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Vaio

maira — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:06:42 +0000

VAIO (pronounced /ˈvaɪ.oʊ/) is a sub-brand for many of Sony’s computer products. It was originally an acronym for Video Audio Integrated Operation, but since 2008 amended to Visual Audio Intelligence Organiser to celebrate the brand’s 10th year anniversary. The branding was created by Timothy Hanley to distinguish items that encompassed the use of consumer audio and video, as well as being conventional computing products. One example of this was the Sony VAIO W Series personal computer, which functioned as a regular computer and a miniature entertainment center. Although Sony made computers in the 1980s for the Japanese market only, Sony withdrew from the computer business around the turn of the decade. Sony’s re-entry to the computer market, this time globally, under the new VAIO brand, started in 1996 with the PCV series of desktops. The VAIO logo also represents the integration of analog and digital technology. The ‘VA’ represents an analog wave and the ‘IO’ represents digital binary code. (More on Wikipedia)

DVD-Video

maira — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:56:39 +0000

DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs, and is currently the dominant consumer video format in Canada, Europe and Australia.^[4] Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and a MPEG-2 decoder (e.g., a DVD player, or a DVD computer drive with a software DVD player). Commercial DVD movies are encoded using a combination of MPEG-2 compressed video and audio of varying formats (often multi-channel formats as described below). The typical data rate for DVD video is 7 Mbit/s on average. The bit rate is usually adaptive so spot-samples of the bit rate are expected to deviate from the average. (More on Wikipedia)

Vogue

maira — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:17:52 +0000

Vogue was founded as a weekly publication by Arthur Baldwin Turnure in 1892. When he died in 1909, Condé Nast picked it up and slowly began growing the publication. The first change Nast made was that Vogue appeared every two weeks instead of weekly. Nast also went overseas in the early 1910s. He first went to Britain, and started a Vogue there, and it went well. Then he went to Spain, however that was a failure. Lastly, Nast took Vogue to France, and that was a huge success. The magazines number of publications and profit increased dramatically under Nast. The magazine’s number of subscriptions surged during the Depression, and again during World War II. (More on Wikipedia)

Visa

admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:07:50 +0000

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), commonly referred to as VISA (Visa International Service Association), is a multinational corporation based in San Francisco, California, USA. The company operates the world’s largest retail electronic payment network, managing payments among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses and government entities. Before Visa Inc’s IPO in early 2008, it was operated as a cooperative of some 21,000 financial institutions that issued and marketed Visa products including credit and debit cards. (More on Wikipedia)

Bodegas Ventura de Vega

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:47:38 +0000

Bodegas Ventura de Vega are a family winery making quality Vega Esteban wines from Extremadura in Spain.

Bodegas Ventura de Vega is a family winery from one of the newest D.O.s in Spain – Ribera del Guadiana. We offer modern, fruit-driven wines with an exciting New World presentation package and Spanish grape varieties.

Vodafone 1

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:47:56 +0000

Vodafone is a mobile network operator with its headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about £75 billion (August 2008). Vodafone currently has operations in 25 countries and partner networks in a further 42 countries.^[1]

The name Vodafone comes from Voice data fone, chosen by the company to “reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones.”^[2]

As of 2006 Vodafone had an estimated 260 million customers in 25 markets across 5 continents.^[3] On this measure, it is the second largest mobile telecom group in the world behind China Mobile.

In the United States, Vodafone owns 45% of Verizon Wireless, the largest American mobile telecommunications company.

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Generalitat Valenciana

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:50:37 +0000

The Generalitat Valenciana is the generic name covering the different self government institutions under which the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia is politically organised.

It consists of the Corts Valencianes (or autonomous Parliament), the President of the Generalitat, and the autonomous government itself (or Consell). Its functions are regulated by the Valencian Statute of Autonomy. Despite being also present in various cities of the Valencian Community, the main see of the autonomous Parliament (or Corts Valencianes), presidency of the Generalitat and the Consell are all in the city of Valencia. There is also an office in Brussels appointed by the Generalitat Valenciana lobbying before the European Union. (More on Wikipedia)

Comunitat Valenciana

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:47:19 +0000

The Valencian Community^[1] (officially in Valencian Comunitat Valenciana; Spanish: Comunidad Valenciana) is an Autonomous Community located in central and south-eastern Spain. It is divided into three provinces, from south to north: Alicante, Valencia and Castellón.

It has 518 km of Mediterranean coastline and covers 23,259 km² of land with 5.02 million inhabitants (2008). Its borders largely reflect those of the historic Kingdom of Valencia.

The current version of the Valencian Statute of Autonomy declares the Region of Valencia a nationality. The official languages^[2] are Spanish and Valencian^[2]^[1] (as Catalan is known in this territory). The capital of the autonomous community is the city of Valencia. (More on Wikipedia)