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2008-11-15 22:40:49| The Economic Times
A day after landing India's first probe instrument on the surface of the moon, the ISRO getting ready to activate eight other scientific instruments on board the country's first unmanned lunar spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1.
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2008-11-15 10:00:52| ETF Trends
Yet another example of how diversification can help an exchange traded fund (ETF) portfolio from getting hit rather than completely drained is evidenced in the transportation sector. Diversification across an economic segment lessened the negative impact on portfolios by taking the route of a broad...
2008-11-15 00:02:00| Engadget
Filed under: LaptopsIt seemed earlier this week that AMD's new Conesus chips would take on Intel's dominant Atom platform in the netbook market, but it sounds like that was just wishful thinking -- according to CEO Dirk Meyer, the chipmaker is "ignoring the netbook platform" in favor machines "above that form factor." AMD says that it's seeing high return rates on netbooks, a phenomenon it's chalking up to an unsatisfactory user experience on smaller machines. Of course, that doesn't quite jive with the sales numbers being posted by Acer, ASUS, and HP -- and although return rates are indeed higher for Linux machines than for XP, we're puzzled as to why AMD cares about anything other than raw chip sales to OEMs, since we were under the impression that that's how AMD makes money. Of course, really smart companies don't just sell what people want, they convince people to want what they sell, and that seems to be AMD's tactic: it says that the higher-powered, dual-core Conesus with ATI RS780M graphics will deliver a full-featured user experience that more people will spring for, even if it's in a slightly larger package. We'll see if this strategy plays in the market -- while we'd love to see a machine like the Inspiron Mini 12 with some real horsepower in it, it's hard to argue with a $280 Atom-based Eee.AMD says it's "ignoring" netbooks, will focus on ultraportables originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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2008-11-14 22:43:33| The Economic Times
The government on Friday announced twin export benefits for the distressed steel and cement industries by way of duty refund and incentives for shipments to third-world countries
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2008-11-14 07:48:03| FXstreet.com The Foreign Exchange Market
Earnings Estimates Continue to Decline Remember that capitalism made the U.S. the greatest country on the planet. Of course, that was when our growth came from consumers' savings providing the funds for productive investment. Unfortunately that formula for success changed in the last couple of decades. Under the new paradigm we tried to maintain our superior growth with consumers' no longer saving, but instead, using credit and funds raised from soaring asset values to maintain and improve
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