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BLACKBERRY MAKER Research in Motion (RIM) has impressed investors with its fiscal second quarter earnings, despite posting a £235m loss.
Announced on Thursday, RIM's quarterly earnings saw the firm's shares leap by 18 percent, even though the company posted its lowest smartphone shipments since 2008. It announced that it shifted 7.4 million smartphones during the quarter as well as 130,000 Playbook tablets, probably thanks to retailers' discounts.
While these were RIM's lowest sales figures for a while, they were above what analysts had been expecting.
RIM reported a net loss of $ 235m (around £145m), compared with a profit of $ 329m for the same quarter last year. However, RIM increased its cash reserve to to around £2.3bn, up from $ 2.2bn in the first quarter.
Thorsten Heins, president and CEO of RIM, understandably seemed pleased by the results. "Despite the significant changes we are implementing across the organization, our second quarter results demonstrate that RIM is progressing on its financial and operational commitments during this major transition," said Heins.
"Subscribers grew to approximately 80 million global users, revenue grew sequentially from the first quarter, cash, cash equivalents, short-term and longterm investments increased by approximately $ 100 million to $ 2.3 billion, and carriers and developers are responding well to previews of our upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform.
"Make no mistake about it, we understand that we have much more work to do, but we are making the organizational changes to drive improvements across the company, our employees are committed and motivated, and BlackBerry 10 is on track to launch in the first calendar quarter of 2013."
Heins also revealed that the company will be bringing mid-range and top-end Blackberry 10 devices to market by next Autumn, with low-end devices coming later in the year. µ
More RIM's earnings beat expectations despite 5m loss - Inquirer Issues Question by Girl: How do you say "Romanian Apple Cake Shop" in Romanian? I'm doing a cultural diversity project for my business class, and my group has chosen Romania as our research country. We're trying to explain cultural things, such as popular dishes. And so, we need to know how to pronounce "Romanian Apple Cake Shop." Through translators, we found that Romanian Apple Cake is "Prãjitura de mãr românã." We would really appreciate help in pronouncing this. Please and thanks in advance. Best answer for How do you say "Romanian Apple Cake Shop" in Romanian?:
Answer by sexy.jessie
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Answer by Lobosito
i would rather say "prăjitură cu măr românească" or even better "prăjitură cu mere românească" to convince for it, you can google it prajitura de mar ...no page prajitura cu mar...5 pages prajitura cu mere...10 pages ă is pronounced like first "a" in arise, alight, arrive pra-gee-tu-ra kjuu me-re ro-man-easka romanian apple cake shop will be then magazin cu prăjituri cu mere româneşti or cofetărie cu prăjituri cu mere româneşti ko-fe-tar-ie kjuu pra-gee-turi kjuu me-re ro-man-esh-ti ie like in siege ş is pronounced sh like in share, shave though i don't like much the presence of two "cu", "cu" means "with", so maybe somebody will find even a better translation. The english has the advantage of compressing expressions so that you can exprimate one thing with less words. But still it makes sense and is correct my translation.
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"Exit Through The Gift Shop" - Official Trailer [HD] |Bansky is the heartbeat of street art. Now see it yourself. This is how urban street culture is being made. Coming to theatres on April 16th, 2010. The first film by renowned graffiti artist Banksy, became the hottest ticket at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it made its world debut. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from postâ€"hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the worlds most infamous graffiti arti sts at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, Its basically the story of how one man set out to film the unâ€"filmable. And failed
Question by RameelRaymundo: would calling a body shop "criminals" to the dealership that refers ppl to them be construed as defamation? I work in the insurance industry and I went to get my car serviced at a dealership that happens to refer their customers to a body shop that charges exorbitant prices. I slipped and called the body shop "criminals" for constantly having high repair costs to insurance companies. Could this be construed as defamation? Best answer for would calling a body shop "criminals" to the dealership that refers ppl to them be construed as defamation?:
Answer by Anabelle
Do you really think they want a lawsuit like that in the newspapers, and if they threaten you make sure they know that is what will happen. Just tell them you will never come near them again if they are bothering you, and if they threaten, you know what to tell them.
Answer by Caoedhen
It would depend on the exact situation, but probably not. Any defamation claim has two prongs that have to be satisfied to be successful. 1. The statement has to be untrue. An opinion is OK usually, but the word criminal has certain negative connotations. If the body shop is not technically doing anything but gouging prices and has not been convicted of anything, then the statement is not true. You lose on that one. 2. The statement has to be "published", (made to a 3rd party), AND the claimant has to have suffered some loss because of the statement. You telling the owner that what he does is criminal is NOT defamation. Telling another customer in the shop the same thing, who then leaves without geting the work done, has caused an economic loss to the shop. So *if* there were other persons in the area and *if* the business lost money due to your statement, then the second prong is staisfied and you could be sued. Most people that scream about suing someone for defamation/slander/libel have no idea what they are talking about...
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TIMES SQUARE â€" A Times Square sex shop has opened a "Grey Area" inspired by the bondage-heavy "Fifty Shades of Grey" novels. Gotham City at 687 Eighth Ave. is now packed with items used in the books, including rope, handcuffs and whips. The porn ... Times Square Sex Shop Opens Section for 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Fans
As the social network sweeps clean all bogus activity, page fan counts drop by the tens of thousands.
Metric data on Facebook's top pages by fan counts and their daily growth.
(Credit: PageData)The purge has commenced. Facebook is throwing out all fake users, accounts, and likes. That's right, all of those thousands of questionable thumbs ups are starting to disappear.
The social network announced last month that it'd start this massive deletion process, but it was unclear when. According to TechCrunch, Facebook confirmed today that the time is now.
Over the course of the day, tens of thousands of fans were quietly dropped from Facebook Pages. Data from Facebook metrics site PageData shows that Zynga's Texas HoldEm Poker lost 96,000 fans today, while Rihanna lost 22,198, and Michael Jackson lost 17,591. Even the Facebook like champion Eminem had fans vanish today -- his count dropped by 15,420.
Facebook said last month that the reason it was sweeping its site of phony activity was to cut down on suspicious likes and make sure that users were dealing with real people and businesses.
Here's more from a blog post in August:
These newly improved automated efforts will remove those Likes gained by malware, compromised accounts, deceived users, or purchased bulk Likes. While we have always had dedicated protections against each of these threats on Facebook, these improved systems have been specifically configured to identify and take action against suspicious Likes.
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In the end, this eradication should come as good news to most users because it means less spam and phishing on the social network.
CNET contacted Facebook for more information and we'll update the story when we hear back.
Find More Facebook trashes fake accounts, users, and likes - CNET Topics Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop |Website: www.banksyfilm.com This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results. One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale... with bolt cutters.
Virtual Barber Shop (Audio...use headphones, close ur eyes)You'll need headphones for this to work. Make sure there is no noise around, close your eyes, turn the volume up a little bit, hold and press headphone on your ears for better hearing, play it and enjoy this impressive audio work ( illusion ). Not a screamer not a prank! CREDITS: Finally the origin of the embedded audio clip has been found. This amazing audio clip was created by QSound Labs ( www.qsound.com ) as a demonstration of Binaural audio technology. See this wikipedia entry for information about binaural recordings. http Extra tags: barbershop barber wow omg amazing featured technology wild scary horror lovely virus lovelyvirus
Rayho said they opened the store in East Alton because there was an opportunity to take over the former Angel Cream doughnut shop. He said they were allowed to keep the recipes and the baker, Brian Jenkins, but not the name. So the family team, that ... New doughnut shop in Collinsville has novel treat
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom. Photo: Vince Kmeron/Flickr
In just six months, Instagram use has more than septupled, growing from around 900,000 people per day to around 7.3 million, according to ComScore. The photo-sharing app’s astonishing growth underscores the growing momentum of mobile-native apps, and the potential of said apps to open wide leads over traditional websites.
Instagram effectively has no website; though the social network’s photos live on the web, it can only be driven through mobile app. Like the popular check-in service Foursquare, Instagram is truly native to mobile and specifically to smartphones. Even before evidence of Instagram’s amazing six-month growth spurt, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were becoming obsessed with the mobile frontier and with the potential of mobile-first development. Much as bricks-and-mortar companies raced to develop web strategies in the mid 1990s, today’s web properties, including relative newcomers like Facebook, are racing to draw up aggressive attack plans for mobile.
Instagram now claims more U.S. daily users than Twitter, across both apps and web. Source: ComScore
Even Twitter, whose roots are in mobile phones, is being eclipsed by mobile-native Instagram. Comscore says that in the U.S., Instagram’s 7.3 million daily web and app users in August surpassed Twitter’s 6.9 million daily web and app users, the first time that’s happened (see chart). As Mike Isaac of All Things D wroteof the switch, “the massive shift in user traffic to mobile devices is a real thing.â€
Twitter was for several years a web, rather than smartphone, focused company; though it was built on top of text messaging, the microblogging service quickly turned its attention to its site and didn’t release its first smartphone app until 2010, four years after Twitter started. In fairness, Twitter’s smartphone app still predated Instagram’s birth, and Twitter for years nurtured an ecosystem of third-party apps. But it was never such a mobile purebred as Instagram.
Of course, many previous mobile apps have surged like Instagram only to fizzle out. But people seem to genuinely enjoy looking at friends’ pictures on Instagram, and uploading snapshots of their own. The average visitor spent a total of four hours on the site during the month of August, compared to less than three hours for the average Twitter visitor, ComScore says.
That kind of engagement is only going to stoke Silicon Valley’s hunger for mobile-native social networks. If you think the hype around Apple’s iPhone launches is excessive, brace yourself: The collective din of Instagram’s would-be peers promoting their disruptive potential is probably going to render you… well, the opposite of mobile.
Find More Instagram Use Is Exploding - Wired (blog) Articles Question by Martha Pamela: How can I add a "shop" app on my business facebook? I am stumped. I have been looking at other Facebook pages and I see a "SHOP" or a "store" app on the time lines and I want one but I don't know how to get it. Where can I find one or how can I set it up. Does any one know? Best answer for How can I add a "shop" app on my business facebook?:
Answer by Asdsadas
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Shop Vac (kinetic typography animation)A kinetic typography music video for Jonathan Coulton's Shop Vac. This was created using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and Toon Boom Animate. I worked on this sporadically, so it's difficult to estimate how much time went into it. Somewhere between 500-1000 hours, but it was a labor of love. Go buy the song on JoCo's website: www.jonathancoulton.com Enjoy!
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