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Vocus Communications (ASX:VOC) has entered a binding agreement to acquire Newcastle-based data centre and fibre provider Ipera Communications for $9.8 million.
Telecommunications wholesaler AAPT has settled a dispute with dark fibre provisioning company, Digital River Networks, out of court, with each party bearing their own proceeding costs.
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Centrale Laitiere, the Moroccan dairy product maker, saw full-year earnings inch up 2% in 2008 as property taxes weighed on strong sales.
The company, in which Danone holds a 29.2% stake, posted net profit of MAD467m (US$56.5m). Operating profit climbed 21%, with turnover rising 17% to MOR5.26bn.
Centrale Laitiere said a move to new IFRS accounting rules led to net profit being “ negatively affected … after the integration of theoretical taxes on potential gains from land sales”.
Without the switch, net profit would have led 21%.

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Privacy is at a premium in this internet-connected, always-on digital world we inhabit, and you need not look far for proof. Documents leaked by former CIA contractor Edward Snowden show that the National Security Administration’s (NSA) surreptitiously collected data from American tech companies’ servers for years, and a recent 60 Minutes feature on Signaling System 7 (SS7), a telecommunications framework in use by more than 800 providers across the globe, demonstrated how a determined hacker could anonymously listen in on the conversations of almost any cellphone user.
But lest you conclude that true privacy in today’s world is fundamentally unachievable, an Israel-based device company promises to offer a semblance of it in the form of the Solarin, a privacy-conscious smartphone aimed at protecting the data it contains from prying eyes.
Sirin Labs, a relative newcomer in the world of tech, unveiled the Solarin in an event in London on Tuesday. The smartphone, which has been in development for two years at the company’s research facilities in Tel Aviv and Lund, Sweden, features a litany of “military-grade” encryption tech from established companies in the software security space. It’s got a physical toggle that can be switched on to scramble outgoing voice calls, Sirin Labs said, plus hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption from KoolSpan — “the same technology that [armed servicemen] around the world use to protect their communications.” And on the software side of things, the Solarin comes with Zimperium’s suite of mobile security apps preinstalled.
The Solarin’s internals measure up to the high bar set by its security chops. Its got a rear cover of crafted sapphire glass and packs a 5.5-inch, 1440p high-contrast IPS LED, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. In terms of audio and power, it sports what might be appropriately described as overkill: a multidirectional directional, three-speaker array (two speakers below the screen and speaker above) and a beefy, 4,000mAh battery. And to match its outsized silicon, the Solarin features an impressive-sounding pair of cameras: a 24MP rear-facing shooter with a four-color flash module, autofocus, and an f/2.0 lens; and an 8MP front-facing camera with a dedicated flash of its own. (Sirin Labs claimed the cameras are among the “best in the world” on a smartphone, an assertion we’ll have to put to the test.)
The Solarin is not lacking the connectivity department, either. As might be expected in a phone positioned as “enterprise” and “global,” the handset supports a bevy of cutting-edge cellular and wireless technologies, including 24 bands of X10 LTE; high-speed, 802.11ac 2×2 MU-MIMO Wi-Fi; and WiGi (802.11ad). All that, in real-world terms, allows it to reach theoretical download and upload speeds of 450Mbps and 150Mbps, respectively, Sirin Labs said.
But the security features and high-end hardware and connectivity command a premium. The Solarin starts at $14,000, a price Sirin Labs said is justified by the handset’s premium components and features. It’s undergoing certification by information security firm The NCC Group, the company points out, and will only be sold to citizens of select countries who are identified with their passports. It’ll go on sale starting June 1 at Sirin Labs’ flagship store in London, with availability at Harrods to follow on June 30.
The Solarin is “aimed at the international businessperson who carries a lot of sensitive information but doesn’t want to compromise on usability, quality or design,” Sirin Labs said, and investors seem on board — the company raised more than $72 million in a seed round of funding from Chinese social networking website Renren and Kazakh businessman Kenges Rakishev, among others. The Solarin is hardly the first smartphone sporting high-end security measures at a premium, though it’s the most expensive by far. And with a sticker price higher than even the $10,000 Vertu Ti, the Solarin faces an uphill climb among luxury phone buyers who may be less willing to buy Sirin Labs’ vision of a secure handset than, say, inlaid Swarovski crystals. Time will tell.
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China’s leading smartphone maker Meizu launched its new phone the M3 Note in Beijing on Wednesday.
“This could be the best RMB 1,000 (USD 154) smartphone in China,” Bai Yongxiang, Meizu’s president, said at the conference.
The metal body M3 Note has a 5.5-inch 2.5D screen, with a resolution of 1080P, a contrast ratio of 1000:1 and a luminance of 450 nits. It has a 13 megapixel back-facing camera and a five megapixel front-facing camera. Its finger scanner on the home key is equipped with mBack interactive technology and has a response time of 0.2 second.
Bai claims that Meizu developed the first Android phone with a finger scanner on the front, the Meizu MX4 Pro. Many other phone makers have copied this technology. He claims that with mBack technology, the interactive experience will be a bit better than Apple phones.
The phone uses a Helio P10 processor with a Mali T860 GPU. According to Bai, this processor not only performs 39% better than its predecessor, but is also known for power saving.
“Personally, I like the M3 Note very much. One reason is that I can use it for at least two days on one charge,” said Bai.
Besides its power-saving processor, the phone also has a 4100 mAH battery. Bai said this is the highest capacity battery that has ever been used in a Meizu phone. The company has also optimized its phone operating system Flyme to save more power. It claims to be able to last 16 days on standby and have enough power for 32 hours of calling.
The M3 Note is offered in two versions: one has 2GB of internal memory plus 16GB of flash memory and sells for RMB 799. The other version has 3GB of memory plus 32GB of flash memory, and sells for RMB 999. A gold version is also available, which is rare for a phone at this price, according to Bai.
The M3 Note can be pre-ordered via various online channels including Meizu’s official website and China’s leading online shopping platform JD.com. They will launch on both online and offline channels on April 11.
The M3 Note is the newest product in Meizu’s Meilan smartphone series. Bai announced at the launch that over 20 million Meilan phones have been sold since December 2014.
Meizu also announced the EP51, a Bluetooth headset, for RMB 269.
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Former Menudo member René Farrait invites you to celebrate Halloween with a virtual Zumba class called “Bailando A Menudo Halloween.”
In scary times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the popular Puerto Rican member of Menudo offers a fun, non-scary and safe alternative.
“Bailando A Menudo Halloween,” a virtual Zumba class with the songs of the popular Puerto Rican group, will take place on Zoom starting at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Farrait will be accompanied by Zumba instructors Claudine Nannini, Patricia Alarcón, Jocy Ramos and Rina Martínez.
“We want people to connect from anywhere in the world to have fun and have a good time on Halloween. Those who wish to dress up can do so. We have prepared a new repertoire that includes some hits from Menudo and other songs by other artists," Farrait said in a news release.
“It is a different way to celebrate Halloween, since our circumstances have changed. We will have a fun time,” said Farrait, who is part of Súbete a Mi Moto Tour, a world tour with some of the founding members of the popular Menudo group that was to perform in March in South Florida but had to cancel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The youth group Menudo was founded in 1977 by producer Edgardo Díaz in Puerto Rico, creating a musical phenomenon never before seen in a Hispanic group. The group reached world fame in the 1980s, but split up in 2009 after 39 different singers had been with the group. Among the most famous are Ricky Martin and Draco Rosa.
The story of the group is being told in a documentary currently on Amazon Prime in Mexico and Latin America (not yet a date announced for EEUU,) under the name “Súbete a mi moto — Menudo’s Story” (Get on My Motorcycle, one of their most famous songs).
Farrait, who is a personal trainer living in Miami, developed with Nannini the Menudo-Zumba concept five years ago, dancing with some of the Menudo hits as well as hits from other Latino artists. Usually staged in Miami, the zumba Menudo creation has reached thousands of Menudo fans.
People from all around the world can connect to the zumba class, the organizers said. Once you buy the $10 ticket, you will receive instructions in an email with the link to enter the roughly 90-minute class.
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After Kendall Jenner launched her tequila brand, 818 Tequila, in May, she faced (very reasonable) criticism over an advertisement that relied on the appropriation and stereotyping of Mexican culture.
In the ad, Jenner is seen riding a horse—with her hair in braided pigtails, of course—through an agave farm in Jalisco, Mexico, where the 818 Tequila distillery is located, before sharing her liquor with indigenous farmers. And naturally, the caption along with the ad read:
“What an incredible experience i have had thus far, learning about this beautiful place, it’s beautiful culture, and the beautiful people! @drink818 has launched in California... we will be rolling out to the rest of the US all summer long, keep a look out!!!”
Wow, there must have just been SO much beauty! Such beauty that obviously no other words would suffice!
During a Tuesday appearance on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jenner very casually and naturally explained that her tequila brand—which she described as an “approachable and aesthetically pleasing and socially aware and gender-neutral” tequila brand “for [her] generation” was actually giving back to the community of Jalisco, Mexico. How shocking, to see a celebrity attempting to respond to criticism over their actions without actually acknowledging the criticism itself.
“At our distillery, which I was just at the other day, we found a way to take the agave waste — the agave fibers and the water waste — and build this sustainable brick that we are actually donating back to the community of Jalisco,” Jenner told Fallon. According to Jenner, the brick is being used to build “homes for people that need homes” and has been used to build a “half-built hospital” in Jalisco.
Jenner also says that 818 Tequila had partnered with the organization called 1% For the Planet to—you guessed it—donate 1% of their profit to “planet-saving initiatives.” Wow. One whole percent?????????????? That must have really been a sacrifice for a member of the Kardashian clan who, at last estimate, had a net worth of $45 million.
This is clearly a picture-perfect example of how to meaningfully give back to a community while relying on the likely exploitation of their labor to produce your entirely unnecessary brand of alcohol. Cultural appropriation where??
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- Lil Nas X had a baby shower for his album, Montero. The due date is Friday, and I have a feeling it’ll be on time. [People]


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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinone is turning to Ripple's enterprise blockchain network for cross-border payments.
Coinone Transfer, a subsidiary of the exchange that focuses on remittances, joined RippleNet on Monday, making it the first exchange in the nation to do so. The exchange will be using xCurrent, Ripple's enterprise blockchain solution for cross-border payments that enables end-to-end tracking, a press release states
Citing World Bank data that shows that there has been an increase in volume of international remittances from South Korea over the past decade, the firm said it plans to launch a new remittance service called Cross to be powered by xCurrent. The product will target workers in South Korea who want to send funds back to family across Southeast Asia, according to the release.
Wonhee Shin, CEO of Coinone Transfer said the xCurrent solution allows the firm to offer customers a "real-time, low-cost global remittance service."
The news arrives a week after Muscat-based financial management firm BankDhofar become the first Oman bank to join RippleNet.
And back in in February, two banks and three money remittance companies from four different countries Brazil, India, Singapore and Canada adopted various Ripple platforms to facilitate real-time international payments.
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Many industries are hurting at the moment, more from the steps taken to counter the spread of the COVID-19 virus than from infection hitting crews or ports.
With China slowly emerging from lockdown and both Europe and North America in the grips of extended lockdowns, container traffic has collapsed.
World Cargo News reports container traffic through the Port of Los Angeles during March was down significantly in the wake of the pandemic. Los Angeles moved 449,568 TEU in March 2020, a 30.9% decrease compared to last year.
“For the first quarter of 2020, volumes have decreased by 18.5% compared to 2019,” the port is quoted by the report as saying. “It was the lowest amount of monthly cargo moving through the Port since February 2009.”
“We’ve had two serious shocks to our supply chain system. First the trade war between the U.S. and China and now the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles. “With U.S. retailers and cargo owners scaling back orders, volumes are soft even though factories in China are beginning to produce more. Amidst this public health crisis, there will be uncertain months ahead in the global supply chain.”
The trend continued in March, with imports down 25.9% to 220,255 TEU compared to the previous year, while exports decreased by 23.8% to 121,146 TEU. The biggest drop was in empty container movements, which declined 44.5% to 108,168 TEU in total.
Container lines are canceling sailings at a rapid rate with inactive capacity hitting 2.46 million TEU last month.
More than 250 planned sailings could be canceled in the second quarter alone, Shipping Watch reported last month. The article adds up to 30% of total capacity is being removed from some of the most badly affected routes.
Several routes have been fully canceled for the second quarter, as ship owners are directing their vessels in for early maintenance or, where possible, early installation of scrubbers that had been scheduled for the next two years.
Shipowners are now taking the opportunity to get them fitted early, but this presupposes the equipment is available and yards have the space to carry out the work. The scrubber installation schedules were already packed for months ahead, so with yards trying to operate safe working practices, capacity is likewise reduced. Shipping Watch reports a million TEU of shipping capacity is currently in yards having this work done.
China’s import and export figures are still down despite easing of restrictions across the country and the authorities’ talk of a 100% return to work.
World Cargo News suggests 70% is closer to reality. The South China Daily Post reported China’s exports fell in March by 6.6% in U.S. dollar terms compared to the same period a year earlier (following a 17.2% contraction in January and February combined).
Some shipping lines were already in a difficult position, heavily laden with debt and facing a slowdown in trade due to the U.S.-China trade war. The greater impact of the virus’ damage to global supply chains could see bankruptcy in the months ahead and a smaller container shipping industry emerges from what is left.
That would not be good news for consumers, as less capacity and less competition mean rates would rise.


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New Delhi, Oct 12 : Over the course of the pandemic, the smartphone (in the sub-Rs-7,000 segment) has been a key enabler of human lives in India, as per new survey findings from CyberMedia Research (CMR).
In the pandemic year, Indians spend over 522 hours on online education, and over 738 hours on infotainment on their smartphones.
In the sub-Rs 7,000 smartphone segment, consumers seek the best-in-class specs, and value for money offerings.
itel has made rapid gains in the India smartphone market and is now a clear leader, said the 'CMR Insights on the go' survey.
itel leads the competition in this smartphone segment, in terms of current brand satisfaction, advocacy and future consideration.
itel users are most satisfied with its product quality, price and value for money. itel has the highest NPS (60 per cent) followed by realme (58 per cent) and Xiaomi (54 per cent).
"We are happy to know that itel has been able to build the highest brand consideration in the Rs 7,000 segment from our discerning consumer base.
In the new world order where smartphones have become a necessity, our singular objective of democratizing technology for the masses is empowering new India to seamlessly continue with their daily lives in a true sense.
Consumers have shown strong affinity towards itel consistently and this has led to us being recommended within their friends and family, which is our true strength," Arijeet Talapatra, CEO, TRANSSION India said in a statement.
According to Talapatra, this vision and continued focus on product innovation, in-depth consumer understanding, our localized market connect interventions and programmes are the key pillars behind itel's success story in India.
"To make smartphones accessible and affordable, in the recent past, itel has collaborated to offer technologically advanced smartphones bundled with Jio service offerings to empower the value-seeking consumer segment.
itel in this year launched itel A23 Pro and reloaded itel A48 smartphones to bridge the digital divide by making devices accessible at an ultra-affordable proposition.
Multiple partnered devices are being launched, tailored to offer a portfolio across segments which will further enable accelerated migration of consumers towards a true Digital India vision," Talapatra added.
itel (98 per cent), realme (96 per cent) and Xiaomi (96 per cent) consumers are the most satisfied with their smartphones.
City-wise, itel has got 100 per cent satisfaction in Bengaluru, Chandigarh and Guwahati. realme has got 100 per cent satisfaction in Delhi, Kolkata and Jaipur. Xiaomi has got 100 per cent satisfaction in Lucknow, Bhubaneswar and Indore.
"Over the course of the pandemic, the smartphone has been a key conduit for enabling human lives.
Whether it be online education, digital payments, or consuming infotainment, the smartphone has enabled consumers across Urban and Aspirational (Tier-III cities and beyond)," said Prabhu Ram, Head- Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CMR.
"For the value-conscious buyers in the sub-Rs 7,000 smartphone segment, smartphone brands, such as itel, have consistently focused on bringing increasingly accessible and affordable smartphones, packed with the best-in-class trendy innovations, that enable the consumers to connect with India's growing digital economy," Ram added.
In brand advocacy, Net Promoter Score (NPS) of itel is the highest (60 per cent) followed by realme (58 per cent) and Xiaomi (54 per cent).
City wise, itel scores highest in Bengaluru (78 per cent), Chandigarh (75 per cent) and Jaipur (68 per cent) whereas realme scores highest in Delhi (76 per cent) and Chennai (72 per cent).
In terms of future smartphone brand consideration amongst consumers, itel is the most considered choice (59 per cent), followed by Samsung (50 per cent) for future purchase.
City wise, itel is the most considered choice for upgrade in Guwahati (82 per cent), Chennai (79 per cent) and Jaipur (75 per cent).
Similarly, Samsung is the most considered choice for upgrade in cities such as Delhi (83 per cent), Bangalore (78 per cent) and Lucknow (70 per cent)
In Brand Imagery category Samsung wins for ease of availability, product quality, and good after-sales service.
Consumers associate itel with trendy technology, sleek design, good quality at affordable prices. realme scores with consumers for its design aesthetics, product quality and high repeat purchase.
According to Satya Sundar Mohanty, Head- Industry Consulting Group (ICG), CMR, "For consumers in the sub-Rs 7,000 smartphone segment, the top three key considerations for smartphones include accessibility, affordability and availability.
They trust smartphone brands that offer durable devices, focus on trendy smartphone specs, and deliver on reliable after-sales.
Brands, such as itel, that are able to deliver on these fronts are the real winners with the highest net-promoter score in the price segment."


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With the GBPUSD over 9% down since last month, today's UK and US data will be closely watched as markets try and determine a fair value for the pair. The releases out of the US and the UK will serve to show any discrepancies between the two economies with better than expected data an appreciating factor for the respective currency while worse than expected data will see the respective currency depreciate.
What makes today even more important is that we have speeches from both FED`s Yellen and BOE`s Carney, markets will be on edge as they look to clues as to their respective stances on monetary policy and more importantly how the policies may diverge. The US appears to be entering a phase of tightening while the BOE is entering a phase of loosening, this will have wide spread consequences as the more hawkish the Fed or the more dovish the BOE, in relation to each other, the more likely it is that we will see the GBPUSD make a b-line for its recent lows.
Today's key economic data is as follows:
- BOE Credit Conditions Survey
- MPC Member Forbes Speaks
- BOE Gov Carney Speaks
- Core Retail Sales m/m expected at 0.4%
- PPI m/m expected at 0.2%
- Retail Sales m/m expected at 0.6%
- Core PPI m/m expected at 0.1%
- Prelim UoM Consumer Sentiment expected at 92.1
- FED Chair Yellen Speaks


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Jaguar XK production to end in 2014
The Jaguar XK will be no more by the end of 2014, according to overseas reports.
The fate of the British brand's two-door grand tourer was announced at an event at the Geneva motor show, and UK publication Autocar reports Jaguar made the decision to renew its focus on the recently introduced F-Type range and the upcoming XE small sedan.
The Jaguar XK 2+2 coupe is hotly tipped to be replaced by a larger flagship model focused more on luxury than the F-Type range, but any such new model is unlikely to be seen within the next 24 months as Jaguar prepares its new sedan and a production version of the C-X17 SUV.
The Jaguar XK has been a stable seller in the brand's range locally, with 79 examples sold in 2013 and 78 in 2012. The current car is still on sale, with prices ranging from $188,645 for the entry-level coupe through to $298,645 for the XKR-S coupe and convertible models.


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Huawei Enjoy 20 Likely To Feature 48MP Triple-Camera Setup
| Published: Wednesday, July 8, 2020, 18:27 [IST] Huawei seems to be working on a new smartphone. Recently, a new leak revealed that the upcoming handset may debut in China as the Maimang 9 and will also be called the Huawei Enjoy 20. According to the live shots, the upcoming phone…
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Huawei seems to be working on a new smartphone. Recently, a new leak revealed that the upcoming handset may debut in China as the Maimang 9 and will also be called the Huawei Enjoy 20. According to the live shots, the upcoming phone will feature a notch-less display. It is said to be launched in China on July 26. The new leak also reveals that the upcoming phone will come with a model number FRL-AN00a.
On the other hand, a leak revealed earlier this week that the upcoming Huawei phone’s camera will come with rectangular-shaped design. There will be a quad-camera setup along with a 48MP main camera. Nothing accurate can be said about the smartphone. Because the new leaks show it will feature a triple camera setup. Two Chinese Tipster reveals the features of the Huawei FRL-AN00a smartphone and the other variants of the phone will come with model number FRL-AN00 and FRL-TN00 respectively.
Coming to the specifications, as per tipster information, the Huawei FRL-AN00a smartphone will arrive with 6.6 inches LCD panel with Full HD+ resolution. Up front, the device is likely to feature a pop-up selfie camera and a side-facing fingerprint sensor for security purpose.
Under the hood, the device will be powered by the Kirin 820 5G chipset along with 8GB of RAM. It said to pack 4,300 mAh battery with 22.5W fast charging technology. The handset will offer 128GB internal storage with additional expansion of the memory.
In terms of software, the device expected to ship with Android 10 OS. Besides, it will have a triple camera setup which includes a 48MP main camera. The company has not confirmed anything yet. But we can expect that all the exact features of the upcoming device will come to light soon.
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Last-minute shoppers hope for deals
Americans who wait until the eleventh hour to get their Christmas shopping done face long lines and can also pay more than they planned. But some people are still searching out and finding good deals. NBC’s Craig Melvin reports.


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Nectecthe National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre, is in the process of creating an open-source Security Operation Centre (SOC) as a service for potential partners. This initiative predominantly targets small businesses in the manufacturing industry, offering them affordable cybersecurity options.
This service model requires partners to invest in cloud computing and threat intelligence data. It is designed to be a cost-effective solution for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), who can avail of it through a subscription-based model. Currently, three factories are testing the SOC service.
Nectec identified an escalating risk in the manufacturing sector due to the blending of operational technology and information technology. This fusion results in more interconnected machinery, thereby expanding the target surface for potential cyber threats. This cautionary note was delivered by Panita Pongpaibool, deputy executive director at the centre, during a cybersecurity seminar.
Operational technology (OT), pertains to the computing and communication system that oversees and controls industrial operations. As per cybersecurity firm SOCradar, Thailand holds the ninth rank in the list of most targeted nations for manufacturing industries.
The threat of ransomware is a global concern, with 28% of all ransomware attacks in 2023 aimed at the manufacturing sector. Additionally, in the first half of 2023, 40% of all cyber incidents related to manufacturing were part of global supply chain attacks. The notorious ransomware groups LockBit 3.0 and 2.0 were the key players in this sector, reported Bangkok Post.
Thailand houses around 70,000 factories, 90% of which are SMEs. Nectec perceives the SOC-as-a-service to be an apt fit for mid-sized organisations, especially those in the electronics and automotive sectors with a large supplier base in their supply chains.
Data from Fortinet and Frost & Sullivan in 2022 revealed that 88% of Thai manufacturers had experienced at least one attack in the preceding year. These attacks caused disruptions in 53% of cases, and 89% of Thai manufacturers took a few hours or longer to recover. In 82% of these incidents, the attacks impacted their OT systems, said Panita.
“We received a grant of US$30,000 from Information Society Innovation Fund Asia to develop the service by using open source tools.”
Nectec is keen on making the SOC-as-a-service cost-effective. The average price for such services ranges from 3-10 million baht (US$83,543-278,477), which is prohibitively expensive for many SMEs.
Distributed denial of service and ransomware are the top two threats for manufacturers to monitor, according to Chalee Vorakulpipat, head of information security research at Nectec. He emphasised the importance of developing cyber literacy to tackle cyber-attacks.


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New Intel SuperSpeed Cables Coming at the Speed of Light
By Karen Veazey, TMCnet Contributing Writer
Cables, rack mounts, and CPU fans aren’t sexy, but when you start throwing around words like photonics computing suddenly becomes a lot more interesting; and so it just figures that it would be Intel (News - Alert) and Facebook – harbinger of all things cool – that push the concept into the mainstream.
Photonics isn’t new of course; it’s part of the study of light and goes back, as a technical/scientific field, to the creation of lasers. Everything optical is related to it, including fiber optics, which is widely discussed as a way to boost Internet connection speed. But Intel and Facebook (News - Alert) have been studying the field as the answer to the next big leap in supercomputing by redesigning the data center into modular components of storage, processing, and networking. Pieces could be more easily swapped and moved without trying to untangle and take down full racks for maintenance and repairs.
A big part of the problem with rack structure has been tied to cables, which are bulky, prone to user error, and nothing but a hindrance to heat management. Intel’s research into silicon photonics aims to push more data across fewer cables, using light to push data really, really fast.
Intel debuted their rack structure concept last spring as part of Facebook’s Open Compute Project, and now they’re making the idea more enticing to big data centers with the promise of 800Gbps cables coming later in 2014. They’ve already demonstrated bi-directional speeds up to 100Gbps using eight fibers and their new MXC bundle can hold up to sixty-four fibers.
The fiber was developed in partnership with Corning (News - Alert) and US Conec to create electric-to-optic transmission chains that are currently being customer tested. No word yet on the cost of the new cables but they will be available in configurations between eight and sixty four fibers.
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Elon Musk has just reacted to the Apple icar, which he considers a good competition for Tesla, surprisingly the Tesla CEO is hopeful that the Apple project will be successful, yet the tech icon remains skeptical whether Apple will be in the country. The project to manufacture electric vehicles is to be completed soon.
Elon Musk has revealed that plans to build an electric car are a highly guarded secret codenamed Project Titan, after he began work on Project Titan in 2014. With 1,000 car experts and engineers developing an electric vehicle in a secret location near the company’s Cupertino headquarters, it’s common for Apple to work on most of the technology.
The Apple team doesn’t surprise its customers. The new product Although Elon Musk has said the project is an open secret, the tech icon believes it is impossible for Apple to hide the project as more than 1,000 engineers are working on the project.
Tesla’s founder sees the Apple EV as a good competition for Tesla. Elon Musk’s big vision is to make all transportation electric, in this respect the tech icon is committed to helping other EV makers succeed. So he doesn’t see Apple as a bad competitor.
A company working toward the same objective of promoting the adoption of green energy believes the success of the Apple company will drive the success of the EV industry, with CEOs responding to little. It happened that most companies want to dominate their industries.
This Elon is someone who is mission focused and not wealth creation. In an interview, Elon Musk revealed his reaction to Apple when he said that Apple could perform a lucrative lightning strike. Seems like the obvious thing to do. There is no doubt that the Apple iCar will be of the finest quality that the smartphone maker is capitalizing on its experience.
What makes NCE and software attractive to produce a car that integrates the latest technologies in software engineering is that the vehicle will be fully autonomous which will be a major setback for Tesla as Tesla’s fully autonomous car. Attempts to operate an autopilot feature that have not been able to produce have not been successful.
iCars have gone through rigorous and thorough testing to make sure it is safe that Apple drivers are very capable as they have to pass several tests before operating i-cars, a safety protocol in place in autonomous iCars. This allows the driver to be controlled in situations where necessary and allows the driver to exercise control in those situations.
Most customers unable to handle most of the customers will want to try out a new car as it deviates from the norm of four wheelers that iCar will give users a different car if you can forget the front and rear seating arrangement in a normal car. The seating style you can afford because you will be sitting side by side as soon as you sit in the dining room is absolutely unique and serene.
There is no need to sit in the front as the iCar is fully autonomous, foot pedals to accelerate and brake would be absolutely unnecessary as the steering wheel in the EV is not Apple’s ambitious design plan Elon will have sleepless nights as they are a code Ev will revolutionize the industry during election interviews.
Elon Musk suggested that Apple probably should have started building its eve. Elon’s idea makes sense since Tesla started making Eves long ago. Progress in the EV Industry Tesla is currently the largest manufacturer of EVs in the world in the last week of October.
The dollar mark simply means that Apple will find it difficult to compete with Tesla, which has already taken root in the market, with the Tesla CEO suggesting in the same interview that it is not too late for Apple to join the industry.
Elon Musk has revealed that most of the engineers working on Apple’s electric car are former Tesla employees, Doug Field, a former Tesla executive who was once hailed by CEO Elon Musk as one of the world’s most talented engineering execs. Voted. He joined Apple Inc. to help his former company build hardware and software for itself.
Apple has been offering Tesla employees incentives to join Apple since 2015. It is reported that Apple is offering Tesla employees a sign up bonus of 250 000 and 60 increments. It’s unfortunate for Musk that some of Tesla’s top engineers have swallowed apple bait and have since joined apples.
Former Tesla Vice President Chris Porrit is now one of the minds behind the Apple iCar. Undoubtedly one of the greats on Tim Cook’s team is another high-ranking Tesla employee who has now joined Apple.
These include former mechanical engineer David. Nelson and former senior powertrain test engineer John Ireland So far, more than 50 Apple employees at iCar can trace their history back to Tesla, most of them joining Apple after finishing their internship at Tesla.
The Tesla CEO made a shocking comment on Twitter when news broke that I was rapidly circulating my tweets during the darkest days of the Model 3 event.


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THE tiny images are like demented postage stamps coming jerkily to life; the sound is prone to break up and at times could be coming from a bathroom plughole. Welcome to the Internet live broadcasting experience. However, despite offering audio-visual quality that would have been unacceptable in the pioneering days of television, a small, loss-making company called Broadcast.com broke all previous records when it made its Wall Street debut on July 17th.
Shares in the Dallas-based company were offered at $18 and reached as high as $74 before closing at $62.75—a gain of nearly 250% on the day after a feeding frenzy in which 6.5m shares changed hands. After the dust had settled, Broadcast.com was established as a $1 billion company, and its two 30-something founders, Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, were worth nearly $500m between them.
In its three years of existence, Broadcast.com, formerly known as AudioNet, has lost nearly $13m, and its offer document frankly told potential investors that it had absolutely no idea when it might start to make money. Describing itself as a “leading aggregator and broadcaster of streaming media content on the Web”, it provides live broadcasts from 345 radio stations and 17 television networks. It boasts 400,000 visitors a day to its site, but revenues—a mere $3.2m in the three months to April—come not from them but from advertising and licensing agreements with some of the companies whose content Broadcast.com distributes.
Among the problems that the company faces are the slow and expensive delivery to home-based consumers of high bandwidth Internet connections, such as cable modems, that can dramatically improve the quality of streamed video. Another is the likelihood that content owners will demand an increasing share of future revenues. And without exclusive deals, Broadcast.com is also vulnerable to competition, particularly as traditional media firms become more confident about the Internet and pull their product back to their own websites. So has Wall Street finally taken leave of its senses?
The value being placed on Broadcast.com is not obviously loopier than a number of other gravity-defying Internet stocks (see table), particularly the currently fashionable “portals”—gateways to the Web—such as Yahoo! and America Online. Yahoo!, the Internet's leading content aggregator, has nearly doubled in value since June. On the back of revenue estimates of around $165m, it has a market value of $8.7 billion.
The truth is that despite the constant hyping of the Internet, there are still relatively few companies that could be described as pure Internet plays—only ten or so have gone public this year. Given the cash that is pouring into mutual funds and the enthusiasm for what the Internet represents, there is a wall of money ready to hit any business that stands even a slim chance of becoming a blue-chip Internet brand. Analysts observe that, high though many of the prices seem, and irrational in terms of traditional valuation methods, they simply reflect supply and demand.
Mark Hardie, an analyst with the high-tech consultancy Forrester Research, does not believe, in any case, that the enthusiasm for Broadcast.com has been overdone. He says: “There are no entrenched players in this space. The ‘old' media are aware that the intelligence to exploit the Internet lies outside their organisations and are standing back waiting to see what happens. Broadcast.com is well-positioned to be a service intermediary for those companies and for other content owners.” Persuaded?
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "Loopy.com?"
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A massive promotional campaign was in progress to promote Mauritius tourism on CNN and Eurosport. It lasted from April until July this year on both platforms.
According to MTPA the impact was "more than convincing."
892 TV spots hit an audience of 12,830,000 potential travelers in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.
According to stats analyzed an audience of 12,830,000 viewers saw the spot an average of 3.1 times over the life of the campaign.
Reports provided by the networks state 75% of respondents stressed their perception of Mauritius tourism had improved after seeing the commercial.
Mauritius tourism marketing experts noticed a clear increase in awareness and an improved positive perception of Mauritius as a result and echoed the CNN campaign enhanced Mauritius reputation.
In Asia 1,552,771 people viewed the spot an average 3.8 times. In South Asia 256,915 were reached an average of 4.1 times.
83% of those questioned confirmed the spot had improved their perception of Mauritius and feel now more aware of the island nation.
At the same time the campaign on Eurosport 1 included 160 20-second spots.
170 20-second spots were seen in Germany and 76 20-second spots on Eurosport 1 in France. Combined it was viewed as a huge success.
The overall impact is estimated at 86.5 million Euros. 42.5 million impact was measured for the German speaking markets and France, 43.5 million impact was measured for the Pan-European campaign, not including the German and French speaking viewers.
An additional half a million Euro impact was estimated for Eurosport’s digital platforms.
Le fameux slogan « Mauritius c’est un plaisir » de la Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority (MTPA) ne sera bientôt plus qu’un souvenir. Il s’agit d’une annonce du ministre du Tourisme, Anil Gayan, lors des assises du Tourisme le vendredi 2 juin 2017 à l’hôtel Hennessy Park à Ebène.
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Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) has reportedly suspended new applications being submitted by local Fintech companies in order to focus on guiding and regulating firms that have already been issued an operational license.
The OJK confirmed that it has temporarily halted registrations of all new Fintech-focused businesses, in order to give the regulatory agency more time to determine whether existing firms are complying with established rules and best practices.
The OHK didn’t mention which specific type of Fintech service providers it will be focusing on when carrying out its oversight or supervision duties.
At present, the Fintech industry is expanding faster than the regulator’s ability for oversight, OJK officials noted.
Riswinandi, the OJK commissioner for Indonesia’s non-bank financial industry, stated:
“We are not going to shut off the firms’ business opportunities, but we just want to make sure that the industry and the firms have higher quality.”
“We are regulating the licensing process, supervision, the financial infrastructure, including the sanctions.”
The OJK recently closed down nearly 1,500 illegal Fintech businesses that were offering prohibited services or operating without a proper license in Indonesia. Last month, there were 120 illegal Fintech companies that were closed down.
The OJK stated that it will be looking into other potential issues in Indonesia’s Fintech industry, such as problems related to financing and lending, including unproductive loans.
PT Pegadaian, a state-owned pawnshop, will be working with several Fintech companies to create various digital financing solutions, which will help the pawnshop expand its business operations. PT Pegadaian realizes the potential of the country’s evolving digital finance sector and plans to secure strategic business opportunities.
Kuswiyoto, president director at Pegadaian, noted last month that the partnership with Fintech firms will aim to expand the pawnshop’s product offering, which includes its digital mobile-based apps.


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This tequila sale got a bit too salty.
A longtime customer of an Upper East Side liquor store said he was “‘verbally accosted” when he tried to return a “rancid” bottle of tequila — but a store manager insisted the claims over the $200 Don Julio 1942 are ginned up.
Lauren and Michael Rosen took their gripes online to recount the dust-up at Garnet Wines & Liquors.
“Not only did they sell me a rancid bottle of expensive tequila, but after refusing to do anything about it, the rude staff told my husband ‘Look at your last name, you are disgusting and I bet your wife is disgusting too’,” Lauren Rosen posted on Yelp earlier this month about the store on Lexington Avenue at 68th Street.
Michael Rosen told The Post that he took the worker’s remark to be a reflection on his last name, a common Jewish surname. He declined to comment further.
The shop fired back on Yelp that Rosen was at fault — because he tried to get a refund after the store’s seven-day return policy.
Dilip Patel, a store manager, said in an interview that Rosen was nasty, cursed at workers and besides, there was no way the tequila could have gone bad.
“This man was so obnoxious,” Patel said.
He denied a worker made the remark about Rosen’s last name.
Other customers have apparently soured on the shop too, according to online reviews. The shop did not respond to most of them online.
Annisa Smith, 36, was among the critics and told The Post that she went to the store in June with her 60-year-old mom and left without buying anything. She said a worker ran out after the women demanding to check their bags and saying it was store policy to do so.
When the pair went back inside to see the policy, Smith said her mom, upset at the treatment they received, argued with the worker, who then called 911.
“There are two black women who are being really aggressive in the store,” she claimed he said.
When they left, Smith alleged the worker followed them for several blocks. She went directly to a police precinct and filed a complaint.
“I’ve heard stories about racial profiling but I’ve just never experienced it until then,” said Smith, a model who lives in Queens.
The NYPD confirmed there was a 911 call placed for a dispute at the store and a harassment complaint filed.
Other reviewers complained about being racially profiled or accused of stealing.
Patel said the store has been hit by shoplifters and workers sometimes followed customers out if they suspected theft, but he denied anyone was racially profiled.
“I’m a minority. My employees are minorities,” said Patel, who is from India.
The city Department of Consumer and Worker Protection said it had received two overcharging complaints about Garnet in the last two years and one about a delivery. The agency also said it entered a settlement agreement with the business that required it to pay $3,300 to a worker who had been denied sick leave.
When asked about the settlement agreement, Patel told The Post that the worker was “a nice black man and we paid him.”


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“We’re making it rain!”
Chef Frank Brunacci is holding court at the Australian Truffle, one of the roughly three dozen 20 x 20 foot booths within Chow Town, the line of food vendors that stretches down Columbus Drive at Lollapalooza 2012. (Though according to Brunacci’s t-shirt, which seems to have been the recipient of some homemade augmentation, we are actually at “Trufflepalooza 2012.”)
Given the day’s sweltering temperatures many in attendance here probably wish the chef were in fact about to conjure a downpour. But he offers something possibly better: Brunacci has come to Lollapalooza bearing a whopping 45 pounds of black truffle, which he has infused into the butter slathered onto his corn on the cob, the brie melted within his grilled cheese sandwich and the thick sauce that binds the elbow pasta in his macaroni and cheese. And if a customer desires even more of the sumptuous fungi shaved fresh onto any of these offerings? Then the chef will, as he says, “make it rain.”
Brunacci may not be slinging standard rock festival fare here, but neither are most of his neighbors in Chow Town. The extensive food court is the brainchild of Chicago chef and Lollapalooza Culinary Director Graham Elliot, who curates the festival’s lineup of vendors, all of whom hail from Chicago and its surrounding areas. Elliot and his team are always on the lookout for chefs whose creations will work well in a festival setting -- “anything you can put on a stick is always good,” he says -- but that also deviate from the basic, and often boring, festival selections.
“We’re trying to elevate carnival food, if you will,” says Merlin Verrier, Elliot’s Operations Director.
Sometimes, it is the dishes that on first glance appear the most far-out that are actually the most appropriate. At the booth run by Chizakaya, which bills itself as a “Japanese pub,” festival-goers can munch on bacon-wrapped hot dogs and sweet-potato French fries, but also something called a Takoyaki, essentially an octopus beignet. Odd? That depends on where you live. “It’s a typical street food in Osaka,” explains Dino Arriola, Chizakaya’s Chef de Cuisine. “So we thought it made perfect sense to bring it to Lollapalooza.”
For the less adventurous, even culinary standbys come with great rewards. Among the selections at Kuma’s Corner is a five-ounce burger topped with a jalapeno corn salsa and paprika crème fraiche. Like all of the booth’s offerings, the creation has a name derived from a Black Sabbath song title, in this case “Electric Funeral,” and is served by a staffer in a specially-designed Kuma’s shirt that is a takeoff on the cover of the veteran metal band’s classic 1972 album, Vol. 4. Explains Kuma’s Corner Executive Chef Luke Tobias, “Black Sabbath is headlining today and for me that’s monumental.” The chef also reports that the restaurant is bringing 4,500 pounds of beef to Lollapalooza. The meat will be cooked throughout the weekend on six massive grills pumping a combined total of a million-and-a-half BTU’s, according to Tobias.
But despite Chow Town’s varied offerings, this is still Chicago. And for many festival-goers that means one thing when it comes to good eats: deep-dish pizza. The booth for local chain Connie’s Pizza (http://www.conniespizza.com) was bustling throughout the first day of Lollapalooza, serving up thick slices of cheese and sausage deep dish, as well as a gluten-free margherita variety that Connie’s General Manager Russ DiVincenzo says has been a big hit with the crowd.
Indeed, whether festival-goers are in the mood for cuisine hailing from the pizza parlors of downtown Chicago or the streets of Osaka, chances are that for the next few days it can all be found along Columbus Drive.
Apparently, there is also some great music to be heard there as well.
-- Richard Bienstock, CBS Local; photos by Jason Shaltz
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Employees and Third Parties and the Risks They Pose
For any number of reasons, be it active intent or, less maliciously, ignorant blunder, employees continue to be one of the weakest links in the data security chain. When that person works for a third party business associate, the risk is compounded, since an organization has even less control and awareness of their actions. I’ve said this before, and now incidents centered on the mistakes of third party contractors are appearing more frequently in the news.
They are responsible, most recently, for both breaches at certain hospitals and, of all things, the U.S. Navy. For the former, a number of hospitals reported information breaches after such an employee, working for a business associate, downloaded a host of patient data to a flash drive without authorization. The compromised information included patient names, birth dates, addresses, phone numbers, diagnoses, medications, patient identification numbers and physician names. Affected entities, naturally, had to notify those put at risk.
Likewise for the Navy breach. An employee of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, working under contract with the Navy, possessed a compromised laptop that served as the access point for the attacker. Whoever the culprit, they accessed the data of 130,000 sailors recently, including Social Security numbers. The Navy has since begun insisting that Hewlett Packard pay for credit monitoring services for the affected servicemen.
Both incidents highlight the risks brought to an organization by third parties and their devices: devices that are also used in a number of other environments, and may not possess sufficient security against all the threats this entails. A compromised device thus becomes an infected vector when introduced into an infrastructure like the Navy’s.
Insider errors continue to be a major cause of breaches. A recent report from the Identity Theft Resource Center told that this year had already seen 901 incidents, compared to 781 in 2015. Black Friday and Cyber Monday recently only increase the vulnerability of people’s data, as sales records continue to be made. As the National Association of Federal Credit Unions President and CEO Dan Berger said in a statement: “millions of consumers have already had their information compromised, yet retailers continue to resist critically needed national data security standards…With this void in protection, every retailer’s sale sign is a welcome sign for cybercriminals and a hazard for consumers who may unwittingly fall victim to a retail data breach.”
Amid such a landscape, there is no room to take a lackadaisical approach to maintaining solid staff training, as well as ensuring their associates’ security practices are up to snuff. It is crucial to mitigate the risks as much as possible.


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Loowit Brewing will be celebrating it’s 3rd Anniversary this Saturday, October 17th at the brewery and tap room from 4pm to 10pm. Special guests Three for Silver will be providing live music and Esoteric BBQ will be providing food for the event. Loowit’s tap room will be expanding it’s tap line up for the day as well as offering some special beers such as cask conditioned Shadow Ninja with an Amarillo dry-hop and will also unveil its limited and rare release of Super Ninja Triple IPA in 22oz bottles. Super Ninja IIIPA will also be available on draft.
ABOUT LOOWIT BREWING COMPANY: Founded in 2010 by longtime friends and Vancouver residents Devon Bray and Thomas Poffenroth, Loowit Brewing Company is the latest significant addition to underpin a revitalized downtown Vancouver, Washington. Loowit began brewing commercially and opened it’s doors in October 2012 and has since been recognized for excellence with several awards for it’s beers. The company specializes in brewing small batch, hand crafted ales that are developed with a thoughtful approach balanced by a Pacific Northwest flair.


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Chromebook ripe for adoption despite naysayers, says report
While the Chromebooks has been receiving a lot of bad press since their introduction over two years ago, research firm Forrester says it is time to ignore the naysayers.
J P Gownder, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals, blogs that it is time for enterprises to take a fresh look at whether Chromebooks are ripe for adoption.
In a major new Forrester report, an analysis of the enterprise Chromebook space, it is clear that Chromebooks won’t replace all or even most Windows PCs, Macs, and tablets. But for companies that are (1) willing to segment their workforces (offering Chromebooks to specific classes of workers in a mixed environment with PCs and tablets), (2) adopting Gmail and/or Google Apps, or who are (3) deploying the devices in a customer-facing (think kiosk) scenario, Chromebooks are definitely worth investigating.
Gownder writes that when enterprises adopt Chromebooks, infrastructure professionals can spend more time on innovation and not maintenance. Chromebooks offer the prospect of radically reducing the amount of time IT staff spends “keeping the lights on” for devices.
As one IT leader told the writer, “instead of spending time installing software on laptops, or creating images, I’d rather have my desktop services people work on implementation of technologies related to location awareness or 3D printing.” The CIO of another company added, “I want to get out of the laptop business.” Chromebooks offer high uptime, low service costs, and scalable deployment of new web-based applications and content.
Employees naturally gravitate toward collaborative computing scenarios. A move to corporate Gmail remains pretty much a prerequisite to the adoption of Chromebooks. Once Gmail is in place, Chromebooks can promote collaborative work styles.
One CIO reported that workers at his company started to use Google Drive and other collaboration tools “organically and automatically” after the adoption of Gmail. Chromebooks reinforce the value of these tools and represent the next logical step in empowering collaboration.
Although the analysis shows that Infrastructure buyers should consider Chromebooks, these devices are not for everyone. Companies with a large presence in China, for example, will find that Google’s famed clashes with the Chinese government handicaps the performance of Google Apps. Although Chromebooks are highly portable (and offer optional wireless subscription options), for many hyper-portable business scenarios, tablets might be a better choice.
Overall, though, it’s time to take the Google enterprise proposition seriously—and enterprises should conduct a fresh evaluation of Chromebooks.
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As more vehicles include connected features such as high-tech infotainment systems, the problem won't just disappear anytime soon. In fact, this is something that we'll end up hearing more about in the future, as more problems are identified.
"This is the shot across the bow. Everybody's been saying 'cybersecurity,'" said Mark Rosekind, head of the National Transportation Safety Administration (NTSA), in a statement published by the NBC News. "You've got to see the entire industry proactively dealing with these things."
News that hackers were able to hijack a Jeep vehicle was the most recent connected car security fear - and it's something that has the NTSA frightened. "The supplier didn't just supply radios to Chrysler but to a lot of other manufacturers - a lot of our work now is trying to find out how broad the vulnerability could be."
Fiat Chrysler announced a recall of 1.4 million vehicles due to the cybersecurity risk.
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After the pandemic restricted Halloween festivities in 2020 and 2021, trick-or-treating is expected to be back in full force this year. And to help you get the right candy for kids and kids at heart, market intelligence company My Telescope and online bulk candy store CandyStore.com separately conducted a study to determine the most popular candy in America.
What’s the most popular candy bar in America?
With a focus on chocolate candies, My Telescope researched the most searched-for candy brands by state. The Google search volumes of those chocolate candies were then ranked using the marketing metric Share of Search, revealing each state’s most favorite and least favorite chocolate candies.
The results revealed that Snickers is the most popular candy bar in the United States, taking the hearts of 23 out of 50 states. KitKat and Hershey came in second and third, taking six states and five states, respectively. Interestingly, Indiana is the only state holding onto Butterfinger as their most searched candy, and Baby Ruth is the least searched for chocolate nationwide.
“Share of search is a powerful tool for brands to figure out how they stack up against competitors, and how to leverage trends based on actual search volumes to forecast brand growth,” said Rodrigo Graviz, CEO of My Telescope, in a statement. “Data can be geo-fenced by state or country to accurately reflect searching trends by geography. When combined with specific keywords, Share of Search data can give valuable insights on what people are going to do, what they think, how they feel, and what they’re going to buy.”
Check out the full results of My Telescope’s study below:
|State||Most Searched||Least Searched|
|Arizona||Tootsie Roll||Reesse’s Cups|
|Connecticut||Milky Way||Baby Ruth|
|Florida||Tootsie Roll||Baby Ruth|
|Georgia||Tootsie Roll||Baby Ruth|
|Idaho||Milky Way||Baby Ruth|
|Illinois||Kit Kat||Hersheys Kisses|
|Kentucky||3 Musketeers||Crunch Bar|
|Louisiana||3 Musketeers||Reese’s Cups|
|Maine||Tootsie Roll||100 Grand|
|Maryland||Hershey’s Chocolate Bar||Almond Joy|
|Mississippi||Hershey’s Chocolate Bar||Butterfinger|
|Montana||Kit Kat||Baby Ruth|
|Nebraska||Snickers||Hershey’s Chocolate Bar|
|New Jersey||Snickers||Hershey’s Chocolate Bar|
|New Mexico||Kit Kat||Baby Ruth|
|North Carolina||Tootsie Roll||Reese’s Cups|
|North Dakota||Snickers||100 Grand|
|Ohio||Kit Kat||Milky Way|
|Pennsylvania||Hershey’s Chocolate Bar||M&M’s|
|Rhode Island||Hershey’s Chocolate Bar||Baby Ruth|
|South Carolina||Tootsie Roll||Reese’s Cups|
|South Dakota||Hershey’s Chocolate Bar||Milky Way|
|West Virginia||Kit Kat||Baby Ruth|
What’s the most popular candy in America?
For CandyStore.com’s separate study, the bulk candy retailer looked at its 15 years of sales data from 2007 to 2021, with a particular focus on the months leading up to Halloween. After breaking down the company’s sales by state, CandyStore.com found that Reeses’s Cups is the most popular candy in America.
Below are the top 10 most popular candy brands in America, according to CandyStore.com.
- Reese’s Cups
- Hot Tamales
- Sour Patch Kids
- Hershey Kisses
- Tootsie Pops
- Candy Corn
Click here to find out the top 3 most popular candy brands in your state.


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Austrian intimate fashion brand Skiny is ramping up its assault on the UK market with the unveiling of its spring summer 2013 collections modelled, for a second season, by English supermodel Lizzy Jagger.
The 26-year old Austrian brand, which is now being promoted to retailers in the UK by Courlaulds, is using the daughter of rock legend Mick Jagger and his former supermodel wife Jerry Hall to evoke feelings of spontaneity and freedom that Lizzy epitomises.
The shoot, which is entitled Who Cares, is a reflection of the relaxed style and tailoring of next year’s lines. It took place against the romantic and wild backdrop of African nature.
“With Lizzy Jagger as its testimonial and the Who Cares campaign, Skiny has repositioned itself as a brand and set itself on a path it intends to continue – for the Skiny women of this world, for women who appreciate perfect fit and supreme comfort, who want to keep up with fashion and wear the right style for any occasion, any situation and who, above all, want just one thing: to be themselves,” the company states.
Next year will see collections for women’s lingerie, men’s underwear as well as swimwear for men and women and a range of loungewear.


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Improper practices prompt CEO to depart ArthroCare
This article was originally published in Clinica
Michael Baker has stepped down from his position as CEO of orthopaedic firm ArthroCare, after an internal audit found evidence of improper business conduct by the company.
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Eimsky Business Solutions (Pvt.) Ltd emerged victorious at the recently held National Best Quality ICT Awards (NBQSA) 2017 with its Smart Office Suite being titled the ‘Most Innovative and Best Solution in Cloud Computing Application’.
Additionally, the product also won a Silver award in the category including an overall Bronze award. The suite Eimsky Smart Office Solution also got nominated for the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance awards 2017.
Eimsky Business Solutions empowers businesses with revolutionary cutting-edge IoT solutions to bring real-time visibility into its enterprise.
The company with its recent acquisition by Omobio, offers a state-of-the-art platform for Internet of Things (IoT) with fully configurable software solutions with advanced analytics, RFID hardware platform enabling end-to-end business intelligence and data visibility across multiple industries.
The next generation Smart Office Suite Solution comprises of modules which bring digital smartness to everyday life; smart locker system (cloud based locker management), intelligent hot desking solution , cashless smart cafeteria system, highly efficient RFID/NFC (hybrid) based attendance and visitor management system, NFC based smart kiosk system, automated car parking system, innovative employee and visitor tracking and monitoring system, active RFID based customer loyalty management system and more.
Eimsky Business Solutions (Pvt.) Ltd CEO and Founder Viranga Kekulawala, commenting on this achievement said: “We are proud to be recognised as one of the best in the next-gen tech industry among many other organisations that competed in this prestigious annual awards ceremony. This showcases our passion, drive, and talent in innovative technology solutions and ability to compete in diversified industries and international markets.”
Kekulawala is the brain-child and strategist behind the company. Founded in 2010, Eimsky Business Solutions has today been able to expand its customer base to several other regions within a very short period of time. Working together with internationally recognized business partners, the company specializes in smart office solutions, HawkEye360 for apparel industry, next generation asset tracking solutions, smart laundry tracking solution, active UHF RFID tracking solutions, cloud based IOT solutions, barcode solutions amongst many other also including many value added services technologies to maximize revenues.


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During the last couple of months, the Ethereum project has become increasingly more popular, due to its smart contracts service, and the simple fact that it provides an interesting alternative to bitcoin.
According to recent reports, Coinimal, a popular Austrian bitcoin exchange is launching a new feature, meant to allow customers to Ethereum. This announcement comes after Ralph Pichler, an Ethereum expert has joined the start-up’s team.
Regardless of Ethereum’s growing popularity, most exchange services are structured around selling BTC for ETH and vice versa. The Coinimal feature will allow traders to sell, and withdraw funds directly via their bank accounts. However, in the near future, a couple of more exchanges including Coincheck and Bitfinex will reportedly begin offering Litecoin and Ethereum support.
So far, Coinimal has focused on giving its users a service based on speed and simplicity. Based on this, they offer nine payment methods, including SEPA, PayPal, NETELLER and Skrill. Together with this, customers will also be able to cash out their Ethereum via Amazon.de vouchers, which can then be used to buy whatever products they wish on the German Amazon marketplace.
Verification is still being taken quite seriously. In a recent blog post, Coinimal stated that ‘For new users, getting started with Coinimal has been made as straightforward as possible – particularly verification, which can be carried out in minutes via webcam chat. Unverified accounts can still sell up to €1,000 of crypto per day, with a total limit of €30,000.’
Based on everything that has been outlined so far, what do you personally think about Coinimal’s announcement? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.
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Once referred to as the world's richest man, it seems that Bill Gates has outgrown the title by choosing to give away a third of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation, which has so far received $28 billion and is the largest in the US, focuses on global health and development and U.S. education.
According to Forbes, which will be releasing its annual billionaires list this Wednesday, this means that Gates (who is worth $49 billion) may no longer be sharing the top three spots with investor Warren Buffett ($47 billion) and Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim ($60 billion). The trio have topped the list for the past five years. It's also speculated that had Gates not donated the money, he would still be leading pack with networth of $88 billion.
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ATLANTA - Police say a northwest Atlanta grocery store owner fought back against burglars in two separate attempts to break into his store.
WSB-TV reports that both break-ins happened early Wednesday at the A&A Grocery store on Center Street.
Atlanta police say someone burglarized the store and left behind a hole in a cinderblock wall around 3 a.m.
They say the store owner patched the hole, but heard noises coming from it about three hours later.
Atlanta police officer John Chafee said the store owner saw a man coming through the hole, so he shot him in the chest.
Chafee said the wounded 23-year-old suspect was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and charged with burglary and criminal damage to property.
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There can’t be many mobile phone shops across the UK that leave customers confused as they walk through the front door. But that is exactly what is happening at KTech in Blackpool.
It’s not the prices or the variety of offers that amazes many visitors. The store opened its doors on Highfield Road in June 2019 and sells the usual screen protectors, cases and repair services.
The staff, on the other hand, some find a little more unusual. They are all women.
KTech is a family business owned by Courtney Smith and Sarah Hammond. Courtney’s mother, Anna Heard, also works at the store.
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Sarah said the inspiration came after spotting a niche market for a phone repair shop on Highfield Road. Sarah and Courtney decided to take the plunge and open the store, which was originally six doors down from its current location.
The past four years have been described by the family as a rollercoaster ride. Courtney said: “We’ve been pretty lucky because we have a lot of loyal customers. A lot of our business comes from word of mouth, so maybe we’re helping a little old lady who has no idea how to use her phone, but then she goes and sits in a coffee shop and tells all her friends about us.”
The store has become so popular that customers come from Liverpool, Manchester and even the Isle of Man. Courtney says they’ve even had clients waiting for their vacations to have their phones serviced by the girls at KTech, as they call themselves.
However, not everything was smooth. The girls recalled that when they first opened up, many people didn’t want to leave their phone with them because of their gender.
Sarah said, “We have a lot of people saying things like, ‘Can I just talk to the guy, is he in the back?’ We even said they wouldn’t leave their phones with us because we’re girls.
Courtney added: “I’ve been doing phone repairs since I was 16 and when I started people told me I was too young and wouldn’t leave their phones with me even though I could. It just ended. That motivates me more to want to prove these people wrong.”
Anna said: “Word has now gotten around that we are getting so many positive comments. People always tell us they love girls running the place. People come here especially because of us.”
Three years before they opened the shop, Sarah’s son, Kyle Hammond, died of sepsis at the age of just 14. Sarah said the store is just one of the ways Kyle’s memory is kept alive.
She said: “Kyle attended Highfield High School which was one of the reasons we wanted KTech to be local as it would have meant a lot to him. He was very tech savvy himself and loved opening up phones and watches etc to see how they worked.
“He has three younger siblings and his 17 year old sister Tasha also comes to KTech and has learned how to fix screens. Hopefully one day she will take my role.”
The shop has won three awards since it opened, including Blackpool’s Best Shop, awarded by Blackpool South MP Scott Benton.
One day the girls want to open a second KTech, but they don’t know exactly where.


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Harry Styles fans of Glasgow, this is not a drill!
The British singer, songwriter, actor and all-round talented man has announced that there will be a merchandise tour van parked outside the Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow tomorrow.
Writing on the official Harry Styles Facebook page, the caption read: "Love On Tour. Shop Merch Early. Friday, 10th June, at Ibrox Stadium."
This means that those with or without a ticket to the Saturday show will have an opportunity to shop the tour merchandise collection for Harry Styles' Love On Tour tour, beginning this weekend.
Glasgow will be the opening date for Harry's tour, which will also include Manchester and London, before heading to Dublin and Germany afterwards.
Fans flocked to comment on the post, sharing their excitement in the availability to nab a t-shirt or hoodie before the gig even begins.
One Facebook user said: "Omg this is such a good idea should we do it??"
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Another wrote: "Arrrrrggh! I’m so excited!!!"
And a third said: "Omg didn’t even think about funds for Merch."
On the official Harry Styles website, the prices for merchandise for the 'Harry's House' collection ranges from £25 to £55.
Earlier this week, Glasgow Live reported that Harry will be taking to the stage in Glasgow on Saturday to a sold-out crowd, with a start date of 4pm.
The curfew for the concert is reported to be 10:45pm, with a support act set from Japanese-American singer Mitski.
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TurningPoint Systems Recruits Don Puryear and Elevates Kerry Rogers to Strengthen Their Solution Implementation and Customer Support Teams
Gloucester, MA – October 1, 2016 – TurningPoint Systems, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, wholesale distribution and warehouse management systems (WMS), Sales Force Automation (SFA), and direct store delivery (DSD) software for the candy and tobacco industry, food service industry, and pharmaceutical distribution industries, has announced the reorganization of its operations team. The company will split its operations into two separate groups allowing each group to focus on the needs of their customers.
“Delivering world-class system implementation, product training, and programming support is the #1 priority at TurningPoint Systems. I’m pleased that Don Puyear, a senior ERP industry project management and programming specialist, will be joining the TurningPoint Systems team as Director of Operations,” Elery LeBlanc, Founder and President of TurningPoint Systems recently announced today.
Don has a 3-decade long career in IT, much of it spent in the pharmaceutical industry, distribution and logistics – with deep experience using IBM Power systems. He has been working with TurningPoint on a number of large scale custom deployments of ProfitPoint™ (TurningPoint’s flagship ERP system), and integrated systems. “EDI, CSOS, Track and Trace and Wholesale-to-Vendor Integration are becoming indispensable components to meet regulatory compliance for pharmaceutical distributors, and Don is an authority,” said Leblanc.
“Today’s users want more channels for service: portals, chat, email and phone. So we are deploying a new system that will support the kind of communication our customers want, I’ve asked Kerry Rodgers to oversee the deployment of new multi-channel customer support technology and lead our efforts to achieve best-in-class customer support.” Kerry Rogers is one of TurningPoint’s senior staff programmers, and has years of experience with the company’s ProfitPoint™ suite of integrated solutions and customers. “I couldn’t be more pleased that Don and Kerry have accepted these positions.” stated LeBlanc.
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With more than 30 years of experience and expertise, TurningPoint Systems has established itself as a leading provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, wholesale distribution and warehouse management systems (WMS), Sales Force Automation (SFA), and direct store delivery (DSD) software for the candy and tobacco industry, food service industry, and pharmaceutical distribution industries.
TurningPoint Systems offers IT consulting and managed services for IBM Power Systems, IBM Storage, and converged technologies. TurningPoint is an IBM and Oracle Premier Business Partner, offering a full catalog of products and on-going support.
For more information contact Elery LeBlanc at (978) 381-0131.


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Thank you from Westside CARES
Dear citizens of the Westside:
A multitude of thanks to the many people who supported our recent food drive to support the four emergency food pantries of Westside CARES. Over two days, our more than 100 volunteers received over $17,000.00 in donated food and over $1,400.00 in cash from shoppers at six grocery stores and four schools. Our neighbors in need will be better served and our community is strengthened through your generosity.


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WeChat, or Weixin in China, is being evolved to become Facebook’s biggest rival in providing consumer communication and value-added services via the mobile app.
This app has been in development since 2010 and enjoys the combined genius of many technological innovators in China, including developers from the older application QQ Mail Mobile and Foxmail. Allen Zhang, who used to own Foxmail, joined Tencent as the head of QQ Mail Mobile when Tencent acquired his Foxmail app.
“Tencent Holdings is keeping its head up as it further develops WeChat (Weixin) as an indispensable app for both the Chinese in the Mainland and for its growing global user base.”
The WeChat ecosystem
What Tencent Holdings is really doing now is trying to keep people inside the WeChat ecosystem for as long as possible, by integrating additional online services and apps within the app’s interface itself.
Mini-programs that are less than 10 megabytes in size can now run from within WeChat, and additional features like sending voicemail have helped build the loyal user base of the app. Just two years after its launch, WeChat already had 100 million active users and was well on its way to becoming a formidable communications app in the online market.


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Three Canadian fashion retailers are swimming ashore to lease space in the $385 million redevelopment of Rundle Place on Rundle mall in the Adelaide CBD.
Rundle Place features 85 shops over 22,000 square metres of retail space running along Rundle Mall and is due to be completed in October next year, featuring a Harris Scarfe store and anchor-tenanted by Coles, along with a mix of other retailers and a 500-seat food court.
Point Zero – a Canadian brand name and manufacturer of chic and fashion forward apparel for men, women and children – is among the retailers.
Point Zero operates from more than 35 boutiques across Canada, has 920 shop-in-shops in department stores, and has opened franchises in Central and South America and the Middle East.
Joshua Perets was created in 2001 and is directed at the teen and tween market with undergarments to hoodies, jeans to perfume.
As of April 2012, Joshua Perets had 35 stores across Canada.
La Vie en Rose is a leading specialty lingerie retailer for women aged 25 to 54.
It has over 165 boutiques across Canada and expanded into the Middle East, Europe and Asia in 2004.
“We are very excited to open our first stores in a growing city like Adelaide,” says director of retail expansions for La Vie en Rose Joseph Waknine.
“Rundle Place has proven to be the right spot for us with the best mixture of national and international big brands,” says Waknine.
Rundle Place will also include an 10-storey commercial tower that is set to open in October 2013.
The tower has been preleased to the Adelaide Bank and Bendigo Bank.
Vacancy rates for Rundle mall rose in the third quarter of 2012 from 6.85% in June to 10.27% in September, according to a research report by Savills.
Rent in Rundle Mall range from $2,000 per square metre to $3,700 per square metre.
“The centre is now 95% leased and interest continues to be strong,” says Ilona Rose, project leasing manager from Rundle Place.


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Doom 4 on Hold
Bethesda and Zenimax, the two companies behind the currently in-development sequel title Doom 4, have apparently put the game on hold due to concerns raised with reviews of their latest release, Rage.
While Rage was relatively well received across the board, it didn’t down as well as was expected. The engine used, id Tech 5, had several problems at launch, especially on the PC, with pop in textures and glitching being quite rampant. On top of that, several reviewers complained that despite the open world nature of the game, that it was in-fact rather linear and quite dull. This isn’t something that everyone agrees with, but enough have said it to make id Software reconsider things.
Apparently this has made them want to take the Doom 4 title more in hand and make sure that certain problems are avoided and that it meets its targets. For now it seems, that the game is on indefinate hold, but it seems unlikely that production won’t kick start again after a while. Doom 4 would sell well purely because of the series that it’s part of.
Update: id Software have released a statement countering this claim, stating that “no title under development at id has been postponed – indefinitely or otherwise.”


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As our culture progresses toward becoming more digital savvy, consumers are more often using online reviews to find product information and evaluations in customer experience. Whether the review is good or bad, it can largely impact the final purchase decisions. The controversy lies in the question of whether or not a consumer can tell if the customer evaluation is genuine or falsified.
According to an article published by the New York Times, a team of Cornell researchers recently published a paper on a developing a computer algorithm that could detect the legitimacy of online reviews. The fact is, products with a higher rating sell better than those with less stars, therefore the ultimate goal is to get as many of great reviews on the web as possible. However, with the rising number of fake reviews on the net, there is growing need for exploration and regulation over this matter.
As Russell Dicker, Amazon Director of Community, put it, “Any one review could be someone’s best friend, and it’s impossible to tell that in every case. We are continuing to invest in our ability to detect these problems.”
It is often difficult to tell if these evaluations in customer experience are real, sponsored or written covertly for compensation. The Cove, an English hotel, was recently under scrutiny for allegedly offering consumers 10 percent off their stay at the hotel in return for posting reviews on TripAdvisor that were honest, yet positive. The abrupt spike in positive reviews resulted in TripAdvisor delivering a warning, generating attention from the British government and the ASA.
Although falsified reviews are beginning to be better examined, important questions still remain. Will the public ever be able to trust online reviews? Will consumers ever be able to detect the real reviews, both positive and negative, from a business competitor or an upset consumer looking for revenge?
With increasing developments in technology, consumers now have information about products, customer experience, management, pricing and more at the tip of their finger. It is more important than ever that companies take into consideration how to approach and utilize online reviews. Here are a coupe measures to take when dealing with online reviews:
- If a negative review is posted, try to respond in a positive manner. Show the consumer that their opinions are being considered. Often times this may lead the consumer to reconsider their rating.
- Put a focus on customer experience management. Transforming customers from satisfied consumers to brand advocates can lead to better online reviews.


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editors note-The myth: The majority of Entrepreneurs are under 30, youthfully aggressive and social media savvy. Reality: Well, read this interesting article from Mlive - it will rock your preconceived notions.
Entrepreneurship: What age group is flocking to start new businesses?
LANSING, MI -- Entrepreneur: It's a word that elicits images of hipster 20- and 30-somethings inventing apps or gathering at TedX conferences for inspiration. Sure, there are plenty of young people starting their own businesses, but entrepreneurs over 50 have launched their own ventures at a higher rate than 20-34-year-olds every year since at least 1996. Business owners ages 55 to 64 represented more than 23 percent of new entrepreneurs last year, compared to 14 percent in 1996, a Kauffman Foundation study found.
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Grandma Moses Started Her Painting Career At Age 76!