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At his presentation about Fiat Group’s 5-year business plan in Turin, Italy, CEO Sergio Marchionne said that Ferrari will launch four new models within the next three years. Fiat SpA owns 85 percent of the Italian supercar manufacturer. Marchionne said that Ferrari’s future products for the next five years will focus on increased product differentiation to target a wider consumer base.

The models include a spider variant of the Ferrari 458 Italia and a replacement for the 612 Scaglietti, both due in 2011. Ferrari will also work on a successor of the 599 GTB and will offer a limited-edition version of the Enzo in 2012.

Click here to get prices on the 2010 Ferrari California.

A facelifted Ferrari California will follow in 2013.

Marchionne predicted that the operating margin of Ferrari will increase 15 percent in 2014 from 11.4 percent in 2009.

– By: Kap Shah

Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required)

Our first State of Gadget Media event at the Edelman offices in NYC has just started. Joining us for the afternoon are leading voices in the gadget media industry, including: Nick Denton, Founder & President, Gawker Media; Scott Ard, Editor-in-Chief, CNET; Jesus Diaz, Senior Contributing Editor, Gizmodo; Peter Kafka, Senior Editor, AllThingsD’s MediaMemo; Arnold Kim, Founder & Senior Editor, Mac Rumors; Christopher Andrew, VP & Group Director, Media and Social Media, & Practice Lead, Digitas; Robin Liss, President & CEO, Reviewed.com; and Kim Titus, Public Relations Director, Samsung.

For up-to-the-minute updates, track #gadgetmedia, follow us on Twitter and keep checking here for more in-depth coverage and breaking news. In the meantime, here are some choice tweets from our own David Kaplan:

»  MacRumor’s Arnold Kim wouldn’t have paid for the ‘lost iPhone’ story either, but would have run it. [@davidaKaplan]

»  @nicknotned: We should have waited to out iPhone loser, to milk pageviews. [@davidaKaplan]

»  CNET’s Scott Ard: We don’t buy stories; our audience expects that from us; we don’t want to create incentives for criminality. [@davidaKaplan]

The event hashtag is #gadgetmedia

Italian Renaissance paintings become the inspiration for Christian Westphal’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection. The range has a very protective quality to the garments with styles that embody an armored look. Metalics and oversized items, as well as large scarves drape the body in an elegant yet battle ready manner. The looks are significantly European in touch with a monochromatic palette of dark blues, greys, and blacks. What also stands out for the collection are the denim which consists of raw black and washed blue jeans – all three are woven and stitched on the famed looms of Okayama, Japan.

Christian Westphal can be purchased at retailers such as Le Bon Marche in Paris, Koon in Seoul, Paperchest in Osaka, and Forwardforward.com.

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Sure, your MacBook would function fine as a desktop computer replacement just sitting there on your table. But the Henge Dock lets you celebrate that sleek slab of industrial design vertically (and eliminates the hassle of plugging everything in separately.) More »

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It looks like RIM is getting ready for a very special WES this year and one of the phones about to be unveiled seems to be the BlackBerry 9670 clamshell phone in the picture here. We have no idea whether or not this device is the real deal but it certainly looks like a BlackBerry smartphone.The clamshell in the picture here is definitely unique and the new form factor will convince some people to get it or ignore it. RIM is apparently ready to combine a full QWERTY keyboard with a larg

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Newegg has a set of deep discounts on digital photo frames to go along with Mother’s Day, and we figured we’d give you the heads up. They’ve got a total of ten frames on sale from manufacturers like HP, Viewsonic, Hannspree, and others, some for as much as 30% off. There are some good deals, and some nice frames available—in fact, who says you need to buy one to give to mom, right? You can get a look at all the discounted digital photo frames at Newegg, which all ship for free as well.

As always, you can find all sorts of Newegg promo codes and deals on our forums.

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The film studios have convinced Netflix to sign deals that expand the company’s access to streaming film licenses — in exchange for agreeing to delay new releases by 28 days. Studios, of course, think this will somehow magically ramp up user purchases of physical DVDs, though it seems the primary result is going to be a lot of confused consumers, who see new releases for rent in one place, but not in another. But the studios are likely quite pleased with themselves, given the deal gives them more license negotiation power — and allows them to charge companies more money if they want a perceived leg up on Netflix. If nobody is willing to pay, the studios figure they’ve still managed to create a wider delay window (the exact opposite of what should be happening in the broadband age).

But Blockbuster quickly jumped at the opportunity, throwing money at the studios, not only to avoid the new release delay, but so they could use the opportunity to mock Netflix instead of having to innovate. DirecTV has also now decided to play along, and will be paying for the honor of offering new releases under the “DirecTV Cinema” brand. Like Blockbuster, it didn’t take DirecTV long to brag that unlike Netflix or Redbox, they’ll be getting Avatar the same day it hits store shelves:

“As many as 400 new movies will be available this summer through DirecTV Cinema. Titles from Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox and Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. will be given to DirecTV subscribers 28 days before they can be rented on Netflix, said Paul Guyardo, DirecTV’s chief sales and marketing officer“

Granted this might not hurt Netflix much, given the fact that DirecTV agreements with the studios ban them from offering subscription service, so if users want these new releases — they have to pay between $4.99 and $5.99 per title — nearly the cost of a Netflix subscription. You also had better hurry up and watch your movie, given that under a 2008 DirecTV agreement with the studios, movies you store on your DVR will be automatically deleted after 24 hours. While the studios think layering restriction upon restriction onto how, where and when customers can consume their product is helping them save the traditional DVD — all they’re really doing is delaying the inevitable death of physical media, annoying and confusing customers, and making it harder for people to consume their product.

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John Elkann, neto de Gianni Agnelli, foi nomeado ontem novo presidente do grupo automobilístico italiano Fiat, após a renúncia de Luca di Montezemolo.
A nomeação de Elkann, de 34 anos, foi confirmada à Agência Efe por fontes da companhia.

Durante a entrevista coletiva convocada pela companhia para explicar as mudanças na direção, Elkann disse que amanhã (hoje)será “um dia importante” tanto para Fiat quanto para ele.
“Estou muito orgulhoso, feliz e agradecido a todas as pessoas que nestes anos me ajudaram”, declarou à imprensa e lembrou-se do patriarca do grupo, Giovanni Agnelli: “gostaria que meu avô estivesse aqui agora”.
Elkann informou que a Fiat “não terá vice-presidente”, cargo que ele ocupava até agora.

Montezemolo explicou que o anúncio de sua renúncia ocorreu para não interferir na apresentação do plano industrial e os resultados do primeiro trimestre.
Mostrou-se completamente de acordo com este plano, que considerou de “extremamente ambicioso, importante e decisivo”.

Fonte: G1

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Findings – Earth Day Challenge – 7 New Rules for the Environment – NYTimes.com

Last Summer I brought you word of the potential for ethanol made from woody crops such as poplars with a yield of up to 2,000 gallons per acre… per acre. On top of that, the process could result in ethanol cheaper than $1.00 per gallon without any government support.

And today ZeaChem, the company behind this groundbreaking process, announced that they have successfully completed a crucial step in converting wood to ethanol, proving that their core technology works and is commercially viable.

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General Motors’ Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre is staring in his second commercial for the Detroit automaker. Whitacre uses the commercial to spread the word that it has paid back loans to U.S. and Canadian governments.

“We have repaid our government loan in full, with interest, five years ahead of the original schedule,” GM said. “We still have work to do, but we are making progress toward our vision of designing, building and selling the worlds best vehicles. We invite you to take a look at the new GM.”

Check out the commercial after the jump.

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Goodreader for iPad ($0.99) – By Good.iWare Ltd.

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Pros: It’s cheap; Connects to popular cloud storage services; Allows users to download, view and manage documents effectively.

Cons: Interface can be confusing initially; No connectivity option for Windows Live Skydrive accounts.

Buying Advice: I highly recommend this app for any user that needs access to files stored on a local computer or a supported cloud storage account. 

For business users, the iPad is definitely lacking in features that would make the device more functional for everyday office use.  There is no file manager or network explorer built into the device and the iWork Pages app is available as an add-on to provide some limited document editing and creation functionality, if you can figure out a way to get editable documents onto the iPad (via email or otherwise).  Goodreader is an app that has been available on the iPhone and iPod Touch for a long time as a document viewer, with some enhanced functionality available for the iPhone for an additional fee.  Goodreader for the iPad is fully functional without additional cost.  

Goodreader takes a bit of exploring to discover its full potential, but after becoming familiar with all of the functionality it adds to the iPad, you’ll be scrambling to justify your expense of the device to your employer.  In addition to being an excellent document viewer, the most useful feature of Goodreader is its ability to connect to cloud storage services like Google Docs, Box.net, Dropbox, Mobileme, FTP and WebDAV servers, and POP3 and IMAP mail servers (to view email attachments).  

Once connected to a cloud storage account, you may download virtually any file to Goodreader.  From there, you may use the “Manage Files” tab to open the file in another app (like Pages if it’s an editable document), move it into a folder, rename it, delete it, or email it.  

The developer’s website includes a full list of supported file types as well as a basic user manual. While i can tell you that I’ve had to turn to the manual a time or two, it’s not been because of the slightly confusing UI, but more to learn how to fully use Goodreader’s extensive functionality.  One example of a feature more fully understood by reference to the user manual is Wifi File Transfer.  It’s a great feature for the technically inclined used to transfer files from a computer on the same wifi network as the iPad.

While i wish the iPad included a native file system, Goodreader has proven a capable substitute. Hopefully, the developer simplifies the UI, adds support for importing files from Pages, and support for uploading files to cloud storage.

Hey, look over here. It’s the T-Mobile myTouch Slide in pristine white! [via TMoNews] This is the first time we’ve seen a white myTouch Slide in the wild and it sure looks clean. Remember, the myTouch Slide is coming in 3 colors (red, black, and white) and have seen a black version in real life as well. Honestly, we don’t know what’s the hold up with the release, the myTouch Slide looks pretty ready for release in our eyes. We’re pretty excited to use HTC Sense and Android 2.1 on a device with a hardware keyboard!

And if that’s not enough, TMoNews also has new shots of the custom "Espresso" interface on this bad boy.

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Europe is just starting to return to normal since the ash cloud from Eyjafjallajökull’s eruption abated.

But there is the threat of an even more catastrophic eruption looming in Iceland.

Katla has often erupted immediately after Eyjafjallajökull, in 926, 1621, and 1821. Eyjafjallajökull has also erupted on its own 22 times in the same time period.

The eruption of Katla could potentially be 10 times as strong as Eyjafjallajökull, its impact on European travel even higher.

Time to consider Trans-Atlantic boat travel again?

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Justice has finally caught up with the driver of a BMW X5 who thought she could get away with playing Monster Jam in the parking lot of the local gym. You may recall the tale of Tripta Kaushal. Last October, the 62-year old driver was attempting to park her Bavarian SUV at Extreme Fitness. Instead of coming to a controlled stop, Kaushal launched her ‘ute onto the row of parked cars across from her, backed off and then drove away. Luckily, the gym had parking lot surveillance, and police eventually nabbed the woman.

On Tuesday, Kaushal pleaded guilty to failing to report a collision, and was issued a $500 fine. Even better, the lady has been banned from driving between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., so you can bet your parking lot will be safe from dusk ’till dawn. The court also ordered her to pay restitution for the cars her X5 mounted last year. Makes us wonder what those poor folks were doing for transportation for the last five months.

[Source: The Star]

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Last week, Microsoft pulled some ads for the new Kin social media device after our prurient pals over at Consumer Reports pointed out that they seemed to promote sexting (In one of the shots, a teenager puts the gadget under his shirt and takes a picture). “Microsoft takes the issue of sexting very seriously,” said a Microsoft spokesman regarding the yank. Well they certainly must, reports ANIMAL, because that’s exactly the kind of content where they seem to have found Rosa Salazar, the campaign’s main actress. For instance, her starring role in the parodic safe-sext-take on Salt n’ Peppa’s 1991 smash hit, “Let’s Talk About Sex.”

There’s also one where she plays a girl lying on her back in bed while her shirtless boyfriend atop her wishes Windows 7 would make him “last longer.”

Pretty tame all around, and, while I’m not a prude and don’t really think the Kin ads are that bad, except in a “Welcome to the Social”-like way, Microsoft shouldn’t pretend like it didn’t know it was putting off a sexty vibe.

SEXTING SENSITIVE MICROSOFT PICKS BRAND PERSON WITH HISTORY OF SEXTING PARODIES [ANIMAL]
PREVIOUSLY: Microsoft Takes Back Its Naughty Ad For The Kin

Acoustichoc® is a high density thermoacoustic panel manufactured from stone wool faced with a white glass fibre tissue reinforced with a glass grid.The reverse is lined with a natural glass fibre tissue. The panels with their specially designed facings are ideal for sports and industrial environments providing high resistance to impact damage and to humidity.

Acoustichoc® has a maximum acoustic absorption : aw=1.

It is available in white and 6 colours.

Multi-Contact test accessories stand for safety and reliability, and have proven their worth many times in daily use. Now we have added a new type of test leads to our broad product range.

The test leads XVF/XVS-4075 are equipped with a new Ø 4mm stackable plug. The plug part with lamella, the rear socket and the connection port is a one piece construction offering a particularly low contact resistance. The insulator is designed for safe use up to 1000V, CAT II or 600V, CAT III according to IEC/EN 61010-031. The test leads are pre-assembled with our highly flexible cable with PVC insulation (XVF-4075) or silicone insulation (XVS-4075). Available in various lengths and colours. Thanks to the high cost-benefit ratio of the finished test leads while maintaining the customary high MC quality, the new test leads are particularly attractive for the use in schools and laboratories.

Further information and technical details are published in our new flyer Q Test & Measureline.