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Olympus may be the target of Samsung, Sony, Fujifilm and Panasonic, but that doesn't mean it is doing that well for itself.
In fact, the Japanese company has reported highly unfavorable financial results for the year 2011.
Even with strong camera sales (up 7.2 percent on year), and the top BCN ranking for 20... |
13 February 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Green technologies developed to help people cope with natural disasters don't have to be advanced or expensive to provide satisfactory results.
This theory is confirmed by the Environment Agency (EA), using abandoned Christmas trees to come up with an eco-friendly method of reducing flood impact.
The 's... |
3 January 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Climate change will trigger long-term damaging effects, different for every region, according to a recent study issued by the Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. The organization tried to forecast how 24 would be affected by global warming by 2100, unless governments find appropriate... |
6 December 2011
11:06 GMT |
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People may or may not be getting fed up with the constant laments regarding the HDD market, but something so disruptive is bound to get media coverage, so here it is again, another report on the matter.
This time, we aren't saying that HDDs got even more expensive than before. We already saw the 'official... |
28 November 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Having decided to stay in the PC market, HP is subject to the same issues as all others of this cohort, namely component shortages, more precisely the troubles on the HDD market.
Hard disk drives used to be runner ups for our recommendation on what to buy this Christmas, but then they went short.
The flooding in T... |
22 November 2011
09:08 GMT |
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The impending HDD shortage has already caused some disruption worldwide, but Nidec is back online, which means that motors, at least, won't be too big a problem anymore. If people don't know of Nidec very well, it's because, instead of being an HDD supplier or inventor, it makes HDD parts, which mea... |
8 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Since the hard drive shortage has been making the news almost constantly, it was obvious that it would start to affect other fields, in this case that of personal computers. There is a significant chance that PCs will be in short supply this December, as well as during the first three months of next year (2012). ... |
7 November 2011
05:16 GMT |
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The whole Thailand issue may have sparked fears somewhat higher than necessary, so Western Digital stepped up to the microphone and clearly said it hadn't actually stopped shipping hard disk drives.
By now, people keeping track of all the problems hammering at the hard disk drive market will know about the flo... |
4 November 2011
18:01 GMT |
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We already mentioned, repeatedly, that the hard disk drive market was about to smash into a wall, so to speak, and now we have some actual estimates of how badly prices and sales will suffer.
Though it won't be enough to make people switch to SSDs, selling prices of HDDs will go up by 10% before 2011 is over. ... |
3 November 2011
05:37 GMT |
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The Thailand floods have been making the news lately, the consequences extending to the IT sector as much as anywhere else, but Microchip, for one, is not suffering too much.
Indeed, while Western Digital and Seagate, directly or indirectly, have to face the prospect of product and component shortages, Microchip ... |
29 October 2011
06:15 GMT |
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Since AMD recently had a financial call with analysts, it decided to say a few things about things not directly related to its business, like the the possible HDD shortage.
To provide some context, Thailand has been suffering from severe flooding which, in addition to claiming lives, severely disrupted any and all ... |
28 October 2011
07:36 GMT |
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Researchers managed to find out how plants manage to adapt themselves to low oxygen levels. They are now able to detect the mechanism that would make crops flood-resistant. This could represent a key element in fighting global poverty since entire populations are left to starve after devastating floods damage the re... |
25 October 2011
10:58 GMT |
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Seagate may have said that its operations weren't disrupted overmuch by the floods in Thailand, but it looks like it has its own share of problems which, added to all other HDD woes, may be problematic in the near to mid term.Seagate has two Thailand facilities, which make head stack assemblies, head gimbal ass... |
22 October 2011
07:16 GMT |
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It looks like this year is going through its second phase of natural disaster-induced economic upheaval, though at least this once the effects will be restricted to just one IT field instead of the whole world's economy. Though not as bad as the disaster that shook Japan back in March, certainly not as deadly,... |
19 October 2011
05:05 GMT |
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After WD said it had to shut down pretty much every one of its operations in Thailand, Seagate is facing unfortunate prospects as well, since it has its own facilities there. Thailand has been suffering from bad flooding for a while already, with extensive consequences, albeit perhaps not quite as horrible as those... |
14 October 2011
15:55 GMT |
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Those who learned of the severe floods that hit Thailand will have deduced that the consequences are going to be quite widespread, and Western Digital is, apparently, feeling them already.
People may have read about how severe floods hit Thailand, affecting or outright destroying the lives of millions of people. ... |
12 October 2011
10:46 GMT |
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343 Industries and Microsoft have announced that they are planning to deliver more content for the Halo brand as the ten years anniversary of the first title in the series is drawing near, although neither of the two companies offered any information about a new video games set in the universe.Halo Waypoint is the fi... |
14 April 2011
05:44 GMT |
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The devastation that Brazil suffered with the latest floods and mudslides has caused billions of dollars in damages and claimed the lives of an estimated 100, with 19 still missing, authorities reported yesterday. As some people had nothing to eat or drink for 4 days or even more, looting is a spreading phenomenon th... |
27 November 2008
03:43 GMT |
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon argued the necessity of sustained international efforts towards averting global warming, especially now, when the state of the world economy is in a pretty rough shape and most governments are too concerned with their own problems to care about what's happening with t... |
4 November 2008
03:59 GMT |
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You could be forgiven for caring less about Ensemble's last project ever, Halo Wars. After all, Halo 3: Recon, a new campaign for the Xbox 360 blockbuster, has just been announced, and it is produced by the grandfathers of the Halo franchise, the people at Bungie, so it's bound to be a great experience. Me... |
17 October 2008
04:58 GMT |
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The Glen Canyon Dam situated in northern Arizona, on the course of Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon, is one of the biggest artificial water accumulations, with the role of generating electric energy and supplying the population with precious water during severe droughts which may eventually hit the sur... |
6 March 2008
10:12 GMT |
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WORM_RBOT.HBZ is the latest threat spotted in the wild that targets the Windows systems and attempts to drop its files on most versions of the Microsoft operating system including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003. The worm was discovered by security company Trend Micro, which wrote that it could easily reach your... |
28 December 2007
04:24 GMT |
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The Biblical flood seems to have turned Europeans from Stone Age hunter-gatherers into farmers. 'Noah's Flood' originated in a real event that took place millennia ago: the flooding of the Black Sea, an inland sea wedged between Europe and Asia, caused by the rising of the ocean levels (and of the Medi... |
21 November 2007
04:50 GMT |
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Following the recent flood from UK, the local Internet users found a simple way to keep the residents of the country up to date with the latest weather information: a Google Maps mashup that shows every location to be hit by water. As usual, the map is created with the recently released My Maps implemented into the G... |
25 July 2007
09:47 GMT |
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Why does the world have to stand the British insular arrogance? Because of a biblical megaflood that cut the British Isles off from mainland Europe during the Ice Age. 3-D sonar mapping of the English Channel has shown that this must have occurred somewhere between 450,000 and 200,000 years ago. "It is probably one o... |
19 July 2007
05:39 GMT |
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From African explorers to the Tarzan's adventures, we have heard about the mysterious elephants' graveyards. Now, researchers have revealed an Ice Age graveyard of the Ice Age's elephants: mammoths. The fossils, some of them complete skeletons of Mammuthus columbi, the Columbian mammoth, were stored i... |
8 May 2007
14:22 GMT |
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