Hints and tips:
...Lex is sceptical about Facebook’s glasses launched with Ray-Ban on Thursday....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...Top shareholdings: Coca-Cola; ConocoPhillips; DirecTV; GlaxoSmithKline; General Electric; IBM. Portfolio Value: Berkshire’s equity portfolio was valued at $103.3bn at the end of June....
...The scene: a twenty-something wakes to see standing over him a huge black-clad figure wearing Ray-Bans and talking with an Austrian accent. Wake up, John Connor. Who are you....
...Drugs are commonly posted mislabelled as other products or wrapped in tin foil to conceal them from X-ray scans at centres such as Coventry’s postal sorting office, another venue for Operation Pangea this...
...The AFR released more than 14,000 emails this week, which it said came from the hard drive of Ray Adams, a former NDS head of security....
...Twilight, Romney v Obama....
...Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox have signed up to release their films on a “premium video-on-demand” basis with DirecTV, the satellite operator, according...
...The scheme, which is being promoted by DirecTV, the pay-TV group, has caused consternation among cinema chains and some film directors....
...It says 60 per cent have already tried the service, using internet-connected Blu-ray disc players, or web-enabled TV sets and games consoles, such as Microsoft’s Xbox....
...For example, the Blu-ray disc association agreed a 3D standard last month, which paves the way for 3D movies and games to be delivered via Blu-ray disc players and Sony’s PS3 video game consoles by the middle...
...3D disc – a copy of Dreamworks’ Monsters v Aliens....
...For example, Argonaut Capital Management remains downbeat in its medium-to-long outlook for the US, but sees “rays of light” appearing in the short term....
...“We are moving toward a world of ‘snackable’ news that can be shared like pieces of candy or a pack of gum,” says Ray Valdes, a media analyst with Gartner....
...He remembers uncapping a black marker to write: R squared over A is V+, in what he calls a type of epiphany....
...So look for a “U” or a little “v,” not the big “V.” But be positive!...
...Wolf was a consultant to Comcast when it bought AT&T’s cable television systems and to Rupert Murdoch during his drawn-out battle to buy DirecTV....
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