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Independent lighting can help resolve surveillance camera obstacles in producing higher quality images and deterring nighttime intruders.
CE Pro Editors · May 06, 2016
As long as the cameras are not covert (and a contract is in place), it is OK for integrators to install surveillance cameras in a strip club dressing room and in every room in an 80-year-old doctor’s ‘bachelor pad.’
Jason Knott · May 04, 2016
We asked the 2016 CE Pro 100 to share thoughts on their biggest challenges, opportunities, growth strategies, hot technologies and more.
Arlen Schweiger · April 29, 2016
ELAN Intercom dramatically changes smart home communication.
Advertorial · April 28, 2016
Peter Thiel, noted early Facebook investor, founder of PayPal and large shareholder of Airbnb, leads $100 million capital investment from Solarmere Capital Co. into Vivint Smart Home. Money will be used to continue to fuel Vivint’s home automation growth.
Jason Knott · April 27, 2016
When Paradise InfoTech installed 12 Sunfire HRS-IW8 in-wall subwoofers to create the homeowner’s desired ‘big audio,’ it turned into a 20-zone smart home project including video, security and control.
CE Pro Editors · April 27, 2016
About 70% of consumers agree companies should give coupons and discounts to customers in return for data about device usage, according to a global survey of consumers sponsored by Intel Security.
CE Pro Editors · April 26, 2016
IC Realtime, IC Real Tech, ALLie – whatever you call it – does 360-degree cameras like no one else, which is why it is the only live-streaming immersive-video platform for YouTube and coming soon to home automation systems.
Julie Jacobson · April 21, 2016
Nest finally bricks ill-fated Revolv home automation hub. World damns Tony Fadell, IoT, Google, Alphabet, the cloud, greed and the inability to control landscape lighting, but there are bigger lessons to be learned.
Julie Jacobson · April 15, 2016
Whether you made it down to Las Vegas for ISC West last week or not, you’ll want to check out our news, photos and product reviews from the show floor.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed Apple’s newest iteration of the popular handset, the iPhone 5 today. Confirm much of speculation that has amassed over the last month, the iPhone 5 will offer a slew of new features (including 4G LTE), but will come in a sleeker package being 18% thinner and 20% lighter than its predecessor.
Despite its smaller frame the iPhone 5 will offer a 4-inch display, with an increased 1135 x 640 resolution and 326 ppi. The iPhone will also offer increased performance running on iOS 6 and an A6 processor boasting twice the CPU speed and twice the graphics performance of the iPhone 4S. During the event, Apple stated literally everything you do on iPhone 5 will be almost twice as fast the iPhone 4S.
In addition to being more powerful, the A6 processor is going to be smaller and more energy efficient than its predecessor, which plays a large part in the iPhone 5’s impressive battery life. Today Apple announced that the new handset will offer increased battery life, estimating around 8 hours of web browsing on LTE, 10 on Wi-Fi, 10 hours of video or 40 hours of music playback.
The new smartphone will also house an 8 megapixel camera that will offer 1080p video capture, dynamic low-light mode and a 40% image capture. Apple has also introduced a new panoramic mode, not to mention that the faster A6 processor will help greatly reduce noise in pictures.
The iPhone 5 is surely set to be an impressive device that will offer excellent web browsing and full social networking functionality. It almost raises the question: do casual users still need notebooks? While many of us look to our notebooks to run much more intensive applications, those who merely surf the web and chat with their friends via Facebook, may come to find devices like the iPhone 5 a suitable replacement for the portable PCs.
It’s hard to tell if we’re looking at the catalyst of a new industry trend, but as the iPhone sets to release and we begin to see more comprehensive handsets, we’ll begin to get a better idea. The iPhone 5 is set to come out this fall, hitting shelves Sept. 21, with pre-orders opening up Sept. 14.
For more information including full pricing and availability, be sure to check out the Apple 5 Article, located on our sister site BrightHand.com.

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Sunday, April 10, 2016
GODZILLA CLEANS UP HIS ACT! The King of the Monsters Sheds His Bad Breath!
In Godzilla's Revenge (1969), Minya commented that Godzilla was "the one with the bad breath." Who knew that Minya meant it literally?
From April 4 until April 10, Godzilla was seen lifting a big cup (4.5 meters high, 4.1 meters long) of the mouthwash Isodine to his enormous mouth, apparently taking heed of Minya's admonishment.
Actually, the pharmaceutical company Mundipharma partnered with Toho to use the King of the Monsters to advertise its product. (We know what happened the last time a pharmaceutical company tried to use kaiju as part of its marketing strategy, don't we?)
The signage says it all. According to it, the publicity stunt started with a bit of a joke, with someone apparently wondering what would happen to Shinjuku if Godzilla caught a cold.
While the big cup made a bit of news in the West, the mural on the 8th floor of Hotel Gracery Shinjuku did not. Fans and tourists could pose for pictures with the Big G as part of the promotion. Not a bad marketing gimmick, eh?
There was even an Easter egg in the diorama. Maybe the building below sells fish tanks!
By the time you read this, the promotion will be over. I'm glad I had a chance to check it out while it was still there.


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April 4, 2011 – Noted professionals from the health and beauty industry converged on the Intercontinental Hotel this weekend for The Cosmo Galleria, a conference meant to discuss key topics on hair, plastic surgery and dermatology.
Plastic and cosmetic surgery is still a relatively new phenomenon in Kenya. However, with the growing number of middle class Kenyans, more are going under the knife.
With more money to spend, and images of slim women seen as beautiful, cosmetic surgery is definitely on the rise in Kenya.
“There is definitely an increase in the number of patients that I see,” explains Dr. Ominde Khainga (a Plastic, Cosmetic and reconstructive Surgeon).
Abdominoplasty, Liposuction and Breast Augmentation are the most popular procedures.
Dr. Pranav Pancholi, a renowned Dermatologist spoke about popular procedures like laser hair removal and laser blemish treatments. He also touched on various procedures that improve one’s complexion and treat wrinkles.
Muli Musyoka from Haco Industries spoke about a variety of issues surrounding hair. From general hair maintenance to hair weaves to proper hair relaxing to pregnancy hair issues; Musyoka enlightened the attendees with information that most have probably overlooked.
The Cosmo Galleria was definitely a welcomed conference that familiarized people about the various beauty options available in Nairobi. The beauty industry is continuously improving and creating new procedures for the sake of beauty. In fact, did you know that there’s even a procedure that can stimulate the woman’s G-spot to increase sexual arousal and help her achieve an orgasm easier? The G-shot might be the next biggest thing!
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Posted by brandchannel on February 6, 2015 02:45 PM
Dr. Myra Hart is a pioneer and a leader in retail, having co-founded Staples in 1985.
Prior to creating Staples, which made news this week by acquiring Office Depot, she was Director of Marketing for Star Market, a division of Jewel Companies. She also has written several books, taught MBA and executive programs, and leads initiatives focusing on female entrepreneurship. She has served as Entrepreneurship Chair at the Harvard Business School, where she is a faculty member, and is a director of several public and private companies including Kraft Foods Inc. and Nina McLemore, Inc.
She recently spoke at Interbrand’s New York office and chatted with Josh Feldmeth, CEO of Interbrand North America, about the creation of the Staples brand, the opportunity for retailers and the role of physical brick-and-mortar stores in the post-Amazon world. Here is an excerpt from their conversation:Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on February 4, 2015 04:04 PM
You're no doubt familiar with the red "easy" button that Staples used as a branding device a few years ago? It might as well be a panic button, now that Staples is buying Office Depot, joining forces to avoid being overwhelmed by changes in the office products industry—and competition from online retailers.
"This is a transformational acquisition which enables Staples to provide more value to customers, and more effectively compete in a rapidly evolving competitive environment," stated Staples CEO Ron Sargent, about the $6.3 billion deal.
Mass market retailers such as Walmart and Target have been aggressively pursuing their business, while the loss of foot traffic at brick-and-mortar office supply stores has been steep. And although both Staples (America's biggest stationery seller) and Office Depot (which acquired OfficeMax in 2013) have mounted huge and highly credible efforts to capture as much online business as possible, Amazon is making a strong run at them.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on February 4, 2015 09:45 AM
Staples buys Office Depot for $6 billion (pending regulatory approval) as Amazon opens first physical store at Purdue, gets knocked off #1 spot on Harris corporate reputation ranker (by Wegmans), launches Kindle app to convert paper books into digital and speculation continues about RadioShack interest.
Alibaba flies drones over Beijing as Amazon pleads for US tests and Yahoo includes small business unit in Alibaba spinoff.
Apple sees first Apple Watch app for Tesla Model S, as speculation flies about electric-car ambitions and interest in street-mapping technology.
Pepsi will launch 100-day "Out of the Blue" campaign at the Grammy Awards.
Under Armour acquires fitness apps to launch "world's largest" digital health community.Continue reading...
Posted by Mark J. Miller on February 3, 2015 04:45 PM
Amazon has long been a disruptor of the business world. First it was the books business and then, well, it was nearly everything else. The Seattle-based retail site has been dismantling brick-and-mortar retailers for years. Now it may be actually getting into the brick-and-mortar business itself.
That move has been rumored for some time but now Bloomberg reports that Amazon may buy some of the stores from RadioShack, now that that long-suffering business is said to be close to filing for bankruptcy.
The struggling brand's massive footprint of stores, while not all in ideal locations, would be a place to show off Amazon hardware such as its Fire smartphone and be a drop-off and pickup spot for folks who order from Amazon.com—who may be notified by app when ready.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on February 3, 2015 09:26 AM
Amazon reportedly negotiating to buy select RadioShack store locations (while Sprint may take over other RadioShack locations in co-branding deal) as Staples and Office Depot are also reported to be in advanced talks to merge.
Netflix prices $1.5 billion in debt to fund original content and programming.
Google is developing its own ride-sharing competitor to Uber, Bloomberg reports, as Uber moves to open research center for self-driving cars.
NBC saw Super Bowl shatter viewing record as online streaming also proved popular and Big Game ad sales soared.
Apple localizes its advertising for Chinese New Year.Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Chidley on February 2, 2015 04:15 PM
Of the 15 new stores Target plans to open in 2015, the majority will be the smaller format TargetExpress and CityTarget stores. Meanwhile, Walmart, Office Depot and Best Buy are also adding smaller format stores to their fleets.
This makes a lot of sense for retailers that have maxed out their suburban presence and are looking to urban areas to add stores. Expanding into underserved markets is a business basic, even if those opportunities can seem few and far between.
But the challenges of being small are not small. Unlike Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts, which can build stores within throwing distances of current locations without cannibalization, these larger retailers face a different “zero sum” marketplace. More locations do not translate to more consumption—or sales.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on January 8, 2015 09:14 AM
Charlie Hebdo continues publishing in wake of terror attack as #JeSuisCharlie nears 3 million Tweets in global protest.
Samsung reveals first annual profit fall in three years, as brand pivots at CES to embrace Internet of Things to recharge its growth.
Sony delays sale of PlayStation 4 in China as CEO speaks at CES to affirm strategy and hack more firmly linked to North Korea by FBI.
Cadillac to stage brand comeback during the Oscars, which is launching its own $5.5 million social media campaign.
Tesco's turnaround plan: halting store openings and slashing branded products.Continue reading...
Posted by Dale Buss on October 23, 2014 02:56 PM
Nothing says holiday shopping like "immediate gratification." That's why Macy's is ready to roll out a proximity-marketing platform in partnership with Google that will lead shoppers to the specific item they're seeking—and also will offer suggestions about merchandise in their local Macy's that consumers may not be thinking about, Ad Age reports.
"We have seen encouraging results" from the program that Google and Macy's began testing about a year ago in San Francisco, Jennifer Kasper, group vice president of digital media and multicultural marketing at Macy's, told Ad Age. Shoppers "can go into a physical store and have immediate gratification."
Google's expanding roll-out of its proximity-marketing platform, Nearby, echoes Apple's iBeacon rollout and the Continuity platform for Android devices. The basic idea is to tap into the marketing and sales possibilities of using GPS, in-store "beacons" and other devices to give consumers promotional stimuli at times that it can be most effective: While they're in or near retail stores.Continue reading...


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Hackney Council has announced a tightening up of lockdown enforcement around Broadway Market following widespread alarm at crowds in the area over the weekend.
Local police were called multiple times to enforce social distancing, with community safety chief Cllr Caroline Selman also flagging the market up for further patrols.
Residents and councillors expressed their disbelief at the number of people in the area over the weekend after pictures were posted on social media, with Hackney Mayor Philip Glanville characterising scenes of the sale and purchase of takeaway alcohol as non-essential.
Now the Town Hall will be suspending parking, as well as closing Broadway Market itself to through traffic, with additional police and council officers to be deployed to advise people and businesses on following the rules.
Louise Brewood, former chair of the Broadway Market Traders’ and Residents’ Association, said: “We got a message from an elderly couple, both in ill health and one having cancer treatment, who had to organise someone to pick them up a newspaper, as at that time on Saturday it was too many people and no space.
“My neighbour took her two-year-old daughter to the shops, got to the top of the road, and decided that they just could not safely get there.
“The council were trying to do their best, but as the lockdown has progressed, to me it feels like the general public that attend the market that are not direct local residents and live round here, it’s like an 18th-century fashion parade. All they’re missing is the big fans.
“Many small and micro market traders have been in touch expressing anxiety and fear over the vast numbers on the street, and anger caused by poor management has jeopardised the future of the market’s return.
“The questions for businesses are, ‘Are you trading to squeeze as much money as you can in disregard for life, or are you trying to survive and make a little bit extra to look after your staff to keep your business afloat? Are you supplying produce for people to take home?”
Let me be clear selling or buying takeaway alcohol or similar is not essential during lockdown, and I'm sure not what the Government had in mind went it made it easier for premises to offer 'takeaway'. I was sent & saw the scenes in Broadway Market & on all fronts unacceptable.— Mayor of Hackney (@mayorofhackney) April 26, 2020
Brewood, who is also chair of London Fields Safer Neighbourhood Panel, added that around 100 people, including local key workers and business owners, had been in touch with her expressing concerns and calling on the Town Hall for further signage to remind people not to be in the market unless on an essential journey.
The former trader held up the fish and butchers’ shops and CostCutters on the street as “excellent examples” of best practice, for checking their queues and making sure there was space for people to walk by safely, while criticising central government for not closing loopholes in its initial guidance and giving clearer powers to local authorities and the police.
She also argues that businesses selling takeaway alcohol do not need to do so to survive, pointing to the council and central government grant system and saying that anyone whose business relies on alcohol for the most part will not have goods which can be wasted, as in the case of fresh food.
Brewood added: “I appreciate the fear and anxiety of businesses. I’ve got a son who’ll probably not be getting back to work, I’m dealing with all my neighbours who can’t work.
“My goal here is for local people can safely get to the shops. It needs to be looked at seriously as a multi-agency approach, just like they did with parks, and looked at by the licensing authority, as many are doing things they shouldn’t do.”
The closure of the street market was announced at the end of last month, with the last one held on the 21 March.
The government relaxed planning rules on 17 March to allow pubs and restaurants to operate as hot food takeaways, with serving of booze continuing to be subject to usual licensing rules.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson used his first press conference on returning to office after three weeks’ of illness to stress the importance of continuing to observe distancing rules during the lockdown, warning of the danger of a second spike in cases.
Hackney Mayor Philip Glanville said: “We know that there are concerns about social distancing in some parts of the borough and we’re doing all we can to ensure people adhere to the guidance.
“People must continue to respect the guidance by only going out once a day for exercise and shopping for basic necessities like food and medicine as infrequently as possible, keeping at least 2m away from others. This, as we all know, is critical to slowing the spread of coronavirus.
“At Broadway Market, we’ve closed the street market, but the government is allowing some businesses to operate as takeaways. Across the borough, we’re continuing to work closely with the police to monitor areas where social distancing is an issue and deploy officers where they are needed.
“We’re also doing all we can to keep our parks open because we know how important they are for our residents, particularly those without gardens, and have installed hundreds of banners and stencils to remind people of the government’s guidance.”


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Now, Mr. Winkelmann is opening up, revealing that he’s had a rocky entrée into the art establishment even though he currently ranks as the world’s third most-expensive living artist after Jeff Koons and David Hockney. Instead of chatting up the world top’s collectors and curators, he’s primarily focused on launching a new NFT venture next month that will seek to transform historic moments into collectible NFTs. He’s planning to start with tennis star Andy Murray’s 2013 Wimbledon win.
“I wouldn’t say the art world has been overly welcoming,” Mr. Winkelman said. “Everyone is taking a cautious approach toward me and NFTs, and I get it because it’s all happened so fast.”
Mr. Winkelmann’s blistering rise and bumpy aftermath echoes the entire NFT art phenomenon, which started gaining traction last fall as digital artists realized they could attach data already being used to track cryptocurrency onto their own pixelated images and sell one-of-a-kind work the way painters sell original canvases.
Immediately following Christie’s sale of Mr. Winkelmann’s “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” a gold-rush atmosphere spread across the art market, with dozens of artists and galleries clamoring to sell NFT art. The early fever appears to have subsided, though pioneering and seminal NFT artworks created by digital artists including Pak, Mad Dog Jones and FEWOCiOUS continue to sell at auction houses such as Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips for record sums.
Earning the art world’s respect hasn’t been easy for Mr. Winkelmann. Even before the Christie’s sale, Spike Art Magazine critic Dean Kissick was dismissing Mr. Winkelmann’s lush sci-fi landscapes and political portraits as “images of hell.” After the auction, ArtReview’s critic J.J. Charlesworth wrote an editorial, “Why the Art World Loves to Hate NFT Art,” in which he said Beeple’s “images suck.”
whose firm Masterworks.io buys blue-chip art, said Mr. Winkelmann’s $69 million sale represented “a moment in time when the art and the cryptocurrency worlds overlapped,” but he thinks that convergence is over, adding, “He’s not going to stand the test of time.”
Others think the artist is already an icon. Hong Kong-based collector and cryptocurrency investor Jehan Chu has said Mr. Winkelmann is “emblematic of a new digital-art movement” and expects the “art world to catch up soon.”
Initially, Mr. Winkelmann said he tried to insinuate himself among the art world’s elite, attending a chic art fair in New York and previewing the million-dollar offerings at several major auction houses there. He went to a street-art conference in Hawaii, but said in traditional art circles he has often been met with consternation bordering on contempt.
“People in the art world move slowly,” he said. “They look at change in hundred-year increments, so it’s easy to dismiss me.”
Mr. Winkelmann’s trajectory offers clues into the longer-term assimilation prospects of hundreds of NFT artists as well as cryptocurrency collectors and art buyers curious to add digital art to their collections.
Mr. Winkelmann said he hasn’t upended his lifestyle noticeably since his record sale. “We upgraded from a Corolla to a Camry,” he said. He’s also expanded his design studio operations, hiring at least seven employees and increasing his footprint from his brother’s garage into a 24,000 square-foot space.
He said he’s also had to reassess what he calls his own “dismissive” attitude toward traditional art, eliciting guidance from savvy art-world players like Fair Warning auctioneer Loic Gouzer, best known for brokering the auction of a $450 million Leonardo da Vinci, “Salvator Mundi.”
“Art is not as esoteric as I thought it was,” Mr. Winkelmann said. “I was very shaky on it and I used to think art history was stupid, but I realize I need to know the story of art if I’m going to push that story forward.”
He’s contemplating becoming an art patron himself, he said. Growing up in Wisconsin, the 40-year-old graphic designer and animator said he didn’t collect art, and the walls of his home now in the suburbs of Charleston, S.C., remain bare, he said.
His recent foray into the fine art world has intrigued him to consider collecting art, both digital and physical pieces. Old Masters, in particular, “give me chills,” he said. “There’s something so calming about them.” Traditional art, he thinks, is “already influencing my art in new ways.”
Before his Christie’s sale, he says, he began developing his idea to create NFTs from historic moments and auction them off.
Although he conceded there is no practical way anyone can claim to own a publicly experienced moment, he and his new company, WENEW, plan to offer the “most canonically complete” package of physical and digital memorabilia along with in-person celebrity experiences tied to major moments in music, sports and comedy over the past half-century. He aims to sell those packages as NFTs.
From July 2nd through 5th, his firm’s site will team up with Mr. Murray to auction the athlete’s 2013 Wimbledon win. Bids will start at $100, and the winner will get a suite of digital images of the winning match. The winner will also be invited to play tennis with him and receive tickets to attend the next Wimbledon tournament. A majority of the proceeds will funnel to Mr. Murray, Mr. Winkelmann said, though WENEW and any photographers whose images were used as part of the NFT will earn an undisclosed share as well.
Mr. Murray, in an emailed statement, called the NFT landscape a “new and exciting space and one I am looking forward to being involved in.”
Mr. Winkelmann said he hopes people see the venture as the “next step in the evolution of collecting,” likening it to the way that baseball cards once “made it possible to collect sports.” But he’s also aware that the venture may seem left-field to those in art circles who are still adjusting to him as a blue-chip artist. Mr. Winkelmann said he regards WENEW as a design-driven effort distinct from his art career.
Some in the traditional art world say they’re willing to give the artist’s latest project a shot. Art adviser Elizabeth Jacoby said she’s intrigued to see if he can establish a “secondary market for experiences,” which doesn’t exist now apart from physical mementos. “He’s looking at the NFT market and seeing people—like rock stars and athletes—who didn’t get to participate in it, and he’s finding a way to monetize our memories of them in a new dimension,” she said. “I like this idea more than his art stuff.”
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While the rate of growth may be slowing, EV sales hit a record 1 million last year as more and more Americans find them to be acceptable alternatives to conventional, gas-powered vehicles. But “charging anxiety” has become one of the key factors slowing EV growth, according to industry analysts. And a new J.D. Power study concludes that “Public charging isn’t just bad, it’s getting worse.” That said, most owners are ready to buy another EV when it’s time to trade in, especially those with the top-ranked BMW i4.
Public charging companies are starting to fix troubling problems with reliability, according to a new J.D. Power study — but EV owners find they fail nearly one in every five times they plug in. The study also found that public chargers remain in short supply, especially as the number of battery-electric vehicles on the U.S. roads continues to grow. Get the story at Headlight.News.


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Yes, it is early November, and yes, it is the holiday season for most PR professionals. While it may be too late to secure coverage in long lead publications, there are still numerous coverage opportunities in newspapers, short lead publications, and of course, online media outlets.
In this piece, we look at the six steps to consider when issuing your holiday press release. Did you know that November 9 is the big press release kick-off day for holiday news? Or that if you use Business Wire to distribute your holiday news, we include it for free in our holiday Hot Topics packages for media?
Click here to learn everything you need to know about increasing the impact of your holiday news story: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/236550/maximize-your-holiday-pr.html


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With the 2012 spring semester wrapped up, all eyes are turning to another fun summer in the Scenic City. However, the Chattanooga Mocs football team wants to make sure fans don't forget about the upcoming 2012 season and the five exciting home games that are on tap in the fall.
As a result, the "Mocs Days of May" football season ticket promotion returns for a third year. Beginning May 7, and each weekday after in the month of May, one Mocs fan that purchases or renews at least two season tickets will be randomly selected to receive a prize from the list below.
In addition, the first 20 season tickets ordered each Thursday during the month of May will receive free Mocs t-shirts. Winners will be contacted by the UTC Athletics Department and announced here on GoMocs.com.
Last year, dozens of Mocs fans took home thousands of dollars worth of prizes as a part of 'Mocs Days of May.' This year, Scrappy has selected an abundance of prizes and giveaways for fans who purchase or renew their 2012 season tickets during the month of May. Items include Tazikis gift cards, Ruby Falls family passes, Sir Gooney's family packs, and countless other items from the Mocs Athletics vault.
If you have already purchased or renewed your 2012 football season tickets, "like" us on Facebook or "follow" us on Twitter to be entered in that day's drawing. UTC's official Facebook page is www.facebook.com/ChattanoogaMocs and the official Twitter account is www.twitter.com/GoMocs.
Mocs football season tickets start at only $32. To order tickets, call the UTC Ticket Office at (423) 266-MOCS (6627) or order online at www.GoMocs.com.
Mocs Days of Summer Prize List
Mocs Days of May WINNERS!
- Tazikis Gift Cards
- Ruby Falls Family Pass
- Mocs Football Hat autographed by Coach Huesman
- Mocs Polo
- Sir Gooney's Family Pack
- ESPN Ultimate Remote ($300 value)
- Academy Sports Gift Cards
- B.J. Coleman Autographed Picture
- YP.com Prize Pack
- Holiday Bowl bowling passes
- Mocs Bonus Tickets (Two FREE General Admission Tickets Added to Your Order)
- Mocs Meal Deals (Two FREE Meal Vouchers Added to Your Order)
Be sure to check back to GoMocs.com daily to see the list of winners posted here.


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(Don Cazentre / The Post-Standard)
Syracuse, NY -- Crepe & Gelato Boulevard -- a concept brought to Syracuse by a group of Israeli entrepreneurs -- is now open in Armory Square.
The shop is at 315 S. Clinton St., adjacent to Al's Wine & Whiskey Lounge in the Butler Building (and former home to the Happy Endings coffee house).
The shop, the first in the United States, features sweet and savory French crepes, Italian gelato, breakfast croissants, Belgian waffles and other examples of global street food. The brightly colored interior features bench seating and other "street" elements, including graffitti.
The shop's "gelato factory" will produce a rotating menu of about two dozen flavors, according to co-owner Noam Cohen. He is partners in the shop with his wife, Meshi, and business manager Guy Shaked.
The partners have two similar shops in Nazareth, Israel. This is their first venture in the United States, where they hope to establish Crepe & Gelato Boulevard as a chain.
Hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday; 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.


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The OnePlus 7T is making headlines from the past couple of weeks and the device is expected to launch in next month. Well, today we got a new piece of information which reveals with specification details of the upcoming OnePlus smartphone. The leaked details suggest that the upcoming device is an upgraded variant of the OnePlus 7. So. without wasting any time let’s dive into the article to check out all the available information of the upcoming OnePlus device.
According to the source, the device will feature is 6.5 inches 90Hz 2K Super AMOLED display along with a small notch which is a clear upgrade over the OnePlus 7 phone. Another big change is the processor, the new device is coming with Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus chipset along with 8GB of RAM and two storage variants – 128 GB and 256 GB of internal storage.
The upcoming OnePlus 7T will retain the 16 megapixel front facing camera along with the 48 megapixel primary camera at the rear side of the device and the 16 megapixel as well as 12 megapixel will join at back. The smartphone also have 3,800 mAh battery which is also a small upgrade.
Furthermore, the source also claims that the OnePlus 7T and OnePlus 7T Pro will be unveiled on September 26 at New Delhi. So, that’s all the information we have at this moment of time. We are looking forward to hear more about the same in the coming days and we recommend you to stay tuned with us for the latest updates.


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Business-to-business media company Ascential has announced the sale of 11 more magazines today.
The FTSE 250-listed publisher has sold titles including fashion magazine Drapers, Nursing Times, Local Government Chronicle and Construction News to Metropolis International.
Metropolis, which already owns Property Week, Packaging News, Laboratory News and UK Boarding Schools Guide, is paying £23.5m for the titles.
The 11 titles generated revenue of £32.1m in 2016, down from £34.6m in 2015, and earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of £6.9m, down from £8m.
Ascential, formerly known as Emap, separated 13 “heritage brands” into a new operating entity as it sought to sell the magazines.
The company, which owns the Cannes Lions Festival, agreed a £19m deal to sell Health Service Journal to publisher Wilmington later that month, and now has only one, non-UK, title left to sell: Middle Eastern Economic Digest (Meed).
The other titles sold to Metropolis are: New Civil Engineer, Ground Engineering, H&V News/ RAC, Retail Jeweller, Materials Recycling World and architecture titles including Architects’ Journal, The Architectural Review and its associated World Architecture Festival.
Ascential chief executive Duncan Painter said: “Ascential’s strategy is to focus on its top performing brands to drive sustainable organic growth. This sale concludes the process to secure the future of the UK heritage brands.”


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While much of the gaming world — not to mention plenty of generalized futurists — is waiting eagerly for the Oculus Rift to make an appearance, there are still issues separating users from this first real slice of home-based virtual reality. While issues of design play a part, there are also issues of software to consider. If there's nothing that will run on Oculus Rift, then there's not much point in having it. That's a development that's rapidly changing as a new live coding app for the Oculus Rift has emerged in the form of RiftSketch, an HTML5-based live coding app that will allow for rapid changes in the user's Oculus Rift world.
This actually goes a long way toward helping one of the biggest problems that the Oculus Rift is facing these days, and that's a lack of software. While we've already seen a few good applications come out around Oculus Rift— over two million so far have enjoyed the sight of Paul Rivot's 90 year old grandmother trying out the Oculus Rift — there's still a limited supply overall. But with RiftSketch, it's likely to prove easier to code for this new platform and, in turn, make more experiences specifically designed for the Oculus Rift. That's going to improve its overall value to users, and having a set of tools readily available when this finally arrives in stores will make it an even better proposition. As we've seen with recent game console releases, it's tough to buy a console and then have nothing to play on it for several weeks, even several months, while the games and tools available for that console get developed and try to catch up. Things like RiftSketch should help abate that and have things to do with this new platform ready to go.
It's going to be interesting to see what impact RiftSketch has on development for the Rift, and how much more will be developed for use on the new virtual reality tool when it hits markets. But it's still going to be a while before either becomes available, and in this case, our patience is likely to be richly rewarded as HTML5 again shows its value in terms of development.
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SNAXPO, the world’s largest, most comprehensive trade show devoted exclusively to the international snack food industry, was held this year from 1-4 April in Savannah, Georgia. There were over 1,100 industry professionals and almost 150 exhibitors in attendance to showcase the latest equipment, ingredients, products and services from around the world. SNAXPO also held various presentations on snack food innovation, market trends and evolution worldwide. The diverse intelligence discussed in these presentations will be outlined in this report.
In her presentation, “New & Emerging Snacks in the Traditional and Better-for-You Snack Categories,” Sally Lyons Wyatt of IRI discussed the increased demand for flavour variety and on-the-go portability while offering a high level of transparency with snacking products.
It is no longer just classic retailing channels who are providing snack foods. 42% of customers go 1-2x per week to restaurants like McDonald’s or Starbucks to pick up a snack. Many restaurants are tapping into this on-the-go theme providing snack boxes. Portable dips are also on the rise, no longer being a totally “social event” food that it has historically been in the US. This trend is likely rooted in the fact that the younger generation no longer feels like they need to have three standard meals per day. Instead, eating smaller servings several times a day is becoming more popular.
More ‘wholesome’ portable snacks have also seen a rise due to customers’ concern of holistic health. Therefore, products, such as fresh juice, farmer’s cheese, meat-based snacks and nut-based smoothies with added probiotics, have been gaining popularity. Claims made on these products are key to their success with 52% of customers stating that product labels and packaging influence their purchase and 60% of customers wanting additional health benefits. Examples of this are added protein, no preservatives, no sugar added, non GMO, organic and free from artificial colors. With less trusting consumers, this labeling is much better perceived when it has been certified by a national/global organisation.
While these factors have become more important, she noted that 90.6% of US customers are still selecting their snack food products on the sole fact of whether or not it tastes good.
Lead analyst from Euromonitor International, Jared Koerten presented on the “State of Snacking: Lessons Learned from the Global Market.” Koerten stated that in 2016, 32% of global sales of savoury snacks were in the United States – therefore 68% of the savoury snacks category is elsewhere in the world – so it is crucial to understand these international trends and market opportunities in this increasingly globalised industry.
The amount of times per week that a consumer buys and consumes a snack outside of their home has grown substantially in the past couple of years from an average of 1.72 times in 2015 to 2.19 times in 2016. The time at which people are consuming snacks has also changed over the past few years with more people now eating “on-the-go” breakfast snacks (6-10am) and late-night snacks (9pm or later) providing many new product opportunities for manufacturers, such as drinkable yoghurt and breakfast-flavoured jerky. This “convenience” trend is all about portability – in the US, 1-3 oz savoury snack packaging is most popular and steadily growing in market size, often with re-sealable packaging.
New retail technology is also a notable factor within the snack food industry. In the US, the average time people spend purchasing consumer goods has gone down 15% from 2004. Companies around the world are capitalising on this change, with companies like Amazon’s AmazonGo having created hybrid retail models to reach more of their busy customers, a general rise in convenience stores (vs. supermarkets) and many other retailers now providing “click-and-collect” options.
The word “natural” is increasingly becoming synonymous with the word “healthy” as more customers look for labels stating “all-natural” and “no artificial ingredients” Carrie Schroeder from Kerry Group noted in her “Dairy’s Role in Better-For-You, Clean Label & Simple Authentic Snacks” presentation. Schroeder explained that while dairy faces competition from growth of non-dairy products, Americans still consume an average 34 lbs. of cheese annually. This is a massive growth of 43% over the past 25 years.
Cheese is increasingly being seen as a healthy snacking option, providing macro nutrients like protein and healthy fat. This presents a new opportunity to reconstruct traditional dairy offerings for new markets, indulgent options and single-serve snacks.
While consumers are increasingly striving to put healthier food in their bodies, 45% of consumers globally have no consensus on what “clean labelling” means. 45-65+ year-olds believe clean label means that the product has had something removed (i.e. trans fats). On the other hand, 18-44 year-olds believe clean labeling means something inherent to the food, as in not being genetically modified. Therefore, age-specific messaging is important given that consumers want to feel better about eating a food before they even put it in their mouths – not just afterward.
Additional education sessions and innovation presentations were given concerning the topics of sustainable packaging, groundbreaking ingredients, food laws, and regulatory developments.
SNAXPO 2018 will be held from 10-13 March in Atlanta, Georgia.


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West Nile virus tracking and monitoring season is underway and an updated online dead bird reporting system is available for state residents to use. Dead birds can be the first sign that West Nile virus is circulating in a community.
While Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up less than 5% of the total U.S. population, they account for more than 50% of Americans living with chronic hepatitis B.
The time for spring cleaning is here, and with it, the risk of exposure to serious animal-carried diseases like hantavirus and rabies.
Several types of Farm Rich, Market Day, and Schwan’s brand frozen food products – have been recalled due to possible contamination with E. coli. The products were distributed widely throughout Washington. The recalls are related to a national E. coli outbreak that sickened 27 people from 15 states, including a Pierce County woman in her 20s.
The Department of Health is asking people all over the state to send ticks to the agency for a project to learn more about what types of ticks live in Washington.
The bacteria are called Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae or “CRE” because they are able to resist the effects of carbapenem, a “last resort” antibiotic often held in reserve to fight difficult-to-treat infections that other antibiotics fail to cure.
Less money for vaccinating children, providing HIV testing, treating substance abuse and preparing for biological, chemical and radiological disasters.
IIn honor of National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day the Snohomish Health District will host a free Health & Beauty Fair for Women of Color on Saturday, March 9 at Edmonds Community College, and a free HIV testing day for women on March 12.
Leon Farrant, a graphic design student at Purchase College, used data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create a striking infographic showing the impact vaccines have had on health in the U.S.
February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, an opportunity to promote HIV prevention, testing, and treatment among African Americans in the United States.
FDA warns consumers to steer clear of fraudulent flu products, which can be found online and in retail stores and may include products marketed as dietary supplements or conventional foods, drugs, nasal sprays and devices.
Seven Salmonella illnesses linked to exposure to hedgehogs, including one death, were reported to the Department of Health over the past year. The cases have come from King, Pierce, Thurston, Whitman, Clark, and Spokane counties
The newly diagnosed case of measles, a King County resident, was exposed to a contagious traveler at Sea-Tac Airport. Second case may have exposed others at the QFC at 4570 Klahanie Dr S, Issaquah and the Starbucks at 4566 Klahanie Dr SE, Issaquah.
Measles is a highly contagious and potentially severe disease caused by the measles virus. Because most people in our area have immunity to the measles through vaccination, the risk to the general public is low. But people who were at Sea-Tac Airport around the same time as the contagious traveler should be aware of their measles immunity status . . .
Don’t take more than one over-the-counter product containing acetaminophen,
Don’t take a prescription and an over-the-counter product containing acetaminophen
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BEIJING (Sputnik) – It specified that first and second quarter growth in 2015 amounted to 7 percent each, followed by 6.9 in the third quarter and 6.8 in the fourth.
"According to preliminary data, the Gross Domestic Product of China in 2015 was [$10.3 trillion], which is 6.9 percent more than last year."
The slowdown in China is attributed to stock market volatility as the national currency, the yuan, continues to lose value against the US dollar.
Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled last November an end to the country’s annual 7 percent growth benchmark and announced a target of 6.5 percent until 2020.
Investment in China's Fixed Assets at $8.4 Trillion in 2015
Investment into China’s mining industry increased by 31.8 percent from last year at $230 billion. Manufacturing investment totaled $3.41 trillion, while $4.76 trillion was invested in the services sector.
The data indicates that all of China's fixed assets, with the exception of rural areas, have seen 10 percent growth in investment from 2014.
The country's 6.9 percent GDP growth last year was the worst since 1990.
Retail Sales in China at $4.5Tn in 2015
The total volume of retail sales in China added up to $4.57 trillion last year.
Year-on-year, the overall retail index has grown by 10.7 percent from 2014.
Sales in urban China reached a total of $3.95 trillion last year, growing by 10.5 percent year-over-year.
In rural areas, retail sales increased by 11.8 percent to $640 billion.


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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has emphasized the need for establishing a framework to address the challenges posed by crypto assets during her address at the Global Fintech Fest. She highlighted the significance of global cooperation in tackling cyber threats and regulating crypto assets effectively.
India, under its presidency in the G20, has presented issues related to regulating and creating a framework for crypto assets. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Financial Stability Board (FSB) have also submitted synthesis papers on the subject. Sitharaman acknowledged that cryptocurrencies represent both a threat and an opportunity, underscoring the necessity of global collaboration to ensure responsible financial regulation.
This announcement comes as the Indian government resumes discussions on formulating comprehensive regulations and taxation guidelines for crypto assets, previously stalled while awaiting a global framework. Although cryptocurrency taxation was introduced in the previous year’s budget, substantive regulations were not put in place despite the Reserve Bank of India’s call for a ban. Sitharaman had previously emphasized the need for international collaboration in regulating or banning cryptocurrencies due to their borderless nature.
Sitharaman also stressed the importance of cross-border partnerships in the interconnected world of financial technology. She highlighted the threats, including cyberattacks, that must be addressed to build a responsible global financial system. The Finance Minister encouraged fintech companies to invest heavily in robust security measures to protect user data and financial transactions, ultimately fostering trust and sustainability in the financial ecosystem.
Re-reported from the article originally published in The Indian Express.


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Frequently Asked Questions regarding the Grand National race at Aintree.
The Grand National is known for its lack of safety, and two very reputable horses had to be put down at Aintree this year. This begs the question – does the Grand National have a future?
Lauren Anthony reports on niche fashion event, Rita’s Vintage Wardrobe at Bournemouth University yesterday. The vintage fashion fair emulated the days of 4os style icon, Rita Hayworth.
Tesco group’s chief executive, Richard Brasher, resigned yesterday after being in the job for only a year, following drop in sales after Christmas and a fall in market shares.
Bournemouth University students are struggling more than ever to get housing this year as prices rocket and competition increases. Competition appears to be fiercer than ever, as more and more students fight for the perfect house.
Vivienne Westwood slates the fashion sense of today’s youth. Is this unfair?
The Bournemouth Rock Newspaper launches anti binge drinking campain, ‘Pier Pressure’.


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Galaxy S10 was unwrapped by Samsung back in February – unlike other entries into the firm’s flagship series that have debuted in just two models, the S10 lineup comes in a whopping four flavours.
Each S10 variant targets different consumers with a varying price and feature set – for instance, the S10e is the cheapest and smallest offering from Samsung but it also comes without a telephoto camera and has the smallest battery of the quartet.
One thing every S10 model has in common is its software – all come pre-installed with Android 9 Pie and Samsung’s new One UI skin running on top of it.
One UI is easily the best software Samsung has ever made thanks to a number of handy features it brings to the table.
First and foremost, the skin makes a concerted effort to position items within native apps towards the middle and bottom of a display to ensure navigating on larger devices is easier.
Secondly, One UI also brings gesture navigations to Samsung devices, meaning users can choose to rid their phone of Android’s traditional home, back and multitasking buttons if they desire.
One UI’s best feature is by far its dark mode though that, as the name suggests, ensures all native apps in addition to the phone’s notification shade adopt a black tone.
Not only does this introduce a radically different aesthetic to anything seen on Samsung phones in the past, it also makes viewing easier on user eyes, too.
While One UI remains one of the best Android skins around, it appears Samsung could soon grant it a huge upgrade.
SamMobile has declared the South Korean tech giant will release One UI 2.0 alongside its Android Q rollout.
The outlet, citing sources familiar with the matter, stated One UI 2.0 will introduce improvements to its Digital Wellbeing function and is expected to get numerous upgrades present in Android Q itself.
Android Q is presumed to release in full next month but its new features have already been discussed by Google and have been present in beta versions of the operating system.
One of the most handy new features present in Q is the ability to quickly select replies to messages when they appear as a notification.
Moreover, alerts will now display contextual options – this means if someone messages you an address the particular notification will feature a prompt letting the user see it right away in Google Maps.
Some Android Q features, such as a dark mode, are already present in One UI, though.
While Google is anticipated to release Android Q sometime in August, it is unclear when Samsung would debut the new software for its devices.
Last year Android 9 Pie launched in August but Samsung fans had to wait four months to get their hands on it.
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PARIS: One consequence of the price deflation currently being seen across the European grocery sector is that shoppers appear to be channelling their nominal savings towards brands as they buy fewer private label items.
An analysis by market intelligence firm IRI of the FMCG price war in France – FMCG Price War in France – An Overview and Lessons for other European Countries – suggested that consumers were moving upmarket in certain sectors. While deflation reached 1.3% in 2014, the price of a shopping basket increased 0.3%.
Price deflation, said IRI, has only affected national brands in France, so reducing the competitiveness of private label. This has driven a trend to upgrade, as consumers invest what they save back into their everyday purchasing.
Retailers and manufacturers are also in the early stages of a price war, but IRI reported that there had been little or no impact on volume consumption overall.
Price is not the strongest sales lever, it said. Its own findings indicated that an expanded offering had the greatest impact on performance, followed by promotion and only then price.
So far, it added, the price war in France had re-energised certain sectors and brands.
All sectors have had to drop their prices, with particularly sharp deflation being seen in cleaning products and hygiene/beauty. Both these sectors had been on a declining path, but deflation – in combination with promotion – had successfully boosted sales.
But IRI cautioned that shoppers might only see short-term gains, as an extended price war would likely lead to reduced choice and lower quality as manufacturers attempted to maintain their margins.
"There's no escaping a price war, but there are opportunities for growth," noted Jacques Dupré, IRI's Insight Director and author of the report, pointing out that deflation in 2014 had returned about €1bn to the pockets of French shoppers.
"Retailers and manufacturers should work together to make the most of the opportunities this presents, with a shared approach to reviewing ranges, price positioning of products and innovation," he advised.
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2021 is shaping up to be a risky year for companies that rely on trade credit to sell their goods and services. With an upcoming normalisation in insolvencies post-phasing out of state assistance mechanisms, all businesses will be tempted to shorten repayment terms, reduce credit lines and be more selective about who they offer credit to. The danger, however, is that undue caution will reduce companies’ ability to compete in a difficult market. How then should businesses protect themselves so they can maximise their trade credit offering without exposing themselves to unacceptable risk?
In the first two articles of our Domino Effect series, we discussed the reasons behind the Covid-19 insolvency domino effect and how to within your supply chain. Now we offer eight steps that companies can take to protect their business from the domino effect and improve supply chain management.


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Interview: "It's Pretty Much Impossible" To Protect Online Privacy
From online companies tracking users’ digital footprints to the trend for more and more data to be stored on cloud servers, Internet privacy seems like a thing of the past—if it ever existed at all. RFE/RL correspondent Deana Kjuka recently spoke about these issues with online security analyst Bruce Schneier, author of the book “Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive.”
RFE/RL: It is no secret that online companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are tracking users’ digital footprints. How accurate are these online profiles? What are they used for, other than advertising?
Bruce Schneier: We don’t know how accurate it is. The information is used to target advertising. It’s used to sell to other companies who use it to target advertising and it’s used by the government for whatever reasons governments use that information. Google publishes how often they get national security letters and different government requests from various countries for information about people. Other companies do not. So we have a little visibility into what Google does but not into other companies. So basically it’s used to judge people. Either judge them for marketing purposes or judge them for political purposes.
RFE/RL: Is it possible to protect one’s identity online by using tools like proxy servers?
Schneier: All tools matter in some way. No tool is perfect. I mean, when you go to Facebook, you log in. It doesn’t matter what tools you are using. You give Facebook who you are. For web browsing, yes, there are some great tools you can use. There is even a search engine—DuckDuckGo—that doesn’t collect personal information.
So there are a lot of things you can do around the edges. But there are [also] so many ways you can crack information, it’s unclear if you can do anything if someone wants to know who you are. You can [for example] not carry a cell phone. But as soon as you carry a cell phone, the cell-phone company knows your location.
RFE/RL: So is the idea of online privacy now an illusion?
Schneier: Yes and no. I mean, yes, I think it’s pretty much impossible to keep your privacy online against a sufficiently motivated, skilled, well-funded adversary. There are still a lot of things you can do to protect your privacy online, and I think we should all do them. But if the other side wants to know who you are, I don’t think there is any way to stop them.
RFE/RL: Could you talk about the relationship between governments and the big tech and online companies like Google and Skype? How willing are companies to give away personal data?
Schneier: Companies have to follow the law. I mean, the answer is all over the map. Companies aren’t going to fight with governments because their business model is to make money. So they want good relationships. I think, in general, companies are more than willing to do whatever governments want. Some of them are more reluctant than others. Some of them demand more things than others, but some of them just roll over.
We pretty much are sure that Microsoft allows different governments to spy on Skype users, but they’ve never told us, so we don’t actually know. A lot of it is hidden. We don’t get a lot of information.
RFE/RL: You have said that the model of feudalism is beginning to permeate computer security today. Could you elaborate on this?
Schneier: This is the model where the companies in power have a lot of control over our computing. So our data now is much more likely to be in a cloud server somewhere and user devices are much more likely to be controlled by the companies. This just makes it even harder for us to protect our privacy.
If [you use] Gmail, [then] Google has all of your e-mail. If your files are in Dropbox, if you are using Google Docs, [or] if your calendar is iCal, then Apple has your calendar. So it just makes it harder for us to protect our privacy because our data isn’t in our hands anymore.
RFE/RL: You have said that the real risks the Internet is facing do not come from hackers or terrorists but rather from government and corporations. Will this continue to be true in the future?
Schneier: I don’t know about the future, but my guess is that, yes. The big risks are not going to be the illegal risks. They are going to be the legal risks. It’s going to be governments. It’s going to be corporations. It’s going to be those in power using the Internet to stay in power.


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- Ashley Kalifeh
- Auto glass lawsuits
- Auto glass repair
- David Glawe
- Fix the Cracks
- Florida Independent Glass Association
- Griff Griffitts
- Jeff Johnston
- Jimmy Patronis
- Linda Stewart
- Michael Carlson
- National Insurance Crime Bureau
- Nick DiCeglie
- Personal Insurance Federation of Florida
- Safelite Solutions
- Windshield lawsuits
- Windshield repair
Legislation designed to eliminate most lawsuits over windshield repair claims in Florida is now law.
That’ll help courtrooms whose dockets have grown increasingly congested with auto glass claim cases in recent years, and potentially good news for policyholders hoping to see their premiums drop or at least level off.
But it could prove detrimental to mom-and-pop shops seeking total compensation from insurers they say shortchange them, and the 20 or so lawyers that supporters of the measure say are responsible for almost all of the 37,000 suits filed last year — 6,000% more cases than a decade ago.
AOB enables insurance policyholders to give repair shops authority to file claims on their behalf and collect payment from insurers without the policyholder’s involvement. Last year, there were 33,196 windshield lawsuits involving AOB, according to the Department of Financial Services.
Proponents of the measure — including its sponsors, Democratic Sen. Linda Stewart and Republican Rep. Griff Griffitts — say a small group of unscrupulous lawyers are abusing the AOB process for undue financial gain.
“This is an important win for the health of the marketplace and Florida consumers,” Michael Carlson, president and CEO of the Personal Insurance Federation of Florida, said in a statement.
“Eyes have been opened to the cottage industry of predatory claims and litigation. The signing of SB 1002 means Florida can reset and even become an example to other states tackling this type of exploitation.”
The measure prohibits auto shops from offering incentives to customers for making insurance claims. It allows insurers to sell cheaper policies with deductibles for windshield damage in addition to still-required policies that include full coverage for repairs and replacement.
It also requires that insurers offer multiple shop options when directing customers toward service, without preference for any single company. The change, which Republican Rep. Nick DiCeglie added through an amendment in April, is meant to address concerns about “steering,” a federally prohibited practice in which an insurer or claims handler directs claimants to specific shops or companies.
Critics of the legislation, like lobbyist Jeff Johnston of the Florida Independent Glass Association, argue legal action is necessary. He and several shop owners who spoke to lawmakers during Session said auto repair giant Safelite, which operates as both an auto glass repair business and a claims handler for several major insurers in the state, routinely directs customers away from independent businesses and to its own shops.
When Safelite does refer a customer to a small shop outside an insurer’s network, Johnston said, it frequently underpays them, leaving the business with little recourse other than to sue to be fully compensated.
“They answer the phone and handle the claim all the way to payment, so if (a small, independent shop gets) a job, Safelite pays their bill,” he said. “That’s a pretty unique situation, to have your biggest competitor paying your invoice.”
Speaking for Safelite, lobbyist Ashley Kalifeh said the company sometimes performs dual roles for insurers. Still, she denied it engages in steering and noted Safelite is not the only company operating in Florida with its business model. She offered to provide lawmakers with audio records of claims calls Safelite Solutions handled to prove customer interactions have been above-board.
SB 1002 passed unanimously in the Senate. It Wasn’t as uniformly supported in the House, where 16 Democrats voted no on May 2 before the measure the chamber approved and sent to the Governor.
Fix the Cracks, a coalition of insurance companies and interest groups focused on reducing the number of auto glass lawsuits in Florida, applauded DeSantis’ signing of the bill, a priority of state CFO Jimmy Patronis.
The organization said that while the average windshield repair in the U.S. in 2020 cost $294, the same service cost $426 in Florida — representing a 59% premium for auto glass claims — due to an oversaturation of legal action in the state.
The measure will help reduce fraudulent activity, improve safety conditions in Florida, and shield consumers from rising insurance rates,” David Glawe, president and CEO of a trade association called the National Insurance Crime Bureau, in a statement Fix the Cracks shared Thursday.
“These reforms will go a long way toward protecting consumers from criminal actors and irresponsible litigation. NICB is proud to work together with our member companies and Florida state and local law enforcement to help detect, prevent, and deter insurance crimes, including auto glass fraud.”


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In the world of fashion, music, and even sports, collaboration is a favorite buzzword.
Artists from different musical genres can whip up a one-of-a-kind record to titillate fans. An athlete may partner with a big sports line to boost his personal brand as well as the company’s. The catwalk also often witnesses the partnership of a designer and a breakout model.
Just recently, the local beauty industry saw a unique collab between an online shop and a Korean pop superstar to promote K-beauty in the Philippines.
Although the country has seen established fashion labels bring in Korean celebrities for endorsement engagements, the teamwork between Yeppunonnie and hip-hop singer Jay Park was the first of its kind.
Yeppunonnie Corp., a local company engaged in the retail and wholesale trade of health and beauty products, tapped Mr. Park to help market not only the newly registered entity but also the partners carrying various beauty lines from Seoul. He was the highlight of the K-Beauty Philippines fair last Jan. 24 at the Valkyrie at The Palace.
Several well-known Korean brands participated in the beauty fair including Holika Holika, Purederm and It’s Skin. A number of labels which are also looking at getting more Filipino customers participated such as Dr. Bright, RiRe, Lebaton, Amini, and Makeup Helper.
Although a club is not a usual venue for a health, wellness, and beauty gathering (as it was a challenge to understand the benefits of the products as explained by the beauty consultants manning the booths), the guests had a heyday collecting free product samples from more than a dozen beauty stalls. Some of the participating brands also conducted makeup tutorials, giving the audience tips on how to highlight their Pinay features using Korean products. Aside from the demonstration, popular local beauty bloggers also took the stage to share a tip or two on personal styling.
Aside from the showcase of the products, the audience took part in the fair to watch Korean rapper and dancer who used to be the leader of K-pop group, 2PM, perform.
Himself an endorser of big fashion names such as Levi’s, Nike, and Adidas, it was apparently the first time for Mr. Park to lend his name to a Philippine entity.
Unlike some Korean celebrities who can be audacious in terms of styling and fashion tastes, the model-choreographer — who is peppered with tattoos all over his body — exudes a hip and confident vibe. He opened his mini-concert with “Nothin’ On You,” greeting his Filipinos fans after an absence of five years. Mr. Park, who is the founder and CEO of the AOMG (Above Ordinary Music Group), a Korean independent record label specializing in hip hop, last visited the Philippines in 2012, shortly after leaving 2PM.
Wearing an all-black ensemble topped with a pink jacket, Mr. Park stopped his first song midway to interact with the audience and then immediately moved to “Joah,” an original which he wrote and released in April 2013. When he asked the audience if they knew his songs, the fans answered a resounding “yes,” obviously delighting the K-pop icon. A fantastic dancer and an engaging singer, he removed his jacket in “Solo,” which he followed up with “All I Wanna Do.” The crowd went wild when he lost his top completely while performing “Ain’t No Party Like an AOMG Party” and “Mommae.” Although supposedly under the weather, Mr. Park did not skip a beat and dished out a performance that left the fans asking for more. He was so game that he even took a drink from an audience member to quench his thirst when no bottled water was readily available.
After six songs, the 29-year-old singer continued to party, joining on stage DJ Ronan Poe and invading the dance floor.
In his Instagram stream last Saturday, he briefly talked about his recent Philippine visit and said he looks forward to returning soon as his fans here certainly know how to party.
Commissioning the services of male celebrities to endorse beauty and health care products for women is becoming more and more common. Yeppunonnie looks forward to more collaborations in the future. Beauty is universal nowadays and cosmetics is gender-neutral. — CSV


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The fight for the collection of the Practitioners Operating Fees (POF) has taken a new dimension with the one of the contending parties, the National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA) taking the battle to the Presidency.
The POF has become a bone of contention among stakeholders in the maritime industry with licensed customs agents and other key actors taking different positions on the matter.
Though there is no contention on the need to collect the POF but the argument on which organisation collects the POF and how much percentage has been on the front burner since last year.
The NCMDLCA in a petition to the Presidency accused the Minister of Transportation, Right Hon. Rotimi Amaechi of indulging in illegality for attempting to collect POF despite a court order stopping the collection.
The association also has an axe to grind with the Council for Registered Freight Forwarders of Nigeria (CRFFN) as it pointed out that the Federal High Court had earlier dissolved its Governing Council as at May 24, 2015. It maintained that the court upheld the tenure of the Governing Council which elapsed on November 25, 2012.
According to the petition which was signed by the National President, NCMDLCA, Mr. Lucky Amiwero, the collection of POF contravenes the statues that established the CRFFN. The letter from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation on the dissolved Council since November 2012 is clear. This is a negation of the ease of doing business campaign of the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
The association flayed attempts by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to limit entrance to the ports to holders of membership card of the CRFFN.
â€œThe attempt was in contravention of the Customs and Excise Management (CEMA) Act which empowers only licensed customs agents to perform the function of processing documentation relating to import, export and manufacturingâ€, it added.
It noted that the law empowers only licensed customs agents to perform the function of examination and clearance of goods in any port after being licensed by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).


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Netflix and Comcast have reached an agreement set to smooth out the streaming of Netflix content to the cable company’s customers. Comcast customers have been reporting poor streaming quality and slow load times for Netflix over the past few months. This agreement settles a dispute between the two that included accusations of throttled traffic.
Netflix has agreed to pay Comcast for direct access to its broadband network, the agreement was reveled in a joint announcement that did not disclose the terms of the deal.
Comcast and Netflix today announced a mutually beneficial interconnection agreement that will provide Comcast's U.S. broadband customers with a high-quality Netflix video experience for years to come. Working collaboratively over many months, the companies have established a more direct connection between Netflix and Comcast, similar to other networks, that's already delivering an even better user experience to consumers, while also allowing for future growth in Netflix traffic. Netflix receives no preferential network treatment under the multi-year agreement, terms of which are not being disclosed.
The two companies have been in a locked dispute over the cost of delivering Netflix streams over Comcast’s network for years. Previously Netflix went through intermediaries to deliver its streams, now with the “paid peering” deal Netflix will be allowed to connect directly to Comcast’s network. While Netflix has wanted to directly connect to the network for free the cable company sought compensation due to the huge volume of traffic that Netflix customers create (30 percent of all U.S. broadband traffic).
In recent months the dispute had been elevated when Comcast customers saw that their connections to Netflix had been degraded, resulting in poor streaming quality. Netflix then released data last month showing that the average Netflix streaming speed had declined 27 percent since October, bringing in claims of throttled traffic. Other providers such as AT&T and Verizon have also denied Netflix direct access to their networks, so this deal will likely foster similar agreements with these providers.
Although the two companies are saying that Netflix is not receiving any special treatment there is a growing concern that this deal may be a setback to Net neutrality, which aims to prevent broadband providers from discriminating against internet traffic traveling over their connections.
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SUPERMODELS strutting their stuff across the catwalk could become a thing of the past with life-like computer avatars taking their place.
Researchers created near-faultless copies of people that can be digitally dressed in the latest haute couture and their movements recorded, ready to instantly appear in Milan or Paris.
The team combined data from 3D body scanners, traditionally used for inch-perfect measurements in the fashion industry, with motion-capture technology regularly used in Hollywood blockbusters.
Computer-to-catwalk technology is already employed by major fashion brands, projecting holograms of famous models onto the runway. But the hybrid avatars - a world first - could replace the models altogether.
Data from both systems is married to create a realistic avatar and turned into moving models. They can also be clad in virtual clothes to be adjusted and manipulated, mimicking real-life design studios.
Dr Andrew Brownridge published the findings on how to create the hybrid avatars with Dr Peter Twigg, both from MMU's Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Dr Brownridge said: “Motion capture for fashion shows has been attempted, but the results were very blocky avatars with unnatural movements. But these are very realistic avatars.
“You could do several things: render a fashion show to video file with animated characters ready to distribute or you could have a live performance with models in motion capture outfits, working in real time.
“And models could go down a catwalk like normal but augment their performance with their design avatar in the virtual world at the same time. The avatar could be manipulated into a range of different digital worlds.”
The researchers worked with colleagues from The Department of Apparel, which operates the body scanner.
Infrared depth-sensing technology creates a body scan avatar in minutes. An inertial motion capture suit plots joint movements in real-time, translating it into a digital ‘skeleton’, before being meshed with the 3D avatar.
The avatars were initially used to minutely analyse ballerinas’ dance routines. The research was published in the International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education.
Manchester Metropolitan University is one of the most extensive higher education centres in Europe with 37,000 students and more than 1,000 undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses. The University educates and trains large numbers of legal and business professionals, scientists, engineers, teachers, health workers and creative professionals.
Manchester Met has invested £350 million in its estate and facilities during a ten-year plan to create a truly world-class campus in the heart of Manchester and in Cheshire.
The University is in the top three nationally for environmental sustainability, in the top 3% of global universities as ranked by the Times Higher Education and has an 85% research impact rated world-leading and internationally excellent.
Added today: Efforts to measure food sustainability 'hampered by lack of suitable data and models' Manchester Met researchers identify problems in 'monumental task' of analyzing supply chain
Added 3 days ago: Manchester Metropolitan and Pearson team up to offer online degree programmes Postgraduate learning for worldwide students
Added 3 days ago: Exploring the 'Deaths of the Poets' Professor Michael Symmons Roberts discusses his new book
Added 3 days ago: Why did soap opera scriptwriters use stoma bag to vilify character? asks professor Disability 'used to make Rob from The Archers unattractive and evil'
Added 6 days ago: Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle to play a leading role in new media school at Manchester Metropolitan The International Screen School Manchester will develop creative and digital talent
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Taipei, May 18, 2011 (CENS)--Asustek Computer Inc. is cranking out with all-out efforts the newly released Eee Pad Transformer tablet, which doubles as a netbook when clipping into a dedicated keypad, to keep up with excessive demands worldwide.
The company's executives said the gadget has been well received in the United States, the United Kingdom, Taiwan and mainland China since its debuts in these markets in past few months.
The computer is deemed as the company's cutting-edge product to compete against iPad for the U.S. market. When promoting the computer stateside, the company sells the 16-gigabite device that does not go with the external keyboard for a drawing US$399 apiece.
According to the company's executives, Asustek is ramping up output of the computing devices towards 10,000 systems per day from current 7-8,000 systems. They estimated the output will reach 300,000 systems in the second quarter without much difficulty as factors that were previously thought to affect components supplies are diminishing.
To secure steady supplies of these components, the company has sent its chief executive officer (CEO), Jerry Shen, and procurement executives to court the suppliers.
Components suppliers pointed out that Asustek introduced the tablet at a time when the supply chains were sinking into a chaos caused by the March 11 Sendai earthquake and ensuing tsunami, hamstring its plan to boost the output.
Asustek executives confessed that supplies of touch screens and mechanic parts remain tight.
Industry executives pointed out that Eee Pad Transformer is a striking departure from tablets that imitate iPad, making it distinguished from its rival products in the market.
The company is working on a plan to develop next-generation tablet. It has set the goal of shipping two million tablets throughout this year.
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ConclusionIf Nokia takes a hard approach in India, its shares will sell off in the short-term because it will receive less cash from Microsoft. Shares will eventually recover, because it will demonstrate that Nokia’s management will not be bullied by sovereign countries. Click on the interactive chart to view data over time. 1. Nokia Corporation ( NOK): Provides Internet and digital mapping and navigation services worldwide. Market cap at $28.29B, most recent closing price at $7.62. 2. Microsoft Corporation ( MSFT): Develops, licenses, and supports a range of software products and services for various computing devices worldwide. Market cap at $313.81B, most recent closing price at $37.69. Written by Chris Lau, a Kapitall contributor.
Chris Lau, Kapitall: Nokia lost its tax appeal with the Indian Supreme Court. How will this affect Nokia stock? Just as Nokia (NOK) was about to transfer its devices units to Microsoft (MSFT), the company hit a snag. Last week the Supreme Court in India upheld a lower court ruling that Nokia owes 35 billion rupees in taxes. Nokia is trading at multiple tops: its shares tried many times to break the $8 level. How should investors react to the latest setback? Nokia loses appeal India’s lower court previously ruled Nokia owed tax following the transfer of ownership of a Nokia factory to Microsoft. The setback is negative for Nokia shareholders, because it represents a big part of the smartphone business that must be transferred to Microsoft. Nokia’s business transformation is already facing hiccups. The company has massive cash thanks to the sale, but its network and maps divisions need management’s focus to operate more profitably. Nokia’s India asset stuck India’s tax policy for foreign firms is unpredictable, so Nokia shareholders should be aware of the political uncertainty surrounding the factory sale. The Finnish phone maker must tread carefully with India as it negotiates its tax liability. It is possible the company will need to cease investments in the factory (though it remains shut down), otherwise its potential tax burden will increase. On the other hand, by creating lost employment opportunities, India will be pressured to relax its terms. Nokia shares dip Abandon factory Nokia might even need to consider abandoning the factory, along with this portion of the sale to Microsoft. Forgoing the profit will set a precedent for Nokia’s other business objectives. Future contracts, acquisitions, and businesses done in its maps and networking divisions will include stronger contract wording minimizing such liabilities.


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Libbey saw its shares reach USD 6.69 on 18 December resulting in a market cap of USD 147.29 million for the company.
Libbey has entered into an amendment to extend the terms of its existing asset-based loan (ABL) credit facility.
IRIS is strengthening engineering support and spare parts to hollow glass industry companies in South East Asia with a dedicated team of engineers who speak both Thai and English.
The Italian Technology Awards winners recently concluded their visits to witness for themselves the history and expertise of three Italian companies that are global leaders in glass processing.
A cooperation of the MAK and Le Stanze Del Vetro will result in an exhibition featuring iconic glass objects produced between 1900 and 1937 – on show at the Corning Museum of Glass from 23 June 2018 t...
Forma Glas is launching a new automatic crack-off machine for tumbler and stem ware products and has a special machine design available for big items up to 300mm diameter and a wall thickness up to...
Libbey reports a net loss of USD 78.8 million, driven by a non-cash goodwill impairment, with adjusted EBITDA OF USD 20 million in Q3; expects fourth quarter sales growth and performance improvement,...
Turkish specialist LAV has turned to IRIS Inspection machines for the latest innovations in camera-based inspection equipment for its two high productivity manufacturing sites.
Libbey will announce its 2017 third quarter financial results on Tuesday, 31 October 2017, prior to the opening of the New York Stock Exchange.
Henry F. Teichmann will present its projects for turnkey plants at Colombia Glass 2017 in Bogotà.
The Glass Futures project has and is receiving so much interest from industry, academia and other interested groups that it is now looking for a larger facility for its operations.
Stirom has announced that its net profit increased 77% on the year in the first half of 2017 to RON 20.8 million.
Libbey has reported net sales results in line with company expectations; second-half outlook expected to demonstrate growth as compared to the prior-year.
Libbey will announce its 2017 second-quarter financial results on Tuesday, 1 August 2017.
Libbey's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William Foley will participate in a fireside chat at the Piper Jaffray 37th Annual Consumer Conference.
New City Glass has installed three Mavsa press machines at its site in Cairo, two of which are the first in Egypt to make mugs in double gob.
Today’s flagship products are choosing design in their bid to compete and stand out in the world’s top cities. And by choosing specific glass they are truly making their mark.
Libbey debutted more than 350 new products at the 2017 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, demonstrating its commitment to grow sales through innovative, trend-right and problem-solving...
Libbey's Board of Directors has declared the company's quarterly dividend, payable on 14 June 2017.


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COVID-19 had no impact at all on Russian exports to Vietnam, according to Robert Kurilo, chief representative of the Russian Export Centre (REC) in Vietnam.
Russia’s Sputnik news agency quoted Kurilo as saying that there was a significant increase in trade meetings between enterprises from the two countries this year, with a great number of contracts signed.
Of note, Tambov Bacon from Russia signed a contract worth 4 million USD to supply pork to Vietnam, while the company owning the “Mamrukovskoe” sunflower oil signed a contract worth 3 million USD and the Garant Company, which provides canned meat products, signed a 2 million USD deal with Vietnamese partners.
A number of Russian companies are also negotiating to supply other goods to Vietnam, including baby food and natural juice.
Sputnik said Vietnamese importers have shown an interest not only in food.VNA
Through the REC, Russia signed a three-year contract to export a batch of dolls worth nearly 1.5 million USD to Vietnam, which have already appeared in stores of Vietnam’s largest bookstore chain, FAHASA.
According to Kurilo, Russia has received requests to provide maternal and child cosmetics, materials for animal feed production, and birch plywood for Vietnamese furniture manufacturers.
The two countries are also discussing a number of information technology projects related to the implementation of a “smart city” programme from Russia in Vietnam.
The REC is working to provide financial and non-financial support to Russia’s non-military, non-resource, and non-energy exports.


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|Tabacalera Palma 79th Anniversary Humidor|
Jochy Blanco, owner of Tabacalera Palma in the Dominican Republic will unveil a cigar to commemorate the 79th anniversary of his company. Plans are to make an early release of the cigar to attendees of ProCigar 2015 as well as make some of the cigars available in a handcrafted humidor that will be auctioned off.
In a statement announcing the ProCigar auction item Blanco commented, “We are honored to be part of the ProCigar family and what the organization represents. We’d like to take this opportunity to introduce one of the projects we’ve been actively working on for the last year: our inaugural Anniversary Series. My father founded this company with hard work and passion nearly 79 years ago, and this is part of my legacy to honor him.”
Blanco is looking to make ProCigar 2015 an introductory setting for the Anniversary series, however the cigar is targeted for a late 2015 release. ProCigar 2015 Attendees will be able to see the ring and concept design. A 6 x 50 Toro of the blend will be handed out to attendees.
The humidor made available for the auction is handcrafted and made specifically for the event. It consists of four trays that contain a total of 79 cigars of what are described as a “few traditional blends”. Seven of the cigars in the humidor will contain the blend of the 79th Anniversary blend in a Churchill size. The cigars will be branded by a 79th Anniversary ring.
This will be the eighth consecutive year ProCigar will have a charity auction with all proceeds benefitting the Voluntariado de Jesus con los Ninos and the Hospicio San Vicente de Paul, non-profit organizations which are dedicated to helping ill children and impoverished elders. The auction is scheduled for February 21st at the ProCigar gala event which takes place the final night of the festival. The 79th Anniversary Humidor for the auction item has a starting bid of $800.00.
It was in 2014 when Blanco was named a member of ProCigar. Tabacalera Palma makes cigars for Boutique Blends, Las Cumbres Tabaco, and Villiger.


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- ServTech will be taking on the name of the Italian software company that marked its shift into the virtual and augmented reality industry
- As the FrameS product gets ready for launch later this month, ServTech will become Vection Technologies and trade under the ticker VR1
- Since the company bought Vection in April, it has signed millions of dollars in contracts and landed some important European distribution deals
- ServTech shares have seen a steady incline over morning trade, up nearly seven per cent to be worth 1.6 cents each
As ServTech gears up to launch FrameS, it will be taking on the name of the Italian software company that marked its shift into virtual reality.
ServTech will become Vection Technologies at its next Annual General Meeting (AGM) and trade under the new ticker VR1.
This move comes roughly half a year after ServTech bought the Italian virtual and augmented reality company that designed the FrameS product.
Vection’s FrameS tech was created to help designers make products at lower costs and in a shorter time. The tech has been picked up by big names like Lamborghini, Volvo, and Fendi, and is now primed for official launch in late November.
As the launch approaches, ServTech is working to make the most of the worldwide tech transformation known as Industry 4.0 — the fourth industrial revolution.
ServTech Managing Director Gianmarco Biagi said the company’s virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) tech is already being adopted worldwide.
“Vection has a VR platform which has been customised successfully for some of the world’s most recognised manufacturers,” Gianmarco said.
“The step-change for our Company is taking this proven platform and providing it widely to all manufacturers as a SaaS [Software-as-a-Service] platform,” he said.
ServTech bought Vection in April 2019 and has not been idle since the buy.
The company has landed millions of dollars in contracts, some important European distribution deals, and even CAD (Computer-Aided Design) integration for the FrameS software as part of the roll-out of the FrameS tech.
Now that the product is set to hit the market in just a few weeks, ServTech is looking to the future as it plans some international expansion under its new name.
The company said in an announcement today it is in talks with some tech and industrial companies to market its tech as it gets ready to expand its reseller network to Northern America and the Asia Pacific region.
ServTech shares have seen a steady incline over morning trade, up nearly seven per cent at midday to be worth 1.6 cents each.


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July 09, 2019
Actor Michael Kelly, best known for playing Doug Stamper, the cold and calculating chief of staff from "House of Cards," brings his serious thespian chops to a new role: spokesperson for Supercuts.
July 27, 2018
Imax is adding its own summer feature to the blockbusters flooding theaters this season. The 50-year-old entertainment company is unveiling this Friday its new brand campaign, "Films to the Fullest."
July 25, 2018
Just days after the launch of "Deadpool 2" in May, star Ryan Reynolds was onto his next gig--a shoot for mobile game "Toon Blast." The result of the two-day production was 30 online spots, directed by Tom Kuntz of MJZ, the comedic talent behind Ol
October 13, 2017
A heartbreaking new campaign for hospice care organization Trinity Kids Care shows how difficult it can be for friends to respond to someone whose child is terminally ill -- especially in the age of social media.
April 18, 2017
The future is so uncool. At least that's how he thinks of himself, until Intel comes around, in a new B2B campaign out of TBWA/Chiat/Day L.A. and directed by Imperial Woodpecker's Stacy Wall.
February 08, 2017
Singer, drummer and two-time Grammy nominee Anderson Paak performs with a choir of gospel singers in the latest spot in the "Believe in Music" campaign for this year's Grammy's.
February 04, 2017
Michelin is making its first in-game Super Bowl ad with a spot in the first commercial break after kickoff, the company said Saturday, releasing the spot online at the same time.
January 31, 2017
In a spot promoting the 2017 Grammys, young girls read out, line by line, the words of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech from last year's awards ceremony.
August 25, 2016
Airbnb is yet another advertiser joining in on the National Park Service's Centennial Anniversary celebrations, in a new Facebook Live campaign created alongside TBWA/Chiat/Day L.A.
July 20, 2016
As world's fastest man Usain Bolt prepares to make a three-peat of his wins in both the 100m and 200m races at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Gatorade has debuted this inspiring animated film chronicling the athlete's rise -- and the light-heart
July 07, 2016
Gatorade's latest football-themed spot is an updated version of "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," with lyrics that set out to disprove the belief of some that luck, craziness or divine inspiration are what makes a win on game day.
June 15, 2016
In Gatorade's sweet new ad from TBWA/Chiat/Day L.A., top athletes Usain Bolt, Serena Williams, April Ross and Paul George take their training to the max, grunting, frowning and dripping with sweat.
April 19, 2016
Why have a cookie cutter travel experience when you can live like a local? That's the idea at the heart of "Live There," Airbnb's largest brand campaign to date, which debuted today.


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| Oct 2, 2012
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A woman caught stealing merchandise at Zweier's on South Lincoln Avenue gave police and onlookers back a little more than they were looking for last week. When police asked Cheryl Boyer, 46, if she had any more items on her than the $4 worth of...
| Oct 8, 2012
| 9:24 AM
Someone fired shots into the air in the midst of a donnybrook outside a North York club early Sunday morning. It happened around 1am at the Lux Club at 1327 North Duke Street. Police say the fight originated inside the club. Security managed to get the...
| Oct 17, 2012
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A man entered the Sunoco at 3801 Walnut Street last night and threatened to shoot the clerk, demanding access to the cash register. The suspect took off with an undetermined amount of cash and fled on foot, heading east on Locust Lane. The suspect is...
| Jan 21, 2012
Orange has come a long way from Howard Johnson roofs and A&W drive-ins of the 1970s — so far, in fact, that global color authority Pantone has anointed the reddish-orange Tangerine Tango the color of 2012.
Pantone's annual picks, which both reflect...
| May 15, 2011
Television takes the spotlight starting Monday at the upfronts in New York City, when most networks will announce which shows live and die. Many decisions will hinge on issues of substance — ratings and cost and critical acclaim. But no one should...
| Jan 30, 2011
PARIS — When it came to theatrics, the Paris leg of the recent menswear shows was as full as the generously cut trousers that filled the runways.
And, though the designers in Milan and Paris don't always mine the same trends, for fall/winter 2011...
| Apr 9, 2011
April, it turns out, is a great time to shop H&M. The fast-fashion retailer is releasing three capsule collections this month — including chic, sun-bleached day wear; graphic-heavy streetwear; and quaint, boho-inspired shoes.
The brand's annual H&M...
| Apr 18, 2011
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Well, there's good news and bad news. Bad news first: After April 28, you'll no longer be able to view six one-of-a-kind reinterpretations of Arne Jacobsen's Series 7 chairs, including the version by London fashion designer Paul Smith, above, decorated......
| Jun 7, 2011
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Mr. Porter, the men's luxury shopping site from the Net-a-Porter.com folks, is celebrating "the covetable coolness" of Southern California this week, serving up familiar backdrops -- from the surf of Zuma Beach to the halls of the Beverly Hills Hotel........
| Jun 28, 2011
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The runways of Milan and Paris were bursting with blues of every hue for the spring-summer 2012 collections, but Paul Smith kept it close to a navy base -- in both senses of the word -- for his slim, trim,......
| Aug 10, 2011
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Sales: Les Pommettes, Oliver Peoples, LensCrafters and Poketo plan sales...