Dell launches notebooks with lower prices but higher resolution
The News Review:
- Dell launches notebooks with lower prices but higher resolution
- Earth Day: Using technology to lower C2 emissions
- IFFBoston Interview: I Need That Record!
- 10-Q: ARKADS GRUP INC.
- Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- New location opens opportunities for Child Protect services
Dell launches notebooks with lower prices but higher resolution
BetaNews
All three of the advertised configurations come standard with Windows Vista Home Premium Edition Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 processors Wi-Fi cards 720p hi-def video 8X Slot Load Super Multi Drives 6-cell lithium ion batteries high-definition Audio and a one-year limited warranty and mail-in service for hardware support. But the “Good” and “Better” configs ship use a Dell Wireless 1397 802. 11g Half Mini-Card for Wi-Fi and an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator for graphics. The “Best” config — priced from $949 — throws in an Intel Wi-Fi card and 256 MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card.
Earth Day: Using technology to lower C2 emissions
Examiner.com
? The United States is the biggest culprit when it comes to travel-related C2 emissions. Air travel in the country is an average 2300 for every 1000 people when compared to developing countries like China (60 for every 1000 people) and India (20). Technologies like conferencing (audio video and Web) have grown popular thanks to the rising corporate responsibility for building a low-carbon society. With the ongoing economic downturn companies are keener on cutting business travel than ever before. Investment in green technologies is now strategic for many. A study sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) advocates the building of open access sites for every million of the world’s urban population. This would mean a capital cost of $495 million and an annual operating cost of $347 million.
IFFBoston Interview: I Need That Record!
Bostonist
Bostonist: What inspired you to create a documentary about the plight of independent record stores?Brendan Toller: I got my first turntable and first records (early Beatles Bowie’s Space ddity) when I was 9. Going to record stores was always something I grew up with going with my dad and at age 1213 it started to become my own thing. Record Express was a New England chain that I had grown up with: 3 stores within a 30-mile radius I’m guessing. So there were a lot of great discoveries (Clash – London Calling Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night Dinosaur Jr. The Damned) while mom was shopping at TJ MAX or Joann Fabrics. Around age 15 16 and 17 I was in there almost once a week buying new releases and scouring the used section. When I went to Hampshire College in Amherst MA I was spoiled: 6 records stores (now down to 4 I think) with great taste selection and prices.
10-Q: ARKADS GRUP INC.
MarketWatch (press release)
In January 2009 Arkados announced teaming with Freescale Semiconductor Inc. to bring a versatile “Whole-House Audio In a Box(TM)” platform to market. The platform uses Arkados’ HomePlug(R) based multimedia streaming technology and Freescale’s Synkro wireless communications technology enabling untethered devices to control and monitor the system and display live data. This platform was announced at CES 2009. Also in January 2009 Arkados was recognized through awards given to the products of our customers: Checkolite International received a “CES Best of the Best” award from G4 Television for a system that combines whole-house audio with lighting control; Russound’s Collage and NuVo’s Renovia systems were each recognized as Honorees in the 2009 CES Innovations awards. Both the NuVo and Russound systems were displayed at the 2009 Electronic House Expo (EHX) and were singled out by CE Pro magazine in a list of Ten Products to Watch for in 2009. Each system is built around the Arkados chip and software platform.
Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
Just for comparison purposes these terms are comparable with offers from SunTrust M&T PNC and others here in the local markets. So while we are being aggressive in deposit gathering we are not out there all alone leading the market with irrational pricing. Deposits attributable to the premier money market account balance have grown by more than 50% since the end of the year. We?ve had a decline in overall timed deposits during the first quarter primarily due to pricing decisions to asset us in managing our margin. We have structured the premier account to serve as what we internally call a lead or hook product. That means we are using it to attract new household store company and then sell ourselves in to an increased share of the customer?s overall wallet. Since introducing the premier product we have secured over 1100 new households to our company.
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New location opens opportunities for Child Protect services
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Whether there is abuse in a family neglect in their past or a violent crime in their memories Shiloh Woodard and the staff at Child Protect of Mercer County have seen firsthand the toll trauma can take on young lives and the dedicated workers know just how necessary it is to make clients at the child advocacy center feel at home fast. For these reasons and more the Child Protect team was especially grateful to move into a new home on Center Street recently. “Here we just have a lot more room to grow into” Woodard said. The executive director of the fully accredited child advocacy headquarters said the home at 206 Center St.