Product Recalls: Table saws, lawn mowers, folding beach chairs … Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 6 hours ago LTD. is recalling about 530 LawnBott lawn mowers. The cutting blades continue to rotate when the mower is lifted from the ground and the spacing on the side …

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the fourth law of robotics: don’t steal IP when you’re being watched May 1st, 2008 Wired has a big article about the iRobot industrial espionage case. Posted in General | No Comments »
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Word On The Street WORD VIDEO Rotation Trade Market players are rotating out of commodites and into tech and financials. What is the trade? Adami thinks this trend will continue for the next three months. He said financial stocks are undervalued - look at Goldman Sachs (GS) and Wachovia (WB). Finerman agreed and disclosed she bought Citigroup (C) on Wednesday. Macke said be patient and buy the dips in both the tech and financial sectors. Wedding Trade The wedding season kicks off in May and the
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NewScientist.com | May 1, 2008 By Celeste Biever and Rowan Hooper A couple of things make Iron Man different to your regular comic-book superhero movie. First, there is the hero himself, Tony Stark, a scientific genius who for once is not the timid or bespectacled geek we are used to in Hollywood, but is charismatic, confident, and a hit with the ladies. Stark is played by Robert Downey Jr, and we think he deserves to go in any list of the top 10 coolest fictional scientists But it is t
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iRobot issued new financial guidance after the market close yesterday that reflected the financial problems of retailer Linens ‘N Things, which apparently owes iRobot $1.8 million and is reported to be near a bankruptcy filing (I warned of this a few weeks back), as well as a weaker retailing environment. iRobot still expects to make money for the full year, but dropped its expectations to $5-7 million from $8-$10 million. That means another year without anything close to a meaningful P/E ratio,
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