A leaked memo from Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz confirms layoffs began this week. Yahoo was not the only tech company with announced layoffs: Nokia is also cutting staff in Finland. –
It’s a cold, cold winter in Sunnyvale, Calif.,
and Helsinki.
Internet “destination” Yahoo as it calls itself in its company overview has a
bit of bad news for 4 percent of its staff (about 600 employees) this holiday
season: Sorry, but your services at Yahoo are no longer necessary. Yahoo
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ROCK WITH THE PRIEST ONE LAST TIME
 Judas Priest |
After storming the world for nearly 40 years and taking their very special brand of heavy metal to all four corners of
the planet, Judas Priest,
one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, have announced this will be their final world tour.
However, the mighty Priest will be going out strong as they rock the planet starting in 2011 on the massive “Epitaph
Tour” – hitting all the major cities throughout the world they will be playing the songs that helped make the name
Judas Priest synonymous with heavy metal.
The band will be starting their world tour in Europe. Check out the confirmed dates below, and stay tuned as more
dates are announced.
TOUR DATES
9th June Sweden Rock Festival, Sweden
11th June Sauna Festival, Finland
17th June Copenhell Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
19th June Hellfest, Nantes, France
22nd June Gods of Metal Festival, Milan, Italy
25th June Graspop Festival, Belgium
23rd July HIgh Voltage Festival, London, UK
5th August Wacken Festival, Germany
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Finland’s top refiner Neste Oil (NES1V.HE) expects its renewable diesel plant in Singapore to reach full capacity in six months, its chief executive said.
“It is a big refinery and we want to proceed slowly and see how it works and see if there are any bottlenecks,” Matti Lievonen told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
“It will take probably six months before full capacity will be reached. We are scaling up from 70,000 tonnes to 800,000 tonnes (annually),” he said.
Unhappy attempts to revive a national industry
WHAT solar panels are to Germany and wind turbines are to Denmark, nuclear reactors are to France: not just a power source but a pitch for global leadership in a field that is green and sexily high-tech. Electricite de France (EDF), a giant state utility, runs all 59 of the country’s nuclear plants and more than anyone else in the world. Together with Areva and Alstom, two firms involved in many aspects of nuclear-power production, EDF is trying to compete for business overseas. But Team France is ailing.
Its main product is the European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR), vaunted as the most sophisticated, plane-crash-proof and efficient in the world. But just two are under construction, and only one is being built outside France. An EPR in Finland has been dogged by quality and regulatory problems, causing cost overruns of about €2.7 billion ($3.5 billion). The fiasco led Siemens of Germany to end a joint venture with Areva, the lead contractor, reducing the chances of Franco-German co-operation on further EPRs. …
FIVE YEAR HIATUS ENDS IN JUNE 2011
 System of a Down |
From SystemofaDown.com:
“Hello All,
We are excited to announce that System will be playing some dates together in 2011.
We also want to thank you for your loyalty and support, not only to System Of A Down, but to all of our solo efforts
as well. We have no master plan of sorts – we are playing these shows simply because we want to play together
again as a band and for you, our amazing fans.
The list of dates and on-sale information for these shows is below.
We look forward to seeing all of you!
Peace,
System Of A Down”
System Of A Down Tour Dates
6/2/11 – Italy, Milan, Milan Fiera Arena (on-sale Dec 1 @ 10am)
6/4/11 – Germany, Nurnberg, Rock im Park (AVAILABLE NOW)
6/5/11 – Germany, Nurburgring, Rock am Ring (AVAILABLE NOW)
6/6/11 – France, Paris, Omnisports de Bercy (on-sale Dec 14 @ 10am)
6/9/11 – Switzerland, Interlaken, Greenfield Festival (on-sale Dec 1 @ 10am)
6/11/11 – UK, Castle Donington, Download Festival (on-sale Dec 3 @ 9am)
6/13/11 – Austria, Nickelsdorf, Novarock (AVAILABLE NOW)
6/15/11 – Germany, Berlin, Wuhlheide (on-sale Dec 1 @ 9am)
6/17/11 – Sweden, Gothenburg, Metaltown Festival (on-sale Dec 2 @ 9am)
6/19/11 – Finland, Seinajoki, Provinssirock (on-sale Dec 1 @ 9am)
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TOUR STARTS MARCH 30 IN FT. LAUDERDALE
 Rush |
Rush have confirmed The
Time Machine Tour will visit new cities throughout North America and play a few
return engagements beginning March 30 in Ft. Lauderdale and running through April 22 in 2011 with dates in
Greensboro, Nashville, Louisville, Toledo, Hershey, New York’s esteemed Madison Square Garden, Chicago,
Cleveland, Detroit, Hamilton, Montreal and Baltimore. The tour also returns to North America in June with
performances in select markets that will include cities such as New Orleans, Austin, Vancouver and a very special
return play in Los Angeles – more information on these dates and more soon.
Tickets go on sale in select markets beginning December 6 at LiveNation.com. Tickets for the Rush performances
will go on sale in Hershey, Detroit and Baltimore beginning Monday, Dec. 6, with additional on-sales to follow. To
benefit the relief efforts in Haiti, one dollar of each ticket sold will be donated through several charities including
“Doctors Without Borders”. Rush will also contribute a portion of their proceeds at the culmination of the tour.
For Rush Fan Club tickets, as well as fan club exclusive merchandise offers, click here.
For Rush Time Machine packages, click here.
2011 TOUR DATES
Mar 30/11 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Bank Atlantic CenterÂ
April 1/11 Greensboro, NC Coliseum Â
April 3/11 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena Â
April 5/11 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center   Â
April 6/11 Toledo, OH Huntington Center
April 8/11 Hershey, PA Giant Center  Â
April 10/11 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
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April 12/11 Chicago, IL United Center Â
April 15/11 Cleveland, OH Quickens Loans Arena
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April 17/11 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills  Â
April 19/11 Hamilton, ON Copps Coliseum Â
April 20/11 Montreal, PQ Bell Centre Â
April 22/11 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena
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May 4 Helsinki, Finland Hartwall Arena
May 6 Stockholm, Sweden Globe
May 8 Malmo, Sweden Malmo Arena
May 12 Dublin, Ireland O2
May 14 Glasgow, Scotland SECC
May 16 Sheffield, UK Motorpoint Arena
May 19 Manchester, UK MEN Arena
May 21 Newcastle, UK Metro Radio Arena
May 22 Birmingham, UK LG Arena
May 25 London, UK O2
May 27 Rotterdam, Holland Ahoy Arena
May 29 Frankfurt, Germany Festhalle
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Fitting large buildings with lifts, locks and electrical systems is nice work
PEOPLE around the world who live or work in high-rise buildings are likely to travel on the first or last leg of their daily commute courtesy of one of four firms. Otis, part of United Technologies, is the world’s leading liftmaker, with 23% of the global market. The American company, Schindler of Switzerland, Kone of Finland and the lift division of ThyssenKrupp, a German conglomerate, together supply about two-thirds of the world’s elevators.
Liftmakers’ fortunes are on the ascent. China’s rapid urbanisation and economic expansion helped them weather the recent recession in the rich world. In 2008, a bad year, the world market was still worth €33 billion (then $47 billion). Demand for lifts and escalators is still booming. Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric, the fifth-largest liftmaker, reckons the market will grow by 30% by 2016 thanks to China—which could account for half of global demand—plus India and other emerging economies. …
Finland supports the submission of Serbia’s EU candidacy to the EC at the meeting of EU foreign ministers on October 25. This is according to Finland’s Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb.
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić will visit Finland on Monday, October 18, at the invitation of Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb. Stubb and Jeremić will discuss bilateral relations between Finland and Serbia as well as Serbian accession to the EU and regional issues of the Western Balkans, including Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Even within the moral vacuum of reality television, certain stars’ behavior leans toward certifiable.
“We’re very close to start-up,” Jarmo Honkamaa, deputy chief executive officer of Neste Oil, Finland’s only petroleum refiner, said yesterday in a telephone interview. “We’re well on time and within the budget” for the project, which uses plant and animal products as feedstock.
“We’re very close to start-up,” Jarmo Honkamaa, deputy chief executive officer of Neste Oil, Finland’s only petroleum refiner, said yesterday in a telephone interview. “We’re well on time and within the budget” for the project, which uses plant and animal products as feedstock.
Nokia N8 smartphones, the first to run the Symbian 3 operating system, have left factories in Finland and China and should reach the first lucky customers by the weekend, Nokia reported. – Nokias newest flagship smartphone, the N8, has begun shipping around the world from its factories in Finland and China, Nokia announced Sept. 30 on its Conversations blog. Stressing the enormity of this big push from its factories, the phone maker worked to build excitement while calling for a last …
Mainboard-listed Hu An Cable Holdings, the wire and cable manufacturers in China, says it has started the construction of a new plant under newly-incorporated subsidiary, Hu An (Wuxi) Cable Technology Co., to strengthen its cable production capabilities.
The plant occupies a land area of 80,000 sqm and a floor space of 60,000 sqm. It is located adjacent to the group’s existing plant in Yixing city. The group has already placed the orders for two world-class production lines for ultra-high voltage power cables from Finland and Germany.
University Research Center Will Lead to New User Interfaces and Experiences
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
OULU, Finland, Aug. 24, 2010 – Intel Corporation, Nokia and the University of Oulu officially opened the Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center today. It will employ about two dozen R&D professionals and become the latest member of Intel’s European Research Network, Intel Labs Europe.
Initially the lab will conduct research for new and compelling mobile user experiences that could leverage the rapidly increasing capabilities of mobile devices. Creating interfaces that are more similar to interactions in the real world can enable experiences that are more natural and intuitive, in the same way that modern games and movies are more immersive through the use of realistic 3-D graphics.
The new lab is well aligned with the MeeGo open source platform recently launched by Intel and Nokia. MeeGo provides the greatest flexibility for developing new 3-D experiences on mobile devices as much of the lab’s research activity will also be open source.
“The University of Oulu’s focus on future telecommunications solutions as well as electronics and photonics made it the perfect location for the Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center,” says Justin Rattner, Intel chief technology officer and director of Intel Labs.
Another potential area of research could look into technologies that allow displaying a 3-D hologram of the person you are talking to on the phone, a capability only found in science fiction movies today. Consumers will feel more involved and engaged with their mobile experience than with current methods.
“3-D technology could change the way we use our mobile devices and make our experiences with them much more immersive,” said Rich Green, Senior vice president and chief technical officer, Nokia. “Our new joint laboratory with Intel draws on the Oulu research community’s 3-D interface expertise, and over time will lay down some important foundations for future mobile experiences.”
The lab will be located at the Center for Internet Excellence at the University of Oulu, and will work closely with the Oulu Urban Living Labs, which provide a unique environment for sensor research, testing and piloting technological and social innovations. The Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center follows a successful industry and academia collaboration model similar to the ones of Intel Labs Barcelona and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain, the Intel Visual Computing Institute and the Saarland University in Germany or Intel Labs Berkeley at the University of California at Berkeley in the United States.
About Intel Labs Europe
Intel R&D/Innovation in Europe is driven by a network of research labs, product development labs and innovation labs spanning the region as well as a variety of Intel business units. Intel Labs Europe was formally established in early 2009 as the central means of coordinating activities across this diverse and extensive network, and to strengthen and improve Intel’s alignment with European R&D. Today, Intel’s European research & development network, Intel Labs Europe, consists of 22 labs employing more than 900 R&D professionals.
About Intel
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Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.
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Nokia is reportedly seeking an outsider to revive it. Bad idea
INSIDE Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the company’s CEO, is known as OPK. In the wider tech world he is known as a dead man walking. The business press is buzzing with rumours of his imminent demise. Alas for him, these rumours have boosted his company’s share price.
Mr Kallasvuo took over the world’s largest phonemaker (which is also by far the biggest company in his native Finland) in the summer of 2006. Six months later Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, and it has been downhill ever since. Nokia’s shares have tumbled by nearly two-thirds. Its profit margins have withered from 15% to 7%. And the firm has all but imploded in America, despite Mr Kallasvuo’s pledge to conquer the region. …
A ranking of care for the dying by country
CUSTOMER-satisfaction surveys are, alas, unsuitable for rating the quality of death. So the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister group to The Economist, has devised a ranking of end-of-life care, published on Wednesday July 14th. It rates 40 mostly rich countries by how well they care for the dying. Britain tops the table. For all the health care system’s faults, British doctors tend to be honest about prognoses, the mortally ill get plentiful pain killers and a well-established hospice movement cares for people near death. Countries such as Denmark and Finland rank lower because they concentrate more on preventing death than on helping people die without suffering pain, discomfort and distress.
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ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER 14
Sweden’s Dungen are
returning with a new album called Skit I Allt (translation: Fuck All) out September 14. This year
the band will embark on their largest ever North American tour, including stops at All Tomorrow’s Parties
festival at Kutshers in upstate New York, as well as gigs in Europe and Scandinavia (see dates below).
Click here to listen to the new song
“Marken LÃ¥g Stilla”
Skit I Allt Tracklist
01 “Vara Snabb”
02 “Min Enda Vän”
03 “Brallor”
04 “Soda”
05 “Högdalstoppen”
06 “Skit I Allt”
07 “Barnen Undrar”
08 “Blandband”
09 “Nästa Sommar”
10 “Marken LÃ¥g Stilla”
A bit of vintage live Dungen to whet your appetites.
Dungen Tour Dates:
Fri-Sep-03 Buffalo, NY, Mohawk Place, USA
Sun-Sep-05 Monticello, NY, All Tomorrows Parties, USA
Tue-Sep-07 Philadelphia, PA, Johnny Brenda’s, USA
Wed-Sep-08 Baltimore, MD, Ottobar, USA
Fri-Sep-10 Charlottesville, VA, Jefferson Theatre, USA
Sat-Sep-11 Raleigh, NC, Hopscotch Music Festival, USA
Sun-Sep-12 Asheville, NC, Grey Eagle, USA
Tue-Sep-14 Atlanta, GA, The Earl, USA
Wed-Sep-15 Nashville, TN, Mercy Lounge, USA
Thu-Sep-16 Memphis, TN, Hi-tone, USA
Fri-Sep-17 Dallas, TX, The Loft, USA
Sat-Sep-18 Austin, TX, Mohawk, USA
Sun-Sep-19 Marfa, TX, TBD, USA
Wed-Sep-22 Phoenix, AZ, Rhythm Room, USA
Thu-Sep-23 San Diego, CA, Casbah, USA
Fri-Sep-24 Pioneertown, CA, Pappy & Harriets, USA
Sat-Sep-25 Los Angeles, CA, Echoplex, USA
Sun-Sep-26 Big Sur, CA, Henry Miller Library, USA
Wed-Sep-29 Oakland, CA, New Parish, USA
Fri-Oct-01 Portland, OR, Mississippi Studios, USA
Sat-Oct-02 Vancouver, BC, Biltmore, USA
Sun-Oct-03 Seattle, WA, Neumos, USA
Wed-Oct-06 Minneapolis, MN, Triple Rock, USA
Thu-Oct-07 Chicago, IL, Lincoln Hall, USA
Fri-Oct-08 Detroit, MI, Magic Stick, USA
Sat-Oct-09 Cleveland, OH, Grog Shop, USA
Sun-Oct-10 Toronto, ONT, Horseshoe Tavern, Canada
Tue-Oct-12 Burlington, VT, TBD, Canada
Wed-Oct-13 Boston, MA, Harpers Ferry, USA
Thu-Nov-11 Manchester, TBD, UK
Fri-Nov-12 London, TBD, UK
Wed-Nov-24 Tampere, Klubi, Finland
Thu-Nov-25 Ã…bo, Klubi (Ilta), Finland
Fri-Nov-26 Helsinki, Tavastia, Finland
Wed-Dec-01 Bergen, TBA, Norway
Thu-Dec-02 Oslo, Parkteatret, Norway
Fri-Dec-03 Trondheim, Blaest, Norway
Fri-Dec-10 Malmö, Inkonst, Sweden
Sat-Dec-11 Göteborg, Brewhouse, Sweden
Sun-Dec-12 Stockholm, Bryggarsalen, Sweden
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BUSY SUMMER FOR UK PROGRESSIVE HARD ROCKERS
 Porcupine Tree |
This summer, Porcupine Tree will join up with Coheed and Cambria for a 12-date co-headlining U.S. tour that kicks off at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on August 12. Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, June 25.
And that is by no means the extent of Porcupine Tree’s activity this summer.
-Porcupine Tree will headline Radio City Music Hall September 24.
-The band has released their second live concert film, Anesthetize, on DVD and Blu-Ray. Amazon sold out of the Blu-Ray version on pre-orders alone, and the DVD has notched top-10 debuts in the UK, Germany, Finland, Sweden, and Holland.
-Porcupine Tree has posted Atlanta, a complete 2-hour live performance from the Fear of a Blank Planet tour, as a download from the PT Store. All proceeds from this digital-only release will go towards Japan bass player Mick Karn’s treatment for cancer.
-Porcupine Tree will play several major festivals in Europe including Roskilde (Denmark), Rock Werchter (Belgium), and Sonisphere (Spain).
-Gavin Harrison has been named “Best Progressive Drummer” for the fourth consecutive year in the 2010 Modern Drummer readers’ poll.
-Steven Wilson co-wrote and sang the track “The Fountain” on Pendulum’s new album Immersion.
-And Steven Wilson has launched a second career as a writer. Wilson now pens the back-page column for Electronic Musician and was recently published in the New York Times as well. Check out his words here and here.
Porcupine Tree/ Coheed and Cambria Tour Dates
8.10 San Francisco, CA- The Warfield (Porcupine Tree only)
8.12 Hollywood, CA – Hollywood Palladium
8.13 Las Vegas, NV – The Joint
8.14 San Diego, CA – 4th and B
8.16 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
8.17 El Paso, TX – Club 101
8.18 San Antonio, TX – Sunset Station
8.20 Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall
8.21 Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
8.22 Nashville, TN – War Memorial Auditorium
8.23 St Louis, MO – Pageant
8.24 Grand Rapids, MI – Orbit Room
8.26 Cleveland, OH – Nautica Pavilion
And check out JamBase’s 2009 interview with Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson here.
