Hints and tips:
...The Soviet cosmonauts initially used pencils — before purchasing Paul C Fisher’s pens themselves in 1969....
...This would be a tipping point for US-China relations,” said Paul Triolo, head of tech policy analysis at consultancy Eurasia Group....
...We’ll be watching closely to see whether this generation of Spacs does better than its predecessors. 3....
...Weakened demand induced price-cutting pressure, which was exacerbated by rising production from Chinese component makers in the second half of last year, according to AUO chairman Paul Peng....
...A second quantum property these machines draw on is entanglement: two quantum bits can influence each other, even when they aren’t physically connected, something Albert Einstein called “spooky action at...
...But as Paul Dacre rightly said the other day: the press should have the freedom to get it right and the freedom to get it wrong....
...Separate defects have since emerged in the welding of steel pipes at the French plant....
...Second, what are the economics of these extraordinary valuations? The answer must be monopoly....
...And despite its denial of any such plans, some analysts still think Samsung Electronics might take over Lee Jae-yong’s second-biggest holding, Samsung SDS....
...Unusually among his generation of technology entrepreneurs, Gates opted to quit the company he founded and start a second career, leaving Microsoft at 52 to focus on philanthropy....
...On that theme, The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee is an obvious must-read....
...A second front has involved the predictive technology for anticipating what a user will want to know next....
...A visit to Ford’s bodyshop complex in Dearborn, Michigan, shows how much of a gamble the company has taken: it has had to replace its arc welding equipment with machines to screw, rivet, glue and laser-weld...
...Conversely, companies such as Looxcie and V.I.O. are offering wearable video cameras designed to capture real-time point-of-view video clips....
...Jean-Paul Sartre was not alone in his perception, although he put it more boldly than most....
...to join Control Data Corporation....
...It may fall to another generation to guide TPG into the next era....
...machines....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Surveying the equipment in the average corporate data centre has been likened to undertaking an archeological ‘dig’ with each layer of technology built on top of an earlier generation resulting in inefficiencies...
...Most will be available in the next month or so – somewhat sooner than the expected launch date of Apple’s second-generation iPad. paul.taylor@ft.com...
...Copyright 2010, Forrester Research, Inc....
...The US machine tool industry has already largely been lost to other countries....
...Meanwhile, IT departments are buying new-generation servers with more powerful processors that can do the work of 20 older servers....
...Now the signs are beginning to emerge that his turnround strategy for the corporation is working....
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