 | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
|
Annual gadget show to be biggest ever: At the time most of you are reading this, your humble narrator will, God willing, be winging his way west to the annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Like last year, I'll be paying particular attention to the dozen or so Michigan companies at the event, but also looking for overall trends, trying to find the neatest stuff and looking for news of the just plain weird. The show is expected to attract more than 2,500 exhibitors and more than 130,000 industry figures, to a space the size of 28 football fields. Exhibitors range from Internet powerhouses like Yahoo Inc. to little-known gizmo makers, all casting their bets on what they hope will be the next big trends in electronics. Judging from the latest jockeying, video is one of them. Yahoo and rival Google Inc. will make their CES debuts with keynote speeches, muscling their way into the high-stakes battle already begun by computing stalwarts, consumer electronics giants and telecommunications companies to push digital media deeper into homes. Here's the preview of the show from the Associated Press, and here's another one from Reuters. | |||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
| ECD unit, Samsung sign memory pact: Rochester Hills-based Energy
Conversion Devices Inc. (Nasdaq: ENER)
said its 39.5-percent owned joint venture, Ovonyx Inc., had signed a long-term
license agreement with Japan's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The agreement covers
Ovonyx intellectual property involving Ovonic Universal Memory thin film
semiconductor memory technology, originally invented by S.R. Ovshinsky, chief
scientist and co-founder of ECD. The Ovonyx technology has been previously
commercialized in rewritable CD and DVD optical memory disks. The technology can be
used in applications such as Flash and DRAM memory replacements, as well as in
embedded applications in many product areas such as microcontrollers. More at
www.samsung.com or
www.ovonyx.com. | |||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||
| Adaptive Materials gets defense grant: Ann Arbor-based fuel cell
developers Adaptive Materials Inc. announced last week that it had received $3.5
million in the federal 2006 Defense Department appropriations budget. AMI is
working on portable solid oxide fuel cell systems for military applications. The
appropriations bill cleared the Senate Dec. 21 and the House Dec. 22. AMI
founder and president Aaron Crumm said in a statement that the "funding will
enable AMI to dramatically increase its collaborations with the military and
efforts to commercialize our cutting edge technology. Without support from the
Michigan delegation this funding would not have been possible." AMI's
lightweight, portable fuel cells have a wide array of applications -- including
replacing the bulky batteries now carried by today's increasingly high-tech
connected soldier. AMI's fuel cells require only commercially available propane
as fuel. Crumm founded AMI in 1999 after completing his Ph.D. in materials
science at the University of Michigan. It now has more than 30 employees. More
at www.adaptivematerials.com. | |||||||||||
| Plenty of other Michigan tech companies got goodies from the bill too,
according to Michigan Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow. Included are the
U.S. Army's National Automotive Center in Warren, Dow Corning Corp. in Midland
and Engineered Machine Products in Escanaba. The bill funds more than $340
million for Army research on combat vehicle and automotive technologies. The
projects include systems to protect Army vehicles against rocket propelled
grenades and improvised explosive devices; more efficient engines; fuel cell and
hybrid electric vehicles; advanced materials for tank and Humvee armor;
robotics; computer simulations for vehicle design and training of Army
personnel; and technology partnerships with the automotive industry. This
research is performed and managed by the Army Tank and Automotive Research,
Development and Engineering Command and its National Automotive Center, both in Warren.
The bill appropriates more than $75 million for the National Automotive Center's research and technology
programs and other programs executed by the NAC. These programs include
investigating and testing automotive technologies for the military in close
partnership with academia and the automobile industry, allowing the Army to
benefit from significant private sector investments. Included
are a $5 million proton exchange membrane fuel cell system that includes funding
for Kettering University and Macomb Community College; $5 million for military
hydraulic hybrid vehicles, an effort that includes Dana Corp. and FEV Engine
Technologies in Michigan; $4 million for a TARDEC-Engineered Machine Products
partnership on advanced thermal management systems; $3 million for a mobile
microgrid fueling system converting waste to fuel, a partnership including the
NextEnergy Center in Detroit; and $2.1 million on solid oxide fuel cell research
at Delphi Corp. and Kettering. | |||||||||||
| Also included: $6 million for research
into hypersonic cruise missile engines that includes work at Williams
International of Walled Lake; $5.6 million for new materials for power
electronics, including work at Dow Corning; $4 million for thin film solar
arrays for space applications with Energy Conversion Devices Inc. in the lead;
$3 million for development of a portable hand-held chemical-biological weapons
detection system at HandyLab of Ann Arbor; $3 million for research on embedded
sensors in materials from Solidica Inc. of Ann Arbor; $2.8 million to Detroit's
Focus: Hope to develop advanced manufacturing technologies; $2.5 million to a
Traverse City firm, Century 3+ L.L.C., to develop fuel cell manufacturing
technology; another $2.1 million to ECD for solid hydrogen storage systems; $2.1
million for development of control systems for Army robotic ground vehicles to
Soar Technologies of Ann Arbor; $2 million for research into transparent ceramic
armor from Nanocerox of Ann Arbor; $1.7 million for the NAC's national
university research consortium, which includes UM, Wayne State University and
Oakland University; $1.6 million to Nephros Therapeutics of Ann Arbor for
research and development of an artificial kidney; $1.5 million to Flint's Mott
Community College for the development of a product development and technology
portal for the Defense Department; $1.4 million to Troy's JADI Inc. for
development of portable chemical-biological detection sensors for vehicles and
soldiers; $1.4 million to Michigan Technological University in Houghton for
research on laser-based sensing and imaging systems; $1 million for the Center
for Innovative Materials and Infrastructure Security at Lawrence Technological
University in Southfield; $1 million for software for more streamlined designed
and engineering processes for vehicles, a project that includes Troy's Altair
Engineering; $1 million for a software initiative for vehicle engineering
simulation that includes Quantum Signal of Ann Arbor; $1 million to Rockwell
Collins in Ann Arbor for a new rifle targeting sensor system; and more. | |||||||||||
| New Web site for Broadsword:
Waterford Township-based Broadsword
Solutions Corp. said it had redesigned its Web site at
www.broadswordsolutions.com.
The company said the new site reflects the firm's strong partnership with the
Software Engineering Institute and its focus on SEI's Capability Maturity Model
- Integrated, CMMI. In addition to describing the software firm's products and
services, the new site also allows visitors to subscribe to a monthly
e-newsletter, IT Process Innovation, which covers software process improvement. | |||||||||||
| Speaking of software process improvement,
the Great Lakes Software
Process Improvement Network will hold its January meeting on Jan. 12 from 7 to
8:15 p.m. at the University of Michigan-Dearborn's School of Engineering
building. The speaker is Steven Baker, software methodologist at DTE Energy Co.,
speaking on "Formalizing Agility: An Agile Organization's Journey Toward CMMI
Accreditation." More at www.gl-spin.org. | |||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||
| Online survey predicts raises for Detroit-area workers:
Detroit
workers may cash in on a bigger, better deal in the New Year, according to a
recent study of Detroit employers by CareerBuilder.com and America Online. Titled
"Detroit Hiring in 2006," the survey reveals Detroit companies plan to
increase salaries on initial offers, raise compensation levels for existing
employees and provide more flexible work arrangements. It also provides insights
on the skills Detroit companies say will be most critical to their businesses in
the coming year and their plans to shorten hiring cycles, diversify their staffs
and postpone retirements in response to an increasingly competitive labor
market. The survey showed 41 percent of Detroit hiring managers plan to boost
salaries on initial offers. Some 19 percent will raise offers by 3 percent or
more, and 9 percent will raise offers by 5 percent or more. And 74 percent of
Detroit hiring managers plan to increase pay for existing employees. Forty
percent will raise compensation levels by 3 percent or more and 11 percent will
raise pay by 5 percent or more. Also, 32 percent of hiring managers expressed
concern over a worker shortage, and 37 percent said they plan to recruit
retirees to compensate. There's also increased emphasis on work force diversity
in hiring, with more employers saying bilingual ability is important. And nearly
half of Detroit hiring managers say they're now more willing to provide flexible
work arrangements such as job sharing and alternate schedules. My personal
favorite, telecommuting, gets the nod from 21 percent. The top three critical
skills sought by employers include attention to customer service, critical
thinking (defined as problem solving and decisionmaking) and team building. The
survey was conducted from Nov. 27 to Dec. 12 among 100 Detroit area hiring
managers. More at www.careerbuilder.com. |
|||||||||||
| Two client wins for Market Arts:
Ann Arbor-based Market Arts Inc. rang
in the new year with two client wins. Washtenaw Technical Middle College
retained Market Arts to develop a new brand identity. Founded in 1997, WTMC is
chartered by and housed on the campus of Washtenaw Community College. With
assistance from faculty, students design personalized programs that help them
develop life skills as they move through a high school curriculum that, when
complete, includes either a certificate in a technical field or an associate
college degree. Also, Huron Valley Financial, an Ann Arbor mortgage company,
selected Market Arts to develop a new Web site. The project includes redesign of
the current site to integrate the mortgage company's new brand, "Loans for the
Business of Life," also created by Market Arts, as well as content creation and
back-end functionality to support online loan applications and business
processes. More at
www.market-arts.com. |
|||||||||||
|
CEO Douglas to move out of day-to-day at Aastrom: Ann Arbor-based biotech treatment developer Aastrom Biosciences Inc. (Nasdaq: ASTM) last week announced that its chairman and CEO, R. Douglas Armstrong, had asked the board to initiate a process to identify potential candidates to succeed him as CEO. The transition, expected to occur sometime this year, will allow Armstrong to move out of day-to-day management. Armstrong said he intends to stay on as a board member, subject to shareholder approval. In a statement, Armstrong said: "Aastrom has reached a new stage with our expanded senior management team, our new directors, our ongoing and significant progress in the clinic, and our enhanced operational capabilities. In the near term, I will continue my responsibilities as CEO and chairman of the board, with particular focus on ensuring an effective transition for the new CEO, and then intend to continue to provide strategic direction and to be an available resource for both the management team and the board." Armstrong has led Aastrom for more than 14 years as CEO, the past six as board chairman. Aastrom is currently testing proprietary adult stem cell technology called Tissue Repair Cells. TRCs are grown from a patient's own stem cells in proprietary Aastrom equipment, and have shown the ability to transform themselves into several different types of cells. They're being studied as treatments for bone diseases and vascular diseases. More at www.aastrom.com. |
|||||||||||
| New engineer at simulation software firm:
Royal Oak-based Realtime
Technologies Inc. said last week that it had hired Dale A. Holtz as a senior
development engineer, supporting real time simulation and vehicle dynamics
research and development. Holtz's immediate responsibilities at RTI include developing and
implementing track models, developing off-road and on-road tire models and
developing multi-body vehicle models using SimCreator, RTI's flagship
simulation and modeling software product. Holtz served from 2000 to 2005
as a research scientist at the National Advanced Driving Simulator, a research
center operated by the University of Iowa. His resume also includes stops at LMS
International and Douglas Aircraft Co., and previously taught at the University
of Northern California, North Dakota State University and the University of
Iowa. More at www.simcreator.com. | |||||||||||
| Automation Alley supports more math, science in high school:
The
Troy-based technology industry promotion group Automation Alley last week
announced its support for state public school superintendent Mike Flanagan's
proposal to require high school students to take a combined 16 credits in math,
science, social studies, English, health, physical education, arts and global
languages.
"In today's changing economy, it is becoming increasingly necessary
for our students to be more educated in math and science," said Ken
Rogers, Automation Alley's executive director. "We have recently joined
forces with Genesee Intermediate School District, Kettering University,
Oakland Community College and Oakland Intermediate School District to
discover ways to engage business leaders in the pursuit of increasing
student success in mathematics and science. We look forward to finding
innovative methods to expand Southeast Michigan's intellectual
capital." More at
www.automationalley.com. | |||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||
| UM gets NASA grant:
NASA's Science Mission Directorate announced last
week that the University of Michigan had received a grant of $573,041 to support
the space agency's Outer Planets Research Program. The program supports diverse
scientific investigations that contribute to the understanding of the outer
Solar System, ranging from the asteroid belt to the Kuiper Belt. The program
includes both fundamental research and data analysis from NASA missions. |
|||||||||||
| MVHS offers online scholarships for hurricane victims:
Lansing-based
Michigan Virtual University announced last week that Lansing-based Accident Fund
Insurance Co. has provided scholarship support for high school students impacted
by Hurricane Katrina. Currently, 28 students from Pass Christian, Miss., are
enrolled in an online chemistry course provided by the Michigan Virtual High
School, the major operating unit of MVU. Earlier this year, MVHS informally adopted the Pass Christian Public High
School to examine strategies to deliver online educational services because
their school building was destroyed by the severe flooding and storm damage.
"Our high school was completely leveled as a result of the hurricane and
unfortunately the educator who teaches our high school chemistry course moved
away from the region after the storm," said Cathy Broadway, Pass Christian
principal. MVU was founded in 1998 to expand the use of learning technologies,
but has closed down many of its higher education activities. MVHS, founded in
2000, has recorded more than 22,000 course enrollments and served more than
125,000 students with online ACT, SAT, PSAT or MEAP test review tools. For
more information visit
www.mivu.org
and
www.mivhs.org. |
|||||||||||
| GLEQ offers 'Entrepreneurs Roundtable':
The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's
Quest will hold an "Entrepreneurs Roundtable on Business
Commercialization" Jan. 10 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Michigan
Information Technology Center in Ann Arbor as a part of its business
commercialization program for entrepreneurs. Michelle Crumm, CFO and co-founder of GLEQ 2003 business plan winner
Adaptive Materials, Inc. and Todd Sullivan, CEO and founder of 2005 GLEQ winner Spirit Shop will conduct this final training event for the Fall Business Plan
competition with insights and answers on how to build and drive a business to
success. Crumm and Adaptive Materials have built sales and employ more than 35 people without
any venture capital investment, while Sullivan has gone on to raise nearly $1
million in angel investments after winning the GLEQ contest. The event will focus on the business commercialization process from
prototype through beta testing to market adoption. The speakers will relate their GLEQ experience,
describe how to get the
most out of state and federal support and their commercialization experiences.
The MITC is at 1000 Oak Brook Drive in Ann Arbor. The event is free but
pre-registration is required. More at www.gleq.org. | |||||||||||
| Bar code company changes name, HQ:
Bar Code Solutions Inc. announced
last week that it would change its corporate name to Edibar Systems Inc.
effective Jan. 1. The company said the name better reflects its evolution from a
bar code equipment and software provider to an e-business integrator. The
23-year old company's name change has been timed to coincide with a move to a
newly built headquarters in Macomb Township. The company had been based in Troy.
Edibar provides electronic data interchange, bar code and advance ship notice
systems for the automotive and other manufacturing industries. The new
headquarters, at 7,500 square feet, offers more space for the company's growing
staff, as well as a new training center for clients. More at a new Web site,
www.edibar.com. | |||||||||||
| Two
new Inside Muskegon podcasts: While the rest
of us were taking time off for the holidays, Muskegon's Jason Piasecki
was busily adding new interviews to his Inside Muskegon podcasts. Included
were an interview with Chris Kelly of Edison Landing SmartZone as
Inside Muskegon No. 6 and an interview with Tracy Lorenz, columnist
and feature writer for the Muskegon Chronicle, as
Inside Muskegon No. 7. Lorenz, a Muskegon-based Web site and marketing
designer, started the podcasts to foster community, development and
technology discussions in and around the West Michigan lakeside city.
More at www.insidemuskegon.com.
| |||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||
| Free Wi-Fi to be a gift for many in 2006:
If your New Year's resolution is to not pay for
wireless Internet access when you're out and about, you've got a good chance of
keeping it. Kevin McKenzie, chief executive officer of JiWire.com, says '06
could turn out to be a year of real freedom. "Wi-Fi is going to be ubiquitous," he said. "You're going to
see more municipal hot zones going from announcement to reality." And if
it's not the City of Brotherly Love, or downtown Long Beach, maybe the
benefactor will be the owner of the corner café. "We've seen a huge
increase in shops offering free Internet access as a way to get people in their
doors," McKenzie said. His JiWire.com is a Web-based directory to 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots around the
world. Last year there was virtually no free public access in the U.S. This year
he's counted 7,000 locations. Among national chains offering the amenity at no cost are Panera Bread (PNRA),
and Schlotzsky's Deli. Starbucks (SBUX),
Barnes & Noble (BKS)
and Fed Ex Kinko's (FDX)
sell daily access to broadband Internet connections. The new year also promises to bring more Wi-Fi-enabled devices to access data
or make telephone calls, McKenzie added. So-called Voice Over Wi-Fi handsets are
already on the market from Motorola (MOT)
and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). | |||||||||||
| The best 2006 predictions:
Jason McCabe Calacanis is anything but reticent. The founder of Weblogs Inc.,
a network of dozens of advertising-supported blogs, is a successful, serial
entrepreneur. In a season when lots of folks peer into the future of technology,
Calacanis' experience and background make "My (20) Predictions for
2006" worth noting. Some are fanciful and some are just too geeky to pass along. But, remember
these. CNet (CNET)
will be bought by Yahoo (YHOO)
or Fox Interactive/Newscorp (NWS).
The New York Times (NYT)
will cut the newsroom staff by 10 to 20 percent. Google's (GOOG)
stock will take its first significant (more than a 15 percent) drop, and Google Adsense
for podcasts and/or video will debut by Oct. 1. No podcasting company will have
any significant success in 2006, but a number of podcasters will be offered
great jobs by Sirius (SIRI)
and XM Radio (XMSR).
Here's
Calacanis' list. | |||||||||||
|
Viacom-CBS split
complete: Viacom Inc. said Sunday it has
completed the spinoff of its CBS Corp. subsidiary, returning the
television, radio and advertising units to the standalone status they had
before being merged into the parent company. Last
June, Viacom (VIA:
News,
chart,
profile)
disclosed plans to divide the assets to allow investors to track
its faster-growing movie and advertising-supported cable units from the
slower-growth broadcasting and publishing operations. The new Viacom
company is the parent of the Paramount Pictures film studio and MTV
Networks, which includes cable channels like MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy
Central and Country Music Television. Tom Freston is its CEO. Led by
Leslie Moonves, CBS is comprised of the remaining assets after the
spinoff, including the CBS television and radio networks, UPN, Viacom
Outdoor, Viacom and Paramount television stations, King World, Simon &
Schuster, Showtime and Paramount Parks. (Full disclosure dept.: Your Great
Lakes IT Report is a tiny little backwater of this company.) CBS will also
include the operations of CSTV: Networks, Inc., a leading sports
television network and digital media company devoted exclusively to
college athletics, an acquisition expected to close in early January 2006.
Sumner Redstone remains as chairman of both companies. |
|||||||||||
| Companies
setting up their own online magazines: The site
promises "simple solutions for easy living," offering tips on
dinners, decorating, cleaning and organizing your home. After planning out
your housework, you can download music from a theme playlist - prepare
dinner, for example, to such songs as Duran Duran's "Hungry Like The
Wolf." For fun, there are amusing family anecdotes from comedian
Rajiv Satyal and a continuous scroll of factoids such as "cold water
is heavier than hot water" and "chocolate does not cause
acne." Eventually, you get to the promotions - discounts, coupons
and other come-ons for Procter & Gamble Co. products like Swiffer
dusters and Dawn dishwashing liquid. But the site is more magazine than
advertising blitz. Many businesses are venturing beyond the early model of
company Web sites heavy on product promotion and coupons. "It's a
major trend and it's a moving trend," said Gary Stibel, a marketing
analyst who heads the New England Consulting Group. "This has been
going on for years; the major advertisers are just understanding better
how to execute. Most companies are still doing very poorly because they
are far too blatant in promotion of their own brands." Since its
launch about five years ago, P&G's homemadesimple.com site has grown
from 300,000 subscribers for its free monthly e-mail newsletter to a
projected 10 million in 2006. It's among seven sites linked from the
Cincinnati-based company's main site that combine information aimed at the
target markets for its varied consumer products, such as "Health
Expressions," with advice and resources on wellness and treatment,
and "Being Girl," with forums and guidance on youth topics and
answers to questions about puberty and menstrual cycles. It's a sign of
the times that the company that pioneered radio and television "soap
operas" is focusing on newer ways to connect with its customers amid
sweeping changes in how people get their information, and growing
competition for their attention. More. | |||||||||||
|
White House says Web site merely
counts visitors: The White House said Friday its
Web tracking technology is consistent with federal rules because it only
counts the number of visitors anonymously and doesn't record personal
information. The White House's site uses what's known as a Web bug - a
tiny graphic image that's virtually invisible - to anonymously keep
track of the number and time of visits. The bug is sent by a server
maintained by an outside contractor, WebTrends Inc., and lets the
traffic-analysis company know that another person has visited a specific
page on the site. Web bugs themselves are not prohibited. However, under a
directive from the White House's Office of Management and Budget, they are
largely banned at government sites when linked to cookies, which are data
files that let a site track Web visitors. Cookies are not generated simply
by visiting the White House site. Rather, WebTrends cookies are sometimes
created when visiting other WebTrends clients. An analysis by security
researcher Richard M. Smith shows such preexisting cookies have then been
read when users visit the White House site. The discovery and subsequent
inquiries by The Associated Press prompted the White House to investigate.
David Almacy, the White House's Internet director, said tests conducted
since Thursday show that data from the cookie and the bug are not mixed
- and thus the 2003 guidelines weren't violated. More.
| |||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||
|
RIM cites another patent office win: BlackBerry e-mail service provider Research In Motion Ltd. said Friday the U.S. patent office has ruled against two more NTP Inc. patents in their fight over the popular service. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued "non-final actions" rejecting claims for two NTP patents involved in the dispute with RIM, which has faced a shutdown of its service in the United States, RIM said. "The Patent Office's latest rulings corroborate RIM's long-standing contention that the NTP patents are invalid and the rulings also demonstrate that the Patent Office is acting with special dispatch to address the court's concern and the public interest, Mark Guibert, RIM's vice president of corporate marketing, said in a statement. Closely held NTP, a patent holding company, successfully sued RIM for patent infringement in 2002. It later won an injunction, stayed pending appeal, to halt sales of RIM's BlackBerry device and service in the United States. With the court appeal process largely exhausted, RIM has moved closer to a possible shutdown in the United States. A U.S. judge in Virginia is considering NTP's request to lift the stay, which would halt RIM's service in the country. More. | |||||||||||
| Patent
firm sues Google over voice services: Rates
Technology Inc., which holds patents for the process by which most
Internet phone calls are made, confirmed on Friday that it is suing Google
Inc. over its Web-based phone calling system. New York-based RTI said it
estimated that damages from the lawsuit could reach $5 billion, assuming
the litigation process takes four years as the market for Internet-based
phone services booms. "Ordinarily we don't need to sue people to get
them covered under our patents," RTI President Jerry Weinberger told
Reuters. "Every once in a while we run into utter arrogance."
RTI holds two patents in the telecommunications field and generally takes
a one-time fee of up to $5 million to cover companies who provide the
services or the equipment to support them. It filed the suit against
Google in October. Weinberger said companies covered under RTI patents
include Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Verizon Communications. More. | |||||||||||
| Sony
BMG tentatively settles piracy suit: Sony BMG
Music Entertainment has reached a tentative settlement with consumers who
filed a class action lawsuit over the music company's copy-protection
software on CDs, court papers show. The lawsuit against Sony BMG, a joint
venture of Japan's Sony Corp. and Germany's Bertelsmann AG, stems from its
use of controversial technology aimed at thwarting illegal copying of
music on CDs. Consumers complained that the technology -- known as XCP --
violated their rights by potentially leaving computers vulnerable to
hackers and allowing the company to track listening habits. The CDs with
the XCP and MediaMax antipiracy software featured music from 52 popular
artists including Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Celine
Dion. Under the proposed settlement, which still must be approved by a
federal judge in New York, consumers would be allowed to exchange the CDs
for new ones without the copy-protection technology. Sony BMG would also
have to provide software to uninstall the technology and stop making CDs
with XCP on them. More. | |||||||||||
| New AT&T launches new brand campaign:
The new AT&T Inc., which
includes the former SBC Communications, Michigan's dominant local phone
provider, last week announced a new multimedia branding campaign that began Jan.
1. The initiative includes advertising, marketing promotional activities and
sponsorships, including the recently announced "official telecommunication
services" partnership with the United States Olympic and Paralympic teams, and
related advertising that will run in the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in Torino,
Italy. Advertising will include electronic, online and print media, including
more than 30 national and cable TV networks, more than 50 magazines and
newspapers, more than 100 local and regional publications, and 1,000 billboards.
Also included will be multicultural and international campaigns. The new
tagline: "Your World. Delivered." More at
www.thenewatt.com. | |||||||||||
| Stocks: U.S.
markets were closed Monday in observance of the New Year holiday.
| |||||||||||
|
|||
