Business news for Mon, 17 Dec 2007 & with word technology. 13 news.

WASHINGTON - Deficiencies in its computer system hamper the Securities and Exchange Commission's efforts to ferret out insider trading and other securities-law violations, congressional auditors found in a report issued Monday.

PRODUCTION of China's first home-made regional jet is expected to be completed this week, Xinhua news agency said yesterday, citing the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense. The ARJ21-700 commercial passenger jet, which seats 78 to 90 people, will make its first flight in March and be delivered to the first customers in 2009. The plane was designed and made by the China Aviation Industry Corp.

The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation will continue its bioscience funding in a new structure at the University of Kansas as part of its supported efforts in the Biotechnology Innovation & Optimization Center.

Pitney Bowes MapInfo, a subsidiary of Pitney Bowes Inc. has acquired an Australian company, Encom Technology.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Dec. 17 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- IO2 Technology announced today the release of its new, larger line of free-space display solutions that show full-color full-motion floating video images. The company's Heliodisplay is now available in 30-inch, 50-inch and 100-inch diagonal screen sizes. The model sizes correspond to the sizes of a medium-size television, a large-screen television, and a full-size human

This new institute, which will be modeled after the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, will include faculty from multiple disciplines and professions and offer degrees through multidisciplinary programs.

Companies are under huge pressure to deliver what's needed when it's needed. Make sure you have the technology and know-how to be a nimble part of a supply chain.

If mastering new technology is frustrating and scary, you may need to re-examine your approach. And if all else fails, keep in mind that asking for help is O.K.

[Packaged Goods] "[Futurist] Alvin Toffler's original view of consumers acting as producers for advertising and marketing has been hijacked, kidnapped and warped," says William Cook, senior vice president/research and standards for the Advertising Research Foundation. "He was dead-on, and technology will propel that vision even farther."

Ribbit, a Mountain View startup officially launching today, is trying to bridge the telephone world and the Web by opening up its core technology to outside developers. The startup aims to give developers an easy way to integrate telephone tools into a...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- While the credit crisis is no doubt weighing heavily on tech investors' minds, they can probably take comfort in one fact: Information technology is so deeply entrenched in today's world, that any pain will likely be brief.

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