Apr 2007
PENTAX Halted Merging with HOYA
April/17/2007 08:22 Filed in:
Full Metal Jacket
Notice
Concerning the Management Integration with HOYA
Corporation
At the extra-ordinary meeting of its Board of Directors held on April 10, 2007, PENTAX Corporation adopted following resolutions concerning the management integration with HOYA Corporation.
1. With regard to the current discussion concerning the merger of PENTAX Corporation and HOYA Corporation, it has been resolved that the merger shall be abandoned at this point in time due to conditions within the company as well as conditions outside the company including shareholders.
2. However, it has been resolved to continue discussions on management integration in a broader sense with HOYA Corporation, based on the December 21, 2006 basic understanding between HOYA Corporation and PENTAX Corporation.
At the extra-ordinary meeting of its Board of Directors held on April 10, 2007, PENTAX Corporation adopted following resolutions concerning the management integration with HOYA Corporation.
1. With regard to the current discussion concerning the merger of PENTAX Corporation and HOYA Corporation, it has been resolved that the merger shall be abandoned at this point in time due to conditions within the company as well as conditions outside the company including shareholders.
2. However, it has been resolved to continue discussions on management integration in a broader sense with HOYA Corporation, based on the December 21, 2006 basic understanding between HOYA Corporation and PENTAX Corporation.
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The Big Cat Is Caged!
April/15/2007 06:43 Filed in:
Apple News
The original Apple Statement [Apr 12, 2007]
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is.
However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.
While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones.
The 8-Core Mac Behemoth
April/15/2007 05:47 Filed in:
Apple News
Two Intel's 3GHz Quad-core Xeon "Clovertown" CPU, 4GB capacity of Apple's original Fully-Buffered DIMM memory modules, a total of 1TB of SATA hard disk drives, equipped with only 1 unit of DVD-R/RW Superdrive, Bluetooth EDR(Enhanced Data Rate) and a set of Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mighty Mouse. Of course, AirPort Wi-Fi card is a standard necessity nowadays.
Take a look on the check list below, considered a humble configuration of the system, a price tag of HK$41,700 (US$5,300+). And yet, 23"-inch LCD Display is not included.
Gosh! Apple Macintosh Desktop System is nothing cheap at all.
Picture shown above is the Apple's original FB-DIMM 667MHz DDR2 ECC Memory Module Board. Expensive!