US food group Hormel Foods saw its profits accelerate in the final quarter of its financial year amid stronger earnings from its grocery products business. Hormel, which makes Spam canned meat, booked a 13% increase in net earnings to ...
Tags: food, grocery, canned meat, taco, burrito, refrigerated foods
Computerworld-Intel CEO Paul Otellini is getting ready to leave the company,and analysts say this could be a good change for the world's largest chip maker. Intel announced on Monday that Otellini,62,will retire in May after nearly four ...
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Lanka Cement PLC plans to enter into a joint venture with other international cement manufacturers to set up a cement grinding and packing plant in an area outside the high security zone in Kankesanthurai, according to Lanka Cement Managing ...
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E-commerce giant Amazon could venture into the mobile chip arena,as it looks set to acquire the mobile chip arm of semiconductor firm Texas Instruments. Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet,released in the UK this month,is powered by a processor ...
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IDG News Service - Texas Instruments will lay off 1,700 employees as it refocuses its efforts away from the wireless sector -- including cellphones and tablets -- and toward embedded systems, the company announced Wednesday. The news ...
Tags: wireless, business, third-straight
Hackers of the world,unite!You have nothing to lose but the lousy stock firmware your routers shipped with. Apart from smartphones,routers and wireless base stations are undoubtedly the most widely hacked and user-modded consumer ...
Tags: DD-WRT, Vyatta, security, Hackers, routers, Tomato, OpenWRT, M0n0wall, PfSense
Just two weeks after revealing its plans for adopting ARM for low-power server technology,chip designer AMD has put itself up for sale–with a slew of industry companies,including Intel,Google,Samsung and Facebook–mentioned as ...
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IDG News Service-AT&T will start offering the first Windows RT tablet with LTE capabilities on Friday with prices beginning at US$499,the U.S.wireless carrier said on Tuesday. AT&T will offer Asus'VivoTab RT tablet,which has a 10.1-inch ...
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Getting to grips with Windows RT's development environments, and converting full-strength Windows 8 apps down to its cut-down RT partner is "nuanced" work that requires "quite a lot [that developers] will need to implement specifically", ...
Tags: Microsoft, Win RT, Win 8, Wade Wegner
Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky helped introduce the Microsoft Surface tablet on Oct. 25. IDG News Service - Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind its new ...
A solid performance by its stationery division has helped New Zealand's largest listed retailer, The Warehouse Group, boost sales by 1.9 per cent in the first quarter. Warehouse Stationery saw like-for-like sales increase 3.7 per cent in ...
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Officeworks has partnered with DHL to be part of the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme. The supply chain arm of DHL and Wesfarmers (the parent company of Officeworks) have established a network of computer equipment ...
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Acer has started shipping the C7 Chromebook netbook starting at$199 with Google's Chrome OS and Intel's Celeron processor. The low-power laptop has an 11.6-inch screen,and is for those who do most of their computing on the web,Acer said ...
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Dutch ingredients group DSM has seen third-quarter earnings drop by almost one-quarter,despite what it described as a"strong"performance from its nutrition business. EBITDA dropped 23%to EUR270m(US$346m)in the three months to ...
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It seems two separate Surface builds aimed at consumer and enterprise aren't enough for Microsoft, as rumours mount of a third, gaming-focused flavour of the Microsoft tablet. According to The Verge, multiple sources within Microsoft's ...
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