Hard times for hardware-makers
India's IT hardware industry, like many other sectors, has faced turbulent times during the last year. The PC market, which had been showing growth rates of more than 15-20% over the past five years, took an unlikely turn in 2008.

Nude Art...in a Hardware Store?
A local artist is using some exposed mannequins to send a message about what he says is the current commercialization of society today. The thing that's unusual about the display is that it's inside a hardware store.

DEACOM ERP Software To Integrate Building Component, Lumber And Hardware Business
Deacom, Inc. today announced Allensville Planing Mill, Inc. will implement the DEACOM Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System to manage its truss and wall panel manufacturing business and lumber and hardware stores.

Apple awards raises to key executives
COO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, and Mac hardware chief Bob Mansfield will have a little more spending money in 2009.

Home Depot drops bid to open store in Sunland-Tujunga
The company's plan to move into an empty Kmart had faced stiff opposition from residents. The move was prompted by difficulties at City Hall and the economic downturn, a representative said. Hardware giant Home Depot said Wednesday that it has given up on an expensive and hard-fought campaign to open a store in Sunland-Tujunga, dropping its lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and ending a ...

Hardware, specialty stores strive to keep salt stocked
With salt supplies reduced to a trickle, local homeowners are trying everything from water softener salt to cat litter to provide at least some traction on their sidewalks and driveways.

Genesco Upgrades POS Hardware with Fujitsu?s TeamPoS 3000 XL2 System
Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. announced today that Genesco Inc., a leading North American shoe and headwear retailer, will be upgrading its point-of-sale (POS) technology with Fujitsu?s TeamPoS 3000 XL 2 systems. The rollout includes 1,350 locations across Genesco?s Journeys, Journeys Kidz, Shi by Journeys, Underground Station and Johnston & Murphy chains.

Hardware details
The device uses Qualcomm's MSM7201A processor, clocked at 528MHz, with 256MB of RAM, 512MB of flash, and microSD expansion slots. It also includes a 3.5-inch display with 800 x 480 resolution, a three megapixel main camera, and a secondary VGA-resolution camera for videoconferencing, says Pharos.

Hardware Roundup: Wednesday Edition
For the next week or so, the news is going to be dominated by announcements and events from the Consumer Electronics Show going on in Las Vegas. OCC will be there in force to cover the show. While CES doesn't officially begin until tomorrow, there are pre-show happenings and lots of new product announcements. That doesn't mean that our affiliates haven't been busy with reviews. We have a trio ...

Home Depot pulls out of Sunland-Tujunga
TUJUNGA - Home Depot has given up its fight to put a store in Sunland-Tujunga, delighting community activists who had long fought off the hardware giant.

New company launches cloud NAS
Ctrera taps into the zeitgeist Co-founder and CEO Liran Eshel said CloudPlug features easy-to-use management tools, hardware-based encryption, and de-duplication to reduce the amount of data that must be backed up to the cloud. He's not saying when Ctera's technology will be on the market, except that it will be sold through Internet service providers and managed service providers beginning ...

Craft Animations, Gamecaster Announce Virtual Cinematography Solution
Craft Animations and Gamecaster have announced a hardware and software bundle called Craft Camera Tools for GCS3, a solution for virtual cinematography intended to allow for real-time camera controls within Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya. Craft Camera Tools is designed to eliminate the time and cost involved in keyframing virtual cameras in 3D animated scenes. The software and camera control ...

Bringing back some hardware
Members of Ashland's Ordered Chaos Mixed Martial Arts competed in the North American Grappling Association's "Greater Midwest Submission Hunt" held in Champlin, Minnesota on Dec. 20 and fared well against tough competition from throughout the midwestl.

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Universal Audio, a manufacturer of high-quality vintage audio hardware and DSP Powered Plug-Ins? for digital audio workstations, today announced that the company is to receive a Technical GRAMMY® Award on February 7th at The Recording Academy®'s Special Merit Awards Ceremony for Universal Audio's technical contributions to the Recording Industry.

CES 2009: Cisco plans home invasion
Cisco revealed on Wednesday that it intends to launch an intensive new networking campaign. The company spent its 2009 CES press conference showcasing both new hardware devices and online services to reporters in Las Vegas.

Fresco Logic Demonstrates SuperSpeed USB Host and Device Prototypes on a Windows Vista PC at CES in Las VegasFresco ...
USB TechZone demonstration showcases Fresco Logic's SuperSpeed USB xHCI Adapter and Device Prototype Hardware on...

Appliance distro broadens Linux options
? Dec. 18, 2008 ? rPath announced that its rBuilder "build and release" customizaton and management system for ISVs (software vendors) building hardware appliances and/or virtual appliances is adding support for Ubuntu and CentOS Linux. rPath previously supported Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise, as well as its own rPath Linux "software appliance" ...

Rich Forbes, Home & Hardware Unit Leader at Fortune Brands, to Retire
DEERFIELD, IL -- Rich Forbes, president and chief executive officer of Fortune Brands Home & Hardware, announced that he plans to retire at the end of 2009. Effective April 1, 2009, Christopher J. Klein, currently senior vice president - strategy and corporate development of Fortune Brands, will become president and chief operating officer - home products, and report to Forbes.

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Google Router Rumors
An anonymous reader writes "There's a new rumor that Google is developing its own router. The company won't comment on the story, but it's been in the hardware business for a while and expanded its presence with Android. If Larry Ellison can go halvsies with HP on a server, then Eric Schmidt should certainly be able to make Cisco nervous." Read more of this story at Slashdot.