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Over the past few months, there have been a number of innovations when it comes to the world of cryptocurrency mining hardware. Bitmain has been at the helm of a majority of these innovations. The company has dominated the cryptocurrency mining markets for quite some time now - and currently occupies between 75 to 80% of the entire cryptocurrency mining hardware markets. Bitmain’s latest innovation is the introduction of cryptocurrency mining routers.
Two cryptocurrency mining routers have been launched by the company - one of them mines for DASH and the other mines for SIA (Siacoin). The two Bitmain routers have been named Antrouter R3-DASH and Antrouter R3-SIA. These will help function as regular cryptocurrency routers and will also mine cryptocurrency while doing their regular task.
However, this is not the first time that Bitmain has launched a cryptocurrency mining router, as they had launched a Litecoin mining router under their R3 series of products earlier. The company announced these routers via a Tweet, saying:
We are pleased to announce the #antrouter R3-DASH & R3-SIA, new miners from the R3 series that is also dual-function WiFi Router and Crypto Miner that can mine #dashcoin & #siacoin. Order here Dash: (https://t.co/bT7VM9FWUT) & Sia: (https://t.co/4WvlkK62Zc) now while stock lasts! pic.twitter.com/j7WhkShgJi— Antminer_main (@Antminer_main) August 6, 2018
These products are not aimed at those miners who want to mine cryptocurrencies seriously and for profit. Instead, these are meant for those who love the idea of mining cryptocurrencies while they get the benefit of the main product - which is the internet router. It is a gimmick device which doesn’t really have any actual mining utility as the hashing power is too less.
The R3-DASH router consumes 24.37W of power. Moreover, the router can also mine for other X11 coins, but the company does not claim any guarantees regarding any coin other than DASH. In a statement on the product page of this router, it is specified that they “cannot guarantee the performance or efficiency of the R3-DASH when used to mine X11 coins other than DASH.” Similarly, the other router, R3-SIA can mine for other blake (2b) coins, but no guarantees can be provided there either.
Gimmick devices are becoming quite popular of late. Last week, Bitmain’s closest competitor, Canaan Creatives launched a television set that can mine for cryptocurrencies. Interestingly, both Canaan and Bitmain are planning to apply for an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).
With their Q1 profits surging past $1 Billion, Bitmain is certain for an approval by the HKEX. Bitmain, however, has been coming up with some major and legitimate innovative devices in the past. The company was the first to come up with ASIC miners which could break through the algorithms of Ethereum, Monero and ZCash - currencies that were otherwise seen as ASIC-resistant.
Bitmain has been steamrolling its way towards an IPO, raising capital from some of the biggest investment firms such as Tencent and Softbank. Users interested in buying these R3 routers from Bitmain can make a payment in Bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and litecoin. The routers will begin to ship ten days after purchase.


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Six million viewers for Italy's tivùsat
Mar 27, 2020 – tivùsat has announced that the number of Italians who watch its free satellite television service has reached almost 6 million. Over 150 TV and radio channels are available on tivùsat, 52 of which are in HD quality and 7 in 4K.
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Fransat and HD+ adopt Intertrust XCA content protection
Sep 12, 2019 – Intertrust has announced that Fransat and HD+, France and Germany’s leading free TV operators, have selected Intertrust’s ExpressPlay XCA to protect and manage video streams over major broadcast and IPTV networks.
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3.5 million active smartcards for Tivùsat
Jul 3, 2019 – Tivùsat has announced that, as it celebrates ten years of operation, it now has 3.5 million active smartcards with the average number of viewers accessing the service each day put at 4.5 million.
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Tivù launches HbbTV Operator Application
Sep 14, 2018 – Tivù, in collaboration with Yotta Media Labs, has become the world’s first operator to deploy an HbbTV Operator App (OpApp). Tivùon, Tivù’s OpApp, supports all of the features expected of a vertical network operator’s application for the Italian horizontal TV ecosystem.
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Skyworth and SERAPHIC partner to deliver OpApp compliant STBs in Italy
Sep 14, 2018 – Skyworth Digital has announced a collaboration with SERAPHIC to deliver OpApp (Operator Application) compliant STBs for Italian operator Tivùsat. The new products will be on the market in November, 2018.
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Vestel to deliver TVs with Intertrust's ExpressPlay video protection
Sep 13, 2018 – Vestel and Intertrust have announced that Vestel will ship TVs and STBs in 2019 with Intertrust’s ExpressPlay XCA for broadcast video management and protection. ExpressPlay XCA is Intertrust’s video conditional access system based on open standard Marlin DRM technology.
News categories: Intertrust, Vestel, Alberto Sigismondi, Hakan Kutlu, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DRM, Europe, IBCShowcase, OTT, Set Top Box, Smart TV
Tivù partners with Vewd to introduce HbbTV Operator Apps
Sep 11, 2018 – Tivù has become the world’s first operator to deploy an HbbTV Operator App (OpApp) together with Vewd. tivùon, Tivù’s OpApp, creates a virtual set-top box with an operator’s own UI and applications to offer a more engaging and branded user experience.
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SERAPHIC to launch commercial OpApp solution at IBC2018
Sep 4, 2018 – SERAPHIC has announced that its Sraf OpApp solution, which is now ready for commercial use, will be officially launched at IBC2018. The product is compliant with Operator Application specification ETSI TS 103 606 V1.1.1 (2018-05).
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HbbTV Association publishes OpApp specification
Dec 19, 2017 – The HbbTV Association has announced that it has published its Operator Applications Specification. Building on HbbTV 2, the specification allows TV operators, in partnership with TV manufacturers, to provide an operator-branded experience as an application on TVs.
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South Korean electronics giant Samsung is currently working on its rumored flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S11 series. The company is expected to launch the smartphone sometime in February 2020. Samsung has not shared any information regarding the upcoming flagship smartphone. However, a number of rumored details have already surfaced online. These include the three display sizes, 120Hz refresh rate, integrated 5G model, and several camera-related tips. We already know that the S11 series is likely to feature a second-gen 108-megapixel sensor along with support for 8K encoding. In the meantime, new information has surfaced revealing some new regarding the camera. Also Read - Samsung Galaxy M33 5G India launch likely next month: Launch date, specifications, price and more
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According to a report from LetsGoDigital, it looks like Samsung will add a new camera sensor on the Galaxy S11 series. This new sensor will likely be known as the Samsung Bright Night Camera sensor. The company has already filed for the trademark for the name as part of a patent filing at EUIPO. Samsung Bright Night camera sensor is likely to make its way in future smartphones and tablets. In addition, the new sensor is also likely to take on the likes of Google, Huawei, and Apple. Also Read - Samsung confirms Unpacked 2022 to launch Galaxy S22 series with Noteworthy features
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It is worth noting that Bight Night is not a new thing that we have seen. Samsung has already named its dedicated night mode as Bright Night. This information comes right after supposed renders of the Samsung Galaxy S11 and S11+ leaked online. These renders hint at a total of five camera sensors on the back of the device. Also Read - Samsung Galaxy S21 FE review: A flagship that was worth buying in 2021
Beyond the 108-megapixel camera sensor, Samsung may also add a periscope camera module with a 5x optical zoom. Samsung is also likely adding laser autofocus on the S11 lineup along with several new software features. These include a new Directors’ View, Night Hyperlapse, Single take photo, and vertical panorama. This likely means that Samsung is keeping a special focus on the camera.


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A gallon of regular gasoline in New Jersey has stabilized in the $4.20 range after the recent surge, about 55 cents higher than it was about a month ago.
Diesel is even higher, well over $5 a gallon, according to AAA, and as the weather warms for Garden State food trucks that rely on fuel for both transportation and on-site generators, either can also be an ominous indicator.
But John Hepner, president of the New Jersey Food Truck Association and owner of both Verona’s food truck and restaurant, Aloi-D, Thai Elephant, said that while it’s a concern, gas is not the main expense of the food truck.
“About a year ago the price of beef skyrocketed and we used to charge the same price for beef and chicken, but we couldn’t do that anymore,” he said. “Overall, our costs are probably about 20% higher than he was a year ago.”
In addition to the higher prices that will inevitably be passed on to consumers, Hepner said the COVID-19 pandemic has not only put many New Jersey food trucks out of business, but has also put them out of business since the explosion of mobile restaurants. said it caused a paradigm shift in the standard operating procedures of It was popular ten years ago.
The idea of “street selling,” like traditional trucks on the corners of New York and Los Angeles, is fading, at least in the Garden State.
Hepner says food truck owners are now smarter and book deals where they know they’ll make money.
“It was a much more catered place where I would bring my truck in. ‘I’ll pay you $X to put your truck in there and feed these people,'” he said. Drawing on personal experience, he said, “We don’t do as much street sales as we used to. We do catering.”
Hepner said the next trend may be a concentration of food trucks in multi-family homes and offices, but the problem is that many offices have been relatively empty since they were wiped out in March 2020. is.
In fact, his business was due to open a pop-up location in Jersey City in May of that year, and he said it went as far as building a kitchen, but never opened.
Hepner recognizes that one of the attractions of food trucks is the availability of high-quality food at affordable prices. He still believes New Jersey trucks can make it happen this spring and summer, whether it’s festivals, wedding receptions, or office parties.
Patrick Lavery is a reporter and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. He can be reached at [email protected].
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The sun has set on the rooster in Portland.
Le Coq Sportif, the French sportswear brand with a rooster crowing in its logo, is closing its Portland-based North American subsidiary less than a year after leasing offices here and only three months after relaunching to U.S. consumers, a company official confirmed today.
Tim McCool, chief executive of Le Coq Sportif North America, said that despite success this spring in the U.S., the company has decided to pull back to focus on unexpectedly strong demand for its products in Europe. McCool declined to detail the privately held company's revenues, but said sales grew 95 percent in 2007 and so far have exceeded its target 70 percent growth target this year.
Le Coq relaunched the once-popular brand to U.S. consumers in February with a line of clothing and lifestyle and technical footwear. It targeted fashion boutiques, tennis clubs, private athletic clubs and resorts. The company also signed flamboyant Chicago Bulls rookie Joakim Noah, son of French tennis legend and longtime Le Coq athlete Yannick Noah, to an endorsement contract.
Le Coq, which employed seven in offices on Northwest First Avenue in Portland, becomes the third apparel brand to curtail operations or close shop in Portland in the past two months. Adidas AG's North American unit, Adidas America Inc., laid off dozens in April, and sustainable apparel startup Nau Inc. shut down earlier this month, laying off more than 60.
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The US subsidiary of German manufacturer SolarWorld welcomed the ITC verdict 20 minutes after it was announced. SolarWorld America claims Chinese producers enjoy no unsubsidised cost advantage over US rivals.
The preliminary AD verdict is expected on March 26 and a CVD decision on June 9. The commission arrived at a unanimous verdict that Chinese goods are unfairly harming U.S. manufacturers.
The International Trade Commission has just revealed its 'affirmative' decision. Preliminary AD duties are now due to be decided upon next month.
The Chinese module manufacturer's acquisition of a mainland cell maker pre-empts the decision of the U.S. authorities, due this afternoon. Trina's Chinese bolt-on acquisition will be seen as an ominous move by Taiwanese cell...
The Norwegian company, largely based in the U.S., says it has so far evaded Chinese duties by using available legal options offered by Chinese law.
The White House argues that India's domestic content requirements not only hinder international cooperation on clean energy but also make solar energy more expensive for the country.
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Permits have been filed for a five-story mixed-used development at the site of the Crown Heights Associated Supermarket.
The permits include plans for mixed-income housing and ground floor retail space, which will be occupied by the Associated Supermarket, New York Yimby reports.
The future of the supermarket in the new development was hard fought by neighbors.
In September, the development site was bought by Hudson Companies for $41.5 million. The development company, which bought the site from Midwood Investment & Development, promised to uphold Midwood’s recent deal with Associated, which will allow the supermarket to operate on the property for another 15 years.
The permits show plans for a 54-foot-tall development that will have 178 residences, most likely rentals based on the average unit scope of 886 square feet, New York Yimby reports.
The development will also have a cellar, 117 bicycle parking spaces, and 175 enclosed vehicle parking spaces.
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Mumbai-based ItzCash Card Ltd, a provider of pre-paid card and payment solutions, has raised under $15 million in funding from a group of unnamed strategic Asian investors, sources privy to the development told VCCircle.
It could not be immediately ascertained what the company plans to do with the fresh capital. Repeated calls made and an e-mail sent to ItzCash’s CEO Naveen Surya did not elicit any response till the time of publishing this article.
ItzCash was launched in 2006 as a non-banking entity to offer pre-paid cash cards, and later went on to add payment solution services for offline and online marketplaces. It has presence across diverse sectors, including media & entertainment, tourism, packaging, publishing and broadcasting and financial services. The firm’s founder Surya holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce & Law and a PG degree in Management with specialisation in Finance. Prior to setting up ItzCash, he had worked at TCS as a management consultant.
ItzCash had raised $10.3 million in funding from Matrix Partners, Intel Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners in July 2009. Previously, the company had netted $9.3 million in funding from Intel Capital and Matrix Partners in 2007.
Recent deals in the payments space
The payments space in India has seen a lot of action, of late. In July this year, Mumbai-based TranServ Pvt Ltd, a pre-paid payments programme manager, raised an undisclosed amount in its Series B funding led by PE fund Faering Capital’s India Evolving Fund. A month earlier, Bangalore-headquartered e-payment processing solutions startup Fortune Payment Solutions India Pvt Ltd had secured under $1 million led by Kae Capital.
Around the same time, Bangalore-based mobile payments service provider Ezetap had acquired Clinknow, a provider of loyalty platform for retailers. This deal happened a couple of months after the firm raised an undisclosed amount in funding from American Express.
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Business Wire IndiaMyntra has grown its accessories category by 100% and targets to grow YOY by 200%. Myntra is bullish on the category and keeping in mind the long term prospects of the Accessories category, it has announced its association with premium watch brands like Lacoste, Coach and Hugo Boss as a striking addition to its existing portfolio, making way for consumers to shop for their favorite timepieces from a swanky collection.
Daniel Wellington, one of the fastest growing brands globally, a social media phenomenon and the modern American luxury brand Coach, will be exclusively available online on Myntra. Some of the leading brands in the category are Fossil, Michael Kors, Casio and Titan. With the addition of new brands, Myntra now houses over 30+ top global brands in the category, making it one of the finest watch stores in the country to call.
Myntra is also launching a special campaign for the first time in the category to promote the new collection, called, ‘Myntra Maxcessorise’, to be held on the 7th and 8th of February. Led by digital and social mediums, the campaign aims to showcase the variety and beauty of the collection, available exclusively on Myntra. Leading brands such as Fossil, Daniel Wellington, Police and Tommy Hilfiger are partnering with Myntra for the promotion.
Speaking on the occasion, Ananya Tripathi, Head Sports & International Brands and Chief Strategy Officer, Myntra, said, “Myntra has witnessed a 100% growth in this category over the last couple of years. The demand for premium brands is on the rise owing to some of the trendiest global collections and we foresee more and more shoppers opting for international brands in the months to come. With the addition of Lacoste, Coach and Hugo Boss among others, we are on our path to being the most preferred destination for watches in the country.”
Rajiv Mehra, Regional Sales and Marketing Director, APAC Region, ILG Group, said “With the ongoing success in the Indian domestic market for the Police brand of watches, we are now ready to take the plunge in the growing online channel. With this objective in mind, we proudly associate ourselves to launch the brand, with the dynamic lifestyle and fashion online partner Myntra. This will help strengthen our presence in the online space and grow the brand to the next level. We are confident that with this association, we shall be able to target the right audience for our brand of watches which is quite distinctive and unique in its offering and styling, with aggressive pricing. We look forward to this partnership which will help grow the brand as well as cater to the target audience with a product niche which is more or less not existing in the offline space.”
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Cybersecurity Costs - An Unsustainable Tax On Business
The cost of cybersecurity has become a burdensome tax on business and with 1.5 million IT security jobs unfilled, US corporations are losing to sophisticated criminal gangs, said security experts at a recent event in San Francisco.
"Cyber is a tax on business. Jamie Dimon [JP Morgan Chase CEO] has had to double his cybersecurity budget to $500 million. Things can't continue this way forever, we have to get ahead of the problem," said Ray Rothrock (photo), a veteran VC, now chairman and CEO of RedSeal, a startup that measures the effectiveness of enterprise security.
He said that the size of the problem and the opportunities are what lured him out of retirement in early 2014 to run RedSeal. He made 53 startup investments including "over a dozen" in cybersecurity when he worked at VC firm Venrock.
JP Morgan Chase last year doubled cybersecurity budgets to $500 million and expects to spend the same amount this year. The financial services giant had a bad computer security breach in 2014 when 76 million household accounts -- two-thirds of all US households -- were compromised.
Chris Webber, security strategist at ID security startup Centrify said there are1.5 million IT security jobs unfilled. It shows the size of the problem and that the criminals are winning.
"There are new security risks such as Apple's recent decision to speed up approval for software in its app stores. Will this let more malware escape scrutiny?" asked Domingo Guerra, co-founder and president of Appthority, a startup that monitors mobile apps for data risks in the enterprise.
Dwayne Hall, CEO of startup Opaque Communications, said his company is working with government security agencies on a way of preventing some people downloading its technologies for secure and untraceable messaging. "If they are on any watch lists then they could be blocked from downloading our software," Hall said.
Andy Grolnick from LogRhythm, a startup that analyzes data to spot security risks from within, said that companies cannot rely on perimeter defenses and that spotting criminal behavior relies on being able to normalize massive amounts of machine data.
Foremski's Take: Is enterprise security achievable? I could buy everything at the annual RSA Data Security show and still not feel secure. There are countless new exploits being discovered, which means they could have been exploited for a long time before.
Add the fact that large enterprises don't know the location of all their sensitive data and therefore can't protect it or even know if it has been breached. Cybersecurity is a mess.
Buying things online used to be a one-click process but that was many years ago. Additional security checks of different types make buying things online a chore and certainly not the frictionless experience we were promised.
Anything that disrupts the consumer experience is ultimately a danger to the entire economy of society. Ray Rothrock at RedSeal is right: we have to get ahead of the problem.


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The holiday season is here and Walt Disney World cast members are spreading joy and cheer by participating in the Disney Ultimate Toy Drive. This annual event supports the Marine Toys for Tots Program, which helps bring gifts to children in need. The atmosphere at the resort is festive, with twinkling lights and the aroma of gingerbread filling the air.
This year, Walt Disney World celebrated 75 years of partnership with Toys for Tots, an organization that helps bring toys to millions of children in need. At the resort, both cast members and guests generously donated over 40,000 toys to benefit children and families in the Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties.
To mark this milestone anniversary, Walt Disney World hosted its first-ever toy distribution event. During this festive occasion, families were able to pick up their toys and enjoy a special experience filled with holiday cheer. They had the opportunity to create cherished holiday memories together, including meeting Mickey Mouse. It was a truly memorable event for all those involved.
“We couldn’t do what we do without the support of Disney,” said Lt. Gen. Jim Laster, President & CEO of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. “We are so appreciative of the extra assistance and happiness cast members are bringing to families in need this year in hosting a distribution site. The pure smiles on faces speaks for itself!”
This tradition means the world to many of our cast members who dedicate their time to giving back to Central Florida as Disney VoluntEARS. This year, they spent nearly 4,000 hours collecting toys and supporting the sorting and distribution process at local Toys for Tots warehouses.
“My family was always supported by Toys for Tots, so I know firsthand that this is a really wonderful resource for families,” Disney VoluntEAR Karen shared. “This is my 30th year with The Walt Disney Company and every year, I help Toys for Tots. I’m so proud to work for a company that supports this and helps make sure every child has a gift to open this holiday season.”
You can still contribute to the Disney Ultimate Toy Drive and help bring joy to children in need through Dec. 24 by donating at shopDisney.com.
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For many Android enthusiasts, having total control is part of the platform's attraction. But Google is imposing some annoying new restrictions for those who want to be superusers on their own phones.
Google is blocking access to its new Android Market movie rental service for those using rooted Android devices. If you try to access a movie from the Market using a rooted device, you'll receive a "failure to fetch license" error message.
Obtaining root access to an Android device gives you full administrative privileges, letting you make changes that wouldn't otherwise be possible running the stock operating system out of the box. That means anything from installing a custom version of your operating system to deleting the prebundled bloatware that came with your device. A minority of Android phone owners do this, but for those who do, the flexibility and control is an important feature and, for some, a right.
On the help menu of the official Android Market, Google gives a vague reason for the holdup, stating that "rooted devices are currently unsupported due to requirements related to copyright protection."
Ostensibly, the holdup is coming from the end of the movie studios.
"Rooted devices can probably work around the DRM system that they have set up," says Gartner analyst Phillip Redman. DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems control the uses of digital content -- like movies or music -- that aren't intended by the host of the content. It's likely the studios are worried that if you're using a rooted device, you could potentially run an app that would make copies of the movies you're renting on the Android Market's movie service.
This restriction isn't unique to Android movie rentals. Netflix has been available for iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad for months, yet the streaming video service hadn't extended to Android until this month. And even now, Netflix is currently available on only five specific Android phone models. The reasoning, according to Netflix, has been because of protestations from movie studios.
"The same security issues that have led to piracy concerns on the Android platform have made it difficult for us to secure a common Digital Rights Management (DRM) system on these devices,” wrote Greg Peters of Netflix product development in a November blog post.
Google had no further comment on the issue.
As Google only recently launched its movie rental service, it is still in its infancy stage. Currently, you can only watch movies from the Android Market on either your desktop web browser, or on the 3G version of Motorola's Xoom tablet. The Android Market says support for phones and the Wi-Fi Xoom is coming soon.
We may not see movie rentals on rooted devices any time soon, but if Netflix's foibles are any indicator, we can probably expect more non-rooted devices to gradually gain access. "There are requirements we must fulfill in order to obtain content from major studios for our subscribers to enjoy," Netflix's Peters wrote. "Although we don’t have a common platform security mechanism and DRM, we are able to work with individual handset manufacturers to add content protection to their devices."
The restrictions bring into question Android's "open" platform campaign. Google's Nexus model phones -- HTC's Nexus One and the Samsung Nexus S -- both come with the built-in ability to gain root access to the phones. And the Motorola Xoom comes with an unlockable bootloader, which also allows for root access. Yet it seems for the time being, you'll have to choose between rooting your phone and renting movies from the market.
Until you figure out a workaround, that is. "There's always a lot of content available out there," Gartner's Redman said, "but mostly to those that are more technically savvy and can navigate around the roadblocks put into place by the studios." And according to one user's comment on Android Central, "all you have to do is spoof your info," or conceal your phone's actual identification information.
But however unhappy these restrictions make root users, it may be the cost of doing business. "If you're going to build a successful platform," says Redman, "agreements have to be made. I think this one is entirely reasonable."


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By Godwin ORITSE
THE Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR,) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), have uncovered six dark spots between Lagos and Abuja, where petroleum products are adulterated.
Disclosing this recently at a stakeholders meeting in Lagos, SON’s Director General, Mr. Joseph Odumodu, and his DPR counterpart Mr. Ostein Olorunsola, vowed to move into these dark spots to stop the illicit trade.
DPR noted that products adulteration is worse up north, adding that statistics showed that much of the kerosene, petrol and diesel tested were found to have been adulterated, adding that most of the products adulterations were carried out at discharge points, storage facilities and retail outlets.
The industry regulator also disclosed that about 21 outlets were used for the petrol testing, while 15 were also used for diesel, adding that in the course of the diesel test, the presence of kerosene was as high as 77.1 percent, while the cetane content was as low as 45.5 percent.
“Results showed that the quality of diesel improved within a week after the release of the South West results. In the East, AGO tested were noticed to have kerosene content with a maximum value of 62.1 percent and cetane number of as low as 46 percent.
“The Diesel available in Enugu was mostly adulterated with kerosene in all cases except for two stations. The diesel samples in Anambra all had kerosene, all the diesel samples drawn in Imo were almost kerosene-free. The products in Imo were all sourced from Port Harcourt Refinery.
“The PMS samples all passed parameters other than the colour. AGO sampled from Rivers, Bayelsa, Abia and Cross Rivers had no kerosene. AGO from Akwa Ibom had Kerosene in amounts of up to about 27 percent – Cetane number of as low as 47 percent.”
It added that crude refining facilities were discovered in some areas and handed over to the law enforcement agents.
Meanwhile, in view of the unwholesome development, SON warned the operators to desist from such criminal acts or face the wrath of the law.
Odumodu said that operators of retail outlets should enlist the services agency and ensure that their facilities are certified and identification certificate issued to them.
The SON boss, who described adulteration as an act of terrorism which is punishable under the Anti-terrorism Act, noting that facilities involved in product adulteration will be treated as such.
He also disclosed that the agency has concluded plans to extract information from owners of retail outlets to ascertain their exact locations to ascertain their level of compliance against product adulteration.
According to the SON boss, the information extracted from outlet owners will be done by filling out a form that will be obtained from any branch of designated banks or from an online platform, adding that certification fees in line with the category of outlet will also be charged.
His words, “Any facility which fails to comply with the listing requirements and within the prescribed time limit shall be denied access to purchase and lift petroleum product from any certified depot or major sales point for re-sale at its outlet.
“Adulteration of petroleum products is classified as an Act of Terrorism, as such, an unlisted facility risks being branded a terrorist facility especially in view of the prevalent security circumstances in the country.”
He however appealed to stakeholders in the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry to join hands with the agency to stem this embarrassing trend in the country.”We are all stakeholders in this project and should play our part to make it work,” he added.


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Windows 10 celebrated its second anniversary this week.
By historical standards, this upgrade has been relatively free of drama, especially coming on the heels of Windows 8, an unqualified flop. The fact that we haven't seen any major meltdowns in the Windows 10 rollout is even more impressive when considering just how big this product cycle is.
Unlike in previous releases, Microsoft worked hard to get this upgrade on old PCs, giving away the new OS for the first year (in fact, that free upgrade offer never ended) and pushing it with the aggressive Get Windows 10 program.
There were equally unprecedented changes in the Windows development process, collectively called "Windows as a Service." Instead of saving new features for a major upgrade two or three years after the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft has been releasing those new features incrementally, with three so-called feature updates already delivered and a fourth in the pipeline for this fall.
Also unprecedented (and somewhat more controversial) is the change in the way Microsoft delivers security and reliability updates. Instead of releasing individual updates and giving customers the opportunity to pick and choose which updates to install, the Windows engineering team is now delivering cumulative updates that can be briefly deferred but not skipped.
Microsoft's revamped user interface, with a new Start menu that successfully mashes up the best of its Windows 7 predecessor and the Windows 8.1 Start screen, has been well received. The Cortana feature, which embeds an intelligent assistant into the search box to the right of the Start button, has improved dramatically since the Windows 10 debut and is arguably its killer feature.
For the past two years, it's sometimes felt like Microsoft was rushing to keep up with its own aggressive schedule. Indeed, that breakneck pace caught up with the company when it had to postpone a key feature called Timeline that had been scheduled for inclusion in the upcoming Fall Creators Update.
When your installed base is well north of a billion PCs, even a tiny problem can affect a large number of people. No Windows release has ever been trouble-free, but this one has been remarkably less dramatic than its predecessors. Here's my two-year report card.
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that the Windows 10 installed base had hit 500 million. That's a solid number and arguably the fastest rate of adoption for any Windows version ever, but it's also a slight disappointment. After all, the original goal a mere two years ago was to be installed on 1 billion devices within two to three years.
After that frantic first-year push ended, Microsoft adopted a much more relaxed upgrade pace, relying on new PCs (including the surprisingly successful Surface family) to help Windows 10's share of the market grow as older PCs are retired.
Usage data from the United States Data Analytics Program offers a good measure of how successful Windows 10 has been. As of June 30, 2017, nearly 40 percent of visits to U.S. government websites from Windows PCs were from devices running Windows 10, but Windows 7 still remains the most popular Windows version.
Although enterprise customers are generally positive about Windows 10 and are showing signs of accelerating their adoption of the new OS, its predecessor continues to be enormously popular. As the January 2020 end-of-support date for Windows 7 approaches, look for Microsoft to become increasingly more creative at cajoling and coercing customers into moving on.
This whole "Windows as a Service" thing has taken a while to settle into its rhythm, hasn't it? Even the terminology around it has been in flux, with the Current Branch and Current Branch for Business morphing into the Semi-annual Channel.
Windows 10 users can now count on two free feature updates per year, in March and September, as part of what Microsoft is now calling the "Semi-Annual Channel." That cadence replaces the decades-old practice of delivering a new Windows version every three years or so.
Each feature update is supported for 18 months, which means you can no longer stick with an older version of Windows indefinitely. An equally consequential change is the move to cumulative quality updates in place of an endless assortment of individual updates.
The end game for the new update system is an installed base of Windows PCs that are more alike than different. In theory, with fewer variations to support, the patching process becomes less disruptive, with fewer glitches. In practice, there have been some hiccups, notably the sudden end of support for relatively young PCs based on Intel's Clover Trail chips.
The biggest remaining challenge is shrinking those feature updates so they require less bandwidth and install more quickly.
The flip side of "Windows as a Service" is a major change that Microsoft made in the amount of diagnostic information (aka telemetry) it collects from PCs running Windows 10. The company was clearly blind-sided by the initial response to Windows 10's increased data collection information, which resulted in wild (and inaccurate) accusations that Windows 10 was spying on its users.
The company didn't help its case by responding with dry, legalistic, and unconvincing explanations.
This year, we've finally seen some substantive responses to privacy fears. The company cut the amount of data collection in half, in response to enforcement action by French data-protection authorities. In addition, it published a detailed list of diagnostic data that the telemetry service collects.
Collectively, those actions have turned the heat down to a low simmer. And after more than two years under the microscope, there's still no evidence from credible security researchers that that data is being used for anything other than its stated purpose of product improvement.
I've assigned two grades to this category, reflecting the two very different groups of customers that use Windows.
Microsoft has delivered an impressive assortment of security features for its enterprise customers, earning an A- on my report card. Many of those security features aren't available yet for the consumer and small business segments of the market, which is why I've assigned a B- for that category.
All the baseline features are present in every Windows 10 edition, including support for biometric authentication in Windows Hello, pervasive disk encryption, and built-in antimalware protection. The Creators Update adds a useful console called Windows Defender Security Center, making it easy to check security status and manage those features.
But the list of enterprise features is more impressive, with Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection at the top of the list. This feature, which is currently available only for subscribers to Windows 10 Enterprise E5, is designed to detect threats that have made it past other defenses, providing corporate customers with tools to investigate breaches and offer suggested responses.
In addition, a slew of features designed to protect enterprise PCs from attacks are either available now or coming this fall, with Exploit Guard (the successor to the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) and Windows Defender Application Guard at the top of the list. Hopefully those features will work their way into consumer editions sooner rather than later.
After two years, it's remarkable that the Windows Store still feels like a work in progress. It certainly works well enough, but the selection of apps is hardly compelling.
Part of that "meh" response is a natural reflection of Windows 10's success in extending the lifespan of the traditional PC. Even a device like the Surface Pro, which is nominally a tablet, gets far more use as a laptop than it does as a handheld device. That's why the biggest software hits on Windows 10 are still traditional desktop programs like Microsoft Office and Adobe's Photoshop and Acrobat.
Microsoft's response, courtesy of a software tool called the Desktop Bridge (previously code-named Centennial) is to move those desktop apps into the Store, with some high-profile apps, including Office, iTunes, Slack, and Spotify, coming this year.
Meanwhile, the Office mobile apps are barely adequate and almost impossible to find in the Store on a conventional PC. Microsoft seems to be betting that if it can convince customers to find desktop apps in the Store, they'll pick up some of the more modern apps at the same time. It will probably be another year or two before we know how successful that strategy is.
Microsoft is still cranking out Windows 10 Mobile builds alongside its desktop releases, but I'm not quite sure why. The company's capitulation in this category is nearly complete, after it sold off its Nokia division and took a massive writedown. Even the most diehard supporters appear to have given up on the long-rumored Surface Phone, and Microsoft's occasional hints about upcoming mobile devices are so cryptic as to be indecipherable.
I have no doubt that a new Windows mobile product strategy will emerge someday, but when it does it will be starting from scratch against well-entrenched competitors. Good luck with that.


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Fashion reaches peak pop: Dua Lipa, Versace and the pop star muse
Plus the BFC’s New Gen recipients, Vaquera’s AI Met Gala and BLACKPINK collabs with Calvin Klein and adidas
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words Sophie Lou Wilson
Love it or loathe it, fashion and celebrity have never been more intertwined. No event embodies this quite like the Met Gala, where celebs like Rihanna and Doja Cat get to flex their fashion cred. But, of course, it doesn’t begin and end there. This week came with the announcement that Dua Lipa has co-designed Versace’s next collection, while BLACKPINK’s Jennie has collaborated with Calvin Klein and adidas. Being a designer’s muse is no longer enough. Now celebs are the designers themselves. However, there’s still plenty of news this week for the fashion purists to sink their teeth into with the BFC announcing their New Gen recipients and Vaquera’s AI-generated Met Gala proving more innovative than the one that took place IRL. So, here’s all the feel good fashion news from this week you might have missed.
Pop off queen! The pop star designer-muse is here to stay
Music and fashion’s symbiotic relationship goes back decades. Since the birth of pop music, designers have been tapping the mass appeal of the medium’s biggest superstars to promote and enrich their brands. Back in the 1960s, French pop singer Françoise Hardy helped make Paco Rabanne a household name. Jump forward to the ‘90s and Madonna’s iconic Jean-Paul Gaultier cone bras proved just how enduring the perfect pop-fashion collab can be.
Since then, however, the pop star fashion icon has undergone a shift. Celebrities are increasingly making the transition from muse to creator. With the launch of her Ivy Park Line in 2016, Beyoncé leveraged her style status to promote her own fashion brand and last year co-designed a collection for Balmain. Rihanna followed in 2018, founding her lingerie line Savage x Fenty. The following year, LVMH announced it was backing Rihanna to launch a Fenty fashion line. When the project was paused in 2021, some suggested it could mark the end of celebrity fashion.
But two years later, the celebrity designer is still going strong. Pharrell’s appointment as creative director of Louis Vuitton Men’s divided opinion earlier this year, proving that multi-hyphenate celebs with international reach are a more sensible choice than niche fashion names from a business perspective. Dua Lipa is the latest pop star to try her hand at designing a collection. This week, it was announced that she co-designed Versace’s next collection, showing in Cannes on 23 May.
Fashion has reached peak celebrity. With an archival Chanel Met Gala look, custom Mugler tour wardrobe and Versace runway moment under her belt, Dua Lipa is fashion’s current favourite pop girlie. It was only a matter of time before she would help design a collection herself. Dua’s friendship with Donatella goes back years and many of her most iconic looks are by Versace, including her harness gown at the 2022 Grammys and the maximalist peplum dress she wore to the Met Gala in 2019. Dua’s signature style is all gold chains, sparkles, safety pins and straps, so we can bet some of these motifs will crop up in the collection later this month.
It might seem like anyone with a big enough reach can be a fashion designer these days, but in reality, the line between muse and creator isn’t so rigidly defined. Dua Lipa, Beyoncé and Rihanna don’t sit down to sew the clothes themselves. Rather they enrich the collection with their creative vision, one that comes from years of being part of so many culture-defining fashion moments. In this context, the move from muse to designer isn’t always such a huge jump. Indeed, many pop stars already have experience working closely with designers on their custom tour wardrobes.
Before the era of the celebrity muse, designers turned to aristocratic it-girls for inspiration. When fashion first redirected its gaze away from the upper classes and towards pop culture, it was seen as a democratising move. Dua Lipa’s luxe Versace party girl aesthetic might not be an accessible everyday look - or price point - but the collaboration reflects fashion’s return to excess, adding yet another chapter to designers’ enduring love affair with pop.
Introducing the British Fashion Council NEWGEN recipients
HARRI, Sinéad O’Dwyer and Robyn Lynch are among the 2023 BFC NEWGEN recipients. Making it as a young designer with your own brand is tough, but we need new points of view to change fashion for the better. Thankfully, there are prizes set up to help emerging brands grow their business. With the LVMH and Woolmark Prize finalists announced earlier this year, it has this week been announced that the BFC NEWGEN designers will receive funding, showcasing opportunities and mentoring. This year’s recipients are AARON ESH, ANCUTA SARCA, Chet Lo, Conner Ives, DERRICK, DI PETSA, EFTYCHIA, FEBEN, HARRI, HELEN KIRKUM, Kazna Asker, LABRUM London, Leo Carlton, MASHA POPOVA, Paolo Carzana, ROBYN LYNCH, S.S. DALEY, SAUL NASH, Sinéad O'Dwyer, The Winter House, TOLU COKER and yuhan wang.
BLACKPINK’s Calvin Klein and adidas collabs are on their way
In other celebrity designer news, BLACKPINK’s Jennie has designed a limited edition capsule collection for Calvin Klein. Inspired by her own wardrobe, it comprises casual underwear sets, denim, T-shirts, bodysuits and knitwear in a soft pastel colour palette. Elsewhere, the whole of BLACKPINK have teased a collaboration. While nothing is confirmed as of yet, a recent image of the group in head-to-toe adidas has surfaced online leading to speculation over a new collaboration or campaign. Watch this space.
Vaquera’s AI-generated Met Gala produced this year’s best dressed
If you found this year’s Met Gala a little dull – so much monochrome! – then Vaquera has a solution to satiate your fashion dreams. A voluminous plastic gown, space age silver inflatable dress, a gown made from bin bags and another dress covered in mud looked ethereal and otherworldly on the red carpet – only they didn’t really exist and neither did the celebs wearing them. New York-based label Vaquera used AI program Midjourney to create the show stopping looks that got Anna Wintour and Vogue’s stamp of approval. It’s the same program responsible for the viral fake images of the Pope dripped out in a long white puffer coat. Perhaps next year, Met Gala attendees will step up their fashion game, lest they be replaced by AI!
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Endless aisle is an innovative technology which is helping the retailers in improving store conversion which results in improved revenue.
GST SuvidhaKendras help SMEs file their returns and make tax payments without having to invest in the necessary IT infrastructure.
When users are ready to act on their impulse, merchants have to make sure that their platforms can provide instant gratification,without any friction.
The fitness industry in India is largely unorganised and lacks a definite structure to differentiate between diverse product and service segments.
To be noted, India has 260 mn registered students, 1.5 mn schools and 8 lakh colleges. In the next three years it is an estimate that about 1 lakh schools will open in India, so the opportunity for writing instruments is high in India.
Digital transformation is not simply about technology. It requires business leaders to re-envision existing business models and embrace a different way of bringing together people.
For long, metro cities and tier I cities have been on the maps of retailers and mall developers looking to expand and grow. Over the decade, however, the scenario changed with increasing lease rentals in metro malls.
For the current range, Liebherr has put in place a distribution network of around 500+ showrooms across 50+ cities in various regions. This includes partnership with organised retailers and local organised players in the country to retail the products.
By 2025 Promod plans to be the top fashion brand with more than 100 retail doors.
In this week, we have seen e-commerce giant Amazon has rebranded its grocery service Amazon Now to Prime Now. Well, it makes sense for Amazon to capture the consumers who has evolved in ordering milk and bread online.
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The National Tour Association (NTA) has entered the debate on the future of the Nevada Commission on Tourism and is working to assist its members in Nevada to maintain full funding and independent staffing for the Commission. Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons has proposed a 60 percent cut in funding for the Commission and is calling for a redirection of room tax and a merger with the Commission on Economic Development. Legislators are now considering the issue.
“Currently, at least 272 NTA companies regularly send tours to Nevada,” said NTA President Lisa Simon. “That's a very high volume and the source of tens of thousands of visits throughout the state, resulting in phenomenal economic impact.”
In a letter sent to the Committee to Save Nevada Tourism, Simon stressed the importance of the Nevada Commission on Tourism in increasing travel to the state. “We can speak first hand about how the Nevada Commission on Tourism has developed increased travel to your state over the last quarter century, because of its involvement with the National Tour Association,” she said.
NTA held Conventions in Reno in 1985 and 1995, and will hold its Annual Convention there this year, November 14–18. In 2011, the Convention will be in Las Vegas. Both these Conventions draw travel professionals from 40 countries, which will continue the growth of packaged travel to Nevada. The NTA estimates that it will bring more than $3 million dollars to the city during the actual five-day event. Also, with hundreds of tour operators attending each NTA Convention, the hosting city and Nevada receive long-term economic residuals when these companies bring their customers back to the state.


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Big Data Opens New Doors For Financial AnalystsBig Data Opens New Doors For Financial Analysts
Emerging technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL and Storm let investment gurus analyze non-traditional data sets that previously weren't accessible.
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Big data is changing how lot of businesses operate, especially in the healthcare, industrial, and retail sectors, to name just a few. Finance is another area where big data is making its mark, as emerging technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL and Storm allow investment gurus to analyze non-traditional data sets that previously weren't accessible.
That's according to Rod Bodkin, founder and CEO of Think Big Analytics, a 3-year-old big data consultancy that has worked with many large corporations, including Amazon, EMC, Facebook and Intel, to help resolve their data management dilemmas. Before launching Think Big Analytics, Bodkin was VP of engineering at Quantcast, where he managed the data science and engineering staff. And back in the 90's, he was cofounder and CTO of C-Bridge, a B2B applications provider.
In a phone interview with InformationWeek, Bodkin said that big data can help global money managers analyze information in new and innovative ways. [ How can big data help boost the bottom line? Read Big Data's New Fan: Your CFO. ] "We think it's already having a big impact," said Bodkin of big data's role in the financial industry. "When you look at capital markets, you see that there's a lot of opportunity to apply new data sets and new algorithms. Fundamentally, we see big data coming in and letting people solve problems that were never before solvable." Such as? "We see things like being able to run live simulations of trading strategies and incorporate non-traditional data sets -- like joining together order and trade data with satellite imagery or geolocation data, or sentiment data from social networks," said Bodkin. Take social media streams, for instance. Stock traders can analyze Twitter or other social posts to gauge public sentiment on a specific company or industry. "We have customers that are incorporating that kind of information," said Bodkin. "Now, a lot of times it's not as simple as a direct correlation. You want to see a combination of sentiment plus some other factors like fundamentals, trading activity, and trending over time." Sentiment analysis of social media streams is gaining popularity among retailers as well. "We see big data being important in retail operations in terms of building engagement with consumers and getting to know the customer better, building intimacy," said Bodkin. Not every big data effort pays off, naturally, and there's usually a fair amount of trial and error involved. "With the big data approach, you're able to test out a lot of new variables and see what's interesting," Bodkin noted. "Lots of the experiments fail, but the ones that succeed can produce tremendous returns. They empower smart analysts who are working on problems … to be a lot more innovative and try out many different things." During his tenure at Quantcast, Bodkin helped pioneer the use of Hadoop and NoSQL for batch and real-time analysis. He says these big data technologies, working in conjunction with event-stream processing systems like Storm, are already playing a key role in financial market operations. "Put together, you end up with a very interesting … capability to capture and analyze data, build predictive models, and back test and simulate them," said Bodkin. "We see Hadoop coming in as a real asset to augment that, letting you store more diverse data in a raw form, so you can store the kind of text, social and rich document data that was not easily handled in traditional databases. We see it extending, complimenting and ultimately changing the way companies deal with analytic data sets." Making decisions based on flashy macro trends while ignoring "little data" fundamentals is a recipe for failure. Also in the new, all-digital Blinded By Big Data issue of InformationWeek: How Coke Bottling's CIO manages mobile strategy. (Free registration required.)
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Health Rises to the Top of 2015 Bakery Trends
MADISON, Wis. — Health, portion size and indulgence are the top trends that will drive in-store bakery purchases in the coming year, according to the International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA).
Consumer-perceived health benefits are driving variety in bakery products. “We’re seeing greater use of ‘superfoods’ in bakery products such as pomegranate and chia seeds, especially in breakfast bakery,” Lynn Brotzman, associate client manager for Nielsen Perishables Group, noted in a new IDDBA research report. “Gluten-free breads, rolls and muffins are also generating interest.”
According to the association's research, Engaging the Evolving Shopper: Serving the New American Appetite, Millennials are particularly drawn to these types of food options in the bakery department.
“As Millennials are 50 percent more likely than Boomers to place an importance on digestion-related health claims such as gluten- or lactose-free, in-store bakeries should focus on the cues of whole grains, gluten-free products, authenticity, freshly-baked items and healthy snack,” noted Eric Richard, education coordinator for IDDBA. “This can be achieved through visual impressions and department signs, which have a high interest among Millennials.”
Nearly 40 percent of Millennials buy their baked goods at “preferred stores,” as opposed to the primary stores at which they buy their other groceries, which provides an opportunity for bakeries to be seen as more relevant to this all-important consumer group, Richard added.
Among the other highlights of the IDDBA report are:
- Consumers look at product presentation, freshness, taste and selection when shopping the in-store bakery.
- Indulgence, health benefits and single-serve options are top trends in today’s in-store bakeries.
- Smaller-sized products are driving more frequent and diverse trips to in-store bakeries than larger, special occasion products.
- Household size and age are prominent factors impacting in-store bakery sales.
- Hispanic shoppers are an important demographic for in-store bakeries, while Millennials create sales opportunities due to their quick-trip shopping patterns.
- Consumers are seeking bakery products made with high fiber and fresh and whole grains, while avoiding high fructose corn syrup, trans fats and hydrogenated fats.
- The demand for gluten-free products is spurring the use of ingredients such as rice flours, corn flour and meal, ancient grains, and tubers and pulses.
- New waves of hybrid products continue to hit the scene, as well as new twists on nostalgic, traditional sweets.
Madison, Wis.-based IDDBA is a nonprofit membership organization serving the dairy, deli, bakery, cheese and supermarket foodservice industries.


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Since this supposed delay hasn't been addressed Google, it's possible that it might not be be a big deal.
Meanwhile, Venture Beat's Evan Blass has also claimed that Android O release is indeed scheduled for the week of August 21, and he is betting on the day of the solar eclipse itself. The first Developer Preview was released at the end of 2016, and new versions have come out steadily since then, most recently with Preview 4.1.
This information was tipped by David Ruddock from Android Police via some series of tweets he posted about the tip, he as well referenced a source but cannot verify the source's info. A single tap usually changes the focus to that area but if you tap twice in quick succession, the camera app will zoom up to 50% instantly. Meanwhile, we wait for the update to become official, we would like to know your thoughts on the name for the next version of Android.
Federer punches ticket to Montreal semis
Holland's world number 52 Haase fought back after losing the first set against Argentina's Diego Schwartzman to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. He also halted Nadal's bid to regain the No. 1 ranking, which the Spaniard could have achieved by reaching the semifinals.
I mean, it would be as stupid as massively promoting the fact that the 2016 Pixel models were 'refreshingly' equipped with something not new, being standard 3.5mm headphone sockets, and then deciding in the 2017 Pixel 2 and Pixel XL 2 models, to omit them.
Many users noted that the installation of the new OS smartphone downloads in file memory of large volume. Here are the shapes Square, round, rounded square, squircle, and teardrop besides the default shape. Now, when you go to take a photo with your front-facing camera, the phone's screen will fill with a bright manilla color to shine some light on your face.
And that's at a company that promised to do no evil. When the Developer Preview process is completed, it flags, it will differentiate between hardware platforms targeted for prototyping-only.
It had been reported that Google will roll out its Android O update (final version) by mid-August.


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Early this morning, Nintendo’s UK Twitter, @NintendoUK, announced that a Nintendo Direct will take place on April 8 and focus on Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS.
— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) April 4, 2014
Most of the recent Smash Bros. news has been dedicated to new characters joining the roster, but we still haven’t been given a release date. With this Nintendo Direct being dedicated to Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, who knows what surprises Nintendo has for Smash Bros. fans.
The Nintendo Direct is planned to start at 11 p.m. UK time. That’s 6 p.m. EST.
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Virtual waiting rooms can help win sales on busy holiday traffic days.
When did “unsubscribe” become such a dirty word for marketers?
New technology will replenish inventory and make restock more efficient.
Survey finds that neglecting tech investment could cost retailers $300,000 this holiday season.
More than two-thirds surveyed said they see shopping experiences as too impersonal.
Retailers need to leverage mobile commerce to win customers.
Target, Lululemon, Athletica, and Levi Strauss all say RFID has boosted performance.
New “See It In Your Space” feature allows shoppers to visualize products in their own rooms.
AI and other technology could help analyze data to help determine future of stores.
RILA and Zebra Technologies will work together to further the global retail industry.
Neiman Marcus has unveiled a new "Digital First" strategy designed to further its position in the luxury retail space "by anticipating customers' evolving behaviors and engaging them more deeply to drive traffic online and in stores," according to a company press release. The company also reported total fourth quarter revenues of $1.12 billion, reflecting a 0.5% decline in same-store revenues from the year-ago quarter.
The holidays are approaching and smart retailers know email is an effective channel for reaching customers. In terms of ROI, email is the most effective marketing channel, generating an average of $38 for every dollar spent. And consumers consistently rate email as the top channel for brand communications — regardless of age. From millennials to Baby Boomers, a majority of consumers prefer email.
Ask yourself this: Do your customers find your marketing emails useful? Honestly, do they? A statistic I came across from Fluent suggests consumers think marketing emails are consistently useful only 15 percent of the time and not useful nearly 60 percent of the time.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow. As supply chain professionals, we are faced with having to meet the challenges of the most rapidly changing environment witnessed in more than a generation. Ecommerce is being thrust upon us at a breakneck speed.
As the holiday shopping season gets closer, companies are scrambling for their share of an expected $929.15 billion in sales from November and December. Within that spend, more than 10% of total sales will happen online, and Amazon is the undisputed king of that market.
Businesses have prioritized interacting with customers through mobile devices to create stronger relationships. They have even developed their own apps to better communicate with their customers as a personal touch. However, according to PC World, the amount of apps downloaded has decreased by 20 percent in 2016. Are consumers settling with the popular used social media apps and decreasing their need for other apps? On average, consumers hardly download even one app in a month’s time.
New beacon and Bluetooth technology will help consumers find their way through busy stores.
Walmart has announced that its employees are now using Facebook Workplace, a suite of business software that allows workers to chat and share documents. Facebook Workplace is essentially a business version of the social network. According to Facebook, more than 14,000 companies now use the Workplace software.
The branch is a tough, hostile IT environment. The distributed nature of branch IT presents the IT team with a real and unique set of security and compliance challenges that are radically different from the datacenter. This is a problem, as retail branches are often on the front line when it comes to modern cyber-attacks.
Retailers are under massive pressure from global competition and the rise in both the quantity of e-commerce options and the customer loyalty attained by huge players such as Amazon and Apple. The post-sales support provided by Amazon and polished customer experience offered by Apple are not only synonymous with their brands but, in fact, are a large part of the brand itself.


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WASHINGTON: After battling cancer for several years, star fashion designer Virgil Abloh passed away at the age of 41.
Virgil, who died on Sunday, was the founder of the fashion company Off-White and menswear artistic director at Louis Vuitton.
His demise was confirmed by his labels on social media, Variety reported.
LVMH, Louis Vuitton and Off White are devastated to announce the passing of Virgil Abloh, on Sunday, November 28th, of cancer, which he had been battling privately for several years. pic.twitter.com/9JkyCcBYXm
— Louis Vuitton (@LouisVuitton) November 28, 2021
“We are all shocked after this terrible news. Virgil was not only a genius designer, a visionary, he was also a man with a beautiful soul and great wisdom,” LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault wrote on Instagram.
“The LVMH family joins me in this moment of great sorrow, and we are all thinking of his loved ones after the passing of their husband, their father, their brother or their friend,” he added.
According to the statement, Virgil opted to keep his cancer private after being diagnosed in 2019, undergoing treatments while continuing to work as one of the fashion industry’s leading voices.


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Atom feed of these results
With so many competing choices for readers' attention, a new project funded by the Knight Foundation hopes to give readers more choice over story length and detail
Content network, which floated earlier this year with a valuation of more than £920m, turned a profit for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2010
Use of Demand Media platform represents a further move into social media for IPC following the appointment of a social media product manager
Online publisher says changes to Google's search algorithm designed to weed out 'content farms' presented a 'challenge'
Figures from the UK Online Measurement company (UKOM) suggest a 111 per cent growth in visits to Demand Media's sites from July 2009 to July 2010
In the US, Demand Media has become a new revenue model for thousands of journalists, editors and freelance writers. The company is now looking for writers based in the UK to work across its network of sites. So what's in it for you?
Yudu Store will not replicate failed Magazines On Demand, says CEO
Financial information site goes Web 2.0
Deal will see CoveritLive's tools form part of Pluck social media package for news organisations
Publishers burnt by failed projects are now looking to digital editions for new reach, says John Menzies Digital MD


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Popular streaming platform Twitch announced stricter rules for the dissemination of information on gambling. The basis of the new package of rules will be a ban on referral links to slots, roulette and other products of the gambling industry. By this the company seeks to protect its users from potential cheaters and malicious content.
Thus, Twitch will prohibit the use of referral tags (affiliate links) to gambling entertainment sites with the intention of making the platform much less profitable for those streamers who regularly broadcast their own game of online slots.
A spokesperson for the platform commented on the situation: “In order to prevent harm and fraud, which is often found on gambling sites, we have decided to impose a ban on the distribution of various kinds of referral links to certain resources. This list includes all sites that offer online slots, roulette and similar gambling entertainment to visitors.”
He added: “We will continue to monitor the platform for prohibited content. The Twitch team is willing to update its own tools regularly if the situation demands it. We are giving all streamers time to remove relevant content from their channels. This requirement must be met by August 17, 2021. Otherwise, enforcement action will be taken.
It is important to note that among the users of the streaming platform Twitch fierce disputes over the legality and adequacy of the new rules of the service. Some are of the opinion that such a policy will prove to be correct, as it will protect the users. Others argue about the imminent loss of most of their revenues and the collapse of contractual obligations with best paying casino online 2023 operators.
Recall that the company Yggdrasil announced its entry into the gambling market in Slovakia.
Why its happened?
The global online petition platform Shange.org in the U.S. called on major companies to remove their advertising from the streaming service Twitch and contribute to a ban on gambling on it. The news was reported on May 25 by bbc.com
The authors of the petition addressed to NVIDIA, McDonalds, PepsiCo, Electronic Arts and warned that their advertising can be shown during the broadcast games at unlicensed online casinos. They also point out that many illegal gambling platforms allow minors access to their services, which is totally unacceptable and violates all ethical norms.
Twitch freely promotes gambling, thus causing irreparable damage to the young audience, and solid companies allow their ads during such broadcasts. This needs to change, the petition’s authors are convinced.
Also the appeal cites some sad statistics: 10 million U.S. residents are addicted to games and one in five of them has attempted suicide. Despite the undoubted relevance of the raised issues and topicality of the topic, only 500 people have put their signature under the petition so far.
For reference: Shange.org is an online platform for civic initiatives created in the United States. It is available in 18 languages in 12 countries. It is not an official body.


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Reddit has launched Trending Takeovers. A new ad product that allows brands to buy up to 24 hours of placement on the sites popular feed and the search tab.
Trending Takeover ad product will allow brands to reach even more potentials. Popular feed alone is used by a third of the site’s visitors daily. The Search tab also reaches millions every day.
“With a maximum campaign life of 24 hours. Trending Takeover will align brands with the most popular and relevant trends and conversations of the day” according to Reddit blog.
The ad allows the brands’ campaigns to run across the largest trends on Reddit’s site for 24 hours, Reddit says. The trends section is where users can see what’s currently buzzing and being discussed across the site. Similar to the Trends section on Twitter, which can also be targeted by advertisers.
In addition to the increased visibility. The benefit of this sort of ad format is that. A campaign can be designed to align with what’s being talked about in real-time during the day it runs.
Reddit already offers programming advertising where advertisers the ability to run campaigns across its site in order to raise brand awareness, drive conversions or generate website traffic, app installs or video views, among other things.
Noting from the Reddit blog, “Reddit is home to more than 430 million monthly active users. engaging deeply within 100,000+ interest-based communities. One-third of whom visit Reddit’s Popular feed every day. As a platform where the majority of users believe that Reddit influences cultural trends. And millions of searches are conducted daily. The new Trending Takeover product gives advertisers access to millions of Reddit users who are in an active, information-gathering mindset”
The Trending Takeover Experience
Users will see the Trending Takeover ad unit in the second slot of the Trending Today module on Reddit’s Popular feed, as well as the second slot of the Trending Today drop-down in Reddit’s Search tab.
The feature is similar to organic trends on Reddit, clicking on a Trending Takeover ad in the ‘Trending Today’ module within Search or Popular will drive users to a landing page featuring conversations, posts, and communities relating to handpicked advertiser keywords.
Advertisers have the ability to promote their campaign next to the largest trends on Reddit. Advertisers will also be able to spotlight their trend on the Trending Takeover landing page, driving further engagement and visibility.


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HTC was rumoured to be releasing a tablet and today they have officially announced the “Flyer”. In their official press release they stated that the “HTC Flyer will be available to customers globally during Q2 2011″… but thanks to one of our tipsters we’ve been informed that this will be released by TELUS in the coming months. No word on specific dates or prices… just that it’s coming soon.
The Flyer has a aluminum unibody and weighs in at 415 grams with the 4,000 mAh battery, a 7-inch touchscreen display (resolution of 1024×600), 1.5GHz Qualcomm single-core processor that runs Android 2.4 Gingerbread with “an all-new HTC Sense user experience that has been reimagined for the tablets” (will be upgraded to 3.0 soon after launch). Part of the new HTC Sense is the 3D home screen and the ability to use a stylus for their “Scribe Technology”. HTC says “people can rediscover the natural act of writing” which allows you to “take notes, sign contracts, draw pictures, or even write on a web page or photo”… then sync them wirelessly to Evernote.
Other specs of the Flyer have it with overall dimensions of 195.4x122x13.2mm, 3.5mm headset jack, Bluetooth, WiFi, microUSB port, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera, 1GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot.
We’ll have more info soon.


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A fuming dad has been banned from Lidl for complaining about a box of eggs – that had been 'chewed by a rat'. Matt Garside, 59, complained to staff after he found the box that he thought had been gnawed by rats.
But instead of apologising, bosses at the cut-price supermarket barred him from the store for six months. Matt said: “This made me angry. It was so simple, and they have just shot the messenger. But I just stuck to my guns, and in the end, I’ve been banned.
"I don’t know why they have dealt with this in this way. It’s just beyond me."
The professional photographer said he'd noticed the damaged box of eggs while stocking up on food at his local Lidl in Colne, Lancashire. But after he told staff that rats could be responsible, he said they refused to apologise to him and swiftly took the box of eggs away.
Matt said a manager had later claimed he’d “upset” staff with his persistent queries, and he was ordered to leave the premises when he tried to pay up. And months later, he says he received an email from Lidl customer service, telling him that he would be banned from the shop for months due to his behaviour.
Matt said: “I have a calm exterior, but I’m absolutely seething mad that this has happened to me. It’s the big guy stepping on the little guy in a pretty disgusting way. When I got the email saying I was banned, I just thought, 'What’s going on there?' They were making out that I was abusive to their staff. But I wasn’t. I was just persistent.”
Matt said he was shopping in his local branch of Lidl on July 7 this year when he came across the suspicious box of eggs.
He said: “I was shopping in Lidl in Colne, and I came across the box, which clearly had been gnawed by rats. So I went to a member of staff, but their response was a bit odd. They took the box off me, and they also didn’t give an apology or anything. I was a bit shocked as they wanted to play it down immediately.”
Matt said after making initial inquiries, the supermarket manager then confronted him about his supposed bad behaviour. He said: “He went on a bit of a tirade at me, saying that I had upset his member of staff. I immediately told him I hadn't. But he went on a mission of putting me down, saying I had upset this lady.


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Huawei Trademarks "Groufie", a Panoramic Selfie
May 12, 2014 10:25 AM
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It is unknown if Huawei has patented technology
Chinese devicemaker Huawei Technology Comp., Ltd. (
) is one of the world's fastest growing Android smartphone makers.
Currently in fourth place
in global sales, it's hoping to boost its international presence outside its home market, with the recent introduction of its
Huawei Ascend P7
Following the launch Huawei didn't necessarily make friends with fellow phonemakers,
going on the record to blast quad HD (QHD) resolution displays
in 5-inch smartphones, a popular market direction which it argues was pointless.
While the Ascend P7 was mostly a story of modest hardware upgrades, one area where it shines brightly is in the photography department. Huawei is including an image processing chip, which it claims is D-SLR-class and will allow for advanced postprocessing without much battery drain. It also has potentially started a new picture trend with "the groufie", which the Ascend P7 has software to support.
The Huawei Ascend P7
Phonemakers have long been
so called "panorama" modes
, which allowing user to swing their phone side to side to take panoramas,
using postprocessing to stitch the images together
into a single wide shot. Huawei's idea with the "groufie" is to basically due the same thing with the front-facing camera which is commonly used to take "selfies" -- a term used to describe photographs taken with oneself with the front-facing camera. Rival phonemaker HTC Corp. (
) recently made the questionable claim that
90 percent of smartphone photos taken in some regions are selfies
Huawei says that selfies are great, but often lack scenery given the small frame, which ruins the context of the pictures. It thinks that by adding a panorama view around the selfie-taker and possibly their friends, it can offer a better selfie.
Apparently Huawei has taken the idea seriously enough that it's filed for trademarks on the term in most major jurisdictions, including China, France, Germany, Russia and the U.S.,
It is unknown whether Huawei has filed for patents on the idea. But it might be wise to, given that in today's era of smartphone litigation -- an era in which a gesture that
imitates a sliding lock
worth hundreds of millions of dollars
in damages -- even a seemingly silly and derivative feature is worth patenting if your competitors might patent it.
Wait, this isn't iOS 7? [Image Source: BGR]
Also, it might be a good idea as it seems like only a matter of time before Apple, Inc. (
) sues it. The Ascend P7 borrowed liberally from the design, art style, UI, and features of
iOS 7 and the iPhone
with its reskin of Android; as
Boy Genius Report
put it (in a praising way) "We’ll start by stating the obvious: The Ascend P7 has borrowed a great deal from Apple’s iPhone... [This is] the closest Android will ever get to having an iPhone."
If you're going to adopt that approach, it might be wise to build up some legal firepower.
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5/12/2014 3:09:57 PM
Well the guy who proposed it actually said "Groopie". But his accent was so bad everyone heard "Groofie" and just went with it.
5/12/2014 5:01:53 PM
I thought they must have meant Groupie as well. But now that it's FUBARed how about GroupRoofie for pictures of groups on roofs.
5/12/2014 9:22:29 PM
This is all part of the legal meta game. Copyright, patent, trademark, monopolize anything you can.
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Fidelity Growth Partners India and Fidelity Biosciences have invested an undisclosed sum in Indian drug maker Cipla’s newly floated consumer healthcare business.
Medwell has tied up with Philips to provide specialty care at home to patients suffering from illnesses such as heart troubles, diabetics, dementia and Alzheimer’s.
Fast-growing private companies such as India's Flipkart Online Services have attracted billions of dollars in investment from US mutual funds.
Pier 88 is an example of how investors are trying to take advantage of the startup boom without directly investing in the startups themselves.
Fidelity Growth Partners & Fidelity Biosciences have invested an undisclosed sum in Mumbai based Cipla’s newly floated consumer healthcare business.
We are long-term investors. So, short-term volatility in markets is not something that we would react to on an overnight basis.
Higher rates could also mitigate the impact on asset managers of new US money fund regulations, set to take effect next year, Moody's said.
Budget accommodation aggregator ZO Rooms has raised fresh funding of Rs 192 crore ($30 million) from existing investors.


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Popular Charlotte-focused clothing brand Glory Days Apparel is opening its first brick-and-mortar store this spring in the RailYard in South End.
Founder J.D. Harris says he’s targeting a mid-March soft opening with plans for a grand opening the first weekend in April.
The exact address is 1423 Winnifred Street, right across the street from Hoppin’.
Why: The Glory Days Apparel brand gained popularity through its presence at pop-up markets throughout Charlotte.
Harris explains that the question of a storefront continued to come up when interacting with fans who wanted to shop Glory Days in-person without having to wait for the next pop-up event.
“It’s humbling and exciting that our fans want us to have a spot. Having a footprint here in Charlotte and saying, ‘This is our city and we’re proud to represent it’ solidifies it,” Harris says.
Beyond just customer desire, Harris explains that the Glory Days product line has expanded substantially, making it a challenge to tote the brand’s full offerings around to events scattered all over the city.
Harris notes that the size of the RailYard’s turnkey spaces (the shop will be 368-square-feet) allows small business owners to have the room they need to grow without jumping into a massive storefront with a debilitating rent. It makes the location an appealing choice for a first shop.
What to expect: Once Glory Days settles into the new space, expect to see an expansion of the brand’s product line, including a spring collection. This may even include a Glory Days candle. You’ll also be able to do in-store pickups for online orders.
The brand plans to collaborate with its neighbors at Hoppin’, so you could see a happy hour or run club with a Glory Days tie-in.
The hours: This may adjust when the store actually opens, but for now the hours will be:
- Monday through Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Thursday and Friday: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.


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Evolv Sports and Designs launches an affordable adaptive foot for climbing.
April 20, 2017
Evolv Sports and Designs furthers their commitment to the adaptive community with the launch of the EAF (Evolv Adaptive Foot) an affordable option for lower limb amputees looking to get into rock climbing.
For years Evolv has manufactured the Eldo-Z shoe to go with a prosthetic. But due to high manufacturing costs and difficulty with insurance coverage to cover the costs of the prosthetic (which is usually above $1,000) many amputees looking to explore rock climbing are immediately turned away or are forced to improvise and create their own foot options.
“I was going to national level events, and seeing amputees climb with cut 2×4’s and some rubber glued to it being used as climbing feet,” commented Matthew Hulet, Brand Manager for Evolv. “I knew we had to find a better option.”
“The foot (EAF) is going to revolutionize access to adaptive climbing for lower limb amputees,” added Ronnie Dickson, an above the knee amputee, Professional Climber and Prosthetist living in Orlando Florida. “Now even those participating in the sport at the recreational and beginner levels will have access because of the price point, making their experience more positive, giving them confidence back in their body and capabilities,”
Craig Demartino, a Professional Climber who lost his leg in a climbing accident and lives in Loveland Colorado said “Having and affordable high performance foot brings adaptive climbing to a whole new audience. Now, if someone has the will to climb, there is a way!”
“It gives me the opportunity to provide more people access to climbing and stay in a non-profit budget,” stated Kareemah Batts, Founder of the Adaptive Climb Group in New York City. “The EAF allows lower extremity amputees to take their climbing to another level that they would not be able to with an everyday prosthetic.”
The EAF is expected to be available by the end of April and will be sold direct to the customers through Evolv.