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Best Buy Sales Down Due to "Rapid, Seismic Changes"

The CE retail giant Tuesday reported that its total comparable store sales declined by around 7.6 percent in the month of October, after they also fell in September. As a result, the company said, it will cut its guidance for the fiscal year.

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New steel created for fusion project

U.S. scientists say they've created a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels.

Scared but Still Got Amazon- or Google-Envy? See Cassatt

Cassatt, the company started by BEA founder Bill Coleman, is redirecting its data center widgetry into creating internal clouds comparable to Amazon or Google out of infrastructure customers already have in-house.

Macys, Best Buy: Consumer Spending Continues to Decline

On Wednesday, Macy’s (M) reported a $44 million loss in the third quarter on a 6% decline in comparable sales. While the comps result was slightly better than its competitors like J.C. Penney (JCP) and Kohl’s (KOL), somehow, Macy’s still felt it could reiterate its previous guidance for $1.10 to $1.30 EPS in the fourth quarter. But here’s the kicker: The company stated that previous guidance would hold so long as “consumer spending doesn’t deteriorate further in fourth quarter (from the third)�.

Cloud Computing Will See Developers Soar to New Heights

As cloud computing takes over, say experts, the role and attitudes of software developers will change, and choosing programming languages will become "comparable to choosing a religion." (Like it's not already?)

Barnes & Noble squeezes 2% increase from third quarter web sales

Barnes & Noble Inc. reported third quarter web sales at BN.com of $109 million, up by about 2% from $106 million in the prior year quarter. Comparable store sales were down 7.4% for Q3 2008.

Scientists Develop High-performance Steel for Possible Use in ITER Fusion Project

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL, have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge shield modules required by the ITER fusion device.

High-performance Steel For Possible Use In ITER Fusion Project Developed

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL, have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge shield modules required by the ITER fusion device.

ORNL scientists develop high-performance steel for possible use in ITER fusion project

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 24, 2008 – Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL, have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge shield modules required by the ITER fusion device.

Tesco cut at SocGen, weakening U.K. volumes cited

to sell from hold, saying the U.K. supermarket giant faces a weakening grocery market at home, with the ebb tide of inflation set to reveal poor underlying volume. Now that food price inflation is set to drop markedly, SocGen analysts said Tesco's next U.K. comparable sales' announcements are likely to be sharply down. The broker also highlighted "brewing problems" for the supermarket's overseas businesses including exposure to foreign mortgage debt in Poland, austerity measures in Hungary and a likely fall in consumer spending in South Korea in response to a slowing export-driven economy. End of Story

Latin America: High Time for Fixed, Mobile Integrated to Converge on Rio de Janeiro

14 August 2008 - Now dubbed 'Americas Com', Informa Telecoms & Media ran the conference successfully as 'GSM Americas' for 12 years, working to gather delegates from all over South and Central America for two days of networking and the opportunity to benchmark strategies and technology choices with colleagues from comparable markets. These delegates were drawn from mainly mobile operators, as well as their suppliers and partners.

Japan embraces long term future for mobile broadband

Fujitsu and Nokia Siemens Networks have agreed to cooperate on jointly developing the Service Architecture Evolution (SAE) Gateway for the Super 3G project’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) core. Thus, NTT DOCOMO is on track to be among the world’s first operators to introduce the groundbreaking LTE technology for wireless online experience comparable to today’s fixed broadband.

The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill's Analytical System Receives Patent Notice of Allowance

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill (Grow) announced today that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a series of patent claims that include Grow's proprietary system for analyzing student assessment data. This analytical system provides educators, parents, and students with understandable and comparable topic-level scores, thus illuminating each student's academic strengths and needs and transforming assessments into effective tools for teaching and learning. Grow has implemented this analytical system in many large educational programs, including statewide implementations in Texas, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, and district-wide implementations in New York City and Chicago.

The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill's Analytical System Receives Patent Notice of Allowance

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill (Grow) announced today that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a series of patent claims that include Grow's proprietary system for analyzing student assessment data. This analytical system provides educators, parents, and students with understandable and comparable topic-level scores, thus illuminating each student's academic strengths and needs and transforming assessments into effective tools for teaching and learning.

Earnings: Rogers Profits Up 84 Percent On Strong iPhone Sales

imageAT&T isn’t the only carrier shining in the afterglow of the iPhone. Canada’s Rogers reported an 84 percent jump in profits, thanks largely to strong iPhone sales and subscriber growth. The company sold about 255,000 iPhone 3Gs during the last quarter and about half of them were sold to new subscribers. Although the carrier is selling the device at a comparable price point, Rogers’ earnings aren’t being affected by iPhone subsidies as much as they are at AT&T (NYSE: T). That’s not to say it isn’t impacting the bottom line: “The high upfront costs associated with adding iPhone subscribers so rapidly is an investment made to obtain customers with significantly higher than average revenue per user� for years to come, the company said.

Apple's Boot Camp: Macs Do Windows

Apple's switch to Intel CPUs for its new desktops and laptops brought up a fascinating question: Could the Intel-based Macs run Windows operating systems and software natively? The almost instant answer was yes. After OnMac.net gave a nearly $14,000 prize to the first person to prove it was possible, subsequent stories indicated that Intel-based Macs could run some Windows software even faster than comparable PCs. But Windows-on-Mac was still firmly in the experimental realm.

Activision Blizzard Announces September Quarter Results

For the quarter ended September 30, 2008, Activision Blizzard's GAAP net revenues were $711 million. Excluding the impact of change in deferred net revenues ($12 million) and net revenues from Activision Blizzard's non-core exit operations ($6 million), the company's non-GAAP net revenues were $717 million. Including Activision's stand-alone net revenues of $53 million for July 1 - July 9, 2008, the company's non-GAAP comparable-basis net revenues were $770 million. The company's prior non-GAAP net revenue outlook was $620 million.

A Binary XML for Scientific Applications

XML provides flexible, extensible data models and type systems for structured data, and has found wide-acceptance in many domains. XML processing can be slow, however, especially for scientific data, thus leading to the conventional wisdom that XML is not appropriate for such data. Instead, data is stored in specialized binary formats, and is transmitted via work-arounds such as attachments and base64 encoding. This paper presents a binary XML format and implementation for scientific data called Binary XML for Scientific Applications (BXSA). They show that performance is comparable to that of commonly used scientific data formats such as netCDF.

Giving Thanks to Linux and Open Source

"No matter what Linux distribution or Open Source-based OS you use, be it Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, OpenSolaris, RHEL/CentOS, The BSDs, Mac OS X, or any myriad of others, absolutely none of this would be possible without the determined and often thankless work of thousands upon thousands of programmers. Recently, a study undertaken by the Linux Foundation determined that Fedora was valued at about 10 billion dollars in terms of real world development cost if the labor hours were translated into actual greenbacks spent for a comparable closed source product. I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate -- it could very well be much higher than that, since this estimate is not including all the years and years of work that went into the entire stack prior to Red Hat's involvement, and is a strictly by the numbers estimation based on lin

GameStop Bucks Weak Retail Trend

reported a 5% increase in third-quarter revenues over the prior-year quarter, with strong sales of used video game software offsetting a decline in sales of new video game consoles and accessories. Management indicated that overseas sales were weaker than expected, and the firm resorted to cost-cutting measures to maintain operating profitability. The shift in revenue mix toward higher-margin used video game software resulted in gross margins climbing 2 percentage points over the year-ago period, to about 28%. Despite this, operating margins declined half a percentage point from the comparable period, to 5.5%, as GameStop's European business generated an operating loss in the quarter.

Meridian Interstate Bancorp, Inc., Reports Results for the Three and Nine Months Ended

BOSTON, Oct. 28, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Meridian Interstate Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company" or "Meridian") (Nasdaq:EBSB), the holding company for East Boston Savings Bank, (the "Bank"), announced net income of $2.1 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2008, compared to a net loss of $303,000 for the quarter ended September 30, 2007. Net income per basic and diluted share for the third quarter of 2008 was $.10. The Company recorded a net pre-tax gain on sale of securities of $2.8 million for the 2008 third quarter, compared to a pre-tax loss on sale of securities of $860,000 during the comparable 2007 period.

It's Official, Australia Needs a Space Agency

Dante_J writes "In the final report published by the Australian Senate inquiry into 'The Current State of Australia's Space Science & Industry Sector' entitled 'Lost in Space? Setting a new direction for Australia's space science and industry sector,' it calls for the formation of a 'Space Industry Advisory Council' to oversee the creation of a fully-fledged Australian Space Agency. Of the top 20 GDP nations, Australia is the only one without a Space Agency, which impacts on many aspects of ordinary life, not to mention Research and Engineering endeavors. Every satellite operated by Australia is owned by another party and the costs of this alone are comparable to that of a Space Agency. The report is a tidy piece that drew upon submissions form Andy Thomas, and an impressive collection of Australian Academics and Space Science entities fr

iPhone ranks high in satisfaction

A report on smartphone satisfaction ranked Apple’s iPhone as having the highest customer satisfaction. Released today by J.D. Power and Associates, the report measured five factors when it came to customer satisfaction, ranging from ease-of-use to battery life. On a 1,000-point scale, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) received 778 points; Blackberry receive 703 points and Samsung received 701 points. Although satisfaction ranked high, the study still said one-fourth of users report having to reboot the device when it freezes and issues related to touch screen problems. Rather than thinking this is a runaway victory for Apple, it’s worth pointing out that they are all grouped together at a fairly comparable level that leaves plenty of room for improvement.

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