The explosive growth in the production and sale of counterfeit goods is a crisis affecting consumers everywhere. This little understood and too-often ignored multi-billion dollar industry is a global menace, and the upcoming one-hour ...
In 2007 writer Jeff Giles closed shop on his Jefitoblog site. The website had amassed a loyal following and several cohorts across the Internet including his partner-in-Mellowmas-torture Jason Hare. Giles' big plan was to gather up such ...
Tags: Jeff Giles, Popdose website, ifth anniversary, 2013
Germany-based Beck's has introduced Beck's Sapphire, a golden pilsner brewed with German Saphir aroma hops in the US. The 6% ABV comes in sleek black glass bottle, according to the company. Anheuser-Busch US marketing vice president ...
Tags: Beck's, pilsner, Saphir, food industry
Does true literacy now include the ability to write software programs, just as it does the ability to read, write and do sums? 2012 saw a surge of sentiment in the press and blogosphere that we should think of programming as a vital ...
Tags: software programs, 2012, MOOCs, coding, skill
PartnerRe, a provider of diversified reinsurance services, has completed acquisition of California-based Presidio Reinsurance Group. Presidio Reinsurance Group is a specialty accident and health reinsurance and insurance writer, ...
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DG News Service-The mobile device is causing just as big a change in ways of working at the beginning of this century as the internet was at the end of the last century,says Kevin Noonan,consultant with Ovum. In the early days of internet ...
Tags: mobile deployment, device types
Recording at high altitudes is not something most sound engineers tackle every day, so when Danish producer and engineer Hans Nielsen, of Focus Recording Studios, was asked to record a choir of 500 monks in a Chinese temple that was over ...
Tags: Recording, high altitudes, sound engineers, DPA
PC World-For all the media attention that goes to Ubuntu,Linux Mint,Fedora,and the other leading Linux distributions,casual observers would have to be forgiven if they have no idea that hundreds of other distributions are out there as ...
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US commercial property and casualty insurance provider, CNA Financial has appointed Mark Herman as president and chief operating officer of CNA Specialty. Herman is taking over from Peter Wilson, whose retirement will be effective from 31 ...
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Between a man-sized mouse, two foul-tempered ducks, and a cross-dressing rabbit, animated comedies have long aimed to strike a balance between innocence and irreverence. At its best, The Act, a self-described interactive comedy, straddles ...
The Humane Society of the United States and The Art Institutes announced Nicolle Bajgrowicz, a student in the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design program at The Art Institute of California – Orange County, a campus of Argosy ...
Tags: fashion contest, Fashion Design, fur trade, fashion
When troubleshooting computer problems, enterprise workers have long turned to their office mates for help before taking the time to file a formal request for support from the help desk. But the rise of social media, employee mobility, ...
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For the 10th annual Kandy Kane Ball on Dec. 8, a semitrailer was parked outside Joe's Bar waiting to be filled with toys from the party, described by event organizers as the largest private toy drive in the city. More than 1,000 patrons, ...
Tags: Toys, Kandy Kane Ball, toy drive
Macworld - We're pretty sure the extinction of the dinosaurs had nothing to with biblical Armageddon, yet Adult Swim's laughably bizarre interpretation of prehistory wins big points for goofy creativity. Velocirapture puts you in control of ...
Tags: Armageddon, Adult Swim, puzzle action, company news
IDG News Service - IT industry is awash with talk of Big Data and in-memory engines. I believe we should be putting our effort into producing simple and useful data that is presented in a format that helps people communicate and make ...
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