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Viewsonic VX2739wm
Viewsonic VX2739wm claimed to the world first 27″ full HD widescreen monitor with 1ms response time.
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With HDMI, DVI and VGA for video connectivity and a 4-port USB hub, the VX2739wm offers the diverse connectivity options consumers demand. A …

Starting today, you can buy a new iPad at your favorite Apple Retail Store or order from the Apple Online Store and have it delivered free to your door. You can also shop the App Store, with more than a thousand apps designed specifically for iPad, including the iWork productivity apps — Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. Or download the free iBooks app to browse thousands of new books at the iBookstore.

BAGHDAD: Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia’s Petronas on Friday won the rights to develop one of the world’s largest remaining untapped oilfields as Iraq staged its second auction of oil contracts since the 2003 U.S. invasion.
The companies proposed a per barrel fee of just $1.39 per barrel and pledged to increase output from the supergiant Majnoon field to 1.8 million barrels per day, more than double what Iraq had expected. The fee was lower than Iraq had been willing to pay.
“We announce that the consortium of Shell and Petronas have …

Intel Corp. (INTC) will have to pay a record EUR1.06 billion fine for breaking European antitrust laws, the European Commission said Wednesday.
The executive arm of the European Union found the world’s largest computer chip maker illegally kept smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) out of competition by paying computer manufacturers and retailers not to use its products.
The commission said Intel provided rebates to computer makers on condition they bought most – often up to 95% – of their computer chips from Intel. Intel also made direct payments to major …

Some 240 workers will be affected by shutdown
GEORGE TOWN: NEC Computers Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd is closing its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Bukit Tengah Industrial Estate, Penang.
Executive vice-president Bernard Saw said some 240 workers would be affected by the shutdown.
“We will initiate the shutdown process in May and the whole exercise should be completed before the year ends.
“After the shutdown, we will still maintain through our authorised service providers support for our laptop and personal computers (PC) users,” he told StarBiz.
Saw said demand for its products in Asia-Pacific was not large …

CIMB Group , the country’s second largest lender, says its no-pay leave offer to its 36,000 employees should not be construed as an intention to cut its staff strength.
Rather, it is the group’s effort to reduce cost amid the global economic downturn, group chief executive Datuk Seri Nazir Razak said yesterday.
“How can that possibly be called a layoff? We are not instructing anyone to do anything. We are just giving them an option to apply if they wish to take an extended break. Don’t interpret it any other way,” …

Balderton Capital and AGF Private Equity Lead Series C Round of Investment in Open Source Data Integration Leader
Talend, the first provider of open source data integration software, today announced it has secured $12 million in Series C financing to help fuel further worldwide growth and company expansion. The funding round is being led by Balderton Capital, an early investor in MySQL, and existing investor AGF Private Equity bringing Talend’s total funding to more than $20 million.
Balderton General Partner Bernard Liautaud, the founder, CEO and Chairman of Business Objects for 18 …

Founder and chairman B. Ramalinga Ramu’s quick departure sends customers scrambling to evaluate how the company’s financial fraud will impact their own IT operations.
Satyam customers need to move swiftly in evaluating how the Indian outsourcer’s newly revealed financial fraud will impact their own IT operations, say analysts.
In a bombshell disclosure, Satyam founder and chairman B. Ramalinga Ramu quit on Wednesday, admitting in a five-page resignation letter that the company had been meticulously inflating its financial figures for years.
India’s biggest corporate scandal in memory hammered Satyam’s shares, which had already …

Fire Eagle gives users a place to store and manage information about their location, and offers developers clear protocols for updating or accessing that information. Because it’s open, any networked service can use Fire Eagle to respond to a user’s location – to help them find their friends, annotate the world or find nearby services or local information.

Bank Negara Malaysia(BNM) had revoked its appoval for the proposed acquisition which was earlier given to Maybank. Maybank is the largest bank in Malaysia said to buy 100% of shares from PT Bank International Indonesia(BII) with price of RM4.8 billion.
The cancelation is due to changing in new takeover rule in Indonesia. Under the new rule, new shareholder is responsilbe to sell at least 20% or at least 300 public shareholders in  two years after the tender have been executed.
The takeover of BII would make Maybank the largest foreign financial services …