TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE

LG X Venture is a rugged phone that won't hurt your wallet The LG X Venture is a rugged phone that's supposed to be affordable. LG LG has a phone for adventurers who don't want to spend a fortune on their phones. The LG X Venture boasts a water- and dust-resistant body, and LG says it passed 14 durability tests designed for the US military. The phone also comes with a special app called Outdoor Essentials, which ties together a barometer, compass, activity counter, exercise tracker, weather reporter and flashlight into one central location. The phone has a 16-megapixel rear camera; a 5-megapixel, 120-degree wide-angle front camera; a Qualcomm 435 processor; a 5.2-inch display; 2 gigabytes of RAM and 32GB of storage, and a 4,100 mAh battery. The company, whose flagship LG G6 debuted about a month ago. said the X Venture is a "mass tier" phone, but didn't give out a price, deferring to local carriers for a local announcement. It launches Monday in

amaha : Music Industry Pro Kirk Davis Named Central Regional Manager for Yamaha Institutional Solutions Group BUENA PARK, Calif. (PRWEB) May 15, 2017 Yamaha today announced the hiring of Kirk Davis as the central regional manager for the company's Institutional Solutions Group (ISG). Yamaha ISG creates and implements specific marketing plans that highlight the benefits of Yamaha keyboard products and services to Educational Institutions. The group is responsible for improving dealer sales skills within this market and builds on the relationships, sales, support and strategies that have dramatically increased the company's academic presence in recent years. A respected music industry veteran, Davis joined West Music in 1985, rising to the position of corporate director of the piano division, where he managed sales, inventory, marketing, manufacturer relations and institutional needs for all six of West Music's Iowa retail locations. He has received numerous piano i

Royalty changes strike sour note among Japan's music teachers TOKYO -- Japanese music educators are preparing to sue a copyright management group over a plan to charge fees for playing songs in the classroom, a dispute that turns on the question of what constitutes a public performance. Ten years of talks At issue is a decision by the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, or Jasrac, to collect royalties when songs are played in music classes for instructional purposes, arguing that rights to such performances legally belong to the copyright holders. The dispute, which came to light in February, came after more than a decade of ultimately fruitless negotiations with music educators including the Yamaha Music Foundation, which is affiliated with Yamaha Corp. The two sides have since exchanged letters but apparently have not met for in-person talks. A council formed by music school operators such as the Yamaha Music Foundation and Kawai Musical

MXA RACE TEST: 2017 YAMAHA YZ250: HEADED TO DIVORCE COURT Click on images to enlarge Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Not this decade-old smoker. This old dog needs more than a new chew toy. It needs to step into modern times. Instead of asking the same old question, “What changes have been made to the 2017 Yamaha YZ250?” We are going to ask, “What changes need to be made to the 2018 Yamaha YZ250,” because otherwise we will be running the exact same test every year in MXA for as long as the top brass continue to pop out more Xerox copies of the same-old YZ250. This is especially true of the 2017 Yamaha YZ250, which is identical to the 2016 YZ250—save for Bold New Graphics (BNG) and bigger front rotor. At least Yamaha changed the graphics. Honda didn’t even give the 2017 Honda CRF250 a courtesy sticker. So kudos to Yamaha for the BNG, but customers aren’t going to be thrilled to pay $109 more for updated radiator decals. In 2016 MXA built lots of Yamaha YZ250 project bike

MXA RACE TEST: 2017 YAMAHA YZ250: HEADED TO DIVORCE COURT Click on images to enlarge Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Not this decade-old smoker. This old dog needs more than a new chew toy. It needs to step into modern times. Instead of asking the same old question, “What changes have been made to the 2017 Yamaha YZ250?” We are going to ask, “What changes need to be made to the 2018 Yamaha YZ250,” because otherwise we will be running the exact same test every year in MXA for as long as the top brass continue to pop out more Xerox copies of the same-old YZ250. This is especially true of the 2017 Yamaha YZ250, which is identical to the 2016 YZ250—save for Bold New Graphics (BNG) and bigger front rotor. At least Yamaha changed the graphics. Honda didn’t even give the 2017 Honda CRF250 a courtesy sticker. So kudos to Yamaha for the BNG, but customers aren’t going to be thrilled to pay $109 more for updated radiator decals. In 2016 MXA built lots of Yamaha YZ250 project bike