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Los clientes de Citröen en España, ya pueden ir al concesionario a adquirir el nuevo C3, pues la marca francesa ha dado a conocer los precios, versiones y equipamiento de su nueva apuesta en el segmento de compactos.

El modelo más barato, se puede adquirir con unos 11.100€, que viene equipado con el parabrisas Zenith, que aumenta el ángulo de visión superior hasta 108º y con un motor HDi 90 cuyas emisiones de CO2 se sitúan en 99gr/km gracias al FAP.

Muchos piensan que su reducidas dimensiones hacen al C3 un modelo incómodo, pero todo lo contrario, a pesar de su pequeño tamaño, 3,94 m de largo, 1,72 m de ancho y 1,52 m de alto, ofrece una gran habitabilidad y el mayor maletero de su segmento. De serie, el nuevo C3 dispone de Además, ABS, ayuda a la frenada de urgencia y repartidor electrónico de frenada, así como airbags de conductor y pasajero y laterales delanteros.

Además de este equipamiento de serie, los acabados en todas las variantes del modelo son de un nivel excepcionalmente alto y su equipamiento opcional es bastante completo. En cuanto a las motorizaciones, aparte del ya comentado HDi 90, existen, la opción diesel HDi 70 y HDi 110 FAP y cuatro gasolina, los 1.1i, 1.4i, VTi 95 y VTi 120.

Precios C3 en España (Península y Baleares con IVA, impuesto de matriculación, transporte y oferta promocional incluidos):

Modelo Precio

• 1.1i Airdream LX 11.100
• 1.4i Airdream LX 11.550
• 1.4i Airdream SX 13.350
• VTi 95 Airdream SX 13.950
• VTi 95 Airdream Exclusive 15.550
• VTi 120 Airdream Exclusive 16.300
• VTI 120 CAS Exclusive 17.900
• HDi 70 Airdream LX 12.200
• HDi 70 Airdream SX 14.000
• HDi 70 Airdream Exclusive 15.600
• HDi 90 Airdream SX 15.000
• HDi 90 Airdream SX 99gr 15.450
• HDi 90 Airdream Exclusive 16.600
• HDi 110 FAP Airdream Exclusive 17.800
• HDi 70 Airdream Business 13.600

Precios de equipamiento extra:

Opción Impuesto 16% – Impuesto 20.75%

• Pintura metalizada o pintura opaca (pintura blanca gratuita). 300,00 – 312,28
• 4 llantas aluminio 17” Sonneberg (salvo HDi 70 y VTi 120 CAS). 100,00 – 104,09
• ESP + Pack Serenite. 300,00 – 312,28
• Pack Essentiel: Radio RD4 MP3 con toma Jack + aire acondicionado. 800,00 – 832,76
• Aire acondicionado. 700,00 – 728,66
• Terciopelo Karl Gris — Pack Serenite: Airbag lateral y techo, regulador y limitador voluntario de velocidad, testigo no abrochado cinturón conductor y pasajero, radio RD4 MP3 con toma Jack. 900,00 – 936,85
• Pack Zenith: Parabrisas Zenith, 4 llantas aluminio 16” Valonga, apoyacodos, rueda socorro galleta. 600,00 – 624,57
• Pack Zenith HDi 90 99 gr: Parabrisas Zenith, apoyacodos. 600,00 – 624,57
• Pack Zenith Plus: Pack Zenith + Pack City (ayuda estacionamiento trasero + pack eléctrico). 1.000,00 – 1.040,95
• Pack Zenith Plus HDi 90 99gr: Pack Zenith 99gr + pack city. 1.000,00 – 1.040,95
• Pack Zenith My Way Plus: Pack Zenith Plus + My Way Hifi. 1.500,00 – 1.561,42
• Pack Zenith My Way Plus HDi 90 99gr: Pack Zenith Plus 99gr + My Way Hifi. 1.500,00 – 1.561,42
• My Way Hifi. 690,00 – 718,25
• Asientos cuero Claudia. 850,00 – 884,81

Fuente | Citröen

In case you didn’t know, you can reach PreCentral at http://m.precentral.net – it’s a mobile version of PC with access to stories, reviews, and a mobile version of the forums. We’ve got plans, schemes, and machinations to make it better, but for now, does the job, hey? In addition, you can also add it to your launcher and the keenly-designed logo at the top will put a nice, circular icon on your launcher.

Enterprising PC members figured: why not make a little app out of it? After some discussion, we finally have an unoffical PreCentral App for the Palm Pre and Pixi! This is an "unofficial" PreCentral App. It simply puts a PreCentral icon in your App Launcher. Tap it to go to the mobile version of PreCentral to see Top Stories, Forums, Today’s Posts, Homebrew Gallery, and search options.

At some point, we hope to have a fancy PreCentral app with lots of bells and whistles. But in the mean time, you are now never more than a tap away from m.PreCentral.net.

Thanks to kmax12 and sketch42 for creating this app.

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KNOXVILLE — State Tax Notes magazine recently printed a list of the most influential people in the state and local tax world during the past 10 years.

Bill Fox, director and professor of economics at the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is part of that all-decade team.

State Tax Notes is a product of Tax Analysts, the nonprofit publisher of other print and online tax publications.

To read the story about the all-decade team, go to Tax Analysts’ Web site.

Others on the list were Michael Mazerov, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Art Rosen, partner with McDermott, Will and Emery; Kendall Houghton, partner with Baker & McKenzie; Douglas L. Lindholm, president and executive director of the Council on State Taxation; June Summers Haas, partner with Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn LLP; Billy Hamilton, author of the State Tax Notes column “State Tax Merry-Go-Round”; Walter Hellerstein, the University of Georgia’s Francis Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law; Nicholas Johnson, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ State Fiscal Project; Joan Youngman, senior fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Richard D. Pomp, the University of Connecticut’s Alva P. Loiselle Professor of Law; Paul H. Frankel, partner with Morrison & Foerster LLP; Robert Cline, Ernst & Young’s national director of state and local tax policy economics; Harley Duncan, managing director of Washington National Tax at KPMG LLP; and John A. Swain, associate professor with the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law.

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The Peace Corps has issued a request for Proposals (RFP) for new colleges and universities in their Master’s International (MI) program. The program integrates graduate study with Peace Corps service. Peace Corps is accepting proposals for this partnership in the following areas of study: Agriculture, Education, Business Development, Environment/Natural Resources, and Youth Development.

It’s iPhone 4 day! We’ve already seen rumors of a touch-sensitive case and an iMac-inspired concept. Now comes two actual patents filed by Apple that hint at stylus functionality and a customizable GUI.

According to Apple Insider, the first patent was filed in July 2008, and proposes a stylus outfitted with a conductive tip that would be compatible with the iPhone’s screen. It also includes the option of a powered stylus that could include sensors capable of measuring force and angle.

It’s possible—probable, even—that this is just a defensive patent by Apple to prevent third parties from creating a comparable device for iPhone use. But with the imminent arrival of iPhone 4, it’s at least something to consider.

The second patent, from July 2008, seems more likely to be actually implemented. It allows for different user interfaces based on one’s location—possibly similar to HTC’s Sense UI—as well as offering optimized controls for when the phone is docked versus portable.

Makes sense to me, and seems in line with Apple’s ease-of-use dictum. We’ll know soon enough either way. I’ve already got lots of ideas about my own Pre-Party mode, most of which are unprintable. [AppleInsider]

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The history of the Chevrolet Camaro is littered with bold styling options and even bolder colors. “Bold” doesn’t always equal “good,” but there have been a lot of both since the 1967 introduction of Chevrolet’s original pony car. At SEMA this year, we saw more custom Camaros than we thought possible, a few of them done up by General Motors itself. The General even promised that we’d see some of those Camaro option packs on the regular production models in the future. One special Camaro that really caught our eye was the Synergy, mainly because of its eye-popping green paint.

Today, Chevy has made good on its promise to offer those SEMA-special touches to the masses by officially announcing the release of the Camaro Synergy Special Edition. We have no idea why GM’s announcement wasn’t part of media days at the Detroit Auto Show, but regardless, the Synergy will be available from February to May with a starting price of $26,790. It’s based on the 1LT, with its 304-horsepower, 3.6-liter, direct-injection V6. You can get it with the six-speed stick or an automatic, but the bespoke, specially-stitched shift knob will assuredly feel better when shifting for yourself.

The Synergy Green exterior color will be unique to this limited run and comes with Cyber Grey Rally Stripes, a rear spoiler, 19-inch painted wheels, Synergy Green instrument panel, door inserts and stitching. Synergy buyers will also pocket the Camaro Convenience and Connectivity Package, which add Bluetooth, USB port and remote vehicle start on slushbox models. By our estimation, that’s a lot of content and a lot of green for not a lot of green.Gallery below and press release after the jump.

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The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) is taking steps to eliminate the possibility of drivers who have had their licenses successfully applying for another one. The state’s Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) will be using facial recognition software to build a database of license holders.

According to Australia’s Drive, the software won’t minutely scan your face like something out of The Matrix – it will only will take measurements of the distances between one’s eyes, nose and mouth. When someone applies for a license, his or her measurements will be compared to the others in the database, and if there’s a “high probability match” there will be an alert.

The technology will also be used for people applying for photo cards. However, the price of a license or photo card will not be raised even though the citizenry will be being watched much more closely. The plan is that the new procedures will help reduce the $3.5 billion Australian ($3.25B U.S.) the country has to spend every year combating identity fraud.

[Source: Drive.com.au | Image: Ian Walde/Getty]

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New studies indicate that after decades of Americans steadily gaining weight, they may have finally hit a plateau, reports an article in The Boston Globe.

Children’s obesity expert, David Ludwig, MD, PhD is quoted as saying that while it is a relief that these rates are not continuting to rise, it is certainly not cause for celebration. “If we continue those unhealthful habits, we just continue to maintain weights the way they are. It actually takes a marked improvement in lifestyles to start bringing weight down.”

Read a previous blog post where Ludwig discusses obesity rates leveling off for American children.

Twitter app store Oneforty is ramping up its offerings around paid apps, giving developers the ability to sell their services on the site. It also confirmed that it closed a $1.85 million first round of venture-backed funding, which we previously reported on here.

The company is rolling out an e-commerce platform for one-time app purchases. It’s taking a 25 percent revenue share, which is roughly on par with the cut other app stores receive. The site will still offer plenty of free apps, but if developers want to charge, there’s a minimum price of 99 cents.

Since launching last fall, Oneforty has gone from showcasing 1300 apps to 2300. Oneforty collects information and reviews of apps by relying on its community to write about, tag and rate them. Twitter itself says there are 50,000 apps in its ecosystem, but Oneforty founder Laura Fitton says that’s not quite accurate because the company is counting how many requests its gotten for application programming interface keys, not apps that are actually built.

Fitton is a veritable Twitter maven. She wrote the book on it, literally — “Twitter for Dummies” and amassed a large following early on in the company’s history. With the funding, she hopes to grow the company to eight to 10 employees from the current five.

Through watching Twitter’s ecosystem develop on the site, she says apps are getting much more sophisticated user interfaces for very specific use cases. Fitton thought that Oneforty had met some strong unmet demand for apps on the Android and Blackberry platforms. She says developers shouldn’t be afraid to charge for premium services and going forward, a lot of Oneforty’s commercial could center around apps for enterprises.

She also doubted that the company would make any major acquisitions of Twitter clients like Seesmic or Tweetdeck.

“I kind of laugh about the notion of a Twitter client war and that one will win,” she said. “Twitter has a lot of use cases. People like to play the “Is Twitter going to buy me?” game, but mergers and acquisitions aren’t really advantageous to Twitter when they have this huge ecosystem to support. They’re always walking a fine line between stimulating the ecosystem and killing players if they acquire competitors. They’ve always been very aware that they need to focus on growing their core. What they do is technology insanely complex.”

Oneforty’s first round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners and included Javelin Venture Partners, Dave McClure, Roger Ehrenberg among other angel investors. Flybridge’s Jeff Bussgang (@bussgang), former Jefferies & Co. investment banker John Prendergast (@johnprendergast) and CEO Laura Fitton will form the company’s board of directors. We previously that the company aimed to raise $2.4 million here when it was revealed in an SEC filing.

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(Editor’s Note: The Start-up Chronicles is a weekly feature giving an inside view of the trials of a bootstrapped start-up – The Cost Savings Guy. CEO and founder Bruce Judson is also the author of “Go It Alone!: The Secret to Building A Successful Business on Your Own” and a senior faculty fellow at the Yale School of Management.)

Over the past few years, I have been approached from time-to-time by prospective entrepreneurs who have an idea that they believe will support a compelling Web-based business. In today’s create-a-job employment market, this occasional question has become a regular one.

There is obviously a long checklist that anyone should review before embarking on a new enterprise. So, this list is a set of prequalifications—based on my experiences—rather than a way of determining an ultimate go/no-go decision.

Can you code? I believe it’s critical that any solo entrepreneur who will use the Web as a marketing vehicle be able to create and maintain their own Web site.  A fundamental rule of direct marketing is that you cannot predict what will work. You need to continuously modify your site based on experience with live prospects.

If you do not have the ability to creatively generate this ongoing evolution yourself, a couple of  things can happen:  First, you will inevitably spend a fortune asking a freelance designer to continuously make changes for you.

Second, the time between new insights and tests will take days or weeks, instead of hours, as you inevitably end up in a time consuming cycle of scheduling based on availability, back-and forth based on your vision and the inevitable conflict between beautiful designs and simple, effective direct marketing designs.

Moreover, since the optimization of a landing page can make a huge difference in your ultimate profits this cycle never ends.

Even if you can’t hand code a site, it’s possible to use WordPress to build extraordinarily sophisticated services.

Why is your idea worth developing (in two sentences or less)? Sure, great ideas can be complex – but if you cannot express them simply, you will never be able to sell them to prospective customers or sources of funding. Business ideas that can’t be explained easily usually require more clear thinking.

Here’s a related point. An idea that is effectively a single, better feature for an existing type of service rarely wins. The incumbents see a good idea and incorporate it into what they are doing.

Do you have the right amount of expertise in your chosen industry? Outsiders are often the source of transforming ideas. So, it’s entirely possible that you can develop a business in an area where you are not presently an expert.

However, you need to understand why a seemingly brilliant, innovative idea hasn’t been previously implemented. Has it been tried and failed for reasons you don’t understand? Is it impractical because of some other reason, which is specific to this industry? In addition, long-term success will require that you become an expert in the industry associated with your business idea. Today, you may have a valuable insight, but a sustainable business will require that you become ever more sophisticated in how you serve an industry.

Do you believe a great idea will propel you to success? If so, you’re delusional.

Even if you’ve got the best idea anyone has ever heard, it’s still smart to keep your day job until you’re certain of how it could be flawlessly executed. (You want to plan for flawless execution, so that in reality you can achieve good execution. Nothing ever works the way its planned.)

Great execution is what matters. I have seen many good or even less good ideas lead to great businesses because of terrific execution. Rarely, if ever, have I seen the reverse. A great idea that is poorly executed it an almost-certain formula for failure.

Are you a good marketer or salesperson? These are crucial skills. Unfortunately, people who have spent their entire careers in the back office often attempt to become entrepreneurs without recognizing how hard it is to move the needle with prospective customers. A previous career in sales or marketing is not a prerequisite. But, an ability to convince other people of the value of your ideas and services is essential.

There is a myth that great ideas are what propel successful entrepreneurs. Finding a good idea is the easy part. It’s the execution that’s difficult.

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Well, it’s Thursday. You know what that means: it’s time for another new revolutionary display technology that will offer better image quality at lower costs and with reduced energy consumption. Today’s breakthrough is LPD, or Laser Phosphor Displays. They rely on a screen covered in phosphors, much like a traditional CRT, but instead of a scanning beam of electrons those pixels are excited by a series of lasers. It seems rather similar to SED and FED tech, but with lasers rather than cathodes, thus making it roughly 23 times more awesome. The display tech is said to be able to created in any shape or size, and with its long lifespans and low power consumption is being targeted toward large-scale installations for advertising and the like. Don’t believe the hype? Turn up those speakers, click on that read link, and prepare to be awed by the breathless potential of… Prysm.

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Nuvo has just released its $130 Ritmo “Advanced Pregnancy Sound System,” which is a pregnant belly belt composed of four belly-firing speakers, with a built-in iPod pocket, 3.5mm jack and volume-regulating abilities. You could jack in your phone for a bit of long distance baby conversation, but for the most part you know this belt is going to be inundating your child-to-be with Josh Groban and The Ting Tings. And do you really want that on your conscience? There’s video after the break.

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The Jenzabar Foundation’s third annual Student Leadership Awards honor ten student-led campus groups or activities that have made a significant impact beyond their own higher education institutions serving others. This year, The Jenzabar Foundation Student Leadership Awards will include a new Social Entrepreneur of the Year category, which will recognize one outstanding leader or organization committed to tackling social issues and promotes social entrepreneurship.

The annual Student Leadership Awards recognize student groups who have made a difference in the world through service and philanthropic activities, both domestic and international activities will be recognized. The Jenzabar Foundation is accepting submissions from institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, religious organizations and self-nominations from students for their community service or humanitarian efforts during the current, 2009/2010, or previous, 2008/2009, academic year. A $5,000 grant is included with the recognition to support the student or group’s future humanitarian endeavors.

Past award honorees included a wide range of impressive achievements. Some previous recipients include The Wartburg College Feed My Starving Children Project, Engineers for a Sustainable World at Harvey Mudd College, Flagler College Students in Free Enterprise, The Student Philanthropy Project at Grove City College, and many more (see information on past winners at www.thejenzabarfoundation.org).

Nominations are open for students enrolled in any accredited institution of higher education and can be submitted by individuals, educational institutions, or nonprofit organizations that have produced work consistent with the mission of The Jenzabar Foundation: to recognize and support the good works and humanitarian efforts of student leaders serving others across the global community.

Additional criteria and nomination process information may be found on the Jenzabar Foundation Web site at www.thejenzabarfoundation.org. Submissions will be accepted online only. The first step in the submission process is joining The Jenzabar Foundation Community Network at http://www.thejenzabarfoundation.org/ICS/Join_Us/ and using the referral code: SLA2010. Once registered, applicants will be advised of the submission procedure. Nominations are due by March 31, 2010.

Evaluation of nominees will be based on the content of submissions spotlighting the positive impact and value the group or project has brought to the beneficiaries of its service. The honorees will be announced at Jenzabar’s Annual Meeting (JAM 2010), to be held in June in Orlando, Florida.

The Jenzabar Foundation seeks to foster a culture of service and to educate and inspire future generations to create a better world. The Foundation has funded more than 300 colleges and universities and student-led campus groups through its annual student leadership awards and other grant programs.

About The Jenzabar Foundation
The Jenzabar Foundation issues grants to institutions of higher education and other charitable organizations with similarly aligned missions, and helps promote the activities of grant recipients within their communities and on a global level. The Jenzabar Foundation is a charitable and educational organization that received its initial funding from Jenzabar, Inc., but is now seeking financial support from the general public. Foundation grants are managed by the Foundation itself or through cooperating educational organizations. For more information please visit www.thejenzabarfoundation.org.

The beginning of 2010 brought to the automotive scene rumor of an ongoing research within German manufacturer BMW’s engineering labs, aimed at developing a split engine hybrid for the future generations of BMW models. Rumored to have already filed a patent application for the technology, BMW has opened our appetite for digging a bit deeper into the technology and finding out the whys and hows of a split cycle engine.

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O site da revista Auto Esporte acaba de revelar duas imagens inéditas da traseira da nova SpaceFox. Segundo a revista o modelo deverá demorar um pouco para chegar em nossas ruas, isso devido a picape Amarok ser a prioridade numero 1 da fabrica argentina, onde o SpaceFox atual é produzido.

Pelas fotos podemos ver que as lanternas traseiras do modelo mudará não apenas na disposição das luzes, mais também no formato, abandonando o formato arredondado na base e adotando agora linhas retilíneas. Olhando de relance a traseira da nova SpaceFox ela lembra além da traseira do Dodge Journey, citado pelo site, como também outra perua, que inclusive é sua concorrente no mercado nacional, a Fiat Palio Weekend.

Um detalhe que pode deixar algumas pessoas triste é que o sistema de vidro traseiro basculante não existirá no modelo, pelo menos por enquanto. Isso porque como as alterações efetuadas na linha Fox, junto com essa alteração das lanternas da SpaceFox que afetou não só as lanternas, mais também os recortes do pára-choque e da tampa do porta-malas, o projeto ficou um pouco caro e se tivesse ainda esse sistema o preço final da SpaceFox ficaria acima do praticado hoje pela Volkswagen.

Pelo visto a perua realmente irá ficar mais sofisticada e um dos novos opcionais oferecidos será o sensor de estacionamento. No interior serão adotados as mesmas linhas já conhecidas do novo Fox e CrossFox. O modelo chegará em nosso mercado entre o final do primeiro semestre e o início do segundo.

Fonte: Auto Esporte