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Yoo-hoo, star-gazers and amateur astronomers out there – any eclipses in 2012?

Well, my brother Stevenson is interested only in TWO things: CELESTIAL bodies (astronomy), and his job - with the Appco Group.

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The ever changing mobile-phone market it seems won't stop giving us new surprises, every now and then...!

Yes, everyone is fighting for the number-one crown; all big players - Apple, Samsung, Nokia, RIM etc, all are in the same race. Smartphones – reminds me of Christos Niarchos, my friend – who is a gadget geek, loves his collection of Smartphones and enjoys gifting them as well!

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Well, Twitter, Inc. has made it...!

The social networking/microblogging service provider is to hit the mark of 500 million registered users; could see Martha say - “Oh WOW, that is great”. She is regular on Twitter, other than the website of her client - Clover Advertising.

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Hey there - it is not RAIN GOD, but Apple Inc. which is now trying to come out ALL CLEAN after the hoopla over Chinese workforce conditions.

Oh-oh, I have a business meeting with Appco Group US; but - no issues, will cover this page first, before I move on!

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The Japanese auto-maker Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has not have much to smile about with the financial results for the nine months (ended on December 2011).

Yep! This indeed is a disturbing news for my friend (employed with Appco Group), who is loyal to nothing but Toyota!

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The Research In Motion Limited is elated after GREEN SIGNALS from the NIST and the CSEC for their BlackBerry 7 Smartphones.

Well, not JUST with individuals on the street, but Smartphones are going GREAT even in the corporate culture; be it with my cousin who works for Appco Group Australia, or others – you may often find MANY hopping around with an Apple or a Samsung high-end device. But then, I am loyal to BlackBerry. Yep!

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The money is not JUST coming in dribs and drabs for Apple but in BULK; yes, Apple Inc. is going strong with iPhones and iPads in the U.S. market.

My wife Roselyn who works for Redwoods Advance is on seventh heaven when she heard her Apple has won over my Google. Huh!

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It was as of late an "Elvis has left the building" sort of scenario for Strategic Forecasting, Inc., well known otherwise as Stratfor that was about to launch its website, but the attack, out-of-the-blue from hackers, it seems has made the company stick to the word 'caution', before the next move...

Well, before it, I was reading a good article about Oracle Advertising over the net, but then, the news about online-hacking forced me to take a look; well, the strategic intelligence analyst firm Stratfor has held its earlier-plan of website launch, after this sudden attack from the online hackers, which has even proved AGAIN that there is nothing impossible for hackers, which Iran had already got a line from, in the past.

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The popularity of social media continues to rise; associating people with just about everything they buy and watch. Nielsen's latest report throws some light on few answers on precisely how effective is the influence of Social Media on consumer behavior, both on and offline.

The measure of the time consumers spend on social networks and the number of blogs that continues to grow clearly shows the kind of influence it has on the decision making of purchaser. Taking into account the dominance of social media, many companies like Sirius Star marketing have benefited. The target was based on the report that 60 percent of people use social media network to research for a product or service. This is followed by brand specification enquiries, retailer and more.

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The UK Bribery Act has come into force, companies must count what processes they can put in place to forbid bribery by 'associated' individuals and the factors to bear in mind whenever they identify that bribery has happed within their organization.

The Act creates two general violations of bribing another person and being bribed and a distinct offence of bribery of a foreign public official. The section 7 of the Act brings out an offence whereby a 'related commercial establishment' which means any company that is formed in the UK or elsewhere, but conducts business in the UK is finable of an offence if a person 'affiliated' with it is found to offer or gives a bribe with the aim to receive or retain business or an reward in the manner of business for that organization.

This last offence is generally qualified as 'failing to curb bribery' and the company will be held responsible, not the individual. It is also an offence of severe liability entailing that if bribery is committed on behalf of a organization by a person 'connected' with it, may give way to criminal liability for the company that will invite unlimited fine, debarment from public procure contracts and tarred reputational damage despite that the directors were unaware of the development. Thankfully, all the same, the company can defend that if it can prove that it 'had this adequate procedure in place to prevent persons representing them from undertaking such conduct.

 

 

Established in the year 2000, Stride Marketing has evolved from the small company it once was to a national organisation that takes both, its clients as well as people forward in its stride. With people being the strength of the company, Stride Marketing Ltd moves ahead today.

In spite of the large success that the company has gained for itself, Stride Marketing Ltd is one company which keeps looking for ways by which it can do its work in a better way. The Business Development Program formulated by the company is designed in such a manner that it gifts individuals with opportunities to flourish and succeed.

Stride Marketing reviews of its business development program revealed that most of the candidates were more than pleased with the program which further inspired the company. Today, the company is working on various other programs which it thinks would benefit its clients and employees.

 

 

 

But for the scientists, we would never have known about an asteroid that was leading the Earth around the Sun. Only detected around Jupiter, Neptune and Mars, the asteroid which is named as Trojan 2010 TK7 measures only about 300 yards across, making the Earth the fourth planet in the solar system. Being a helping hand to the Earth along with Moon on the year long journey, the discovery has brought new ideas for the scientists by making them assume that more of asteroids are yet to be found.

As it is never going to get closer than 50-times, exactly the same distance as the moon sits from us, they are very hard to find from the Earth because they are not too big and pretty faint. But they are identifiable from space and if one wants to identify its path, one should consider Earth and the asteroid in a traveling position around a clock face with the Sun in the middle.

Also revealing that there will be more of them which is close to the Earth which can be potential targets to go to with spacecraft in the future. Also check the video

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Iran says it is planning to send a monkey into space next month as the next step in its space program. However, the western world has reacted wearily to this development as they fear these could bring huge  advances in Iran's missile arsenal development program.  Iran's national news agency IRNA said that  five monkeys are undergoing tests for teh proposed space sojourn and one will be selected for the flight on a Kavoshgar-5 rocket.

Last year, Iran announced that it had launched a rocket carrying a mouse, turtle and worms into space. The space program technology could be used to develop long range missiles with possible nuclear heads although Iran says that it is interested only in nuclear energy and not destructive nuclear arms.

 

Astronomers discovered that  galaxies display one of two distinct behaviors; they are either active and form stars or sleeping and  forming any new stars at all.  Even very young galaxies as far away as 12 billion light years could be either awake or asleep, which suggests that  galaxies have  had this behavioral pattern or more than 85 percent of the history of the universe.

The researchers found that there are many more active galaxies than passive ones, which reiterates the fact that galaxies start out actively forming stars before eventually shutting down.  Kate Whitaker, a Yale University graduate student and and her colleagues conducted this study by making use of special  filters, each one sensitive to different wavelengths of light, which they used on a 4-meter Kitt Peak telescope in Arizona. The active galaxies appear bluer, while the light emitted by passive  galaxies had a reddish tinge.

 

 

This Sheffield based company is a major in the direct marketing segment. The company provides the best solutions to marketing lead generation, cold calls and has cemented its place in the B2B services as well. Excelsior has a distinguished methodology, which is adapted both to meet the needs of their customers. The company's marketing and sales strategies move from being non-aligned to fully integrated one.

 

Excelsior Marketing Solutions Ltd is committed to marketing and to meet the need of the company without having to compromise on their principles. Excelsior has worked with all kinds of clients and customer and even used online marketing tools. The company before committing to any project does a preliminary research to design and plan how to deal with the market. Like most direct marketers, Excelsior realises that it is vital to know the product and the market, and today they have the company has managed to promote most of the product in spite of tough competition. Excelsior Marketing has a planned strategy to meet the ever increasing demand of customers.

 

The company has the best marketing professionals who have the ability to forecast how the market will behave. Excelsior Marketing Solutions Ltd today represents most major brands and companies in the United Kingdom. They are often known for their dedicated methods as they come with programs designed for medium and large enterprises. The company has scheduled a procedure on how to deal with sales and marketing approach and seize the opportunity at any given moment.


 

 

Satoshi Furukawa AP – Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, crew member of the mission to the International Space Station plans to harvest the vegetable on board the International Space Station. Japan has always been a pioneer in enhancing the culinary standards in space and the  Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who is in Baikonur escorting Furukawa's family, even made his own sushi while on the space station last year!

Satoshi Furukawa is on a six month space trip along with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and NASA astronaut Michael Fossum. He would be growing cucumbers as part of the studies on the ways and means on how future space explorers will be able to harvest their own food. Though cucumbers are all set to be grown in space, the earthly beings have been spurning cucumbers in the wake of an E. coli outbreak blamed on contaminated vegetables that has killed 22 and made over 2200 sick so far!

 

France Telecom's Orange is going for the Intel power!

“Aye, you heard it right; the Mobile World Congress 2012 witnessed it for all - Orange is all set to launch its Smartphone with the Intel technology, in the United Kingdom, and France”, asserts Jacob, who is employed with Web Technologies Inc.!

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All the roads are going to China; and no wonder, the 55-year old Steven Ballmer even wants to rock the Chinese market with a TANGO!

We are talking about Windows Phone (7.6 OS); but then, not sure - whether the Chinese are ready to Tango. Oh yeah, my friend Stewart (ANB Promotions Ltd.) is quite good at Ballroom Tango, and I envy him for that!

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Romania had it already, and then - Finland, Hungary and Mexico are in the line with job cuts!

Peter, do not worry; your company Blackcode Advertising is doing good by all means, and won't sack you! (Smile!)

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Some are willfully going out with a bouquet, while some are being thrown out – all red and blue! (Thud!)

I asked around in my family and a couple of them have been asked to leave with a pay of 11 months, others are living with the proverbial Damocles’ sword on their heads. Marketing companies are used to huge fluctuations and companies like Oracle Advertising seem to be holding out well.

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Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. - moves out, while Hewlett-Packard Company is busy ALL AGAIN shuffling things around.

My cousin Albert who works for Blackcode Advertising and I were chewing the fat over the net, when we had a News Tweet from a friend regarding 'management-shuffles' in Hewlett-Packard.

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It is not Sky-high but 'Skyfall' for all the movie aficionados out there that eagerly want to have a glimpse of the most-favored Daniel Craig for the third-time as James Bond; it surely will be a thrilling experience with this 23rd version of the British secret operative 007.

The movie 'Skyfall' is from the Eon Productions famed for the James Bond series. UK viewers can expect it by October 26, 2012, and for the U.S. audiences they may have to mark their calendars with November 9, 2012. For those who want to peek, please visit: www.007.com. Well, I do not think the movie director Sam Mendes may need Web Technologies Inc., for anything, here! Well!

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A $1.7 billion accounting scandal! Yes, Olympus Corp. - the medical device maker is in NEWS, and keeping a close-watch on it is none other than FUJIFILM Holdings, a big-name in the following - computer media, motion picture films, digital cameras, and medical imaging devices...

Never did this 92-year old medical device maker (Olympus) think that concealment of investment losses through impugnable merger and acquisition deals, and other means will give them bad-media attention,...and that too, after long years of 'goodie-good' business reputation. Now, the readers may say, “oh come on, companies like Magnum Marketing, and others can surely save them a good reputation, doing this or that...!” Well!

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It is Earth already, now we are looking at Mars (The Red Planet, and beware, "RED is danger")! Yes, man is greedy by nature; we need everything, no matter what. Give men their space, and they will ask for 'more'; not trying to offend anyone, it is just, we are 'careless' with the Earth, the planet we live on. Well said by Martin Luther King, Jr. "Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man." Yes!

Earth is dying; and, what are you doing to save the planet? Some say, "Save water", "save earth", "save environment", but, are we really concerned (?). Yoo-hoo, what do you think you can do to 'save our planet'. Can one person make a difference? Well, yes, every ONE person can make a difference, in their (own) efforts to save the Earth; unity is power, and we have to save the Earth. One day, at my friend's place [he works for Oracle Advertising; his wife; yes, her name is 'nature'; (laugh) he is a "lover of nature"]; while we were having tea and crumpets, I found his daughter (three and half years old) playing on the floor, with her toy-car; an ant was crawling on the floor, and she tried to kill it (and, she did - at the end), but suddenly my friend (who was watching her) yelled at that baby (in full voice) - STOP IT!!! And, lo - she burst out in tears...

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With NASA surfacing new ideas for funding of 30 new space research projects, there will be a potential growth and improvement of many factors in the space industry. This new funding brings about ways to protect astronauts from the dangerous deep space radiation, improving the spacesuit technology and also to eliminate space debris. As part of the NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts(NIAC), each of the proposals will be given an access to $100,000 as funding for a one year period.


The motive behind this new funding is to improve the current space mission operations that will ultimately bring in breakthroughs for the future of NASA's space missions. The factors that are included in this project is the usage of the three-dimensional printing technology that will create a planetary outpost and also in a way to fuel the future of the exploration missions including the use of nuclear and solar power.


With its operations spanning from 1998 to 2007, NIAC which is originally known as the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts is known to be an independant forum that acts as a countenance for the advanced approaches happening within NASA. Though it was put on a stay in the year 2008 , it emerged for a fiscal policy in the year 2011 in order to investigate its goals of far reaching advanced ideas as part of the agency's mission.

 

NASA will be putting to use the Space Exploration Technologies to go well beyond the ferry flights to the International Space Station. The firm, headed by internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, is discussing the prospect of a budget trip to Mars with NASA.

Space Exploration Technologies,( SpaceX) will be launching its second test Dragon capsule on Nov. 30, which will be docking to the space station. In addition to carrying cargo to and from the station, SpaceX has also innovative plans to upgrade the Dragon to fly people into space and to land it on Mars in future. The mission, also known as Red Dragon, would follow NASA's upcoming $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory, which is due to launch in November and arrive on Mars next August to discover whether the red planet is or ever was suitable for microbial life. As the quest for life in Mars continue, it will be interesting to know  more on this option of budget trip to Mars. Click here to read more

 

As  the space shuttle Atlantis set out on its final journey, space memorabilia collectors flooded the website of Goldberg’s Auctions in Los Angeles to make a bid at a piece of NASA history where the shuttle relics will be up for grabs. The space shuttle relics surged both in price and popularity as NASA’s 30-year-old space shuttle program ends with the landing of Atlantis, scheduled for Thursday at Kennedy Space Center.

Around 1,500 bidders, some from as far away as Singapore and Hong Kong, participated in the auction on the website, over seven phone lines and in the auction house itself, which makes it more than any previous space auction. In the last five years, one of 10,000 American flags flown on the first space shuttle flight sold for about $500, and now such a flag would fetch over $1,000 now thanks to the  nostalgia and publicity associated with the last lap of the shuttle program ends, says collector Robert Pearlman, founder of CollectSPACE.com. Any items that have flown in space always fetch a premium be it the flags, rocks or even space dust.  So in case you fancy being part of the space legacy, this could well be your choice.

 

 

3D Organisation- one of the foremost sales and marketing company in Manchester and is going places. The company is coming out with some of the best marketing strategies to serve its client in the most appropriate way. 3D has been helping their clients to deliver better sales through some quality marketing campaigns both in UK and globally using the "Human Commercial".

 

Ever since its inception in the year 2004, the company has expanded its office to 15 office around the UK. In the year 2010 the company had its office in Brazil and Sweden, that initiated the representation of Blue Chip clients. Today, 3D Organisation has made a place for itself in the marketing sector with new and better methodologies for profitable results.

 

The company has been able to infuse confidence in their client that direct marketing is widely acknowledged and is most effective method of gaining new market and enhancing brand awareness. This trend has forced many companies to rethink their marketing strategy and entrust their marketing activities to companies that are dedicated to do marketing.

 

June 15th was a special day for the sky watchers as they watched the longest lunar eclipse in 11 years. The amazing stellar event extended to a total of 100 minutes as the  moon passed into Earth's shadow, though the eclipse's actual progression took hours. Only four  total lunar eclipses including this one,  have  lasted 100 minutes or longer till now.

The moon took a red hue as it was slowly eclipsed by the shadow of earth.  The orange colour was caused by the indirect sunlight that could still  pass through Earth's atmosphere and cast a glow on the moon. It was visible in most parts of the world including eastern Africa, the Middle East, central Asia and western Australia. However, European skywatchers missed the initial part of the eclipse, because the moon was below the local horizon when the event began. A rare celestial event, the total lunar eclipse was indeed a treat for the human eyes.

 

NASA is set to launch a satellite to help better understand climate change. NASA will launch the Aquarius/SAC-D Sea Surface Salinity satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

For the next three years, the Aquarius satellite will look back at Earth and generate monthly maps of sea salt movement, data that are crucial to the understanding of global climate change and ocean currents. This long-term project, which began in 2001, is a joint effort with Argentine space agency.

The project will give scientists the information they need to better predict El Nino and La Nina tropical climate patterns in the Pacific. Until now, such research has been limited to ship and buoy instrumentation.

The Delta II rocket will carry an Argentine-built satellite with American data-gathering instruments. The mission will also serve as an environmental data-gathering project for Brazil, France, Italy and Canada.

The $287 million satellite will provide insights into water circulation and changes around the globe by measuring the microwave energy emitted from the ocean during weekly scans. Aquarius will be the 14th NASA Earth Science satellite in space.

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On the heels of the successful launch of its communication satellite GSAT-8, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch the next communication satellite GSAT-12 in the second week of July.

ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said the satellite would be launched from Sriharikota on a PSLV C-17 vehicle. It would be moved from Bangalore to Sriharikota for conducting various pre-launch tests. The assembling of the launch vehicle had also commenced.

GSAT-12, built at a cost of Rs.148 crore, has 12 transponders in an extended C-Band and will help users in the field of tele-medicine, tele-education, social services, etc. The launch vehicle is expected to cost about Rs.100 crore.

 
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