Richard Branson unveils Virgin Galactic spaceplane –
Sir Richard Branson has unveiled the rocket plane he will use to take fare-paying passengers into space.
SpaceShipTwo was presented to the world in Mojave, California.
The vehicle will undergo testing over the next 18 months before being allowed to take ticketed individuals on short-hop trips just above the atmosphere.
Billionaire Sir Richard, who heads the Virgin Group, [...]
November Auto Sales: Toyota sales rise 2.6 percent
TORRANCE, Calif. – Toyota Motor Sales USA said Tuesday its sales rose 2.6 percent last month from a year earlier, led by gains in its popular Camry and Prius models.
BY THE NUMBERS: Sales rose to 133,700 vehicles in November, from 130,307 in the same month in 2008. For the year so far, sales are down [...]
Nokia files suits against display, monitor makers
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Top mobile phone maker Nokia said on Tuesday it filed suits in Britain and the United States last week alleging a number of leading technology firms operate cartels for mobile phone and monitor displays.
Nokia said the suits followed government investigations in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, and other civil suits already [...]
Infineon, Nokia co-operate on next mobile generation
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Chipmaker Infineon has moved one step closer to supplying chips for high-end devices of Nokia by announcing a collaboration to create chips for the next mobile network generation.
Infineon, which already supplies chips to Nokia — the world’s largest maker of mobile phones — said on Wednesday the cooperation was aimed at making [...]
Music Piracy Wars May Finally Take a Break
Stormy relationships between pirates and the music industry could start to settle down some, now that BitTorrent is developing new software aimed at eliminating any reason for ISPs to throttle peer-to-peer (P2P) network traffic. Meanwhile, a new survey suggests that instead of posing a menace to record companies, pirates are actually helping the music industry [...]
Founders Win a Piece Of Skype From EBay
SAN FRANCISCO — EBay has formally settled the litigation around its sale of the Skype online calling service.
The founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, will drop their lawsuits against the company and a consortium of buyers whose bid to purchase 65 percent of Skype was announced last month, according to an announcement released [...]
Google Beats Microsoft in The E-Mail Battle of Los Angeles
Google unanimously won the battle with Microsoft for the right to move Los Angeles’ 30,000 municipal employees to its emai system, knocking out Novell’s GroupWise platform for the $7.25 million contract.
The Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 Oct. 27 in favor of using Gmail over Microsoft Office Outlook. The city plans to complete implementation of [...]
Twitter BIG News – 100 MILLION FUNDING !! WOW
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter received $100 million in funding on Friday, valuing the company at $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, as investors bet that the Web company’s explosive growth will yield actual revenue or a lucrative deal.
Investors including mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price and private equity firm Insight [...]
Dell: Business Model Change Case Study
DELL : A common known housebrand computer company, always known to deliver affordably priced computers. As the time goesby, the business model of the DELL company has also changed accordingly. Below are some of the new changes noteworthy:
Dell used to undercut rivals on price by selling PCs directly to businesses and consumers. Now Dell is [...]
