[UK] Brownbook , the business directory, has integrated seed data for nearly 4 million businesses for several countries to fill up their pages and grow the site’s index to 34 million listings . A move that is clearly an investment on their part to reach new countries and increase activity where they already have coverage.
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Wiki-style business directory Brownbook hits 34 million listings
You are here: City and Corporate / Ethel Austin and Au Naturale to close a further 81 stores MCR, the administrators of value clothing retailer Ethel Austin and its sister company Au Naturale, has confirmed that a further 81 stores will cease to trade in the next 3 to 4 weeks. This follows the..
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Ethel Austin and Au Naturale to close a further 81 stores
One of the most frustrating things that happens with mobile phones is that their batteries run out too quickly. Luckily, there are always some little tricks that you can implement if you notice that your battery power is getting low and you need to preserve some of that power until you can get to a charger
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Quick Tips for Improving Motorola Droid Battery Life
Two persons from totally different streams have been instrumental in reviving barren paddy fields of a village through contract farming. Father Patric D’Souza and international model Tinu Verghis came together two years back to herald contract farming for the first time in Goa at Pillar, a village on the city’s outskirts. ”It started almost two years back and now I am getting good response from the paddy field owners who are not able to cultivate their land,” said D’Souza, a priest from the Society of Pillar, a wing of the Catholic Church . The society’s Nature Farm wing has taken up the task of executing contract farming at fallow lands in and around the village. Mumbai-based Verghis, who has walked the ramp for many top brands, was the first one to offer her paddy field, ad-measuring around 6,000 sq mts, for the innovative farm arrangement between two parties.
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Goa priest, model in contract farming project
Intrasoft Technologies Limited (Intrasoft) the company behind 123greetings.com has decided to open its Initial Public Offering (IPO) for subscription on Tuesday March 23, 2010 at a price band of 137-145 and is looking to float 37 lac shares which will raise over 50 crores from the markets.
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123Greetings Goes IPO On 23rd March – We Interview Arvind Kajaria, MD, 123greetings.com
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A Walmart store announcement ordering black people to leave brought chagrin and apologies Wednesday from leaders of the company, which has built a fragile trust among minority communities. A male voice came over the public-address system Sunday evening at a store in..
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Blacks must leave store, NJ Walmart announcer says, upsetting customers; company investigates
Minneapolis maker Michael Krumpus, who also sells the EZ-Expander in the Maker’s Market, created this lovely mood lamp made out of LEDs, an Arduino Duemilanove, and glass vials he bought from the Twin Cities’ legendary Ax-Man surplus store. This is a mood lamp I build using 16 LEDs of different colors and small glass vials. The square bottoms of the vials look a lot like glass block, and the glass diffuses and scatters the light in beautiful ways.
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Arduino-controlled mood lamp
In another clear indication of Facebook ’s ever-increasing growth in the internet arena, Facebook surpassed Google last week as the most visited site in the United States. According to a report by Hitwise Intelligence , Facebook surpassed Google for the week ending 13th March
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Facebook Now The King Of Internet, Tops Google In Number Of Visits
[Sweden] Stockholm-based Videoplaza , the video ad server startup, has secured a €3.5 million funding round from leading Nordic VCs Creandum and Northzone Ventures . This follows seed investments of €80,000 and €420,000, bringing the total raised to-date to €4m. The company, which currently has a staff of 20 based in Sweden, the UK and France, will use the new capital to continue to expand operations in Europe including Germany, Spain and Italy, and attract new customers for its Monetizer ad server platform for managing, displaying and tracking video advertising.
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Videoplaza secures €3.5 million from leading Nordic VCs
K&A Wireless, LLC has been selected to present at the prestigious Homeland Security Finance Forum on March 23, 2010 in Washington D.C. Forum participants are selected based on pre-established criteria specific to the industry by VB/Research, a world leader in providing intelligence and data in the security and defense markets.
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K&A Chosen as One of Ten Companies Slated to Present at a National Finance Forum
In what appears to be the defence ministry’s flipflop on expansion of the Dabolim airport, A K Antony on Wednesday said the Indian Navy has no qualms in letting it happen. Speaking to the media after commissioning the Indian Coast Guard ship Vishvast at Goa Shipyard Limited in Vasco, the defence minister said all obstacles to the expansion have been cleared
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No hitch in Dabholim Goa airport expansion: Antony
I love all of the instructional videos that are now available online. At this point, there are probably very few trades where you couldn’t get a decent starter education in the subject just by studying videos (and other materials) at trade association websites, online trade mags, and YouTube channels
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Do It Proper with Copper
Media & Entertainment Industry is big in India spearheaded by the Largest Film Industry in the world – The Bollywood. Although last couple of years have not been good due to recession, the Industry is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13 per cent over the next five years.
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Indian Media & Entertainment Industry Report – To cross 1 trillion rupee mark by 2014 !
When I visited my cousin last week, his daughter Neeka Mashouf (age 13) and two of her classmates (Nicole Bronstein and Sydney Schonefeld) were deeply engaged in creating a stop-motion animation film for a class project, complete with a homemade stage and camera platform. The assignment was to explain and show examples of Newton’s three Laws of Motion in a creative way.
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Newton’s Laws of Motion, in stop-motion animation, by 3 young makers
Mr Shantaram Naik M.P today called on the Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh and requested him to make special provisions for Goa by amending article 371 of the Constitution of India to empower the Goa Legislature to enact a law to regulate the land transactions in the State. In his memorandum submitted to Pm in his office at Parliament House Mr Naik says that land is becoming a scarce commodity more particularly in smaller States.
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Shantaram Naik calls on PM to demand, Special Provisions, Special Category and Separate Cadre
Our pals at Jigsaw Renaissance are looking for new members so they can afford a new hackspace. Director Willow Brugh sent us the following: Jigsaw is a group of multi-disciplinary individuals with a desire to educate themselves and others
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Seattle’s Jigsaw Renaissance seeks members, new digs
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them. And, in the spirit of the times, we pay close attention to tools that you can get on the cheap, make yourself, or refurbish
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Toolbox: Take a seat!
The Michigan Court of Appeals Wednesday denied the Detroit International Bridge Co.’s request for a stay pending appeal a Feb.
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State Court of Appeals uphelds circuit court ruling calling for teardown of Ambassador Bridge toll booths, other structures
Image: S2-P2-P6, by sculptor Roxy Paine . About a year ago I was wandering around Maker Faire Bay Area thinking about polymerization. Collin had recently posted his now-world-famous cymatics video , and I was standing around talking to the TAP plastics folks about whether it might be possible to “freeze” cymatic forms by applying the sound waves to some kind of polymer resin that could then be solidifed, almost instantaneously, by adding a drop or two of catalyst
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SWM seeks experienced chemist for "explosive polymerization"
The Google Nexus One may soon be the hottest Android device on every major US wireless carrier now that Sprint and AT&T announced the device. They join confirmed carriers T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless and I have a feeling the device sales will increase quickly.
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Sprint announces Google Nexus One coming soon, all 4 carriers to soon have device
A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $9.5 million settlement to a class action lawsuit challenging Facebook’s program that monitored and published what users of the social networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. The case concerned allegations Facebook’s now defunct “Beacon” program breached federal wiretap and video-rental privacy laws
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Judge Approves $9.5 Million Facebook ‘Beacon’ Accord
More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area lots.
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Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely
We knew Microsoft’s MIX10 conference would bring some new details our way regarding the exciting new Windows Phone 7 Series operating system, we just didn’t expect it to make us sigh when it reminded us of a certain other device. And not in a good way. Lets see if you can spot any similarities with the phone it’s trying to knock off the top spot: No copy/paste. No multi-tasking. No expandable memory.
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Windows Phone 7: iPhone in Disguise!
(Note: this is a quick post, throwing an idea out into the ether as soon as it hatches, with just a few feathers sticking to its scrawny neck, and a great big gaping beak squawking ‘Feed me!’ It is distinctly lacking in flight-feathers of its own as yet.) People instinctively feel that there must be some distinct, special meaning in receiving an unchanging hexagram.
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Unchanging hexagrams and patterns of change
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia brand has expanded to include several new models this year, so to keep you fully up-to-date, here is a rundown of the entire range and their key features, plus some speculation on the future: Xperia X1.
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A Guide to Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Range, In the Present and the Future
From a Reuters report : The NTRA had tolerated mobile internet telephony until a drop in international call volumes over recent months pushed them to tell Egypt’s operators to enforce the ban, Badawy said. “We monitor what is happening on international voice calling and it has had an adverse effect on it,” he said by phone. Tarek responds to a Global Voices post : It’s official now, the NTRA – the government – is the one responsible for this and not the mobile operators.
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Egyptian government orders Skype mobile blocked
We have discussed so many ways by which you can make free and cheap calls to India, so lets now discuss about making cheap calls to some other popular countries. Similar to IndiaLD which offers calls to India at just $0.007 (.7 cents – less than one cent),..
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Mexld : Cheap Call Mexico at just 1.3 cents/min
As a technology that enables consumers to gain greater access to better Internet services, WiMAX has captured significant attention in today’s marketplace. In particular, WiMAX can make important inroads to the Indian SME and consumer markets. Driven by basic broadband needs and VoIP, WiMAX is increasingly being considered as the most viable last-mile solution
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Why WiMAX?
Statewide CEO group Business Leaders for Michigan has released a new report that reiterates a previous conclusion: Michigan lags other states in economic competitiveness.
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Business Leaders for Michigan report urges tax, cost controls to improve economic competitiveness
Ok, I get you like small form-factor cameras because having one with you is better than having a pro rig that’s in the closet at home, but which camera do you suggest for an advanced amateur photographer? I take a lot of pictures of our [dog, cat, ferret, parakeet, hamster, kids] to send to grandparents and post on Facebook, but want to be able to shoot really good quality pictures too, not just snapshots. What do you recommend?
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Three Important Factors for Great Photographs