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Fukushima Evacuees to Return to Exclusion Zone to Check Property Story tools print this storyorder a reprintsuggest a storydigg thissave to del.icio.usSept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- About 20,000 families from the exclusion zone around Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will be allowed to return to their homes from Sept. 19 to collect belongings and check their properties. They will be permitted to return in their own cars for the first time, said Masato Kino, spokesman at the Emergency...

The 100-year-old inventor of mechanical pencils needs to pen a new plan to make it to 101. Sharp Corp. (6753), Japan’s biggest liquid-crystal display maker, put up its Osaka headquarters and some plants as collateral last week to win bank loans after its credit ratings were cut to junk. The supplier to Apple Inc. (AAPL) is also renegotiating a stock sale to Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group as it tries to recover from record losses and a 70 percent slump in shares this year. Within six...

Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter11-28-2010- Okidata reports financial data:o Worldwide hardcopy revenue declined 12% in first half of 2010 to only $675 milliono Operating loss of $34 million for first half of fiscal yearo Printer revenue down 22%...

Tokyo (December 3, 2010) - Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. (Konica Minolta) and Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (Dai Nippon Printing) are pleased to announce that the "Universal Design High-security MFP*1 with Body Area Network*2 (BAN) Smart...

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) is to hold a sales meeting with Sharp Corp at Foxconn’s plant in Shenzhen, China, next Monday in an effort to help boost the sales of the Japanese company’s products worldwide, a top Hon Hai executive said yesterday. “We plan to discuss sales in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, India, China and Hong Kong during the meeting,” Hon Hai vice chairman Dai Cheng-wu (戴正吳) told reporters on the sidelines of a Sharp product demonstration event at one of Hon Hai’s factories...

However you're spending your Labor Day week-end, take a moment to think about why we celebrate it in the first place. Acknowledge the power of labor, for, as Sophocles said, "Without labor, nothing prospers." The first Labor Day was held in 1882. Its...

Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter2-6-2011- Sharp will launch a new series of color laser A3 MFPs (code-named “Aries”) that will have control panels similar to an Apple iPad. Tentative specs:o 10.1” color touchscreen LCD display...

Most Americans pay very little attention to what is going on in the economies of other nations. But they should. The reality is that in today's global economy, what is happening on the other side of the world can have a dramatic impact on the U.S....

College sued over public records feesDecember 14, 2010 | Lance Williams Have you ever gone to pick up some official document and winced when you saw the Xerox bill?When that happened to Terry Francke, lawyer for the Californians Aware good government...

Sharp has reported net profit of JPY4.2 billion (US$37.35 million) for fiscal third-quarter 2016 (ended December 2016), turning profitable from continued quarterly net losses for more than two years. Sharp posted consolidated revenues of JPY571.5 billion for the quarter and net operating profit of JPY18.8 billion, the highest quarterly level since first-quarter 2015. The financial improvement resulted from Sharp president and CEO Dai Cheng-wu's efforts to restructure the company. Dai was...

JERSEY CITY, N.J.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Datapipe , a leader in managed cloud services for the enterprise, today announced it was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Hosted Private Cloud Services, North America, Q2 2017 report. Vendors included in the report were evaluated on 33 criteria, including current offering, strategy, and market presence. This is the first time the report has been published since 2014. .@datapipe named a leader in @forrester Wave: Hosted #PrivateCloud Services North...

Cybersecurity Updates CyberSecurity HIPAA & Cybersecurity Updates - Top three actions over next 2 years for Healthcare CIOs regarding security survey: 50% = identify opportunities for performance improvements and cost savings 42% = providing training for staff 39% = developing and hiring the correct skill sets The North Dakota Department of Health and Cavalier County Health notified 35,316 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack Tri-State Specialists of Iowa,...

NEW YORK , July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte, a leader in global security services and incident response services , has expanded its Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) by Deloitte platform to include enhanced cybersecurity industry intelligence, as well as four new modules for dynamic adversary intelligence, digital risk protection, threat hunting and mobile device security. "As the threat landscape continues to change rapidly, we want to offer our existing and future...

Signs of recession? Report from Congressional Budget Office Purchasing power from paychecks fell 2.9% for middle income households during last year Median household income now $70,784.00 per year Water bills up average of $200 per quarter Electricity bills up $100 per month Middle income households experienced inflation well over 15% from 2020 to 2022 Consumer price index up 7.1% Predict that jobless rate will rise from 3.7% in November, 2022 to 4.6% by end of 2023 (does not count those that...

Toshiba Corp. accepted a buyout offer from a Japanese consortium, as the iconic conglomerate moved a step closer to ending a troubled chapter in its more-than-140-year history. The Tokyo-based company’s board approved on Thursday a bid of about 2 trillion yen ($15.3 billion) from a group led by domestic private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners Inc., or 4,620 yen per share, it said in a statement. The offer is at about a 9.7% premium to Toshiba’s closing price on Thursday. As the next...

TOKYO -- Toshiba announced a 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer on Monday in a move that would take it private, as the scandal-tarnished Japan ese electronics and energy giant seeks to turn itself around. The tender offer led by a buyout fund of major Japanese banks and companies called Japan Industrial Partners starts Tuesday and is priced at 4,620 yen ($32) a share. Chairperson Akihiro Watanabe asked shareholders to back the proposal, saying it is the only option for Toshiba Corp.