Normal00116795271116911.1282000 The biggest night in shopping — Fashion’s Night Out — is set to take over all five boroughs Sept. 10, with more than 1,000 stores throwing parties and events. We got the lowdown from Virginia Smith, fashion market/accessories director for Vogue, which heads up the evening. What’s the message of FNO? FNO celebrates fashion and those who work hard to create the ite...

Knapp vier Jahre nach Nintendos Wii bringen Microsoft und Sony mit Kinect und Move demnächst eigene Bewegungsteuerungen auf den Markt - und haben damit noch alle Chancen, meint Jason VandenBerghe, Creative Director beim Spielestudio Ubisoft. Die Branche experimentiere mit passenden Spielen, eine Killeranwendung fehle noch. Sie werde dem Spieler aber auf alle Fälle erlauben müssen, sich niederzu...

OZZY'S son has been quiet recently but he's due to make his return - as a movie director

Auf die Unternehmen rollen in den kommenden Jahren Tilgungen in Billionenhöhe zu. Restrukturierungsexperte Kerstien hofft auf eine neue Lösung: Fonds könnten die Lücke schließen. FAZ.NET - Homepage | Politik | Gesellschaft | Wirtschaft | Finanzmarkt | Sport | Feuilleton | Reise | Wissen | Auto | Computer

The 16 year-old is teaming up with an Oscar-winning director for a biopic

Retired Juventus legend to become director of Italian federation’s technical staff

paragraph class="noindent">To make his first feature film, “Taking Father Home” (Typecast), the young Chinese director Ying Liang worked with a borrowed video camera and a volunteer cast and crew; shooting without permits, he completed the film for several thousand dollars. He also eluded censorship to tell . . .

WASHINGTON- Today, President Obama nominated Beverly Harvard and David Mark Singer to serve as U.S. Marshals.  “These dedicated law enforcement professionals have spent their careers protecting their fellow Americans,” said President Obama.  “I am honored to nominate them to serve the American people as U.S. Marshals.” Beverly Harvard:  Nominee for U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Geor...

Former MI5 chief says Hussein and 9/11 were never linked Ex-MI5 chief said there was no credible link between Saddam Hussein and September 11, and that no such connection was discovered ahead of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director of the MI5 between 2002 and 2007 also said the invasion "substantially" increased the terrorist threat to the UK because...

Authorities in Ecuador have seized a 100-foot-long submarine intended to smuggle drugs north to Mexico and the U.S., the latest in a string of captured drug-smuggling craft. The vessel found Friday in an "industrial complex" in swampland near Ecuador's border with Colombia is significant in that it was reportedly capable of diving as deep as 65 feet, unlike smuggling vessels known as semi-subm...

Derzeit findet in Mexiko die Lateinamerikakonferenz statt. Dazu ein Interview mit Ralph Schweens (45), Managing Director von BASF in Mexiko zu den Chancen der Deutschen Wirtschaft in Lateinamerika und dem Standort Mexiko.

A TREASURE trove of 75 long-lost US silent movies has been unearthed in New Zealand, including an early feature film by legendary Oscar-winning director John Ford. 

In the late 1960s, IBM turned to a little-known director and puppeteer named Jim Henson. What they wanted were short films to help train and entertain their sales staff. What they got were the Muppets, in all their absurd glory. More » Arts - Jim Henson - IBM - Movies - Short film

Though he's the obvious choice now that Guillermo Del Toro has jumped ship, Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson will not be stepping up to direct The Hobbit. The idea was brought before Jackson’s manager, Ken Kamins, who was quick to squash any hope that his client would get involved: “As for Peter directing, [...]

The long-awaited film version of J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit ran into more trouble today when director Guillermo Del Toro quit the project over production delays.

runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience88281115001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); RICHMOND, California — Sure, earthquake engineers can now make bridges safe during even the biggest earthquakes, but they’re still rendered unusable in the key hours after a temblor. Now, they have a new goal: [...]

As digital tools create communities, how will they meet society and the larger world? That's the question that an interesting trio tried to answer at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. This is what Scott Heiferman (CEO of Meetup), Chris Hughes (co-founder of Facebook and now Executive Director at Jumo) and Reshma Saujani, Congressional Candidate for the 14th district in New York, had to say ...

Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi province, has become the first Chinese city to promote tourism electronic contracts. More than 200 travel agencies and 300 travel agency outlets will now all adopt the e-contracts for better handling of services between consumers and travel agencies in the city. Wang Bingfu, the director of Taiyuan Tourism Administration Tourism Information [...]

Jafar Panahi, an Iranian director whose hunger strike and continued detention in Tehran's Evin prison has been a focus of attention during this year's Cannes Film Festival, may soon be released on bail.

The Dawn Newspaper (LAHORE Thursday, 20 May, 2010): "The Government of Pakistan blocked on Wednesday access to Facebook after the Lahore High Court ordered closure of the social networking website until May 31 for holding a competition of blasphemous drawings. Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry asked Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Director Mudassar Husain to file a detailed report on the m...

Though the use of software to manage personal finance is still in its nascent stage in India, V.R. Govindarajan, Co-founder and Director of Perfios is bullish on this space, where spreadsheets have dominated all these years.