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Electronic Data Systems, the second-largest technology outsourcing company, posted net earnings of $160 million, compared with $138 million from a year earlier.

IBM announces its intent to acquire Ilog to add its business rules technology to WebSphere. - IBM has announced its plans to acquire Ilog, a maker of business rules software and more, in a transaction valued at $340 million.IBM officials said upon completion of the deal, IBM will combine its business process management (BPM), business optimization, and service oriented architecture (SOA) t...

Still holding a losing hand in its handset business, Motorola decides three would be better than one when it comes to its Home and Networks Mobility division. Handset sell off not likely until next year. - The talk all year for Motorola has been when and if the iconic U.S. technology company would sell off its stumbling cell phone division, but Motorola's first move to revive the company is a reorganization of its Home and Networks Mobility unit. The division is Motorola's second largest after its cel...

Start-ups selling server management, configuration management, process management are offering tools they say will improve reliability and performance as well as cut costs. But what are the risks and benefits of adopting tools from smaller vendors versus larger enterprises vendors? Should you wait for an interesting technology to get either acquired or officially adopted by the large vendor's partner network? Will a fast move to an emerging technology pay gains equal to the inherent risks?

Though the News Corp.-owned social network already has a classifieds section, partnering with aggregator Oodle will bring in more listings and better technology.

Reconfigurable for inside or pod mounting, Leica ALS60 airborne laser scanner has flying height envelope ranging from helicopter-compatible 200 m AGL to 5,000 m AGL for wide-area mapping. Unit allows accurate data collection independent of pulse rate, depending only on flying height. Based on MPiA technology, scanner is suited for LIDAR jobs varying from city mapping applications requiring high point densities to large-area contracts with low point densities.This story is related to the following:Optics and Photonics Sponsored by: Keyence Corporation of America - The Source for Digital Microscopy SolutionsComputer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Lidar Systems | Laser Scanners

Klaus Schmidt writes 'Virgin Galactic today unveiled their WhiteKnight Two mothership, called 'EVE'. It is designed to carry the smaller SpaceShip Two into space. The rollout represents another major milestone in Virgin Galactic's quest to launch the world's first private, environmentally benign, space access system for people, payload and science. Christened 'EVE' in honor of Richard Branson's mother — Sir Richard performed the official naming ceremony — WK2 is both visually remarkable and represents ground-breaking aerospace technology. It is the world's largest all carbon composite aircraft and many of its component parts have been built using composite materials for the very first time. At 140 ft, the wing spar is the longest single carbon composite aviation component ever manufactured.' of this story at Slashdot.

A startup search engine launched Monday, Cuil, hopes to prove that its search technology is cooler than that of the reigning king of search, Google. Cuil's creators -- former Google search architect Anna Patterson; her husband Tom Costello, a former researcher and developer at Stanford University and IBM; and Russell Power, another former Google executive -- claim they have pioneered a new take on the search game.

Rio writes 'A new $1,000 spray claims to protect notebook computers, iPods, cell phones and other electronic gadgets from liquid, making them completely waterproof, a Local6.com report says. A creator of the technology said it could be used for emergency first-responders, bio-medical devices and historic preservation.' This might be a bit of a flashback from last year. of this story at Slashdot.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system....