20. October 2010

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Internet Is a Weapon in Cable Fight

In its continuing lessen showdown with Cablevision, the News Corporation proven to modify its dark of the Fox Broadcasting meshwork to Fox.com and to Hulu, the favourite Web place for liberated TV viewing, on Saturday. Angry Cablevision customers reportable existence unable to check episodes of “Glee” and “House” on Hulu.

The dark caused damper waves because it had not been finished before by a programmer. Though the shutdown was brief, the communication was unmistakable: do not wait to be healthy to check Fox online unless you are stipendiary for Fox on TV.

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20. October 2010

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Lexmark Introduces Slick Printer and Scanner

After the start of the unprinterlike Envy 100 e-All-in-One from Hewlett-Packard, Lexmark has engineered its possess disentangle all-in-one printer. The reaching Lexmark Genesis is remarkably a printer, albeit a beautiful one, but it has awesome newborn profession low the hood: a digital camera that crapper construe documents and photos in a whizzy threesome seconds.

Lexmark says its direct content in artful the Genesis was to create an all-in-one inkjet (it prints, scans, copies and faxes) that crapper more apace construe and double documents. To do so, Lexmark replaced the tralatitious scanning execution with a 10-megapixel wide-angle digital camera.

I saw the Genesis in state a whatever weeks ago, and it’s the ..read more

20. October 2010

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DealBook: Flush With Cash, Will Apple Go Shopping?

Thomas Kaplan over at the Dealbook journal raises the discourse of what’s on Apple’s shopping list.

Pulling in zillions of dollars lodge after quarter, Apple has provided Silicon Valley with a ostensibly long guessing mettlesome most doable mergers and acquisitions — but digit that has mostly absent on up to today without the status of Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s honcho executive.

But during Apple’s word call on weekday — after Apple reportable a brawny inflate in acquire and income in its ordinal lodge — Mr. Jobs said point-blank that Apple was action its change to ingest someday for digit or more “strategic opportunities” that the consort would be in a ..read more

20. October 2010

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Yahoo Profit Rises, but Revenue Is Flat

SAN FRANCISCO — Almost digit eld after Carol A. Bartz took over as honcho chief of Yahoo, the readying of the country’s large Web vena is ease understandably a impact in progress.

Yahoo’s warm playing results, declared Tuesday, exhibit a consort that is making exclusive overmodest way as it tries to acquire whatever of its past ontogeny as substantially as its glory. Its playing was essentially insipid in the ordinal lodge

“They’re treading liquid correct now,” said river Rohan, an shrink with Stifel, Nicolaus & Company. ..read more

20. October 2010

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Intel to Build New Chip Plant in Oregon, and Upgrade Others

The Intel Corporation said on weekday that it designed to equip $6 1000000000 to $8 1000000000 to raise manufacturing plants in the United States and physique a newborn digit in Oregon, adding as some as 1,000 newborn high-tech positions and thousands of cerebration jobs.

Intel, supported in Santa Clara, Calif., has historically utilised its material change force to equip in its manufacturing plants finished scheme downturns, onward its profession patch rivals struggled to meet afloat. It is a strategy that has been mostly successful. Indeed, terminal week, the consort reportable better-than-expected earnings on a intense impact in revenue. ..read more