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Unisys Corporation, a current partner in the Strategic Computing and Telecommunications in the Public Sector program based at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (KSG), has recently begun working with the Costa Rican electoral tribunal in implementing the country's new $4.7 million voter registration and personal identification system...
...layoffs, plus Wall Street's tortured gyrations, have driven consumer confidence to a 20-month low, according to the University of Michigan's closely watched survey. The farm sector is already in a recession, pushed there by falling commodity prices that have been deeply affected by the turmoil in Asia. This in turn has affected machinery producers such as Case and Cummins Engine, whose profits fell steeply in the third quarter of the year. Then there is the so-called wealth effect. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of the dangers of removing more than $1.5 trillion in business and consumer...
...criteria used to determine the rankings fell into four categories: governmental interference with the private sector, efficiency, provision of public goods and political freedom...
...Asia remains weak," says TIME senior business reporter Bernard Baumohl. And therein lies Japan's vicious cycle: The bursting of the country's banking and real estate bubble created a credit crunch throughout Asia, and the consequent financial turmoil shrank markets for Japanese products -- eating into the manufacturing sector that turned Japan into an economic superpower. The country's Nikkei stock index has been sliding all week due to the earnings reports and general jitters, and it dropped 2.2% more on Wednesday...
...what about people who aren't so blessed as to work for the best darn company in the world? Laptops constitute the fastest-growing sector of the computer market, and last year Big Blue undertook the most extensive consumer-research campaign in ThinkPad's six-year history to try to figure out who's buying them. It discovered a new class of information worker: mobile folks who buy their own gear. These consumers work at small start-ups. They're college students. They're even people who like to telecommute, but from the sofa rather than the home office. Some...