15-05-2012 21:15 Xavier Larduinat, Director Strategic Marketing at Gemalto, talks about strategic initiatives in digital security.
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15-05-2012 22:49 Sally Turner | May 15, 2012 9:59am EDT | 10min:03sec Author of "The End of Money" David Wolman spoke with IBTimes TV's Sally Turner about what he says is the "coming cashless society". From the inside flap: "For ages, money has been represented by little metal disks and rectangular slips of paper. Yet the usefulness of physical money - to say nothing of its value - is coming under fire as never before. Intrigued by the distinct possibility that cash will soon disappear, author and "Wired" contributing editor David Wolman sets out to investigate the future of money... and how it will affect your wallet. "Wolman begins his journey by deciding to shun cash for an entire year - a surprisingly successful experiment (with a couple of notable exceptions). He then ventures forth to find people and technologies that illuminate the road ahead. In Honolulu, he drinks Mai Tais with Bernard von NotHaus, a convicted counterfeiter and alternative-currency evangelist whom government prosecutors have labeled a domestic terrorist. In Tokyo, he sneaks a peek at the latest anti-counterfeiting wizardry, while puzzling over the fact that banknote forgers depend on society's addiction to cash. In a downtrodden Oregon town, he mingles with obsessive coin collectors - the people who are supposed to love cash the most, yet don't. And in rural Georgia, he examines why some people feel the end of cash is Armageddon's warm-up act. After stops at the Digital Money forum in London and Iceland's central ...
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15-05-2012 22:54 Here is a trailer for the music video "Whole Lotta Money" by Mr.Jackson & Nubz and Ashley Rae
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16-05-2012 12:02 Your Digital Business Card is Your Internet Version of Your Business Card. You even get your own Web Address, which is your Domain Name. Only $99 a year. It includes your Logo, Business Name, Name, Address, Phone Number, Email Address, Website Address, One Photo and a Brief Description of Your Business. You may send your link in an Email or a Text Message to Advertise Your Business. Only $99.00 for 1 Year
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-By Andreas Fuchs
Christie lights up the Big Sky Drive-In in Texas.
With the ozoner season in full bloom across the countryand in Canada, of courseFilm Journal International got into the passenger seat with some key players who are driving the digital conversion of what Vincent rightly calls a uniquely American institution and outstanding value in family entertainment.
As the owner and operator of a soft- and hardtop theatre combination in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Vincent is in the process of converting to digital projection. Located in a tourist area of Cape Cod, the Wellfleet Cinemas are busy seven nights a week, so that shutting down for installation is not an option for him during the peak summer season. In general, financing the transition is probably the biggest challenge for any independent theatre owner, he feels. Technically, however, of every conversion that I know of in the drive-in spaceand there have been about 40 to 50 screensnot one has reported back that they have a worse picture than with 35mm film. Everyone says that the image has been substantially better.
Cases in point are Harold Spears, proprietor of the Silver Moon, Lakeland and Joy-Lan, Dade City drive-ins in sunny Florida; and John M. Cumins, district manager at B&B Theatres. I am very happy that we switched and very satisfied with the whole situation, Spears confirms. Since November 2011, both screens at the Silver Moon have been running on Christie, producing the desired results in picture quality.
Spears credits preliminary site surveys and the resulting equipment specs to have assured the transition. I had the capital available for the conversion, he humbly responds when asked about the financial implications. Even though hes enrolled in Christies virtual-print-fee reimbursement program, Spears will have to see about the Joy-Lan, he admits. Its a very marginal situation of a single-screen drive-in in a small community. Im just not sure if it justifies the expense at this time. Well make that decision down the road. For now, at least, we havent had any problem getting 35mm there.
Film prints are no longer needed at any of the 29 locations of the 88-year-old B&B circuit, Cumins reports. The L-shaped booth at their Moberly Five & Drive in Moberly, Missouri, serves patrons on plush seats inside and in their cars outside at the same time. Using Christie digital projectors for some six months has been amazing, he says. The picture quality and brightness are beyond anybodys expectations. It is such a long, long throw to get it out there on the drive-in screen. We are actually able now to start pictures a little bit earlier, closer to dusk, because the image is so much brighter. There are no regrets whatsoever! In both locations the public has noticed the difference as well. Weve had some very good feedback, Cumins confirms. If youve been to the drive-in before and you are coming back, you will really notice the difference in our digital presentation.
Another happy digital driver is Walt Effinger, Terri Westhafer, director of digital-cinema business development at Barco, assures us about the April installation at his Skyview Drive-In in Lancaster, Ohio. Going back some seven years, Westhafer and the former UDITOA president and numerous association members have been driving digital hard. By her own admission, Westhafer is a big fan. I fondly recall my own days as a customer at the local passion pits, she laughs. Im sure I am dating myself even using that term. Having frequented drive-ins well into the last few decades, when they became very difficult to find, Westhafer saw an opportunity to resuscitate them when she joined the theatrical business. As much as I enjoyed drive-ins, she confesses, I never recalled them having the most outstanding presentations.
As for the reasons, film was simply inadequate to meet the large-screen requirements of drive-ins, she believes. Hot spots and poor illumination, plus jump-and-weave inherent in sprocket-driven film projectors, made for many blights on the screens. In addition to extraordinary screen sizesmany in excess of 90 feet in width [27 m], they are dealing with throw distances of 300-plus feet [90 m], frequently twice that. They had antiquated equipment ensconced in old, often ramshackle boxes that barely qualified as projection booths situated in dirt fields and had to deal with all sorts of weather conditions, including grim ambient light problems.
So when Effinger told her that the drive-ins were in danger of going the way of the eight-track player if they werent able to understand, afford and walk the path toward digital projection, it became her call to action. I put together a presentation for them that explained the essential differences between film and digital, feeling that my Kodak background, coupled with my decision tofully embrace digital, qualified me to do so. The response was overwhelming, Westhafer says, and subsequently led to the first-ever digital projection demo at a drive-in with NEC and Strong Digital, which were the brightest projectors at the time.
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The great digital outdoors: Drive-ins see the light by upgrading technology