Thursday Night Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on August 26, 2005 at 2:38:10 AM
HP auths $4 billion stock buyback.
Stop stepping on colonies!
Sony and Samsung - Better LCDs, cheaper.
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Stock repurchases typically help bolster a company's stock price. Shares of HP on Thursday went up more than 1 percent to $26.90 on the New York Stock Exchange. In the last nine months ending July 31, HP bought back $2.1 billion of its shares. An additional $800 million are still expected to be repurchased under a previous program approved in September 2004.
Stop stepping on colonies!
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Measuring the bacterial biodiversity of soil is difficult because only a few species can be cultured in the lab, according to Jason Gans of Los Alamos National Laboratory, California, US. Fortunately, biologists can also estimate biodiversity using a technique called DNA reassociation. This involves chemically unzipping the two strands of all the bacterial DNA in a sample, mixing them up and seeing how long they take to join up again with matching partners.
Sony and Samsung - Better LCDs, cheaper.
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A Sony spokeswoman said its engineers would start to play a larger role in the relationship, offering ideas on how to produce a higher quality panel at a lower cost. But the basic panel technology would continue to come from Samsung. "We will be working together to improve panel quality and cut manufacturing costs," said the spokeswoman, Mina Naito. "But we are not talking about conducting joint research and development of the panels."