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PULLMAN, Wash., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T1 has turned on its 4G LTE network in Pullman, Washington, bringing customers, including local residents and college students, the latest generation of wireless network technology. Watch here to see several of the benefits AT&T 4G LTE provides, including:
- Faster speeds. LTE technology is capable of delivering speeds faster than many other mobile Internet technologies. Customers can stream videos, download files, email documents, play online games and share on social networks faster than ever before.
- Cool new devices. AT&T offers great pricing on some of its newest Windows 8 smartphones and tablets—all with 4G LTE connectivity. With a two-year agreement, smartphone shoppers can choose from the Nokia Lumia 920, an AT&T exclusive, for $99.99; the value-packed Nokia Lumia 820 for $49.99; or the Windows Phone 8X by HTC—either the 16GB model for $199.99 or the AT&T exclusive 8GB model for $99.99. And for those seeking a great deal on tablets, customers can get $100 off any tablet, regardless of carrier or operating system, purchased from an AT&T company-owned store or online at att.com or at selected agents or retailers.2
- Faster response time. LTE technology offers lower latency, or the processing time it takes to move data through a network, such as how long it takes to start downloading a webpage or file once you've sent the request. Lower latency helps to improve services like mobile gaming, two-way video calling and telemedicine.
- More efficient use of spectrum. Wireless spectrum is a finite resource, and LTE uses spectrum more efficiently than other technologies, creating more space to carry data traffic and services and to deliver a better network experience.
"We continue to see demand for mobile Internet skyrocket in this college town, and our 4G LTE network in the area responds to what local residents and students want from their mobile experience — more, faster, on the best devices," said Mike Maxwell, AT&T's Vice President/General Manager.
AT&T's 4G Network
AT&T's innovation and investment has resulted in the nation's largest 4G network, covering more than 285 million people with ultra-fast speeds and a more consistent user experience. That's coverage in 3,000 more 4G cities and towns than Verizon3. Our 4G LTE network delivered faster average download speeds than any of our competitors in PCWorld's most recent 13-market speed tests.
AT&T's 4G LTE network delivers speeds faster than many other mobile Internet technologies4, as well as multiple innovations that optimize the network for performance. Our network's radio components are placed close to the antenna at most cell sites, instead of inside the base station, which helps minimize power loss between the base station and antenna and, in turn, improves the performance of our 4G LTE network. The network also is designed with its core elements distributed across the country, which helps reduce latency, or the delay when using the Internet, because your request isn't traveling as far.
Even as AT&T continues to expand its 4G LTE coverage, smartphone customers can get 4G speeds outside of 4G LTE areas on our 4G HSPA+ network, unlike competitors, where smartphone customers fall back to slower 3G technologies when outside of LTE coverage.
AT&T's focus to deliver the best possible mobile Internet experience goes beyond 4G to embrace additional connection technologies. AT&T operates the nation's largest Wi-Fi network5 including more than 31,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots at popular restaurants, hotels, bookstores and retailers across the country. Most AT&T smartphone customers get access to our entire national Wi-Fi network at no additional cost, and Wi-Fi usage doesn't count against customers' monthly wireless data plans.
AT&T also is a leading developer of Distributed Antenna Systems, which utilize multiple small antennas to maximize coverage and speed within stadiums, convention centers, office buildings, hotels and other areas where traditional coverage methods are challenging.
Over the past five years, AT&T invested more than $115 billion into operations and into acquiring spectrum and other assets that have enhanced our wireless and wired networks. Since 2007, AT&T has invested more capital into the U.S. economy than any other public company. In a July 2012 report, the Progressive Policy Institute ranked AT&T No. 1 on its list of U.S. "Investment Heroes."
1AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
2While promotional supplies last. $100 off any tablet discount requires a new 2-yr wireless agreement with data (min $14.99/mo.) plan or Mobile Share plan. Two tablet purchase limit per account.
34G speeds not available everywhere. Comparison based on U.S. cities and towns with 4G coverage.
4Limited 4G LTE availability in select markets. Deployment ongoing. 4G LTE device and data plan required. LTE is a trademark of ETSI. 4G speeds not available everywhere. Learn more about 4G LTE at att.com/network.
5Access includes AT&T Wi-Fi Basic. A Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other restrictions apply. See www.attwifi.com for details and locations.
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company and one of the most honored companies in the world. Its subsidiaries and affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and internationally. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's largest 4G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile Internet, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T │DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT.
© 2012 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. 4G not available everywhere. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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Information set forth in this press release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update and revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.
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For all our supporters at Driffield Farmers' Market..
After attending the Driffield Farmers Market this weekend we have reached a sad decision to no longer attend. We have thought long and hard about this as we have attended the market since we started the Brewery. We have made many friends, had superb customer feedback and been a real part of the Driffield community. Sales from the market have helped us grow the business, increase brand awareness and played a big part in the success of the brewery.
The growth of farm shops has meant that our beers are now more widely available and we also have off sales from the brewery Monday to Friday during office hours. We hope that our Farmers' Market customers will continue to enjoy our beers and we are happy to direct you to shops if they call the brewery on 01723 892222. We also hope that you will visit us on our open weekend the 6th and 7th June.
Thank you all for your custom at the market and we hope to keep in touch.
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Officials order removal of cult temple's 'pla ra bong'
Health officials have ordered all vendors to remove pla ra bong (fermented fish chilli paste) produced at a cult temple from their shelves, following a recent raid on the premises.
Chaiyaphum Provincial Public Health Office said on Thursday that the temple had produced pla ra bong under the brand Saeb Lai (very delicious), rice crackers and dried fish, for sale at nearby villages.
Local health officials had surveyed stalls in Khon San and found 10 of them selling Saeb Lai pla ra bong.
The officials sought cooperation from vendors to remove the products from sale, and local police had also seized them.
Officials warned that consuming body waste, whether it was one’s own or someone else’s, can cause blood infection that may lead to death.
On Wednesday, police, soldiers, health and local officials raided the cult temple.
The raid followed complaints that the cult leader had provided weird treatments to his followers to cure their illnesses.
Eleven corpses, said to be cult followers, were found on the premises during the search.


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Steven Stone Jewellers has appointed Max Stone as director of the family-owned business.
Stone, who represents the third generation of the family-owned company, will oversee the company’s Hale showroom in Cheshire, with the firm’s Palm Beach showroom operated by his father, Steven Stone, and its London showroom run by Max’s older brother Zack.
Commenting on his appointment, Stone said: “I am delighted to become a director and look forward to further growing the business. For the past few months I have been working on a new website which will revolutionise the online buying experience.
“After conducting extensive research into market trends we found that an increasing number of people now purchase jewellery including engagement rings online.”
He added the company’s new website will launch this summer, which he said will take the firm to the “forefront of the ecommerce jewellery business” and an area where he believes the company will see “significant growth”.
Both Max and his older brother hold diamond qualifications from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).


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BT will reclaim the lead in the broadband race from Virgin Media when it announces quarterly results this week, according to reports. The Sunday Telegraph said BT will reveal it has netted 200,000 new punters in the last three months, bringing its total subscriber base to 3.6 million. Last week, Virgin said it had added a more …
Cable Needs A Firm Kick Up The Ass...
This is just another example that cable are going about everything wrong since NTL became the biggest provider in the country then re-branded to Virgin Media!!
With increased, rip off prices, inadequate services, uncompetitive telephone and now throttled broadband not to mention to problems plagued with the TV software cable really need to invest and they need to do it NOW. not next month, not next year but NOW...
A company cant hike prices as high as they have without first sorting out the many problems such as billing, customer service (outsourced centre), and capacity issues on the network - Look at british gas they had to reduce prices twice because of the many issues they have had with billing and customer care just to stay a float!!!!!
Confused by maths
I am still trying to work out how BT can regain the lead when you look at the figures in the article.
BT have added 200,000 customers to make their total 3,600,000. That means that they had 3,400,00 customers prior to last quarter.
Virgin Media added 97,600 customers to make their total 3,400,00. That means that they had 3,302,400 customers prior to last quarter.
Those figures suggest to me that BT already had more broadband customers than Virgin Media.
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NFTs setting off revolution in the world of collectibles
The technology is behind a piece of digital art auctioned for $69.3 million on Thursday and the sale of Jack Dorsey's first tweet—so-called NFTs have set off a revolution in collectables.
What is an NFT, and why are they causing such a stir?
What is an 'NFT' ?
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a digital object that can be a drawing, animation, piece of music, photo, or video with a certificate of authenticity created by blockchain technology. This authentication by a network of computers is considered inviolable.
The virtual object, which is actually a computer file, can be exchanged or sold with its certificate.
What's different with NFTs?
Despite the ubiquity of the internet, the sale and exchange of collectible digital objects had been niche until very recently. Most collectors preferred physical objects: paintings, sculptures, bottles of wine, sneakers.
One of the obstacles preventing digital objects from becoming mainstream collectibles was the fear of copies.
NFTs can still be copied, of course, but only one file has a certificate of authenticity, which cannot be replicated.
Can I create an NFT?
Any internet user can go to a dedicated platform, like Rarible or OpenSea, to upload the file which will become the NFT. Fees are usually less than $30 per file, paid in cryptocurrency.
Once the NFT is on the platform, the creator can sell it. The creator also has the option of setting a percentage that he or she will receive from all future sales of the file.
How big is the NFT market?
Taking into account the most recent transactions, it's already worth several billion dollars. On Thursday, the digital artwork "Everydays: the First 5,000 Days," was sold at Christie's for $69.3 million. Other major auction houses are now actively considering holding NFT sales.
On Thursday alone, two images created on the CryptoPunks platform were sold for $7.3 million each. And Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was offered $2.5 million for the NFT of his very first tweet.
Is there an NFT bubble?
Some experts expect price corrections as the NFT market takes shape, but no one sees the segment collapsing. Many even believe that a lot of NFTs are undervalued due to the nascent stage of the market.
The purchaser of "Everydays," known only by the pseudonym Metakovan, called the work "the crown jewel" of this generation and estimated that it is worth $1 billion.
"My prediction is that over the coming years we'll see the consensus shift on digital items, from 'these are worthless and not real' to 'this is the best way to prove ownership, scarcity, and authenticity,'" investor Jonathan Bales wrote in what's considered the definitive text on the subject in early January.
"I'm convinced NFTs are the future of collecting. The most exciting aspect, to me, is that the party is just getting started," he said.
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The Nigeria mobile ecosystem is expected to experience some shake-up with the continuous steep fall in the adoption of feature phones.
More consumers are now opting for smartphones instead.
Euromonitor International, a strategic market research, data & analysis firm, said the wide availability of second-hand feature phones and smartphones because of their availability in the market will hinder the growth of new mobile phones in Nigeria.
In the report obtained by The Guardian, as of August, phone manufacturers have sold 18.5 million units in Nigeria with Infinix brand owning 75% of the market share. Samsung is next with 7.6 percent and Huawei with three percent.
The research credits the move towards smartphones because of the increasing population of Generation Z who prefer technologically advanced mobile phones.
According to Euromonitor, smartphone grew by 10 percent in retail volume terms in 2018 to reach six million, while feature phones record five percent retail volume growth in 2018 to reach 12 million units.
The mobile ecosystem is expected to be charged up competitively following the influx of Chines manufactures and domestic players such as Zinox Technologies and AfriOne, among others.
These companies are expected to lead strong price competition, with the Chinese firms offering cheaper smartphones for different segments of the population, particularly low end and middle-income consumers.
Euromonitor noted that the price competition will help drive volume sales of smartphones over the forecast period.
The report observed that Transsion Holdings with its Tecno and Itel brand dominates feature phones sales in Nigeria in 2018 because of its strong presence, distribution networks, availability and variety of affordable feature phones.
Euromonitor noted the slow recovery of the economy after the recession has affected the performance of premium brands like Apple and Samsung, who continue to struggle to grow.
It, however, said Apple increased volume share in 2018 due to the launch of the iPhone X late in 2017.
According to the market research firm, although domestic manufacturers are only present in the mobile phones, international players still dominate with a near monopoly presence, but that nevertheless, companies such as AfriOne, which launched the first locally made smartphone in April 2017, have scope to succeed.
Nigeria continues to be limited by its power challenges which negatively impacts the cost of production. Improvements in this and other infrastructure needs will help the performance of local brands and promote favourable competition with international players.


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Apple has launched its new streaming service, which will go head-to-head against the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Apple’s highly anticipated streaming service Apple TV+ has arrived, along with a range of programmes boasting big-name stars. It will go head-to-head with current contenders Netflix and Amazon, as well as soon-to-be-unveiled Disney+ and BritBox from BBC and ITV.
If this is the start of the streaming wars, then Apple’s army is made up of top-tier Hollywood talent.
Among them are Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston – last seen together on Friends – in The Morning Show, a series about a daytime TV show struck by a ‘Me Too’ scandal. It also stars Steve Carell as the disgraced former anchor.
Meanwhile, a show hoping to lure younger viewers away from the clutches of Netflix is Dickinson, a half-hour drama about American poet Emily Dickinson. It stars Wiz Khalifa as Death and features music by chart-toppers such as Billie Eilish.
Elsewhere, Game Of Thrones actor Jason Momoa heads up the drama See, penned by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. It is set 600 years in the future in a decimated America where human beings have lost the power of sight and have retreated to a new Dark Ages.
Also launching is For All Mankind, starring The Killing’s Joel Kinnaman, set in a world where the global space race never ended and the USSR made it to the moon first.
Still to come are new projects from creatives including Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Jon M Chu, and Apple is promising new original shows every month.
The service launched today (1 November) and will cost €4.99 per month after a seven-day trial, allowing access for up to six people per subscription.
One year of Apple TV+ will be included when you buy a new iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac or Apple TV through the Apple TV app. The service will also be available on smart TVs, streaming boxes and streaming sticks.
Last month, Eir launched a new TV service using the Apple TV 4K device as its sole set-top box, which will include Apple TV+ for Irish customers, as well as 100 channels and other on-demand and streaming apps.
Earlier this week, Apple reported record revenue for its fourth quarter despite a fall in iPhone sales. The tech giant said that its services business, which includes subscription offerings such as Apple Music and will now include Apple TV+, continues to grow – with revenue rising to $12.5bn from $10.6bn this time last year.
– PA Media, with additional reporting by Sarah Harford


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Systems vendor Dell is looking to thrash out the final details of a deal to go private with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, according to sources quoted in a Reuters story.
"According to two people familiar with the matter… Dell Inc is nearing an agreement to sell itself to a buyout consortium led by its founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners," Reuters said.
The news agency said Michael Dell is expected to take majority ownership of the world’s third-largest personal computer maker, which currently has a market value of $23bn, while Silver Lake and Microsoft would become minority investors. Michael Dell currently owns around 16% of the firm.
It’s reported that Silver Lake has secured up to $15bn of debt financing to take Dell private from four investment banks – Barclays, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and RBC Capital.
Representatives for Dell, Microsoft and Barclays declined to comment.
The logic for the deal is fairly apparent. Dell has had a torrid time on the stock market as its traditional, high volume and relatively slim margin PC business has faced stiff competition from the likes of Lenovo as well as from the tablet makers including Apple, Samsung and Amazon. Going private would give it the chance to attempt to transition its business to a full systems vendor without having to cope with the volatility of its stock market listing.
Dell is now trading at around $13, but it’s been as low as $8 in the last 52 weeks. It’s been buoyed more recently by the talk of a buyout.
As part of its move away from reliance on PCs and PC servers, Dell has been on an acquisition spree to make it look more like an IBM, HP or Oracle. In 2009 it bought Perot systems for IT services; in 2010 Compellent for storage; in 2011 SecureWorks for security and Force10 for data centre networking. Last year it bought Wyse for thin clients, SonicWALL and Appsure for security and Quest for systems management.


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In the March 2011 edition edition of the Trade and Manufacturing Alert, we reported on the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Home Products Int’l v. United States, 633 F.3d 1369 (2011), which held that the Department of Commerce must, when reviewing imports covered by antidumping duty orders, consider newly discovered evidence of material fraud even if the evidence is first presented after the official administrative record is closed or if the matter is on appeal in a federal court. Although credible evidence of fraud typically is difficult to obtain and often is not discovered until late in a case, the Home Products decision has had a major positive effect on U.S. producers’ efforts to combat fraud in trade cases. Two recent cases illustrate this point.
During the 2007-2008 administrative review of imports covered by the antidumping duty order on pure magnesium from China, a Commerce team conducting an on-site verification of a Chinese producer discovered that company officials were fabricating accounting records the company was using to support the producer’s false claims concerning production costs. In a dramatic sequence of events, the Commerce team observed the producer’s accountants throwing boxes of records out of an office window in an attempt to evade discovery of fraudulent information. Had Commerce unknowingly accepted the information as accurate, the false claims would have caused deeply understated dumping margins for a trading company’s U.S. sales of the producer’s goods. The official Commerce verification report documenting the fraud also provided clear evidence that the producer and its trading company had successfully used the same fraudulent scheme during Commerce’s 2006-2007 review of U.S. sales. By the time that report was released, however, the record in the 2006-2007 review had closed and Commerce’s final determination was on appeal on other grounds. Because the report demonstrated that the trading company’s 2006-2007 dumping margins were materially understated, the U.S. petitioner attempted to persuade Commerce to consider the evidence of fraud detailed in its 2007-2008 verification report during the ongoing appeal. Commerce refused, saying the record was closed.
The Home Products decision, issued while the 2006-2007 appeal was ongoing, prohibited Commerce from refusing to consider the evidence of fraud. As a result, Commerce found that all of the producer’s crucial cost of production information was unreliable. After rejecting that cost information, the trading company’s dumping margin increased from 0.63 percent to 111.73 percent. The antidumping duty assessment on $2.6 million in U.S. imports grew from $160 thousand to $2.9 million.
A similar outcome occurred in the 2008-2009 review; the same trading company’s margins went from 0.08 percent to 111.73 percent and its antidumping duty assessment grew to over $111 million.
These cases show that U.S. industries can now expect Commerce and the federal courts to aggressively respond to credible allegations of fraud. Fraud is often very difficult to uncover, but the Home Products and the magnesium cases give petitioners in trade cases a solid basis for deciding to devote valuable resources toward proving fraud by foreign competitors.


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The specialty coffee culture is booming in Colorado Springs. But it is about so much more than brewing a tasty cup of coffee.
Passionate roasters, café owners and baristas are making it their mission to help change the world’s perception of coffee one cup at a time. And we as consumers play a huge roll. "People don’t realize the impact they can have when they purchase coffee from cafés that support the fair treatment of farmers," says Vinnie Snyder, General Manager of Peak Place. And it all starts with the personal relationship that’s developed between coffee farmers around the world and roasters.
Building Three Coffee
Sean Buckles is the owner of Building Three Coffee, a brightly-furnished café and roastery in the Lincoln Center.
Not only do they serve ethically-grown coffee, they also visit farmers to purchase their beans directly or through a trusted importer. Forming relationships with these farmers and roasting their beans has been life- changing for Buckles. It’s enabled him to tell their story and be a link between the growers and the consumers.
Like Anny Ruth Pimental’s farm in El Salvador. Last year, he watched them harvest their coffee "cherries." He even got to carry one of their 150 pound bags over his shoulder, and he was humbled by the hours of work that went into producing their specialty beans.
Buckles is also passionate about serving the community through ministry and partners with non-profits like the Springs Rescue Mission.
Breakfast and brunch items are prepared fresh daily by men in culinary training through the Rescue Mission’s New Life addiction recovery program.
Check out the video at building3coffee.com, and you can see who’s cooking your food.
IF YOU GO: 2727 N. Cascade, 80907 / (480) 586-5731
Switchback Coffee Roasters
With its bright white walls and hanging plants, Switchback’s café is perfect for lingering over a cup of espresso. While next door at the roastery, Evan Schubarth, head roaster, samples dozens of coffees at a time to find the best cup of coffee to serve in their café.
Sometimes, finding that best cup of coffee happens through direct trade with the farmers.
"We can offer them a fairer price and the consumer a better quality cup," Schubarth says.
Through direct trade with the Menendez farm in El Salvador, Switchback has not only been able to visit the farm, but they’ve also been able to deliver a check in person to family members who live in Denver.
Unfortunately, many farmers have stopped growing coffee. The cost to produce coffee has risen, but farmers are still being paid the same world market price they have received since the seventies.
Thanks to direct trade and trusted importers, farmers are beginning to enjoy a living wage.
"And, if everyone starts buying specialty coffee for a few extra dollars a pound," Schubarth says, "we can slowly help bring up the overall economy in the world."
IF YOU GO: 330 N. Institute St., 80903 / (719) 581-9478
Loyal Coffee is one of the only coffee shops in the country that is owned and operated by six baristas.
"We care about people more than anything," says Tyler Hill, Director of Guest Experience. "We want our guests to feel seen and noticed. And coffee is the vehicle we use to bring people together."
Bright and comfortable, their café offers innovative food from Andouille Corn Chowder and Sweet Potato Hash to their Soft-Boiled Egg on Toast.
Choosing only ethically -sourced coffee, they roast their beans in the Loyal Coffee Clubhouse at Ivywild.
"Roasting is another way to build community," Hill says. "It connects us to coffee producers as well as coffee shops and homebrewers around the country through our online sales."
They even include stickers and personal notes in the boxes of coffee they send.
"People are becoming more educated about the value of specialty coffee," Hill says, "and they’re willing to pay more for it."
IF YOU GO: 408 S. Nevada, 80903 / (719) 235-5477
The Wild Goose Meeting House
Located in the heart of downtown, The Wild Goose Meeting House lives up to its name--a public space where the community can come together for amazing coffee, innovative food and spirits and live music.
They are proud to serve single origin beans, locally roasted by Building Three, Story and Hold Fast Coffee, and they take the art of creating a cup of coffee to new heights.
Check out the local latte art throwdowns. Every few months, baristas from all over Colorado gather in different coffee houses to compete.
"It’s the closest to an athletic event you’ll see in the coffee industry," says Ashton Longwell, Front of House Manager.
Their food is addictive. Like the Wild Boar Sausage and Egg Quesadillas for breakfast or the street tacos, grilled sandwiches, soups or locally- made brats for lunch or dinner.
From the moment you walk in, you will instantly feel at home.
IF YOU GO: 401 N. Tejon Street, 80903 / (719) 445-0170


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FIC regulation: Lost in translation?
Brooks, who is the director of the Association of Language Companies and CEO of K International, flagged up allergen and nutrient labelling as areas that could pose particularly serious risks if companies make even the slightest error in translating on-pack information.
“There will be no margin for translation errors within the new legislation as the mandatory labeling obligations for allergens, sugar, fat content, saturates, energy, carbohydrate, salt, etc. could all have health implications if not 100% accurate,” he said.
All food companies doing business in the European Union are required to revise their labelling as the Food Information for Consumers (FIC) regulation comes into force in December this year.
Speaking with FoodNavigator, Brooks pointed specifically to FIC restrictions on font size to ensure legibility.
“If you want to put five or six languages on a yoghurt pot for example, it is challenging. You can’t make it legible – which is right, you shouldn’t be able to do that,” he said.
When it comes to choosing which languages to include on packaging, he said there was often a trade-off to be made, considering, among other things, branding and the cost of potential solutions.
“The advice I would give would be to talk about it with the packaging company as early on as possible,” he said.
No place for automated translation
Brooks claims that one of the biggest challenges for food companies will be ensuring suppliers’ labelling, and that of their packaging companies, complies with the new legislation – and in every language in which they operate.
“In an industry where we translate information for over a thousand products a week I can attest that translating food packaging isn’t easy,” he said. “There are those within the food industry who continue to make errors on foreign language packs, a problem perpetuated by polluted translation memories, unprofessional translators and using technology like Google Translate without a post-editing process.”
The warning ‘may contain nuts’, for example, is translated by Google Translate as ‘peut contenir des noix’ – which could be understood as ‘may contain walnuts’. A general warning about the presence of nuts is usually translated in French as ‘peut contenir des traces de fruits à coque’. Any misunderstanding caused by such labelling could have severe repercussions for an allergic consumer.
“Are nuts and walnuts different? They certainly are if your child has a specific allergy and worryingly we see this common error all over packs in European supermarkets,” Brooks said.
He added: “You can use tools to help you translate, but you need to have it checked by a professional translator who is specialised in food.”
The current EU general labelling rules have been in place since 2000 via a labelling directive, but it will be completely replaced by the FIC regulation in December.
In the spotlight is revamped nutrition labelling, which will become mandatory; replacement of GDAs (guideline daily amounts) with RIs (reference intake); new rules for allergen labelling and legibility; and requirements for ingredient origin labelling, among many other changes.
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Southampton's latest luxury cruise ship is to be called Azura and will be one of the biggest vessels ever built solely for British passengers.
Owners, P&O Cruises' revealed the name as construction work on the vessel began with a keel-laying ceremony at the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy today.
Azura will be able to accommodate up to 3,100 guests over 15 passenger decks featuring 11 restaurants, a shopping complex of five boutiques, four swimming pools, a wide variety of bars and lounges and 900 private balconies.
The new ship, which will take to the water for the first time in summer, 2009 when she is floated out of the dry dock before she is officially hand-over to P&O Cruises the following year.
The keel-laying involved the placement in the dry dock of one section of the ship's hull made up of six pre-manufactured blocks which are already fitted with piping and other internal structures.
P&O Cruises managing director, Nigel Esdale, said: "Evoking images of the ocean and capturing the thrill of cruise travel, the name Azura is very fitting for this most sophisticated of superliners."


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To celebrate its 20th anniversary in Hong Kong, McCafé has launched a new product line and is collaborating with singers Juno Mak and Kay Tse to promote it.
Tapping into the thriving premium tea market, McCafé has rolled out a new cheese series with six flavours. Namely; four seasons tea, mango, berries, long black, salted caramel latte and soy milk matcha. All topped off with a signature cheese cap – a foam mixture of milk, cream cheese and salt.
The new series of products is being pushed with a three-minute music video and a 30-second thematic TVC, in what is Mak’s TVC directorial debut.
“In directing and crafting this film, I was given the freedom to create and develop my ideas in the way I wanted. This is not an opportunity you usually get from brands,” said Mak.
“To me, the campaign is a symbol for hope. I love coffee and I see it very similar to love. We have moments of sweetness and bitterness. What’s great about coffee is that it evokes all these different emotions and senses all at the same time,” he added.
Mak published a post on his official Facebook account yesterday (15 May) to kick off the campaign, which has amassed more than 600 reactions by time of writing.
Other than the music video and the thematic TVC, McCafé will also avail various digital channels and OOH to promote the new series, including the front cover of a local newspaper today.
Another final shift is that all existing McCafé beverages can now be ordered from McDonald’s Hong Kong delivery menu.
“There is a lot of passion and emotion conveyed through simplicity in every collaboration between Mak and Tse, and that’s how we wanted to celebrate this 20th anniversary. McCafé has always been about bringing delicious beverages in the most simple way”, said Randy Lai, CEO of McDonald’s Hong Kong.


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Employers cut fewer jobs in February than in January, but total layoffs remained high compared to a year ago as the energy sector continued to slash positions, according to the monthly report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
U.S.-based employers announced they would let go a total of 50,579 workers in February, marking the third-straight month they laid off more employees than the same period last year, the outplacement firm said.
Energy companies accounted for the most workplace reductions. More than 16,000 workers lost their jobs as oil prices remained low. The cost of a barrel of crude fell 60 percent between June and January before stabilizing last month.
"Usually what you have in times of strength is you have most of the job cuts coming from mergers and acquisitions, and you just don't need two headquarters," Challenger CEO John Challenger told CNBC. "But right now we're seeing in the midst of this expansion one sector really is going through the change, and that's energy."
Read More Oil layoffs could come back to haunt the industry
The energy patch accounts for 38 percent of all jobs cuts for the first two months of the year, Challenger said in a "Squawk Box" interview.
The number of planned layoffs by U.S. employers rose to a nearly two-year high in January with employers planning to let go 53,041 jobs.
The second-highest workforce reduction in February came from the retail industry. Retailers cut 15,862 jobs, in line with layoffs at this time last year.
The prevailing sentiment is that lower oil prices will offset weakness in the energy market as consumers spend money saved at the pump in the broader economy.
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Challenger told CNBC that scenario has not played out yet, but he said he believes consumers will start shopping once the weather breaks and they have more money in their pockets.
Radioshack's announcement that it is entering bankruptcy and closing or selling nearly 4,000 stores also contributed to retail layoffs, he said.
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text: The Department of Human Services started issuing notices and guides to those enrolled in HealthChoices, Pennsylvania’s mandatory Medicaid managed care program, informing consumers of their health plan choices. The initial mailing went to patients currently covered by a managed care organization (MCO) that will no longer cover the zone where the patient resides. The deadline to choose a new health plan is August 16, 2022, and consumers who fail to choose an MCO by the deadline will be auto-enrolled into an MCO plan, with coverage in the new plan effective September 1, 2022. Consumers should contact PA Enrollment Services at 1-800-440-3989 or online at www.enrollnow.net. It is important for consumers to review the notices and guides as there are changes to the network with Aetna no longer operating in the state, Gateway no longer operating in the Northwest Zone, and UnitedHealthcare no longer operating in the Southwest or Lehigh/Capital zones.


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Comment: Google I/O lacked that one big thing
It was a fine but far-from-explosive keynote at the tech giant’s annual get-together as the company keeps its future hardware plans close to its chest for now
Sundar Pichai greeted the virtual attendees of I/O, Google’s big annual get-together, from a garden. The chief executive of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, had an audience, a small one, all spaced on lawn chairs.
Sporting a groomed pandemic beard, Pichai naturally led his address with a focus on the work Google is doing to aid with pandemic relief, particularly around information distribution.
The first big announcement was the decision to introduce Meet, Google’s video-conferencing app, ...


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Five star auction for five local charities thanks to a fifth birthday party by a Littleport firm
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Five local charities are set to benefit from a fund raising day of action from a Littleport company celebrating five years in business.
Marketing and PR agency, Emerald Frog Marketing, is celebrating by organising an auction of promises.
Prizes donated to the five star charity auction will be available via an online public auction later this year to raise money to be split between The Liam Fairhurst Foundation, Little Bundles, Froglife, The Wildlife Trust and Branching Out.
Jo Evans, director at Emerald Frog Marketing, said: “We’ve set ourselves a big challenge to mark five years in business by raising money for five very hardworking local charities.
“We are looking for fellow local businesses, large or small, who would like to donate a product, service or voucher to be auctioned to support these local charities in exchange for a bit of local publicity.
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“Donations already include a flight for three over Cambridge, an array of donated trade services, beauty treatments, meals for two and products from a Dragons’ Den winner. It’s shaping up to be an exciting event.”
The auction will be held online for five weeks from September 5.
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Established in 2010, by business partners Jo Evans and Cheriee Chater, Emerald Frog Marketing has won several local and national awards and works with clients from a wide range of industry sectors, from start-ups and SMEs through to international businesses and charities.
If your business or organisation would like to donate a prize please get in contact with Jo Evans at Emerald Frog Marketing at email@example.com for full information or visit www.emeraldfrog.co.uk.


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The Arizona Registrar of Contractors (ROC) is busy protecting vulnerable consumers in
Perhaps it is because private firms like the Better Business Bureau do such a good job of advancing the ROCs core mission of protecting the health, safety and welfare of the public that the ROC has been so willing to step beyond its legitimate authority of late.
In the past year, instead of only focusing on helping consumers to resolve claims against contractors who walk off a job or do shoddy work, the ROC has increased its purview to include seeking out all unlicensed contractors, even those who operate legally. It has become something of a pseudo law-enforcement agency, complete with most-wanted lists and sting operations.
The ROC is a prime example of a regulatory agency out of control. And the costs to consumers and contractors, both in terms of dollars and freedoms, are mounting.
The agency helps justifies its existence with incredible tales of entire neighborhoods swindled by fly-by-night contractors. Perhaps the equally incredible tale of the ROC swooping in to save the City of


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Serena Williams London "Broosh"
One-of-one just like Serena herself.
Serena Williams will be hitting the courts in London wearing a sweater-knit textured white dress with a stunning sewn Swoosh brooch made with Swarovski ® crystals.
The brooch, now called, "the Broosh," was inspired by decorative jewelry from past generations. "I also wanted her to feel like it was something her grandmother could have worn, but of course give it a modern spin and make it just right for Serena," says Abby Swancutt, Global Design Director for NikeCourt.
The Broosh is made up of 34 crystals — the age at which Serena won her most recent London Slam in 2016. It marks the first Swarovski ® crystal Swoosh made with Nike.
We could only hope that Nike steps into accessories for us ladies sooner than later.


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World's biggest tech show CES set to open Wednesday, despite Omicron spread
Pandemic cancelled world's biggest showcase of new electronic gadgets last year
With thousands descending on Las Vegas this week for a glimpse of the latest gadgets and innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), organizers offered the media a glimpse of what's in store when the world's biggest tech and gadget showcase officially opens on Wednesday.
With concerns growing over the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant that has seen companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and General Motors Co. drop out of attending the Las Vegas event in person, organizers said there was still a lot on offer at the 2022 show.
"We are thrilled to be back in Las Vegas where we belong after a two year absence for the platform for innovation globally," said Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).
"There's a whole plethora of different things, from robotics to artificial intelligence to 5G to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), to many other technologies, including food technology, space technology. So many things that we focused on that we haven't before that have changed in just a couple of years," he said.
As worries over the new variant loom, many companies have withdrawn from presenting at the event, planned both virtually and in-person, that begins on Jan. 5 with over 2,200 exhibitors. The spread of Omicron has also made many reconsider their travel plans after thousands of flight cancellations.
Smaller attendance expected
Last month, organizers were anticipating between 50,000 and 75,000 attendees for this week's conference, down from more than 170,000 who came for the last in-person gathering two years ago.
But those guesses were made before the full force of Omicron hit the U.S. The country recorded more than a million new cases on Monday, a new record.
"As much as I'm a cheerleader for the technology industry, I recognize you have to be face-to-face with people. There isn't a CEO I've spoken to around the world who doesn't agree with that statement," said Shapiro, about why he was determined to have an in-person event this year.
Over the last week, a host of firms, including Advanced Micro Devices, Proctor & Gamble, Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook parent Meta Platforms, have also dropped their in-person plans.
Sony Group's Sony Electronics has said it will have limited staffing and attendees at the event.
All attendees in Las Vegas will be required to be fully vaccinated and masked. COVID-19 test kits will also be provided at the venue, according to a statement from CTA.
Even without a pandemic to dampen the party, tech industry analyst Carolina Milanesi said "big industry events like this are becoming less important than they used to be" as digital technology has supplied other ways to network and keep up with trends.
Milanesi has regularly attended CES for a decade and while she briefly considered not coming, she ultimately decided to attend, but plans to do things differently — visiting the exhibition halls but skipping big speaking events she can watch from her hotel room.
"I haven't decided yet on the cocktail hours," she said. "That's a big reason to go to CES and meet people face to face. With a glass in your hand, people get a little more comfortable discussing things."
With files from CBC News and The Associated Press


text: It is probably part of a robotics fan's dream come true. Or nightmare once they see the price tag. If you thought Sharp was joking last year when it revealed the talking, walking, and even dancing RoboHon robot phone, then this latest announcement will probably prove how dead serious it is. Serious enough to slap on the equivalent of $1,800 on the non-smartphone communications and telephony device rolled into one. Yes, that will be how much it costs when RoboHon launches in Japan on May 26th.


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A new social media post has dramatically exclaimed that Apple employees will tell customers that Lightning charging cables aren’t going to work with the iPhone 15. This is completely true, of course, and should be expected.
If you read AppleInsider, you’ve known that USB-C coming to iPhone was inevitable. If you didn’t catch that when it first came to the 2015 MacBook and then was the only port on the 2016 MacBook Pro when it went Thunderbolt 3 across the board, you figured it out when it was made clear that Apple was heavily involved in developing the USB-C spec.
Even so, that point may not be completely clear to the wider base of iPhone 15 buyers, who may not have bought an iPhone since the iPhone 6. And, unsurprisingly, Apple is instructing its salespeople and Apple Store employees that they may need to educate customers on the topic.
According to a “leak” by yeux1122, staff have been told to make sure iPhone 15 buyers have what they need to charge the iPhone 15. The leaker says employees are being reminded that existing Lightning cables won’t work, and USB-A charging adapters can’t be used. This is true with the cable that comes in the box, but untrue when you consider that USB-A to USB-C cables are plentiful.
The post says that Apple employees should recommend one of many USB-C adapters that Apple sells. And of course, MagSafe will still work.
We’ve spoken with a few Apple Retail employees this morning. While it is true that they are being reminded to tell customers about the differences between USB-C and Lightning, as they have been since the iPad Pro first shipped with it years ago, the claims that they are being harangued to sell USB-C peripherals are false.
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Meanwhile, on the internet, the breathless “Apple wants to sell you more things” and “why does Apple change chargers so often” takes…


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With just over three weeks to go before Microsoft releases its [url=http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-store-offers-50.gift-card-with-select-new-pcs-to-help-ditch-windows-xp]last software updates for Windows XP to the general public[/url], a new report claims that 10 percent of the PCs used by the U.S. government will still be running the 12 year old OS when that April 8th support deadline is reached. The Washington Post reports that even at 10 percent, that still means [url=http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-store-offers-50.gift-card-with-select-new-pcs-to-help-ditch-windows-xp]hundreds of thousands of government PCs will be using XP[/url]. That includes computers that are connected to classified military and diplomatic networks. Even though Microsoft has been issuing warnings about the end of XP support for years, it appears that at least some members of the government felt that the company should have extended its deadline. The story quotes an unnamed U.S. State Depart
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Yes, it's a monster movie plot but you need to make sure that your sympathies are with the monster. Mozilla is riding high and creating lots of nice open source software, but its position is far from secure. It hangs by a thread and we should be worried. Recently the computer press has been full of the rumor that Mozilla might sell advertising on the Firefox new tabs page which is shown to new users. The shock horror that greeted the news was as if a great betrayal was about to happen. Admittedly there is an irony as previously Mozilla made itself very unpopular with the advertising community by making "do not track" the default setting. In fact elements within Mozilla have been very vigorous in attacking the ad industry's use of the Internet. Yet the real irony is that most of Mozilla's money is ultimately derived from advertising anyway. [b]Yes. that's right. Mozilla and Firefox have been serving you more ads than you could possibly imagine for the last few years.[/b] Whe
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A robot has broken the world record for the fastest solving of a Rubik's Cube. Cubestormer 3, designed by David Gilday and Mike Dobson, recorded a time of 3.253 seconds at Birmingham's NEC. The previous record of 5.27 seconds was set by the same design team three years ago. Craig Glenday, editor in chief of Guinness World Records, was at the NEC to verify the claim as well as two other records set by Mr Gilday at the Big Bang Science and engineering fair. The robot uses a mobile phone to take pictures of the Rubik's Cube and then works out the quickest way to solve it, using four robotic hands. 'Bit of fun' The robot is powered by an ARM processor. Mr Gilday, a principal engineer at ARM, and Mr Dobson took 18 months to design and build the robot in their spare time. Mr Gilday said the attempt was "a bit of fun". "Our real focus is to demonstrate what can be achieved with readily available technology to inspire young minds into taking a greater interest in science, technology, engineeri
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Developers at Mozilla have spent the last few years getting the Firefox web browser ready to run on Windows 8 computers with Microsoft’s new Metro-style, touch-friendly user interface. A [url=http://liliputing.com/2014/02/mozilla-releases-firefox-windows-8-touch-beta.html]beta was released[/url] just over a month ago. But now [url=https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/03/14/metro/]Mozilla is pulling the plug.[/url] It’s not that the browser didn’t work well on Windows tablets… it’s just that almost nobody was actually using the thing. According to Mozilla millions of people are running pre-release builds of the desktop version of Firefox every day. Meanwhile the team has never seen more than 1000 people actively using a pre-release build of Firefox for Windows 8 Metro. The team had to make a choice between continuing to develop a product that few people had shown interest in, and re-allocating resources to other projects where they could be put to better use. It kind of seems
[b]THE POOR[/b] Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is tired of asking Google to take down individual incidents of alleged copyright infringement and wants an end to banhammer Groundhog Day. The RIAA has taken a view opposing that of Google's senior copyright policy counsel Katherine Oyama's in her testimony before the US House of Representatives Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee this week. Oyama had testified that perhaps takedowns are not the best system, adding that it is also open to abuse. She said that Google deals with as many takedowns in a week in 2014 as it was doing in the whole of 2010. "The best way to battle piracy is with better, more convenient, legitimate alternatives to piracy, as services ranging from Netflix to Spotify to iTunes have demonstrated," she said. "The right combination of price, convenience, and inventory will do far more to reduce piracy than enforcement can." The RIAA made its own statements to the subcommi
Despite numerous attempts of copyright holders to shut it down, The Pirate Bay lives on, and a fairly recent study shows that the torrent website is keeping up with the times. Researchers have found that, over the past years, the website has been expanding.[b] [/b] The study has found that the [url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=6678931]number of high-definition video torrents[/url] hosted on The Pirate Bay has increased by over 500% during the study period between 2009 and 2012. In fact, the percentage of HD downloads has reached almost 10%,[url=http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-sees-surge-high-definition-downloads-140313/]TorrentFreak[/url] reports. Researchers from the Institut Mines-Télécom in Paris and the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid have also determined that the median file size of torrents has doubled, reaching 458 Mb in 2012. Furthermore, experts have found that close to half of all torrents are for video conten
I personally use Windows 8 Manager by Yamicsoft and it does my job usually. It has many tools to manage startup, registry, network, uninstaller, metro app manager, UI tweaks, hosts editor, drives manager etc Do you use it or/and have an alternate opinion?
[quote][b]Michael Franco[/b] wrote: [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/8846iC0B1E6798EB2A9FF.png[/img] According to the manufacturers, the Diamond Armor suit is the world's most expensive men's dress suit. But it doesn't get really dirty, so there's that. Sartorially, Bruce Wayne certainly had the life. When he wasn't on the job, he got to wear million-dollar suits, thousand-dollar watches, and ties that cost more than a few hundred bucks. When he switched into Batman mode, he got to flaunt a slick cape, body armor that made him look ripped, and one hell of a belt. (By the way, I'm talking here of the movie reboots, not so much the Adam West days.) Now, a Zurich-based company known as [url=http://www.suitart.com/en]Suitart[/url] has developed a men's suit that combines a whole lot of Wayne style with an ample dose of "kapow!" It's called "[url=http://diamondarmor.suitart.com/]Diamond Armor[/url]," and for good reason: the suit fabric
[quote][b] Rich Edmonds [/b]wrote: Flappy Bird is a rather special mobile game, illustrating what can happen when a seemingly unimaginative concept goes viral and the developer subsequently wishes to remove oneself from the spotlight. The game has also split communities in two with many wanting the name to simply remain dead, but that hasn't halted numerous developers across all platforms from attempting to ride on the success that is Flappy Bird. Now the creator of Flappy Bird has said in an interview we could well see the game again. [/quote] Read[url=http://www.wpcentral.com/flappy-bird-creator-considering-revival-popular-game] here[/url].
[b]Fear of fine trumps fear of breach for banks[/b] Tens of thousands of ATMs will be running Windows XP long after Microsoft’s deadline to abandon the operating system ahead of a potential hacker storm. Just a third of the UK’s 60,000 ATMs will be upgraded from Windows XP before the end of this year, according to the biggest supplier of those machines - NCR. But it will be 8 April when Microsoft actually stops releasing security patches for Windows XP and when systems still running the OS will be open to hackers writing new malware and devising fresh attacks. NCR – which supplies 60 per cent of the UK’s cash points – believes 95 per cent of Britain’s ATMs are today still running Windows XP with less than a month to go. NCR told The Reg it has been working with Microsoft for nearly three years through workshops and sales camps to persuade banks to upgrade their ATMs. NCR is selling a version of its ATM software that runs on Windows 7. But the banks are dragging their feet becaus
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for a 'Magna Carta' for the world wide web to protect its users across the globe. The creator of the web also believes controls need to be put into place to ensure it remains independent and equally accessible to all. Sir Tim's comments come on what is the 25th anniversary of his first draft of the first proposal for what would become the world wide web. [url=http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/03/12/sir-tim-berners-lee-calls-for-magna-carta-bill-of-rights-for-world-wide-web/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29]Full Article[/url]
[i]“Antivirus is dead!” [/i]has been the marketing cry of vendors wishing to displace antivirus (AV) technology with their “superior” comprehensive products. It’s true, purely signature-based AV scanners are extinct; however, AV is constantly evolving. The future can be predicted through knowledge of the past. This first brief in a two-part series on AV studies its evolution from the Brain virus to the Flame worm, from single threat remediation to modern day suites of technologies that contain industry-developed technology and protection mechanisms adopted from other security sectors. [url=https://www.nsslabs.com/system/files/public-report/files/From%20Brain%20to%20Flame%20-%20Myths%2C%20Facts%2C%20and%20the%20Future.pdf]Full Article[/url] "It’s true, purely signature-based AV scanners are extinct" The future behind the Webroot technologies!
A veritable mine in Washington state is pumping out an estimated $8 million in Bitcoins per month. Local TV news station KOMO News was given a peek at what the people behind it are calling "the largest mine in North America and most of the rest of the world." Built across two warehouses, the racks of constantly running mining rigs combine to provide a petahash of processing power, at the expense of 1.4 megawatts of electricity, devoted to solving the increasingly complex algorithm that generates Bitcoins. The result is monthly earnings of $8 million in Bitcoin per month, according to the report. Although the location of the warehouse was kept private, it was key to maximizing profits for the mining rig. The area where the facility was built was chosen for its access to cheap and reliable electricity, according to the report. [url=http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/massive-bitcoin-mining-rig-earns-8-million-month?hpg1=bn]Full Article and Video[/url]
Sony helped to launch the Blu-ray disc player and format in 2006, which quickly defeated the rival HD-DVD to become the true successor to DVD. Now Sony has announced the next generation disc format, at least from a storage standpoint, with today's reveal of Archival Disc. Sony and its partner Panasonic first announced their plans to create [url=http://www.neowin.net/news/sony-and-panasonic-partnering-to-create-next-gen-optical-disk-300gb-dvds-inbound]a next-gen disc format in July 2013[/url], Today's press release not only gives a formal name to the format for the first time but also offers up a roadmap for future disc support. Unlike DVD or Blu-ray, which are both designed primarily as formats for video and games, Archival Disc has been developed to create a long term storage system. Sony states: [quote]"Optical discs have excellent properties to protect themselves against the environment, such as dust-resistance and water-resistance, and can also withstand changes i
Mobile users are just getting around to upgrading their handsets to take advantage of 4G networks, but this simply is not fast enough. UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, spoke at CeBIT announcing that the country will join forces with Germany to develop the successor to 4G -- the uninspiringly-named 5G. The PM announced a deal with Germany which will help to push forward with the development of a mobile broadband network that will offer download speeds up to 1,000 times those currently available on 4G. To put this kind of speed in perspective, as the Prime Minister explained, an 800MB movie (or any other type of file for that matter) could be download in a single second. One second. For the best part of a gig of data. On a mobile device. Who is going to say no to that? Ultimately, the adoption rate will be determined by the costs involved -- mobile tariffs, suitable handsets, data charges, and coverage -- but before any of this becomes an issue, 5G needs to be, well, invented really. &n
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Audi is hard at work tuning its new RS5 and video footage has surfaced online of the car testing at the famous Nurburgring.
Posted on the Facebook page, we can see the new RS5 carving the corners of the famous German track, sporting a more aggressive face thanks to even more air intakes compared to the new Audi A5 and S5.
Under the hood is believed to be a new turbocharged V6 engine that uses electric turbos to put out around 500 horsepower. It is the same 3.0-liter unit that is in the Audi S5, where it makes 354 hp and 369 lb-ft of torque. In the RS5 the engine will likely be paired to an eight-speed automatic transmission.
SEE ALSO: Audi RS5 Spied Near the Nurburgring Looking Ready for Primetime
Other upgrades to the RS5 include a new quad-tip exhuast setup and of course a more track-focused suspensnion setup to help this big car handle in the corners.
We expect the next-generation RS5 to arrive in 2017, likely at the Geneva Motor Show.
[Source: Sport Auto Facebook]
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It has a price tag of £8.5m - but will Kettering s Newlands Shopping Centre be sold in 2021?
The Gold Street centre, which houses more than 30 stores, was put on the market earlier this year by real estate firm Savills on behalf of owners Ellandi and Tristan Capital.
But for now the estate agents remain tight-lipped over any potential sale and whether firms are interested in buying it.
A Savills spokesman said they were unable to comment when asked this week about the level of interest shown or whether a deal would be made.
The near-200,000 sq ft shopping centre was last sold 10 years ago for £32.5m - more than four times its current asking price.
It is anchored by TK Maxx, whose lease expires in 2025, and hosts other big name stores including Boots, H&M and Poundland.
The sale also includes office building Lahnstein House, which is accessed from inside the shopping centre.
When the centre went on the market Toby Ogilvie Smals, director in the investment team at Savills, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity to acquire a dominant town centre shopping scheme, let to a strong mix of national retailers and further benefiting from the additional office building.
"The occupational story at Newlands has proved buoyant, in spite of the economic challenges, and with further local authority investment planned for the town, we expect to see good levels of interest.”
The centre was built in 1977 when it was first called the Newborough Centre, initially housing a Sainsbury's in what is now TK Maxx. The shopping centre changed its name when an expansion took place just over a decade later.
In recent years the Newlands has seen some big name closures and additions. In 2016 WH Smith shut up shop, later being replaced by popular clothes store H&M.
Closing down signs went in the window of Dorothy Perkins last year, with M&Co suddenly closing overnight in August.


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As cars became wireless and smartphone accessible, the possibility of hackers overtaking vehicle controls became an increasing possibility. Car manufacturers have known since 2011 that system hacks are possible. University researchers demonstrated how they could disable a sedan’s locks and brakes wirelessly. Those results were only shared with carmakers and not the general public.
But this July, the threat became real—and public—when researchers Charlie Miller of Twitter and Chris Valasek of IO Interactive hacked a Jeep Cherokee remotely. WIRED writer Andy Greenberg asked two hackers to see what they could do with the car from ten miles away. The scary results have spurred the auto industry as a whole into action, and three days after WIRED published their car hacking story, Chrysler recalled 1.4 million vehicles and set up a wireless block to protect other vehicles with vulnerable software.
The Jeep Hack
While Greenberg traveled 70 mph down the highway, the hackers first cranked the AC and switched the radio station—frighteningly, Greenberg hit the power button and the radio didn’t turn off. The hackers turned on the wipers and then drenched the windshield with wiper fluid. But when the hackers cut the transmission and caused the Jeep to lose half its speed on an incline, with a tractor trailer barreling down, Greenberg—and soon the world—realized the very real danger security breaches pose. Then the hackers cut the brakes. Greenberg was able to safely roll the Jeep into a ditch, but he had to actually restart the car to gain back control.
The hackers created a code to hack into Jeep vehicles. According to WIRED, the hackers’ code is “an automaker’s nightmare: software that lets hackers send commands through the Jeep’s entertainment system to its dashboard functions, steering, brakes, and transmission, all from a laptop that may be across the country.” Hackers broke in through Chrysler’s Uconnect cellular connection that, as WIRED reports, “lets anyone who knows the car’s IP address gain access from anywhere in the country.”
Insurance Plug-In Tracking Devices Hacked
Newer cars with any sort of computerized system have a computer port (called a OBD-II port), that’s usually located under the steering wheel. CNN Money says that these ports access “the computer networks in your car, so mechanics can identify problems.” These ports are also where tracking devices for insurance discount programs (like Progressive’s Snapshot) go. Student engineers at the University of California, San Diego, tried hacking into Metromile’s plug-in device and discovered they could remotely disable or engage the brakes–but only if the car was going 5 mph or less. Even more frightening, CNN Money reports, “It’s possible to find a specific car by its device’s IP address or phone number.” This particular device maker (Mobile Devices) has since issued a software update, cutting off access, but the larger problem remains: as CNN Money writes, “Modern day cars are smartphones on wheels—and just like any computer, vulnerable to hackers.”
How Bad Could it Get?
WIRED says that targeting a specific vehicle would still be difficult because Miller and Valasek’s system uses phones to scan for all potentially vulnerable vehicles (so far just vehicles in the Uconnect network, affiliated with Sprint). But if enough phones scanned together, WIRED reports that an individual could be found and targeted, and even more serious, hackers could gain control of a large group of cars, which could then gain control over even more cars, and “hundreds of thousands of vehicles” could then be controlled by remote hackers. Scary, to say the very least.
Keeping You Safe
On July 21, 2015—the same day WIRED published its car hacking piece—senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), members of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, introduced legislation meant to set federal security standards in vehicles across the nation. Importantly, the bill details that for every car sold in the US, “all entry points [must] be equipped with reasonable measures to protect against hacking attacks.” Called the Security and Privacy in Your Car (SPY Car) Act, it also establishes a rating system that would help drivers understand how well their car is protecting their privacy. In a statement shared with WIRED and detailed by Slate, Senator Markey wrote, “Drivers shouldn’t have to choose between being connected and being protected.”
From the Hackers Themselves
For the past 23 years, hackers have been convening in the desert to talk shop at the now-20,000-strong annual DefCon conference. This year, DefCon, and spin-off conference Black Hat, ran at the beginning of August in Las Vegas. All eyes were on Miller and Valasek, who spoke at both conferences, about their July Jeep Cherokee hack. ABCNews reports that they showed just four lines of the code they used to control Greenberg’s Jeep—a move which car manufacturers largely criticized as endangering public safety. Through WIRED, Miller and Valasek said the release was “warranted because it allows their work to be proven through peer review,” and not only that but they say it sends a message: “Automakers need to be held accountable for their vehicles’ digital security. ‘If consumers don’t realize this is an issue, they should, and they should start complaining to carmakers,’ Miller says. ‘This might be the kind of software bug most likely to kill someone.’”
Other car manufacturers got in on the game, hoping to head off potential security breaches at the pass. Tesla not only invited hackers to try to break into its software system, they actually began offering payments up to ten grand for anyone who finds a software bug in their cars.
Make sure your car’s security is up to date. If you own or drive one of the recalled vehicles, take it into your Chrysler dealership right away for the security patch. (The Chrysler mechanics will do it for free.) Or do it yourself by downloading the update here, moving the update onto a USB drive, and plugging it into your vehicle’s dashboard USB port. As of now, Chrysler cannot remotely update security. The issue isn’t going to go away, so owners of connected cars need to stay on their toes.
UCSD professor Stefan Savage, who worked on a comprehensive 2011 study on auto security, told WIRED: “The lesson of Miller and Valasek’s research isn’t that Jeeps or any other vehicle are particularly vulnerable, but that practically any modern vehicle could be vulnerable. ‘I don’t think there are qualitative differences in security between vehicles today,’ Savage says.”
Josh Corman, the cofounder of security organization I Am the Cavalry told WIRED, “They’re getting worse faster than they’re getting better,” he says. “If it takes a year to introduce a new hackable feature, then it takes them four or five years to protect it.”


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Why Buy a Plastic Bag When You Can Borrow a Better One For Free?
Why buy when you can borrow? This is the question interior and fashion retailer Indiska is asking as they launch their new “Borrow Bag”—available in selected stores from June 1st.
There’s a new law in Sweden with the purpose to limit the use of plastic bags, so that by 2025 Swede’s won’t be using more than 40 plastic bags per person and year. This is opposed to the almost 200 plastic bags we use per person and year today. Multiply that by 10 million people, and you’ll obviously get an insane number. This new law also requires stores to inform costumers of the environmental impact of plastic bags and the advantages of reduced bag consumption, and there are many.
Hear this: The making of plastic bags is very energy consuming and a real threat to the environment. Littering is a huge problem, which also contributes to the dangerous spreading of micro plastics. As you know, plastics take a crazy amount of time to decompose, which makes it a big threat to both animals and the environment. Using less plastic bags will therefore reduce the risk of them ending up in nature.
So, at Indiska, they’ve been trying to reduce the consumption of plastic bags for some time now. Two years ago, they became frontrunners by being the first retailers to charge their costumers for plastic bags and donating the surplus profit to environmental organizations. Today, however, they’ve decided it’s time we all took this “plastic diet” a bit more seriously—2025 really isn’t that far away.
Starting now, customers will either be given the option of buying either an organic cotton bag or a plastic bag made out of sustainable materials such as oyster shells and recycled plastic bag. Or, and here’s the twist, they can borrow a bag to carry home their purchases.
The “Borrow Bag” is made out of organic cotton and the concept is simple: borrow it; use it; return it. The idea is to make us costumers more aware, and get us into a more sustainable mindset. By not choosing plastic, we contribute to the environment—if only in a small way—and maybe, hopefully, one thing will lead to another.
Plastic Bag Checklist:
– Don’t take/buy new plastic bags!
– Reuse the plastic bags you already have as many times as possible.
– Recycle the bags as plastic, so they can be made into something new.
– Get “proper” garbage bags for your home. Printing on plastic bags (as all stores do) is also super bad for the environment.
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