The CEO of Australia’s textile, clothing and footwear body has slammed the state of the today’s fashion industry, saying she is ashamed at some of the practices taking place — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Sewing Machine War was the first instance of what is today called a patent thicket
. The disputes prevented Singer from selling his invention, and tensions ran high in and out of court: When Howe personally called on Singer, Singer threatened to throw him down a flight of stairs.
But there’s a happy ending to the story, as your machine-stitched clothes evince. The Sewing Machine War ended with a just and lasting peace in 1856, when Orlando B Potter–a lawyer representing one of the plaintiffs — suggested a solution that Mossoff calls groundbreaking but also breathtakingly simple
: The patent-holders would combine their patents in a patent pool
and share the profits from selling the machines. The patent pool participants lived happily and wealthily ever after — or at least until 1877, when the last patent expired — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google has added to its long list of employee perks by providing staff with servants that will do everything from picking up dinners to cleaning up dog poo — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The anti autorefresh momentum has continued to build for Australia’s digital industry with Realestate.com.au becoming the first mass reach News Ltd controlled website to sign up for the Audit Bureaux of Australia’s digital audit.
A condition of receiving an ABA audit is that sites cannot use autorefresh – where whole pages are automatically updated every few minutes – with advertisers potentially paying several times for the same set of eyeballs plus the associated ad serving costs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Krispy Kreme doughnuts’ Australian division is going into voluntary administration because of poor sales.
The Australian arm of the US company was placed in the hands of accountancy firm Smith Hancock on Friday, it has been reported.
Krispy Kreme has 50 stores across Australia, employing 660 staff — via redwolf.newsvine.com
LVMH, owner of TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith, has acquired 17.1% of French fashion house Hermès for approximately $2 billion. Founded in 1837, Hermès is perhaps best known for scarves, ties and handbags, though the company also produces a range of fashion watches, as well as fine watches in its Pièces d’exception line — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Shapeways now carries my material of choice for jewellery making: sterling silver.
We are very proud to offer Sterling Silver as our latest production material! In the past we did a test with Silver Ring Poems and Cufflinks, but now you can order any design in brilliant shiny Silver, until at least November 7th.
We’ll use this test period to see if we can achieve the quality and speed that we want. Also, we’ll need to learn what size of objects will be ordered – larger objects mean lower overhead costs for us, and in the long run better prices/cm3 for you!
We’re using Sterling silver which is 92.5% pure silver. The models are created using the lost-wax casting process using a high-resolution 3D Wax print of your design. After printing the model is cleaned and optionally manually polished (we call this Silver Glossy). Please note that only well-reachable surfaces can be polished!
Silver costs $48/cm3, with a minimum of $30. The optional polishing step for Silver Glossy is an additional $15 per model. Delivery time is 12 working days.
— via MAKE
A strain of bacteria that became famous after it was used as a bio-terrorism weapon is causing immense damage to Bangladesh’s export-oriented leather industry — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A lot of people hate doodlers, those who idly scribble during meetings (or classes or trials or whatever). Most people also hate that other closely related species: the fidgeter, who spins pens or reorders papers or plays with his phone during meetings. (I stand guilty as charged. On occasion, I have also been known to whisper.) We doodlers, fidgeters and whisperers always get the same jokey, passive-aggressive line from the authority figure at the front of the room: “I’m sorry, are we bothering you?” How droll. But the underlying message is clear: Pay attention.
But I’ve never stopped fidgeting, and I’ve always thought I walked out of meetings remembering all the relevant parts. Now I have proof. In a delightful new study, which will be published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, psychologist Jackie Andrade of the University of Plymouth in southern England showed that doodlers actually remember more than nondoodlers when asked to retain tediously delivered information, like, say, during a boring meeting or a lecture — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Watch enthusiasts know that when it comes to producing Swiss chronometers, there are the Big Three Brands – Rolex, Omega and Breitling – and then there’s all the rest. Just how big the Big Three are in chronometer production becomes startlingly clear when you analyze Swiss chronometer output by brand over the past decade — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Les Trois Garcons have created the new window display at London’s Dover Street Market. They created a giant octopus. The window was created to celebrate their new space inside the store — via Highsnobiety
AOL has acquired Michael Arrington’s US-based technology blog TechCrunch in a deal thought to be worth about $25m — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Before Infrastructure Director Chris Strandt went on vacation he played a prank on the maintenance team by covering everything in their office with aluminum foil. While Chris was away, the maintenance team retaliated by making his office disappear. They removed the door to his office and filled it with drywall. Accented with a white board that charts the total Win of this prank — via liquidweb
Car hire company Avis has upped its offer for Dollar Thrifty to $1.52bn (£967m) in cash and shares, in a bidding war with rival Hertz — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for business ISP Timico UK, Trefor Davies, has pitted several homing pigeons – Rory and Tref – carrying a microSD card with 200MB of HD video data, against a fairly typical rural broadband connection to see which is faster — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Supermarket giant Coles should reconsider its decision not to publish its in-store grocery prices online, a leading consumer group says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A leading Russian politician has accused a prominent Moscow businessman of running an international spam and online pharmacy operation while serving as an anti-spam adviser to the Russian government. Russian investigators now say they plan to create a special task force to look into the allegations
Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honour that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1.00am (Central Daylight Time) 1 April, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka
JB Hi-Fi’s web site was redirecting customers to malicious web pages over the weekend in a cyber attack that appears to have affected several other Australian websites in the lead-up to Christmas. The exact details of the attack are not yet clear as the retailer has refused to comment but users first started reporting problems on Friday night
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