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Agilent profit beats Street; shares up
guardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago
Agilent Chief Executive Bill Sullivan said the company shook off economic weakness in the United States, Europe and Japan by moving resources and personnel ...
Agilent sees 3Q, 4Q results in range of analysts Forbes
UPDATE: Agilent 2Q Net Up 41% Sales Gains; Shares Climb CNNMoney.com
Agilent Q2 profit up 41% to $173M Silicon Valley / San Jose ... Bizjournals.com
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Flickr mashup on Google App Engine from Japan
Here comes a new idea directly from Japan to make life on the web a little easier. Llamerada, a Japanese web engineer, coded a Flickr mashup on AJAX interface. He announced the release today on his blog. So what is this about? The basic idea is to make search on Flickr more comfortable. Llamerada wanted to display as [...]

Fat monkeys put on diet at Japanese park
(telegraph.co.uk)

Japanese smokers to face age test
A Japanese company is developing a vending machine that counts wrinkles and skin sags to check a smoker's age. (BBC)

Met Agency to drop gizmos into typhoons to collect data
(Yomiuri)

Is Japan trying to militarise space? (New Scientist)
A new law expected to be passed by the Japanese parliament will allow the country to have a military presence in space for the first time. But don't panic. Japan isn't gearing up to make space into a shooting gallery....

Japan scientists warn Arctic ice melting fast
(Reuters)

Strong typhoon heads towards Japan
A strong typhoon in the Pacific Ocean is heading towards Japan but looks set to narrowly miss landfall, the meteorological agency said. (Sydney Morning Herald)

MediaFLO and 1Seg Multi-Mode TV Tuner
Qualcomm announced that it has successfully demonstrated the capability to support the MediaFLO and ISDB-T (1Seg) mobile TV standards on a multi-mode handset. Powered by their Universal Broadcast Modem -- UBM -- chipset, "the technology illustrates that MediaFLO technology can complement the free-to-air standard used in Japan and Brazil to enable a mix of free and paid mobile broadcast content and services to drive consumer adoption and revenue." See our video interview with MediaFLO recorded here in 2006.