The official site from Volkswagen about their resurrection of the marque. Contains a history, and profiles of the new models. Also in French, German and Italian.The brand new Bugatti Galibier.
Monday 23 July 2012
Bugatti Galibier
The official site from Volkswagen about their resurrection of the marque. Contains a history, and profiles of the new models. Also in French, German and Italian.The brand new Bugatti Galibier.
BMW 2013 New 3 Series Diesel 320d
Bentley Continental GT
BMW 2013 New 3 Series Petrol 328i Sportsline
Top business women
1 – The first ranking is part of Wu Yajun , the managing director of real estate company Real Estate Development Longhu whose assets are estimated at 3,900 million dollars.
2 – The second place is occupied by Spanish entrepreneur, Rosalia Mera with a fortune of 3,500 million dollars. He began designing clothes for work at home with her ex-husband, Amancio Ortega Gaona.
The couple turned his small business in the multinational Inditex (owner of several brands like Zara, Zara Home, Stradivarius, Massimo Dutti etc …), the largest corporation of Spain with a multi-million dollar turnover. Mera also invests in high technology, food industry and pharmacy.
3 – Elena Baturin closes the podium of the most affluent. His assets have reached 2,900 million dollars. Initially he also worked in a factory, then he worked as a secretary.
In 1991 he founded the Inteko company specializing in the production of furniture, then expanded and entered the construction market and construction materials.
The new Patriot Baturin company builds affordable housing.
The billionaire left behind such notable figures such as Oprah Winfrey show Diva with a capital of 2,400 million dollars, the Italian textile empire that owns the Benetton, Giuliana Benetton whose fortune is estimated at 2100 million and the famous author of fantasy novels heptalogía Harry Potter, Joanne Rowling 1,000 million.
Forbes Magazine found that 14 women have won more than 1,000 million dollars. Overall, the world’s billionaires club covers 11.2 million people. The number grew by 14% compared to 2009. The proportion of women in the list of wealthy reaches 2%.
According to estimates, most of the rich living in the U.S.. UU. (4,175,000 people). Japan is placed in second position (1,230 million) and China ranks third (670,000 people).
The couple turned his small business in the multinational Inditex (owner of several brands like Zara, Zara Home, Stradivarius, Massimo Dutti etc …), the largest corporation of Spain with a multi-million dollar turnover. Mera also invests in high technology, food industry and pharmacy.
3 – Elena Baturin closes the podium of the most affluent. His assets have reached 2,900 million dollars. Initially he also worked in a factory, then he worked as a secretary.
The new Patriot Baturin company builds affordable housing.
According to estimates, most of the rich living in the U.S.. UU. (4,175,000 people). Japan is placed in second position (1,230 million) and China ranks third (670,000 people).
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Dish, TV networks take fight over ad zapper to judges
A legal battle erupted between DISH Network and some of the major broadcast networks Thursday as the two sides traded lawsuits over the satellite distribution company’s “Hopper” DVR, which threatens to bring down the television business model by allowing viewers to skip over commercials entirely.
Dish Network Corp asked a Manhattan federal judge to declare that its “Auto Hop” feature does not infringe any copyright owned by the four major U.S. television networks: Walt Disney Co’s ABC, CBS Corp’s CBS, News Corp’s Fox and Comcast Corp’s NBC.
CBS, Fox and NBC, meanwhile, are filing their own lawsuits to stop Dish from transmitting their programs in a way that lets viewers watch them without commercial interruptions. ABC’s plans were not immediately clear.
With 14 million subscribers, Dish is the second-largest satellite TV provider in the United States behind DirecTV.
TV networks are upset that Dish, led by billionaire chairman Charles Ergen, would introduce the “Auto Hop” feature that may well please viewers, but would undermine the networks’ key source of revenue: advertising.
Dish introduced a high-definition DVR called the Hopper earlier this year and declined to say on Thursday how many of its subscribers are using the new device that contains the ad zapper.
It added Auto Hop on May 10 and began advertising the product just as the networks were conducting their crucial “up-fronts,” where they tout their programming for the next season to their own advertisers. TV ad spending is estimated to reach more than $200 billion globally in the next five years.
Brean Murray analyst Todd Mitchell said Dish is embroiled in this latest dispute because it is sick of paying high programming fees and wants to negotiate better deals with broadcasters.
“This is about programming costs,” Murray said. “Dish is saying, if you want to charge me up to the wazoo, we will disable commercials. But if you charge us less, we can disable the feature.”
Ergen has consistently provoked programmers, most recently threatening to drop AMC Networks from its systems and criticizing it for devaluing its content by putting its shows on Netflix. Ergen once publicized the home number of Mel Karmazin, then-CEO of Viacom, during another tussle over fees.
In its complaint, Dish maintained that the Auto Hop lets viewers fast-forward through but not delete commercials, and said the feature does not alter the broadcast signal.
The feature does not affect cable programming, and requires viewers to wait until 1 a.m. on the morning after a show airs before they can skip over commercials.
Dish also said other companies offer products with similar features, citing Microsoft Corp’s offering of a commercial-skipping feature as an add-on to its Windows Media Center.
Dish’s senior vice president of programming Dave Shull said in an interview that Dish hopes to resolve the matter with networks and that the ad skipping feature “is not nearly as detrimental as they fear.”
Fox, in its lawsuit filed in a California federal court, countered that Dish has only “narrow permission” to retransmit its broadcast signals, and should not sell a product that lets it trumpet “commercial-free TV” without permission. It also seeks compensatory and other damages.
Scott Grogin, a Fox spokesman, said Dish’s launch of an ad zapper reflects a “clear goal of violating copyrights and destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem,” requiring a swift response.
The Dish lawsuit is: Dish Network LLC v. American Broadcasting Cos et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-04155. The networks’ lawsuits include: Fox Broadcasting Co et al v. Dish Network LLC et al, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; and NBC Studios LLC et al v. Dish Network Corp in the same court.
Sunday 22 July 2012
Samsung Smart TVs Will Let You Play Angry Birds Without Touching A Thing
Angry Birds has been around for what seems like forever, topping over 1 billion downloads across all available platforms. But folks continue to come up with new and interesting ways for us to sling birds into poorly built structures with the sole purpose of needless destruction.
Samsung today officially joined that pack by offering Angry Birds on Samsung’s Smart TV, but pay no mind to the remote — the whole thing is controlled by gesture.
The idea is that you can aim birds by pulling back the way you would to use a slingshot. You can also activate the birds’ “talents” through gesture controls as well, making big black mamma jamma explode or sending yellow triangle bird into a b-line straight for the desired target.
Here’s Samsung’s official word on the matter:
Samsung Smart TV will become the first TV to offer the world’s most popular game and set a new standard in the industry by offering a game for Smart TVs controlled by hand gestures. Samsung will continue to develop various content that bring family members together in front of the TV, allowing consumers to enjoy new experiences via Samsung Smart TVs.
And just look at these little kids having fun:
Oddly enough, this isn’t the first time that Angry Birds has been available for play on a big screen. Roku’s second line of streamers offers motion-controlled Angry Birds madness, however you need the remote to get your game on there. In Samsung’s case, the app is already built in to the TV and all you need are your glorious, bird-flinging hands.
Samsung Smart TVs start around $3,000. Angry Birds costs $1.00 for the full version.
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