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...But ingenuity alone is not enough for sci-fi-style experiments to take root in the real world. Newness can shock, as the double-takes provoked by Google Glass show....
...Titanfall is a sci-fi shooting game for Microsoft’s Xbox consoles in a much more traditional mould....
...Despite the edgy sci-fi mood, humanity wins in the end....
...Specialist outsourcers include Hon Hai of Taiwan, Singapore-based Flextronics, Sanmina-SCI and Solectron of the US and Finland’s Elcoteq....
...The S&P removed three stocks, PMC Sierra, ADC Telecom and Sanmina-SCI - all technology companies....
...In 2002, IBM struck a similar outsourcing deal by selling its PC manufacturing operations to Sanmina-SCI, another big contract electronics manufacturer....
...A day earlier, Sanmina-SCI, the second-largest US manufacturer, reported a quarterly loss of $1.99 a share, compared to one of 9 cents a year earlier, as a result of restructuring....
...Disposals have included the $2bn sale to Hitachi of the hard disk drive division and the outsourcing of PC manufacturing in North America and Europe to Sanmina-SCI....
...Big Blue sold its PC manufacturing operations to a contract manufacturing company, Sanmina-SCI, two years ago....
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