Motorola, Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets related to digital cable set-top products of Zhejiang Dahua Digital Technology Co., LTD and Hangzhou Image Silicon. Dahua Digital is a privately held, developer, manufacturer, and marketer of cable set-tops and related low cost integrated circuits for the emerging Chinese cable business. Dahua Digital’s leading set-top
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Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge – was launched alongside the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile
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PandaLabs has detected the mass-mailing of messages with sensational subject fields to spread the Downloader.SQV trojan. Subjects used include two supposed earthquakes in the USA, the third divorce of Pamela Anderson or the release of the film “Jumperâ€. The email format is the same in all cases, only the subject field varies. Yet it always
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Communist party leader Demetris Christofias won presidential elections in Cyprus on Sunday and agreed immediately to meet the head of the island’s breakaway Turkish-Cypriot community to revive reunification efforts, Reuters reported. The Mediterranean island’s partition along ethnic lines is an obstacle to Turkey’s bid to join the European Union, and a source of contention between
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EU citizens and residents have selected a design, symbolizing the euro as the latest step in the long history of European economic integration, for a new euro coin that will be issued next January to commemorate ten years of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). More than 141,000 people voted in an online competition to select
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Employment growth has been impressive in the last year according to the Joint Employment Report, to be adopted by Employment Ministers on February 29. Almost 6.5 mln new jobs were created during the last two years and another 5 mln jobs are forecast by 2009. Unemployment in the EU is expected to fall to under
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Social protection reforms and active inclusion policies have visibly contributed to higher growth and more jobs in Europe over the past year. Still, more needs to be done to ensure that these benefits reach those at the margins of society and improve social cohesion, says a Commission report to be discussed by Employment and Social
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European Commission President José Manuel Barroso on Monday congratulated Demetris Christofias, after his victory in the second round of the Presidential elections in Cyprus. President Barroso said: “On behalf of the European Commission and myself, I would like to congratulate you on your election as President of the Republic of Cyprus. I very much appreciated
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has expressed hope that the renewed sense of hope in Cyprus, after Sunday’s presidential elections, would facilitate efforts to build trust and confidence between the two communities on the island. Commenting on the result of the elections, Miliband said that ”the elections in Cyprus yesterday have generated a renewed sense
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 Raj Ratna Finotec Analysis Team 25 February 2008   EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD USD/CHF Resistance 1.49551.49401.4860 108.35107.95107.75 1.97851.97401.9710 1.10451.09601.0920 Support 1.47901.47051.4610 106.35106.05105.90 1.96101.95951.9500 1.08351.08001.0730 The greenback fell against the major currencies on Friday but recovered against the Japanese Yen. Continued speculation that economic growth will slow in the US amid fears of a recession,
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