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  • Rates: RBA Sits Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 5:32PM[Australia Investment Review] - Tomorrow s jobs figures for August will provide the first test of the Reserve Bank s small, but significant change in interest rate policy. Instead of using the indeterminate appropriate ...
  • Rates: Look At The Changes To The Statement Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 5:30PM[Australia Investment Review] - As expected, no change to interest rates at yesterday s Reserve Bank board meeting, but the central bank has advanced from 2011, to sometime this year, if the economy keeps strengthening and inflation ...
  • Review: Flipboard – a news app that lets you choose your editor Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 10:59AMThe iPad app is an excellent way to get a quick sense of what your Facebook and Twitter friends are up to
  • Buying locally grown food packs powerful economic punch, study shows Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:14PMDavid Carter likes to shop at the Athens Farmers Market because the food is fresh and tasty, but also because it keeps his money in the local economy.
  • Get your own back on banks, shops and insurers Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 8:15PMIF you've ever wished you could treat a bank, shop or insurer the same way they treat you then now's your chance to get your own back.
  • Week in Apple: effects processors, magazines, and Apple TV rumors Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 3:08PMAs we prepare for "next week's Apple event, Apple TV and 99¢ TV show rumors continue to swirl. However, our top stories from this last week included a comparison between effects processors on the iPad, a look at magazine subscriptions in the iPad age, and more. Read on for the roundup. Read the comments on this post
  • 811437b2413d404789f9fc05d3424425Netflix iPhone app jumps to top of App Store free chart Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 2:24PMHaving only been available for a day, the Netflix iPhone app has already reached the top of the App Store's free category. The software lets Netflix subscribers stream movies and TV shows over Wi-Fi or 3G. Previously, the only way of streaming Netflix content to an iOS device was through the iPad app, launched in April.... App Store - IPhone - Netflix - Smartphones - Handhelds
  • Upper Saddle River sponsors ‘Green Challenge’ to promote conservation Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 12:37AMEvent on Sept. 11
  • 'Paywalls are essential', says WPP's Martin Sorrell Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 10:44AMWPP's chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell believes online paywalls are an "essential" part of the armoury for newspaper and magazine publishers in the digital age.
  • Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine Promotes Freemium Business Model on Wix Website Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 2:00AMChris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, wrote a book about the Freemium model. He offers a free audio version of the book on a site created with free website builder Wix.com. [PR.com]
  • iPad Magazine Subscriptions Delivered, Still Broken Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 10:55AMWant to go online-only on your iPad with your favorite magazines? Sorry, you'll have to keep waiting. Magazine - Shopping - Magazines and E-zines - Business and Economy - Directories
  • Privacy advice for Facebook's Places Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 10:08AMFacebook's Places may be useful, but users need to be careful before activating the powerful location tool. Also, People Magazine introduces a new iPad app and pricing scheme, while Lollapalooza fans can hear special interviews from the show.
  • iPad Magazine Subscriptions Delivered, Still Broken Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 9:45AMDespite Apple's talk about environmental friendliness, subscribing to iPad magazine apps now requires you to kill a tree.
  • Special needs need special plans Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 5:37AMLittle Joanna Misercola has encountered a lifetime of challenges in her eight years. Diagnosed with the developmental brain defects schizencephaly and polymicrogyria, she struggles with severe developmental delays, seizures, impaired vision and weakness on the left side of her body.
  • DIARY: Election, Profits, US Retailers, Japanese Growth Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 7:16PMAfter the sudden change in market sentiment last week after the US Federal Reserve's meeting and downgrading of the US economy, we can look forward to more concerns on markets here and offshore this week.But in Australia the Federal election on Saturday, but before then we have the Reserve Bank board minutes for this month's meeting, plus a speech by RBA & #160;Governor Glenn Stevens in Perth.On ...
  • Paterson library and its chief mark decade of modern transformation Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 1:21AMPATERSON — In 90-degree heat, the air conditioning in the Paterson Free Public Library had broken down, but Director Cindy Czesak wasn't panicking.
  • Profits: Telstra Savaged After Forecasting 2011 Earnings Slide Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 7:31PMCash rich, profit poor might describe the plight of Telstra after yesterday's 2010 earnings report and outlook.Cash flow jumped sharply to over six billion dollars, but earnings eased by nearly 5% in 2010, with another dose of the same forecast for 2011, and down went the shares.While the fall in the 2010 year was in line with market expectations, the outlook forecast was not liked by investors ...
  • Profits: Qantas Sees Blue Sky, Market Unmoved Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 7:31PMInvestors shrugged off the lack of a final dividend from Qantas after the airline yesterday reported another tough year with & #160;a 5.7% fall in full-year net profit to & #36;116 million.While the company's management concentrated on the underlying pretax profit figure of & #160; & #36;377 million for the year, the reality is that for shareholders there was no reward, just as there was no ...
  • Gold: Some Bearish Arguments Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 7:11PMThere are a growing number of gold bears emerging from hibernation.If we believe that despite the slowing US economy, the rest of the world will escape damage, especially Europe avoiding financial catastrophe (well, for the time being anyway), then what next for gold?The French-owned but London-based Nataxis commodity broker is one bear, and so is the respected UK economist, Julian Jessop.
  • Amazon Opens Kindle Bookstore in U.K. Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 5:13AMOn Thursday, Amazon launched a version of its Kindle store for the United Kingdom, bringing 400,000 e-books to the region, with some discounted to cheaper prices than the U.S.
  • Time Warner may tie tablet content to print subscriptions Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 9:59PMTime Warner may be looking to deliver special digital tablet versions of its paper magazines as a perk to its current subscribers. The company's CEO, Jeff Bewkes, hinted that he wants to make the content available to current subscribers--in a model a bit similar to its "TV Everywhere" initiative, which offers its own television content (TNT, TBS, HBO, etc.) to current cable television ...
  • The Economy: Services, Housing, Car Sales Mixed To Growing Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 7:02PMAfter the news on the trade boom yesterday, other reports on the economy were not so upbeat.Services: Another report yesterday confirmed the sluggishness in the service sector (as we have seen from retailing).The performance of services index fell for the third month in a row, down 2.2 points to 46.6 from June. (A figure below 50 indicates the industry is contracting.)
  • Spotify 'will launch in US by end of 2010' Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 11:27AMSpotify has vehemently denied an American news report that its negotiations in the US have made no progress, saying it is "still on track to launch in 2010".
  • Publishers, Apple battle over iPad subscriptions Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 10:11AMPublishers want to sell magazine subscriptions on the iPad but have been stymied by Apple (AAPL) . Also in today's App Industry Roundup , we look at why the $139 Kindle is a fine deal and point out that your apps may be spying on you.
  • Berlusconi Beating Murdoch’s Sky Italia in TV Soccer Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 7:35AMMediaset SpA and Sky Italia Srl, the competing broadcasters controlled by tycoons Silvio Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch, are in a price war for soccer viewers.
  • The Sun plans overhauled TV weekly magazine Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 5:47AMThe Sun is planning a new weekly magazine which will replace The Sun TV Mag on Saturdays.
  • Property: Australand's Steady Interim Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:30PMSome misleading reports on the half year profit performance of Singapore -controlled property group, Australand, as some stories failed to look at the interim accounts as accurately as they should have.On one measure, some report said Australand & #160;posted half-year net profit up 127%, which it did.
  • Profits: Markets Still Likes GUD Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:30PMInvestors continue to like what they see in the full year result from GUD Holdings.Throw in a bit of Masterchef, some sweet price rises, and then add a stronger Aussie dollar and that's how GUD Holdings managed to convert a & #160;1.8% rise in revenue into a 24% rise in underlying earnings for the year to June. & #160;
  • Profits: AFIC's Steady Year Ahead Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:30PMMelbourne-based listed investment company, Australian Foundation Investment Company Ltd, & #160;says it will take a patient approach to investing in 2010-11 after its 2009-10 annual profit fell 12%.AFIC & #160;reported & #160;an after-tax profit & #160;of & #36;183.75 million for the year to June 30, & #160;down from & #36;208.4 million the previous year.
  • Yen Press Adds Highschool of the Dead, UraBoku (Updated) Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 3:14PMAlso: Kaoru Mori's Bride's Stories , Higurashi When They Cry Demon Exposing Arc
  • Fringe Festival, KC Stage Style Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 11:43AMFor the fourth year in a row, KC Stage Magazine is partnering with the KC Fringe Festival, giving you continuous in-depth coverage online during the Festival.
  • Can't Use Frequent Flier Miles for a Flight? Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 6:20AMWith flights fuller than ever and airlines desperate to squeeze every last dollar from every last customer, frequent flier award seats are scarce. Magazine subscriptions, anyone? Frequent-flyer program - Airline - Magazine - Transportation - Travel
  • Smoke's future hangs in the air Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 8:51AMLondon magazine Smoke is pausing for 'a rethink' after bookshop closures undermined its distribution. A sign of the times? In Boys Will Be Boys, ES Turner 's classic popular history of British pulp periodicals, there is a running joke about what it means when a magazine has Important and Exciting News for its readers. The Exciting News is always that the magazine has been so successful that ...
  • Acquia aims to make it easier to design websites Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 5:30AMWhen Acquia Inc. launches its new service today, the goal will be . . . simple. Acquia - Drupal - Business - Design - Web Design and Development
  • Publishers sue prisons for banning law guide Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 3:32AMRICHMOND — Virginia prison officials have unconstitutionally banned inmates from receiving a book that teaches them how to file lawsuits concerning mistreatment or poor prison conditions, the book's publishers claim in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
  • City officials propose panhandling rules Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 11:11PMGet FREE Daily Headlines by email! Panhandlers would have to buy a license, keep changing locations and stay away from automated teller machines under a proposed ordinance making its way through Santa Fe city committees.
  • VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: July 22 letters Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 10:02PMTownship residents put a premium on public safety
  • Harris: Flipboard gives you a magazine just for you Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 8:57PMFriends and colleagues who love showing off their new iPads may soon be showing off Flipboard, the free "social magazine" app that debuted Wednesday to boffo reviews, resulting in a digital traffic jam at Apple's App Store that made it hard to download the program.
  • Mining: BHP Cautious Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 7:32PMBHP Billiton may be 'cautious' about the outlook for global growth and demand for its many commodities, but it is at least realistic on China.The company said in & #160;yesterday's 12 month production report that it & quot;continues to be cautious on the short term outlook for the global economy & quot;.
  • Retailing: Woolies Says Sales Still Slow Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 7:32PMShares in Woolworths weakened yesterday after Australia's largest retailer revealed another quarter of slowing & #160;sales growth, especially in its key Australian supermarkets chain.The shares traded in the red all day, finishing down 49c at & #36;26.19, down 1.8%.
  • Flipboard Offers a Personal Magazine on Apple's iPad Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 3:05PMIf you feel overwhelmed by every new story or piece of news from friends in your online social networks, there's a new iPad "personal social magazine" to organize them. On Wednesday, a new publication called Flipboard announced a new kind of magazine that "brings to life the stories, photos, news and updates being shared across Twitter and Facebook."
  • Men’s Fitness revamps cover Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 7:47AMSpecialist magazine Men’s Fitness is redesigning its front cover style to make it more accessible to a broader audience.
  • Free account registration for QNB customers Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 5:36PMQNB customers who have registered for ‘eazylife’ services will receive free account registration for a ‘shop & ship’ account from Aramex, as well as a discount rate of 10% to 30% until October 10.
  • Nawras adds to the thrill of Salalah Tourism Festival as a proud event sponsor Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 8:58PMMuscat, 14 th July, 2010: The Sultanate's customer-friendly communication provider Nawras Nawras is gearing up for another incredible summer as a proud sponsor of the Salalah Tourism Festival, bringing people closer in its own pleasingly different way.
  • The Economy: Business Confidence/Conditions Okay Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 6:49PMThe National Australia Bank says business confidence and conditions were mixed & #160;in June.The business conditions index rose 2 points to 8 in June, driven by a stronger mining sector.But confidence eased to a reading of four, down from five in May, according to the bank's latest business survey. & quot;Further falls in mining (survey predated the change in the mining & #160;tax) and ...
  • Uranium: ERA Shares Down As Output Estimate Cut Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 6:49PMEnergy Resources of Australia shares fell more than 4% yesterday after it & #160;reported a 36% slump in first-half uranium oxide production and warned the market to expect full-year output to be down by at least 18% on 2009.Second quarter output was down 44%, the company told the ASX yesterday
  • Northwest Wine: Plan to visit these 10 NW wineries, including one in Caldwell Wednesday, July 7, 2010 @ 12:20AMIn the Summer issue of Wine Press Northwest, we put together "100 Great Northwest Wine Destinations" for wine lovers to consider as they travel throughout Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Idaho. In this week's column, we look at the 10 destination wineries we put in the spotlight.
  • Publisha: “Welcome to Apptop Publishing!” Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 7:15PMPublisha takes digital publishing to where the readers are! Recently launched Publisha empowers writers by allowing them to publish text, images and video content seamlessly to Facebook, iPad, iPhone, web and mobile. The system comes with social media integration and additional revenue streams. The basic service is free and is accessed from one simple dashboard!
  • Car Sales: At Record Levels In June Monday, July 5, 2010 @ 7:17PMOnce again the core paradox on the consumption side of the Australian economy has been underlined.Another solid month of car sales in June (more so because June 2009 was boosted by tax benefits from the stimulus package) has raised the question: why are car sales so strong and home sales and retail sales less so?Given the downturn in consumer confidence (thanks to three rate rises this year and ...
  • Deals: Thailand's Banpu's Rich Bid For Centennial Coal Monday, July 5, 2010 @ 7:17PMIt has probably been the most widely expected bid in the market, but that didn't stop Thai-based group, Banpu, producing a surprise in its offer for Centennial Coal, the medium-sized NSW producer, yesterday.That surprise was the & #36;6.20 a share price in the proposed offer.The deal values Centennial at & #36;2.5 billion and, according to Bloomberg, it's Thailand's biggest single offshore ...