Dannon Named Processor of the Year By Dairy Foods
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The Dannon Company, the White Plains, New York-based subsidiary of Groupe Danone, has been named 2006 processor of the year by US dairy industry trade publication, Dairy Foods.
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Intel, the world&#39;s largest computer chip maker, announced on Thursday that its directors had confirmed the selection of the company president, Paul S. Otellini, as chief executive.
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CHICAGO An insider&#39;s well-timed trades on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have given dairy farmers more money for their milk. The Chicago Tribune today reports that the head of the Dairy Farmers of America
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In ;ate August Keith Nosbusch, chief executive of Rockwell Automation, spent two draining weeks meeting with 147 current and would-be customers in China, Japan, Korea and India. "Long days," he sighs. Nosbusch was pitching Rockwell's factory controls--nests of computers and sensors that drive tools, conveyors and ovens churning out everything from cars to detergent.
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Kraft Foods, in which Nelson Peltz, an activist investor, has taken a 3 percent stake, said that it would offer $7.2 billion for the cookie unit of Group Danone.
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French food group Danone  is in exclusive talks to sell its biscuit and cereal unit for 5.3 billion euros ($7.2 billion) in cash to Kraft Foods Inc , the world's biggest cookie maker, they said on Tuesday.
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CHICAGO -- Kraft Foods Inc. said Tuesday it has offered $7.2 billion in cash to acquire the cookie and cereal division of French food company Groupe Danone SA in a deal that would give America's biggest food and beverage company an even larger foothold around the globe.
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InfoWorld - AMD&#160;had a great year in 2006, using its success with the Opteron server processor to win greater respect from users -- and troubled rival Intel.
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(InfoWorld) - Azul Systems Inc., a maker of appliances that enhance the performance of servers running Java software applications, is boosting the performance further with new models introduced Monday. The Vega 2 appliance features up to 768 processor cores, up from a maximum of 384 cores in the Vega 1 appliance introduced in 2005, Azul said. The appliances operate as a sort of a turbocharger for servers. Azul is launching the new product while continuing to defend itself in a patent infringement lawsuit against it by Sun Microsystems Inc. Azul calls its technology "network-attached processing" because, the way it functions, Java-based computer workload is diverted from a database to the Vega appliance for processing before being piped into the server for distribution to end users on the network. "It is able to run through the Java code and give you the responses in the work effort consistently and at a much faster rate than normal servers can do Java," said Cal Braunstein, an analyst with the information technology consulting firm Robert Frances Group Inc. The Azul appliance provides data center managers an order of magnitude increase in computer processing power compared to what's available with the typical array of servers, said Stephen DeWitt, president and chief executive officer of Azul. Data center processing needs to keep growing but for some, new server capacity comes online too slowly. "Right now it's 'Here's a thimbleful, here's a thimbleful, here's a thimbleful','' DeWitt said. "We give you a straw that is attached to an ocean." By offering as many as 768 processor cores, Azul's uses parallel processing rather than faster processors to move data, he said. It's like adding more lanes on the freeway instead of giving everyone a faster car. The 768-processor model, coupled with 768G bytes of memory, is at the high end of the Vega 2 line and will be shipped beginning in 2007, said Scott Sellers, chief operating officer and a cofounder of Azul. An entry-level Vega 2 with up to 192 processors and multiple memory configurations is available now in the Americas and Europe. Prices in the new series start at US$49,995. The maximum capacity Vega 1, introduced 18 months ago, featured 384-way processors and 256G bytes of memory, Sellers said. Azul has been engaged in a legal dispute with Sun Microsystems since last March when Azul sought an injunction in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to block Sun from suing Azul for patent infringement. Sun filed a suit anyway in May, alleging patent infringement and abuse of trade secrets. Sun claims Azul is using Sun-patented "speculative locking" and transactional memory technology in Azul products, according to the lawsuit. It also says Azul hired 10 former Sun executives, including DeWitt, while they were still bound by a noncompete contract clause by Sun. Analyst Braunstein doesn't think the suit poses a real threat to Azul: "I don't think there's a smoking gun at the moment." Attorneys for Sun did not return calls seeking comment.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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THE inaugural New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards are benefiting from a highly experienced management team along with committed and competent regional convenors.
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French food group Danone , which is finalizing a 12.3 billion-euro ($17 billion) agreed bid for Dutch baby-food and special nutrition company Numico , has already acquired 26.4 percent of Numico, regulatory filings showed on Wednesday.
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In a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Monday, Intel chief executive officer Paul Otellini will make a small announcement: the introduction of the chip manufacturing giant's tiny but powerful new processors (codenamed Penryn) for notebook computers. Otellini will also introduce the company's new Menlow platform, which is designed to dramatically reduce power consumption without sacrificing processing capabilities for ultra-mobile devices (UMDs) and mobile Internet devices (MIDs).
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What is Danone up to with its big purchase of Dutch baby-food maker Numico?
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Dean Foods Co.  posted higher quarterly profit on Wednesday, helped by higher sales by its White Wave organic food and soy milk unit.
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By TACON, Terry  TARANAKI farming couple Peter and Kathleen Adamski have been chosen as tour leaders for a trip to Australia for New Zealand's top dairy trainees.
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MELBOURNE - Australian dairy group National Foods says it is in talks to take over food processing company SPC Ardmona, which has a market value of A$380 million ($408 million).
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Intelâs complete lineup of processors for desktops, notebooks and servers will migrate to a dual- and multi-core architecture in 2005, company president and chief operating officer Paul Otellini said yesterday in a keynote speech at the IDF (Intel