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As nearly 1.5 million
people, and more than 40,000 custom vehicles gather in the Motor City for
the world's largest one-day automotive event, the Woodward Dream Cruise,
Bosch salutes the significant achievements and innovations of the North
American automotive industry.
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According to The NPD Group, a leading consumer and retail information company, mobile phone sales to consumers in the U.S. reached 33 million units in the second quarter of 2007. This number represents a decline of nearly 17 percent compared to unit sales during the previous quarter; however, the second quarter is traditionally a slow sales quarter for mobile phone retailers. NPD estimates total second quarter 2007 consumer sales of $2.4 billion, which is a 14 percent increase since the same period a year ago.
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IBM announced that after two years in development and testing by more than 25,000 businesses around the world, Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Domino 8 (www.ibm.com/lotus/nd8) will be generally available today, Friday, August 17. IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM Lotus Domino 8 represents the industry's first enterprise collaboration solution largely designed with input from its customers.
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Directly on the heels of Campbell's announcement of a possible sale of lux chocolatier Godiva, consumer research firm Packaged Facts has released its highly anticipated industry report, The U.S. Market for Chocolate showing a mature market although still primed for growth from $16 billion in 2006 to $18 billion in 2011.
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Spock, a search application that makes it easy and fun to discover information about people, launches its public beta today.
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NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) continues to smash through visual computing performance barriers with the introduction of NVIDIA Quadro® Plex Visual Computing System (VCS) Model S4, a graphics server featuring a record number of graphics processing units (GPUs) in a standard 1U server form factor.
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Worldwide sales of semiconductors grew to $121 billion in the first half of 2007, an increase of 2 percent from the $118.4 billion reported for the first half of 2006, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported today. Second-quarter sales of $59.9 billion declined by 2 percent from the $61.1 billion reported in the first quarter of 2007. Sales in June 2007 amounted to $20 billion, a decline of 1.7 percent from the $20.3 billion reported in May.
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Entering only its second day in theaters around the world, Warner Bros. Pictures' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is breaking both industry and studio box office records. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, and Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.
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HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SPI Dynamics, Inc., a leading provider of web application security assessment software and services, to further strengthen its leadership in the IT application quality management market.
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BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced WebLogic Real Time
™ 2.0, the latest release of the company's Java real-time technology and the industry's only real-time solution with guaranteed microsecond pause times for standard Java applications with no special coding required.
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By 2011, the hard disk drive (HDD) industry will more than quadruple the total HDD capacity shipped in 2006 to meet the growing storage requirements of an expanding digital universe, according to IDC. Worldwide HDD unit shipments will increase to 675 million units in 2011, while revenue will rise to approximately $37 billion.
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