Daily technology news - 12-Jan-2007

U.S. Technology Stocks Rise, Pushing Nasdaq Toward 6-Year High (Bloomberg.com)Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. technology stocks pushed the Nasdaq Composite Index to a six-year high on expectations earnings will exceed analysts' estimates.

Manufacturing Technology Consumption Up 29% (Industry Week)Jan. 12, 2007 -- Compared to 2005, U.S. manufacturing technology consumption in November was up 29.4%, totaling $335.02 million, according to AMTDA, the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association, and AMT, The Association For Manufacturing technology.

Malaysian operator using ZTE's digital trunking technology (Interfax)Shanghai. January 12. INTERFAX-CHINA - Malaysia's professional trunking network operator Electcoms has launched a network based on ZTE's Global open Trunking architecture (GoTa) technology, ZTE announced this week. The Electcoms GoTa network is being built in three phases.

17 Israeli Firms Expected at Security Technology Conference (Washington Post)Israeli companies are expanding their presence in Fairfax County, and next week they'll have yet another chance to connect with the government contracting market. Seventeen Israeli companies are expected to participate in a homeland security technology conference, Jan. 16-18 at the Center for...

Dow Average Rises to Record; Microsoft, Technology Shares Climb (Bloomberg.com)Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. stock market continued its January juggernaut, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its first record of the year, on improving earnings prospects for technology companies, retailers and homebuilders.

Dow Rises to Record on Oil; Microsoft, Technology Shares Climb (Bloomberg.com)Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rallied, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average toward its first record of the year, as a tumble in oil prices bolstered the outlook for earnings at retailers, technology companies and homebuilders.

Dow Rises to Record on Oil Drop; Google, Technology Shares Gain (Bloomberg.com)Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rallied, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record, as a four-day slide in oil prices bolstered earnings prospects for technology companies, retailers and banks.

Ball Aerospace/NASA Achieve Key Technology Milestone for James Webb Space Telescope (SpaceRef)A team of engineers from Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and NASA have successfully met the criteria needed to demonstrate Technology Readiness Level 6 (TRL-6) for the Wavefront Sensing and Control for the James Webb Space Telescope, a measure used by NASA to assess the maturity of evolving technologies.

Dow Rises to Record on Oil; Microsoft, Technology Shares Climb (Bloomberg.com)Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. stock market continued its January juggernaut, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its first record of the year, on improving earnings prospects for retailers, technology companies and homebuilders.

Cepheid, Idaho Technology settle dispute for $3.35M (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Cepheid Inc. paid $3.35 million in a settlement and cross-license agreement to resolve an intellectual property dispute with Idaho technology Inc., the companies said Thursday.

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