Reuters - The sale of Germany's biggest retail
bank Deutsche Postbank could fail because the price potential
bidders are willing to pay does not meet the expectations of
the lender's parent, Deutsche Post, a German magazine reported
on Saturday.
Reuters - A current slump in the
global automotive sector could give fresh impetus to plans for
consolidation within the industry, the head of French carmaker
Renault said on Saturday.
Reuters - Announcing what it said were "essential
milestones" allowing the world's largest leveraged buyout to go
ahead, BCE Inc said on Friday that its buyers
had finalized funding and were sticking to their C$34.8-billion
($34.1 billion) purchase price.
Reuters - Unionized employees of Hyundai Motor Co
(005380.KS) will walk off the job for four hours next week to
push for a pay increase, the auto maker's union said on
Saturday.
Alabama likely site of new VW plant: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Alabama will be the likely home of a
new Volkswagen manufacturing plant, beating two other states,
German industry newsletter Automobilwoche said on Saturday,
citing senior company sources.
Add ability to work with scanner or camera from your application with VintaSoftTwain ActiveX. You can fully control an image acquisition process, use an automatic document feeder, clean up images using noise removal, auto border crop, blank page detection, save acquired images to disk or SQL server, upload images onto Web or FTP server. VintaSoftTwain was tested and has examples of use in: MS VB.NET, MS C#, MS VB 6.0, MS VC++ 6.0, Borland Delphi 7.0, Borland C++ Builder 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0, Gupta SQL Windows 3.1, MS Access, VBScript, JavaScript, MS Excel, MS Word, IBM Object Rexx language.
Features:
TWAIN specification 1.9 compatible
Programming environments: Win32 Visual development environments
Uses ATL to guarantee the smallest footprint and does not require MFC
Can be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX/COM controls
Can be deployed in .NET environment as an unmanaged control
Digitally signed by certificate from Thawte
Acquire images from scanners, web or digital cameras and any other TWAIN devices
Data source enumeration and selection
Show modal or modeless the data source user interface
Control the work of Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)
Supports Native, Buffered Memory and Disk File image transfer modes
Set up images acquisition parameters (pixel type, resolution, page size, image layout rectangle, brightness, contrast, etc)
Control an advanced capabilities of TWAIN devices (rotation of images, scaling of images, filters of images, paper handling, the patch code detection and etc)
Nokia 6220 Smartphone Released
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Nokia 6220 classic design includes 3G connectivity, compatibility with Microsoft Office applications, Bluetooth capabilities, and a 5-megapixel camera.
Blogger Opinion: Why We Left NetSuite
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - I first met our solution provider, Ray Tetlow, the founder of Skyytek, on the Oracle Small Business (OSB from now on) user forum. At the time we were struggling with version 7 of OSB. It was really incomplete and badly tested software. Not only was it painfully slow, but also a lot of the features on which we based our purchasing decision just did not work.
Krugle enhances code search appliance
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Krugle plans to ship next week an upgrade to its search appliance for enterprise software development projects, which makes it easier for teams of developers to maintain code.