- HP Reorg: Who Wins and Loses?
Ten days ago, HP rolled out a sweeping reorganization that combined the printing with the PC division and centralized marketing, communications, and major account sales. Initial reaction has been split, and tends to split across the two lenses by which people look at HP; enterprise and personal computers. As in all reorganizations and with HP's, leaders much choose one organizational framework and run with it, regardless of the downsides it may mean to other parts of the business. One thing is very clear; HP is leading with enterprise and deprioritizing personal computers and printers. The potential winners and losers become very clear as you look at HP's reorg through these two lenses. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Republican budget proposals: The Path to Prosperity – read the full document
Paul Ryan on Tuesday launched The Path to Prosperity, the Republicans' plans for sweeping spending cuts, tax reductions and reform to healthcare. See the document here
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- HP to combine printer, PC groups: report
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. media reported on Tuesday that Hewlett-Packard (HP) will announce a sweeping reorganization to bring its printer unit under the PC-making group.
Sources told technology news site AllThingsD that the reorganization is part of cost-cutting and simplification measures of chief executive officer (CEO) Meg Whitman, who has been exploring ways to streamline HP's operations.
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- China's Bourses To Close April 2-4 For Tomb Sweeping Holiday
China?s stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen will be closed April 2-4 (next Monday-Wednesday) for Tomb Sweeping Day, also knownas the Qingming Festival. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Climate change: the Arctic is too precious to be left unprotected | Observer editorial
There is a dangerous lack of urgency among politicians in their reactions to the vast changes that are sweeping our planetA few days ago, the Arctic's cap of sea ice reached its annual maximum. Around 15 million square kilometres of icy wilderness now stretch over the planet's northern seas. With the arrival of spring much of that ice will start to disappear. Crucially, not all of it will return. Our planet is warming and year by year the average ice coverage in the high latitudes declines. For the people of the Arctic, this loss poses challenges. Native hunters can no longer travel across ice to reach their prey, for example, while the region's waters are being eyed up for commercial exploitation by a growing number of nations that include the US, Canada and Russia. Without thick coatings of ice, the region's oil, mineral deposits and shipping lanes begin to look like attractive propositions for development.Transport seems a particularly tantalising consideration. A sea journey from western Europe to China usually requires a voyage through the Suez Canal and takes around 15 days. Head north, along a Siberian coast that is free of ice, and you could do the journey in 10 days, a considerable saving in man-hours, fuel, and carbon emissions. For good measure, the danger of pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa is avoided. As a result, new deep-water harbours are being planned in the region with the US estimating that cargo transported on the Siberia coast route is likely to increase from 1.8m tonnes in 2010 to more than 64m in 2020. This is a dramatic rise, to say the least.Opening up the Arctic to development will undoubtedly bring benefits but the changes that are now being proposed also pose risks. Few treaties govern this region and it remains hopelessly exposed to eco null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Bethesda May Announce Elder Scrolls MMO Soon
The MMO-ification of beloved franchises appears to be a trend that's sweeping the industry right now. After Warcraft led the charge, Bioware thought their next Knights of the Old Republic game should be an MMO instead. Now even Bethesda will jump into the fray, as news today brings the announcement of...a coming announcement in May about an Elder Scrolls MMO. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Post-Fukushima world must embrace thorium, not ditch nuclear
The man whose inventions led to nuclear power proliferation knew thorium was preferable to uranium – it's time we caught up• What is thorium and how does it generate power?A year ago this Sunday, a dreadful and terrifying natural disaster was sweeping a trail of death and destruction along the north-eastern coast of Japan. The Tohoku earthquake and ensuing tsunami claimed an estimated 20,000 lives, washing away entire towns and wreaking havoc with the nation's infrastructure. An oil refinery was set ablaze leading to the death of six workers and a reservoir also failed, killing a further four people. The nuclear reactors at Fukushima experienced a partial meltdown causing the release of radiation, but killing no one.The media's treatment of the entire disaster, however, was completely out of kilter with these facts. The unfolding events at the stricken power station quickly dominated the coverage, ousting the actual earthquake and its dreadful aftermath from the headlines and, it seems, our collective memories. A year later we talk of the anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, not the far, far greater tragedy of the Tohoku earthquake.In no way do I wish to make light of the suffering of the thousands evacuated from the exclusion zone around the power station, nor to undervalue the immense bravery of the workers who, under extreme pressure, worked tirelessly to minimise the impact of the accident. But we need to keep things in perspective. This was a terrible event, caused by a much more terrible event, which again brought to the surface the many troubling aspects of how the nuclear industry operates.For instance, the siting of reactors on the eastern seaboard of a country highly vulnerable to earthquakes ought to have necessitated far more preventative measures or, bett null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Viral campaign seeks most wanted criminal (watch)
A viral video sweeping the internet is making violent Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony one of the most infamous men on the planet.The 30 minute Kony 2012 film by US charity Invisible Children is aimed at making Kony, the leader of... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Federer, Nadal advance as flu hits
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal didn't seemed overly bothered by the flu sweeping the Indian Wells tennis tournament. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Japanese experts warn of earthquakes that could produce 34-metre tsunamis
Report following disaster last March finds waves pose bigger threat than previously thought and could inundate Pacific coastMuch of Japan's Pacific coast would be inundated by a tsunami more than 34 metres (112 feet) high if an offshore earthquake as powerful as last year's occurred, according to a government panel of experts. They report that a wave of such height could result from any tsunami unleashed by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake in the Nankai trough, which runs east of Japan's main island of Honshu to the southern island of Kyushu.An earlier forecast in 2003 put the potential maximum height of such a tsunami at less than 20 metres (66 feet).The revised tsunami projections, contained in a report posted on a government website, are based on research following last March's magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami, which spawned a 14-metre (45-foot) wave that devastated most of Japan's northeastern coast, triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant and killed around 19,000 people.The catastrophe and the ensuing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, prompted sweeping reviews of Japan's disaster preparedness and criticism over apparent failures to take into account potential risks.The tsunami knocked out power at the 40-year-old coastal nuclear plant, leading to the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Tens of thousands of residents have had to leave the area, and it is unclear whether some will ever be able to move back.The Fukushima plant was designed to withstand a 6-metre (20-foot) tsunami, less than half the height of the surge that hit it on 11 March, 2011.The latest forecast shows a tsunami of up to 21 metres (69 feet) could strike near the Hamaoka nuclear plant on the south-eastern coast. Its operator, Chubu Electric Power Co, is building a null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Eurozone crisis: Spain's election leaves markets on edge
After winning a landslide victory last night Mariano Rajoy, Spain's new prime minister, is under pressure to make economic reforms quickly8.08am: Europe's financial markets are now open, and there's no sign of a Rajoy Rally. Spain's main stock market, the Ibex 35, fell 0.5% at the start of business In London, the FTSE 100 has lost 69 points to 5294 (down nearly 1.3%), while the main German and French indexes also dropped around 1%.8.00am: Hello, and welcome to today's live coverage of the eurozone debt crisis.Spain tops the agenda this morning, after the People's party (PP) romped to victory in Sunday's general election. The comprehensive victory means Mariano Rajoy will become the country's next prime minister. But there's no time for Rajoy to rejoice -- he is under pressure to explain how he will tackle Spain's debt problems and avoid the country becoming the next victim of the 'contagion' sweeping Europe.We'll be tracking the latest development from Madrid, and monitoring the financial markets' reaction to Rajoy's success.Financial crises aren't just a European fashion either -- in the US, lawmakers appear deadlocked over measures to cut America's huge debt pile. With Wednesday's deadline looming - this debt crisis could enter a new. even more alarming phase....Eurozone crisisSpainGreeceItalyMarket turmoilUS economyGraeme Weardenguardian.co.uk © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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- Bangkok barriers keep monsoon floods at bay
An elaborate system of defences protecting Thailand's capital from high waters sweeping down from the north was holding up last night, protecting Bangkok from the worst floods to hit this Southeast Asian nation in decades.Bangkok... 北からダウンスイープ高い水域からタイの首都を守る防御の精巧なシステムはdecades.Bangkokでこの東南アジアの国を襲った最悪の洪水からバンコクを守る、最後の夜まで握っていた...
- Papua New Guinea Introduces Sweeping Smoking Ban
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- Islamists sweep early results in Egypt election
CAIRO (AFP) - Early results from Egypt's first post-revolution election showed Islamist parties sweeping to victory, including hardline Salafists, with secular parties trounced in many areas. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The rule of law: why Abu Qatada's release matters | Editorial
The case for his deportation from this country is immensely strong but the rule of law must not be tossed asideBarring the jihadist preacher himself, there is probably not a soul in this country who thinks that Britain is a better place for the presence of Abu Qatada. The man is without question a relentless advocate of religious hate. His influence on impressionable young followers appears persistently baleful. His fight for his own human rights seems offensively at odds with his own advocacy of a worldview which would sweepingly deny such rights to others. Modern multi-ethnic, multi-faith, law-abiding Britain would be better off without him and those who think like him. As a foreign national he should not have been allowed here in the first place. The case for his deportation from this country is immensely strong.All the same, the release from prison of Abu Qatada should be a source of something very close to relief and perhaps even a source of some pride. This is not because we have any reason whatsoever to think that he is less of a threat to this country than is often claimed – though that claim provokes the genuinely important question of why he has not been charged with or convicted of any of the many criminal offences which would seem to apply. Nor is it because we are naive about his intentions or activities. It is because Abu Qatada has spent far too much of the past decade under a system of state control that pays far too little respect to the rule of law which this country once did much to uphold.There have been two aspects to this oppressive state control and abuse of the rule of law. The first is that Abu Qatada has been detained without trial for an unacceptably long time. Detention without trial is fundamentally at odds with the rule of law, and always null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'
Today it was confirmed that the war correspondent Marie Colvin has died in the Syrian city of Homs. In November 2010 she gave the following speech on the importance of war reportingYour Royal Highness, ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured and humbled to be speaking to you at this service tonight to remember the journalists and their support staff who gave their lives to report from the war zones of the 21st century. I have been a war correspondent for most of my professional life. It has always been a hard calling. But the need for frontline, objective reporting has never been more compelling.Covering a war means going to places torn by chaos, destruction and death, and trying to bear witness. It means trying to find the truth in a sandstorm of propaganda when armies, tribes or terrorists clash. And yes, it means taking risks, not just for yourself but often for the people who work closely with you.Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price. Tonight we honour the 49 journalists and support staff who were killed bringing the news to our shores. We also remember journalists around the world who have been wounded, maimed or kidnapped and held hostage null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Jeremy Lin: Survey Suggests He'll Be Gold For Marketers
?Lin-Sanity? is sweeping the nation as we speak, and the ?hot off the press? results released by The Celebrity DBI will make any potential endorsers of Jeremy Lin jump out of their seats. Created by the Entertainment Division of the Marketing Arm, a Dallas promotions agency, the ?DBI? is an independent index for brand marketers and agencies that determine a celebrity's ability to influence brand affinity and consumer purchase intent. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Gannett Building Paywalls Around All Its Papers Except USA Today
The vogue for digital paywalls sweeping the news business has made it all the way to the top: Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper publisher, is planning to switch over all of its 80 community newspapers to a paid model by the end of the year, it announced during an investor day held in Manhattan Wednesday. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Subsidies threaten 1.6m US jobs, says coalition
A United States industry and union coalition has accused China of sweeping illegal subsidies to its car-parts sector that threaten to destroy more than a million US jobs. Launching a campaign to press for trade action against Beijing, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) and senior politicians said the Chinese subsidies threaten to reverse the comeback of the US car industry. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Cuba to free 2,900 in sweeping amnesty
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will release 2,900 prisoners in the coming days for humanitarian reasons in a sweeping amnesty ahead of a visit next spring by Pope Benedict XVI, the Cuban government said on Friday.
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- Britain to split up banks in 2019
The British government will Monday accept in full recommendations to split banks' retail and investment units in a bid to avoid a repeat of the financial crisis, business minister Vince Cable said.A report by the government-appointed Independent Commission on Banking, published in September, recommended measures to protect retail operations as part of sweeping reforms to be brought in by 2019.The radical overhaul is an attempt to avoid a repeat of the massive state bailouts of lenders, including Royal Bank of Scotland, sparked by the 2008 financial crisis. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Britain backs separation of banks
London will announce action on Monday to split the retail and investment units of British banks as part of tighter government regulations to prevent a repetition of the financial crisis.Finance minister George Osborne will tell parliament that the coalition government has accepted the recommendations of the government-appointed Independent Commission on Banking.The ICB -- chaired by former Bank of England chief economist John Vickers -- issued a report in September that recommended measures to protect retail operations as part of sweeping reforms to be brought in by 2019. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Obama to pitch for 2nd term in State of the Union
US President Barack Obama will pitch new initiatives on jobs, taxes and housing in an election-year State of the Union address on Tuesday as he seizes his biggest moment yet on the national stage to make a sweeping case for a second term. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Yemeni president granted immunity
A new law granting sweeping immunity to Yemen's president and anyone who served in his authoritarian regime over the past 33 years sparked fresh violence Monday and brought condemnation from human rights groups.The law passed... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Party Wins Sweeping Victory in Parliamentary Election
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- British arms maker 'mulling closure of historic dockyard'
British arms manufacturer BAE Systems said it was reviewing its warship business but refused to comment on a newspaper report that it was set to close the historic Portsmouth dockyard.The Sunday Times reported that Portsmouth, on the southeast coast of England, was the likely victim of a sweeping review of the group's shipbuilding operations and a decision was likely in the next three months.BAE employs about 1,500 workers at the yard and it provides another 1,500 jobs in support roles. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Volkswagen Plant Helped Trigger Indiana's Right to Work Push
It isn't often that a governor will credit a German car company as a reason for a sweeping policy decision. But Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is citing Volkswagen when he explained why he's now supporting a Right to Work law. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Busy Day In The Mortgage Morass: Judge Allows Class Action Against Goldman
Super Bowl fever may be sweeping the nation, but in the financial industry Friday was all about mortgages. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Spain's new government faces first test
MADRID (Reuters) - Prime Minister-elect Mariano Rajoy faces the first test on Tuesday of whether markets have been reassured by his conservative party's sweeping election victory when Spain tries to sell up to 3 billion euros ($4 billion) of short-term government debt.
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- Parabis sells out to Duke Street under 'Tesco law' liberalisation
Partners in law firm Parabis have pocketed millions as the London-based group becomes one of the first to benefit from a sweeping liberalisation of the £25bn legal services market. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Brazil's Black Friday Gives Market An Early Christmas Present
The Brazilian government gave foreign corporate and portfolio investors their version of a Black Friday today, with sweeping tax cuts that kept investors in happy. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Italy's Monti Sets Agenda for New Government
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- Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice | Ian Birrell
Conservative Texas prides itself on being tough, but it has learned that locking people up is a costly failureHang 'em high Texas is not the first place you might look for lessons in criminal justice. The lone star state prides itself on its toughness, with more executions and fewer bleeding hearts than elsewhere in the US. Texas locks up more miscreants than anywhere else in the world. But it is the unlikely centre of a revolution in prison reform sweeping the US, overthrowing decades of failed polices and sterile debate driven by politicians scared of being seen as soft. The state has cut crime, costs and the numbers in jail to such an extent it has just shut a high-security prison for the first time in history.What makes this prison revolt even more unexpected is that it is led by some of the most conservative figures in politics. They have decided – correctly – that an expensive prison system repeatedly locking up the same people is a sign of failure. As a result, they have endorsed policies traditionally seen as liberal to keep people out of jail.The right in Britain should take note as our prison population hits record highs. Just as in this country, politicians in Texas were desperate to be seen as being tough on crime. There was reckless rhetoric and endless headline-grabbing legislation, including the ludicrous three-strikes law that led to life sentences for a third offence – even when that was stealing a slice of pizza.Inevitably, prison populations and spending soared. The costs of incarceration rose fourfold in two decades. America now accounts for a quarter of all prisoners on the planet – and two-thirds of new inmates are recidivists.Then Texas decided enough was enough. Four years ago, it was told to spend another $2bn on 17,332 new prison places. I null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Hang Seng won 0.83pc at open
Hong Kong stocks fell 0.83 percent in early trade after ratings agency Standard & Poor's threatened the eurozone with sweeping downgrades if it fail... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Islamists sweep early results in Egypt
Early results from Egypt's first post-revolution election show Islamist parties sweeping to victory. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- White House presses Republicans to confirm consumer protection chief nomination
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- The White House Monday was ramping up pressure on Republican Senators to confirm the nomination of Richard Cordray to serve as the head of the nation's consumer protection agency.
U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, announced in July to nominate former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency created by the sweeping financial overhaul a year ago.
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- Europe's cold snap claims more victims
KIEV/LONDON - Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims on Sunday, brought widespread disruption to transport services, and left thousands without power with warnings that low temperatures would continue into next week.
Hundreds have lost their lives in eastern Europe as freezing weather sweeps across the continent westwards, while major airports warned that services would be delayed or cancelled.
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- Spain announces sweeping spending cuts, tax increases
MADRID, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Spain's newly-elected government on Friday announced a sweeping package of cost cutting measures and tax increases in a fresh drive to bring the country's public finances back to order.
Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, Economy Minister, Treasury Minister Cristobal Montoro and Employment Minister Fatima Banez announced in a joint press conference Friday afternoon that the government would freeze recruitment of civil servants during 2012 with no repl ... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Syrian sanctions a first for Arab League
Arab foreign ministers and Turkey agreed a list of sweeping sanctions designed to cripple the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad who has defied pressure to halt a bloody crackdown on protests.As another 15 civilians were... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- California blasted by 'hellacious' winds
Some of the worst winds in years blasted through California overnight, sweeping through canyons, gusting up to 97 mph (156 kph), and toppling trees and trucks while knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people.High winds... 年間で最悪の風の一部は、渓谷を席巻毎時97マイル（156キロ）までの突風が吹くこと、およびpeople.High風の数十万人に電力をノックアウトしながら木々とトラックを転倒、一晩カリフォルニアを通して非難...
- India holds Gandhi card for Tahrir Square
The religious violence in Egypt and the prospect of Islamist parties sweeping post-Arab Spring elections threaten to fulfill dark prophecies of extremism overtaking the protest movement. The wave of intolerance issimilar to that in post-partition India, when leaders committed to secular and non-violent nation-building strangled the hatred. Delhi must pass the lessons on. - Sreeram Chaulia (Oct 18, '11) エジプトにおける宗教的暴力とポストアラブ春の選挙を掃引イスラム政党の見通しは、過激主義のオーバーテイクの暗い予言抗議運動を遂行すると脅迫する
- Greece looks for debt salvation after austerity pledge
Greece on Saturday looked for debt salvation at a weekend EU summit after an all-out austerity pledge that sparked huge protests marked by violence and the death of a unionist during clashes in Athens.Prime Minister George Papandreou was to fly to Brussels for 1500 GMT talks with European Commission chairman Jose Manuel Barroso after pushing through parliament sweeping new cuts demanded by the country's creditors. 土曜日のギリシャはAthens.Prime首相ジョージパパンの衝突時に暴力や労働組合員の死によってマークされた巨大な抗議が1500 GMTの会談のためにブリュッセルに飛ぶためにあった端を発したすべてのアウト緊縮の誓約後の週末のEU首脳会議で、債務救済を探した欧州委員会委員長ジョゼマヌエルバローゾ委員長と議会は、国の債権者が求める新たなカットを席巻を通してプッシュした後
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