Supercar Challenge – Ferrari F430 Spider custom livery: Motorola

 

This is one of those strange liveries where I just ran out of layers because manufacturer’s logos need to be scratch-built and because of the scaling limitation. This means that the grey / white pattern is created using a dozen vinyls instead of, perhaps, six. Still, I got a MOMO logo done and a decent Motorola logo.

The Motorola logo is created using two triangles with a stretched blue semi-circle blanking out the bottom. The text is created using two M, R, and A Solid Text vinyls placed offset horizontally to create the thickness of lettering. The other letters are created using primitives with the center of the O being a smaller circle that is the same colour as the background (Panther).

The MOMO logo was deliciously easy to create. The M is made of four box primitives. The O is made of two box primitives with the center of the O being a smaller box that is the same colour as the background (Panther). There wasn’t enough layers left to place the word ITALY under the MOMO logo so I made do with the System 3 Pattern vinyl.

One strange thing that I had to go back and fix is that the livery editor draws the car with the top up (that’s why I chose the Panther grey). However, it is, of course, a Spider and when you’re racing in the dry there is no top. This meant that my white lines around the rear Top/Hood of the car, which were created using the curved-sided triangle, had now-visible overlaps into the area behind the headrest that is normally hidden by the top.

Woeful lack of discipline in sales training

Sales training: less rah-rah and more rationality

By Matthew Schwartz

Dismal.  Reactive.  Dysfunctional.  Words used to describe this season’s performance of the New York Mets? No doubt.  But Dave Stein, CEO of research and advisory firm ES Research Group, was actually referring to the current state of sales training.

Stein, a professional trumpeter, before starting a career in sales, said sales managers are constantly hitting the wrong note when it comes to properly training their sales executives.

“Sales leaders themselves tend to think with the right brain (intuitive) so they don’t think of sales training in a logical, disciplined and strategic way,” said Stein, whose clients include Chevron Energy Systems, ING, Marriott and Motorola.

Stein pointed to studies conducted by ES Research showing that at least 85% of sales-training initiatives result in no long-term improvement in sales longer than three months following the end of the sales-training program. “That would be unacceptable in every department except sales,” he said.

Part of the problem with sales training these days is that sales remains something of a mystery that is better left unsolved.  “Sales is still looked upon as a black art and that salespeople are born not made,” Stein said. “But it ought to be based on performance, discipline, process and ROI.  Trying to figure out sales training willy-nilly as opposed to devising a plan is the biggest reason for lack of performance in sales.”

While hiring with your gut has its place, Stein recommends that sales departments need to institute a top-down view of sales hiring and, subsequently, sales performance and sales improvement.

Asked about remedies to improve sales training and performance, Stein said:  “Sales training partners are too often selected from those with the hot new book, the most press releases, or name recognition. [Companies need] a strategic and disciplined approach to sales performance improvement, just as other departments would improve their effectiveness and productivity.”

The danger of letting the problems associated with sales training to fester is a declines in both revenue and earnings. “Selling is an increasing commoditization of services,” Stein said. “If you can’t sell value, customers will demand prices be cut and companies will suffer from decreased margins and profit erosion.”

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Tecnologia Sustentável - Motorola W233 Eco

A garrafa do refrigerante que você toma hoje estará no seu celular amanhã. Isso se os demais fabricantes seguirem o mesmo caminho da Motorola com o W233 Eco. Ele é o primeiro telefone móvel do mundo com o certificado CarbonFree, tem a carcaça feita com 25% de plástico de garrafa PET.

Além do material da produção do celular, o Motorola W233 Eco traz outras novidades no conceito de consciência ambiental. Por meio de uma parceria com a ONG Carbonfund. org™, a Mototola compensará todo o carbono emitido na fabricação, distribuição e uso do celular com investimentos  em projetos de preservação ambiental. A vida útil da bateria do aparelho também promete ser maior do que a média suporta 496 minutos de conversa.

Esse é um grande avanço, tendo em vista, que é o primeiro passo, para que os celulares mais potentes com mais funções, que são os mais cobiçados pelo consumidor, passem a ser ecologicamente correto, causando assim um maior impacto positivo no planeta!

Possível conseqüência do uso de Celulares.

Mais um assunto preocupa o usuário de telefonia móvel. Quem nunca ouviu falar que utilizar demais o celular causaria câncer como Tumores cerebrais??? Pois é, desta vez vários estudos apontam que isso não se trata de uma “lenda urbana” e sim uma real possibilidade. O uso da telefonia em massa começou nos anos 80 no exterior, mas no Brasil já era crescente a cada ano a partir da metade dos anos 90 (lembram daquele modelo da Motorola com o famoso “VIBRACALL”) Há um estudo chamado “Celular e tumores cerebrais: 15 razões para preocupação”, criado pela International EMF Collaborative (EMF é a sigla para “campo eletromagnético). O estudo é um pouco controverso (assim como o assunto). Na verdade não é possível afirmar que o uso do celular causa tumores cerebrais, pois a utilização ainda é recente para que aconteça este tipo de consequência, mas é possível afirmar que a utilização do celular pode quebrar uma das “fitas” da estrutura do DNA, mas neste caso ela é recomposta, mas se quebrada duas pode haver uma mutação genética que poderá levar a degeneração orgânica ou até mesmo um câncer. Um outro efeito que foi possível ser notado, é que há uma alteração da barreira hematoencefálica (membrana no cérebro) que poderia ser um fator cancerígeno. Um outro estudo revela que o uso continuo de mais de 10 anos oferece maior probabilidade de desenvolver um câncer no lado que mais utiliza o telefone, o mesmo estudo diz que a probabilidade é de cerca de 50% a 90% de desenvolver tumores. Gliomas é um dos tumores cerebrais que poderiam se desenvolver, estes tumores afetam as células que dão suporte a nutrição dos neurônios ou até mesmo os neuromas acústicos (afetam o canal auditivo). Estudos mostram que até as glândulas salivares podem ser afetadas pelo efeito da radiação (segundo um estudo israelense). Por curiosidade estudaram também os aparelhos que emitem mais ou menos radiação, e as apontadas como emissoras de maior freqüência de radiação são as grandes; Black Berry e Motorola (embora os mesmo apareçam na lista oposta), Nokia e Siemens aparecem na tabela de “menos” radiativas, nenhuma das marcas responderam aos dados da pesquisa. Homens se espantem!!! Relatórios revelam que adolescentes e homens que guardam seus aparelhos celulares no bolso, podem ter menor números de espermatozóides. Como o Brasil tem projetos de usar um microcomputador(ou os famosos “netbooks”) por aluno nas futuras aulas, possivelmente estarão expostos á tecnologias WIFI, Bluetooth, Wimax, etc. Lembrando que nas crianças os efeitos podem ser ainda maiores (pois nelas as reproduções das células ocorrem mais amiúde).

Linha EcoVision desenvolvida pela Siemens.Feita de materiais reciclado e carrega a energia solar !

Na verdade na comunidade cientifica, somente 02% pertencem aos BioInitiative (parte responsável por afirmar dos males do uso dos celulares), e 98% é a grande maioria que não acreditam nesta proporção de informações, e concordam que os males do uso de telefones celulares são muito pequenos para serem relevantes para os padrões de segurança estabelecidos pela OMS (Organização Mundial da Saúde), ou seja, o efeito biológico é praticamente nulo. Lembrando que é cedo para temos certeza da real conseqüência, para um fumante desenvolver algum tipo de câncer, poderá demorar 20,30 até 40 anos! Mas não vamos criar pânicos, sempre estivemos expostos á diversos tipos de radiações, tudo é questão de estudar uma maneira mais “verde” de utilizar a tecnologia!!!

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Motorola CP040 Product Review

Designed with small and medium-sized warehousing, agriculture, security, light industry and services customers in mind, the four channel CP040 portable radio requires minimal training and keeps team members in touch without distracting them with complicated features. Management can monitor all voice traffic and get a message to the team in seconds, however large the site.

Features:
• Programmable Channel Spacing
• 4 channels
• Two channel buttons
• Private Line™ (PL), Quik Call II™ and MDC signalling
• Variable Squelch Settings
• Choice of Unmute/Mute Rules
• Channel free/busy monitor
• Busy Channel Lockout
• Repeater Talkaround
• Receive Only Channel
• Time Out Timer
• High/Low Transmit Power Selection

Standard Package Comprises:
• Radio
• Slim Li-ION battery
• Rapid Charger
• Standard Antenna
• Beltclip
• User Guide

Radio Hire is a great alternative to purchasing. When you hire radio’s to form your communications infrastructure you don’t need to worry about capital. with just one low, per radio, per week payment you can hire as many, or as few radio’s as you need for your event.

AT&T Motorola C139 Used Pay-As-You-Go

Review AT&T Motorola C139 Used Pay-As-You-Go -

…That for a mere ten dollars more you can get the C168i, which is like half the thickness, and only sufferes 2 hours less in battery, it plays games, stores more contacts, larger screen, and is just overall a better phone, I have nothing against this phone, i tried it out for a week or so untill i noticed the C168i for only 10 dollars more at Best Buy with all the extra bonuses it has over this one.

Only thing this phone has over the C168i is that it sure looks/feels a LOT more durable.

So this phone alon is a 5 star phone, but when compared to other products in a near/same price range its not the best phone, but its still a GREAT cheap phone, found it for 19.99 at best buy.. how can you complain at that price??

Arris makes $21M IPTV bet on Digeo, Moxi Makeover in 2011 or Later

 

During an investor relation conference call this morning Arris presented a very compelling view of media convergence, with the newly expanded product line right at the center. Moxi adds to the Arris line of customer premise equipment (CPE), spearheaded by IP telephones.   The real synergy between the companies however, is on the cable operator side.

While you may now Moxi best as a stand alone set top box (STB), the interface has been around longer, sold directly to cable operators for STB rented to subscribers.  Arris has an extensive catalog of DOCSIS based solutions for cable.  Another important element for what Arris consistently referred to as the broadcast side, was early September’s acquisition of EGT

Arris expressed being “closer than ever to the customer”, but admitted to needing “a better channel that needs to evolve” to properly service the Moxi retail business.  Some fun facts about what is in store for them

• 300,000 Moxi enabled STB install base through cable operator subscriptions, since 2004
• no numbers were disclosed from the direct to consumer business started in January 2009
• Moxi had seen updates release in Spring and Summer to its retail customers, but any new updates, especially a logical extension such as tru2way, probably won’t be seen until 2011.

To back track a little, around the time Moxi was bursting on the scene in 2004, Arris had converged IP voice and data.  With their two September acquisitions they are now adding video to that convergence picture.  And that is not all they are adding, as you may see below.

You think that’s a nice photo?  Arris firmly stated that they are still looking how to use their strong balance sheet to “propel towards next generation of products because of disruption of how video is being deliver over the networks in an IP format”  Check back in a few months to see what it looks like at that time.

In the meantime, they have end-to-end tools for broadcasters to deliver linear TV onto the web using IP and take on the likes of

• Motorola
• Cisco
• TiVo

Arris sees Moxi as a home gateway, not only for you, but for Arris.  This is a major undertaking for their CPE and will be more challenging than Telephony.  Digeo did most of the customer support for Moxi and that does not appear to be an Arris model today.  But for $21 million, they could have done a lot worse.

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