| Himachal Pradesh
This subcommittee was to pin point those who had worked secretly against the party candidate. Balbir Patiyal, Amarnath, Rajesh Thakur, Baldev Kumar, Lashkari Ram, Ramanand, Havansh lal soni, Rajkumari Chauhan among others were present on the occasion. .
The professional athlete as target: 'Am I next?'
He put his house on the market and hasn't been back since that night. Just now starting to find closure, Walker's scars were reopened by Taylor's death. "It definitely brought back some bad memories for myself, and you just kind of replay those things in your head," Walker told ESPN.com this week. "Obviously, I was very lucky not having any bodily harm, not having any physical altercation. I was lucky. Everybody doesn't get as lucky as I was." .
Amazon profit margins squeezed
Amazon was one of the high-flying tech stocks in the latter half of 2007, but much of that gain was lost in a recent sector sell-off on recession fears and disappointing forecasts from Apple , eBay and Yahoo . Wall Street concerns centre on how Amazon, the most popular Web e-commerce site behind eBay, will fare in a recession. LOOKING AHEAD Amazon said it expects first-quarter net sales to rise 31 percent to 38 percent, to between $3.95 billion and $4.15 billion, and operating income of $155 million to $200 million. Analysts, on average, have been expecting first-quarter net sales of $3.84 billion and operating income of $199 million, according to Reuters Estimates. Amazon forecast 2008 net sales of $18.75 billion to $19.75 billion and operating income of $785 million to $985 million, whereas Wall Street, on average, has expected $18.1 billion and $964 million.
Blog Posts related to Intellectual Property
After diligently re-checking its math, it has admitted that the 44% figure was really more like 15%. But even that number doesn't tell the full story. Only 20% of college students live on campus, which means that if college students are responsible for 15% of the movie studios' piracy-related losses (a number we still find dubious), then campus networks are responsible for something like 3%. So the MPAA is urging universities to install expensive, ubiquitous, and ultimately futile filters and surveillance equipment to solve 3% of their piracy problem. Makes you wonder if colleges and universities are really the best place to attack movie piracy, doesn't it? These “restated" MPAA numbers suggest that the MPAA is targeting universities not because college kids are a serious threat to the movie industry's bottom line, but because the studios hope to set a precedent on campus that can be used to force filtering on larger commercial ISPs.
All Eyes on Apple: A Clear-Eyed Analysis
This promises to be a joyous holiday season for Steve Jobs and the incandescent Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). Over the past year, the company's numbers have been stunning: Sales are up 24%, earnings up 75%, margins topping 30%, stock price up 146%. The popularity of the iPod and its snazzy young cousin, the iPhone, has lifted other Apple products, helping boost market share in personal computers in the United States from 2% a few years ago to 8% this past quarter, with Apple leapfrogging Gateway to take third place behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard. The latest upgrade to Apple's operating system--Leopard--is getting strong reviews, in contrast to the indifference that greeted Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) new Vista OS. Apple's market cap is now north of $160 billion; 18 months ago, the crew in Cupertino, California, was worth a mere $60 billion.
|
