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BAE Systems To Pay Fine To Settle Bribery Case
It was announced that BAE Systems had agreed to settle charges that it had been involved in bribery with Suadi Arabia by paying $450 million. The company had been under investigation by both the U.S. and Great Britain for several years in this matter. by Matthew Potter
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Android HTC Dragon, 4.3-inch WinMo Huashan tipped in Dopod roadmap
Talk of the HTC Dragon has been minimal since the Nexus One grabbed the limelight earlier this year, but a leaked Dopod roadmap for 2010 has reignited some of that old speculation.  According to their timetable, the Dragon is set to arrive in China come Q2...
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AMD talks energy with 'Llano' cores
While Intel is talking up its "Westmere" CPUs and their graphics co-processing, which puts a 45 nanometer graphics chip and memory controller inside the same chip package as a two-core Core processor implemented using 32 nanometer processes, rival AMD wants to change the subject to a truly integrated, single-chip CPU/GPU...
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Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up
Tiny Speck, a company started by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield and three partners, is unveiling its new game, Glitch, on Tuesday. The company has been under the radar since it was founded last March, and no one has known what was being developed. But CNET's Daniel Terdiman reports from behind...
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Linux Linus backs Google's Nexus One
The creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, has thrown his weight behind Google's Nexus One, admitting that the handset has finally broken through his hatred of phones. Torvalds admits on his blog that he is far from a fan of phones insisting that they are 'irritating and disturb...
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Touch-screen handsets lead switch to smartphones
Smartphones with touch-screens accounted for 55% of all smartphone shipments in Q4 2009, according to market analyst Canalys.Touch-screen smartphone shipments were up 138% year-on-year in Q4 to almost 30 million units, in a quarter where overall smartphone market growth was 41%. Canalys estimated total touch-screen...
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Breaking News: Toyota Australia recalling Prius
Toyota Australia is recalling hybrid Prius models as part of a worldwide program to fix faulty brakes. Toyota Australia is recalling hybrid Prius models as part of a worldwide program to fix faulty brakes. The recall by the world's largest automaker affects 2378 third generation Prius models sold in Australia...
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Liberty of London creative director exits
9 February, 2010 | By Jessica Brown Tamara Salman, the creative director of the Liberty of London brand, has left the business. You must be a paid subscriber to Retail Week magazine to read this article and receive complete, unrestricted access to retail-week.com Retail Week Subscribers: If you are a...
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ATI Radeon HD 5570 launched, reviewed: $80 low-profile DirectX 11
AMD have outed their latest DirectX 11 compatible video card, the ATI Radeon HD 5570, and it's specifically targeted at those with low profile cases. Â The HD 5570 packs the same ATI Eyefinity multi-display support and ATI Stream support as other 5500-series cards, together with 1080p HD...
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How to protect data on social networks
Remember that a social network is a public space; only post information or upload images you are comfortable with, keeping in mind that at a later stage you might be confronted with the content you uploaded, e.g. in a job interview. Information and pictures you post...
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NETGEAR Announces 3G Mobile Technology Collaboration With Ericsson on NETGEAR MBRN3300E 3G...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NETGEARR, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, today announced a technology collaboration with 3G infrastructure leader EricssonR (Nasdaq: ERIC) resulting in the launch of the new NETGEAR MBRN3300E 3G Mobile Broadband Router with internal 3G radio, available...
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Amazon's Grip on E-book Pricing Slackens, But the War's Not Over
The e-book pricing war between Macmillan and Amazon AMZN is still raging but Amazon's lost two more battles, further loosening the online retailer's choke hold on the $9.99 price point for digital books. by Lydia Dishman
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UK: Advertisers hit out by product placement "u-turn"
This article is locked. You need to be a Full Member of just-food to view this article. Existing users, please login at the top of the page.Summary: A proposed u-turn on the relaxing of rules for the placement of food and drink products in TV programmes in the UK is...
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Google initiates phone support line for Nexus One owners, (888) 48NEXUS (63987)
It's been more than a month since Google officially unveiled the Nexus One smartphone, and no lack of support issues have brought the technology giant to unveil yet another welcomed thing â?? a dedicated phone support line specifically tailored to the problems and havoc that Nexus One...
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Intel announces Itanium 9300 processors for mission-critical computing
Intel has introduced the Itanium 9300-series processor, previously codenamed Tukwila, which the company claims delivers more than double the performance of its predecessor, boosts scalability and adds reliability features to the Itanium platform that is already running mission-critical applications for 80% of the global 100 corporations. With Gartner predicting a...
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JAL chooses to stay with American over Delta
The Tokyo carrier, which filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors in a Japanese court in January, had been at the center of a tug-of-war between AMR Corp's /quotes/comstock/13*!amr /quotes/nls/amr (AMR 7.32, +0.02, +0.27%) American and Delta /quotes/comstock/13*!dal /quotes/nls/dal (DAL...
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Nexus One Gets Live Phone Support, Sort Of
There's no denying it: Google's Nexus One, although being one of the best Android-based smartphones on the market, isn't selling well . One of the reasons behind sluggish sales is lack of true customer support. Who does an owner of a Nexus One turn to...
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Sales growth slows to 15-year low in January as snow hits trade
9 February, 2010 | By Lisa Berwin Bad weather brought sales growth on the high street to a 15-year low in January down 0.7% on a like-for-like basis. You must be a paid subscriber to Retail Week magazine to read this article and receive complete, unrestricted access to retail-week.com Retail...
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Samsung Monte S5620 gets official
A little over a week since we saw it leak into the wild, the Samsung Monte S5620 has been officially launched. Â A 3-inch capacitive touchscreen featurephone, the Monte S5620 packs UMTS/HSDPA (900/2100, 3.6Mbps) along with quadband GSM, WiFi, A-GPS and Bluetooth 2.1. Â The Monte also...
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JAPAN: Toyota to reprogram ABS in 400,000 cars worldwide
Toyota Motor Corp TMC on Tuesday said it would recall four models to update software controlling the antilock braking system ABS. The models are the current generation Prius, Prius plug-in, Sai and Lexus HS250h sold in Japan. The recall, for which TMC submitted notifications today to Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport...
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Nectar becomes most popular loyalty card scheme
8 February, 2010 | By Lisa Berwin The Nectar Card has become the most popular loyalty card in the UK with 16.8m people now using the card. You must be a paid subscriber to Retail Week magazine to read this article and receive complete, unrestricted access to retail-week.com Retail Week...
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Better Times for VCs? Redpoint Raise $400 Million Fund Focused on Social, Mobile, Cloud and Clean [BoomTown]
Redpoint Ventures announced that it had closed a new $400 million fund to invest in early stage start-ups in the "social and mobile Internet, cloud computing and clean technology spaces." The last fund that the Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture firm raised was $250 million in 2007, which was called Redpoint...
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Nissan returns to Q3 profit, lifts forecast
Former Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan drives the newly launched Nissan's 370Z in Mumbai January 20, 2010. The car will be available in India at a starting price of Indian Rupees 5.35 million (approximately $117,000).Credit: Reuters/Punit ParanjpeYOKOHAMA, Japan ( Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co, Japan's No.3 carmaker, said it returned to... |
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On Health Bill, G.O.P.â??s Road Is a New Map
WASHINGTON ? When Republicans take President Obama up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care this month, they will carry with them a fairly well-developed set of ideas intended to make health insurance more widely available and affordable, by emphasizing tax incentives and state innovations, with...
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Japan Airlines Decides to Stick With American Airlines
HONG KONG â?? Japan Airlines said on Tuesday that it would maintain its partnership with American Airlines and the Oneworld airlines alliance, dashing Delta Air Lines' hopes of partnering with the troubled Japanese carrier. Crippled by years of mismanagement and debts of more than Â¥2 trillion, or $22.4 billion, the...
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The iPhone is the new Internet Explorer 6, says mobile developer
On the flip side of the debate about whether Flash is ill, in rude health, or simply untroubled by Apple's wilful refusal to countenance it on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, we have an analysis from Peter-Paul Koch, a "mobile platform strategist, consultant and trainer" who says...
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UBS back to profit in Q4
QUICK SUMMARY | FULL STORY By Lisa Jucca of Reuters ZURICH - Swiss bank UBS posted its first quarterly net profit since Oswald Gruebel took the helm a year ago but clients withdrew far more money than forecast, signalling he may need more time to steady the ship. UBS, left...
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ECB Trichet departure sparks Greece rescue talk
SYDNEY ( Reuters) - European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet is cutting short a trip to Australia to attend a special European Union summit, prompting market speculation initiatives are in the works to help resolve Greece's debt problems.Crisis in Credit EU heads of state are due to meet on Thursday in... |
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Renault India to set up own distribution network
MUMBAI: The Indian unit of French carmaker Renault said on Tuesday it would set up an independent distribution network in the country, as it looks to expand its offerings.Renault will create a nationwide network in the next 30 months, the company said in a statement.Currently, Renault...
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Protecting Banks in the Boardroom
Bank regulators haven't exactly covered themselves in glory. But an earlier defense against bank excesses ought to be their boards, Breakingviews says. It's not an easy job, but directors could try harder to control risk-taking. Uncomfortable questions are welcome. One worth repeating, with the financial crisis slowly fading and 2009...
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