Home theatres speak volumes for change
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- Home theatres speak volumes for change
- Online post-secondary school is booming, and it looks like there’s …
- Mirrored impressions
- Microsoft Taps Multiply.com as New Home for MSN Groups
- Gadgetry to take hit in lean holidays
- Behind the badge: Series spotlights Manitowoc Police Department
- Record collector satisfies old radio nostalgia for the MP3 age
Home theatres speak volumes for change
Economic Times, India
Sales of cassette players have
significantly dropped due to a technology shift towards CD and MP3 formats. It
is only CD players that have managed to retain sales though it is a very small
segment,? said Philips Electronics India V-P (consumer lifestyle) S
Nagarajan. Little wonder, Samsung?s home theatre sales has
grown by over 40% this year. It is now launching six new models for the festive
season. ?The healthy growth in home theatres is also linked with the sales
of LCD TVs. We are seeing a near 25% attachment ratio of home theatres and LCD
TV sales,? Samsung India deputy MD R Zutshi told ET. The
average price of home theatre systems have fallen from Rs 20,000 to Rs 9,000
over the last two years.
Online post-secondary school is booming, and it looks like there’s …
Dubuque Telegraph Herald, IA
Almost 20 years later, it has grown into the largest private university in North America. The institution has nearly 200 campus locations and online students from around the world. "That’s why we feel like we’re really one of the pioneers," said Chris Mason, campus director for the University of Phoenix’s Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, campus locations. Online education started to filter into tri-state area higher education institutions in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The first area college to offer an online program was UW-P in 1999.
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Mirrored impressions
ENC Today, NC
He stayed after school for photography classes. Less than 10 years later, he was a student at Glassboro State University, using his camera skills to pay for tuition on his way to a degree in education. That in turn, led to a job with the same New Jersey public school system in Parsippany where he had grown up – beginning as a sixth-grade teacher, and expanding to a career that lasted 33 years. He wore a lot of hats and eventually was in charge of libraries, audio-visual programs and materials for 15 schools and more than 13,000 students, with a staff that won national awards along the way. During his career, computers went from large mainframes to desktop, or as he calls them, microcomputers. He recalled an early $105,000 computer that had one function and a multitude of codes to make it work. “(Today) my laptop makes that look sick,” he laughed.
Microsoft Taps Multiply.com as New Home for MSN Groups
ReadWriteWeb, CA
Florida-based Multiply. com announced last week that it has 10 million registered users and sees 18 million monthly unique visitors – both numbers that have grown 100% year over year. Compare that to Facebook, which. Multiply has a rabidly loyal following, something that might change with an infusion of MSN Groups members, and its feature set is impressive.
Gadgetry to take hit in lean holidays
CNET News, CA
Under the terms it has reached with creditors, Circuit City can borrow up to $1. 3 billion against existing inventory to buy more inventory, according to Anthony Chukumba, an industry analyst with FTN Midwest Securities. But he said that manufacturers have grown cautious about how much merchandise to ship to Circuit City, fearing the company is financially unstable. As inventory goes down, credit available to Circuit City to buy additional inventory falls, he said. “It becomes a death spiral,” Chukumba said. “I call this Christmas ‘Circuit City’s last stand. ‘”Circuit City did not respond to a request for comment.
Behind the badge: Series spotlights Manitowoc Police Department
Herald Times Reporter, WI
Weyer is assigned Section 4, which generally covers the southeast quadrant of the city. However, officers respond anywhere they’re needed. The 35-year-old Weyer, a Lutheran High School graduate, knows the city well, having grown up here and worked as a patrol officer for 11 years. After high school, he received degrees in criminal justice and psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, then worked at an Oshkosh prison and the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department. Recently, Weyer served as the Manitowoc Police Department’s union leader, and for six years was on the SWAT team. Now, he focuses on daily patrols and assisting with firearms training, which is conducted quarterly. As Weyer buckles his seatbelt and turns on the ignition, the first call comes in from the Joint Dispatch Center.
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Record collector satisfies old radio nostalgia for the MP3 age
Austin American-Statesman, TX
The project began two years ago when Wheeler, who used to work in radio, began collecting. What started as a way for Wheeler to list the the contents of her albums has grown: She started a blog on the site that includes clips from records as well as interviews with DJs and musicians. We spoke to Wheeler about her site. What was your background in radio? My first radio job was changing reel-to-reel tapes at a “beautiful music” station in Pueblo, Colo. , in 1980 — I was 19. From there I did time at stations in Colorado Springs, Amarillo, Midland-Odessa and Austin (KLBJ-AM from 1991-1994).