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GM's Opel signs-up singer to boost brand image
Source: The Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) 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 Sunday 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 Europea… Click to Read More
GM's Opel signs-up singer to boost brand image
Source: The Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) 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 Sunday 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 Europea… Click to Read More
Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's 'quiet' challenger
Source: The Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.
HTC supplies U.S. carriers Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile but says a year ago only one in 10 Americans knew its name. With the help of marketing by cellular carriers and HTC's own television ad… Click to Read More
Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's 'quiet' challenger
Source: The Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.
HTC supplies U.S. carriers Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile but says a year ago only one in 10 Americans knew its name. With the help of marketing by cellular carriers and HTC's own television ad… Click to Read More
Kinect's Israeli partner sees a remoteless world
Source: The Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Inon Beracha envisions a world where your movements control the gadgets and devices around you. There's no remote control to lose, no buttons to push. The air conditioner senses your presence and changes the temperature to your liking.
Controlling your surroundings with the wave of a hand sounds like magic, but Beracha's company, PrimeSense, is already making headway, thanks to a little help from video games.
PrimeSense's 3… Click to Read More
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