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Newstalk ZB

Profits at big banks return to pre-crisis levels
Radio New Zealand
PWC analyst Sam Shuttleworth says the growth is driven by better interest margins as wholesale funding costs have fallen and customers switch from fixed to floating rates. He says there's been a big shift in the use of floating mortgages and ...
Floating mortgages help big banks to lift earningsNew Zealand Herald
New Zealand banks go from strength to strengthScoop.co.nz (press release)
Profit for big banks soars3News NZ
NZ City -Stuff.co.nz
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Family Security Matters

UPDATED: Arlington Democrat Shuttleworth challenges Moran for 8th District seat
Alexandria Times
Arlington resident Bruce Shuttleworth is the latest Democrat looking to unseat Rep. Jim Moran (D-8) from his established chair in the in the US House of Representatives. Originally from upstate New York, the 46-year-old former Navy pilot is a ...
Arlington Resident Will Challenge Moran in PrimaryARL now

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TechCrunch

Mark Shuttleworth waxes lyrical about Ubuntu's upcoming HUD
Inquirer
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Project, introduced the head-up display (HUD) in Ubuntu's Unity user interface. Shuttleworth explained that the overlay is an intent aware interface, in that users are expected to type verbs rather than nouns ...
Mark Shuttleworth Unveils New Head-Up Display for Ubuntu 12.04TechCrunch
Shuttleworth Offers a Heads Up on Head-Up DisplayNetwork World
Ubuntu 12.04 HUD Supports Voice-Based Menu CommandsTom's Hardware Guide
ZDNet (blog) -Register -Computerworld
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Scoop.co.nz

Gordon Campbell on banks, and Brownlee's Christchurch sellof
Scoop.co.nz
PWC analyst Sam Shuttleworth says the growth is driven by better interest margins as wholesale funding costs have fallen and customers switch from fixed to floating rates. He says there's been a big shift in the use of floating mortgages and ...

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Financial Times

Master Class, Vaudeville Theatre, London
Financial Times
By Ian Shuttleworth The entrance round of applause is one degree of excess; the entrance round of whooping and whistling is ridiculous. You would think it were Maria Callas herself walking on to the stage, not Tyne Daly playing her.

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Mark Shuttleworth waxes lyrical about Ubuntu's upcoming HUD
Provides a heads-up

Half of modern-day 'Bonnie and Clyde' sentenced to prison by Birmingham federal judge
Angela Shuttleworth was sentenced to almost 6 years in prison for a 5-state bank robbery spree.

Ubuntu to sport new 'head-up display' menu
Ubuntu, a free distribution of the Linux operating system, might soon win over more users with its upcoming new look, highlighted by a replacement for the traditional menu.   Mark Shuttleworth, one of the backers of the Ubuntu OS, said they are working on a minimalist "Head-Up Display" (HUD) that will replace the menu bars and items.   "The HUD (connects) users directly to what they want. (It ...

Ubuntu moves beyond the desktop with new TV interface, menu-killing navigation system
Late last year, Ubuntu announced it would bring the open source operating system to mobile devices. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said Ubuntu will soon be found on ?tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those devices cleanly and seamlessly to the desktop, the server and the cloud.?

Mark Shuttleworth Unveils New Head-Up Display for Ubuntu 12.04
Every time I write about Ubuntu and its (not-so) new Unity interface, I see lots and lots of comments decrying it as useless, an abomination, the worst thing to ever happen to computers, etc. Personally, I'm not so flummoxed by it, but there's no denying that Unity has been a divisive addition to Canonical's flagship Linux distribution. The choice to move application menus up to the global bar ...

Could Ubuntu Linux 12.04 turn Canonical into the new Apple?
Xerox PARC, Apple, Microsoft: these companies and more have contributed to the ubiquitous but evolving WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointers) user interface. According to Mark Shuttleworth Ubuntu is poised to revolutionise the menu this April.

Avec HUD, Ubuntu abandonnera les barres de menus dans Unity
Le système Ubuntu embarquera prochainement un nouvel utilitaire permettant d'effectuer rapidement des actions au sein de différents logiciels. Sur son blog personnel, Mark Shuttleworth, fondateur d [...]

Floating mortgages help big banks to lift earnings
New Zealand's five major banks enjoyed core earnings growth of 25 per cent in the second half of their 2011 financial years compared with the previous six months, almost entirely due to the move from fixed-rate to floating-rate mortgages,...

New Zealand banks go from strength to strength
Embargoed until Friday 10 February 2012 at 05:00am News Release New Zealand banks go from strength to strength despite global market uncertainties New Zealand?s five major banks (ANZ National, ASB, Bank of New Zealand, Kiwibank and Westpac) have ...

Heads up, Linux fans, Ubuntu's ditching menus
Ubuntu has announced a change to its version of Linux that ought to get hot-key junkies and voice-control enthusiasts alike to raise their heads with glee. Ubuntu 12.04 will introduce in April a new Heads-Up Display for interacting with the operating system, wrote Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. The HUD will allow you to "express your intent" with the operating system and the programs running ...