Facebook founder member of the Illuminati?Logo on the jacket, Mark Zuckerberg

why is the founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg was so happy to wear hoodie (hooded jacket-ed)? Last week, when interviewed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg of All Things Digital, at D8 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Zuckerberg reveals ‘secret’ jacket. When bombarded with questions about privacy, Zuckerberg sweat profusely, so he took off his jacket’s hood.

It turns out that jacket Kara Swisher’s attention, because in the jacket are pictorial symbols and their circle of arrows leading to the six corners of the eyes of the wind direction. At the center of the six arrows, the Star of David emblem was formed. “What is this, if you follow a kind of devil worship,” says Kara Swisher looking at a jacket owned by Zuckerberg, quoted from SFWeekly site.

Swisher also added that the picture on the jacket to remind him of illuminati symbol. While Gawker.com adding that the symbol was also presented on the face of the demon Beelzebub Jewish mythology. Zuckerberg himself have been known as a child of the family descended from Jewish-American couple, Edward and Karen Zuckerberg. Currently studying at the Harvard, the man who is now aged 26 years, also joined the Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternal organization.

However, according to the source of the SF Weekly, there has been no evidence strong enough that there is a kind of secret rituals conducted by a group of illuminati, in Facebook.Logo only be described as the unofficial mission statement of Facebook, because the writing on the picture to match what which is always emphasized by Zuckerberg. “Facebook, Making The World Open and Connected.” However, the jacket trigger horrendous. According to reports from TechCrunch, one of which also have the exact same jacket, via eBay auction.

“This is a limited edition, just owned by employees. I have given this jacket by one of the employees of Facebook, but now you can have,” said auctioneer this jacket on eBay. Until this news was revealed, these jackets are offered at U.S. $ 1.525

Ferrari sports car super necessarily identical with the high speeds that can stimulate adrenaline

BEIJING-range Ferrari sports car super necessarily identical with the high speeds that can stimulate adrenaline. Hence cars like this so every man’s dream. hold on! It turned out that not only men who could have dreamed of for Ferrari, because the woman was actually fond of collecting sports cars ” the Prancing Horse”. Just ask the women in China. In China’s Domestic womenfolk starting to buy a Ferrari four-fold more than women from the western world.

Italian manufacturer was noted, from the Ferrari 220 that were sold in mainland China last year, 44 units purchased by women or equal to 20 percent of total sales. “I am very impressed with the women in China, 20 percent of women there to buy our cars, this figure is greater than the worldwide sales,” said Ferrari CEO, Amedeo Felisa, as quoted from Autoevolution, Tuesday (04/27/2010).

He also revealed, many women in that country who operate businesses in a very tough so they have a lot of money and can afford to buy a Ferrari. “It is surprise for us since we never expect the sale can be fueled by women, but in my opinion, this is a condition in China,” said Felisa.

Ferrari also saw sales growth in China is much better than in the United States (U.S.) and Europe, where the two regions are stagnating sales even before the global financial crisis. Even in honor of this country, intentionally pointing a Ferrari event in 2010 Beijing Motor Show to introduce the Ferrari 599 GTO which is the fastest road car Ferrari which is only produced as many as 599 units. In addition to the Panda Affairs, Taiwan and Hong Kong is also the largest market in Asia-Pacific Ferrari. More than 220 units were sold through 10 dealers Ferrari in China with 150 units sold in Hong Kong and 50 units in Taiwan.

MADONNA has become a model for the famous brand Louis Vuitton and Dolce & Gabanna

MADONNA has become a model for the famous brand Louis Vuitton and Dolce & Gabanna. Now, chanter “Material Girl” is the latest iconic  MDG sunglasses from Dolce & Gabbana. And, starring in new product advertising campaigns. Photocall was perpetuated by a celebrity photographer who is also a friend of Madonna, Steven Klein. MDG ad campaign will circulate until February 2011. Such as Legal  from Justjaredbuzznet, Sunday (14/3/2010). In recent times photocall, Luz Jesus lover’s sensual posing with sunglasses and applying lipstick bright red color. While earlier, the widow of Guy Richie is working with Iconix Brand Group based in the United States to create a new line labeled MG Icon.

“For me, joining Iconix can bring my fashion ideas for the consumer, so it is very interesting,” he said. And Iconix CEO Neil Cole, chief of a portfolio of American origin brands, including Ed Hardy and Badgley Mischka said, “We are delighted to announce the first in a series of new brands that will be developed from our cooperation with Madonna.”

“We believe that the ‘Material Girl’ will be a dynamic brand exclusive to Macy’s department store, and we look forward to working with Madonna, Lourdes, and the Iconix team,” he continued. In line with Neil, Chief Merchandising Officer of Macy’s express, gait Madonna in their stores will bring a fresh breeze. “Madonna is a fashion icon who can bring a new dimension to our junior customers. ‘Material Girl’ will increase rapidly passion for fashion at Macy’s,” said Jeff Gennette.

Airbus will reduce its exposure to the troubled A400 military transport plane project

MADRID Airbus will reduce its exposure to the troubled A400 military transport plane project unless the governments that ordered it reach a decision soon on financing cost overruns, an official said Thursday.Airbus Military spokesman Jaime Perez-Guerra said time is of the essence because Airbus parent company EADS presents its 2009 earnings on March 9.He said EADS needs a decision so it can book its share of the cost overruns in its 2009 financial results, rather than carry over uncertainty into the first quarter.”We are squeezed, absolutely squeezed,” Perez-Guerra told The AP.

Perez-Guerra said EADS is not setting a new deadline for a decision but insists one must be all but completed very soon. If not, he said the company will take measures that could include diverting money, personnel and equipment to other projects.”EADS really has to see that an agreement is practically sealed,” he said.Airbus CEO Tom Enders gave the warning Wednesday as he met with union leaders during a visit to an Airbus plant outside Madrid, the spokesman said.

France said this week the seven nations that have ordered the plane have agreed to commit an extra euro2 billion ($2.75 billion) in funding. France is proposing that governments make available an extra euro1.5 billion in reimbursable loans. The project is nearly four years behind schedule.EADS has reduced its demands for extra funding to euro4.5 billion – but the government proposal still falls euro1 billion short.The four-engine turboprop military plane had its maiden flight in December. The price tag for the 180 planes ordered was fixed at almost euro20 billion in the initial contract in 2003. Germany is the biggest costumer with 60 aircraft ordered, and France wants 50.The A400M is seen as occupying an important niche market between the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules, which carries only half the payload, and Boeing’s C-17 Globemaster III, which is larger, costlier, and less tactically versatile.The countries that have ordered the planes are Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey.(AP)

PARIS Airbus on Tuesday increased pressure on European governments to give it more money for the troubled A400M military transport plane

A400M military plane

PARIS Airbus on Tuesday increased pressure on European governments to give it more money for the troubled A400M military transport plane, saying it is considering scrapping the project just weeks after its maiden flight.The plane is running at least three years late and over budget.The seven customer governments agreed to re-negotiate the original contract, which Airbus CEO Tom Enders has slammed for being badly drawn up and making the planemaker shoulder too much of the cost overruns.EADS, Airbus’ parent, hopes governments will either pay more for the planes or reduce the number of planes on order. Other options include reducing the specifications, or spreading increased payments out over time.Negotiations have so far failed to find a compromise – notably over EADS’ demand for more money.Airbus spokesman Stefan Schaffrath said that ending the program “is a scenario” if the military plane project “continues to contribute to a loss.””We are suffering from a stagnation, he said. “The loss-making is serious. This needs to be urgently resolved.”He urged the governments involved in the program to reach a decision on whether to continue financing it by the end of this month.

Engineers working on the project could be better deployed on Airbus’ A350 or A380 airliner programs, he said.The A400M had its maiden flight last month in Spain – with first delivery scheduled in three years.The program was launched six years ago with an order for 180 planes from seven governments – Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey. The original price was euro20 billion ($29.5 billion), but a preliminary report by auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers said parent company EADS might need an extra euro5 billion – inflating the final bill by 25 percent.

Abandoning the project would cost EADS euro5.7 billion ($8.4 billion) in advance payments it would have to return to governments – and would dent its credibility. It has already put aside euro2.4 billion in provisions against losses related to the plane.

South Africa recently pulled out of an order for eight A400Ms, leaving Malaysia as the only export customer.A German defense ministry spokesman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said that the decision on the A400 was due by the end of January. A meeting of high ranking defense officials is tentatively scheduled for next week, he said.For governments, canceling the project would also have consequences in terms of jobs and also military needs.Britain and France – who have Europe’s largest air forces – need the airlift capacity for military and humanitarian missions in rugged areas.

There are other planes, such as the U.S.-built Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules and the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III. But neither fulfills the requirements set out by European air staffs. The C-130J turboprop carries only half the payload of the A400M, and the much more expensive C-17 jet is considered too large and lacks the tactical versatility of the Airbus design.While waiting for the A400M, Britain’s Royal Air Force acquired six C-17s and has flown them out of its air base at Brize Norton in central England in support of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.They have also been used for humanitarian purposes after tsunamis in Southeast Asia and earthquakes in Pakistan.Last month Boeing said the RAF would acquire a seventh C-17.Defense ministers from the seven countries agreed in July to re-negotiate the contract after EADS missed a March 31 contract deadline for the first flight.Sandy Morris, an analyst with Royal Bank of Scotland, said uncertainty on the outcome was weighing on EADS’ the share price. On Tuesday, EADS shares were trading down 1.2 percent at euro13.82.”Does EADS want clarity on this? Absolutely because the A400M is dominating sentiment toward a the company,” he said.The company reports its full year results on March 10.Union leaders expressed concern about possible job losses if the project ends – a possibility they say has already been raised by Airbus CEO Tom Enders.”Mr. Enders told me himself that he seriously considers backing out of the A400M,” said Bernhard Stiedl, a spokesman for Germany’s powerful IG Metall union. “He said the project cannot be realized cost-effectively and is therefore not profitable for Airbus,” Steidl said.Enders has said that he would prefer to end the project than let it continue hurting the company.”Better an end with horror than a horror without end,” he was quoted as saying in German media last year.(AP)

Nokia's Booklet 3G is cute and quaint

Nokia's Booklet 3G

Try as we might, we just can’t see the point of this so-called smartbook.Sure, Nokia’s Booklet 3G is cute and quaint. It’s got Mac-like svelteness and would look equally at home on the desk of a CEO or graphic designer. But why would either of them bother to put it there?The smartbook, as near as anyone at Nokia has been able to explain, is a device that melds a smartphone with netbook. I’ve long imagined such a beast would perhaps look like the handheld HP computers of yore — a monstrous phone you could edit a spreadsheet on. But in 2009’s reality, the smartbook is emerging as something quite different, and far more boring: Basically, it’s a netbook outfitted with a wireless network card.Sure enough, that’s exactly what Nokia’s Booklet 3G is: A netbook with a 10.1-inch screen (1028 x 720 pixels), a 1.6-GHz Atom processor, a paltry 1 GB of RAM, and a 120-GB hard drive. It comes with Wi-Fi and a WCDMA 3G wireless card, with service courtesy of AT&T. Our test unit had Windows 7 Starter Edition is preinstalled.

And for that measly configuration, Nokia wants you to fork over 600 bucks. Sign up for two years of data service with AT&T and you can have it for a mere $300, a touch less than other netbooks of this general size and shape.And that’s the head-scratcher. You can pick up a USB 3G adapter from the carrier of your choice for next to nothing and use it on every computer you own. Or you can pay $300 for this single-purpose machine with a minuscule keyboard, dim screen and downright awful performance, while paying a monthly fee for the thing every month for the next two years. Rest assured, that’s all you’re getting: There’s no phone in the Booklet 3G by any stretch of the imagination; it can’t even make voice calls.

Overall, the Booklet 3G (and, to be fair, all smartbooks that follow) is really a back-to-the-drawing-board proposition. As sexy and long-lived, battery-wise, as it might be, it’s simply too slow and far too expensive for anyone to seriously consider buying when far more credible alternatives (like, say, any netbook on the market) are available. Turn this into a free-with-service gimmick and maybe we could see getting behind it. Maybe.

anadian government approved for telecom Globalive Wireless Management Corp

telecom Globalive

The Canadian government said Friday that it has approved a request from Egyptian-backed telecom Globalive Wireless Management Corp. to launch its mobile phone service in Canada.

It will be the fourth major wireless company serving Canada, competing with Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc. and Telus Corp.

Industry Minister Tony Clement said the federal cabinet has determined Globalive meets Canadian ownership requirements, reversing an earlier ruling by the country’s federal telecom regulator.

“Now we’re ready for action,” Globalive CEO and Chairman Anthony Lacavera told cheering supporters in Toronto. “We could be launching as early as next week.”

“The objective is to have a few–quite a few–WIND Mobiles under your Christmas tree,” Ken Campbell, CEO of WIND Mobile, the brand name Globalive will operate under across Canada.

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission had turned down Globalive’s request in October because it is majority funded and controlled by Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Holding, the Middle East’s largest telecommunications operator by market capitalization.

Orascom, which is controlled by Egyptian telecommunications mogul Naguib Sawiris, holds 65 percent of parent company Globalive Holdings, while Canadian entrepreneur and Globalive chairman Anthony Lacavera owns the rest. Orascom also holds much of Globalive’s debt.

But Clement said 80 percent of Globalive’s voting shares are held by Canadians and the wireless company, which is based in Toronto, should be considered Canadian.

“We came to the conclusion the lender had influence over the company, which is perfectly acceptable under our legislation, it did not have control over the company,” Clement said. “This variance is effective immediately allowing Globalive to enter the market without delay.”

Globalive’s arrival is expected to put pressure on consumer prices across the industry, as it heralds the entry of more players into the market opened up through an auction of wireless spectrum in 2008. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s annual Communications Outlook study, published in August, found that Canada has the third-highest wireless rates among developed countries after the United States and Spain.

In that auction, Globalive paid 442 million Canadian dollars ($419 million) for airwaves over which to operate and has invested millions more in its network and employees.

Globalive has already hired 800 employees and approximately half have already finished their training and are now doing paid volunteer work at organizations such as food banks, boys and girls groups, literacy groups and the Salvation Army.

The telecom regulator reviewed Globalive’s corporate structure last spring and decided its operations would contravene the Telecommunications Act that stipulated companies be controlled by Canadian interests. That decision flew in the face of an earlier review by Industry Canada that gave the company a license in the interest of promoting competition.

The Canadian government, wanting to spark more competition in the telecommunications business, reviewed the earlier ruling with input from the industry.

And Clement said last week that the federal cabinet has the power to overrule the telecommunications regulator and that Globalive was entitled to launch its own protest.

Clement stressed that Friday’s announcement was not giving Globalive special treatment.

“Let me state for the record, government is not removing, reducing, bending or creating an exception to Canadian ownership and control requirements in the telecommunications and broadcast industries,” he said.

Rogers Communications, BCE and Telus, which together control 95 percent of the Canadian market, lobbied to halt Globalive’s advances, saying Globalive was breaking the Telecom Act because it was under foreign control.

“It’s disappointing, as we think Globalive quite clearly does not meet the requirements for Canadian control,” said Bell Canada spokeswoman Jacqueline Michelis. “We’ll be taking a close look at the reasoning behind this decision.”

Michael Hennessy, senior vice president of Telus’s regulatory and government affairs, said the ruling “has established an enormous precedent going forward as to how people are supposed to interpret our Canadian ownership laws.”

“This could be enormous from airlines to banks to telecom to broadcasting,” he said.

But Rogers said competition is good for Canadian consumers.

“We’ve always thrived in a competitive environment and we’re ready to meet the competition head on,” said spokeswoman Odette Coleman.

Deloitte Canada analyst Duncan Stewart said the federal government wants more competition in the cell phone industry. Globalive is probably the new competitor that the established players fear the most, said Stewart.

Shares in the major telecoms dropped Friday in early trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Rogers shares fell 3.4 percent to 32.25 Canadian dollars, Bell Canada parent BCE’s stock was off 2.4 percent at 27.75 Canadian dollars and Telus stock slipped 1.7 percent to 33.10 Canadian dollars.

Solar technology is going where it has never gone before

Akeena Solar

Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install.Lowe’s has begun stocking solar panels at its California stores and plans to roll them out across the country next year.
This shows how far the highest of the high-tech alternative energy technologies has come. Solar power is now accessible to anyone with a ladder, a power drill, and the gumption to climb up on a roof and install the panels themselves.For Lowe’s, it’s an opening into a new and potentially lucrative DIY business.

“There’s definitely a growing market for this with the number of people moving toward energy efficient homes,” spokesman Steven Salazar said.
Buyer be warned, however. The DIY part of solar goes beyond installation.

Professional installers typically handle all the necessary paperwork, like clearance from the local utility and applications for a bevy of government subsidies that can make the system a whole lot cheaper.

“You put solar panels on your roof without a permit, bad things happen to you,” said Jeff Wolfe, CEO of solar installer groSolar. “The utility could shut off the power.”Lowe’s will staff a kiosk near the panels that provides information on how to apply for rebates.

For anyone willing to tackle the paperwork, Akeena Solar promises a hassle-free installation that will immediately reduce the power you need to buy from the local utility.Akeena Solar, Inc., based in Los Gatos, Calif., said it designed a system with the novice in mind.

“It’s really not a big deal,” said CEO Barry Cinnamon. “The most dangerous thing is learning about ladder safety.”The rectangular panels retail at $893 a piece. They produce the same AC power that runs in homes and plug directly into a circuit breaker.

During the day, the solar panels will act like a large battery, producing energy from the sun and pumping it through the circuit breaker to appliances inside. On cloudy days or at night, of course, homeowners will again draw 100 percent of their power from the grid.

To install, you’ll need to carry the 40-pound panels to the roof and drill holes – two per panel – into the rafters. After adding a barrier to prevent leaks and a couple of brackets, the panels are bolted to the roof.The home would need a dedicated circuit breaker, just like a washer and dryer.

One panel packs nowhere near the punch of a full solar system.A typical solar system installed by a professional usually has 20 panels. Each Akeena panel will generate about 175 watts of electricity, about enough to power a flat screen television.

If you want more solar power, you can snap another panel to the first, kind of like Legos.”People might want to put up one, see if it works. Then with their next paycheck, they may buy four more,” Cinnamon said.

Lowe’s is offering software that allows the homeowner to monitor the performance of each panel through the Internet. The panels are designed to withstand rough weather including hail storms, and they’re backed with a 25-year warranty covering defects.

Cinnamon, who mounted the panels on his own home in San Francisco (though he hired a contractor to do the electrical work), said homeowners can save a few thousand dollars, depending on the size of the system, by skipping a professional installer.

Rival home improvement store Home Depot did offer solar panels briefly this year as part of a pilot project, but those were developed for professional contractors and DIYers with a higher level of technical expertise. You can still buy the solar system on Home Depot’s Web site.The system offered by Lowe’s is new territory for solar, putting a small system in reach of almost anyone.

“That’s going to grab a whole lot of people who never thought of solar in their home,” said Norman Deschamps, an independent analyst for SBI who specializes in the retail market for energy efficient renovations. “The walk-in market is fundamentally new.”

From Twitter to advertising treasure

The Twitter phenomenon, in which anybody can tell his or her followers anything — in 140 characters or less — now has a payoff that can go beyond the thrill of self-publishing.A handful of companies are offering to pay Twitterers to gain access to their followers — so they can send them Tweets containing ads. The more followers you have, the more money you make.Dr. Drew Pinsky cut a deal with one such company, Ad.ly, of Beverly Hills, California, which describes itself as “an instream advertising platform that connects top-tier Twitter publishers with top-tier brands.”Pinsky is a television and radio personality, an internist and an addiction specialist, but Ad.ly considers him a publisher.The lone advertisement that Ad.ly sent to Pinsky’s 1.5 million Twitter followers was for the NBC program “Community,” a comedy about a lawyer who has lost his license and is trying to get his life together at a community college. Chevy Chase and Joel McHale star.

“I’m delighted to support the show; Joel McHale is a friend of mine,” Pinsky said.”If someone wants to offer me some money to talk about something that I feel strongly about on Twitter — and I don’t feel it’s diminishing in any way my messages — I don’t see why not,” he said.But Pinsky said he was not sure he would do it again. “It’s treacherous,” he told CNN in a telephone interview. “I don’t want people to think I’m exploiting my followers.”Concern about a possible backlash from those followers has led him to reject suggestions for other ads, Pinsky said. “It’s something I would only do very, very occasionally and really has to be something that I already feel I would support.”He cited advertisements about vaccinations or certain screening programs as possibly acceptable, but said even then he would be concerned about turning off his followers. “On the one hand, I have got to send my kids to college; on the other hand, I don’t want to damage my relationship with my audience,” said the father of teenage triplets.

CEO Sean Rad, 23, founded the company that sold Pinsky on the idea in May. “We were basically looking at Twitter early on and we’ve watched it grow from this place where people were kind of playing with content creation to this very powerful platform where people are using Twitter as their main platform for content creation and content discovery,” he told CNN in a telephone interview.”We view every Tweet as valuable content,” he said. “It takes time and thought to produce. Everywhere else, where you generate content you get compensated. Same for a lot of these celebrities on Twitter. Their time is money, yet they’re not getting compensated. We’re answering a demand we saw with all these publishers.”All he needs to monetize Twitter posts is to match the publisher with an advertiser and everybody wins, Rad said. “The advertiser gets as close as possible to an audience and that publisher gets compensated.”

The company launched its service in late September, and Rad said it has already signed up eight of the approximately 50 individual twitterers who have more than 1 million followers.In addition to Dr. Drew, Ad.ly’s clients include Kim Kardashian, Nicole Richie and Joel McHale, he said.But it’s not just for celebrities. “We have thousands of mid-tier and top-tier publishers; we’re growing rapidly,” he said. Anyone can sign on and, depending on how many followers they have, start approving ads and earning income, he said.Advertisers include Universal Pictures, Dell, Maserati, Hilton Hotels and “a bunch” of other national brands, he said.Though Pinsky said he did not know how much his one deal netted him, and Rad would not divulge it, the tech entrepreneur did say a single Tweet could net the publisher a sum in the five figures.

Rad downplayed Pinsky’s concern that his followers could feel exploited. “If I’m Dr. Drew and getting paid for activity on Twitter, I’m going to take it more seriously,” he said. “So the audience gains because, when you pay somebody to do something, they typically do a better job — higher quality content. The artist now can justify the time on Twitter.”Each publisher is limited to one Tweeted advertisement per day, he said.Rad said Ad.ly’s model — or Ad.ly itself — could help Twitter cash in on its own success. He said his company’s model would be one way for Twitter to monetize. “Obviously, an acquisition from Twitter would be awesome,” he said.

But that wouldn’t be the only way. “I would pay for a premium stream that had no ads in it,” said Francine Hardaway, a marketing specialist and partner in Stealthmode Partners.”Maybe that’s Twitter’s own monetization model,” she said in a posting on scobleizer.com, a blog. “And I also like content providers to be paid. But the more indirectly the better.”Twitter Director of Media Partnerships Chloe Sladden told CNN in an e-mail, “We generally aren’t commenting on our monetization plans at the moment.”