper and Industries Ltd. said it will separate its cement business and turn it into a new entity called Orient Cement Ltd, which will be listed by April.
"We have undertaken the restructuring exercise to try and enhance shareholder value," Orient Paper’s chairman C.K. Birla said Wednesday.
The cement business accounted for 60% of the company’s revenue for the quarter ended June 30, while its electricals and the paper division accounted for 30% and 10%, respectively.
"Creation of a pure-play cement company will allow us to focus on the cement business and achieve faster growth," said the company’s managing director, M.L. Pachisia.
Shareholders will receive one share of Orient Cement for every share of Orient Paper they hold, the company said.


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Flexera identifies top PC vulnerabilities for Aussie users
Australian PC users are slowly patching software vulnerabilities, but some challenges remain, according to Flexera Software's latest report.
From Yosemite to El Capitan, Apple scales new peaks
Apple says its next major release of OS X – dubbed El Capitan – focuses on speeding up performance and offering a richer user experience.
iOS 9: coming to an Apple device near you
Apple has previewed iOS 9, the latest software for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices, which will be available in September.
My black hole theory of computing...
Unified theory of computer market: CPU, server OS will swallow up all functions & features. New blog by @valdis_filks.
Ubuntu 13.04: Raring Ringtail released to little fanfare
This week saw Canonical release the latest version of their flagship Linux operating system, Ubuntu.
Windows 8, we’re rooting for you
It’s an odd position, after all these years, to be firmly on the side of the company which for good reason became known as ‘the Beast of Redmond’.
What’s Microsoft got planned for Monday?
US journalists have been invited to mystery event early next week.
All go for Mango
Latest version of Windows phone OS released to manufacturers.
Over 1 million Lion downloads
A huge build-up pays off for Apple as users go crazy for new OS.
Apple's new OS, Mac Mini and MacBook Air
Apple releases a bunch of new models to coincide with Lion launch.
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Next iPhone OS revealed April 8th
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A Jersey guy hopes to sack the NFL over its Super Bowl ticket policy, accusing the league of greedily gouging its biggest fans for seats to its biggest game.
Football fan Josh Finkelman, in a lawsuit filed in Newark Federal Court, charged the league with breaking New Jersey law by releasing just 1% of the seats in MetLife Stadium to the public.
Finkelman, 28, of New Brunswick, N.J., further accused the NFL of inflating the face value price of seats to increase its already staggering bottom line.
"The NFL generates nearly $10 billion in revenues," said Bruce Nagel, the Roseland, N.J.-based attorney for Finkelman.
"And then, for the biggest sporting event of the year, they totally ignore their fan base and only release 1% of the tickets."
Finkelman filed the class-action suit on behalf of anyone forced to pay more than face value for the Feb. 2 Super Bowl, or anyone who wanted to buy seats — and couldn't afford them.
Finkelman, a fan of the Houston Texans, decided that he wanted to head up the New Jersey Turnpike for the first-ever cold weather Super Bowl.
He visited NFL.com for tickets, and was quickly rerouted to a resale site where one seat was selling for $4,000. After checking around on other sites, he finally found two seats for $2,000 apiece.
Finkelman, who attended the Packers-Steelers Super Bowl in Dallas three years ago, was outraged.
"I believe they need to release the seats at face value," he said Tuesday. "We're the ones who support the team, who buy the jerseys. We should be able to go at a fair price.
"Instead, they're giving the seats to rich sponsors."
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According to the suit, 25% of the tickets are kept by the NFL "for distribution to companies, broadcast networks, media sponsors, the host committee and other league insiders."
The lawsuit further charges the NFL violates the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, which prohibits the withholding of more than 5% of the available tickets for any event.
"Our lawyers will review the complaint and respond accordingly," the NFL said in a statement.
The league also noted that nearly 75% of the tickets are distributed to the NFL's teams, which sell the seats at face value to their fans.
Finkelman said he wasn't expecting any decision before this year's kickoff — but expressed hope that the league would call a ticketing audible.
"I'm hoping the NFL will change the policy," he said.


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New York -- Turner Broadcasting System Inc. last week
finalized an integrated marketing campaign with the National Basketball Association,
called "NBA Tipoff '99."
Earlier this fall, TBSI entered into another marketing
partnership with American Suzuki Motor Corp. and the Downtown Athletic Club, home of
college football's Heisman Trophy.
NBA Tipoff '99, which is tied to the Nov. 2 start of
the pro basketball season, will run from Oct. 10 through Nov. 5. It is supported by a
sweepstakes, promotional spots, print and radio advertising plus retail displays at 2,100
Kmart stores, according to Ken Derrett, the NBA's vice president of marketing
partnerships and Turner Sports' Mark Lazarus, executive vice president of sales and
global client solutions.
Each NBA team will also run tie-in promo spots on arena
The grand prize in the sweepstakes, which consumers can
enter via the NBA.com Web site or by calling a toll-free telephone number, will be two
tickets to a regular season game covered by Turner Network Television or TBS Superstation.
The first game on TNT airs Nov. 2. The first TBS game is
The Kmart displays involve such NBA merchandise licensees
as Huffy Sports, Topps Co., Sony PlayStation and Coca-Cola Co.'s Sprite. In addition,
the retail chain will distribute pocket TNT and TBS NBA schedules and plug NBA Tipoff
'99 in its Oct. 10 advertising circular.
Meanwhile, TBSI's $35 million partnership with Suzuki
and the home of the Heisman Trophy will encompass multi-page sections in Time Inc.
magazines. There will also Heisman Heroes video vignettes on past winners on Cable
News Network, CNN/SI, Turner Network Television and other Turner networks, as well as on
the CNN/SI Web site, Jumbotron screens at 10 major U.S. college stadiums and in movie
theaters in several major markets.
Although Turner's TNT and TBS share cable coverage of
the NBA, ESPN covers the actual Heisman Trophy award ceremony in December.


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AMD has reportedly decided to push back the launch of the Radeon HD 7950 until early February. According to the Guru of 3D, AMD made the decision to avoid another paper launch and have the card available on the market when it actually launches.
The Radeon HD 7970 is the first of a series of upcoming graphics cards that are making the jump to the 28nm fabrication process. The new HD 7970 will effectively become AMD's new flagship single GPU graphics card come January, when the board is expected to ship.
In the meantime, it’s definitely nice to get a look now at how it performs. The Radeon HD 7000 is a big leap for AMD, representing its most significant architecture overhaul in the last decade. Let’s take a moment to check out the new card's capabilities and features in greater detail.
AMD has followed up on their 11.11 release from just a few days ago. The newly relased Catalyst 11.11a "performance" driver addresses a number of performance issues as well as a couple of bugs found in 11.11. Rage and Skyrim get most of the love...
Undiscouraged by plummeting DRAM prices, AMD has begun elbowing its way into the system memory market using the Radeon brand. The prominent chipmaker has announced three new DDR3 RAM series: Entertainment, UltraPro Gaming, and Enterprise.
By utilizing three monitors games can become roughly 3x more demanding as the graphics card is required to render an overwhelmingly higher number of pixels. While we commonly test graphics cards at single monitor resolutions, today we are adding two more LCDs for effective resolutions of 5040x1050, 5760x1200 and 7680x1600.
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East West CEO: U.S. Needs to Bolster Comparative Advantages for Manufacturing to Flourish at Home
While still in his early 20s, Scott Ellyson learned two lessons as a global strategy consultant for the accounting and professional services firm Price WaterhouseCoopers LLP.
The first was that companies had to expand and globalize to be competitive, and secondly, certain regions around the world have competitive advantages over others.
Currently a co-founder and CEO of East West Manufacturing LLC, Mr. Ellyson provided during a luncheon of the Kiwanis Club of Atlantadowntown Jan. 12, an overview of his company’s origins and his outlook for the future of global investment.
An avowed “free-trade capitalist,” he completed his presentation with insights about how the U.S. could become more competitive while adopting a willingness to put in place policies that would provide competitive advantages.
“It’s not just about labor … but it’s really about raw materials, taxes, know-how, engineering capabilities — all this matrix of things that makes certain regions advantageous for producing certain products.”
Putting all his research into the “matrix of things” in perspective, he said that at the top of his list is a country’s political stability.
More than 20 years later, Mr. Ellyson still holds his two lessons to heart, but there’s no question that for him and East West Manufacturing the world has changed.
With his experience at PwC at age 26, he founded a company in Hong Kong that produced electronic assemblies for the auto industry.
While much of manufacturing in China at the time was involved in making toys, his company’s cruise controls were destined for Toyota Camrys and Corollas and its circuit boards for Buicks and Cadillacs.
Once he sold the company, he moved on to Atlanta-based DiversiTech Corp., which manufacturers a large number of components including A/C shutoff switches, thermostats, refrigerant and safety caps and a wide array of other components.
As an international technician, he decided where “the most strategically advantageous” regions were to manufacture these products in terms of quality and reliability at the lowest cost.
At this point, he launched East West in 2001 with co-founder Jeff Sweeney, which now has 750 employees in facilities located in the U.S., Vietnam, China, India and New Zealand.
China was the first destination to manufacture the company’s highly engineered products. To fulfill his vision of providing the highest quality components and the lowest cost, he has hired many engineers because none of the products are “off the shelf.”
And over the years, East West has developed the capabilities of providing the original designs for products and then distributing their manufacture through a highly evolved supply chain.
Despite the problems now faced by China’s economy and its rising cost of labor, Mr. Ellyson remains awed by the country’s fast-growth development since he first visited in 1993.
The industrial city of Shenzhen in Guangdong Province, where East West maintains a facility, the city had 3-to-4 million inhabitants when he first visited in the early 1990s. Now it has more than 10 million by some estimates.
Reflecting back on his early visits, he said he usually lost 10 pounds when he first went due to the stress of travel and doing business there. “But now I generally gain about 10 pounds.”
He also said that he read somewhere that China has used more concrete in three years than the U.S. has in 100 years as it has expanded dramatically its housing stock and the number of highways. He also cited being impressed with the 90 miles of subway track that Shenzhen has added in six years.
China’s phenomenal growth, however, has been accompanied by a steep rise in wages with average incomes rising from $400-500 per year to $7,000-8,000 per year, he said.
Consequently, the return on foreign direct investment has plunged, and keeping to his mantra of lowest cost and highest quality, East West has been looking elsewhere to manufacture its engineered, electronic, motor and medical products.
Mr. Ellyson isn’t completely disillusioned with China, citing the work ethic of the Chinese and their enormous market, but he turned to Vietnam in search of an alternative location to manufacture quality products reliably at the lowest cost for major international customers.
He can’t forget, however, that while the average value of a home to income in the U.S. is about three to one, in China it is at 16 to one. From his perspective, the economy won’t be able to sustain imbalances of this magnitude and inevitably will slow down.
“It’s just a question of how serious the landing is going to be,” he said.
Meanwhile, his company’s experience in Vietnam, where East West has some 500 employees in three buildings has been positive, according to Mr. Ellyson.
“The government has been supportive,” he added, citing a corporate tax rate of 7.5 percent for 15 years with no corporate tax for the first several years. East West also has received research and development credits and the labor force has been quick to learn what it needs to do and is reliable, he said.
Yet given his matrix, Mr. Ellyson also is constantly comparing the advantages and disadvantages of different markets and India has been especially appealing because of the low cost of steel there.
“We want to get India right,” he told Global Atlanta following his presentation. But India did provide a hurdle. It took him two years to get a business license even though he hired some of the country’s most outstanding attorneys, revealing its entrenched bureaucratic systems.
“India is the toughest place where we have ever operated,” he added. “We have the labor costs and the pricing, but we haven’t been able to get a solid supply line.”
He also has been pleased with the company’s experience in New Zealand because of the large supply of electrical engineers, who are difficult to find in the U.S.
So where does Mr. Ellyson believe the U.S. stands in terms of its comparative advantages?
Companies should only return their manufacturing facilities to the U.S. if a business case can be made for them to do so, he said.
The U.S., in his view, has many advantages: size of the market, the increasing automation of industrial processes, highly trained workers, innovation and entrepreneurship.
“We have the systems,” he said pointing to the professional service firms and the rule of law. “We can get this right. We just need to get our policies right.”
As an example of U.S. capabilities, he cited the components East West makes for robots, which help some of the world’s largest retailers move product in warehouses on the ground. While the components are made abroad, the assembly is done in Boston.
The lower price of oil also has been a plus in his mind, he said, enabling East West to buy PCB resin in the U.S. for its facility in India.
But U.S. corporate tax policies have forced the company to use a Dutch holding company to take advantage of a foreign tax structure “to protect ourselves,” and to enable the company to maintain its 25 percent annual growth to satisfy its investors.
He criticized the U.S. policy of taxing worldwide income because it keeps companies from investing in the infrastructure and personnel that they need to grow.
He also said that companies dependent on transportation in the U.S. would return their overseas manufacturing capabilities. And he thinks that high-tech and final-assembly processes will take hold in the U.S.
But the U.S. health care system is becoming unsupportable for a company such as his which has seen its health care costs escalate 20 percent a year.
He also is concerned about the “brain drain” with foreign students who make up a majority of the students receiving advanced degrees leaving the U.S. for their home countries.
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We don't know if there are any comic book stores in Shanghai or Beijing, but we bet Brook Lopez does! The New York Post writes Friday about his well known hobby and also hints this hobby may be about to make some money for what the paper calls "the seven foot Nerd."
As Kirsten Fleming writes...
While most NBA players shell out big bucks on stylists so that they can have the latest Lanvin, sit front-row at fashion shows and grace the pages of GQ, Lopez is more concerned with geekier pursuits — superheroes and comic books.
Lopez in fact admits "I’ve easily spent a grand on a comic book. I have no conscience when it comes to [buying them]." And as every Nets fan knows, his favorite character is Batman. He appreciates his wiliness and grit.
But as much fun as it is collecting, the Lopez brothers --Brook, the Blazers Robin and their two older siblings, Chris and Alex, are about to take this further, into a money making venture. Fleming writes, "[Brook] and his brothers are collaborating on a top-secret comic project — a deal that is now being ironed out with lawyers. When asked about it, he only says they 'have a lot of ideas.'"
And as Lopez notes, comics aren't his only interest. He attended the Emmys recently, occasionally goes to fashion shows, accompanied a former president to Africa, and spends a lot of time traveling
Meet the NBA’s biggest comic book geek - Kirsten Fleming - New York Post


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By Lucy Ren
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced on Thursday that approximately 500,000 associates at its U.S. stores would receive a minimum hourly pay of $9 in April, a 24 percent increase from today’s federal minimum wage.
Wal-Mart U.S. will increase its minimum monthly wage by another dollar by next February. According to President and Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon, the investment in pay and training for U.S. associates will total more than $1 billion for the current fiscal year.
Wal-Mart’s stock fell by 3.2 percent on Thursday after the announcement, which came as part of the company’s earnings report for the quarter ended on Jan.31.
“There are concerns about how the wage raise will impact their cost structure,” said Ken Perkins, analyst with Morningstar. He opined that Wal-Mart was “re-allying its workers” and “forcing its competitors to raise their wages” to attract more qualified employees, according to Wal-Mart officials on the company’s conference call.
In addition, Wal-Mart lowered its outlook for fiscal year 2016 sales growth to be between 1 and 2 percent, versus the 2 to 4 percent provided in October. The company said it expects earnings per share to be between 95 cents to $1.10 for the current quarter, while analysts expected $1.14 per share, according to Bloomberg.
Mark Miller, research analyst at William Blair & Company L.L.C., wrote in a note that Wal-Mart’s higher labor costs, or in the company’s words, “investment,” could be viewed as “recurring and defensive in nature.” That suggests retailers are having to increase wages to attract the best employees.
For the quarter ended on Jan. 31, Wal-Mart reported a rise in earnings per share to $1.53 from $1.34 a year ago, beating the consensus estimate of $1.526. When adjusted for the cost of litigation and the closure of 30 stores in Japan, Wal-Mart reported earnings per share of $1.61, above the analysts’ consensus estimate of $1.54.
Wal-Mart reported a 12 percent rise in net income for the quarter to $4.97 billion, or $1.53 per diluted share, from $4.43 billion, or $1.36 per diluted share, as customers gained spending power due to lower gas prices, and fuel profit increased at Sam’s Club, a subsidiary of the retail giant.
Revenue for the fourth quarter increased 1.4 percent to $131.6 billion from $129.7 billion, despite a negative impact from the strong U.S. dollar of approximately $2.6 billion. For the full year, revenue increased 2 percent to $485.7 billion.
Sales in Wal-Mart’s international division fell 3.9 percent to $36.2 billion in the fourth quarter, but excluding the impact of the strong U.S. dollar on currency translations, sales in the quarter would have risen 3.1 percent, the company said.
“There is potential for growth in Wal-Mart’s international markets,” Perkins said, “but the company will continue facing the headwinds from the strengthening U.S. dollar.”
In its earnings call, Wal-Mart International President David Cheesewright highlighted the company’s expanding online presence, as e-commerce sales globally rose approximately 22 percent for the full year.
Wal-Mart’s stock closed at $83.52 on Thursday, down $2.77.


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The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update, which started rolling out earlier this week, has run into at least one lengthy delay as Australian carrier Telstra claims that the update, which it originally said would roll out in November, isn’t likely to roll out until late December. And because other carriers haven’t announced their plans, there is a chance that we could see some delays elsewhere as well.
In September, Samsung announced that it would be rolling out updates to the Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy S3, updates that would bring support for the company’s new accessory, the Galaxy Gear. Many assumed that those updates would be Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and those assumptions proved accurate in October when Samsung announced all three Android 4.3 updates.
From late October to now, we’ve seen a number of Android 4.3 roll outs. First, it was the Galaxy S4 that saw its upgrade with Sprint and Verizon among the first to roll out the software. Shortly after that, we saw the Galaxy S3 Android 4.3 update roll out and then, a few weeks later, the Galaxy Note 2 Android 4.3 update started to push.
Of course, these updates haven’t been without their fair share of issues. Already, we’ve seen Galaxy S4 updates pulled in the United States, a Galaxy S3 update pulled in the UK and updates miss their roll out dates in the United States. All in all, it has been a rough ride for many Galaxy device owners. So, it should come as no surprise that we are seeing some bumps in the road for the Galaxy Note 2.
Back in October, Telstra, an Australian based carrier, laid out a game plan for its Galaxy Note 2 users. It claimed that it would receive the Android 4.3 update, from Samsung, in early November and push the update out in late November. This time frame seemed to fall in line with other rumors we had seen. Today though, Telstra acknowledged a change in plans.
The carrier says that Samsung delayed the delivery of Android 4.3 to November 22nd, tomorrow, and that the update is now scheduled to arrive deep in the month of December, far later than expected. While this is a bummer for Galaxy Note 2 owners on Telstra, the delay should also be nerve racking for Galaxy Note 2 owners in other parts of the world.
Most carriers don’t offer detailed timelines like Telstra, so there is no telling when Samsung may have delivered the updates or whether there is a delay. At this point, nobody else has come right out and confirmed anything but at this point, Galaxy Note 2 owners should start tempering their expectations a little bit.
Earlier this week, we saw Sprint announce a Galaxy Note 2 Android 4.3 update and we expect that roll out to push out to all owners in the coming days. AT&T’s scheduled Galaxy Note 2 update did not land yesterday, a sign that it might have been delayed. Verizon’s Galaxy Note 2 is scheduled to get its update on November 29th so it will be interesting to see if it gets its update that day or not.
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2 Android 4.3 upgrades not only deliver Galaxy Gear support but they bring Samsung KNOX and a number of fixes and enhancements to a device that is just now receiving its first major Android upgrades.
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Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation will be launching a pilot project next year, for testing a transportation system focused on autonomous vehicles.
According to reports, the plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) which topped the sales charts for the month May 2018 included the Nissan LEAF and the Toyota Prius Prime.
Toyota has shared some information and photos of the US version of the 2019 Corolla Hatchback at the New York Auto Show.
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Fashion Industries Guild to Honor Vera Campbell and Steve Schoenholz
LOS ANGELES July 8, 2013—The Fashion Industries Guild announced today that Vera Campbell and Steve Schoenholz will be honored at its 57th Annual Fundraiser. This year’s theme is Rock for Fashion and will be held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Saturday evening, October 5, 2013. Campbell is the president and owner of KWDZ Manufacturing, LLC, d.b.a Knit Works and Beautees. Schoenholz is the president and owner of Tempted Apparel.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Fashion Industries Guild Congenital Heart Laboratory and the Hal Kaltman Fashion Industries Guild Congenital Heart Research Endowment in the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. The funds will benefit children born with heart defects as researchers develop new, minimally invasive alternatives to open heart surgery.
Fashion Industries Guild President, Jessica Lewensztain, property manager at ANJAC Fashion Buildings, said she is “pleased and proud to honor Vera and Steve. They are both accomplished, dedicated professionals who take time from their demanding schedules to help others in need.”
Campbell has worked in the Los Angeles garment industry for over thirty years designing and manufacturing women’s and children’s apparel. Her business now caters to the tween market, creating fast fashion for girl’s sizes 4-16. Her brands are sold to department and specialty stores in the U.S. and internationally.
Committed to philanthropy, Campbell has called upon her extensive travels and education to establish a foundation dedicated to education and the advancement of women and children in third world countries and inner city Los Angeles. The Vera R. Campbell Foundation provides funding for a girls school in Kenya, a women’s health clinic and school breakfast program for 1500 children in Cambodia, transportation for orphanages in Mexico as well as a mother/daughter prison program for the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio. She recently raised money to build 150 water wells in Siem Reap, Cambodia, providing clean water to over 600 families that never before had access to fresh water.
Each year the Campbell Foundation awards a nine month residency grant to the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The grant is given to a female, post-doctoral scholar from a third world nation to study and seek solutions to problems affecting women and children. The Foundation sponsors the Graphic Arts Department at Inner City Arts in Los Angeles, enabling hundreds of teens to learn the basic skills of graphic design. Campbell also funds after school programs for Inner City Arts and the Junior Blind of America.
Campbell is on the board of the directors of the Junior Blind of America (JBA), Inner-City Arts (ICA), the School for Advanced Research (SAR) and the California Fashion Association (CFA). In addition, she supports the Jordan Mission, the L.A. Mission, Teen Line Suicide Prevention, the Cambodian Children’s Dream Organization (CCDO), the City of Hope and the Bogart Pediatric Research Program.
Schoenholz has worked in the Los Angeles garment industry for nearly forty years. He is the founder, president and owner of Tempted Apparel, a company he started in 1996. Tempted manufactures apparel for girls and juniors sold throughout the U.S.
In 1948 his father was sent from New York by United Merchants and Manufacturers to open United Factors in Los Angeles. He worked his way up through the nascent organization and built it into a mature, $4 billion company, helping to firmly establish the apparel industry on the West coast. Schoenholz attributes his desire to give back to the community and assist those less fortunate, from his family background and experience. “My father taught me the lifelong lesson of giving to others,” Schoenholz says.
Schoenholz is on the board of directors of Inner City Arts. He also supports the Boys and Girls Club of the West, City of Hope, the Harold Pump Foundation, National Jewish Health, and the Rags for Riches Foundation.
He is married to Janet Schoenholz, his partner and head designer for Tempted Apparel. They have two daughters, Kiana who is eight years old, and Keira who will be five in September. Passionate about music and looking to play whenever he can find time, Schoenholz freely refers to himself as “a good old time rock and roller.”
Now entering its 57th year of fundraising, the Fashion Industries Guild is composed of apparel industry professionals dedicated to supporting Cedars-Sinai. To date, the group has raised over $23 million dollars that have funded various projects including, the Barney Morse Rehabilitation Center, Harvey Morse Conference Center, Florence and Duke Becker Building, Ruth Bregman/Fashion Industries Guild Pediatric Health Clinic, Ruth Bregman Special Children’s Program, and Guess? Chair for Community Child Health Care. The Fashion Industries Guild has also raised money for the new neonatal intensive care unit in Cedars-Sinai’s Maxine Dunitz Children’s Health Center, Kenneth Weinbaum Fashion Industries Guild Pediatric Acute Care Unit, and Pediatric Neurology and Neurological Development Program.


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Celebrating a decade of ftrack
2022 marks 10 years since ftrack first launched ftrack Studio to the world with a team of just five. Over the past decade, ftrack is 50 people strong with three products and a thirst for innovation and has helped countless productions to collaborate, create, and deliver stunning projects worldwide, and you can explore it all via our 10th-anniversary hub!
A lot can happen in 10 years, but none of it would have been possible without the customers. So, to those who rely on ftrack every day and even those who just tried ftrack once
The ftrack team will be at SIGGRAPH in force! So come along to booth #403 to celebrate with beers on the booth and Nintendo, or to check out 10 years of innovation at the ftrack theater presentations.
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HP famously gave up on its smartphone and tablet business back in 2011 when it announced that it would no longer be developing hardware powered by its webOS platform. But two years later, the company is planning to have another crack at it.
Yam Su Yin, HP’s Senior Director of Consumer PCs and Tablets, has confirmed that the company is already working on a new smartphone — one that will deliver a unique experience that you won’t get from its rivals.
Apple has begun charting iOS adoption figures to help developers establish the percentage of users running different versions of iOS. Google has been doing the same thing for Android developers for some time, and Apple’s chart only highlights the massive difference in fragmentation between the two platforms.
If you’ve used an iPad for any significant amount of time, you know that after a while, it can get rather unwieldy to hold and use, especially with one hand. Gripping it on the side bevel is a decent sort-term solution, but the larger iPad just gets too heavy to make that a tenable stretegy for long, and even the iPad mini, with its significantly smaller bevel size, can be a challenge to hold.
There are probably a metric ton of iPad and other tablet cases out there that try to remedy this, adding bulk and unwieldy solutions along the way. In addition, cases that strap around an iPad can’t be used for other tablets or eReaders at all; they’re specifically tailored to each device’s measurements.
Two designers from Simi Valley, California aim to change all that with the HandTab, a medically-safe handgrip for the iPad and any other tablet you might own.
iBooks has been a big successful venture for Apple — despite the ongoing price fixing case from the Department of Justice — but it’s a service that may never have been if Eddy Cue hadn’t convinced Steve Jobs it would be awesome on the iPad.
Before Apple was gearing up to launch its popular tablet in late 2009, Steve Jobs wasn’t interested in the iBooks idea, and he felt e-books had no place on desktops and small smartphone displays.
Asus has today announced its latest Transformer Pad Infinity slate at Computex 2013 in Taipei, and boy is it a beast. Not only does it carry NVIDIA’s latest Tegra 4 processor — which has a 72-core GeForce GPU — but it also has a 10.1-inch display with the same 2560×1600 resolution as the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro.
Android doesn’t look like it’s about to lose any of its market share to competing platforms any time soon. During the first quarter of 2013, Google’s platform powered a whipping 59.9% of all smart mobile devices sold as total shipments hit 308.7 million units.
Apple’s iOS, on the other hand, was installed on just 19.3% of devices — despite the success of its iPhones and iPads.
Smartphones are all starting to look more and more alike – no matter who is manufacturing them. wouldn’t it be great to add a “retro” touch to your smart device? Well…look no further.
For a limited time, Cult of Mac Deals is offering a cool retro phone (available in black, red, white, orange, or pink) that is compatible with your smart phone or tablet. All you’ll need is a standard 3mm jack – and you can have it for $15 while this offers lasts!
The International Data Corporation (IDC), an firm that analyzes tech trends around the globe, released its quarterly Worldwide Tablet Market Study today, showing that tablet sales show no signs of slowing down any time soon.
The study shows that tablet shipments have increased 142 percent year over year for Q1 2013. Tablet shipments totaled 49.w million units in this first quarter, surging past the entire first two quarters of 2012 combined.
All tablet makers saw huge gains in the tablet space, though Apple’s overall share of the market is decreasing. The iPad is still the world’s largest tablet being sold, with 19.5 million shipping in the last quarter, up from 11.8 in last year’s Q1, an increase of 64 percent.
The iPad has earned first place in the J.D. Power and Associates customer satisfaction survey for the second year in a row, just a month after Apple’s iPhone secured the award for the ninth time. The popular slate scored 836 out of a possible 1,000 points having been rated on performance, ease of operation, styling and design, features, and cost.
Samsung warned us that its Apple Store clones were on the way, and this week they’ve begun popping up in Best Buy stores across the United States. Dubbed “Samsung Experience Shops,” the locations give customers the chance to get their hands on Samsung smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices so that they can try them out before making a purchase.


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Cingular Wireless teamed with FujiFilm to offer consumers the ability to send camera phone images from select Cingular handsets to retail outlets for printing.
The service, called Fujifilm's Get The Picture Mobile service, is the first of its kind under the Cingular name, although AT&T Wireless, which Cingular bought, previously offered a similar service in cooperation with Fujifilm. Sprint Nextel also offers a similar service.
Cingular's service, which costs an additional $2.99 per month, works with 60 Cingular phones capable of downloading the Java application, which transmits images to participating Get the Picture Mobile retailers located by ZIP code.
The retailer either lets consumers pay for the prints in the store or type credit card info into the handset to pay via credit card.
Fujifilm also made improvements to Cingular's Mobile Postcard service, which uses select Motorola camera phones (V220, V400, V551, V600 and the V3 RAZR) create personalized postcards. Enhancements include a new wizard-style creation tool, a larger selection of postcard templates, new auto-address look up, auto-fill city/state information via ZIP code and a “recent addresses” format that allows users to make multiple postcards in a single session.
Postcards cost $1.99, including postage.
This TWICE webinar, hosted by senior editor Alan Wolf, will take a look at what may be the hottest CE products at retail that will be sold during the all-important fourth quarter. Top technologies, market strategies and industry trends will be discussed with industry analysts and executives.


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Sony bought Ericsson's 50% stake in their Sony Ericsson mobile phone venture for $1.5 billion on Thursday in cash, ends a partnership started in 2001 that created the world's sixth largest mobile phone maker. The deal allows Sony to integrate smartphones into its line-up of network-connected consumer electronics devices and is also a signal of where the company sees opportunity - principally competing against Apple ( AAPL) and Samsung in smartphone and tablet sales. Of his strategy in the deal, Sony chief executive Sir Howard Stringer said, "We can more rapidly and more widely offer consumers smartphones, laptops, tablets and televisions that seamlessly connect with one another and open up new worlds of online entertainment." About joint venture buyouts, Bible of EisnerAmper added that because deals can get done quickly, they may be a leading indicator for larger mergers and acquisitions, which are recovering with deals like Kinder Morgan's ( KMI) $21.3 billion purchase of El Paso ( EP). "My personal view, I think were probably a good year away from some level of confidence for both producers and consumers in the economy that will lead us to more normal times," said Bible. Clued in company watchers found last Monday's announcement that Peabody Energy would assume 100% of a previously shared $4.7 billion partnership to buy coal miner Macarthur with ArcelorMittal as a stunning reversal from days earlier when the venture looked complete. "I was definitely surprised. I didn't see that Arcelor would drop out," said Meredith Bandy an analyst at BMO Capital Markets ( BMO). Bandy added about the deal, "at current rates of production it's a very full price that they are paying. Long term at Macarthur you are looking at 9 million tons of
annual coal extraction or more, so if you are able to achieve that growth then they are not overpaying." The idea is that the Macarthur coal takeover is sensitive to the amount of coal the company can extract and its selling price. Expected extraction tonnage and selling prices are contingent on global economic demand and a stem in the tide of economic and market deterioration in recent months. Mittal said in its walk away that the price of the partnership "exceeds what is appropriate to allocate to a business that ArcelorMittal does not fully control." It's a signal that though Mittal absented a 50-50 bet on coal production and prices, putting a partner in all hands on the deck, they too might jump into deals. For ventures suffering from falling commodity prices, today's still confidence lacking market may be a deterrent. For instance, natural gas prices are still well below levels earlier in the year. "In general I would say that many gassy exploration & production companies have JV's that they might not be interesting in selling a remaining interest in given depressed natural gas prices," said David Deckelbaum and analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets in an email. Deckelbaum added however, "there might be a chance, particularly in the Bakken Shale to consolidate minority interests." Earlier this year, in the Eagle Ford shale, KKR ( KKR) sold its shale joint venture with Hilcorp Energy for $3.5 billion to Marathon Oil ( MRO), and a year earlier, the company sold a J.V. called East Resources to Royal Dutch Shell ( RDS) for $4.7 billion. Signaling that recent mergers like Statoil $4.4 billion purchase of shale driller Brigham Exploration ( BEXP) might also reflect partnership buyouts.


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Youth and younger adults had greater than 3 times the chances of using fruit-flavored e-cigarettes compared to older adults. A 2018 examine amongst U.S. adults that explored whether or not e-cigarettes inspired more successful stop attempts found that users of e-cigarettes had 70% decrease odds of quitting than non-customers. The report advised that e-cigarettes might help some adult users scale back their risk of smoking-related ailments if customers keep away from extended twin use. While some proof supports the use of e-cigarettes as stop units, latest research suggests that their efficacy for quitting is probably going overstated.
The Corporate Behind Juul
A 2018 Truth Initiative survey found that mint was among the high three favourite flavors amongst young JUUL users aged 12-24, meaning they chose it last time they vaped. New research exhibits that mint and menthol e-cigarette use among highschool users rose from 16% in 2016 to 57.three% in 2019.
Exposure to aerosol from e-cigarettes could expose non-users to nicotine, but analysis indicates that secondhand aerosol leads to substantially decrease publicity to toxicants and carcinogens than cigarette smoke. However, publicity among weak populations, including pregnant girls and children, might nonetheless be dangerous. While e-cigarettes Vape Pen might contain fewer toxins than combustible cigarettes, brief and long-time period results of their use are unclear. What we do know is that they don’t seem to be free of poisons and still deliver harmful chemical compounds. The CDC has additionally lately identified vitamin E acetate, a chemical found most frequently in illegal THC vaping products, as a primary chemical of concern within the outbreak. To date, nobody is aware of the lengthy-term effects of e-cigarette use, although research continues to research a number of the rapidly emerging proof of opposed effects on lung and cardiovascular well being. The FDA has also reported that, amongst current youth customers of e-cigarettes, ninety seven% used a flavored e-cigarette up to now month.
However, recent critiques of eBay discovered the positioning nonetheless sells equipment for JUUL, similar to chargers and “skins” that wrap round JUULs to personalize them. Additional research has shown that superstar endorsements of e-cigarettes on social media can have an effect on young adults. A study of school undergraduates found that the appearance of celebrities on an e-cigarette social media model web page considerably elevated intentions to use e-cigarettes and positive attitudes in the direction of the gadgets. This impact was not seen in those who saw non-movie star endorsers or pages displaying solely the product.
Electronic Cigarettes Are Now Regulated
There are substantial research gaps in proving the effectiveness of e-cigarettes as stop smoking aids. The 2020 Surgeon General’s Report on smoking cessation found that there’s “inadequate proof” to conclude that e-cigarettes increase smoking cessation. Similarly, the 2018 National Academies report found limited proof on the effectiveness of e-cigarettes to promote quitting.
- People mustn’t use both products on the identical time and are strongly encouraged to completely stop using all tobacco products.
- Some people who smoke choose to use both cigarettes and e-cigarettes on the same time on an ongoing basis, whether they are making an attempt to stop or not.
- In addition to flavor restrictions, Truth Initiative supports strong laws to keep all tobacco merchandise, including e-cigarettes, away from youth.
- This is called “dual use.” The dual use of e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes can lead to important health dangers because smoking any amount of standard cigarettes is very harmful.
The CDC, FDA and state and native health departments are investigating a multistate outbreak of extreme lung damage related to e-cigarette or vaping product use. As of November 5, 2019, more than 2000 cases of this illness, which CDC is looking “EVALI” (E-cigarette or Vaping product use- Associated Lung Injury) in forty nine states, D.C.


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The market for fax modem software is a confusing and uncertain one, at least when it comes to single-user packages. The sector that was almost single-handedly created by Delrina with its Winfax package (bought by Symantec) has seen the advent of a number of bundling deals giving software away for free, and Microsoft pushing its weight behind its own fax utility in Windows 95. Despite this, companies further up the market - selling network fax packages for multi-users - believe the market for fax software is buoyant.
Equisys, publisher of Zetafax Lan fax software for Windows NT, believes the corporate market for fax software is about to take off. Earlier this year, an IDC survey said the number of Lan-connected UK employees using fax software could rise from 18 per cent today to about 60 per cent by the end of the year and to 83 per cent in three years' time.
The survey discovered that small firms - those with fewer than 100 employees - were most keen to start using network fax software applications, and that 93 per cent of staff in such companies were expecting to use fax software by the end of 1998. Among large companies the rate was big enough to suggest that the high-end market may well be kick-started, and that the most likely corporate environment is one that combines fax and email.
Equisys MD Chris Oswald admits that answers to surveys can be more wish fulfilment than an accurate picture of genuine buying intentions, But, he says, the fax software market is set to grow. 'Lan fax software is on every network manager's shopping list. The trend is for rapid growth.'
Two other surveys by IDC conclude that the number of faxes sent using software will outstrip those sent by fax machines within three years, and that 96 per cent of companies want combined fax and email networked packages.
Oswald says the latest version of its network fax software, Zetafax 5, has been designed to fit in with email platforms such as Microsoft Mail and Lotus Notes. Fax software is a category that has a broad appeal to resellers, he says. It can be sold shrink-wrapped, with the manufacturers providing support, for low-end office equipment hardware suppliers that want to branch out from selling fax machines but do not have the technical skill to support software. Higher-end Vars with networking backgrounds are using fax applications to add customer value. But not all resellers are convinced that fax software offers a huge sales opportunity.
Karl Tayfoor at dealer Karlton sells Winfax, but comments volumes are not large. 'The latest version of Winfax had some integration problems which has not helped sales,' he says. The other factor that could affect the development of the market for dealers is that Microsoft has put rudimentary fax software in Windows 95.
This could have one of two effects, according to dealers. It could either destroy the standalone fax software market or it could encourage users to seek out better programs and open their eyes to the potential of fax software.
Dealers tend to be more openly pessimistic than manufacturers about the market. 'It's doubtful what the future is for separate low-end fax software packages,' says Tayfoor. 'There is a reluctance among dealers to commit to it as a category because its future is uncertain.'
The market is also affected by a large number of bundling deals, says Romtec analyst John Ses. This means that users can obtain reasonable fax software free when they buy a fax modem, and this too could reduce the number of sales of standalone packages.
This view is backed up by Traveling Software, which has stalled future releases of its Commworks software suite, which includes fax capability, because it sees no future in faxing for the mobile user. 'Fax capability is not adding value,' says international product marketing manager Kristin Favour. 'There is not a great future for it.' She says Microsoft's decision to include fax software in the operating system also convinced Traveling Software to withdraw from the fax market.
Traveling Software is concentrating on the remote user, with packages like Laplink, she says. Mobile users already have access to fax machines and do not need fax software.
'Mobile workers are a growth area,' says Favour. 'Fax is not a growth area. One of the reasons for this is the increasing availability of fax machines for business travellers in hotels and airports, allowing users to send faxes without having to use software.
She adds that existing Commworks users would be supported for the lifetime of the package.
But some firms still see continued growth at the low end of the fax software market as well as the high end. Publisher Red Rock says that single-user sales of its u100 Fax Now package have led to sales in offices and larger accounts. Red Rock sales director Stephen Anderson says only about five per cent of its sales are standalone products, but that it is potentially still a large market.
He says: 'All manufacturers and dealers are interested in corporate sales.
But that is just a small sector of the overall market.' Red Rock has a background as a Castelle partner, selling the high-end fax integration package, but bought the Fax Now package from another UK company. 'We were sceptical about selling a low-end package at first,' he says. 'But we have been surprised at the volumes.'
Anderson takes an optimistic view about Microsoft's entry into the fax software market. 'It's a double-edged sword,' he says. 'The Microsoft utility is not as functional as users would like so they will want to trade up,' he says.
The Windows 95 marketing drive has also opened up the software market to many users that have not bought such software before, and many that did not know that fax software existed. So, the argument goes, Windows 95 might just expand that market.
The other challenge at the low end of the market is the market supremacy of Winfax. The package carved out the fax software market and became the generic standard, aided by a number of bundling deals. Delrina consistently held about 70 per cent market share, but competitors claim that the package has been slow to move from its standalone roots.
'Since Winfax's acquisition, the product seems to have lost its way,' says Anderson. 'It's very strong as a standalone package, but the network side is not as strong and that is the way the market is going.'
He says the other trend developing is for unified messaging from the desktop. Users want tighter integration between fax and email packages and other applications that they run on the desktop. They want to be able to fax from their existing application rather than having to quit and go to an unfamiliar interface to send a fax, he says.
Comms distributor DMST sells both high-end network fax software and single-user packages. Pat Harvey, MD of the company, says that single-user fax software is not really a separate market and tends to be bundled with modems. The only market for these packages, he says, is the after-market - users that have a basic bundled piece of software and want to trade up.
Harvey agrees that the standalone market will ultimately disappear, as Delrina-type products get more tightly integrated into ever more sophisticated operating systems.
At the higher end, DMST sells Castelle Fax Press, a hardware and software solution that plugs into a network and attaches to multiple fax lines.
Harvey says the advantage that Fax Press has over other network packages is that it eliminates server crashes by performing all fax rasterisation and processing in isolation, so that problems do not affect the wider network environment.
Also competing at the high end for fax software sales is Wordcraft, with its technically advanced Laserfax package. Unlike the more conventional fax packages, Laserfax links directly to the fax machine, enabling the network user to turn an ordinary fax machine into a printer or scanner.
Wordcraft also sells a single-user version of Laserfax, but at u295 it is more expensive than Winfax or its rivals.
'Laserfax is not aimed at the home user,' says Wordcraft representative Maxine Swords. 'It is aimed at groups of up to 500 users. We do get customers that have outgrown Winfax and want to move on.'
Laserfax is trying to take advantage of the tight integration with fax machines by bundling the software with the products of a number of fax makers, including Minolta, Brother and Amstrad.
Wordcraft's dealers break down into two camps. 'There are PC literate dealers that sell Laserfax as part of an overall network,' says Swords, 'and there are the fax dealers that don't normally sell software, but want to differentiate themselves.' Any dealer that wants to sell Laserfax, which is a reasonably sophisticated product, has to go on a two-day training course, says Swords.
The price is u95, and users get a four-user demo in return. For the customer, Laserfax has the advantage of concurrent licensing, which means that many users can have the software installed, and the limitation is only on the number of users that are faxing concurrently. The main drawback for a Var with products like Laserfax would be that they could end up competing for sales with fax dealers that have lower overheads, but could offer the same software.
Duncan Little, MD at distributor Unidirect, says the best way to avoid the uncertainty of the low-end fax market is to focus on the Unix platform.
'The Windows fax software market has always been cut-throat,' says Little.
'Many top packages started life as shareware that someone saw potential in and developed. That does not create a stable market.'
He says resellers higher up could be affected if Microsoft brings fax capability into its high-end operating systems.
Unidirect is the sole UK distributor for what it claims is the leading Unix fax software package, VSI Fax.
'Unix is a more stable market,' says Little. 'Software for the market tends to be more robust and reliable.'
Companies running Unix tend to be larger and take a more long-term view of IT, he says. But there are also fewer of them, and consequently fewer resellers. Unidirect has about 60 resellers selling on the VSI Fax package.
Fax software has always been a notoriously hard category to sell in terms of business benefits. 'Companies can get by without having dedicated fax software,' says Little, 'but they are more efficient if they use it.'
To help sell fax software, Unidirect issues resellers with notes based on stressing the benefits to business. Little says the main saving comes in the speed of sending a fax from the desktop, rather than having staff queuing at the fax machine.
It seems certain that the market for high-end fax software is set to grow, although IDC's figures for Equisys probably give more of an indication of what firms would like to buy than what they will buy. The fit between email and faxing seems likely to come closer, with users wanting network packages that let them do both without leaving their native applications.
The market for standalone packages is less certain.
Ultimately the market looks set to decline, as more features are included in the operating system. But for now the decline seems to be being held up by an influx of new PC users that are continuing to buy standalone packages, or more likely single-user fax packages that are included in software suites.
The inclusion of fax software in Windows 95 might encourage the fax software market in the short term, but in the long term it seems set to sound its death knell.
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3 new Huawei devices have just been spotted on a Chinese certification authority’s database, fueling rumours about upcoming launches from the company.
As you might already be aware, Huawei is only basking in the success of its Honor 7 smartphone which was launched just a couple weeks back. The phone has received more than just a warm welcome in its home country, and Huawei certainly would be kicked.
The three new phones that we talk about were spotted on the Chinese National Radio Certification website. There’s no word on the retail model names of these new devices (purportedly phones), but the company codenames, if you care are — ATH-AL00, RIO-AL00 and CRR-AL00.
Take a look at the specs set below to get an idea about the network compatibility of the three devices.
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The majority of patients are unaware of what prescription drugs actually cost. They know the amount of the co-pay they hand over each month, but they have no idea what it costs your pharmacy to obtain, safely dispense and get reimbursed for their medications. This lack of awareness by patients creates a misconception that can be detrimental to their health, and clouds the general understanding of the value of medication therapy in an overall health plan design. Patients don’t know the specifics about the current reimbursement model in which your pharmacy is required to participate. They don’t know that after submitting a


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Lack of sleep has become a worldwide problem, with half of the adults suffering from sleep deprivation, according to a recent study. This can trigger various health risks, including exhaustion, lack of focus, and poor heart health. The current COVID-19 pandemic is also affecting the sleep quality of American workers. This can then affect the efficiency and profitability of big and small businesses.
COVID-19, Telecommuting, and Sleep
It’s been over a year since the USA reported the first cases of coronavirus disease in January 2020. As of February 2021, over 103 million worldwide cases of the COVID-19 virus have been reported.
Many companies have given their employees the option to telecommute instead of working on-site. While working at home can reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission, it can also result in some negative effects.
A recent survey of more than 1,000 American adults showed that over three-quarters of the study’s participants feel the pandemic is affecting their sleep patterns, according to Sleep Standards. Meanwhile, less than one-quarter reported these tough times hadn’t affected their sleep quality.
How the Pandemic Is Affecting Workers’ Sleep
Causes of Sleep Problems
While a majority of Americans have more sleep problems than pre-pandemic, the reasons vary greatly. Various studies show that some of the most common issues include:
- Worrying about the safety of loved ones
- Maintaining an inconsistent sleep schedule
- Feeling lonely because of lockdowns
- Feeling worried about the pandemic and coronavirus outbreak
Studies show mixed results about the number of sleep people are getting during the pandemic. For example, the Sleep Standards survey shows that half of Americans report getting one hour less daily sleep versus pre-quarantine. Meanwhile, about one-fifth of the respondents were actually getting more sleep during the quarantines.
Many companies have opted to allow their employees to work from home. However, this has often resulted in employees getting less sleep instead of becoming more efficient workers. In fact, the average American was only sleeping about 5.5 hours in 2019, according to Safety and Health Magazine.
A recent survey showed that 85% of medical field workers are in a worse mood in March and April 2020 than pre-pandemic.
The study revealed that 70% of the workers’ sleep patterns changed during the start of the stay-at-home orders. This is a significant statistic related to updated info on Covid-19.
Non-Frontline Healthcare Workers
Studies show that both frontline and non-front line healthcare workers (NFLHCW) have been experiencing spikes in stress, anxiety, and sleep deprivation due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
What’s happening? This is due to doctors, nurses, and other medical workers being at a greater risk of burnout due to lack of sleep and other factors. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AAASM) conducted a study about this risk to doctors.
The study included over 250 health care workers. It was discovered that about 75% of both frontline and non-front line healthcare workers were experiencing low sleep quality. Meanwhile, about 85% of both groups are also experiencing moderate-to-severe stress levels.
A recent study by the University of Ottawa’s School of Psychology discovered that the COVID-19 pandemic is not only increasing sleep deprivation, stress, and anxiety, but also the use of prescription medicines like sleeping pills.
The study included 20+ scientists across North America and over 5,500 Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic’s early phase.
The study showed major sleep problems throughout the pandemic. Sleep changes included less sleep, different wake-up times, and more sleep. People can still improve their sleep issues with various solutions like choosing the right mattress.
The North American study discovered a spike in the use of sleeping medications throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers believe this factor could trigger more severe long-term cases of chronic insomnia. So next time you think buying a new mattress is simple, think about all the factors that will go into having a great night’s sleep.
The coronavirus outbreak has become a major disruptor in the everyday lives of people throughout the world. This includes business owners, employees, and frontline/non-frontline healthcare workers. It’s had a devastating effect on world economies, including the USA’s largest world economy.
The pandemic has also caused spikes in sleep deprivation, which can cause work productivity to plummet. That has prompted many workers to turn to sleep aids like sleeping pills. Here’s the good news: workers can take some basic steps to improve their sleep quality even during the current global crisis.
Brett is a writer at ID-Mag. An enthusiast and expert when it comes to sleep products, Brett dedicates a lot of his time reading, researching, and reviewing about both traditional and emerging sleep brands that manufacture varied types of sleep products – from eco-mattresses, smart pillows to cooling sleep systems, Brett has probably reviewed them all. Brett also finds sleep especially important since he juggles a small business which he runs from home, makes sure he spends time with his daughter and he also writes during his spare time – you can definitely see that he needs a great forty winks all night, every night so he’ll make sure that you get great sleep, too!


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Big news for Twitter users: Apple's upcoming iOS 5 software update will feature Twitter integration at the system level. What does this mean? You'll be able to directly tweet a photo you've taken from your iPhone to your Twitter account without having to go through yfrog or a similar service. One button tweeting is going to make the process a lot easier.
This may not sound like too big of a story at first blush. However, consider that Chillingo was the publisher behind two previous efforts in the iOS physics-puzzler genre. Two little games that go by the names Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. All of the sudden this story takes on a whole new level of significance.
We sure hope you're all getting yourselves geared up for next week's unrestrained torrent of awesome. Tuesday morning is the event horizon of the nexus of the eye of a hurricane of tech amazingness. It is, of course, WWDC and E3 all mashed into one. And while Mac|Life will have you covered with all the Apple goodness you can handle from both events, the Electronic Software Association (who runs E3) is launching E3insider, aiming to help people keep track of all the other great gaming news and info coming out of E3.
iPhone gamers who grew up in the 1990s are in for a bit of a treat this evening. The three greatest things about the nineties were the X-men, bustling arcades, and the playing of X-men in bustling arcades. Tonight, the third of those three will be re-released on iOS in anticipation of the nationwide launch of the film X-men: First Class Friday night.
Apple has finally made the iWork suite of applications available in universal format, meaning that they will now work for the iPhone and iPod touch, just as they did before with the iPad. With the most recent update, Apple didn't only bring support for the rest of the iOS devices, but they also added a new document manager, ability to change font style and size directly from the ruler, and a new Smart Zoom feature when viewing and editing data. You can also control your Keynote presentations from another iOS device using the Keynote Remote app. Let us take you on a walkthrough of the new features and show you exactly how they work.
Once king of the smartphone world, Research in Motion's BlackBerry has steadily fallen behind Apple's iPhone and Google's Android operating system. RIM investors are also growing steadily unhappy about this, and may start calling for changes soon within the company, starting at the top.
Dead Space was one of the finest iOS games we've ever played when it released back in January, and not a whole lot has changed since then. Few games have come along since then to challenge its throne. Today that just got even more difficult as EA announced a big new update to the game that will add several great additions.
As many Apple fanboys and fangirls now know, Apple did a small makeover in their stores on Sunday night, adding new sections, installing new iPad kiosks and even updating their iOS Apple Store app with some cool new features. If you haven’t had a chance to check out the changes at your local Apple Store, never fear. We’ve got you covered! We'll take you on an Apple Store outing and show you the new changes you’ll notice the next time you’re in a store, including a gallery of the newly revamped Apple Store at Haywood Mall in Greenville, South Carolina.
Do you love Super Meat Boy, but feel guilty wasting all those pounds of animal flesh? Well, we've got just the game for you then. While we're waiting for a Super Meat Boy iOS port you can while away the hours with To-Fu: The Trials of Chi, another food-based puzzle-platformer.
As iOS gamers we're not used to being jealous of owners of other platforms. We're used to having every gaming company in existence grovel for our attention and charging 99 cents for their million-dollar games. So when info leaks that the developer of the indie sensation Minecraft is developing a mobile version of the game we simply assumed it would be coming to iOS first. Well, we were wrong.


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