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George Ou Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Previous Post: Gizmodo prank trashes CES presentations Samsung multi-function printers scan direct to USB Posted in: Networking News Events Energy efficiency - green CES2008 Unfortunately, one of the least used features on all-in-one multi-function printers and heavy duty copier/scanner/printer machines is the scan function because it's simply too complicated. If you're lucky, IT will set up your email account as a preconfigured setting and they'll teach you how to scan a document to your email inbox. If you're geeky enough to go and figure out how to key in your own email, then you might be one of the other two people in the building that uses the scan functionality. But most people simply keep paper copies and do everything the way they've always done it by making more copies and storing them in a file cabinet if they're organized enough.
ICICI comes to Sensex’s rescue
The newly listed Burnpur Cement was the worst hit among the more heavily traded non-Sensex stocks with a 33% dive. It was followed by BSEL Infrastructure Realty, BPCL, PTC India, Videocon Industries, Hindustan Motors and Mercator Lines with losses between 16% and 19%.
INTERMEDIATE TREND: The market has managed to remain in an intermediate uptrend, despite the intermediate trend for most global markets staying down. The Sensex and Nifty started their intermediate uptrends from November 22, '07. The Sensex had bottomed out at 18183 on that day. The CNX Midcap has been in an uptrend since October 22, '07. The levels below which the intermediate uptrend will end remain 20023 for the Sensex, 6022 for the Nifty and 8430 for the CNX Midcap. It will be more practical to see the downtrend trigger levels as the round figures of 20000 for the Sensex, 6000 for the Nifty and 8400 for the Midcap index.
Sicko’s reel change
In a statement issued last month, the senior vice president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Ken Johnson, called Moore's film a "biased, one-sided attack." "Michael Moore is a very talented filmmaker, but a review of America's health care system should be balanced, thoughtful and well-researched to pin down what works and what needs to be improved," said Johnson. "Unfortunately, you won't get that from Michael Moore." Neither does Moore explore problems associated with the single-payer government programs that exist elsewhere. Instead, Moore depicts the problems found in our system with heart-wrenching stories an older couple forced to live with their adult children because they've been left bankrupt by medical bills, the woman dumped by a hospital outside a homeless shelter, the 9/11 rescue workers neglected by the system after they developed debilitating respiratory problems and offers what he believes is the best solution: a national health care system of the sort used by every other industrialized nation.
Archive for: December, 2007
No matter how the legal action pans out, it will continue to dominate direction setting in the Linux community - and until or unless IBM gets its collective head straight on the issue and cleans house, the polarization this case has led to will continue to undermine Linux legitimacy. Oddly, however, the number one Linux influencer for the year may turn out not be SCO, Torvalds, IBM or any of the currently more visible Linux distributions. Instead, the Linux community may find its second chance at the kind of public tipping point that would give it widespread credibility and mass media supported desktop appeal coming from Negroponte's OLPC (one laptop per child) project. The reason for this has nothing to do with any of the OLPC project's stated goals - in fact, the project is intended to give under-privileged third world children a better chance at education and economic participation, but will actually reduce their opportunities because they'll mostly just go to people committed to preserving existing local power structures.
SA meat industry beating drought
The Australian Lot Feeders Association yesterday announced the national feedlot industry had dropped from 908,820 cattle on feed in the December quarter of 2006 to 584,472 head in December, 2007. Mr Bartsch said the increased grain finishing of cattle had improved the consistency of cattle and provided a big opportunity for the SA beef industry once it returned to normal. An increase in lamb feedlotting was also improving the performance of that industry. Mr Bartsch said the pork industry had been severely hit, with the amount of imported processed pork rising from 30 per cent five years ago to 60 per cent last year He said estimates were that producers were losing money at a fairly high rate – with losses of up to $30-$50 a pig. Mr Bartsch said the intensive livestock industry in SA was well positioned with a good supply of grain, and there was no reason it couldn't be competitive nationally.
Business in the Burbs: Reader's Digest enters print partnership with ...
Reader's Digest Association, based in Chappaqua, said yesterday that it has entered into a multiyear partnership with Williams Lea, a London-based company that provides printing and direct-marketing services worldwide. Williams Lea will take over the promotional printing operations of Reader's Digest's direct-mail business in 19 countries throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, the Asian Pacific region and Latin America, RDA said. RDA estimates that the outsourcing will reduce its costs by $130 million over the first three years by improving business processes and allowing RDA to get better prices on print products. "Williams Lea is one of the largest global players in the printing field, and as such we will use their resources, skills and contacts to get better prices on everything to do with printing - paper, ink, printing itself," said William Adler, vice president of global communications, in an e-mail.
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