Eriksson edges nearer to taking City job after talks
The News Review:
- Eriksson edges nearer to taking City job after talks
- Psion: the last computer
- An ugly battle over clean power.
- OPEC sees non-OPEC oil, biofuels eroding its market
- Ventana shares skyrocket amid bid
- Scipione chosen as NSW’s top cop
Eriksson edges nearer to taking City job after talks
Belfast Telegraph - Jun 26, 2007
Taylor, the MP for Leicestershire North West, asked in the Commons: "Will you say what protections, for instance, the Manchester City supporters have against the attentions of the unsavoury Thaksin Shinawatra or is it forever the fate of football fans to be fleeced by flaky foreign financiers?" City defender and England Under-21 international Nedum Onuoha, meanwhile, has signed a new four-year contract with the club following his return from an impressive role in the European Championships. Chief executive Alistair Mackintosh confirmed: "We had to wait until the under-21 tournament was over before the deal could be concluded. Nedum’s contract extension re-affirms Manchester City’s commitment to having a first team squad with the very best young, home-grown, talent. " * The Atletico Madrid president, Enrique Cerezo, said there have been no offers for their striker Fernando Torres, who is reportedly a target for Liverpool. More articles in Premiership.
Psion: the last computer
Register - Jun 26, 2007
And the Psion engineer who eight years ago scouted component factories in England with a dream of making a hard disk-based MP3 player, today heads the engineering for Apple’s iPod division. The only one of these consumer electronics products to make it to market was a DAB Radio. While smaller than satnav and portable music, the digital radio market is expected to be worth $1bn next year. So Psion had the chance to become something few imagine was ever possible: a home-grown consumer electronics giant with a global brand: a British Sony, or a British General Electrics. Today, seven years from its bloody retreat from the consumer business, Psion is a larger business than it was in its apparent heyday, and is growing at a clip. But little of this is based on technology developed by itself: most of it was acquired with the purchase of Teklogix during the telecoms boom. Psion’s lasting legacy has been to provide the core component for a 125 million smartphone market… The only one of these consumer electronics products to make it to market was a DAB Radio. While smaller than satnav and portable music, the digital radio market is expected to be worth $1bn next year. So Psion had the chance to become something few imagine was ever possible: a home-grown consumer electronics giant with a global brand: a British Sony, or a British General Electrics. Today, seven years from its bloody retreat from the consumer business, Psion is a larger business than it was in its apparent heyday, and is growing at a clip. But little of this is based on technology developed by itself: most of it was acquired with the purchase of Teklogix during the telecoms boom. Psion’s lasting legacy has been to provide the core component for a 125 million smartphone market. Few people today would bet against this component - a sophisticated and resilient operating system developed in two years by a small team led by Colly Myers - to be the most used piece of system software in the world.
An ugly battle over clean power.
Free with registration - Seattle Times - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jun 26, 2007
26–ELLENSBURG — The wind blows so hard over these desert ridges that it topples outhouses. It whistles through the high steel towers strung with cables that carry electricity west to light the cities of Puget Sound. The hills west of Ellensburg, then, would seem an ideal spot for giant wind turbines to help quench the Northwest’s thirst for clean, home-grown energy. Instead, they have become a battleground as Kittitas County officials and some locals square off against environmentalists and wind-power companies over putting towering generators near rural homes that dot these hills and valleys. Now the five-year-old debate has reached all the way to the governor’s office, elevating this beyond a classic not-in-my-backyard tale in a sparsely populated county. The outcome of this fight could set a precedent for future fights over wind power in the state as demand continues to mount. “There are going to be sites that aren’t out in the middle of wheat fields anymore,” said Dana Peck of Horizon Wind Energy of Houston, one of two companies seeking to build dozens of the turbines here.
OPEC sees non-OPEC oil, biofuels eroding its market
San Diego Union Tribune - Jun 26, 2007
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The European Union has set a binding target for biofuels to make up 10 percent of vehicle fuels by 2020. President George W. Bush has called for Americans to cut gasoline use by 20 percent by 2017, mostly by increasing use of fuels such as ethanol, made from home-grown corn. Looking beyond 2010, OPEC said it expected non-OPEC oil supplies to stabilise and then fall. But non-conventional oil supplies – developing technologies such as turning natural gas into liquid fuel and extracting oil from tar sands – would increase at a rapid rate, meaning overall non-OPEC supply would continue to rise. REFINING
OPEC said rising construction costs, a shortage of skilled labor and rapidly changing government energy policies posed threats to projects to build refineries to satisfy the world’s growing demand for motor fuels. Nevertheless, the report expected new capacity additions should exceed requirements in 2011 and 2012, easing refining tightness that has been a major factor in oil’s rally from $20 at the start of 2002 to $70 at present.
Ventana shares skyrocket amid bid
AZ Central.com - Jun 26, 2007
“Over the coming weeks, we could see a competing bid materialize for Ventana but we handicap that as a possibility rather than a probability,” wrote Timothy Lee, an analyst with Caris & Co in San Francisco. “We think Roche is uniquely positioned to leverage Ventana’s technological capabilities given its leadership position in diagnostics and its commitments to developing personalized medicines. ”
Many Arizonans took notice of a home-grown company that was the talk of Wall Street. University of Arizona Professor Thomas Grogan started Ventana two decades ago on the belief that there had to be a better way to detect cancer. His idea spawned a company that went public in 1996 and has grown to 845 employees, including 660 in Arizona, according to figures provided by the company Tuesday. Yet even though UA berthed the company, it will not enjoy the financial windfall that other universities collect from tech startups. “There is potentially a missed opportunity in there,” said Patrick Jones, director of the University of Arizona’s Office of Technology Transfer, which works to commercialize the university’s research.
Scipione chosen as NSW’s top cop
The Age - Jun 26, 2007
“He is without doubt one of the most decent men and one of the most ethical men I have ever met,” Mr Moroney said. The NSW Police Association said it had a good relationship with Mr Scipione in his role as deputy commissioner and expected that to continue. “I think frontline police would welcome that the government have selected a home-grown commissioner,” association secretary Peter Remfrey said. “They’ve got some particular problems and some significant challenges coming up with APEC and the Pope’s visit next year. “Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell also welcomed Mr Scipione’s selection, saying the NSW Police Force needed a strong advocate to stand up for its needs.