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The 25 most dangerous places for offshore outsourcing
Are you thinking about outsourcing your company’s back-room work to companies in Bogota, Bangkok, or Johannesburg? Think again; here is a list of the 25 worst outsourcing cities
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U.K. pushes data infrastructure protection
U.K. government announces £6 million of research funding in the field of data infrastructure protection; application deadline is 23 April
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Thales issues strong results for 2008
Company showing revenues of €12.7 billion (£11.3 billion), an order intake of €14.3 billion, and projected growth of between 3 and five percent in 2009
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New software allows laptops to talk back boldly to laptop thieves
Your laptop has been stolen? New software allows you to tell those thieves exactly — and when we say exactly, we mean exactly — what you think of them; software also helps police locate the stolen computer
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Salmonella contamination found at Texas peanut plant
Salmonella found in ground peanuts in a Plainview, Texas plant which received peanuts from the now-bankrupt Georgia peanut processing company; contaminated products from the Plainview company were found in Colorado
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Banking card readers inherently insecure
Hand-held bank card readers were designed to thwart online banking fraud, but cost-saving measures have resulted in design compromises that have left customers open to risk of fraud
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France will help Italy revive nuclear power industry
Nicolas Sarkozy and Silvio Berlusconi sign an agreement which will see the Italian power company, ENEL, and its French counterpart, EDF, study the feasibility of building four power stations in Italy
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More and more nations are food-insecure
Globalization, life style changes, and fierce competition among food producers make developing nations food-insecure; “Epidemics are a disastrous but unavoidable consequence that we can only hope to limit,” one expert says
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Northrop Grumman in joint development deal with UAE's Tawazun
Northrop Grumman signs a deal with Tawazun Holding collaborate on a variety of defense projects and identify viable business opportunities
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Strong future for independent research
Despite the current economic downturn, independent research organizations remain optimistic; many areas of research and development — chief among them energy security, energy conversion, and defense — already see bipartisan support for increased funding
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New facial, gait recognition software to be integrated in CCTVs
BAE Systems and OmniPerception work on developing a gait and facial behavior recognition to be integrated into street corner CCTVs; it will make identifying known criminals easier
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Northrop Grumman is attractive
Northrop Grumman is in a good position, as they really only need to perform as “average” to deserve a higher stock price appreciation; as the worst performing of the “big” defense contractors in 2008, it should be the year for a turnaround at Northrop
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BIO-key reports profitability for Q4, full year 2008
Total revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ending 31 December 2008 was $3.9 million, representing an increase of 47 percent from the $2.6 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2007
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PerSay in strategic partnership with INS Indriya in Singapore
A leading voice recognition biometrics partners with a Singaporean technology consulting firm; voice recognition is slowly spreading in both e-commerce and in intelligence and law enforcement
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BAE Systems shows robust 2008 financial results
Europe’s largest defense contractor sees profits for 2008 rise by 93 percent to £1.7 billion from £901 million a year earlier; sales were up 18 percent to £18.5 billion, and full-year earnings before interest, tax, and amortization rose to £1.9 billion — a 30.9 percent increase on the previous year.
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The long view
Not Just Beijing’s Doing: Market Factors Are Also Hitting Rare Earths Prices
Have depressed rare earths prices been engineered by the Chinese state to snuff out non-Chinese rivals before they get going? Or do they simply reflect a weak market, with demand rising more slowly than was expected by the promotors of a slew of new projects?
Emerging Threats to the U.S. Financial System
In early 2021, a freewheeling, freethinking group of investors on Reddit plowed their money into GameStop, a video game retailer that several big hedge funds had bet against. The stock price shot up, some people made millions—and, to the delight of those on Reddit, the hedge funds had some very bad days. Researchers saw the GameStop story as a cautionary tale. If investors on Reddit could work together to move the markets like that, what could an adversary like China do?