Poor exchange rate costs Andor £350,000
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
The strength of the pound against the dollar has dented profits at Ulster hi-tech company Andor Technology, it has emerged.
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Creative Zen Stone Plus officially in 4GB for $90
Engadget (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
Filed under: Portable Audio What's that little iPod shuffle? Not feeling so hot? You say that for $10 more than you cost someone can officially get a Creative Zen Stone Plus that not only has a display, but four times your storage? Yeah, we'd have a tummy ache too. Well, at least the $80 4GB Plus only seems to come in black, unlike colors-of-the-rainbow you. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments...
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Teac's Wall-Mounted iPod Dock with CD Player Has Sub, NXT Speakers [Slimline Audio]
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
Japanese audio company Teac is letting you have it up against the wall next week, with the release of the MC-DX32i iPod dock, AM/FM tuner and CD/CD-R/RW player. Expected to cost around 30,000¥,...
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Maria Schneider: Raising the Bar
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
Maria Schneider, one of the most innovative big band composer/arrangers of the past two decades, is on a roll. In an era of declining record sales and rising recording costs, she is flying high. Sky Blue (2007), her second release through ArtistShare, has garnered considerable accolades; largely fan-funded, the album is not only an artistic triumph but a product and paragon of the new jazz business...
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Bad Ice = Big Problems
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
Chris Clark told the Washington Post something yesterday that I’ve been meaning to bring up here on the blog. He pretty much said the ice surface at Verizon Center sucks. And he is right. And worse, it has and will cost the Caps wins. First of all, in a lot of rinks, at the end of a [...]
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'A Free Life' carries costs for a family
USA Today (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
In A Free Life, Ha Jin's new novel, the Wu family closes the door on post-Tiananmen Square China in search of a free life in ...
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George Soros buys 5.8 p.c. stake in GAEL
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/12/2007
CHENNAI: Gujarat Ambuja Exports Limited (GAEL) is setting up a maize processing facility in Uttaranchal with a capacity of 500 tonnes a day at a cost Rs. 65 crore. The plant is scheduled to go on stream next week, according to a company ...
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CCS students hold holiday auction
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 05/12/2007
Center for Cartoon Studies Ken Dahl poster The students at the Center for Cartoon Studies are auctioning off four posters to raise money to help pay for convention costs. The items up for bid, all included in one package, include: Signed by Seth, An uncut sheet from the 1st CCS brochure. Seth designed and drew this [...]
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Lucarelli Ready to Move?
Italy (Free subscription) | 05/12/2007
Shakhtar Donetsk’s shocking Champions League collapse (six points from their first two matches, none from their last four) has dumped them out of all European competitions; in addition to the revenue the lost matches will cost the club, the collapse might also cost them a large Italian striker. Since rumors started to emerge of Cristiano Lucarelli’s [...]
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New Britain, Connecticut Leverages Proven World Energy Exchange to Save on Electricity Costs
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/12/2007
Transparent online auction saves a projected $330,000 on electricity costs WORCESTER, MA, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - World Energy Solutions, Inc. (TSX: XWE), the operator of leading online exchanges for energy and energy-related products, today announced New Britain, Connecticut has completed its first auction on the World Energy Exchange. Following the State government's recent success with...
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Rumblings Out of Hudson Entertainment - Adventure Island Comeback; Hudson Mobile Layoffs; New Next-Gen Title Announced In Early 2008
Rumor Reporter (Free subscription) | 05/12/2007
I spoke with President and CEO of Hudson Entertainment, John Greiner, yesterday about the company's plans for 2008. Here’s a few interesting tidbits from our conversation: - Hudson Mobile fired half of its employees recently because of cuts needed for Porting and QA Department costs. There were simply too many SKUs to handle at one time. - [...]
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20% hike for town blamed on unitary bill
Cornish Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/12/2007
Council tax payers in St Blazey face a 20% rise in the money they will pay for local services because of costs associated with the new unitary authority for Cornwall. Council tax is composed of sums required for county, borough and town council ...
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Amazon Kindle- Show me some numbers!
Mobility Site (Free subscription) | 05/12/2007
“The Amazon Kindle is too expensive” seems to be one of the biggest complaints. But is it really? Cell phones, music players, and cameras cost anywhere from $0 to $1000. Is $399 for a Kindle too much? If you “need” the device and will use it for its purpose, then the answer is purely a [...]
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LG Venus
LAPTOP Magazine Product Reviews (Free subscription) | 04/12/2007
A fashionable multimedia slider that gives you a taste of touch without ditching the dialpad. With its half-touchscreen display and slider form factor, the Venus by LG is like the little brother to the full-touchscreen Voyager. It's a flashy multimedia phone that will turn heads, but it costs a pretty penny. While not without its flaws--namely its key-locking mechanism--the Venus is a worthy upscale...
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Classic
The Age Blogs (Free subscription) | 04/12/2007
Xbox 360 owners can now download and play classic Xbox games like Halo, Psychonauts, Crimson Skies, Fahrenheit and Fable. Each title costs 1200 points ($20) and Microsoft says the catalogue will grow over the coming year. Today's Xbox 360 system update also added support for DivX video playback, which Gizmodo has already declared as "almost perfect" after playing a number of files off the hard drive,...
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