Posts Tagged ‘Start Ups’

Samsung signs RealD in nascent 3D TV market

Technology.am (Jan 04, 2010) — Samsung Electronics has announced a joint venture to utilize RealD’s 3D display technology in its TVs, a move that could assist to widen RealD’s business from theaters today to the home tomorrow.
“Together, we are dedicated to enhancing the TV viewing experience with the finest that 3D technology can offer including [...]

Infosys launches a center in Brazil

Technology.am (Dec 15, 2009) — India’s second-largest software services exporter, Infosys Technologies, has announced the opening of a completely owned subsidiary in Brazil.
The first development center of the subsidiary situated in Belo Horizonte, the third largest metropolitan region in Brazil after Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, will present Infosys’ absolute group of services to [...]

Seagate enters solid-state drive market

Technology.am (Dec. 08, 2009) — Seagate is making a delayed although potentially market-changing entry into the solid-state drives marketplace. Solid-state drives are usually quicker than hard-disk drives, predominantly at retrieving data, and have won restricted approval in the laptop market. Seagate, though, is targeting the more profitable and potentially larger server market and will contend [...]

Google sues over suspected work-at-home scams

Technology.am (Dec. 08, 2009) — Google is taking authorized action to end companies from supposedly using the search giant’s name to trap public into paying for supposed work-at-home kits advertised online and in e-mails.
The company filed a court case on Monday in federal court in Salt Lake City in opposition to Pacific WebWorks and other, [...]

Hewlett-Packard to employ sales personnel

Technology.am (Dec. 08, 2009) — Hewlett-Packard plans to improve its sales force to carry on winning clients and gets better the way it pitches computers and associated services to corporations, Executive Vice President Ann Livermore said.
The company will employ from services firms and in addition aim chief information officers with sales skills, Livermore said in [...]

Amazon to launch physical store in UK

Technology.am (Dec. 07, 2009) — With Best Buy opening and launching its physical stores in the UK shortly, could the Amazon online giant get set to open up a store too; is it setting up a walk-in store too? All this can sound pretty foolish to us, taking into consideration it’s doing so well by [...]

Dream-enacting behavior is widespread in hale and hearty young adults

Technology.am (Dec. 05, 2009) — A latest study in the journal Sleep shows that dream-enacting behaviors are widespread in hale and hearty young adults, and the occurrence of precise behaviors differs among men and women.
Results point out that 98 percent of subjects (486/495) reported experiencing one of seven subtypes of dream-enacting behavior as a minimum [...]

Lord & Taylor forbid Raccoon Dog Fur from all its 46 Retail Stores in the US

Technology.am (Dec. 03, 2009) — The Humane Society of the United States and retailer Lord & Taylor have reached an agreement in a court case filed previous year alleging that a number of of the nation’s leading department stores and fashion designers have frequently affianced in bogus promotion and mislabeling of fur garments. Pursuant to [...]

Delayed cancer diagnosis ‘kills equal to 10,000 yearly

Technology.am (Nov. 30, 2009) — About 10,000 people die of cancer annually due to delayed diagnoses, according to the government’s cancer tsar. The number is two times the earlier approximate for avertable deaths. Prof Mike Richards revised his estimation after studying the three deadliest forms of the ailment – lung, bowel and breast cancer.
“These delays [...]

Kraken becomes first academic System to achieve one Petaflop

Technology.am (Oct. 9, 2009) –The National Institute for Computational Sciences’ (NICS’s) Cray XT5 supercomputer—Kraken—has been upgraded to become the first academic system to surpass a thousand trillion calculations a second, or one petaflop.
This landmark achievement will greatly accelerate science and place Kraken among the top five computers in the world.
It is managed [...]