Reuters - NBC Universal and private equity
firms Bain Capital and Blackstone Group said on Sunday they
agreed to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications.
Reuters - Coca-Cola Co agreed to pay
$137.5 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit that claimed the
world's largest soft drink maker artificially inflated sales to
boost its stock price, according to court documents.
Reuters - The fate of the second biggest foreign
investment in Russia hangs in the balance amid signs of a
shifting mood in the Kremlin which may have wrong-footed
investors and one of the world's biggest oil companies.
Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) plans to
install solar panels on its next-generation Prius hybrid cars,
becoming the first major automaker to use solar power for a
vehicle, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday.
Reuters - Profit warnings, breaches of key index
levels, record oil prices, stressed consumers and investors
seeking safety provide the background for markets this week,
and many people are wondering how long this will all last.
China premier: Continue inflation fight
(AP)
AP - China's premier called for continued vigilance against inflation that has reached 12-year highs, saying the government should ensure that price increases are "acceptable," a state-run news agency reported Sunday.
VintaSoftTwain.NET Library is a pure .NET library which allows to control work of scanners, cameras and any other TWAIN devices. With this library you can fully control the image acquisition process, use the automatic document feeder, clean up images using noise removal, auto border crop, blank page detection. Acquired images can be saved to local disk or into table of SQL database, images also can be uploaded onto Web or FTP server. Library was tested and has examples of use in: MS VB.NET, MS C#, Borland Delphi, Borland C# Builder, ASP.NET.
Features:
TWAIN specification 1.9 compatible
Programming environments: .NET Framework
This is a fully-managed .NET library to guarantee the fast working in .NET Framework
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.