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...technologies to squelch the IED threat. Such remote-controlled weapons kill and wound more U.S. troops than any other inside Iraq, England said. Highlighting just how seriously the Pentagon takes the threat, last week England signed a memo elevating what had been a mere Pentagon task force into the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization. Army Secretary Francis Harvey revealed last week that only one in 20 U.S. troops killed in Iraq die from gunshot wounds. Nearly all of the rest-he declined to be more specific-perish from explosions, primarily roadside bombs...
Quaero, ergo sum: I search, therefore I am. That could be the new Internet mantra if an ambitious European Internet project lives up to its hype. The proposed search engine, a Franco-German joint public and private initiative, was trumpeted by French President Jacques Chirac as an attempt to "launch with our European partners the first genuinely multimedia search engine" to meet the "global challenge" issued by U.S.-based Google and Yahoo!. The project's chief selling point is said to be a revolutionary capability to search as well as translate audio and video sources. But details are scarce: Thomson...
That's not to say HSBC can't compete and win. To get a head start in the virtually untapped Chinese credit-card industry, HSBC in July formed a joint venture with its partner Bank of Communications. Although the operation is 100% owned by the Chinese bank, the cards will be co-branded with HSBC, which plans to acquire a stake when regulations allow. "We always try to be the first through the door," says Yorke, HSBC's China chief. In India HSBC employs mobile marketing teams that push its services at stalls set up in shopping malls, office buildings...
...makers believe that the feuding within the insurgency may help U.S. and Iraqi troops quell the terrorist attacks that have made parts of the country ungovernable. "We're starting to see a little bit more every day," says Army Lieut. General Ray Odierno, assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In places like Ramadi and Fallujah, Odierno says, "we've had some Iraqi insurgents' groups actually put up defenses to protect their people against al-Qaeda forces...
...said the Task Force has made an effort to keep grub prices lower than the average burger joint...