IDG News Service-Samsung plans to launch its first cell phones this year based on Tizen,a Linux-based operating system that will principally rival Google's Android OS. Tizen is being developed by Samsung and Intel in part to reduce their ...
Bloomberg reported that trading in iron ore swaps, used to bet or hedge on the future cost of the steelmaking commodity, rose almost threefold to a record this year as prices slumped to the lowest in nearly three years before rebounding. ...
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Bloomberg reported that steel reinforcement bar futures climbed to a five month high, heading for the best quarterly performance in two years, on optimism that a recovery in the real estate market in China, the biggest user may boost ...
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JFE Holding Inc has delayed a decision to build a USD 3.6 billion integrated steel plant in Vietnam,saying it is worried that the poorly developed market could hinder its operations. JFE had said earlier it would defer a decision on the ...
Bloomberg reported that Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant,a unit of OAO Mechel,has completed an expansion of its wastewater biochemical treatment facility last month Mechel-Koks's expanded facility allows the cleaning of wastewater from ...
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Hewlett-Packard will continue to evaluate potential divestitures of underperforming parts of its business, and the process could get messy, the company warned its investors in its annual 10-K document, which was filed in late December. ...
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Does true literacy now include the ability to write software programs, just as it does the ability to read, write and do sums? 2012 saw a surge of sentiment in the press and blogosphere that we should think of programming as a vital ...
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HP has confirmed that it will wield the axe on those of its businesses that don't meet targets, official documents have revealed. As first reported by Bloomberg, HP told the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a 27 December filing ...
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Bloomberg reported that POSCO agreed to buy a stake in ArcelorMittal Mines Canada Inc. Mr Chung Jae Woong spokesman of POSCO said that POSCO hasn’t decided on the amount of stake it will purchase or for how much The Maeil Business ...
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Bloomberg reported that copper fell by the most in two weeks,paring a weekly gain,as industrial metals dropped after US Federal Reserve policy makers said they will probably end their USD 85 billion monthly bond purchase program sometime ...
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Email is a commodity,says Brett Goldstein,Chicago's CIO,and that's why he's moving it to a cloud. The Windy City said Thursday it is migrating email and desktop applications to Microsoft's cloud services for about 30,000 employees. This ...
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Samsung is building a tablet based on Windows RT for release sometime in October, according to unnamed sources who spoke to the Bloomberg news service. Samsung joins Acer and Asus, among other device makers, to build the touchscreen ...
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About 19 percent of cell sites in the area hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy were still out of service on Thursday morning as recovery was slowed by other network failures and power shortages, according to the U.S. Federal Communications ...
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Network World - Cisco CEO John Chambers says he may retire in two to four years and named several executives who could succeed him, according to Bloomberg. There are as many as 10 candidates to assumed leadership of Cisco when Chambers ...
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Computerworld - Google confirmed a dropoff in traffic to its sites in China on Friday, echoing an online report that the company's services are being blocked there. All Google services are inaccessible in China, according to the Google ...
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