All Entries in the "Technology" Category
Can you really make money online fast?
You can make money online fast if you look in the right places. That is the catch that keeps most people who want to make money from doing so. Instead, they look at the wrong places and end up falling for frauds and schemes to just separate them from more of their money instead of [...]
LED lighting Technique for your home
Led lighting saves electricity. The lighting efficiency of the new high power led light bulbs ismore than eight times that of incandescent lights, and twice as high as compact fluorescent lights. Led bulbs also emit a much higher percentage of light in the desired direction. This makes them even more efficient compared to either incandescent [...]
Mazda Motor tumbles to quarterly loss
TOKYO (AP) — Mazda Motor Corp. sank into the red in the October-December quarter, unable to overcome a stronger yen and lackluster sales in Japan. The Japanese automaker said Thursday it booked a quarterly net loss of 2.67 billion yen ($32.7 million). It had net profit of 4.42 billion yen a year earlier. Revenue inched [...]
Choice of CEO signals new direction for HP
NEW YORK (AP) — The appointment of a German software executive as Hewlett-Packard Co.’s next CEO sends an unmistakable signal that the board of the world’s largest technology company is prepared to gamble big on an aggressive push into the software business. And analysts say it will need to do just that to avoid being [...]
Washington wealthy clash over income tax on rich
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The state that produced America’s richest man has never taken a cut of its residents’ income. Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and his father would like to change that. They are among the wealthy Washingtonians who have joined labor unions and other traditional Democratic allies to support a tax-the-rich ballot measure [...]
Microsoft sues Motorola over smart phone patents
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft Corp. is suing Motorola Inc. for infringing on its smart-phone patents. The software maker on Friday said Motorola phones that use Google Inc.’s Android software step on Microsoft technology. The functions in question include synchronizing e-mail, calendars and contacts. Microsoft filed its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the [...]
Facebook splits stock 5 for 1
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook, the world’s largest online social network, said Friday it is splitting its shares five for one, so that it can give larger stock grants to current and prospective employees. The split doesn’t change the actual value of these grants, however. Spokesman Larry Yu says the split made sense as Facebook’s [...]
Nations wary of dependence on China’s rare earths
TOKYO (AP) — China’s recent halt of exotic metal shipments to Japan amid a diplomatic spat has reverberated throughout the world’s high-tech manufacturing hubs — now on heightened alert to the risks of relying on one country for materials that do everything from helping hybrid engines run to creating the color red in televisions. Governments [...]
Intel chief says Iran able to fight computer worm
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s intelligence minister said the country has learned how to fight off a complex computer worm that some foreign experts have speculated was designed to target Tehran’s nuclear program, state television reported Saturday. Heidar Moslehi was also quoted as saying authorities have arrested several nuclear spies, but he gave no details [...]
Microsoft taps tech leader to head Office division
SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. has picked an insider with engineering expertise to head up its Office software division, filling a spot left vacant in September when the most recent president left to become Nokia Corp.’s CEO. Kurt DelBene, an 18-year Microsoft veteran, was named president of the Microsoft Office division. Most recently, DelBene, 50, [...]
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