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Qualcomm's 2007 MediaFLO finances show greater losses

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2008-01-21 21:34:24 by willpark in IntoMobile
...losses of $240 million for 2007. Thats means Qualcomm lost $118 million more than last year, on this whole Mobile TV deal. And, Qualcomm is blaming its QSI (Qualcomm Strategic Initiative) arms lackluster financial performance on MediaFLOs losses Apparently, MediaFLO took a $70 million hit on its Verizon Wireless-launch last year and the...
 
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MPAA says 44% of movie losses due to piracy on college networks, number could be closer to 3%

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2008-01-23 17:31:33 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...losses that the movie industry incurs, thanks to the illegal downloading of pirated films over high-speed campus networks. That figure is more like 15% due to a human error, according to the MPAA. Thats a pretty big difference. Whats more, that figure may actually be closer to 3 Whats not taken into account is that many students live off...
 
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'Locust' Nokia faces up to 80 mln eur compensation claim from German govt UPDATE

2008-01-16 22:43:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...losses, yesterday. It plans to transfer production to Romania m, Germany, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported State Economy Minister Christa Thoben has tasked publicly owned NRW Bank with recovering the money, the newspaper added Nokia announced the closure of the factory, with 2,300 job losses, yesterday manufacturer Ruettgers...
 
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Great Burial Reef 'Nature's Cemetery'

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2008-01-22 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...losses at investment banks, Mr. Rews shift into death care, as it is known, might seem lifesaving, career-wise. As homebuyers with shaky credit histories default on their loans in record numbers, the losses to investors and lenders have led to layoffs on Wall Street and have sent stock markets plummeting, stoking fears of an economic...
 
Tags: burial reef, reef, jason rew, rew, urns, concrete reef, losses, urn, death care
 
 
 
 
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Synthetic Identity: 'The borrower who never was'

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2008-02-21 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...losses from synthetic identity fraud banks are secretive about losses but many say the problem is growing. Avivah Litan, a fraud specialist at research firm Gartner Inc., estimates that synthetic schemes constitute at least 20% of credit charge-offs and 80% of losses from credit-card fraud. Banks "are very nervous," she says....
 
Tags: unpaid credit-card bills, credit, credit system lenders, credit-card fraud, credit card, credit charge-offs, produce credit histories, atm cards, cards
 
 
 
 
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A tale of municipal Wi-Fi gone terribly wrong

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2008-01-24 15:00:26 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...losses are expected to eclipse $1 million According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune In testing what Arinc had built, the city found that small portions of the network functioned well, providing a high-speed connection. But in other areas, the solar panels were placed in spots where they did not get enough light to power the radios batteries...
 
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First Banks of Second Life Episode 2: Crash and Burn

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2008-01-24 17:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...losses clearly are tiny compared with the more than $100 billion in recent write-offs by actual banks and securities firms When virtual environments first started, they were viewed as libertarian dreams with no interference," says Behnam Dayanim, a lawyer who specializes in Internet law at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in Washington....
 
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High Def Battle Cost Toshiba One Billion Dollars

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2008-03-20 04:00:10 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
...losses at "just" $665 billion, but whichever way you look at it, the battle has been costly It could be argued that this is the best case for Toshiba. By giving up early, the company has cut further losses, and making a decisive break probably means investors are less skittish about the revised revenue forecast. The real winners, though, are...
 
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Motorola's chief strategy officer quits

2008-05-18 08:14:49 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...losses, especially in North America, to rivals such as LG Electronics Inc (066570.KS: Quote, Profile, Research It plans to spin off its mobile devices business next year after more than a year of losses source
 
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