6 posts and columns on Siemens

Channelinsight, a Salesforce.com for B2B, Lands $10 Million From Rho Ventures

in Enterprise on April 20, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

The Denver-based company, which aims to do for indirect business-to-business sales what Salesforce.com did for direct sales, lands a Series C led by Rho Ventures.

Siemens Halts Computer Virus as Threat Spurs Effort Against Attacks

in News on August 13, 2010 at 1:31 pm PT

Siemens AG said a computer virus designed to attack the industrial control systems it makes to help monitor power grids and other key infrastructure has been largely suppressed, but the threat has stepped up government and private-sector efforts to ward off future attacks.

Nokia's Smart-Phone Slip

in News on October 15, 2009 at 8:23 am PT

Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo says the demand for mobile devices improved in many markets during the third quarter–but you wouldn’t know it to look at the company’s earnings. This morning, Nokia posted an unexpected 559 million euro ($836 million) loss for the period, its first in a decade. Worse, its smart-phone market share declined to 35 percent from 41 percent in the previous quarter.
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Nokia’s Smart-Phone Slip

in News on October 15, 2009 at 8:23 am PT

Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo says the demand for mobile devices improved in many markets during the third quarter–but you wouldn’t know it to look at the company’s earnings. This morning, Nokia posted an unexpected 559 million euro ($836 million) loss for the period, its first in a decade. Worse, its smart-phone market share declined to 35 percent from 41 percent in the previous quarter.
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Portable Gadget Reads Text Aloud to the Blind

in The Digital Solution on July 26, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

A new portable gadget for the blind takes a digital picture of a page of text and then reads the words aloud. At $3,495, it’s quite expensive. But it works.