| The Apple Store West 14th Street to Open on Friday, December 7
NEW YORK, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple(R) will open its newest retail store on West 14th Street in New York's Meatpacking District on Friday, December 7 at 6:00 p.m. EST. The Apple Store West 14th Street is Apple's first three-story store with two floors dedicated to products and a third dedicated to services, including a 46-foot Genius Bar and specially designed areas for workshops and personal training. The Apple Store West 14th Street also introduces Pro Labs where customers can receive free, in-depth training on Apple's industry-leading pro applications including Final Cut Pro(R). "We are thrilled to open our third and largest store in Manhattan on West 14th Street," said Ron Johnson, Apple's senior vice president of Retail. "We think New Yorkers will love this stunning new location and the incredibly talented team we've assembled to make the Apple Store West 14th Street a place where people can shop, learn and truly be inspired." The knowledgeable staff at the Apple Store West 14th Street includes more than 175 highly trained Mac(R) Specialists, Mac Geniuses and Creatives who are ready to share their expertise in video editing, digital photography, music production and more.
THX Launches Video Calibration Training for Installers and Dealers
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- CES 2008 -- THX Ltd. today announced that it is expanding its worldwide training and educational programs to include THX Certified Video System Calibration and Training. Professional dealers and installers who successfully pass the training course will be approved to offer THX Certified Video Calibration services to their customers. Classes will be offered regionally throughout the U.S. several times a year, beginning in January in Southern California. THX Certified Video System Calibration and Training is the most in-depth and comprehensive calibration training available today. The curriculum, which is designed by THX video engineers, includes classroom instruction, two full days of hands-on calibration training and a comprehensive online exam.
Hughes to Acquire Helius for IPTV Data Broadcasting Solutions
Hughes Communications, which provides broadband satellite network services, agreed to acquire privately-held Helius, Inc., which specializes in business-class data broadcasting solutions.
Hughes said the acquisition will combine the skills of Helius, a leader in providing business IPTV solutions for applications such as training, corporate communications, and digital signage, with its own extensive broadband networking experience and customer base. Hughes plans to deploy Helius' IP video technologies to enhance its existing HughesNet service offerings.
Helius is a portfolio company of Canopy Ventures. The acquisition is expected to be completed on or about February 4, 2008. Financial terms were not disclosed. Upon completion of the acquisition, Helius will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes and will operate closely with Hughes' North America and International enterprise businesses.
Obama is the new JFK says Kennedy's daughter
If a similar foul-up were to take place in an American general election that would be a loss of 4,000,000 votes. Thats like having every single voter in the state of Georgia disenfranchised. Not even the harshest or most misinformed critic of the American electoral system accuses the US of such a massive foul up, intentional or not. In view of this, it seems that the time and thought you so generously gave to our election might be better spent tending to your own knitting. .
MicroStrategy Mobile Delivers Business Intelligence to BlackBerry ...
MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated , a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the general availability of MicroStrategy Mobile(TM), a new product that delivers BI information directly to BlackBerry(R) smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM) (TSX: RIM). MicroStrategy Mobile was included in MicroStrategy's September 2007 software release.
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Decisions and illusions
That we wander, sheeplike, from one bad decision to the next, unaware that we're being led? Are we just hopelessly thick? "I think the right way to think about this is not 'stupid' but 'human,' " Ariely said during a recent stop in Atlanta. "That's how we're designed. The thing to do is to use some of these findings to be more cautious." Ariely's findings — some of them funny, some of them frightening — explain why we do the things we do. "Predictably Irrational" shows how easily we can be manipulated by savvy marketing — how Starbucks persuaded us to pay twice as much for coffee than we were used to paying, for example, or how amazon.com's introduction of free shipping persuaded us to buy more books. The book is often amazing, and frankly, so is Ariely.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Lauryn Hill Had Her Baby? Timbaland The Slave?
OUCH! I don't know if 50 is like me and remembers Paris using the N-Word, but I heard that he dissed the crap out of the heiress. Read the AHH Report right here!
Here is what Page Six said about the whole ordeal. They were there. During his performance at the Paris Hilton-hosted pre-Super Bowl party for 944 magazine last night, 50 Cent gave a shout out to Paris, who then started singing in the front row. Paris and 50 are good friends. When the princess decided to get onstage and dance, the hip-hopper's crew and stagehands quickly instructed her to "Get the f**k off the stage." She started to cry and tried to plead with the party's production staff to let her dance, whining, "But it's my party!" Nobody cares if it's your party.
The Marines Step Up Training for the Complexities of Iraq
CAMP PENDLETON, CALIF.—Inside the new $2.5 million Marine Corps Immersion Training Center, situated in a former packing plant in the middle of an old tomato patch, there are bazaars with tables full of brass lamps and teapots. There are courtyards, too, with old chairs, backgammon tables, and clotheslines with laundry strung across them, courtesy of a Hollywood set designer. There are also wagons filled with propane tanks, blood-stained alleyways, and motion-detection scent machines, which pump the smell of dung through trash-laden streets. .
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