Vol.1 - No.1 - Winter 2004
| Samsung and Toshiba Announce New Joint Venture For Optical Disk Drives |
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The new joint venture, Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation, will start operation on April 1, 2004. The company will integrate product and business planning, product development, procurement and sales and marketing of ODDs, including CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives. Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation will be headquartered in Japan with a wholly owned subsidiary in Korea.The joint venture with its headquarters in Japan will be owned 51 percent by Toshiba Corp. and 49 percent by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the two firms said in a statement.Increasing competition in the optical disc drive market is behind the plan. The new joint venture will construct a competitive business structure that promotes optimized use of management resources and leadership in the global market. [More] |
| Intel And Leading European Retailers are Working on Supply Chain Visibility |
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 12, 2004 - Working together to further improve supply chain efficiencies and customer loyalty, Carrefour, Intel Corporation, METRO Group and Tesco have formed a European working group to accelerate the adoption of Electronic Product Code (EPC) technology. The technology will help improve inventory control, which will lead to reduced operating costs and increased margins.
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| Roche Will Establish New R&D Centre in China |
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January, 2004- Roche to expand global R&D activities by establishing a centre in Shanghai, China's biotech hub Roche will be the first global healthcare company to establish an R&D centre at Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Shanghai, China. The centre will be wholly owned and operated by Roche and will support the Roche Group’s worldwide R&D activities and its strategic business development efforts in the Chinese market. The Shanghai site will be an important addition to the Group’s R&D facilities in the United States, Japan and Europe.
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| Bell Labs technology would give consumers greater control over their privacy when using mobile devices |
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Berkeley, CALIF. January 19, 2004 - Researchers from Lucent Technologies' (NYSE: LU) Bell Labs have developed new software technologies that would enable users to tightly control how their location information is shared when using location-enabled mobile devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). In a paper to be presented here at the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Bell Labs researchers will describe a method for users to specify what location information is shared, and when, with whom, how and under what circumstances. [More] |
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