The Lenovo Files » Lenovo’s Fashionable Night Out
Lenovo sashayed into Fashion Week 2011 by hosting the Lenovo Connections Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue during Fashion’s Night Out (FNO), Thursday, Sept. 8. the lounge was bustling from 6-11PM as FNO shoppers, celebs, designers and bloggers stopped by to update their Twitter feeds, blog from one of the comfy couches, and charge their mobile devices. it was the perfect respite for high-heel clad consumers and busy fashion VIPs to kick back and relax during the busiest fashion event of the year.
Designers Rebecca Minkoff, Prabal Gurung, Alistair Carr of Pringle of Scotland and Guy Bedarida of John Hardy stopped by the lounge to check out the new Ultrabooks and pose for photos with our own Tracey Trachta, VP of consumer marketing, and Nick Reynolds, executive director of marketing and communications, worldwide product group.
Taking FNO beyond New York City, Lenovo and Fashion’s Night out joined forces with several of the world’s top fashion bloggers from around the world, along with celebrities and designers to attend the lounge and take in all of the high-fashion technology. Actor Shane McRae from the new hit film The Help, Madeline Andrews Escudero, senior fashion market editor of Glamour Magazine, and actress Enid Graham of HBO’s premier series Boardwalk Empire, were some of the attendees wowed by the design and features of the U300s. International bloggers that came in especially for Lenovo’s event during FNO 2011 include fashion-guru and editor in chief of a lifestyle website Libuse Drdakova (Czech Republic), BitchBuzz editor Cate Sevilla (UK), Vogue editor Ece Sukan (Turkey) and blogger Adrian Seet (Singapore), not to mention representatives from Germany, Russia, Dubai, India, Canada and Poland.
we showcased our stylish new IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook, a PC boasting robust and speedy processing all in a chic silhouette in the hottest colors of the season, Graphite Gray and Clementine Orange. this PC is powered by up to 2nd Generation Core Intel processors, which give consumers fast boot up and response times and a great user experience paired with long battery life. With its super slim silhouette of just 0.6 inches and tipping in at under three pounds, this is the perfect fashion statement cum tech device to take anywhere and everywhere for high performance computing, all in a stylish package.
Also gracing the lounge were one-of-a-kind fashion sleeves designed just for the IdeaPad U300s, created by young Chinese contemporary artist, Gao Yu, and haute couture fashion designer and model, Mary Ma. Lounge attendees along with fashion bloggers such as Amina Akhtar (New York Magazine, FashionEtc.com) and Colleen Nika (Rolling Stone) were loving these stylish PC accessories.
Hundreds of consumers entered to win a free U300s through the contest page pre-loaded on U300s Ultrabooks that were available to test drive in the Lenovo Connections Lounge. If you didn’t make it out for FNO, there is still time to enter for a chance to win one of the Ultrabooks through Thursday, September 15: IdeaPad U300s Giveaway.
Check out all of the celeb sightings and lounge pictures on our Flickr stream.
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The Best iPhone Apps Of The Week, September 4-10, 2011
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Sat September 10th, 2011 blogger facebook google plus photo importer grand prix story iprogress Kinetik MadPad – Remix Your Life postsecret
The AppAdvice iPhone App Of the Week:
PostSecret, $1.99, Released September 4
Everybody has A Secret, but are you willing to Share?
PostSecret is one of the top-selling apps in the App Store right now and for good reason. Launched earlier this week, the iPhone/iPod touch app has one purpose: to let each of us tell the world all of our secrets. If this concept sounds refreshing and a bit unsettling at the same time, you’d be correct and here’s why.
Created by PostSecret, the $1.99 app offers an anonymous way to post secrets for the entire world to see. Each secret, which can be forwarded to others via Facebook and Twitter, includes text and a photo.
New Releases
iProgress, $.99, Released September 4
New iProgress keeps you Organized And Goal Oriented
iProgress by Nitromsoft creates a new way to track your goals and progress on the iPhone.
The app takes a more natural route than traditional task managers like Remember the Milk or things, offering instead a platform for users to mark their own challenges, victories, and defeats.
Like other productivity apps available in the App Store, iProgress is designed to help users create goals, and then follow through with them. however, rather than using complicated charts or pre-formatted tables to get the job done, the app instead relies on the user’s own willpower and ability to input data.
Google Plus Photo Importer, $.99, Released September 6
Google Plus Photo Importer Arrives
Dropico has released the first of its kind Google Plus Photo Importer app, available now for the iPhone/iPod touch. Available for $.99, the app allows users to instantly upload photos into Google Plus through Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, and Photobucket. the end result is very nice.
In order to use the service, you must first log into your Google Plus account, and then into each of your photo-sharing services. While this process is tedious at best, once it is done you don’t have to perform it again.
After your accounts are authenticated, you can select from one to 100 photos at a time to upload to Google Plus. Along the way, you’ll see a nice illustration showing two cartoon-like characters handing off the photos, one after the other.
Kinetik– Share the apps you love, Free, Released September 6
Kinetik – A Social Network for iOS Apps
A brand new application called “Kinetik,” which works kind of like a social network for iOS applications, is now available to download in the App Store. Once downloaded, users can “share the applications [they] love” with others. It’s also possible to view a list of the apps shared by friends, the most shared (“trending”) applications and shared apps by category from within Kinetik.
As outlined in the app’s release notes, Kinetik allows users to “stay up to date on the latest apps, get app recommendations from your friends, and see what apps are trending.” the application itself is available to download for free, and is compatible with the iPhone and iPod touch.
Blogger, Free, Released September 8
Google Launches Official Blogger App for iPhone
Good news if you use and enjoy Blogger, Google’s hosted blogging platform. Just minutes ago, Google released an official iPhone client for the service.
Called Blogger, the app is available free of charge on the App Store and it does everything you would expect. that is, you can use it to post new entries, upload images, or modify older posts, right from your iPhone. best of all, the app supports multiple accounts if you need it.
Grand Prix Story, $2.99, Released September 8
It’s Time to Hit the Track with Grand Prix Story
Grand Prix Story by Kairosoft Co.,Ltd is another simulation game from the makers of the popular Game Dev story, Hot Springs story, and Mega Mall story. Yep, it’s more of that addictive simulation game formula that you love so much.
In Grand Prix story, you are put in charge to manage your own racing team, with the goal of conquering the Grand Prix. but before that can happen, you have a lot of training to do, as well as finding the right people for your team. you have to start out as the worst, and work your way up to being the best. This title closely resembles Game Dev story more than the other recent releases.
MadPad – Remix Your Life, $.99, Released September 8
MadPad Makes Music out Of Your Life Using only Your iPhone
MadPad – Remix Your Life by Smule is another incredible casual music app for the iPhone from the famed developer of Leaf Trombone.
The app builds on its predecessor’s “social music” platform, creating a unique way to record and remix everyday life into incredible, beat-oriented performance pieces.
As a music creation tool, MadPad is somewhere between a video recorder and a loop machine, offering users the ability to record short snippets of their everyday life. Each of these samples is then arranged onto an editable beat pad. Tapping any of the recorded images reproduces that exact video portion. Tapping these pieces in sequence, obviously, has the potential to create some interesting beats.
The app comes with a number of stock sound sets, as well, in case users haven’t got the initiative to record their own. that being said, the included recorder is incredibly simple to use, and offers an excellent amount of detail for the medium at hand. there are also several other sound sets available for free via the included browser.
Updated
Facebook, Free, Updated September 6
Facebook App get Major Update, but still not for iPad
Facebook has just released an update to its popular iPhone/iPod touch app. Unfortunately, the update still does not include iPad compatibility.
Version 3.5 of the Facebook app includes a number of tools that make it easier to share items with your friends. These features include the ability to tag friends and places in posts and share external links from a web view. in addition, the app includes newly designed Profile and Group Wall pages.
Plus, the Facebook app has improved the sharing tool to add privacy controls on posts and the ability to match those settings with those on the social networking website.
The best iPhone Apps Of the Week is published each weekend; a companion piece, The best iPad Apps Of the Week, is published separately.
Attention developers: If you would like your app to be considered for one of our “Best Of” lists, please me know by sending me a tweet @bryanmwolfe. Note: Your app must have been new or updated in the last week to make the current list.
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AFP: New York Fashion Week colors defy 9/11 gloom
New York Fashion Week colors defy 9/11 gloom
NEW YORK — new York Fashion Week opened Thursday with a promise of vibrant colors to shake off the inescapable shadow of the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The spring 2012 shows have another refreshing aspect to them this year: greater access than ever online for fashionistas wishing to watch not just from the comfort of their own homes, but on their smart phones.
Instead of having to get into fashion HQ at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan, fans can get virtual front row seats through YouTube, where some 30 designers, including Oscar de la Renta and Marc Jacobs, will show live coverage on http://www.youtube.com/liverunway.
Then there’s Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites catering to the high-tech, high-fashion deluge.
“I’ve already seen three shows from my bed,” rejoiced one fashion-conscious Tweet.
The first designers to hit the catwalk were Nicholas and Christopher Kunz with their Nicholas K brand, featuring men and women in fluid outfits of green, grey and brown.
Kitted out in hoods, scarves, short trousers, long shorts — and bleak expressions — the models looked ready for desert expeditions, or a very relaxed war.
For BCBG Max Azria, the runway sparkled with yellows and oranges as models flitted in long, silky dresses with thigh-high slits, sandals, and an elegant, romantic look.
Instant reviews from fashion bloggers indicated the first hit of the shows.
Richard Chai splashed coral onto men’s jackets and stripes for dresses, along with neon stripes on shoe soles.
More than 250 designers are taking part in new York fashion week, which runs until September 15 and will see shows by Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenberg, Donna Karan and Tommy Hilfiger.
A dozen first-timers will star, including Pink Tartan, a collection inspired by French screen goddess Brigitte Bardot, while Felipe Oliveira Baptista makes a debut as new artistic director for Lacoste.
New York is the first stop in a month-long style marathon that will take the fashion world’s elite to London, Milan and Paris.
Overshadowing the shows in the big Apple is the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
However unlike a decade ago, when the annual fashion extravaganza was cancelled following the attacks, the schedule will run unchanged on Sunday, when President Barack Obama and others are in new York to remember the nearly 3,000 dead.
“It’s such a hard day to think about yet it’s so ever-present and it never leaves us,” said the director of Fashion Week, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
“It’s a business. and we look to commemorate that time, but with respect to what happened and with respect to the industry, the show ultimately does have to go on,” she said.
On Thursday night in new York thousands of fashionistas were to celebrate the yearly Fashion’s Night out, when some 1,000 stores stay open into the night and designers and models spice up the crowds.
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linkedFA Announces Strategic Data Integration Relationship with Thomson Reuters Corporation (TRI)
Jun. 1, 2011 (Business Wire) — linkedFA, the first social networking web site that enables financial professionals to leverage social media compliantly by addressing industry rules and regulations, announces a strategic content relationship with Thomson Reuters Corporation (NYSE: TRI ). per the agreement, LinkedFA (www.linkedFA.com) will offer Thomson Reuters’ premium financial news and analysis content via linkedFA’s social media network. The relationship between Thomson Reuters and linkedFA embodies a powerful trend in social media, giving financial professionals access to the best tools and information for their industry in a collaborative social media platform. This information is available to share within their networks.
linkedFA will integrate Thomson Reuters’ content as a premium service, enabling financial professionals to easily find and share industry news, market data, market analysis, and more within their network via best-in-breed social media tools. This integration will mark not only the largest foray of premium financial content offered via social media, but also the first time members can digitally communicate and collaborate on the content all from one location.
linkedFA CEO, Jason Bishara states: “we are excited to offer Thomson Reuters’ financial data and content within linkedFA. Once released, members will have access to industry-leading financial content and analysis with the ability to compliantly share this content with their networks on linkedFA, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn simultaneously. This relationship will prove to be an exceptionally powerful tool for independent advisors and investors who previously could not gain access to Thomson Reuters’ content. This is just our first step in the direction of integrating content, tools and resources to bring additional value to our members.”
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Twitter Helps Homeless NYC Man Find Daughter After 11 Years
Credit: Underheard in New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A homeless man, who hadn’t seen his daughter in over a decade, reunited with her Friday in Bryant Park after tracking her down through Twitter.
It was all smiles and hugs for Daniel Morales, 58, and his daughter Sarah Rivera as they saw each other for the first time in 11 years. “I feel rejoiced,” Morales said.
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“Just to find my dad after 11 years…I don’t even know how to feel right now, I’m just very, very happy,” Rivera said. “It’s an exciting moment.”
The two lost contact when Rivera moved from Puerto Rico to the United States with her mother in 2000.
Everything changed after Morales received a prepaid cell phone and a Twitter account courtesy of the project Underheard in New York.
WCBS 880 Reporter Catherine Cioffi spoke with the homeless shelter’s spokesman about the insight into the men’s Twitter updates.
On Wednesday, three weeks into the project, Morales decided to use the social neworking tool to find his 27-year-old daughter, and posted his cell phone number and a photo of Rivera when she was 16.
A stranger saw the message, reached out to Rivera and on Thursday, Morales got the call he’s been waiting for.
“It [Twitter] holds a purpose and that purpose is you can instantly find anybody and it’s amazing,” Rivera said.
“Just getting in touch with my daughter again after 11 years and seeing my grandkids, it’s awesome,” Morales said.
Dad and daughter now say both of their lives are forever changed.”I’m gonna have them in my life,” Morales said. “I’m gonna do whatever it takes to keep them near me.”
Rivera, who lives in a domestic violence shelter in Brooklyn with her two young children, said she has also been searching for her father all these years. “I intend on keeping him in my life now,” Rivera said.
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In a YouTube video posted by the group prior to the emotional reunion, Morales has a smile plastered across his face as he speaks with his daughter. “I just found out about my daughter, I’ve been looking for her for years, she just called me out of nowhere,” Morales said while wiping away tears.
Morales, who now has over 3,000 followers on Twitter, said he never knew the Internet could be so great. one person even expressed interest in helping Morales write his book.
Underheard in New York decided to give four men in New York City cell phones and Twitter accounts to help them tell the world what it’s like to be homeless.
“Danny actually said that he always wanted to tell his story but he never thought anyone would listen to it and I said someone’s out there, someone will want to hear,” Rosemary Melchier, of Underhead in New York, said.
As he rekindles his relationship with his family, Morales said he will keep on Tweeting.
According to Underheard in New York, Morales moved to the United States in 1969 from Puerto Rico. he worked as a security guard before he was hurt on the job. Morales spends most nights at the New York City Rescue Mission where he also helps with housekeeping duties.
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