Posted: Sep 23 2007, 6:20am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr, Updated: Aug 11 2010, 3:58am CDT, in News | Mobile Phones	
Fashion label Armani will launch a mobile phone today. The phone will be revealed at their Giorgio Armani womenswear for spring and summer 2008 runway show at the fashion week in Milan, Italy.
Reports appeared a couple days ago that Armani partnered with Samsung to offer a touch screen mobile phone. The mobile phone in question is the highly attractive Samsung SGH-P520.The Samsung SGH-P520 measures only 8.9mm in thickness and features Wi-Fi and a 3MP camera. It runs the cool CROIX user interface like the Samsung F700.
The information about the Samsung Armani phone was leaked at a Dutch distribution event reports CNET.
Prada already offers a touchscreen mobile phone made by LG. It was only a matter of time till other luxury fashion brands would follow.
So maybe next year will be the year for technology news sites to actually start visiting the fashion week in Milan to cover the cool new gadgets the fashion labels are introducing. Naomi Campell and Giselle Bundchen would make great gadget models.
Preparations for the IAC's exhibition theme, " EXTRA and Eagles", during EAA Air Venture will include a full roster of forums at the IAC Pavilion. The forums are scheduled daily from Tuesday, July 25 through Friday, July 28 beginning at 8:30am daily..
In keeping with the exhibition theme, Mark Ciaglia and Lynn Ojala start off the forums on Tuesday morning with their forum entitled, "The Untold Adventures of Building and Flying the Christen Eagle II". On Wednesday, Michael Lents, CFI and Professor at the University of North Dakota, delivers an engaging forum based on his experiences in transitioning from a Decathlon to an EXTRA 300L. On Thursday we'll hear about the championship based EXTRA aircraft line up with Walter Extra as the guest speaker.
Get all the details about what is happening at Air Venture: https://www.iac.org/2017-air-venture-iac-exhibition
Rapelang Rabana, Founder and CEO at Rekindle Learning, will be one of the top innovators to headline the Accenture Innovation Conference to be held on 17 October 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rabana will also be the MC for the conference which is in its second year.
In its second installment in 2016, the conference had one of South Africa's youngest innovators, Siyabulela Xuza and Tesla Motors co-founder J.B Straubel as speakers.
"We are in the midst of a technology revolution – one that will result in more change than we’ve ever seen, and reshaping industries as well as markets,” said Ntombi Mhangwani, Africa Director for Integrated Marketing & Communications at Accenture.
The 2017 conference is themed “Ignite Ingenuity” and it will cover topics around advanced digital technologies – such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the platform economy and others.
Salim Ismail: author of Exponential Organizations and Founding Executive Director & Global Ambassador of Singularity University. He is also former Vice President of Yahoo!. Ismail travels extensively where he shares a global perspective on how organisations can leverage breakthrough technologies to outpace and outmaneuver their peers. His book Exponential Organisations, which reached top position on Amazon's "Best-Sellers in Business Management" list, was also named Frost & Sullivan's Growth, Innovation, and Leadership Book of the Year.
Marshall Van Alstyne: Boston University's Professor and Digital Fellow at MIT. Van Alstyne is a world expert on IT economics and strategy, a patent holder on privacy protection and spam prevention methods, and has made key contributions to IT productivity and theories of network effects. His work has been featured in Science, Nature, Wired, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Paul Nunes: Managing Director at Accenture Research. His studies focus on IT-led changes in business and marketing strategy, with a specific focus on the changes occurring in consumer behavior and marketing channels. Nunes served as co-architect of Accenture’s High Performance Business research initiative and continues to lead the company’s High Performance Business research program. He is coauthor of three books including Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation and has written numerous articles and book chapters on marketing and business strategy, including more than a dozen contributions to Harvard Business Review. He has also made contributions to leading publications including MIT Sloan Management Review, Fast Company, The European Business Review, Strategy and Leadership, Optimize, ComputerWorld and Wired.
Rapelang Rabana: Founder and CEO of Rekindle Learning. She was featured on the cover of Forbes Africa magazine before the age of 30. Rabana was also selected as a Fast Company Maverick and named Entrepreneur for the World by the World Entrepreneurship Forum. As a speaker, she takes the message of the enabling power of tech across the globe; her innovative thinking has contributed to changes in the way organisations adapt and thrive in the new world of work.
William Mzimba: Chief Executive of Accenture SA and Chairman of Accenture Africa. He also leads the Financial Services practice in South Africa. Mzimba currently serves on the global Accenture Corporate Citizenship Council, and is Non-Executive Director of Foodforward South Africa. He also sits on the BUSA Board of Trustees. Mzimba is recognised as one of the continent’s preeminent business and thought leaders. He has provided commentary on Africa’s market opportunities on global media platforms including CNN and CNBC Africa.
“Companies need to continue to imagine and reivient themselves in order to survive the revolution. We are pleased to have, and look forward to engaging with these pioneering business minds at our conference, as we continue to lead in new innovation to help companies discover their future and new industries,” concluded Mhangwani.