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Engine specifications of the all-new Suzuki SX4 S-Cross have been revealed ahead of the car’s late-2013 launch. Unveiled earlier this year at the Geneva motor show, the larger, second-generation Suzuki SX4 S-Cross will launch in Europe with the choice of two 1.6-litre four-cylinder engines. The entry-level naturally aspirated petrol motor produces 88kW of power at 6000rpm and 156Nm of torque at 4400rpm. The engine can be paired with a five-speed manual or an automatic continuously variable transmission (CVT), laid out in either front- or four-wheel-drive. Average CO2 emissions range from 125-136 grams per kilometre, translating to combined cycle fuel consumption of 5.3-5.7 litres per 100km. The turbocharged diesel engine produces an identical 88kW at 4000rpm to the petrol but more than twice as much torque, peaking at 320Nm from 1750rpm. A six-speed manual is the only transmission offered with the diesel. Front- and four-wheel-drive options are also available, with emissions averaging 110-115g/km and fuel consumption measuring 4.1-4.3L/100km. The petrol engine is confirmed for our market, and Suzuki Australia communications manager Andrew Ellis told CarAdvice that the diesel unit is also being considered but has not been locked in at this stage. Both front- and four-wheel-drive options will continue to be offered in Australia. While the outgoing first-generation Suzuki SX4 was a chunky, tallboy hatch, the second-generation SX4 S-Cross takes on more conventional compact crossover proportions. At 4300mm long, 1765mm wide and 1575mm tall, the new Suzuki SX4 S-Cross is 150mm longer, 10mm wider and 30mm lower than the original. Its wheelbase has grown 101mm to 2601mm, contributing to a more spacious interior and a larger boot, up from 253 litres to 430L. Ellis is hopeful the Hungarian-built Suzuki SX4 S-Cross will arrive in Australia around November/December, but said factors outside the local division’s control may see it pushed out to early 2014. Despite being six years old and within months of being superseded, SX4 sales have increased eight per cent so far this year with 900 units delivered across the country from January to May. The Suzuki SX4 S-Cross will join Australia’s burgeoning sub-compact SUV segment, taking on the incoming Holden Trax, Peugeot 2008, Ford EcoSport, Opel Mokka and Renault Captur, among others. The post Suzuki SX4 S-Cross engine details revealed appeared first on CarAdvice.

On Tuesday Huawei announced their new flagship Android smartphone, the Huawei Ascend P6, and now we have some information on the Huawei Ascend P6 price in Europe. The Huawei Ascend P6 will go on sale in Europe for 449 Euros, Huawei have also said that they are expecting to sell 10 million units of the smartphone before the end of the year. (...)Original Story Huawei Ascend P6 Price Is 449 Euros © Geeky Gadgets, 2013. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2013 The post Huawei Ascend P6 Price Is 449 Euros appeared first on Geeky Gadgets.

GameFounders, the first European startup accelerator for gaming companies is accepting applications for a few more days, deadline June 23. The offer includes investment, huge mentor network, partners, contacts and deals. GameFounders has already executed 2 cycles and has 14 companies from 9 different countries (India, Italy, Estonia, Macedonia, Germany, Argentina, Hungary, Lithuania and Holland) in its portfolio. The selected companies will move to Tallinn, Estonia, while top-notch gaming executives come to give advice and share their knowledge in different fields. The number of mentors in the list has already increased to 90+! Every cycle ends with demo days in large gaming events in Europe and the US, where the companies will pitch their products to potential investors and publishers. “What we got with already the first week in GameFounders was more than we expected of the whole program,” says Jonas, a co-founder of Tiny Lab Productions. The second batch has barely come to an end, but there are already good results to show. Bad Seed from Italy has arranged a deal with investor and publisher Pocket Gems and launched their game at the beginning of June. It got featured by Google and Apple (Korea). The Dutch startup Glowforth found a publisher in Estonia (Creative Mobile) and will launch their game in Q4 this year. Half of the teams from batch 2 have publishing offers on their tables and there have also been rumors of acquisition offers. GameFounders is currently looking for new gaming and gamification startups to the third cycle that starts already in September. The application deadline is June 23, so don’ t miss your chance and apply here: http://gamefounders.com/#/apply

After tomato plants were taken back to Europe from the New World in the early 1500s, people in various places considered the fruit poisonous for the next two centuries. The reasoning behind the fear of tomatoes came from several sources:1. Rich people ate tomatoes and then died. Their fancy pewter plates were later found to be the reason.2. Scientists of the time classified the tomato as a deadly nightshade and a mandrake -both scary terms. 3. Tomato leaves smell awful, so one researcher pronounced the entire plant toxic.4. Scary-looking worms infested tomato plants. An article at Smithsonain's Food and Think blog explains each of these concerns, which lingered far into the 1800s, plus a bonus video containing a scene from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Link (Image credit: Flickr user Kicki Holmén)

Births: 1907 - Jimmy Driftwood (d. 1998) 1916 - T. Texas Tyler (d. 1972) 1920 - Danny Cedrone (Bill Haley & the Comets) (d. 1954) 1924 - Chet Atkins (d. 2001) 1936 - Billy Guy (Coasters) (d. 2002) 1937 - Jerry Keller (76) 1938 - Mickey Most (producer) (d. 2003) 1942 - Brian Wilson (71) 1945 - Anne Murray (69) 1947 - Dolores "La La" Brooks (Crystals) (66) 1947 - Joey Molland (Badfinger) (66) 1948 - Alan Longmuir (Bay City Rollers) (65) 1948 - Don Airey (Deep Purple) (65) 1949 - Lionel Richie (64) 1953 - Cyndi Lauper (60) 1953 - Allan Longmuir (Bay City Rollers) (60) 1954 - Michael Anthony (Van Halen) (59) 1954 - Chris Gibson (Gibson Brothers) (59) 1958 - Kelly Johnson (Girlschool) (d. 2007) 1960 - John Taylor (Duran Duran) (53) 1962 - Mark De Gil Antoni (Soul Coughing) (51) 1963 - Amir Derakh (Orgy) (50) 1966 - Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) (47) 1967 - Joey Cathcart (Nelson) (46) 1967 - Murphy Karges (Sugar Ray) (46) 1971 - Jeordie White (Marilyn Manson) (45) 1973 - Chino Moreno (Deftones) (40) 1979 - Charlotte Hatherley (Ash) (34) 1980 - Tony Levato (Mest) (33) Deaths: 1965 - Ira Louvin (Louvin Brothers) - Car hit by drunk driver (41) 1973 - Bruce Tate (Penguins) (36) 1986 - Whitey Ford (aka The Duke of Paducha, Grand Ole Opry comedian) (85) 1996 - Jim Ellison (Material Issues) - Suicide (34) 1997 - Lawrence Payton (Four Tops) - Liver cancer (59) 2006 - Claydes Charles Smith (Kool & the Gang) (57) On This Day: 1948 - Toast of the Town premiered on CBS. The title would later be changed to the Ed Sullivan Show. 1965 - The Beatles started a 14-city tour of Europe in Paris. 1969 - Jimi Hendrix was paid $125,000 to play the Newport Jazz Festival, the largest fee for a performance to-date. 1969 - David Bowie signs with Mercury Records. 1970 - The first Glastonbury Festival began and ran through the 24th. Artists included Fairport Convention, David Bowie, Traffic and Hawkwind. 1975 - The Talking Heads performed their first show at CBGB. 1977 - Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead suffered multiple broken bones after driving his car into a canyon. 1981 - Gerry Cott quit the Boomtown Ratts. 1986 - The fourth annual Prince's Trust Rock Gala was held in London with Phil Collins, Dire Straits, Tina Turner and Elton John. 1987 - Aerosmith opened their Permanent Vacation Tour in Dallas, TX. 1987 - A concert at Radio City Music Hall celebrated the return of Dion to New York after 15 years. Also appearing were the Del-Satins, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Five Satins and Carlo of the Belmonts. 2000 - The Ronettes were awarded $2.6 million in back royalties from Phil Spector. 2004 - Paul McCartney played his 3,000th live show in Petersburg, Russia (2,535 with the Quarrymen/Beatles, 140 with Wings, 325 solo) 2008 - My Bloody Valentine played their first reunion show in London. Marriages: 1985 - Johnny Marr (Smiths) and Angela Brown Recorded: 1969 - Space Oddity - David Bowie Released: 1966 - Yesterday & Today - Beatles 1969 - Aoxomoxoa - Grateful Dead 1969 - Chastity - Cher 1969 - Love Man - Otis Redding 1974 - Before the Flood - Bob Dylan & the Band 1975 - Tonight's the Night - Neil Young & Crazy Horse 1978 - Double Vision - Foreigner 1980 - Blues Brothers - Soundtrack 1980 - Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones 1980 - Rise Up - Peter Frampton 1985 - World Wide Live - Scorpions 1988 - Don't Be Cruel - Bobby Brown 1988 - Chicago 19 - Chicago 1988 - Reg Strikes Back - Elton John 1988 - Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison & the Chieftains 1988 - Confessions of a Pop Group - Style Council 1988 - Roll With It - Steve Winwood 1989 - The Real Thing - Faith No More 1989 - Life is a Dance: The Remix Project - Chaka Khan 1989 - Batman - Prince 1995 - Tigerlily - Natalie Merchant 1995 - One - George Jones & Tammy Wynette (reunion album) 2000 - One Voice - Billy Gilman (debut, youngest artist to reach platinum status) 2000 - White

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Opera Commerce, a fully owned subsidiary of the browser maker Opera has partnered with the Mobile games company Nazara Technologies, to deploy Opera’s payment exchange (OPX) for Opera Mini users. While the deal period or the terms of the agreement were not disclosed, Opera informed that Nazara will be deploying Opera’s payment exchange (OPX) to simplify mobile payments options like operator billing for Opera Mini users in India, Africa, the Middle East and Europe to purchase mobile games. Note that Nazara will be still managing the billing of these games and Opera’s role in this partnership will be limited to help Nazara offer an improved payment mechanism to its users on Opera Mini and help increase conversions for Nazara by routing failed transactions through OPX. Speaking to Medianama, Sunil Kamath, Vice President For South Asia, Opera told this partnership will allow Nazara to simplify the process of requesting user information like the user’s MSISDN number for verifying purchases from Opera Mini users and also monetize their Opera Mini traffic, thereby creating an additional revenue channel for the company. However, he noted that operators play only a passive role in OPX and content partners (in this case Nazara) should have a prior partnership with operators before seeking user information through OPX. Also, this process happens entirely behind the scenes, invisible to the end user. Kamath also hinted that Nazara partnership is the first among many such partnerships in the future but didn’t disclose any specific details on this. Launched in February 2012, Opera Payment Exchange aims to be a platform between content providers, digital payment gateways, operators and end users. Content providers can use this platform to promote their content and provide an improved payment experience to Opera Mini users, while for payment providers it removes the possibilities of false clicking and billing from users (which has declined over time but is still quite rampant in the current VAS system). In return, Opera will get advertising revenues from content providers who intend to promote content to Opera Mini users through ads on the browser. Remember, Opera Mini still leads the mobile browser market in India, although UCWeb’s UCBrowser is apparently catching up with Opera Mini. Last month, a TOI report had suggested that Opera Mini has 30% market share of mobile browsers in India, while UC Browser has 27% market share in the country. Opera had stopped divulging India specific user base numbers a while back, but it claims to have 225 million users (pdf) as of April 2013 and last June, Opera had mentioned that India was the largest market for Opera Mini. We are not sure if there has been any changes at the top or India continues to be the largest market for Opera Mini right now.

Clare Taylor-Rowe Group M media agency Maxus have appointed Claire Taylor-Rose as its first chief strategy officer in Sydney. Taylor-Rose joins the management team at Maxus from Aegis where she was the chief strategy officer of North Asia. Her previous experience also includes roles as global head of planning at Nokia and she has held senior strategic roles at Naked, Initiative and PHD in Europe. Jon Chadwick, CEO of Maxus Australia, said: “The appointment  of Claire comes at a critical phase as we further diversify and evolve our business. Claire is a ‘world class’ talent, having developed global standard thinking on GM, LVMH, COI, Sony Europe, Nokia and Unilever. We are lucky to have her in the team to help drive our next phase of growth.” Taylor-Rose added: “It is fantastic to be joining the Maxus team at such an exciting time of growth in such a dynamic market. I’m really looking forward to working in partnership with our clients to build their businesses through highly innovative communications strategies.” The post Maxus hires first chief strategy officer Claire Taylor-Rose appeared first on mUmBRELLA.

To date, home theater mavens who've wanted Logitech's Harmony Ultimate Hub have had to buy it as part of a Harmony Ultimate or Harmony Smart Control bundle -- neither kit being a bargain for viewers with existing gear. They'll have a better option soon, as Logitech now expects to ship its promised stand-alone version of the Ultimate Hub to Europe and the US in August. Those who shell out $100 will have the same IR, RF and WiFi support as the bundled hub, just without the redundant hardware. They can even rely solely on Logitech's free Android or iOS apps for input, should a dedicated remote seem archaic. The Ultimate Hub may be well-timed: when alternative remote control bridges are fading away, Logitech may snag some of those customers looking for a replacement. Filed under: Home Entertainment, Peripherals, HD, Mobile Comments Via: Blog.Logitech Source: Logitech

Logitech Introduces the Harmony Ultimate Hub, Turning iPhone and Android Smartphones into Personal Universal Remotes Company to Retain Ownership of Harmony Remote Product Line NEWARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NAS: LOGI) today announced the expansion of its universal remote control lineup with the Logitech® Harmony Ultimate Hub, an appcessory for consolidating all of your remote controls into one simple smartphone app, giving you personalized control of up to eight devices from anywhere in the house, using the smartphone you already own. The hub has previously been offered as part of the Logitech Harmony® Ultimate and Logitech Harmony® Smart Control products, and will be a standalone product for customers who prefer to control their digital experience with just a smartphone. Logitech also announced that it plans to retain ownership of its Harmony remote product line. The company has determined that retaining ownership is in the best interest of its shareholders. The Harmony product line has gained momentum following the April introduction of the Harmony Ultimate product, which is available in major retail locations including select Apple stores in the U.S., and has exceeded the company's expectations for customer connections. Pricing and Availability The Logitech Harmony Ultimate Hub is expected to be available in the U.S. and Europe in August 2013, for a suggested retail price of $99.99 in the U.S. For more information, please visit www.logitech.com or our blog. About Logitech Logitech is a world leader in products that connect people to the digital experiences they care about. Spanning multiple computing, communication and entertainment platforms, Logitech's combined hardware and software enable or enhance digital navigation, music and video entertainment, gaming, social networking, audio and video communication over the Internet, video security and home-entertainment control. Founded in 1981, Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (LOGI). This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Logitech's product category and divestiture plans, new product availability and pricing. The forward-looking statements in this release involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include those factors set forth under the "Risk Factors" section and other sections in Logitech's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, available at www.sec.gov. Logitech does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements, which speak as of their respective dates. Logitech, the Logitech logo, and other Logitech marks are registered in Switzerland and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. For more information about Logitech and its products, visit the company's website at www.logitech.com. (LOGIIR) Logitech InternationalJessica MonneyPublic Relations Manager - USA510-713-5830orLaura ScorzaSr. Public Relations Manager - Europe+41-(0) 21-863-5336orJoe GreenhalghVice President, Investor Relations - USA510-713-4430KEYWORDS:   United States  Europe  North America  California  SwitzerlandINDUSTRY KEYWORDS: