Box-office and critical reax to that adorable robot are so socko that everybody’s gushing over the idea that the film will get ?” forget the Oscar for best animated feature, which seems inevitable ?” a nomination for the highest prize. Only one animated film ?” "Beauty and the Beast" in 1991 ?” has been nominated for Oscar’s biggest prize, and that wholesome Disney toon lost to the gory thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" (which was only the third film to sweep the top five races). While "Beauty and the Beast" heralded a renaissance in Disney animated fare, none of the follow-up musical toons ?”- such as "Aladdin" (1992) and "The Lion King" (1994) ?”- could break into the bigger Oscar races, though they scored music awards and the like. In 1995, high-grossing "Toy Story" became the first animated feature to earn a screenplay nom (it lost to "The Usual Suspects"), but it also failed to reap a best picture bid. While it picked up a pair of technical nods, as well as noms for score and screenplay, "Ratatouille" at the end of Oscar night had to be satisfied with winning the consolation prize of best animated feature. read more
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Sunday , June 29, 2008 at 0144 hrs The George Telegraph Training Institute, a pioneer in technical education, and Mukesh Himatsingka Group, which runs dealerships for Hyundai and Mahindra & Mahindra, have come together to set up a training institute for automobile engineering. The George Telegraph Institute of Automobile Engineering will offer two courses in advanced automobile technology of two years and six months respectively and one six-month course in automobile sales and marketing management. Rishabh Himatsingka, director of the Mukesh Himatsingka Group, said GTIAE will be a “high end automobile institute” that will provide hands-on training to its students at five workshops here. Gora Dutta, the principal of GTIAE, said the USP of this institute will be the industry-institute partnership where theoretical aspects will be taught by Industry experts from the Du Pont group, Axis Bank and ICICI Bank. read more
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Kuoni Travel has announced that the first six months of 2008 saw a 28% rise in the number of people enjoying luxury holidays in the Maldives, compared to the same time period in 2007, despite the UK presently suffering under the strain of a credit crunch. Kuoni Travel’s recent developments to improve the usability of their website, most notably the addition of a wide choice of video guides, have no doubt helped maintain the Maldives’ status as their most successful destination. Indeed, Kuoni travel videos have helped many holiday makers gain an insight into several of the top destinations around the world, not just the Maldives, helping travellers to get to know their chosen destination before setting foot on a plane. The Maldives videos available online from Kuoni have certainly helped encourage a number of people to visit this tropical haven, with footage of beautiful sandy beaches giving way to sparkling, blue sea, with a host of tropical fish and stunning coral lurking beneath the waves. Clients can choose from a selection of more than 25 superb brochures, showcasing thousands of luxury holidays to hundreds of exotic destinations on six continents, and covering every holiday interest from relaxing beach getaways to escorted cultural tours, overseas weddings to wildlife safaris. read more
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The worldwide Internet ad market will be an exciting place for the next few years, according to a new report from IDC. By the time 2011 rolls around, online advertising still won’t have replaced traditional methods, but a whole lot more money will be involved than what we see today. John Gantz, IDC’s chief research officer, observed in a statement, "Compared to more mature types of advertising, Internet advertising is growing at a phenomenal rate. Gantz then noted, "But Internet advertising is still relatively new and growing from a much smaller base. By the end of the forecast period, spending for Internet advertising will trail direct mail - the third largest form of advertising - by more than $30 billion, while spending on TV and print ads will each be nearly twice as great as for online ads. read more
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Borrowing from his name and depth of vision, rapidly growing Rassai Interactive has emerged as a master of next-generation e-business, using cutting-edge technology and highly skilled talent to create vibrant, video-driven Web experiences and integrated strategies for more than 350 local, national and international clients. Co-founders Chad Horany and Judge Graham blend emerging technology and platforms with integrated marketing to create a stunning level of service that they believe will brand Rassai as the top video-centric interactive agency in the nation. They’re headed there fast, considering a scorching growth pattern established by Rassai – a company that launched in Horany’s apartment in 2001 while he and Graham were finishing their senior year in Texas Christian University’s inaugural version of the Neeley School of Business’ E-Business program. Nowadays, from their 8,000-square-foot headquarters on the 3rd floor of The Tower in downtown Fort Worth, Rassai is part of an accelerating culture shift toward e-business that netted record-setting Internet advertising revenues last year. As Rassai explains online, such focus has resulted in many innovative responses to clients’ needs, from offering soon a full-service, state-of-the-art video production studio in their Tower headquarters to “accelerated web strategies that incorporate our forward-thinking interactive capabilities to evoke powerful consumer connections. read more
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Then I see Judith Sim has been effusive throwing out numbers for Oracle marketing spend, saying it has fallen from 5% to 1. Fiscal 2007 , the last year for which we can make a direct full year comparison saw total revenue at $18 billion and M&S cost at $3. When I presented at Lisbon , I showed a photo I had taken at Madrid Barajas airport (reproduced at the top of this article) as an example of wasted marketing spend. That trauma won’t happen anytime soon but it absolutely is not beyond the realms of possibility if service organizations like RiminiStreet and others can crank the services handle and take advantage of the alleged price hike and so attack Oracle’s margins. That suggests to me it costs Oracle 64 cents on the dollar in sales costs to clinch each deal which in turn hooks the customer into those lucrative maintenance contracts. read more
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc was named on Monday in a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company’s business software unit copied a tiny start-up’s tool for moving customers off of Microsoft software onto Google’s. LimitNone LLC filed a complaint in an Illinois circuit court alleging that Google at first began promoting the smaller firm’s tool for migrating Microsoft Outlook customers to Gmail, then copied the idea and went into competition with it. The lawsuit was brought by the commercial litigation firm of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP — by the same team who previously faced off with Google in a trademark case involving the Silicon Valley company’s highly successful online advertising system. The latest suit takes aim at the company’s fast-growing Google Apps software application business, which includes Gmail for business users. The case details LimitNone’s meetings starting in March 2007 with Google to build a tool it called “gMove” for moving the e-mail, address books and calendars of corporate customers from Microsoft Corp’s Outlook into Gmail. LimitNone said it entered a confidentiality deal with Google to share trade secrets of its e-mail migration tool with Google engineers, sales people and key Google Apps customers. read more
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Based on the success of its e-business workshops held in Baltimore, Nashville, Tenn. The workshop will provide attendees hands-on training on CSXT’s e-business tools, such as how to submit timely and accurate shipping instructions; manage plant inventory and demurrage; proactively monitor traffic; view, pay and dispute freight bills; retrieve public and private quotes and rates; and order, modify and view car supplies. The even also will feature an "Ask the Expert Zone" staffed by employees from various CSXT departments to discuss other tools and services. The railroad will announce an agenda and provide hotel information soon. read more
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Sun Bowen’s corporate strategy is rooted in the principles of innovative products with good designs, excellent quality controls and products, completely satisfy customers’ needs, prompt delivery and competitive prices. In order to fulfill and maintain our company’s strategy, we will continue to provide best service to our customers, provide excellent quality products and to keep up-to-date with the market trends by designing new and innovative products to meet customers’ needs. Our customers will get to inspect their products and make sure they are satisfied before we ship the products. We will post new products and selling leads to keep our customers updated on the products offered. read more
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