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  • International PV experts gather in San Jose Nov 30 –Dec 1 to discuss how to drive down LCOE and boost MW output ... Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 10:02AMWhat is the future for utility scale solar? According to recent reports and commitment from utilities in the Southwest and East coast USA, the future is optimistic. SEIA recently announced that utilities' solar megawatts added to the grid grew from 169 MW in 2008 to 279 in 2009, a growth of 66 percent in a year when electricity demand as a whole declined as the result of an economic downturn.
  • Aloft Hotels Makes Landmark Debut in Europe Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 10:01AMBRUSSELS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.® (NYSE:HOT) and its new destination sensation brand, Aloft® Hotels, announce that Aloft Brussels Schuman, the first Aloft hotel in Europe, opens today. Aloft Hotels delivers urban-inspired, modern design and an energetic guest experience at an affordable price point. Owned by Thornsett Group, Aloft Brussels Schuman introduces ...
  • Aloft Hotels Makes Landmark Debut in Europe Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 9:54AMBRUSSELS----Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.® and its new destination sensation brand, Aloft® Hotels, announce that Aloft Brussels Schuman, the first Aloft hotel in Europe, opens today.
  • UBM Studios Expands its Virtual Recruitment Fairs with the Acquisition of Astound LLC Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 9:24AMCHICAGO, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on its track record of producing successful virtual recruitment fairs, UBM Studios today announced it has acquired Astound LLC, the creator of Milicruit and Unicruit virtual career fairs targeted at placing veterans/military personnel and graduating college students in the workforce. By adding Astound to its portfolio of virtual business solutions, UBM ...
  • Platinum Equity and The Gores Group Acquire Alliance Entertainment From Source Interlink Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 9:15AMFirms Form Joint Venture That Will Operate CD-DVD-Game Distributor as a Standalone Business
  • Socks-up champion AFL's best youngster Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 9:00AMAT yesterday's Rising Star Award, tribute was paid to Ron Evans, the revered AFL figure after whom the medal won by Swan Daniel Hannebery is named.
  • Daily Pfennig 9/01/10: China & Australia Team Up! Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 8:14AMIn This Issue…. * Risk is back ON! * Aussie GDP prints strong! * Home Prices rise in June... * Canadian GDP weakens... And Now... Today's Pfennig! China & Australia Team Up!
  • UBM Studios Expands its Virtual Recruitment Fairs with the Acquisition of Astound LLC Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 8:00AMBuilding on its track record of producing successful virtual recruitment fairs, UBM Studios today announced it has acquired Astound LLC, the creator of Milicruit and Unicruit virtual career fairs targeted at placing veterans/military personnel and graduating college students in the workforce. By adding Astound to its portfolio of virtual business solutions, UBM Studios adds Fortune 500 clients ...
  • Starwood Hotels and Resorts Opens First Aloft Hotel in Europe Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:22AMBRUSSELS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc.® (NYSE:HOT) and its new hip hotels brand, Aloft® Hotels, today announces the opening of Aloft Brussels Schuman, the first Aloft hotel to open in Europe. Aloft Hotels delivers urban-inspired, modern design and an energetic guest experience at an affordable price point. Owned by Thornsett Group, Aloft Brussels Schuman ...
  • Starwood Hotels and Resorts Opens First Aloft Hotel in Europe Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:00AMBRUSSELS----Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc.® and its new hip hotels brand, Aloft® Hotels, today announces the opening of Aloft Brussels Schuman, the first Aloft hotel to open in Europe.
  • Motorola DEFY is rugged Android candybar Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 4:15AMThe MILESTONE 2 isn’t the only new Motorola Android phone around today; there’s also the Motorola DEFY , a ruggedized MOTOBLUR device with a 3.7-inch touchscreen and 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash. A bigger sibling to the North America-only Motorola i1 , the DEFY is dust proof and water resistant, together with having a scratch proof glass screen. Since it’s all very well being able ...
  • The U.S. is a mess. Should we invest overseas? Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 3:53AMQuestion: Looking into the future of the American economy, I see tons of debt, the yoke of increasing social spending, pork-fed bureaucratic waste, the exporting of jobs and the importing of poverty. While this may paint a negative picture, I feel it's reality. We all want to be patriotic, but aren't there more fiscally responsible places to invest in that may offer a better landscape? --Dave ...
  • 5 Shares You Should Have Bought In August Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 3:45AMThe FTSE fell 0.6% last month, but these shares did much better.
  • The U.S. is a mess. Should we invest overseas? Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 3:43AMQuestion: Looking into the future of the American economy, I see tons of debt, the yoke of increasing social spending, pork-fed bureaucratic waste, the exporting of jobs and the importing of poverty.
  • An Outdoorsy Phone Running Android: Motorola Defy [Android] Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 3:10AM# android Billing this as a rough-'n-tumble phone, Motorola's Defy doesn't particularly wow on the specs-front, but could be a good Android alternative to those rugged phones Samsung keeps churning out. More »
  • Workstation Shootout: Nvidia Quadro 5000 Vs. ATI FirePro V8800 Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 1:37AMNvidia sure didn't waste any time introducing its Fermi architecture to the workstation space. Its Quadro 5000 is one of the first models to use the company's GF100 graphics processor. How does this card stack up against ATI’s flagship FirePro V8800? Nvidia - Nvidia Quadro - Graphics processing unit - ATI Technologies - Workstation
  • Vivendi First Half 2010: Growth in all Financial Indicators Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 12:59AMPARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Vivendi (Paris: VIV): Note: This press release contains unaudited consolidated earnings established under IFRS, which were approved by Vivendi’s Management Board on August 27, 2010. Revenues: €13.982 billion, up 6.1% compared to first half 2009. EBITA1: €3.243 billion, up 11.9%, due in particular to Activision Blizzard, SFR and GVT. GVT: growth and ...
  • Vivendi First Half 2010: Growth in all Financial Indicators Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 12:49AMPARIS----Regulatory News:
  • Corsair sails into gaming headset waters with noise-isolating HS1 cans Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 12:21AMFor some people, the association of Corsair and quality PC components is so strong that they'd buy anything that bears the triple sail logo. It makes perfect sense, therefore, for the company that made its name by producing memory sticks to diversify its portfolio even further, this time into gaming headsets , with the introduction of the HS1. It's a USB headset offering multichannel audio via ...
  • BYU's departure is about being 'special' Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 11:43PMBYU feels unappreciated in the Mountain West.
  • RBNL to manage all media assets of ADAG Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 1:38AMMumbai, Augf 30 : In a game changing move the Reliance Broadcast Network (RBNL) has become an exclusive platform to access over 200 million strong base of the Reliance ADA Group touching one in every five Indians.
  • Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 11:15PMRoyalty-Free End-User Licensing for H.264 AVC Internet Video MPEG Licensing Authority has decided to extend royalty-free licensing to end-users of the H.264 video codec (known as “Internet Broadcast AVC Video”) during the entire life of this License.
  • NSFW: A Modest Proposal For Authors Who Abandon Their Publishers — Give Me A Break Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 8:20PM"Publishers are all cohorts of the devil. There must be a special hell for them somewhere." - Goethe If I were a commissioning editor in a major publishing house, I’d be feeling a little unloved right now. Like the wife of a guy who runs over his neighbour’s cat: why does everyone hate me ? What did I do? Maybe hate is too strong a word: hate is when you hope that someone will burst into flames ...
  • Behind The Bidding War: The Real Reasons Why HP And Dell are So Desperate For 3Par Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 3:35PMAs I was writing this, news of the HP / Dell bidding war for 3PAR broke on the front page of Yahoo. This made me laugh, as it typified just how crazy this story has become—few things outside of a bidding war will make a storage acquisition sexy enough to make mainstream news. At $30, HP’s current offer is the sixth bid , a 200 percent premium over 3PAR’s previous $10 share price. Not only is ...
  • KTGY-Designed New Luxury Apartment Community gallery421 Celebrates Grand Opening in Downtown Long Beach Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:54PMLos Angeles - Designed by KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture and Planning, gallery421 recently celebrated the grand opening of Long Beach's newest luxury apartment community.
  • Investor care paramount, Govt tells savings industry Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 1:38PMThe Government has delivered a thinly veiled warning to the savings industry to pick up its game when it comes to protecting investor interests.Speaking on behalf of Commerce Minister Simon Power, Kate Wilkinson told industry...
  • Akerson helped transform Carlyle Group Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:27AMThe Carlyle Group, where Dan Akerson has honed his investment and turnaround skills since 2003, is one of those companies that attracts conspiracy theorists. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd referred to the Washington, D.C.-based investment firm in 2003 as a "creepy John Grisham-style Washington firm ... suffused with Arab connections and money."
  • SCSU's budget outlook grim Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 12:36AMSt. Cloud State's athletic department clarifies budget numbers and why it's facing a large deficit
  • The virtue of sin stocks Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:02PMBOSTON -- So much for virtue. Sin is in. That's according to a mutual fund manager who's finding plenty of investment opportunities in companies profiting from vices like smoking, drinking and gambling.
  • Kittrell: Fans, finance long for glory days Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:00PMOnly six more days until another season of Tennessee football begins. Like many who grew up in East Tennessee, my father began taking me to University of Tennessee football games at an early age. My memories of those fall Saturdays are ones filled with the traditions of Tennessee football.
  • In grizzly times, be cautious but not frightened Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 9:10PMIt will take more time to absorb the jobs we've lost and for growth to resume. But don't lock yourself into investments that you may come to regret.
  • 21 - 40 Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 7:38PM21. Michael J. Petrides School 715 Ocean Terrace,Staten Island Admission: Priority to continuing 8th graders Average Class Size: 27 DOE Grade: A Average Daily Attendance: 92% SAT Score: 1514 Graduation Rate: 97% College Entrance: 92% attend Students “challenged to their maximum potential” for college prep in this tight-knit, K-12...
  • Match-rigger boasts of syndicate's shady fortune Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 6:30PMCRICKET rigger Mazhar Majeed boasted that cheating in the sport is rife, with one controversial Test this year netting a shady betting syndicate more than £830,000.
  • Lenovo to develop game consoles in China: Report Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 2:59AMLenovo to develop game consoles in China: ReportLenovo to develop game consoles in China: Report
  • UPS improves reverse logistics Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 1:59AMUPS has launched a new service for American consumers to drop returns in their personal mailbox or at any US Postal Service (USPS) and UPS location nationwide.
  • Qwest Expands Cloud-Based Services With Introduction Of Real-Time Application Recovery Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 1:13AMQwest Communications recently announced enhancements to its business continuity/disaster recovery portfolio with the launch of Qwest Real-Time Application Recovery.
  • Bradford shows he's ready to go Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 12:00AMFOXBOROUGH, Mass. • Relevance, people. I dobelieve at long last we might now have relevance. It has takenawhile for anyone to believe this about the St. Louis Rams as theywent on a decade-long wild slide from the NFL penthouse all the waydown to its most wretched depths. Once the best team in football —and without question the most exciting — the Rams have spent thelast five or six seasons far ...
  • Wally Buono panic? Not his style Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 11:44PMThere's been a lot of thinking going on for B.C. Lions coach/general manager Wally Buono, who has only added one win to his CFL-best career record so far in 2010. But it's not his style to panic.
  • Microsoft Is Dumping "Billions" Of Dollars Into Windows Phone 7 [Microsoft] Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 8:25PM# microsoft Microsoft seems to be investing quite a bit of cash into the Windows Phone 7 project. In fact, based on what TechCrunch is hearing, they're sinking billions of dollars into the first year for marketing and development. More »
  • Why Dell Needs 3PAR (and HP Doesn't) Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:47PMHP doesn't really want 3PAR as much as it wants to mess with Dell's head.
  • MPEG-LA makes H.264 video royalty-free forever, as long as it's freely distributed Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:28PMThe H.264 codec that makes a good deal of digital video possible has actually been free to use ( under certain conditions ) for many years, but following recent controversies over the future of web video, rightholders have agreed to extend that freedom in perpetuity. Whereas originally standards organization MPEG-LA had said it wouldn't collect royalties from those freely distributing AVC/H.264 ...
  • Technically, Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Is a Sell Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:47PMAssuming you pay attention to lines on a graph.
  • Outlet malls a bright spot for retailers Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 4:33AMOutside, the parking lot is packed. Inside the stores is a bustling scene. There are lines to the dressing rooms. There are lines to check out -- savvy shoppers snatching up super-good deals.
  • Fund manager finds plenty of virtue in sin stocks Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 3:34AMSo much for virtue. Sin is in.
  • CVB's short-sell shock Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 2:03AMAs if the Inland Empire needed another reminder of the state of its fragile commercial real estate market, investors in the region s largest financial institution have been betting against it.
  • Fund manager finds virtue in sin stocks like liquor, cigarettes Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 10:56PMBOSTON – So much for virtue. Sin is in. That’s according to a mutual fund manager who’s finding plenty of investment opportunities in companies profiting from vices like smoking, drinking and gambling. Jeff Middleswart’s aptly named Vice Fund is beating the house in a down market. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is down 1.9 percent this year. Yet stocks of cigarette makers are up an average 12 ...
  • National Sports Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 10:32PMATHENS, Greece (AP) — Serbia's Nenad Krstic, a center for the Oklahoma City Thunder, was released Friday after being held in police custody overnight following a chaotic brawl during a match with Greece.
  • Allan Donald coming Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 9:32PMTWO former South Africa internationals — Allan Donald and Andrew Hall — are set to join the growing list of foreign professionals flocking the domestic franchise cricket ahead of the new season to begin in two weeks time.
  • Krstic released from custody after brawl Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 4:52PMSerbia's Nenad Krstic has been released after he was held in custody overnight following a brawl during a game against Greece. Serbia - Greece - Nenad Krstić - Basketball - Nenad Krstic
  • Stadiums likely to stand empty Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 10:10AMThe chickens of the World Cup have come home to roost. With the exception of the FNB Stadium in Soweto, cash-strapped municipalities who own the multimillion-rand stadiums built for the World Cup face imminent disaster as the structures look set to become redundant.