Home theatres speak volumes for change
The News Review:
- Home theatres speak volumes for change
- Eaton Reports Third Quarter Earnings Per Share Growth Of 9 Percent
- Online post-secondary school is booming, and it looks like there’s …
- In the end, is thin PC better?
- Microsoft Taps Multiply.com as New Home for MSN Groups
- Mirrored impressions
- Gadgetry to take hit in lean holidays
Home theatres speak volumes for change
Economic Times, India
Sales of cassette players have
significantly dropped due to a technology shift towards CD and MP3 formats. It
is only CD players that have managed to retain sales though it is a very small
segment,? said Philips Electronics India V-P (consumer lifestyle) S
Nagarajan. Little wonder, Samsung?s home theatre sales has
grown by over 40% this year. It is now launching six new models for the festive
season. ?The healthy growth in home theatres is also linked with the sales
of LCD TVs. We are seeing a near 25% attachment ratio of home theatres and LCD
TV sales,? Samsung India deputy MD R Zutshi told ET. The
average price of home theatre systems have fallen from Rs 20,000 to Rs 9,000
over the last two years.
Eaton Reports Third Quarter Earnings Per Share Growth Of 9 Percent
MarketWatch
markets are estimated to
have grown 15 percent, driven by strong deliveries by Airbus, while U. markets declined 5 percent, driven by a significant decline in shipments
of new aircraft from Boeing as a result of the strike. Operating profits in the third quarter were $75 million. Excluding
acquisition integration charges of $4 million, operating profits were
$79 million, an increase of 10 percent over the third quarter of 2007.
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Online post-secondary school is booming, and it looks like there’s …
Dubuque Telegraph Herald, IA
Almost 20 years later, it has grown into the largest private university in North America. The institution has nearly 200 campus locations and online students from around the world. "That’s why we feel like we’re really one of the pioneers," said Chris Mason, campus director for the University of Phoenix’s Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, campus locations. Online education started to filter into tri-state area higher education institutions in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The first area college to offer an online program was UW-P in 1999.
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In the end, is thin PC better?
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, AR
The spread of high-speed Internet connections means that people working in a cubicle and at home can rely on an effective link back to the data warehouses. H-P, Citrix Systems, Microsoft and others are also fine-tuning the software that controls communication between thin clients and the servers. This has led to smoother-running machines that can handle even video and audio. Most significantly, the pool of programs that thin clients can use has grown thanks to so-called virtualization software, which lets companies package an entire operating system and all its applications. Instead of picking and choosing certain software to send over the wire, companies can ship entire “virtual desktops. ” The reinvigorated buzz around thin-client technology has caused a scramble to address the market in innovative ways. For example, Teradici, a startup near Vancouver, produces a microprocessor that can speed the flow of software from data warehouses to thin clients.
Microsoft Taps Multiply.com as New Home for MSN Groups
ReadWriteWeb, CA
Florida-based Multiply. com announced last week that it has 10 million registered users and sees 18 million monthly unique visitors – both numbers that have grown 100% year over year. Compare that to Facebook, which. Multiply has a rabidly loyal following, something that might change with an infusion of MSN Groups members, and its feature set is impressive.
Mirrored impressions
ENC Today, NC
He stayed after school for photography classes. Less than 10 years later, he was a student at Glassboro State University, using his camera skills to pay for tuition on his way to a degree in education. That in turn, led to a job with the same New Jersey public school system in Parsippany where he had grown up – beginning as a sixth-grade teacher, and expanding to a career that lasted 33 years. He wore a lot of hats and eventually was in charge of libraries, audio-visual programs and materials for 15 schools and more than 13,000 students, with a staff that won national awards along the way. During his career, computers went from large mainframes to desktop, or as he calls them, microcomputers. He recalled an early $105,000 computer that had one function and a multitude of codes to make it work. “(Today) my laptop makes that look sick,” he laughed.
Gadgetry to take hit in lean holidays
CNET News, CA
Under the terms it has reached with creditors, Circuit City can borrow up to $1. 3 billion against existing inventory to buy more inventory, according to Anthony Chukumba, an industry analyst with FTN Midwest Securities. But he said that manufacturers have grown cautious about how much merchandise to ship to Circuit City, fearing the company is financially unstable. As inventory goes down, credit available to Circuit City to buy additional inventory falls, he said. “It becomes a death spiral,” Chukumba said. “I call this Christmas ‘Circuit City’s last stand. ‘”Circuit City did not respond to a request for comment.