Russian carrier gives $5,000 vacation to its most data hungry customer

Use more data, and win more prizes. It may sound counterintuitive, but that's exactly what Russian operator MegaFon is offering to its subscribers, as part of a curious 3G promotion. It all began back in November, when the provider announced a rather straightforward contest: customers who downloaded the most data with their 3G modems would be awarded prizes worth up to one million rubles (about $33,000), including a $5,000 vacation.

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The new HR essentials: Hay Group expands service offering

Global management consultancy Hay Group today launches a new suite of online solutions for HR professionals and line managers.Hay Group has distilled 60 years of intellectual property, unique research methodology and consultancy insight to offer proven, standardised tools to help organizations of all sizes manage their perennial HR processes.HR essentialsHay Group’s new offering comprises three key product areas: Talent, Pay and Effectiveness.These new scalable tools will open up the wealth of Hay Group’s knowledge, giving clients of all sizes access to their market-leading IP and data.The tools will sit alongside Hay Grou

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If at first you don't succeed crashing through a store...

If you've ever wondered what keeps small-business owners up at night, allow us to direct your attention to the video after the jump. From what we can gather, the driver in the black sedan got into a fender bender in a parking lot outside of a motorcycle speed shop. Worried about what the long-arm of the law would have to say about the collision, the driver then proceeded to attempt to make a speedy getaway. Rather than throwing the vehicle in reverse, however, the operator opted for drive, sending the vehicle careening through the front glass, though untold merchandise and into the back wall.



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EA to announce premium version of Battlelog for Battlefield 3?

When Activision introduced Call of Duty: Elite to the world, people were in uproar about having to pay for additional services. While it didn't go down well with the crowd, it still didn't stop the service from being used, and it looks like it could be a model worth copying - at least in the eyes of EA. According to reports online, EA's boss, John Riccitiello, was quoted as mentioning to analysts: “Frankly, I gave a compliment to one of our competitors. It's got a subscription on the back end of an FPS title.

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Mini accidentally names deadly European weather front after its cars

The naming of a storm seems innocuous enough. After all, when some sort of weather event – be it a hurricane, tropical storm, blizzard or flood – comes along, we as human beings are going to talk about it, and having a name makes that a much easier process. So, the marketing folk at Sassenbach, the ad agency used by Mini in its home country, probably thought it would be harmless and fun to buy the naming rights for an upcoming storm in Germany (as an aside.

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HTC forecasts lower revenues, thinner margins after reporting poor Q4 financials

HTC stock will take a hit after news that the company saw a significant downturn in revenues during the fourth quarter of 2011. While annual revenues were up overall (465.79 billion Taiwanese dollars in 2011 compared 278.76 billion in 2010), the surge seen for most of the year trailed off as HTC's take for the final months of 2011 lagged at 101.42 billion Taiwanese dollars. The drop off follows four quarters of successive growth that saw revenues rise to 124.40 billion in Q2 and 135.82 billion in Q3. Despite the overall increase in revenues, profits for 2011 were down 11.88 percent.

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China's iPhone 4S sales resume online

Remember the fiasco that developed in China when the iPhone 4S went on sale, so much so that China's own SWAT team was dispatched to perform crowd control duties. Well, the fever surrounding Apple's best iPhone yet has not died down completely, and demand is as strong as ever for the world's most populous country. At least if you want an iPhone 4S for yourself, you will be pleased to hear that online sales have resumed, although wait times for your order ranges from just one night to the possibility of weeks.

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