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NH Hoteles And Philips Partner For Two Year Study Into Consumer Well-Being

Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Madrid, Spain – NH Hoteles and Philips have announced that they will conduct an intensive two-year study into the optimization of well-being amongst hotel guests. To support the research, NH Hoteles and Philips have teamed up as a first step to create a unique room at NH Hoteles’ flagship Barbizon Palace hotel in Amsterdam featuring the latest in ambient solutions. Researchers will collect consumer insights into how different room settings and technologies affect the guests’ hotel going experience and well-being as well as their interaction and relationship with entertainment systems and lighting.

NH Hoteles And Philips Partner For Two Year Study Into Consumer Well-Being

Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Madrid, Spain – NH Hoteles and Philips have announced that they will conduct an intensive two-year study into the optimization of well-being amongst hotel guests. To support the research, NH Hoteles and Philips have teamed up as a first step to create a unique room at NH Hoteles’ flagship Barbizon Palace hotel in Amsterdam featuring the latest in ambient solutions. Researchers will collect consumer insights into how different room settings and technologies affect the guests’ hotel going experience and well-being as well as their interaction and relationship with entertainment systems and lighting.

Cassini's Primary Mission Ends, Two-Year Extension Begins

wooferhound points out recent news that the Cassini probe has completed its original four-year mission and is beginning a two-year extended mission, which was authorized earlier this year. Cassini's first mission brought us a treasure trove of information about Saturn and its various moons. The new mission will target two of those moons in particular for further study: Titan and Enceladus. Quoting: "The spacecraft is extremely healthy and carries 12 instruments powered by three radioisotope thermoelectric generators. Data from Cassini's nominal and extended missions could lay the groundwork for possible future missions to Saturn, Titan or Enceladus. [The two moons] are primary targets in the two-year extended mission, dubbed the Cassini Equinox Mission.

GFK ASIA REPORTS H1 TOTAL ASIA RETAIL SPEND ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS REACHES US$ 11.5 BILLION

SINGAPORE, Aug. 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Gfk Asia Releases 2008 Mid Year Pan Asian Retail CE Summary Showing Healthy Growth In Consumer Electronics Demand Across Asia Despite Reports Of A Gloomy Global Economic Climate GfK Asia releases its 2008 Mid Year Pan Asia Consumer Electronics Data Summary, highlighting the trends in the region's growing consumer electronics sector and showing a retail spend of approximately US$ 11.5 Billion dollars in the first half of 2008, which is an increase of 13% year on year. The report includes data from 13 countries* overall, covering the following products: television; DVD player recorder, and DVD portable; audio home system and home theatre system; camcorder; MP3 digital portable audio player and MP4 digital portable video player; car navigation; and, headphones.

EXCOM Education Honoured as Partner of the Year for Learning Solutions at 2008 Microsoft Australia Partner Program Awards

Melbourne, Victoria, — August 13, 2008 — EXCOM Education is proud to announce it has won the Partner of the Year Award for Learning Solutions at the 2008 Microsoft Australia Partner Program Awards. The company was chosen out of a local field of top Microsoft Partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

SEMPO Institute To Present "Generating Leads with Practical Search Engine Marketing" Session at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, TX

Thousands of Microsoft partners attend the annual Worldwide Partner Conference to network and tap into the latest business-growth opportunities each year. One area of growing interest is search engine marketing, also known as SEO and PPC. Microsoft has invited SEMPO Institute to present a session on search engine marketing at this year's conference, which is being held in Houston, TX from July 7-10. Cindy Turrietta, a contributing author for two of SEMPO Institute's online courses, and Katie Donovan, SEMPO Institute's Business Development Manager, will highlight the current marketing environment that benefits small, medium and large companies with search engine marketing strategies. The session will blend strategy with best practices to ensure attendees have the ability to act on what they learn.

SEMPO Institute To Present "Generating Leads with Practical Search Engine Marketing" Session at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, TX

WAKEFIELD, Mass., BUSINESS WIRE -- Thousands of Microsoft partners attend the annual Worldwide Partner Conference to network and tap into the latest business-growth opportunities each year. One area of growing interest is search engine marketing, also known as SEO and PPC. Microsoft has invited SEMPO Institute to present a session on search engine marketing at this year's conference, which is being held in Houston, TX from July 7-10. Cindy Turrietta, a contributing author for two of SEMPO Institute's online courses, and Katie Donovan, SEMPO Institute's Business Development Manager, will highlight the current marketing environment that benefits small, medium and large companies with search engine marketing strategies. The session will blend strategy with best practices to ensure attendees have the ability to act on what they learn.

SEMPO Institute To Present "Generating Leads with Practical Search Engine Marketing" Session at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, TX

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 2008--Thousands of Microsoft partners attend the annual Worldwide Partner Conference to network and tap into the latest business-growth opportunities each year. One area of growing interest is search engine marketing, also known as SEO and PPC. Microsoft has invited SEMPO Institute to present a session on search engine marketing at this year’s conference, which is being held in Houston, TX from July 7-10. Cindy Turrietta, a contributing author for two of SEMPO Institute’s online courses, and Katie Donovan, SEMPO Institute’s Business Development Manager, will highlight the current marketing environment that benefits small, medium and large companies with search engine marketing strategies. The session will blend strategy with best practices to ensure attendees have the ability to act on what they

Unidym Enters into Second Joint Development Agreement with Samsung Electronics to Integrate Carbon Nanotubes into Display Devices

MENLO PARK, Calif. - (Business Wire) Unidym, Inc, a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ:ARWR), announced today that it has entered into a second joint development agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to extend their collaboration into a second year. The companies have been working jointly to integrate carbon nanotube materials as the transparent conductive layer in display devices. One achievement from the first year of this collaboration was the world

Consumer Product Safety Commission Not Ready for Nanotech

Agency lacks budget, authority and expertise to ensure nanoproducts are safe WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- The inability of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to carry out its mandate with respect to simple, low-tech products such as children's jewelry and toy trains bodes poorly for its ability to oversee the safety of complex, high-tech products made using nanotechnology, according to a new report released by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN). Two nanotech products under the jurisdiction of the CPSC are being used in the Olympic Games in Beijing -- a pair of running shoes and a swimsuit. The products can be found in PEN's consumer product inventory (http://www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer/), which now contains more than 800 manufacturer-identified, nanotechnology-enabled items.

Refactoring HTML: Well-Formedness

The very first step in moving markup into modern form is to make it well-formed. Well-formedness is the basis of the huge and incredibly powerful XML tool chain. Well-formedness guarantees a single unique tree structure for the document that can be operated on by the DOM, thus making it the basis of reliable, cross-browser JavaScript. The very first thing you need to do is make your pages well-formed.

Fujitsu: 256Mbit FCRAM for digital consumer electronics

Fujitsu announces the development of a 256Mbit Consumer FCRAM for digital consumer electronics, the MB81EDS256545. The new FCRAM has low power consumption and is suited for system-in-package designs, with samples available from today. Key features include a 64-bit I/O, a low power DDR SDRAM interface that enables data transfer capabilities equivalent to two DDR2 SDRAMs with 16-bit I/O while reducing power consumption by up to 1W. This contributes to power savings for digital consumer electronics and makes the new device ideal for consumer electronics products that require low power consumption, such as digital televisions and camcorders.

Sparta Announces Higher Than Expected Growth in Online Consumer Credit Applications

NEW YORK, NY -- 08/05/08 -- Sparta Commercial Services, Inc. (OTCBB: SRCO), a leading provider of consumer finance solutions to the powersports industry, announced today that its relationship with an aggregator partner of online consumer credit applications for the acquisition of powersports vehicles has resulted in a much higher than anticipated volume of consumer credit applications being processed by its iPLUS® credit decisioning engine during the last three months.

Amazon (AMZN) NewsBite - AMZN Falls on Consumer Spending Worries

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) opened at $74.60. So far today the stock has hit a low of $73.42 and a high of $74.9. AMZN is now trading at $74.08, down 0.96 (-1.28%). After hitting a one-year high of $101.09 in October, the stock hit a one-year low of $61.20 in March. AMZN shares are declining with other retailers this morning, as rebounding oil prices have investors worried that rising energy costs will cut into consumer spending. Technical indicators for AMZN are bearish and steady, while S&P gives the stock a neutral 3 STARS (out of 5) hold rating. If you’re looking for a hedged play on this stock, consider an August bear-call credit spread above the $95 range. AMZN hasn’t been above $95 for more than just a few days in the past year and has shown resistance around $85 recently.

Study: global consumer electronics industry to grow by $700 billion by 2008

imageWorldwide revenue for consumer electronics (CE) will grow nearly ten percent this year, hitting the US$700 billion mark by 2009, according to new data from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the GfK Group.

Two Little Hands Productions Completes the Second Series of Signing Time With Two New DVDs

Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) July 10, 2008 – Two Little Hands Productions – creators of the popular Signing Time (http://www.signingtime.com/) DVD series and hit public television show designed to teach babies (http://www.signingtime.com/index.php?cPath=41), toddlers and young children to communicate using American Sign Language (ASL) – is pleased to announce the release of two new DVDs completing Series Two of the Signing Time DVD series.

Global Consumer Electronics Will Grow to $700 Billion Next Year

Worldwide revenue for consumer electronics (CE) will grow nearly 10% in 2008 and will hit the $700 billion mark by 2009, according to new data from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the GfK Group. According to the CEA/GfK Worldwide Consumer Electronics Sales & Forecast, consumers will spend $42 billion more on CE products in 2009 than in 2008. Countries with fast-growing economies and large emerging middle classes, such as the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), will lead the way in new CE revenue growth. By 2009, China will account for nearly 15% of global CE revenue, trailing only North America (22% share) and Western Europe (16% share). Mobile devices make up the largest CE category worldwide, both in terms of unit sales and revenue.

UPDATE 2-Philips consumer business holds up amid econ gloom

AMSTERDAM, July 14 (Reuters) - Philips Electronics (PHG.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) said its consumer business had held up in weaker economies and posted second-quarter results in line with expectations, reassuring investors and sending its shares up over 7 percent. Amsterdam-headquartered Philips (PHG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday earnings before interest, tax and amortisation (EBITA) rose 7 percent to 413 million euros ($648.8 million).

U.S. consumer electronics sales to exceed expectations this year

Overall shipment revenue of consumer electronics will top $173 billion in the U.S. this year, which is $2 billion more than January's prediction by the Consumer Electronics Association.

Priceline.com Reports Financial Results for 2nd Quarter 2008

Gross travel bookings increase 71% year over year; International gross travel bookings grow 80%, Domestic gross travel bookings grow 59% NORWALK, Conn.--(Business Wire)-- Priceline.com Incorporated(R) (Nasdaq: PCLN) today reported its financial results for the 2nd quarter 2008. Gross travel bookings for the 2nd quarter, which refers to the total dollar value, inclusive of all taxes and fees, of all travel services purchased by consumers, rose 70.9% year-over-year to $2.1 billion. Priceline.com had GAAP revenues in the 2nd quarter of $514.0 million, a 44.4% increase over a year ago. The Company's international operations contributed revenues in the 2nd quarter of $164.5 million, an 82.0% increase versus a year ago. GAAP gross profit for the 2nd quarter was $253.

Red Hat Numbers Up

Red Hat saw earnings rise 6.6% to $17.3 million, or eight cents a share in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31 on revenue up 32% year-over-year and 11% sequentially to $156.6 million. EPS was dead flat year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $130.7 million, up 27% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially. Training and services were up 64% to $25.9 million.

Red Hat Numbers Up

Red Hat saw earnings rise 6.6% to $17.3 million, or eight cents a share in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31 on revenue up 32% year-over-year and 11% sequentially to $156.6 million. EPS was dead flat year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $130.7 million, up 27% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially. Training and services were up 64% to $25.9 million.

Red Hat Numbers Up

Red Hat saw earnings rise 6.6% to $17.3 million, or eight cents a share in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31 on revenue up 32% year-over-year and 11% sequentially to $156.6 million. EPS was dead flat year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $130.7 million, up 27% year-over-year and up 7% sequentially. Training and services were up 64% to $25.9 million.

The area given to Small Press has not changed. With regard to Artists Alley this ...

The area given to Small Press has not changed. With regard to Artists Alley this year we are able to accommodate 210 artists, up 43 artists from last year when we had 167 spaces. And I should point out that the 167 was up 20 people from the year previous where we accommodated 147. And I will state emphatically that no publisher, or any exhibitor, for that matter, has been asked to reduce their booth size to make way for Hollywood. Or any other exhibitor. Each year the floor changes in configuration. Some exhibitors hope to expand their space, some exhibitors reduce their space and still others elect not to return for any number of reasons. This is true this year as well. When additional space becomes available, we try to accommodate requests of long time exhibitors while still keeping the floor dynamic by welcoming new exhibitors.

Philips enters handheld ultrasound market

Royal Philips Electronics has launched a handheld ultrasound system for cardiologists to obtain diagnostic data bedside. Philips representatives said the CX50 CompactXtreme features its PureWave transducer, which can improve penetration in difficult-to-image patients. It also features Philips XRES adaptive image processing for reduced speckle and haze inherent with ultrasound imaging. The Philips CX50 CompactXtreme also supports adult transthoracic and transesophageal cardiology applications, the representatives said.

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