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GM no longer featured in the Facebook ads

After carefully examining its advertisment strategy, GM concluded that the Facebook ads it had were not cost-effective. GM studied the effectiveness of its ads on Facebook since the beggining of this year and although it finally decided to pull down the paid ads, GM says it is going to keep the pages that promote GM on Facebook.

Porsche Designs BlackBerry P'9981: Demand on Fire

RIM and the Porsche Design has already selected one of the most celebrated lavishness department stores of the world, Harrods at London, as fashionable seller of the magnificent BlackBerry P’9981 mobile phone. Declared at the ending days of the month of October in this year of 2011 but without any solid release date fixed, the flashy and outstanding device has just now came on sale at that place, where this one is priced at £1,275, or else a approximate amount under $2,000.

That is totally  SIM-free obviously , bar admittedly the valued price could almost certainly be considered as “mere” just by the ordinary Harrods customers, the reason is it is significantly more than customary Bold 9900 in which it was based. Like the cheaper cousin as well as the most attractive outstanding outlook, the BlackBerry P’9981 mobile phone has the processor of 1.2 GHz along with 768MB RAM. And touch screen with the 2.8-inch 640 x 480 resolution along with the camera what has 5-megapixel are arranged finely in this piece. Not only these but also video recording at 720p is also available in it. This mobile phone is separated by eye-catching extraordinary design, the beautifully brushed metal front part as well as the nicely hand-wrapped total leather back panel.

The BlackBerry OS 7 already has been nicely treated to the Porsche Design conversion too. The main reason behind this is this one uses the custom UI usually as well as has the popular and the all the rage augmented actuality app what is known as Wikitude World Browser perfectly pre-installed. Totally accessible as well as easily available with the two so called stander languages, one is English and another one is Arabic, anyone eager to have their own hands on that indisputably exclusive BlackBerry may have to build the trip to the Harrods at London. Or else at least have the flunky of them will anyhow. The reason is that this marvelous piece is one and only obtainable in-store. It does not have got its availability in the internet world. On the other hand, all the people are willing to think they could send one piece out with the weekly order made by them of the Dom Perignon. It will be done if the people asked very nicely for it. Many people have forecasted that this Porsche Design BlackBerry P'9981mobile phone would be in the high demand among all the mobile lovers as well as this piece would grab a huge market of selling.

Offer from GM for fearful owners of Chevrolet Volts

General motor offers to the fearful owners of Chevrolet Volts to buy back from them because of a chance of catching a fire.

All the multinational companies like the car manufacturer companies are not taking any risk on any product. They always want to be in the race of survival with the other companies. If any bad report hampers their reputation then it may cause business loss for the company because in this digital world news spreads very first. This may cause a loss in the total market of the company. So they don’t take risks. As General Motors is also not taking any chance with Chevrolet Volts. The car may catch fire. So General Motors CEO told that the company will buy back the Chevrolet Volts from its owners who are afraid of its fire possibilities.

The CEO of General Motors Dan Akerson also said that the cars are safe to drive. He also added that it was an initiative taken by the company to keep its customers happy.

In the side impact crash tests three types of fires broke out in the Chevrolet Volts. The test was done by the federal government. The Chevrolet Volts is a plug in extended range electric car. It runs by electricity.

The CEO of the company also said that if needed the General Motors will recall more than 6000 Chevrolet Volts that are running in US. The company and the federal safety regulators are working on what causes the fire. As soon as they find that they will repair the cars.

The Volts caught fire after 7 to 21 days after the test that was performed by the National Highway Traffic Safety for the safety of the car. After this General Motors said that there are no possibilities of catching fire immediately after any crash. They have also said that there is no example in real world of catching fire to any Chevrolet Volts.

The investigation team of NHTSA has started their works on the cause of the fire. They have also asked for other companies to send their samples of their battery testing data. They have said that this safety concern is not raised to other cars except Volts.

It was mentioned by the CEO that the fire took place after seven days of the test. So to catch fire immediately after any accident is rear case and it may happen for any car in the world. But company wants to help the customers so they have offered the customers. And the test crash was extreme and hardly possible in real world.