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Sun cutting up to 3,000 jobs as awaits Oracle deal

Technology / Business

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to eliminate up to 3,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its worldwide work force, as it awaits a takeover by Oracle Corp., a deal being held up by antitrust regulators in Europe.


Philip's net profit of 176 mln euros ($259 million) was nearly triple the year-earlier result

Philips posts surprise profit as cost cuts help

Technology / Business

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dutch electronics giant Philips reported on Monday a surprise profit for the third quarter as a series of cost cutting measures to cope with the global slump helped the bottomline.


Consumers shop for laptop computers at a computer mart in Ningbo in eastern China's Zhejiang province

Record 12 pct drop for PC sales in 2009: Gartner

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created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sales of personal computers are expected to decline by 11.9 percent to 257 million units in 2009, the steepest drop in the industry's history, market research firm Gartner said Monday.





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Broadband-service providers will see their revenue leap to US$137 billion worldwide by 2014

Asia to drive mobile broadband Internet access

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Broadband-service providers will see their revenue from mobile services jump to 137 billion dollars worldwide by 2014, up 450 percent from 2008, a report said Thursday.


Study indicates foreign investment influenced by voters choices at the ballot box

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 28, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A new study by University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management professor Paul Vaaler indicates that when emerging-market countries hold elections they may be determining more than their new government.


Yale report cites emerging carbon finance market

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 07, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Climate change is an unprecedented global problem and an emerging carbon finance market will play a critical role in addressing it, asserts a newly published Yale report.


Experts argue nano food-additives require new oversight

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nanotechnology policy experts are urging that food additives that contain nanoscale materials be subject to new safety testing to ensure that their use does not pose unintended risks.


New Specialized Intel Atom Processor Targets Cars, Internet Phones

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Advancing innovation around the Intel Atom processor with a goal to target additional market segments, Intel Corporation today announced four unique versions of processors and two new system controller hub additions to the ...


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GE Shows Off 1TB DVD-Sized Disks at the Emerging Tech Conference

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the September '09 Emerging Tech Conference in Boston, GE announced it has been developing a 1TB DVD size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player.


Qualcomm backs game console for `next billion' (AP)

Qualcomm backs game console for 'next billion'

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- A startup called Zeebo Inc. is betting that people in emerging markets want to play good video games just as much as people in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan do.


How Chinese firms benefit from the diversity of foreign direct investment

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research from Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business shows that the diversity of foreign invested firms' national origin helps businesses in China benefit from foreign direct investment (FDI).


In emerging tech markets, 'get real' by talking about the competition

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Innovators trying to establish new markets would be wise to try to attract attention by publicizing not only themselves, but also the competition, according to a new sociological study by a faculty member at the University ...


Nanotech in your vitamins

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

The ability of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the safety of dietary supplements using nanomaterials is severely limited by lack of information, lack of resources and the agency's lack of statutory authority ...



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