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Lena to be new face of Opel

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:30:11 +0000

Close on the heels of Chevrolet signing Tim Allen as their Voice Ambassador, General Motors’ subsidiary Adam Opel GmbH says it has signed-up the winner of the European Song Contest as its new brand image.

Opel spokesman Christof Birringer said singer Lena Meyer-Landrut, known as “Lena”, was introduced as the new face for the company’s cars during a surprise concert for some 20,000 people at Opel’s open house event in Ruesselsheim near Frankfurt on Saturday.

The 19-year-old German singer won the European Song Contest in May with her catchy pop song “Satellite”.

Alain Visser, Opel’s head of sales and marketing, says her “youth and briskness suits our cars perfectly.”

Opel is eager to renew its brand image, which has suffered following GM’s bankruptcy in 2009 and the ensuing uncertainty over the future of its European subsidiaries.

AMD says Goodbye to ATI brand

rohit — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:30:25 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices last week said it will remove the ATI name from its products by the end of the year, killing a brand name synonymous with graphics enthusiasts for 25 years.

AMD offers a range of graphics products under the ATI brand, including the Radeon, FirePro and Eyefinity offerings. The chip designer will instead attach the name AMD to those products by the end of the year, said Drew Erskine, an AMD spokesman.

The change in brand name won’t affect the company’s graphics product offerings or plans, Erskine said.

ATI was originally established in 1985 as a graphics company and was acquired by AMD in 2007 for US$5.4 billion. At the time of the acquisition, ATI was the one of the largest graphics chip providers for consumer electronics, set-top boxes and gaming consoles. AMD said at the time it would continue to offer ATI products, and it also announced a next-generation processor design called Fusion, which would combine high-performance graphics and CPU processing on a single piece of silicon.

BusinessWeek reports AMD parting with ATI brand

Business Quiz @ Chanakya ‘10

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:30:44 +0000

St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore will host a Business Quiz for UG students (B.Com and B.B.M) as part of their annual Business Fest- Chanakya 2010.

The quiz will be hosted by Rohit Nair (Quizworks)

Date: 6th September 2010 (Prelims) and 7th September 2010 (Finals)

For registrations and other details, please contact Event-in-charge Poornima- +91-9483630400

Chevrolet signs Tim Allen as brand’s new voice

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:44:48 +0000

General Motors has officially announced that television and movie star Tim Allen will be the new “voice of Chevrolet,” starting with a series of ads that will begin airing on September 7.

These ads will be for the all-new 2011 Chevrolet Cruze, and while Allen is a big-name with a very recognizable voice, GM’s vice president of marketing, Joel Ewanick, reminds us that “the car will be the star.”

Allen is best known for his starring role on the long-running 1990s sitcom Home Improvement, as well as his roles in The Santa Clause movies and as the voice behind Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story trilogy. In addition, Allen is also a well-known automobile enthusiast and has an extensive car collection. He is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and has a strong love for classic American muscle cars.

Mahindra Auto Quotient 2010

rohit — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:09:02 +0000

Mahindra Auto Quotient 2010 kicks off again. Participants are requested to share questions/reviews so we can make a database which will surely help in future preparation

Lucknow : 25th August 2010

Ahmedabad : 25th August 2010

Indore : 27th August 2010

Delhi : 27th August 2010

Pune : 31st August 2010

Jaipur : 31st August 2010

Chandigarh : 1st September 2010

Hyderabad : 3rd September 2010

Bhubaneshwar: 6th September 2010

Trivandrum : 6th September 2010

Mumbai : 7th September 2010

Kolkata : 8th September 2010

Bangalore : 8th September 2010

Coimbatore : 8th September 2010

Chennai : 13th September 2010

Ranchi : 21st September 2010

Mahindra Auto Quotient is India’s largest Auto Quiz!

Official Mahindra Auto Quotient site

Apple TV and Ping

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:30:43 +0000

Steve Jobs launched a revamped version of Apple’s (AAPL) “hobby” on Wednesday, a TV service that works over a home’s Wi-Fi network so users can rent Hollywood blockbusters for $4.99 the day they are released or popular TV shows for 99 cents. A partnership with Netflix was also introduced, allowing Netflix (NFLX) customers to stream an older catalog of movies and TV shows for $8.99 a month.

The new Apple TV box will sell for $99, a drastic cut from the $229 the previous version sold for, and it is about a quarter of the size. Jobs, Apple’s iconic CEO, held the Apple TV box in the palm of his hand to dramatically display it’s more compact form. It will be available in about 4 weeks, Jobs said Tuesday

Find more juice on the new Apple TV

At Apple’s annual music event in San Francisco CEO Steve Jobs described “Ping,” part of the iTunes 10 upgrade coming soon, as “sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes.”

Even the occasionally hyperbolic Jobs may be selling it short. Sight unseen, we’d say Ping — a computer term for making contact — will be more like “Twitter meets Facebook at Last.fm’s and Rdio’s shared apartment to plan MySpace’s funeral.”

Jobs is correct to compare Ping to Facebook and Twitter, because its settings for deciding who can follow you borrow from both of those well-established networks. You can choose to approve followers and post listening habits to a limited “circle of friends,” the way Facebook lets you, or you can permit anyone at all to follow you, as in Twitter.

BioQuizitive – National Life Sciences Quiz 2010

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:30:31 +0000

BioQuizitive 2010:The National Life Sciences Quiz’ brings together the best corporate quizzing talent across India to participate in the first of its kind all-India Life Sciences quiz.

BioQuizitive 2010 will be held at Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Bangalore during September 2010.

BioQuizitive aims to become the pinnacle of quizzing in the Life Sciences domain.

BioQuizitive is a team based contest (2 participants per team) for corporates and professionals across India and will be held in four cities in its 1^st edition.

Mumbai Regional Round Date: Saturday,4th September 2010 Timing: 1pm – 6pm Venue: R. D National College Auditorium, Bandra	Ahmedabad Regional Round Date: Sunday,5th September Timing: 1pm – 6pm Venue: AMA Hall
Hyderabad Regional Round Date: Saturday,18th September Timing: 1pm – 6pm Venue: Golkonda Hotel, Banjara Hills	Bangalore Regional Round and Grand Finale Date: Saturday, 25th September 2010 Timing: 10am – 6pm Venue: St. Johns Auditorium

Bioquizitive – National Life Sciences Quiz 2010

Qriosity: The Subhankar Nag Memorial Quizfest

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:57:29 +0000

Quiz Forum & Debating Society, Jadavpur University, Kolkata presents Qriosity: The Subhankar Nag Memorial Quizfest

Date: 4th September.

Venue: Triguna Sen Memorial Hall, Jadavpur University

Sports Quiz by Titash Banerjea from 10:00 am

Business Quiz by Sounak Chakrabarti from 1:30 pm

General Quiz by Joy Bhattacharjya from 5:00 pm

Here’s the link to the official website of the quiz : http://qriosity.webs.com/ , ju-enquiry.blogspot.com

For any Query, feel free to contact us at

enquiryju@gmail.com

Siddhartha Roy
Ph: 9874293477

The Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Quiz 2010

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:30:57 +0000

The annual intercollegiate Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Quiz 2010 which offers the winning team a chance to visit Sweden, will commence its qualifying rounds with Bengaluru on September 18, 2010. This will be followed by Mumbai (September 25) Pune (September 26), and Delhi (Oct 23). Qualifying teams from the four cities will compete against each other at the Grand Finalé which will be held on October 23, 2010 at IIT Delhi.

Registration & Venue Details:

Bangalore :

Date : 18th September, 2010

Time : 1330 hrs

Venue : R.V. College of Engineering

R.V. Vidyaniketan Post

Mysore Road

Bangalore – 560 059

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Mumbai

Date : 25th September, 2010

Time : 0900 hrs

Venue : I.I.T. Mumbai

Powai

Contact Person: Mr. Mukund Madhav

Mobile No. : 9930735131

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Pune

Date : 26th September, 2010

Time : 1100 hrs

Venue : Pravara Centre for Management Research and Development

Off Senapati Bapat Road

Near Patrakar Nagar

Pune 411016

Contact Person : Ms. Anagha Kalay

Phone No. : 020 25651104, 25651499

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Delhi

Date : 23rd October, 2010

Time : 0900 hrs

Venue : I.I.T. Delhi, I.I.T. Gate

Hauz Khas

New Delh 110016

Contact Person :Ms. Georgia Morrison

Contact Nos. : 44197127

Mobile : 9811228434

Ad: Award winning Honda ‘Cog’ ad

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:30:31 +0000

If you’ve never seen “Cog,” it’s a 2-minute commercial following the progress of a real Rube Goldberg contraption. It was created in April of 2003. The short video took more than 600 takes before every little step of the machine worked perfectly. True Rube Goldberg followers would never edit a video to fake a perfectly functioning machine. What are you waiting for?

Finally, a proper presentation of auto parts in all their beauty! It’s not too often that auto parts look sexy, but this 2-minute Honda ad highlighting the famous Rube Goldberg’s hilarious concepts does the job. The Rube Goldberg machine is legendary as Goldberg’s inventions go.If you’ve never seen “Cog,” it’s a 2-minute commercial following the progress of a real Rube Goldberg contraption. It was created in April of 2003. The short video took more than 600 takes before every little step of the machine worked perfectly. True Rube Goldberg followers would never edit a video to fake a perfectly functioning machine. What are you waiting for?