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Telecommunications - Software technology
Is Cisco tuning into video?
Light Reading looks into the rumors that Cisco is angling
to take "a great leap forward" in the video
server and storage business. One rumor, according to a
source, says, "Cisco has built an advanced video
server that Cisco intends to sell to cable operators and
other service providers to provide a high-powered video-on-demand
system." The article speculates that Andy Bechtolsheim,
the co-founder of Sun, is behind the effort and points
to several trademark applications he's applied for in
the past year as possible signs there's something significant
on the way.
Source: Light Reading Article
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Technology
- Personal technology
Sony shows 'crossover' video-game machine
Sony gave a sneak preview of the PSX at CEATEC Japan Tuesday
and announced its price would be $720 / €612,00. Sony needs
a hit product, says the piece, because it's fallen behind Panasonic
in DVD recorders and Sharp in flat-panel TVs. Sony CEO Nobuyuki
Idei was cautious about the PSX's prospects but called it one
of Sony's primary product offerings: ''We want to sell as much
as possible. We want to create a new genre.'' Analysts say selling
the PSX may be tough because its components have short product
cycles and that people will want to upgrade to new devices before
they're done with the PSX.
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Biotechnology - Drug R&D
Regeneron drug doesn't meet goal of Phase
II trial
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced yesterday that a mid-stage
trial for its experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug came up
short of expectations. Patients taking IL-1 Trap didn't show,
it said, a statistically significant improvement over those
that took a placebo though the trials did show that those taking
higher doses fared better. The development means the company,
which saw its stock fall more than 20% on the news, will have
to identify a more optimal dose. An analyst: "The results
of the trial still suggest that the drug is active. This is
a minor setback."
Source: Reuters |
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Vast digital health archive opens
A two-year project to digitally capture each page - a total
of 340,000 articles - and convert them into a fully searchable
database will be a boon both to medical researchers and medical
historians.
Source: The Lancet |
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Technology - Finance
Handling new market disruptions
New-market disruptions follow a remarkably consistent pattern,
regardless of the type of industry or the era when the disruption
occurred. Clayton Christensen, who coined the term 'disruptive
technology,' together with Michael Raynor of Deloitte Research,
discusses ways that established companies respond effectively
to 'new-market disruptions.
Authors: Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor
Source: News.com |
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Internet - e Mail study
He spammed, she spammed - MediaPost.com
MediaPost finds an interesting nugget of data in DoubleClick
Inc.'s fourth annual study of consumer attitudes toward email:
men and women have different ideas of what, exactly, is spam.
Men seem to take a harder line in defining spam, which could
come as a shock to marketers who stake part of their business
on so-called 'permission-based email. Even if they've done business
with a company, men are more likely than women to consider email
from that company to be spam. Sixty-five percent of men said
spam included email from a company they've done business with
'but comes too often, compared to only 55 percent of women.
When the survey factored in "permission-based e-mail"
the results were similar: 61 percent of men thought that was
spam, compared to 56 percent of women.
Source: DoubleClick |
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fourth of DoubleClick's annual consumer email studies, 2003
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Automotive - UK market survey
Recommend your car to a friend?
Would you recommend your car to a friend? UK consumer organization,
'Which?' has carried out the UK's largest reliability and satisfaction
survey…
(33,000 cars up to eight years old) and recently sent us the
results. Much of what is in the results is not all that surprising
- eg Fiat, Renault reliability problems; old Rover ranges and
Daewoos unloved; BMWs, Toyotas and Lexi (the plural of Lexus)
loved and reliable. Volkswagen gets a bit of a drubbing on reliability,
which surprised me a bit. To quote directly from the report:
'VW Golf: Recent petrol models seem to struggle on the reliability
front with an above-average number of breakdowns and faults...'
And: 'Overall, VW is poor for reliability.' And yet Skoda Octavia
(on Golf platform) has no reported reliability problems and
scores very highly on satisfaction and % of owners who would
recommend it.
Top 10 on % of owners who would recommend the model to a friend
(% in brackets): BMW X5 (92); Toyota Yaris Verso (92); Skoda
Octavia (90); Mazda MX-5 (89); Audi TT (88); Jaguar S-type (88);
Lexus IS200 (88); Mini (88); Toyota Yaris (87); Skoda Fabia
(86).
And - at the other end of the list - the roll of shame:
Ford Galaxy (49); Land Rover Freelander (49); Vauxhall Omega
(49); Fiat Punto (44); Mitsubishi Carisma (42); Rover 45 (42);
Rover 25 - some mistake here surely - (40); Peugeot 106 (38);
Citroen Xsara (37); Citroen Saxo (34)
Source: Which Consumers' Association |
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World AIDS
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World AIDS Day is the international day of action
on HIV and AIDS which takes place every year on
1 December.
Date: 1-Dec-2004
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play than it is to explain. You play as the red
diamonds, and your goal is to take over the board
by leaping into the spaces adjacent to your opponent's
watery globules.
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