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Richard Branson unveils Virgin Galactic spaceplane –
Dec 10th
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, intends to run the first flights out of New Mexico before extending operations around the globe.
Built from lightweight carbon composite materials and powered by a hybrid rocket motor, SS2 is based on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne concept – a rocket plane that is lifted initially by More >
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Loading ...November Auto Sales: Toyota sales rise 2.6 percent
Dec 2nd
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 23.2 percent.
HOT MODELS: Consumers continued to flock to Toyota’s fuel-efficient models, driving up sales of the Camry and Camry Hybrid by a combined 8.6 percent. Sales of the popular Prius hybrid rose 11.1 percent.
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Dec 1st
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 filed in the U.S. A spokesman declined to say how much the firm was seeking in damages.
“Nokia’s focus is on the cartels involving liquid crystal displays (LCD) and cathode ray tubes (CRT) – the latter having been purchased by Nokia’s former Nokia Display Products business,” More >
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Infineon, Nokia co-operate on next mobile generation
Nov 25th
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 Nokia’s current and future modem technology work with Infineon’s transceiver chips.
The company said this would create a product for the fourth-generation (4G) Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology, the next step in mobile networks that will make possible wireless high-speed Internet connections. The first such networks are More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Music Piracy Wars May Finally Take a Break
Nov 13th
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 to survive, anyway.
Those who illegally download music from the Internet actually spend more money on music than anyone else, according to the poll, done in the U.K. among 1000 people, ages 16 to 50, who have Internet access.
Believing otherwise, music industry groups such as the US-based RIAA have More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Founders Win a Piece Of Skype From EBay
Nov 10th
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 by eBay before the opening of the stock markets on Friday.
As part of the complex agreement, the founders will own a 14 percent stake in the new Skype and receive two seats on the board.
EBay’s share of the new Skype will fall to 30 percent, More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Google Beats Microsoft in The E-Mail Battle of Los Angeles
Oct 28th
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 the Google system by June and will begin with a pilot period during which a limited number of employees will test the system, according to The Los Angeles Times, which reported the news first.
Google hosts Gmail, used by more than 40 million people, on its More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Twitter BIG News – 100 MILLION FUNDING !! WOW
Oct 20th
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 Venture Partners took part in the latest round of funding which closed on Friday, according to Twitter. Twitter did not give the amount of the funding.
Analysts and industry executives say the involvement of T. Rowe Price and Insight set the stage for an eventual IPO More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dell: Business Model Change Case Study
Oct 19th
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 broadening its distribution, selling through retailers such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart and wireless companies like AT&T to appeal to a wider audience.
Innovation
Dell used to rely on Microsoft and Intel for most innovations, investing less than 1% of revenues in research and development so it could offer the best-priced PCs More >
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