Samsung Topped Global TV Market for 5th Year in 2010

Samsung Electronics sold some W30 trillion worth of TVs in 2010 to maintain the top spot in the global market for a fifth year in a row (US$1=W1,119).

According to a report from market researcher DisplaySearch on Monday, the Korean manufacturer garnered a 22.1 percent share of the world market with sales of US$26 billion.

LG Electronics came in second with 14.1 percent ($16.6 billion in sales), followed by Sony at 11.9 percent ($14.1 billion).

The global TV market grew by 17.8 percent last year from a year earlier with sales of 248.4 million units.

source. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/02/22/2011022200631.html

Hot deals: Around the Big Apple

If you're heading to the Big Apple, consider making online bookings from $155 to $183 a night at hotels situated on New York streets made famous by classic movies.

The three-star Hotel 91 is in the vibrant Lower East side of Manhattan; it's smoke-free and an easy walk to China Town, Battery Park, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Rooms start at $155.

The Amsterdam Court Hotel is also three-star and situated on 50th Street next to Broadway, where you can walk to Times Square, Rockefeller Centre and Central Park. It has a Japanese-Italian fusion cuisine restaurant. Room rates start at $183.

Book and travel by April 15.

Contact: Expedia.com, 0800 998 799 or expedia.co.nz

Under $900

Seven nights on Norfolk Island with return airfares from Auckland are priced from $879 each and you even get daily use of a rental car.

You'll stay at the three-star Nuffka Studio Apartments. Book by February 28.

Travel from March 13 to April 17; May 22 to July 17 or July 31 to August 28.

Contact: House of Travel, 0800 838 747

Under $1000

A four-night Adriatic Highlights Tour will guide you through Croatia. Priced From $972 each, the tour includes three-star accommodation, all breakfasts and dinners, entrance fees and sightseeing with an English-speaking guide.

Book by May 15. Travel on July 10 and 17 or on August 14 and 21.

Contact: Adventure World, phone 0800 899 111

Under $1200

Fly return to New Caledonia from Auckland and stay four nights from $1125. Book by February 28. Travel from March 1 to 29; May 3 to 17 or May 24 to June 25. Travel from Wellington or Christchurch is an extra $160 each.

Contact: Flight Centre, 0800 427 555

* Unless otherwise stated, prices for flights and accommodation packages are quoted for one adult on a twin-share booking basis. Conditions apply to most packages, such as deals being subject to availability and close-out dates, and most have short-life deadlines to book by before you miss out.

source. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10707959

The World Wide Web (WWW) was created in 1989.

The World Wide Web (WWW) was created in 1989 by CERN physicist Tim Berners-Lee.[3] On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to use for anyone.[4] Before the introduction of HTML and HTTP, other protocols such as file transfer protocol and the gopher protocol were used to retrieve individual files from a server. These protocols offer a simple directory structure which the user navigates and chooses files to download. Documents were most often presented as plain text files without formatting, or were encoded in word processor formats.

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All of Altera's devices are supported by a common design environment, Quartus II design software. Quartus II software is available in a subscription-based edition and a free Web-based edition. It includes a number of tools to foster productivity. Some Quartus II software features include:

    * SOPC Builder, a tool in Quartus II software that eliminates manual system integration tasks by automatically generating interconnect logic and creating a testbench to verify functionality
    * Qsys, a system-integration tool that is the next generation of SOPC Builder. It uses an FPGA-optimized network-on-chip architecture that doubles the fMAX performance vs. SOPC Builder.
    * DSP Builder, a tool that creates a seamless bridge between the MATLAB/Simulink tool and Quartus II software, so FPGA designers have the algorithm development, simulation, and verification capabilities of MATLAB/Simulink system-level design tools
    * External memory interface toolkit, which identifies calibration issues and measures the margins for each DQS signal.