Acer to buy small PC vendor -- but not Gateway, it says
(InfoWorld) - Acer expects to acquire a small company in the coming months to expand its PC business but has ruled out Gateway as a possibility.
Reports last month that Acer was interested in buying a rival sparked rumors that the target might be Gateway, sending its shares to a 52-week high of $2.44 on March 19, an 18 percent leap from the start of the month.
Acer declined to say who the target is but its chairman, J.T. Wang, said at an investor conference in Taipei Friday that it is "not in the United States," ruling out Gateway.
Talks are underway with the target company and Acer expects to conclude a deal in three to five months, Wang said. "It's a small case so we will not spend so much money," he added.
Wang revealed in March that Acer was looking for acquisition targets as part of its bid to overtake Lenovo Group as the world's third-biggest PC vendor. But Acer won that crown from Lenovo in the first quarter in any case, according to Gartner. Acer ended the quarter with 6.8 percent of the market, compared to Lenovo's 6.3 percent, the market researcher said.
Happiness Awaits You in Soul Meeting
Secret to fulfilling life is found in making a "guiding light" contribution. (PRWeb May 31, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/VGhpci1NYWduLUluc2UtUHJvZi1NYWduLVplcm8=
Re: Pivot in Oracle
So we can post the solution (I don't think the OP will do it) and close the thread:
SQL> with rt as 2 (select 100 APPID, 1 Options_CD from dual union all 3 select 100, 2 from dual union all 4 select 100, 3 from dual union all 5 select 200, 1 from dual union all 6 select 200, 3 from dual union all 7 select 200, 5 from dual union all 8 select 330, 1 from dual union all 9 select 330, 5 from dual) 10 select appid, 11 max(decode(Options_CD,1,'True','False')) Option1, 12 max(decode(Options_CD,2,'True','False')) Option2, 13 max(decode(Options_CD,3,'True','False')) Option3, 14 max(decode(Options_CD,4,'True','False')) Option4, 15 max(decode(Options_CD,5,'True','False')) Option5, 16 max(decode(Options_CD,6,'True','False')) Option6 17 from rt group by appid order by appid; APPID OPTIO OPTIO OPTIO OPTIO OPTIO OPTIO ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 100 True True True False False False 200 True False True False True False 330 True False False False True False
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Microsoft Sees Growth in Advertising
Microsoft continues to see revenue growth in its overall business, along with a 33 percent increase in its Online Services division, which incorporates its advertising and display ad businesses. (Read on Source)
Re: Problem In Permission
You user can't update because he exceeds his quota.
When you gave DBA you remove this limit then he can update.
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The Play "Who Lives?" Brings Actor/Director New Kidney and Life
While casting the play, actor (Flounder in "Animal House") and director Stephen Furst offered donated kidney. (PRWeb Jul 26, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/WmV0YS1UaGlyLUluc2UtU3F1YS1UaGlyLVplcm8=
HILLARY FUND-RAISING IS FOOD FOR THOUGHT
HILLARY'S nonstop Hamptons fund- raising weekend was breakfasts, brunches, lunches, munches, snacks, coffees, teas, cocktails, dinners, suppers, picnics, barbecues, indoors, outdoors, take-outs and bring-ins. She washed down Sunday's pancake and...
Fake Steve Jobs Blogger Exposed as Forbes Editor
Writer of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs adopted FSJ persona to poke fun at the growing number of CEO blogs attracting media attention.
TorrentSpy's Attorney Wants an 'Evolution' for US Copyright Law
"I'm all for copyright protection but I take issue with copyright extremism."
Much has been discussed here about TorrentSpy and its long standing fight against the MPAA, but little has been mentioned about the lawyer fighting on its behalf and his motivation for doing so.
Apparently well known for being "affordable creative and tough," Ira Rothken is no ordinary run-of-the-mill "legal eagle," and has made waves in the past by daring to take on big entertainment companies.
He's the kind of attorney that relishes "big uphill fights" a
MythTV users to regain TV guide info -- for a price
The free electronic program guide (EPG) data that Zap2it Labs currently provides to many MythTV users is scheduled to shut down on September 1. Today MythTV users learned how much a replacement service offered by Schedules Direct (SD) will cost.
'HILLS' KISS-OFF
WHILE it's no shock that MTV's hit series "The Hills" isn't pure reality, one cast member says not even the kissing is real. Lauren Conrad's best friend on the show, Audrina Partridge, told OK! magazine that her boyfriend, Justin Bobby, "has a hard...
Princeton, Philadelphia, Boston
I?ve been getting a little bit behind on my world tour trip reports, but things have been going so smoothly thanks to Liz?s heroic organization efforts that there?s not much to report!
Princeton was our smallest group so far?just 19 people, but the hotel was really nice. That afternoon we drove to Philadelphia, where we had about 55 people, including a couple of spies in the audience from our Philly-based web design firm who were there to get a sense of the kind of audience they were designing for.
I?ll interrupt this train of thought for a moment to talk a little bit about the gear I?ve been using. As I may have mentioned, my laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad X61s, extremely small and light but with a comfortable full size keyboard. If you?ve ever thought about getting a ThinkPad but worried about the eraser-head trackpoint in between the G and the H keys that these things use as a pointer, don?t be. It takes a little time to get used to, but it works much much better than the more common touchpad because (a) you don?t have to take your hands away from the home row to use the mouse and (b) you never touch it accidentally while typing, causing the cursor to jump somewhere else.
My phone these days is the Samsung Blackjack, running Windows Mobile 5. Like Windows, it?s extremely frustrating and messy and disorganized. Also like Windows, if you?re willing to hammer away at it, you can make it do some pretty amazing things. In my world, amazing includes the fact that Liz can put things on my schedule and they?ll show up on my phone via over-the-air synchronization. Another thing I?ve come to rely upon on this trip is the high speed internet access? in most of the places I?ve been, AT&T has HSDPA access, which is pretty fast. But the phone stays in my pocket? the laptop connects over bluetooth to the phone which is running Internet Connection Sharing, a little applet that AT&T has tried to hide but which is still in the Windows folder on the phone. I?ve had HSDPA access in Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Princeton, even in the Hamptons. I just take out the phone, run the internet connection sharing applet and hit ?connect,? then click on the appropriate bluetooth icon on the laptop, and, plink!, I?m on the internet at high speed.
That?s the main reason I don?t carry an iPhone ? I use this HSDPA access every day and it rocks, and it?s inevitable that the next gen iPhone will have it, so I?ll wait, kthxbye.
OK, back to the trip report. Yesterday afternoon, I stopped by the ITA Software office in Cambridge (for all intents and purposes, the only large software shop that uses Lisp) to say hi and thank them for the useful search technology behind Orbitz, which made it possible to plan this trip even with all the multi-legged trips that brought Expedia to its knees. They were nice enough to take me out to dinner, too. Thanks!
This morning in Boston we had a huge turnout? 200 people who didn?t stop asking questions. For some reason which I can?t figure out, the demo part of my speech is taking a little bit longer every time I do it. I don?t think I?m adding things; I think I?m just explaining more. Who knows. Anyway.
There?s a new branch of Wagamama in Quincy Market. Looked exactly like the last one I ate at, in Sydney. A very nice addition to the otherwise dreadful dining alternatives of Boston?s Festival Marketplace.
The hotel internet in Boston was rather congested and I was having a lot of trouble doing anything online there, which is why yesterday?s Strategy Letter had so many typos. Sorry.
Brent Ashley: ?I?ll provide some links here which will help the reader to understand how many of the points Joel makes in his essay are supported by existing technologies in various states of readiness. It?s a big pantry of ingredients that is waiting for the right chef to come along and combine them in a way that inspires the world to follow.?
Indeed countless people have already emailed me to say that ?NewSDK is here, it?s (choose one) Flex Builder, Google Web Toolkit, Java Web Start, Silverlight, JavaFX, Flash, ActionScript, MORFIK, OpenLaszlo, ? (many omitted)? Ahem. These are not HERE until your TAXI DRIVER has heard of them, because I assure you he?s heard of Microsoft Windows. Many of these technologies are developed by smart people who understand the world the way I talked about in the strategy letter, and are hoping to win the next platform war. But GWT is no more the NewSDK than Digital Research GEM, or IBM TopView, or Quarterdeck DESQView, or Concurrent DOS, or Microsoft Windows 1.0 was the OldSDK. They?re just horses at the starting gate.
I?m in Kitchener, Ontario right now, discovering that an even better predictor of a hotel I don?t really want to stay at is that it advertises that kings, queens, and presidents have stayed there. Sorry, darling, your hotel is charming, but I don?t care what your marketing materials say, if you really gave the Queen Mum these same shabby old towels as you gave me, Canada would be a republic by now.
Thursday morning is the Kitchener demo with 75 attendees; in the afternoon we?ll have an astonishing 240 people in Toronto, and then fly home. Tallyho!
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News.com Extra: New rules for machinima licenses
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Specific Cell That Causes Eye Cancer Identified, Disproving Long-held Theory
The cell that gives rise to the eye cancer retinoblastoma has now been identified, disproving a long-standing principle of nerve growth and development. The finding suggests for the first time that it may one day be possible for scientists to induce fully developed neurons to multiply and coax the injured brain to repair itself.
Work with PDF files sans Adobe Acrobat
Free programs and Web services let you create, edit, and convert PDFs, although they lack Acrobat's bells and whistles.
New Title Presents Compelling Evidence of Christianity's Claims
Author documents journey of inquiry into various religious views (PRWeb Jun 20, 2008)
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AOL is a hard sell for Time Warner
Both Microsoft and Yahoo continue to listen to ideas from Time Warner, but neither company appeared to be especially interested in AOL at this point.
RealNetworks Patches Four Critical Bugs in Multimedia Player
RealNetworks has issued four critical patches for several versions of its RealPlayer running on Windows, Linux and Apple's Mac...
Electric dreams:
Taking to the roads to test green motoring
Toxic Drugs, Toxic System: Sociologist Predicts Drug Disasters
Americans are likely to be exposed to unacceptable side effects of FDA-approved drugs such as Vioxx in the future because of fatal flaws in the way new drugs are tested and marketed, according to research to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Americans Get Rematch With Argentina - Washington Post
 Beijing 2008 | Americans Get Rematch With Argentina Washington Post - The United States got the only team it really wanted in the semifinals, the last team to defeat it on the Olympic stage. Four years ago in Athens, Argentina delivered the final salvo to a flawed US team that featured Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson, ... Big win is this team's dream Friday eye-opener: Breaking down USA-Argentina |
IGDA: Mythic 'Disrespectful' for Not Crediting Entire Warhammer Staff, Labels Policy Misleading
Not crediting the entirety of a game's development staff is "disrespectful of the effort of the game developers who worked on the game, and misleads both consumers and game industry peers," according to IGDA chairperson Jen MacLean.
The statement comes in response to word that Mythic will only credit current staff members for its upcoming PC MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, a move that excludes ex-staffers, such as one that worked on the game for three years.
"Everyone who is currently at Mythic who's worked on Warhammer is going to be in the credits," studio VP Mark Jacobs said of the policy. " And that's good enough for me."
While Mythic's policy is the latest example of improper accreditation, the IGDA affirmed that incomplete credits "are not unusual." In a recent IGDA study, 35% of respondents claimed they "don't ever" or "only so...
Police LED Lights become available Online Posted By : Chris Dallmann
We have never thought much when we see the Led Police Lights beaming on top of the cops vehicles. However, many companies have created a good business out of this niche product and even taken their business online. There are various Emergency Vehicle Lighting products. Some of these products are LED Dual, LED Quad, Linear LEDs, Tactical Flashlights and other accessories which are required for the agencies. The demands for these products are always high because of the large number of vehicles i
10 Geeky Flicks to Raise Your Kids On
In our never-ending quest to provide you the tools and knowledge to raise your kids in your own geeky image, we present you with a list of 10 geeky movies to share with your kids.
Climate: New Spin On Ocean's Role
New studies of the Southern Ocean are revealing previously unknown features of giant spinning eddies that are profoundly influencing marine life and the world's climate. These massive swirling structures -- the largest are known as gyres -- can be thousands of kilometers across and can extend down as deep as 500 meters or more, new research shows.
Meet 080908m
After a couple of weeks without rain (Goodby, Fay) looks like the rain chances increase over the next few days to a week. It's hard to believe it's moving into autumn - the summer has passed swiftly and the temperatures have remained fairly high, lower to mid 90s, though that's going to change. The Microstegium (Year Six) eradication is proceeding. (Read on Source)
Website Hosting Security Application Firm, Sophos, Launches WebAlert Solution
Abingdon Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - September 29, 2008 - Web hosting and IT security control firm, Sophos, has launched its new WebAlert service, providing website administrators with notification of malicious code.
Infected websites pose a threat to all internet users - as simply visiting the site can infect unprotected web users. It is not just small websites that suffer from such attacks. Victims in the past few months have included BusinessWeek, Yahoo! TV, British government websites, UNICEF, MySpace, Sony PlayStation, and the International Tennis Federation. The Sophos WebAlert is available at no additional change to customers of Sophos's Premium and Platinum Support services. Carole Theriault, Senior Security Consultant at Sophos explained, ''For too long it has been child's play for hackers to infect websites without the owner of the site ever being aware. Many firms have still not coded their websites correctly or taken the preventative measures necessary to stop infections like this occurring. Sophos WebAlert provides companies with visibility as to whether their websites are being attacked.''
Further information about the Sophos WebAlert application is available through a video and blog post by Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos: www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/09/22/sophos-webalert. In addition, a Podcast of Carole Theriault and Sophos principal virus researcher Fraser Howard, discusses the threat posed by web infections:
http://podcasts.sophos.com/en/sophos-podcast-032.mp3. Sophos offers security through control solutions, through a complete solution for protection and control for business, education and government organizations - defending against known and unknown malware, spyware, intrusions, unwanted applications, spam, and policy abuse, and providing comprehensive network access control (NAC). Sophos' Security and Control solutions are designed as a simple way to reduce the cost and complexity of keeping organizations threat-free. The company's portfolio of products include:
- Multiple threat protection with exceptional products
- Simple pricing and licensing, with sector discounts
- Web, email and telephone support included in all licenses
- Global visibility and cross-threat expertise from SophosLabs
With 20 years' experience and consolidated anti-malware, antispam, and policy enforcement expertise, Sophos provides proactive, effective protection against security threats and unauthorized network access, while giving system administrators the security and control they need. Matched by business-focused, 24/7 technical support, we respond rapidly to both known and unknown threats, no matter how complex they are. Sophos has offices worldwide and our products are sold through a network of subsidiaries and partners.
To learn more, please visit: www.sophos.com.
Clock Quotes
It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache. - Dr. Frank N. Furter Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)
UK ambitions in space 'at risk'
Scientists and engineers fear the UK is about to turn its back on Kopernikus, one of Europe's flagship space projects.
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