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PALMER — Jay Demore, owner of Demore’s Automotive in Palmer, believes in supporting the community. This week, more than 300 people in Palmer will have Thanksgiving meals thanks to the efforts of Demore; his sister JoAnn, operations manager at the auto shop; and a few customers who have come to the shop with checks for as much as $200 and $300.
Demore, who has operated the auto-repair shop since 1997, will provide prepared meals from Palmer restaurants, 80 of which will go to elderly residents in town. For families that prefer to make Thanksgiving dinner, he’ll make sure they have a turkey and the ingredients for stuffing, side dishes, and desserts. Anyone in need was encouraged to message Demore privately through social media; customers and local residents who knew of a family in need reached out to let him know.
How does he decide who gets the meals? “I leave it to the good of the people to let me know who needs the help,” Demore said, noting that people have responded to posts on his business Facebook page as well as posts on local and town pages.
The plan to help began last Easter, as restaurants and families began to be affected financially by the pandemic. That’s when Demore began purchasing gift cards for Palmer restaurants and giving them to town residents in need.
Demore has taken his support of Palmer restaurants on the road with the Stand Out Truck, a mobile digital billboard. He purchased ads on the truck for his own business and, after seeing results, began purchasing ad space and sponsoring restaurants.
He is also offering to help any families in need at Christmas — and not just with meals. Demore and his sister have already purchased some big-ticket toys, such as a remote-control Jeep, which he says will be decked out with the Demore Automotive logo, as well as boys’ and girls’ bikes, a play kitchen, and a Nintendo Switch. “We’re even supplying wrapping paper,” he added.
A “Stuff the Cruiser” event will be held on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Palmer Town Hall/police station parking lot. The event supports Santa’s Elves of Palmer, which collects and distributes toys to families in the area. Demore said he would like to see a record number of cruisers stuffed this year. To help reach that goal, he will give a $10 gift card to a local restaurant to anyone who brings an unwrapped toy to his business. Toys can be for any age or gender. Demore will deliver the toys to the Dec. 5 event.

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The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has adopted regional guidelines for the movement of goods and services across borders during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The COMESA Business Council (CBC) recommended its member states urgently put in place a common framework for the movement of essential goods and services across borders. This would take into account product uniformity and harmonisation across countries.
The CBC recommended that its member states consider alternative and practical measures for the movement of cargo across the region. This would include allowing transportation of cargo by a maximum of two people, with regulations for limited interaction between truck drivers and others.
No operational restrictions will be imposed on foreign registered transporters entering a member state, as long as they operate according to national rules and regulations, the CBC noted.
Moreover, the CBC recommended member states facilitate and ease the movement of essential transit cargo across the region. This would happen through pre-clearance and/or prompter clearance to facilitate trade and reduce the risk of infections at border posts.
In addition to this, priority processing channels for goods and services classified as essential would be put in place. The channels would also accelerate clearance and movement of transit goods across countries.


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Enthusem Wins AMA Marketer of the Year Award for Direct Marketing
Enthusem, a hyper-personalized, offline to online marketing software company based in Tampa, Florida, was selected as the winner of the AMA Marketer of the Year award in the Direct Marketing category for their creative work with SnackNation, a healthy-snack delivery service.
SnackNation traditionally sent out free snack boxes to promote their product, and they wanted to make it personal; however, actually making a personal snack box for each recipient was time-consuming and expensive. SnackNation used Enthusem’s personalization-at-scale technology to send a printed mailer with an image of the recipient’s own “virtual” snack box on the front, personalized with his or her headshot and company logo.
When the recipient engaged online as a result of the mailer, he or she saw a video of his or her own account rep talking to the recipient one-on-one saying, “I’ve got a snack box with your name on it." The entire process was automated through Salesforce, and response activity pushed back to Salesforce, bringing SnackNation’s direct mail efforts to a whole new level while delivering an 11 percent response rate. Andy Mackensen, SnackNation co-founder and CMO, stated, “We needed a highly scalable way to personalize our direct mail campaigns while boosting response rates. Enthusem’s personalization-at-scale technology did just that.”
“We oftentimes work through marketing agencies, but in this case, our client, SnackNation, came directly to us with a vision, and we were able to bring it to life with Enthusem,” said Mac McAvoy, director of sales at Enthusem. “To be a software company winning a direct marketing award among so many great marketers is truly an honor.”
Enthusem leverages information about a contact to dynamically create hyper-personalized imagery that incorporates the contact’s own social media images or company branding to build a truly personal mailer, automatically printed and mailed at the exact right time.
Once engaged off-line, the recipient is prompted to go online for a multimedia experience that includes personal webcam videos, landing pages and social media content. Simultaneously, activity is pushed back to the sender’s marketing automation system or CRM to trigger further marketing automation activity or a call from a representative.
“Marketing is becoming more and more about results. Having marketing technology that can be super creative, automate printed mail at scale and also track results is the reason a software company can win in a direct marketing category,” said Angela Medlar, director of technology at Enthusem.
The Tampa Bay AMA Marketer of the Year Awards recognize and honor the very best marketers from both brands and agencies for their creative work, excellence and success. Winners were announced March 2, 2017, at the AMA Marketer of the Year Awards Gala in Tampa.
Learn more about Enthusem at www.enthusem.com. Agencies that are interested in learning more about becoming a reseller of Enthusem should visit enthusem.com/resellers.
About Enthusem: Enthusem, by Prospect Smarter, is an offline to online marketing tool that automates direct mail personalized at scale and integrates with the most popular marketing automation and CRM systems, including HubSpot, Salesforce, SharpSpring, SugarCRM and Velocify.


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The Skiff Reader was meant to be the savior of newspapers and magazines. Prototypes of the bendable e-reader, flaunted at CES 2010, were impressive. Newspaper and magazine articles would appear on the 11.5-inch touchscreen as they did in print, with high-resolution photos, graphics and other design elements intact. The hardware was a thin sheet of stainless steel foil, so flexible that it could be bent nearly in half.
Skiff promised to launch a digital store later in the year, but it never got the chance. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought out the company in June 2010 for its publishing platform. It had no interest in the hardware, which it killed.
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Buy running gear, help kids in need
Spring running season has begun, which for many of us means it’s time for a new pair of shoes (or
Spring running season has begun, which for many of us means it’s time for a new pair of shoes (or a cute new outfit to keep us motivated). And this month, at the same time as you get yourself geared up, you can help a kid in need get running, too.
For the month of April, Brooks has teamed up with Running Room Canada to offer a great deal: for every $150 you spend on Brooks shoes or apparel at any Running Room location, they’ll donate a pair of shoes to the Kidsfest Running and Reading Club, an after-school program that offers a physical fitness and literacy program at 21 schools across Canada.
Sounds like a good excuse to go shopping to me. Find out more at kidsfestonline.com.


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High Road Craft Ice Cream and Sorbet, of Atlanta, was selected as the grand champion of the 2012 Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest.
Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black and Gov. Nathan Deal were on hand to announce the winners on March 13 as part of Georgia Agriculture Awareness Day at the Georgia Freight Depot in downtown Atlanta.
The annual contest, conducted by the University of Georgia Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development, is a chance for food businesses to showcase their new products.
"Flavor of Georgia is a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs to gain publicity and exposure for their products,” said Sharon P. Kane, food business development specialist with the UGA CAED. “It’s also a chance for them to network with other food entrepreneurs and industry experts.”
Brown Butter Praline Ice Cream wins over judges
High Road’s Brown Butter Praline Ice Cream was one of 25 products sampled and judged by a panel of food brokers, buyers and other food industry experts. In addition to winning the overall grand champion, High Road Craft Ice Cream took home first place in the competition’s dairy category.
Husband and wife team Nicki and Keith Schroeder have been producing their small-batch ice creams since April 2010. Their products are featured at Whole Foods markets through out the Southeast and will be in Fresh Market stores nationwide in April.
High Road Craft Ice Cream’s Caffeine and Cacao flavor ice cream won first place in the dairy division during the 2011 Flavor of Georgia competition.
Nicki Schroeder handles the marketing side of the business while her husband Keith, who is a chef, handles product development. They both feel that the Flavor of Georgia competition is the ideal place to field-test new flavors before they go to market.
“It’s really a good way to get feedback,” said Keith Schroeder. “You get young and old, rural and urban here in the same place. You don’t see that very often, and it’s important because different people have different tastes.” High Road Craft ice cream and 24 other finalists were chosen from around 115 entries from all across Georgia.
Flavor of Georgia is a boon for food entrepreneurs and grocery merchants alike
An army of food industry experts -- including chefs, grocery buyers, food service personnel and agricultural marketing executives -- rated the products based on qualities like innovation, use of Georgia theme, market potential and flavor, said James Daniels, a UGA CAED food business development specialist.
“Everybody has been saying this is the best one so far,” said Daniels, who has been for tallying the Flavor of Georgia scores for several years. “I can tell from the results. All the scores were pretty close. There wasn’t a large spread.”
2012 Flavor of Georgia competition Judge Brent Demarest, a produce purchaser for Whole Foods, enjoyed most of the products he sampled Monday.
“It can be difficult for a small producer, just starting out, to get a distributor or to have the contacts they need to sit down with someone at a store like Whole Foods,” Demarest said.
Showcase events like the 2012 Flavor of Georgia competition help entrepreneurs get the word out about their products. The events also give retailers the chance to find quality local products their customers are starting to demand.
“There is a big push for local food right now,” Demarest said. “People are very interested in knowing what they are eating, knowing where it came from and how far it traveled and knowing that they’re money is staying their community.”Other category winners were:
• Confections – Richard Byne, of Byne Blueberry Farm of Waynesboro, won with his Dark Chocolate Blueberries.
• Jams, jellies and sauces – Lauri Jo Bennett, of Lauri Jo’s Southern Style Canning in Norman Park, won with her Muscadine Pepper Jelly
• Barbecue and hot sauces – Griffin Bufkin, of Southern Soul Barbecue in St. Simons Island, won with Sweet Georgia Soul Signature BBQ Sauce.
• Other products – Mercier Orchards, of Blue Ridge, won with the company’s Sparkling Apple Cider.
• Snack foods – Diane Pfeifer, of Strawberry Patch and Grits Bits in Atlanta, won with her Grits Bits Vidalia Onion Baked Cheese Snacks.
• Meat - Debra McFadden-Bryant, of GeeChee Girl Foods of Albany, won with her Seafood Gumbo.
• People’s Choice – Cindy Fulghum, of Three Generations of Georgia in Dewy Rose, won the People’s Choice Award with her Three Generations of Georgia Chicken Log.
Winners and finalists earn the right to have their products stamped with the 2012 Flavor of Georgia logo.
Flavor of Georgia is only a starting point for many of the category winners, Kane said.
She followed up with the 2011 winners and found that between 70 and 80 percent experienced increased interest in their products, sales and business contacts as a result of the contest.
This contest is sponsored in partnership with the Center of Innovation for Agribusiness, Office of Gov. Nathan Deal, Walton EMC, Georgia Department of Agriculture, the Georgia Agribusiness Council and UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Department of Food Science and Technology.


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The theme of the BEEF seminars at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA, this year was “Profitability in a Turnaround Economy.” That's a challenging thing, given the uncertainty still permeating the U.S. and world economies.
But that doesn't mean it isn't possible, according to the three speakers who addressed cattlemen during the world's largest ag expo in January.
Used to be, you could manage according to the cattle cycle, making annual plans with your cow-calf operation. Not any more, says Jim Robb with the Livestock Marketing Information Center in Denver.
“Manage and evaluate in three-month periods, not cattle cycles,” he says. “Cattle cycles will still be here, but other factors will be way more important.”
That's because those other factors — unanticipated shocks to the market, ethanol and a permanent trend to a narrow Choice-Select spread — will cause price volatility to continue.
So far this decade, the cattle market has experienced three major shocks — the 9-11 terrorist bombings, BSE and, most recently, the international credit crisis; each of these events caused the cattle market to decline for four to eight weeks. “Those shocks will continue,” Robb predicts, and you need to have a plan in place when the next one hits.
Then there's ethanol. “Grain markets whipsawing the calf and yearling market will continue,” he says. “The ethanol people are making money again after a year of losing money. What are they going to do? They're going to burn corn.”
And that has the potential to hit you squarely in the back pocket. “If corn goes up 10¢/bu. year to year, a five- to six-weight steer calf in the Southern Plains, everything else being equal, will drop $1/cwt. If corn goes up $1/bu., like it did last year, calf prices will drop $10/cwt,” Robb says.
However, those shocks to the market are also an opportunity if you have the ability to carry cattle through the wreck. “If you took a calf to a yearling weight after each one of those shocks, you made money,” Robb says. “If you waited four or five weeks after the crash, you sold at the lowest price. But if you have a good forage-based program and you turned a five-weight into an eight-weight, you made money.”
Another fundamental change that Robb sees in the business is the narrowing of the Choice-Select spread. “Normally, the Choice-Select spread (at that time of year) should be about $8, and it's $2,” Robb says. “At times last year, we had no premiums for Choice over Select.”
That's because demand for higher-priced beef cuts has been dismal the last year or so while the percentage of fed cattle grading Choice has increased. Robb says Choice has historically accounted for about 54% of fed-cattle slaughter. “Last year it was 58% and now we're doing 63%,” he says, due to better genetics and instrument grading.
While the Choice-Select spread will improve once consumer demand gets better and people start eating steaks in restaurants again, Robb doesn't think the industry will return to previous levels. “Are we going to go back to a premium where the Choice cattle started bringing $20-$25 over Select? I don't think we'll get that anymore. This is a permanent change.”
Earn their trust
“The future of fresh meat is, in my opinion, verifiable attributes — things that were or weren't done, that you can't see, that are part of your story. To be sure that those attributes are actually there, we're going to have to have two things — traceability, verified by a third party.”
With that, Gary C. Smith gave BEEF seminar attendees a look at the future of beef marketing.
“We are moving from a commodity type of production to a branded beef kind of industry because that's where we can add more money,” says Smith, University Distinguished Professor and holder of the Ken and Myra Monfort Endowed Chair in Meat Science at Colorado State University. “The idea is to create things for people who want them, so they can find them at the retail counter and pay a premium for them.”
Smith calls it “story beef” and says that for consumers to believe your story — how you produced that beef, the care and handling of your cattle, how you treated your employees, how you treat the land, among other attributes — takes third-party verification. “People have come to believe those things for which there is some kind of verification.”
But when they do believe your story, they're willing to pay for the product they want. In January 2010, 27% of all people who went into the supermarket bought something local, Smith says. That number was 15% in 2006.
“How many people bought something for which there was a welfare claim? 18%. It would be higher, but there aren't enough products that have that claim yet. It was 6% four years ago. How many people bought a sustainable product in January? 36%. And that number was 9% in 2006. So all these things are increasing in popularity,” Smith says.
What consumers want above all else is a feeling of connectedness, he says. For example, Laura's Lean beef developed an extremely loyal customer base because their customers believed Laura looked out for them, he says.
“We all want to feel like somebody has our back. We want to feel connected. And that is really what verifiability means,” Smith adds.
To see more of Smith's thoughts on traceability and verification, go to http://beefmagazine.com/animal-id-nais/1201-beef-system-traceability/index.
Two Ds are the top issues worldwide for cattlemen — demand and drought. “We can't look at the impact of the recession without looking at how it affected the global beef market as well as the domestic market,” according to Steve Kay, editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly and contributing editor for BEEF.
The extent of the recession around the globe caught everyone by surprise, especially the drop in gross domestic product (GDP), Kay says. In the U.S., it fell 2.2% in 2009. In the countries that buy U.S. beef exports, it fell 6.9% in Mexico, 2.5% in Canada, and 5.3% in Japan. The net result was that export volumes fell 8% last year.
Then there was drought, not only in the U.S. but worldwide. “Drought really cut cattle numbers in key countries,” Kay says. “And those shrinking herds really are a threat to the industry structurally, both to packers and cattle feeders. If you're a cow-calf producer, it's better news because there will be more demand for your cattle. But we've got to see better demand for beef before there's going to be stronger demand for feeder cattle.”
The good news, he says, is that forecasts are for GDP to increase in 2010, which should give consumers worldwide the confidence to again buy beef. “We're going to see an improvement in beef demand, both domestically and globally, I think starting next year.”
That paints a bright future for cattlemen, he says. “We're going to have a shortage of beef in the coming years and those people who maintain their numbers are going to be in the best position to take advantage of it. I have no doubt that the stronger demand relative to shrinking supplies will underpin a whole new price level for beef and cattle,” Kay says.
For more on Kay's comments, go to http://beefmagazine.com/beeftv/cattlemen-sustainability/.


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Internet service in the U.S. is horrible, Greylock Partner's John Lilly said, but he expects to see a greater investment in improving it.» Read More
Bill Gurley, Benchmark general partner, discusses tech valuations and the factors that go into start-ups deciding to go public.
Apple's product lineup for the rest of this year is the best its been in 25 years, said company executive Eddy Cue.
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The Code conference was packed with big names and big news. Check out some of the key highlights.
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Android Users Are More Honest Than iPhone Users, Study Says
Every time there have been rivalries between android users and iPhone users. And personally, even we don’t like the iPhone or any Apple product. But still, our motive is to share information on tech so we are sharing info Apple products. Android users are more honest than iPhone users, study says.
Actually, your phone says a lot about you. It mirrors your personality. There are many studies that show, that our smartphones say something about us.
Here is the research performed by large brains at the university of Lincoln and Lancaster in the United Kingdom. At the time of research, the researchers spoke with 530 people in the year 2015 and 2015.
“We found that iPhone owners are more likely to be female, younger, and increasingly concerned about their smartphone being viewed as a status object”
So here it proves that iPhones are just used to show off in front of people. And actually using an iPhone changes your status in society. That’s true. But even you use S7 Edge, your status is going to decrease.
Anyhow, the researchers claimed that there is some internal stuff too.
“Key differences in personality were also observed with iPhone users displaying lower levels of Honesty-Humility and higher levels of emotionality”
In the same case, Android users are more honest and humble comparing iPhone users. Android users are less likely to break the rules for the self-gain.
The whole study was done in the month of September at British Psychological society Social Psychology Section annual conference. It was published last week at journal Cyberpsychology, behavior, and social networking.
The researcher named David Ellis said:
“We expected that iPhone users would be younger and more extroverted for example”. “We also predicted that iPhone users would be more likely to view their phone as a status object.”
He further added,
“We were able to build a statistical model that, after asking people a few questions about themselves, could predict what type of phone they had in their pocket about 70 percent of the time”.
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According to reports, the GMC Hummer EV may be considered for local right-hand-drive conversion in Australia as part of the new General Motors Specialty Vehicles (GMSV) business, which will replace existing Holden and HSV dealerships in the near future.
In a unanimous decision, the Full Federal Court of Australia has upheld the Federal Court’s decision that the “Hummer” and potentially other vehicles not fitting into the traditional definition of a luxury car will now be subject to the luxury car tax (“LCT”).
How Much Does A Hummer 2020 Cost?
A new EV2 will be launched in spring of 2024 under the name “EV2. In addition to the EV2x, the Hummer EV3X will be available in Fall 2020 with a $99,995 price tag, which is the lowest model capable of doing the CrabWalk.
How Much Is It To Buy A Hummer?
There are already reservations for the 2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1, which will be available in fall 2021 for $112,595 at the start price. Those lucky early birds who managed to get their hands on one of these copies will get a tri-motor system that pumps out 1,000 horsepower and 11,500 pounds of torque.
Is Hummer Banned?
The sale and shutdown of the company failed. General Motors announced that it would discontinue the Hummer brand as part of its bankruptcy filing on June 1, 2009.
Are Humvees Street Legal In Australia?
Military Hummers are not street legal, unlike civilian Hummers such as the H1, H2, and H3, which are all road-legal. The hardware for a Humvee to pass a DMV inspection may not be present if it is listed as off-road only.
Can You Register A Humvee In Australia?
Only basic armour is used on this one. The seller claims this car was even road-registered as recently as 2004, so it is entirely possible for the buyer to get it registered again after it has been road-registered.
Can I Import A Humvee To Australia?
According to the car’s owner, the car is in excellent condition (as much as a fully serving troop carrier can be) and has been on display in a car museum for some time. The vehicle is registered in any state in Australia and has all the necessary import papers and engineering documentation.
How Much Does A 2020 Hummer H1 Cost?
The beast makes 500 horsepower and 1,000 pound-feet of torque, and costs $300,000.
How Much Is A New Hummer Fully Loaded?
The Hummer EV pickup will be available as a 2022 model year vehicle this fall as production ramps up. Due to arrive strictly in $112,595 Edition 1 trim, the truck will have a slow rollout, since it comes fully loaded with a tri-motor electric powertrain that produces 1,000 horsepower.
How Much Is A Hummer Cost?
There are already reservations for the 2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1, which will be available in fall 2021 for $112,595 at the start price.


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MarketNsight reports May and June pending new home sales were up 30% over 2019 sales and, so far, July is averaging more than 30% over last year. Even as COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases continue to rise, homebuyers are buying in unprecedented numbers.
According to MarketNsight and ViaSearch President John Hunt, Atlanta’s new home pending sales are up 13% over last year. MarketNsight data shows the first week of July new pending home sales are up 31% over the same period last year even with the Fourth of July holiday falling on a Saturday. Week two of July 2020 was up 37% year-to-year with a lag and will be up more than 50% year-to-year.
New pending home sales have now been positive year-to-year for a total of 18 weeks and negative year-to-year a total of seven weeks. Of those negative weeks, six coincide with the pandemic – March week two through the third week of April.
New pending home sales turned positive year-to-year in the fourth week of April. Resale pending sales lagged and turned positive year-to-year in the third week of May. For all of June 2020 and the first two weeks of July, resale pending sales have been up 27% year-to-year, and new pending sales have been up 36% year-to-year.
“At present, housing demand is increasing as coronavirus cases also increase,” Hunt said. “Not at all what anyone could have or would have predicted.”
MarketNSight is focused on helping home builders and developers make smart decisions related to purchasing land and pricing product. Its groundbreaking Feasibility Matrix® systemizes the decision-making process and creates a one-stop-shop for gauging new home community feasibility including ranking by builder and subdivision and developed lot and raw land sales.
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The upcoming SSD will boast the smallest cell size in the industry, thanks to Samsung’s 7th gen V-NAND. The technology can stack 176 layers without increasing the module’s height compared to the 6th generation 100-layer V-NAND solution, as the cell volume in the 7th generation is decreased by up to 35%.
Furthermore, the company claims to have already secured a working chip of its 8th generation V-NAND solution that boasts more than 200 layers. This solution will be brought to the market “in accordance with consumer demand,” but of course, the main focus now is on the expansion of the 7th generation V-NAND to more use cases.
Samsung will optimize the upcoming 7th gen V-NAND SSD for heavy workloads
Samsung’s upcoming 7th gen V-NAND consumer SSD will be a high-end solution, and it sounds a lot like the company is aiming this product at professionals who may be working from home.
The company claims that the SSD will be “optimized for huge multitasking workloads” such as simultaneous video editing and 3D modeling. The company didn’t reveal any capacity options yet.
In addition to this powerful consumer SSD, Samsung also plans on expanding the use of 7th generation V-NAND to data center SSDs. In this area, the company claims that the technology can help reduce power consumption and improve efficiency by 16% compared to the 6th generation V-NAND.
Samsung is aiming for a 1,000+ layer V-NAND
The Korean tech giant is already looking towards the future of V-NAND and is aware that any technology has its limits. There will come a day when V-NAND modules reach their height limit, and Samsung is sure that it will be the first company to overcome these limits through the use of 3D scaling technology.
Samsung believes that V-NAND will eventually evolve to feature more than 1,000 layers, though it will probably take a while to reach this level. Even then, the company claims that it will continue striving to deliver the highest level of reliability industry-wide.


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On March 17, 2020, the Government of Ontario announced the closure of all non-essential businesses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This initial list of businesses deemed essential included licensed cannabis retailers. On April 3, 2020, the Government of Ontario released a revised list of essential businesses that no longer included cannabis retailers. As a result, cannabis retailers were forced to close their doors by April 5, 2020, and the Ontario Cannabis Store’s online platform became the exclusive legal purveyor of adult-use cannabis. However, on April 7, 2020, in efforts to continue its fight against the illicit cannabis market, the Government of Ontario issued an emergency order (Emergency Order) that temporarily allows licensed cannabis retailers to offer delivery and curbside pickup services. The Emergency Order also provides certain burden reduction measures for cannabis retailers and institutes a temporary pause on the issuing of retail store authorizations.
The Emergency Order is intended to stay in effect until the end of the declared provincial emergency, or such other time as may be determined by the Government of Ontario.
Delivery and curbside pickup of cannabis
Any delivery or curbside pickup must adhere to the following requirements:
- All products sold are limited to cannabis and other items that would ordinarily be permitted for sale at a licensed cannabis retail store.
- The maximum purchase is 30 grams of dried cannabis (or equivalent) per person.
- Hours for delivery/curbside pickup must be between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m.
- Retailers are responsible for abiding by all laws – including ensuring that purchasers are not less than 19 years of age and that cannabis is securely stored.
- Only a retail licence holder or their direct employees are permitted to be involved in the sale and/or delivery of cannabis, and each such person must hold a CannSell certification. This includes retailers not being permitted to use third party services for delivery.
- Cannabis must be sold in its original packaging and must be delivered to a customer in a manner that ensures the contents are not visible to minors.
- All orders must be placed and paid for over the phone or online. Payment must be completed at the time of order.
Additional requirements for curbside pickup include:
- The person picking up the cannabis must be the same person who made the purchase. Retailers are required to ask for and inspect the identification of such person if the retailer suspects the person may be under 25 years of age.
- The location for pickup must be an outdoor area in close enough proximity to the store to be clearly captured by the store’s surveillance cameras. In no event are customers allowed in the store.
Additional requirements for delivery:
- Cannabis products must be delivered to the residential address specified in the order, and must be delivered to the purchaser or another person who lives at the residential address who is at least 19 years of age.
- Cannabis and accessories must be kept secure up until the point of distribution to a customer. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (ACGO) specifically notes, “the storing of undelivered cannabis and/or accessories overnight in a vehicle will not satisfy the AGCO’s requirements for secure storage.”
- Retailers must record and retain the name and address of each purchaser and the residential address of any delivery.
- Cannabis may not be sold for delivery to any First Nations reserves, which have passed a resolution prohibiting such activity.
The AGCO also specifically notes that retailers are allowed to charge for delivery.
The Emergency Order also provides that cannabis retailers follow all government directives concerning social distancing, including promoting a safe distance between customers with respect to curbside pickups.
Other burden reduction measures
The AGCO undertook a review of its regulatory requirements and made certain changes to ease the administrative burden on cannabis retailers. These include lowering the frequency of when full cannabis inventory counts are required and extending the timeframe to provide certain notices to the AGCO regarding changes such as the change of personnel or changes to store layout.
Retail operator licence and retail store authorization applications
The AGCO will also be temporarily pausing the issuance of retail store authorizations until the Emergency Order has been lifted. However, the AGCO will continue to issue retail operator licences and retail manager licences, and will process retail store authorization applications to the extent possible so that businesses will be ready to move forward once the restrictions are lifted.
Dentons Canada’s insight
Dentons Canada applauds the Government of Ontario for taking swift action to permit delivery and curbside pickup for licensed cannabis retailers. The COVID-19 pandemic poses a unique and significant challenge to this budding industry and these steps were necessary in order to stop the further proliferation of the illicit market. The Emergency Order provides an avenue for retailers to continue operations, while adhering to public health guidelines, and allows recreational cannabis consumers to conveniently obtain cannabis products without having to resort to the illicit cannabis market or lengthy delivery times from the online Ontario Cannabis Store.
The Emergency Order may also serve as a testing ground for the future viability of delivery and curbside pickup systems once retailers are allowed to open their doors back up to consumers. During the time the Emergency Order is in place, retailers will need to rapidly develop and implement online payment and delivery systems, which may serve to benefit retailers in the long-term should the Government of Ontario eventually decide to permit private retailer cannabis delivery.
While the issuance of retail store authorizations has been put on pause, Dentons Canada is pleased to see that the AGCO will continue to move forward with retail operator and retail manager applications already in the queue to the extent possible. This is particularly important given Ontario’s recent opening of the cannabis retail market to private retailers on March 2, 2020, as discussed in our previous Insight. Although it was anticipated that the AGCO would issue up to 20 retail store authorizations per month starting in April 2020, the pause on issuing retail store authorizations will be a thorn in the government’s plan to ramp up the distribution of retail stores throughout Ontario. Nevertheless, we expect that the steps the AGCO is taking to continue to issue retail store operator licences (a prerequisite of being issued a retail store authorization) will serve to facilitate a more efficient rollout of retail store authorizations once the Emergency Order is lifted and will ideally makeup at least some of the setback caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dentons Canada’s leading Cannabis group will continue to work closely with existing and new industry stakeholders who intend to participate in the Ontario cannabis retail regime, and provide frequent insights on these important developments. For more information on how the Emergency Order impacts cannabis market participants, please contact Eric Foster, Ben Iscoe or Stuart Ruffolo.


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Verizon dominated as best overall carrier, according to a testing firm that closely tracks carrier performance data.
Verizon swept all six performance categories, the first time that’s been done since RootMetrics began testing the entire U.S. market in 2013, the firm said this week.
Those categories include overall performance, network reliability, network speed, and call performance. Verizon typically comes out on top in RootMetrics overall performance, but not in every category.
RootMetrics said it drove 265,000 miles in the U.S. and did testing on highways and in big cities, small towns, and rural areas. A total of 3.7 million tests were done, including 4,200 indoor locations. The testing took place during the first half of this year.
While Verizon had an overall score of 93.9, AT&T wasn’t far behind at 89.9, then Sprint at 85.5, and T-Mobile came in fourth with a score of 82.5.
“Industry reports as well as consumer satisfaction data suggests that Verizon has some degree of an edge over competitors in terms of network performance,” Brian Haven, an analyst at market researcher IDC who focuses on mobile consumer services, told Foxnews.com.
AT&T finished second to Verizon in five out of six categories at the national level, said RootMetrics. The only area that AT&T didn’t come in second was the call performance category, where Sprint came in second.
“AT&T remains a strong number-two performer…in holistic areas of overall performance, network reliability, network speed, and data performance,” RootMetrics said.
Other carriers aren’t sitting still, according to IDC’s Haven. “The gap in network quality between the top four carriers is narrowing and will continue to do so as Sprint and T-Mobile further invest in their respective networks,” said Haven, who added that the next big test for carrier performance will happen when more advanced wireless technology is introduced, namely 5G.
And all carriers have to step up to meet changing consumer expectations. “[Previously] consumers might have accepted that data speeds would lag…in areas beyond major metros [but] that’s changed,” RootMetrics said in a statement.
Then of course there’s pricing. Haven said that it’s worth noting that Sprint and T-Mobile have recently introduced new unlimited plans that could make that carrier’s “value proposition” more attractive to consumers.
It’s also worth noting that RootMetrics isn’t the only organization doing testing, and that results have varied. A firm called OpenSignal said earlier this month that T-Mobile won four out of the six “network metrics,” including all three speed categories in a 71-day period during the spring and summer this year. But Verizon did win OpenSignal’s “network availability” category and was a close second in 4G download speed and overall download speed.
“If there is one thing clear from this report, it’s that T-Mobile is challenging the established powers in the U.S. mobile market, putting its resources to bear in building both high-performance and highly accessible mobile broadband networks,” OpenSignal said in its report.
OpenSignal claims that its testing measures the “real world experience users receive.”


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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As companies along the eastern seaboard resume business following Hurricane Sandy, customers of Infradapt, LLC are grateful to the IT infrastructure and system services that were designed and implemented to retain full functionality during a weather event of this magnitude.
Infradapt, a provider of comprehensive IT consulting, and cloud services hosting provider, allowed their clients the ability to stay connected throughout the hurricane, giving them security to conduct business without disruption and in many cases, remotely without any impact to the customers and clients they serve. Infradapt's solutions range from Infrastructure as a Service, where hardware, software and technical support are bundled into a monthly service fee, to traditional on-premise management of technology, and are scaled to the applicable level of complexity an organization requires, including the ability for a full replica of on-premise infrastructure. In addition, Infradapt's cloud infrastructure--which is designed to handle natural disasters--offers superior performance to many on-premise platforms, which proved especially valuable following the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy.
Infradapt Managing Partner John Reilly explains that traditional enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery solutions are complex and error-prone. "Leveraging the on-demand power of Infradapt's cloud infrastructure allowed our customers to have a virtual replica of their entire physical network infrastructure ready to be activated at a moment's notice. This was key during Sandy when networks were failing and in some cases internal, on-premise systems were literally underwater."
According to Infradapt's customer Fred Baumert of Keast & Hood Co., the structural engineering company's IT systems remained completely operational during the storm. "All users in both our Philadelphia and Washington D.C. offices stayed at home and worked remotely. We were able to conduct business through the Internet, accessing email, files, and critical applications like Hosted AutoCad. We are extremely pleased with the systems Infradapt has put in place to allow us the flexibility and security to conduct business after experiencing one of the worst storms in our history."
Another Infradapt customer, Don Huber of Oskar Huber Furniture adds, "Our fully-hosted telephony PBX system allowed calls to be routed directly to cell phones when our Ship Bottom, N.J. location flooded. After seeing the flexibility of Infradapt's cloud services, we plan to move our data applications over immediately as well."
Infradapt Managing Partner Antonio Haddad explains that in the case of a Brazilian ski travel operator, Maktour, with 16 branches across South America, concerns grew when the customer got word of the major storm heading straight for the region. "Our customer was concerned that there would be major disruption, since the company operates pretty much out of our datacenters in the U.S. Northeast." He continues, "… we could assure the customer that their data was well protected and that our datacenter would not be compromised, because our locations are not in flood-prone areas, operate with redundant power grid services, backup generators, etc. We did share our customer's concerns regarding Internet availability during the storm. We were surprised when the real test happened. Once the storm hit, there was no disruption of Internet service at all. The customer operated out of South America like nothing happened over here! To them this was business as usual."
"The lesson from this storm is that on-premise systems can be more unreliable than systems running far away in a 'bunker like' datacenter facility. It seems counterintuitive, but this is what the experience shows," says Haddad. "It's unfortunate that so many businesses lost so much when in reality there are cost-effective solutions, like Infradapt's, that can help them stay in business even under worst-case scenarios."
Infradapt is a leading technology solutions firm, providing comprehensive IT consulting and outsourcing. Its span many industries from small-to-mid sized businesses to multi-location Fortune-1000 enterprises. Infradapt's solutions range from basic IT services through multi-tier outsourced support and business continuity solutions. Infradapt was the first provider in the region to test, certify, deploy, and offer the VMWare vCloud connector to its customers. Infradapt has a strong IP Telephony (VoIP) service concentration, specializing in designing, integrating, and supporting converged voice networks including multi-site and call center systems Recognized nationally for service and engineering excellence, Infradapt is the company experts choose. www.infradapt.com
GENBAND has announced that SageNet is leveraging the Nuvia platform to deliver Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) to its large base of retail and enterprise customers. Nuvia’s cloud-based solution provides SageNet’s customers with a full suite of business communications and collaboration tools. Two large national SageNet retail customers have recently signed up to deploy the Nuvia platform and the company will continue to sell the service to new and existing customers. Nuvia’s capabilities include HD voice, video, multimedia messaging, mobility, conferencing, Web collaboration, deskt...
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SYS-CON Media announced today that @WebRTCSummit Blog, the largest WebRTC resource in the world, has been launched. @WebRTCSummit Blog offers top articles, news stories, and blog posts from the world's well-known experts and guarantees better exposure for its authors than any other publication. @WebRTCSummit Blog can be bookmarked ▸ Here @WebRTCSummit conference site can be bookmarked ▸ Here
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Cisco, the worldwide leader in IT that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Cisco makes amazing things happen by connecting the unconnected. Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by becoming the worldwide leader in transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco and our partners are building the platform for the Internet of Everything by connecting the...
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Temasys has announced senior management additions to its team. Joining are David Holloway as Vice President of Commercial and Nadine Yap as Vice President of Product. Over the past 12 months Temasys has doubled in size as it adds new customers and expands the development of its Skylink platform. Skylink leads the charge to move WebRTC, traditionally seen as a desktop, browser based technology, to become a ubiquitous web communications technology on web and mobile, as well as Internet of Things compatible devices.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that robomq.io will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. robomq.io is an interoperable and composable platform that connects any device to any application. It helps systems integrators and the solution providers build new and innovative products and service for industries requiring monitoring or intelligence from devices and sensors.
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The WebRTC Summit 2014 New York, to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is open. Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. WebRTC Summit is co-located with 16th International Cloud Expo, @ThingsExpo, Big Data Expo, and DevOps Summit.
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Docker is an excellent platform for organizations interested in running microservices. It offers portability and consistency between development and production environments, quick provisioning times, and a simple way to isolate services. In his session at DevOps Summit at 16th Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, co-founder of Rancher Labs, will walk through these and other benefits of using Docker to run microservices, and provide an overview of RancherOS, a minimalist distribution of Linux designed expressly to run Docker. He will also discuss Rancher, an orchestration and service discovery platf...
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Wearable technology was dominant at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , and MWC was no exception to this trend. New versions of favorites, such as the Samsung Gear (three new products were released: the Gear 2, the Gear 2 Neo and the Gear Fit), shared the limelight with new wearables like Pebble Time Steel (the new premium version of the company’s previously released smartwatch) and the LG Watch Urbane. The most dramatic difference at MWC was an emphasis on presenting wearables as fashion accessories and moving away from the original clunky technology associated with t...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Vitria Technology, Inc. will exhibit at SYS-CON’s @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Vitria will showcase the company’s new IoT Analytics Platform through live demonstrations at booth #330. Vitria’s IoT Analytics Platform, fully integrated and powered by an operational intelligence engine, enables customers to rapidly build and operationalize advanced analytics to deliver timely business outcomes for use cases across the industrial, enterprise, and consumer segments.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Liaison Technologies, a leading provider of data management and integration cloud services and solutions, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Liaison Technologies is a recognized market leader in providing cloud-enabled data integration and data management solutions to break down complex information barriers, enabling enterprises to make smarter decisions, faster.
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After making a doctor’s appointment via your mobile device, you receive a calendar invite. The day of your appointment, you get a reminder with the doctor’s location and contact information. As you enter the doctor’s exam room, the medical team is equipped with the latest tablet containing your medical history – he or she makes real time updates to your medical file. At the end of your visit, you receive an electronic prescription to your preferred pharmacy and can schedule your next appointment.
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The world's leading Cloud event, Cloud Expo has launched Microservices Journal on the SYS-CON.com portal, featuring over 19,000 original articles, news stories, features, and blog entries. DevOps Journal is focused on this critical enterprise IT topic in the world of cloud computing. Microservices Journal offers top articles, news stories, and blog posts from the world's well-known experts and guarantees better exposure for its authors than any other publication. Follow new article posts on Twitter at @MicroservicesE
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The list of ‘new paradigm’ technologies that now surrounds us appears to be at an all time high. From cloud computing and Big Data analytics to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the Internet of Things (IoT), today we have to deal with what the industry likes to call ‘paradigm shifts’ at every level of IT. This is disruption; of course, we understand that – change is almost always disruptive.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SafeLogic has been named “Bag Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo® New York, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. SafeLogic provides security products for applications in mobile and server/appliance environments. SafeLogic’s flagship product CryptoComply is a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic engine designed to secure data on servers, workstations, appliances, mobile devices, and in the Cloud.
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SOA Software has changed its name to Akana. With roots in Web Services and SOA Governance, Akana has established itself as a leader in API Management and is expanding into cloud integration as an alternative to the traditional heavyweight enterprise service bus (ESB). The company recently announced that it achieved more than 90% year-over-year growth. As Akana, the company now addresses the evolution and diversification of SOA, unifying security, management, and DevOps across SOA, APIs, microservices, and more.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Akana, formerly SOA Software, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo® New York, which will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Akana’s comprehensive suite of API Management, API Security, Integrated SOA Governance, and Cloud Integration solutions helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels – mobile, cloud and Internet of Things. Akana enables enterprises to share data as APIs, connect and integrate applications, drive part...
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Carson City, NV (PRWEB) January 13, 2012
The popularity and longevity of eBooks has been questioned since their introduction but for the past few years sales of both digital downloads and reading devices has seen impressive growth that indicates they’re here to stay. Today, a leading online publisher, Free-eBooks.net, announced hitting the milestone of 1 million members to further solidify the affirmative side of this debate.
The number of eBooks sold continues to grow after surpassing traditional book sales throughout 2011. In addition to the online retail industry, dominated by Amazon, there is an exponentially growing demand worldwide for free reads.
The Free-eBooks.net subscriber base surpassed the notable, million mark, after five years of rapid growth, spurred on by the increasing familiarity and acceptance of ebooks. They are an online publisher distributing thousands of titles, with over 50 categories for both fiction and non-fiction authors.
The President of Paradise Publishers, Martin Wales offers, “This historical moment for us affirms that we're building destination sites and services that many people enjoy.” He’s bullish about the company’s future stating, “This means Free-eBooks.net attracts even more independent authors and rising-star writers who may have been hesitant to publish in an ebook format. Now, we proved there’s a massive opportunity for exposure and reaching a global audience.”
With technological innovation, there are numerous hardware choices beyond your desktop and laptop to read digital books and multi-media content. The proliferation of tablets, eReaders and smartphones contributes to Amazon.com selling more ebooks than actual books and to Free-eBooks.net’s community downloading an average of nearly 13,000 ebooks, every single day.
“I feel hitting a million members is a magical number and a cause for celebration,” exclaims Nicolas Gremion, the CEO of Paradise Publishers, producers of Free-eBooks.net. “It’s a marker for the beginning of further exponential growth.” Gremion adds, “It’s when advertisers, joint venture partners, and even our own investors, strengthen their confidence in us as a serious player.”
To further solidify eBook acceptance, both Google Books and Free-eBooks.net announced surpassing 2.5 million downloads this past June. This news bodes well for Paradise’s next major project at Foboko.com, where anyone can realize their desire to create and publish their book. The download pace and volume, along with a million members, supports the experienced management team’s forecast to hit a million Foboko members in a quarter of the time.
Paradise Publishers Inc. is a U.S.-based, global, online publisher of both fiction and non-fiction books. It distributes digital eBooks at no cost via http://www.Free-eBooks.net and is about to launch a highly anticipated, social publishing site at http://www.Foboko.com that aims to help anybody become an author and easily publish, promote and profit from their own eBooks.


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Dash Electrum 22.214.171.124 was released, renamed Dash-Electrum, adding the option to use Tor Proxy at startup, according to Dash Coin. DASH is now trading at $159, down 3.26 percent.
Like Bitcoin's core wallet, Electrum Wallet allows users to control their own funds and private keys. Electrum wallets' private keys can also be exported and used on other supported wallets to access funds. Electrum apps are available for Windows, Linux, OSX and Android, but do not support iOS and browser clients.
According to an October 25 article from Vergecurrency, the upcoming Verge Core Version 6 can now be tested on Github and released once the pre-release version is tested correctly. Verge also said it had reconsidered the Electrum spectrum and was working on porting the latest ElectrumX server to work with the Verge Core client. "This means that you must upgrade the Electrum client after it is published. Doing so will indicate that you support the new halving schedule. "According to the previously announced timetable, the halving is planned for block 3700,000. (Newslogical)
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Mars Finance (WeChat: hxcj24) - According to Bitdays, the Dubai Alibaba Coin Foundation has launched a virtual currency wallet app called Alibaba Wallet, which supports more than a dozen major currencies such as BTC and ETH, and is available for download on iOS, Android, Windows and other platforms.
If someone's Electrum wallet connects to one of these servers and tries to send a BTC transaction, they see an official message telling them to update their Electrum wallet, as well as a scam URL.
In addition, the latest version of UBTC Electrum Light Wallet v3.2.8 is available for download.
By default, electrum wallets are randomly connected to a set of Electrum servers. From a privacy perspective, this is not a good thing because it discloses your wallet address and balance to unknown third parties. And unfortunately, many public Electrum servers are run by individuals or groups of blockchain analytics companies or worse. Therefore, if you are using an Electrum wallet, it is generally recommended that you run your own Electrum server and then connect the wallet to that server.
The Green Coin (VTC) version 126.96.36.199, which fixes a vulnerability in the Electrum wallet, has been released.
Well-known Bitcoin wallet Electrum "update phishing" currency theft continues.
The latest version of UBTC Electrum Light Wallet v3.2.8 is available for download.
Creating a multi-signature wallet in Qtum Electrum is easy.


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SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to further push digital media into homes, Apple Computer launched its long-awaited online movie service Tuesday and showed off a device that will make it easier for consumers to watch the videos on television.
The iTunes Music Store, however, will initially carry movies only from the studios of The Walt Disney Co., where Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a board member. By contrast, www.Amazon.com Inc.'s movie service launched last week with distribution deals with seven studios - but not Disney.
Mr. Jobs said more than 75 films will be available on iTunes from Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax. New releases will be priced at $12.99, when pre-ordered and during the first week of sale, or $14.99 afterward. Library titles will be sold for $9.99 each.
Other online movie services already exist but haven't attracted many customers. Apple is already being cast as a leading competitor with its entry.
Several sources at Hollywood studios said disagreements over pricing and other issues remain unresolved, but some analysts expect it'll be only a matter of time before more distribution deals are signed.
Part of the reason is the credibility that Apple has gained with its online music and TV show offerings: more than 45 million TV programs have been downloaded since they first became available on iTunes less than a year ago, and more than 1.5 billion songs have been purchased from the online store.
Another reason is Apple's strategy of bringing digital content stored on a computer and playing it back on a television - a challenge that has so far dogged online video providers and other companies looking to expand digital multimedia into the mainstream market.
As many expected, Apple is tackling that problem.
At a media event Tuesday, Mr. Jobs showed off a slim, compact set-top box, dubbed iTV, that will allow consumers to wirelessly send movies purchased online - and other digital content stored on a computer - to a television set. It will sell for $299 and be available early next year.
With iTV, digital content stored on computers could more easily be played on TVs, Mr. Jobs said.
"We think it completes the picture here. Now I could download content from iTunes. I could enjoy it on my computer, my iPod and my big-screen television in the living room," he said.
The device, which looks similar to a much flatter but slightly wider version of the Mac mini computer, will work with Windows-based or Mac computers that use the iTunes software to manage multimedia files. Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said the product is designed to work best with flat-panel televisions formatted for widescreen viewing. He refused to elaborate on other product details, such as what strain of wireless technology will be used to address potential video delivery-hiccup problems.
Similar media appliances that are designed to link a PC to a television already exist, but none have gained much traction, analysts say.
As a result, relatively few PCs are hooked up to television sets. Though others, such as cable providers and startups such as Akimbo Systems Inc., have introduced set-top boxes and services to deliver on-demand videos and TV shows through a broadband Internet connection, full-length feature films from major Hollywood studios either aren't on their libraries, or are available only on a rental basis.
Mr. Jobs also debuted downloadable video games such as Tetris and Bejeweled that have been designed for the latest video-iPod models. They can be purchased at the iTunes online store for $4.99 apiece.
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European shares tumbled nearly 1.5% on Thursday and extended declines for a second straight session as dismal results from major retailers highlighted the impact of high US inflation.
European retailers were down nearly 2%, tracking U.S. peers, and weighed heavily on the pan-European STOXX 600 index, which closed down 1.37% at 427.99 points after a 1% decline on Wednesday. -market.
Losses were wide, with all major sub-indices trading in negative territory.
Retailers were hit after Target Corp reported that its quarterly profit fell by half and Walmart cut its profit view as they grapple with rising fuel and shipping costs as consumers shift their spending from shopping for large goods to the essential.
European retailers such as Tesco and Sainsbury’s also warned last month of a hit to full-year profits from rising prices.
The STOXX 600 lost 12% on the year as concerns over Covid-19 in China added to fears of a global recession. But as cases of the disease decline, hopes for a recovery offer some relief to investors.
- In LONDON, the Financial Times index dropped 1.82%, to 7,302.74 points;
- In FRANKFURT, the DAX index fell 0.90% to 13,882.30 points;
- In PARIS, the CAC-40 index lost 1.26%, to 6,272.71 points;
- In MILAN, the Ftse/Mib index depreciated by 0.09%, to 24,065.05 points;
- In MADRID, the Ibex-35 index registered a drop of 0.83%, to 8,406.00 points;
- In LISBON, the PSI20 index rose by 1.31%, to 5,904.72 points.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story attributed comments made by City Council President Leesa Perazzo to Councilman John Mootooveren.
SCHENECTADY — The City Council is looking to set new limits on tobacco sales by convenience stores in Schenectady, and council members are hoping to move quickly.
City Council President Leesa Perazzo said she wants fellow council members to offer concrete ideas for a tobacco sales law within two weeks, after the council was informed that it doesn't have the authority to impose a temporary moratorium while it deliberates.
"Without a moratorium on sales, the clock is ticking," Perazzo said at a committee meeting Monday at City Hall. "I would impress on everyone that everyone come to the table (in two weeks) with concrete proposals, so we can be prepared to move forward."
The council is looking for ways to cap the number of convenience stores selling cigarettes in the city, and also to prohibit new stores from selling tobacco products if they are within 1,000 feet of a school.
Council members had hoped to use a moratorium to prevent new stores from opening before a law can be passed, but city Corporation Counsel Carl Falotico said his research indicated that the city can't do it.
"I don't believe we can, because right now we don't have any city-level permit on the sale of tobacco," Falotico said.
The city requires convenience stores to have a permit, but doesn't separately require a tobacco sales permit, he explained.
Any move to limit convenience stores or their tobacco sales is likely to face opposition from convenience stores. James Calvin, executive director of the state Association of Convenience Stores, told the council recently that the association would be concerned about new restrictions on the sale of any legal product.
Perazzo said the city's public policy goals are both to reduce the use of tobacco products and to keep young people from taking up their use. City officials have met with the Capital District Tobacco-Free Coalition, which is lobbying communities across the region to impose new restrictions on tobacco sales.
Under a law adopted by Schenectady County last year, tobacco purchasers are supposed to be at least 21 years old, though it is unclear how effective that law has been.
Under the proposals the council has discussed, existing stores that sell tobacco products and are within 1,000 feet of a school could continue to operate until they change ownership. If the business is sold, that would give the city the leverage to ban tobacco sales going forward.
Perazzo said the city isn't just concerned about convenience stores near schools, but also about the situation found in some neighborhoods where several stores selling cigarettes and similar products are found within a short distance of each other.
In a related development, the council last month adopted a new local law banning smoking within 50 feet of any city-owned building. The goal is to reduce the number of cigarette butts that collect near where employees or visitors smoke, and also to discourage them from smoking in general.


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It’s been a difficult experience for the crypto market in 2022. In November the market was down by more than 70 percent from the previous high at the end of November. When things were going downhill and down, the FTX crash made them look even worse. What is the likelihood that the cryptocurrency market rebound in 2023?
Crypto Market Dips are Cyclical
The market for crypto, particularly Bitcoin, has seen many drops in the past. Each time, it’s rebounded with a huge increase.
In 2013, for instance, Bitcoin reached a peak of $1,160. Then it fell for a full year, reaching a low of $150. However, in 2017, it broke the record and reached a new record high of $19,600. Then, in 2018, and it was trading at $3,100. And in 2020, the price broke through the resistance and hit a new high of $68,000 in November 2021. Just like that, we’ve seen another dip. But history shows us that at the end of every dip, there’s a bull run.
Every Dip is Followed by a Long Bull Run
Just like we’ve seen previously, dips tend to be followed by a prolonged bull run that eventually overcomes the resistance set by the previous market’s highest price. This is evident in more than Bitcoin but also other cryptocurrencies.
Growing Use of Crypto and Blockchain
Crypto and blockchain technology have come a long way in the last few years. With more and more businesses and industries embracing it, its usage and acceptance is growing. From gaming to finance the use of crypto is increasing in a variety of ways. This growing demand could result in increasing participation in the market, which in turn could drive the prices up.
A rise in the interest of institutions for cryptocurrency
In the last few years we’ve witnessed a rising curiosity from institutions investing in cryptocurrency. From hedge funds to banks and even large corporations are now exploring the possibilities of crypto assets. The increased interest of institutions can bring stability to the crypto market and could lead to higher prices.
As the crypto market continues to mature and mature, governments across the globe are beginning to develop more favorable regulations for cryptocurrency. This will help draw more investors and boost the acceptance of crypto in general.
Blockchain has many more applications.
The underlying technology behind many cryptocurrency, blockchain, offers a variety of potential use cases beyond the realm of financial transactions. For example, from supply chain management and voting, many and more industries are starting to explore how they can benefit from blockchain technology. This will stimulate more investment and excitement in cryptocurrency.
Technologies are constantly evolving.
Crypto and blockchain technology are still in the early stages of development. As progress is made in areas like scalability and security, the potential of crypto assets will grow. This could result in more adoption and higher prices.
Uncertainty in the global economy
Due to the constant economic uncertainty caused due to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as other factors increasing numbers of investors are starting to look for safe haven assets such as bitcoin and even gold. Because the global economic climate remains uncertain and uncertain, this could lead to more demand for crypto as well as more expensive prices.
Retail investors are able to earn interest
The institutional investors aren’t alone in people who are interested in crypto. Retail investors, also known as individual investors are also beginning to participate in the crypto market. In the future, as more everyday people are educated about crypto and the best ways to invest in it this could result in an increase in demand and consequently higher prices.
The growing awareness and acceptance of cryptocurrency
As the crypto market grows as more and more people are starting to learn about and understand the concept. As understanding and acceptance of cryptocurrency grows, it will lead to more people buying as well as holding the crypto that could drive up prices.
what is scalping crypto
Financial decentralization (DeFi) is a rapidly growing area of the crypto market that enables the provision of financial services created using blockchain technology. As DeFi continues to grow and more platforms and projects are launched, it could result in increased use and higher prices for crypto.
Developments in crypto payment methods
As the crypto market grows as more and more businesses are starting using crypto to be a method of payment. This could lead to increased use of crypto in regular transactions and an increase in the cost of transactions.
More investment from sovereign wealth funds
These funds are state-owned instruments for investing, are starting to look at cryptocurrency as a possible asset class. As more funds allocate a portion or their entire portfolios to cryptocurrency, this could increase demand and higher prices.
Utilization of crypto to make international payments
One of the major benefits of cryptocurrency is its capability to perform swift and affordable cross-border transactions. As more and more people and businesses begin to use cryptocurrency for international transactions this could lead to increased demand and higher prices.
Increasing numbers of crypto ATM’s
As the number of crypto ATM’s increase it will be more convenient for individuals to purchase and store crypto, which could boost demand and increase prices.
Development of security tokens
Security tokens, also known as digital assets that signify ownership in an asset such as stocks or real estate is a fast-growing sector of the crypto market. With the increasing number of security tokens being issued and traded, it can lead to a higher demand and higher prices for crypto.
A greater adoption rate by merchants
As more and more merchants begin accepting crypto as a means of payment, it makes it easier for consumers to utilize and store crypto, which could boost demand and increase prices.
So, will crypto rise in 2023? It’s only time to find out. However, with these aspects to consider, it’s likely that the crypto market will be able to see a rebound in 2023. If you’re in it for the long haul patience and discipline is essential.


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Prior to the official launch of the Xbox One S (1TB), Microsoft Singapore invited us to their place for a quick peek at the gaming console.
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Milan, Rome and other major Italian cities pose huge logistical obstacles to deliverers of product ordered online.
For those unfamiliar with the traffic and bustle of Rome, navigating its tortuous streets by automobile can be a nightmare. And running a “last-mile” delivery service in that crowded city is even more challenging.
It’s a challenge that Milkman, a two-year-old provider of last-mile service, was eager to take on. Today, the company successfully deploys a fleet of vans not just in Rome, but in five other busy Italian cities as well.
Milkman launched in the spring of 2016 with service in Milan, Italy’s largest city in terms of digital commerce, according to chief executive officer Antonio Perini. Soon after, it added Rome. A deal with the number-one grocery retailer in Italy led to expansion in four additional locations: Padua, Bologna, Reggio Emilia and Modena.
Today, Milkman makes approximately 2,000 deliveries in those six Italian cities each day. It’s active in groceries as well as parcels and non-food items generated by online orders. The company allows customers to choose the day, hour and location at which they want to receive deliveries, offering same-day, evening and weekend service.
From the start, Milkman knew it couldn’t succeed without a viable routing application. And the choice wasn’t a difficult one. Perini had previously served as a product manager with WorkWave, a provider of routing and service technology to field-service and other fleet-based businesses.
Returning to Italy to start his new venture, Perini immediately called on WorkWave. “It was a pretty obvious choice, to start building my own [technology] around what I knew was the best,” he says.
WorkWave already had some customers in Italy, although its main user base was in the U.S., says senior product manager Riccardo Bocci. He acknowledges that the geography and road networks of certain major Italian cities “are extremely challenging. So it was important to us to already have a validated proof of concept there, to guarantee to Milkman that we were the right tool.”
Perini says Rome presented a particular obstacle not just because of congestion — Milan has plenty of that — but also due to a high degree of unpredictability of traffic patterns. A given road might be fast one day, and completely blocked the next.
With the help of WorkWave, Milkman is able to plan in the face of such uncertainties, and gain a solid understanding of traffic in all of the cities that it serves. Real-world events add to the database and allow the app to become even more accurate in predicting drive times. The tool constantly compares what was planned with how that plan was executed.
The result is satisfied customers. “That’s why we’re by far the most loved service provider of home delivery,” says Perini. “The reason is that we’re transparent, and provide reliable times.”
Bocci says WorkWave doesn’t seek to substitute for Milkman’s native knowledge of geographies and territories. Instead, its proprietary algorithms and tracking capability provide a means of automating and supplementing that intelligence, improving human planners’ decision-making process.
In adapting the app for use by Milkman, WorkWave had to balance the need for deep functionality with an emphasis on ease of use, Bocci says. Using GPS technology, the app polls the position of drivers every 20 seconds. The information is then used to update arrival times for all of a driver’s remaining stops. Milkman considers the ability to keep customers informed of delivery status a key element in retaining business.
Based in the cloud, WorkWave’s Route Manager allows the company to build route plans based on consignees’ desired times of receipt. They can specify their preferences either during the checkout process at an e-commerce site, or on Milkman’s own tracking page. In the end, the company is able to provide delivery times that are accurate to within a matter of minutes.
Perini says Route Manager “works hard behind the scenes to plan routes, leverage real-time GPS positioning to trigger alerts, provide continuous communication on driver ETA, and present the option to reschedule if the delivery time is no longer convenient.” Customers are allowed to cancel or change their delivery schedule at no additional cost.
WorkWave Route Manager “has enabled our business to provide white-glove service, save time and money, and keep up with changing customer demands,” Perini adds.
A Near-Perfect Record
The tool has helped Milkman to achieve a 98-percent on-time arrival rate. At the same time, it has led to a reduction in customer-service calls, requests for rescheduling, and issues arising from inaccurate or changed addresses.
More than two years’ experience of serving major Italian cities has yielded some valuable lessons. “First of all,” Perini says, “being a service provider means dealing with humans.” Milkman is constantly interacting with consumers, drivers, merchants and logistics providers. For all its bells and whistles, the technology has to support that basic dynamic.
There’s always the temptation to be dazzled by the latest app. “Being a technology-enabled service provider, we must be very careful about what technology we build or buy,” says Perini. Milkman’s priority is providing a “white-glove” service, while relying on WorkWave to supply the underlying development platform for any additional functionality.
Bocci says the last two years have been “very interesting,” allowing WorkWave to validate its general approach while giving it a deeper understanding of Milkman’s unique needs.
The customer’s focus on innovation — deploying technology “at the bleeding edge” — has also helped WorkWave to gain a sense of how its platform might further evolve. At the same time, it’s been able to extend to other customers some of the functionality that it developed for WorkWave, such as GPS tracking.
Milkman has ambitious plans for growth. It plans to launch in 12 additional cities over the next 12 to 24 months. It also expects big increases in volumes in the cities already being served. Perini says the company will be looking to WorkWave to help it maintain a high level of service to customers at the lowest possible cost.
Through the sharing of timely information, based on data gleaned in real time, Milkman hopes to “make the customer part of the supply chain,” Perini says.
For its part, WorkWave plans to continue enhancing its algorithm to handle larger delivery volumes, without compromising the customer experience. Says Bocci: “We need to keep up to speed.”
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One of Hong Kong’s most-popular initial public offerings among retail investors dropped in its debut, pouring cold water on the city’s red-hot sentiment over new listings.
Joy Spreader Interactive Technology Ltd., a Hong Kong-based online marketing firm, fell as much as 6.3% on Wednesday morning. If shares close below their HK$2.88 offer price, it would be the first Hong Kong IPO to drop on day one after raising more than $100 million and having a retail oversubscription rate above 1,000, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Joy Spreader sold HK$1.57 billion ($202 million) of stock, with the price toward thehigher end of expectations.
The company’s IPO was the third most sought-after in Hong Kong this year by retail investors, with orders for more than 1,600 times the shares originally offered in the group. Its sluggish performance is a sharp contrast to previous listings that saw similar popularity this year, including the 152% surge in July forOcumension Therapeutics and 54% jump forNongfu Spring Co. earlier this month.
No price pop for Joy Spreader adds to signs that sentiment in Hong Kong is cooling. The city’s equities market has been falling of late amid escalated Sino-U.S. tensions and investors apparently saving cash for next month’santicipated debut ofAnt Group Co.Fulu Holdings Ltd., whose retail oversubscription rate also topped 1,000, rose 3.2% in its Sept. 18 debut whileYum China Holdings Inc. recorded theworst stock debut in more than a year among billion-dollar listings in Hong Kong earlier this month.
“I think the IPO market has cooled down a bit and clients are turning more conservative,” said Alvin Cheung, associate director at Prudential Brokerage Ltd. “I believe Joy Spreader’s performance reflects recent market sentiment.”
Joy Spreader was backed by cornerstone investors including Acuitas Group Holdings LLC and Capital Investment LLC, a sign usually seen by retail investors as a vote of confidence in a company.
New offerings have been particularly popular with Hong Kong retail investors this year, as ample liquidity encouraged banks to lend and more technology firms list in the city, spurred by restrictions imposed on some in the U.S. Seven of the 10 best IPO debuts in Hong Kong in the past decade took place this year, based on deals that raised more than $100 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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