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Marc Webb, who is the director of The Amazing Spider-Man, has played down comparisons from Sam Raimi’s series. He claims that his movie is not inspired by the previous three releases which were made by director Sam Raimi and admitted that his take will be a totally new one. He added that the movie has […]
Freddie Roach thinks Miguel Cotto has a good chance of beating Floyd Mayweather Freddie Roach, who is the trainer of eight-division world champion and the current WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, believes Miguel Cotto has a good chance of becoming the first man to beat Floyd Mayweather Jnr in the ring. The 31-year-old Puerto Rican […]
Death toll increases resulting from the intake of contaminated drugs The unremitting increase in the death toll resulting from the intake of contaminated drugs provided by Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) exposes the bad governance and incompetency of Punjab government and Health Department. Officially 107 and unofficially more than 130 people have been died in […]
Vidya Balan is the most desirable woman for Jacqueline Fernandez The Sri Lankan beauty queen, Jacqueline Fernandez, who won the Miss Sri Lanka Universe in 2006, is the 7th most desirable women as per the ITIMES’ POLL of ‘Most Desirable’ women of 2011. However, when the 26-year-old model was asked about who she thinks should […]
The Monsoon flooding in Thailand last October took a toll on many businesses if not all of them. The main victims of the catastrophe ranged from automobile makers with the likes of vendors of Toyota and Honda to electronic makers like hard drive manufacturers. More affected by the ordeal US population, being the biggest market […]
Western Digital was widely expected to take a huge hit from the Thailand flooding. Western Digital, which makes disk drives, couldn’t get components out of its suppliers, which were mostly in Thailand. Overall, Western Digital’s fiscal second quarter earnings held up well. CEO John Coyne said: We’ve made substantial progress in our mission to restore […]
Bottom line: Western Digital held its own and the fallout could have been much worse. Steve Luczo, CEO of Seagate, said his company has weathered the Thailand flooding better than most. Why? First, Seagate’s operations were relatively unscathed. Second, the supply chain is diversified. Luczo said on Seagate’s earnings conference call: “The disaster in Thailand […]
Luczo added that the company isn’t maximizing profits—average selling price per unit was $13 higher, but costs were $2.50 higher. Seagate’s plan is to give suppliers a break on pricing in exchange for longer term contracts. The strategy is paying off in the short and long runs. Seagate blew away its December quarter earnings (non-GAAP […]
Microsoft Corporation’s mobile operating software, Windows Phone 7, has the potential of going places. It is flamboyant and light weight at the same time. It requires less-expensive hardware, single-core processors at tops and RAM in MBs. Therefore, the overall expense of handset has a medium effect on the wallet at best. However, the market is […]
The next generation of Windows Phones will be on the drawing board now, and while the end user experience of the current handsets is appreciated, with Android pushing multi-core and big numbers on the spec sheet, the hardware for Windows Phone will need to follow. The argument that it doesn’t matter to the end user […]
Australia have once again pegged back the Indians by registering a thumping win over the Men in Blue in the first one-day international of the Commonwealth Bank series, which also involves Srilanka. For the first time on their Australian tour, India were deemed favourites to win against an inexperienced Aussie bowling attack which was without […]
At one point, it looked as if piracy on the internet could never be controlled but with recent legislation being passed around the world by different governments, especially the United States, file sharing websites that had always provided people opportunity to access unlimited amounts of content are on the run. With the recent closures of […]
