| Victory, Glorypark play different positions in Dallas-Fort Worth
Victory Park has given a big boost to Dallas' center city with its luxury residences, W Hotel and exclusive retail stores. Glorypark in Arlington may do even more for the suburbs. Victory Park and Glorypark are near sports venues, and Dallas investor Tom Hicks is involved in both. At first glance, they even look alike in drawings. The Glorypark complex south of Interstate 30 is planned as one of the country's most ambitious sports-anchored developments. The combination of shopping and entertainment, hotels, housing and office space is expected to cost more than $1 billion to build. But Glorypark's developers – Hicks Holdings and Ohio-based Steiner + Associates – want their 70-acre project to have an even wider appeal than Victory Park.
Employment Appears to Gain This Month
Nonfarm private employment grew 130,000 from December 2007 to January 2008, according to the report. Employment was spurred by service-sector growth, which grew by 141,000. Manufacturing employment flattened after 18 months of declines, and employment in the goods-producing sector fell 11,000. The real estate decline again weighed on the construction and financial services sectors. Construction employment, in its 14th straight month of decline, fell by 13,000. Since the high in August 2006, construction jobs have fallen by 215,000. Employment in financial activities, which had showed strong growth during the real estate boom, increased only 1,000. But these numbers should be viewed with caution: ADPs numbers have been rosier than the Bureau of Labor Statistics establishment survey.
Blu-ray and HD DVD support demystified
There is no doubt that the high-definition format war is one of most popular topics in the tech industry today. But while Blu-ray and HD DVD are gaining traction in the mainstream, it is still the enthusiast user and early adopter that remains the driver of the general opinion on both formats on the Internet. We are following this format war closely and, as a result, are often much more tangled up in this HD opinion battle than we’d prefer to. Just as is the case with Apple-Windows PC, Nvidia-ATI/AMD or Intel/AMD, one day you are being accused of being bought by Intel and the next day by AMD.The HD DVD/Blu-ray rivalry has the sort of dynamic we have been used to the Intel/AMD battles once a new technology is emerging that could change the playing field. And especially since we have some changes on the content side, our reader reactions are more intense – with some pretending to be representatives of major content studios and requesting retractions and others threatening to post articles discussing allegedly false content that was published by TG Daily.
Webcastr Names Videos of the Year
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Webcastr.com, a video website featuring professional video content from over 200 channel providers, today announced the winners of it's Videos of the Year awards. Webcastr's viewers, along with it's editors voted amongst over 2,500 professionally produced videos on the website to pick the best video clips of the year for 2007. Thirty finalists were chosen by the staff of the webbery with the final clips being voted on during the last two weeks of December. Unlike the majority of video sharing sites, Webcastr features clips that come from licensed sources of professional and semi-pro content. "With so much of the user generated content out there being of questionable quality, we are happy to present these awards in recognition of the efforts of pro content creators who increasingly understand the value of the short form online video medium," said Webcastr CEO, Tim Devine.
Dell Shutters Mall Kiosks, Focuses on Big-Box Retail
Dell's kiosks in shopping malls were part of the PC maker's attempt to dip its toes in the retail waters. Closing the mall kiosks is part of Dell's strategy to compete with HP in a big-box retail setting. According to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., retail represents just 5 percent of Dell's sales of computer systems. .
John Lewis enjoys a Christmas boom amid the gloom
The group reported an 8% jump in department store sales yesterday in the week to December 29. Sales at its high-end supermarket chain Waitrose were 28.5% higher on the year, helped by an extra day of trading due to Christmas Eve falling on a Monday. The upbeat statement contrasts with this week's profit warnings from DSG, the company behind Currys and PC World, and the furniture retailer Land of Leather. The fashion chain Next also said it was "extremely cautious" on prospects. Nat Wakely, John Lewis's director of sales operations, said: "Why have we weathered the storm better than others? You can look at our pricing policy and service." He added that the convenience factor was also crucial: "You can buy everything under one roof." Electricals and home technology showed the most consistent growth, as MP3 players, cameras and digital photoframes flew off the shelves.
Online customer satisfaction high despite some declines from last year
Two reports on online customer satisfaction this holiday season show shoppers generally satisfied with their experience this year, though one report shows a slight drop from last years satisfaction levels. The reports, from Nielsen Online and from Foresee Results Top 40 Online Retailer Satisfaction Index, both ranked Netflix.com ahead of all other online retailers in terms of customer satisfaction. Nielsen Online, a unit of The Nielsen Company, reported that 82% of online shoppers surveyed were very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with customer support available during their online shopping experience. The data were gathered Dec. 13 17 from an online survey of nearly 900 shoppers. But in Foresee Results ongoing customer satisfaction index satisfaction with the Top 40 online retailers, as ranked by Internet Retailer on sales volume, scored an aggregate 74 on a 100-point scale, down 1.3 points from last year.
Bones of Contention
From the time of its establishment till the Revolution and somewhat beyond, the college was the successful answer of Alexandrias francophone society to the famous British Victoria College. Today, the Frères of St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle run a bustling establishment of some 2,500 students who study French as a foreign language. To historians, the college has a further import: built close to the site of the long-vanished church and oratory of St. Mark, it stands as a reminder of the beginning of Christianity in Alexandria. Saint Mark is credited for having been the first to preach the Gospel in Alexandria; Although his identity is somewhat controversial, he is acknowledged by the Coptic Church to have gained his first convert in 45 AD on his arrival in the city (a Jewish shoemaker named Anianus) and to have continued to preach until he was martyred by the Romans in 62 AD for speaking against the cult of Serapis, an anthropomorphic deity with Egyptian and Hellenistic roots.
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