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By Ahmed ElAmin
I am going Wi-Fi at home and that?s a major task. But at the end I will be able to roam at home.To be more technical I?m actually creating what?s called a wireless LAN (local area network), referring to internal use of the...
DATE: Aug 24, 2005
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More than 150 overseas delegates have registered to attend next month?s first annual Bermuda Captives Conference.
Roger Gillett, chairman of the Insurance Development Council and of the conference, said the overseas numbers are a solid start for the ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2005
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Last time, we began looking at hard-drives, how they work, how they?re measured and a couple of best-practice things to do to maintain them. Today, I want to look further at hard-drives, describing the different types of drive, and which o...
DATE: Aug 24, 2005
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Last week, Wal-Mart reported weaker-than-expected quarterly profits, complaining about high oil prices and issuing a less than cheery outlook. The mediocre results didn?t come entirely out of the blue, but it helped focus attention on the state of co...
DATE: Aug 24, 2005
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NEW YORK, (Reuters) ? Intelsat Ltd., the world?s No. 2 communications satellite operator, is in talks to acquire smaller rival New Skies Satellites Holdings Ltd., a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
Earlier reports of the talks sent New...
DATE: Aug 23, 2005
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? MBIA Inc., the world?s largest bond insurer, said the US Securities and Exchange Commission and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer may sue over reinsurance policies that prompted the company to restate seven years of earni...
DATE: Aug 23, 2005
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? Marsh & McLennan Cos., the world's biggest insurance broker, said Chief Financial Officer Sandra Wijnberg will resign next year.
Wijnberg, who joined the company in January 2000, plans to step down in March, New York-based Mars...
DATE: Aug 23, 2005
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LONDON (Bloomberg) ? Wellington Underwriting Plc, a Lloyd's of London insurer, said first-half pretax profit will be at least ?66 million ($119 million), helped by investment income from a stake in Bermuda's Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.
Earnings hav...
DATE: Aug 23, 2005
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LONDON (Bloomberg) ? Goshawk Insurance Holdings Plc, a UK reinsurer, forecast a "marginal" pre-tax loss in the first half because of insurance claims from Hurricane Ivan.
The London-based company's shares fell four percent after Goshawk said losses f...
DATE: Aug 23, 2005
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STOCKHOLM (Bloomberg) ? Skandia AB, the Nordic region?s biggest insurer, posted a second-quarter loss as it made an unexpected writedown of the value of a UK personal investment unit and set aside money to cover the cost of a US regulatory settlement...
DATE: Aug 23, 2005
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