| KFC Selects Wireless Ronin's Digital Signage to Move Forward With ...
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wireless Ronin Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNIN) , a Minneapolis-based digital signage provider (http://www.wirelessronin.com/), announced today that KFC Corporation (KFC), a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., has selected Wireless Ronin for the market test phase of its dynamic digital signage menu board program. KFC will be using Wireless Ronin's proprietary RoninCast(R) software to monitor and operate a fully integrated digital menu board system. The market test is scheduled to launch this month and is the second phase of testing for the digital menu boards with Wireless Ronin. The first phase commenced in July 2007. "We are very excited about this opportunity with KFC and with the success our testing has had to date," said Jeffrey Mack, president and CEO of Wireless Ronin.
ET Compass 2008 to explore new paradigms
MUMBAI: Never before has marketing, as a discipline, presented brand marketers with the kind of challenges they are faced with today. As business increasingly gets done at the speed of light, as new technologies rapidly force products and services into obsolescence, as media fragments to the extent that consumer eyeballs become increasingly elusive, and as speedier information dissemination shifts the power to the consumer, marketing paradigms need to be re-engineered to the new dynamic.
The Economic Times, in association with Starcom and Futureworks, presents ET Compass 2008, a day-long event designed to help marketers come to grips with the new marketing paradigm through the cross-fertilisation of ideas and learnings. ET Compass 2008 is being hosted in Mumbai on Thursday, January 31.
Suunto t4 Heart Rate Monitor Ranks #2 in Outside Magazine's 'O List ...
The editors of Outside Magazine have given the Suunto t4 heart rate monitor top honors in its December 2006 issue. Featured in the "O List" of the year's most important people, ideas, trends and gear, the Suunto t4 ranks second (just behind America's seven-time Tour de France champion) for its Suunto Coach feature. A Suunto t4 exclusive, Suunto Coach monitors progress and makes intelligent workout recommendations for frequency, duration and intensity. Whether a user accepts or declines a recommended workout, Suunto Coach continues to adapt, maintaining an up-to- date plan for athletic success. Released in fall 2006 with the company's new line of intelligent heart rate monitors, the Suunto t4 is available at specialty dealers nationwide for a suggested retail price of $199.
"Much more than a conventional heart rate monitor, the Suunto t4 guides you toward optimal fitness without over or under-training." explains Lauren Zimmerman Wilson, Director of Marketing for Suunto North America.
The Free Market: A False Idol After All?
Now, the subprime fiasco and a still unfolding wave of home foreclosures are prompting many to call for new rules. "We're revisiting the question of market flows with a deservedly wary eye," said Jared Bernstein, senior economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. "For decades, economists and political elites have argued that any time you regulate any aspect of the economy, you're slipping the handcuffs on the invisible hand. That's demonstrably wrong in lots of ways." But if markets can inflict pain, the harm from trying to tame them is often worse, argue those who would let the invisible hand carry on. The new regulatory tilt threatens to tie up innovation in a straitjacket of bureaucratic nannying while slowing the global economy, they say.
Obituaries in the News
Zhang died Jan. 26 in Beijing from a lung-related illness, state media reported without giving details. Her funeral will be held Friday in the capital's Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, an honor given to the Communist Party's elite. "I want everyone to remember her smile, her loyalty to love, her kindness of heart and how grandiose she was. Remember her brilliant life," Zhang's daughter, Hong Huang, a well-known publisher, wrote in her blog. "Mother ... we will still be together." Born in Shanghai in 1935, Zhang was the illegitimate daughter of a shop assistant and the son of a prominent family. She was adopted by Zhang Shizhao, a well-known lawyer who had been involved in the custody battle. Her family moved to Beijing in 1949 and four years later, Zhang entered the Beijing Foreign Studies University, where she taught after graduating with a master's degree.
Padilla co-defendants deny links to al-Qaida, Islamic extremism
Jose Padilla's two co-defendants adamantly denied Friday they were supporters of al-Qaida or other Islamic extremists and poignantly pleaded with a federal judge to give them lenient sentences on terrorism-related charges. "I am not al-Qaida. I have never been al-Qaida," said Adham Amin Hassoun, 45, a computer programmer of Palestinian heritage found by a jury to have been Padilla's recruiter for violent jihad overseas. "Your honor, I never wanted to kill anybody ... Let us go back to our families, our kids." Padilla himself did not address U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke, who said she will announce sentences for the three men next Tuesday. All three face maximum sentences of life behind bars, and all are seeking far less prison time. Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi, 46, an engineer and former public schools administrator in Detroit and Washington, D.C., denied being part of a support cell providing supplies, recruits and money for Islamic radicals overseas.
Outspoken Burress Makes Super Prediction
GLENDALE, Ariz. - Plaxico Burress looked through his wraparound shades and pointed to two choice midfield seats at Phoenix Stadium.
"If my mom and her were living now, they would probably be sitting in that first row right there, seats 15 and 16," the New York Giants' big-play receiver said. "They would have the best seats in the house."
And watching his every move, no doubt, in Sunday's Super Bowl against the New England Patriots.
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