Hitachi, the large Japanese conglomerate, where a reasonable segment of its sales and profits are achieved from the IT and telecom industries, has faced up to the brunt of profit results in the third quarter of the fiscal year, ending December 2011. Sales for the quarter were mainly flat at 2,2665bn […]

 
The story that recently circulated about Microsoft buying Nokia, forced Nokia to embarrassingly deny the rumours that it was preparing to sell up. The idea of Microsoft purchasing a hardware company and breaking up its licensing business has become a lot less unconventional since the acquisition by Google of Motorola’s phone business. It might be […]

 
An agreement has been signed by Boeing and the CSIRO to decide whether the far north of Australia would be an acceptable location for growing our own jet fuel.

According to Boeing, although biofuels have been verified for use in aviation, an increase in production presents a challenge. For instance, the critics have blamed ethanol subsidies […]

 
Vertu, the completely owned luxury phone brand of Nokia which sells basic mobile phones with stylish cases, is planning to go on the market. It has as yet, not been confirmed but it is assumed that Goldman Sachs has been appointed to oversee the sale. This will probably land the UK based Vertu into the […]

 
Microsoft is embracing most, but not all, open-source apps into the Windows 8 Windows store.
Utilising any open-source licence which has been approved by the Open-Source Initiative (OSI), the Store’s App Developer Agreement permits developers to build their apps for download and installation on Windows 8 machines. The OSI is the organisation that keeps an eye […]