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| Guy Hands aims to snuff out excesses that cost EMI £100m a year |
29 November 2007 |
| Guy Hands, the new chairman of EMI, has told potential investors that the
company’s former management, led by Eric Nicoli, wasted millions of pounds
on corporate excesses that included use of a Mayfair property worth £5.6
million, the retention of highly paid consultants and extravagant spending
on candles and flowers. |
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| Fire service 'could face charges' |
28 November 2007 |
| A fire service could be charged with corporate manslaughter over the deaths of four firefighters, police say. |
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| Micron unveils first solid state drive offerings |
28 November 2007 |
| Micron Technology plunged headfirst into the nascent solid state drive marketplace Wednesday with the unveiling of its RealSSD family of storage devices.The RealSSD portfolio features serial ATA II-enabled 1.8-in. and 2.5-in. solid state drives in 32GB and 64GB capacities. Early next year, the company will start mass producing the drives, which are currently being "sampled," said Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Boise, Idaho-based Micron.Micron's RealSSD drives, noted Klein, require less than 2 watts of power during active mode and are about 50 percent lighter than hard disk drives of similar capacities. The devices do not require a SATA bridge chip but rather rely on a single-chip controller (optimized for four-channel control of NAND flash) directly targeting the solid state drive application, he added.The new RealSSD line also includes the Embedded USB and Module products. The RealSSD Embedded USB can be plugged into a PC or blade server system to provide operating system storage and boot capabilities via a USB 2.0 interface. The RealSSD Module is a SATA-enabled solid state drive for server-based applications that measures 25mm high by 133.5mm long and less than 4mm thick.Klein acknowledged that adoption of solid state drives for corporate users has been very slow, mostly because of the technology's high price tag. However, he predicted that declining prices of NAND flash technology and the inevitable development of applications for solid state systems will accelerate demand."Technology is going to make [solid state] real. The cost of the NAND components will be a large determining factor in terms of acceptance," said Klein. "Even if we could bring speed of light performance to these devices, there's a lot of applications that still won't take them because the cost is too high or the density isn't high enough."Of the many first-generation solid state drive devices currently available, Klein remarked, "benchmarks have proven them to be fairly lame in terms of performance." Going a step further, he panned BitMicro Networks' 1.6TB solid state drive unveiled this month as a "pricey piece of art." Samsung Electronics and SanDisk are considered two established leaders currently providing solid state drive offerings, analysts noted.Although initially focused on providing solid state drives for the notebook audience -- a natural fit, said Klein, because solid state is lightweight, and offers power savings and a small size -- Micron does have interest in examining larger-capacity solid state products for the desktop and enterprise industry.Jeff Janukowicz, an analyst at IDC, said his IT research firm has forecast that demand for solid state technology will "substantially" increase over the next few years. An IDC report released in July predicted that sales of solid state drives will grow from $373 million in 2006 to a total of $5.4 billion in 2011.While notebook computing will fuel solid state adoption, Janukowicz said he expects the need for improved performance and specialized applications in servers, blade servers, and enterprise storage systems to attract growing solid state interest over time.Janukowicz said Micron's decision to debut an entire family of solid state products with RealSSD and its established NAND and flash memory expertise could prove to be a key differentiator with OEMs. But much work still needs to be done, he noted."Micron needs to work well with PC OEMs that deliver solutions acceptable for the PC market," he said. "The challenge there is [a traditional] usage model of using hard disks in notebook PCs. There is a bit of education process in terms of using solid state disks as primary storage in network computing that needs to take place."Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate |
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| How Do You Tell a Web Name From A Typo? |
28 November 2007 |
| Among the many things the Internet has added recently to contemporary life, there is this: Many grown-ups now sound like babbling toddlers when speaking about the digital world -- because many corporate names now have the ring of a collection of Dr. Seuss characters. |
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| Adwatch: Edwards on 'Corrupt' Washington |
26 November 2007 |
| -- TITLE: "Mess." "Born." LENGTH: 30 seconds. AIRING: "Mess" in Iowa. "Born" in South Carolina. SCRIPT "Born": Edwards: "My dad worked in the mills. When I was born he had to borrow $50 to bring me home here. When the mills closed, I saw first hand how devastating bad government and corporate gre... |
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| A Gap in Knowledge About Kids, Medication |
23 November 2007 |
| A decade after the government began trying to ensure that prescription drugs used to treat children work and are safe, doctors still have scant information to guide them when they administer many medications to kids. |
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| SEC Opens Investigation of Company Headed by Key Supporter of Clintons |
22 November 2007 |
| The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation into InfoUSA, a Nebraska company that used corporate funds to fly Hillary Rodham Clinton around the country, and one of only two companies to put Bill Clinton on its payroll after he left the White House. |
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| An insider's guide to the upcoming week |
19 November 2007 |
| President Bush will kick off Thanksgiving week festivities by traveling today to what is billed as "Virginia's most historic plantation," the Berkeley Plantation in Charles City, the site of the first Thanksgiving celebration on record. |
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