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Wall Street Starts Day With a Modest Push Higher

by Erik on June 16, 2009

in Economy,Recession,Stock Market

Wall Street opened modestly higher on Tuesday after investors took in a couple of better-than-expected economic reports. The Dow Jones industrial average was about 17 points higher in early trading, with the broader Standard & Poor’s and the technology heavy Nasdaq up only a few points. On Monday, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fell [...]

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Housing starts rise in May

by Erik on June 16, 2009

in Economy,Markets,Recession

Builders take out more permits to build than expected; still trail prior years badly. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The nation’s builders boosted their production in May, starting new housing units at an annualized rate of 532,000, up 17.2% from the revised estimate of 454,000 in April. The data release, a monthly report from the Census [...]

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The Bar Code Is Taking a Leap Forward

by Erik on June 9, 2009

in Barcodes,New Tech,Retail,RFID

LOOK closely at recent supermarket coupons, and you may see some markings on them near the traditional bar code: sets of neat black bars stacked in two rows. The new symbols, called GS1 DataBars, can store more data than traditional bar codes, promising new ways for stores to monitor inventory and for customers to save [...]

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Sun Shareholders Will Vote on Oracle Deal on July 16

by Erik on June 8, 2009

in Open Source,Oracle

Sun Microsystems has scheduled a special shareholders meeting for July 16 for a vote on whether to accept Oracle’s US$7.4 billion proposal to buy the company. Sun’s board has unanimously recommended the transaction go through. The industry has been abuzz with speculation about how Oracle, which made its bid in April, will handle Sun’s assets [...]

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T-Mobile Investigates Alleged Data Breach

by Erik on June 8, 2009

in Corporate Security,Information

T-Mobile is investigating a claim that a massive amount of internal data has been stolen from the telecommunication operator’s servers, a company spokesman said Monday. On Saturday, a message about T-Mobile was posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list by people who wrote they’d unsuccessfully tried to sell the data to T-Mobile’s competitors. They wrote [...]

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