Windows 8 may be the most disruptive operating system upgrade in 17 years,but the learning curve isn't as steep as some have claimed,enterprise support company PC Helps said today. "It will be very difficult to adjust to,no doubt of ...
Lexmark International has exited the inkjet printer business and is laying off 1,700 people as part of a restructuring plan to improve profitability. Lexmark's restructuring will result in job cuts mainly tied to the inkjet ...
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Chinese dairy Mengniu has booked a drop in first-half profits. In the six months to the end of June, net profit slid to CNY747.9m (US$117.7m), compared to CNY892.1m recorded last year. The company blamed the decline on a "surge" in the ...
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Southport Lane, a private equity firm, has selected Jim McNichols as chief actuarial officer of its reinsurance group, Southport Re. McNichol, in the new role, will support reinsurance, underwriting services and directing quantitative ...
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US food giant Heinz is to report "strong" first-quarter results, its chief executive told shareholders today (28 August). Heinz chairman, president and CEO Bill Johnson told the ketchup firm's AGM it would file a 10% increase in net ...
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Yahoo said Tuesday that Kathy Savitt, former founder and CEO of social commerce company Lockerz, is joining the ailing Internet company as chief marketing officer, responsible for all worldwide marketing and branding. Savitt will join the ...
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Sony will close its once-proud optical PC drive subsidiary by early next year,as part of its efforts to refocus on the connected world of smartphones,tablets and netbooks,a spokesman said Tuesday. Subsidiary Sony Optiarc,which ...
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Troubled Japanese LCD and TV panel maker Sharp said Tuesday it will cut 2,000 jobs domestically,or about 6%of its local workforce,as part of ongoing restructuring efforts. The company said the reduction in staff would come through a ...
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IBM's latest mainframe,the zEnterprise EC12,is big on data analytics and hybrid clouds. This system,announced Tuesday,includes a new 5.5-GHz,six-core processor,versus the 5.2-GHz,quad-core processor that shipped with the zEnterprise ...
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Medi+Sure, a provider of diabetes devices, has announced that the Government of British Columbia (BC) has approved its 49c Medi+Sure blood glucose test strips. The approval allows Medi+Sure to provide its Medi+Sure blood glucose test ...
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Recently,LEDE releases its new design product 35W surface mount LED panel light,the 35W surface mount LED panel light is qualified for both residential and commercial ENERGY STAR standards.It adopts the high quality LED driver,which enables ...
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Graham Kemp,director of High Technology Lighting,has driven from the UK to Portugal in fancy dress to raise money for a local boy paralysed in a sporting accident. Graham joined three other team members in driving over 1,500 miles from ...
While java hacks are an almost weekly occurrence,a zero-day exploit discovered yesterday looks set to become unusually disruptive,as Oracle has so far offered no solution,and experts are recommending users turn off Java off unless ...
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Foxconn International Holdings(FIH),the world's largest contract producer of smartphones,has seen shares fall 3.5 per cent after its worst-ever first-half net loss. The manufacturer posted a$226m loss for the January to June ...
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