The business of industrial cleaning machines and equipping is constantly expanding and Italian products are standing out for quality and competitiveness. Fundamental elements to ensure a good production.
The focus of hygiene and cleanliness of the workplace has always been an important and fundamental to guarantee employees a workplace healthy and valuable incentives at work in the best possible conditions.
Industrial hygiene and cleanliness are fundamental in order to guarantee high quality production. In fact, they provide workers with a better environment thus enhancing productivity and wellness. Particularly, the Italian product is very much appreciated in USA and Spain where exports and companies’ investments in industrial sweepers and mechanical vacuum cleaner are at their highest pick.
Just thanks to exports and focused investments on web marketing, these firms are widening their horizons and setting new markets that finally contribute to the growth of both, production and industrial sector. In the production of machinery for industrial cleaning, such as cleaning machines, motor sweepers, steam generators, Italy holds a decisive role and there are solid companies that for decades working in this field that arise as a reference point for overseas.
The experience gained by italian companies and the continued development and study in the field led to export in central and north Europe as well as in South America and North America. In these states currently focus investment promotional character of the largest producers, especially industrial floor scrubbers machines. Our companies are always looking for new techniques and equipment for cleaning and hygiene company, seeking new developments in the field from simple detergents and disinfectants down to the most complex machines for cleaning.
Thanks to the decennial experience in the industrial-cleaning sector of its firms, Italy is one of the leading countries with the highest number of machines, produced and distributed within its borders and abroad.
A workplace clean and healthy is a guarantee of prosperity and is the basis for a good production and future development, incentive to work and security to those who live every day. For this hot air thermoelectric generators and dessicant dryers, sweepers, vacuum cleaners, floor scrubbers and water jet equipment are essential to achieve a high degree of cleanliness in the large and local business environments where the transition and the concentration of people makes daily hygiene common first need.
Modern street sweepers are equipped with water tanks and sprayers used to loosen particles and reduce dust. The brooms gather debris into a main collection area from which it is vacuumed and pumped into a collection bin.
Companies involved in the cleaning business bring into the market products and instruments that cover every need and problem of cleaning and enviroming disinfection. They are wet and dry vacuum cleaners and scrubber for the floors as well as equipment for cleaning effective vertical surfaces such as windows, walls and panels.
The Italian companies as well as available for sale machinery are well on the market even with the rental service of themselves and not for minor importance with accurate support services. New technologies have resulted in the production of tools that take more account of who is going to use the machine and then we come to produce equipment built with materials such as aluminium alloys and thermoplastics that allow you to have robust equipment and at the same time by short weight.
A regenerative air street sweeper uses forced air to create a swirling knifing effect inside a contained sweeping head and then uses the negative pressure on the suction side to place the road debris inside a containment hopper.
In addition there is always an eye regard to safety, so there are systems that allow dual secure the machinery starting only if the operational phase of use and with full control of the half. High quality and safety, equipment maximum functionality for each application hygiene going to support each separate what our clients in the choice of systems and equipment that are appropriate to each transaction cleaning necessary.
All this in response to a request for ease of use, versatility and security united to effectiveness in obtaining company hygiene, with particular attention to the long duration and quality / price ratio.
On this regard, you can easily look for its products on the Website, specifically developed to market industrial cleaning machines.
This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from barredoras fregadoras. For any information on Eureka, visit alquiler de barredoras or surfing on-line aspiradoras barredoras.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Business industrial cleaning and hygiene machines
Thursday, May 29, 2008
La nuova era: i dispositivi cellulari
Come definire l'era in cui stiamo vivendo? Alcuni studiosi americani la definiscono l'era dei consumatori avanzati di dispositivi di comunicazione, infatti ormai viviamo in un Nuovo Mondo di convergenza delle tecnologie in cui i telefoni cellulari si uniscono alle funzioni di personal computer, in particolare, e-mail e servizi Internet.
In particolare le carateristiche che hanno ridefinito e rimodellato la portabilità sono la disponibilità e l'accessibilità, basta pensare a dispositivi come iPod, iPhone, e Blackberrie ecc ecc, dispositivi in origine indirizzati alle aziende.
Viviamo in un era in cui siamo costantemente attratti dall'aggiornamento e passaggio continuo da una tecnologia ad un'altra. Proprio quando pensiamo di avere il miglior modello di cellulare, veniamo bombardati da messaggi pubblicitari che lanciano un prodotto o modello più avanzato.
La gente attende in linea per giorni solo per avere l'ultima tecnologia che si ritiene possa teoricamente migliorare il suo modo di comunicare. Il Blackberries ad esempio, (creato con lo scopo principale di agevolare la messaggistica email, fornisce il servizio di 'mail push', ovvero una particolare configurazione dei server che gestiscono i suoi servizi, che 'spingono' le mail che arrivano all'utente direttamente sul dispositivo, evitando quindi che sia il device ad interrogare il server.) secondo dati emanati da un noto fornitore di servizi wireless Americano viene acquistato da un milione di persone ogni tre mesi, meno male che era riservato alle aziende...
Il cellulare che abbiamo per le mani in questo momento ha percorso una lunga strada dalle sue iniziali caratteristiche di base. Non siamo più soddisfatti delle vecchie e obsolete opzioni che ci permettevano di effettuare e ricevere chiamate o inviare messaggi di testo, ormai disponiamo di un vero e proprio strumento multitasking...immagini, video, paginazione, e-mail, internet, ecc.
Nell'era mobile in cui siamo tutti uguali e lla ricerca di qualcosa che ci contraddistingua, cosa utilizziamo per essere diversi dagli altri? La personalizzazione del nostro cellulare, inserendo suonerie, giochi cellulare java e software cellulare che soddisfano il nostro stile e le nostre preferenze... divertente, sommessa, silenziosa, suoneria di musica italiana, suoneria di musica straniera, semplice bip, vibrazione, qualunque essa sia ci rende unici e mostra una qualche carateristica del nostro carattere.
Basta prendere un autobus o un treno, o fare una passeggiata in una zona affollata e tenere le orecchie aperte per sentire squillare cellulari con suonerie uniche e diverse. Pensate che l'altro giorno ne ho sentita una davvero strana...addirittura un cellulare che squillava con la risata di un bambino. Difficile non far caso a questi suoni, ed alcune volte ancora più difficile non ridere.
Altre scenetta divertente che mi capita di vedere spesso sono dei ragazzi con un iPod collegato in entrambe le orecchie che non riescono a sentire neanche il loro telefono cellulare che squilla! Ed è molto comune ormai che le persone dimentichino di spegnere i loro telefoni cellulari durante le lezioni, in chiesa, in conferenze, ecc.
In conclusione nella nuova era essere connessi è ormai una necessità, un qualcosa che ci ricorda che qualcuno ci pensa, ci cerca.
Non è possibile immaginare di avere con sè il telefono cellulare per una giornata intera e nessuno che ci chiami! In effetti potrebbe essere una cosa molto triste... che bella la nuova era.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Monte Carlo hosts "Passion for Life" art exhibition supporting GEMLUC
The next Passion for Life collective art exhibition to be held from June 5-19, 2008 at the two Artemisia gallery locations in Monte Carlo will support GEMLUC, whose Honorary President is H.R.H. Princess Caroline of Hanovre.
The next Passion for Life collective exhibition will be held from June 5-19, 2008 at the two Artemisia gallery loc ations in Monte Carlo. The Passion for Life program supports fundraising for the fight against cancer and other important humanitarian causes, through the organization of high caliber contemporary art exhibitions worldwide. The Passion for Life program was founded by Antoine Gaber, both as an impressionist artist painter but also as a cancer researcher in drug development focusing mostly in cancer treatments.
The Monte Carlo Passion for Life exhibition will be supporting GEMLUC Groupement des Entreprises Monégasques dans la Lutte contre le cancer, with its fundraising activities. GEMLUC was founded in Monaco in 1973 by Philippe Lajoinie, and H.R.H. Princess Caroline of Hanovre is the Honorary President. In this time, the association has raised over 1.500.000 euros in funds in order to fight cancer: donated to assist cancer research, pay for scholarships for medical students and medical products, and give care to cancer sufferers. In each of the countries where Passion for Life has exhibited, the funds raised have been fully and exclusively given to the chosen local charity or association.
iThe main objectives of Passion for Life are: to improve the awareness and early diagnosis of the disease and to fundraise to support research. As an example of some activities, in February 2007, Passion for Life fundraising art exhibition was held at the Chetumal Maya Culture Museum, in Mexico, in parallel several conferences were given by Antoine Gaber to increase awareness about cancer worldwide, aiming at students of several important universities. In June of 2007, in addition to Passion for Life fundraising exhibitions in Volterra and Montecatini, Italy, an exclusive fundraising Gala Dinner as a collateral event, was organized in collaboration with the 15th Congress of European Association for Psychotherapy at the Palazzo Budini Gattai, in support of the De partment of Hemato-Oncology, Meyer Paediatric Hospital in Florence, with the special participation of the famous Patch Adams the physician who brought humor therapy for his patients into the hospital (Robin Williams interpreted the role of Patch Adams in the 1998 movie).
In 2005, the Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea of Florence joined Antoine Gaber as Artistic Partner, bringing art to life in support of cancer awareness and research with Gaber's International Passion for Life program. In December 2007, as one of the Florence Biennale collateral events, and as a follow up from the last 2 years, Antoine Gaber was invited as one of the key speakers to present a retrospective on his Passion for Life international artistic fundraising initiatives. The 840 artists present at the Biennale coming from more than 70 countries, numerous visitors, art critics, journalists and Italian and foreign government officials, attended Gaber's presentation o f Passion for Life. At the conclusion of his presentation, Gaber announced the next Passion for Life International event location to be held in Monte Carlo in June 2008, under the hospitality of Ms. Mirella Setzu, owner of Artemisia.
The exhibition in Monte Carlo will take place at the two locations of Artemisia (rue Princesse Caroline, 5 and in the avenue Princesse Alice, 5 from 5 - 19 June 2008.
On the evening of 5th June, 2008 Passion for Life exhibition fundraising cocktail will be held at La Rose des Vents in Plage du Larvotto, Monaco, organized by GEMLUC. This event will celebrate the PASSION FOR LIFE exhibition opening and its support for GEMLUC. Some of the artists will attend the event along with personalities such as Michele Cucuzza and Amanda Lear who is also one of the participating artists.
Participating artists:
Barbara Alcalde, Figen Begen, Mary Brilli, Diana Calvillo, Brenda Charles, Antoine Gaber, Marybel Gallegos, Sie tze Groenewold, Sumio Inoue, Maz Jackson, Betty Jonker, Kosmas Kroussos, Leticia Leal, Amanda Lear, Sinae Lee, Martin J.A. Nijman, Catalina Ochoa, Antonio Pugliano, Marieta Reijerkerk, Karl Stengel, Goga Trascierra, Karel Vreeburg
For further information:
Press Office: Vito Abba - info@studioabba.com
tel./fax +39 055292082
www.passionforlifemontecarlo.com
www.passionforlifeart.com
www.antoinegaber.com
www.flickr.com/photos/passionforlifeart/
Venice obliged destination for tourism in Italy
Italy offers itself as a country of important and various tourist destinations; many resorts are envied to Italy and these offer to visitors the opportunity to discover the history of this country between monuments and architecture beauties as well as beautiful landscapes and natural wealth.
Certainly, thinking to Italy one obliged trip among many, is a stay in characteristic and unique city of Venice. Venice is situated on the Venetian lagoon in the Gulf of its name, about 28 km from the town of Treviso and for its peculiarity of the city "Aquatic" has the highest tourist’s flow in Italy. Declared in 1987 by UNESCO, humanity’s heritage welcome tourists every year with its historical heritage surrounded by his entire lagoon.
Famous for its Carnival which attracts millions of tourists during the period between May and October, is a "gem" to visit at any time, to live the magic of its 118 islands linked together by 354 bridges and then divided by 177 between canals and rills. Among the islands, the Lido welcomes the International exhibition of art cinema Venice meeting point of many celebrities while the island of Murano is known worldwide for exclusive glass working, in addition, the typical lace worked on the island of Burano, also famous for its very colorful houses.
Given the constant influx of tourists that the city each year must accept there are in Venice, many characteristic hotels as the prestigious Hotel Ala, located in the heart of the city, near the famed St. Mark’s Square. Hotel three stars among the best of Venice, offers to customers who stay in its 85 rooms decorated by “Barocchetto” Venetian-style as well as the original 'eight hundred and nine hundred furniture, to be able to enjoy fully the spirit of Venetian life and spend so stays unforgettable.
Recently completely renovated as in the common areas as in the bedrooms, hotel Ala has maintained the charm of the city in its internal in fact you can admire the floor "Terrace" embellished by “glass murrine” while shine on the walls stucco in 700 Venetian Style and on this atmosphere stands out a fabulous and brilliant Venetian chandelier work of famous glassmaker master, Giorgio Ferro.
Stay in Venice remains a must in choosing a journey between the wonders of Italy, among the many luxury hotels that stand out for the country, ready to welcome in every tourist resort on coastlines, at the famous lakes, mountain or in splendid hills, certainly in the venetian city you live unique spell that has no equal.
The only way to turn, if you don’t visit walking you can go in gondola or ferry: visit the Venetian markets, small characteristic shops, anyone if only for one day visits this magic city will be more rich.
This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from accommodation in Venice. For any information on how travel insurance, please visit hotel in Venice Italy or please visit hotel in Venice.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Discounts an Altobel pendulum-clocks
From the 27/05/2008, the Lazzini watchmaker shop, offers to all its customers interessting discounts an the Altobel pendulums.
On the site adjora.it belonging to the Lazzini watchmaker’s, one can obtain substantial reductions on prices regarding pendulums made by the Altobel Altobel company.
From the 27 of may, fine wall clocks, table clocks, or vertical clocks will be accessible at an ineredible price.
These are made from block wood with nigh quality mechanics, together with an excellent craftmanship.
Too see all the offers http://www.adjora.it/catalogo/altobel-m-18.html
Monday, May 26, 2008
The right feeding for pets
When we decide to let a pet entering in our house, we make an important choice; we choose to share our life with a living being that, day after day, will make part of our life and our love.
The latest data confirm that Italians choose as pets: dogs and cats. The most of these prefer cats. The reasons mostly are: we spend many time out at work, we live in medium and small houses, there is an increasing number of singles and cats fitting perfectly with these conditions.
The dog needs a bigger “engagement” because it needs to go out twice a day at least, the problem comes out during holidays where several hotels don't accept dogs yet. In this case we are forced to put our dog or cat to board.
In any case, it is important to remember that we choose a pet as a mate for the rest of the life and it is fundamental that it receives an appropriate and equilibrate feeding.
No matter if we prefer a dog or a cat, both of them need a particular kind of food considering the specific characteristic of the single subject.
One upon a time the main dog or cat food were the meat cans; today, the modern veterinary medicine has recognized this kind of alimentation as limitative regarding the nutritive principles and tiring for the animal's metabolism. The croquettes have become the main food in dogs and cats diets.
Today, feeding an animal means respecting a particular diet expressly customized on every single animal; the veterinary, basing on blood tests made during the very first period of life of the animal, can suggest a balanced diet composed by natural food for cats and dogs .
The suggest food for the very first months are small dimension croquettes; day after day our pet grows up and we can supply Jelly food or Patè so to integrate diet with a bigger % of proteins.
It is very important the constant use of natural products, cruelty free, not tested on animals and with laboratories that assure the integrity and the quality of the product.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
OZ499: COUNTDOWN FOR THE FIRST SPORT-DESIGN COLLECTION
On Monday 12th of May 2008 started the countdown for OZ499, a new generation’s model of hi-tech creations for sport, with a DNA that raise them up as design icons.
Result of the synergy between OZ – world leader in the field of light alloy wheels – and Carlesso, bike-industry company from northeastern Italy, OZ499 is a joint effort outcome on a research for new materials and technologies. This project was launched last autumn and will be completed next August with the presentation of the first example.
“A world-beating creation – declared the managers of the two companies - an extraordinary fusion of art and sport that will talk the language of a new modernity not only to sportsmen but also and above all to enthusiasts, collectors and sector’s lovers”.
At the moment the two companies are maintaining the utmost reserve on the brand-new work, but they announced that further information will be released on-line starting from the 31st of May on www.oz499.com
The web address is already operative, with a big countdown that shows how much time is missing until the release of the temporary web site. And those who would like to be up-to-date about the event will be able to get news preview just registering on the apposite on line form.
Contact:
Veruschka Mazzuia
OZ499 Press Office
c/o
POLARIS - Warm Ideas
Via Campo, 18/f
32035 - Santa Giustina (BL)
Tel. +390437 858465 - Fax +390437 888826
www.polarisedizioni.com
Coffee break: small daily timeless pleasure
Drinking a cup of coffee is a small daily pleasure which is part of each one of us, synonymous with relaxation is the best excuse to take a moment to pause. Rarely, however, there dwells to think of the origins of this gesture and this drink become synonymous of behavior.
Around this drink have created many legends and folk traditions there who says that already the time of Homer, in the city of Troy, used coffee. The first coffee in Europe seems to be come even around 900 - 1000 AD thanks to the many ships that brought unknown goods from all parts.
One thing certain is what he sees sip this dark drink, become, in what is today Yemen, a real custom, even supported by the government that praised its energy quality.
For Europe is somewhat 'say that certainly the first coffee came through the Venetian traders, in 1615, especially remembers Prospero Alpini, botanist, physician of Venice’s console, who studied the drink and brought to the knowledge of the Venice’s city. At first the coffee was also used for its digestive and medical properties and also for this its price was immediately quite high.
Today we find yet “Caffè Florian”, one of the oldest coffee’s shop, under the arcades of St Mark’s Square, Venice, which even then to disseminate this drink, did distribute a text that praised properties.
In today's hectic life can not miss the time for coffee break and is in the workplace as in our homes and in bars has become increasingly demanding, for this reason, coffee machines and drink machines are now becoming increasingly technological equipment and we don’t count more versions and variations, all designed to enhance quality in its various aroma of coffee.
We find so espresso professional machines, but also those semi-or for private consumption; are available automatic drink espresso machines that allow enjoy anytime of the day, both in workspace and along a corridor, each variant of espresso coffee, barley, decaffeinated. In the new models of coffee machines for domestic use are lines of innovative and elegant design because the machine also expressed become an object of furniture and enriches every environment, joining an increasingly sophisticated technology in making coffee to a design increasingly minimalist.
For use in the workplace, very comfortable and versatile are the drink machines, machines that allow fully automated, simply by inserting coins of small denomination, to have ready in a few seconds a hot or cold drink, depending on the request. In these machines the hot drink sugared already exits, with the amount preset and there is a small stick to turn sugar. Now all distributors have the use of key for those who normally use the machine or give the rest to those who are just passing through.
In every place, at home or at work, the coffee break is around the corner, the hot drink that hides traditions and ancient stories is a daily pleasure that today, thanks to technological development in machinery and in drink machines, you can consume comfortably in any environment.
This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from coffee vending machine manufacturer. For any information on Adimac, visit drink vending machines or surfing on-line hot drinks vending machines.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Brass butterfly valves, push fittings for multilayer pipe and the necessary for water installations
Italian industry is based upon a productivity that comes from first class machineries that need the maximum efficiency in any use condition.
No matter if is involved the heavy industry or not, machineries quality needs to be maximum, as their resistance to stress.
Primary importance, in water pipes or high pressure water pipes, have the brass butterfly valves or the push fittings for multilayer pipe.
These are main components for the right use of all machineries with water or pressure circuit guaranteeing a perfect use; above all these are fundamental elements for the safety of machinery itself and the consequent safety of workers.
In a working installation acquire a great importance many other parts. These assure the right working of machinery: the split body ball valves and the brass check valves that work to stabilize the pressure inside the water circuits so to regulate the flow of steam or water under pressure.
In the circuits where flow high pressure flux is fundamental the presence of a pneumatic actuators that resist to pressure and to high temperatures.
For this reason is fundamental the use of brass butterfly valves able to regulate the inner flows of pipes, varying the opening of the valve according to the pressure, and push fittings for multilayer pipe that interacting with the butterfly valves are able to optimize the in and out pressure maintaining the plant safety and in working order.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
MEDIASET: Mediaset Board Meeting 13 May 2008
APPROVAL FOR THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2008
Consolidated Results
Net revenues: €1,098.9 million
Operating profit: €255.8 million
Net profit: €121.0 million
Italy
Publitalia sales grow: +3,0%
Ratings: Mediaset channels and Canale 5
leader in the 15-64 year-old audience
Mediaset Premium: revenues double
Spain
Operating profitability: 47.4%
Ratings: Telecinco Spain’s leading channel
The Board of Directors of Mediaset, which met today under the Chairmanship of Fedele
Confalonieri, has approved the company’s report on the first quarter of 2008.
MEDIASET GROUP: CONSOLIDATED RESULTS
Performance in the first three months of 2008 can be summarised as follows:
• the Mediaset Group’s consolidated net revenues grew by 13.9% to reach €1,098.9
million, compared with €964.9 million in the first quarter of 2007.
• the Group’s EBIT, which came to €255.8 million was in line with that of the same
period of the previous year (€255.7 million).
• operating profitability was 23.3%, compared with 26.5% in Q1 2007.
• profit before taxation and that attributable to third-party shareholders, amounted to
€231.0 million, compared with €247.6 million in the first quarter of 2007. This result
was affected by higher financial charges resulting from the acquisitions made in the
second half of 2007 (Endemol and Medusa).
• net profit attributable to the Group came to €121.0 million, compared with €124.5
million in the first quarter of the previous year and reflects an improvement in the tax
rate following the reduction in ordinary rates of taxation from 2008 in both Italy and
Spain.
However, the result is also impacted by the amortizations made during the price
allocation for the acquisition of Endemol. Net of this effect, the net profit for the Group
was €126.4 million.
• the Group’s net financial position went from –€1,208.8 million on 31 December 2007
to -€967.3 million on 31 March 2008.
• In the first three months of the year net cash generation amounted to €279.9 million,
an increase on the €211.0 million of the same period of the previous year.
It should be noted that, since last July, the companies acquired during 2007 have been
consolidated. The companies of the Medusa Group have been fully consolidated, while the
33.3% stake in Endemol, held through Mediacinco, has been consolidated on a net equity
basis.
A BREAKDOWN OF RESULTS BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA
Italy
• In the first quarter of 2008 consolidated net revenues amounted to €850,5 million,
an increase of 19.1% on the €714.2 million of the same period of the previous year.
The increase is due to the positive contribution of Publitalia, increased revenues from
Mediaset Premium’s pay per view activities, the network operator business and the
consolidation of the revenues of the Medusa Group.
Gross television advertising revenues came to €742.1 million, an increase of
3.0% on the first quarter of 2007. This result was achieved thanks to a particularly
sustained increase in advertising sales in the first two months of the year. In March
advertising revenues were in line with those of March 2007, despite the Easter
holidays that usually result in a slowdown in advertising investments (in 2007 Easter
was in April).
Mediaset Premium revenues amounted to €108.8 million, more than double the
figure of the first quarter of 2007 (€45.3 million).
Income from Mediaset Premium deriving from the sale of encrypted football rights to
other platforms amounted to €62.2 million (€10.5 million in the same period of last
year).
• EBIT came to €137.9 million, in line with the €137.7 million in Q1 2007.
• total television costs during the period remained in line with those of the same period
of the previous year, confirming the objective for 2008 for an extremely contained rise
in costs.
• pre-tax profit came to €120.8 million, compared with €125.0 million in the first three
months of 2007.
• net profit amounted to €80.5 million, compared with €81.2 million in Q1 2007.
TV ratings: in the first three months of the year Mediaset channels confirmed their
national leadership in all the time bands among viewers in the 15 to 64 year-old age
range (the commercial target). Indeed, during the period, Mediaset recorded a 43.3%
share in prime time and 43.1% in the 24 hours.
Canale 5 is Italy’s most popular channel in the commercial target with 24.1% in prime
time and 23.4% in the 24 hours
Spain
• In the first three months of 2008 consolidated net revenues generated by the
Telecinco Group came to €249.0 million, essentially in line with the €251.1 million of
the same period of the previous year. A positive result, despite Easter falling in the first
quarter, a general election and an advertising market that after years of uninterrupted
growth has shown some signs of a slowdown.
• In any case, a sharp focus on costs allowed for an EBIT figure of €117.9 million, in line
with the €118.0 million of Q1 2007.
• Operating profitability remained among the highest among European broadcasters,
reaching 47.4% (47.0% in Q1 2007).
• Pre-tax profit went from €122.6 million in the first quarter of 2007 to €110.2 million in
the first quarter of 2008.
• Net profit amounted to €81.5 million, compared with €86.1 million in Q1 2007.
TV ratings: Telecinco consolidated its position as Spain’s absolute leader with a prime
time share of 20.6% and 19.1% in the 24 hours.
FORECAST FOR THE YEAR
For the current year, the expectation is for an improvement in consolidated net profit
compared with that of 2007. The scale of the improvement will mainly be determined by
the trend in advertising revenues in both of the principle markets.
Italy
• After the first four months of 2008, gross advertising sales for Mediaset’s channels
confirmed the positive trend observed in the first months of the year, recording an
increase of around 3% on the same period of the previous year, in line with the result at
the end of the first quarter.
• After the first four months of 2008, Mediaset channels confirmed their leadership in Italy
in the commercial target (15-16 year-olds) with an average share of 43.5% in Prime
Time and 43.3% in the 24 hours. Canale 5 was the leading national channel in prime
time con with a 24.3% share, while Italia 1 confirmed its third place with 11.7%.
• The excellent performance of Mediaset Premium continued: at the end of April 2008
active customers had grown to 2,565,000, compared with 1,940,000 at 30 April 2007.
Spain
• In the first four months of 2008 Telecinco confirmed its position as the most popular
channel in both the 24 hours and prime time. In particular, in prime time Telecinco, with
a 20.7% share, is the only one of the historic networks to have increased its ratings,
outperforming Antena 3 by 4 points and TVE1 by 4.9 points. During the same period
Telecinco consolidated its undisputed leadership in the commercial target in all the time
bands with 22.8% in prime time and 20.8% in the 24 hours.
The executive responsible for the preparation of the Mediaset S.p.A. accounts, Andrea Goretti,
declares that, as per para. 2 art. 154-bis, of the Single Finance Bill, that the accounting
information contained in this press release corresponds to that contained in the company’s
books.
Cologno Monzese, 13 May 2008
Department of Corporate Communications and Image
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Let’s plunge into the "sea" of the new Chiarugi site with the new collection 2008
Summer is just around the corner and new costumes for fashion female predict sea outside the box, chaste bikini, sports two pieces or real small works of art for a summer at the sign of the imagination and the thoughtlessness.
This year is easy to admire the new collection 2008 of Chiarugi, diving into the "sea" of the new site, where the haute couture company presents his new woman costumes for a captivating and sensual collection.
It stands out on the waves of the sea ray of sunshine that gives us welcome the new site of this company founded in the mid 80 and which has established itself for its continuous research creative and innovative houte couture.
Predominate tones of blue in the new graphics site, where the most modern techniques of web development allow the visitor to admire the water moving, added with sensual figure of women in costume, they imagine to be really on the shore of the sea.
A simple but impact web-style, a site by the elegant and refined lines playing on the tones of the color of the sea to offer brightness and thoughtlessness. The choice of variations of blue to give an idea of relaxation and pleasure and thus present the new collection of costumes Women 2008, now only bought on the new website. The mark Chiarugi, synonymous with refinement and renovation so chooses new technologies to sell its dresses by providing its products in this virtual shop on its website.
Through a simple registration and a few simple mouse click is thus possible to buy products Chiarugi having available however, in the various sections on line, any explanation and assistance to buy.
Buy the new costume is a real pleasure, we can admire the new line haute couture sea navigating between the pages and discovering variants of the new models.
For a costume of Polynesian inspiration find orchids of lycra printed version Tahiti and with shades of brown, green and shades in coral united bamboo accessories designs on the female body a small exotic forest.
If our taste falls more on the chic, we can choose the series Couture that with pink years old '50 adorned with bows, rhinestones and stones draws the highest expression of high fashion seas.
To adorn the female body instead of a fresh flower meadow, with drapes slightly lycra sprayed gold, we find the sweet model called, Shining Flowers. The last three variants that presents us with the company on its website innovative woman dressed in costumes with lycra in shades of silver and grey iron in the series Silver Light for the sophisticated woman while in the version Old Memories find the soft knotting designs and gathers of classic scarf. Complete collection 2008 the effect of dark series Black Eden where models and simple lines, the black color, with his strength, prevails.
The new Chiarugi site is professional, simple and very expressive, firmly expresses the strength and power of a brand of high fashion shows innovation and modernity his new collection sea expressing his costumes in the energy and determination, combined the refinement and elegance of the women of to-day.
This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from swimsuit lingerie. For any information on Chiarugi, visit bikini manufacturer or surfing on-line swimsuit female.
Memopal: a distributed file system for online storage
A million dollar seed investment to create a storage platform and distributed file system optimised for online storage: cost-effective, reliable and accessible from the web
Memopal (www.memopal.com) is a European start-up created in December 2007 with a seed investment of USD 1 million by business angels.
Memopal has just released a storage and online backup solution, now moving out of private beta. With this single product, Memopal brings to market an online storage solution with real-time sync and a long-term backup. Memopal's idea is to make the cost per GByte so low that it will be cheaper to buy more storage space than delete unwanted files.
For years the mission of many e-businesses has been to organize web data. It is Memopal's wish to create an online storage technology that allows user data to be organized.
Memopal uses MGFS, its own distributed file system.
The main features of MGFS are:
- Up to 100 million TBytes storable in a single file system.
- Checksum-based archiving
- Native data encryption and compression
- RAID 5-like geographical redundancy
- Native File Indexing
- Hot-add scalability
- Native Hardware Health Monitoring
Memopal includes the following services and featur es:
- Sync Real-Time: every time the user saves a file it is protected online (if it is in the folders the user has protected using Memopal).
- Versioning: every time the same file is saved Memopal automatically creates a new version, saving only the incremental data.
- Search: file searches can be done using a web interface.
- Single-user – Multi-computer: Users can protect the data of more than one computer. The files are all searchable with the same search engine.
- 1-click sharing: users can send any of their stored files to friends or colleagues using Memopal. Just click on the file and decide how long or how many downloads the file will be available for. The system automatically creates a link for downloading or sending it by email.
- Web access: Access via browser or WebDav.
Memopal is now localized in Chinese, English, Frenc h, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Soon will be available in 40 languages.
Memopal already offers a 250 GByte backup solution for desktops for USD 99 a year.
A Developer SDK, Mac and Linux clients will be released in June.
Further information is available on www.memopal.com or www.memopal.com/en/press-kit.htm
Davide De Guz
Marketing and communications director
Phone: +39 06 90254255
Mobile: +39 338 8691424
Email: davide.deguz (at) memopal dot com
Lucia Bracci
Press office manager
Phone: +39 06 90254250
Mobile: +39 349 5565037
Email: press (at) memopal dot com
Friday, May 09, 2008
Business hygiene and cleaning machines: Fundamental elements to ensure a good production.
The focus of hygiene and cleanliness of the workplace has always been an important and fundamental to guarantee employees a workplace healthy and valuable incentives at work in the best possible conditions.
In the production of machinery for industrial cleaning, such as cleaning machines, motor sweepers, steam generators, Italy holds a decisive role and there are solid companies that for decades working in this field that arise as a reference point for overseas.
The experience gained by italian companies and the continued development and study in the field led to export in central and north Europe as well as in South America and North America. In these states currently focus investment promotional character of the largest producers, especially industrial floor scrubbers machines. Our companies are always looking for new techniques and equipment for cleaning and hygiene company, seeking new developments in the field from simple detergents and disinfectants down to the most complex machines for cleaning.
A workplace clean and healthy is a guarantee of prosperity and is the basis for a good production and future development, incentive to work and security to those who live every day. For this hot air thermoelectric generators and dessicant dryers, sweepers, vacuum cleaners, floor scrubbers and water jet equipment are essential to achieve a high degree of cleanliness in the large and local business environments where the transition and the concentration of people makes daily hygiene common first need.
Companies involved in the cleaning business bring into the market products and instruments that cover every need and problem of cleaning and enviroming disinfection. They are wet and dry vacuum cleaners and scrubber for the floors as well as equipment for cleaning effective vertical surfaces such as windows, walls and panels.
The Italian companies as well as available for sale machinery are well on the market even with the rental service of themselves and not for minor importance with accurate support services. New technologies have resulted in the production of tools that take more account of who is going to use the machine and then we come to produce equipment built with materials such as aluminium alloys and thermoplastics that allow you to have robust equipment and at the same time by short weight.
In addition there is always an eye regard to safety, so there are systems that allow dual secure the machinery starting only if the operational phase of use and with full control of the half. High quality and safety, equipment maximum functionality for each application hygiene going to support each separate what our clients in the choice of systems and equipment that are appropriate to each transaction cleaning necessary.
All this in response to a request for ease of use, versatility and security united to effectiveness in obtaining company hygiene, with particular attention to the long duration and quality / price ratio.
This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from industrial cleaning equipment. For any information on Eureka, visit ride on sweeper or surfing on-line floor cleaning machines.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
MEDIASET: Today Telecinco our controlled company has disclosed the following press
Madrid, 8th May 2008
First quarter 2008 financial results
TELECINCO REPEATS THE RECORD RESULTS
OBTAINED IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF LAST YEAR,
DESPITE ELECTIONS AND EASTER WEEK
• Telecinco has established an ample lead in comparison to its
immediate competitor, outpacing it by 33% in terms of net income, by
128% in terms of EBITDA and by 197% in terms of net results, all
accompanied by a 5% reduction in total costs
• Telecinco’s net advertising revenues (€231.74 million) are practically
equal to those recorded in the same period of 2007 (€233.56 million),
despite the negative impact of the Spanish Elections and Easter Week
during the month of March, while total operating costs dropped by
1.6%.
• The efficiency of Telecinco’s business model regarding the ability to
control costs and sustain revenues in changing market conditions
have allowed the channel to increase both its EBIT (47.4%) and
EBITDA (48.3%) margins.
• Telecinco registered adjusted net profits of €87.84 million, a 2.1%
increase on the same period in 2007, excluding the accounting effect
caused by the amortization of intangible assets resulting from the
acquisition of Endemol.
• The channel is the audience leader in the year-to-date ratings with a
share of 19.1%, 2.4 percentage points ahead of TVE 1 (16.7%) and
2.6 percentage points ahead of Antena 3, which is in third position
with 16.5%.
• Year-to-date prime time ratings (20:30 – 00:00) reached a 20.7%
audience share, a 0.2% increase on the same period in 2007, putting a
4 point lead on Antena 3 (16.7%) and almost a 5 point lead on TVE 1
(15.8%).
Telecinco’s solid audience leadership and the ability of its business model to
adapt to different scenarios arising in the audiovisual sector have allowed it to
repeat Q107’s record results in the first quarter of 2008. Telecinco has established an ample lead in comparison to its immediate competitor,
outpacing it by 33% in terms of net income, by 128% in terms of EBITDA
and by 197% in terms of net results, all accompanied by a 5% reduction in
total costs.
Telecinco reached an adjusted net profit of €87.84 million, a 2.1% rise on the
previous year and which, with a net revenue margin of 35.3% (compared to
34.3% in 2007), re-states its position as one of the most profitable television
networks in Europe and Spain’s number one operator in terms of audience share,
advertising sales, operating margins and cash generation.
Telecinco, through Publiespaña, brings in €231.74 million in net advertising
revenues
Telecinco’s net advertising revenues were €231.74 million, practically equal to
those registered in the same period of 2007 (€233.56 million) – down by a slight
0.8%.
Despite the extraordinary negative effect of the Spanish General Elections and
Easter Week, which both fell in March, the Publiespaña Group has once again
shown their leadership position in terms of turnover with gross advertising
revenues of €242.16 million, in line with those obtained in the first quarter of
2007 (€244.40 million), showing a drop of only 0.9%. This drop was recuperated
in April, however, when Telecinco received advertising investment that has been
withheld in March.
Telecinco increases its EBIT and EBITDA operating margins
Owing to virtually equal net revenues and a 1.6% reduction in costs in the first
quarter, Telecinco has increased its EBIT and EBITDA operating margins in
percentage terms, despite the outstanding results achieved in 2007 and more
intense competition. The gross operating margin (adjusted EBITDA) reached
€120.16 million (a 48.3% margin on net revenues), a 0.7% increase on Q107.
The company’s EBIT, meanwhile, was €117.92 million, equivalent to a 47.4%
margin on net revenues. This percentage growth shows the effectiveness of the
business model in regard to the ability to control costs and maintain margins in
changing market conditions.
Adjusted net profits grew by 2.1%, excluding the impact of the amortization
of intangible assets from the acquisition of Endemol for comparative
coherence
Pre-tax profit was €110.24 million, 10.1% less than in Q107, while net profit
was €81.48 million (-5.3%).
However, in conditions homogenous to results from the same period in 2007,
Telecinco would register an adjusted net profit of €87.84 million, in
comparison to the €86.06 million of last year, implying growth of 2.1%. This
difference is due to the greater amortization of Endemol’s intangible assets, the
result of the difference between the price paid and the net book value of the
Group. It is a cost purely for accounting purposes that neither adds nor deducts company value nor does it generate any cash flow movement. This greater
amortisation is a consequence of certain asset allocations (purchase price
allocation), that relates to the difference between the price of the acquisition of
Endemol and the book value of its assets, commonly known as goodwill.
Telecinco reduces costs by 1.6%
During the first quarter of 2008, Telecinco managed to reduce its total operating
costs by 1.6% in relation to the same period in 2007, despite DTT-related
provisions and costs stemming from the film co-production activity costs
imposed by law.
Telecinco leads the ratings for the year to date and strengthens its advantage
over its second and third place competitors
The strengths of the channel’s programming in the main time slots, especially
prime time, have been Telecinco’s main weapons in the fight to lead the Spanish
television market with an audience share of 19.1%, 2.6 points ahead of Antena 3
(16.5%) and 2.4 points ahead of TVE 1 (16.7%).
This figure places Telecinco as the best performer compared to the same period
in 2007, showing a year-on-year decrease of only 1.1 points, compared with
Antena 3’s decline of 1.6 points and TVE 1’s decline of 1.2 points.
Telecinco also ended the first four months of 2007 as audience share leader in the
prime time slot (20:30-00:00) with a 20.7% share, beating Antena 3 by 4 points
(16.7%) and TVE 1 by 4.9 points (15.8%). Similarly, in this important slot the
channel is the only television station created before Cuatro and La Sexta to
increase its audience share (+0.2%), in comparison to the loss of 1.6 points seen
by TVE 1 and 1 point drop in Antena 3.
As for the commercial target, Telecinco retained its historical leadership for the
year to date in 2008, both in terms of total day (20.8%) and prime time
(22.8%), far ahead of Antena 3 (16.6% and 16.5% respectively) and TVE 1
(12.9% and 12.6% in each segment).
TELECINCO PRESS OFFICE
Department of Communications and Corporate Image
Tel. +39 0225149156
Fax +39 0225149286
e-mail: ufficiostampa@mediaset.it
http://www.mediaset.it/corporate/
Investor Relations Department
Tel. +39 0225147008
Fax +39 0225148535
e-mail: ir@mediaset.it
http://www.mediaset.it/investor/
Monday, May 05, 2008
The Museo de la Isla in Cozumel hosts Dulce-Amargo: Jackie’s ode to the Mexican people
In May and June 2008, Jackie Sleper's artworks will be exhibited in the Museo de la Isla in Cozumel in a show curated by Matty Roca.
From 9 May - 20 June 2008, the Museo de la Isla in Cozumel will host Dulce y Amargo, the exhibition of Jackie Sleper's artworks inspired by, and dedicated to, Mexico and to Frida Kahlo, curated by Matty Roca.
Cozumel is the second Mexican location for the Dulce y Amargo exhibition which forms part of the series of exhibitions that the famous Dutch artist will be showing in Mexico in 2008 and 2009, all being curated by Ma tty Roca, art historian, museum curator, and art critic. The first exhibition of Jackie Sleper's works which was held at Chetumal was considered a great success. David Domínguez Povedano, General Director of the Museo de la Isla in Cozumel has announced that there is great interest in seeing the forthcoming event.
Jackie Sleper, the winner of the section "Sculpture and Installation" at the Florence Biennale 2007 has always been fascinated by Mexico and the artist Frida Kahlo, for whom she has a profound admiration. In 2005, she received an invitation from Matty Roca, art historian and art critic to depict her vision of Mexico. Over the course of two years Jackie Sleper, together with her husband and children, spent many months in the country. Jackie says: "Matty became a dear friend. She showed me Mexico. I took in everything around me, spoke with lots of people and, especially, got a sense of the country. My previous love of Mexico only grew stronger. Over the next two years my work will be travelling to various museums in Mexico – something I would never have dared dream of as a child. I feel like I am on top of the world. This is the link that completes the chain."
Her modern works are at times reminiscent of Rivera, Orozco, Tamayo and Pollock. Jackie Sleper assumes absolute freedom in applying various techniques and introducing experimental elements: her work is characterised by combinations of photography and painting, and the use of mixed media. In addition to paintings, Jackie creates objects that incorporate a variety of multiple materials, which she transforms into wholly new and surprising concepts. The artist allows her work to be guided by a profound sense of humanism, and she's depicted as an artist in the truest sense of the word: her work has always been grounded in her exploration of human existence and the significance behind it.
Matty Roca: "I have been able to witness Jackie Sleper's development – as a photographer, painter and sculptor – at first hand. Every painting is an intensely personal creation and expression, presenting the world as she perceives it. She is sensitive, intense, mysterious and subtle, but also possesses a cast-iron personali ty. Above all, she knows exactly what she wants. She conveys her personality with exceptional clarity, so that she is comprehensible for one and all."
Jackie Sleper was born in Amsterdam and studied at the Utrecht Academy for Visual Arts. Between 1988 and 1995 she spent time in Ireland, Spain and Prague for study purposes. Works produced in her home country, the Netherlands, include a tile plateau in honour of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, commissioned by the municipality of Utrecht, and 'light objects' for the Kruisheren Hotel, a design establishment that opened in Maastricht in 2005. Outside the Netherlands, she has exhibited in Antwerp (Art-Event), Stockholm (Art Fair), Marbella (Marb Art – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo), Geneva (Europ'Art), Klagenfurt (Biennale Austria), Salzburg (Mozart Festival), Florence (Museo Diocesano and Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea), Milan (Studio D'Ars), New York (Carrozzini Von Buhler Gallery and CVB Space), and in M exico. One of her works, Modestia, was exhibited during La Biennale di Venezia, at Open 2007. She won the 1st prize for "Sculpture and Installation" at the Florence Biennale 2007.
CALENDAR MEXICO 2008 (dates to be confirmed):
- 9 May - 20 June
Museo de la Isla de Cozumel
Av. Rafael E. Melgar entre 4 y 6 Ote.
Cozumel, Quintana Roo - 3 July - 25 August
Museo de Arte Moderno de Gòmez Palacios.
Londres y Lisboa Col. El Campestre - 4 September - 23 October
Museo Palacio Pedro de Alvarado
Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua - 6 November - December (closing date TBC)
Museo del Aguacate
Durango
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Jackie Sleper
website: http://www.jackiesleper.com
Images:
You can also see images of Jackie's artworks at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dulceyamargo
For journalists only:
High resolution files of these images or other press related information can be requested directly from the press office:
Vito Abba, press officer
Studio Abba - Corso Italia, 6 - 50123 Florence, Italy
info@studioabba.com
www.studioabba.com
Other images and further information are available at:
http://www.dulceyamargo.com/
It will be possible to follow the various stages of "Dulce y amargo" thanks to the information and images that will be posted on www.dulceyamargo.com.
Visitors to Jackie's exhibitions in Mexico, can also upload photos taken during the exhibition s on flicker and share them with
http://www.flickr.com/groups/dulceyamargo
At the end of the exhibition series, the authors of the three photos that Jackie likes most, will each receive a signed lithograph of one of her works.
For general comments contact:
dulceyamargo@yahoo.com
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Ferrara tourist boom Delta Po Park is celebrating record visitor numbers, B&B, Camping and Hotels fully booked!
Ferrara tourist boom
Delta Po Park is celebrating record visitor numbers, B&B, Camping and Hotels fully booked!
Eleven Million of Italians on vacation for this spring holidays, choosing camping and hotels in Italy as favourite destination in the 84% of cases. One of the most crowded places to stay for this holidays there is surely the Po Delta Park, a paradise for Nature lovers near Ferrara, in Emilia Romagna, where nature itself reigns along this spectacular coast.
Po Delta Park possesses territorial and ecological characteristics that makes it unique in its kind. It covers in fact a general surface of over 130.000 acres in an area considered among the most productive and rich of Emilia Romagna. The Park of the Delta of the Po is considered in fact from the UNESCO Organization “Patrimony of Humanity” as an "exceptional cultural landscape, preserving in notable way its original form".
Ideal habitat for an unbelievable quantity of fishes and aquatic birds, Po Delta Park discloses to the traveller amazing places in which the uncontaminated nature mixes with the conservative intervention of the inhabitants, that in their secular activity where able to create an harmonic equilibrium among the natural environment conservation and tourism development.
You can find a lot of useful suggestions in Po Delta Park web-site, about Camping, B&B, Hotels where to stay in a real unique paradise for Nature lovers. In the Po Delta Park web-site you can also find a lot of information about travel operators, and the best routes between Po Delta Park, Comacchio and Ferrara.
Visit now www.parcodeldelta.com!
Thursday, May 01, 2008
MSM: exhibition inspired to Sator magic squares for ports and land SL
The Magic Square Museum (MSM) will organize an exhibition inspired to Sator magic squares at "Italian Life" land in Second Life, from the 1st may to the 30 june 2008.
Try to remember when you were students, during math lessons few of you were interessed. The must of you were disappointed en really bored.
So math is essential in our society based on science and computer science.
Math born with filosophy and it's appear in religion and magic.
So why math doesn't interesting?
Magic Square Museum (MSM) was born in Second Life (on "Vulcano" land) with the specific target to make an mathematic mysterious object as Magic Squares is, more interesting.
Photographers, artists and get passionate to you have embraced the supplied plan and, at first their point of view that then has realized in interesting contributions.
MSM has decided to transform the section dedicated to Magical Squares SATOR in one exhibition for ports and land Second Life.
Before the stage will be in the realized Italian land with particular sensibility for the graphical yield: Italian Life
(the extension will be visitabile from the first May to the 30 june to following slurl
Italian Life (79, 122, 20).
You will find the successive stages in famous english and spanish lands.
We are a lot interested to prepare one not virtual but real extension.
What are the Magical Squares?
Visit MSM!
MSM in Second Life - Vulcano (89,35,25)
sito MSM www.magic-square-museum.com
wiki MSM
What is the Sator Magical Squares?
Visit the Sator exhibition!
Italian Life (79, 122, 20)
Magic Square Museum
www.magic-square-museum.com
info (at) magic-square-museum.com
Official poster image was maked by Grafiche Valle d'Aosta - Verrès -Italy
http://magic-square-museum.com/MSM-Italian-Life-Magic-Square-SATOR.pdf.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Memopal: the new online backup service 'Made in Europe'
The new European startup aims at technologically advanced services and extreme efficiency
Memopal (www.memopal.com) is a software that automatically and continuously backs up your files on a remote server through a secure internet connection (128 bit encryption), protecting all your files against defects, malfunctions, theft and even human error.
Memopal offers 250 Gigabytes of scalable space
for archiving your files and many other services at a price of j ust 99$ (69 Euros) per year.
Memopal was created in 2007 by a group of Italian computer engineers and businessmen thanks to a "seed investment" of 1 million dollars by venture capitalists and European managers.
Today, Memopal is growing at a rate of over 1000 new users a day thanks to the product's hi-tech innovation and the team's work to provide consumers and corporations with exposure to the advantages of this kind of backup: Recently, Memopal's Managing Director Marco Trombetti, spoke about data security and digital information at an OMAT conference with IBM, Poste Italiane, Adobe, Kofax and Iron Mountain representatives.
A European startup with an Italian heart, Memopal's mission is to spread knowledge about online backup - the most efficient way to protect and share company documents.
The service is fully automatic: after deciding what you want to save, Memopal launches when you tur n on your computer. With 280 GB of scalable space available, you can even choose whether you want to just save certain folders or protect your entire PC.
The user can independently restore any lost or damaged file, if it was protected with Memopal. In fact, the system traces all the changes made to a file for a virtually indefinite period of time (file versioning). This means that if you need to restore a document that was overwritten accidentally, simply go back and open the previous versions, which are all available. Memopal does not delete saved files unless the user deletes them.
Memopal was developed with multiuser compression technologies for files. Since every user's computer contains some files or file parts that are identical or similar, (like operating system components): why save similar file or file parts each and every time? Memopal only backs up the identical parts of files once and then it links them to d ifferent users over and over again.
Memopal Global File System (MGFS) has a checksum-based structure and its cross-file compression algorithm is based on specialized vocabulary. It is not only offered at a low price per Gigabyte (about .42$ per year), it also makes transferring faster and safer.
Memopal works in Real Time: whenever you save a file it is backed up online making it available immediately. And that is not all: the MGFS (Memopal Global File System) storage technology used by Memopal contains an advanced semantic search engine for files and a state of the art Content Collaboration System.
Memopal has geographic RAID 5 technology, which provides triple-copy storage in three different continents so that files are even protected against natural disasters.
Memopal is based on a Scalable On-Demand system: the space available can be increased at any time and Memopal doesn't slow your system do wn. Software monitors how many system resources are in use and adjusts to user needs. In the corporate version, Memopal contains a component that balances all of the company's Internet resources, giving priority to main Internet services (web navigation, e-mail and FTP).
One of the most exciting functions is "One-Click Sharing". This system lets you share files measuring multiple Gigabytes with friends and co-workers. Just right-click the file you want to share and your friends will receive an e-mail with a link to the document.
Over the past 10 years, digital content production has grown exponentially throughout the world, confirming the UGC – User Generated Content generation and the trend launched in the mid 90s. Studies indicate that growth will continue and the amount of digital information will grow to billions of Gigabytes: 5 Exabytes (billions of billions of bytes) were created in 2002, 161 Exabytes in 2006 and by 2010 that number is expected to reach 988 exabytes (source: University of California, Berkeley).
The challenge of the century is to succeed in managing and preserving all this information.
Online backup is the answer, thanks to increasingly lower costs for connectivity and storage hardware and thanks to extremely easy-to-use and affordable services.
For more information visit www.memopal.com
Lucia Bracci
Press office manager
Phone: +39 06 90254250
Mobile: +39 349 5565037
Email: press (at) memopal dot com
Davide De Guz
Marketing and communications director
Phone: +39 06 90254255
Mobile: +39 338 8691424
Email: davide.deguz (at) memopal dot com
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Ggoal and the politics… of participation
Millions of people follow the Italian elections on the web. The race of the websites is aimed at providing election results in real time. The Ggoal community has done its duty in these days by providing a complete round up of information to its users. Information coming from other users. Ggoal’s task is obviously not to make predictions or forecasts, but, like every reputable search engine, to inform. To inform in detail about the different aspects regarding the 2008 Elections.
On this aspect Ggoal has not surpassed its own expectations. Thanks to the cooperation of a community which is growing considerably day by day, the people who have used the first Web 2.0 search engine have obtained what they were looking for. The elections are a complex topic, which do not only concern the knowledge of participating parties, but also the views of single candidates and mainly the existing electoral law. Yes, because the intelligent voter, like the intelligent user, could want to know for example the text of the law which leads us to the elections in these days.
We wished to communicate this positive feedback, which has allowed the administrators to better understand the Ggoal team players, but above all has shown users that they can trust a fully human search engine.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Wi-MAX: la nuova soluzione per la connessione e trasmissione senza fili
Mediante questa azione di article marketing si vuole denunciare il ritardo dell'Italia nell'implementare una tecnologia che ha l'enorme vantaggio di poter essere utilizzato su qualsiasi tipo di territorio, a prescindere dalla sua collocazione geografica, rendendolo competitivo sul mercato per ogni tipo di utenza, dal singolo cittadino all'intera azienda. Wi-MAX è in grado di operare sia su bande di frequenza sottoposte a licenza (cioè porzioni di bande assegnate ad uso esclusivo dalle istituzioni governative preposte a enti e aziende, solitamente dietro compenso) che su bande "libere" (cioè su frequenze per il cui utilizzo non vi è alcun pagamento).
Ci sono oggi due applicazioni principali di WiMAX: le applicazioni fisse di WiMAX, dette punto-punto multiplo, che permettono l'accesso a banda larga alle sedi fisse ed il WiMAX mobile che offre l'accessibilità completa dalle reti cellulari con le vere velocità della banda larga. Sia le applicazioni fisse che mobili di WiMAX sono state ideate per trasportare ovunque i servizi della rete senza fili a banda larga (quindi ad alto-rendimento) ad un basso costo.
WiMax o Wi-Fi?
Il WiMax rappresenta la svolta odierna. Il problema è che non esiste ancora un unico Wi-Max ma diverse tecnologie Wi-Max. Oggi la più consolidata è la 802.16:2004 che però non permette la mobilità mentre il vantaggio del --Fi è proprio consentire il 'nomadismo'. La mobilità potrebbe essere garantita dal Wi-Max noto come 802.16e, per il quale in Italia non ci sono ancora le licenze. Le due modalità di Wi-Max, per di più, non sono compatibili tra loro, quindi non avrebbe senso utilizzare ora quella disponibile per passare poi all'altra, visto che nel passaggio dovrebbero essere cambiati tutti gli apparati. Ma è soprattutto la mancanza di terminali provvisti di Wi-Max, a far propendere per il Wi-Fi: Ormai tutti i portatili, palmari e telefonini ne sono dotati. E per quanto riguarda i costi? Il Wi-Fi è ancora molto costoso, ma non vedo grandi vantaggi economici nel Wi-Max.
Una singola antenna può consentire (a livello teorico) la copertura di un area di 50 chilometri, con banda fino a 74 Mbps (Megabits per secondo). Ben superiore, dunque, come portata alle connessioni Wi-Fi, limitate a poche decine-centinaia di metri. Secondo il Wi-Max Forum, un consorzio di oltre 300 aziende, entro pochi anni questo standard si imporrà come alternativa economica alle linee xDSL e agli altri tipi di accesso ad Internet su cavo, incluse le altre soluzioni di connessione di tipo cablato o wireless, proposte attualmente per coprire l'«ultimo miglio».
Negli ultimi anni in paesi come la Francia, la Germania, la Spagna e il Regno Unito sono state lanciate offerte commerciali con velocità e prezzi paragonabili all'Adsl (velocità fino a 4 Mbps e tariffe flat di alcune decine di euro al mese).
L'uso del Wi-Max è considerato molto importante per ridurre il cosiddetto "digital divide" (divario digitale) in quelle aree del Paese in cui le tecnologie di accesso su cavo non sono state finora sostenibili per le aziende a causa dei costi del cablaggio.
In Italia il ritardo accumulato finora nel lancio della nuova tecnologia è dovuto essenzialmente alle frequenze su cui andrà a operare, poiché erano di proprietà del ministero della Difesa e destinate ad un uso militare. Vi è pure chi ritiene che un altro freno al lancio del Wi-Max in Italia sia costituito dai timori delle compagnie di telefonia mobile che hanno pagato a carissimo prezzo le licenze Umts e che temono la nuova tecnologia come loro potenziale rivale. C'è da ammettere, però, che rispetto al segnale Umts il Wi-Max è limitato nel passaggio dell'utente tra antenne diverse e, in particolare, potrebbe non funzionare su veicoli in movimento che viaggiano a oltre 120 km/h.
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